Re: New user question

2014-12-13 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 10:04:02AM -0500, detwy...@riseup.net wrote: ... clicking on the date on the top panel should display my appointments from Evolution... Is this documented? Please provide a reference If you have Gnome installed and Online Accounts configured; usually Evolution will

New user question

2014-12-12 Thread Jeffrey Needle
Hi. I'm pretty new to Debian. I just downloaded the 64-bit .iso and have just installed it. I have a question about the date display on the top panel. My understanding is that clicking on the date on the top panel should display my appointments from Evolution, but it's not working. I have

Re: New user question

2014-12-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 12 December 2014 09:21:31 Jeffrey Needle wrote: Hi. I'm pretty new to Debian. I just downloaded the 64-bit .iso and have just installed it. I have a question about the date display on the top panel. My understanding is that clicking on the date on the top panel should display my

Re: New user question

2014-12-12 Thread berenger . morel
Le 12.12.2014 11:00, Lisi Reisz a écrit : On Friday 12 December 2014 09:21:31 Jeffrey Needle wrote: Hi. I'm pretty new to Debian. I just downloaded the 64-bit .iso and have just installed it. I have a question about the date display on the top panel. My understanding is that clicking on

Re: New user question

2014-12-12 Thread detwyad7
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Re: New user question

2014-12-12 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com [2014-12-12 10:00 +]: On Friday 12 December 2014 09:21:31 Jeffrey Needle wrote: Hi. I'm pretty new to Debian. I just downloaded the 64-bit .iso and have just installed it. I have a question about the date display on the top panel. My

Re: New user question

2014-12-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 12 December 2014 21:54:12 Elimar Riesebieter wrote: * Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com [2014-12-12 10:00 +]: On Friday 12 December 2014 09:21:31 Jeffrey Needle wrote: Hi. I'm pretty new to Debian. I just downloaded the 64-bit .iso and have just installed it. I have a

New User Question

2012-01-03 Thread Martin, Larry D
I have Squeeze on an Intel box with CUPS installed and a PDF printer defined. What I cannot seen to make happen is to use a line command to cause a file to go to the printer and create a PDF document. I can open the file with gedit and print to PDF with no problem. What do I not understand

Re: New User Question

2012-01-03 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:52:52 -0500, Martin, Larry D wrote: Welcome! But please, keep html format off :-) I have Squeeze on an Intel box with CUPS installed and a PDF printer defined. What I cannot seen to make happen is to use a line command to cause a file to go to the printer and create a

Re: New User Question

2012-01-03 Thread Ashton Fagg
On 04/01/12 03:52, Martin, Larry D wrote: What I cannot seen to make happen is to use a line command to cause a file to go to the printer and create a PDF document. What command are you trying to use? And what type of file is that you're trying to print? -- Ashton Fagg (ash...@fagg.id.au)

Re: New User Question

2012-01-03 Thread Wayne Topa
On 01/03/2012 12:52 PM, Martin, Larry D wrote: I have Squeeze on an Intel box with CUPS installed and a PDF printer defined. What I cannot seen to make happen is to use a line command to cause a file to go to the printer and create a PDF document. Larry From a console or terminal you can

Re: nvidia driver problem [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-02-07 Thread Jimmy Wu
On Jan 28, 2008 5:05 PM, Geosand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jimmy Wu wrote: Well, an update: I just ran the nvidia script today (169.09) and it worked. I told it to not look for a precompiled interface on nvidia.com, so it did some compiling on its own, I think, but anyways, after I

Re: compiz + xfce4 on stable (etch) [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-31 Thread Jimmy Wu
On Jan 30, 2008 5:07 PM, Jimmy Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Secondly, is there some sort of compiz settings gui in debian etch? I couldn't find one, and the only thing I have available is gconf-editor, which is usable but difficult. For example, I wanted to turn off the wobbly plugin but I

Re: compiz + xfce4 on stable (etch) [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-31 Thread Jimmy Wu
On Jan 30, 2008 5:07 PM, Jimmy Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I sort of have this working, there's a few more things I have to take care of. First, how do I add an entry in gdm to run compiz instead of xfwm4? I tried to use the method of putting a .desktop file in /usr/share/xsessions, pointing

compiz + xfce4 on stable (etch) [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-30 Thread Jimmy Wu
I sort of have this working, there's a few more things I have to take care of. First, how do I add an entry in gdm to run compiz instead of xfwm4? I tried to use the method of putting a .desktop file in /usr/share/xsessions, pointing to a script in which I run nvidia-settings -l compiz

Re: compiz + xfce4 on stable (etch) [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-30 Thread Arthur Barlow
Jimmy Wu wrote: I sort of have this working, there's a few more things I have to take care of. First, how do I add an entry in gdm to run compiz instead of xfwm4? I tried to use the method of putting a .desktop file in /usr/share/xsessions, pointing to a script in which I run nvidia-settings

Re: nvidia driver problem [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-28 Thread Jimmy Wu
On Jan 25, 2008 9:26 PM, Jimmy Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I will go with the nvidia installer. I'll post back with results of how that goes. Well, an update: I just ran the nvidia script today (169.09) and it worked. I told it to not look for a precompiled interface on nvidia.com, so

Re: nvidia driver problem [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-28 Thread Geosand
Jimmy Wu wrote: On Jan 25, 2008 9:26 PM, Jimmy Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I will go with the nvidia installer. I'll post back with results of how that goes. Well, an update: I just ran the nvidia script today (169.09) and it worked. I told it to not look for a precompiled

Re: nvidia driver problem [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-26 Thread David Baron
On Friday 25 January 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, nv was what the installer picked by default and that didn't work for me (I was surprised by that, but maybe stable uses an older version of nv or something).  Anyways, vesa worked, and it still does now, so that's what I'm using.  

Re: nvidia driver problem [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-25 Thread Jimmy Wu
On Jan 24, 2008 8:54 PM, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] You could get the unstable nvidia-glx source package and build it using Stable tools. Might not work, though, because the latest nvidia drivers are built with modern tool versions. I'd suggest moving up to Lenny/testing.

Re: nvidia driver problem [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/25/08 20:26, Jimmy Wu wrote: On Jan 24, 2008 8:54 PM, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] You could get the unstable nvidia-glx source package and build it using Stable tools. Might not work, though, because the latest nvidia

nvidia driver problem [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-24 Thread Jimmy Wu
I followed the instructions to install the nvidia drivers the Debian way from this site: http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers Every command worked fine, with no error messages. However, when it came time to reboot, I get a black screen shortly after the message that says gdm is starting.

Re: nvidia driver problem [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-24 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Jimmy Wu wrote: I followed the instructions to install the nvidia drivers the Debian way from this site: http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers Every command worked fine, with no error messages. However, when it came time to reboot, I get a black screen shortly after the message that

Re: nvidia driver problem [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-24 Thread Jimmy Wu
On Jan 24, 2008 4:46 PM, Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jimmy, I have not yet looked over your files, but try to boot into single user mode (grub screen, normaly the 2nd line) and as root, type startx and see if it starts. This will rule in or out gdm. I tried that, and got the

Re: nvidia driver problem [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-24 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Jimmy Wu wrote: On Jan 24, 2008 4:46 PM, Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jimmy, I have not yet looked over your files, but try to boot into single user mode (grub screen, normaly the 2nd line) and as root, type startx and see if it starts. This will rule in or out gdm. I

Re: nvidia driver problem [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-24 Thread Jimmy Wu
On Jan 24, 2008 5:06 PM, Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried that, and got the black unresponsive screen again. I guess that rules out gdm? Thanks, Yes it does. Now in single user mode run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg (or xfree-x86?? I use unstable and I don't know

Re: nvidia driver problem [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/24/08 16:18, Jimmy Wu wrote: On Jan 24, 2008 5:06 PM, Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried that, and got the black unresponsive screen again. I guess that rules out gdm? Thanks, Yes it does. Now in single user mode run

Re: nvidia driver problem [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-24 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Thu January 24 2008, Jimmy Wu wrote: Etch uses xorg. Actually, nv was what the installer picked by default and that didn't work for me (I was surprised by that, but maybe stable uses an older version of nv or something).  Anyways, vesa worked, and it still does now, so that's what I'm

Re: nvidia driver problem [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-24 Thread Jimmy Wu
On Jan 24, 2008 5:36 PM, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so look like? I haven't had a chance to check that yet (I put my laptop away and it's charging now). However I think I've figured out the problem (see below...) On Jan 24, 2008 6:23

Re: nvidia driver problem [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/24/08 18:58, Jimmy Wu wrote: [snip] Now, on to a solution. The unstable nvidia-glx does support my card, but I want to run the stable distribution. I know there are ways to configure apt/aptitude/sources.lst to have a mixed system, but is

Re: nvidia driver problem [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-24 Thread David
Jimmy Wu wrote: I followed the instructions to install the nvidia drivers the Debian way from this site: http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers snip Just installed AMD64 Etch on a dual core 64, with a Leadtek Quadro FX540 on a work station. Getting similar reactions with the basic nv

broken Xorg [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-22 Thread Jimmy Wu
Updates on the situation I've shrunk Vista and left it as the first partition on the HD. After looking around, I think that my laptop does not have a recovery partition, which is rather strange. There is no Rescue and Recovery ThinkVantage tool, or anything that says create recovery media at

Re: broken Xorg [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-22 Thread Jimmy Wu
On Jan 22, 2008 12:02 PM, Jimmy Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Updates on the situation I've shrunk Vista and left it as the first partition on the HD. After looking around, I think that my laptop does not have a recovery partition, which is rather strange. There is no Rescue and Recovery

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-19 Thread Dan H
On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:47:29 +0900 David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ext3 is best if you are dealing with a mixture of both and has the added security factor of defaulting to Ext2 if it fails. Although I have never had reason to find out. I'm in the habit of using buggy and crash-prone hardware

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question:

2008-01-19 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 05:32:25PM -0500, Allan Wind wrote: On 2008-01-18T14:05:25-0800, Alvin Oga wrote: (8) Is there any advantage to using ext2 for /boot rather than ext3? no to either /boot should not be a single partition by itself.. it is part of /bin, /lib, /sbin /etc

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-19 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jan 18, 2008, at 1:11 PM, Jimmy Wu wrote: (4) ReiserFS can be flaky on a system crash. I haven't found it to be flaky on system crashes. I have found it to be extremely unforgiving of disk corruption and IDE bus problems. I was able to recover the data with reiserfsck, but it took a

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-19 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jan 18, 2008, at 4:45 PM, Jimmy Wu wrote: On Jan 18, 2008 4:27 PM, Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: xfs sure does copy and delete really large files faster - I do use it for video at home. How big do files have to be before one starts to notice the advantages of XFS? In my

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jimmy Wu wrote: Hello, I am trying to decide on which file systems to use for a Debian install on a personal laptop. It's a Thinkpad T61 with one 160 GB HD. I've looked around on Google, and come up with a lot of frustratingly conflicting advice. For example, an article from

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-18 Thread David
Jimmy Wu wrote: Hello, I am trying to decide on which file systems to use for a Debian install on a personal laptop. It's a Thinkpad T61 with one 160 GB HD. Hello Jimmy, I have found: Xfs is best for large file sizes, if that's what you are dealing with - graphics, and the ilk; Reiserfs

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-18 Thread Allan Wind
On 2008-01-18T16:11:17-0500, Jimmy Wu wrote: (1) ext3 mounts and unmounts slowly, resulting in increased boot times. I use ext3 on same hardware, and (clean) mounts do not take any significant time: [ 19.209034] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. [ 19.209039] VFS: Mounted

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-18 Thread Jimmy Wu
Wow, thanks for the many quick responses. I'm doing a group reply to the list by quoting everyone in one message. Not sure if this is top-posting, bottom-posting, or conversational-posting, but if this goes against mailing list etiquette, please tell me/flame me gently, and I won't do it again.

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question:

2008-01-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 05:32:25PM -0500, Allan Wind wrote: On 2008-01-18T14:05:25-0800, Alvin Oga wrote: (8) Is there any advantage to using ext2 for /boot rather than ext3? no to either /boot should not be a single partition by itself.. it is part of /bin, /lib, /sbin /etc

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-18 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Hugo Vanwoerkom: ext2. Never have used any other. I seriously hope that this was a joke... Aleks signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-18 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Jimmy Wu: I've looked around on Google, and come up with a lot of frustratingly conflicting advice. That's because file systems are Voodoo. Everyone wants to take part in the discussion, without anyone really understanding what they're talking about. For example, an article from

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question:

2008-01-18 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:32:25 -0500 Allan Wind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-01-18T14:05:25-0800, Alvin Oga wrote: (8) Is there any advantage to using ext2 for /boot rather than ext3? no to either /boot should not be a single partition by itself.. it is part of /bin,

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-18 Thread Kent West
Damon L. Chesser wrote: Jimmy Wu wrote: Wow, thanks for the many quick responses. I'm doing a group reply to the list by quoting everyone in one message. Not sure if this is top-posting, bottom-posting, or conversational-posting, but if this goes against mailing list etiquette, please tell

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question:

2008-01-18 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Jimmy Wu wrote: (1) ext3 mounts and unmounts slowly, resulting in increased boot times. any journally fs will be slower than non-journaling fs ( ext2, dos, etc ) (2) Neither JFS nor XFS can be made smaller, although they can be extended if needed. i

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Jimmy Wu wrote: Wow, thanks for the many quick responses. I'm doing a group reply to the list by quoting everyone in one message. Not sure if this is top-posting, bottom-posting, or conversational-posting, but if this goes against mailing list etiquette, please tell me/flame me gently, and I

which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-18 Thread Jimmy Wu
Hello, I am trying to decide on which file systems to use for a Debian install on a personal laptop. It's a Thinkpad T61 with one 160 GB HD. I've looked around on Google, and come up with a lot of frustratingly conflicting advice. For example, an article from debian-administration touts XFS as

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question:

2008-01-18 Thread Allan Wind
On 2008-01-18T14:05:25-0800, Alvin Oga wrote: (8) Is there any advantage to using ext2 for /boot rather than ext3? no to either /boot should not be a single partition by itself.. it is part of /bin, /lib, /sbin /etc ... which is the rootfs even if /boot is fine, if

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Jimmy Wu wrote: Hello, I am trying to decide on which file systems to use for a Debian install on a personal laptop. It's a Thinkpad T61 with one 160 GB HD. I've looked around on Google, and come up with a lot of frustratingly conflicting advice. For example, an article from

Re: Trusted computing [WAS new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-15 Thread Max Hyre
David Brodbeck wrote: I remember when Intel started shipping processors with unique ID numbers. There was much weeping and gnashing of teeth as open-source proponents and privacy advocates declared that this would lead to the end of civilization as we know it. Yup, remember being

Re: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61

2008-01-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 04:51:21PM -0500, Jimmy Wu wrote: am not a big gamer. The only reason I would have Windows is because there might be unforeseeable circumstances when I may run into Windows only software. I am sure if I needed to, I could always shrink by Debian partition later and

Re: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61

2008-01-14 Thread Mike Bird
On Mon January 14 2008 03:47:32 Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 04:51:21PM -0500, Jimmy Wu wrote: am not a big gamer. The only reason I would have Windows is because there might be unforeseeable circumstances when I may run into Windows only software. I am sure if I needed

Re: Trusted computing [WAS new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-14 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jan 13, 2008, at 1:47 PM, Hal Finney wrote: I am actively involved with some open-source TPM projects and see this technology as having tremendous potential. It pains me to see so much uninformed FUD being cast about whenever the topic comes up. We're a twitchy bunch, aren't we? I

Re: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61

2008-01-14 Thread Jimmy Wu
On Jan 14, 2008 2:26 PM, Mike Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon January 14 2008 03:47:32 Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 04:51:21PM -0500, Jimmy Wu wrote: am not a big gamer. The only reason I would have Windows is because there might be unforeseeable circumstances when

Re: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61

2008-01-14 Thread David
Mike Bird wrote: snip Lenny installer had no problem shrinking the Vista partition and setting up grub dual boot - actually triple boot on the T61 if you keep the diag partition (recommended). Sorry for butting in, but assuming this is the Lenovo T61, what do you think of it? It's one of a

Re: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61

2008-01-14 Thread Mike Bird
On Mon January 14 2008 13:54:21 David wrote: Lenny installer had no problem shrinking the Vista partition and setting up grub dual boot - actually triple boot on the T61 if you keep the diag partition (recommended). Sorry for butting in, but assuming this is the Lenovo T61, what do you

Re: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61

2008-01-14 Thread David
Mike Bird wrote: On Mon January 14 2008 13:54:21 David wrote: snip Sorry for butting in, but assuming this is the Lenovo T61, what do you think of it? It's one of a number I'm considering at the moment. Did you get the pre-installed SUSE option or do you have Debian installed, and if so,

Re: Trusted computing [WAS new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-13 Thread Hal Finney
Jimmy Wu wrote: I just got the ThinkPad T61 laptop today. I went in to system properties to take a look at the hardware device manager and I noticed it included Trusted Platform Module 1.2. Now, this raised a red flag for me, as my first impressions of trusted computing were framed by this

Re: Trusted computing [WAS new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-13 Thread David
Hal Finney wrote: Jimmy Wu wrote: I just got the ThinkPad T61 laptop today. I went in to system properties to take a look at the hardware device manager and I noticed it included Trusted Platform Module 1.2. Now, this raised a red flag for me, as my first impressions of trusted computing were

Re: Trusted computing [WAS new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-13 Thread ariestao
Jimmy Wu wrote: I just got the ThinkPad T61 laptop today. I went in to system properties to take a look at the hardware device manager and I noticed it included Trusted Platform Module 1.2. Now, this raised a red flag for me, as my first impressions of trusted computing were framed by this

Re: Trusted computing [WAS new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/13/08 17:07, David wrote: Hal Finney wrote: [snip] There is no critique of open source formats here (I've been meaning to check back on the Open Bios project for a while), but I do endorse full control being in the hands of the enduser,

Re: Trusted computing [WAS new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-13 Thread Mike Bird
On Sun January 13 2008 17:18:42 Ron Johnson wrote: Here in the US, 99.5% of the people who regularly use the intarweb couldn't secure their computer with a map, both hands and a flashlight. How about with a Debian installation CD? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Trusted computing [WAS new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-13 Thread David
Ron Johnson wrote: Here in the US, 99.5% of the people who regularly use the intarweb couldn't secure their computer with a map, both hands and a flashlight. They should get the Canadians to show them what they don't know how. Regards, -- David Palmer Linux User - #352034 -- To

Re: Trusted computing [WAS new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/13/08 19:42, David wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Here in the US, 99.5% of the people who regularly use the intarweb couldn't secure their computer with a map, both hands and a flashlight. They should get the Canadians to show them what they

Re: Trusted computing [WAS new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 08:23:30PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/13/08 19:42, David wrote: Here in the US, 99.5% of the people who regularly use the intarweb couldn't secure their computer with a map, both hands and a flashlight. They should get the Canadians to show them what

Re: Trusted computing [WAS new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-12 Thread Martin Marcher
On Saturday 12 January 2008 08:45 David wrote: I'm a member of Al Quaida OMG, everybody RUN! Yes that missquote was on purpose, please read the references before arresting this person...(whoever it may concern...) -- http://noneisyours.marcher.name

Re: Trusted computing [WAS new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-12 Thread Damon L. Chesser
David wrote: Scott Gifford wrote: David [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jimmy Wu wrote: [...] (2) Does Debian support TPM chips? What is the community's take on the issue? My take is that TPM does have some security merits, but it also has a lot of potential for abuse. Google turned up these

Trusted computing [WAS new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-11 Thread Jimmy Wu
On Jan 10, 2008 12:31 PM, David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 9, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Mike Bird wrote: You might want to make the recovery CDs and save the recovery partition. In this sad world, being able to restore/reinstall Vista will dramatically improve resale value when

Re: Trusted computing [WAS new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-11 Thread David
Jimmy Wu wrote: snip I just got the ThinkPad T61 laptop today. I went in to system properties to take a look at the hardware device manager and I noticed it included Trusted Platform Module 1.2. Now, this raised a red flag for me, as my first impressions of trusted computing were framed by

Re: Trusted computing [WAS new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-11 Thread Andrew Reid
On Friday 11 January 2008 22:14, Jimmy Wu wrote: On Jan 10, 2008 12:31 PM, David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 9, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Mike Bird wrote: You might want to make the recovery CDs and save the recovery partition. In this sad world, being able to restore/reinstall

Re: Trusted computing [WAS new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-11 Thread Scott Gifford
David [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jimmy Wu wrote: [...] (2) Does Debian support TPM chips? What is the community's take on the issue? My take is that TPM does have some security merits, but it also has a lot of potential for abuse. Google turned up these results of the beginnings of TPM

Re: Trusted computing [WAS new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-11 Thread David
Scott Gifford wrote: David [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jimmy Wu wrote: [...] (2) Does Debian support TPM chips? What is the community's take on the issue? My take is that TPM does have some security merits, but it also has a lot of potential for abuse. Google turned up these results of the

Re: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61

2008-01-10 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jan 9, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Mike Bird wrote: On Wed January 9 2008 13:51:21 Jimmy Wu wrote: The reasons I don't want Vista are as follows: (1) Microsoft claims even the Home Basic needs 20 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space (see

Re: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Lale
Jimmy Wu wrote: [...] I have a few questions before I wipe Vista off the laptop, specifically about the Thinkpad software that comes preloaded. Does Debian provide similar support for stuff like the Client Security that manages the fingerprint reader, and other stuff the volume buttons, the

Re: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61

2008-01-09 Thread Jimmy Wu
Thanks to Chris and Mike for your responses - I appreciate your input and time On Jan 9, 2008 6:14 AM, Chris Lale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Perhaps it would be best to install with dual booting by shrinking your Windoze partition - have a look at the Debian NewbieDOC wiki [1]. and On

Re: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61

2008-01-09 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed January 9 2008 13:51:21 Jimmy Wu wrote: The reasons I don't want Vista are as follows: (1) Microsoft claims even the Home Basic needs 20 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space (see http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/systemrequi rements.mspx)

new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61

2008-01-08 Thread Jimmy Wu
Hello to the Debian community, A question for Thinkpad Debian users: I will be getting a Lenovo Thinkpad T61 in a few days, which will become my primary computer for school/home etc. I want to run Debian etch on it, but am relatively new to Debian and Linux (I started with Ubuntu about 7 months

Re: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61

2008-01-08 Thread Mike Bird
On Tue January 8 2008 19:40:43 Jimmy Wu wrote: A question for Thinkpad Debian users: I will be getting a Lenovo Thinkpad T61 in a few days, which will become my primary computer for school/home etc. I want to run Debian etch on it, but am relatively new to Debian and Linux (I started with

Re: new user question about stable branch

2003-11-06 Thread David Z Maze
Chris Ochs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is the stable branch frozen in place except for security/bug fixes from the time it was released? Yes. I installed woody and then upgraded to kernel 2.4.18, which made me think what other packages are update from time to time. In the particular case of

new user question about stable branch

2003-11-05 Thread Chris Ochs
Is the stable branch frozen in place except for security/bug fixes from the time it was released? I installed woody and then upgraded to kernel 2.4.18, which made me think what other packages are update from time to time. Also, I'm assuming that running woody is the best bet for mission

Re: new user question about stable branch

2003-11-05 Thread ScruLoose
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 08:05:57PM -0800, Chris Ochs wrote: Is the stable branch frozen in place except for security/bug fixes from the time it was released? I installed woody and then upgraded to kernel 2.4.18, which made me think what other packages are update from time to time. In terms

RE: New user question

2001-12-26 Thread justin cunningham
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2001 8:47 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: New user question Hi , I have installed Debian on my system and now want to install windows. While installing I made a separate 7 GB FAT32 Partition. When I put the windows bootable disk , Linux

Re: New user question

2001-12-23 Thread Jijo Jose A
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 11:47:29AM -0500, kapil khosla wrote: hi Hi , I have installed Debian on my system and now want to install windows. While installing I made a separate 7 GB FAT32 Partition. i don't clearly understand your problem. what i seem to knew was , u first installed Debian

New user question

2001-12-22 Thread kapil khosla
Hi , I have installed Debian on my system and now want to install windows. While installing I made a separate 7 GB FAT32 Partition. When I put the windows bootable disk , Linux does not reckognize it. What shall I do ..thanks Kapil

Re: New user question

2001-12-22 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: Hi , I have installed Debian on my system and now want to install windows. While installing I made a separate 7 GB FAT32 Partition. When I put the windows bootable disk , Linux does not reckognize it. What shall I do ..thanks Kapil I don't understand

Re: New user question

2001-12-22 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 22 December 2001 4:47 pm, kapil khosla wrote: Hi , I have installed Debian on my system and now want to install windows. While installing I made a separate 7 GB FAT32 Partition. When I put the windows bootable disk , Linux does not