Re: What are your best practices for running Debian unstable?

2011-03-12 Thread Freeman
into stable. I used/use apt-move to keep a backup versions of every upgraded package. Found it easier than Debian Snapshot because there is less search & verify and no downloading. -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is th

Re: Please help

2011-03-04 Thread Freeman
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 02:00:38AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Vi, 04 mar 11, 15:38:32, Freeman wrote: > > > > then, at the root prompt, type > > > > GDM3 > > > > If that doesn't work, maybe you have an older version of Debian, so type > >

Re: Please help

2011-03-04 Thread Freeman
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 05:44:33PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/04/2011 05:38 PM, Freeman wrote: > [snip] > > > >Why hasn't anyone suggested "# GDM3" ? Does "startx" even do anything out of > >the box any longer? > > > > Eh? O

Re: Please help

2011-03-04 Thread Freeman
he root password you created on installation. then, at the root prompt, type GDM3 If that doesn't work, maybe you have an older version of Debian, so type GDM If that doesn't work, you never chose desktop in the installation process. If it does work, there is a glitch in your des

[Posted to Debian-OT] A Little Cacophony of Sounds [Long-ish]

2011-03-04 Thread Freeman
Posted to d-community-offtopic Subject: A Little Cacophony of Sounds [Long-ish] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/d-community-offtopic/2011-March/71.html -- Regards, Freeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: sysv-rc-conf and LSB headers

2011-03-02 Thread Freeman
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 02:17:17PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Ma, 01 mar 11, 11:38:20, freeman wrote: > > Hey, > > > > Is there a replacement for sysv-rc-conf? I assume it is obsolete since LSB > > headers now control the initscript sequence. > > >

sysv-rc-conf and LSB headers

2011-03-01 Thread freeman
Hey, Is there a replacement for sysv-rc-conf? I assume it is obsolete since LSB headers now control the initscript sequence. Been using /usr/lib/lsb/[install|remove]_initd . (Don't know whether insserv is better.) sysv-rc-conf was a nice tool. -- Regards, Freeman March 1, 1960:

Re: A Debian -offtopic mailing list: to be or not to be

2011-02-28 Thread Freeman
t more promo on the big high-traffic Debian lists. The problem is getting readership so posters are attracted, or is it vice versa? I like the idea of automated cross-posting Subjects: containg [OT], and like ramifications, to debian-offtopic for a while. Additionally, maybe a separate debian-user-for-ub

Re: GNOME root's logins (looking for feeback)

2011-02-20 Thread Freeman
IOS info warned that there is no way to access data without that password. -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

Re: upgrade using aptitude

2011-02-16 Thread Freeman
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 01:18:02PM -0600, Qi Qi wrote: > Thanks, Freeman. The problem is solved. I just manually keep back evolution's > upgrade in aptitude, and then all the others were upgraded smoothly. Now > my debian is on unstale version. My source list do jumping among sta

Re: upgrade using aptitude

2011-02-15 Thread Freeman
Geesh, error corrections: On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 07:50:10PM -0800, evenso wrote: > > The recommended way involves an upgrade, a kernel install, a udev install > and a dis-upgrade udder apt-get. ^dist-upgrade ^under -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Mi

Re: upgrade using aptitude

2011-02-15 Thread Freeman
ded actions first.) Or you can *not* risk your entire system and upgrade the right and recommended way according to release notes. http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/releasenotes The recommended way involves an upgrade, a kernel install, a udev install and a dis-upgrade udder apt-get. -- Regards

Re: Running Firefox instead of Iceweasel package?

2011-02-14 Thread Freeman
require you to install the package so you can still > keep your Iceweasel installation in parallel. > I do this, regardless of how unnecessary it is suppose to be. If the versions vary to widely, addons can be problematic. Firefox and iceweasel will install them to the same directory,

Re: Hate mail from Debian people

2011-02-14 Thread Freeman
personal." However, the code of conduct requires complaints about such emails to be made privately. -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: Multimedia Lenny is History!

2011-02-10 Thread Freeman
updates and lenny installers maybe are a negligible part of the issue. -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Multimedia Lenny is History!

2011-02-08 Thread freeman
As of Monday: http://debian-multimedia.org/ -- Kind Regards, Freeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110208221922.GA9773@Europa.office

Re: skip fsck when booting on battery?

2011-02-08 Thread Freeman
ng at the possibility of a RAID storage in the far future! Many discussion to Google on that! -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: skip fsck when booting on battery?

2011-02-06 Thread Freeman
ist of prime numbers respectively. Now, checking /boot (250M ?), will take a second or so every 53 boots. Even /srv or /home (7-10G ?) would be way less trouble than the entire drive. -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer.&

Re: skip fsck when booting on battery?

2011-02-06 Thread Freeman
t keeps the previous AC/battery state from last boot, and only checks > again quite late in the boot process. Maybe that is acpi starting in runlevel 2 or whatever runlevel you end up in. -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linu

Re: Is The Hour Nigh?

2011-02-05 Thread Freeman
: amd64 armel i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc Components: main contrib non-free Description: Debian 6.0 Released 05 February 2011 . . . Woo-hoo! -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the a

Re: Installing Debian from NFS

2011-02-05 Thread Freeman
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 10:19:06PM -0500, RR wrote: > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Freeman wrote: > > > This may not help. I made on on-disk version for debs I build or scarf. > > There are examples for creating package files and of a release file. > > > > htt

Re: Installing Debian from NFS

2011-02-04 Thread Freeman
debs I build or scarf. There are examples for creating package files and of a release file. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/repository-howto/repository-howto Of course apt-cacher-ng will do the same. P.S. Protocol here is to trim the quote and respond below. -- Regards, Freeman "

Re: Installing Debian from NFS

2011-02-02 Thread Freeman
I found setup and maintenance quite simple and it works flawlessly. Not so coincidentally, my two other machines can then upgrade more quickly from the network. -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Som

Re: Lenny or Squeeze?

2011-01-25 Thread Freeman
pgrade the kernel of the "base install." -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: apt-get/aptitude. Ist it true...

2011-01-25 Thread Freeman
ndow does come back, task completed. > > It is a great looking thing: the info access of Synaptic, the functions of > Aptitude. > > I'll hang on to aptitude-curses out of familiarity for a year or more > anyway. > > I am perfectly happy with aptitude-curses, and ap

Re: apt-get/aptitude. Ist it true...

2011-01-25 Thread Freeman
ble in experimental. It is a great looking thing: the info access of Synaptic, the functions of Aptitude. I'll hang on to aptitude-curses out of familiarity for a year or more anyway. I am perfectly happy with aptitude-curses, and apt-get/aptitude at the command line. -- Regards, Freeman &

Re: How to make an upgraded system clean by automatically removing abandoned config files?

2011-01-18 Thread Freeman
rc-hebrew | 6.0 xpdf-common 3.02-9 /etc/xpdf/xpdfrc-latin2 | 6.0 xpdf-common 3.02-9 /etc/xpdf/xpdfrc-greek | 6.0 xpdf-common 3.02-9 /etc/xpdf/xpdfrc-thai | 6.0 xpdf-common 3.02-9 /etc/xpdf/xpdfrc-arabic | 6.0 xpdf-common 3.02-9 /etc/xpdf/xpdfrc-turkish -- Regards, Fr

Re: stardict dictionary packages.

2011-01-16 Thread Freeman
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 07:47:04PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Freeman: > > > When I opened stardict, it returned an error that no dictionaries > > were found and it gave the url I mentioned. > > > > I downloaded the compress

Re: stardict dictionary packages.

2011-01-16 Thread Freeman
from here!" link to the URL on my previous post where there is the complete set of dictd dictionaries formatted for stardict. -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: stardict dictionary packages.

2011-01-16 Thread Freeman
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 03:14:48PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Freeman: > > > The dictd dictionaries on my system don't work but the tarballs of > > the same dictionaries from yeelou.com do. I kind of like stardict. > > Once it is ru

Re: stardict dictionary packages.

2011-01-15 Thread Freeman
tried it either but that appears to be the stardict recommendation > as they offer dictd tarballs for installation to /usr/share/stardict/dic > along with others. > > http://yeelou.com/huzheng/stardict-dic/ > The dictd dictionaries on my system don't work but the tarballs of t

Re: stardict dictionary packages.

2011-01-15 Thread Freeman
edict-*-*" packages working with Stardict? (just asking > because I have not tested) :-? > > Greetings, > I haven't tried it either but that appears to be the stardict recommendation as they offer dictd tarballs for installation to /usr/share/stardict/dic along with others. htt

Re: Please ignore this test.

2011-01-14 Thread Freeman
that this is an example of what not to do. The archives seem up to date enough these days to allow testing by comparing ones inbox if necessary: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/01/msg00838.html -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linu

Re: Squeeze: Gnome icons missing

2011-01-11 Thread Freeman
tons_have_icons | menus_have_icons . If configuration editor isn't there, install gconf2. -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Changing default size of gnome-terminal when launching terminal apps

2011-01-09 Thread Freeman
al configs and name the window so it stands out on the panel or among other terminals. gnome-terminal -e /usr/bin/mutt --window-with-profile=mutt --geometry=112x44 -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody

Re: Is The Hour Nigh?

2011-01-09 Thread Freeman
On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 03:02:06PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 18:53:32 -0800, freeman wrote: > > > After upgrading the base-files package to 6.0 in squeeze: > > > > free...@europa:~$ cat /etc/issue.net > > Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 > > free...@e

Is The Hour Nigh?

2011-01-08 Thread freeman
-announce, news.debian.org or Debian Project News? All I am seeing is an announcement of updating lenny to 5.0.7 on Debian Project News. -- Regards, Freeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: care and feeding (no longer resembles: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?)

2011-01-06 Thread Freeman
. Turn the wheel left, . . . Yet it remains difficult to get it through to some drivers' that they could kill somebody. I still have some faith that the majority of idiot drivers don't consciously want to kill, or at least don't want the legal ramifications. Saving data, regard

Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

2011-01-04 Thread Freeman
Jan 4 12:43:28 Europa kernel: [ 245.535519] b44: eth0: powering down PHY | Jan 4 12:43:28 Europa kernel: [ 245.542597] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready | Jan 4 12:43:38 Europa kernel: [ 255.676228] eth1: no IPv6 routers present -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answ

Re: GnuCash 2.4.0

2010-12-29 Thread Freeman
. It might be worth mention on the backports mail list. I didn't find anything in experimental. -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 12:59:06PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: >

Re: lenny squeeze etc etc

2010-12-25 Thread Freeman
p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_v10.5> "Leopard" >* Mac OS X v10.6 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_v10.6> "Snow > Leopard" - current >* Mac OS X v10.7 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_v10.7> > "Lion" - upcoming >

read ext3 w/inodes>128 from XP

2010-08-07 Thread Freeman
switch. |Finally, restore all files with the backup. http://www.fs-driver.org/relnotes.html How inadvisable returning to 128 inodes? -- Kind Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Downgraded Flash Non-Free 32 to Backports

2010-06-24 Thread Freeman
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 03:10:20PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > On Saturday 19 June 2010 14:10:28 Freeman wrote: . . . > > > > Is there some possible fix, something else in development or is flash > > simply going to be bad solution for old radeons? > > > Flash won

Downgraded Flash Non-Free 32 to Backports

2010-06-19 Thread Freeman
thing else in development or is flash simply going to be bad solution for old radeons? -- Kind Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: A few minor issues in Squeeze with Gnome

2010-06-05 Thread Freeman
e. But worth thinking about is the System Monitor app. It can put 6 customized graphs in your panel. Then some nice extended info and System Monitor itself is a right click from there. Then there is cpufrequtils, which has a nice panel app. I used it to extend my battery life by around 10% w

Glob of Upgrades

2010-06-03 Thread Freeman
ews or the developers lists and announce lists. -- Kind Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&q

[OT] Re: Page remove please

2010-06-02 Thread groups, freeman
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: A very wise barrister once advised - "Don't put anything into writing that you wouldn't be prepared to see used directly agianst you in a court of law" Possibly a little excessively dramatic but still excellent advice :) Eliot Spitzer said it better, 2006, pre getting b

Re: Screen width on Knoppix install. Progress report.

2010-06-02 Thread Freeman
s dialog. It usually doesn't adjust to wide screens automatically. Can't tell you exactly where the settings are. Were this a compbiz list, they could. -- Kind Regards, Freeman Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: apt-get

2010-05-31 Thread Freeman
talls > > Aptitude-gtk is looking beautiful. Maybe still not fully functional, but some interesting features and a fantastic GUI. When in stable, it will equal a new level of package management. Tried it in the early version and went back to CLI/curses. Just upgraded aptitude to unstable in o

Re: Hot CPU!

2010-05-31 Thread Freeman
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 05:14:27PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 31 May 2010 02:24:57 -0700, freeman wrote: > > > Today my CPU seemingly jumped to 85' C and remained there without one > > change during three 15 min. sessions. > > Did you check that values from B

Hot CPU!

2010-05-31 Thread freeman
. 85' C would just have been a default on failing. But the fan had to be in on the bad information too. Does it's information come from the kernel. BTW, this is a Pentium M, 1.6 GHz., which is suppose to handle heat well. -- Kind Regards, Freeman 5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Can't switch to DASH

2010-05-25 Thread Freeman
gs, although yous seems more "serious." #583554 -- Kind Regards, Freeman Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Can't switch to DASH

2010-05-25 Thread Freeman
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Apr 23 10:28 /bin/sh.distrib -> bash On upgrade apt-lisbugs warned of bug #582952, regarding LINENO and failure of associated packages to build from source. So I aborted. But yours sounds more related to #540512 or #546428 Tyhere are a number of grave and serious

Re: Partition sizes in Squeeze

2010-05-22 Thread Freeman
me. But what should I do if I needed more space? This is not > much space and fills up so quickly. > You should post your /etc/fstab and/or the resluts of df to help someone give you constructive suggestions. -- Kind Regards, Freeman Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the ques

Re: Console: Laptop vs backlight-off problem

2010-05-21 Thread groups, freeman
Cool, thx for that find! I've played a bit, at first it was looking hopeless, after logging in I'd get backlight=off and dead tty - couldn't even reboot since that would cause full hang (though I could login via ssh, until I hung it via reboot that is). Discovered that a 'stty rows 50 cols 1

Re: Console: Laptop vs backlight-off problem

2010-05-20 Thread groups, freeman
Camaleón wrote: Have your checked "/etc/console-tools/config" file? Yeah, seems to behave identically as setterm does - works for changing screen_blank timeout but I had no success with setting anything that would cause the backlight to extinguish : ( Thx tho! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Console: Laptop vs backlight-off problem

2010-05-20 Thread groups, freeman
Howdy, I have a Debian Lenny system in console-only mode (no X, etc) running on a Toshiba Tecra S1. I'd like the LCD backlight to turn off after a period of inactivity but can't seem to make it happen. I've tried via setterm (e.g. 'setterm -blank 1 -powersave powerdown -powerdown 2') and the

Re: pinning + apt-get vs aptitude

2010-05-17 Thread Freeman
c{a} ... > > So why does aptitude pay no attention to my pin? > High pin scores can be thrown off, even without high-scoring dependency issues, if there are more than two releases involved. This explains better than I could: http://www.argon.org/~roderick/apt-pinning.html -- Kind Reg

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-10 Thread Freeman
00. > That is the green line > here: http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ . Process trumps schedules. > OK, started looking around and found a better answer. :-) http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/05/msg0.html -- Kind Regards, Freeman http://bugs.debian.org/rel

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-10 Thread Freeman
s...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/hsa97l$ea...@dough.gmane.org > > According to officialdom, approximately when the number of R-C bugs hits 300. That is the green line here: http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ . Process trumps schedules. -- Kind Regards, Fr

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-10 Thread Freeman
me away, I take no offence. > > So how come that your most offensive email was _not_ sent to this list, but > to > the KDE list? You clearly have some control over the behaviour of your email > client. > Dejavu. -- Kind Regards, Freeman http://bugs.debian.org/release-crit

Re: Gnome 2.30 icons (was: Has Iceweasel adopted Chrome's icons?)

2010-05-06 Thread Freeman
e name in the file index.theme means that the old > icons now appear as option Appearance Preferences menu for all users :-) > Xcellent! Thanks for that. :-) -- Kind Regards, Freeman http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debia

Re: Newsreaders (was: Re: How to flush cache of certain disk?)

2010-05-06 Thread Freeman
, which is wrong (my zone is > currently GMT+0200). Pan takes the timezone of the server sending the e- > mail, instead the user's one. Nothing serious. > > ¹ http://www.fiction.net/blong/programs/mutt/#nntp > ² http://pan.rebelbase.com/ > Have you ever tried tin? I alway

Re: USB device attached via RS232 adaptor

2010-04-24 Thread Freeman
style of experience with Debian, might amount to something. But I have been saturated by work and study in other areas of my life. -- Kind Regards, Freeman http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &quo

Re: USB device attached via RS232 adaptor

2010-04-22 Thread Freeman
o or three questions that basically equalled the first paragraph of the respective man pages. Anyway, I probably shouldn't have posted regardless. Seemed like a good idea at the time. :-) Finally got caught up on some sleep. -- Kind Regards, Freeman http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100422211017.gb15...@europa.office

Re: [OT] Birthday Gear (was Re: Epiphany browser continues to get worse and

2010-04-22 Thread Freeman
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:04:57AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:22:54 -0400 (EDT), Freeman wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:11:46AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > >> ... > >> I got a new laptop for my birthday a few days ago. > >>

[OT] Birthday Gear (was Re: Epiphany browser continues to get worse and

2010-04-21 Thread Freeman
have almost outgrown. By the time I install a full-blown Linux desktop > environment on it, there's not much room left for user files. Otherwise, > I would have been content to continue running my 12-year-old 266 MHz > Pentium II with 416M of RAM, 2M of video RAM, and no 3

Re: USB device attached via RS232 adaptor

2010-04-19 Thread Freeman
e? In > >any case, I could probably convince him to upgrade if you think that > >Etch is not up to the task. > > > > You completely missed (probably because gmail's web interface so > incredibly sucks) why he's plonking you. > LOL! That is an hilarious and

Re: Out of curiosity...

2010-04-19 Thread Freeman
that rate, the freeze is due in September. But I am wondering if some select core work is not continuing. If so, maybe there will be new waves of RC bugs and less than an optimal effort at bug fixes for some time. -- Kind Regards, Freeman http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ -- To UNSUBS

Re: USB device attached via RS232 adaptor

2010-04-18 Thread Freeman
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 07:40:48PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > It's a 2.6 kernel, so Etch. > > -- > Dotan Cohen > > http://bido.com > http://what-is-what.com > > Please CC me if you want to be sure that I read your message. I do not > read all list mail. >

Re: GNOME crashes when .xsession file is present.

2010-04-15 Thread Freeman
a technical explanation. Maybe it can be viewed as similar to initiating two desktops environments simultaneously. Gnome doesn't object to an .xinitrc. You might setup script in a runlevel so when you boot that runlevel from GRUB the .xinitrc is executed. -- Kind Regards, Freeman http://

Re: [OT] Ubuntu vs Debian forums (was recompiling the kernel with a different version name)

2010-04-10 Thread Freeman
It is not as difficult for the diligent layman as its reputation implies if he/she knows and sticks to their original goals as a user. However, it may never be the desktop candidate for fun exploration during family hour, excepting the the technologically inclined and strange wannabes like myself.

Re: automate updates in Lenny

2010-04-10 Thread Freeman
es "this hasn't been true for years." The issue is a broader point on compatibility with Synaptic, but apt-get is implied as Synaptic keeps no separate record from apt-get. http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=188382#p188382 -- Kind Regards, Freeman http://bugs.debian.org/rele

Re: Going wireless

2010-04-10 Thread Freeman
s.htm ) will give you a network that will > be extremely hard to crack via a brute force attack. Virtually all > consumer wireless routers/acess points support WPA PSK. > > - Nate >> > Been thinking about it. Thanks! -- Kind Regards, Freeman http://bugs.debian.org/relea

Re: Going wireless

2010-04-10 Thread Freeman
tead of spinning in circles like a headless chicken. -- Kind Regards, Freeman http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100410075236.ga3...@europa.office

Re: [OT] Ubuntu vs Debian forums (was recompiling the kernel with a different version name)

2010-04-08 Thread Freeman
les. And one could get stuck in an difficult situation for a long time. We seem to have made some recent advancements in ALSA but I think that the video on some old Radeons like mine is awaiting a entirely new driver. -- Kind Regards, Freeman http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ -- To UNSUB

Re: [OT] Ubuntu vs Debian forums (was recompiling the kernel with a different version name)

2010-04-08 Thread Freeman
fish and he gets angry for > > making him work. > > > Teach a man to fish and he'll sit in a boat and drink beer all day. > Teach a man to drink good Irish Whiskey and there's no telling what might happen. -- Kind Regards, Freeman http://bugs.debian.org/r

Re: Spam

2010-04-07 Thread Freeman
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 07:24:58AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Freeman writes: > > Has there been an increase of spam on the list over the past few > > weeks? > > I have observed a general increase in spam. > > > I started filtering the list, which I don't l

Re: Good Use for ClamAV

2010-04-07 Thread Freeman
ersion of > ClamAV is, AFAIK, sadly outdated. The forum for ClamAV windows did not look like a happy place. -- Kind Regards, Freeman http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Good Use for ClamAV

2010-04-07 Thread Freeman
They screw up half the time. There isn't a big demand for ClamAV on the Debian partitions of a laptop/desktop. But I'll be scheduling scans of the XP partition from Debian. Doh! There is even a ClamAV *win32* for the unlucky. -- Kind Regards, Freeman http://bugs.debian.org/release-cri

Spam

2010-04-07 Thread Freeman
Has there been an increase of spam on the list over the past few weeks? I started filtering the list, which I don't like doing. But no avail. I assume it passes my filters for the same reason it gets by list filters. -- Kind Regards, Freeman http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ -

Re: Running GNOME with 128 MB RAM - Painfully slow?

2010-04-04 Thread Freeman
er-no-gui, cdcd, mc, iptraff, saidar, ethstatus, terminus fonts, . . . The Debian console is a pretty nice place. There are some programs for framebuffer graphics too. Then you can put your system up against the wall from the console when you feel like it. :-) -- Kind Regards, Freeman ht

Re: After recent upgrade, starting gdm shows "black" screen

2010-04-04 Thread Freeman
have been > fixed in 2.6.31. I would like to know the solution to this. > +1 I was sort of panicking about this. I didn't want to find the system unable to boot but I hadn't collected much info for a post. Thanks for the inform. -- Kind Regards, Freeman http://bugs.debian.org/r

Re: ftp.master

2010-04-04 Thread Freeman
esn't look all there, like an increased flow should be expected for a while as updates that were held back in the interim get uploaded. -- Kind Regards, Freeman http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-03 Thread Freeman
k you > The "discover" package comes with an automatic install script. And, for what you can't get done easily :-) : http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/ -- Kind Regards, Freeman http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-

Re: Problem with tty when debian testing(2.6.32-trunk kernel) starts up

2010-04-03 Thread Freeman
adjusted to that, I think. It may still be effecting my login to gdm. Don't go there much. Stephen Powell recently posted about tty changes in a graphic manager. -- Kind Regards, Freeman http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

Re: No updates seen in a while

2010-04-03 Thread Freeman
> processed. > Upgrade surfing! apt-listbugs and apt-showchanges are both in working order. :-) -- Kind Regards, Freeman http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: 'looking up xxxx' forever

2010-04-03 Thread Freeman
> left-over soda's on? > If there is a history of dialing up and reconnecting without issue, other than dial-tones, I'd say start with the ISP. Other failures would seem more likely to effect retries. -- Kind Regards, Freeman http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ -- To UNSUB

Re: 'looking up xxxx' forever

2010-04-03 Thread Freeman
havior? And what to do about it? > > BTW it again happened at 11:00 as you can see. > Always start with the simplest explanation that works. Your dialup provider, your phone company or your phone line periodically drops you. -- Kind Regards, Freeman http://bugs.debian.org/release

Re: No updates seen in a while

2010-04-02 Thread Freeman
e thread when a subject jumps lists, e.g. from debian-devel-announce to debian-project. -- Kind Regards, Freeman http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

Re: problem with ooffice from backports

2010-04-01 Thread Freeman
g with aptitude > instead of synaptic. If you are trying to install from backports, you will > need > to use the -t option. For example, > > aptitude -t lenny-backports install ... > Maybe adding the version would give a definitive answer as to its existence on backports, ... op

Re: backports issue with firefox and a mms stream

2010-03-31 Thread Freeman
usr/bin/vlc the subsequent dialog. The association can be saved saved. I am assuming you have tried the mplayer in debian-multimedia.org . You might do well to sprint for the vlc in testing if it fits your MO. -- Kind Regards, Freeman http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ -- To UNSU

Re: [WOT] Help for non-Debian distributions (was How to read log files)

2010-03-29 Thread Freeman
KL > Eew. -- Kind Regards, Freeman http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100329181701.ga3...@europa.office

Re: Conclusion: problem installing grub-legacy

2010-03-29 Thread Freeman
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 04:12:58PM +, T o n g wrote: > On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:57:04 -0700, Freeman wrote: > > >> I don't want Grub2/Grub-PC, etc, but get upgraded to it. Now > >> I can't go back, because grub-common is listed as a dependency of grub- > &

Re: problem installing grub-legacy

2010-03-29 Thread Freeman
ting Grub-PC in some dependency resolution, but I was able to remove it and install legacy without forcing anything. -- Kind Regards, Freeman http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: handling removable media without gnome-volume-manager

2010-03-27 Thread Freeman
ate a directory in /media/ and use the mount command. I use > this > for usb sticks and externel hard drives. The 'blkid' command will give you > the > UUID for a file system. > > Mine way is all manual not sure of the automagic way, either way 'UUID=' i

Re: Repartitioning a USB external HD. Need help removing existing partition [SOLVED]

2010-03-27 Thread Freeman
ater) it's still working fine. > > Here's what you guys need: > http://www.adata.com.tw/en/product_show.php?ProductNo=14210001 > > Rugged and stylish, and waterproof for when pool parties happen. > Nice. And you are saying they will improve my sex life to, eh? -- Kind

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-27 Thread Freeman
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 04:46:59PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20100326_151046, Freeman wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 03:31:11PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > I've been running Squeeze on my desktop computer for many weeks and > > > just today noticed

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Freeman
7;d rather just confer. Do you even need it? Do these things not show up in Nautilus? # aptitude install gnome-volume-manager ? -- Kind Regards, Freeman http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Repartitioning a USB external HD. Need help removing existing partition [SOLVED]

2010-03-26 Thread Freeman
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:18:57AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:51:07 -0700 > Freeman wrote: > > ... > > > I've had two passports for about 3 and 5 years now. The third and newest, > > the only SATA, died from a ridiculously small drop,

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