Re: Disable a sound card

2016-06-25 Thread Stuart Longland
note of what ID the device has, then add a line to your .asoundrc: > pcm.!default { > type hw > card YOUR_ID_HERE > } > > ctl.!default { > type hw > card YOUR_ID_HERE > } See http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Asoundrc for more infor

Re: Building just one module against the current kernel

2016-06-04 Thread Stuart Longland
done, you should be able to build modules by running `make modules` and install them with `sudo make modules_install`. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Some Flash news

2016-06-04 Thread Stuart Longland
On 17/05/16 04:20, Erwan David wrote: > Problem is not the browser. Problem is sites/Appliances which require it > (eg. VMWare vcenter) VMWare are allegedly getting rid of their Flash dependence. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on

Re: question package

2016-06-04 Thread Stuart Longland
ght help narrow the field down a bit. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Hello Debian

2016-06-03 Thread Stuart Longland
On 02/06/16 20:48, Pier wrote: > http://… > pierg75@… Yes, that's a URL and an email address. Well done. Now try again with some actual relevant (to the list) content this time. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape som

Re: Debian as My home firewall/router

2016-02-28 Thread Stuart Longland
ich needs a single OS. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

2016-02-24 Thread Stuart Longland
are is no different to this. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: GNOME Shell can't unmount my USB key

2016-02-12 Thread Stuart Longland
es in various sizes. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: GNOME Shell can't unmount my USB key

2016-02-09 Thread Stuart Longland
on to make, and one that will bite you hard in the bum some day. Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. 1. getting better but nowhere near the longevity of magnetic storage 2. including Windows NT v5.0 (aka Windows 2000

Re: How to build Debian-based wireless router

2016-01-23 Thread Stuart Longland
Ethernet interface. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: www.lists.debian.org

2016-01-19 Thread Stuart Longland
ess, so well and truly in the crosshairs of the ACMA. rep...@submit.spam.acma.gov.au is where such emails can be forwarded, then the ACMA prosecutes for Spam Act violations. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. s

Re: About new mail client

2016-01-19 Thread Stuart Longland
id client) in a number of ways. The two downsides being a lack of incoming mail notification and attachment handling being a pain. Other than that, I find sending a quick email or replying to be easier. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up

Re: Is anybody Running Debian on Acer Aspire E5-571G

2016-01-17 Thread Stuart Longland
s back then. UEFI didn't exist much before 2005, and widespread OS support for UEFI came much later. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Is anybody Running Debian on Acer Aspire E5-571G

2016-01-17 Thread Stuart Longland
long ago. Wikipedia seems to think they came out in 2003. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_K8 -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Prevent shutdown with systemctl

2016-01-04 Thread Stuart Longland
sions and ownership. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Prevent shutdown with systemctl

2016-01-04 Thread Stuart Longland
is a link that allows anyone to execute it. It points >> to /bin/systemctl that also allows anyone to execute it. The first >> part of your problem can be solved simply with fixing the >> permissions for reboot, shutdown & poweroff. > > Dunno about systemctl, but FW

Re: Prevent shutdown with systemctl

2016-01-04 Thread Stuart Longland
first before giving the nod to init. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Recommendations for a GUI video editing program?

2016-01-03 Thread Stuart Longland
On 03/01/16 18:17, Udyant Wig wrote: > > On 01/03/2016 01:04 PM, Stuart Longland wrote: > [snip] >> Last time I did any serious multimedia stuff, I think my toolkit >> consisted of Audacity for producing the sound track, then a >> combination of Perl, GNU Make

Re: Recommendations for a GUI video editing program?

2016-01-02 Thread Stuart Longland
otos, do the necessary transformations then assemble them into a video. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: AP support for wl driver

2015-12-22 Thread Stuart Longland
On 21/12/15 13:01, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 1:58 AM, Stuart Longland > <stua...@longlandclan.id.au <mailto:stua...@longlandclan.id.au>> wrote: > I've never tried HostAP with this particular device. > > > Please make a try once. We

Re: AP support for wl driver

2015-12-20 Thread Stuart Longland
nd go with someone like Atheros or Intel, who actively develop their drivers in the Linux mainline kernel. If I wanted a proprietary binary soup I'd use Windows. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: AP support for wl driver

2015-12-19 Thread Stuart Longland
m's proprietary driver, so you'll need to ask Broadcom directly, nobody else can help you. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: My web site is back

2015-12-12 Thread Stuart Longland
. In my case, I was fortunate the old domain still intermittently worked (and still does work), and so I was able to put the redirects in place. Had yi.org just folded altogether however, I'd be stuck in the same way that Stephen was. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind

Re: My web site is back

2015-12-12 Thread Stuart Longland
or rsync/ssh if they permit that. I'm always a bit leery of web-based file upload facilities. Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: OT: reply styles, family matters

2015-12-01 Thread Stuart Longland
ounter that by passing my would-be reply through tac and top-post it that way. Then they see it from my perspective. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: How to get a PGP SIGNED MESSAGE

2015-11-18 Thread Stuart Longland
ugh. Are you intending to generate signed messages or merely verify them? -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Ransomware meets Linux - on the command line!

2015-11-11 Thread Stuart Longland
On 12/11/15 08:24, Lisi Reisz wrote: > https://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/118624.aspx > Comments. please - I'm not sure how to evaluate this or how to react. I don't see any mention of ransomware threats on that page. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't l

Re: Install MSWindz 7 as Virtual Machine on Debian 8

2015-11-10 Thread Stuart Longland
g VirtualBox. Not quite as polished, but VirtualBox isn't as nice to use on a headless machine either. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

2015-11-08 Thread Stuart Longland
IS device, 00:a0:c6:00:00:00 That looks like your hotspot device right there. You can't assign eth0 to be your "RED" interface? -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

2015-11-07 Thread Stuart Longland
s is a wireless hotspot. What coax? -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

2015-11-06 Thread Stuart Longland
r control. You could even do away with the router and have it feed your LAN directly. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: 64bit run on mips64r2

2015-10-24 Thread Stuart Longland
orst-linux-pc-ever/ In that case, code to emulate an ARM machine was programmed into the AVR chip. Given that MIPS machines are generally both more expensive and slower than modern AMD64 systems, one has to question the logic in such an endeavour except maybe to prove it can be done. -- St

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

2015-10-13 Thread Stuart Longland
On 14/10/15 13:23, John Hasler wrote: > Lie. Tell them you're running Windows 95. "Ohh sorry, we only support Windows 7 or 8" -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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

2015-10-13 Thread Stuart Longland
is in their court. I do know what it is like to deal with a clueless helpdesk, spent many hours on the phone with a few here. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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

2015-10-13 Thread Stuart Longland
On 14/10/15 11:53, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 04:15:21 -0400 (EDT), Jochen Spieker wrote: >> >> Stuart Longland: >>> On 13/10/15 09:58, Stephen Powell wrote: >>>> >>>> Unfortunately, I don't. Attached below is one of the ma

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

2015-10-13 Thread Stuart Longland
On 13/10/15 16:36, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > On 10/12/2015 04:58 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: >> On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 16:53:05 -0400 (EDT), Stuart Longland wrote: >>> >>> I'd check the backscatter case, as this requires no skill on the part of >>> the

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

2015-10-13 Thread Stuart Longland
On 13/10/15 15:45, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Mon, October 12, 2015 11:15 pm, Stuart Longland wrote: >> There's also a Windows port of Evince. > > Thanks, Stuart; that knowledge may be useful. But installing Evince > likely is beyond the technical ability of my associat

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

2015-10-13 Thread Stuart Longland
in a windows environment, maybe even in a v-box, >> just a thought. > > If I were the bot programmer, this would be the first thing I'd try to spoof. Depending on the bot programmer, they probably send an email to themselves using Outlook Express then view the message source and paste

Re: New User

2015-10-13 Thread Stuart Longland
erhaps try to help. > But top-posting, in a thread, of which I haven't seen the beginning, made it > impossible. Apparently backwards things read to like people some. Yes, that's how top posting looks to me. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind...

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

2015-10-13 Thread Stuart Longland
he password being entered on your client machine, from a password store, or capturing it in an outbound connection. - Nasties en route between your computer and your host intercepting the password in cleartext traffic. - Malware intercepting the password on the server end of the connection. - Some

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

2015-10-12 Thread Stuart Longland
e was put my address in the Return-Path. It's worth knowing how to read the headers of emails in this circumstance as it can give you vital information for knowing what is going on. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Regarding R-base-core package for MIPS64 arch

2015-10-12 Thread Stuart Longland
ast. I found some packages that JustWork on x86 and AMD64 could do some funny things on MIPS (both o32 and n32, never tried n64). I'm not sure what the status is of mips64 on Debian either. Historically Debian has always been 32-bit on MIPS (aka o32). -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I ha

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

2015-10-12 Thread Stuart Longland
On 13/10/15 14:09, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Debian, I have been using evince, but that is to view documents which I > obtain from other sources. There's also a Windows port of Evince. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on

Re: Sound card question

2015-10-05 Thread Stuart Longland
io much as is CLI to computing. > And a microphone is the analogue of a GUI. Not quite. ;-) -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: KDE file copy to usb device without file cache

2015-10-03 Thread Stuart Longland
;. Windows computers (modern ones) have a system tray icon for "safely removing" media. Under KDE, pretty sure removable devices have an "unmount" option when you right-click on them. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up

Re: Sound card question

2015-10-03 Thread Stuart Longland
o the appropriate frequency. This also lets you adjust volume levels so that you don't overdrive the input on the transceiver. Nothing worse than a contact with a garbled station because the microphone input is being overdriven. (We have this from time to time on VK4RBN.) -- Stuart Longland (aka Re

Re: Deleting i386 packages

2015-09-29 Thread Stuart Longland
ave since moved to true multi-arch, and so such kludges are no longer required. However there are still probably packages floating around that still rely upon them. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: googleearth-package (jessie)

2015-09-29 Thread Stuart Longland
On 30/09/15 10:20, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > Using synaptic, I installed "googleearth-package". But I cannot figure > out what to do with it. I understood Google Earth was going the way of the dodo, so `dpkg -r` might be the best thing to do with it. -- Stuart Longlan

Re: Touchpad not working properly on ASUS T300LA

2015-09-29 Thread Stuart Longland
ad: touchpad found > [537692.831] (II) config/udev: Adding input device SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad > (/dev/input/mouse0) > [537692.831] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Ignoring device from InputClass > "touchpad ignore duplicates" It can be configured from the command line us

Re: Terminal Madness?

2015-09-28 Thread Stuart Longland
On 29/09/15 06:44, Mike McGinn wrote: > I am not an alpine user, but I would make sure that there are no > instances of alpine running. > > ps -ef | grep alpine Or alternatively, see what users/processes have the file open: $ fuser -u .pinerc -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-22 Thread Stuart Longland
rsync? Well, cp would do the job too I guess, rsync will resume an interrupted copy whereas cp won't. Piping tar to itself is another way. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-17 Thread Stuart Longland
"${dn}/${bn}"/ umount /mnt/cdrom done Now you'll have in addition to the above: /media/distributionA/DVD1/ … /media/distributionA/DVD2/ … .. .. /media/distributionA/DVDn/ … I'm not sure how you'd go about merging the repositories together. Someone else can help with tha

Re: GRSecurity Closes Stable Patch to Linux Kernel. How do you feel about this?

2015-09-15 Thread Stuart Longland
rnel. i.e. they're expected to contribute something in return. Regards, - -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJV+IB2AAoJEE36GRQQveO3uwkP/1+P4Z5+jNc1+

Re: [Newsletter] Why does Debian not recognize my WiFi?

2015-09-06 Thread Stuart Longland
yright in this message and any attachments remains with us. It > is confidential and may be legally privileged. *NOW* you bloody tell me! Is it or is it not confidential, and if so, what in earth is the disclaimer doing at the **BOTTOM** of your email. Do legal people expect us to read email messages

Re: Dell brightness issue

2015-09-03 Thread Stuart Longland
e to help, but we'll need some context before this will be possible. Regards, - -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iJ4EARMKAAYFAlXotLIACgkQoCQEvFhlDPm4owH7BESgGPvCNXQTRYV

Re: is google earth safe to install?

2015-09-03 Thread Stuart Longland
his application bypass the kernel to talk to the video card directly? - -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iJ4EARMKAAYFAlXotkwACgkQoCQEvFhlDPlUiQH9F+os5AydvizeD9jX4CBXC5w2 axtKH

Re: the IBM keyboard

2015-09-03 Thread Stuart Longland
board cable. Then use a DIN-5 → PS/2 adapter to plug it into your PS/2 socket. - -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: the IBM keyboard

2015-09-03 Thread Stuart Longland
re performing is predominately a text/data entry exercise, a keyboard-oriented UI is more useful. If however, the activity is more graphic oriented, the mouse becomes more appropriate. Regards, - -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhe

Re: 40 xrdp makes VM crawl (was thin client xdmcp setup)

2015-08-27 Thread Stuart Longland
On 25/08/15 23:56, Rusi Mody wrote: On Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at 12:40:05 PM UTC+5:30, Stuart Longland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 25/08/15 12:28, Rusi Mody wrote: I am teaching python (and some other related stuff) Students connect with a thin client

Re: thin client xdmcp setup

2015-08-25 Thread Stuart Longland
box with X: X -query yourserver :1 You should see X start up and log in to your designated server. At worst you might need -from your-ip for that to work. Regards, - -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -BEGIN

Re: www.lists.debian.org

2015-08-23 Thread Stuart Longland
do: http://www.acma.gov.au/Citizen/Stay-protected/My-mobile-world/Dealing-with-mobile-spam/spam-complaints-reports-and-enquiries -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-20 Thread Stuart Longland
and/or Snort to detect when an intrusion takes place. You decide whether an anti-virus package is truly needed. - -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2

Re: Me vs. Qemu

2015-08-20 Thread Stuart Longland
OpenStack and OpenNebula are libvirt-based. Regards, - -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iJ4EARMKAAYFAlXWTk0ACgkQoCQEvFhlDPnuUwH/cJFcY9jQfF6A3sI+UxSCGELw KcH5uL7FTHxDVhW

systemd vs sysvinit: init script arguments

2015-08-20 Thread Stuart Longland
it. Is there some way for the init script to tell systemd what subservices are valid or do I have to maintain specialised scripts for systemd? Regards, - -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: What pulls in the tray of my /dev/sr1 ?

2015-08-05 Thread Stuart Longland
On 04/08/15 17:06, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Stuart Longland wrote: Silly question, but why does re-loading a disc take more than 197 seconds? It comes out (intentionally) after a backup run is complete and went well. (See man xorriso example Incremental backup of a few directory trees

Re: What pulls in the tray of my /dev/sr1 ?

2015-08-03 Thread Stuart Longland
Hi Lisi, On 04/08/15 08:43, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 03 August 2015 23:39:48 Stuart Longland wrote: On 28/07/15 22:58, Thomas Schmitt wrote: The delay seems a bit long for such an action though. My measurements were all between 197 and 200 seconds. With some inaccuracy because waiting 3

Re: What pulls in the tray of my /dev/sr1 ?

2015-08-03 Thread Stuart Longland
. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -- 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: cannot register @forum

2015-08-03 Thread Stuart Longland
, there's a forum of sorts, here. If you've got queries, by all means feel free to ask here too. :-) -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Debugging a LSB init script under systemd

2015-07-09 Thread Stuart Longland
. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -- 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/559f071d.2040

Debugging a LSB init script under systemd

2015-07-08 Thread Stuart Longland
of the situation instead. Is there a way to tell systemd to LEAVE the script alone while I debug it and get it working? Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: BASH

2015-07-05 Thread Stuart Longland
On 01/05/15 22:44, Daniel Bareiro wrote: while [ $1 != ]; do Another useful way to do this: $# is the number of arguments on the command line. You can do [ $# -gt 0 ] to test when the arguments have been consumed. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's

Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-07-02 Thread Stuart Longland
options that I could tweak that made it a little better, but not by much, it was still as slow as a 5-day Ashes test. I'm not sure if Webkit would fare better, I could dig up those settings if you're interested. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed

Re: Serial console over Bluetooth dongle to an android device {Will serial console satisfy my need}

2015-07-01 Thread Stuart Longland
output there. Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

mgag200: Anyone seen this off-by-N error before?

2015-06-29 Thread Stuart Longland
at dd80 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M] Expansion ROM at unassigned [disabled] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1 Has anyone seen this bug with this driver and/or have any ideas I could try? Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind

Re: Mail and POP3

2015-06-29 Thread Stuart Longland
that, and assuming your SMTP server (exim4 in your case) is set up correctly, things should JustWork™. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

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

2015-06-21 Thread Stuart Longland
. Doesn't matter if your machine has a microphone or even any audio input capability. I would truly like to know how they could manage that. All it needs is a little sprinkling of paranoia to do its work. :-) -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up

Re: Debian/MIPS Jessie doesn't resolve hostnames? [RESOLVED]

2015-05-31 Thread Stuart Longland
On 31/05/15 09:40, deloptes wrote: Stuart Longland wrote: I'm tempted to try a newer kernel on the thing to see if that helps, since the stock Debian/MIPS Cobalt kernels are still at the 3.2 series. What has the kernel to do with this precisely? Rather, it's what it's *not* doing. The UDP

Re: Inexpensive Laptop for Debian

2015-05-30 Thread Stuart Longland
that you can use in the meantime and an upgrade at the same time. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Inexpensive Laptop for Debian

2015-05-30 Thread Stuart Longland
to offload dirt cheap: the malware being easily removed with the Debian installer. ;-) Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: jessie: need help with serial port

2015-05-28 Thread Stuart Longland
under wheezy). How do I create an entry for /dev/ttyS4 and associate it with the correct physical port? Is this on a PCI serial card or some such? Perhaps the card needs a firmware blob or special driver? - -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed

Re: Debian/MIPS Jessie doesn't resolve hostnames?

2015-05-28 Thread Stuart Longland
On 28/05/15 07:26, deloptes wrote: Stuart Longland wrote: Now there isn't yet installation media for Jessie on the Qube, so I used the Wheezy installation media to install Debian Wheezy, then updated my sources.list and did an `apt-get dist-upgrade` to get to Jessie. The upgrade guide from

Debian/MIPS Jessie doesn't resolve hostnames?

2015-05-27 Thread Stuart Longland
+++-=-===-===- ii libc6:mipsel 2.19-18 mipsel GNU C Library: Shared libraries root@qube:~# uname -a Linux qube 3.2.0-4-r5k-cobalt #1 Debian 3.2.68-1+deb7u1 mips GNU/Linux Has anyone seen this behaviour and/or have any ideas what I might do to solve this problem? Regards, -- Stuart

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-05-27 Thread Stuart Longland
to a console screen, log in as root, then run `telinit s` and that should get you back to single user mode. When you're done, `telinit 3` to get back to multi-user mode. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-05-27 Thread Stuart Longland
reality to be. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: KVM switch: DVI-D, DVI-I or vga?

2015-05-25 Thread Stuart Longland
? - -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iJ4EARMKAAYFAlVjkjMACgkQoCQEvFhlDPk6AAIAmQmfBe5y7xUHGM+a7MnRugPw VezgG97LKY9NKBIOAIiKs+dfne06NS0Jld0WsiEDAVFlk8b6Yb3JnzmCNaCAxwIA

Re: Running Debian with only 213MB Ram?

2015-05-25 Thread Stuart Longland
. I'm not sure if Chromium performs better on low RAM, but modern applications seem to assume at least 512MB RAM these days. Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

2015-05-25 Thread Stuart Longland
debootstrap to create the Debian/Ubuntu instances, creating the root filesystems in /var/lib/libvirt/images, then use virt-manager to set them up in LXC. https://wiki.debian.org/LXC - -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere

Re: Debian jessie netboot ignores preseed?

2015-05-17 Thread Stuart Longland
On 14/05/15 20:05, Sébastien Delafond wrote: On 2015-05-10, Stuart Longland stua...@longlandclan.yi.org wrote: What am I doing wrong that causes the netboot installer to ignore me? You need to replace -- with ---; see this comment in the release notes: Due to a change on the linux

Re: Debian jessie netboot ignores preseed? — SOLVED

2015-05-17 Thread Stuart Longland
On 18/05/15 05:49, Stuart Longland wrote: On 14/05/15 20:05, Sébastien Delafond wrote: On 2015-05-10, Stuart Longland stua...@longlandclan.yi.org wrote: What am I doing wrong that causes the netboot installer to ignore me? You need to replace -- with ---; see this comment in the release

Re: Remove subject

2015-05-17 Thread Stuart Longland
On 12/05/15 17:34, Mis Ntmurth wrote: Ok thanks I will contact debian They don't participate in Internet censorship either. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Debian jessie netboot ignores preseed? — SOLVED

2015-05-17 Thread Stuart Longland
On 18/05/15 05:55, Stuart Longland wrote: Seems the newer installer at least will recognise -- ---, so that should allow me to switch back and forth easily. Errm, no, scratch that, the *OLD* Wheezy installer will accept -- ---, the new Jessie installer still ignores it. So I'll just have

Debian jessie netboot ignores preseed?

2015-05-10 Thread Stuart Longland
when I manually run it. What am I doing wrong that causes the netboot installer to ignore me? -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-22 Thread Stuart Longland
are on internal containers in a virtual DMZ. Spinning up minimal LXC instances using deboostrap is a synch and they take very little disk space. - -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-22 Thread Stuart Longland
. Absolutely though to run a mail server effectively, a static IP address is really a must, although you can get by with dynamic. The only real show stopper is carrier grade NAT, then the whole exercise becomes rather pointless unless you only read your mail on your own private LAN. -- Stuart

Re: Newbie friendly security and firewall docs (cookbook?)

2014-10-08 Thread Stuart Longland
of is msconfig: and I'd wager not many stereotypical Windows users would venture there. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Downloading sources from an unsigned intranet repository

2014-10-06 Thread Stuart Longland
On 06/10/14 19:43, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 06 oct 14, 14:00:42, Stuart Longland wrote: Now for whatever reason, if I want to *install* those packages. No problem. It'll ask whether I wish to install them even though no one can vouch (digitally) for them. However, it fails

Re: Newbie friendly security and firewall docs (cookbook?)

2014-10-06 Thread Stuart Longland
of Debian on the same machine. (I'm not sure if Gnome2 is available under Wheezy, I suspect not.) http://www.xfce.org/ Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Newbie friendly security and firewall docs (cookbook?)

2014-10-06 Thread Stuart Longland
XFCE on the basis that it's reasonably lightweight and still easily configurable by a less technical user. LXDE may well be more appropriate. It's certainly worth a look. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere

Re: Problems with FAT32

2014-10-06 Thread Stuart Longland
(and put in garbage short names) when the 'vfat' filesystem is used, or use short filenames if 'msdos' is used. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Downloading sources from an unsigned intranet repository

2014-10-05 Thread Stuart Longland
one to have this problem, and indeed searching reveals that others have been bitten by similar issues, such as a system rejecting their existing Debian installation CDs/DVDs/ISOs. Is there some way to force apt to proceed with the download? Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I

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