Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/1 7:47 PM, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: Do you want to help? If no, stop reading now (I don't need more heckling). Do you want help? Then don't write agressive email with sarcastic subject. What I did: [...] What you tried to do requires great Linux skill and knowledge. It

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/1 8:47 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Mark Filipak wrote: On 2013/3/1 8:13 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Brian wrote: On Fri 01 Mar 2013 at 19:25:30 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: in fact, I expect that's what's happening to Mark when he tries to install GRUB - the installer is either

Install failed - let's start again, without bogus assumptions, please.

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Filipak
to install GRUB, it fails. What can you suggest I do? I will try anything. Thanks - Mark. -- 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/51316145.70...@gmail.com

Re: Install failed - let's start again, without bogus assumptions, please.

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/1 10:03 PM, green wrote: Shane Johnson wrote at 2013-03-01 20:53 -0600: On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Mark Filipak markfilipak.li...@gmail.comwrote: During the Debian installation (to USB thumb drive or USB hard drive), when it goes to install GRUB, it fails. To help further

Re: Install failed - let's start again, without bogus assumptions, please.

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/1 10:39 PM, Mark Filipak wrote: On 2013/3/1 10:03 PM, green wrote: Shane Johnson wrote at 2013-03-01 20:53 -0600: On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Mark Filipak markfilipak.li...@gmail.comwrote: During the Debian installation (to USB thumb drive or USB hard drive), when it goes

Re: Install failed - let's start again, without bogus assumptions, please.

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/1 10:51 PM, Mark Filipak wrote: On 2013/3/1 10:39 PM, Mark Filipak wrote: On 2013/3/1 10:03 PM, green wrote: Shane Johnson wrote at 2013-03-01 20:53 -0600: On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Mark Filipak markfilipak.li...@gmail.comwrote: During the Debian installation (to USB thumb

Re: I wish to advocate linux

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/1 11:05 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: There was once a fellow on a list I belong to whose postings were one tale of woe after another which is not that unusual for those of us who tinker and work in technology. The trouble with him was that it was all one

Re: Install failed - let's start again, without bogus assumptions, please.

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/1 11:54 PM, Richard Hector wrote: On 02/03/13 17:33, Mark Filipak wrote: I'm back. When the GRUB install failed I pressed Alt+F4. The Debian Installer disappeared and I was immediately back to the LWDE desktop. I tried Alt+F4 there and nothing happened. Linux has the concept

Re: Install failed - USB flash to USB drive [SOLVED]

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Filipak
.) Then I booted from the USB flash and installed Debian + LXDE desktop to a USB drive. (The GRUB bootloader install failed toward the end of the installation.) The problem is in the GUI installer. To do the installation successfully, use the text-based installer. Thanks all, Mark

Re: [OT] re: trolls and operating systems [was: Install failed - let's start again, without bogus assumptions, please.]

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Filipak
ago (partitioning problem). João Luis. It was not a partitioning problem. It is a bug in the GUI installer. The text-based installer works and I was successful. Ciao - Mark. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: tar - unresponsive machine

2013-02-28 Thread mark
Is it normal that when using the tar command to create a big archive, the whole machine becomes unresponsive, e.g. several dozens of seconds to do some operation (e.g. starting an xterm, or making Firefox react)? htop shows that there is still plenty of memory and atop shows nothing special,

Re: I wish to advocate linux

2013-02-27 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/2/27 11:18 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:34:04 +, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com mailto:lisi.reisz%40gmail.com wrote: Mark Filipak wrote: For everyone who doesn't have their own development department to adapt Linux kernels to their widget, Linux has

Re: I wish to advocate linux

2013-02-27 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/2/27 5:32 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 26 February 2013 21:35:18 Mark Filipak wrote: An OS that is difficult to install is not a friendly OS. People understand this. I find Debian GNU/Linux significantly easier to install than Windows. What a nonsensical statement. I've never

Re: I wish to advocate linux

2013-02-27 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/2/27 3:34 PM, Go Linux wrote: --- On Wed, 2/27/13, Mark Filipak markfilipak.li...@gmail.com wrote: I'm someone who started computing on IBM-360s in the 1970s, who progressed to HP3000-SPL and PDP11s and UNIX and Solaris and MS-DOS and MS-Windows. I played with Xenix, Minix and even

Re: I wish to advocate linux

2013-02-27 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/2/27 3:36 PM, Harvey Kelly wrote: On 27 February 2013 20:24, Mark Filipak markfilipak.li...@gmail.com wrote: What a nonsensical statement. I've never successfully installed any distribution of Linux You fibber. You installed Squeeze on your amd64 machine according to this thread

Re: I wish to advocate linux

2013-02-27 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/2/27 3:45 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2013 27 Feb 14:25 -0600, Mark Filipak wrote: What a nonsensical statement. I've never successfully installed any distribution of Linux. Not even on an empty hard drive on commodity x86 hardware? I find this admission so absurd that I can't get

Re: I wish to advocate linux

2013-02-27 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/2/27 3:42 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 27 February 2013 20:34:26 Go Linux wrote: Well, I am a liberal arts educated 70-something (and female to boot) +1 ;-) without a technical computer background like yours to brag about. I am just a lowly user with a curiosity and

Re: I wish to advocate linux

2013-02-27 Thread Mark Filipak
Thanks for replying, Nate. On 2013/2/27 4:18 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2013 27 Feb 14:53 -0600, Mark Filipak wrote: The only result of my attempted installations has been cryptic error messages and non-bootable disks. That sounds more like a disk writing failure. I've gotten a few

Re: I wish to advocate linux

2013-02-27 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/2/27 6:31 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Mark Filipak wrote: On 2013/2/27 11:18 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Hasn't even run it, apprently, or at least wrote in an earlier message But I don't run Linux. Now that's it in a nutshell, isn't it. Seems to me that Mark is simply a troll

Re: I wish to advocate linux

2013-02-27 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/2/27 6:53 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Mark Filipak wrote: On 2013/2/27 6:34 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Mark Filipak wrote: On 2013/2/27 5:32 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 26 February 2013 21:35:18 Mark Filipak wrote: An OS that is difficult to install is not a friendly OS. People

Re: Thinking about using Debian

2013-02-26 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/2/25 8:30 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: P.S. Please don't top post. Thanks. Funny... I belonged to many lists 15 or 20 years ago. All wanted folks to top post and bitched about bottom-posts. Why? Bottom posts require scrolling to see that latest reply. Oh well. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: I wish to advocate linux

2013-02-26 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/2/26 3:53 PM, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: -snip- Unfortunately, this is about as interesting to the average person as the engine manufacturer in their motor vehicle -snip- Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! I'm interested in Linux. It's not Microsoft or Google. It's open source. But I don't run Linux.

Re: I wish to advocate linux

2013-02-26 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/2/26 4:42 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Mark Filipak wrote: For everyone who doesn't have their own development department to adapt Linux kernels to their widget, Linux has been a toy OS for technoweenies. That hasn't changed in 10 years and Linux has made no headway on the desktop

Re: I wish to advocate linux

2013-02-26 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/2/26 5:08 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Mark Filipak wrote: On 2013/2/26 4:42 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Mark Filipak wrote: For everyone who doesn't have their own development department to adapt Linux kernels to their widget, Linux has been a toy OS for technoweenies. That hasn't

Re: I wish to advocate linux

2013-02-26 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/2/26 5:39 PM, Joe wrote: On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:29:06 -0500 Mark Filipak markfilipak.li...@gmail.com wrote: On 2013/2/26 5:08 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Mark Filipak wrote: -snip- Your attitude, Miles, is typical and is a large part of the problem. Ummm... what exactly

RE: debian wheezy amd64 freeze

2013-02-25 Thread Mark Allums
No idea for your logs, but I bet the problem come from your GPU drivers or Xorg. It sounds like this computer uses a NVidia GPU, so I guess your driver is currently nouveau. Do you still have the crash if you use NVidia's drivers? (it is in non-free) My video card is a GeForce 650M with the

Re: How to match last part of fullpath in apt-file with a perl reg-exp?

2013-02-25 Thread Mark Filipak
I think 'm[^/]*$' will match (parse) all end-parts that begin with 'm'. I think '.*/m[^/]*$' will match (find) all full-paths that have an end-part that begins with 'm' (or either of: 'm' or 'M' if 'i' flag is used). I addressed parsing, not finding. In javascript, regExp=/.*\/m[^\/]*$/i; would

Re: Thinking about using Debian

2013-02-25 Thread Mark Filipak
be any different? Do you know of any very-experienced Debian folks who speak truths and wouldn't mind holding my hand? (and who maybe won't be put off by a little bitching?) Ciao - Mark (who spent 2 very pleasant months in NZ in the mid-80s, but decided that the Hutt Valley was not enough like

RE: Moving Chromebook from Ubuntu Precise to Debian Squeeze (and eventually Wheezy)

2013-02-24 Thread Mark Allums
-Original Message- From: Dom [mailto:to...@rpdom.net] Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2013 12:43 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Moving Chromebook from Ubuntu Precise to Debian Squeeze (and eventually Wheezy) On 23/02/13 23:25, Mark Allums wrote: Hi, all. I

Re: How to match last part of fullpath in apt-file with a perl reg-exp?

2013-02-24 Thread Mark Filipak
For end of the fullpath, search for '[^\/]*$' For end of the fullpath that begins with 'm', search for 'm[^\/]*$' Caveats: I don't know perl I don't use apt-file I don't use linux. (I lurk the Debian list because I'm considering trying Debian.) My knowledge is javascript. The patterns above

Re: How to match last part of fullpath in apt-file with a perl reg-exp?

2013-02-24 Thread Mark Filipak
. Windows XP - For engineering applications games - no networking at all. Either multiboot, or VMware player with Linux host/WinXP client. Comments? Advice? KISS. Ciao - Mark. On 2013/2/24 6:52 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Mark Filipak wrote: For end of the fullpath, search for '[^\/]*$' For end

RE: Gnome classic theme for 7?

2013-02-23 Thread Mark Allums
Is there a Gnome classic theme for Debian 7? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/ Do you mean icon and desktop theme for Gnome 3, or a version of Gnome 2, or something else? The answer is complicated. Gnome 3 has a classic mode in 3.0

RE: [OT] possible USB virus?

2013-02-23 Thread Mark Allums
-Original Message- From: lina [mailto:lina.lastn...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2013 9:00 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: [OT] possible USB virus? On Saturday 23,February,2013 10:35 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 02:36:13PM

Moving Chromebook from Ubuntu Precise to Debian Squeeze (and eventually Wheezy)

2013-02-23 Thread Mark Allums
Hi, all. I possess an ARM Chromebook, and was not smart enough to get Debian onto it using instructions from the Web, but I found I could follow the Ubuntu-based instructions, and I successfully installed Ubuntu 12.04 for ARM on a 64GB SDXC card. Is there a decent way to leverage Ubuntu over

RE: [OT] possible USB virus?

2013-02-23 Thread Mark Allums
FYI, a few USB storage things were known to irrevocably become Windows devices once used on Windows. Are you kidding? I really experienced that a brand new USB stick once completely gets broken. The dealer sent me a new one, regarding to the warranty claim. I can't remember if I used the

RE: How to become a Windows device? (Was: possible USB virus?)

2013-02-23 Thread Mark Allums
Hello, On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 17:09:53 -0600 Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote: FYI, a few USB storage things were known to irrevocably become Windows devices once used on Windows. This is rare now. However, if you reformatted and it seems to work now, forget about it. Please can

RE: Open new session with same user (in GDM)

2013-02-22 Thread Mark Allums
How about running two different DMs? Isn't that what that's for? Can't have competing DMs like KDM, GDM, and LightDM. But why shouldn't LXDE and e17 run at the same time? Or Xfce4 and Xfce4 and Gnome and Xfce4? (I assume you mean DEs, not DMs. Or we might as well want to run 2 inits!

RE: Open new session with same user (in GDM)

2013-02-22 Thread Mark Allums
From: Morel Bérenger [mailto:berenger.mo...@neutralite.org] It would generalize the principle, but it's a bit like multiple inheritance in C++ vs. single inheritance plus multiple interfaces in Java. Multiple is nice, but it really is a can of worms, which Java tries to sidestep.

RE: Debian 7

2013-02-22 Thread Mark Allums
-Original Message- From: Chris Bannister [mailto:cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 9:56 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian 7 On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 08:51:17PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Some people will say that

RE: Open new session with same user (in GDM)

2013-02-20 Thread Mark Allums
-Original Message- From: Kent West [mailto:we...@acu.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 4:52 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Open new session with same user (in GDM) On 02/20/2013 04:07 PM, Alois Mahdal wrote: Hello to all! How do I create two

RE: Open new session with same user (in GDM)

2013-02-20 Thread Mark Allums
Le 21/02/2013 00:32, Mark Allums a écrit : From: Kent West [mailto:we...@acu.edu] On 02/20/2013 04:07 PM, Alois Mahdal wrote: Hello to all! How do I create two same-user sessions from GDM? Say I'm logged in in Xfce (which I normally use, therefore have many windows / apps open

Upgraded to latest Testing and Networking Stopped

2013-02-06 Thread Mark Phillips
68.2.16.25 68.2.16.30 Thanks for any suggestions you may have. Mark

Re: debian squeeze amd64 recent frequent crashes

2013-02-06 Thread Mark Filipak
Be sure to take the RAM out and reseat it by putting it back in. While the RAM is out, You could try hitting the RAM slots with some electronic contact cleaner too. Not color TV tuner cleaner. Electronic contact cleaner. On 2013/2/6 2:50 PM, Jim Green wrote: On 6 February 2013 13:13, Kelly

RE: whether to install Squeeze or Wheezy

2013-02-06 Thread Mark Allums
Hello list, I am planning to install Debian on somewhat dated hardware: Intel T2300 1.66Ghz, 1 gb RAM. I have used Ubuntu in the past and would like to move up to something more stable and snappy. I will be using my laptop to mostly output (digital) music to my amp, web browsing, office and

Re: Help with NIS+NFS in Squeeze

2013-02-04 Thread Mark Neyhart
: files nis shadow: files nis Ok. But what about the files /etc/passwd ... /etc/gshadow. Should remove the + at the end of these files? If you modify the /etc/nsswitch.conf as Bob recommends, remove the + at the end of /etc/passwd ... /etc/gshadow. Mark Neyhart

RE: Anybody have a chromebook? Can it run Debian?

2013-02-02 Thread Mark Allums
From: Chris Bannister [mailto:cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz] On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 09:06:55PM -0600, zxcvbob wrote: I have a different model Chromebook with an Atom processor and a SSD. It should run Debian just fine; I have Debian on an older netbook, but good luck installing it! (My info

RE: Steam on Debian

2013-01-31 Thread Mark Allums
will be expanding their distro support any time soon. Looks to me like they engaged Ubuntu some time ago to get the compiled in support they wanted. Regards Tom On 31 January 2013 00:53, Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote: Is there any (un)official Debian Steam client? Has anyone (but me

RE: Steam on Debian

2013-01-31 Thread Mark Allums
From: David Guntner [mailto:dav...@akamail.net] Mark Allums grabbed a keyboard and wrote: I tried and failed, but I didn't spend more than a couple of hours on it. I never managed to completely fix the dependency chain for getting the Ubuntu package to install cleanly. Do you have any

RE: Steam on Debian

2013-01-31 Thread Mark Allums
From: Frank Lanitz [mailto:fr...@frank.uvena.de] Am 30.01.2013 23:53, schrieb Mark Allums: Is there any word on the eventual ship date of such a thing as installing Steam, or any news at all concerning it and Debian? From my point fo view you might want to check with folks behind Steam

RE: Steam on Debian [mostly SOLVED]

2013-01-31 Thread Mark Allums
. No chroot necessary. Cons: Not fixed up for Debian. Requires packages from Experimental be installed. Mark -- 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/008f01ce0032

RE: Steam on Debian

2013-01-31 Thread Mark Allums
From: David Guntner [mailto:dav...@akamail.net] Mark Allums grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Thanks for your reply. I am a bit skeptical that many distributions will be officially supported. Certainly Ubuntu and direct derivatives, possibly Debian and direct derivatives, probably Fedora

Steam on Debian

2013-01-30 Thread Mark Allums
Is there any (un)official Debian Steam client? Has anyone (but me) gotten the native Steam client running well in Debian? I had it running briefly through a great deal of manual labor, but I changed my configurations several times, and now I am prohibited from installing the Ubuntu .deb because

Re: Upgrade from stable to testing hosed my server

2013-01-30 Thread Mark Phillips
/fstab. I hate it when things like that come back to haunt you years later. Mark On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Peter Viskup skupko...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/24/2013 05:51 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: Peter, Can I access the log if I boot the machine with a live cd of some kind? Mark

RE: moving from Kubuntu 10.4 to squeeze

2013-01-27 Thread Mark Allums
SOL, and couldn't boot. So yeah, read the change logs and release notes. I concur with everyone: Start out with Wheezy. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Upgrade from stable to testing hosed my server

2013-01-24 Thread Mark Phillips
to be running either on the box (could not connect to the box). I can successfully ping the box. Any suggestions on how to fix this this server would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Mark

32-bit to 64-bit

2013-01-24 Thread Mark Allums
Can one do this? Not: Is this easy, but merely: Is this something that is feasible? I have a 32-bit system that I would like to migrate into 64-bitness within the same basic framework, within the same install. That is, can I go from 32-bit kernel-arch + 32-bit userland = 64-bit kernel-arch +

RE: 32-bit to 64-bit

2013-01-24 Thread Mark Allums
From: Gary Dale [mailto:garyd...@rogers.com] I have a 32-bit system that I would like to migrate into 64-bitness within the same basic framework, within the same install. That is, can I go from 32-bit kernel-arch + 32-bit userland = 64-bit kernel-arch + 32-bit userland = 64-bit

RE: 32-bit to 64-bit

2013-01-24 Thread Mark Allums
From: Sven Joachim [mailto:svenj...@gmx.de] On 2013-01-24 14:51 +0100, Mark Allums wrote: Can one do this? Not: Is this easy, but merely: Is this something that is feasible? I have a 32-bit system that I would like to migrate into 64-bitness within the same basic framework, within

RE: moving from Kubuntu 10.4 to squeeze

2013-01-24 Thread Mark Allums
From: Mike McGinn [mailto:mikemcg...@mcginnweb.net] I have a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop with 4G of RAM and have been a 'buntu user since release 7.04. With each release of the new OS from Kubuntu I have been less and less happy with the so called quality and I am planning a move to Debian.

RE: [Followup]: Basic USB Automounter?

2013-01-24 Thread Mark Allums
From: Patrick Bartek [mailto:bartek...@yahoo.com] Also, someone suggested usbmount, which I was aware of, but in my reading, it said that it would only mount thumb and external USB hard drives, and not flash cards using a reader.  I never tested to see if this were true. In my experience, SD

RE: 32-bit to 64-bit

2013-01-24 Thread Mark Allums
From: Sven Joachim [mailto:svenj...@gmx.de] On 2013-01-24 17:51 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2013-01-24 16:58 +0100, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: I have crossgraded some packages in i386 chroots that way, but in the

Gnome 3 Fallback Mode forked

2013-01-20 Thread Mark Allums
Slashdot reported that SolusOS has announced a fork of the Gnome 3 Fallback Mode. It is designed to bring back the mode that was cut from Gnome 3 with version 3.8. Like the original fallback mode, it uses gtk3 and does not require hardware acceleration. It also allows a lot of old GNOME 2

RE: Gnome 3 Fallback Mode forked

2013-01-20 Thread Mark Allums
From: Ralf Mardorf [mailto:ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net] Just my personal preference. I switched to Xfce, but I'm still using applications from bloated DEs I used in the past, IOW I still use KDE and GNOME apps. By doing this I run into serious issues on latest Xubuntu. I guess the apps are

RE: Gnome 3 Fallback Mode forked

2013-01-20 Thread Mark Allums
From: Yaro Kasear [mailto:y...@marupa.net] On 01/20/2013 06:35 AM, Mark Allums wrote: Slashdot reported that SolusOS has announced a fork of the Gnome 3 Fallback Mode. It is designed to bring back the mode that was cut from Gnome 3 with version 3.8. Like the original fallback mode

RE: debian 64 or 32 bit

2013-01-18 Thread Mark Allums
So, for processors able to support x84_64 archs, use it. Why would you use only a fragment of your computer's power? There is one disadvantage, i read about it, that by using the 64bit pointers, the binaries size and memory requirements are on amd64 higher, than on i386. But bigger HDD

RE: 32-bit Kernel on 64-bit CPU?

2013-01-18 Thread Mark Allums
This is a problem with qemu. I seem to have missed the line about except 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts Reloading with the amd64 iso image has resolved the problems. I just allocated 3073 MB to a vm with no problem. Doing that is at least theoretically possible with hardware virtualization

RE: [1/2OT] how to delete ??? file

2013-01-18 Thread Mark Allums
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 08:48:10PM +0800, lina wrote: It's well maintained, at least far better than other boxes I met before. Just it might be my fault, long long time ago, I might chmod blindly at that time. I thought of chmod, so why not just try chmod/chown back? You might still

Re: unable to print certain pages from Iceweasel

2013-01-17 Thread Mark Copper
-5??? (don't remember exact model) as well. Thanks for the responses. I appreciate it when people take their valuable time to read and respond. Mark

Re: unable to print certain pages from Iceweasel

2013-01-17 Thread Mark Copper
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Thu 17 Jan 2013 at 10:12:28 -0600, Mark Copper wrote: Where I am now (17Jan13). The section POSTSCRIPT PRINTING RENDERER is no longer to be found in README - OpenPrinting CUPS Filters v1.0.11 - 2012-03-29. So I'm

unable to print certain pages from Iceweasel

2013-01-16 Thread Mark Copper
the horizontal rules of the source page (that is, the parts that don't depend on the font), then a page is printed with these messages: ERROR: invalidfont OFFENDING COMMAND: Type1BuildGlyph STACK: -mark- -mark- -mark- Things that work: 1. Printing to the same printer from Iceweasel

Re: unable to print certain pages from Iceweasel

2013-01-16 Thread Mark Copper
and printed from the command line. However, the pdf file itself cannot be sent directly to the printer. Nor do I have the ability to learn anything from the pdf file as it appears to be binary. Thanks for taking time to read. Mark

Re: unable to print certain pages from Iceweasel

2013-01-16 Thread Mark Neyhart
Mark Copper wrote: Hi, I am unable to print some web pages from Iceweasel. This is Iceweasel 10.0.11 on wheezy. The printer is Brother HL-5370DW. Several PPD files have been tried. When printing fails with Brother provided or foomatic ppd files, first a page is printed which appears

RE: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity

2013-01-06 Thread Mark Allums
From: Patrick Bartek [mailto:bartek...@yahoo.com] From: Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net LVM does not use unpartitioned space for anything TTBOMK. It uses physical volumes (PVs) which

RE: ISO downloads are corrupted

2013-01-06 Thread Mark Allums
correspond. Personally, I never had any problem (for years). Otherwise You never can be sure what You install. Are you trying to download a very large file ( 4GB) to a FAT partition? That's a common mistake, and an easy one to make. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

RE: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity

2013-01-03 Thread Mark Allums
From: Bonno Bloksma [mailto:b.blok...@tio.nl] To: Patrick Bartek; debian-user@lists.debian.org Hi Patrick, In preparation of a clean install of Wheezy, I did a test install in VirtualBox 3.1.8 running under  Fedora 12 64-bit. To save time, I used the installer's default partitioning

RE: Is this OK in C++ and C?

2013-01-02 Thread Mark Allums
Joe Pfeiffer : int main() { const unsigned int n = -5; cout The variable n is: n endl; return 0; } Results: $ g++ -Wall -W prog.cpp -o prog $ ./prog The variable n is: 4294967291 This is expected behavior, but not defined by the standard because the result is not portable. That

RE: Is this OK in C++ and C?

2013-01-02 Thread Mark Allums
From: Mark Allums [mailto:m...@allums.com] int main() { const unsigned int n = -5; cout The variable n is: n endl; return 0; } Results: $ g++ -Wall -W prog.cpp -o prog $ ./prog The variable n is: 4294967291 This is expected behavior, but not defined by the standard because

RE: Is this OK in C++ and C?

2013-01-01 Thread Mark Allums
Joe Pfeiffer Jari Fredriksson ja...@iki.fi writes: 31.12.2012 20:33, Zbigniew Komarnicki kirjoitti: Is this OK or is this a bug, when the wariable 'n' is initializing by negative value? There no any warning. Is this normal? I know that value -5 is converted to unsigned but probably

RE: Is this OK in C++ and C?

2013-01-01 Thread Mark Allums
Is this OK or is this a bug, when the wariable 'n' is initializing by negative value? There no any warning. Is this normal? I know that value -5 is converted to unsigned but probably this should by printed a warning, when this is a constant value. What do you think about this? //

RE: adobe reader + multiarch

2012-12-25 Thread Mark Allums
Claudius, Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote: Of course replace the mirror example I gave with the exact mirror repository he needs to use. But the point is the [arch=arch,arch] bit. This is generally not necessary, unless you want to _restrict_ the architectures for which APT checks

RE: adobe reader + multiarch

2012-12-24 Thread Mark Allums
Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: Claudius, unfortunately it did not: Has he actually run #dpkg --add-architecture i386 #apt-get update ? He can also add/edit /etc/apt/sources.list to contain the line: deb [arch=amd64, i386] http://ftp.somemirror.debian.org wheezy main contrib

RE: adobe reader + multiarch

2012-12-24 Thread Mark Allums
Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: Claudius, unfortunately it did not: Has he actually run #dpkg --add-architecture i386 #apt-get update ? He can also add/edit /etc/apt/sources.list to contain the line: deb [arch=amd64, i386] http://ftp.somemirror.debian.org wheezy main

iptables; some IPs are getting through netmasks

2012-12-23 Thread Mark Ford
I am hoping someone can help show me where I'm going wrong. I have iptables setup in the following way, basically, I am using the chain pests to drop data from certain IPs. Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination pests tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0

Re: iptables; some IPs are getting through netmasks

2012-12-23 Thread Mark Ford
Here is a shortened version of the output from iptables-save (full version simply has more -A pests lines). # Generated by iptables-save v1.4.8 on Sun Dec 23 16:24:43 2012 *filter :INPUT ACCEPT [252417:278747603] :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [255016:258290199] :pests - [0:0] -A INPUT -p

Re: iptables; some IPs are getting through netmasks

2012-12-23 Thread Mark Ford
I've checked my mainlog and the originating ip appears to be exactly the same as the email header; 67.228.245.121 Could it be ip spoofing? How would they do that? Or maybe exim is somehow accepting connections over udp? - I'm clutching at straws! Hoping someone can help me solve this. Thank

Re: iptables; some IPs are getting through netmasks

2012-12-23 Thread Mark Ford
No other rules, see next post.. -- 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/572de1d1-09a2-4adb-a3b1-ea1c031f3...@googlegroups.com

Re: iptables; some IPs are getting through netmasks

2012-12-23 Thread Mark Ford
Is the above your complete iptables ruleset? Is this ruleset on the mail server in question, or on a seperate box? If on a seperate box, is it acting as a router, are you doing any NAT? It's all on the same box. It's a complete ruleset except the additional DROP lines which are identical

Re: switching distributions, but keeping KDE... how do i migrate my email?

2012-12-21 Thread Mark Neidorff
? One issue you may have to face is how is your disk partitioned? Is /home on a separate partition? (that really makes life easy. If it isn't, you will find out why) Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

RE: restructuring the hard drive

2012-12-20 Thread Mark Allums
On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 19:52 +0100, Gergely 'Dinchamion' Fazekas wrote: Hey guys, I'm using Debian Testing, and my laptop is set up with a dual-boot system using WinXP and Debian. The hard drive is divided almost half-and-half, but since I no longer use Windows (it has been weeks since

RE: Is it possible to install nowadays on Debian SID the LibreOffice 3.6.4?

2012-12-19 Thread Mark Allums
Mark Allums m...@allums.com writes: On 2012-12-17 21:41 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote: [ snipped ] Typically, the dependencies of experimental packages are not sorted out properly, so installing them can be a trial. I routinely install package from experimental, and from my experience, I

RE: Upgrading Wheezy Beta to Wheezy Stable?

2012-12-18 Thread Mark Allums
[1] at this moment wheezy *is* 'testing' and you can use either in sources.list. They will start to differ only when wheezy is released (becomes 'stable') at which point jenny will be 'testing'. 'Jessie'? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

RE: Yast for debian

2012-12-17 Thread Mark Allums
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Davide Mirtillo dav...@ser-tec.org wrote: Il 17/12/2012 12:57, Muhammad Yousuf Khan ha scritto: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Jon Dowland j...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 04:17:56PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: is there any tool equivalent

RE: Is it possible to install nowadays on Debian SID the LibreOffice 3.6.4?

2012-12-17 Thread Mark Allums
On 2012-12-17 21:41 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote: Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes: On 2012-12-17 20:36 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote: After that I try to install libreoffice by running: sudo apt-get -t experimental install libreoffice libhsqldb-java/unstable [...] Please advice me how to go

Re: [OT] Good quality hair dryer needed for Squeeze

2012-12-12 Thread Mark Panen
.8020...@verizon.nethttp://lists.debian.org/50c7914d.8020...@verizon.net -- Cheers Mark

Re: [OT] Good quality hair dryer needed for Squeeze

2012-12-12 Thread Mark Panen
on with this. On 13 December 2012 00:22, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 17:25 -0600, John Hasler wrote: Mark writes: Any ideas guys? You may find that pressing down or prying up on that part of the board works as well as does the dryer. Inspect

[OT] Good quality hair dryer needed for Squeeze

2012-12-10 Thread Mark Panen
is hot air from a hair dryer directed at the MOBO to the left side of the CPU after cooler for 30 seconds or so. Any ideas guys? -- Cheers Mark

Re: [OT] Good quality hair dryer needed for Squeeze

2012-12-10 Thread Mark Panen
by the capacitor, which was loose inside the case. RH -- 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/20121211011216.ga5...@gospelbroadcasting.org -- Cheers Mark On 11

RE: Kobo or Kindle

2012-11-28 Thread Mark Allums
Regarding the usage experience of those ereaders on the caput, what you find more compatible do Debian? I know both of them don't have software specifically for linux. I also know I can read Kindle cloud books using a browser. I don't know for Kobo. Also, to use them as an author, what

RE: Netflix on Debian Linux

2012-11-21 Thread Mark Allums
Mark, your answer was the most intriguing. So, if they are moving to HTML5, we can expect it to work on Linux in the future, can't we? That sounds promising. Do you have any link to a Roku box. Never heard of it. I have a desktop station in my room I use to play movies with Kaffeine. I don't

RE: Guide / Tools

2012-11-21 Thread Mark Allums
On Wednesday 21 November 2012 15:47:25 Ralf Mardorf wrote: The num pad on the German keyboard has got a , instead of a .. Use the . from the main part of the keyboard. Known by the English as full stop, and by the United States Americans as point, I think. Depends on context. Point for

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