Off-Line NNTP?

1997-12-21 Thread Carl Fink
like it. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum http://dm.net -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Setting up gs and magicfilter

1997-12-26 Thread Carl Fink
with me, I'll even be glad to help write an understandable document on how to do this. (I have also written a manual or two.) -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum http://dm.net -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

Printing problem solved

1997-12-28 Thread Carl Fink
. . . and I have learned IBM's JCL from the original IBM manuals. (I saw no replies, did my original request for help make it to the list?) -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum http://dm.net -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: Printing problem solved

1997-12-28 Thread Carl Fink
weirdness to it (tagging files is not at all what I'm used to) but it's very useful. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum http://dm.net -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: Offline news access (was: smail config for an ISP with PPP+SMTP+POP3 - How to do?)

1997-12-29 Thread Carl Fink
at slrn, which comes with slrnpull, a program that downloads articles locally but does *not* require you to set up innd on your computer. There are other choices (leafnode, slirp) out there as well. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum http://dm.net

Erols Internet w/1.3.1?

1998-02-07 Thread Carl Fink
, but the connect ppp0---dev/modem just seems to fail, and a ppp0 never appears in the output of ifconfig. I've looked at the PPP-Howto, I've tried the minicom-don't hang up-call pppd sequence, and it just doesn't seem to want to work. Any suggestions? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager

re: Erols Internet w/1.3.1?

1998-02-08 Thread Carl Fink
. Forwarding config files and logs privately. Thanks for offering to help. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum http://dm.net -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: printing .pdf files

1998-02-13 Thread Carl Fink
for the programmer who created it and are nearly incomprehensible to mere users like me. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum http://dm.net -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Printing is landscape

1997-10-13 Thread Carl Fink
understand matters sometimes. Thanks in advance. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum, http://dm.net We've secretly replaced the fine comics plotting we usually serve with Folger's crystals... -Mike Chary -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e

guavac: no documentation

1997-10-27 Thread Carl Fink
for a Java beginner? Are there any guavac docs that actually have information in them? Should I reinstall guavac to get the docs working? I will appreciate any help. Thank you. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum http://dm.net -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Why libc6?

1997-11-25 Thread Carl Fink
but incompatible version have, to justify the effort? Thanks. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum http://dm.net -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

free backup tailored for removable disks

1997-11-29 Thread Carl Fink
by design support multivolume archives? (I kinda miss DOS. PKZip 2 would be perfect for my job, but unfortunately the InfoZip ZIP doesn't natively handle multivolume archives.) Thanks. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] With some technology, you get the feeling that the designers

Iceweasel disables Java plugin, demands non-Debian package

2012-07-21 Thread Carl Fink
version. (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/) So for Debian, Iceweasel demands a plugin which Debian no longer supports, since the sun-java package has been deprecated. This seems like a bad thing. Should I file a bug? Using Wheezy. -- Carl Fink nitpick

Instability in Wheezy system

2012-07-26 Thread Carl Fink
mechanical reset. Ideas? -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Instability in Wheezy system

2012-07-26 Thread Carl Fink
to see if the problem occurs on it too? It's only happened once, total. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: System will no poweroff, noisy boot.

2012-07-29 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 12:58:31PM +0100, Bernado Da Vinci wrote: A related problem is horrifically noisy messages from kernel at boot time. You might post a sample of those messages. At a bit of loss here as to what to try next! Post the relevant parts of, say, syslog? -- Carl Fink

glibc version in Wheezy--any way to use 2.15?

2012-09-09 Thread Carl Fink
not less than six months. So aside from waiting for jessie to exist, what are my options? Has anyone tried installing glibc from unstable in a Wheezy system? How usable is sid, these days? Thanks. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog

Re: glibc version in Wheezy--any way to use 2.15?

2012-09-09 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 05:12:35PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: Some non-packaged software, e.g. the BOINC client, requires a relatively recent version of glibc. Wheezy, the latest non-unstable version of Debian, is stuck at 2.13, released 1.5 years ago, and since it is frozen there won't

Re: glibc version in Wheezy--any way to use 2.15?

2012-09-09 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:50:36AM +0100, Brian wrote: On Sun 09 Sep 2012 at 19:00:33 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: Never mind, I just checked and Sid is also running 2.13. Apparently I'd have to use ANOTHER DISTRO to get a glibc less than 18 months old. Really? Developers: really

Re: glibc version in Wheezy--any way to use 2.15?

2012-09-10 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 09:27:00AM +0100, Brian wrote: On Sun 09 Sep 2012 at 21:23:16 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:50:36AM +0100, Brian wrote: Maybe first read the thread starting at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/07/msg00466.html

Boinc?

2012-06-07 Thread Carl Fink
the Why is my package not in Testing yet? page and was told that no BOINC packages are part of Debian. Why? They used to be. Thanks in advance. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can

Re: Boinc?

2012-06-07 Thread Carl Fink
in the current unstable version, so that would not be a great idea. Instead I downloaded the stable version from Berkeley. Since it doesn't install anything outside my home directory, no harm done. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-08 Thread Carl Fink
true for years. Yes, it is *possible* to do so, but it hasn't really been common for some time. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Iceweasel quits on ^Q even when options and add-on say not to

2012-06-30 Thread Carl Fink
Quit Warning. It doesn't either. Any suggestions on how to proceed, or should I just file a bug? Other installed extensions include: Adblock Plus DownloadHelper DownThemAll Flashblock Image Zoom Newsfox Thanks. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog

Alternative(s) to VirtualBox

2012-07-04 Thread Carl Fink
advice much appreciated. I'm currently running Testing on an AMD FX-8120-based system. Thanks. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Alternative(s) to VirtualBox

2012-07-05 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 01:32:07PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 04/07/12 10:29 PM, Carl Fink wrote ... I tried kvm, but virt-manager reports Unable to connect to libvirt even though libvirtd is running. ... Use virt-manager. It makes running VMs really easy. As you see, I tried that. No luck

Re: Alternative(s) to VirtualBox

2012-07-05 Thread Carl Fink
and it is working fine. But I am not using libvirt now, so IO is a bit slow then. Thanks, but this is essentially the procedure I did follow and it is not working for me. By the way, it is not necessary to copy me on responses. I read the mailing list and have for (argh!) two decades. -- Carl

Re: Alternative(s) to VirtualBox

2012-07-05 Thread Carl Fink
mentioned that I've turned off all acceleration, etc. and it hasn't helped--it also tends to make a video editing application not that useful! -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can

Re: Alternative(s) to VirtualBox

2012-07-05 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 02:08:07PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: Sorry. Have you installed bridge-utils? Yes.q -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Alternative(s) to VirtualBox

2012-07-05 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 08:43:28PM +0100, Chris Davies wrote: Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com wrote: I tried kvm, but virt-manager reports Unable to connect to libvirt even though libvirtd is running. Add yourself to the libvirt group. Already in it. If I start kvm from the command line

Re: Alternative(s) to VirtualBox

2012-07-05 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 08:43:53PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: New information. If I start virt-manager as root I get a different error: Error starting Virtual Machine Manager: No D-BUS daemon running Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py, line 383

Re: Alternative(s) to VirtualBox

2012-07-05 Thread Carl Fink
This is becoming a monologue, but I'm hoping someone doing a search will find the info useful. On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 10:52:53PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 08:43:53PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: New information. If I start virt-manager as root I get a different error

Re: Alternative(s) to VirtualBox

2012-07-06 Thread Carl Fink
of the current incorrect message? -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Mobile devices ... any of them still use Linux?

2012-11-25 Thread Carl Fink
I don't mean Android, a proprietary OS build on the Linux kernel just as MacOS is built on the BSD kernel. Are there any phones or tablets people are aware of that use actual, FOSS, Linux as their OS? -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog

Re: Mobile devices ... any of them still use Linux?

2012-11-25 Thread Carl Fink
://zareason.com/shop/zatab.html What a great-looking device. Only problem: not in stock right now. I literally might have bought it instantly if I could have. Thanks. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid

Re: Mobile devices ... any of them still use Linux?

2012-11-26 Thread Carl Fink
be overturned.) And even if legal it isn't trivial or safe. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Mobile devices ... any of them still use Linux?

2012-11-26 Thread Carl Fink
. http://supportmymoto.com I don't like being told, Yeah, we promised you something, but since it would cost us money to actually do that we're going to just refuse. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations

Re: Mobile devices ... any of them still use Linux?

2012-11-26 Thread Carl Fink
Yury Sakarinen z...@onego.ru wrote: Carl Fink писал 2012-11-26 16:03: I am not a developer, the target market. ahhaha, wrong list to ask questions.. Actually this is Debian User. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Arrgghh! Libreoffice woes!

2012-12-26 Thread Carl Fink
as root it opens. any ideas please folks? My goal is to get the Debian libreoffice working, and dump the source libreoffice. Is this possible please? Have you tried running the executable within strace and seeing what it's looking for when it freezes? -- Carl Fink

PulseAudio--is there a viable alternative?

2013-02-03 Thread Carl Fink
So PulseAudio continues to be buggy to the point of infuriation. Developers, after years of work, have signally failed to fix it. Is eSound still usable? Mabye ALSA? Anything? -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews

Re: [1/2OT] skype

2013-02-09 Thread Carl Fink
crashes. It's not perfect, but quite usable. I strongly recommend doing a test call before your scheduled call to be sure the right audio and video devices are selected. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid

Re: Rooting an Android Tablet on Debian

2013-03-10 Thread Carl Fink
at the same time. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

What does Audacity do when no files are loaded?

2011-11-13 Thread Carl Fink
doing anything. Anyone have a guess about why? Or what it's doing? Debian Wheezy. CPU is an AMD Turion. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

gnome-volume-manager gone?

2011-11-17 Thread Carl Fink
Has anyone else experienced this? I updated my wheezy-running netbook today (over 200 packages), and afterwards gnome-volume-manager and gnome-volume-manager-applet are nonexistent, even if I reinstall gnome-media. Odd. Also annoying. -- Carl Fink nitpick

Re: gnome-volume-manager gone?

2011-11-18 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 02:31:45PM +, Camale?n wrote: On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:41:13 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: Has anyone else experienced this? I updated my wheezy-running netbook today (over 200 packages), Wow, that's too many packages, maybe because you did not run updates

Graphics corruption with Radeon X1270 (RS690M)

2011-11-26 Thread Carl Fink
Technologies Inc RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series] No xorg.conf at the moment. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Graphics corruption with Radeon X1270 (RS690M)

2011-11-26 Thread Carl Fink
) memory:f000-f00f *-pci:1 (Indentation above as shown by lshw.) Thanks. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Graphics corruption with Radeon X1270 (RS690M)

2011-11-26 Thread Carl Fink
, Southbridge ATI SB600 The Radeon FLOSS driver was ok. Kind of hard to add an Nvidia card to a netbook, though. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Graphics corruption with Radeon X1270 (RS690M)

2011-11-27 Thread Carl Fink
59.4Hz -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

shopping cart (ecommerce) recommendation

2011-12-12 Thread Carl Fink
top requirements. Thanks. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: shopping cart (ecommerce) recommendation

2011-12-12 Thread Carl Fink
was willing to use PayPal I'd probably use Wordpress eCommerce. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

radeonhd removed from Testing ... in February, still gone?

2011-12-31 Thread Carl Fink
it be in Wheezy? I ask because, well, I have a Radeon RS690m in my netbook and currently (since fglrx is broken for me) can't use accelerated video. For no visible reason. Thanks. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews

Re: radeonhd removed from Testing ... in February, still gone?

2011-12-31 Thread Carl Fink
It looks like its supposed to be superseded by the radeon driver - have you tried that? If it's superseded why is it in Sid? I have the radeon driver installed but it does not supply 3D acceleration (GLX) on this box. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my

Re: radeonhd removed from Testing ... in February, still gone?

2012-01-01 Thread Carl Fink
, I would open a bug report if radeon, for whatever reason, does not work. I will. Thank you very much. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: radeonhd removed from Testing ... in February, still gone?

2012-01-01 Thread Carl Fink
be the target for all Debian hardware support. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: radeonhd removed from Testing ... in February, still gone?

2012-01-02 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 06:33:45AM +0100, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Carl Fink wrote: You probably never set up a linux desktop back when xorg was still called xfree... ;-) Guess again. I set up xfree86 many times. If you are ever absurdly bored, check how long I've been an occasional poster

Re: radeonhd removed from Testing ... in February, still gone?

2012-01-02 Thread Carl Fink
) expects to *be* perfect. Don't say Since it isn't possible to be perfect, we'll just be terrible. The current system is better than terrible ... but it is bad. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes

Re: radeonhd removed from Testing ... in February, still gone?

2012-01-02 Thread Carl Fink
to be expressing myself unclearly. If one chooses to install the non-free blob and/or driver, it should be a transparent process, not this bizarre you just have to know to run this modprobe command system. And answering text I removed: no, the script did not tell me anything. -- Carl Fink

Re: Boost sound volume?

2011-08-10 Thread Carl Fink
than 100%. (Yes, I know that's stupid.) Unfortunately the system will forget this setting if you ever lower the volume. You can run gnome-volume-control by right-clicking the volume applet and choosing Sound Preferences or from the command line. -- Carl Fink nitpick

Re: Encoder for linux

2011-09-15 Thread Carl Fink
has only a limited number of codec choices. Some possible candidates not already suggested:- Arista, and Nautilus-Arista (Gnome) Winff (any DE) None of which would have occurred to me. How about ffmpeg and mencoder? -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my

Re: Ill advised blundering = nasty mess

2011-09-28 Thread Carl Fink
touch /etc/init.d/sendmail sudo aptitude --purge remove sendmail* However my preferred method: sudo aptitude install postfix Postfix is a drop-in replacement for sendmail that can be configured by mere mortals. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog

Re: Convert mp3 enbulk

2012-02-19 Thread Carl Fink
it, but for a one-time task I'm far too lazy to look them up. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Eee PC video corrupted on boot

2012-03-02 Thread Carl Fink
(there are many) and the video hardware. There's probably a sticker on the keyboard somewhere telling you exactly what video chip the thing uses. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct

Re: Audiobooks

2012-03-11 Thread Carl Fink
addicted on their books :-) And I refuse to join until and unless they remove the stupid DRM. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

[OT] Free Software Phone was Re: [OT] Re: Free as in speech hardware ebook reader

2012-04-07 Thread Carl Fink
Digressing from the OT digression ... anyone know of a smartphone that runs OSS only? I dislike letting my carrier tell me what hardware features I can use, for instance. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews

Re: [OT] Free Software Phone was Re: [OT] Re: Free as in speech hardware ebook reader

2012-04-07 Thread Carl Fink
. That said it's actually a very nice phone with good reception and sound. I've got some 3D printable cases designs for it somewhere - PirateBay may have more (nothing illegal involved). http://www.handheld-linux.com/wiki.php?page=GTA04referer=Neo%20Freerunner Thank you. -- Carl Fink

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

2011-05-17 Thread Carl Fink
everyone on the list is a programmer? 49, arguably anywhere from 5-15 years, 14. The middle term depends on how you define Programming. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can

Re: Why does my system stop frequently?

2011-05-22 Thread Carl Fink
wondering if it's X or the entire system that is pausing. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.

2011-06-06 Thread Carl Fink
, but with the W3C since you're suggesting changing an international standard. -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: Re (5): Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.

2011-06-06 Thread Carl Fink
be broken behavior, and if your mysterious Oberon is doing that it's broken. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Hibernate fails

2011-06-15 Thread Carl Fink
normally--but I wanted to hibernate. Any suggestions? File a bug? -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Hibernate fails

2011-06-16 Thread Carl Fink
XHacksSuspendHook2 ... hibernate: [98] Executing CheckRunlevel ... hibernate: [99] Executing DoSysfsPowerStateSuspend ... hibernate: Activating sysfs power state disk ... Thanks for taking the time. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog

Re: Hibernate fails

2011-06-17 Thread Carl Fink
is the value of:- cat /sys/power/image_size ?? root@cf-gw:/home/carlf# cat /sys/power/image_size 732598272 Thanks again. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct

Re: Hibernate fails

2011-06-18 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 02:27:57PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 17/06/11 23:33, Carl Fink wrote: That's essentially what I did send you. Aaah - the Sun May 8 13:51:57 UTC 2011 caused me to jump to the conclusion it was an old, possible irrelevant log. No matter. No, it's just

Re: Hibernate fails

2011-06-19 Thread Carl Fink
suspending. The fan stays on and the power button won't trigger a resume (nor will anything else). However, the CPU may be shut down, since the fan starts to blow cold exhaust, something that never happens while an OS is running, even if there is almost no load. -- Carl Fink

Re: Hibernate fails

2011-06-20 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:53:23AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 19 iun 11, 14:27:34, Carl Fink wrote: Additional info: apparently it's not actually suspending. The fan stays on and the power button won't trigger a resume (nor will anything else). However, the CPU may be shut down

Re: Hibernate fails

2011-06-20 Thread Carl Fink
the programmer intended. I'm using it to mean not what the end-user expects or wants. Not to be argumentative but I'm correct and you're wrong. :-) Sounds right. Only way to break out it to hold down the power button - or pull the battery (and ps)?. Correct. -- Carl Fink

Re: Hibernate fails

2011-06-25 Thread Carl Fink
.wpa_supplicant1 receive_type=signal/ /policy What do you use to handle wpa_supplicant's networks?? (eg. wicd, NetworkManager) I use nm-applet. Thanks again. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid

Re: Hibernate fails

2011-06-26 Thread Carl Fink
/gdm3 stop from a VT, then press Alt-F7, I can't ever enter any more text, ever. The visual for VT1 continues to display, but nothing I do on the keyboard except Ctrl-Alt-Del has any effect. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com

Re: Hibernate fails

2011-06-26 Thread Carl Fink
service, and rmmod your wifi driver even). Then you'll know whether it's a factor or no. As you'll see if you look upthread, this has been tried repeatedly. WiFi pretty clearly is not a factor. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com

Re: Hibernate fails

2011-06-30 Thread Carl Fink
as your wireless? Network controller: Atheros Communications INC. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01) *do you have a /var/run/wpa_supplicant??* No. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations

Re: Hibernate fails

2011-07-01 Thread Carl Fink
? None at all. Thanks. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Hibernate fails

2011-07-03 Thread Carl Fink
. There are no updates available for my BIOS. Thanks for that Do you have a /var/log/wpa_action.log?? If so please post No such file. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct

Re: What is the future for Debian on (Android) tablets?

2011-07-09 Thread Carl Fink
or in the same way as a laptop or netbook. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: is there no sane, minimal, graphical RSS feed reader in existance?

2011-07-15 Thread Carl Fink
I missed the beginning of this thread and apologize in advance if this is redundant or doesn't answer the OP's question, but the Newsfox addon for Firefox is OK. Not perfect but quite usable. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com

Re: Hibernate fails

2011-07-17 Thread Carl Fink
right that this is reused--it's an ACER netbook rebranded, I believe. I'll see if Kizwan has anything. Thanks again for all the effort you've put into this, Scott. -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

network-manager to share connection

2011-07-30 Thread Carl Fink
this should be dead simple to set up (that's the point) and any problems should be explained to the user in clear error messages. Using Testing, updated this morning. Thanks for any help. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews

Re: Why is Evolution and Epiphany now a part of gnome-core?

2011-01-17 Thread Carl Fink
? Well, in my case, I switch to different FOSS. So ... I guess I move to something other than Debian. Oh well. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Printing on the stairs

1998-06-13 Thread Carl Fink
the mailing list manually because I'm told the mail-to-news gateway is one-way and I'm reading this in linux.debian.user. If the gateway has become two-way, someone tell me and I won't do this any more. Mr. Myers also cc'd in email, unless that address is a spam-blocker.) -- Carl Fink

Re: Install/Uninstall dramas (novice user)

1998-06-14 Thread Carl Fink
be as strict as possible to keep the size down. Optional remains appropriate. Not that I am experienced enough to suggest a list, but perhaps Debian should have a Recommended standard setup for inexperienced users? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Q. Why do some people take astrology seriously

Re: Dosemu

1998-06-21 Thread Carl Fink
be worth your while to page through the conf file and read the comments. Note: because linux.debian.user isn't gatewayed *back* to the mailing list, I'm CC'ing the list and Mr. Kerr. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Q. Why do some people take astrology seriously? a. Because they have

Newton connectivity?

1998-06-28 Thread Carl Fink
Newton web pages, but nothing specific to Linux-Newton relationships. Thanks. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] God never bothered to patent his stuff. --Calvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Package Manager Worthless Junk???

1998-07-09 Thread Carl Fink
and unnecessarily hard to use. Also, it is not suitable for installing an entire system (you are advised to install just the base system, then a few more packages, then a few more . . .). And it can't do automated installs, although the dpkg system that underlies it could be scripted to do so. -- Carl Fink

Re: Debian 1.3 libc6

1998-07-23 Thread Carl Fink
beta testing, but I like to do it on purpose and only on packages I *know* I'm beta testing. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, who else is going to be at WorldCon? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

fdos, and ncftp

1997-06-10 Thread Carl Fink
newbie user request a new package? I'm used to NcFTP, which I've used on Panix (Sun) and on my home machine under OS/2. Sure, I could compile it myself, but I'm afraid that as soon as I do, a package would be released and I'd have a hard time upgrading. :-) Thanks. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL

Re: Your friends...... whatever.

1998-09-08 Thread Carl Fink
Some time around Mon, 07 Sep 1998 18:44:35 +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: [AOL] . . . their clueful/clueless ratio is probably the lowest in the industry ;-). One word: WebTV. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your brain is actually a fabulously complex computer, which

Re: COBOL for linux

1998-09-18 Thread Carl Fink
compiler technology. Next page of hits: http://www.deskware.com/cobol/cobol.htm http://www.acucobol.com/ Not too difficult, really. And I don't even know COBOL. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum http://dm.net

Re: Iomega Zip

1998-09-20 Thread Carl Fink
/Windows machines. Granted, I did that under OS/2. (Yes, I do use lots of operating systems, why do you ask?) So one *can* reformat a Zip disk. I suspect fdformat would work, but I've never had to do it under Linux so that's a complete guess. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager

Re: wwwoffle - how do I use it?

1998-09-28 Thread Carl Fink
-down scripts respectively, so when I'm dialed into my ISP, wwwoffle doesn't stop my web use, but when I'm offline, it caches requests for later. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum http://dm.net

Re: fsck hangs my machine unpredictably

2003-10-09 Thread Carl Fink
is fine so I can boot OK if I unplug the defective drive, its my 180G data drive thats screwed.) Sure. Edit /etc/fstab and add the keyword noauto to the entry for the suspect drive. You can of course check man fstab for more details. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's

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