, how to reach them, and what
might motivate them enough to take a look at what I'm doing?
Thanks very much,
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Chris Bannister wrote:
On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 09:28:13PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote:
So... I'd really welcome any feedback on the questions who cares about
project management collaboration tools, how to reach them, and what
might motivate them enough to take a look at what I'm doing
Folks, I hope you don't mind some interactive responses - this really is
helping clarify a lot of my thinking
Michael, thanks!
Michal Suchanek wrote:
Hello,
On 5 August 2012 03:28, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote:
where are they and how do I get their attention?
Hi
Michal Suchanek wrote:
On 6 August 2012 19:21, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote:
My personal observation has been that even with a tiny group, an email
containing a list of action items very quickly yields a thread of dozens, or
hundreds of follow-ups - requests for details
Thanks to all who've sent me comments!
The new, and hopefully improved Kickstarter page and video are now up at:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1947703258/smart-notebooks-keeping-on-the-same-page-across-th
Take a look! Comments welcome. So are donations, likes, tweets, diggs,
+1s,
:
http://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/
and he has it up and running for general use at:
http://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/fup
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offer an option to download and save copies of
messages for offline access (while also leaving a message on the sever)
- to clean out emails from the server is easy: either delete the mails
entirely, or move them to a local folder (of course, now that mail is
only one machine)
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would suggest python is a much better choice to a young person
just starting out.
For going through a file, line-by-line, and massaging the format, my
first instinct would be sed. That's what it's intended for.
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of attempts before the drive
successfully reads a data block)
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2, but I think the issue is configuring the boot file
properly.)
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
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Hi Lars,
Lars Noodén wrote:
On 10/1/12 8:23 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Hi Folks,
I'm trying to build a headless, remote server - using an IPMI serial
terminal and PXEboot. The thing is, that I've got everything set up to
the point that the install system is booting (I can see the splash
Turns out that the remote serial-over-ip terminal redirects COM3, and
shows up as ttys2, which makes this
debian-installer/i386/boot-screens/txt.cfg:
append vga=788 inited=debian-installer/i386/initrd.gz --
console=ttyS0,19200 earlyprint=serial,ttyS0,19200
turn into this:
append
my brain here. Any thoughts on what I might try next?
Thanks,
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Chris Davies wrote:
Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote:
Well, I've been trying to do a remote install onto a server (Supermicro
X8SIE-LN4F motherboard) - booting via PXE, and using a serial-over-IP
terminal provided by the IPMI board.
The serial-over-ip terminal, sort of works
Alberto Luaces wrote:
Celejar writes:
A long-time, reasonably happy rsnapshot user, I decided to give
rdiff-backup a whirl, in part due to its recent endorsements on this
list, and promptly ran into this:
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?29808
Tom H wrote:
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 11:56 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote:
This thread reinforces what experienced server admins round the world
have known forever:
DO NOT USE dynamic network address assignment on servers.
The problem in this thread is but one of many that
can install on your machine to do similar things - essentially sending a
one-time link my email, that allows the recipient to download the file
from your machine.
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Brian wrote:
On Sat 02 Jun 2012 at 09:14:12 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Aubrey Raech wrote:
1. Not a proper server (http, ftp)
Pretty much all modern o/s's come with both a web server and ftp
pre-installed. It's a matter of turning them on, and configuring them
(if your target is running
Brian wrote:
On Sat 02 Jun 2012 at 22:48:57 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Sb, 02 iun 12, 18:12:03, Brian wrote:
There appears to be no advantage in using sshd in this situation. The
idea of having to guide her through configuring a router and using ssh
(on a Windows machine, incidentally)
Christofer C. Bell wrote:
That's just it. Using anything *other* than ssh is a waste of time
and effort most of the time as ssh requires no setup and effort to
use out of the box not only in Debian but any modern Linux/Unix.
*Everything else* requires effort to setup and use.
The point,
here's another interesting one:
http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/woof.html
From the description:
---
Woof (Web Offer One File) tries a different approach. It assumes that
everybody has a web-browser or a commandline web-client installed. Woof
is a small simple stupid webserver that can
Aubrey Raech wrote:
On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 21:07:15 -0400
Miles Fidelmanmfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote:
here's another interesting one:
http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/woof.html
Woof is excellent! Woof's also in the debian package repositories, as
is fex (from your previous message).
in the process?
hwinfo requires some libraries that get pretty close to the hardware -
perhaps a changed library is causing your problems
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DragonDondragon...@dragondon.net writes:
1/ Check logs. Insert ways to check various logs (both CLI and GUI)
2/ Type commands (for networks use command A, for video use command
B, for)
Aren't the first steps:
1. Are the lights on in your house?
2.
drive maker's web site for hardware-specific
diagnostics
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Dan B. wrote:
- maybe turn on BIOS logging and see if it catches any funniness
during the pre-GRUB boot process
I haven't seen anything about BIOS logging in my BIOS's menus. Is
it common? It is known by any other names?
Award BIOS has an option under Advanced BIOS settings for DMI Event
I did a little googling on error: fd0 read error - and found this page:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/568720
It's an interesting discussion regarding the behavior of different BIOS
settings vis-a-vis FDDs. Particularly noteable is this:
--
Steps to debug this:
*
Dan B. wrote:
Thanks to some suggestions that somehow caused me to check basic floppy
access, I discovered that the problem was ... (get ready for a big
letdown) ... a loose floppy cable.
It really is amazing how many things end up being hardware problems ;-)
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and then re-run security scans.
Hope this helps.
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Kushal Kumaran wrote:
Ken Heard kensli...@teksavvy.com wrote:
Can anyone tell me how I can transfer files between my Samsung tablet
with Honeycomb and my Debian boxes with Lenny or Squeeze, using either
a
USB or Bluetooth connection between them? I know I can transfer them
by
e-mail, but that
T Elcor wrote:
--- On Sat, 7/14/12, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote:
However, for mailing lists and forums I
prefer to use a NNTP newsreader, it does a better job.
I used to do that but then switched to a web-based mail list archive. It's just
more convenient for me as I don't have to
Folks (to those in the US),
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MPR wrote:
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote:
Darac Marjal wrote:
Log in as root?
Effectively that's what I want.
BUT neither 'root' nor 'superuser' is recognized by Gnome login screen :
Edit /etc/passwd and change the UID and GID for your login to 0
Richard Owlett wrote:
Miles Fidelman wrote:
you might try using expert mode when installing, and then
answering yes when the installer asks about enabling root
login,
That did not work.
That's rather odd. The installer always asks me to set up a root
account, before setting up an account
Richard Owlett wrote:
Miles Fidelman wrote:
Richard Owlett wrote:
Miles Fidelman wrote:
you might try using expert mode when installing, and then
answering yes when the installer asks about enabling root
login,
That did not work.
That's rather odd. The installer always asks me to set up
Ralf Mardorf wrote:
spinymouse@q:~$ sudo -i
[sudo] password for spinymouse:
root@q:~#
ahh... that's a good one, I've always used:
sudo su
which does the same thing
Miles
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Richard Owlett wrote:
As in, you were not able to log in as root, even though
you'd enabled root and provided a root password during
installation? That's also kind of weird. What about logging
in as a normal user, and then opening a terminal window and
typing su ?
That was *NOT* my goal .
Ralf Mardorf wrote:
It's wise not to run a complete session as root. It's better to e.g. use
a su frontend, e.g.
kind of depends on what you're doing - if you're doing software installs
and admin on a server (most of what I do), one spends a lot of time in
root sessions
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Morel Bérenger wrote:
(Personally, I'm suspicious of software and changes that are
distribution-specific.)
Are you suspicious about the Debian Linux kernel? It have distro specific
patches. (But I think and hope that they are reported upstream. Did not
checked.)
Well, that's why I included
Slavko wrote:
I did search and i found the source, here it is:
http://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/11/22/how-ubuntu-builds-up-on-debian/
Thanks for the pointer, I just went and read it.
It's a pretty good and informative read. So are the comments. Still
timely and worth reading.
Miles
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David Guntner wrote:
If I recall correctly, in an earlier posting you made here you asked
about the difference between BSD and Linux. If that wasn't you, I
apologize, and hope that the person who asked will see the subject
line and find this just the same. :-)
I stumbled upon the following
evaluation or testing, much less pay
$40,000 for it. Your problem is not a technical one, its a staffing
problem.
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Marcelo Luiz de Laia wrote:
Lars Noodén lars.nooden at gmail.com writes:
You can specify which directory the web server looks for, such as
~/public/www, if the default ~/public_html is not to your liking.
OK!
But, what do you suggest to facilitate my colleagues windows users to
administrates
of what people actually use, and in what
combinations, rather than what's got the buzz this week.
Thanks for anything you might share.
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Bob Proulx wrote:
Miles Fidelman wrote:
Which leads me to wonder: Those of you who run server farms on
Debian, what are you using for:
- initial o/s install and configuration (e.g., FAI, other things?)
- software install/update/configuration (chef, puppet, ?)
- virtual machine management
- user
Patrick Bartek wrote:
For the past couple of days have been reading about a major security hole in
Java 7:
(http://www.zdnet.com/homeland-security-warns-to-disable-java-amid-zero-day-flaw-709713/)
And was wondering if IceTea might have the same flaw. As yet I've seen no
mention of it.
that would work on both:
- Mac desktop
- headless Debian popping up a remote window under MacX (without the
burden of a full Gnome or KDE desktop)
Thanks!
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Hi,
Dňa Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:22:39 -0500 Miles Fidelman
mfidel...@meetinghouse.net napísal:
I'm interested too. Tomboy and Gnote look useful, but both seem
awfully tied to the Gnome desktop. Any comments on Zim, or anything
else similar that would work on both:
- Mac desktop
Thierry Chatelet wrote:
Hi,
I have 3 instances of vlc that I can not stop. Top does not give me their
process number. How can I get ithem to kill them with kill +process number? Or
is there athere a other way to do it?
Thierry
if you process tools installed you can:
pkill vlc
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a bit backwards if you ask me.
Now, if you were to say: go for hardware for which hardware-specific
drivers already exist, that's another story.
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In practice
Mark Allums wrote:
From: Chris Bannister [mailto:cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz]
On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 09:06:55PM -0600, zxcvbob wrote:
I have a different model Chromebook with an Atom processor and a
SSD. It should run Debian just fine; I have Debian on an older
netbook, but good luck installing
(which used to
run Redhat, and before that Solaris), and who's run MacOS on my desktop
for close to 30 years (with lots of strange things running under the
hood, including various other environments under emulation).
But that's me,
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for technoweenies? Try server o/s powering an awful lot of major
applications.
Desktop Linux has less of a value proposition. Face it, most people use
computers at work, where you've got to run MS Office - which means
Windows or MacOS. Real simple.
Miles Fidelman
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Mark Filipak wrote:
On 2013/2/26 4:42 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Mark Filipak wrote:
For everyone who doesn't have their own development department to
adapt Linux kernels to their widget, Linux has been a toy OS for
technoweenies. That hasn't changed in 10 years and Linux has made
Mark Filipak wrote:
On 2013/2/26 5:08 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Mark Filipak wrote:
On 2013/2/26 4:42 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Mark Filipak wrote:
For everyone who doesn't have their own development department to
adapt Linux kernels to their widget, Linux has been a toy OS
Mark Filipak wrote:
On 2013/2/26 5:39 PM, Joe wrote:
Linux is where it is without mainstream or mass interest. Enough people
want it, and use it, to maintain its viability. It *is* a success.
No, it isn't.
Says you.
There's a pretty big user base, as well as a whole slew of vendors,
who'd
with it
- if Apple keeps up their current direction with MacOS, they're going to
lose a lot of their market to Linux
Just one man's opinion,
Miles Fidelman
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applications.
Desktop Linux has less of a value proposition. Face it, most people use
computers at work, where you've got to run MS Office - which means
Windows or MacOS. Real simple.
Miles Fidelman
Your attitude, Miles, is typical and is a large part of the problem.
What's wrong
Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Wednesday 27 February 2013 20:34:26 Go Linux wrote:
Well, I am a liberal arts educated 70-something (and female to boot)
+1 ;-)
without a technical computer background like yours to brag about. I am
just a lowly user with a curiosity and willingness to learn. I have
Mark Filipak wrote:
On 2013/2/27 11:18 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Hasn't even run it, apprently, or at least wrote in an earlier
message But I don't run Linux.
Now that's it in a nutshell, isn't it. Seems to me that Mark is
simply a troll (certainly not a debian-user)
I'm not a troll
Mark Filipak wrote:
On 2013/2/27 5:32 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Tuesday 26 February 2013 21:35:18 Mark Filipak wrote:
An OS that is difficult to install is not a friendly OS. People
understand
this.
I find Debian GNU/Linux significantly easier to install than Windows.
What a nonsensical
Mark Filipak wrote:
On 2013/2/27 6:34 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Mark Filipak wrote:
On 2013/2/27 5:32 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Tuesday 26 February 2013 21:35:18 Mark Filipak wrote:
An OS that is difficult to install is not a friendly OS. People
understand
this.
I find Debian GNU/Linux
Mark Filipak wrote:
On 2013/2/27 6:53 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Mark Filipak wrote:
On 2013/2/27 6:34 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Mark Filipak wrote:
On 2013/2/27 5:32 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Tuesday 26 February 2013 21:35:18 Mark Filipak wrote:
An OS that is difficult to install
David Guntner wrote:
Miles Fidelman grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
AND PLEASE STOP HITTING REPLY ALL - I DON'T NEED TWO COPIES OF EVERY ONE
OF YOUR POSTINGS - REPLY TO THE LIST, ONLY
If you're using Procmail to filter your E-Mail, I can send you a recipe
that deletes the duplicate when things
Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Wed, 2013-02-27 at 19:04 -0500, Mark Filipak wrote:
In the Debian live page, dd is offered as the way to copy the ISO file
to a USB stick. But the dd program offered only runs in Linux! What
good is that to someone who is running Windows at the time?
If I get a new
David Guntner wrote:
Miles Fidelman grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
David Guntner wrote:
If you're using Procmail to filter your E-Mail, I can send you a recipe
that deletes the duplicate when things like that happen... :-)
Anyway, the recipe is dirt simple. The bit of code below assumes
Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote:
So here we have it. You are trying to run a Linux distribution from USB
stick. Somehing very exotic, not for beginers. Now I dare you to prove
that it is easier (or even possible) to do this with Windows. If you are
complaing that doing in Linux something that is
Alois Mahdal wrote:
Hi Miles, hi everybody!
On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 19:56:40 -0500
Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote:
Sure... thanks! Still, it's a good thing to train folks to
reply appropriately :-)
Holy ravioli! Training a troll? Gimme a break!
BTW, I'd prefer good old Delete
Charles Kroeger wrote:
On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:40:02 +0100
Mark Filipak markfilipak.li...@gmail.com wrote:
Linux scares the crap out of me.
I tell you, the thing that scares the crap out of me is a woman with a bow and
arrow.
Oh God no... let's not go down this rathole :-)
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Ralf Mardorf wrote:
excerpts
Cities that switched from Microsoft to Linux, for their departments,
switched back to Windows.
Then again, I've been seeing an awful lot of government users switching
to Redhat Linux.
Linux isn't a replacement for Windows and Apple. If somebody needs Apple
Tom H wrote:
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Miles Fidelman
mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote:
Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote:
So here we have it. You are trying to run a Linux distribution from USB
stick. Somehing very exotic, not for beginers. Now I dare you to prove
that it is easier
Tom H wrote:
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Miles Fidelman
mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote:
Tom H wrote:
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Miles Fidelman
mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote:
Come to think of it, that's a good point - and even relevant to Linux
advocacy. I don't think I've ever
On 02/28/13 11:31, Richard Owlett wrote:
Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Thursday 28 February 2013 16:01:03 Richard Owlett wrote:
as a senior citizen moving from Windows(tm) to
Debian(tm?),
Why is your seniority relevant?
Just trying to convey that I've enough real-world experience to have a
Richard Owlett wrote:
Nope ;)
It was the standard IBM keypunch. I spent many hours muttering at it
in 1961.
Ok... definitely a bit before my time. Used keypunches my freshman year
at college (1971) - in a course that took us from IBM 360 batch, to
360/TSO, to Multics - but after that,
Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
It's a car punch machine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IBM26.jpg
Car punch?
http://www.forkparty.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/E-Honda-Car-Punch.jpg
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Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Thursday 28 February 2013 19:31:03 Richard Owlett wrote:
Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Thursday 28 February 2013 16:01:03 Richard Owlett wrote:
as a senior citizen moving from Windows(tm) to
Debian(tm?),
Why is your seniority relevant?
Just trying to convey that I've enough
Morel Bérenger wrote:
Le Ven 1 mars 2013 0:20, Miles Fidelman a écrit :
- also, those of us who date back a few years still think of computers
as things that need some assembly and bring that view to system software
as well
Well, here, let me laugh.
Something which needs some assembly
Bob Proulx wrote:
David Guntner wrote:
Anyway, the recipe is dirt simple.
...
# Duplicate Suppression.
:0Whc: $MAILDIR/.msgid.cache.lock
| $FORMAIL -D 8192 $MAILDIR/.msgid.cache
# Take out the Trash.
:0 a:
/dev/null
For one I use the mailing list headers List-Id
Brian wrote:
On Fri 01 Mar 2013 at 08:34:57 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Fair enough, but... I have to say it
Back in my day, we not only had to walk to school, uphill, in both
directions, in the snow, but we also had to build our computers by
hand, from TTL logic gates. :-)
You had TTL
Mark Filipak wrote:
Do you want to help?
If no, stop reading now (I don't need more heckling).
What I did:
1 - Booted Windows.
1.1 - Copied the Debian-Gnome Live ISO to an 8-GB USB.
1.2 - Shut down Windows.
2 - Booted Debian-Gnome from 8-GB USB - success!
2.1 - Shut down Debian-Gnome.
3 -
Mark Filipak wrote:
GRUB LILO install failures unexplained - no help.
Well that makes perfect sense. GRUB and LILO boot loaders designed to
work with a hard drive. You (probably) need to install a different boot
loader on a USB stick - and which one is dependent on what your BIOS
Mark Filipak wrote:
On 2013/3/1 3:16 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Mark Filipak wrote:
GRUB LILO install failures unexplained - no help.
Well that makes perfect sense. GRUB and LILO boot loaders designed
to work with a hard drive. You (probably) need to install a
different boot loader
Mark Filipak wrote:
On 2013/3/1 3:29 PM, Go Linux wrote:
--- On Fri, 3/1/13, Mark Filipak markfilipak.li...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Mark Filipak markfilipak.li...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Installation failed
To: Shane Johnson s...@rasmussenequipment.com
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date:
Mérof 42 wrote:
Hi,
I'm using Owncloud since few month, but with the web interface
calendar is not really useful
I'm looking for a simple caldav client, but I can't find one.
Do you have any idea which client can I use?
I'm searching a simple client, not like evolution who need a mailbox
Rob Owens wrote:
On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 03:16:12PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Mark Filipak wrote:
GRUB LILO install failures unexplained - no help.
Well that makes perfect sense. GRUB and LILO boot loaders designed
to work with a hard drive. You (probably) need to install a
different
Rob Owens wrote:
On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 03:16:12PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Mark Filipak wrote:
GRUB LILO install failures unexplained - no help.
Well that makes perfect sense. GRUB and LILO boot loaders designed
to work with a hard drive. You (probably) need to install a
different
Rob Owens wrote:
On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 07:14:59PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Rob Owens wrote:
On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 03:16:12PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Mark Filipak wrote:
GRUB LILO install failures unexplained - no help.
Well that makes perfect sense. GRUB and LILO boot loaders
Rob Owens wrote:
On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 07:25:30PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Rob Owens wrote:
On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 03:16:12PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Mark Filipak wrote:
GRUB LILO install failures unexplained - no help.
Well that makes perfect sense. GRUB and LILO boot loaders
Brian wrote:
On Fri 01 Mar 2013 at 19:25:30 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:
in fact, I expect that's what's happening to Mark when he tries to
install GRUB - the installer is either:
a) trying to install on the hdd, which he's disconnected (fail), or,
The kernel has no knowledge about a non
Mark Filipak wrote:
On 2013/3/1 8:13 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Brian wrote:
On Fri 01 Mar 2013 at 19:25:30 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:
in fact, I expect that's what's happening to Mark when he tries to
install GRUB - the installer is either:
a) trying to install on the hdd, which he's
a pretty good reputation for being pretty secure.
Miles Fidelman
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Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote:
There was once a fellow on a list I belong to whose postings
were one tale of woe after another which is not that unusual for
those of us who tinker and work in technology. The trouble with
him was that it was all one big conspiracy against him and he
was just
Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote:
Windows-NT 3.5 was probably the finest OS ever written
Let us see who will be the first to bite the troll :)
Do you really want to start a debate on best OS ever? Talk about an
ugly religious argument, even if we exclude anyone dumb (or trollish)
enough to
Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote:
Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote:
Windows-NT 3.5 was probably the finest OS ever written
Let us see who will be the first to bite the troll :)
Do you really want to start a debate on best OS ever? Talk about an
ugly religious argument, even if we exclude
Go Linux wrote:
--- On Fri, 3/1/13, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati assir...@nonada.if.usp.br wrote:
From: Joao Luis Meloni Assirati assir...@nonada.if.usp.br
Subject: Re: I wish to advocate linux
To: Martin McCormick mar...@x.it.okstate.edu
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Friday, March 1,
Brian wrote:
On Fri 01 Mar 2013 at 23:05:13 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Yup. And it's even obvious what he's doing, but he's too obstinate
to listen.
(trying to install onto the same device he's booting from, without
paying attention to partitioning, telling the installer where to put
Lars Noodén wrote:
On 03/02/2013 11:27 AM, Tom Furie wrote:
On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 07:38:41PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
These days it is != :) (I think was not equal to, was it?)
Technically, it's less than or greater than, but I suppose it
amounts to the same thing :)
Cheers, Tom
Wait a minute
Mark Filipak wrote:
I successfully installed this:
debian-live-6.0.6-amd64-lxde-desktop.iso
to a USB flash in Windows with this:
dd bs=1M if=debian-live-6.0.6-amd64-lxde-desktop.iso od=e:
dd, in Windows?
which version of dd for windows did you use?
(where 'e:' is the
Harvey Kelly wrote:
On 2 March 2013 10:58, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote:
On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 08:20:32PM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote:
João, kindly stop responding to this thread. I want help, not noise.
Bloody cheek!! Did you behave this way on other distro support
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