Re: Unable to create output file

2022-12-19 Thread Martin Smith
On 19/12/2022 19:45, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 12:44:56PM -0600, William Torrez Corea wrote: On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 11:09 PM wrote: [...] Go into your DOS box. Do you see a diretory C:\TC20? If you don't, your Turbo C won't be able either. Try to make it. Cheers -- t

Re: multiple messages

2022-12-12 Thread Martin Smith
On 12/12/2022 03:24, David Wright wrote: On Sun 11 Dec 2022 at 17:52:56 (+), Martin Smith wrote: I am getting multiple messages, all with the same time and date, has my thunderbird gone belly up or is anyone else seeing it this one I have about 50: Re: e-mail with line in body beginning

multiple messages

2022-12-11 Thread Martin Smith
I am getting multiple messages, all with the same time and date, has my thunderbird gone belly up or is anyone else seeing it this one I have about 50: Re: e-mail with line in body beginning with "From" and this one: 10/12/2022, 14:49 Re: Monitor traffic on a port -- Martin

Re: MacOS VM on Debian: is it reasonably possible?

2022-11-22 Thread Martin Smith
On 22/11/2022 13:44, hede wrote: Whilst I had mistakenly believed that CentOS was a freeware, open source kind of MacOS clone, CentOS was derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux and was mostly compatible to RHEL. "May God rest its soul." and found that it is not, when I searched for it, I h

Re: Debian-friendly laptop

2021-05-19 Thread Martin Smith
On 19/05/2021 16:32, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 19 mai 21, 11:06:44, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 19 May 2021 17:27:16 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 19 mai 21, 07:58:05, Celejar wrote: My previous main machine had been a T60. I gave that up when its keyboard failed. I know that one of the

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

2021-03-16 Thread Martin Smith
On 16/03/2021 12:20, songbird wrote: Nicholas Geovanis wrote: On Sun, Mar 14, 2021, 1:50 PM Stefan Monnier wrote: ... FWIW And MIPS was there even a bit earlier with their R4000 (tho the software support for it only appeared some years later: they first wanted to have an installed base to whi

Re: *nix

2020-02-17 Thread Martin Smith
On 17/02/2020 18:52, mick crane wrote: On 2020-02-17 16:29, Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 22:07:59 -0500 Doug McGarrett wrote: (I fell off the stoop after tripping over my dog's tether in the dark on the 4th of July, 1915, and spent most of the summer in various stages of recovery

Re: lenovo t410 - i915 - black screen

2019-10-10 Thread martin smith
On 09/10/2019 14:09, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 12:53:43PM +, Frederic Robert wrote: On 10/9/19 12:38 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 09:04:06AM +, Frederic Robert wrote: How to find the card model? lspci? lspci -nn This will include the 8-digit h

Re: OT:hardware query

2019-06-28 Thread Martin Smith
On 28/06/2019 17:11, mick crane wrote: The first concern if getting a new PC is that it can play the steam games and they are getting really pushy what they need to work. I never have proper available funds for this stuff these days and generally buy used.. The idea is each year or so get someth

Re: [OT] Re: Why /usr/sbin is not in my root $PATH ?

2019-02-24 Thread Martin Smith
On 24/02/2019 15:39, David Wright wrote: On Sun 24 Feb 2019 at 08:57:37 (-), Curt wrote: On 2019-02-24, Mart van de Wege wrote: Really, not using a clean, known environment as root is plain good practice, and has been for years, if not actually decades. Have you expressed the opposite of

Re: Encrypted e-mails?

2018-09-08 Thread Martin Smith
On 07/09/2018 20:54, Dan Purgert wrote: wrote: On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 09:53:08AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 03:47:33PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Darn. I was already planning to only send encrypted messages to this list :~0 (SCNR) on'tday endsay encryptedway ai

Re: What is cisco-sccp?

2016-04-03 Thread Martin Smith
On 03/04/2016 20:06, Erwan David wrote: Le 03/04/2016 21:04, Gábor Hársfalvi a écrit : How could I know what program uses the port 2000? you can use netstat or lsof -i:2000 But the fact the port is mentionned in /etc/services does not mean at all it is used. indeed, /etc/services lists ju

Re: Live CD - boot option for static IP?

2016-04-03 Thread Martin Smith
On 03/04/2016 10:46, Ron Leach wrote: List, good morning, Is there a way to set a static IP at the boot dialog when starting from a Live CD? I've got a Wheezy server that is a bit broken and I'm trying to run a Wheezy live CD so that I can see what's gone wrong. The Live CD starts perfectl

Re: Password protecting grub

2016-03-19 Thread Martin Smith
On 17/03/2016 04:55, Adam Wilson wrote: On Wed, 16 Mar 2016 23:12:06 +0530 Himanshu Shekhar wrote: Ok! I understand GRUB password and other such passwords are ineffective. I am also aware of the fact that hard drive can be read anywhere unless it is encrypted. The am eager to know a particular

Re: Windows Shares Abound Continuously

2016-02-29 Thread Martin Smith
On 29/02/2016 00:13, Steve Matzura wrote: Martin: On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 08:44:07 +, you wrote: Ever since Windows 3.11 its networking has been just awful and prone to malfunction without notice, they originally lifted the network stack from FreeBSD but managed to completely screw it, and it

Re: Windows Shares Abound Continuously

2016-02-28 Thread Martin Smith
On 28/02/2016 01:21, Steve Matzura wrote: Just when I thought it was safe to let my Debian 8.2 system alone for a few days, I started getting emails from users of the service I provide which uses that system that they could not access any content on the shared-mounted drives on one of my Windows

Re: Good keyboard

2016-02-11 Thread Martin Smith
On 11/02/2016 06:22, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On Wed, February 10, 2016 11:00 pm, David Niklas wrote: If I'm remembering rightly, a while back (months), there was a discussion about keyboards. I noticed this one and wanted to know if it https://www.crowdsupply.com/ugl/ultimate-hacking-keyboar

Re: running etch on AMD Duron 1200 chip

2016-01-06 Thread Martin Smith
On 06/01/2016 18:34, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Folks. I am running Debian etch on an old AMD Duron 1200 box. It's so long since I used it I can't remember if it must be running the 32 bit version of Debian ie 64 bit version cannot run on it? uname -m says i686 which makes me think it is

Re: Prob activating Samba

2015-11-23 Thread Martin Smith
On 23/11/2015 19:40, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 14:18:07 -0500 Dan Ritter wrote: OK Ta; changed the CL to what you gave me: root@ron:/home/ron # chkconfig --add smb smb: unknown service Just checked in Synaptic, have both Samba, Samba-common and Samba-common-bin installed

Re: make system boot straight to browser connection

2015-10-16 Thread Martin Smith
On 16/10/2015 01:46, Joel Rees wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: [snip] How to do an autologin? In a DE independent way? http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=autologin&apropos=1 gave no relevant links. A Google search gave only d

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-15 Thread Martin Smith
On 15/10/2015 06:34, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: Yesterday in the office of my associate, I tried without success to install a HP LaserJet 2100TN in a wired local area network (LAN) consisting of nothing but a i386 running Windows 8, a modem (which I think also is router) and an ethernet switch.

Re: Configure Postfix *as* a smart host?

2015-08-30 Thread Martin Smith
On 30/08/2015 00:13, Bob Bernstein wrote: I have an instance of Wheezy running on a VPS (for years) and only now have decided I want to take advantage of the possibility of using it as a smarthost for my home machines, instead of what my cable company makes available, which I confess works just

Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-12 Thread Martin Smith
On 12/08/2015 14:56, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 12 August 2015 14:04:37 marti...@suddenlink.net wrote: Now think, for a second how much money it costs to outfit a van with high-quality broad-spectrum radio receivers, a person to drive and another to tune and evaluate what he/she is re

Re: Login failure after new install

2015-08-09 Thread Martin Smith
On 09/08/2015 19:29, Cobra wrote: The whole problem is that I have not received ANY mail in response to my original post. Because my original post included my return email address I expected the responses would be mailed to me. When none arrived by the end of the day I checked the web page:

Re: dd

2014-08-12 Thread Martin Smith
On 11/08/2014 12:16, Stephen Powell wrote: On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 01:15:31 -0400 (EDT), Reco wrote: While dd can be used to copy a directory, it cannot be used alone for this task. Try this: ... cp -a /var/www/* /media/lin50 This may work if there are no "hidden" files in the directory (files wh

Re: Mounting a FreeBSD USB Memory Stick Image rw

2014-08-08 Thread Martin Smith
On 08/08/2014 16:52, Martin G. McCormick wrote: Is it possible to mount the FreeBSD USB iso image on a debian system? I need to edit one of the configuration files and the nearest USB port is on a Debian system. The hope is to add a line of text to a file, transfer the image to a USB driv

Re: How to get Skype sound working on Wheezy (7.5, 64bit)?

2014-07-18 Thread Martin Smith
On 18/07/2014 17:08, Gary Dale wrote: On 18/07/14 10:37 AM, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I installed Skype (4.3.0.37) just fine on Wheezy, but whether or not I have Pulseaudio and pavucontrol installed, I get no sound and the person at the other end can't hear my voice. I have to communicate via t

Re: Tails

2014-05-16 Thread Martin Smith
On 16/05/2014 13:10, Weaver wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2014 2:28 am, Артур Истомин wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 09:42:27PM -0700, Weaver wrote: Greetings all, Is there anybody on the list in Forteleza, Brazil? There's a young, female, investigative journalist there, who wants to install Tails o

Re: Is zeitgeist safe?

2014-05-08 Thread Martin Smith
On 08/05/2014 07:18, Theodore Alcapotaxis wrote: - Original Message - From: Stephen Allen Sent: 05/08/14 08:37 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Is zeitgeist safe? They have too much to do even that - you gotta keep up to date on recent news my friend. That's the problem w

Re: Is zeitgeist safe?

2014-05-08 Thread Martin Smith
On 08/05/2014 14:59, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2014-05-08 at 15:50 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Assumed Debian stable does fit to your needs and you install security updates, then you have got the best OS for a modern computer, that is available, regarding to Internet security. My apologies, so

Re: Wheezy: exim4 + mailman it is not sending messages.

2013-08-31 Thread Martin Smith
On 30/08/13 19:18, lati...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: Hello i hope you can point me to a trusted doc to read, or tell me what to do. I read a very rude message coming from the exim4's manteiner; mailman does not have a man page, and the debian.README is not clear enough to catch the procedure to make mailm

Re: oh no something is definitely wrong adieu debian.

2013-08-31 Thread Martin Smith
On 29/08/13 13:22, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 12:09 +, Curt wrote: On 2013-08-29, Chris Bannister wrote: On another note, would you go to your local beerfest and ramble on about the dangers of alcohol? or go round to peoples' houses and ramble on about some dead guy ... oops

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-18 Thread Martin Smith
On 18/09/2012 22:52, Lisi wrote: Hi, Lionel, On Tuesday 18 September 2012 22:31:21 Lionel Trésaugues wrote: I am experiencing a physical pain whenever I am in front of my computer running either Debian (Wheezy) or Debian-based distributions (such as Mint LMDE, XFCE or MATE edition). Switching f

Re: Wheezy installer problems

2012-08-23 Thread Martin Smith
On 23/08/2012 19:23, Brian wrote: On Thu 23 Aug 2012 at 19:01:52 +0100, Martin Smith wrote: Thanks for that info! Depending on the newness of the hardware you may be as well off with an image from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_alpha1/ It doesn't have the problem o

Re: Wheezy installer problems

2012-08-23 Thread Martin Smith
On 23/08/2012 17:58, Brian wrote: On Thu 23 Aug 2012 at 17:21:38 +0100, Martin Smith wrote: I downloaded today an AMD64 wheezy CD1, a couple of problems: It locks up on detect network hardware, and if I try an expert install and avoid the network bit it gets as far as starting up the

Wheezy installer problems

2012-08-23 Thread Martin Smith
I downloaded today an AMD64 wheezy CD1, a couple of problems: It locks up on detect network hardware, and if I try an expert install and avoid the network bit it gets as far as starting up the partitioner 40% and stops again. It is http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_beta1/amd64/iso-c

Re: squirrelmail plus g/pgp plugin == ?

2008-11-30 Thread Martin Smith
Eric d'Alibut wrote: Is anyone running squirrelmail *and* the g/pgp plugin successfully? On debian stable? With apache 1.3? The thing can't encrypt, and it has stopped signing now. I know that sounds weird and New Agey magical, but that's what happened! Any feedback would be appreciated. Ca

Re: grammar tool in linux ... perhaps in emacs

2008-09-09 Thread Martin Smith
H.S. wrote: Hello, I hope I do not start a flame war here. I was wondering what choices do we have to check English grammar in Linux. Now before all the purists jump to get their shotguns, pitch forks and what not, I perfectly know that such a tool is not a substitute for learning proper gramma

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1]

2008-09-02 Thread Martin Smith
Michal Suchanek wrote: On 02/09/2008, Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, note that the keyboard issue is a generic issue for (only first ?) Intel Mac computer: some informations can be grabbed on refit site. A simple workaround would be to continue after a small lapse of time.

Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1

2008-09-01 Thread Martin Smith
Johann Spies wrote: On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 03:31:23AM +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, Daniel Baumann wrote: Daniel Baumann wrote: Nevertheless, we do need your help to find more bugs and improve the live systems, so please try them out. particulary interesting would be to get report

downloading the files using jigdo

2006-10-18 Thread Martin Smith
Hi, i am currently using Windows XP home and wanted to use Debian to see what it is like, now i have got Jigdo, and i am not sure what files i have to download using and how to actully use Jigdo. I have read the FAQs and the help documnet on the website but i am still confused on what i down

Re: Kernel 2.6.8-2-686 panics

2005-08-15 Thread Martin Smith
changed the /etc/fstab from /dev/hdx to /dev/sdx everywhere (please make a boot disk and backup your old fstab before!!!). Voila booting Kernel 2.6 worked. David On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 08:04 +0100, Martin Smith wrote: Chris Phillips writes: Hi Martin, I have installed kernel 2.6.8-2 686 on a

Re: Kernel 2.6.8-2-686 panics

2005-08-15 Thread Martin Smith
2.4.27 to 2.6 kernel? Do you have SATA disks? The change of SATA drivers from the ide to SCSI layer caused similar problems. Yes the install is on a sata disk, it works fine with 2.4.27, is there some kind of reconfiguration I can do to get this up and running? -- Martin Smith -- To

Kernel 2.6.8-2-686 panics

2005-08-12 Thread Martin Smith
I have installed kernel 2.6.8-2 686 on a newly installed sarge machine, P4 on an Asus P5P800, on startup the kernel panics saying /dev/console not found, however /dev/console exists, how can this situation be rectified. -- martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: Video card not recognised

2005-08-09 Thread Martin Smith
On Sunday 07 August 2005 23:44, marc wrote: > Hi > > I've installed Sarge (with the 2.6.82 kernel) on a P3 using DVDs. > > After installation, and entering KDE 3.3, I found that I only had > 800x600 and 640x480 screen sizes available. > > When running dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, the monitor h

Re: Grub error 17

2005-08-05 Thread Martin Smith
Clive Menzies wrote: > On (02/08/05 13:45), Martin Smith wrote: >> I am new to debian and have just installed sarge on to a 160g sata disk >> on an Asus P5P800, when it came to installing grub I wnt for the choice >> of installing it on that disk but it said it ws not ab

Grub error 17

2005-08-02 Thread Martin Smith
I am new to debian and have just installed sarge on to a 160g sata disk on an Asus P5P800, when it came to installing grub I wnt for the choice of installing it on that disk but it said it ws not able to, so I let it install on the primary master which has win2k, however on a restart I just got gru

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2005-07-07 Thread Martin Smith
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Install problem with .tgz files?

1998-12-14 Thread Martin Smith
p -dc returned error exit status 2 dpkg: error processing -/var/lib/dpkg/blahblahlah (-install) corrupted file system tar file corrupted package archive What's going wrong? Martin Smith