Re: Installing jessie on laptop from usb live iso

On Thursday 05 May 2016 08:19:58 Ralph Sanchez wrote: > After rereading the last response i got, i see why their issue is similar, > but the solution cant be used here because even if i had wheezy installed > before, im past the point where the hdd gets overwritten with random data. This is a fat

Re: Openssl -showcerts "verify error"

On Thursday 05 May 2016 08:08:51 Ron Leach wrote: > On 05/05/2016 00:13, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Wednesday 04 May 2016 23:58:56 Ron Leach wrote: > >> But ... following some other earlier posts by folk using a web browser > >> to reach the url (and seeming to have

Re: Openssl -showcerts "verify error"

On Wednesday 04 May 2016 23:58:56 Ron Leach wrote: > But ... following some other earlier posts by folk using a web browser > to reach the url (and seeming to have success) Curiouser and curiouser - I didn't just reach it successfully, I logged in successfully. Certificates weren't mentioned.

Re: Openssl -showcerts "verify error"

On Wednesday 04 May 2016 18:40:01 William O'Malley wrote: > On Wed, May 4, 2016, at 12:25 PM, Ron Leach wrote: > > List, good afternoon, > > > > I'd appreciate some advice about how to fix an SSL error I'm hitting > > while accessing a government website required for online filing. > > Oddly, this

Re: [OT]: May Day

On Tuesday 03 May 2016 14:22:26 Piyavkin wrote: > On 03.05.2016 02:21, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > … > > So it is all a bit circular!! But I find the concepts of "International > > Workers Day" and "the proletariat" intrinsically unpleasant. I am in > &

Re: Multiple live iso's on a single bootable flash drive?

On Tuesday 03 May 2016 11:11:45 Richard Owlett wrote: > I hope the result will be a document aimed at the beginner but > not the picture book style that seems prevalent at that level. > Much Linux documentation is written by experts for experts. Or by "experts" for (those they consider) Noddies.

Re: Posting picture files

On Tuesday 03 May 2016 04:18:59 Gary Roach wrote: > I still haven't found a solution for the disappearance of all of my > desktop icons. They are replaced with little transparent squares. They > still work though. This problem got lost. I should start a new thread and explain it clearly,

Re: Posting picture files

On Tuesday 03 May 2016 00:38:53 Gary Roach wrote: > Someone needs to figure out a way to handle this without > penalizing the rest of us. "The rest of us" don't have any desire to send pictures and are not being penalised. Lisi

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2016 #417

On Tuesday 03 May 2016 00:38:05 Ralph Sanchez wrote: > Tom-That's what I thought too, but I thought someone said earlier that > during the install w/ encryption, Debian would also zero the disk, or > maybe I'm mistaken. As far as the process if I did what your > suggesting and I was going to do,

Re: [OT]: May Day

Hi, Dan, I have come off list because I find all the politics of this very unpleasant. But I liked your response (inaccurate as it has turned out to be!!!) and felt that it deserved a reply. On Sunday 01 May 2016 18:58:57 Dan Hitt wrote: > On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Lisi Reisz <l

Re: [OT]: May Day

On Monday 02 May 2016 15:07:29 Piyavkin wrote: > professional > parasites OUCH! Can we keep politics out of this - be it far left or far right? This list is not the place. Lisi

Re: Posting picture files

On Monday 02 May 2016 15:01:12 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 02 May 2016 06:18:02 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2016-04-30 23:20:07 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Saturday 30 April 2016 21:12:00 Gary Roach wrote: > > > > I understand that I should not use attachments on debian-user or > > >

Re: Posts don't show on list

On Monday 02 May 2016 11:51:46 Brian wrote: > I don't know where you (or anyone else) gets the idea there is a 10K > maximum size limit on attachments in mails sent to -user. Here is where I (recently) got it - the CoC just says "not large". :-/ -- "Do

Re: Posts don't show on list

On Monday 02 May 2016 02:57:32 Gary Roach wrote: > > Lisi > > Lesi Accuracy is obviously not something you bother with. Lisi

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

On Monday 02 May 2016 03:31:50 Doug wrote: > On 05/01/2016 01:07 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > > On Sun, 01 May 2016 09:13:30 +, Curt wrote: > >> I suppose you've tried the obvious (cough) like starting Firefox in safe > >> mode, > >> refreshing the sucker, renaming prefs.js, using a virgin

Re: In stretch, how do I disable libinput and use evdev instead?

On Sunday 01 May 2016 20:57:56 Ian Kelling wrote: > Because the mouse acceleration is bad. > > I'm using a normal mouse, and the speed of the pointer is too fast when > moving the mouse slowly. evdev has a very rich set of options, while > libinput has just a single one at runtime, which does not

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

On Sunday 01 May 2016 19:43:37 Curt wrote: > As far as here goes, in mixed company, the masculine form takes > precedence (which may or may not have anything to do with anything). Depending. "Guys" can indeed sometimes be used as the common gender, and it is "man"kind. But I object to

Re: [OT]: May Day

On Sunday 01 May 2016 19:14:59 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > oldest continuous democratic government! > > John Hasler wrote: > > Right. It's actually Finland, of course. > > Within europe, i bet on San Marino and Iceland. San Ma

Re: [OT]: May Day

On Sunday 01 May 2016 18:13:38 Dan Hitt wrote: > (And wasn't May day an American idea originally, which > our ruling class wanted to tone down?) I am speechless!! "The earliest May Day celebrations appeared in pre-Christian times, with the Floralia, festival of Flora, the Roman goddess of

Re: Sorry. :-( Re: Posting picture files

On Sunday 01 May 2016 17:59:13 Gary Roach wrote: > Dial up or no dial up I really think Debian needs to loosen up a bit > on the site restrictions. Why? Most people manage fine. If you would only answer the questions you are asked, you would get more help faster. Lisi

Re: Posts don't show on list

On Sunday 01 May 2016 17:45:44 Gary Roach wrote: > On 05/01/2016 04:22 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Sunday 01 May 2016 02:01:12 Gary Roach wrote: > >> On 04/30/2016 03:23 PM, Brian wrote: > >>> On Sat 30 Apr 2016 at 13:00:55 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > >&g

Re: Posting picture files

On Sunday 01 May 2016 16:07:39 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Sun, 2016-05-01 at 10:39 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > I tried sending a screenshot 25 minutes ago.  It has not so far > > > > turned > > > > > up. But another email I sent 5 minutes ago has turned up.  Whilst > > > Debian Users list

Re: Fwd: kencunninghan

On Sunday 01 May 2016 15:41:53 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 01 May 2016 08:25:12 Ken Cunningham wrote: > > What do you want me to do with this > > Feed it to sa-learn --spam, because thats what it is. And meanwhile the two replies have nicely flummoxed the poor Debian spam filters. Gmail's

Sorry. :-( Re: Posting picture files

On Sunday 01 May 2016 12:33:18 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 01 May 2016 02:12:00 Gary Roach wrote: > > I understand that I should not use attachments on debian-user or send > > anything other than plain text files. > > I just sent a screenshot half an hour ago a

Re: Posting picture files

On Sunday 01 May 2016 02:12:00 Gary Roach wrote: > I understand that I should not use attachments on debian-user or send > anything other than plain text files. I just sent a screenshot half an hour ago and it has not arrived, but another email I sent twenty minutes later has arrived. Although

Re: Posting picture files

On Sunday 01 May 2016 02:12:00 Gary Roach wrote: > I understand that I should not use attachments on debian-user or send > anything other than plain text files. I tried sending a screenshot 25 minutes ago. It has not so far turned up. But another email I sent 5 minutes ago has turned up.

Re: Posts don't show on list

On Sunday 01 May 2016 02:01:12 Gary Roach wrote: > On 04/30/2016 03:23 PM, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 30 Apr 2016 at 13:00:55 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > >> I may have found the problem. When the majordomo message didn't return I > >> start digging into aol. I found the return message in the Spam bin.

Re: Posts don't show on list

On Saturday 30 April 2016 23:59:42 Mike McGinn wrote: > I bcc all mail to > myself and always get a copy. I said there had to be other simple solutions - I like that one! (Though mine makes better allowance for my appalling memory. :-/ ) Lisi

Re: Posts don't show on list

On Saturday 30 April 2016 17:26:48 Gene Heskett wrote: > Because gmail see's the echo from the list, going back to the address > that it was posted from, as a duplicate, and deletes it.  So you see the > post, confirming it got there by seeing it on the address you didn't > post it from. If, like

Re: Posts don't show on list

On Saturday 30 April 2016 15:13:06 Brian wrote: > On Fri 29 Apr 2016 at 17:17:11 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > > On 04/29/2016 03:45 PM, Stephen Allen wrote: > > >On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 03:20:14PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > > >>address. But I don't think that aol or my mail client is the problem > >

Re: Posts don't show on list

On Saturday 30 April 2016 13:10:56 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 30 April 2016 02:39:38 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 30 April 2016 00:53:47 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > With > > > gmail, the only practical way to do that is to subscribe using two > > &

Re: Posts don't show on list

On Saturday 30 April 2016 00:53:47 Gene Heskett wrote: > With > gmail, the only practical way to do that is to subscribe using two > different names, and always send to only one, but you will then get the > list echo back on the 2nd account.  Its a PITA with gmail, but its the > only way I know of

Re: Posts don't show on list

On Friday 29 April 2016 23:20:14 Gary Roach wrote: > >> I'm glad you thing this is a minor problem. Just put out a critical > >> question, get no answer and not know whether its due to the message > >> not getting through or just no interest. It drives me nuts. Things > >> are inconsistent as

Re: Portable Debian?

On Wednesday 27 April 2016 20:43:08 Steve Matzura wrote: > Either I'm smarter than I think (LOL), or you're psychic. I looked at > Knoppix earlier this morning. I didn't know about the throwaway aspect > of it, though, Did you discover the Adriane version? Now available as an alternative boot on

Re: TCP/IP over Bluetooth

On Saturday 23 April 2016 13:33:54 Gene Heskett wrote: > The data these sites collect and sell, gets me 100 new spams every day. > 20 or 30 of for erectile disfunction cures that don't work.  I'm 81, and > been diabetic for 25 + years, I couldn't reset my since counter if it > was offered.  I

Re: TCP/IP over Bluetooth

On Saturday 23 April 2016 06:04:24 Gene Heskett wrote: > Unforch for many, its also a link you have to subscribe to No you don't. I've just tried. You can, if you wish, once there, become a subscriber to the digital version of the magazine. Lisi

Re: Posts don't show on list

On Friday 22 April 2016 20:20:50 Brian wrote: > It's a waste of time. Even if you conclusively demonstrated the offending > header was Message-Id: (and it almost certainly is a major player) what > would you do? Better is to avoid providers who think it fine to mess with > your mail. People

Re: Posts don't show on list

On Friday 22 April 2016 18:04:36 The Wanderer wrote: > I'm talking about what it uses > for detecting duplicates so it can discard them That is worth my while to investigate. I am a bit pushed at the moment, but will report back. Lisi

Re: Posts don't show on list

On Friday 22 April 2016 14:20:18 Nicolas George wrote: > I suspect the misfeature belongs in gmail's web interface, > actually, and the mails are really present in the archive and accessible > through IMAP. Possibly. I avoid all I care about (I use threading) by using an email client, POP3

Re: Posts don't show on list

On Friday 22 April 2016 13:56:49 The Wanderer wrote: > Interesting. Do you have any evidence for the idea that it uses more > than just Message-ID? I can't prove that it doesn't, but I've never seen > anything that I recall to indicate that it does. It doesn't use MORE than the message ID. It

Re: Posts don't show on list

On Friday 22 April 2016 14:02:11 Mimiko wrote: > I don't want to use my ISP's mail account. Its limited. It can be > blocked. I can switch to another ISP. So you switch your SMTP sever. What is the problem??? Lisi

Re: No login secreen on Jessie

On Sunday 17 April 2016 22:08:20 Felix Miata wrote: > Markos composed on 2016-04-17 17:22 (UTC): > > I can use this machine only on Sunday mornings. > > > > I will do these tests on next Sunday. > > > > But using this message, do you suggest any Linux distribution, based on > > Debian, which would

Re: Can you help me figure out why I can't get Grub to install from a standard CD .iso?

On Thursday 14 April 2016 17:57:19 EGO-II.1 wrote: > Hello all, > > I've been trying for about a week now to get Debian with the MATE > desktop installed on my PC. Is this another Skylake problem? It *is* after all a Skylake! I had failures at various stages until I got help:

Re: mjg59 | Skylake's power management under Linux is dreadful and you shouldn't buy one until it's fixed

On Thursday 14 April 2016 18:22:38 Andrew McGlashan wrote: > desktops might be okay though. Apart from some instability and non-working (sometimes) PS2 mouse, also non-working (less often) USB mouse, it is great - very fast and responsive, when it doesn't crash. But I gather that the model of

Re: Firefox install

On Thursday 14 April 2016 09:22:59 Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2016-04-14, Marc Shapiro <marcns...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 04/13/2016 12:04 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: > >> On 2016-04-13, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> On Wednesday 13 April

Re: Firefox install

On Thursday 14 April 2016 05:24:34 Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 04/13/2016 11:47 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Wednesday 13 April 2016 10:30:46 arian wrote: > >> Hi Marc, > >> > >> firefox is not in jessie-backports, but in unstable. > > > > ?? >

Re: Firefox install

On Wednesday 13 April 2016 10:30:46 arian wrote: > Hi Marc, > > firefox is not in jessie-backports, but in unstable. ?? And I have installed it from Jessie backports. Also from wheezy backports. Lisi >The package which you > may find there in the future is firefox-esr, which is in testing

Re: Iceweasel security updates?

On Tuesday 12 April 2016 17:08:10 The Wanderer wrote: > On 2016-04-12 at 11:43, Harris Paltrowitz wrote: > > On 04/12/2016 11:06 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> On Tuesday 12 April 2016 15:14:08 Harris Paltrowitz wrote: > >>> I tried Firefox 45 last week but as you may

Re: Iceweasel security updates?

On Tuesday 12 April 2016 16:43:47 Harris Paltrowitz wrote: > On 04/12/2016 11:06 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Tuesday 12 April 2016 15:14:08 Harris Paltrowitz wrote: > >> I tried Firefox 45 last week but as you may remember from my recent > >> emails, I experienced majo

Re: Iceweasel security updates?

On Tuesday 12 April 2016 15:14:08 Harris Paltrowitz wrote: > On 04/12/2016 09:43 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Tuesday 12 April 2016 14:09:12 Harris Paltrowitz wrote: > >> Hey all, > >> > >> Recently when I started using Debian I noticed that the version

Re: Iceweasel security updates?

On Tuesday 12 April 2016 14:09:12 Harris Paltrowitz wrote: > Hey all, > > Recently when I started using Debian I noticed that the version of > Iceweasel that Jessie comes with is 38.7.1, whereas the latest Firefox > is 45. I also noticed that when I visit www.citibank.com using > Iceweasel 38.7.1

Re: Trouble getting posted

On Sunday 10 April 2016 03:40:26 Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On 10/04/2016 2:14 AM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 12:04 PM, Gary Roach > > wrote: > > > > I have tried to post a couple of things in the last few

SOLVED - I hope! was: Re: Repeated failure of install of Jessie

On Friday 08 April 2016 18:03:00 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 08 April 2016 17:50:13 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Thursday 31 March 2016 18:24:35 Steve McIntyre wrote: > > > > So: my mouse doesn't work, although it had been working initially, the > > sound doesn't

Re: Repeated failure of install of Jessie

On Friday 08 April 2016 17:50:13 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 31 March 2016 18:24:35 Steve McIntyre wrote: > So: my mouse doesn't work, although it had been working initially, the > sound doesn't work. But Debian installed this time. It would be nice if > it were usable!! Ha

Re: Repeated failure of install of Jessie

On Thursday 31 March 2016 18:24:35 Steve McIntyre wrote: > Yup, of course! I can see that based on your information "Giga-Byte > GA-H110M-S2H" Henrique has provided more help and it may be > bleeding-ege hardware issues.  Let's see how that goes when you get > back from your trip, I guess. :-)

Re: PXE install

On Friday 08 April 2016 16:00:30 Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Ethan, > > On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 11:50:57PM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > > Dear List - > > > > After a little bit of searching the problem causing the "no boot > > filename found" error is the lack of a PXE server. > > Please back up a

Re: Use of attachments

On Friday 08 April 2016 00:03:38 Gary Roach wrote: > I have tried to use an attachment to this site a couple of times and the > email seems to go into a black hole. Are attachments not allowed on this > site? I not, how do I pass along things like screen shots. Im using > icedove email client. > >

Re: Choppy video on Youtube

On Thursday 07 April 2016 16:05:51 Harris Paltrowitz wrote: > I didn't address your other questions, Sven, because this seems pretty > conclusive I shall note for my own use and retire! Glad you have got there. Lisi

Re: Choppy video on Youtube

On Thursday 07 April 2016 14:14:15 Harris Paltrowitz wrote: > On 04/07/2016 09:04 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Thursday 07 April 2016 13:12:45 Harris Paltrowitz wrote: > >> Intel Corporation Atom > >> Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics > > > > What

Re: Choppy video on Youtube

On Thursday 07 April 2016 13:12:45 Harris Paltrowitz wrote: > Intel Corporation Atom > Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics What kernel have you got? $ uname -v I have found this https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Lenovo/s20-30 which seems to have same graphics, and "which kernel"

Re: Disk too full?

On Tuesday 05 April 2016 19:13:23 David Wright wrote: > On Tue 05 Apr 2016 at 16:46:36 (+0100), Lisi Reisz wrote: > > May the OP have run out of inodes in / ? > > Here's my prediction :) > > 1010% / > 120 1% /home > 10 1% /tmp > 6

Re: What is cisco-sccp?

On Sunday 03 April 2016 14:34:38 Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > Hi, > > What is it - and why it is in Debian? What is it doing here? > > Thanks for the answers! Gabor - Now it has been suggested that you may not be understanding the answers we give, had you thought of trying:

Re: Disk too full?

On Tuesday 05 April 2016 17:46:24 David Wright wrote: > On Tue 05 Apr 2016 at 16:46:36 (+0100), Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Tuesday 05 April 2016 15:34:37 David Wright wrote: > > > On Tue 05 Apr 2016 at 06:36:39 (-0500), Charles Blair wrote: > > > >I think

Re: Flash update

On Tuesday 05 April 2016 09:59:13 Curt wrote: > On 2016-04-05, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> My experience is the exact opposite: with HTML5 videos, I just > >> "right-click => Save Video as..." and it's done, whereas with Flash I am >

Re: Disk too full?

On Tuesday 05 April 2016 15:34:37 David Wright wrote: > On Tue 05 Apr 2016 at 06:36:39 (-0500), Charles Blair wrote: > >I think I'm running out of space on my > > laptop. The last time I got an "updates > > available" message, I got a further warning, > > during the update, that I was low on

Re: Flash update

On Tuesday 05 April 2016 01:33:52 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > No, I mentioned this as a benefit. It's a side-effect to flash's > > writing the file mentioned in the previous sentence (the very first > > sentence of the post). I want the file and with flash I can have it. > > My experience is the

Re: Modified Rapture, and a new question

On Monday 04 April 2016 21:51:23 Alan McConnell wrote: >  I don't know why LinuxCollections >          offers such a silly coupling for sale. Because it is useful? If you were someone who installs frequently (many people do) then you need both to cover a variety of computers. Some don't have

Re: What is cisco-sccp?

On Sunday 03 April 2016 14:34:38 Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > Hi, > > What is it https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cisco-sccp=cisco-sccp=chrome..69i57j69i60.1299j0j7=chrome=UTF-8 > - and why it is in Debian? It isn't. https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=cisco-sccp=names=all=all > What

Re: Flash update

On Monday 04 April 2016 14:04:41 Brian wrote: > On Sun 03 Apr 2016 at 20:42:08 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 01 April 2016 11:39:29 Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I know this is an old thread, but I thought it would be worth > > > mentioning that BBC IPlayer now

Re: Repeated failure of install of Jessie

On Saturday 02 April 2016 05:11:43 David Wright wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > >On Tuesday 29 March 2016 23:55:33 Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> look in the directories on cdimage.debian.org for the > >> signed checksums alongside the images: > > > >I'm very grate

Re: Flash update

On Friday 01 April 2016 11:39:29 Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 27 Jun 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > [snip] > > > > > > 1. Using iplayer with flash involves downloading a file. > > > > > > > > > > 2. Wouldn't it be nice if the file could be

Re: ssh-ing in inside private network

Great! Thankl you! I now have a starting point for my questions. On Thursday 31 March 2016 12:28:57 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 12:43:49PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I want all the computers on

ssh-ing in inside private network

I want all the computers on my private network to be able to shh into each other. In Jessie, what do I have to do where in what config file? Presumably some port is shut?? Lisi

ERRATUM Re: Repeated failure of install of Jessie

On Wednesday 30 March 2016 18:15:30 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 30 March 2016 17:42:14 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016, at 07:21, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > Yes, I have finally found out. It's a Giga-Byte GA-H110M-S2H. > > > > Oho, that

Re: Software center has shuting down

On Wednesday 30 March 2016 23:45:13 Ric Moore wrote: > On 03/29/2016 02:38 PM, Rafał Mróz wrote: > > Software center in Stretch/Sid has shuting down i try report in > > Reportbug but i can't > > You made me look. There IS a gnome-software-common deb package, but no > software-center ala Ubuntu.

Re: Repeated failure of install of Jessie

On Wednesday 30 March 2016 17:42:14 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016, at 07:21, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Yes, I have finally found out. It's a Giga-Byte GA-H110M-S2H. > > Oho, that tells me a lot. Thank you so much, Henrique. I am about to go away and am a

Re: Repeated failure of install of Jessie

On Wednesday 30 March 2016 16:17:29 Alan McConnell wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "David Christensen" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 12:30:49 AM > Subject: Re: Repeated failure of install of Jessie > > On 03/29/2016

Re: Repeated failure of install of Jessie

On Tuesday 29 March 2016 23:55:33 Steve McIntyre wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > >No help - but "Join the club". Been there, done that, got the tee shirt. > >Mine was a new computer and, after over a day of tearing my hair out, > > trying again, trying differently,

Re: Repeated failure of install of Jessie

On Tuesday 29 March 2016 21:08:19 Alan McConnell wrote: > The DVD contained the first Jessie DVD, and, I'm guessing, > the thumb device contained the rest. It doesn't look like it. It looks as though the USB key only has the first DVD on it. To get all the DVDs you need to buy all the DVDs -

Re: Repeated failure of install of Jessie

On Tuesday 29 March 2016 21:08:19 Alan McConnell wrote: > Long before I joined this List, I purchased a DVD and a thumb device from > LinuxCollections. The DVD contained the first Jessie DVD, and, I'm > guessing, the thumb device contained the rest. > > I kept the same partitions that I had had

Re: systemd troubleshooting (was ... Re: computer cann't shut down)

On Monday 28 March 2016 16:37:16 David Wright wrote: > I'm not interested > in spending my time answering your easy-to-pose rhetorical questions The whole point of rhetorical questions is that they are not in fact questions and do not require an answer, and more than any other type of statement.

Re: Changing Boot Order

On Monday 28 March 2016 10:35:11 chrisb@localhost.localdomain wrote: > On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 06:35:36PM +0100, jdd wrote: > > Le 26/03/2016 17:11, Alan McConnell a écrit : > > > Press to run BIOS setup, or to run boot menu > > ^^^ > Weird

Re: Changing Boot Order -- Happiness!

On Saturday 26 March 2016 21:50:42 Felix Miata wrote: > Alan McConnell composed on 2016-03-26 14:57 (UTC-0400): > >...I think it fortunate > > that this E-list contains an expert of the quality of... > > Please, let's not think of me so much expert as experienced. I can't count > the times

Re: New firefox isn't working

On Saturday 26 March 2016 17:47:17 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 26 March 2016 13:05:55 Eike Lantzsch wrote: > > On Friday 25 March 2016 11:40:10 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Greetings all; > > > > > > The reason is that it treats every clicked on link in an email, into > > > a download of the

Re: Changing Boot Order

On Saturday 26 March 2016 16:11:22 Alan McConnell wrote: > I have been told by a kind responder that my keyboard >    is inadequate, and I should borro(buy?) a new one.  Since >    my present keyboard works fine for all purposes up to now, >    I don't see why my

Re: New firefox isn't working

On Friday 25 March 2016 22:48:36 Tom Browder wrote: > totally concur with your > opinions--may God save our nation! Please can we keep disagreements and comments on religion and politics off this site. The two of them sully so much of the world. Let's keep this area free of them. Lisi

Re: Changing Boot Order

On Friday 25 March 2016 23:31:34 Doug wrote: > On 03/25/2016 07:16 PM, Alan McConnell wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 06:04:12PM -0400, songbird wrote: > >>i just tried this to make sure it worked as described > >> and it worked so i'm not sure what you didn't do correctly. > >> > >>

Re: clamav.securite.com no longer exists

On Friday 25 March 2016 16:21:50 Arnaud Jacques / SecuriteInfo.com wrote: > Hello, > > > OTOH it also might be better to use what is in the repos > > Even if what's in repos is old and obsolete ? > > > as opposed to > > something gleaned off of github, with potentially zilch for security. > > 3rd

Re: Changing Boot Order

On Thursday 24 March 2016 20:44:54 Alan McConnell wrote: > Assembled Wisdom! > > I am running wheezy, and would like to upgrade to jessie. To > that end I've bought a CD and a USB stick from LinuxCollections. > My problem: when booting I can't get into my bios to change the > boot order. No

Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script

On Tuesday 22 March 2016 21:42:11 seeker5...@comcast.net wrote: > See if this gets through, my WiFi got flaky, which seems like it cause some > issue with imap between Thunderbird and Comcast. Thunderbird claims the > message was sent twice, but I never got a copy in my inbox. I got two earlier

Re: x86_64 vs i386

On Tuesday 22 March 2016 18:54:30 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 22 March 2016 13:17:26 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Tuesday 22 March 2016 01:04:44 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Monday 21 March 2016 19:27:11 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > On Monday 21 March 2016 15:54:33 Gen

Re: x86_64 vs i386

On Tuesday 22 March 2016 01:04:44 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 21 March 2016 19:27:11 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Monday 21 March 2016 15:54:33 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > You haven't noticed there have been no updates to the 32 bit stuff > > > in quite a while? > >

Re: Upgrade Deb 7 to 8, GNOME Flashback, terminal windows not saved: any way to save?

On Monday 21 March 2016 16:26:59 Tom Browder wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > >> On Mon, 2016-03-21 at 11:26 -0400, Tom Browder wrote: > >>> I just upgraded and am

Re: Upgrade Deb 7 to 8, GNOME Flashback, terminal windows not saved: any way to save?

On Monday 21 March 2016 16:21:52 Tom Browder wrote: > I remember that now.  So is there any way to drop back to using GNOME > Classic as in Deb 7? > > If not, are there any other reasonable, debian-packaged, desktop > environments that provide auto-saved terminals? How about MATE? As a

Re: Multi-display - one monitor active but blank

On Monday 21 March 2016 23:13:22 Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Mon, 2016-03-21 at 23:07 +, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > It couldn't be a dodgy cable, could it? > > > > Mark > > I don't think so. If that were the case it would flash on and off as > the cable moved. It is resolutely blank, except just

Re: x86_64 vs i386

On Monday 21 March 2016 15:54:33 Gene Heskett wrote: > You haven't noticed there have been no updates to the 32 bit stuff in > quite a while? Quote at the end of last week from form a client of mine who runs a 32 bit computer (Debian 7 and TDE 3.5.13.2): My computer is telling me I have 75

Re: x86_64 vs i386

On Monday 21 March 2016 15:11:36 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > to Google Chrome, which has indeed "thrown i386 machines under the bus", > > and > > What do you mean by that? > There won't be any new versions of Debian's i386 version of the > chromium package? > > > Stefan I don't know what is

Re: x86_64 vs i386

On Monday 21 March 2016 14:50:33 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > But now all the browser coders have thrown i386 machines under the bus, > > and I'm apparently stuck with the broken i386 stuff left behind. > > What do you mean by that? > > > Stefan "who still uses 32bit userland pretty much

Re: Sudo

On Monday 21 March 2016 04:51:35 Jude DaShiell wrote: > When you installed LinuMint I'm going to make a wag here and figure you > didn't put a password in for root and because of that LinuMint put your > user account in /etc/sudoers as part of its installation routine. I don't think that Linux

Re: Further to my installation error

On Monday 21 March 2016 05:02:12 David Christensen wrote: > On 03/20/2016 04:00 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > It had one - on sda. It wanted the one on sdb as well. I wanted the one > > on sdb left alone. I got what I wanted when I insisted, and the > > resultant installation

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