Re: On what is helpful and what is not [was: Re: Wifi]

2014-03-10 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 03/09/2014 09:42 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 10 March 2014 00:15:18 Dave Woyciesjes wrote: Really, calling the OP a nub ( whatever the hell he means by that) isn't an insult? nub, short for newbie, i.e. new user. And no, it is not an insult. Lisi Ahh, thanks. In my travels, when

Re: On what is helpful and what is not [was: Re: Wifi]

2014-03-10 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 03/09/2014 11:05 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 10/03/14 11:15, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 03/09/2014 06:09 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 09 mar 14, 01:39:56, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote: snipped Really, calling the OP a nub ( whatever the hell he means by that) isn't

Re: On what is helpful and what is not [was: Re: Wifi]

2014-03-10 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
are complaining, whining like a bunch of children. Mommy! Mommy! The bully at school called another kid a nub! Wa-wa-wa-wa-wa! This is absolutely ridiculous behavior, and it's exactly what you've been engaged in. On 3/9/2014 7:15 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: ... Really, calling the OP

Re: On what is helpful and what is not [was: Re: Wifi]

2014-03-10 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
that it was explained to me, I understand his intent. His tone delivery, however, was about as smooth as a porcupine wearing 80 grit sandpaper underwear. -- --- Dave Woyciesjes --- ICQ# 905818 --- CompTIA A+ Certified IT Tech - http://certification.comptia.org/ --- HDI Certified Support Center Analyst

Re: On what is helpful and what is not [was: Re: Wifi]

2014-03-10 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 03/10/2014 10:47 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 10 March 2014 14:34:43 Dave Woyciesjes wrote: It's pretty damn sad that a 'certain' type of new users join this list, and the first post they see from me is one of my rare tough love posts such as in this thread. And even though said new

Re: Wifi

2014-03-09 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
. -- --- Dave Woyciesjes --- ICQ# 905818 --- CompTIA A+ Certified IT Tech - http://certification.comptia.org/ --- HDI Certified Support Center Analyst - http://www.ThinkHDI.com/ Registered Linux user number 464583 Computers have lots of memory but no imagination. The problem with troubleshooting

Re: Wifi

2014-03-09 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
. And that's fine. But we need to know his knowledge level in order to best assist him. -- --- Dave Woyciesjes --- ICQ# 905818 --- CompTIA A+ Certified IT Tech - http://certification.comptia.org/ --- HDI Certified Support Center Analyst - http://www.ThinkHDI.com/ Registered Linux user number 464583

Re: On what is helpful and what is not [was: Re: Wifi]

2014-03-09 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
Linux skill level so we can reply with appropriate level of instruction. Kind regards, Andrei Really, calling the OP a nub ( whatever the hell he means by that) isn't an insult? And you think there was no condescending insulting tone overall? -- --- Dave Woyciesjes --- ICQ# 905818

Re: questions about password safes

2014-03-07 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
is: is there an option that will work on Windows, OSX, and Linux? Something where I can keep it on a USB flash drive? I'm not looking for something to insert the passsword for me; really I just want a well encrypted document/diary that is cross platform... -- --- Dave Woyciesjes --- ICQ# 905818 --- CompTIA

Re: questions about password safes

2014-03-07 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 03/07/2014 12:33 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 12:05:00 -0500 Dave Woyciesjes woycies...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Hello Dave, I'm not looking for something to insert the passsword for me; really I just want a well encrypted document/diary that is cross platform

Re: questions about password safes

2014-03-07 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
bother because KeePassX looked better on screen anyway. Thanks all. Looks like KeePassX would do the trick. -- --- Dave Woyciesjes --- ICQ# 905818 --- CompTIA A+ Certified IT Tech - http://certification.comptia.org/ --- HDI Certified Support Center Analyst - http://www.ThinkHDI.com/ Registered

Re: questions about password safes

2014-03-07 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 03/07/2014 02:33 PM, André Nunes Batista wrote: On Fri, 2014-03-07 at 12:36 -0500, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 03/07/2014 12:33 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 12:05:00 -0500 Dave Woyciesjes woycies...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Hello Dave, I'm not looking for something

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems - SysV is FINE.

2014-03-04 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
*BSD variants does more? -- --- Dave Woyciesjes --- ICQ# 905818 --- CompTIA A+ Certified IT Tech - http://certification.comptia.org/ --- HDI Certified Support Center Analyst - http://www.ThinkHDI.com/ Registered Linux user number 464583 Computers have lots of memory but no imagination. The problem

Re: NSA into Debian distribution!

2014-02-13 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
I saw yesterday: It's a scientific FACT: Online comment trolls are SADISTS • The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/12/study_shoes_that_online_comment_trolls_are_sadists/ -- --- Dave Woyciesjes --- ICQ# 905818 --- CompTIA A+ Certified IT Tech - http://certification.comptia.org/ --- HDI

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-11 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
will help. You add a third which BIOS sees all of, yet the OS doesn't. Turns out memtest shows errors on one of the modules. Replace that and all is well. And yes, your new module could be faulty. -- --- Dave Woyciesjes --- ICQ# 905818 --- CompTIA A+ Certified IT Tech - http://certification.comptia.org

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-11 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 02/11/2014 10:03 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 2/11/2014 9:45 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 02/11/2014 08:46 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 11/02/14 03:18 AM, Joel Rees wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Gary Dale garyd

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-10 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
comments. I suggest you follow them. Jerry Have you run memtest yet? -- --- Dave Woyciesjes --- ICQ# 905818 --- CompTIA A+ Certified IT Tech - http://certification.comptia.org/ --- HDI Certified Support Center Analyst - http://www.ThinkHDI.com/ Registered Linux user number 464583 Computers have

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-10 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 02/10/2014 03:14 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 10/02/14 11:24 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 02/09/2014 10:14 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 2/9/2014 8:27 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 09/02/14 06:50 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 2/9/2014 3:32 AM, Efraim Flashner wrote: On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 10:20:49 -0500

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2014-01-05 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 01/05/2014 07:06 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 01/04/2014 09:12 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: Except that today, nothing again. did you log in using XFCE then Cinnamon?? weird that it went away after working.. maybe it is a hardware issue?? going bad? I'm guessing there is some

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2014-01-05 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 01/05/2014 07:06 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 01/04/2014 09:12 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: Except that today, nothing again. did you log in using XFCE then Cinnamon?? weird that it went away after working.. maybe it is a hardware issue?? going bad? I'm guessing that there is some

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2014-01-05 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 01/05/2014 12:56 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 01/05/2014 12:55 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: I'm guessing there is some service that is crapping out. anything in /var/log/syslog ?? Nah, nothing obvious. May have missed something. Got any ideas what to look for ? -- --- Dave

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2014-01-05 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 01/05/2014 12:58 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 01/05/2014 12:57 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: working.. maybe it is a hardware issue?? going bad? I'm guessing that there is some service crapping out. I don't think it's hardware, because I was just using 2 different external HDDs 2

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2014-01-05 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 01/05/2014 06:51 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 1/6/14, Dave Woyciesjes woycies...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On 01/05/2014 12:58 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 01/05/2014 12:57 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: working.. maybe it is a hardware issue?? going bad? I'm guessing that there is some

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2014-01-04 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 01/04/2014 06:16 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 01/03/2014 08:31 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: That's the odd thing. All I did was install XFCE, then noticed the trackball working at the login greeter. Logged in to XFCE, Cinnamon, and now back in to Gnome like I want, and it works everywhere

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2014-01-04 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 01/03/2014 10:38 PM, Doug wrote: On 01/03/2014 07:46 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: Nah, no difference noticed. But I did catch one oddity. Today when /snip/ I was booting up, I had the trackball connected to the USB port (that has the power connector next to it) and while it was loading

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2014-01-03 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 12/31/2013 05:07 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 12/31/2013 04:03 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: it..my problem with Debian is the ice...dove/weasel.. rather than the real thunderbird. I like thunderbird, I don't want it rebranded. I added the Linux Mint Debian Edition repositories to get

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2014-01-03 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 01/03/2014 07:46 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 12/31/2013 05:07 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 12/31/2013 04:03 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: it..my problem with Debian is the ice...dove/weasel.. rather than the real thunderbird. I like thunderbird, I don't want it rebranded. I added

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2014-01-03 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 01/03/2014 08:23 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 01/03/2014 08:20 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: Installing Mate XFCE right now to test. I must say, I am surprised that no one else has chimed in with any suggestions as to how to get my USB mouse or trackball working... Well, now

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2013-12-31 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 12/31/2013 07:58 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 12/30/2013 04:49 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: Partly ideological; I don't like the way things seems to be heading. Canonical's way or F-Off. Got moderated on the Ubuntu user's list for voicing/agreeing with opinions that differ from

USB mouse on Latitude D430

2013-12-30 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
. But nothing else Hints? -- --- Dave Woyciesjes --- ICQ# 905818 --- CompTIA A+ Certified IT Tech - http://certification.comptia.org/ --- HDI Certified Support Center Analyst - http://www.ThinkHDI.com/ Registered Linux user number 464583 Computers have lots of memory but no imagination

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2013-12-30 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 12/30/2013 04:09 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: I'm embarking on a missions, to figure why the USB mouse doens't work on my Dell Latitude D430. When I had Ubuntu on here, up to and including 13.10; USB mice worked fine. Did not change BIOS settings. Only install Debian stable. USB

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2013-12-30 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
**Apologies, meant to bring this back to this list On 12/30/2013 04:46 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 12/30/2013 04:21 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 12/30/2013 04:09 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: I'm embarking on a missions, to figure why the USB mouse doens't work on my Dell Latitude

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2013-12-30 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 12/30/2013 04:33 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 12/30/2013 04:09 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: I'm embarking on a missions, to figure why the USB mouse doens't work on my Dell Latitude D430. When I had Ubuntu on here, up to and including 13.10; USB mice worked fine. Did not change BIOS

Re: Upgraded apache 2.2 - 2.4 and cannot get passwords to work

2013-12-28 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
? Plain Debian Wheezy, or Ubuntu-fied Debian? -- --- Dave Woyciesjes --- ICQ# 905818 --- CompTIA A+ Certified IT Tech - http://certification.comptia.org/ --- HDI Certified Support Center Analyst - http://www.ThinkHDI.com/ Registered Linux user number 464583 Computers have lots of memory

Re: nautilus - spacefm

2013-12-10 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
these things. Have you checked out Nemo? It aims to be what Nautilus was... http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/?p=198 -- --- Dave Woyciesjes --- ICQ# 905818 --- CompTIA A+ Certified IT Tech - http://certification.comptia.org/ --- HDI Certified Support Center Analyst - http://www.ThinkHDI.com/ Registered