apt.conf wheezy 7.1

2014-01-23 Thread james gray
I am trying to set up apt.conf. The question is: What or How does the Debian developers place in written text the expression for Intel 64 bit. I can see at this page: http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/amd64/ch02s01.html.en#idp5618944 That the Intel 64 bit is expressed as amd64 for the

apt conf

2014-01-22 Thread james gray
#apt.conf the quandary: How to express Intel 64 bit processor for the Architecture and Architectures plural for the apt.conf file in Debian software speak. doing www-network search is just as dizzy. Architecture Architectures places i traveled to.

book reference

2013-11-07 Thread james gray
Question: if a scale of 1 to 10 were available what would the number attributed this book be in reference to Debian and the GNU Linux OS be. What would be a good book reference to the C object model architecture be for Debian GNU Linux OS. Please send me some feedback. Thank you Google Books

loop back iptables

2013-10-08 Thread james gray
working with Debian 7.0 working with the examples at https://wiki.debian.org/iptables when i write a example for a lo0 table as shown -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT and follow procedure of iptables-restore file-name i do receive a message line failed for that line as shown above. Question:

verify download

2013-07-26 Thread james gray
while going through the verify procedures as described http://www.debian.org/CD/verify For newer releases, newer and cryptographically stronger checksum algorithms (SHA1, SHA256 and SHA512) are used, and there are equivalent tools available to work with these. paper@Dhost:~/Downloads$ sha1sum

bios

2013-06-16 Thread james gray
i have found biosdecode, dmidecode and would like to ask if any one has good reference to GNU Linux resources to working with the bios in parsing and manipulating the data from the bios into the Debian system. The bios is at v 2.0 and i need to upgrade that, good luck i would guess. any

find associated process

2013-06-14 Thread james gray
how do i find the file address associated with each process. The fan is operational, but with out control. could be the BIOS could be acpi. i have been thru the jungle of acpi and pm senors and etc for the last few months. i would just like to find out what ? is controlling the fan and then go

console mode

2013-03-29 Thread james gray
hello Question: what are the default use assigned to the f1 through f7 consoles. i do understand that f7 is gui. i have found http://wiki.debian.org/Console and at that address there is not a writ on f1 through f7 default assignments. i would assume f1 could be for admin purposes ?. i

enlighten scribes docs, books etc

2013-02-01 Thread james gray
hello i have looked at past e mail going back several months ago trying to find a recommend on reading`s that was asked and posted. and no i did not find it. i have become burnt out with the elementary, kindergarden, generalization, going no where reads. this is the foot pump and this is the

printer utility precedence

2012-11-30 Thread james gray
printer utility precedence working with squeeze 6.0 net install as illustrated here: http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ questione one: what ?, is the precedence of services and or utilities to just print using the command lp. is it common for a person who is actually trying to learn to have to

Re: vim

2012-11-16 Thread james gray
through program language C and PHP. but when it comes to Linux in general, i just want to scream. Thank you for the words. On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:39 AM, Jon Dowland j...@debian.org wrote: On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 05:18:52AM -0800, james gray wrote: which vim /usr/bin/vim ls -l /usr/bin/vim

vim

2012-11-15 Thread james gray
i am just wondering. why would vim be slapped around thru many links just to come back to its original file path origin with out write privileges to the end usr who is not root. path = /usr/local/bin, usr/bin, /bin, usr/local/game which vim /usr/bin/vim ls -l /usr/bin/vim lrwxrwxrwx -

acpi support in HP

2012-11-03 Thread james gray
acpi support in HP looking at: #/usr/share/doc/acpi-support/examples/config/Hewlett-Packard.config i do not see the device i am working with. looking at: #usr/share/acpi-support/device-funcs i see that i can enter in individual entries and receive the device info #cat

package#dpkg-reconfigure

2012-11-02 Thread james gray
The package: #dpkg-reconfigure Question: does it actually exist. - At this page: http://wiki.debian.org/Xorg there are instructions to call: #dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration at this page:

stainless steel cookware supply

2012-11-02 Thread james gray
does any one person or people know how to contact google with hacker spam from the Orient. i do receive e mail with subject of: stainless steel cookware supply with oriental chars on right hand side. i did look in google groups, but then, open another account for just one simple question or

doc resources

2012-10-15 Thread james gray
are the files and one directory in /usr/share/doc/aptitude available online. at this time. with the limited resources available. i am not able to print out the material. what would be the online address to read and print this material, information, docs, readme information. thank you.

aptitude interface help

2012-10-15 Thread james gray
Question: where in the file system is the individual file for help in the aptitude interface environment. I would like to print it out. when a person types the word aptitude at the command line and the system brings up a interface with a blue colored header and a blue horizontal strip in the

Re: virtual consoles

2012-10-06 Thread james gray
Thanks Mike , that is a bit thick for me. On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Mike McClain mike.j...@nethere.com wrote: Howdy, On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 03:38:14PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 07:08:49AM -0700, james gray wrote: Does any one know of - info source

virtual consoles

2012-10-04 Thread james gray
Does any one know of - info source to set up virtual consoles in the network install of Debian Squeeze 6.0 that comes from here: http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ it is installed and functional. I am not using a GUI. I am using the command line only. if i do press simultaneously the ctrl

virtual consoles

2012-10-04 Thread james gray
Does any one know of - info source to set up virtual consoles in the network install of Debian Squeeze 6.0 that comes from here: http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ it is installed and functional. I am not using a GUI. I am using the command line only. if i do press simultaneously the ctrl

aptitude interpretation of dialog

2012-09-28 Thread james gray
after the initial dialog received from #aptitude safe-upgrade there was at the end. the following : Need to get O B of archives. After unpacking O B will be used. after that dialog, the command line was handed back Question: what is O B. I am working with the Debian Net Install 6.0

signature files

2012-09-04 Thread james gray
Question: how does a person find the signature files using #md5sumsums at the debian page: http://www.debian.org/CD/verify Quote: To ensure that the checksums files themselves are correct, use GnuPG to verify them against the accompanying signature files #(e.g. MD5SSUMS.sign). i have

Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] Re: Which Linux distribution???

1998-02-05 Thread James Gray
afford to try ALL of them and still beat Microsloth! Yep! Cheers James Gray --- S.u.S.E., LLC - German-Engineered Linux 458 Santa Clara Avenue Oakland, CA 94610 USA +1-510-835-7873 FAX +1-510-835-7875 http://www.suse.com Our mailing lists