Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-16 Thread Steve Litt
of Daemontools practice, because no matter what my init, Daemontools might end up being a better alternative for most of my daemons. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community

2014-09-16 Thread Steve Litt
. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- 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: brasero requires gvfs

2014-09-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 00:24:10 +0200 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com writes: And who knows what kind of problems you run into when you switch to some BSD. Are there NVIDIA drivers for some BSD? Is everything I'm using now available for some BSD? My

Re: Creating a forum for systemd debate

2014-09-15 Thread Steve Litt
an interesting discussion for developers. I love these guys who summarily declare something, affecting everyday users, offtopic on this mailing list. Like I said to Lisi, every time you shush one of us, three more pop up. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting

Re: brasero requires gvfs

2014-09-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 21:54:56 +0200 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com writes: When Jessie goes stable, I'm actually going to try Jessie to see whether it will work reasonably, and if so I'll hold my nose and use the monolithic entanglement. FWIW, I

Re: brasero requires gvfs

2014-09-14 Thread Steve Litt
: I moved from Ubuntu to Debian to avoid entanglement, like Plymouth and lightdm, and a couple months after I moved to Debian, I found out about systemd. LOL SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: OT: gas plant (was Re: Issues upgrading Wheezy -- Jessie (was ... Re: brasero requires gvfs))

2014-09-14 Thread Steve Litt
to that list, and its usage will be worldwide. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Issues upgrading Wheezy -- Jessie (was ... Re: brasero requires gvfs)

2014-09-14 Thread Steve Litt
. Every time you tell one of us to keep silent, three more of us speak up. I don't know whether we're a minority, but if you and your cohorts keep shushing us, we just might be the majority pretty soon. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training

Re: brasero requires gvfs

2014-09-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 16:06:35 -0400 Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: On 09/14/2014 01:00 PM, Steve Litt wrote: By the way, if you wonder why I'm being so hard on KDE, these three articles explain: http://troubleshooters.com/lpm/201202/201202.htm#_editors_desk I didn't read any

Re: brasero requires gvfs

2014-09-11 Thread Steve Litt
trouble getting qemu to input from my keyboard in OpenBSD, but that's a question for another mailing list. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Query about existence of way to free up unnecessary RAM usage

2014-09-10 Thread Steve Litt
of semiconductor RAM, and a 44GB swap partition :-) SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Query about existence of way to free up unnecessary RAM usage

2014-09-10 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 16:04:46 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/09/2014, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 21:51:35 +0200 B lazyvi...@gmx.com wrote: On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 03:30:40 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: Alright

Re: How does exec work with systemd?

2014-09-10 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 07:07:43 +0100 Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 09:19:19PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: For years, I've been using exec to replace a shellscript with a binary executable. Something like this: ... Is that behavior going to change with systemd

Re: Forewarned is forearmed

2014-09-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 09:38:32 +0100 Tony van der Hoff t...@vanderhoff.org wrote: On 08/09/14 23:01, Steve Litt wrote: This isn't really a problem for me, but if I'm making a mistake that kills lo, chances are it's causing other side effects of which I'm not aware. I'd blame systemd

Re: terminal doesn't come up in Jessie Beta-1?

2014-09-09 Thread Steve Litt
and recompile. The only reason I'm not still using dwm is it has nothing like OpenBox's show all windows sorted by workspace functionality. It's kind of funny. All email clients suck, and yet there are tens of excellent window manager/desktop environments. SteveT Steve Litt* http

Re: terminal doesn't come up in Jessie Beta-1?

2014-09-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 15:42:21 +0100 Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 09 September 2014 15:31:14 Steve Litt wrote: Don't forget LXDE and OpenBox, they're great too. I must put in a plug for TDE. Comparatively lightweight. Really easy to configure. And so partially sighted

Re: terminal doesn't come up in Jessie Beta-1?

2014-09-09 Thread Steve Litt
(and terrible functionalities) as vi$ta ;-p) I stopped with KDE when Kmail2 came out and I finally realized that most of my instability was due to KDE, not Linux. Today I ban all KDE libraries from all of my computers. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting

Re: Query about existence of way to free up unnecessary RAM usage

2014-09-09 Thread Steve Litt
0 0 0 8313 3643 2201002322 slitt@mydesq2:~$ You'll notice I truncated the right hand output, in Vim, so it wouldn't wordwrap. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Query about existence of way to free up unnecessary RAM usage

2014-09-09 Thread Steve Litt
htop, press F6 for sortby, sort by mem, and see what you get. LOL, I got about 20 iceweasels each taking 2.9%. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Query about existence of way to free up unnecessary RAM usage

2014-09-09 Thread Steve Litt
of swap, your computer will be crawling to the point where you might as well abort the guilty program (if you can navigate to do so), or reboot the compute. That said, I just found out my swap partition is 44GB for a 16GB semiconductor RAM. SteveT Steve Litt* http

How does exec work with systemd?

2014-09-09 Thread Steve Litt
to the exec'ed mplayer. Is that behavior going to change with systemd? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Forewarned is forearmed

2014-09-08 Thread Steve Litt
reveals a running and connected eth0 and lo, then try everything again, and you might be pleasantly surprised. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Forewarned is forearmed

2014-09-08 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 8 Sep 2014 21:54:21 +0100 Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 03:43:46PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: My Wheezy machine doesn't run the loopback device lo on reboot. This means I can't access my local Dovecot server. I reboot so seldom I always forget

Re: brasero requires gvfs

2014-09-07 Thread Steve Litt
to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. I agree with Patrick. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: brasero requires gvfs

2014-09-07 Thread Steve Litt
Sigil and anything else I can't get to work on OpenBSD. I feel much better now that I know I have a Plan B. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: brasero requires gvfs

2014-09-07 Thread Steve Litt
will hear. The squeaky wheel gets the grease. Silence is golden. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. Sometimes it is the fool who points out that the Emperor has no clothes... Sometimes the Emperor is the fool. SteveT Steve Litt

Re: brasero requires gvfs

2014-09-07 Thread Steve Litt
clothing market. John, that's the naked truth. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: brasero requires gvfs

2014-09-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 07 Sep 2014 08:57:30 -0700 Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org wrote: Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com writes: On Sun, 07 Sep 2014 09:31:46 +0200 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: The concept of free software has become a myth :( There is always Gentoo if libraries you

Re: brasero requires gvfs

2014-09-07 Thread Steve Litt
is that apt-get install lxde installs lightdm. That is s unnecessary, especially because lxde is a lightweight product. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: brasero requires gvfs

2014-09-07 Thread Steve Litt
drivers. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

DBUS: Was in-kernel messaging (was Re: brasero requires gvfs)

2014-09-04 Thread Steve Litt
? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: in-kernel messaging (was Re: brasero requires gvfs)

2014-09-04 Thread Steve Litt
would guess the problem is programs needing to communicate with each other, but I really don't know. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Choose your side on the Linux divide

2014-09-04 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 23:09:44 + Andrew M.A. Cater amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 05:51:13PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 14:39:56 +0100 Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: The OP and a few others are determined to have endless flame

Re: OT: Strange boot behavior after upgrade on Asus chromebook

2014-09-02 Thread Steve Litt
spring Jessie will become the stable release. When that happens I'll take a day or more out of my schedule, back up, wipe, and install Jessie. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Steve Litt
what's written on it? If so, that in itself is pretty scary. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Steve Litt
, you have different priorities about our OS than I do. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Steve Litt
not to fall from the lead, they'd wait for other distros to either iron out the kinks in Systemd, or do a mea culpa and go to some other init system. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Steve Litt
build up the necessary community. And please remember, threads like these are posted *by* Debian users, *for* Debian users, *on* the Debian-users mailing list. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Steve Litt
requiring hooks from desktop environments would have been a starter? SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-01 Thread Steve Litt
system but in the major sense of making package management conform to their own views. -dsr- Let's rename the Linux Kernel to the Systemd Kernel. Then let's make the package manager part of the kernel. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting

Re: Choose your side on the Linux divide

2014-08-30 Thread Steve Litt
knowledgeable in how to tell Systemd not to run certain daemons. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: UEFI Secure Boot and enabling W8/Linux dual boot - some links/refs

2014-08-29 Thread Steve Litt
buy all my laptops at Costco. If for some reason it doesn't run Linux, I can return it within 90 days, no questions asked, no restocking fee. Just make sure you preserve that restore partition so that you can give them back a working Windows computer. SteveT Steve Litt* http

Re: Wifi configuration GUI for Xorg?

2014-08-27 Thread Steve Litt
it in console. It has a gtk gui as well as a ncurses gui, Additinionally there are integrations in KDE and Gnome. Have fun! Hans I'm happy with wicd. It just does its job with a minimum of fuss and folly. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting

Re: Choose your side on the Linux divide

2014-08-27 Thread Steve Litt
, and then use either NetBSD or OpenBSD. If, for practical purposes, Systemd isn't a problem, I'll just hold my nose and use Debian on my desktops and Ubuntu on my laptops. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance

Re: Choose your side on the Linux divide

2014-08-27 Thread Steve Litt
, then you must not be a Debian person, and you shouldn't express your opinion! SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Choose your side on the Linux divide

2014-08-26 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 04:06:19 -0400 Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 6:44 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-center/choose-your-side-the-linux-divide-248950?source=IFWNLE_nlt_daily_pm_2014-08-25 There's a OT list

Re: Loking for TV tuner / media player help

2014-08-26 Thread Steve Litt
working, and I want to use a fanless system so the sound isn't drowned out by the fan. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Choose your side on the Linux divide

2014-08-25 Thread Steve Litt
it so much better. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: Sigil

2014-08-24 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 23 Aug 2014 23:42:16 -0700 (PDT) Rusi Mody rustompm...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, August 23, 2014 8:30:01 PM UTC+5:30, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, If any of you writes ePubs, you're probably familiar with Sigil, at least for partial conversions and touchups. But if you haven't

Re: Sigil

2014-08-24 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 10:08:19 +0200 Morten Bo Johansen m...@spamcop.net wrote: On 2014-08-23 Steve Litt wrote: If any of you writes ePubs, you're probably familiar with Sigil, at least for partial conversions and touchups. But if you haven't used Sigil for awhile, you might not be aware

Re: Sigil

2014-08-24 Thread Steve Litt
, and install as described, except once again, change the destination to the run directory before doing your make install, and do make install as yourself, not as root or sudo or su -c or anything like that. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training

Re: How to install qt5 on Wheezy, and is that even a good idea?

2014-08-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 23 Aug 2014 07:55:37 -0500 John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com wrote: Steve Litt wrote: What would be the best way I could install qt5 on my Wheezy without borking everything else that depends on qt4? Just do it. There's no problem with having both installed. They won't interfere

Sigil

2014-08-23 Thread Steve Litt
, Sigil has grown into an excellent ePub authoring tool, whether for fix-up or for writing a book from scratch. If any of you has questions about Sigil, please feel free to ask me. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance

Re: Sigil

2014-08-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 23 Aug 2014 19:38:04 + Andrew M.A. Cater amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk wrote: On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 10:54:45AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, If any of you writes ePubs, you're probably familiar with Sigil, at least for partial conversions and touchups. But if you

Re: Surprisingly cheap HP 255 G2 laptop; Wheezy possible?

2014-08-22 Thread Steve Litt
with confidence that there's no other OS you risk wiping out. Then, if you ever need Windows for warranty purposes, you can simply swap back the original hard disk. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance

Re: Surprisingly cheap HP 255 G2 laptop; Wheezy possible?

2014-08-22 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 16:26:41 +0100 Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 22 August 2014 16:09:22 Steve Litt wrote: It makes me sad that, since my kids went away to college in 2011, the price of 4GB RAM laptops have remained stagnant. This laptop translates into $361.32 USD

How to install qt5 on Wheezy, and is that even a good idea?

2014-08-22 Thread Steve Litt
? To the extent possible, I want my system to be Wheezy, not Jessie. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: systemd waisted 5 hours of my work time today

2014-08-20 Thread Steve Litt
operation *is* a good idea, and fairly easy to do with ddrescue if you have a big honking usb connected disk and a System Rescue CD CD. I'm just saying it's not a substitute for at least a tiny bit of due diligence by the packagers and the people determining the direction of Debian. SteveT Steve Litt

Re: Skype substitutes for current Debian?

2014-08-19 Thread Steve Litt
...@affinityvision.com.au wrote: On 20/08/2014 12:22 AM, Ralph Katz wrote: Steve Gibson reports, Secure browser connections can be intercepted and decrypted... Worth a look: https://www.grc.com/fingerprints.htm Got a good fingerprint in my browser, it matches from the Gibson tool 2C:A6:F7

Re: printing

2014-08-17 Thread Steve Litt
with your printer, you can put that in your drive and click have disk and use the driver on the CD. If none of that stuff bears fruit, you can install other programs to configure HP printers. Try those. HTH, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training

Re: Gnome for jessie

2014-08-16 Thread Steve Litt
or a 3d printer. Operating a desktop environment, not so much. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Looking for Debian 6.0.5 AMD ISO image

2014-08-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
ASAP so we can try and fix things on the snapshot server. (*) we're missing a few due to failures over the years, but I *believe* we have everything from the last 5 years+ -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com You raise the blade, you make the change

Re: Irony

2014-08-15 Thread Steve Litt
. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- 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: systemd fails to poweroff - A stop job is running for Session 2 of user $USER

2014-08-15 Thread Steve Litt
as the program submits the proper password. I'm conceptually not a fan of systemd, but you have to admit it opens up many opportunities. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Grammatisticality: systemd fails to poweroff - A stop job is running for Session 2 of user $USER

2014-08-14 Thread Steve Litt
poster still wants to hear some more technical information about poweroff? SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Irony

2014-08-12 Thread Steve Litt
are relevant to how free software developers are rewarded, and should not in any way be interpreted as an endorsement of Capitalism, Communism, Meritocracy, or any other politically motivated method of organization. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting

Re: Please help with cleaning up after a mess I made with my email

2014-08-12 Thread Steve Litt
. By the way, a big benefit is that from now on, I can use any IMAP aware email client as a window into my IMAP, and *only* a window into my IMAP. If you choose to do this, here are my writings on how I did it: * http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/201202/201202.htm HTH, SteveT Steve Litt

Re: Irony

2014-08-10 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 10:51:30 +0400 Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. On Sat, 9 Aug 2014 16:26:40 -0400 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Within months of my switch, oops, here comes systemd. Consider switching to the Debian/kFreeBSD. It's the same Debian, yet

Re: Irony

2014-08-10 Thread Steve Litt
to death. Which is the whole point, isn't it. About half the posters on the subject view systemd with something between suspicion and hatred. That's very unusual, and indicates to me that systemd could turn into a problem and an embarrassment. SteveT Steve Litt* http

Re: Irony

2014-08-10 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 10:26:22 +0200 Tony van der Hoff t...@vanderhoff.org wrote: On 09/08/14 22:26, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Some of the reasons I switched my desktop from Ubuntu to Debian were: 1) To do more config by editor and less by magical binary program. 2) To get rid

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-10 Thread Steve Litt
and Linux-only Wow, in which case Gnumeric and Gimp won't work on *BSD, and my friends with Windows or Mac won't be able to use them either. I'm only hoping when he says Gnome, he doesn't mean anything compiled with GTK. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com

Re: Quiet Bootups

2014-08-10 Thread Steve Litt
that text stream, so no append=quiet for me. :-) SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Towards an instructive minimalist intall of Openbox

2014-08-10 Thread Steve Litt
you see an h2 called Fonts. HTH, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Quiet Bootups

2014-08-10 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 14:15:08 -0400 Cindy-Sue Causey butterflyby...@gmail.com wrote: On 8/10/14, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: The next time I reinstall, I'm moving to LILO too. LOL, but me, I love that text stream, so no append=quiet for me. :-) I started to *snark

Re: Irony

2014-08-10 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 20:19:00 -0700 koanhead ak...@freegeekseattle.org wrote: On 08/10/2014 10:30 AM, Steve Litt wrote: ... I have a philosophical problem with systemd, I suspect it will cause problems, my fallback is OpenBSD (or maybe Debian/kFreeBSD, thanks Reco) For the record

Irony

2014-08-09 Thread Steve Litt
systemd. Sometimes, you just have to laugh. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-08 Thread Steve Litt
to the text log. Keep in mind, the time between when you have a read/write filesystem and the time Postgres is ready to be written is an eternity. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Partitioning of new machine

2014-08-08 Thread Steve Litt
systems past, and brings my computer back to a known state, for easier troubleshooting. So every time I change versions, I have a chance to adjust my partitioning. HTH, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance

Re: Partitioning of new machine

2014-08-08 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 8 Aug 2014 18:50:49 +0200 B. M. b-m...@gmx.ch wrote: Why should I keep /home off the SSD? Every download, every user specific config change, goes in the /home tree. That's a lot of writing, and some of the downloads can be quite big. SteveT Steve Litt* http

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-08 Thread Steve Litt
consistent logs from all apps? Of course: I could write it myself. I'd just need to get a specification. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-08 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 8 Aug 2014 22:52:36 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Vi, 08 aug 14, 10:34:24, Steve Litt wrote: 2) Write it to the screen. Relatively little happens before the filesystem comes up, anyway. It's only about 750 lines on my laptop... Kind regards

Re: How to fix intermittently disappearing mouse pointer ? narrowed down

2014-08-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 09:38:26 + (UTC) Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: On 2014-08-06, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: In other words (laugh away, guys and gals), Claws-Mail's message list breaks my computer. *Post hoc ergo propter hoc* (a common logical fallacy when

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 08:31:02 -0400 AW debian.list.trac...@1024bits.com wrote: On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 00:38:16 -0400 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Software As A Service, with Web 2.0 ... suggest a Google-hosted service Actually this is precisely the opposite of my suggestion

Re: How to fix intermittently disappearing mouse pointer ? narrowed down

2014-08-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 14:10:11 + (UTC) Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: On 2014-08-07, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Alright, by all means, let me rephrase: My computer always breaks immediately after I hover Claws-Mail's message list. What are you, a helicopter? Stop

Re: need help on sound recording using bplay

2014-08-07 Thread Steve Litt
not make the answerer any more eager to help Rusi, you didn't take the extra effort of replying to longwind. Shame on you! LOL, doesn't it sometimes seem like no good deed goes unpunished? SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 16:19:03 +0100 Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk wrote: On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 10:01:41AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: I don't necessarily disagree, but I very strongly believe its first step should be to go to a text file with one line per event, or perhaps some

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-06 Thread Steve Litt
2006, and see what it does. Because really, everything bad I said about systemd was a philosophical thing: I have no idea how well it does or doesn't run your computer under normal circumstances. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human

Re: End of hypocrisy, beginning of reason

2014-08-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 16:51:03 -0400 Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: LOL, perhaps I'll boot to bin/bash, and then run a script to do everything else. Oh wait, I can't do that: I hear PAM now depends on systemd

Re: How to fix intermittently disappearing mouse pointer ?

2014-08-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 6 Aug 2014 07:47:52 +0900 Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 12:21 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 22:58:18 +0900 Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Steve Litt sl

Re: How to fix intermittently disappearing mouse pointer ? narrowed down

2014-08-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 09:51:19 -0400 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: I've googled this several times, but none of what I saw worked or seemed relevant. The following seemed the most relevant, but turned out not to be helpful: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=137080 I

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 01:46:14 +1200 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 09:38:24AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: This is where we differ. I'd rather have building blocks from which I could build anything, rather than a monolith I need to trick into doing

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-06 Thread Steve Litt
against those of others, and friend those with similar setups. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: How to fix intermittently disappearing mouse pointer ? narrowed down

2014-08-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 11:22:57 +0900 Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 10:41 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: [...] It's not intermittent anymore. I can reproduce it at will. I can log out and rerun X, and do almost anything, including change screen

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 11:19:55 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Ma, 05 aug 14, 00:05:59, Brian wrote: On Mon 04 Aug 2014 at 18:28:44 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Mon, 4 Aug 2014 14:03:35 +0200 Raffaele Morelli raffaele.more...@gmail.com wrote: ​I've seen

How to fix intermittently disappearing mouse pointer ?

2014-08-05 Thread Steve Litt
experience with this problem and remembers the solution, you could cut a lot of time off my investigation. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-05 Thread Steve Litt
for better performance. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: How to fix intermittently disappearing mouse pointer ?

2014-08-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 22:58:18 +0900 Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: I've googled this several times, but none of what I saw worked or seemed relevant. The following seemed the most relevant, but turned out

Re: End of hypocrisy, beginning of reason

2014-08-05 Thread Steve Litt
you have for those of us who want to, to the extent possible, keep systemd as nothing more than the first program to be booted, and want to reduce as much as possible what other programs need to know about systemd and what systemd needs to know about the programs I run? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt

Re: End of hypocrisy, beginning of reason

2014-08-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 13:05:59 -0400 AW debian.list.trac...@1024bits.com wrote: On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 12:32:48 -0400 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: When I switch to systemd, I'd like to have it as isolated as humanly possible, just because I'm a modularity kind of guy. I've been

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-04 Thread Steve Litt
stuff works with systemd isn't the main problem, it's just icing on the cake when it *doesn't* work. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

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