Re: installing xfce theme manager

I have tried to use Xfce Theme Manager before, and all it did was screw up my Xfce setup. It changed a lot of things I didn't want changed, a I had to manually revert all of it. I don't recommend it. -- Steven Rosenberg Thanks for the help anyway. Michael Fothergill On Tue, Sep 30, 2014

Re: installing xfce theme manager

or greater? Regards Michael Fothergill On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 02:14:42PM +0100, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debian folks, I have been trying to install xfce theme manager (I am running Debian Jessie on an AMD 64

a few basic questions about apt-build

on this are most welcome. Regards Michael Fothergill

should I really be using the amd64 list?

Dear Debianists, Should I really be on the amd64 list not this one as an amd64 user? Regards Michael Fothergill

Re: should I really be using the amd64 list?

when amd64 was new. Then I think you were supposed to be on the amd64 list. Not any longer.. Thanks for pointing this out. Michael Fothergill

advice on choosing an AMD chipset

and incorporated into new releases (e.g. Jessie and beyond)? How much potential do you think HSA has? Regards Michael Fothergill

Re: advice on choosing an AMD chipset

by adapteva - the parallela set. They seem to be designed to work in tandem with an ARM processor of some kind unless I am mistaken. Regards Michael Fothergill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Installing Chrome

the command wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add - Then I think I did aptitude install google-chrome-stable Aptitude will add the dependencies and periodically it will download chome updates for you. Regards Michael Fothergill -

Re: Installing Chrome

wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add - More precisely I think you should then do: apt-get update followed by apt-get install google-chrome-stable Michael Fothergill -

Re: advice on choosing an AMD chipset

a very cheap video card with low power requirements and no fan. That's actually also my current desktop configuration (uses an HD6450 card with large heatsink) as well. Not running games, I find it works nicely. Regards Michael Fothergill Tempus fugit , sed Latini etiam sugit

Re: advice on choosing an AMD chipset

. That would be convenient. -- Michael Fothergill Tempus fugit , sed Latini etiam sugit

running two CPU's in parallel with e.g. Beowulf in the same box.....

on the power (and Beowulf) when I wanted to do so? How well would the two APU's work together? Regards Michael Fothergill Tempus fugit , sed Latini etiam sugit

Re: running two CPU's in parallel with e.g. Beowulf in the same box.....

good, then I could maybe come up with a translation that scans and rhymes and conveys the meaning of the English phrase accurately, and when translated back to English by google translate would work well enough for anyone interested to get the joke. But I'm not there yet.. Cheers Michael

Re: rather OT - was - Re: Latin joke, was Re: running two CPU's in parallel with e.g. Beowulf in the same box.....

but it is not as easy as I thought. Oh well Regards Michael Fothergill A novus fuscinulam Debian - Devuan pulsantes apparuit absque ulla logicas rationem omnino

Re: rather OT - was - Re: Latin joke, was Re: running two CPU's in parallel with e.g. Beowulf in the same box.....

? ??? That was funny I think it is better than I was aiming for here. If you put into google translate (Latin to English) you get: A new fork of Debian - Devuan magically appeared without any logical reason at all Regards Michael Fothergill

Re: rather OT - was - Re: Latin joke, was Re: running two CPU's in parallel with e.g. Beowulf in the same box.....

, Debian absque systemd If you translate that back to English again it comes back with Debian fork : Devuan , Debian without systemd - but that doesn't give me much confidence any more. It could just be a fluke. Regards Michael Fothergill

Re: [OT] was Re: rather OT - was - Re: Latin joke, was Re: running two CPU's in parallel with e.g. Beowulf in the same box.....

On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 08 December 2014 16:58:51 Michael Fothergill wrote: Remind me not to use Google Translate. The whisky is agreeable but the meat has gone bad!!! Lisi I said the above, I didn't say this, which

Re: Transición a Debian

in practice so I decided against it. Regards Michael Fothergill Benedicite , sancti et superexaltate systemd

Re: running kodi (xmbc) on debian

​On 2015-02-22 07:24:31 PM, Michael Fothergill wrote: I notice that you can run something called kodi on linux that allows TV channel shows to be downloaded and watched on your PC. Last time I looked at this, which was admittedly awhile ago, it was downloading these shows from a TV torrent site

running kodi (xmbc) on debian

than kodi are people currently using? Regards Michael Fothergill

using mpxj to convert xml files to mpp format to share projectlibre files more effectively

). If you run it on e.g. debian you wouldn't need that part. Suggestions on installing this in the simplest way to do this file conversion would be gratefully appreciated. Regards Michael Fothergill

Re: testing or stable

moment on you then you can mount it from the stable installation and copy over any useful files and then hack away at sid etc. ​Regards​ ​Michael Fothergill​

Re: trouble with install -- 64 bit, disk partitioner

is a Marvell 88SE63xx/64xx, according to the BIOS set up file. what to do? ​That is unusual. Have you tried running a Debian Live CD and then installing? Regards Michael Fothergill​ thanks in advance. -dh

Re: trouble with install -- 64 bit, disk partitioner

On 7 May 2015 at 18:12, David R. Haynor hay...@uw.edu wrote: hi michael, to get the .iso file, i went to https://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst and clicked on the amd64 hyperlink. then i burned the .iso file to DVD. is the live CD image you mention different? ​Try here and go

Re: trouble with install -- 64 bit, disk partitioner

belay that last email -- i understand the difference now. i'll try the live CD and report. ​If you can get debian running using the live cd, then if it can't then install it on the hard drive or even see the hard drives properly etc then people on the forum would likely suggest some

Re: Zapewnij finansowanie dla swojej firmy

2015-05-13 19:23 GMT+01:00 Tomasz Majewski t.majews...@finansepdc.pl: Witam Zachęcam do nawiązania współpracy, której celem będzie zapewnienie finansowania dla Państwa firmy. W ofercie posiadamy m.in. następujące produkty: 1. Błyskawiczny kredyt dla firmy - 100.000zł - Bez ZUS i

I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

this? Thanks for the help. Regards Michael Fothergill

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

​​Seeing an Xorg.0.log file from a normal boot would be good, plus the complete dmesg output. Cheers, Sven The ​ Xorg.0.log file is found here: http://paste.debian.net/237917/ The dmesg file was empty. Regards MF

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

ctrl C etc does not seem to drop down a command line interface etc. Try Ctrl + Alt + F1 ^^ That should have been F2, sorry. ​crtl alt f2 worked thanks MF ​ Petter -- I'm ionized Are you sure? I'm positive. -- Climostat Ltd Rm 5169 The Heath

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

don't recall you saying what graphics hardware you have but I think it is a radeon? What is your lspci entry for it? lspci | grep VGA ​It is an AMD Kaveri box Radeon R7 200 series​ (APU) http://www.eteknix.com/complete-amd-kaveri-review-a10-7850k-a10-7700k-a8-7600/ I have the A10-7850k APU

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

Also, what does cat /proc/cmdline say? ​It says:​ ​BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.14-2-amd64 root=UUID=26e72a74-ba29-4936-b388-3876839bc56b ro quiet​ ​ Regards MF​ ​​ Petter -- I'm ionized Are you sure? I'm positive.

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

linux-firmware-nonfree package, in case you don't have this installed. Do you have this package installed? What does apt-cache policy linux-firmware-nonfree say? ​It says unable to locate linux-firmware-nonfree ie it's not installed I guess ​ deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

I'm running this chip with unstable and it boots fine. Looks like testing and unstable are on the same X.org currently, but unstable is using a newer kernel. Also I see something in dmesg about kaveri firmware being loaded, which I believe is provided by the linux-firmware-nonfree

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

So you're still not getting modesetting. Are you sure you booted *without* nomodeset on the kernel line? The dmesg file was empty. Strange. Petter ​I haven't tried the nomodeset thing yet. My sources.list file looks like this: ​# # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Jessie_ -

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

On 16 June 2015 at 21:40, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2015-06-16 21:41 +0200, Bob Proulx wrote: I fear the problem is the newer Linux KMS and DRM interfaces which obsoleted a lot of hardware. I have been hit by that problem myself. Whereas older kernels worked perfectly

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

On 16 June 2015 at 21:40, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2015-06-16 21:41 +0200, Bob Proulx wrote: Michael Fothergill wrote: (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. Note that it will log errors with EE at the front. This is where the errors start

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

What errors are seen in /var/log/Xorg.0.log file? I have copied the output here:​ [15.096] X.Org X Server 1.17.1 Release Date: 2015-02-10 [15.096] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 [15.096] Build Operating System: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 x86_64 Debian [15.096] Current Operating

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

Check /var/log/dpkg.log for a trace of what was installed previously and what was removed and what was recently installed. ​I looked at this file - it is quite big; I need to think what files to search for within it​ I have made a pastebinit link to the dpkg.log file:

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

On 2 July 2015 at 20:29, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 02 July 2015 18:37:21 Michael Fothergill wrote: I had to do aptitude install linux-firmware-nonfree to get it installed. It is not automatic. No, it is not. Upgrade doesn't know what new software you want

Re: Mixing 4 audio sources

hardware feature, if Debian has the tools to do that as well, and if only specific sound cards are capable of that. If it's possible, how do I do it? ​The people who main this distro can help:​ ​see​ ​http://www.64studio.com/​ ​Regards MF ​ lspci identifies my current sound card as

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

Do you have this package installed? What does apt-cache policy linux-firmware-nonfree say? ​It says unable to locate linux-firmware-nonfree ie it's not installed I guess That message means that apt-cache can't find that package at all. If you have recently added non-free to

Re: Regarding dual boot

On 13 August 2015 at 13:25, Himanshu Shekhar iwm2015...@iiita.ac.in wrote: Sorry dear! I tried with all genuine methods and installed debian 8.1. But whoa! I lost my activated version of Windows 10. I WAS able to access all my hard drives as I did a proper shutdown but the grub os list showed

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

Don't we mean: firmware. Nonfree firmware was removed from Debian main for some silly reason. A lot of hardware needs it to function. I agree. Having to install the firmware manually to get X11 working is a bit Arthur Tuttlesque. Why not go the whole

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

On 28 July 2015 at 18:06, Erwan David er...@rail.eu.org wrote: Le 28/07/2015 18:16, Lisi Reisz a écrit : On Tuesday 28 July 2015 16:54:12 Michael Fothergill wrote: For me, normal use of the non-free stuff is a bit like choosing to use an umbrella ie useful but non essential that has

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

On 27 July 2015 at 18:27, Mark Allums m...@allums.xyz wrote: On 07/27/2015 08:46 AM, Hans wrote: Am Montag, 27. Juli 2015, 08:13:29 schrieb john vera: In one word, drivers. Don't we mean: firmware. Nonfree firmware was removed from Debian main for some silly reason. A lot of hardware

Re: Persistence

guess you would install the file that is usually burned on to the DVD on to the flash drive. Then you need to figure out how to get the bios to boot from it as you would in a conventional USB installation. Regards Michael Fothergill On 11 November 2015 at 15:51, Matilda Fins <shish

opening a backup.adi file in debian

around a bit I managed to unzip and extract a file which has the file extension .adi on it. Does anyone know of a utility etc that could open up an adi file and get at the underlying files stored in it? Suggestions gratefully appreciated. Regards Michael Fothergill

Re: Web Design Guidelines

Dear Sir/Madam, Good Tidings, Felicitations and Salutations be upon you! Alas, here in Debian, we have no need of such web site design services Blessings for a Fruit Full day. Regards Michael Fothergill

running etch on AMD Duron 1200 chip

Regards Michael Fothergill

Re: running etch on AMD Duron 1200 chip

On 6 January 2016 at 18:47, Martin Smith <li...@rakupottery.org.uk> wrote: > On 06/01/2016 18:34, Michael Fothergill wrote: > >> Dear Folks. >> >> I am running Debian etch on an old AMD Duron 1200 box. >> >> It's so long since I used it I can't remember i

is twitter useful for debian?

witter can be interesting but with the 140 character limit it would not be easy to discuss bugs etc. Apparently 71% of postings on twitter are ignored. That is not very interactive. Comments appreciated. Regards Michael Fothergill

Re: grub2 security problem

On 19 December 2015 at 11:50, Brad Rogers <b...@fineby.me.uk> wrote: > On Sat, 19 Dec 2015 09:35:57 + > Michael Fothergill <michael.fotherg...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Hello Michael, > > >​Is there any substance to this? > ​ > Yes, but it's been rect

grub2 security problem

Dear Folks, I noticed some articles suggesting that there is a security problem in grub2. E.g. http://thehackernews.com/2015/12/hack-linux-grub-password.html ​Is there any substance to this? Regards Michael Fothergill ​

Re: using debian debootstrap and chroot to login to other distro on neighbouring partition etc

Dear Folks, I did the chrooting according to Mr Ingraham's recipe and I used it to chroot into a gentoo installation I have on the machine here. It worked. I also used terminology. I will try out lxc in a little while. Regards and thanks Michael Fothergill On 5 February 2016 at 20

using debian debootstrap and chroot to login to other distro on neighbouring partition etc

on it and then use the chroot to run that OS inside the debian environment what would be the best way to do that? Do I need to rename some of the mount points etc? Comments and guidance appreciated. Regards Michael Fothergill

Re: using debian debootstrap and chroot to login to other distro on neighbouring partition etc

On 5 February 2016 at 12:49, Michael Fothergill < michael.fotherg...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > On 5 February 2016 at 12:30, Mirko Parthey <mirko.part...@web.de> wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 06:05:50PM -0600, Dutch Ingraham wrote: >> > I'm not s

Re: I need help

On 12 February 2016 at 17:48, Bret Busby wrote: > On 12/02/2016, Ric Moore wrote: > > > > It would be sweet if we didn't encourage people to post subject lines > > like "I need help". It helps no one else but the OP. Ric > > > > Quite agree. > > "I

Re: using debian debootstrap and chroot to login to other distro on neighbouring partition etc

On 5 February 2016 at 12:30, Mirko Parthey wrote: > On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 06:05:50PM -0600, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > > I'm not sure debootstrap is what you are looking for here. If you just > > want to chroot into your Ubuntu,on the same disk, these are the steps: > > > >

help using apt-build

to locate package adun.app_0.81-6.dsc Unable to find source candidate for adun.app_0.81-6.dsc What am I doing wrong here? Regards Michael Fothergill

Re: help using apt-build

Sorry about that I replied to your personal account by mistake. MF

Re: Need a Live CD [was Re: Need a downgrade :(}

On 24 February 2016 at 20:51, Glenn English wrote: > > > On Feb 24, 2016, at 1:06 AM, brian wrote: > > > > On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 07:46:50 +, you wrote: > > > >> On Wed, 2016-02-24 at 02:39 -0500, brian wrote: > >> > >>> Anybody know anywhere where

using openbox and xconsolekit in debian

c/init.d/consolekit start My question is: how would I best modify the above script to add the openbox start up command line? Regards Michael Fothergill ​

Re: Debian mirrors broke?

tomatically updates your apt source file with the new mirror. Regards Michael Fothergill ​ > Sent from my android device. -- Climostat Ltd Rm 5169 The Heath Business & Technical Park The Heath Runcorn Cheshire WA7 4QX Tel. 01 928 515 015

Re: using openbox and xconsolekit in debian

On 24 January 2016 at 11:52, Michael Fothergill < michael.fotherg...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Dear Folks, > > I am running debian stretch on an AMD machine: > > AMD A4-3400 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics > > ​on a Gigabyte F2A78M-HD2 board. > > I had the display

Re: Debian mirrors broke?

On 24 January 2016 at 18:07, Adam Wilson <mox...@riseup.net> wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 16:31:32 +0000 Michael Fothergill > <michael.fotherg...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > netselect-apt > > > > On 24 January 2016 at 16:11, <pe...@ber

Re: Debian mirrors broke?

On 24 January 2016 at 23:04, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sunday 24 January 2016 16:31:32 Michael Fothergill wrote: > > netselect-apt > > > > On 24 January 2016 at 16:11, <pe...@berghold.net> wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > &

dumb question about ocelot and cuda

something called ocelot that seems to be able to allow amd cards to run CUDA programs in some way or other.. Has anyone tried ocelot? Does it work, ie are the execution times similar to native CUDA compilations etc? Comments appreciated Regards Michael Fothergill ​

Re: I need help

On 17 February 2016 at 13:37, Adam Wilson wrote: > On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 15:51:58 +0800 Gener Badenas > wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 8:01 AM, Ghaith Etaiwi > > wrote: > > > > > Hello, I'm starting in linux I used

Re: ssd firmware and power cycles etc

On 17 March 2016 at 20:33, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: > Hey Michael, > > It depends if you believe in the voodoo. > ​The incantation is here: forum.crucial.com/t5/tkb/articleprintpage/tkb-id/ssd@tkb/article-id/32 and there are discussions like this one as well:

Re: Evolution

Bayern Munich Football Team's Leather Breeches! You get the idea... Regards Michael Fothergill ​ -- Climostat Ltd Rm 5169 The Heath Business & Technical Park The Heath Runcorn Cheshire WA7 4QX Tel. 01 928 515 015

ssd firmware and power cycles etc

which I replaced with a smaller psu that runs OK. The SSD is no longer recognised by the bios. There is some voodoo on the web about using power cycles and firmware to resurrect the ssd drives. Does this work in practice or should I get a replacement ssd? Regards Michael Fothergill

can you boot a dvd iso file from a tv dvd player?

.. Suggestions appreciated. Regards Michael Fothergill

Re: can you boot a dvd iso file from a tv dvd player?

On 22 March 2016 at 16:24, Andrew McGlashan < andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au> wrote: > Hi, > > On 23/03/2016 12:18 AM, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > I own a Samsung BD-C5900 Blu ray/DVD player. > > I think you will find that the USB port on a DVD player is

Re: can you boot a dvd iso file from a tv dvd player?

On 22 March 2016 at 19:59, Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 05:13:43PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > On 22 March 2016 at 16:24, Andrew McGlashan < > > andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au> wrote: > > > > > Hi, &

Re: Changing Boot Order

On 25 March 2016 at 21:01, Alan McConnell wrote: > First, thanks for all the responses. They fell into two classes: > those who advised repeating tapping/pressing on either the F!! > key or the Delete key. I've done that dozens of times, and > received no responses. And I can't

Re: Changing Boot Order

On 25 March 2016 at 21:01, Alan McConnell wrote: > First, thanks for all the responses. They fell into two classes: > those who advised repeating tapping/pressing on either the F!! > key or the Delete key. I've done that dozens of times, and > received no responses. And I can't

using mirrorselect in debian

Dear Folks, There is a gentoo package called mirrorselect. I can't see a version of it in debian. If I would try to compile and use it in debian what would be the best way to do that? Comments appreciated ​MF​

Re: Changing Boot Order

On 24 March 2016 at 20:44, 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.

Re: Changing Boot Order

On 26 March 2016 at 16:53, Lisi Reisz wrote: > 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

Re: help using apt-build

On 5 March 2016 at 20:00, Javier Barroso <javibarr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Michael Fothergill > <michael.fotherg...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > > > On 23 February 2016 at 18:46, Javi Barroso <ja

Re: help using apt-build

On 6 March 2016 at 11:06, Javier Barroso <javibarr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Michael, > > On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 11:42 AM, Michael Fothergill > <michael.fotherg...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > > > On 5 March 2016 at 20:00, Javier Barroso <

Re: help using apt-build

On 23 February 2016 at 18:46, Javi Barroso <javibarr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > El 23 de febrero de 2016 18:08:32 CET, Michael Fothergill < > michael.fotherg...@googlemail.com> escribió: > >Dear Folks, > > > >I tried using apt-build to instal

does wayland work yet?

abandoned X? Comments appreciated. Regards Michael Fothergill

Re: Thank heard.

On 25 April 2016 at 18:22, amd amd wrote: > All kernel 4.4.0-1 line was not working . Finally 4/24/2016 working day sid > was released with kernel 4.5.0-1 . 25.04.2016 stepped working week with the > same sid kernel 4.5.0-1 . > Fixed error when installing policykit - this is a

Re: Test version of the system.

c Please can you tell us what cpu and motherboard you have etc (I assume you are not using an IBM 390). Regards Michael Fothergill​

Re: Failed installs

bit voodoo like but maybe debian will prefer sitting on a different region of the disk - and then work OK. Regards MF​ > > > On 04/19/2016 05:53 AM, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > > On 18 April 2016 at 18:12, pcr1 <p...@pcrt.us> wrote: > >> I have for som

Re: pastebinning (was: Posts don't show on list)

On 10 May 2016 at 21:03, Eike Lantzsch <zp6...@gmx.net> wrote: > On Tuesday 10 May 2016 19:42:41 Michael Fothergill wrote: > > On 10 May 2016 at 19:18, <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: > > > > Gary Roach composed on 2016-04-30 12:08 (UTC-0700): > &g

Re: pastebinning (was: Posts don't show on list)

On 10 May 2016 at 19:18, wrote: > > Gary Roach composed on 2016-04-30 12:08 (UTC-0700): > > > > >Someone said that I need to use a pastebin for images. I've never used > > >one before so another Fxx Learning Experience. > > No, it's not necessary, in fact its

Re: [OT]: May Day

On 1 May 2016 at 13:26, Hans Vogelsberger wrote: > Am Sat, 30 Apr 2016 21:49:06 +0300 > schrieb Piyavkin : > > > Congratulations with International Worker's Day to all the working > > (in FOSS industry and at all) people! ) > > Have a nice day! > > > > > >

Re: Failed installs

On 18 April 2016 at 18:12, pcr1 wrote: > I have for some time been, and after many attempts remain, unable to > install Debian, which I previously have used for many years. The failures > occur during "select and install", about a third of the way through, but > not always at the

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

tandard .iso file? I mean if push comes to shove I'll > most likely just have to go the Ubuntu route, but I was trying to deal > directly with the "superior server" distro. Any help anyone can provide > would be greatly appreciated. > ​Try this: https://sourceforge.ne

using VR headset in debian

package with a VR headset in debian? Comments appreciated. Regards Michael Fothergill

we are getting some funny spam....

Dear Debianists, We are getting some odd spam at present I don't see why the spammers think we could be interested in data on healthcare IT professionals or media sales opportunities... We need an automatic spam emoticon that gets sent to them Or something like that. Regards

Re: Debian 8. keine Ahnung....

edingt eine Antwort. > > ​Dear Sir​ ​You need to post in English on this list; ie Zieht den Bayern die Lederhosen aus ​!​ ​ = Disrobe the Bayern Munich Football Team's Leather Breeches! You get the idea... Regards ​ ​Michael Fothergill​

Re: Debian installation for 1st time

t me what will be the suitable package for me,to > download > ​I think it would be good if you started out with a Debian Live dvd. see here: https://www.debian.org/CD/live/​ Download the stable iso file and then burn a DVD from it. Then get your bios to boot from it. Regards Michael Fo

Re: Help Installing a Dual Boot Debian and Mac OS MacBook Pro 9,1

On 22 January 2017 at 15:41, solitone <solit...@mail.com> wrote: > On Sunday, January 22, 2017 2:08:59 PM CET Michael Fothergill wrote: > > you need to play with the bios on your Mac box to get it to boot from the > > debian DVD. > > The point is that, in contrast to a

Re: Help Installing a Dual Boot Debian and Mac OS MacBook Pro 9,1

itions etc that would likely be suggested by people on this list. Regards MIchael Fothergill > > Best Regards, > > > > > > Rafael Lauda >

Re: Last spam: Let me know Munich Mayor's email address, please..

What is this pseuds-corner spam fritter stuff? MF On 17 February 2017 at 12:05, Nicolas George wrote: > Le nonidi 29 pluviôse, an CCXXV, Andre Müller a écrit : > > The day comes closer, that we remove all politicians and do our own > > constitution. > > And your own

Re: xaralx package

On 15 September 2016 at 11:34, Michael Fothergill < michael.fotherg...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > On 15 September 2016 at 10:59, Mark Fletcher <mark2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >>> >>> My suggestion would be install apt-file, either

Re: xaralx package

On 15 September 2016 at 16:48, Thomas Schmitt <scdbac...@gmx.net> wrote: > Hi, > > Michael Fothergill wrote: > > $ file xaralx > > xaralx: ELF 32-bit ... dynamically linked ... for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, > > That's really old. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linu

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