http://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_451
2014-10-07 18:22 GMT+02:00 Don Armstrong :
> On Tue, 07 Oct 2014, Matthew Brown wrote:
> > For Debian 5 and 7, if I do an update from the debian site will it
> address
> > the Shellshock issue? If not, is there a particular way you'd rec
On Tue, 07 Oct 2014, Matthew Brown wrote:
> For Debian 5 and 7, if I do an update from the debian site will it address
> the Shellshock issue? If not, is there a particular way you'd recommend
> that I patch these server? I appreciate your help and thank you in advance!
Lenny
Hello Andrew.
I hope all is well.
For Debian 5 and 7, if I do an update from the debian site will it address
the Shellshock issue? If not, is there a particular way you'd recommend
that I patch these server? I appreciate your help and thank you in advance!
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 10:
Ken Heard wrote:> ...
> Some people however do use the word "medias". On the other hand does
> anyone use the word datas? If not, it is logical to conclude that
> they give word "data" a plural meaning.
Wrong--what is logical to conclude is that they consider "data" what
another poster called a
André Nunes Batista writes:
> But your despise will be here for the record...
"Despise"?
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On Wed, 2014-05-21 at 10:03 -0400, Ken Heard wrote:
> On 2014-05-21 04:23, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > On 20 May 2014, Weaver wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
>
> > Pedantic or not, I'd never treat data or media as singular. An
> > still worse usage, which I find even with some scientific speakers,
> > is t
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On 2014-05-21 04:23, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 20 May 2014, Weaver wrote:
>
> [snip]
> Pedantic or not, I'd never treat data or media as singular. An
> still worse usage, which I find even with some scientific speakers,
> is to use bacteria as sin
On 20 May 2014, Weaver wrote:
[snip]
> This is only currently in the context of scientific literature and even
> perhaps dying out in that context, over time, also.
>
> It descends from English language inheritance of Latin language
> terminology, and the English language is moving on, as langu
On Tue, May 20, 2014 8:00 am, Ken Heard wrote:
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> On 2014-05-19 16:22, Mike McGinn wrote:
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>
>> I would suggest identifying an backing up the scientific data. I
>> would suggest putting a backuo program in place and auditing the
>> backups to
On Tuesday 20 May 2014 21:50:27 Slavko wrote:
> This is international ML, not all posters are native English speakers
> (BTW i never meet any native English speaker), then IMO some tolerance
> is needed (and expected).
I agree, Slavko.
But, to be fair to Ken, some at least of those using data as
Ahoj,
Dňa Tue, 20 May 2014 14:49:02 -0400 Ken Heard
napísal:
> The Oxford English Dictionary however agrees with me.
This is international ML, not all posters are native English speakers
(BTW i never meet any native English speaker), then IMO some tolerance
is needed (and expected).
regards
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On Tue, 20 May 2014 14:49:02 -0400
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> On 2014-05-20 12:16, Filip wrote:
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> > On Tue, 20 May 2014 17:03:16 +0100 Lisi Reisz
> > wrote:
> >
> >> (Sorry, Ken. re-sending correctly to list.)
> >>
> >> On Tuesday 20 May 2014 16
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On 2014-05-20 12:16, Filip wrote:
> On Tue, 20 May 2014 17:03:16 +0100 Lisi Reisz
> wrote:
>
>> (Sorry, Ken. re-sending correctly to list.)
>>
>> On Tuesday 20 May 2014 16:00:42 Ken Heard wrote:
>>> Please note everybody that the word "data" is pl
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On 2014-05-20 12:03, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> (Sorry, Ken. resending correctly to list.)
>
> On Tuesday 20 May 2014 16:00:42 Ken Heard wrote:
>> Please note everybody that the word "data" is plural. The
>> beginning of the last line quoted above should c
Yeah, if you'm dumb, why not be dumbder..
Wen us all jess grunts is be no confison yeah!
On 20 May 2014 19:19, Brian wrote:
> On Tue 20 May 2014 at 17:03:16 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday 20 May 2014 16:00:42 Ken Heard wrote:
> > > Please note everybody that the word "data" is p
On Tue 20 May 2014 at 17:03:16 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 May 2014 16:00:42 Ken Heard wrote:
> > Please note everybody that the word "data" is plural. The beginning
> > of the last line quoted above should consequently read "all the
> > scientific data *are* backed up." Other posts
On Tue, 20 May 2014 17:03:16 +0100
Lisi Reisz wrote:
> (Sorry, Ken. resending correctly to list.)
>
> On Tuesday 20 May 2014 16:00:42 Ken Heard wrote:
> > Please note everybody that the word "data" is plural. The beginning
> > of the last line quoted above should consequently read "all the
> >
(Sorry, Ken. resending correctly to list.)
On Tuesday 20 May 2014 16:00:42 Ken Heard wrote:
> Please note everybody that the word "data" is plural. The beginning
> of the last line quoted above should consequently read "all the
> scientific data *are* backed up." Other posts in this thread make
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On 2014-05-19 16:22, Mike McGinn wrote:
> I would suggest identifying an backing up the scientific data. I
> would suggest putting a backuo program in place and auditing the
> backups to make sure that all the scientific data is backed up.
> Only th
On Ma, 20 mai 14, 10:35:34, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Lu, 19 mai 14, 15:40:05, Jim Harris wrote:
> > We checked the archives, however they seem to be closed at this time.
>
> Check http://achive.debian.org
^^^
Sorry, that is a*r*chive, of course.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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On Lu, 19 mai 14, 15:40:05, Jim Harris wrote:
> We checked the archives, however they seem to be closed at this time.
Check http://achive.debian.org
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> computer people at the time, but have since moved on to other things. It is
> running Debian 5 and has not been upgraded since that time. We checked the
> archives, however they seem to be closed at this time. Would you say this
> person is “screwed” in that they ca
On Monday 19 May 2014 20:40:05 Jim Harris wrote:
> I ran into a situation whereby a server was not well maintained and
> contains some critical scientific information for someone I know.
Updating and upgrading only matters if the machine is in contact with the
outside world. Otherwise, if it is
eople at the time, but have since moved on to other things. It is
> running Debian 5 and has not been upgraded since that time. We checked the
> archives, however they seem to be closed at this time. Would you say this
> person is “screwed” in that they cannot upgrade to the latest ver
On 05/19/2014 03:40 PM, Jim Harris wrote:
If it can be saved, what would be a suggestion? Thank you.
Depends on the data format. Upgrading it would be arduous and time
consuming. It would probably take less to backup the data, re-install
the server to bring it up to date and then bring th
ted computer people at the time, but have since moved on to other
> things. It is running Debian 5 and has not been upgraded since that time.
> We checked the archives, however they seem to be closed at this time.
> Would you say this person is “screwed” in that they cannot upgrade to the
> l
. It is
running Debian 5 and has not been upgraded since that time. We checked the
archives, however they seem to be closed at this time. Would you say this
person is “screwed” in that they cannot upgrade to the latest version? If it
can be saved, what would be a suggestion? Thank you.
Jim
Benitez, Alejandro (Infolink Miami) wrote:
> There any via to fix the following :
>
> W: GPG error: http://archive.debian.org lenny/updates Release: The following
> signatures were invalid: KEYEXPIRED 1356982504 W: GPG error:
> http://archive.debian.org lenny/volatile Release: The following sig
Hi,
There any via to fix the following :
W: GPG error: http://archive.debian.org lenny/updates Release: The following
signatures were invalid: KEYEXPIRED 1356982504 W: GPG error:
http://archive.debian.org lenny/volatile Release: The following signatures
were invalid: KEYEXPIRED 1358963195 W:
>> On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Joel Rees wrote:
>>
>> From research that I had previously done, the simplest option (for me,
>> being a fairly simple kind of person) appeared to be PC-BSD
>> (http://www.pcbsd.org/). PC-BSD 8.x had only a KDE GUI (from memory),
>> and I am, a GNOME GUI user (from memory,
On 31/07/12 13:35, Joel Rees wrote:
Looking at Samsung's pages, they say the scanner is compatible with
twain, so you should be able to take a scan from it okay.
Um, my understanding of TWAIN may be rusty and incomplete, but my
understanding is that it's an interface between their (Windows) sc
On 7/25/12, Bret Busby wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Joel Rees wrote:
>
>>
>> On 7/23/12, Bret Busby wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> One of the reasons that I wanted to be able to log in as root, is to
>>> perform an update on that system.
On Thu, 26 Jul 2012, Lisi wrote:
On Thursday 26 July 2012 05:19:34 Bret Busby wrote:
I found two distinct problems, when I tried using the URL in one of the
screenshots from the splix web site; the URL apparently being for CUPS.
The first, relates to -> "Find New Printers". Selecting
this bu
On Thursday 26 July 2012 05:19:34 Bret Busby wrote:
> I found two distinct problems, when I tried using the URL in one of the
> screenshots from the splix web site; the URL apparently being for CUPS.
>
> The first, relates to -> "Find New Printers". Selecting
> this button, leads to
>
> "
> Availa
On Jo, 26 iul 12, 12:19:34, Bret Busby wrote:
>
> Also, in switching on the printer, I get dialogue box "New printer
> found Samsung CLX-3180 series" I select "Search", which opens up two
> dialogue boxes, and the one "New Printer", in choosing "Select
> printer from database" and "Samsung", gives
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Lisi wrote:
On Wednesday 25 July 2012 21:20:52 Andrei POPESCU wrote:
But, splix does not appear in any of the menu's, and the web site
for splix, does not include any instructions, including how to run
splix.
Splix is a driver, so you will not find it in any menu. Instea
On Wednesday 25 July 2012 21:20:52 Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > But, splix does not appear in any of the menu's, and the web site
> > for splix, does not include any instructions, including how to run
> > splix.
>
> Splix is a driver, so you will not find it in any menu. Instead you
> should try to ad
On Jo, 26 iul 12, 00:48:20, Bret Busby wrote:
>
> I believe that it was Debian 5 with which I had tried splix previously.
>
> In looking at http://splix.ap2c.org/ , the Samsung CLX-3185 is not
> listed as being compatible with splix.
>
> However, using Synaptic, I have inst
Hi,
Dňa Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:48:20 +0800 (WST) Bret Busby
napísal:
> I believe that it was Debian 5 with which I had tried splix previously.
>
> In looking at http://splix.ap2c.org/ , the Samsung CLX-3185 is not
> listed as being compatible with splix.
My experiences with splix
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:18:34
From: Andrei POPESCU
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account
On Ma, 24 iul 12, 01:20:26, Bret Busby wrote:
It seems strange (to me), that notification of an update
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Ma, 24 iul 12, 01:34:16, Bret Busby wrote:
My previous experience with splix, is not good.
From memory, I tried splix with the first CLX-3185FW (it died a
few
months ago, just before the Debian 5 workstation died, from memory -
we have an
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 02:42:44 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Camaleón wrote:
>
>
>> On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 01:20:26 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>>
>> (...)
>>
>>> It seems strange (to me), that notification of an update release is
>>> broadcast, and then all repositories of that versio
>>
>>> Please enter the directory in which the mirror of the Debian archive
>>> is located.
>>> (/debian)
>>> "
>>
>> (...)
>>
>> An here with: "/debian-archive/debian"
>>
>> THT.
>>
> I do not kn
On Ma, 24 iul 12, 01:20:26, Bret Busby wrote:
>
> It seems strange (to me), that notification of an update release is
> broadcast, and then all repositories of that version, are
> disappeared at the same time as that release.
Quoting from the announcement:
,
| Please note that the oldstable
On Ma, 24 iul 12, 01:34:16, Bret Busby wrote:
>
> My previous experience with splix, is not good.
>
> >From memory, I tried splix with the first CLX-3185FW (it died a
> >few
> months ago, just before the Debian 5 workstation died, from memory -
> we have an unsafe
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Joel Rees wrote:
On 7/23/12, Bret Busby wrote:
[...]
One of the reasons that I wanted to be able to log in as root, is to
perform an update on that system.
The system is running Firestarter on Debian 5.
However, another problem has arisen, that indicates that that
On 7/23/12, Bret Busby wrote:
> [...]
>
> One of the reasons that I wanted to be able to log in as root, is to
> perform an update on that system.
>
> The system is running Firestarter on Debian 5.
>
> However, another problem has arisen, that indicates that that syste
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Camaleón wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 01:20:26 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
(...)
It seems strange (to me), that notification of an update release is
broadcast, and then all repositories of that version, are disappeared at
the same time as that release.
No repo has dissapear
reetings,
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I do not know what the acronym "THT" means, but the method above, solved
the problem, and Debian 5 is now installed on the laptop.
I have just realised that the "THT" may be meant to be "HTH" (-Hope That
Helps (?) ). If that is the cas
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 02:04:37 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Camaleón wrote:
>
>
>> On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 18:23:02 +0100, Brian wrote:
>>> As sure as I can be without moving round the world and after reading
>>> http.debian.net. But it is easy for you to test for your country.
>>>
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 01:45:15 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Brian wrote:
>
>
>> On Mon 23 Jul 2012 at 17:14:42 +, Camaleón wrote:
>>> debian.net ! debian.org
>>
>>
> I think that should be
> debian.net != debian.org (?)
> :)
(...)
Yes if you wanted to be programmatically
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 01:20:26 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
(...)
It seems strange (to me), that notification of an update release is
broadcast, and then all repositories of that version, are disappeared at
the same time as that release.
No repo has dissapeared but moved.
Do the ISO images for D
On Mon 23 Jul 2012 at 17:37:50 +, Camaleón wrote:
> ***
> Using the redirector
>
> Replace your currently configured Debian mirror in sources.list with the
> following address:
>
> (...)
>
> Archived releases (archive.debian.org):
>
> http://http.debian.net/debian-archive
> ***
>
> The
debian/ lenny)".
None of it has worked.
So, I believe that the only way that I am likely to be able to instal
Debian 5, is with optical disk ISO images.
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Armadale
West Australia
..
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what t
from
mirrors.
As Debian 5 can not be updated from Debian 5.0.10 (the latest version of
Debian 5, from what I understand, released in February 2012), if I can
access Debian 5.0.10 ISO images, then that should give me the latest,
and, last possible, updated version of Debian 5, and the system then
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 18:23:02 +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Mon 23 Jul 2012 at 17:14:42 +, Camaleón wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:47:45 +0100, Brian wrote:
>>
>> > Neither will work as none of the mirrors used by http.debian.net has
>> > the Lenny achive on it.
>>
>> Mmm... sure? ;-)
>>
>>
CLX-3185FW (it died a few
months ago, just before the Debian 5 workstation died, from memory - we
have an unsafe electricity supply in this state), as Debian 5 did not
have the drivers, but splix did not work, and I had a problem with the
splix contact, so I used the manufacturer's sof
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 01:20:26 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
(...)
> It seems strange (to me), that notification of an update release is
> broadcast, and then all repositories of that version, are disappeared at
> the same time as that release.
No repo has dissapeared but moved.
> Do the ISO images fo
On Mon 23 Jul 2012 at 17:14:42 +, Camaleón wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:47:45 +0100, Brian wrote:
>
> > Neither will work as none of the mirrors used by http.debian.net has the
> > Lenny achive on it.
>
> Mmm... sure? ;-)
>
> debian.net ! debian.org
As sure as I can be without moving ro
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Brian wrote:
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:47:45
From: Brian
Reply-To: debian-user
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account
Resent-Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:48:03 + (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
On Mon
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:47:45 +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Mon 23 Jul 2012 at 17:39:23 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote:
>> Try putting the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list on that Debian
>> 5.
>>
>> deb http://http.debian.net/debian-archive/debian lenny deb-src
>&
t a year or so, which is
> > unfortunate for a firewall computer.
>
> Try putting the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list on that Debian 5.
>
> deb http://http.debian.net/debian-archive/debian lenny
> deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian-archive/debian le
ortunate for a firewall computer.
Try putting the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list on that Debian 5.
deb http://http.debian.net/debian-archive/debian lenny
deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian-archive/debian lenny
Or in apt configuration
http://http.debian.net/debian-archive/debian lenny
On Sunday 22 July 2012 19:08:46 Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > But I was unable to install the drivers for the printer, on the
> > Debian 6 workstation.
>
> Try splix.
+1
Lisi
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>
> Maybe this is what you want (?)
>
> http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian-5.0/main/installer-i386/20090123lenny10/images/cdrom/
>
> HTH
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That is, I think, one of the places that I looked.
But, with what is there, being
"
Index of
/debian/dists/Debian-5.0/main/installer-i386
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Keith McKenzie wrote:
Bret Busby wrote:
I have a Samsung MFP printer thing; a CLX-3185FW, and I had been
able to use it with a Debian 5 system that I had been using. Then,
the Debian 5 system went awry (a separate system from the firewall
system), and became apparently
Bret Busby wrote:
>
> I have a Samsung MFP printer thing; a CLX-3185FW, and I had been
> able to use it with a Debian 5 system that I had been using. Then,
> the Debian 5 system went awry (a separate system from the firewall
> system), and became apparently unusable.
>
> So,
On Lu, 23 iul 12, 01:49:21, Bret Busby wrote:
>
> I have a Samsung MFP printer thing; a CLX-3185FW, and I had been
> able to use it with a Debian 5 system that I had been using. Then,
> the Debian 5 system went awry (a separate system from the firewall
> system), and became appa
it with a live-CD?
If so you can boot from the live-CD, chroot into the system on the disk and
change the root passwd.
Bye.
One of the reasons that I wanted to be able to log in as root, is to
perform an update on that system.
The system is running Firestarter on Debian 5.
However
On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, Bret Busby wrote:
which I think is the same error message.
It now seems to be fixed.
I have apparently now managed to perform an update, in which Evince was
apparently updated.
Thank you to the people responsible for getting it fixed.
--
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Armadale
West Aust
On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:48:17 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Dec 2011, Camaleón wrote:
(...)
>> That was fast... is now solved. Good job!
>
> But I have just tried again, and I get
>
> "
> Could not initialize the package information
>
> A unresolvable problem occurred while initializing
On Sun, 4 Dec 2011, Camaleón wrote:
On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:05:19 +, Camaleón wrote:
On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:58:13 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
With an update notification (the gold star with the exclamation mark,
in the taskbar), I got the following error.
(...)
Already reported:
http:/
On Sun, 4 Dec 2011, Camaleón wrote:
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 12:13:02 + (UTC)
From: Camaleón
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Debian 5 update system broken
Resent-Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 12:15:49 + (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:05:19
On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:05:19 +, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:58:13 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>> With an update notification (the gold star with the exclamation mark,
>> in the taskbar), I got the following error.
>
> (...)
>
> Already reported:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin
On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:58:13 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I am running Debian 5 on this computer (have been so far unable to
> instal Debian 6 on anything).
>
> With an update notification (the gold star with the exclamation mark, in
> the taskbar), I go
Hello.
I am running Debian 5 on this computer (have been so far unable to
instal Debian 6 on anything).
With an update notification (the gold star with the exclamation mark,
in the taskbar), I got the following error.
"
Could not initialize the package information
A unresolvable pr
On Ma, 22 mar 11, 21:37:02, Karl Wolf wrote:
> Hello,
>
> MAybe that's stupid thing, but I searched on archive.debian.org and I can't
> find it.
> It's really strange, maybe I'm blind but I can't find it. I tried find the
> netinst for amd64 on other websites, but there is only link to debian
>
Hello,
MAybe that's stupid thing, but I searched on archive.debian.org and I can't
find it.
It's really strange, maybe I'm blind but I can't find it. I tried find the
netinst for amd64 on other websites, but there is only link to debian website.
there I can't find it.
Could anyone tell me what'
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 11:47:23PM +0100, David Jardine wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 11:07:58AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/TRUCULANT
>
> Hmm! Over at Oxford we spell it "truculent". ;)
Arrgh!!, I should of noticed that when I cut/p
On Monday 03 January 2011 22:47:23 David Jardine wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 11:07:58AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> >
> > http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/TRUCULANT
>
> Hmm! Over at Oxford we spell it "truculent". ;)
At the other place too! ;-)
Lisi
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On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 11:07:58AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 04:31:01PM +, Lisi wrote:
> > +1 As always someone else can express my thoughts better than I can.
> > Camaleón's English is so good that I often forget that she is not English.
> > But come to think
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 04:31:01PM +, Lisi wrote:
> +1 As always someone else can express my thoughts better than I can.
> Camaleón's English is so good that I often forget that she is not English.
> But come to think of it, perhaps cantankerous is even better in this case!
http://www.web
On Monday 03 January 2011 15:38:51 Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> On 03/01/11 15:29, Camaleón wrote:
> > Not sure if "picky" is the correct term. I wanted to use an adjective to
> > designate people who is... (let me search for a synonym) "punctilious/
> > touchy"? In Spanish that is "quisquilloso".
>
On Monday 03 January 2011 15:29:16 Camaleón wrote:
> "punctilious/
> touchy"?
picky _and_ prickly!! Yes, touchy is the word I was looking for and didn't
find! "touchy and irritable".
But you _do_ seem to mean picky as well - tho' it did not seem to me that it
was his pickiness that needed co
On 03/01/11 15:29, Camaleón wrote:
Not sure if "picky" is the correct term. I wanted to use an adjective to
designate people who is... (let me search for a synonym) "punctilious/
touchy"? In Spanish that is "quisquilloso".
According to Google Translate
http://translate.google.com/#auto|en|quis
On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:34:19 +, Lisi wrote:
> On Monday 06 December 2010 09:30:50 Camaleón wrote:
>> But no need to be so picky
>
> Camaleón -
>
> I thought that this was a typing error the first time I saw it, but I
> think it is a slight semantic error. I think that you mean "prickly"
>
On Monday 06 December 2010 09:30:50 Camaleón wrote:
> But no need to be so picky
Camaleón -
I thought that this was a typing error the first time I saw it, but I think it
is a slight semantic error. I think that you mean "prickly" (easily
irritated), not "picky" (choosy, fussy).
If you do ac
Hi,
On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 12:36:20PM +, Harry Scott wrote:
> I wanted help to install a nvidia legacy graphics driver for TNT 2 AGP
> so I thought to contact the user lists for guidance. This was not
> possible because:
> 1 When I tried to use evolution after asking permission (used windows
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 08:55:39 -0500 (EST), Tom H wrote:
>
> Anyone who's been subscribed to this list for any length of time knows
> that Camaleon is one of the most helpful members here!
>
I agree. Camaleón has earned her place on this list.
As for the OP, he clearly doesn't understand a numbe
On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:14:33 +, H Scott wrote:
(...)
>> > Before I do that I have to get sound from my c-media driver.
>>
>> If you need advice, ask. But no need to be so picky when someone
>> replies to your messages. If do not understand something, just ask the
>> user what is he/she referr
2010/12/7 H Scott :
>
> You think, Cameleon, that I am picky because I think an OS with an automatic
> configuration should be able to correctly configure a Nvidia TNT2 video card
> with a CMedia sound board. Slackware and Zenwalk do a fine job of it.
> Let me say that in one regard you are mistake
al Message -
From: "Camaleón"
To: "Debian [en]"
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 9:30 AM
Subject: Re: Debian 5 installation
> El 2010-12-06 a las 08:33 -, Harry escribió:
>
> (resending to the list)
>
> > - Original Message -
> > From: "Ca
El 2010-12-06 a las 08:33 -, Harry escribió:
(resending to the list)
> - Original Message -
> From: "Camaleón"
> To:
> Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 12:59 PM
> Subject: Re: Debian 5 installation
>
>
> > On Sat, 04 Dec 2010 12:36:20 +,
On Sat, 04 Dec 2010 12:36:20 +, Harry Scott wrote:
> I wanted help to install a nvidia legacy graphics driver for TNT 2 AGP
> so I thought to contact the user lists for guidance. This was not
> possible because:
> 1 When I tried to use evolution after asking permission (used windows
> mail to
I wanted help to install a nvidia legacy graphics driver for TNT 2 AGP
so I thought to contact the user lists for guidance. This was not
possible because:
1 When I tried to use evolution after asking permission (used windows
mail to confirm) I couldn't move its window up to click on forward. The
d
Hi, Ravy:
On Sunday 12 September 2010 11:12:54 Ravi Roy wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 12:58:15PM +0530, Ravi Roy wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > Could somebody help me as how to port pacakges between distributions
[...]
> Thanks Osamu
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 12:58:15PM +0530, Ravi Roy wrote:
> > Hi
> > Could somebody help me as how to port pacakges between distributions ...
> for
> > example a package which exists in debian 5.0 lenny but does not exists
> > in debian
Hi,
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 12:58:15PM +0530, Ravi Roy wrote:
> Hi
> Could somebody help me as how to port pacakges between distributions ... for
> example a package which exists in debian 5.0 lenny but does not exists
> in debian 4.0 etch and I need the same package in debian 4.0 etch.
Why? ...
Hi
Could somebody help me as how to port pacakges between distributions ... for
example a package which exists in debian 5.0 lenny but does not exists
in debian 4.0 etch and I need the same package in debian 4.0 etch.
Thanks for your pointers in advance!
Regards
-RR
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón:
> Seems to be a bug:
>
> bastille -c says not a supported operating system
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=524599
I've seen the report - but saw no solution there and thought because of
the long time passed may something already ha
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