On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 12:07:46PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 04:46:37AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > On 03/25/2017 05:29 PM, Daniel Bareiro wrote:
> > >Hi, Joe.
> > >
> > >[snip]
> > >
> > >Checking the purchase invoices, I bought the notebook on September 19,
>
On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 06:25:51PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> Although a Raspberry Pi is not particularly expensive, the 15 GBP
> I paid for a brand new thin client was an attraction. It acts as
> a print server. Do you want a list of printer manufacturers who do
> not support Linux on the ARM
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 03:33:08PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>
> In all this talk of Debian being the universal operating system, and helping
> newbies ...
I'm not sure those two concepts are related. My understanding of Debian
being the universal operating system is that it can run on as many
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 09:10:16AM +, Darac Marjal wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 06:03:12PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> >On Tuesday 21 March 2017 17:15:32 Catherine Gramze wrote:
> >>Sent from my iPad
> >
> >Note it is sent from an iPad! Open Source all the way!
> >
> >Incidentally, why
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 06:38:52AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> The two files are nearly identical and need them displayed simultaneously
> for instant visual comparison. Opening one of the files read only would be
> acceptable but not preferable.
apt-cache show diffutils
(perhaps there is no
On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 07:13:26PM +, Brian wrote:
> Apropos nothing. Columbus knew exactly where he was going and why. He
> just didn't get there. The exact route he took didn't exist (or maybe
> philosohically it did but hadn't been travelled). But it was planned
> using the Google
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 12:30:11PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> The Linux mantra has always been "choice," plethoras of choices. So why
> at install time, is there no choice for the init system? You get what
> the developers decide. Yes, you can install a new one -- I've done it
> and it works
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 08:58:15PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> On 03/13/2017 05:38 AM, Dan Purgert wrote:
> >Currently, the system here is
> >
> > - every PC has a cronjob backing up $HOME to a central "server" (read -
> > repurposed PC with decent WD drives), just an rsync script that
On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 05:57:19PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 02:09:22AM +, Shahryar Afifi wrote:
[some stuff]
>
> This is yet another of those threads where the OP never returns after
> dropping their troll bomb... the only why oh why here is why oh why do
> we
On Sun, Mar 05, 2017 at 09:07:45AM -0500, songbird wrote:
> because i keep a second bootable partition a
> few versions back i am a bit more brave/stupid
> at times and just do the usual routine:
>
> =
>
> $ apt-get update
> $ apt-get upgrade
>
> # and then see what is held back
On Sun, Mar 05, 2017 at 07:13:22PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 05 March 2017 17:16:36 John Hasler wrote:
>
> > Gene Heskett writes:
> > > Very simple. With the glaring exception of the modern AC induction
> > > motor that in 99% of the stuff we buy, ANY other generator can also
> > >
On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 09:00:15PM +1100, Davor Balder wrote:
> Hi Hans,
>
> Question 1 which one: stable, testing or unstable?
IMHO if it's not stated then stable is to be assumed.
Users who run testing/sid are generally expected to have
some degree of troubleshooting knowledge (the clue is in
On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 04:38:19PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 18, 2017 04:08:09 PM Doug wrote:
> > Whether or not this is all economically worth while, or you should throw
> > the machine out and buy a new one is up to you.
>
> I typically build replacement computers
On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 03:05:13PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> On 01/14/2017 09:30 AM, solitone wrote:
> >On Saturday, January 14, 2017 9:15:11 AM CET Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> >>and on mine not!
Hey, come on! You've installed a 3rd party package and you're
asking on this list why it doesn't
On Sun, Jan 01, 2017 at 03:02:32PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
>
> Just show me the editor which takes you to a function's source code
> (yes, even to the C source itself!) within a few keystrokes.
U, oh, here we go:
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Browsing_programs_with_tags
enjoy. :)
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On Sun, Jan 01, 2017 at 12:52:20PM +0100, Xen wrote:
> Lisi Reisz schreef op 31-12-2016 10:30:
>
> >Which make me bad at writing?
> >
> >Lisi
>
> Refusing to write good documentation on purpose.
Oh, come on! What you call good documentation means
writing for a user who has no clue about what
[sorry for the late response.]
On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 11:05:48AM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> It is not easy to describe a program with many use cases and even
> more particular settings and actions.
>
> What lacks to my experience as confused reader and as best effort writer
> is the user's
On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 05:06:13PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> I enabled the on-screen keyboard applet in Cinnamon so as to write some
> text with French accents. But then it kept on coming up when I didn't
> want it, every time I went into any text field. I removed the applet
> from my toolbar
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 05:42:08AM +0800, Hafez Kamal wrote:
> Videos from the 7th annual HITB Security Conference are being released
> this week!
Please don't spam debian-user with useless content!
This is a support mailing list for the Debian operating system.
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On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 08:22:02AM -0400, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
> I literally hate when this happens. A thought occurred as fast as that
> last email was sent. Low income types like myself don't always have
> enough pennies to rub together to even buy a cheap fan of any kind on
> demand. Doesn't
On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 06:36:53PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> Le sextidi 26 prairial, an CCXXIV, Morten Bo Johansen a écrit :
> > Since you are using Mutt, all you need to do to be well behaved
> > (i.e. not send personal CCs) is to hit 'L' when you reply
>
> As I already explained twice, a
On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 02:57:29PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> But we have to also remember that mutt is very very loong in the
> tooth Lisi. I've looked at it but never used it, so I've no knowledge if
> its have any serious TLC in the last decade.
"Mutt 1.6.1 was released on May 1,
On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 05:12:57PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> Le sextidi 26 prairial, an CCXXIV, Tanstaafl a écrit :
> > This is why Reply-To-List is the way to reply when engaged in a mailing
> > list.
> >
> > If your client doesn't have this, then maybe it is time to consider
> > changing.
On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 02:05:48AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> I do use apt-get, when I can easily copy/paste what I want it to do, but
> it hates my spelling otherwise. Thats my fault of course, but there it
> is.
That's where tab completion comes in very handy. :)
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On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 10:04:27PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Sat 11 Jun 2016 at 20:49:27 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Saturday 11 June 2016 17:35:11 Lisi Reisz wrote:
>
> > > No, Gene. All created because you didn't trust the package manager.
> > > Not that IMHO Synaptic is that
On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 01:00:54PM +1000, terryc wrote:
> Are there any browsers in Debian Jessie that are not dependent on
> Firefox?
Huh? What do you mean by this?
> It seems everything has been replaced or is just a cover/skin/re-paint
> of firefox.
Huh? What do you mean by this?
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On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 11:22:32PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> On 06/09/2016 10:00 AM, Levi Darrell wrote:
> >Hi Debian Users List,
> >
> >My computer is set to boot into a tty shell. I manually enter X Server by
> >issuing the startx command. Previously, I had been able to switch tty
> >shells
On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 04:45:50PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
>
> Buster - Debian 10 - will be the release after Stretch
ooops, should read whole thread before replying to a message.
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On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 11:19:19AM +, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> There aren't 3 versions of each release, there's only one. Stable, testing
> and unstable are nicknames / status codes applied to a given release at any
> stage of its lifecycle. Right now Jessie is stable, Stretch is testing. The
>
On Sun, Jun 05, 2016 at 09:16:23AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> And here's my observation. When you type real quotation marks (ie ‘’“”),
> the correct glyphs appear on the screen. After changing font, those
> glyphs turn into different glyphs, but freshly typed quotation marks
> appear with the
On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 03:20:32PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Tue 24 May 2016 at 01:13:34 (+1200), cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote:
> > On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 11:11:27AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > >
> > > But I am only using us-ascii, iso-8859-1,
> > > utf-8
> > > (locale) and utf-8,
On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 08:35:22PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> "Arseholes" is the correct terminology. You've not posted enough
> nonsense in this thread yet for it to be applied to you. But you could
> try really hard. ;)
In English it's "Arseholes"; in American it's "Assholes".
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On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 11:11:27AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>
> But I am only using us-ascii, iso-8859-1,
> utf-8
> (locale) and utf-8, with a locale of en_GB.UTF-8, so not very
> abstruse in view of the fact that I have correspondents in, and therefore
> correspondence from, Japan, Greece
On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 10:17:22PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Saturday 21 May 2016 16:56:31 cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote:
> > On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 04:08:05PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > On Friday 20 May 2016 15:57:27 Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > > That statement reminds me of one of
On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 05:21:21PM +, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
> Hi,
> I just returned home after a short vacation to my running, completely
> up-to-date jessie system, and discovered that Pulse had stopped running, and
> I dont know how to get it going again.
> Various of the startup
On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 12:42:09PM -0400, Ralph Sanchez wrote:
> Good morning. I was just wandering, is it safe to use packages from another
> Debian based district repositories by adding them to my sources file,
> specifically Kali Linux?
No. Therein lies madness!
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On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 11:09:02PM +, John L. Ries wrote:
> I guess my first question would be why the script below has anything to do
> with /opt. I don't see a change of directory to anything under that
> directory and I would assume this is running in some
On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 10:45:03AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 5/20/2016 10:08 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> >On Friday 20 May 2016 15:57:27 Richard Owlett wrote:
> >>That statement reminds me of one of George Orwell's characters
> >>saying "It means whatever I want it to mean."
> >
> >No, Lewis
On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 04:08:05PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Friday 20 May 2016 15:57:27 Richard Owlett wrote:
> > That statement reminds me of one of George Orwell's characters
> > saying "It means whatever I want it to mean."
>
> No, Lewis Carol, Humpty Dumpty in Alice Through The Looking
On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 07:55:54AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
> I had a thread going on this list with the subject of
> "Plug and Pray; my Life with Linux Sound." Thanks to several good
> answers, I am on the right track to fixing a problem but there
> is, of course, one more question.
On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 04:23:16PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Fixed it right up, thank you very much, Curt. Since it had to create
> that path in /etc from scratch, is there a way to ask dpkg what provides
> this file so that I can make the mental connection to something I have
> installed
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 03:05:01AM +, GU, Gladys wrote:
> Hi, Debian, We have a system with debian8.3, the poweroff is not working and
> everytime it will be perform a restart instead. However when we use
> debian8.4, it works normally. Below is the log, do you have any advice?
Yes, use the
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 07:52:46PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Wed 11 May 2016 at 06:36:43 +1200, cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote:
>
> > On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 11:57:34AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > On Sunday 01 May 2016 11:07:39 Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> > > >
> > > > "Do not submit an
On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 08:39:58PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Sunday 01 May 2016 19:43:37 Curt wrote:
> > As far as here goes, in mixed company, the masculine form takes
> > precedence (which may or may not have anything to do with anything).
>
> Depending. "Guys" can indeed sometimes be used
On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 11:57:34AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 01 May 2016 11:07:39 Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> >
> > "Do not submit an attachment larger than 10 KiB. Consider using
> > paste.debian.net and including a link in your post."
> >
> > From
On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 12:41:10PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote:
> >
> You know, I thought I had tried switching themes with out success. I just
> tried it again and the Oxygen theme cleared up the problem.
So this is the solution to a problem in another thread? :/
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> Gary Roach composed on 2016-04-30 12:08 (UTC-0700):
>
> >Someone said that I need to use a pastebin for images. I've never used
> >one before so another Fxx Learning Experience.
No, it's not necessary, in fact its preferable to not use pastebin.
There's been other threads where this has
On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 01:04:36PM -0400, Harris Paltrowitz wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I have a question regarding how I've configured my iptables to act as a very
> basic "firewall", i.e., one that simply prevents any and all incoming
> connections. Now, from my readings over the past several days I
On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 12:57:08PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> > Thanks for making me think of that and the fact that over the last 10
> > years, the only ham its seen are its mistakes. So this question might
> > have had the seeds of something to help. :)
>
> My scripts copy all new non-spam to
On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 08:35:31PM +0100, Joe wrote:
> Upload to a website, either your own or a public one. I don't use
> a public one, so I have no recommendation, but no doubt others will.
>
> It is a courtesy in any case, in any list or group, as some
> subscribers may have limited Internet
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On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 12:24:26PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote:
> OK. All of a sudden my original posts are showing up but if I add an
> attachment the post seems to drop into a black hole. No post, no rejection
> notice. I have looked at the sites rules and have not found
On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 05:11:07AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 22 April 2016 04:43:56 Richard Owlett wrote:
> >
> > That's a frequently reported "feature" of gmail.
> > Personally I suspect "free" service isn't worth what you pay for it.
> > I'm very happy using paid ($) mail and news
On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 02:23:46PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 08:12:04AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > In this case, what appears to happen is that Gmail assumes that
> > Message-ID is unique, and consequently that it only needs to keep one
> > copy of
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 02:07:52PM +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote:
> I have no NVIDIA hardware, still there are packages that install packages
> containing vdpau in their name.
> Any such installation causes trouble as the CLI tty(s) (a.k.a. virtual
> consoles) are not available to use as long as
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 11:12:12AM -0600, pcr1 wrote:
> I have for some time been, and after many attempts remain, unable to install
> Debian, which I previously have used for many years. The failures occur
> during "select and install", about a third of the way through, but not
> always at the
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On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 06:25:01PM +0100, Birgit Berger (UV Wien) wrote:
> is it better to wait to update samba 4.1.17 to 4.2.10 on jessie?
There aren't any new packages in the stable release, or has this changed
for some reason?
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On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 01:12:45PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 08:02:13AM -0400, German wrote:
> >I wonder what Debian users use on their phone/tablet.
>
> I use K-@ Mail [1] which, as far as I understand, is a Material redesign of
> Kaiten Mail which, in turn, is a fork
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 08:02:13AM -0400, German wrote:
> I wonder what Debian users use on their phone/tablet.
What Debian version are you using on your tablet?
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On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 08:36:50AM +0200, Pavel Kosina wrote:
> Hi,
>
> several times I tried install Debian stable/testing. I have MB Asrock UEFI
> D1800B-ITX and HDD WD20EFRX. Debian installer /part where partitioning and
> formatting happens/ never formats to correct sectors 4k. It always
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