Re: HTML vertical gap

2012-03-12 Thread teddieeb
Sian Mountbatten said: I have a description list which has a number of items which document values in a program. I want to group the items such that the groups are separated by a bit of vertical space. How do I do that? That is, I want a bit of vertical space in a definition list. Do I create an

Re: HTML vertical gap

2012-03-12 Thread teddieeb
Scott Ferguson Said: That's a rather complicated, and *deprecated*, way of doing what can be applied with a style element, or by just inserting a line break. :-) HTML 5 and CSS do not *depreciate* tables. It simply is a cleaner way to structure a page vs. The *everything* needs to be

Re: GRUB failure

2011-07-01 Thread teddieeb
Bret Busby Ask: Hello. I have a laptop computer with winXP Pro, Unbuntu 8.04 and Debian 5 (I think it is 5), installed. With a recent electricity supply failure, I ran an orderly shutdown on the computer. Since that shutown, each time that I reboot the computer, it takes me to the GRUB prompt

Re: GRUB failure

2011-07-01 Thread teddieeb
I have a laptop computer with winXP Pro, Unbuntu 8.04 and Debian 5 (I think it is 5), installed. I will also add, I am not sure which partition you had grub booting from. Ubuntu or Debian... But the version of grub that was installed is important. Debian Testing or Wheezy is using

Re: broadcom

2011-06-11 Thread teddieeb
Steef writes: hi list, bought my self a hp mini-netbook, included windoze7 and a very strong accu, 10 hours of life. i put sid on an usb-stick, included fluxbox and wicd(-curses). wifi = (lspci) brcm4313. (type 5.60.350.6) loaded/installed the according the debian broadcom- (broadcom 43xx

Re: Spin Off Question (was: What kernel for AMD Sempron system?)

2011-06-04 Thread teddieeb
Andrei POPESCU Said: [re-wrapped to 72 characters] - Sorry about that, I send list mails from my cell phone, very small screen, not much I can do about the text length. Otherwise thank you for the reply. Just curious, are the 32bit Libraries that can be installed upon need in a 64bit

Spin Off Question (was: What kernel for AMD Sempron system?)

2011-06-03 Thread teddieeb
Ron Johnson Said: The M2V has an AM2 socket, and all such chips are 64-bit capable, so both 2.6.39-1-686-pae and 2.6.39-1-amd64 *should* work. (I think you'd get a different error if the kernel was incompatible with the CPU.) The first thing I noticed about these two Kernels was the one

Re: Poll Summary Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-16 Thread teddieeb
Miles Bader ask: What defines a smartphone anyway? -Miles --- An IQ of at least 130 pts.? TeddyB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Smartphone definition - Re: Poll Summary Poll 1b - What Smartphonedo you use?

2011-05-16 Thread teddieeb
Giovanni Said: Smartphone == a hardware object which contains a programmable computer, with memory a touch screen user interface, and also contains cell phone system connection ability, upon which potentially a properly designed Debian GNU(Linux) subdistro could run. I would interject

Re: Waking from the Dead

2011-05-14 Thread teddieeb
Tom Allison ask: I have some computers here that haven't been turned on for what looks like 2 years and 3 months. And so there are a few things I need refreshers on. But I'll get to those later. Right now I am not sure where all my sources are or should be. ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ has

Re: Fwd: Re: [OT] Re: Defending yourself

2011-05-12 Thread teddieeb
Camaleón said: It's nearly impossible to infer whether the sender meant the message to be private or not. No, it is not. I am writing to a public mailing list and I expect that any reply to any of what I wrote on it is kept the same -public- and directed to the mailing list. So as I am not

Re: So much for Skype.

2011-05-12 Thread teddieeb
In regards to the Mac vs. Windows vs. Linux/BSD Holy War, ...Not really on topic, but I got a chance to upgrade my Back|Track 4R2 laptops to version 5 released a couple days ago. Very Exciting, I tell you that's some Hot GNU on Linux Action there! I run Back|Track on my laptops for War

Re: So much for Skype.

2011-05-12 Thread teddieeb
Aaron Toponce said: Thanks for hijacking the thread. Next time, fork it instead, and change the subject line. Thanks, Awww, I'm just being playful, and the thread has been going in the direction of who uses what os for what; I don't think it was a hijack. But whatever, sorry for

Re: Defending yourself

2011-05-11 Thread teddieeb
I try to ignore threads like these, but here's a few thoughts... This list receives a good 100 messages any given day, and your complaining about a couple bogus messages that make it through? Consider the other side of this policy, say an individual uses Debian and is getting a given error,

Re: Fwd: Re: [OT] Re: Defending yourself

2011-05-11 Thread teddieeb
Jeroen privately mailed a reply to my message as well, in which he completely ignored every validation to the points I made, especially the ones about helping others before you go off trying to dictate group policy... I find emailing somebody off list like this, especially after one user in

Re: locate something not exist

2011-04-27 Thread teddieeb
I believe you need to run #updatedb If I am not mistaken (updatedb may work for different search command if memory is faulty) But if I'm not mistaken, updatedb will refresh the database locate uses to find results... TeddyB -Original Message- From: lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com

Re: locate something not exist

2011-04-27 Thread teddieeb
Your welcome, glad I was actually able to help somebody ;P TeddyB -Original Message- From: lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:09:32 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Debian Listsdebian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: locate something not exist Thanks, it

Re: Ubuntu Crossgrade

2011-04-22 Thread teddieeb
George Standish said: Ubuntu regularly has issues upgrading from one version to another, now you expect it to upgrade to a new distro... This idea doesn't seem like a good idea to me. - I agree with this assessment though any ubuntu head will challenge any statement like this with such

Re: Ubuntu Crossgrade

2011-04-21 Thread teddieeb
David Sanders said: So, a small question - How suicidal is crossgrading back to Debian by altering my APT sources? I've seen a few blogs saying it works, and I do have a lot of customised stuff on my main laptop which I'd prefer not to have to recompile. I'm pretty technically-adept and don't

Re: Recommendations on groupware

2011-03-24 Thread teddieeb
Rico Secada Said: Hi. I'm currently looking into groupware solutions on Debian mainly for sharing a calendar such as Thunderbird + Lightning. Anyone who can provide some real life experience of pros and cons? - I develop web pages using PHP, as such I have access to a web server capable

[OT] Stupid Test...

2011-03-17 Thread teddieeb
I guess that's one way to find gullible people to scam Just ask em' to admit to being stupid and totally failing at the internetz TeddyB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: AW: Virus

2011-03-17 Thread teddieeb
Boblitz John Said; Setup.exe? Is that really a Debian file? I thought, but wasn't sure, so didn't want to say, that no Debian boot CD would contain an .exe file. As these are a Microsoft Windows Format and by and by Linux as an Operating System only acknowledges their existence by

Re: Suggestion for a smartphone running natively LINUX? :)

2011-03-15 Thread teddieeb
Well Viruses and Vulnerabilities aren't exactly one and the same. Most of the Vulnerabilities mentioned have weaknesses in the applications or pure stupidity of the users. Something I regularly gripe about, Leave stupid people on their own platform, don't dilute mine. TeddyB -- To

Re: VMware Workstation

2011-03-02 Thread teddieeb
Ed Morbius ask; Does anyone have actual or apparent performance comparisons between vbox and VMWare? Why would one chose one over the other? - I would say VMWare's market share is in the Corporate environment, Either for the few features it has over VirtualBox or for the same reasons Red

Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop

2011-03-01 Thread teddieeb
The problem with Ubuntu is it's the half-baked answer to a question that nobody was asking in the first place... The BIG Complaint: because Debian supports So many hardware platforms their release cycles are too slow. So they come up with the system of releasing LTS's about every two

Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop

2011-03-01 Thread teddieeb
Jason Hsu said: Linux Mint is derived from Ubuntu, so I don't know how you can pan Ubuntu but praise Mint. No distro can be good at everything, but there's no denying the impact of Ubuntu. It has moved the Overton Window in the Windows-vs.-Linux shift. Technically, Linux Mint has

Re: testing/unstable(sid) in sources.lst ok? (was Re: Problemsinstalling VLC [SOLVED])

2011-02-28 Thread teddieeb
Just be sure to comment the unstable repos from your sources list after the fact AFAIR, if you are running testing it is recommended to have testing AND unstable repositories listed in your sources.lst. [..] To flush the repository system, do it now so you don't forget and do an upgrade by

Re: Problems installing VLC [SOLVED]

2011-02-25 Thread teddieeb
AG said: Actually it was deceptively simple: added a line for unstable in my sources.list, updated, and then installed vlc. Hopefully this will not come back to bite me, but all went very easily. Just be sure to comment the unstable repos from your sources list after the fact # apt-get

Re: restarting sound

2011-02-22 Thread teddieeb
Rick Pasotto ask; How can I restart sound without rebooting the whole machine? --- If your using Alsa, there is an alsa-utils file in /etc/init.d/ # /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart Should do something for you, may also use commands stop / start instead of restart if you want to say stop the

Re: SSH pauses

2011-02-22 Thread teddieeb
Nate Bargmann ask; I notice that when I am logged into my desktop remotely via SSH that I get frequent pauses sometimes lasting for up to a half a minute or so. Generally it's not too problematic although it is annoying when typing an email (I log into my home box to read and send mail so it's

Side Question Regarding Modules (Related to Sound Server ?)

2011-02-22 Thread teddieeb
I was thinking about the reply I read to the restarting sound server question suggesting removing the modules and re inserting them, forgive me author of that post, I forget who suggested it... Anyway I having not attempted this method before was thinking about how to go about it. I would

Re: OpenOffice has become LibreOffice?

2011-02-15 Thread teddieeb
Tom H said; It's not a Debian change but a split away from Oracle. --- Why? I was afraid Oracle was gonna screw up a bunch of Sun's open projects, but they have been doing good as far as I have been able to tell (the latest ver. of Virtual Box is awesome and yummy open source goodness...

Re: New policies?

2011-02-14 Thread teddieeb
Why would you love to upgrade software incrementally all the time?? Its stable/tested, CERTIFIEd to work fine, that's all.. Move to another distro like fedora if you love to upgrade software incrementally all the time. kn -- Or, run Testing, I run Testing and almost never have issues

Re: KPackage

2011-02-08 Thread teddieeb
Try Synaptic ;) Works fine even on KDE systems, is better organized, offers better search, ... ... no I don't get payed for this writing :D KPackage is not worth loosing a word about it. Just *imho* of cause ;) kind regards Gero I personally never liked synaptic, but then that's why I

Re: putting /tmp to memory help

2011-01-24 Thread teddieeb
Isn't messing with volatile /tmp somewhat a moot point, given that the Linux memory manager manages virtual memory anyway? I mean, if /tmp is heavily used by your system, it will be cached in memory anyway. With 4 GB of RAM (as mentioned by kellyremo), you'll end with probably your

Re: transition from Ubuntu - Debian to avoid Unity Desktop?

2011-01-19 Thread teddieeb
Curt Howland said: HOWEVER, I run Unstable, by choice. Sid breaks all his toys, so I expect to have problems like this once in a while. -- *in bevis and butthead voice* He He He He He He --TeddyB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: ktorrent in sid

2011-01-12 Thread teddieeb
deloptes said: One thing I'm missing not in trinity but in debian sid is ktorrent. is it really not working? Because it is not working for me since I've upgraded to kde4. It seems I can not use it with a proxy server. Is there a chance to install the old one (ktorrent2.2) or is it better to

Re: You cant tell Debian is close to release because...

2011-01-12 Thread teddieeb
Hi Hi Goldielocks I am a Bear... But just a cute fuzzy baby bear; you no hafta run away!!! *giggles* TeddyB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: [OT] Hard Drive Energy Not Worth Conserving drives?

2011-01-10 Thread teddieeb
I think what we mainly should take from all this is Western Digital sucks and we should never buy their crap... I know there are some who will disagree with this, so no flames needed... TeddyB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Debian or Mint for Games?

2011-01-08 Thread teddieeb
Hi: Last night at the 2600 group I managed to score a deal on some basic hardware, though not all that impressive, a major leap forward for my desktop. Anyways; I have been a Debian fan for quite awhile but I do believe there are different distros for different things. My roomate has been

Re: Debian or Mint for Games?

2011-01-08 Thread teddieeb
Klistvud; Thank you for the info and links, I will spend some time pouring over em. If anybody is interested; I, for the time; am still useing my old evga geforce 6600, w/ 128 GB RAM, if I really get into it I may invest in a better graphics card but for now this one will do... TeddyB --

Re: Debian or Mint for Games?

2011-01-08 Thread teddieeb
Andrei Popescu said: You said nothing about the games you intend to play. [Snip] -- I apologize, I am mainly refering to windows based games, rpg's fps's and console emulators. I do from time to time play linux based games, but when asking this question I was referring to / thinking of

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-08 Thread teddieeb
I've been seeing a lot of random freezes on a number of Debian systems (testing and unstable) over the last few months. Resources shouldn't be an issue--one is a quad core system with 8GiB memory and very fast discs. But I regularly see X programs freezing for tens of seconds, even in konsole

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-08 Thread teddieeb
Neil Youngman said: OK, I'm obviously missing something here. Sid is testing, squeeze is in testing, I thought sid and squeeze were essentially the same thing? Essentially I changed the priorities to make testing the default and did an apt-get dist-upgrade, although I had previously upgraded a

Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?

2011-01-07 Thread teddieeb
An operating system should have reliable backup policies built-in; for example, it should backup the entire /home subtree to rewritable DVDs, or a network share, on a weekly basis. When installing the system, the user should be asked where to and how often the backups should be made, just

Re: Limited or no video playback with mkv containing H.264

2011-01-06 Thread teddieeb
Maybe the MKVs are corrupt ? does mplayer fare any better ? I got an AMD with a Geforce 7000 with nividia drivers and stock Xorg conf with whatever settings the nvidia-config sets at the time of installation and MKvs with h264 plays just fine on both VLC and mplayer. Both players using whatever

Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?

2011-01-05 Thread teddieeb
No, she didn't. She thought that because she had used the program Picasa, then Picasa would magically produce her 'photos. She did not have them online. There was only the one copy on her computer. She just usually viewed them with Picasa. I did paid support. I had to support no matter

Re: why is this html looks like this?

2011-01-05 Thread teddieeb
You posted the same link twice, and the .png file has a big black block over most of it on my system (I think I may have an X-related video glitch on my box), so I can't see what it's supposed to be. - I got the black box too, on my NON X related Blackberry, Though phone browsers aren't the

Limited or no video playback with mkv containing H.264

2011-01-05 Thread teddieeb
Hello; I am about to kill my computer... I have an older AMD Atholon64 3200 With 2GB RAM and an EVGA Geforce 6600 Graphics card (128 mb Graphics Memory) I am running Testing with current Kernel 2.6.32-5-686 I have some .mkv video files containing H.264 in VLC I get Audio and Solid green

Re: dumb question about blu ray drive configuration and playingblu ray movies etc....

2010-12-29 Thread teddieeb
I don't mean to sound dogmatic, But when will the Multi Billion dollar corporations understand that the harder they go DRM the more they entice people to break it Nowadays they have to worry about not only people who wish to pirate their media taking a crack at their stuff You have people

Re: lenny squeeze etc etc

2010-12-22 Thread teddieeb
On Tuesday 21 December 2010 22:16:42 Mark Goldshtein wrote: It is, however, easier if the names are in some easily remembered progression (e.g. Hardy, Intrepid, Jaunty etc.) than if they are random (Woody, Sarge, Etch, Lenny ...) - I always found Ubuntu's system more confusing in terms of

Re: lenny squeeze etc etc

2010-12-22 Thread teddieeb
To me, it seems reasonable to talk about this as newcomers (me included) are not aware of the inners of these naming decisions, but my vote would go for the current system. [SNIP] Camaleón --- Camaleón, a newcommer??? I just don't see that, you are able to like help almost everybody who

Re: lenny squeeze etc etc

2010-12-22 Thread teddieeb
Rumors are, there is a Debian based operating system out there, that numbers it's releases year/month and gives them alphabetically ascending code names... flori --- Yes, and just like Voldermort, we must not speak it's evil name... TeddyB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: lenny squeeze etc etc

2010-12-22 Thread teddieeb
Miles Fidelman writes: Ahhh... so that's an essential qualification for using Debian? :-) - Well, Technically, Squeeze could mean a lot of things to a lot of diffrent people... Just putting that out there I've gone way past helpful this time; TeddyB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: lenny squeeze etc etc

2010-12-20 Thread teddieeb
Jim Pazarena said: what possessed the debian people to tack names on to the OS? having actual version/release numbers seems so much clearer. And there does appear to BE release numbers. So why promote the goofy naming system which throws the novice? - Windows 98, 2000 Pro., ME, XP, Vista,

Re: Which OS to install?

2010-12-16 Thread teddieeb
Ressell Gadd said so I think I should start with a clean system. At present I use Lenny (AMD64) with a couple of backports (maybe they are part of the problem), although I do multiboot several OS's and I can install another easily. So I think I may install another OS just for this project (which

Re: Spontaneously aborting X startup during Linux boot process

2010-12-16 Thread teddieeb
You can instruct the OS to boot into a diffrent run level by editing the kernel line before you boot it in grub. It will affect only that boot. I don't have the comand syntex infront of me, but a google for it should produce the info. -Original Message- From: Juan Ignacio Gaudio

Re: Problem flushing buffers for USB devices.

2010-12-11 Thread teddieeb
Jansen napisal(a): Greetings, The flushing of buffers for devices plugged into a USB port is problematic. When writing data to a USB stick it usually took two attempts to write a directory to a USB stick. The first attempt didn't show the directory was there when it was

Re: USB soundbar as default audio device

2010-12-10 Thread teddieeb
Chris Jones wrote: On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 12:15:33PM EST, deloptes wrote: Chris Jones wrote: I am trying to set up a USB sound bar on someone else's laptop running ubuntu 10.10 with a gnome desktop. what is this sound bar? something to eat :-)? No, a place where they charge the

Re: need help on recovering Windows partition

2010-12-03 Thread teddieeb
Finding the data is coincidence because you have created partitions with same sizes, still you have corrupted some entries in the partition table and you need to repair it. partition magick and alike tools do it. -- What I don't get is this, if you are able to access the data, doesn't

Re: can grub on one disk boot OS on another disk?

2010-11-21 Thread teddieeb
The hd[#,#] doesn't refer to the device type (i.e. scsi disk sda) grub operates BEFORE the OS and so that doesn't come into play. If your IDE device is hd[0,#] than your SCSI device is going to be hd[1,#] Obviously you must substitute the second # with the partition number your Win 98 OS is

Re: how to kill a process that is defunct?

2010-11-21 Thread teddieeb
Not really an answer, but I disliked transmission. I've had far better luck with qbittorrent Just a thought TeddyB -Original Message- From: Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:50:13 To: Arthur Belajozsi.avad...@gmail.com Cc: Debian User Mailing

Re: can grub on one disk boot OS on another disk?

2010-11-21 Thread teddieeb
Well what does the partitioning on the SCSI disk look like? It's odd for the system to boot into the HDA device using hd[0,#] AND hd[1,#] even if hd[1,#] was incorrect for the SCSI device, it should give you a can't find error, devices 0 AND 1 shouldn't work for the same OS in any case. If

Re: can grub on one disk boot OS on another disk?

2010-11-21 Thread teddieeb
The (hd1,0) structure is right, sorry for syntax error, was working from memory. Looking at your list entry, it should work. The two drives are the only ones in the machine right? And you said if you boot it with (hd1,0) it gives you same os as configured for (hd0,0) ?? H, if this is all

Re: can grub on one disk boot OS on another disk?

2010-11-21 Thread teddieeb
Well that's good! It's what I would expect it to do if it didn't find the boot partition specified. You say Sda1 is the Win 98 OS In question? Are you certain of this?? the partitions on the hda device boot with (hd0,#) and there are no other disk drives?? TeddyB -Original Message-

Re: (solved)Re: can grub on one disk boot OS on another disk?

2010-11-21 Thread teddieeb
Hmmm, I learned sometin'; I didn't know about the whole map/hide triggers. Good call Camale=F3n! Glad it's working now Long Wind. TeddyB -Original Message- From: Long Wind longwind2...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 15:02:31 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc:

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-21 Thread teddieeb
I agree Nuno Magalhães; I use to use KDE, I loved the incredible functionality and customization you got from it. Now I've switched to Lxde, not because I like it, but because KDE4 is complete tripe, sure it looks pretty, but there is really no customization to it, which background image do

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-21 Thread teddieeb
Below... If people really feel they NEED desktop widgets either make it add on software or make a third party desktop environment based off the main environment. The way it is now KDE and Gnome, the two biggest are competing for 'most bloat award' and the sleek fast environments like lxde

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-20 Thread teddieeb
You know; I have to side with Sthu on this. I run a testing install on my AMD 64 3200+ which is maxed out at two gigs of ram. My system runs fine without any problems and I use Ice Weasel, mind you, I also save bookmarks and such and though I run some tab nowhere near 200. Though I also often

Re: can grub on one disk boot OS on another disk?

2010-11-20 Thread teddieeb
Running etch your most likely running grub1. If this is the case you must edit your /boot/grub/menu.list There are entries for each item on your boot menu. You must create an entry for Windows 98, you define the location of your installation via the hd[0,1] entry. The first number is your

Re: Why is troubleshooting Linux so hard?

2010-11-17 Thread teddieeb
Jesús; Your argument is bogus, how many threads do you sit on and are you arguing about this? How many OS's are you trying to convince??? What you seem to be missing, and has been pointed out over and over is yes Debian as a Distribution is developed by volunteers, yes you can go around

Re: unable to register inhibitor with session bus

2010-11-17 Thread teddieeb
How Rude... Are you really confused as to why you haven't received a reply to this question on web based forums? I really doubt you have put any effort at all into finding the answer on your own given you apparently didn't read the mailing list rules and the references it made to foul

Re: can't read asus support dvd

2010-11-16 Thread teddieeb
I'm assuming you checked this already; But is the disk filthy or scratched to heck and back?? I dunno that I've ever seen LBA Errors from a CD... Is this disk original manufacture's disk or home made burned copy? TeddyB -Original Message- From: Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com

Re: Packages - what's the best way?

2010-11-14 Thread teddieeb
Your primary method of installing programs is going to be apt-get, especially if your new to linux. Apt is in essence a front end that runs ontop of dpkg and uses remote repositories to fetch, install, remove, and upgrade programs, including the dependences of those programs. This is a major

Re: Where has my Windows partition gone?

2010-11-13 Thread teddieeb
I have had grub do this sortta thing before... Check your menu.list file and see if the entry for windows is still there, I have seen it disappear or somehow be eaten. /boot/grub/menu.list I don't have an example code in front of me but you can look it up and verify it, mostly you just need

Re: Where has my Windows partition gone?

2010-11-13 Thread teddieeb
Hmmm, I coulda swore my testing/squeeze install had one. That's the thing I hate, everything always moving around. Grub2 has to have a config file somewhere that's comparable to menu.list to fetch it from, what is the new config file and where is it? Second, I haven't been a fan of the uuid

Re: Where has my Windows partition gone?

2010-11-13 Thread teddieeb
To answer my own questions... Grub2 seems to store it's configurations in /boot/grub/grub.cfg But this file is not meant to be manually configured, it can be, but is discouraged and is read-only by default. Standard manual menu edits should be done in /etc/grub.d/40_custom This is a module

Re: how to start gnome from the command line

2010-11-12 Thread teddieeb
You know; I know this is an unenlightened response, but sometimes it's easier than de bugging. I would apt-get purge the gnome packages you have installed (purge removes config files too) and then apt-get install the gnome-core package mentioned earlier; which should install and config x as

Re: Making /tmp noexec

2010-11-12 Thread teddieeb
This is more of an F-MY-I question, but if the /tem dir is a separate partition and your using a mount command in fstab, could you limit the execute capabilities via umask? I would think umask=111 would set the directory world read and write with no Execute permissions *NOTE* I don't fully

Re: Older Toshiba won't restart only halt

2010-11-11 Thread teddieeb
My roommate says your issue is most likely ACPI and alternate OS's such as windows are likely to have same issues. He said it's a common problem with aging toshibas and he hasn't found a workable solution. He suggest testing with other OS's such as windows or a live cd distro to verify chip