Re: I support the founder of FreeSoftware

On 9/19/19 12:47 PM, Tom Browder wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 11:30 Jude DaShiell > wrote: On Thu, 19 Sep 2019, Fred wrote: ... > Do we have our lying idiot, bag of crap, fake President to thank for making > that much worse? Not all agree with

Re: New nomeclature of ethernet devices

On 6/26/19 10:23 PM, David Wright wrote: Wait a minute—you haven't paid attention to the new names yet you're already arguing here that they shouldn't be the default? I thought the naming changes (virtual IP addresses) were to benefit cluster management, fencing and nodes, so you could have

Re: A call to drop gnome

On 4/16/19 11:32 PM, Keith Bainbridge wrote: I tried java about 15 years ago, and failed miserably. Perhaps a bad choice, but what the Uni course I was trying to get into required. I can write a script and alias's in .bashrc, the odd macro in Calc. I keep telling my friends it's never too

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

On 4/4/19 10:15 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: I frankly don't care if it needs users. To get users, it has to work. If it doesn't work at least as well as synaptic, it will never get the users. If thats not plain enough to the people making these descisions, tuff luck. This stuff gets its users by

Re: vblade-persist

On 3/13/19 4:22 PM, Eriel Perez wrote: Hola colegas. cuando intento vblade-persist restart all me dice: warning: /var/lib/vblade-persist/vblades/e0.0: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist Alguna sugerencia. El fichero si esta donde dice y con todos los permisos. Wrong list

Re: And now, from the Nice people? Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools

On 3/10/19 3:53 PM, Brian wrote: On Sun 10 Mar 2019 at 13:18:54 -0400, deb wrote: Crumogeon tip: It is no longer 1972.   If you have nothing nice or at least helpful to say on a  USER list, say nothing at all. All the responses were helpful. You just have to fit them into your World View

Re: Laptop still extremely slow after replacing msata ssd and putting old one back

On 3/4/19 12:21 PM, hdv@gmail wrote: On 04/03/2019 16.14, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 04.03.2019 19:40, hdv@gmail wrote: On 04/03/2019 15.36, Ric Moore wrote: On 3/4/19 9:19 AM, hdv@gmail wrote: ame day, no old image was used. Right, but if you didn't use a "clean install"

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

On 2/21/19 1:36 PM, ghe wrote: On 2/21/19 11:18 AM, Reco wrote: Ping *always* required root, Maybe, but I didn't know that. I've been on Debian since the days of the major Toy Story characters, and I've always just typed 'ping' and it punged. I just typed "ping redhat.com", as user, and it

Re: WiFi without Network Manager

On 2/13/19 9:14 AM, John Hasler wrote: s better not to post "Thanks" to a busy mailing list. If you must do so please put "Thanks" in the subject line. OR "solved", which is much more useful for the next guy. No need for "thanks" as "solved" is the ultimate goal for posterity. It's what I

Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?

On 2/6/19 8:30 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 06 February 2019 20:15:48 John Hasler wrote: Gene writes: I have had to write 2 checks for the last 2 vehicles I've bought. Writing a single check for close to $20k for a good used car/truck doesn't fly, some sort of a rule that 10k and over

Re: IPv6 static config in /etc/network/interfaces ignored

On 1/27/19 10:29 AM, Claudio M wrote: Hi, I'm wondering if anyone came across this recently, because I can't find any bug reports or posts referring to it online (so I'm wondering if I messed something up inadvertenenp8s0tly). Is /dev/eth0 still viable? Mine is now /dev/enp8s0 ifconfig

Re: Stop insulting users

On 1/17/19 3:29 AM, Dominik George wrote: Den 16. januar 2019 23:43:04 CET, skrev Ric Moore : On 1/16/19 5:04 AM, plataleas plataleas wrote: Indeed the mirror was not updated correctly. Sorry for that. PLEASE stop spamming me and the entire list, who you have CC'd to everyone personally

Re: APT candidate does not match package on Debian repo

On 1/16/19 5:04 AM, plataleas plataleas wrote: Indeed the mirror was not updated correctly. Sorry for that. PLEASE stop spamming me and the entire list, who you have CC'd to everyone personally. Jerk

Re: mpd cannot find default alsa soundcard; sudo -u mpd aplay -D default /Side_Right.wav results in desired audio output.

On 12/25/18 9:40 AM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 03:29:32PM +0100, toogley wrote: ==> any ideas? This does not look right: # groups mpd mpd : audio This means that mpd's primary group is not audio. /etc/mpd.conf audio_output { type"alsa"

Re: Time Domain Reflectometer (was Re: internet outages)

On 12/24/18 1:27 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 24 December 2018 12:29:53 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, December 24, 2018 08:39:18 AM Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 24 December 2018 08:18:27 Carl Fink wrote: On 12/24/18 7:37 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: I have a firmware update file kit

Re: (No Subject)

On 12/11/18 3:45 PM, md wrote: md wrote: Using an old PATA-to-USB cable, I attached a 15 year old PATA DVD Drive It's better to include a subject so others can reference your problem and it's possible resolution in the future. Otherwise someone has to devote their time only to you. This

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

On 11/30/18 8:45 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, November 30, 2018 08:32:23 PM Ric Moore wrote: On 11/30/18 3:47 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: Having lately been successfully "mount -B" ing my /var/cache/apt/archives hoard, I can now easily see having those (~/Documents, ~/Dow

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

On 11/30/18 3:47 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: Having lately been successfully "mount -B" ing my /var/cache/apt/archives hoard, I can now easily see having those (~/Documents, ~/Downloads, et al) each remaining as their own separate directories on a secondary partition. Fstab would then be asked

Re: that other OS

On 11/16/18 6:31 PM, deloptes wrote: James H. H. Lampert wrote: Actually, I'd call WinDoze a DISservice. (I don't allow WinDoze in my house.) Be pragmatic. Even big crappy hammer can be useful someday, if you want to smash something OK, now it can be TOLD! Enough years have passed so it

Re: that other OS

On 11/16/18 12:34 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: I think it would be great if more people ditched Microsoft on the desktop and went to alternatives, as it would force more software vendors, service providers, etc., to at least acknowledge (if not fully support) Linux, However, I am not going

Re: Why has nouveau vs. NVIDIA problem not been addressed?

On 11/15/18 10:24 PM, Tom D. wrote: Thank you, Sir. I understand now. Not quite, you're still top posting. It is frowned upon greatly in these parts. -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.

Re: Help me Linux

On 10/30/18 10:55 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 30 October 2018 10:37:03 Ric Moore wrote: On 10/30/18 9:16 AM, Will Mengarini wrote: I TRIED TO INSTALL DEBIAN MANY TIMES BUT FAILED BADLY. I NEVER USED DEBIAN. I believe whoever reading this mail is far more knowledgeable and experienced

Re: Help me Linux

On 10/30/18 9:16 AM, Will Mengarini wrote: I TRIED TO INSTALL DEBIAN MANY TIMES BUT FAILED BADLY. I NEVER USED DEBIAN. I believe whoever reading this mail is far more knowledgeable and experienced than me and having good knowledge of Linux. Please help me! First, the entire notion of an

Re: NVIDIA drivers and virtual console problem

On 09/15/2018 10:28 AM, Thakur Mahashaya wrote: //"Есть два великих грехов в мире... ..грех невежества, грех от глупости.// So stupidity is the mode of ignorance. As the Sorting Hat once said, "I know what to do with YOU!" ...and off you go into my junk folder. :) Ric -- My father, Victor

Re: NVIDIA drivers and virtual console problem

On 09/14/2018 07:54 AM, Marco Righi wrote: Hello, the NVIDIA drivers (384 from Debian and 390 repositories from the nvidia site) do not allow me to have "virtual consoles" (to be clear, those that are activated with Ctrl-Alt-F1 .. F6). By installing Nouveau the problem disappears, with the two

Re: Gimp Babl too old

On 09/13/2018 12:41 PM, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: Tixy wrote: "Sounds like the sort of thing the third party repository at deb-multimedia.org does" Why do they do that? Simply to order their repository ahead of the others? Same reason some people top post. They just ignore the conventions.

Re: Bug#908349: firefox-esr: no sound after upgrading from 52.9 to 60.2

On 09/10/2018 08:27 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 11:53:01 + (UTC) Curt wrote: Hello Curt, So uninstall it then in that unfortunate case--with extreme prejudice Time. Oh, and I can't be arsed to try PA in the first place. :-) Or are we dealing with the supernatural

Re: Sound in Stretch

On 09/10/2018 04:22 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 09:19:09PM +0100, Joe wrote: There's no alsa-base in Stretch. Should there be some other way of producing sounds? If you're looking for alsamixer, it's in alsa-utils. ALSA should just work out of the box for most users

Re: Debian Stretch Am Confused about /dev/dsp

On 08/31/2018 03:51 AM, didier gaumet wrote: Hello, from what I understand, using alsa-oss would be better than using the OSS emulation module, partircularly if one is to use sound plug-ins? https://packages.debian.org/stretch/alsa-oss If you use pulse you can execute your program using the

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

On 08/09/2018 01:39 PM, tech wrote: Should'nt be time to move away from an old mail-listing to something more modern like a bugzilla or else ??? Why?? There already are plenty of such sites, you need only pick and choose. I like it here as I don't have to read a "me too!" message with a meg

Re: Using Sid - sound prob

On 08/09/2018 05:10 AM, Joe wrote: On Thu, 09 Aug 2018 08:14:44 +0200 deloptes wrote: Regarding the sound - I never had a problem in the past 12+ years. You are fortunate. I went though a period where the assignments for sound card 0 and 1 would randomly flip, every few weeks or months. I

Re: Can't play Steam games

On 08/05/2018 12:26 PM, Jose G. López wrote: On Sat, 4 Aug 2018 15:24:51 -0400 Ric Moore wrote: On 08/04/2018 02:30 PM, Jose G. López wrote: On Sat, 4 Aug 2018 13:28:13 -0400 Ric Moore wrote: Enter this: in a terminal: inxi -SGx What do you get?? Ric Hi Ric, I get

Re: Setting default network device in Buster

On 08/04/2018 03:14 PM, Shea Alterio wrote: Pascal, i'm sure when he says "as the default" he wants it to automatically turn on at boot / login. sometimes it's called the preferred interface among other names. Please try not to top-post. -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There

Re: Can't play Steam games

On 08/04/2018 02:30 PM, Jose G. López wrote: On Sat, 4 Aug 2018 13:28:13 -0400 Ric Moore wrote: Enter this: in a terminal: inxi -SGx What do you get?? Ric Hi Ric, I get this: -- $ inxi -SGx System:Host: pc-debian Kernel: 4.17.0-1-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 7.3.0

Re: Can't play Steam games

On 08/04/2018 12:33 PM, Jose G. López wrote: Hi, Is anyone having problems playing games on Steam? Loading is very slow and seems unable to render graphics. My card is a GeForce GTX 750 Ti. I'm using Testing up-to-date, nvidia-driver (390.77-1). I don't know since wich version of nvidia driver

Re: [OT] An easier database

On 07/25/2018 02:00 PM, Clive Standbridge wrote: I wonder if it would be nice for apt to have a feature so that a user could mark packages "never install". Anyone remember "File Cabinet" for Win3.1? It didn't get easier than that! Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There

Re: Unix.Trojan.Vali-6606621-0 FOUND

On 07/14/2018 11:50 AM, Hubert Hauser wrote: Hello! Please don't top post. Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.

Re: No sound/audio

On 07/11/2018 03:31 AM, 70147pers...@telia.com wrote: So is there anyone who can give hints about what I have missed so far? I hate to suggest this on the Debian list, but I installed Ubuntu-Studio to a separate partition which gives you fully functional jack and a real-time kernel to do

Re: Kernel upgrade = freeze on boot (linux-image-4.16.0-2-amd64)

On 07/04/2018 09:12 PM, Carl Fink wrote: On 07/02/2018 04:49 AM, Guillaume Clercin wrote: You need to update "/etc/default/grub" and add parameter to boot with. In this file, you need to edit the line starting with GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX and append option: "slab_common.usercopy_fallback=y". This

Re: how to update Debian 9.4 to at least OpenGL 3.3

On 06/28/2018 12:20 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: glxinfo | grep "OpenGL core profile version" My system reports: ric@iam:/opt/ric/Downloads/warzone2100-2.3.8/src$ glxinfo | grep "OpenGL core profile version" OpenGL core profile version string: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.48

Re: A long rant on Debian 9

On 05/07/2018 02:16 PM, Brian wrote: Answering a question or two might see a dramatic increase in betterness. I'm stealing that one! Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former

Re: [Asus x205ta] Wireless not working after suspend-resume

On 03/19/2018 11:57 AM, Leandro Noferini wrote: I wrote a little script in /lib/systemd/system-sleep/brcmfmac like: Be careful when you "write a little script". Try this: https://askubuntu.com/questions/761180/wifi-doesnt-work-after-suspend-after-16-04-upgrade

Re: [Asus x205ta] Sound not working on Intel HDMI/DP LPE Audio

On 03/19/2018 12:51 PM, Leandro Noferini wrote: how I could force pulseaudio to use only the first audio card? Install pavucontrol. Under the configuration tab you can either configure or turn off the devices it finds. Turn off the one you don't want. You should use alsamixer first, as

Re: Multichannel audio listening

On 03/05/2018 08:43 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Do they make 5.2 or 7.2 sound cards for computers--if so, you could consider a similar approach using those 5 (or 7) channels. I'm using a 7.1 USB sound device quite successfully. They are quite cheap, too. Ric -- My father, Victor Moore

Re: no audio

On 02/24/2018 02:57 PM, Glenn English wrote: Fixed. Deleted PulseAudio and rebooted, looked at aslamixer (no changes), and all is well. IMHO, PA is indeed the spawn of Satan, and everybody responsible for it must be taken out and hanged. And PA must be removed from the Debian installs and

Re: no audio

On 02/24/2018 02:10 PM, Glenn English wrote: On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 10:04 AM, Curt wrote: I have two sound devices--HD-AUDIO GENERIC (which corresponds to HDMI) and HDA ATI SB (Realtek chip which I use for sound output). Selecting the HDA ATI SB card in alsamixer (F6) was

Re: no audio

On 02/24/2018 05:04 AM, Curt wrote: I installed pavucontrol, and in the Configuration tab turned the HDMI profile off and the analog duplex output which corresponds to my Realtek chip on. As I have no speakers, in Output Devices I selected headphones (I do have headphones). I now have sound

Re: no audio

On 02/23/2018 04:26 PM, Glenn English wrote: I've heard that PulseAudio is the spawn of Satan, and I've used alsa and its predecessor successfully for years with the mobo audio and alsa with my RME Hammerfall card. I haven't scoured to logs for errors yet... Check your logs. I've used pulse

Re: MIDI-to-USB on Debian?

On 02/14/2018 11:33 AM, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 9:42 AM, Ric Moore <wayward4...@gmail.com> wrote: Gene, they are cheap as dirt. Check Ebay. If the OP really wants midi rolling full-blown install Ubuntu Studio. It uses a RT kernel and Jack audio for low low l

Re: end of security support for wheezy LTS

On 02/13/2018 06:47 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: I agree Deloptes, debian's newer releases are generally better, if the ever increasing paranoia can be worked around. The major problems are with the difficulties in building and installing, a newer, realtime kernel for machine control usage, when the

Re: MIDI-to-USB on Debian?

On 02/13/2018 05:59 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 13 February 2018 16:00:20 Nicholas Geovanis wrote: Does anyone have a MIDI-to-USB adapter they could recommend for Debian and/or linux? This is just for a point-to-point connection from a Yamaha keyboard to a laptop. Software on the laptop

Re: Thunderbird font broken

On 01/12/2018 03:32 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Markus Grunwald composed on 2018-01-12 20:24 (UTC+0100): Thunderbird seems to handle fontsizes different than all the other programs I'm using. I had to install the extension "Theme Font & Size Changer for Thunderbird" (62.0) to fix that broken

Re: OT: AOL fees (Re: Youtube - newbie guidance)

On 12/26/2017 11:28 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, December 26, 2017 12:35:16 PM Ric Moore wrote: If you used it to any etent it was. I racked up several bills in the hundreds, doing what we take for granted nowadays. Luckily I had a moderator friend! Ric Thanks! I guess

Re: OT: AOL fees (Re: Youtube - newbie guidance)

On 12/23/2017 03:50 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, December 23, 2017 03:31:31 PM Ric Moore wrote: Bob's your uncle. BTW, Google is no where as obnoxious as AOL during the old days when you could be paying hundreds a month for access to the web and email. I'll take Google any day

Re: Youtube - newbie guidance

On 12/23/2017 05:02 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 12/22/2017 04:06 PM, Ben Finney wrote: Richard Owlett writes: I've never used youtube before. One thing to note explicitly: YouTube is deliberately designed to thwart downloading videos. YouTube's owner (Google,

Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd

On 12/08/2017 05:12 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: Something I did *not* understand when I saw it in operation was why a password was needed at the terminal but not from within the GUI's "Applications > Log Out" menu path. Thank you Cindy, now I don't have to point out the obvious! :) Ric --

Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian

On 11/29/2017 04:01 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 03:42:15PM +, Richard Zimmerman wrote: I'm pretty new to the Debian list here Welcome aboard! but over on the CentOS list I'm on, migrating from init system to systemd isn't for the faint of heart as I understand

Re: cups config for Brother HL-L2340DW

On 11/22/2017 02:26 PM, Siard wrote: Pierre Frenkiel: [...] but no way with CUPS. Did you try the CUPSwrapper driver for your model supplied by Brother itself? http://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadlist.aspx?c=gb=en=hll2340dw_us_eu_as=128 I have a similar driver for another Brother model,

Re: Any Sound Card Recommendations?

On 11/21/2017 09:42 AM, Thomas George wrote: I would like a really good sound card for my system and don't want to make the same mistake twice. Any recommendations? USB headphones seem to always work. I have a USB 7.1 sound device that works a charm as well. ALSA/Pulse seems to love them

Re: No Sound - Puzzle

On 11/16/2017 11:20 PM, Thomas George wrote: I also wish alsa had a signal strength monitor. Maybe I should reinstall pulseaudio. Pulse rests on top of ALSA. If ALSA not workee then Pulse doesn't stand a chance. -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the

Re: estamated number of Linux users?

On 10/26/2017 11:21 PM, John Hasler wrote: Celejar writes: https://www.linuxcounter.net/ I don't know how meaningful its data are. Utterly useless. I wouldn't demean the Linux Counter effort calling it "Utterly useless". Those folks have maintained the site since 1999 or so. It is what it

Re: [solved] Re: Live recording

On 08/16/2017 09:40 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: please excuse my amateur wording here. Summary: the best of the best is available with jackd and Ardour, for absolutely any tricky situation. Doesn't jack require an rt kernel to enable all of it's features?? Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic)

Re: need help on audio recording

On 08/14/2017 05:06 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 09:23:22AM +0200, deloptes wrote: Perhaps I start offering babysitting for hire. [other unnecessary borderline abuse elided] C'm on. Be friendlier. Communication is

Re: why audio recording is so hard in Linux

On 08/14/2017 03:27 AM, Michael Lange wrote: Hi, On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 04:11:31 + (UTC) Long Wind wrote: even simple task like recording from line in can't be donethough i try very hard mencoder has many advanced featuresall seem useless have you checked if your

Re: Help with USB audio card

On 08/10/2017 09:06 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Curt writes: On 2017-08-07, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Besides, I ran alsamixer, selected the USB card and unmuted everything. But then, when I try to record, no sound is recorded. I do: This makes no

Re: Stretch: xfce and xscreensaver

On 07/30/2017 10:29 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: I'll reread the s option with new insight. But I really prefer the monitor being powered down instead of using a screensaver, since my system runs 24/7 and it's in my bedroom. A 24" monitor makes an awfully bright nightlight. ;-) VLC will kill

Re: Free software

On 07/21/2017 11:49 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Or use a $29 nvidia card and the Nouveau driver, which card does the job quite nicely for what we need. Again, what YOU need isn't what the OP had in mind, as he's not running an RT kernel to drive a CNC rig. He was deciding how to get the most out

Re: Can "PulseAudio Volume Control" devs be redeemed?

On 07/22/2017 12:51 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote: There is no rational explanation for failing to make all 5 tabs visible. No idea what your problem is, I have always been able to see the tabs. Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the

Re: Free software

On 07/19/2017 09:05 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: The NVidia drivers have a huge problem if they are asked to co-exist with any system that depends on real time IRQ response. Which are thankfully few and far between. You could probably just use a VESA driver and some S3 Virge video card to get

Re: Free software

On 07/19/2017 12:33 AM, Doug wrote: All the wonderful Linux programmers have had YEARS to modify it and make it better than what Nvidia provides, but it seems that they haven't succeeded. I am very happy with my Nvidia cards and Nvidia drivers. What the devil is everybody bitching about? And,

Re: Free software

On 07/18/2017 09:38 PM, Felix Miata wrote: but state and local governments have been following the federal government's lead, producing many constitutionally impermissible regulations for many decades, and getting away with it because of prohibitive legal and time expense involved in contesting

Re: Stretch, pulseaudio and bluetooth headphones

On 06/29/2017 09:58 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: Hello the list! Quite a while ago I bought a pair of Bang & Olufsen bluetooth headphones and have been using them from Jessie. The list may remember I had a little bit of a struggle getting them to work with Jessie, which eventually turned out to be

Re: Printer Setup Problem

On 06/12/2017 11:08 AM, Jan-Peter Rühmann wrote: Did the same command work with the Debian PC? Nonetheless have you choose the right driver? For the love of $DEITY$, must you top post? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

Re: Proper sources list from Jessie > Stretch

On 06/02/2017 10:41 AM, Fungi4All wrote: Sorry for the top-post but I think it is appropriate It is not ever appropriate, no matter what you think. Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

On 05/25/2017 06:56 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 05/24/2017 12:26 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: The man page _mentions_ setting wallpaper in passing my noting "Use --no-xinerama to treat the whole X display as one screen when setting

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

On 05/24/2017 08:57 AM, Anil Duggirala wrote: Oh, and also, I did not find /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Please don't top post. You don't see anyone else doing that do you?? Take a clue. Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of

Re: How stable is the frozen stretch?

On 05/16/2017 11:04 PM, SDA wrote: On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 08:50:45AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: *ROFL!* ;/ I've been a computer _user_ for a half-century. About 5 years ago I started seriously plotting my escape from the gloppy GUI of an organization recently in the news. I investigated

Re: Useable guide to first invocation of mariadb - where?

On 05/08/2017 11:06 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I then did apt-get install mariadb-client mariadb-server As user I (reasonably) see: richard@stretch-2nd:~$ mariadb ERROR 1698 (28000): Access denied for user 'richard'@'localhost' As root I see: root@stretch-2nd:/home/richard# mariadb Welcome

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

On 04/30/2017 09:32 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: than my site traffic is. So once I've restored normal http operations, I'll come back and see if I can find some help converting it to https. Thank you david...@freevolt.org. If you were running wordpress, there are plugins to automate the

Re: BUG or OPERATOR error? - was [Re: Measuring aggregate internet useage?]

On 04/26/2017 10:17 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 10:07:01AM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: "ifconfig" has to be run as root. ric@iam:~$ sudo ifconfig [sudo] password for ric: enp8s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 This is not correct, if yo

Re: BUG or OPERATOR error? - was [Re: Measuring aggregate internet useage?]

On 04/26/2017 08:36 AM, Brian wrote: On Wed 26 Apr 2017 at 07:17:11 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 04/25/2017 08:17 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 04/24/2017 04:12 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: On 24/04/17 22:58, Richard Owlett wrote: If there were user accessible registers with a running

Re: Mouse pointer _sometimes_ too big

On 04/24/2017 11:19 AM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: Mine will occasionally do something like this. In my case, it gives the appearance it's switching back and forth between entire cursor themes. Is there a chance that's actually what's going on here rather than it "just" being about pixel size?

Re: funny times

On 04/23/2017 09:33 PM, songbird wrote: when my computer is turned off the clock runs slow. when my computer is turned on the clock runs fast. so any single adjustment in /etc/adjtime doesn't work (as my number of hours off or on the computer each day may change). You may have reached

Re: Mouse pointer _sometimes_ too big

On 04/22/2017 03:53 PM, Andreas Ronnquist wrote: This is on Xfce, Debian stable with some backports (Kernel and Nvidia drivers), Geforce 1070 graphics card, two monitors connected, 2560x1440 + 1920x1200. My Xfce Mouse & pointer settings has pointer size set to 16, and Xfce DPI is set to 96.

Re: RTL8111 Networking Drivers

On 04/17/2017 11:04 AM, Nicolas George wrote: L'octidi 28 germinal, an CCXXV, GiaThnYgeia a écrit : Don't expect "Debian" to respond to you, it is like talking to the Borg You realize Debian is not a person, right? Anyone remember Karl?? :) Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to

Re: RTL8111 Networking Drivers

On 04/17/2017 11:01 AM, GiaThnYgeia wrote: My mistakes, Lizi, are an irrelevant issue to this observation but no matter what you say and I say neither is speaking as Debian. The hypocritical BORG has no voice on the matter! No, you are not on the same level of Lizi. Lizi has been a faithful

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

On 04/12/2017 06:42 PM, GiaThnYgeia wrote: Why don't you try ubuntu and tell us what it is like. Do I strike you like a person needing to hold hands with anyone? From your posts, yes. VERY much so. -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

On 04/12/2017 04:27 PM, Mart van de Wege wrote: Here's a data point: having dealt with the vagaries and shortcomings of SysV init professionally, I *like* systemd, even if it has a few warts. Mart I am going out on a limb here, but here goes, as I put on my "Amazing Kreskin predicts" hat.

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

On 04/12/2017 12:40 PM, GiaThnYgeia wrote: David Wright: Has Debian always been this crazy and am I so new to this madness? If you don't like it, you're free to look elsewhere for a distribution that better suits you. Are you mr.Debian? Under what authority are you telling me to either

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

On 04/10/2017 09:37 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: Does that mean systemd is the ideal replacement? No. Systemd has these overreaching tendrils in places it's got no business sticking tendrils. Why does it have its own ntp daemon? Why does it implement file system automount behavior? These things

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

On 04/08/2017 01:06 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: 'They' never told us, owners of single user laptops, why we should chose it. Simple, as I see it, single user laptop support doesn't pay the bills. Neither do Desktops. Ubuntu found that one out, for all of their user friendly features. When Red

Re: Sound problems (mpd, mpv mainly)

On 04/01/2017 05:41 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote: Ric Moore <wayward4...@gmail.com> writes: On 03/31/2017 02:56 PM, Sharon Kimble wrote: How can I get sound continuously with mpd and mpv without the card being seemingly dropped please? Are you using pulseaudio and have you installed pavuc

Re: why??why?why??

On 03/12/2017 07:49 AM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Sun, 12 Mar 2017 07:15:02 -0400 Ric Moore <wayward4...@gmail.com> wrote: On 03/12/2017 04:57 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 02:09:22AM +, Shahryar Afifi wrote: why o why... why debian keeps getting fancier like

Re: why??why?why??

On 03/12/2017 04:57 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 02:09:22AM +, Shahryar Afifi wrote: why o why... why debian keeps getting fancier like other operating system. debian is a linux machine, not some toy like apple. we dont need gnome 3 taking too much ram, in fact we dont

Re: No sound-inputs but sound recording FMIT

On 03/03/2017 08:53 AM, GiaThnYgeia wrote: I plugged then in to 3 different machines, downloaded FMIT and run it. Similar results. Is it in the repos?? Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of

Re: CD Audio - sometimes provided as vfs by the kernel?

On 03/02/2017 11:30 AM, Dominik George wrote: Hi, I just tried to tip an audio CD, like I did hundreds of times before. I tried to run ripit, and it complained that there was no audio CD inserted. Taking a closer look, I found that the drive was unexpectedly provided as a USB mass storage

Re: Secure Boot won't let boot into Debian

On 02/23/2017 11:50 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: rodolfo.med...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. I frehly installed Debian Sid in dual boot with Windows 10 on my brand new Lenovo desktop pc but it won't boot into Debian system I suspect because of the new Secure Boot policy. I want to disable it but the

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors?

On 02/09/2017 12:13 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: You shared your philosophy ("tear it all down and rebuild it from scratch every two years") I don't know where you got this. The OP was having one helluva time with a harddrive. I suggested that he create a partition to store his personal files

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors?

On 02/09/2017 08:10 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 06:06:34PM -0500, Ric Moore wrote: Careful there, I would not copy any of the /home/username/dot-files or dot directories over, except like .mozilla and .thunderbird, so you don't carry over some old and crufty setting

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors?

On 02/08/2017 04:38 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 02/08/2017 01:26 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 02/08/2017 02:37 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: How it went is not well. I tested the new drive with SeagateTools and it was fine. Then I made a clonezilla live CD and booted from it. It stopped on the first

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