Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-08 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Jun 07, 2014 at 09:57:39PM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: Thierry de Coulon: I've lived for years using synaptic and I am no so used to aptitude - and I don't want to make mistakes... In addition to the good advice regarding automatically installed packages that has already been

Re: repeatable dpkg-buildpackage

2014-05-31 Thread Stephen Powell
package. Note that I was referring specifically to make-kpkg and not dpkg-buildpackage in general. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: media 'slideshow': movies + pictures

2014-05-29 Thread Stephen Allen
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 09:13:58PM +0200, Wim Bertels wrote: On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 15:22 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 28 mai 14, 21:57:32, Chris Angelico wrote: On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 9:36 PM, The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: Stephen Allen said that Shotwell can do

Re: media 'slideshow': movies + pictures

2014-05-26 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 10:35:05AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/24/2014 09:33 AM, Stephen Allen wrote: On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 06:37:35PM +0200, Wim Bertels wrote: Hallo, does anyone know a free program to display pictures

Re: media 'slideshow': movies + pictures

2014-05-24 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 06:37:35PM +0200, Wim Bertels wrote: Hallo, does anyone know a free program to display pictures and movies as a presentation (mplayer and vlc don't seem to do that) eg ideally as simple as: $ programX -r media/ would show them in a random order where /media

Re: want to revert back to gnome classic mode.

2014-05-21 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 11:57:29AM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: thanks alot guyz, i am actually a server side guy using mostly terminal window. i am new to gnome and xfce. so my question is, are all the applications from gnome will be available in xfce, is it like a layer on the top of

Re: want to revert back to gnome classic mode.

2014-05-21 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 10:12:58PM +0100, Joe wrote: On Wed, 21 May 2014 05:52:18 -0400 Stephen Allen marathon.duran...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 11:57:29AM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: thanks alot guyz, i am actually a server side guy using mostly terminal window

Re: Tails

2014-05-18 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 02:33:21AM -0700, Weaver wrote: On Sun, May 18, 2014 2:05 am, Francesco Ariis wrote: On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 10:59:31PM -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: Lighten up, lad and stop taking all things literally. snip Back OT, someone please tell to the investigative

Re: systemd situation in Jesssie

2014-05-18 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 08:37:38PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: On 05/17/2014 02:57 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2014-05-17 19:58 +0200, Martin Vegter wrote: Hello, I am wondering whether systemd will be mandatory in Jessie. At the moment, I can install Jessie without systemd. Will this stay so,

Re: systemd situation in Jesssie

2014-05-18 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 09:17:46PM -0400, Theodore Alcapotaxis wrote: - Original Message - From: Martin Vegter Sent: 05/18/14 01:58 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: systemd situation in Jesssie Hello, I have servers running Jessie. Can I continue upgrading

[SOLVED] Text files treated like html in apache 2.4

2014-05-13 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 12 May 2014 20:28:24 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: ... But with Apache 2.4, it treats the text file like html and reformats everything, concatenating lines, eliminating blank lines, etc. How do I get it to treat plain text like plain text again? Well, the joke is on me

Re: One of those threads, old stuff: was Confusion

2014-05-13 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:27:45AM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: Hey can we start one of those those threads? I think the teletype/paper tape terminal we used in high school to interface with the IMSAI box we built. (Much gratitude to a teacher who used a lot

[SOLVED] Can't get Apache to display a directory

2014-05-13 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 12 May 2014 20:16:39 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: ... One difference that I have not been able to figure out is how to allow access to a directory. I'm not talking about allowing access to the files in the directory, I'm talking about access to the directory itself. ... How do

Re: [SOLVED] Text files treated like html in apache 2.4

2014-05-13 Thread Stephen Powell
, the Windows-style text file needed to be converted to Linux format anyway. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Can't get Apache to display a directory

2014-05-12 Thread Stephen Powell
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Text files treated like html in apache 2.4

2014-05-12 Thread Stephen Powell
as if I viewed it with less, or vi, or some other text editor/viewer. But with Apache 2.4, it treats the text file like html and reformats everything, concatenating lines, eliminating blank lines, etc. How do I get it to treat plain text like plain text again? -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Is zeitgeist safe?

2014-05-08 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 09:00:46PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: On 07/05/14 08:32 PM, Stephen Allen wrote: There was a debate in Toronto this past Friday with the past director of NSA/CIA, Glen Greenwald (and 2 other people whose names I just can't remember right now) - When Glen mentioned

Re: Confusion

2014-05-08 Thread Stephen Allen
On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 02:18:49PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: I think we're doing a disservice to the OP by merely replying to a post with a subject line like: Confusion. Sorry, that is not a proper subject line for a post to a tech list. Someone else started a thread with a proper subject line

Re: Is zeitgeist safe?

2014-05-07 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 11:09:28PM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 5/6/2014 10:04 PM, Theodore Alcapotaxis wrote: - Original Message - From: Stephen Allen Sent: 05/07/14 09:36 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Is zeitgeist safe? You give them more credit

Re: Is zeitgeist safe?

2014-05-07 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 09:57:40PM -0400, Doug wrote: On 05/06/2014 09:36 PM, Stephen Allen wrote: On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 03:57:27PM -0400, Theodore Alcapotaxis wrote: - Original Message - From: A Debian User Sent: 05/06/14 09:44 AM To: Theodore Alcapotaxis, debian-user

Re: Thinkpad Backlight Trouble in X in Testing

2014-05-07 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 11:32:58AM +0100, Daniel Moerner wrote: Hi, A quick follow-up on this: It's a general problem with ACPI triggers, I think. Suspend on lid close is also no longer working. Can't believe I didn't think to check this before emailing out - sorry. Both work here on my

Re: Debian 7.x and desktop environments [somewhat off topic]

2014-05-06 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 09:20:29PM +0100, Brian wrote: On Tue 06 May 2014 at 07:54:58 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: This post is being composed well after a great tree of responses to OP have accumulated. In these, as well as in other posts about DE in Debian I have seen mentioned the JWM

Re: Is zeitgeist safe?

2014-05-06 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 03:57:27PM -0400, Theodore Alcapotaxis wrote: - Original Message - From: A Debian User Sent: 05/06/14 09:44 AM To: Theodore Alcapotaxis, debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Is zeitgeist safe? Unintentional data leakage? Script kiddies,

Re: How to remove Google from the Start screen?

2014-05-05 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 08:21:46AM +0800, A Debian User wrote: First of all, sorry for using the term Start screen :P But when you do a search for applications in a GNOME 3 desktop, two buttons appear below the screen: Wikipedia and Google. Apparently, clicking on either of them will open

[SOLVED] Debian and Unicode line drawing

2014-05-01 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 01 May 2014 06:26:56 -0400 (EDT), Aleksander Kurczyk wrote: On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 21:27:50 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: ... the default value for the terminal type string is xterm. I have to explicitly change it to putty, even after setting the remote character set to UTF-8. ... I

RE: Debian and Unicode line drawing

2014-04-30 Thread Stephen Powell
to less than 80 characters. I have reformatted your message to conform to these guidelines. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Debian and Unicode line drawing

2014-04-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 20:50:18 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: I am unable to reproduce the problem you are having with dpkg-reconfigure. Perhaps you would be so good as to give the name of a specific package that you are trying to reconfigure in which you have the problem. I tried

Re: Debian and Unicode line drawing

2014-04-28 Thread Stephen Powell
-drawing characters seemed to be working just fine. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- 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

Re: install cinnamon

2014-04-25 Thread Stephen Allen
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 01:40:11PM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: Stephen Allen: On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 02:58:28PM +0100, Brian wrote: On Tue 22 Apr 2014 at 11:48:11 +0100, Brian wrote: It would be interesting to know whether this is successful for you. On the segfault site Martins

Re: install cinnamon

2014-04-24 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 02:58:28PM +0100, Brian wrote: On Tue 22 Apr 2014 at 11:48:11 +0100, Brian wrote: It would be interesting to know whether this is successful for you. On the segfault site Martins provides cinnamon-build.tar.gz. If you trust the packages it contains (installing

Re: Alternatives to grub and lilo? was grub2 menu problems

2014-04-24 Thread Stephen Powell
for Debian by a package of the same name. You might want to check it out. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: Heartbleed (was ... Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...)

2014-04-15 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 02:11:00PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: On 15/04/14 12:59, shawn wilson wrote: That statement was made in the sense that at least the bank could have issued a statement along the lines of 'you may have heard of the heartbleed bug, we can assure all of our customers

Re: Adobe flash security

2014-04-15 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 03:25:08PM +0200, Rob van der Putten wrote: Hi there Stephen Allen wrote: +1 Not installed. :( A manual install, as suggested by Arthur, works. For i386, download; http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/11.2.202.350

Re: Adobe flash security

2014-04-13 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 02:36:43PM +0200, Slavko wrote: Hi, Dňa Sun, 13 Apr 2014 10:31:01 + Артур Истомин art.is...@yandex.ru napísal: # update-flashplugin-nonfree --status Flash Player version installed on this system : 11.2.202.335 Flash Player version available on upstream

Switching OS

2014-04-10 Thread Stephen Barr
Debian accept the Ubuntu files? Sounds simple (I hope). Thank you, Stephen -- 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/534761c5.3090...@sonic.net

Re: How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-09 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 09:12:05AM +0100, Joe wrote: On Sat, 5 Apr 2014 20:22:55 -0400 Stephen Allen marathon.duran...@gmail.com wrote: I see this mentioned a lot that Gnome-Shell won't run on hardware more than a few years old. This is patently false. I've run it on a laptop more than 7

Re: no eth0 connection-redux

2014-04-07 Thread Stephen Powell
is that the OP has yet to provide any useful information with which to diagnose his problem. I'm still waiting. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

RE: Problem Installing Debian Testng/Jessie VMware Tools

2014-04-07 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
: Leaving directory `/tmp/modconfig-YbqXQN/vmhgfs-only' I have no idea as to what te problem might be. Any assistance will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry

Re: no eth0 connection-redux

2014-04-06 Thread Stephen Powell
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Problem Installing Debian Testng/Jessie VMware Tools

2014-04-06 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
I have installed Debian Testing/Jessie on my 64 bit Laptop in VMware Player v- 6.0.1-1379776. vmhgfs failed the build process. The relevant portion of the build log is (complete log is attached): Using 2.6.x kernel buildInstalling VMware Tools. make: Entering directory

Re: no eth0 connection-redux

2014-04-05 Thread Stephen Powell
take this from the top. (1) Please provide the output of /sbin/ifconfig -a (2) Please provide the contents of /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-05 Thread Stephen Allen
ray r...@aarden.us wrote: Gnome is referred to as a desktop environment, as it is much more than just a manager of windows, menus etc. KDE is the other heavyweight DE, there are two medium-weight DEs, LXDE and Xfce4. There is also at least one fork of an older version of Gnome, as the

Re: Not receiving list mail

2014-04-04 Thread Stephen Allen
On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 06:36:05PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I'm 81yrs, I don't have perfect recall, but in the recent past you went to the trouble of finding an exact reference as to the purpose of the white list and you posted it here, but you apparently did not take the time to read it.

Re: Not receiving list mail

2014-04-04 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 06:45:59PM +0100, Brian wrote: On Fri 04 Apr 2014 at 12:57:34 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 06:36:05PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I'm 81yrs, I don't have perfect recall, but in the recent past you went to the trouble of finding an exact

Re: Jessie Post-Install

2014-04-03 Thread Stephen Allen
On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 03:10:21PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 02 April 2014 19:31:59 Stephen Allen wrote: Yes know about the CDs and the DVDs - I'm talking about what happened during a net-install using the defaults. Geesus do really expect a new user to jump through hoops

Re: Not receiving list mail

2014-04-03 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 10:27:02PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: Read the description at Debian.org. I don't get my ideas about why it is there from hearsay. I didn't know about it until you mentioned it. I looked for it today and report what I found. Seriously, you would expect people that

Re: Jessie Post-Install

2014-04-02 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 11:35:14AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 01 apr 14, 21:13:16, Stephen Allen wrote: On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 03:05:57PM +0100, Brian wrote: Install report? Maybe I wasn't clear: from d-i's main menu it only takes a minor bit of exploring for a user

Re: Jessie Post-Install

2014-04-02 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 10:35:40AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 02 April 2014 02:18:18 Stephen Allen wrote: Lisi said: Newbies would be ill-advised to start off with Jessie, IMHO.  Stable is a better place to start, especially if the putative newbie has no help. Disagree

Re: google drive client on debian

2014-04-02 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 11:47:19AM -0600, ChadDavis wrote: Of course, the official linux client from google should probably drop one of these months. Really?! Last time I had a discussion on G+ they were of the mindset that they wanted 3rd parties to develop for it, after all the

Re: Not receiving list mail

2014-04-02 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 08:54:54AM -0500, Craig L. wrote: I have not received any list mailings since 30 March. I see there are at least two other people reporting the same problem. I doubt my ISP is blocking anything as they don't even seem to be able to prevent their internal communications

Re: Jessie Post-Install

2014-04-02 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 10:33:12PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 02 apr 14, 14:36:53, Stephen Allen wrote: Surely the PopCon results should determine that, no? Not really, Gnome has been the default for a long time, so it will naturally have a much larger user base because

Re: Not receiving list mail

2014-04-02 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 08:08:25PM +0100, Brian wrote: On Wed 02 Apr 2014 at 14:59:21 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: Wonder if the folks having trouble have added their email to the Debian Email Whitelist? https://lists.debian.org/whitelist/ What does that do for them? Considering

Re: Not receiving list mail

2014-04-02 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 02:27:05PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20140402_145921, Stephen Allen wrote: On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 08:54:54AM -0500, Craig L. wrote: I have not received any list mailings since 30 March. I see there are at least two other people reporting the same problem

RE: Debian and Unicode line drawing

2014-04-02 Thread Stephen Powell
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Re: no eth0 connection

2014-04-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 02 Apr 2014 13:33:58 -0400 (EDT), Brian wrote: On Tue 01 Apr 2014 at 21:24:24 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: On Tue, 01 Apr 2014 05:08:12 -0400 (EDT), Brian wrote: Deleting the file is quicker and less hassle. It is rewritten at the next boot. That used to be true, but it isn't

Re: Jessie Post-Install

2014-04-01 Thread Stephen Allen
In my opinion no - expecting new users to Debian to read an install report is problematic. Using the net-install I wasn't prompted for what I wanted in terms of a Desktop Environment. Xfce4 isn't what most users with modern hardware would want in my opinion - it's a Luddite DE. But not having

Re: Jessie Post-Install

2014-04-01 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 03:05:57PM +0100, Brian wrote: On Tue 01 Apr 2014 at 06:57:03 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: In my opinion no - expecting new users to Debian to read an install report is problematic. Using the net-install I wasn't prompted for what I wanted in terms of a Desktop

Re: Jessie Post-Install

2014-04-01 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 11:49:07PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 01 April 2014 11:57:03 Stephen Allen wrote: In my opinion no - expecting new users to Debian to read an install report is problematic. Using the net-install I wasn't prompted for what I wanted in terms of a Desktop

Re: kernel upgrade

2014-04-01 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 11:38:54AM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 18:51:59 -0400 Stephen Allen marathon.duran...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Stephen, better although slower. At one time it was the go to, but since I've gathered that apt-get has been improved. Also, IIRC

Re: Debian and Unicode line drawing

2014-04-01 Thread Stephen Powell
. Display a man page that has hyphens, such as man fstab and see which fonts display a hyphen and which display a box. Go with one which displays the hyphen correctly. Maybe this will help your other problems. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: no eth0 connection

2014-04-01 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 01 Apr 2014 05:08:12 -0400 (EDT), Brian wrote: On Mon 31 Mar 2014 at 20:47:56 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: Did you do anything that might have changed a MAC address? Like changing PC card Ethernet adapters, for example? Or replacing a motherboard that has a built-in Ethernet

Re: google drive client on debian

2014-04-01 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 09:32:22AM -0600, ChadDavis wrote: SyncDrive is, from what little I've read, just thin wrapper of a GUI around the GRIVE project, and built specifically fro the ubuntu repos. That's what got me thinking that it might be a good fit for debian. Of course, the official

Re: Jessie Post-Install

2014-03-31 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 02:56:09PM -0300, Bruno Schneider wrote: On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Stephen Allen wrote: On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 12:10:50AM +, Brian wrote: On Fri 28 Mar 2014 at 19:33:44 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: Shouldn't the wifi have been configured? How in the hell

Re: kernel upgrade

2014-03-31 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 07:46:15PM +0200, Nemeth Gyorgy wrote: 2014-03-30 14:59 keltezéssel, Stephen Allen írta: Are you sure? When the kernel version number changes, the linux-image-versionnumber-amd64.deb will be a new package. Plain apt-get upgrade upgrades the installed packages

Re: kernel upgrade

2014-03-31 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 09:37:28PM +0200, Nemeth Gyorgy wrote: 2014-03-31 20:07 keltezéssel, Brad Rogers írta: For my set of circumstances, it is. However, I neglected to take proper note of yours. You're using apt-get (etc.) and I tend to use Synaptic. Clearly, behaviour is different in

Re: google drive client on debian

2014-03-31 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 09:58:26AM -0600, ChadDavis wrote: Has anyone had any experience, recently, with Grive or SyncDrive on Debian Wheezy? Other clients would be fine too, I'm just trying to figure out what my options are for a Google Drive client on a Debian system. ---end quoted text--

Re: no eth0 connection

2014-03-31 Thread Stephen Powell
a motherboard that has a built-in Ethernet adapter? The correspondence between MAC addresses and interface names is controlled by /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. You may need to edit this file and change MAC addresses. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: kernel upgrade

2014-03-30 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 10:42:52AM +0200, Nemeth Gyorgy wrote: 2014-03-29 22:29 keltezéssel, Stephen Allen írta: Do you have linux-image-amd64 installed? If not, install it. It always depends on the latest kernel so if there is a newer kernel, it will be installed automatically (if you do

Re: Jessie Post-Install

2014-03-29 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 12:10:50AM +, Brian wrote: On Fri 28 Mar 2014 at 19:33:44 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: After the installation, my wifi wasn't configured (despite it being configured during the net-install) and was very surprised to have Xfce as +my default desktop environment

Re: kernel upgrade

2014-03-29 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 04:50:50PM +0100, Nemeth Gyorgy wrote: 2014-03-29 14:31 keltezéssel, François Patte írta: Since I installed debian sid (august 2013), I regularly made upgrade, but the kernel doesn't appear to be upgraded. Why? I am running 3.2.0-4-amd64 kernel. Do I have to

Jessie Post-Install

2014-03-28 Thread Stephen Allen
After the installation, my wifi wasn't configured (despite it being configured during the net-install) and was very surprised to have XFce as +my default desktop environment. I had been expecting and wanting Gnome-Shell. Shouldn't the wifi have been configured? How in the hell would have a

Re: Great Debian experience

2014-03-27 Thread Stephen Powell
. On those distros, there was the very real possibility that installation would stall or produce a nonbootable system. ... Understood. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Gigabyte mother board AMD cpu

2014-03-26 Thread Stephen Powell
. 4. I also recommend that you install package amd64-microcode. This will upgrade your CPU to the latest available microcode during each boot. Do this and you should be in good shape. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Great Debian experience

2014-03-19 Thread Stephen Powell
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Re: Great Debian experience

2014-03-19 Thread Stephen Powell
installer should be the same in both cases. The advantage of my method is that it allows the specification of additional parameters, if needed. For example, perhaps snd_hda_intel.model=auto needs to be specified. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Testing Hangs in VM

2014-02-27 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
installed in VirtualBox without any problems, suggesting that the problem is with this week's Debian Testing. Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariate

Re: How to configure eth0 with static ip and eth1 dhcp

2014-02-22 Thread Stephen Powell
it to be configured with ppp, its interface name would be ppp0, and it would not be listed in /etc/network/interfaces at all. I don't get it. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Problem with Sound Volume

2014-02-20 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
,step=1.00dB,mute=0 computation@AbNormal:~$ I have sound, but the volume isn't what it used to be -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and Multivariate www.FoundationForChemistry.com (614)312-7528(c) Skype: smolnar1

Problem with Sound Volume

2014-02-19 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
and have no idea as to the solution to this,to me,new problem. Any pointers in the right direction will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and Multivariate

Re: Problem with Sound Volume

2014-02-19 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 02/19/2014 08:20 AM, Robin wrote: On 19 February 2014 13:14, Stephen P. Molnar s.mol...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I have just upgraded my Debian Jessie computer to a AMD FX 8320, 8-core 3.5 GHz, 16.0MB Cache CPU/ASUS M5 A97 R2.0 Motherboard/8 MB RAM. I find that the sound is very faint, even

Re: Problem with Sound Volume

2014-02-19 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 02/19/2014 01:08 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Wed, 19 Feb 2014, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I have just upgraded my Debian Jessie computer to a AMD FX 8320, 8-core 3.5 GHz, 16.0MB Cache CPU/ASUS M5 A97 R2.0 Motherboard/8 MB RAM. I find that the sound is very faint, even with the volume set

RE: Upgrading Computer

2014-02-13 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
Hay, come on... I thought that I had asked a legitimate question, I didn't want to start a war. And, yes, I am top posting. Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariate

Upgrading Computer

2014-02-12 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
I am planning on upgrading my Debian Linux tower and am soliciting comments on the following CPU/Motherboard: AMD FX 8320, 8-core 3.5 GHz, 16.0MB Cache CPU ASUS M5 A97 R2.0 Motherboard Thanks in advance. Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.Life

Problem with Executable

2014-02-10 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
executable. The permissions are: -rwxr-xr-- 1 computation computation This has happened one time in the past, but I don't remember the solution (being a ROF). Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.Life is a fuzzy set Foundation

Re: Any reason not to run amd64 these days?

2014-02-05 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 07:13:20 -0500 (EST), berenger morel wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: I've had nothing but trouble with my first amd64 system. The 3.12 kernel of jessie won't even boot for me. But my experience appears to be atypical. The general public isn't having such problems

Re: MythTV from deb-multimedia setup?

2014-02-04 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 05:40:27PM -0500, Jon N wrote: Thanks to all, I will be taking my questions to the deb-multimedia list, I should have thought of that. Quickly, before I go, I did clean up my 'hosts' file a little and took care of that problem, although it didn't solve the basic

Re: Any reason not to run amd64 these days?

2014-02-04 Thread Stephen Powell
experience appears to be atypical. The general public isn't having such problems, it seems. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Problem with vmware-install.pl

2014-01-24 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
. Thanks in advance. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.Life is a fuzzy Set Foundation for ChemistryStochastic and multivariate www.FoundationForChemistry.com (613)312-7528(c) Skype: smolnar1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

RE: Problem with OracleVM VirtualBox and Debian Testing - SOLVED!??!

2014-01-22 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
From: Emilio Lopez [mailto:emiliol...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 2:54 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Problem with OracleVM VirtualBox and Debian Testing On Jan 21, 2014 2:53 PM, Stephen P. Molnar s.mol...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I have installed OracleVM

Problem with OracleVM VirtualBox and Debian Testing

2014-01-21 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
gives me no problems whatsoever. Thanks in advance. Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariate www.FoundationForChemistry.com (614)312-7528 (c) Skype: smolnar1

RE: Problem with OracleVM VirtualBox and Debian Testing

2014-01-21 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
-Original Message- From: ChristophK [mailto:christ...@kobenetz.de] Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 11:25 AM To: Stephen P. Molnar Subject: Re: Problem with OracleVM VirtualBox and Debian Testing -Original Message- From: ChristophK [mailto:christ...@kobenetz.de] Sent: Tuesday

Re: update flash

2014-01-15 Thread Stephen Allen
Thanks! -- 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/20140115171435.GA15671@jessie.gatewire

Re: New to Debian (Gentoo user) - package management

2014-01-05 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 04:29:59PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: apt-get -q update apt-get -q autoclean apt-get -q upgrade -d -y apt-get -q dist-upgrade -d -y Some fun details that may spark some ideas... Wow! Thanks Bob,

Help with aptosid installation

2014-01-04 Thread Stephen J. Mazurek
I am currently running a hp pavilion with an intel core 13, windows 7 os. I used to run debian stable on another pc clone no trouble with it and in fact came to dislike Microsoft software. Right now it seems like I'm stuck with it, though. I have a Sidux 2010-01 and also Linux from Scratch 6.3

Copy and Paste between xterm and other windows in a Debian XFCE environment

2013-12-21 Thread Stephen Powell
to put in .Xdefaults, etc. But none of the techniques I have found work for me. I use a traditional PS/2 mouse. It has two, and only two, mouse buttons. It has no thumbwheel. Has anyone succeeded in getting this to work in a Debian XFCE environment? -- .''`. Stephen Powell

[SOLVED] Copy and Paste between xterm and other windows in a Debian XFCE environment

2013-12-21 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 16:24:00 -0500 (EST), Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2013-12-21 at 14:53 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: But I'm using XFCE now, and xterm seems to be the default terminal emulator application under XFCE. No, it's xfce4-terminal. Using xfce4-terminal shouldn't cause copy

Re: [SOLVED] Copy and Paste between xterm and other windows in a Debian XFCE environment

2013-12-21 Thread Stephen Powell
of xfce4-terminal, I'm not going to re-install xterm and give it a try. Maybe it will help someone else, though. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Soliciting hardware recommendations

2013-12-18 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 18 Dec 2013 08:18:14 -0500 (EST), Tom H wrote: On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 1:31 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: I'd like it to have a usable CSM, so I can continue to run my favorite boot loader, LILO. And I plan to partition the disk using the traditional MS-DOS disk partitioning system, so

[SOLVED] Wasted space in hard disk partitioning (was Soliciting hardware recommendations)

2013-12-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 23:12:35 -0500 (EST), Stephen Powell wrote: ... my existing disk partitions, created by the Debian installer, look like this: # parted /dev/i2o/hda unit s print free Model: I2O Controller (i2o) Disk /dev/i2o/hda: 286748672s Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Wasted space in hard disk partitioning (was Soliciting Hardware Recommendations)

2013-12-16 Thread Stephen Powell
has been built in? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- 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/1588134292.17319.1387253555768.javamail.r

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