Has anyone heard from Ric Moore lately?

2015-07-14 Thread Gene Heskett
Cheers, Gene Heskett -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Has anyone heard from Ric Moore lately?

2015-07-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 14 July 2015 12:47:05 Gene Heskett wrote: Cheers, Gene Heskett -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene on list 2 weeks ago

Re: typescript of terminal session (was: Was: Ric Moore)

2015-01-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 02:41:10AM -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 1/19/15, Cindy-Sue Causey butterflyby...@gmail.com wrote: I just tried a long shot with apt-cache search record terminal Got back couple interesting looking things. That one on top is right where it showed up, top of

Re: typescript of terminal session (was: Was: Ric Moore)

2015-01-22 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 1/22/15, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 02:41:10AM -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: Ok, sooo... I went ahead and tried asciinema. FAIR WARNING: When it asks you if you want to upload your session, it *uploads* your session *onto the Net*:

Re: typescript of terminal session (was: Was: Ric Moore)

2015-01-22 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 1/23/15, Cindy-Sue Causey butterflyby...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/22/15, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 02:41:10AM -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: Ok, sooo... I went ahead and tried asciinema. FAIR WARNING: When it asks you if you want to upload your

Re: typescript of terminal session (was: Was: Ric Moore)

2015-01-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 20 January 2015 01:40:23 Joel Roth did opine And Gene did reply: Alberto Luaces wrote: Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net writes: Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 18 January 2015 18:21:02 Mart van de Wege did opine [SNIP] apt-get remove network-manager seems to work just

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-20 Thread Richard Owlett
Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 19 January 2015 10:13:20 Richard Owlett did opine And Gene did reply: Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 18 January 2015 18:21:02 Mart van de Wege did opine [SNIP] apt-get remove network-manager seems to work just fine for me. Mart I have attempted that, several

Re: typescript of terminal session (was: Was: Ric Moore)

2015-01-20 Thread Curt
On 2015-01-20, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: 2 of my 4 1Tb disks are reporting 512/4096for sector sizes. GParted, even with round to cylinders checked, seems helpless at fixing this. Really? This seems to imply the contrary:

Re: typescript of terminal session (was: Was: Ric Moore)

2015-01-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 20 January 2015 09:12:49 Curt did opine And Gene did reply: On 2015-01-20, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: 2 of my 4 1Tb disks are reporting 512/4096for sector sizes. GParted, even with round to cylinders checked, seems helpless at fixing this. Really? This seems to

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 20 January 2015 08:57:14 Richard Owlett did opine And Gene did reply: Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 19 January 2015 10:13:20 Richard Owlett did opine And Gene did reply: Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 18 January 2015 18:21:02 Mart van de Wege did opine [SNIP] apt-get

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 19 January 2015 14:42:01 Joe did opine And Gene did reply: On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 04:54:57 -0500 Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: But that leads to the next logical question: What's the difference between using apt-get to do that, and synaptic? Synaptic would have

Re: typescript of terminal session (was: Was: Ric Moore)

2015-01-19 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 1/19/15, Alberto Luaces alua...@udc.es wrote: Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net writes: Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 18 January 2015 18:21:02 Mart van de Wege did opine I have attempted that, several times in the past 5 or 6 years. The list of stuff it will also remove is usually

Re: typescript of terminal session (was: Was: Ric Moore)

2015-01-19 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 1/19/15, Cindy-Sue Causey butterflyby...@gmail.com wrote: I just tried a long shot with apt-cache search record terminal Got back couple interesting looking things. That one on top is right where it showed up, top of the search. Haven't downloaded and tested but description sure fits. :)

Re: typescript of terminal session (was: Was: Ric Moore)

2015-01-19 Thread Joel Roth
Alberto Luaces wrote: Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net writes: Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 18 January 2015 18:21:02 Mart van de Wege did opine [SNIP] apt-get remove network-manager seems to work just fine for me. Mart I have attempted that, several times in the past 5 or 6

Re: typescript of terminal session (was: Was: Ric Moore)

2015-01-19 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
Am editing an important *oops* where a command is misspelled. Not sure the proper protocol for doing this so will addend it up here. asciiname auth should read asciinema auth..: On 1/20/15, Cindy-Sue Causey butterflyby...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/19/15, Cindy-Sue Causey butterflyby...@gmail.com

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-19 Thread Curt
On 2015-01-19, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Thanks Mart. Now I know how to cure that headache. And will do exactly that on my next install. BTW, I don't know whether anyone has mentioned this yet, but you can force static network configuration by providing boot parameter

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-19 Thread Richard Owlett
Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 18 January 2015 18:21:02 Mart van de Wege did opine [SNIP] apt-get remove network-manager seems to work just fine for me. Mart I have attempted that, several times in the past 5 or 6 years. The list of stuff it will also remove is usually several printed

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-19 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 09:13:20AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 18 January 2015 18:21:02 Mart van de Wege did opine [SNIP] apt-get remove network-manager seems to work just fine for me. Mart I have attempted that, several times in the past 5 or 6

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-19 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 09:13:20AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 18 January 2015 18:21:02 Mart van de Wege did opine [SNIP] apt-get remove network-manager seems to work just fine for me. Mart I have attempted that, several times in the past 5 or 6 years.

typescript of terminal session (was: Was: Ric Moore)

2015-01-19 Thread Alberto Luaces
Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net writes: Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 18 January 2015 18:21:02 Mart van de Wege did opine [SNIP] apt-get remove network-manager seems to work just fine for me. Mart I have attempted that, several times in the past 5 or 6 years. The list of stuff it

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-19 Thread Richard Owlett
Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: Hi On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 09:13:20AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: [snip] I had a similar problem some time back. Someone pointed me to a utility that saved everything sent to a console window. It was not redirection nor a pipe as the console retained all its

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-19 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 09:13:20AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: Someone pointed me to a utility that saved everything sent to a console window. Was it script? script — make typescript of terminal session Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail:

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 19 January 2015 01:24:35 Mart van de Wege did opine And Gene did reply: Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com writes: On Sunday 18 January 2015 18:21:02 Mart van de Wege did opine And Gene did reply: Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com writes: On Sunday 18 January 2015 14:12:03 Joe did

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 19 January 2015 09:54:57 Gene Heskett wrote: But that leads to the next logical question:  What's the difference between using apt-get to do that, and synaptic? Synaptic would have literally torn down the system, removing libc6, most of build-essentials among many many others.  I

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 19 January 2015 05:37:47 Lisi Reisz did opine And Gene did reply: On Monday 19 January 2015 09:54:57 Gene Heskett wrote: But that leads to the next logical question: What's the difference between using apt-get to do that, and synaptic? Synaptic would have literally torn down

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-19 Thread Joe
On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 04:54:57 -0500 Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: But that leads to the next logical question: What's the difference between using apt-get to do that, and synaptic? Synaptic would have literally torn down the system, removing libc6, most of build-essentials among

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 19 January 2015 10:13:20 Richard Owlett did opine And Gene did reply: Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 18 January 2015 18:21:02 Mart van de Wege did opine [SNIP] apt-get remove network-manager seems to work just fine for me. Mart I have attempted that, several times in

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 18 January 2015 17:11:55 Andrew M.A. Cater did opine And Gene did reply: On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 06:29:46AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 18 January 2015 05:40:43 Andrew M.A. Cater did opine [Gene] Oh it usually does, until the initial reboot, at which time network

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-18 Thread Mart van de Wege
Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com writes: On Sunday 18 January 2015 18:21:02 Mart van de Wege did opine And Gene did reply: Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com writes: On Sunday 18 January 2015 14:12:03 Joe did opine I don't have Gnome on the workstation either, but I do have various Gnome

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 18 January 2015 18:21:02 Mart van de Wege did opine And Gene did reply: Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com writes: On Sunday 18 January 2015 14:12:03 Joe did opine I don't have Gnome on the workstation either, but I do have various Gnome bits such as Nautilus. It really should be

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 18 January 2015 06:00:55 Lisi Reisz did opine And Gene did reply: On Saturday 17 January 2015 20:38:25 Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 17 January 2015 13:04:09 Clive Standbridge did opine It's a bit late now, but you might have had much lighter download using the network

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 18 January 2015 05:40:43 Andrew M.A. Cater did opine And Gene did reply: On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 03:38:25PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 17 January 2015 13:04:09 Clive Standbridge did opine And Gene did reply: I assume it has a name, is this 7.8=Jessie? Its

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-18 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 17 January 2015 20:38:25 Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 17 January 2015 13:04:09 Clive Standbridge did opine It's a bit late now, but you might have had much lighter download using the network installation CD. Three DVDs is about 13GB; I doubt that most installations would be

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 03:38:25PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 17 January 2015 13:04:09 Clive Standbridge did opine And Gene did reply: I assume it has a name, is this 7.8=Jessie? Its name is wheezy. It's an update, not a new release. See:

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-18 Thread Joe
On Sat, 17 Jan 2015 15:38:25 -0500 Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Unfortunately, the last 9 debian/ubuntu flavored installs, on 4 machines here, have all ran up against Network-Mangler, which promptly tore down any attempts I successfully made to get it online. . . . . Sorry,

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-18 Thread Mart van de Wege
Joe j...@jretrading.com writes: On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 14:52:29 -0500 Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: So how did you kill NM on your workstation? It was never there. It's a dependency of quite a lot of stuff, notably evolution Here on my laptop (running Sid) it's not. I can remove

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-18 Thread Mart van de Wege
Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com writes: On Sunday 18 January 2015 14:12:03 Joe did opine I don't have Gnome on the workstation either, but I do have various Gnome bits such as Nautilus. It really should be possible to avoid NM, but probably not without some effort. Using information that it

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 06:29:46AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 18 January 2015 05:40:43 Andrew M.A. Cater did opine [Gene] Oh it usually does, until the initial reboot, at which time network mangler steps in and destroys your work. ... stuff snipped by Andy ... But no, thats too

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-18 Thread Joe
On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 14:52:29 -0500 Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: So how did you kill NM on your workstation? It was never there. It's a dependency of quite a lot of stuff, notably evolution and ppp, but since I use neither I don't need it. But the Gnome metapackage includes

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 18 January 2015 14:12:03 Joe did opine And Gene did reply: On Sat, 17 Jan 2015 15:38:25 -0500 Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Unfortunately, the last 9 debian/ubuntu flavored installs, on 4 machines here, have all ran up against Network-Mangler, which promptly tore down

Re: Ric Moore

2015-01-17 Thread Ric Moore
On 01/16/2015 09:46 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: So now I am back on the old LUCID based install. Where hopefully I can send an email. With kmail. Lucid is more Jessie level than wheezy level. I use wheezy on the servers, for damn sure. But I run Jessie on my desktop for the Lucid level

Re: Re: Ric Moore

2015-01-17 Thread Clive Standbridge
I assume it has a name, is this 7.8=Jessie? Its name is wheezy. It's an update, not a new release. See: https://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/ https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2015/msg0.html Anybody else? FWIW, 7.8, all 3 dvd's in amd64 format, is being downloaded now. So I'll

Re: Ric Moore

2015-01-17 Thread Ric Moore
On 01/17/2015 01:04 PM, Clive Standbridge wrote: I assume it has a name, is this 7.8=Jessie? Its name is wheezy. It's an update, not a new release. See: https://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/ https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2015/msg0.html Jessie is 8.X It's ready for primetime

Re: Re: Ric Moore

2015-01-17 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 1/17/15, Clive Standbridge list-u...@tgstandbridges.plus.com wrote: Anybody else? FWIW, 7.8, all 3 dvd's in amd64 format, is being downloaded now. So I'll give it one more try. It's a bit late now, but you might have had much lighter download using the network installation CD. Three DVDs

Re:Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 17 January 2015 13:04:09 Clive Standbridge did opine And Gene did reply: I assume it has a name, is this 7.8=Jessie? Its name is wheezy. It's an update, not a new release. See: https://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/ https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2015/msg0.html

Re: Ric Moore

2015-01-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 16 January 2015 21:46:18 Gene Heskett did opine And Gene did reply: Greetings, back on the old 10.04.4 LTS LUCID drive. Ric, installing that mesa library for firefox made firefox work better, no squawking about the missing file. But, it pulled in 19 other packages either for