Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

On 2015-04-19, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: I can't answer the question, but I have just successfully loaded it in Chrome, Iceweasel and Konqueror. In Iceweasel it insisted on cookies. Lisi. The page will not load for me with javascript enabled (I use NoScript). Iceweasal

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

On 2015-04-20, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: Don't confuse primary and secondary with counting. Think 'primary = I'm not confused, nor do I require any lessons from you, nor will I bugger this gnat any further. Let's leave it at that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Debian From Scratch - what _WAS_ it?

On 2015-04-24, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: In doing some digging for a personal project, I've come across tantalizing references to Debian From Scratch. Using that as a Google search term gets lots of posts that can be summed up as it no longer exists. Did it have a homepage

Re: Recommendation on video card?

On 2015-04-25, Nicolas George geo...@nsup.org wrote: The mapping between the technical names used on the X.org wiki, the PCI Ids (and translated names) and the commercial names is annoyingly hard to find too. If someone knows a better and more complete summary of the supported cards, that

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

On 2015-04-19, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: Lisi. The page will not load for me with javascript enabled (I use NoScript). Iceweasal endlessly spins its wheels 'waiting for login.capital.com...' Yes, I have javascript enabled. Me too, but the page in question wouldn't load here.

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

On 2015-04-19, Cindy-Sue Causey butterflyby...@gmail.com wrote: With this many others of us not having any problems on multiple various browsers, I wonder what (other) secondary things might be 2 is 'many' in your book? At any rate, I got the site to load in chromium. In iceweasal, even in

Re: no ntp installed

On 2015-04-28, Erwan David er...@rail.eu.org wrote: $ systemctl enable systemd-timesyncd.service $ systemctl start systemd-timesyncd.service Which won't work in many work environment because querying ntp servers outside the site is blocked by firewall. This is a client; can't it be

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

On 2015-04-29, Avinash Sonawane root...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure which iso you downloaded. If it was the netinst version from https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/debian-installer/ take a look further down the page where there's a panel with a red cross. Here you can get the netinst

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

On 2015-04-29, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: Yes, you have the official iso, but in order to obviate the difficulties you're encountering, David is saying you have the option of downloading the unofficial iso with the firmware included (that way you're off and running to the races without

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

On 2015-04-29, Avinash Sonawane root...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 9:50 PM, David Wright deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk wrote: But then won't Debian will be downloading all the packages from internet while installing from netinst image? Can I use the existing amd64 dvd1 iso then?

Re: jessie: how to suppress emacs24 warnings

On 2015-04-27, Juha Heinanen j...@tutpro.com wrote: Typing emacs /dev/null 21 is too cumbersome and starting from menu Create an alias. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Do archived copies of _OBSOLETE_ ISOs exist?

On 2015-05-02, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: On 2015-05-01, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: And the answer to the question actually *ASKED* ??? IOW any ISOs of anything anywhere Think I found it: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/dfsbuild https://hackage.haskell.org/package

Re: Do archived copies of _OBSOLETE_ ISOs exist?

On 2015-05-01, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: And the answer to the question actually *ASKED* ??? IOW any ISOs of anything anywhere Think I found it: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/dfsbuild https://hackage.haskell.org/package/dfsbuild-1.0.2/dfsbuild-1.0.2.tar.gz --

Re: Do archived copies of _OBSOLETE_ ISOs exist?

On 2015-05-01, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: I'm doing a self-education project to answer How is *nix put together? Projects whose documentation I have found useful include: Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ Voyage Linux

Re: Colorized Prompts Problem

On 2015-05-02, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: Excuse me if this is a dumb question, but what does the debian_chroot part (twice) do? It prompts (hee hee) you to use a search engine: http://askubuntu.com/questions/372849/what-does-debian-chrootdebian-chroot-do-in-my-terminal-prompt --

Re: Debian 8 no network...

On 2015-05-08, Stephen Allen marathon.duran...@gmail.com wrote: apt-cache search update manager Doesn't find anything that sounds right, either. What are you running? Perhaps he meant 'update-notifier' that's in Jessie? curty@einstein:~$ apt-cache search update | grep manager | grep

Re: Jessie - disable window animations

On 2015-05-03, Gábor Hársfalvi hgab...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I used to found a commandline with gconf to do that. Could someone help me? Have you tried gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface enable-animations false ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: need help with approx-gc

On 2015-05-09, Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: Not running SMART. What Debian package provides smartctl ? I don't think the following tests will make the reallocation problem go away. curty@einstein:~$ apt-cache search smartctl gsmartcontrol - graphical user interface for

Re: An error occurred | GStreamer encountered a general stream error.

On 2015-05-12, Muntasim Ul Haque tranjees...@yahoo.com wrote: I do not have anything to do with those messages. I just want 'Totem' to just works. That's all. I thought these messages could help solving the problem Totem encountered. Anyway, I still cannot play mp4, mkv, and most other

Re: Has the rescatux and supergrubdisk project been terminated

On 2015-04-15, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: What I actually want it for, is the functionality to reset passwords on both Debian 5 and MS Win8. Does what you have, have that functionality? http://sourceforge.net/projects/rescatux/ Says it can Clear Windows passwords under

Re: wheezy drive recognition?

On 2015-04-16, David Wright deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk wrote: I don't know the expression alaskan divorce. Could it be where you walk from the divorce court straight back to the registry office to get re-married? I'm not familiar with the expression either, but I think it refers to a sudden,

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

On 2015-04-09, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. On a new installation of Debian 7 on an Acer laptop computer with an AMD Radeon R2 graphics adaptor, the external monitor does not work. The external monitor works with MS Win 7, with MS Win 8, with Debian 6, and with Ununtu 12.04

Re: debian 8

On 2015-04-13, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: Page 49 describes how to remove the battery pack, so with that guide in hand you can try to do it yourself without handing it in for a two week wait. I can't imagine that doing this would in any way affect your warranty. I was going to say

Re: apt stuck at Reading database

On 2015-04-13, Jape Person jap...@comcast.net wrote: IIRC apt-listbugs or apt-listchanges (or both) don't work without the deb-src entries in /etc/apt/sources.list. I think these are tools that They don't? Is that documented somewhere? Debian users should be encouraged to use. At the

Re: debian 8

On 2015-04-11, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Is this hyperbole (hyper hyper), or do you really believe what you're saying? Be carefull who you are calling delusional. I am with Bret on this one. If it's a malware program, it should be expunged from the debian archives. I hope

Re: debian 8

On 2015-04-10, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: unwittingly and unwillingly, running the application, thus, as it stands, the application is a trojan horse. Is this hyperbole (hyper hyper), or do you really believe what you're saying? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: wheezy drive recognition?

On 2015-04-17, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Thats good to read Petter, thanks. I got burned a bit early on, running dd-wrt on an x86 boxen from nothing but flash, It worked great, till the flashes died, about 3 of the std sized 512 meggers in a month. I suppose much of what holds

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

On 2015-04-14, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: so it apparently, is driving the inboard Intel graphics adaptor, and not the nVIDIA GT750m graphics adaptor. The best thing would be to look at the log file for X (on Squeeze LTS that is to be found at the following location:

Re: A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

On 2015-04-06, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: HOWEVER! It is a big however. I can't find any _new_ eSATA enclosures that are not also USB enclosures and do not now include active electronics in the connection between the eSATA and the drive. That's bad IMNHO. It introduces cheap

Re: debian 8

On 2015-04-03, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: I would not get on a dog, either. I think that dogs are not constructed to be able to hold up the weight of a human on top of them. People get on my nerves, which are not designed to support the burden either. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: debian 8

On 2015-04-04, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: _All_ people? How uncomforable! Some people, some people. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Jessie - Mate - LibreOffice Need larger fonts everywhere

On 2015-06-02, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: Now that Help is legible, that leaves me only to discover how to force default font size for *content* of all spreadsheet cells to a suitable value. For *new* spreadsheets it appears you must create a default template. -- To

Re: Icedove fails to open mailto: links

On 2015-06-22, Jörg-Volker Peetz jvpe...@web.de wrote: This happens sometimes. In that case an icedove process is still running without GUI. Check with, e.g., $ pidof icedove And I've been doing 'ps aux | grep process' all these years. If I had any dignity I would have kept that to

Re: Recurring disk activity

On 2015-06-23, Mayuresh mayur...@acm.org wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 04:00:52PM +, Curt wrote: Your URL doesn't specify the brand/model of hard drive in your laptop. It just says 500 GB SATA 5400 rpm. dmesg reports this. I searched, but could not even find whether this has head

Re: Recurring disk activity

On 2015-06-20, Mayuresh mayur...@acm.org wrote: Laptop spec: http://support.hp.com/us-en/product/HP-15-r200-Notebook-PC-series/7486447/model/7748035/document/c04576750/ I had a head parking/unparking/Load_Cycle_Count problem on my desktop machine (Western Digital Green Drive--known issue in

Re: Nova Desktop

On 2015-06-18, Tom Ashley tomashle...@gmail.com wrote: I have no experience with the package but noticed the following in the description supplied by aptitude: There is at least one module needed. Without a module this package will not work as expected! See packages desktopnova-module-*.

Re: Problems with 32 bit Jessie and Mate DE

On 2015-06-20, to...@tuxteam.de to...@tuxteam.de wrote: And the script is linked in /etc/rc[06].d to stop. So with SysV, at least, things are set up to update the hwclock at shutdown. I guess that settles it then. I do find the wiki and debian doc a little misleading. I do also remember having

Re: Problems with 32 bit Jessie and Mate DE

On 2015-06-19, Nick n...@nickbooker.uk wrote: On 17/06/15 17:56, Curt wrote: That's strange; I always thought you had to set the hardware clock (hwclock) for the modified date and time to survive a reboot. I always thought the current time on the system clock was saved back

Re: Problems with 32 bit Jessie and Mate DE

On 2015-06-20, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Most folks keep the hardware clock on GMT, and then the automatic translations of tzdata govern the local clock. True, but irrelevant to the question at hand. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Nova Desktop

On 2015-06-21, Jose Martinez jomartinez...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, that was my understanding as well. However, with desktopnova-module-gnome installed, it doesn't change the desktop wallpaper. Everything indicates that it is working, I get no errors. When I start the daemon, it reports

Re: Transferring files from Debian computer to android phone

On 2015-06-18, Steve Greig greigst...@gmail.com wrote: It would be great to have any ideas which could help me transfer files to the phone (I am particularly keen to move music files at the moment). I would be happy to use the command line but when I googled that it looked very complicated.

Re: Transferring files from Debian computer to android phone

On 2015-06-18, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: On 2015-06-18, Steve Greig greigst...@gmail.com wrote: It would be great to have any ideas which could help me transfer files to the phone (I am particularly keen to move music files at the moment). I would be happy to use the command line but when I

Re: Fwd: Transferring files from Debian computer to android phone

On 2015-06-19, Steve Greig greigst...@gmail.com wrote: Not trying to rant but trying to explain why I want to stick with Free Software despite technical challenges. Well, then, do like Reco said to do. Then, apt-get update followed by apt-get -t wheezy-backports jmptfs (this might pull

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

On 2015-06-19, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry - I had read the whole of the post, and had tried to respond to it in modularised progressive steps, and when I got down to that part, I had forgotten the content of the first paragraph. Didn't we already go through this once with

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

On 2015-06-19, Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com wrote: Check and see if you have the tool 'intel-virtual-output' installed. This is included in 'xf86-video-intel' = v2.99, aprox date released is 22/Dec/2014 xf86-video-intel doesn't appear to be a Debian package. I can only find it here:

Re: Systemd files on a Raspberry Pi

On 2015-06-20, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: This list has a well earned reputation for snarky answers, but this is too much. Learn to be civil or go harrass your cat see if it cares. Cheers, Gene Heskett There are snarky answers and there are also snarky questions. -- To

Re: Systemd files on a Raspberry Pi

On 2015-06-20, Jean-Marc jean-m...@6jf.be wrote: There are snarky answers and there are also snarky questions. Wohoho ! I was just joking in reaction with some rude words. Exactly what I thought and meant. I understood too late this is not the right place for second degree humour. -- To

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

On 2015-06-19, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: Didn't we already go through this once with you in a long, protracted, confused and confusing thread, the exact same issue, not too long ago? As I have, I believe, previously mentioned, I have been trying for about two years, now, to get

Re: Flash update

On 2015-06-26, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: How do you live stream BBC iPlayer on a computer without the use of Flash? Use an Ipad? Now, if you could only pretend to be an Ipad (user agent string sleight of hand), maybe ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Why Debian 8.1 has no torrents beyond first 3 DVD ISO images

On 2015-06-15, Arno Schuring aelschur...@hotmail.com wrote: It probably would but it looks like the sources are on separate DVDs (in the [..]/current/source directory) so they wouldn't show up when grepping the amd64/list-dvd/ files. Either way you can verify the output by removing the

Re: Why Debian 8.1 has no torrents beyond first 3 DVD ISO images

On 2015-06-14, Arno Schuring aelschur...@hotmail.com wrote: You don't need the source packages nor the ones for architectures other than your own. Without having researched the question, is there a simple way of knowing which dvds contain what (a package list or something)? Yes, the

Re: Why Debian 8.1 has no torrents beyond first 3 DVD ISO images

On 2015-06-14, John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com wrote: arnuld uttre writes: Well, I need many packages which normal users don't use, like stumpwm, ppcre, sbcl, clisp, gcc, mpd, gmpc, feh, theora etc. I have used Debian Sarge (and in those days I only had CDs) and I noticed some package I

Re: Problems with 32 bit Jessie and Mate DE

On 2015-06-17, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: For example, to set the time and date to 15:00 on 1st February 2014: sudo date 020115002014 That worked - it took effect after a reboot. That's strange; I always thought you had to set the hardware clock (hwclock) for the modified

Re: Problems with 32 bit Jessie and Mate DE

On 2015-06-17, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: For example, to set the time and date to 15:00 on 1st February 2014: sudo date 020115002014 That worked - it took effect after a reboot. That's strange; I always thought you had to set the hardware clock (hwclock) for the

Re: Viruses and rootkits WAS Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

On 2015-05-28, Frank debianl...@videotron.ca wrote: It's not Firefox we're talking about ..it's Thunderbird and it only affects one account, even though I have 3 on the same ISP. No connection with booting - no connection with anything other than that one account not being able to logon

Re: How to boot without GUI

On 2015-05-28, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: Can you not just boot into level 1 in the first place if you want to run completely without X? Runlevel 1 is single-user/minimal mode. Yes, I know. But as I (mis?)understood it, the purpose was to do a specific piece of

Re: How to boot without GUI

On 2015-05-29, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: On 2015-05-28, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: Can you not just boot into level 1 in the first place if you want to run completely without X? Runlevel 1 is single-user/minimal mode. Yes, I know. But as I (mis?)understood it, the purpose

Re: How to boot without GUI

On 2015-05-29, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: It would have been more friendly and convenient had he asked a question that corresponded to my answer. So the OP must foresee what you are going to say later in the thread and phrase his original question accordingly?!! That was a

Re: How to boot without GUI

On 2015-05-29, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: He wants to install a video driver, and needs to do so with X not running. https://lists.debian.org/CACX6j8OJ-8BjL=6g6v_ucfnzeh+lkpc7ap_uuxzvumg620b...@mail.gmail.com startx was mentioned by someone else as a means of getting back to X

Re: [Solved} logitech z515 wireless speaker not working

On 2015-05-26, Pierre Frenkiel pierre.frenk...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 26 May 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: And remember, you have twice said that you are not going to say anything more or spend any more time. You'll do us all a favour if you stick to that, unless you have something helpful to

Re: possibility of faking displays

On 2015-06-01, Venkat Ragavan Swaminathan venka...@vortexindia.co.in wrote: I am trying understand the possibility of achieving this: I have an N2600 motherboard and using Debian 6 (2.6.32). I for sure know that, If need to control my display devices I need to update my Xorg and Kernel.

Re: How to boot without GUI

On 2015-05-27, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: service gdm3 stop I thought that Squeeze, LTS or otherwise, had Gnome 2? Yes? So your thinking goes that Gnome 2 uses or used gdm2, is that it? Lisi -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: How to boot without GUI

On 2015-05-27, Nicolas George geo...@nsup.org wrote: Closing services cleanly would be better advice. systemctl stop gdm.service for systemd. service gdm stop for SysV. I believe for the OP to cleanly stop his display manager (if we're talking Squeeze LTS here as well as Gnome gdm)

Re: How to boot without GUI

On 2015-05-29, David Wright deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk wrote: Happily, /lib/systemd/system/gdm.service and /lib/systemd/system/gdm3.service are linked, which, AIUI, is the unix way. gdm is the GNOME Display Manager regardless of the version of GNOME. In Squeeze root@einstein:/home/curty#

Re: Problem installing nvidia-drivers

On 2015-05-30, Stefan Malte Schumacher stefanma...@gmail.com wrote: Hello This is the english version of the output of aptitude. You have the non-free archive mentioned in your /etc/apt/sources.list? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Problem installing nvidia-drivers

On 2015-05-30, Stefan Malte Schumacher stefanma...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I have. You have the non-free archive mentioned in your /etc/apt/sources.list? You need contrib also, it would appear. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: How to boot without GUI

On 2015-05-27, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: If you use gdm or similar I think that usually just leads to the display manager restarting. Yes, that is my experience. It doesn't get rid of X. Lisi If you want to boot to the console and start your graphical environment from there

Re: How to boot without GUI

On 2015-05-29, Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote: service gdm3 stop (SysVinit). Which shows that you have 'gdm3' package installed. Right. Some people might have been confused by the fact that the name of the package in Squeeze (gdm3) doesn't correspond to the version

Re: How to boot without GUI

On 2015-05-28, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: If you want to boot to the console and start your graphical environment from there ('startx and company) you must either disable or uninstall the display manager IMHO. Can you not just boot into level 1 in the first place if you want to

Re: Teeny tiny console font after firmware-linux

On 2015-05-21, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: After the reboot: setupcon Please forgive my lack of verboseness. Prolixity killed the cat. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Teeny tiny console font after firmware-linux

On 2015-05-22, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: Prolixity killed the cat. Commiserations. There's no accounting for the behaviour of a dog which has been given that name. I nicknamed him Fido. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: CD DVD drive docs

On 2015-08-22, Thomas Schmitt scdbac...@gmx.net wrote: Eduard Bloch, founder-forker of cdrkit, got his head bitten off instead when he appeared on behalf of all burn programs: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0703.3/1760.html Seems quite civil to me. Nothing vituperative. Alan Cox

Re: CD DVD drive docs

On 2015-08-22, Thomas Schmitt scdbac...@gmx.net wrote: Hi, Seems quite civil to me. Nothing vituperative. Alan Cox doesn't agree with him, but that's quite another matter. It's the outcome of the discussion. Eduard's cause (and mine and Andy Polyakov's and even Joerg Schilling's) got

Re: Flash update

On 2015-06-26, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: [Beware! Rampant snipping in progress] On Fri 26 Jun 2015 at 09:38:53 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: How do you live stream BBC iPlayer on a computer without the use of Flash? A well formulated question. :) Right. I interpreted How do you live

Re: What pulls in the tray of my /dev/sr1 ?

On 2015-08-04, Thomas Schmitt scdbac...@gmx.net wrote: Nevertheless i disabled this kernel feature by echo 0 /sys/block/sr1/events_poll_msecs and now btrace(8) does not show any SCSI traffic when the tray goes in. What about sysctl -w dev.cdrom.autoclose=0 Or is that completely off the

Re: What pulls in the tray of my /dev/sr1 ?

On 2015-08-04, Thomas Schmitt scdbac...@gmx.net wrote: Hi, Curt wrote: What about sysctl -w dev.cdrom.autoclose=0 Now that's an interesting name. # sysctl dev.cdrom.autoclose dev.cdrom.autoclose = 1 Nitpickingly, i'd say that /dev/cdrom is not the mad drive sr1, but rather its

Re: Pitfalls of german-english dictionaries. Was: What pulls in the tray of my /dev/sr1 ?

On 2015-07-28, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 28 July 2015 12:48:25 Alexis wrote: Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com writes: On Tuesday 28 July 2015 11:49:33 Thomas Schmitt wrote: The lure for error is even more appealing because both words have an abbreviation: resp. and

Re: Help - 13-year Debian veteran can't install Jessie

On 2015-08-01, pjw lists.deb...@pjw.xsmail.com wrote: As I recall, if expert install is selected from the initial screen, the option of using non-free will eventually be presented, which would likely provide the missing firmware. There's also a netinst.iso with the non-free firmware included,

Re: Login failure after new install

On 2015-08-07, Cobra ma...@xmission.com wrote: I have completed a network installation of 8.1.0. I left the root password blank (i.e., disabled root login), supplied a username and password for a system management account, and selected GNOME as the only additional software to install. After

Re: Login failure after new install

On 2015-08-08, Cobra ma...@xmission.com wrote: First the typo: The “guy should have been “gui (thanks to autocorrect). Second memory: That’s why I reset the password from the recovery mode command prompt. Third the management account: The install says that leaving the root password blank

Re: Acceptable use of Debian products

On 2015-08-13, Rohnan Donohue don0...@melba.vic.edu.au wrote: Hello Debian Team, I was usnure if this would be the appropriate email to message My name is Rohnan, and I am a secondary student in Victoria, Australia. I am writting to you to please ask for express permission to host Debian

Re: How to disable certain keys

On 2015-08-14, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. Some of the keys are causing problems and disrupting what I do, due to the keys apparently being inadvertently pressed. How do I disable the Caps Lock key, and, how do I disable the left hand CTRL key, and, how do I disable the

Re: How to disable certain keys

it? Curt found and posted a solution within thirty minutes of the initial mail. If Curt can do it, so can anyone else. :) lol

Re: Help - 13-year Debian veteran can't install Jessie

On 2015-07-27, John L. Ries jr...@salford-systems.com wrote: Ideals are good, but one still has to deal with reality. You can find some reality here: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: CPU overheating then shutting down while encoding video with ffmpeg

On 2015-07-23, Brad Rogers b...@fineby.me.uk wrote: On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 09:27:20 + (UTC) Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: Hello Curt, What nylon carpet? On the floor, of course. I have vacuum cleaner without a carpet (nylon or otherwise); that's why I asked. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: CPU overheating then shutting down while encoding video with ffmpeg

On 2015-07-23, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: Then you *would* be asking for trouble. IMHO, if anti static measures are not observed, then it doesn't mean the computer will not function but more likely a weakness to the chips occurs and then a failure further on down the

Re: CPU overheating then shutting down while encoding video with ffmpeg

On 2015-07-23, Joe Pfeiffer pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu wrote: Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz writes: On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 10:17:31AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: In addition, you could put your laptop up on some blocks, so the airflow is better, or use an external fan or vaccuum

Re: CPU overheating then shutting down while encoding video with ffmpeg

On 2015-07-23, Brad Rogers b...@fineby.me.uk wrote: Hello Chris, I'd be a bit hesitant to recommend to use a vacuum cleaner,=20 wouldn't static electricity be a risk? Static builds up when the cleaner moves across the (usually nylon) carpet. When cleaning out a computer casing, you're going

Re: Flash update

On 2015-07-14, Rob van der Putten r...@sput.nl wrote: Hi there Apparently .481 is buggy as well. Just to see what would happen, I renamed libflashplayer.so; Youtube complains about a missing plugin, but works anyway. It seems that FF 31.8.0 has enough HTML 5 support to make this work.

Re: msmtp Questions

On 2015-07-18, Martin G. McCormick mar...@server1.shellworld.net wrote: The fun never ends. I installed msmtp and as near as I can tell it works as advertised. My SMTP smarthost at Suddenlink.net presents the following banner which nicely explains what one needs to do to get real work done.

Re: Flash update

On 2015-07-15, Pete Orrall p...@cs1x.com wrote: I did find this here yesterday: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/14/firefox_blocks_flash/ Maybe this helps? https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsa15-04.html

Re: Debian 8.2 RAID conf. problem

On 2015-10-22, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > >> Many months ago there was a thread about >> longevity of hard drives related to how many boots in their lifetimes. > > Nonsense. If the boot count mattered for hard disk longevity, there > would be a SMART attribute for it. There

[OT] Linux for Lettuce

Thought some of you revolutionaries might be interested in the following article on the Virginia Quarterly Review website: http://www.vqronline.org/reporting-articles/2014/05/linux-lettuce

Re: installing/using grub-legacy

On 2015-10-24, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 24 October 2015 20:45:25 Brian wrote: >> On Sat 24 Oct 2015 at 11:52:41 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> > On Saturday 24 October 2015 10:13:51 Thomas Schmitt wrote: >> > > The name "GRUB1" seems to be an invention of users

Re: Debian 8.2 RAID conf. problem

On 2015-10-23, John Hasler wrote: > Lisi writes: >> And CFL surely? If turned on and off too frequently too close >> together - anyhow the older ones? I don't like them, so haven't used >> them much. > > The life of a CFL is pretty much unrelated to how often it is turned

Re: Debian 8.2 RAID conf. problem

On 2015-10-23, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> > > >> > > Nonsense. If the boot count mattered for hard disk longevity, there >> > > would be a SMART attribute for it. There is none. >> > >> > There exists a similar "fallacy" concerning light bulbs (if we're >> > talking hard (re)boot,

Re: installing/using grub-legacy

On 2015-10-26, Martin Str|mberg <a...@ludd.luth.se> wrote: > In article <qnr2a-1dl...@gated-at.bofh.it> Curt <cu...@free.fr> wrote: >> https://wiki.debian.org/Grub > > It seems that page is somewhat outdated/broken: > Well, it's a wiki, so wiki it.

Re: [OT] Linux for Lettuce

On 2015-10-23, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Well, Monsanto genes are mostly illegal in Europe, anyway. > (Our patent office granted a patent on human genes. Against the > law. Then it claimed the law prohibited to revoke it. > Finally the patent holder gave it back after too

Re: Fwd: Re: System craches when browsing a web site

On 2015-10-27, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > If Epiphany starts eating RAM, the OOM-killer should handle it, if it's > a problem with a hang in the GPU, it should be reset.=20 > > Before filing a bug, you, or anyone else who can reproduce the bug need > to investigate. Somebody filed a

Re: i3 Window manager without any other desktop environment

On 2015-11-10, Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: > > Yes it worked. After installing Xorg and typing 'startx' , i3 session > started. > It really, really, really, really worked.

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