Re: Soliciting hardware recommendations

2013-12-15 Thread Stephen Powell
. Second, all of the socket FM2 motherboards which take the dual core chips are built/certified for Windows 8, and have UEFI BIOS. Again this mobo is non-UEFI, so I think this combo will be a better solution for you all around Stephen. Makes sense. And thanks for all the time that you have put

Re: Soliciting hardware recommendations

2013-12-15 Thread Stephen Powell
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Re: Soliciting hardware recommendations

2013-12-14 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 13 Dec 2013 23:21:22 -0500 (EST), Patrick Bartek wrote: On Fri, 13 Dec 2013, Stephen Powell wrote: I have decided to buy a 64-bit system for myself for Christmas. But [snip] (1) As a host system for Hercules. Hercules is an open source [snip] (2) This system will also

Re: Soliciting hardware recommendations

2013-12-14 Thread Stephen Powell
not intimidated by the prospect of building a system myself, if that proves to be the cheapest or best way to go. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: override kernel version with make-kpkg

2013-12-13 Thread Stephen Powell
, I really don't know. What you are trying to do is not something that any method of building a custom kernel tries to address. A custom kernel is, by definition, custom. It is not designed for or intended for automatic updates. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Soliciting hardware recommendations

2013-12-13 Thread Stephen Powell
recommendations is welcome. And feel free to ask follow-up questions. -- .''`. 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

Re: Debian Wheezy Compromised - www-data user is sending 1000 emails an hour

2013-12-12 Thread Stephen Allen
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:12:57AM -0500, Bob Bernstein wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 08:57:57PM -0600, Lukasz Szybalski wrote: I run my own site, and I do have postfix, apache, wordpress, and moinmoin installed. www-data is sending 100s of emails a minute. I hope you have

Re: override kernel version with make-kpkg

2013-12-09 Thread Stephen Powell
on current kernels, will you? I have a web page on the subject at http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm You might want to give it a read. Let me know if there's anything there that's out of date. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

RE: How do I get rid of the launchpad in XFCE?

2013-12-07 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
/1386437292.2811.71.camel@archlinux The Bohr model of the atom is just as dead as Niels Bohr. Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariate www.FoundationForChemistry.com (614)312-7528

Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-05 Thread Stephen Powell
will make XFCE the default desktop for the production jessie installer. -- .''`. 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

How do I get rid of the launchpad in XFCE?

2013-12-05 Thread Stephen Powell
of the screen (I think that is the proper terminology for it), so I really don't see why I need it. I want to make it go away permanently, so that maximized windows will use the whole screen. How do I do this? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-05 Thread Stephen Powell
! The default DE should be one which is usable by as wide a variety of video hardware as possible. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: How do I get rid of the launchpad in XFCE?

2013-12-05 Thread Stephen Powell
to be able to reinstate it later if the change produces unexpected results. Could you please give me more specific, step-by-step instructions for how to accomplish this? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: How do I get rid of the launchpad in XFCE?

2013-12-05 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 05 Dec 2013 17:47:25 -0500 (EST), Stephen Powell wrote: As for Automatically show and hide the panel, I can't find where to set this. Besides, it seems to me that that will get rid of the thing across the top of the screen, not the thing along the bottom of the screen. I want

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-05 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 05 Dec 2013 17:07:44 -0500 (EST), Tom H wrote: On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 9:46 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: ... I hope Debian will make XFCE the default desktop for the production jessie installer. It is for the time being. http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=tasksel/tasksel.git

RE: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-03 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- 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/87haaponw6@thumper.dhh.gt.org Please stop wasting band width. Stephen P. Molnar

RE: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-11-29 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
/1385742843.805.125.camel@archlinux Emacs is an operating sustem??? see: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EmacsAsOperatingSystem Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariate

RE: Installing Debian inside Windows 7 utilizing VirtualBox

2013-11-23 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
with installing Debian. Download the iso and follow the installer prompts. Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariate www.FoundationForChemistry.com (614)312-7528 (c

Re: software for (reminder) recommendation

2013-11-13 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:07:04PM +0800, lina wrote: I checked most, seems none has pop up action before the events. I always miss some seminars I registered. Since you're using Gmail why not install Evolution it can interface with Google's calendar. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Why Debian

2013-11-10 Thread Stephen Powell
, have the features that user A wants, but not necessarily all the features that user B wants. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Sound Volume

2013-11-08 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
is also working normally. I would appreciate some pointers to a solution to this problem. 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: Compiling kernel: problem!

2013-11-06 Thread Stephen Powell
of other software, such as udev or initramfs-tools, than you currently have on your squeeze system. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: ANDROID (back to the OQ)

2013-11-01 Thread Stephen Allen
To the OP - Yes Android isn't open (most of it is) the drivers for radio modem and video display for example aren't neither are the Google Apps ie Gmail, Playstore etc. There is a team working on a pure Open version called Replicant. Wired magazine recently had a writeup that one interested

Re: grid in LibreCAD

2013-11-01 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 04:04:52PM -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: Is anyone using LibreCAD? Here it is 1.0.2 in Wheezy. Edit Current drawing preferences units is set to mm. Regardless of the setting in Current drawing preferences grid the snap grid is 10 mm. No evidence of the problem

[SOLVED] Messed up audio settings

2013-10-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 26 Oct 2013 11:55:44 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: Well, one thing leads to another. I started using Epiphany instead of iceweasel recently due to the sluggish performance of iceweasel. Now I have a different problem. Using Epiphany, I visited the YouTube site and played

Messed up audio settings

2013-10-26 Thread Stephen Powell
that there wasn't something weird about that particular video, but they all sound strange now. How do I get YouTube videos to sound right again? I tried playing around with settings in alsamixer, but nothing fixed it. I'm running an up-to-date jessie system. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: upgrade to wheezy

2013-10-23 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 02:20:43AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 00:05 +0200, mess-mate wrote: Thanks to all for the help !! You're welcome, but next time please write in plain text. On most mailing lists and this is one of them, HTML is frowned upon. It was

sluggish iceweasel

2013-10-23 Thread Stephen Powell
switching to Epiphany, not known for lightning speed, but Epiphany is quite snappy compared to iceweasel now. Is it just me? Or has someone else noticed this too? Is there relief in sight? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: sluggish iceweasel

2013-10-23 Thread Stephen Powell
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Re: sluggish iceweasel

2013-10-23 Thread Stephen Powell
to the vesa driver for a while. But I'm back on the mach64 driver now, thanks to a patch that worked. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Problems with vesa X driver

2013-10-18 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 08:54:18 -0400 (EDT), Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2013-10-17 at 07:47 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: ... However, the first problem may be a usage issue that I can solve with appropriate tweaks in xorg.conf. I just need to know what to do. Ideas anyone? ... In the past

Re: Problems with vesa X driver

2013-10-18 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 13:20:03 -0400 (EDT), Marko Randjelovic wrote: On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 07:47:01 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: Due to a bug in the MACH64 driver (see Debian bug report 726585 for details), I am temporarily using the VESA X driver in Debian jessie to get graphical support

Problems with vesa X driver

2013-10-17 Thread Stephen Powell
, the first problem may be a usage issue that I can solve with appropriate tweaks in xorg.conf. I just need to know what to do. Ideas anyone? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

RE: Set widescreen resolution in console

2013-10-13 Thread Stephen Powell
. I use the lilo boot loader, and the vga option works just fine with it, even on current jessie kernels. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Set widescreen resolution in console

2013-10-12 Thread Stephen Powell
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Re: google-chrome-unstable apparently removes its executable

2013-10-08 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 11:42:15AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: Updating two testing systems this morning, I found that my Chrome suddenly became unable to find any web pages. Attempting to relaunch, it wasn't there! 'which google-chrome' returned nothing. I tried 'sudo apt-get install

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-08 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 01:33:41PM +0200, Florian Lindner wrote: Hello, Since I'm about to setup a new server using current stable wheezy, I want to recheck some of debian knowledge. What is the prefered tool for installing on the CLI? apt-get or aptitude? Last time I read about it,

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-08 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 11:35:57AM -0400, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Florian Lindner wrote: Since I'm about to setup a new server using current stable wheezy, I want to recheck some of debian knowledge. What is the prefered tool for installing on the CLI? apt-get

Re: just released Grml 2013.09

2013-09-29 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 10:38:49PM +0200, sp113438 wrote: Hi All, To have a new boot-entry with grml: put grml64-full_2013.09.iso (or another one, see below) in the /boot/grml directory sudo apt-get install grml-rescueboot sudo update-grub get the iso at: http://grml.org/download/

Re: should an end user stick to a kernel with an initrd?

2013-09-28 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 23:17:40 -0400 (EDT), Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2013-09-27 at 19:41 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: But the correspondence between these Linux device names and the hardware device numbers varies widely from boot to boot. I can assure you of that from personal experience

Re: Building computer

2013-09-27 Thread Stephen Powell
for it, etc. For my 32-bit Xeon processor (2.40 GHz) compiling for the i386 architecture, using a kernel configuration that is not too much different from a stock Debian kernel, it takes hours. The machine has 4G of RAM. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: should an end user stick to a kernel with an initrd?

2013-09-27 Thread Stephen Powell
/conf.d/driver-policy. This attempts to include only items required for booting in the initial RAM file system. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: should an end user stick to a kernel with an initrd?

2013-09-27 Thread Stephen Powell
names /dev/dasda, /dev/dasdb, /dev/dasdc, and /dev/dasdd by the kernel. But the correspondence between these Linux device names and the hardware device numbers varies widely from boot to boot. I can assure you of that from personal experience. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: DEVTMPFS, DEVTMPFS_MOUNT, custom no initrd kernel, udev 175-7.2 and 204-4

2013-09-26 Thread Stephen Powell
. My advice, for what it's worth, is to stop swimming upstream and use an initial RAM file system. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: HDD repair help please

2013-09-26 Thread Stephen Powell
place. If your hard disk is going bad, it's time to replace the hard disk. -- .''`. 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

Re: should an end user stick to a kernel with an initrd?

2013-09-26 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 17:33:40 -0400 (EDT), Lisi Reisz wrote: You know more than Stephen Powell, but you do not know about threading?! Regid, What Lisi is saying is that changing the subject line of a post does not start a new thread. You have to remove the In-reply-to: tag from your e-mail

Re: should an end user stick to a kernel with an initrd?

2013-09-26 Thread Stephen Powell
will be a follow-up to, Stephen Powell wrote that, in general, initrd are desirable. He gave a few example where, he believes, one can not get without it. I am no expert. I do believe that, other then corner cases, most, if not all, the examples are wrong. They can be done without an initrd

Debian Testing/Jessie and OpenGL

2013-09-10 Thread Stephen P, Molnar
I have installed jessie in an Oracle VBox on my laptop tp use as a test bed for new applications software without jeopardizing my native Linux production computer. Unfortunately, some of the candidate software I wish to evaluate appear to require OpenGL for correct operation. Although I have

Re: Debian Testing/Jessie and OpenGL

2013-09-10 Thread Stephen P, Molnar
On 09/10/2013 03:28 PM, steef wrote: On 10-09-13 18:39, steef wrote: On 10-09-13 15:36, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: 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 -Original

RE: Debian Testing/Jessie and OpenGL

2013-09-10 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
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 -Original Message- From: steef [mailto:debian.li

Re: rename ttyS*

2013-09-06 Thread Stephen Powell
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Re: strange bash behavior

2013-09-04 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 02 Sep 2013 12:26:17 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: Interesting. If break appears out of context, you should get an error message something like: bash: break: only meaningful in a 'for', 'while', or 'until' loop You didn't get an error message, so part of bash thinks

Re: strange bash behavior

2013-09-02 Thread Stephen Powell
get an error message or it should exit the loop. -- .''`. 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

Re: minicom and/or setserial

2013-08-31 Thread Stephen Powell
usually doesn't work with serial ports. Also, IRQ 9 is normally used by the ACPI controller. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Building initrd for install Wheezy on pc without PAE

2013-08-26 Thread Stephen Powell
://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm as your guide. Select your processor type during make menuconfig. Use a -486 kernel config file as your starting point for customization. Good luck. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Partitions

2013-08-11 Thread Stephen Powell
originally created by the Debian installer, thus messing up the Debian system's use of the swap partitions. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: post-install questions

2013-08-11 Thread Stephen Powell
be set up before gtk window parse geometry() is called. What does this mean? I don't use emacs and I know nothing about gtk. I hope others can help you with the questions I couldn't answer. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: root.root and netdev group for /dev/net/tun ?

2013-08-01 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 22:19:42 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: The attributes of /dev/net/tun are controlled by the file /lib/udev/rules.d/91-permissions.rules which is part of the udev package. Search for the character string tun in this file. You will find a line which looks like

Re: root.root and netdev group for /dev/net/tun ?

2013-07-28 Thread Stephen Powell
to it that you *want* to take effect. It is still necessary to coordinate the changes made by package maintenance with the changes which you yourself have made. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: root.root and netdev group for /dev/net/tun ?

2013-07-28 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 07:42:29 -0400 (EDT), Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Sat 27 Jul 2013 at 22:19:42 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: ... The change does not take effect until the next reboot, of course. Wouldn't 'udevadm trigger' avoid a reboot? If you wish to avoid a reboot

Re: root.root and netdev group for /dev/net/tun ?

2013-07-27 Thread Stephen Powell
the next reboot, of course. -- .''`. 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/548182802.2367641.1374977982693

Re: Debian Testing VMWare-Tools Bad Variable Name

2013-07-22 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
get_version_integer like external command, but it's a function Thanks 2013/7/21 William Hopkins we.hopk...@gmail.com On 07/21/13 at 04:09pm, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: In the case of Debian 7.1.0 the vmware tools installed without any problems. Unfortunately

Re: Debian Testing VMWare-Tools Bad Variable Name

2013-07-22 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 09:31:34 -0500 Selim T. Erdogan se...@alumni.cs.utexas.edu wrote: This is a long shot but for some reason I was reminded of having trouble with a non-debian script a few months ago, that also asked to be run by /bin/sh (as your attachment did). At the time, on my wheezy

Strange Problem with Executable File

2013-07-22 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
I have installed Debian v 7.1.0 and Debian Testing in 2 different implementations of VMWare Player on my 64 bit laptop to use as test beds before deploying software to my 7.1.0 production machine. I have run into a rather strange problem when I installed MOPAC2012. The author furnishes the

Re: Strange Problem with Executable File

2013-07-22 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 22:33:57 +0200 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2013-07-22 21:47 +0200, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I have installed Debian v 7.1.0 and Debian Testing in 2 different implementations of VMWare Player on my 64 bit laptop to use as test beds before deploying software

Debian Testing VMWare-Tools Bad Variable Name

2013-07-21 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
I am using VMWare Reader v-5.0.2 and the associated VMWare Tools with both Debian v-7.1.0 and Debian Testing (different VMWare Reader directories, of course) installed on my 64 bit Windows 7 laptop as testbeds before making any changes to my Linux production machine. In the case of Debian

Re: FW: Debian Testing VMWare-Tools Bad Variable Name

2013-07-21 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 07/21/2013 06:23 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: 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 Installing VMWare Tools in Debian Testing/Jessie

2013-07-20 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
I have installed both Debian 64 bit 7.1.0 and Debian 64 bit Testing in separate VMWare Player v-5.0.2 on my 64 bit laptop to serve as test beds before messing with my Debian production computer. I successfully installed VMWare Tools 9.2.3 build-1031360 on 7.1.0. However when I attempted the

Re: Deleting chromium DNS cache entry doesn't seem to help.

2013-07-19 Thread Stephen Allen
they will be available to Google-Chrome when you login into your Google account the 1st time in Chrome. Have you tried using a different DNS server? Try the Google DNS servers, Google will give you their address -- I don't have them handy at the moment. -- Cheers, Stephen, Toronto My Google+ Profile | http

What's with the blue overlining in text consoles? [SOLVED]

2013-07-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 14 Jul 2013 11:10:18 -0400 (EDT), commandl...@telenet.be wrote: On 13/07/13 21:55, Stephen Powell wrote: Something strange has started happening recently. For a long time I have used ISO-8859-1 as my character mapping in text consoles. dpkg-reconfigure console-setup and I

What's with the blue overlining in text consoles?

2013-07-13 Thread Stephen Powell
know the cure? Is this a bug? If so, in what package is the bug? The problem does not seem to occur in a Gnome Terminal window, only on a text console. My system locale is en_US.UTF-8. I am running an up-to-date Jessie system on i386 architecture. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Starting Google Chrome - resend

2013-07-07 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 01:13:07AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 07 July 2013 00:31:41 Charlie wrote:  On Sat, 6 Jul 2013 22:36:59 +0100 Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com  sent this: On Saturday 06 July 2013 22:24:34 Stephen Allen wrote: I have it working here fine

Re: Starting Google Chrome - resend

2013-07-06 Thread Stephen Allen
--- What do you mean exactly? It just does, if you have it installed. You must go to Adobe's website and install it first of course. I have it working here fine on Debian's Chromium. -- Cheers, Stephen, Toronto My Google+ Profile | http://goo.gl/JbQsq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Starting Google Chrome - resend

2013-07-06 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 10:36:59PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 06 July 2013 22:24:34 Stephen Allen wrote: I have it working here fine on Debian's Chromium. Does it matter? Lisi ---end quoted text--- Well, apparently it does, you posted asking. -- Cheers, Stephen, Toronto My

Re: Operation not permitted error when using su

2013-07-04 Thread Stephen Powell
Sun, 30 Jun 2013 02:09:35 -0400 (EDT), Bob Proulx wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: ...logged in as root... su barney vi stuff Error: messages not turned on: /dev/pts/0: Operation not permitted The above is basically a normal result of the current environment. At another level

Re: How do I pad files in Linux?

2013-07-04 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 01 Jul 2013 02:59:40 -0400 (EDT), Urs Thuermann wrote: dd if=/dev/zero bs=1 count=64 file Thanks, Urs. I haven't tried this, but it looks like this should work too. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Help - Gnome Died After Update/Upgrade

2013-07-03 Thread Stephen Allen
to unstable, but only that package. Regards, Steven ---end quoted text--- FYI Updated my Testing/Jessie laptop this morning. It appears Gnome-Shell is now launching correctly with menus etc. -- Cheers, Stephen, Toronto My Google+ Profile | http://goo.gl/JbQsq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Gnome3 HS after update

2013-07-02 Thread Stephen Allen
Cinnamon until things are sorted. Actually enjoying the improvements to Cinnamon since last used. -- Cheers, Stephen, Toronto My Google+ Profile | http://goo.gl/JbQsq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: [SOLVED] Gnome3 HS after update

2013-07-02 Thread Stephen Allen
/debian/debian-gnome-3.8-status.html Seems it is all coming together nicely, though. ---end quoted text--- Thanks for the update -- Using Cinnamon until 3.8 percolates to Jessie. -- Cheers, Stephen, Toronto My Google+ Profile | http://goo.gl/JbQsq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

How do I pad files in Linux?

2013-06-29 Thread Stephen Powell
this? -- .''`. 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/173555076.1944854.1372523652842.javamail.r...@md01

Re: How do I pad files in Linux? (SOLVED)

2013-06-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 13:19:22 -0400 (EDT), Tixy wrote: On Sat, 2013-06-29 at 12:34 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: I have a need to pad a binary file with some character (probably a null character) so that its total length is a multiple of some number. For example, I have a file called

Re: How do I pad files in Linux?

2013-06-29 Thread Stephen Powell
of the file, or nulls? Stephen asked for nulls, and you state zero's above. It appends hex zeros (0x00), or nulls. Also known as ^@ characters. The ASCII zero is 0x30. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Operation not permitted error when using su

2013-06-29 Thread Stephen Powell
running jessie.) In fact, the biff package is not even installed. Ideas anyone? -- .''`. 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

Re: Operation not permitted error when using su

2013-06-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 16:07:54 -0400 (EDT), David Guntner wrote: Stephen Powell grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Error: messages not turned on: /dev/pts/0: Operation not permitted (vi is actually nvi on my system.) This problem does not occur in a virtual terminal (vt1-vt6). It also does

Re: Operation not permitted error when using su

2013-06-29 Thread Stephen Powell
done some su commands before invoking vi, if I recall correctly. Did you try doing the mesg y command at the initial login point, before su'ing to the user where you're trying to run vi? Yes, I tried that too. No difference. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: the continuing disappointment of Debian 7

2013-06-29 Thread Stephen Powell
not match my experience. For me, iceweasel never crashed (except for a power failure, which is hardly Debian's fault), and flash played just fine. (Of course, I was using flash-plugin-nonfree, not the default free player.) -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Operation not permitted error when using su

2013-06-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 18:39:32 -0400 (EDT), Chris Bannister wrote: Is there a difference if you su - barney ? No, there is no difference. I still get the same error. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: GNOME 3 non-responsive?

2013-06-24 Thread Stephen Allen
. -- Cheers, Stephen, Toronto My Google+ Profile | http://goo.gl/JbQsq -- 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/20130624092202.ga30...@thunkpad.gateway.2wire.net

Debian Testing/Jessie

2013-06-24 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
I have installed 64 bit Testing on my laptop in an Oracle VB as a test bed. I used Debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso Binary 1 20130623-09:47 and installed the linux-image-3.9.1-amd6 kernel and all available drivers. The installation went very smoothly, but when I ran dpkg --add-architecture i386

Re: Debian Testing/Jessie

2013-06-24 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 17:10:49 +0100 Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk wrote: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:55:01AM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I have installed 64 bit Testing on my laptop in an Oracle VB as a test bed. I used Debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso Binary 1 20130623-09:47

Fw: Debian Testing/Jessie

2013-06-24 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
Begin forwarded message: Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 11:55:01 -0400 From: Stephen P. Molnar s.mol...@sbcglobal.net To: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Debian Testing/Jessie I have installed 64 bit Testing on my laptop in an Oracle VB as a test bed. I used Debian-testing-amd64

Re: Debian is the best!

2013-06-20 Thread Stephen Powell
to switch back to lilo, see my lilo web page at http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/lilo.htm -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: shutdown and restart menu item disappeared from user menu

2013-06-09 Thread Stephen Allen
for it re Gnome-Shell) you can enable/disable all installed Gnome-Shell extensions. I love Gnome-Shell -- Didn't at first, but it grows on you. :) Sincerely, Andrea Fascilla -- Cheers, Stephen, Toronto My Google+ Profile | http://goo.gl/JbQsq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Remove Evolution

2013-05-28 Thread Stephen Allen
place to be. I bet -- Used to run SID myself once upon a time. Thanks for the tip. :) -- Cheers, Stephen, Toronto My Google+ Profile | http://goo.gl/JbQsq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Handbrake Installation removes a lot

2013-05-28 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 12:12:04PM -0500, green wrote: Stephen Allen wrote at 2013-05-26 20:00 -0500: Was about to install Handbrake for Wheezy, but stopped when I saw the list of packages that were going to be removed. Screengrab here on my public dropbox fldr: http://goo.gl/Oow9T

Re: Remove Evolution

2013-05-26 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 11:35:15PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 25 mai 13, 15:49:44, Stephen Allen wrote: You know your stuff. I've just never got the hang of using aptitude in interactive mode, even with most people considering that it's *easier*. Go figure. :) It's easier

Re: Remove Evolution

2013-05-26 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 08:16:22AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 07:26:57AM -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: Thanks for your effort to help me, mucho appreciated! In the light of day the packages it was going to remove were non-essential in the running of gnome-shell

Handbrake Installation removes a lot

2013-05-26 Thread Stephen Allen
behaviour? Thanks. -- Cheers, Stephen, Toronto My Google+ Profile | http://goo.gl/JbQsq -- 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/20130527010057.ga14

Re: Remove Evolution

2013-05-25 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 07:25:30PM +0100, Brian wrote: On Fri 24 May 2013 at 07:26:57 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:11:13AM +0100, Brian wrote: Well, there is a solution: marking all the dependencies of the meta-package as manually installed

Re: Remove Evolution

2013-05-24 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:52:29AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 23 mai 13, 22:59:00, Stephen Allen wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 01:06:23PM +0100, Brian wrote: On Wed 22 May 2013 at 07:34:03 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: I'd like to remove Evolution from my Debian laptop

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