Re: Repository Problem

2016-04-16 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 04/16/2016 10:12 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: Michael Milliman <michael.e.milli...@gmail.com> wrote: On 04/15/2016 03:18 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 01:06:18PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I just had a catastrophic

Re: What happened to the info tutorial?

2016-04-16 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, Apr 16, 2016, at 17:31, Stephen Powell wrote: > The "info" command in jessie has a tutorial which can be accessed by pressing > the "H" key. Oops!, I meant to say the "h" key, not the "H" key. Otherwise, the question remains as writt

What happened to the info tutorial?

2016-04-16 Thread Stephen Powell
al? What's the scoop on this? -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

RE: Repository Problem - SOLVED

2016-04-16 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
From: Stephen P. Molnar [mailto:s.mol...@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2016 6:37 AM To: 'Michael Milliman'; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Repository Problem From: Michael Milliman [mailto:michael.e.milli...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2016 11:27 PM

RE: Repository Problem

2016-04-16 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
From: Michael Milliman [mailto:michael.e.milli...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2016 11:27 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Repository Problem On 04/15/2016 12:06 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I just had a catastrophic crash which necessitated reinstalling Debian

Re: Repository Problem

2016-04-15 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 04/15/2016 01:19 PM, John Conover wrote: Stephen P. Molnar writes: I just had a catastrophic crash which necessitated reinstalling Debian. I had been running v-7.2,but decided to upgrade to v-7.10 with a complete install. Now when I update the repositories, regardless of the tool

Repository Problem

2016-04-15 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
in the sources.list. Now, I know that it has to be a problem with the new install as I have installed v-7.10 in a VMware Workstation 12 Player on my laptop as a test bed and do not get any errors. I would greatly appreciate help resolving this issue,. Thanks in advance. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D

Debian Wheezy Repository Problem

2016-04-13 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
if I have missed a vital message on the Debian mailing list? -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.Life is a fuzzy set www.Molecular-Modeling.net Stochastic and multivariate (614)312-7528 (c) Shyoe: smolnar1

Re: page up down keys fail to work in gmail

2016-04-04 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Apr 03, 2016 at 02:30:54PM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Just quickly, I think you will find that gmail intercepts keystrokes and > gives them their own "function", rather nasty I think, to break standard > UI interface of a browser tab. > Not by default: There is a setting to enable

Re: Apt on SID error with Google-Chrome source

2016-03-20 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 03:11:34PM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: > Stephen Allen <marathon.duran...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Lot of changes to Apt recently - this warning has been around a few days > > now: > > > W: > > gpgv:/var/lib/apt/lists/dl.google.com_li

Apt on SID error with Google-Chrome source

2016-03-20 Thread Stephen Allen
Lot of changes to Apt recently - this warning has been around a few days now: W: gpgv:/var/lib/apt/lists/dl.google.com_linux_chrome_deb_dists_stable_Release.gpg: The repository is insufficiently signed by key 4CCA1EAF950CEE4AB83976DCA040830F7FAC5991 (weak digest) How do I fix?

Re: how to install debian on iMac

2016-02-20 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 01:31:57PM +0800, lina wrote: > Has anyone tried successfully to install the debian into the iMac with > Fusion drive? > > The basic configuration is > > • 2.8GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor, Turbo Boost up to 3.3GHz > • Intel Iris Pro Graphics 6200 > • 8GB

Sticky nautilus windows

2016-02-09 Thread Stephen Chadfield
suspecting this has something to do with remote network connections using via SSH and gvfs. When this happens the only fix is to close the nautilus window and open a new one. -- Stephen Chadfield

Re: SID Update Feb 02

2016-02-03 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 09:31:41AM +, Darac Marjal wrote: Sorry Darac, that last message should have been addressed to you too.

Re: SID Update Feb 02

2016-02-03 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 09:31:41AM +, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 09:08:20PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >Stephen Allen wrote: > >>Good Morning: > >> > >>Not sure what package to file a bug against, so here goes explaining the >

SID Update Feb 02

2016-02-02 Thread Stephen Allen
Good Morning: Not sure what package to file a bug against, so here goes explaining the issue. After this mornings update to SID, I no longer have video working (won't play). So, what package would be relevant - this is media streams in browser, both Google-Chrome and IceWeasel are affected as it

Re: Aptitude message.

2016-01-26 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 11:49:15AM +, Brian wrote: > On Fri 22 Jan 2016 at 20:55:05 +1000, Weaver wrote: > > > Am receiving this on 'aptitude update'. > > ~~ > > root@Telaman:/home/weaver# aptitude update > > Hit http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian unstable InRelease > > [ ERR]

Re: Aptitude message.

2016-01-26 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 08:55:05PM +1000, Weaver wrote: > Hello all, > > Am receiving this on 'aptitude update'. > ~~ > root@Telaman:/home/weaver# aptitude update > Hit http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian unstable InRelease > [ ERR] Reading package lists > E: Unable to parse package

Re: turning off Google Chrome's warning

2016-01-21 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016, at 21:59, Frank McCormick wrote: > > On 21/01/16 09:41 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> What does chrome give you that chromium does not? > > Nothing that I know of...but I thought that staying with the Google > product is just simpler. I've h

Re: turning off Google Chrome's warning

2016-01-21 Thread Stephen Powell
hrome? What does chrome give you that chromium does not? -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Attempt to Move Root

2015-12-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 25 Dec 2015 10:33:56 -0500 (EST), Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 10:57:41 -0500 (EST), Nicolas George wrote: >> ... >> I noticed that LILO seems to be actually capable >> of finding the sectors for files on LVM. > > In the general case, the s

Re: Attempt to Move Root

2015-12-25 Thread Stephen Powell
re are no rules for the use of unallocated sectors. And grub-legacy and grub-pc (by default at least) now do a similar thing. They store information in unallocated sectors. That's one of the reasons (but not the only reason) that I switched back to LILO. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Attempt to Move Root

2015-12-25 Thread Stephen Powell
o maybe it has already been > addressed, but all this suggest that the OP should install GRUB instead of > LILO and be done with that kind of trouble. As subsequent posts have indicated, the trouble was with an incorrect UUID. It had nothing to do with the OP's choice of boot loader

Re: Attempt to Move Root

2015-12-21 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 10:36:48 -0500 (EST), David Baron wrote: > > On Monday 21 December 2015 10:25:15 Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> Obviously, the LILO map file is on the IDE drive. Is your /boot partition >> on the IDE drive? If so, you cannot remove it.

Re: Attempt to Move Root

2015-12-21 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 10:31:54 -0500 (EST), Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Could he not dd them onto another drive? > ... He can copy the /boot data to another drive, not necessarily with dd. In fact, if he wants to be able to remove the existing IDE drive, he must. But he cannot copy it to an LVM2

Re: Attempt to Move Root

2015-12-21 Thread Stephen Powell
e part of the same filesystem. I've been on the wrong track for several posts now. Please excuse the noise. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Attempt to Move Root

2015-12-21 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 04:50:00 -0500 (EST), David Baron wrote: > > Went through all the motions, both ways: On native and chroot. Results were > the same. Get in that loop of lv not ready messages. Difference: Native > attempt still needs the IDE plugged in or I get 99 99 99 ... , chroot does

Re: Attempt to Move Root

2015-12-20 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 15:51:22 -0500 (EST), David Baron wrote: > > So ... do I need the chroot and the binds and all this at all? That's the recommended way. Make sure that the edited copies of /etc/lilo.conf, /etc/fstab, and /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume, in the chrooted environment, all

Re: Attempt to Move Root

2015-12-20 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 05:58:47 -0500 (EST), David Baron wrote: > > OK, mounted newrootpartition newroot > Did a cp -x / newroot > Successful so far, elementary > > Edited newroot/etc/fstab and newroot/etc/lilo.conf to point root to > newrootpartition (by uuid) > > mount --bind /dev newroot/dev

Re: My web site is back

2015-12-09 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 08 Dec 2015 18:55:43 -0500 (EST), Gener Badenas wrote: > > How much is the hosting now and with whom? $48 for hosting, $9.00 for domain registration, total $57. Good for one year. I'll have to pay again next year. I decided to go with debian-hosting.info. So far, I haven't yet figured

My web site is back

2015-12-08 Thread Stephen Powell
Old site: h t t p : / / u s e r s . w o w w a y . c o m / ~ z l i n u x m a n / New site: http://www.stevesdebianstuff.org/ If you have bookmarks set for the old site you should update your bookmarks. Some pages from the old site are not on the new site because I judged them to be obsolete.

Re: My web site is back

2015-12-08 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 08 Dec 2015 12:36:44 -0500 (EST), Martin Read wrote: > On 08/12/15 16:58, Darac Marjal wrote: >> >> To which, the venerable W3C replied "Cool URIs don't change": >> http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html > > Your criticism is invalid, given that the action that has clearly been >

Re: [OT] Soliciting Advice on e-mail and web-hosting providers

2015-12-05 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 10:15:08 -0500 (EST), mister s jones wrote: > On Saturday, November 28, 2015 09:49:47 Stephen Powell wrote: >> So, does anyone wish to share their experiences, good or bad? Is there >> anyone you wish to recommend? Is there anyone you want to warn me to stay &g

Re: [OT] Soliciting Advice on e-mail and web-hosting providers

2015-12-05 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 05 Dec 2015 18:43:13 -0500 (EST), Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I ma assuming (or subconsciously remembering) that you are in the USA. Is > that correct? Hi, Lisi. Yes, that's correct. I hope you won't hold that against me. :-) Wow used to offer free web hosting to subscribers to their

Re: OT: reply styles, family matters

2015-11-30 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 30 Nov 2015 20:31:29 -0500 (EST), Bob Bernstein wrote: > ... > With that as background, here is my question/request: is anyone > aware of a spirited defence of our ideal method of "selective > quoting," (for lack of a better label) one, say, that perhaps > has achieved the status of a

[OT] Soliciting Advice on e-mail and web-hosting providers

2015-11-28 Thread Stephen Powell
I currently get my internet connectivity, e-mail service, and web-hosting service from the same provider. I recently complained to my ISP about backscatter SPAM I was getting from other people's infected machines that were sending out SPAM to invalid e-mail addresses and spoofing me as the

Re: Tip of the hat to Michael Biebl

2015-11-14 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 12:29:20PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 11 November 2015 12:10:28 Stephen Allen wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 08:37:36PM -0500, Philippe Clérié wrote: > > > I just caught the YouTube video of Michael Biebl's presentation at > > >

Re: Tip of the hat to Michael Biebl

2015-11-11 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 08:37:36PM -0500, Philippe Clérié wrote: > I just caught the YouTube video of Michael Biebl's presentation at > systemd.conf. It was good and informative and reminded me of the hard and > many faceted work Debian developers and maintainers put in. Work for which I > don't

Re: How to identify obsolete packages

2015-10-31 Thread Stephen Powell
, this works for install but not for safe-upgrade or full-upgrade. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: How to identify obsolete packages (was: Anybody know why aptitude is not installed by default in Sid?)

2015-10-31 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 10:38:48 -0400 (EDT), "Reco" wrote: > On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 10:29:48 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: >> Does anyone know an easy way to identify obsolete packages without >> using aptitide? > > deborphan --guess-all According to

[SOLVED] How to identify obsolete packages

2015-10-31 Thread Stephen Powell
Thanks! (Although it does require the installation of another package: apt-show-versions.) I'm curious, though. Do you use the C shell? Or did you just customize your prompt? -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

How to identify obsolete packages (was: Anybody know why aptitude is not installed by default in Sid?)

2015-10-31 Thread Stephen Powell
he same thing as an obsolete package. An obsolete package may have been manually installed, but it's still obsolete, and I need to be able to identify it as such. Does anyone know an easy way to identify obsolete packages without using aptitide? -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: RealTek RTL8192EU drivers

2015-10-30 Thread Stephen Powell
LP-PHY). Make sure that you have the contrib and the non-free sections of the archive enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list, as this involves non-free stuff. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: RealTek RTL8192EU drivers

2015-10-27 Thread Stephen Powell
ian; but perhaps it can be adapted for Debian. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

[SOLVED] [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?

2015-10-15 Thread Stephen Powell
that my e-mail account has not been hacked, just spoofed. I will report this to my ISP. Thanks to all who participated in this thread. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?

2015-10-13 Thread Stephen Powell
stupid [or ignorant at best] to > use public [or otherwise open] WiFi -- if you don't run it yourself or > you totally trust the person whom is running it, then leave it alone. That may have been the case for Stuart's friend, but it is not the case with me. I use only wired ethernet. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?

2015-10-13 Thread Stephen Powell
your own. That was a few years ago. Maybe it's better now. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?

2015-10-13 Thread Stephen Powell
at I have taken, it is still possible for a password to be "discovered". Having said that, it looks like someone else's credentials may have been used, based on some other posts to this thread. But I am not an expert in these matters. That's why I asked for help. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?

2015-10-13 Thread Stephen Powell
. My wife and I are empty nesters. There is no-one else at home. In short, I have not "handed it over". -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?

2015-10-13 Thread Stephen Powell
installed. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?

2015-10-13 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 04:15:21 -0400 (EDT), Jochen Spieker wrote: > > Stuart Longland: >> On 13/10/15 09:58, Stephen Powell wrote: >>> >>> Unfortunately, I don't. Attached below is one of the mail delivery >>> failure notices, which includes the headers o

[OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?

2015-10-12 Thread Stephen Powell
so I have marked it off-topic. But I suspect that it is of interest to users of this list, since this list is accessed via e-mail. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?

2015-10-12 Thread Stephen Powell
="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1081 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1081 -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Broadcom 43121 wlan issue

2015-10-04 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 11:23:29AM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > > My guess is that it has problems with the newer kernel, but without > that file it's impossible to say why it failed to build. Another guess > would be that you haven't installed the kernel headers, which are > required to build

Re: stuck on 7.7 and unable to upgrade :(

2015-09-29 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 05:31:29PM +0300, Roman wrote: > Hei guys, > > Seems like I need your help. > Can't go much more further... > > Reading package lists... Done > W: There is no public key available for the following key IDs: > 7638D0442B90D010 > W: There is no public key available for the

Broadcom 4311 network adapter doesn't work under Jessie (was debian-user-digest Digest V2015 #1143)

2015-09-23 Thread Stephen Powell
line implies that you are not subscribed to the main list. Please do not CC me back; just reply to the list, since I am subscribed to the list. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: debian8 & graphics

2015-09-22 Thread Stephen Powell
a card runs Debian 8. The machine with the ATI card used to run Debian 8, but now runs what will become Debian 9. Perhaps I could have been one of those who might have provided some help. But you've given up without asking for help, so that will not happen.

Re: Compiling coreutils from source

2015-09-17 Thread Stephen Powell
his package is that you use fakeroot debian/rules clean1 to do a clean, rather than the usual fakeroot debian/rules clean I don't know if this helps or not. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Getting a serial console to work on Jessie

2015-09-08 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 07 Sep 2015 18:08:05 -0400 (EDT), Bob Bernstein wrote: > > What a great contribution! > > My null-modem cable ought to still be around here somewhere! > > :-) I try to focus on the latest technology. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Getting a serial console to work on Jessie

2015-09-07 Thread Stephen Powell
at it recently. Then read the new instructions for enabling a serial terminal under systemd. If you then have any questions, please post a follow-up. Sven and Michael, please review this also and correct me if I made a mistake. I do not want to publish bad advice. Regards, -- .''`. Stephen Po

Re: Getting a serial console to work on Jessie

2015-09-07 Thread Stephen Powell
sfully after "systemctl daemon-reload". Done. Refresh the page and see if that's what you had in mind. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Getting a serial console to work on Jessie

2015-09-06 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 06 Sep 2015 16:06:35 -0400 (EDT), Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 06.09.2015 um 21:04 schrieb Stephen Powell: >> ... >>[Service] >>ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty -8 --noclear %I 38400 ibm3151 >> >> But when I restart the service, I get the following error

Re: Screen goes blank after "EDID checksum is invalid" errors

2015-09-06 Thread Stephen Powell
rict=0 This may allow you to use your faulty monitor anyway. Good luck. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Screen goes blank after "EDID checksum is invalid" errors

2015-09-06 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 06 Sep 2015 08:07:32 -0400 (EDT), Sven Joachim wrote: > > On 2015-09-06 12:31 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote: >> Some monitors have invalid EDID checksums. Blame the manufacturer. >> Windows is more tolerant of EDID checksum errors than Linux is. >> If switching moni

Re: Getting a serial console to work on Jessie

2015-09-06 Thread Stephen Powell
t is the way systemd is designed and you can either work with it or > fight it every centimeter of the way. > Well, Sven, that's a nice idea, but I can't get it to work for me in this situation. I issued systemctl edit serial-getty@ttyS0.service and placed the following two lines i

Re: Getting a serial console to work on Jessie

2015-09-04 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 03 Sep 2015 20:06:43 -0400 (EDT), Michael Biebl wrote: > > Am 03.09.2015 um 03:14 schrieb Stephen Powell: >> Do you know a similar technique for overriding individual udev rules in >> a system-provided rules file? > > A similar mechanism exists for udev rule

Re: Getting a serial console to work on Jessie

2015-09-02 Thread Stephen Powell
ctl edit unitname" and it will create the needed directory > structure in the correct place for you. Thanks for the tip, Sven. I'll try to incorporate your suggestion in the next revision of my serial console document. With luck, I may get to it this weekend. Do you know a similar technique for overriding individual udev rules in a system-provided rules file? -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Getting a serial console to work on Jessie

2015-09-01 Thread Stephen Powell
n my desktop PC > running Jessie, it doesn't work. > ... I realize that you already have a resolution to your problem, but if you're using serial consoles on Debian Linux, you might find some useful information here: http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/serial.htm -- .''`. Step

Re: PAE (was: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?)

2015-08-25 Thread Stephen Powell
and chewing up more RAM. -- .''`. Stephen Powellzlinux...@wowway.com : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?

2015-08-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 06:28:53 -0400 (EDT), Bret Busby wrote: On 15/08/2015, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: ... My IBM ThinkPad X31 laptop, which is still quite usable, would be a brick if I ran Ubuntu. It has a Pentium M processor in it, and that processor does not have the PAE

Re: PAE (was: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?)

2015-08-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 13:52:30 -0400 (EDT), Mirko Parthey wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 06:45:10AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: Furtherfore, a non-PAE kernel is useful even on PAE-capable hardware. The main purpose of PAE is to address memory above 4G. But if the machine has less than 4G

Re: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?

2015-08-15 Thread Stephen Powell
to argue about it. Peace. -- .''`. Stephen Powellzlinux...@wowway.com : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Double-click doesn't work in many apps

2015-08-14 Thread Stephen Allen
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 07:41:20PM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: I'm running Jessie and double-click-to-open doesn't work in IceDove,FileManager, Libre, every place so far where I am used to it working previous to Jessie, it now doesn't. Anybody have any insight on this? Dennis, what Desktop

Re: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?

2015-08-14 Thread Stephen Powell
in it, and that processor does not have the PAE feature. Long live pure Debian! And kudos to the Debian kernel team! -- .''`. Stephen Powellzlinux...@wowway.com : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?

2015-08-13 Thread Stephen Powell
the infamous fail whale. That does not give me an incentive to try GNOME again. -- .''`. Stephen Powellzlinux...@wowway.com : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?

2015-08-12 Thread Stephen Powell
there is a compelling reason to change. That's my two cents worth. Take it with however many grains of salt you think it's worth. -- .''`. Stephen Powellzlinux...@wowway.com : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?

2015-08-12 Thread Stephen Powell
machines, I install XFCE as the desktop by selecting it as the desktop of choice in the Debian installer. If I were to start over from scratch today, I might try LXDE. But I'm happy with XFCE, and I see no compelling reason to change at this point. -- .''`. Stephen Powellzlinux...@wowway.com : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Login failure after new install

2015-08-09 Thread Stephen Powell
, not top-posting. (I haven't seen you top post yet, but I'm just letting you know since you're new.) Regards, -- .''`. Stephen Powellzlinux...@wowway.com : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: [SOLVED -- sort of] Unwanted application autostarting at login with XFCE

2015-07-27 Thread Stephen Powell
. -- .''`. Stephen Powellzlinux...@wowway.com : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1554403173.3095827.1438037206827.javamail.zim

[SOLVED -- sort of] Unwanted application autostarting at login with XFCE

2015-07-26 Thread Stephen Powell
Writer installed if I need a word processor. Thanks to all who participated in this thread. If anyone has a clue how to fix this without purging the package, I'll try reinstalling it. -- .''`. Stephen Powellzlinux...@wowway.com : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

RE: Can't Configure Mirror (was: Can't Get Back To Graphical Install)

2015-07-25 Thread Rasku, Stephen (Wurldtech)
Wait, it seems to be working... From: Rasku, Stephen (Wurldtech) Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2015 7:41 AM To: Lisi Reisz; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Can't Configure Mirror (was: Can't Get Back To Graphical Install) OK, I've restarted

RE: Can't Configure Mirror (was: Can't Get Back To Graphical Install)

2015-07-25 Thread Rasku, Stephen (Wurldtech)
browser so I don't know why it's invalid. I was wondering if it was some sort of VirtualBox networking issue but I don't see any network errors in /var/log/syslog. ...Stephen From: Lisi Reisz [lisi.re...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2015 7:02 AM

Unwanted application autostarting at login with XFCE

2015-07-25 Thread Stephen Powell
login. I've checked Applications - Settings - Session and Startup in the Application Autostart and Session tabs, but abiword is not listed there. I've searched the Internet, but did not find anything. Any ideas? -- .''`. Stephen Powellzlinux...@wowway.com

Can't Get Back To Graphical Install

2015-07-25 Thread Rasku, Stephen (Wurldtech)
tried Host-F1 through Host-F12 and they are all text consoles. If I need to do Host-F5, I may be screwed. F5 is the VoiceOver activation key for OS X. Do I need to start over? I want to setup a development environment with X. Could I set this up from the text install? ...Stephen

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-17 Thread Stephen Powell
on Disable Screen Saver in the drop-down box. Close the window. For a text console, edit /etc/kbd/config and change BLANK_TIME to 0. This requires root privileges to edit the file and a reboot is necessary for it to take effect. -- .''`. Stephen Powellzlinux...@wowway.com

Installing dependencies specified in debian/control file

2015-07-14 Thread Stephen Rasku
this to Python but I am wondering if this functionality already exists somewhere else. -- Stephen Rasku Linux Developer Wurldtech Security Technologies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: Installing dependencies specified in debian/control file

2015-07-14 Thread Stephen Rasku
-resources python3-six python3.4 python3.4-minimal sane-utils t1utils update-inetd x11-common 0 upgraded, 192 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded. Need to get 69.6 MB of archives. -- Stephen Rasku Linux Developer Wurldtech Security Technologies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Why Can't Debian Find libusb?

2015-07-03 Thread Stephen Rasku
of the package I am trying to install: Package: my-package Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, libusb, fxload Description: insert up to 60 chars description -- Stephen Rasku Linux Developer Wurldtech Security Technologies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Google Chrome and Open-Source derivative listening to me without my approval

2015-06-22 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 09:25:29AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: On Sun, 21 Jun 2015, Tim Beelen wrote: Is it true? Is Google actively listening in on my conversations? Google is if you're using google now, but chromium on Debian is not. No, It has to be activated manually. One can use NOW

Re: jessie: unable to run remote graphical program with sudo [SOLVED]

2015-06-02 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 08:15:23AM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: David Wright wrote on 05/26/2015 05:35 PM: If I understand you correctly, I think that you are saying that: n7dr@shack:~$ AUTHORITY=/home/n7dr/.Xauthority HOME=/root sudo -E xterm I probably misunderstood you. No, but

Re: Mousepad Not Saving Prefs

2015-05-28 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
On Mon, 18 May 2015 11:31:50 -0400 Stephen R Guglielmo srguglie...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list, I'm running Debian Stretch/testing (updated daily). I use Xfce4 and Mousepad as my GUI text editor. It seems that Mousepad is no longer saving my preferences. If I open a text document (either

Re: Mousepad Not Saving Prefs

2015-05-23 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
On Mon, 18 May 2015 17:52:47 +0200 Sven Arvidsson s...@whiz.se wrote: On Mon, 2015-05-18 at 11:31 -0400, Stephen R Guglielmo wrote: Hi list, I'm running Debian Stretch/testing (updated daily). I use Xfce4 and Mousepad as my GUI text editor. It seems that Mousepad is no longer saving my

RE: Problem Running Application with Alias

2015-05-23 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
in the face and I faled to comprehend. Thanks very much for your reply! Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariate www.FoundationForChemistry.com (614)312-7528 (c) Skype

Mousepad Not Saving Prefs

2015-05-18 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
Hi list, I'm running Debian Stretch/testing (updated daily). I use Xfce4 and Mousepad as my GUI text editor. It seems that Mousepad is no longer saving my preferences. If I open a text document (either by File-Open or double-clicking a file from the desktop), make changes to the preferences,

Re: Debian 8 no network...

2015-05-08 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 03:08:34PM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: On Fri, 8 May 2015 14:38:53 +0200 Gábor Hársfalvi hgab...@gmail.com wrote: So you have to check your system update manager's network settings. - Where to do it? And where to setup how often do it the update? Well, what _is_

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-05-01 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 02:04:29PM +0100, Brian wrote: The unofficial installer (netinst + non-free firmware) was put together with the aim of avoiding having people drive a long way in the hot sun or turning the house upside down looking for a network card. The choice to use it exists.

Debian Testing: Upgrade XFCE from v-4.10 to v-4.12

2015-04-22 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
Has anyone upgraded XFCE v-4.10 to v-4.12 in Debian Testing without having to compile the tarballs? I am currently running RC3 in a VM and willing to experiment if there might be some guidance available. Thanks in advance. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.Life is a fuzzy set

Strong hashing/ciphers for LUKS; was Encrypting an External HDD

2015-04-16 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
Thanks for all the replies in the previous thread! I've been doing some reading and have another question. It seems the default for LUKS (as displayed by `cryptsetup --help`) is: aes-xts-plain64, Key: 256 bits LUKS header hashing: sha1 RNG: /dev/urandom I would like to have a high level of

Re: Strong hashing/ciphers for LUKS; was Encrypting an External HDD

2015-04-16 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
:07:25 -0400 Stephen R Guglielmo srguglie...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for all the replies in the previous thread! I've been doing some reading and have another question. It seems the default for LUKS (as displayed by `cryptsetup --help`) is: aes-xts-plain64, Key: 256 bits LUKS header hashing

Encrypting an External HDD

2015-04-15 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
Hi list, I have a USB external HDD that I would like to encrypt with a passphrase. After looking into filesystems, I decided to go with Ext4. What's the recommended way of encrypting a drive? Do I partition it first, then encrypt that partition? Internet searches lead me to LUKS cryptsetup.

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