Re: fetchmail timeout

2020-03-28 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
h other. Cindy... Hoping everyone is safe and well. -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * (still) runs with birdseed *

Re: about debian installation on gpt and mbr hard drive

2020-03-11 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
he only one experiencing this exasperating experience. THAT is a sanity-maintaining checkpoint, actually, in that. We are not alone. :) Cindy... :) DISCLAIMER: I've been playing with computers since ~1994, but I'm doing so with ever progressively progressing cognitive issues. This is a *wi

Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

2020-03-04 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
t said. I THINK that's the computer that had that CHOICE.. Dell XPS 420 grin. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: What's the purpose of initrd.img{,.old} and vmlinuz{,.old} symlinks in the root dir?

2020-03-01 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
computer's /boot directory, NOT the [guest] in chroot. I only discovered that accidentally one time when I had to run "ls -ld" on vmlinuz and initrd.img for some long forgotten reason... or another. DISCLAIMER It's possible it had something to do with how I was mounting chroot's fstab when I f

Re: windstream and linux

2020-01-26 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
rface ever since I dug in and self-taught how to do that several years ago. There is so much less "bloat" on our computers when we can do as much as possible straight from entering text on a command line. *grin* PS About wvdial, it's used straight from the command line. It's been so hefty a

Re: Wiki software.

2020-01-23 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
loyment is by using the Xavante web server. + END SPUTNIK'S DESCRIPTION + I like the sound of that package enough to add it to my regular downloads until I get a chance to play with it firsthand. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Something wakes my laptop from suspend to ram and I don't know what it is

2020-01-22 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
e bug. Wasn't a tiny one, either. Just one of the perils of computing in the great outdoors.. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: AWS AMI Debian Buster

2020-01-22 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
is complete list of current Debian lists of various purposes: https://lists.debian.org/completeindex.html Sharing in case there's something else related on there, as well. Hope that helps someone at least a little. Maybe Debian-Publicity (list) has had previous interest or will have future interest in gi

Re: Use system drive, in another system

2020-01-20 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
CE! OPTIONS! VARIETY! #ThankYou yet again, Debian Developers AND Maintainers! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: fmtree: line 0: unknown keyword sha256digest

2020-01-16 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
hat's when I received something similar to yours here: > Note, selecting 'freebsd-buildutils' instead of > './freebsd-buildutils_10.3~svn296373-7_amd64.deb' That's when the little 4-watt light bulb went off overhead for me (AGAIN for the umpteenth time). :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: uefi boot install and disk partitions

2020-01-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
hat sounds like the most likely way a User would catch that kind of [anomaly]. Maybe "fat" is trying to (intelligently, proactively) protect us from the rare occasion something like my experience might occur?? Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georg

Package comitup: bootstrap Wifi using Wifi

2020-01-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
/lists.debian.org/debian-cross/2020/01/msg0.html PS Make that... 586*1* MB... QUIT IT!! :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with... a *oops*, forgot to buy those Debian-friendly dial-up modems, need to do that... Right. Now. *

Re: just a general question really

2020-01-03 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
[0] Rumor used to be it didn't matter what you manually entered for the "Baud" field, you were going to, at most, get less than 57600, period. *hm* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dial-up_Internet_access#Using_compression_to_exceed_56k -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

For Newbies: One line descriptions of important Linux packages

2019-12-31 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
upgraded via apt/apt-get. :) Hope this helps someone else. Best wishes! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with... HOPE for all things good in the New Year! *

Re: INQUIRY

2019-12-28 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
rg/showthread.php?35926-Executing-grub-install-dummy-failed=d8cf37f9fee08ca29b2ec7aeda842ae0=77478#post77478 If that doesn't jump down to the quote, Comment #40 sounds pretty interesting and rational. Am posting in case that also triggers any related do/do nots, too. Good luck... :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Su

Re: unstable: directory pulse in root directory : /pulse where from?

2019-12-16 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
eded (if deleted intentionally or otherwise) is that THOSE files are usually something found under /home/user buried within all those dot directories accessed via CTRL+H. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed... annnd... a dial-up modem that is SO CLOSE to working directly through Debian. SO CLOSE. *

Re: Booting Debian 10 installer ISO from USB

2019-11-20 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
there's occasional chatter about multiple operating systems coexisting via virtual machines, multiple interactive hard drive partitions, and such. Beyond those options presenting scenarios for learning how to make ALL things Linux sing, it can also be about the more primordial desire for, attraction to Variety, the spice of #Life, yada-yada. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with... a healthy, helpfully diverse stack of OS CDs and DVDs *

Re: USB WIFI Adapters?

2019-11-20 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ipate... If one pours hoards of dollars into a smart phone. As the old saying goes... Well, isn't THAT convenient for all of the phone providers incidentally receiving that phenomenal monetary boost as a result. Cindy *Chevy Chase'ing off her soapbox now* :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Ro

Re: XFCE and auto-raise too fast

2019-11-18 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
e delay option check boxes, etc, such as they vary specifically based on "Click to focus" versus "Focus follows mouse"? It's been a while since I found that XFCE perk, but I can still remember having to second guess the intents, the action/reaction relationships there myself

Re: fail2ban for apache2

2019-11-11 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
se myself a few months back... Who knows And how the doodles is the average user supposed to sanity/safety check every single piece of computer-based, possibly chip containing hardware from now on. The implication is that one computer compromised internally that way is most likely networked with a whole bunch of others in the meantime, too. AND.. I don't think how we obtain these items affects any perceived risk in the future. Something from a big box store can be just as easily compromised as single items we may buy from "online marketplaces" Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Cannot open Chromium browser in same workspace (from which it was launched)

2019-11-04 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ursor going click happy behind the user's back. Has happened to me on more than one.. or three.. occasions. *Those darn dogs (again)!* Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

[OT] Email signature double dash delimiters (Was: KISS gpg)

2019-10-31 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
rhetoric.. -- And then some more useless rhetoric.. just to see what it does if there is more than one set of what the client would see as delimiters. Cindy ;) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: failed upgrade to Buster

2019-10-28 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
of that partition so that negates the usual panic over getting locked out should the electricity fail before GRUB can be reinstalled on that partition, GRIN. It will take going into chroot to try GRUB2 in my own case. If it works, I'll share again. Good luck with your own instance.. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: where does knotes store its data

2019-10-22 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
gs happen on occasion. *oops.* Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: at-spi-dbus-launcher not responding

2019-10-19 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ogin* instead of logout: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=840618 Apologies if you already know about the Debian-Accessibility list. Good luck! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Only boot tty

2019-10-16 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
think it was just a minor pain about having to reboot back into my old setup to then go back into chroot again to correct it.. or something ? :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Stretch Backports Kernel

2019-09-23 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
t would be nice to know if anything on KernelNewbies' KernelCompilation page has understandably evolved into outdated, potentially now unsafe information. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Gimp crash on screenshot debian bullseye

2019-09-18 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
UPDATE: Bullseye's *GIMP upgrade now WORKS (for me)!* On 9/18/19, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 9/18/19, Renato Gallo wrote: >> GIMP crash on taking a screenshot > > > Hey, Renato.. I myself tuned out as soon as I saw the word "Kali" the > other day. Didn't real

Re: Gimp crash on screenshot debian bullseye

2019-09-18 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
e:hsa > OFFLOAD_TARGET_DEFAULT=1 > < Rest snipped for brevity > Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with.. a fabulous new grasp of WHY we use deb-src in apt/apt-get sources *

Re: Help building unstable git source packages for buster to get missing features ?

2019-08-25 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
o Debian's own Debian-ARM listserv: https://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/ Good luck, and have fun! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Arrow annotation in GIMP.

2019-08-13 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
arrow. Have fun! Cindy :) PS My apologies if this reply warps anything. I'm replying through the Lists webpage to see if that works properly on my end. For one thing, I haven't seen a line count toggle anywhere (yet). It's bringing up memories of a thread about that very topic from quite a while ba

Re: Love 2d and debian 10

2019-08-13 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
hat just made my head spin. PySolFC just experienced that a few weeks ago, broke completely, after one or more of its Python dependencies were upgraded. Cue the *crickets* stinger.. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with 2 Python tutorials and more editors than she can remember inquisitively, experimentally installing k/t Debian CHOICE! *

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-04 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
; (versus "desktop environments") just two or three weeks ago but then came back over to ol' familiar and friendly Xfce4. Thank you to its Developers! I need to order a new hard drive (TODAY, yikes). With this thread in mind, I'll create a couple extra partitions dedicated to the "window managers" part of this thread when it's time. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-04 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
e same person twice might, likely would cause conflicts of some kind. Maybe there's a "lockfile" situation of some type keeping the same User from signing in twice? OR NOT. :) Have fun! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: odd passwd problem.

2019-08-01 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
related to mobility, dexterity would potentially benefit the most. Afterthought.. That option may currently exist. The above just reflects that I haven't tripped over it yet. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: HTTP shimmed to HTTPS

2019-07-22 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
"different" from the expected variations that other emails like it contain. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-14 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
se it either helps or needs a "NO, don't ever try that if you don't have to" review. Psychedelic sounds fun as a user CHOICE. I was hoping for a printscreen. That's odd that it printed normal. I'm trying to wrap my head around the computer's logic of how that would happen. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: buster irqbalance on 4.19.0-5 kernel?

2019-07-10 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
st case to test drive that theory. One potential, very useful purpose for the "now manually installed" feature would be for a developer who maybe regularly, *momentarily* leans on a dependency package while developing their own. Having remembered about apt-mark's existence, I just got to

Re: Re: Please consider unblocking Chromium and linux packages for Buster

2019-07-01 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
kages is most often about the ability versus inability to simply pay bills online to help keep #Life moving forward. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Problem: Slow boot -- Mounts fail.

2019-06-24 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
the prompt along with offering that CTRL+D as an option. Click the hardware on/off button and then CTRL+D, and mine then completes yet another successful boot operation. *yay, TEAM!* Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: big-cursor DOA in Stretch

2019-06-19 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
wired" size options (small, regular, and large). No offense to their creators, but I'm having to work through how much some of their larger ones resemble "flat flies" from my wildlife rehabilitation days.. Their largest option is just about the right size, too. Just.... *shudder!* ev

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-14 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
quot; being a viewer? I'm not finding it via a couple fairly non-invasive "apt-cache search" attempts via "main" repositories only. I'm sure I'm not imagining it. Seems like I remember either mentioning that feature over at Accessibility or at least thinking about mentioning having encountered it ages ago. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Buster/lightdm - after locking screen, unlock prompt not visible

2019-05-31 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
you haven't found it already, check out that.. /var/log/syslog in its various forms (.1, .gz, etc). Never know what you might find in there that could lead to more learning about how your own system works. I forget to peek in there when I'm bored, but it's been a helpful self-education trigger for me over time. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Ping as normal user (Was: Why /usr/sbin is not in my root $PATH ?)

2019-05-29 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
s installed because I don't ever remember encountering that package name. That "ping" part would stand out to me, but it never has... until just now. So, yeah, at least for Debootstrap. "iputils-ping" is in there at the absolute very first start where the Developers have picked t

Re: Problems {PEBKAC?} running mmdebstrap for 1st time

2019-05-27 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 5/27/19, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 5/27/19, Richard Owlett wrote: >> >> Further re-reading of man pages suggests that my command should begin: >>> mmdebstrap --variant=required --aptopt="APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated >>> true" ... &

Re: Problems {PEBKAC?} running mmdebstrap for 1st time

2019-05-27 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
, "--dry-run" is still not perfect. I've seen it gloss over, i.e. not mention/reference at all, some forgotten action that I had specifically needed to test-drive first before attempting for reals. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Laptop does not switch off when shutting down

2019-05-25 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
hibernation" advisement ever since I... told Plymouth to... please go take a little vacation on a private island for a little bit.. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Backports and upgrade to buster

2019-05-24 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ar on my computer, my Internet service provider's servers, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY (*to me*), whatever VOLUNTEER Debian repository host(s) might be affected each time. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: What to buy for Buster?

2019-05-23 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 5/23/19, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > > Mine's handsome. Dell XPS 420. Runs NICE on Debian... when it's > running. It's still in need of a new power supply. Intentions are to > attempt to find one again tonight. > > I can't swear 100%, but I THINK it did NOT do Nvidia is

Re: What to buy for Buster?

2019-05-23 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
dness! Cindy :) ** Hardware versus software based internal design as a product's working core, yada-yada... -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Firefox ESR 60.6.2+ still unavailable for me

2019-05-22 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
es here on Debian-User. It's in use probably at least every other day ever since now. In *my* case, it just makes it so easy to quickly visually compare those numbers because of how they're stacked there. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Can't Connect to Secure Wireless Network

2019-05-21 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 5/21/19, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 5/21/19, Kent West wrote: >> I'm on a university campus; we have a secure network ("ACUsecure") to >> which I'm trying to connect. Mac laptops and Windows laptops have no >> problem. You connect to the netwo

Re: Can't Connect to Secure Wireless Network

2019-05-21 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
if you're using... Wicd? Have you tried that yet? I just peeked at mine. There IS a spot there for adding a username and password. I'd never used it so I had to double-check. -- Cindy-Sue Causey Backyard Pishing (Very active private birding adventure) http://www.youtube.com/user/SilkWhispers http://www.flickr.com/photos/mountainsplash/ Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: No Books in print on Systemd?

2019-05-18 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ing target development-wise (just like all its counterparts)? Maybe it's hard to document on paper because that [media] becomes outdated, thus basically fire starter material, almost as fast as it's printed when it comes to tech subjects? Personally, I've bought several older tech books purely fo

Re: Age Ranges for contributors was: Salsa vs Github

2019-05-16 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
hing every so often. I actively wonder how differently my #Life would have evolved if I'd found the right mentoring community back then... mid-1970's... when so many of today's high tier tech folks first touched their own first computers *hm* :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Old problem for hardware compatibility: Thinkpad Lenovo SL400 Camera

2019-05-12 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
inux user was looking for a *Debian* alternative solution... not being redirected back to "ubuntu"... particularly since the request for insight was posted here on the... *Debian*-User listserv. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with.. a fresh, very Happy USER-FRIENDLY Debian debootstrap *

Re: Help tracking down a random beep

2019-05-09 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ovides the (hopefully correct) CPU temps plus the threshold they're not supposed to touch. Also provides fan speed... that's actually a number larger than zero in mine these days. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: A Basic Mount Observation

2019-05-07 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
st already fully grasping at this second because I just worked my own thought process via terminal. I'm going to reread the above a few more times then wait for that Linux operation that finally draws it all together enough to invoke an *ah-HAAA* moment. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: A Basic Mount Observation

2019-05-07 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
(LFS) or similar Linux self-education type exercises. Whatever I'm not remembering, that's what this feels like... If it's not quite what you were saying, it's still showing a... not-quite-anticipated twist on things so that's why I posted. The last few steps came to mind to test as I was typing this up. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Can't install addons for firefox

2019-05-04 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ired-certificate-all-firefox-extensions-disabled/ Does anyone know if that might affect things in this manner? Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: apt-get update error

2019-04-30 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
> > So you can rest easy (until Greg contradicts me). > > ;-) That was my brain's interpretation, too... with the further thought process that NEXT TIME... those of us who follow Debian-Publicity and similar could help out by forwarding the most important of those updates over here to De

Re: Net::DNS::Nameserver

2019-04-26 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ser was seeking something that needed to specifically be X11-friendly, too.. There's something to be said for the wide-open wing-it method, though. Pick any keyword, and see what new find bubbles to the top. I searched on "dragonfly" the other day while waiting for them to show back up and start chasing water sprays out in the yard this Spring. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Obtaining/compiling/installing python3.7

2019-04-26 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ecause they don't get checked off as OK. Match any fails to that HANDY wget-list that's also provided, and, chick-a-BOOM, you're off and running toward Linux knowledge self-empowerment just that quick (depending on Internet connection speed, of course of course). :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Debian Stretch freezes often

2019-04-23 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 4/23/19, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > > Knowing what type of program or programs is open each time wouldn't > hurt. Knowing specifically which ones... ok, yeah, I know... the list > could become seemingly endless. My thought process is that maybe > certain ones or combinations of

Re: Debian Stretch freezes often

2019-04-23 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
memtest86 or memtest86+ (not familiar with > thesebut that is what my search comes up with) > > graphics driver - check issues/bug tracker if they have one Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Debian Stretch freezes often

2019-04-23 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
tarting place would be > /var/log. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: how to display html files on google drives

2019-04-21 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
quot;dat" around over there. Maybe one of these years I'll finally get a copy of Beaker installed (on dialup) so that I can finally catch up to speed with what the doodle a dat is.. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts

2019-04-19 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ly) "safely" installed locally by the various websites we visit. We would hope those apps are trustworthy. On new upgrades, I always sought that feature out and toggled it off because I don't have the resources for something like that to elbow its way into the mix. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: but it's not going to be installed

2019-04-15 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ufraw libmypaint-1.3-0 libmypaint-common The following NEW packages will be installed: mypaint-data 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 4 to remove and [yada-yada large packages] not upgraded. If you didn't have GIMP installed, that wouldn't have hit your radar. Speaking as a GIMP fan nearly since

Re: Exploring package interrelationships

2019-04-15 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
is nagging that I may have read some disgruntled chatter LONG before it ever made enough sense to find a more permanent spot toward the front of the class where its topic would remain more.. [conscionable]. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Fwd: Security Installation Method

2019-04-10 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
what back in place *when* I change my mind. :) Yes, I can't think of good examples, but I'm sure there are some to show why everything should be updated instead of just security. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: date(1) in stretch and buster

2019-04-08 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
e selection that covers a lot more tastes in date formatting solutions, but I can't remember where I saw that.. Found this over at Tecmint: https://www.tecmint.com/set-system-locales-in-linux/ locale -k LC_TIME Very coo AND further implies *WHAT ELSE can that little puppy do*, but my brain's al

Re: stretch disk label problems

2019-04-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ns] that would freak/black out/go dark if we were able to change singularly definable partitions' labels while they're actively on call. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Wheezy: adding myself to the sudo group using usermod

2019-04-04 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
SORRY :) On 4/4/19, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 4/4/19, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: >> (On Wheezy) I've been trying to add myself to the sudo group with the >> usermod >> command. >> >> As root, I've tried most of the permutations of this: >> >> userm

Re: Wheezy: adding myself to the sudo group using usermod

2019-04-04 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ing that adduser maybe [embellishes] a little... Or something like that. PS I'm not finding either usermod OR useradd via a quick "apt-cache search" of Debian _Buster_ "main" repository. Seems like I remember seeing chatter about that, too, along the way. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: bad printing results (was: Why choose Debian on server)

2019-04-03 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
, i.e. zapped a bunch of product listings and I think also the vendor, in protection of their customers. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: keyboard macros

2019-03-28 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
bout the mobility related disabilities consideration there. That's a personal fave to remind people about related to computer usage, including web design layout, e.g. don't force users to have to reach and continuously scroll any more than absolutely necessary per webpage. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

apt-* family: apt-cache pkgnames Easter Egg? (Was: need sources.list example [...])

2019-03-27 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ttle bit like a seasonally appropriate Easter Egg, but I figure my not knowing about it is possibly just me arriving at the party fashionably late as usual. *grin* PS Double-tabbing "apt-cache pkgnames aaaBBBccc" didn't send those text file results to a ">" text file w

Re: text editors

2019-03-24 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
g to lock that down, maybe you could throw in one or more comments... that yell "Don't to do that!" I've done that one... :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: iotop - or, checking what is accessing a drive

2019-03-22 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
Krebs (KrebsOnSecuirty) and ask him to test if that's what was going on, but that behavior ceased when the potentially offending website was redesigned... For my instances, the drive was mounted but very idle... except for those times the light would start beaconing when I landed on that one consumer

Re: iotop - or, checking what is accessing a drive

2019-03-22 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
Krebs (KrebsOnSecuirty) and ask him to test if that's what was going on, but that behavior ceased when the potentially offending website was redesigned... For my instances, the drive was mounted but very idle... except for those times the light would start beaconing when I landed on that one consumer

Re: Curt --- Re: iotop - or, checking what is accessing a drive

2019-03-22 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
s that affect how hard drives function. A quickly attempted search landed the potentially useful phrases of "sleep mode" and "HDD standby". Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Other lists? Fire support for new users

2019-03-22 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
d on it, took the initiative to proactively fix whatever had been ailing at that second to help Users get back on track as soon as possible. *cool!* #ThankYou, Developers! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: what to do when Buster's apt won't purge?

2019-03-19 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
don't work, you could also try a different package manager. I can't remember the circumstances now, but I've had luck with dpkg when apt-get failed specifically on purges. I'm sure of that because I can remembering having to "man dpkg" to find the purge flag, grin. I've seen dpkg get head nods

Re: Caja's file search --- BUG or Feature?

2019-03-11 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ch. *I think* the MANY searches I've done over the years have been with the intention of needing that full file path to accomplish whatever related task had instigated each search. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: systemd error

2019-03-10 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
a (heart stopping) heartbeat and apparently with about 14 1/2 minutes of sudo invoked admin authority left to spare. Go, Kitty! PS Those close calls always next invoke the "OMG, BACK UP THE COMPUTER *NOW*!" moment. Yeah, yeah, I know, backups should have already been done... Living #Life on the edge... yada-yada. :D Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Keyboard and touchpad not working after waking up from a suspension

2019-03-04 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
if they ever solved that. If I come back across that thread, I'll post it here. Just saying it out loud in case someone else remembers that same thread and thus can reference it faster than I can find it. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Keyboard and touchpad not working after waking up from a suspension

2019-03-04 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ometimes) successfully recover when returning from hibernation (and friends) related issues. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Keyboard and touchpad not working after waking up from a suspension

2019-03-04 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
icting programs installed without that being a known, documented issue to date. > Also, just now I had the "ignore keyboard, won't return from monitor sleep" > issue. I was in the middle of something, so when pressing a key did > nothing I > walked away and came back a few minutes lat

Re: Debian specific tools/apps

2019-03-04 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
a list of 20+ language options. A random peek inside several shows that it *appears* that it's *fairly* safe to universally say, "After making a language choice, click on index.html to get the party started. Your chosen language will appear as soon as you get past that point." :) C

Re: systemctl reboot fails (doesn't reboot)

2019-03-01 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
under the user name) at the top right of the screen (in Xfce4)... But it doesn't work from a terminal command line. :) I'm in Buster for good now... and I got blocked in the last couple weeks. Had to "sudo" to get out. Was just too lazy to reach up to dig out "Log Out" from eit

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-02-28 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
just tried a search for... "defaults,rw" /etc/fstab Some things pulled up from varying resources out there. Without actually visiting any of the results, sometimes they just said the above. Other times, they would have "defaults,rw" with a few of the various remaining options

Re: upgrade fail -- i think

2019-02-19 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
t is. I've had to manually play around with that one and a few others to be able to play legitimately purchased 20+-year-old movies... e.g. Overboard and You've Got Mail! There are all kinds of know-your-location's-laws advisements attached to installation attempts of that genre of packages. :) Cin

Re: File association for all and new users in the KDE?

2019-02-17 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
*SORRY about the duplicate post if it showed up.* One did on my side. Browser must have hiccuped when I tried to send a simple text email while simultaneously upgrading Debian on $17 local small town dialup. :) On 2/17/19, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 2/16/19, Serkan KURT wrote: >&

Re: File association for all and new users in the KDE?

2019-02-17 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
th would then throw your computer's front door wide open to any hackers/crackers who might come a-knockin'. They would fall under that "everyone" category, too.... :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: powernow-k8 module missing in kernel 4.9.0-8-rt-amd64

2019-02-15 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
method of email reading annoyingly, apparently, repeatedly triggers a duplication of that other User's issue. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: fakeroot fakechroot debootstrap fails on buster

2019-02-03 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ore you forget and delete the failed debootstrap.. which will then PERMANENTLY delete the entire ~19GB of dotDeb archives. CHECK! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Thunderbird + Enigmail + saving draft with encryption

2019-02-02 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
of a reminder instead of the real subject. A key as to the meaning of that tickler could then be saved elsewhere, e.g. as a handwritten note, in the same way passwords are occasionally saved on scraps of paper scattered everywhere. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: system stops

2019-01-27 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 1/27/19, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > AND THAT... just reminded me that there was a thread where someone > here said something I'd never remembered hearing before... There's a > spot related to I THINK initramfs or something LIKE that > (initrd.img??) where we can accidentally b

Re: system stops

2019-01-27 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
down, I've imagined it playing some potentially similar part in spending the same amount of time watching it come back up from a hibernation it was never expected to take in the first place. :D Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

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