Re: [OT] teenage slang. was: Re: [OT] Help for non-Debian distributions (was How to read log files)

2010-03-29 Thread Lisi
On Monday 29 March 2010 18:44:29 Stephen Powell wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:51:08 -0400 (EDT), Lisi wrote: As for KKL, I needed a translation. This is *really* off-topic, but perhaps this is it: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=KKL It showed up in an internet search, but I

Re: [OT] teenage slang. was: Re: [OT] Help for non-Debian distributions (was How to read log files)

2010-03-29 Thread Lisi
On Monday 29 March 2010 21:12:59 Neal Hogan wrote: But, as you say, this is way OT. Certainly, more OT than any ubuntu/debian question ;-) Quite :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Installing Video Drivers Manually

2010-03-30 Thread Lisi
. ;-) HTH Lisi -- 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/201003302036.47897.lisi.re...@gmail.com

Re: `Print selection' unimplemented in Iceweasel?

2010-03-31 Thread Lisi
don't use that function normally, but just tried it on a web page, and it worked for me. Yep, here also works. @Merciadri: Print selection is available under Options tab. Not here. It is greyed out. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: `Print selection' unimplemented in Iceweasel?

2010-03-31 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 31 March 2010 14:46:02 Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:42:10 +0100, Lisi wrote: On Wednesday 31 March 2010 14:19:27 Camaleón wrote: @Merciadri: Print selection is available under Options tab. Not here. It is greyed out. Have you previously selected some piece of text

Re: `Print selection' unimplemented in Iceweasel?

2010-03-31 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 31 March 2010 15:23:54 Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:14:35 +0100, Lisi wrote: On Wednesday 31 March 2010 14:46:02 Camaleón wrote: Have you previously selected some piece of text? ;-) Yes. What version are you running? 3.0.6 Vanilla Lenny. Same here

Re: ALSA problem?

2010-04-02 Thread Lisi
On Friday 02 April 2010 19:39:15 Krishna Chandra Prajapati wrote:  *8.* Now execute the following command: yum install alsa-driver alsa-kmdl-`uname -r` ??? How did this arrive on a Debian list? It appears to be the answer to a correctly placed Debian query from a RH based system user. Lisi

Re: Debian And Advanced Layer3 9924T

2010-04-06 Thread Lisi
? Is it switched on? So please. keep the basic wisdom flowing. It is amazing how often the solution is very simple. Lisi -- 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: Going wireless

2010-04-09 Thread Lisi
Lenny. In my experience, Network Mangler lives well up to its nickname. :-( . Lisi -- 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/201004091541.03834.lisi.re

Re: [OT] Ubuntu vs Debian forums (was recompiling the kernel with a different version name)

2010-04-11 Thread Lisi
to know. When I queried this, she said: When I am at school, the IT department does it for me. When I am at home here, you do it for me. When I am in Japan, Daddy does it for me. Why do I need to know how to do it? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: [OT] Ubuntu vs Debian forums (was recompiling the kernel with a different version name)

2010-04-11 Thread Lisi
Linux? Lisi -- 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/20100419.33913.lisi.re...@gmail.com

Re: New Clamav-daemon Error

2010-04-13 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 13 April 2010 17:24:29 David Baron wrote: ~$ sudo /etc/init.d/clamav-daemon start Starting ClamAV daemon: clamd ERROR: Unknown group 20 Incorrect number of arguments failed! After latest upgrade. Anyone have a quick fix? Which upgrade on which OS? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Temporary deconnection from the Internet when too much pages are loaded

2010-04-16 Thread Lisi
On Friday 16 April 2010 16:27:10 Merciadri Luca wrote: Lisi wrote: On Thursday 15 April 2010 15:18:32 Merciadri Luca wrote: A shot in the dark... - I have a problem of freezing that is reminiscent of this - how much RAM have you got?? 4 gigs. This is apparently not the problem

Re: Dual channel memory question

2010-04-17 Thread Lisi
to be the same size as the other two? TIA Lisi -- 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/201004171604.06301.lisi.re...@gmail.com

Re: Epiphany browser continues to get worse and worse

2010-04-20 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 20 April 2010 03:21:52 Ron Johnson wrote: Why do women buy new clothes every year when their existing clothes are completely functional? A lot of us don't. And I don't fix things that aren't broken either. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

2010-04-24 Thread Lisi
. subdirectories != files. English can be a pain when it is not your first language - and, come to that, even if it is. ;-) Lisi -- 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: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

2010-04-24 Thread Lisi
standing in a corner with a dunce's cap on. :-( Which raises the question of - why the inconsistent results?? ;-) Lisi -- 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: where is what kontrol did?

2010-04-24 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 24 April 2010 20:10:51 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: But will pulse audio make my Konsole make a sound because that is the only reason I would install systemsettings. I'm fascinated. Why do you _want_ your Konsole to make a sound? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: USB key accepts data only as root

2010-04-25 Thread Lisi
to be logged in as root, would you? quote /media# ls -al /quote (from previous email from Merciadri) At this point you obviously are root, even tho' you will not have been able to log-in as root. ? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Why are there no latest books written for Debian systems?

2010-04-26 Thread Lisi
to make my segue more clear next time. Sorry for the confusion. I misunderstood it too. :-( You said this which I took to refer to the book that was under discussion, rather than to refer forwards to the book you were about to recommend. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Joke

2010-04-27 Thread Lisi
, stop spamming this list Javier - Little things please little minds. And I have a delete key. ;-) Lisi -- 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: Technical questions

2010-04-27 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 27 April 2010 10:01:21 刘宇辉 wrote: you  may waste other folks' time s/may/do. Lisi -- 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/201004271027.57739.lisi.re

Re: Installer partitioner project, dif Debian Ubuntu, lvm, UUID, GPartEd, GRUB, HAL

2010-04-28 Thread Lisi
and /dev/sdx for SCSI drives. Lisi -- 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/201004281606.53583.lisi.re...@gmail.com

Re: Aptitude status output meaning

2010-04-30 Thread Lisi
to get my head round how to submit a bug. Meanwhile, I manage to get the answers to many of my questions by just waiting. One, however, continues to elude me. What does the A mean in i A at the beginning of a line in the results from an aptitude search? Thanks! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Aptitude status output meaning

2010-04-30 Thread Lisi
of dependencies get installed automatically as far as I am concerned, I hadn't managed to work out that some of them got marked! Very few things seem actually to acquire the A. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Aptitude status output meaning

2010-04-30 Thread Lisi
On Friday 30 April 2010 19:14:51 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Friday 30 April 2010 12:39:36 Lisi wrote: On Friday 30 April 2010 16:44:52 Monique Y. Mudama wrote: The A means that it was installed automatically due to a dependency, so if all packages depending on it are uninstalled

Re: 64-bit netbooks with Debian linux

2010-05-03 Thread Lisi
. A netbook I can manage. YMMV would be fair enough, but I found that I suppose patronising. Not everyone in the world is male, fully fit and young. Some of us are none of those. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Lisi
dictates, but keep KDE 3.5. But I am not even almost tempted to go over to the dark side! I am, however, very sad that KDE 3.5, which I regard as the pinnacle of DE's, is being laid to rest. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-07 Thread Lisi
Sorry list/Dotan. :-( I thought that I had persuaded my email client to send this to the list. (It wanted to send the reply to Dotan because he had sent a copy to me personally.) Lisi -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Kde 3.5 ... Date: Friday 07 May 2010 From: Lisi

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-07 Thread Lisi
cases, not allowing me the freedom _not_ to use it. And I personally shall mourn the passing of KDE 3. Lisi -- 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

Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-08 Thread Lisi
Sorry, list - sent to me privately again, and messing up my email client! -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Kde 3.5 ... Date: Friday 07 May 2010 From: Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com To: Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com On Friday 07 May 2010 17:17:52 you wrote: On 7 May 2010 11

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-08 Thread Lisi
these commands arriving in my personal (as opposed to list) folder a nuisance. I filter for a reason! Lisi -- 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

Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-09 Thread Lisi
...@gmail.com To: Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com, debian-...@lists.debian.org On 7 May 2010 19:54, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: That boils down to it's on by default. Just go turn them off. But I have to _look_ at them to turn them off. In KDE 3 I do not. I can turn them off without ever having

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-09 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 09 May 2010 14:18:27 Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Op 08-05-10 23:42, Lisi schreef: On Saturday 08 May 2010 20:35:47 consul tores wrote: Dotan Cohen Who are you in reality? Do you really think that i am going to obey your orders? :-) Well said

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-09 Thread Lisi
don't. Lisi -- 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/201005091602.50128.lisi.re...@gmail.com

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-09 Thread Lisi
people on this list have been helpful and made suggestions as to what I might like to try. I am very grateful for it. It is a pity that you and one or two others did not check your facts. It is Dotan's right to work to improve KDE 4 if he so wishes, it is not my duty. Lisi

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-10 Thread Lisi
for a reason! Sorry for CCing to you messages that are meant for you, Lisi. If you haven't noticed the mailing list headers are broken and Reply sends messages off list. Therefore I use Reply All and oh nos, you get CCed. I apologize for sending to you commands in your personal folder to tell me

Re: Replace hardware without reinstall debian lenny

2010-05-11 Thread Lisi
I have probably remebered correctly. HTH Lisi -- 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/201005110811.41664.lisi.re...@gmail.com

Re: Replace hardware without reinstall debian lenny

2010-05-11 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 11 May 2010 12:34:13 Tom H wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:11 AM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 11 May 2010 01:10:50 Rob Owens wrote: You could use UUID's instead of device names (/dev/sdX) to get around this issue. There was a thread on this recently, and I

Re: KDE4 KDE3 || Gnome2 Gnome3

2010-05-11 Thread Lisi
repository or a tar.gz or deb available. :-) Lisi -- 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/201005111618.41916.lisi.re...@gmail.com

Re: KDE4 KDE3 || Gnome2 Gnome3

2010-05-11 Thread Lisi
://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/ /quote Lisi -- 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/201005112011.43063.lisi.re...@gmail.com

Re: East Asian fonts in Lenny

2010-05-11 Thread Lisi
think that they were installed by default on my most recent installation, so I can't speak for now. Try aptitude search language and see what happens? Or do a google/linux search? Which East Asian fonts are you wanting, if the language is not in the list? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: KDE4 KDE3 || Gnome2 Gnome3

2010-05-11 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 11 May 2010 20:23:37 Alan Ianson wrote: On Tue May 11 2010 12:11:42 pm Lisi wrote: On Tuesday 11 May 2010 18:10:32 Alan Ianson wrote: On Tue May 11 2010 08:41:59 am deloptes wrote: Don't understand me wrong. I am for improvement and progress but not the way kde4 is pushing

Re: [SOLVED] New 3-button serial mouse not detected by Lenny

2010-05-18 Thread Lisi
the distinction between the buttons is easier to identify. Lisi -- 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/201005181012.40636.lisi.re...@gmail.com

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, please test grub2)

2010-05-23 Thread Lisi
. Which is quite possible. Lisi -- 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/201005232137.28384.lisi.re...@gmail.com

Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????

2010-05-24 Thread Lisi
and frustration than anything else. I finally tried using this: http://www.ghacks.net/2010/05/20/install-google-earth-on-linux/ I downloaded, then: quote l...@tux:~$ cd /home/lisi/Peter/Google_Earth/ l...@tux:~/Peter/Google_Earth$ chmod u+x GoogleEarthLinux.bin l...@tux:~/Peter/Google_Earth$ su

Re: Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????

2010-05-24 Thread Lisi
On Monday 24 May 2010 16:11:43 Stephen Powell wrote: Both Yahoo and Mapquest have aerial photos available, down to fairly decent resolution in most areas. Thanks, Stephen. Shall try both immediately. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????

2010-05-24 Thread Lisi
On Monday 24 May 2010 16:11:43 Stephen Powell wrote: On Mon, 24 May 2010 10:47:35 -0400 (EDT), Lisi wrote: I have been trying to install Google Earth on Lenny ... Lisi, This is not really an answer to your question, but rather an alternative, especially since you are short of time. Both

Re: Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????

2010-05-24 Thread Lisi
On Monday 24 May 2010 17:31:50 Stephen Powell wrote: On Mon, 24 May 2010 12:03:41 -0400 (EDT), Lisi wrote: How I fared: I could only persuade Yahoo maps to offer to get me from A to B, not show me pictures of A. Mapquest zoomed in on it beautifully, but had no pictures. Two

Re: Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????

2010-05-24 Thread Lisi
On Monday 24 May 2010 19:31:27 Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 24 May 2010 15:47:35 +0100, Lisi wrote: (...) I downloaded, then: quote l...@tux:~$ cd /home/lisi/Peter/Google_Earth/ l...@tux:~/Peter/Google_Earth$ chmod u+x GoogleEarthLinux.bin l...@tux:~/Peter/Google_Earth$ su No need to su

PART DIAGNOSED: Re: Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????

2010-05-24 Thread Lisi
On Monday 24 May 2010 17:59:46 Lisi wrote: On Monday 24 May 2010 17:31:50 Stephen Powell wrote: On Mon, 24 May 2010 12:03:41 -0400 (EDT), Lisi wrote: How I fared: I could only persuade Yahoo maps to offer to get me from A to B, not show me pictures of A. Mapquest zoomed

Blockage on Internet maps - is a firewall intervening? Was: Re: PART DIAGNOSED: Re: Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????

2010-05-27 Thread Lisi
procedure to follow - or what FM to read - _before_ I manage to kybosh my entire system, rather than after. Thanks, Lisi -- 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: lilo removal in squeeze (or, please test grub2)

2010-05-29 Thread Lisi
, move to it, but it's not ready yet to take on the full responsibility of booting all of creation. MAA +1 I am accustomed to GRUB 1. But if I have to change, I would rather change to LILO than to GRUB 2. :-( Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Blockage on Internet maps - is a firewall intervening? Was: Re: PART DIAGNOSED: Re: Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????

2010-05-30 Thread Lisi
to ask Google. I really don't anything about firewalls but if I correct understud what I was read on the net Firehol corresponding with iptables. 'iptables -L' will list all rules so maybe somebody from the list will notice something. Tux:/home/lisi# iptables -L Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-05-30 Thread Lisi
, since we too put day month year. So +1 for ISO. Does away with all this parochialism! Lisi -- 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/201005301257.56411.lisi.re

Re: Acer Aspire One wireless issue

2010-06-08 Thread Lisi
) to get wireless going on my Acer Aspire One. You have received a lot of advice to do some searching/research on this problem, but you do not appear to have done any. Nor do you appear to have read all the replies that you have already received. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Web browsers, Adobe Flash Debian

2010-06-09 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 10 June 2010 06:07:15 ABSDoug wrote: I also read a bit why Ubuntu uses Firefox Debian doesn't. Debian does. It just calls it Iceweasel. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Debian asking for DVD... (FYI)

2010-06-09 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 10 June 2010 03:31:20 ABSDoug wrote: Instead of telling me to look it up, requiring me to reboot into another OS to get online How are you getting your emails if you cannot get online? And if you can get online to read your emails, why can you not do some work for yourself? Lisi

Re: Acer Aspire One wireless issue

2010-06-10 Thread Lisi
how is he sending/getting emails??? He says that he is now kill-filing those of us who suggest he do any looking. Lisi -- 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: debian-multimedia.org gone?

2010-06-10 Thread Lisi
. Christian Marillat est en train de restaurer ... Christian Marillat is being restored ... No - Christian Marillat is not being restored (Christian Marillat est en train d'être restauré), he is doing the restoring. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Acer Aspire One wireless issue

2010-06-11 Thread Lisi
On Friday 11 June 2010 01:22:24 Robert Holtzman wrote: He says that he is now kill-filing those of us who suggest he do any looking. My suggestion would be to kill file him and be done with it. I have! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

RTFM - according to Yoda

2010-06-12 Thread Lisi
. - Lisi -- 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/201006121421.20263.lisi.re...@gmail.com

Re: Debian Community Poll

2010-06-14 Thread Lisi
:-) Greetings, -- Camaleón +1 Lisi -- 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/201006141610.22675.lisi.re...@gmail.com

Backups - was: Re: LVM

2010-06-15 Thread Lisi
backups beyond having a disk big enough to hold the data. Would you feel inclined to elaborate? I'm trying to solve this problem for my granddaughter's large HDD, and am not keen to have to buy a 300GB external drive. Tar would still require a fairly large medium. :-( Lisi

Backups - was Re: LVM

2010-06-15 Thread Lisi
a 300GB external drive. Tar would still require a fairly large medium, would it not. :-( Lisi -- 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/201006151136.56211

Re: Backups - was: Re: LVM

2010-06-15 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 15 June 2010 14:40:44 Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:32:15 +0100, Lisi wrote: On Tuesday 15 June 2010 01:25:56 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: There are many many ways to make take backups beyond having a disk big enough to hold the data. Would you feel inclined

Re: Backups - was: Re: LVM

2010-06-15 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 15 June 2010 18:06:51 Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:48:04 +0100, Lisi wrote: On Tuesday 15 June 2010 14:40:44 Camaleón wrote: I would differentiate between backup data and archived data. (...) Thanks for this. I was originally responding to Andrew's saying: quote

Re: Backups - was: Re: LVM

2010-06-15 Thread Lisi
me to restore her (elderly) laptop to its present state! Lisi -- 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/201006152022.05722.lisi.re...@gmail.com

Re: Backups - was: Re: LVM

2010-06-15 Thread Lisi
me to restore her (elderly) laptop to its present state! Lisi -- 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/201006152023.53102.lisi.re...@gmail.com

an apology - was Re: Backups - was: Re: LVM

2010-06-15 Thread Lisi
Sorry for duplicate everybody. The list has been rejecting my emails with my usual SMTP set up. This means that I may think that something has gone when it hasn't or vice versa. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Backups - was: Re: LVM

2010-06-16 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 16 June 2010 08:41:03 Camaleón wrote: El 2010-06-15 a las 22:58 +0100, Lisi escribió: (resending to the list) Sorry. I debated whether to send it to you or the list, and decided that it was OT for the list since I was commenting on a specific sentence of your that wasn't

Re: Backups - was: Re: LVM

2010-06-16 Thread Lisi
disk, so they are suitable even for many non-savvy users :-) Yes - I was thinking of doing most backup myself, and just leaving her to do back-up on the fastest changing data. But I'll certainly look at this - after all, I was asking for ideas! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Backups - was: Re: LVM

2010-06-16 Thread Lisi
that. ;-) I use Gmail for several reasons, not least for the archives. But I actually download via POP3 and do my reading and writing of emails in KMail. Which has a reply-to-list function that I had to override. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: [OT] First computer (was Re: LVM)

2010-06-17 Thread Lisi
that thing to read in a tape without errors. It was around 1977 I think. An early Atari? My son had one in 79/80. Lisi -- 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: recent xterm/terminal(?) change (control-C) shows ^C?

2009-09-19 Thread Lisi
on the (fortunately) rare occasions when I have to use Windows. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Suggestions for desktop manager: [was Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system]

2009-09-29 Thread Lisi
On Monday 31 August 2009 23:43:56 Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 31 August 2009 15:59:08 Lisi Reisz wrote: ***I would be very grateful for help in speeding up the boot process, and suggestions for a suitable DE or WM.*** Thanks very much for the advice and suggestions so far. Much appreciated

Re: Suggestions for desktop manager: [was Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system]

2009-09-29 Thread Lisi
going to bed to catch owls and those who are just getting up. By the time it is morning here, it will be night for half the list. Lisi Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: free alternative acroread

2009-10-01 Thread Lisi
of the currently selected paper size, whilst maintaining aspect ratio. Hi, Brad - Does it not simply do exactly what it says - fit - so that it decreases the image if it is larger than the printable area, but _increases_ the image if it is smaller? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Further to fast booting for a debian system - changing getty to rungetty

2009-10-08 Thread Lisi
with inittab.old, and I am back to square one. *So - how do I change my getty to rungetty?* TIA Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Further to fast booting for a debian system - changing getty to rungetty

2009-10-08 Thread Lisi
Thanks, Celejar On Thursday 08 October 2009 17:44:15 Celejar wrote: On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 16:21:55 +0100 Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 29 September 2009 22:47:39 Kevin Ross wrote: change your getty to rungetty I have been trying to do this ever since. I have Googled, tried

Re: Further to fast booting for a debian system - changing getty to rungetty

2009-10-08 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 08 October 2009 19:16:17 Celejar wrote: On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 18:51:21 +0100 Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 08 October 2009 17:44:15 Celejar wrote: On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 16:21:55 +0100 Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 29 September 2009 22:47:39 Kevin

SOLVED! was Re: Further to fast booting for a debian system - changing getty to rungetty

2009-10-09 Thread Lisi
(without the quotation marks) For me, that was it. I only have one window manager on the system. READ the others for the rest! (Kevin Ross for what to do if you have more than one wm.) Thanks, everyone. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: SOLVED! was Re: Further to fast booting for a debian system - changing getty to rungetty

2009-10-09 Thread Lisi
On Friday 09 October 2009 17:45:28 Michael Wagner wrote: * Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com 09.10.2009 For the archive this is how I did it: [snip] Hello Lisi, Hello Michael, much work for such an easy task. 'rungetty' is in my opinion good for autologin in the console. For the autostart

Re: How much RAM can debian support?

2009-10-10 Thread Lisi
? You guys sure are senior citizens. Mere babes in arms. I, probably like many of us, remember the early sixties. We may even have some here who remember the birth of Colossus?? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: [OT] List policy - [Was: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?]

2009-10-12 Thread Lisi
On Monday 12 October 2009 01:05:27 Mark Allums wrote: In this, I feel I'm in the majority, here, of people who feel Debian is being a bit unnecessarily stubborn. On what do you base this strange assertion? I would have said the reverse. Some figures, please! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-12 Thread Lisi
On Monday 12 October 2009 12:20:13 Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: 10/11/2009 02:28 PM, Mark Allums: And don't tell me to use some Thunderbird extension of dubious provenance. Thunderbird 3, Evolution, Claws,.. has it (reply-to-list) bilt-in. So has KMail. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: [OT] List policy - [Was: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?]

2009-10-12 Thread Lisi
On Monday 12 October 2009 15:03:42 Tom H wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 12 October 2009 01:05:27 Mark Allums wrote: In this, I feel I'm in the majority, here, of people who feel Debian is being a bit unnecessarily stubborn. On what do

starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

2009-10-12 Thread Lisi
could think of in every file that I either found recommended or could dream up. I have looked in a large number of books. I have got Idesk running fine - but never IceWm simultaneously. I think that I need to put Idesk into one of the configuration files. But which TIA Lisi

Re: Emails to list (with apologies)

2009-10-12 Thread Lisi
...@mms.mycricket.com Same here, no (recent) system-fiddling. Same here, except that they are being filtered into Spam; so I only found them when I went looking. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

2009-10-12 Thread Lisi
On Monday 12 October 2009 22:25:03 Nuno Magalhães wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 21:32, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Any attempt, however, to make Idesk also start automatically, results in Idesk running fine - but not X and IceWM.  The desktop looks odd (as if it hasn't

Re: starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

2009-10-12 Thread Lisi
On Monday 12 October 2009 22:56:28 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 09:32:55PM +0100, Lisi wrote: The box boots automatically into IceWM in 32 seconds from a standing start. I have Idesk configured to my satisfaction, and it runs beautifully if I start it manually

Re: starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

2009-10-13 Thread Lisi
On Monday 12 October 2009 23:02:19 Nuno Magalhães wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 22:52, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Yes.  But I omitted to mention that because I forgot, that putting an after both startx and Idesk results in Idesk running correctly - but only if and when I

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-13 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 18:09:22 Lee Winter wrote: Consider an email UI that offered the following choices:     - reply to sender (only)     - reply to list (only)     - reply to all This would appear to make it possible for the user to establish a default preference and selectively

Re: starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

2009-10-13 Thread Lisi
. :-( Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-13 Thread Lisi
only know of Thunderbird/Icedove prior to version 3. I should be interested to know of others, so I know what else to avoid! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

2009-10-15 Thread Lisi
much already, but I would be very grateful if you could tell me how you start X on your system. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

2009-10-16 Thread Lisi
installation of Debian Lenny. I am wondering whether it might be an idea to reinstall in case my previous frantic efforts messed something up. Cheers Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

2009-10-16 Thread Lisi
of any kind! And if I use .bash_profile to start X and then start idesk from a terminal I get a fully functional system with a proper desktop. It is the trying to start idesk automatically that seems to cause the problem. :-( Thanks again, Cheers Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

2009-10-16 Thread Lisi
to have reached that situation fairly stably. I also tried a reboot - it booted to the command line, I entered startx, and the system started fine - just with this grey grid over everything. As I say, it is starting idesk automatically that seems to cause the problem. Cheers Lisi

Re: starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

2009-10-16 Thread Lisi
have the stamina, and enough of the will to live, I would love to sort it out properly. Many thanks, cheers, Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

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