Re: about 10th new install of bullseye

2022-02-18 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
nding at that screen, or is it shutting off? Mine shuts off. This might be an apples and oranges thing where I typed a bunch of noise. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Misremembered

2022-02-16 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
oo. That was a topic on here a while back. That first name at AOL occasionally changes to something other than my own. On too regular an occasion, it becomes a relative's first name, instead. That potentially hints at some heavy duty online stalking being perped in the name of obvious phishing. Please be safe out there. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: cinnamon - slow boot up times

2022-02-16 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
t won't let me uninstall GRUB without destroying the entire operating system in the process. The releases I've test driven won't uninstall GRUB without auto-uninstalling a massive amount of important packages. That's about User CHOICE, my preference being to try to use anything except GRUB. That CHOICE i

Re: Captive Portal Alternatives (Was: Re: miracle of Firefox in the hotel)

2022-02-13 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
e pretty easy for perps hovering out in a parking lot or maybe a nearby building to create a fake captive portal that resembles what users would be expecting to see from the, yes, FREE Internet provider. That would only be possible if this is working like I'm imagining is being described here. That imagination involves a webpage such as what I once encountered popping up unexpectedly while trying to access WIFI through a local grocery store a few years ago. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: /etc/adjtime (setting the hardware clock to local time on Debian 11)

2022-02-11 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
le then works flawlessly for me here, but my needs are simple. I think the hardware clock is set to UTC, by the way. Cindy :) ** N.B. Debootstrap was priceless as a method of installing Linux on dialup Internet connections.. in case that still helps anyone else. -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Stalled system shutdown

2022-02-11 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
es since I first realized that was occurring. It was an eye opener into that there's still a lot to learn about how operating systems and their packages work under the hood. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Screen not blanking

2022-02-06 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ronments like Trinity will hopefully have their own similar user-friendly features. Afterthought based on the power management potential for conflict: Are there any possibly related warning or error messages showing up via e.g. dmesg? Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Haskell Platform

2022-01-27 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
g against the haskell-platform package. There are some folks over at reddit, too, if that's anyone's thing: https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/ Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH?

2022-01-22 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ly growing larger over time. It's apparently not imagination, now. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: is it possible to install bullseye by copy whole disk?

2022-01-22 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ntering an unbootable system Or not.... :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: TDE File Manager options

2022-01-20 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
east one thread about that quite a while back. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: cooperative.co.uk has address 127.0.0.1

2022-01-18 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
nds each time then a-sumed it was somehow tied to the other end running their own server. The afterthought problem with it is the inevitable collision with others (obviously) doing the same across the Web. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Followup to my last...

2022-01-18 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
for the b43legacy driver broadcom-sta-common - Common files for the Broadcom STA Wireless driver broadcom-sta-dkms - dkms source for the Broadcom STA Wireless driver broadcom-sta-source - Source for the Broadcom STA Wireless driver firmware-brcm80211 - Binary firmware for Broadcom/Cypress 802.11

Re: Debian 11 xfce

2022-01-12 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
; Session and Startup > Application Autostart (tab) There may also be at least one other path to that same end, but that's the one that has always worked for me for things like this (and Magnus and...). Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: freeing up some space

2022-01-11 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ons do, PLEASE make sure to back up your system first. Been there, done that without backing up in the past. It's not pretty.. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Bullseye default swap partition size?

2022-01-08 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ying this HP is only using 89mb of swap. Genuine shock. I'm used to that number being more like 6GB of swap in use. I'm impressed because this session has been up about six hours and has headed into hibernation umpteen number of times the entire time. Thank you, Developers! I agree that things swapping

Re: Dragging tabs in Google Chrome 97

2022-01-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
w this isn't the *best* place to ask for help with proprietary > browsers, but this is a pretty popular one, so there's a chance. Has > anyone else encountered this problem? More importantly, does anyone > know how to *fix* it? > > Being unable to rearrange tabs in a sane manner is EXTREMELY irrit

Re: Need Support on Debian10 Kernel Upgrade

2021-12-16 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
2021 comes > here for help on upgrading the kernel on an old Debian system? Sounds like something I'd say (and actually have in the past). I didn't go to the length you did regarding research, but I did notice it had a style similar to something else in the last week or so something that...

Re: Desktop "locking".

2021-12-16 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
guages and Vietnamese. Wikipedia" Cindy :)) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: BUG: Debian 11 version of bibletime - was [Re: Problems with "Bible Time" and "Xiphos"]

2021-12-14 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
dditions). Change happens. Always copacetic here as long as maintainers have made all appropriate respective alterations within the programming code so that everything continues to function as expected. Since some members are successfully reading their handbook here, sounds like that happened so something else is glitching somewhere. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: strange problem with usb wifi adapter

2021-12-11 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
next boot up? Would comparing something like lsmod before and after provide any insight? Just thinking out loud.. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: question about a .deb file

2021-12-09 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
of this entire [statement]. It reminds me of "subject and predicate" sentence structuring in grammar. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Pulseaudio regularly crashing; how to evaluate?

2021-12-08 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
systems. Be aware that it might be possible to kill your system's sound capabilities if your system offers a lot of choices instead of just one and you're not sure about what you're doing. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: what is flooding /var/tmp?

2021-11-24 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
the search. IMPORTANT: They mention that one might need to run that "lsof" on the directory/files a few times if necessary before you finally receive usable information. It apparently needs to catch the culprit in the active act of doing whatever is going on. Best wishes... Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: what is the best package to design the layout of the house

2021-11-03 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
clip portions of videos to create a GIF, but that just takes a few seconds to learn. The animation effect occurred while I was moving items around in the graph block. They became "animated" in the preview block just below that on the right side. Pretty trick.. cool.. neato-keano. Cindy :)

Re: which package is good for making poster

2021-11-02 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
e someone knows of them or can help test drive them for informational purposes. They appear to be command line tools, and both have manpages for flags and such. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: how to avoid the terminal overlap

2021-10-27 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ss of buttons strewn across the top, but it is (much easier). The "never group" option has the added bonus of being a constant nag that browser windows need archived and closed, permanently if not sooner. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Error installing texlive-base

2021-10-15 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ly updated within one's CHOICE of boot managers. For example, I use LILO and have a separate directory that I maintain to help it function. I have to manipulate the latest vmlinuz and initrd.img files within that dedicated folder then everything continues to boot successfully after that. Thank you,

Re: general broad question for help in setting up linux server and suggestions

2021-10-15 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
pologies in advance if that subject was already mentioned. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Re: LUKS encryption help

2021-10-11 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
point of access. Oh, goodness, I hope that came out at least halfway understandable, grin. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: How i can resolve the problem of packages?

2021-10-10 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
e read-only if it remounts at all. Faulty USB hubs are the primary cause in my instances.That would involve having to spend money to fix. It's why I didn't want to type about this first. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Ot: 6 or 7 nights to download a CD (was: Re: RJ-11 phone line)

2021-10-08 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ond that, COVID-19 has turned quality of at-home Internet service into a checkpoint regarding one's employability. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: You have been removed from the list (repeatedly)

2021-10-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
t; >: Re: network problem >> >On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 10:00:45PM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: >> >> hi, >> >> I have the following problem on my laptop. >> >> my /etc >> >Please stop the message. we have already unsubscribed our email address. Did you write the "Please stop" part? It appears to be attributing the "we have already unsubscribed" to you, Greg, which is certainly not what you're trying to do. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen

2021-10-01 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
the bottom, too. Others here sometimes do something a little fancier than only that ">" (greater than sign), but I can't remember what it is nor if it applies to something as straight forward as this one. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: USB memory stick quality [was: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive]

2021-10-01 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ht above the arrow keys. Last night the prices were within a couple dollars of each other (plus the same outrageous shipping). In the past, the prices have sometimes been $20 apart for what is obviously the exact same item. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: About User and password on Debian 10

2021-09-30 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
pens when I accidentally copy over a partition's vmlinuz and initrd.img files into a wrong directory in my LILO hierarchy. Oops! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: buggy N-M (was: Debian 11: Unable to detect wireless interface on an old laptop) computer

2021-09-28 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
iendly for *me*. I still see other people rave about it. That's cool. At the end of the day, it means our brains function (comprehend) differently, but we all seem to be arriving at the same place: Connected to whatever it is we need to use. That's where the beauty of Debian offering CHOICE comes into play. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: APT testing and unstabe Firefox: can't find newest version from unstable

2021-09-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
se their site's not working properly. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Why ``color_prompt`` is only set for ``xterm``? (colored prompt examples)

2021-09-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
nd and now try to remember to plug anything I copy into a plain text editor before then recopying over to a terminal. Am wondering if, am more like hoping that this quotation marks part of it would have stood out when I research how to further customize my own setup. This will be a priceless personalization if I can eventually coerce it to say "(debootstrap) chroot" in place of some of the characters there. Shh, don't tell me how. Lead a fish to water, yada-yada. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Why ``color_prompt`` is only set for ``xterm``? (colored prompt examples)

2021-09-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
t blinking reminder as to where one is. That might be just what I've always wanted to cognitively distinguish between chroot and root terminal tabs. That's been a worry quite often over time. Thank you! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: colors messed up after X screen lock (buster with xfce)

2021-08-28 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
that really nasty looking visual glitch. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Can't switch back to gnome on xorg

2021-08-25 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ut the safety of our systems overall. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: how would you do this?

2021-08-18 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
knowing what's calling what sounds like a nice, SANITY enabling idea. Bonus points if it can be taught to throw out alerts about any unusual calls once a longstanding "normal" pattern is discerned. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Aw, snap!

2021-08-17 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
"executive decisions" we Users end up making depending on our individual needs. The wicd-curses package that is how I access the Internet is from experimental and has been 100% reliable for a year or more. Thank you, Developers! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: PSA: 'apt-get update' new-Debian-release error fix

2021-08-16 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ckages failed as no longer available, and the rest were already hoarded locally here. My previous experience had been that a LOT of packages are not available because Developers haven't brought them up to speed. Examples there would be something like GIMP and Inkscape. This morning there were

Re: Internal server error 500 for bugs.debian.org pkgreport of apt-listchanges

2021-08-14 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 8/14/21, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 8/14/21, Brian Thompson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA512 >> >> Hello everyone, >> >> I'm getting a 500 error when trying to access the apt-listchanges, apt, >> and apt-listdiffer

Re: Internal server error 500 for bugs.debian.org pkgreport of apt-listchanges

2021-08-14 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2021/08/msg1.html Maybe the site wide adjustment hasn't caught up yet or something? Or not... :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: apt-upgrade (Bullseye) shows 1 pkg not upgraded

2021-08-11 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
0] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html See under "2.4.1. Advanced package management operations with commandline" Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Reply configuration (was: All-in-One printer: HP OfficeJet 8012)

2021-08-11 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
configured to do automatically. Gmail handled it properly just now... Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: debian-user list info and guidelines (FAQ) - posted monthly

2021-08-04 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
instances. If it ever happens, please consider taking whatever legal means necessary to help that not happen to someone else. It HAS happened. There's a suspended Twitter account because I asked Twitter to do so. It had my pictures, my name, my "bio" information. And a town in West Virg

Re: Upgrade problems?

2021-07-22 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
and then reconstructed for less than moral purposes. Cindy :) On 7/22/21, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 7/21/21, Tixy wrote: >> On Wed, 2021-07-21 at 12:04 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: >>> On 2021-07-21 10:52 a.m., Kushal Kumaran wrote: >>> >>> frank@fedora ~$ sta

Re: Upgrade problems?

2021-07-22 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
about a bug I tried to submit to Security a couple years ago. I got shut down, kind of a cyber hand thrown up in my face. STILL "not amused". It was about my own "/" multiple times over becoming owned by something else every time I untarred one particular package. The package wo

Code Hosts with sights on the inevitable [Was: Working for free....]

2021-07-13 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
an account that has been dormant for about four years now. It may be one of the few places on this planet where anything about that developer is available. Calling that information priceless today is putting it mildly because there's a possibility that his passing was... "highly premature"..

Re: badblocks

2021-07-07 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
without asking for verification first. The harmed hard drive is sitting untouched until I brave up toward attempting a software autopsy in hopes of salvaging data. The holdup is that I'm mentally not prepared to hear I lost that data forever. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Busybox Debian commanding

2021-07-07 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ight side, I could suddenly log in to a normal, long session just fine. That was an odd trigger toward success when the real problem was about mismatched kernels. -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Buster error no release file

2021-07-07 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
also help to share the entire contents of your "/etc/apt/sources.list" file if you find one on your setup. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: why pdf file at archive.org is so slow to open

2021-07-04 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ut I have it installed on XFCE4. I just fake purged it to see what else it would uninstall. Only 4 other packages, for whatever that might be worth per each, our own personalized Debian installs. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: the Amazing Poly

2021-06-30 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 6/30/21, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 05:57:45PM +0300, ellanios82 wrote: >> - the Amazing Poly : short & to the point [vimeo] > > ? Maybe this? https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/05/msg00241.html Cindy.. -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking R

Re: Bug#990086: apt-key is deprecated in bullseye, how to manage keys instead

2021-06-26 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
able, usable. > Documentation for actions requiring specialized tools is rather of the > form "use foo to add an entry to baz", e.g. in the context of GnuPG it > would be "use gpg to add this public key to " (which is also a > file, but must be manipulated with specialized tools). Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: grub2 boot menu

2021-06-25 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ill trigger a fellow lurker's interest in learning more about how their Debian works right from the boot beginning. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd

2021-06-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
r UUID per each partition. Because there is SO MUCH information in that file, that tiny detail didn't immediately leap off the page as surely being a problem in the making. I never did figure out what was occurring because the second UUID, the wrong one, NEVER matched anything in my system. Cindy

Re: Upgrading to Bullseye?

2021-05-27 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
that tweak needs addressed by the TRUSTED outside/third party vendor. That complaint will occur because the vendor doesn't know to sniff the User's dot sources file(s) for their own repositories in the same way vendors already take a poke at our longstanding dot list files (based on personal experience). Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: how to use mtp command line?

2021-05-23 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
h it > doesn't have much on mtp-tools: > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Media_Transfer_Protocol Ditto on ArchWiki all the way around. That's how I learned to use A LOT of *Debian* early on. I think it boiled down to how their way of writing up their documentation gelled with how my b

Re: Debmirror

2021-05-18 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
es opens to the kind of downloadable packages you might be seeking. One of the things I learned early on with ALL Linux distributions was to play with visiting the repository pages in person to get a feel for their layouts. On rare occasions, I've used that method to download problem packages when a

Re: Howto disable automounting of all removeable media

2021-05-16 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
down within a couple hours of a request for them to do so. There is still an "Account suspended" fragment hanging around out there on their website. Please be safe out there. It's not the same World we were living in 20 years ago. Toward both the good and the bad, the Internet has p

Re: Evolution

2021-04-28 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
lity related there. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: No networking after resume from suspend

2021-04-23 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
med" because that's what I always remember first. Except that then there's having to open kern.log in a text editor occasionally so yeah, dmesg rocks if one can remember to go that route. Grep works with dmesg, too. I just tested it. Only one line to read as output. Very cognitively friendly! :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: No networking after resume from suspend

2021-04-23 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 4/23/21, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 23 Apr 2021 at 10:49:00 (+0100), Richmond wrote: >> Cindy Sue Causey writes: >> >> > Questions where answers might help come to mind. Primarily, has this >> > always occurred, or did it just start up in the last couple

Re: No networking after resume from suspend

2021-04-22 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
se the program in frustration. These last few days, just sitting here staring at the screen while counting seconds gives it time to churn out a successful connection. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Zoom.

2021-04-21 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
then running the "dpkg -i" command on them, too, until every package is finally satisfied. I'm a-suming that yesterday's success was due to Bullseye getting ready to roll over into stable.. Maybe. Whatever the reason, yesterday was a good day for it to go that smoothly. Thank you to all who help make that happen. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: which mixer can show sound volume as colorful bar

2021-04-19 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
update on occasion. Just thinking out loud... Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: /usr/share/doc/*/copyright

2021-03-14 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
Ian"? Six or eight years ago? Or... this week? As asked before in some form, did he give you a last name? If it's Murdock, what was the email address that was used? Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-12 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
tten by anyone else. It never felt like there was room for accidental meetings with others who might help further the expressing of your concerns (for lack of a better way to put it). So anyway... Cindy.. :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Using Gmail on Debian mailing lists

2021-03-11 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ience to > the person sending the message outweighs the trivial benefits to the > person receiving it. These are international lists, too. I enjoy being reminded of that via the attribution when a reply retains the author's language. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: identifying my LInux machine on my LAN

2021-02-18 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
only received eth0 back until JUST NOW. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Problems with kept back packages

2021-01-03 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
brain that I had stable, testing, and unstable all assigned to the proper project names (Buster, Bullseye, and Sid, respectively). Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: May I please have a block cursor in nano?

2020-12-25 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
t > Preferences > General tab > Cursor But that might differ completely for other packages. Xfce4-terminal's options are: Block, I-Beam, and Underline. We're also given the secondary option for it to blink or not to blink. Mine is a blinking block so there's half a chance of finding it on the screen. :) Merry jollies.. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Ipv6, but no Ipv4 after reboot

2020-12-09 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
d disappear when I connect and disconnect via wicd-curses. I'm a-suming that disappearing and reappearing in "ip a" output is IPv4's normal behavior... Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Mounting a USB device

2020-10-27 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
unt did just now. Thought it was a handy shortcut then forgot about it. It was kind of like using "-p" flag when manually "mkdir" creating embedded parent-child directories. But, again, am now not able to duplicate where it had happened for me. ONCE (that I know of). Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: getmail, getmail6, testing, unstable, python-is-python3

2020-10-27 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
en messages pop about "abandonware" type issues, about the first thing I peek at (out of curiosity) is whether Python or GTK is part of the packaging. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Intel RST driver -> SSD bug ?

2020-10-24 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
lists might land something handy, too. In that case, it's not about the "beginner" aspect. It's about finding a place that dedicates itself to breaking things down to the absolute bottom base step upon which ALL the rest is then built. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: needed: a way to eliminate wasted disk space due to unneeded locale files

2020-10-13 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
g's not displaying in another language. When I'm up for it, I'll be poking around to learn the protocol for updating an existing install's configuration so that it keeps its fingers off those certain languages that frequent my own Internet travels.. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Picke

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments

2020-09-21 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
usepad and editor (terminal) for the (.)Xauthority file. Mousepad kicks out a "The file was not UTF-8 valid" error and aborts. Editor in the terminal at least displays a bunch of characters that include a number of question marks filling in for whatever part of that is causing mousepad to fail

Re: xfce4 widget problem

2020-09-13 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
forecast, too. Using "--no-cache" might be of interest for anyone who does a lot of playing with viewing forecasts around the World. Hope this helps.. SOMEONE! I LOVE its command line simplicity AND the story behind it. Its creator made it for his girlfriend who wanted something simple for watching the weather. Sweet.. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Create 3D text?

2020-09-11 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
t quite ready yet. We just have to wait or find an alternative method for installation, then. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Python 3 Segmentation Fault

2020-08-04 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ing Debian's Python-based packages. They're VERY helpful when inquiries contain all the pertinent details necessary to work through issues. Cindy :) PS #ThankYou! You just helped me a little, too. I'm messing around with something that's having GTK issues... and there is... a list for tha

Re: BIOS time fine, Linux/Debian's isn't! ...

2020-07-30 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
n they might be able to distinguish between the United States' usage of Eastern and Central time zones, etc. :) Hope that helps someone out here. Have fun! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: [Sid] ahci: disk order

2020-07-24 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
unt", and other fun places.. that I can't remember offhand just now Just thinking out loud.. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: what calculator do you use?

2020-07-13 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ot;priorities" lined up in the queue ahead of it... unfortunately. Just waiting on a delivery truck this very second, actually. > Does anybody read signatures any more? I do! They're often the #LIFE of the party! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with bi

Re: terminator freezes desktop

2020-07-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
or so passes away in time. Afterthought: No, my problem's mostly not limited (computer) memory. There will still be more than 1GB unused when my lockdowns occur. In days gone by, "free -m" has shown 60+ for "Mem" and 90+ for Swap, and it will still be almost working. :) Cin

Re: Strange squealing noise from computer

2020-05-29 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
me to ask if you have a way to post a sample sound byte that might help someone identify what's going on... Just thinking out loud.. :) PS The "Elf sneezes" turned out to be a last minute warning that the ASUS was overheating and was about to shut down posthaste, immediately thereaft

Re: lists.debian.org has received bounces from you

2020-05-26 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ll continue to find emails in there all the time. In those cases, it seems to frequently be Debian Users that I hadn't seen posting until they were found bounced into that directory. The affected Debian Users don't often end up back in there once I've initially... rescued them... Cindy :) -- Cindy-

Re: How about sources.sources? (Was: Question Regarding sources.list)

2020-05-24 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 5/24/20, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > > PPPS Any outside 3rd party type packages that have been given > permission to set up their own DOTlist files... will potentially > complain that they can't find something or other yada. They're talking > about how you may or may not now (?)

How about sources.sources? (Was: Question Regarding sources.list)

2020-05-24 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
at that block: IF you use Bullseye non-free, that right there could possibly be combined into the same single block with your Bullseye data. I only use Bullseye main so that won't work for my own usage case. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Changing timestamps in video files

2020-05-19 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
re numerically in the same daily directory with the video I was processing at the time.. Was a major *YEEHAW* moment when it occurred. Just can't remember which software package was the HERO that day. If it wasn't a Debian package, it's possible Youtube was what disclosed that data, instead, after the video was posted online... Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: saving the xfce desktop background, including color gradients on the sides

2020-05-09 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
those.. *NOT* hidden files. Ask tomas, I think it was, who once explained why they're not really "hidden", per se.. I did see some fields for colors so here's hoping it's an all-in-one package, which it really should be based on its name. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with... a FROST ADVISORY in the middle of May?! runs... and covers up the pretty green bouncing baby grapevines. *

Re: gnome-disk-utility User Session Defaults issue

2020-05-08 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
cause it sees a conflict a user does not, it needs to likewise intelligently guarantee that a system has something else in place to follow through on the very next reboot Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with.. a dire need for a lightning rod in the backyard. Long term lightning induced Internet disconnects are gettin' real-l-l-l old... *

Re: Synaptic error

2020-04-12 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
hour old... or two days old because I JUST encountered this with dpkg a couple days ago (TWICE). That implies to me that they're initially generated then stand their ground in that creation state until borked again at some future point in time. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * hops with birdseed *

Re: Any way to open Thunar as root beside this?

2020-04-07 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
n that Fn key on regular occasions that you don't use it for on other keyboards... Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed (sometimes stuck up under the keycaps) *

Re: fetchmail timeout

2020-04-03 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
things? OR NOT. Decided it should be mentioned since this was just found. Please be safe out there, everyone PS As an afterthought, my Gmail has been just a tiny bit "hinky" today. Takes several refreshes for pages to load after they *timeout* in Firefox ESR browser

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