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2023-10-26 Thread Kevin Freeman
Dear friend, Hello, I have a bug here that needs to be reported. It has been present in multiple versions and still exists in Debian 12. The issue is related to the desktop version's Wi-Fi icon and driver. While I can use Wi-Fi to connect to the internet, I would like to have a more intuitive icon

Re: Network routing on multi-homed system

2014-08-05 Thread Isaac Freeman
! :) -- Isaac Freeman - Systems Administrator IBM SmartCloud Managed Backup is...@us.ibm.com 919-254-0245 From: Pascal Hambourg To: debian-user@lists.debian.org, Cc: Isaac Freeman/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS Date: 08/02/2014 02:45 PM Subject:Re: Network routing on multi-homed system Hello

Network routing on multi-homed system

2014-08-01 Thread Isaac Freeman
41 table external post-up ip route add default via 172.1.1.62 table external post-up ip rule add from 172.1.1.41 table external post-down ip rule del from 172.1.1.41 table external -- Isaac Freeman - Systems Administrator IBM SmartCloud Managed Backup is...@us.ibm.com 919-254-0245

Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-05-27 Thread Freeman
rent browser? > > > It is Mozilla, Debian Lenny. I haven't tried with a different > browser, I don't know any other. The problem is serious, so please > help if you can! Thanks - rodolfo > > If is supports a restart add-on, install it and try restartin

Re: how to practice.

2012-05-20 Thread Freeman
emory. I like to use dwww, which does a good job of searching a term in all installed docs and manuals, of which I install many. -- Regards, Freeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

Re: Suggestion: Please change rights of cpufreq-set by default

2012-01-15 Thread Freeman
min or in another profile to max. > > But changing the default rights IMO is no good way, except the maintainers > decide so, too. > > Any other suggestions? > Put your user in the powerdev group. (I think I did this many years back and it works for me.) Set up sudo for your

Re: Xfce steals keyboard shortcuts?

2012-01-09 Thread Freeman
On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 07:56:55AM -0500, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > On 01/08/2012 07:54 PM, Freeman wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 04:13:37PM -0800, evenso wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 10:01:09PM +0400, Roman Khomasuridze wrote: > >>> Sorry, forgot to ment

Re: Xfce steals keyboard shortcuts?

2012-01-08 Thread Freeman
in Gnome and Openbox. Although I do have space working > for gmrun. For that matter, I have never succeeded in getting any > xyz shortcut working under Xfce4. > In case I am not the only person who didn't know this, I recently discovered that the fxce4 term for the ctrl key is "

Re: FETCHMAIL AND GMAIL?

2011-12-24 Thread Freeman
when IMAP is available escapes me). > > I had problems with fetchmail and gmail pop3. emails would start being missed after undeleted emails hit about 600. By 1000 undeleted emails, nothing was being downloaded. I don't remember if emails were being marked. Fixed it by changing to

Re: xfce4-panel often stops running?

2011-12-18 Thread Freeman
4.6.2-1 xfkc/oldstable uptodate 0.2-2 xfmedia/oldstable uptodate 0.9.2-5 xfmpc/stable uptodate 0.2.0-1 xfprint4/stable uptodate 4.6.1-1 xfsprogs/stable uptodate 3.1.4 xfswitch-plugin/stable uptodate 0.0.1-2 xfwm4/testing uptodate 4.8.2-1 xfwm4-dbg/testing uptodate 4.8.2-1 xfwm4-themes/stable uptodate

Re: Xfce steals keyboard shortcuts?

2011-11-28 Thread Freeman
ing any xyz shortcut working under Xfce4. -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: [OT] Re: Please kill the noise

2011-10-08 Thread Freeman
vironment would be satisfied along with the need for a positive signal to noise ratio. -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: atfptd in squeeze won't do anything

2011-08-31 Thread Isaac Freeman
7;ll look in to gpxe. Thanks, -- Isaac Freeman - Systems Administrator IBM Information Protection Services is...@us.ibm.com 919-254-0245 From: Scott Ferguson To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Isaac Freeman/Raleigh/Contr/IBM@IBMUS Date: 08/30/2011 07:28 AM Subject:Re: atfptd

atfptd in squeeze won't do anything

2011-08-23 Thread Isaac Freeman
quot;apt-get it, and it should work". Also, I tried getting tftpd-hpa working too with similar problems, but I haven't done as extensive of troubleshooting on that. -- Isaac Freeman - Systems Administrator IBM Information Protection Services is...@us.ibm.com 919-254-0245

Re: clamav 0.97.1 not coming to squeeze-updates ?

2011-06-29 Thread Freeman
year following the new stable release. But I've never read the official statement. This chart shows support lasting slightly over a year on average. And it correlates with my memory. (Which isn't necessarily saying much.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian#Release_history -- Rega

Re: clamav 0.97.1 not coming to squeeze-updates ?

2011-06-29 Thread Freeman
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:59:44AM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:51:28 -0700, Freeman wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 03:46:32PM +, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > > >> > Note you don't need to use squeeze-updates, so we are optin

Re: clamav 0.97.1 not coming to squeeze-updates ?

2011-06-27 Thread Freeman
to install on their systems before the next point release is made, such as updates to virus scanners and timezone data. All packages from squeeze-updates will be included in point releases. However I take it you are drawing a distinction between security and other updates. But would not that th

Re: clamav 0.97.1 not coming to squeeze-updates ?

2011-06-27 Thread Freeman
table repo. > > I think you are talking about a different issue. > I seen this twice prior. Not running a server, I didn't concern myself with it extensively, but I did observe in consternation. The Volatile package is outdated but the the sid or testing package isn't. Th

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

2011-06-25 Thread Freeman
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 01:52:15PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 24 Jun 2011 at 15:11:13 -0700, Freeman wrote: > > > Grub2 didn't like my setup during upgrade. > > > > My menu.lst of Grub 0.97 included numerous different rc levels to select > > from. Just a

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

2011-06-25 Thread Freeman
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 01:19:39PM -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Freeman wrote: > > > > Grub2 didn't like my setup during upgrade. > > > > My menu.lst of Grub 0.97 included numerous different rc levels to select > > from. Jus

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

2011-06-24 Thread Freeman
initrd.img-2.6.37-1-amd64 . . . > admit, and I'm not overfussed about configuring it to display fancy > menus. What basic changes to grub.cfg cannot be made from the files in > /etc? > > As an aside: Is having 'DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE' and making the file &

Re: Re: USB sound card

2011-06-24 Thread Freeman
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Re: Re: There was a problem with your email to debianHELP

2011-06-24 Thread Freeman
-- 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/20110624194239.GA19029@Deneb.office

Re: Almost everyday a new issue: this time Amarok

2011-06-19 Thread Freeman
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 09:41:06PM +0100, AG wrote: > On 19/06/11 20:05, Freeman wrote: > >On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 07:01:07PM +0100, AG wrote: > >>On 19/06/11 17:41, lee wrote: > >>>AG writes: > >>> > >>>>Hey list > >>&g

Re: Almost everyday a new issue: this time Amarok

2011-06-19 Thread Freeman
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 12:05:46PM -0700, evenso wrote: > > 5.) There is an amarok mailing list, ama...@kde.org, where the developers > themselves will respond to your queries directly, given time. > Oh, Looks like you were there 8 minutes ago. -- Regards, Freeman "Mic

Re: Almost everyday a new issue: this time Amarok

2011-06-19 Thread Freeman
your queries directly, given time. 6.) I solved my problems trying to keep the latest version of Amarok by installing from squeeze-backports. This might still work for wheezy and there is a chance it will resolve the issue if it is dependency related. -- Regards, Freeman "Microso

Re: What controls X?

2011-06-17 Thread Freeman
gt; >but as this setting is workingh on all my other systems, I want to > >leave it as set by default and find out, why the same settings > >differ only on this special machine. > > > >Hope, someone knwos better, as I try to solve this now since months. > > > >

[OT] Posted to d-community-offto...@lists.alioth.debian.org

2011-06-17 Thread Freeman
Subject: Bad Contacts on IPW2200? (w/image link!) (For those who are interested in subscribing to d-community-offto...@lists.alioth.debian.org) -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: How select the access point manually in a wireless network?

2011-06-15 Thread Freeman
frag:0 ^^^ >           Tx excessive retries:86  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0 > > The access point doesn't change > OK. But do you need to be entering a password with the "key" parameter? -- Regards, Freeman "Mi

Re: installing .debs from hdd

2011-06-13 Thread Freeman
vations.html It is easy to pick up, *can install from a local path name*, build debs from source and some other nice commands. A little lacking on documentation. Attached is a list of commands. -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the a

Re: broadcom

2011-06-13 Thread Freeman
st for fun i built my own kernel with the wl.ko > driver included in the net_modules. works excellent and was after a > couple of years an excellent rehearsel/training. > Glad for that. [This whole thread, for reasons unbeknownst to me, just assembled correctly coherently in mutt for the f

Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-11 Thread Freeman
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 02:28:26PM +0200, Andrej Kacian wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:28:32 -0700 > Freeman wrote: > > >The disadvantage is wasted space, since each partition has some expansion > >room that equals lost contiguous bulk space. (Reading up on LVM&#x

Re: broadcom

2011-06-11 Thread Freeman
nate blacklist file that, in addition, blacklists broadcom but I don't think that was necessary to use the LAN. (It has been awhile.) -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSU

Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-10 Thread Freeman
104K 1.5G 1% /tmp /dev/sda4 65G 65G 253M 100% /mnt/Library /dev/sda1 18G 17G 400M 98% /mnt/XP -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: [Debian 6] - unexpected issue with iso images

2011-06-07 Thread Freeman
d to which list would users post OT? They'd be forced to use D-community-offtopic! Moreover, to which would Ubuntu users post? They'd have to figure the closest equivalent release. But they might get frustrated and forgo posting. Wait a minute . . . -- Regards, Freeman "Microsof

Re: multi-boot mess: have I destroyed Windows 7 ?

2011-05-29 Thread Freeman
'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (recovery mode)' > --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { > insmod part_msdos > insmod ext2 > set root='(hd0,msdos5)' > search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set d487742e-ad50-4347-8d9a-b8d0f190

Re: 0 years 1st programmed computer? - Re: Poll Summary & Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-27 Thread Freeman
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:19:19AM +0530, Mihira Fernando wrote: > On 05/27/2011 08:55 AM, Freeman wrote: > >and a habit of attempting to impress attractive young women with it all. > > Did this ever work ? :D > Most are patient but, outside of a couple of diversions to yo

Re: 0 years 1st programmed computer? - Re: Poll Summary & Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-27 Thread Freeman
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:19:29PM -0700, giovanni_re wrote: > On Thu, 26 May 2011 20:25:32 -0700, "Freeman" said: > > But, not a programmer, just an enthusiast/hobbiest with a love of Debian, > > > :) > > If that's the way you want to read my questi

Re: 0 years 1st programmed computer? - Re: Poll Summary & Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-26 Thread Freeman
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 04:48:25PM -0700, giovanni_re wrote: > On Tue, 17 May 2011 19:07:09 -0700, "Freeman" said: > > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 09:48:23PM -0700, giovanni_re wrote: > > > > . . . > > > OK: What Smartphone do you use? > > > Manufact

Re: Problematic Acroread Install in Squeeze

2011-05-20 Thread Freeman
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:14:29AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Jo, 19 mai 11, 18:07:44, Freeman wrote: > ... > > 18 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/acroread.1.gz', which is > > also in > > 19 /package adobereader-enu 9.3.2 > > Get ri

Problematic Acroread Install in Squeeze

2011-05-19 Thread Freeman
itude refuses to uninstall Adobe Reader. :) Haven't tried uninstalling Acroread yet. Any insights appreciated! 1 root@Europa:/home/freeman# aptitude install acroread-debian-files 2 The following NEW packages will be installed: 3 acroread-debian-files 4 The following partially installe

Re: What is the recommended way to handle squeeze-proposed-updates?

2011-05-19 Thread Freeman
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 04:05:20PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20110519195909.GA8991@Europa.office>, Freeman wrote: > >Proposed-updates replaces the volatile archive. > > No, that's stable-updates, not stable-proposed-updates. Ugh. True this is.

Re: What is the recommended way to handle squeeze-proposed-updates?

2011-05-19 Thread Freeman
might consider making squeeze your > default in your /etc/apt/apt.conf file. > > As root: > > echo 'APT::Default-Release "stable";' >> /etc/apt/apt.conf > That should give squeeze a priority of 990, which would insure squeeze updates and secu

Re: What is the recommended way to handle squeeze-proposed-updates?

2011-05-19 Thread Freeman
g squeeze your default in your /etc/apt/apt.conf file. As root: echo 'APT::Default-Release "stable";' >> /etc/apt/apt.conf -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To U

Re: Avoid POP3

2011-05-17 Thread Freeman
new, read, unread. The OP may be interested. It is still around, although I wonder what kind of development/support it has because it was neglected when I was on Win98. Of course, most of these Linux CLI clients we use now were originally used to browse POP3 boxes from shell accounts in the day.

Re: Poll Summary & Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-17 Thread Freeman
onics store and bought the cheapest Verizon phone I could find with a good battery and switched my number to it. I am putting all the phone budget I can toward a simmed Android, I think. And I'll get some Debian going on it. -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft

Re: backports updates

2011-05-15 Thread Freeman
lt-Release setting. > > I believe 990 is necessary to prioritize a package above an equal version of > the target release or the installed version. > P.S. I took out /etc/apt/apt.conf to double check. squeeze-backports remains at 100 but squeeze drops down to 500. -- Regards, Freeman

Re: backports updates

2011-05-15 Thread Freeman
target release or the installed version. -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: how do i report a bug in reportbug ?

2011-05-15 Thread Freeman
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 10:27:58AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20110514_135701, Freeman wrote: > > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 05:10:18PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: . . . > > I like the gui on reportbug-ng. Speeds things up over reportbug IMHO. Also > > uses color codi

Re: how do i report a bug in reportbug ?

2011-05-14 Thread Freeman
uctions to submit debug > information. but debug reportbug??? I need help. > I like the gui on reportbug-ng. Speeds things up over reportbug IMHO. Also uses color coding nicely for clarity. Still works. :) -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. N

Re: Fwd: Re: [OT] Re: Defending yourself

2011-05-12 Thread Freeman
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 02:15:55PM -0700, evenso wrote: > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:24:30PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On 2011-05-11 17:35:20 Freeman wrote: > > >On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 08:30:49PM +, Camaleón wrote: > > >> On Wed, 11 May 2011 1

Re: Fwd: Re: [OT] Re: Defending yourself

2011-05-12 Thread Freeman
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:24:30PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On 2011-05-11 17:35:20 Freeman wrote: > >On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 08:30:49PM +, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Wed, 11 May 2011 11:55:48 -0700, Jeroen van Aart wrote: > >> > Lisi wrote: > &g

Re: Fwd: Re: [OT] Re: Defending yourself

2011-05-11 Thread Freeman
business of being terrorists. Although they may be too far into rage to see it themselves, politics is the secondary consideration and/or rational. Although politics may have created the environment spawning the love of terror. So that might include some spammers, on the lighter, disruptive

Re: Fwd: Re: [OT] Re: Defending yourself

2011-05-11 Thread Freeman
rson's private email is copied in the > > "To:" not the list's address. In my experience this generally means a > > conscious decision was made to encourage replies to go to the individual > > instead of the list. > > Sadly, that's not true at all.

Re: Defending yourself

2011-05-10 Thread Freeman
in order to run it, if > necessary. http://www.debian.org/devel/join/ http://www.debian.org/intro/help http://lists.debian.org/devel.html -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: I am not receiving my discussion mail.

2011-05-10 Thread Freeman
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 08:53:14PM +0530, Narendra Sisodiya wrote: > Please reply me, let me test, whether I am getting reply of email or not.. > Compare your INBOX to http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/05/thrd2.html -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Micro

Re: Trying to reinstall exim4

2011-05-09 Thread Freeman
eeze system. > > Thanks for any ideas. What happens when you run # dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config ? -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debi

Re: Need /etc/apt/sources.list

2011-05-06 Thread Freeman
n # deb-src http://www.ailab.si/orange/debian lenny main # Unofficial Debian packages from Kirya.net http://packages.kirya.net/ # wget -O - # http://packages.kirya.net/Kirya.netDebianpackagesVerificationKey.asc | # apt-key add - #Stable/Lenny #deb http://packages.kirya.net/debian/ lenny main contri

Re: Elegant and Amazing Apps

2011-05-06 Thread Freeman
, most users should likely find some chore expedited on their system. Also there is a separate history and favs file (down arrow) that is less obvious than browser and document histories, were one concerned about casual discoveries, since kupfer doesn't have to be on the menu or in the tray. --

Re: Poll - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-06 Thread Freeman
On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 01:45:38AM -0400, shawn wilson wrote: > On May 5, 2011 11:19 PM, "Freeman" wrote: > > > > On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 08:35:39PM -0700, giovanni_re wrote: > > > > > > = > > > So, today's poll is: > > > > &

Re: Poll - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-05 Thread Freeman
dot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29>Google Allows Carriers to Ban Tethering Apps -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &q

Re: Poll - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-03 Thread Freeman
reach the U.S. Supreme Court. However, by then, the technological specifics of the issues may be obsolete and already replaced by new ones. I am thinking of moving to the simplest, cheapest thing that is dependable and allows one to turn off tracking--dumping even texting! I have no idea wha

Re: Tripwire can't send report by email??????

2011-04-26 Thread Freeman
Exim4. An ISP's SMTP server would be a smarthost. Smarthost is the SMTP server that mail is sent to by localhost for delivery elsewhere. This is to prevent mail sent directly by the localhost SMTP from being rejected for a dynamic IP address. -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not

Re: Tripwire can't send report by email??

2011-04-25 Thread Freeman
cal mail name in outgoing mail?" Then hit yes and enter the domain.xxx you want mail to be ostensibly sent from. Then continue as before. You can cancel out if anything goes amiss. Probably a good idea to think through the ramifications this might have on any existing email configura

Re: Tripwire can't send report by email‏‏

2011-04-24 Thread Freeman
OOSEDIRECTORYCHECKING =false > MAILNOVIOLATIONS =true > EMAILREPORTLEVEL =3 > REPORTLEVEL =3 > SYSLOGREPORTING =true > MAILMETHOD=SMTP > SMTPHOST =localhost > #SMTPHOST =smtp.altitudetelecom.fr > SMTPPORT =25 > Can you send other mail successfully from

Re: Tripwire can't send report by email?

2011-04-23 Thread Freeman
debian.org > > with a > > Subject: > > Don't use Cc: or address to any individuals. > P.S. Oh, maybe your hotmail address is getting bounced. -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer."

Re: Tripwire can't send report by email?

2011-04-23 Thread Freeman
#x27;t work... > > Thank you in advance for your help. > It is far more appropriate to ask your question with a new thread rather than piggy back a question onto someone else's question. You can ask your own question by addressing your mail to debian-user@lists.debian.org with

Re: I don't want mrxvt to consume the Alt + keystrokes

2011-04-23 Thread Freeman
ot;GotoTab _" macros. I don't have such a section in my home directory .mrxvtrc . You could edit the /etc/mrxvt/mrxvtrc as root or you could probably override it by copying the relevant section to an .mrxvtrc in your home directory and edit there. Haven't tried it. -- Regards, F

Re: Mediawiki extensions for Debian

2011-04-21 Thread Freeman
-metavidwiki - A MediaWiki extension for associative temp p mediawiki-semediawiki - Semantic MediaWiki helps to organise and s -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: changing my e-mail address

2011-04-18 Thread Freeman
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:25:35AM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, Freeman wrote: > > >Nice skit but there is misinformation in the "what if." The Debian list page > >has a form for unsubscribing/subscribing multiple lists. Confirming a > &g

Re: changing my e-mail address

2011-04-17 Thread Freeman
ly show that the their authors did not > even bother to read his post. > It's the weekend. > Maybe the famous 'how to ask smart questions' document > needs to be complemented by 'how to avoid posting dumb > replies'. > Jumping newbies and non-geeks is par

[ranging OT] Re: changing my e-mail address

2011-04-16 Thread Freeman
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 09:44:38PM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Sat, 16 Apr 2011, Freeman wrote: > > >Somewhere between "we don't talk to idiots" (not really) to "you'll figure > >it out," on the one axis; between "I am fighting with my s

Re: changing my e-mail address

2011-04-16 Thread Freeman
n the other axis; and between "try, try, try again" (if you think it that important) to it's in the queue, on the third axis. I have always just subscribed my new address, then unsubscribed my old. I don't think there is a change address function. List help reply below: Fro

File a Bug Against GlobalMenu or Guayadeque?

2011-04-13 Thread Freeman
In Guayadeque 0.2.9, the file menu is not present when gnome globalmenu 0.7.9 packages are installed. How can I decide or diagnose which package has the bug? -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebod

Re: New user questions

2011-04-12 Thread Freeman
rst, is this the correct newsgroup for such "newbies"? > As advanced as this list may seem, the only other good source of consistent, live info that I know of is http://forums.debian.net. -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or L

Re: Disable a service

2011-04-09 Thread Freeman
n Unixlike system is to set the > permissions. > > chmod a-x /etc/init.d/bluetooth > > Good enough if it works without issue. But I am a little curious about your definition of "a standard." -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the questi

Re: Disable a service

2011-04-09 Thread Freeman
ices. Is this what you are referring to? There is a check box list of services. However, if I right click on the listed service, I get a dialog box. There I can authenticate as root, then click on Status to change between start, stop and ignore, or Priority to edit the priotiry. This does edit th

Re: Ubuntu Versions

2011-04-05 Thread Freeman
al but that isn't going to happen from my now stable system. I may be switching to Openbox when the time comes. -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@li

Re: Ubuntu Versions (was: Re: Let's say you never want to upgrade from Lenny...)

2011-04-05 Thread Freeman
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 03:37:16PM -0700, Mark wrote: > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Freeman wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 03:03:41PM -0400, Matt Harrison wrote: > > > > > > > > All fine pointshere you go: > > > https://list

Re: Ubuntu Versions (was: Re: Let's say you never want to upgrade from Lenny...)

2011-04-05 Thread Freeman
the pros and cons of another distro vis-a-vis their system is legit. As regards Ubuntu users seeking Debian advice, I think they should establish a debuntu-users list. But that is irrelevant to this thread. -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

2011-04-01 Thread Freeman
On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 10:06:24AM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 05:31:33 +0200 > Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > > > > > > On 01/04/11 05:24, Freeman wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 05:16:37AM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > &

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

2011-04-01 Thread Freeman
On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 05:35:27AM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 20:24, Freeman wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 05:16:37AM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > >> Hello List, > >> > >> right now, the Official Debian site seems hacked

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

2011-03-31 Thread Freeman
On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 05:16:37AM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > right now, the Official Debian site seems hacked by The Canterbury > Distribution. > > I guess it is a joke. > 04/01/11 ! -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microso

Re: aptitude upgrade

2011-03-31 Thread Freeman
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 04:54:36PM -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Freeman wrote: > > Maybe > > > > apt-cache rdepends --installed apache2 > > > > All this does is list the 4 MPM types repeatedly ... > > [snip] &

Re: aptitude upgrade

2011-03-30 Thread Freeman
; Need to get 36.1 MB of archives. After unpacking 1,000 kB will be freed. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n > Abort. > root@Blackdragon:~# > [/snip] > > So why the hell is apache being installed/upgraded on a desktop install w/ > no "server" services? Maybe

Re: Console news aggregator: snownews with atom2rss

2011-03-30 Thread Freeman
making a very fast news hit for on the fly. -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: Console news aggregator: snownews with atom2rss

2011-03-30 Thread Freeman
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 07:27:58PM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 14:27, Freeman wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 02:02:51PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > >> > >> I'm having trouble getting snownews to accept an atom feed. > >&

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-29 Thread Freeman
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:58:47AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/29/2011 08:49 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >Freeman wrote: > >> > > > >I missed that. But I wonder if the industry listened... > > > > MSFT sure didn't. But they still use it

Re: Console news aggregator: snownews with atom2rss

2011-03-29 Thread Freeman
rvative blogs)). My line in ~/.snownews/urls : http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/atom.xml||Blog|xsltproc /home/freeman/.snownews/xsltproc - Also, http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/atom.xml||Blog|xsltproc seems to work now although I don't think it did when I set i

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-28 Thread Freeman
ck, defined as when users, particularly employees, refuse to upgrade because they don't want to spend more of their limited time learning to do the same thing yet again, like when the UI changes? -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO

Re: mutt, exim, sender's email address

2011-03-25 Thread Freeman
se "from:" headers to respect the local > domain or to what has been configured for a standard rewrite. > > Brian's link look about good for conditional rewrite but I haven't read or > tried it. > P.S. Link to configuring mutt to send direct to remote SMTP (

Re: mutt, exim, sender's email address

2011-03-25 Thread Freeman
but I don't know whether or not the Debian package is compiled for that, probably. Otherwise, exim4 will edit those "from:" headers to respect the local domain or to what has been configured for a standard rewrite. Brian's link look about good for conditional rewrite but I hav

Re: boot loader

2011-03-24 Thread Freeman
it's just 2 commands: > > fixmbr > fixboot c: > > and you will be booting windows again. > Brings back numerous memories. Super grub disk is nice to have on hand for general booting issues. It does that windows fix also. -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the a

Re: boot loader

2011-03-24 Thread Freeman
t's all i should need). > > ... unless anyone knows of a system that does all of this for me, then i'll > just let it ride and not worry about anything? I've always used super grub disk . I don't think it will make partitions, maybe subdirectories. It can probably ins

Re: Lots of Stable Upgrades

2011-03-21 Thread Freeman
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 01:27:25AM +0100, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: > On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:41:06 -0700 > freeman wrote: > > > Not counting security updates, I expected some ketchup when I followed > > squeeze into stable. But now I am wondering how long will it continue?

Lots of Stable Upgrades

2011-03-21 Thread freeman
Not counting security updates, I expected some ketchup when I followed squeeze into stable. But now I am wondering how long will it continue? Running squeeze/mixed; started 100% uptodate; installed some upgrades; most of these upgradeables showed up within the past three days: freeman

Re: sources.list

2011-03-15 Thread Freeman
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:09:41PM -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Freeman wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 04:59:11PM -0700, evenso wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 07:25:43PM -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: > > > > While I am not

[OT] Japanese Members of Debian User List

2011-03-14 Thread freeman
Cross-posted to d-community-offto...@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/d-community-offtopic/2011-March/82.html -- Regards, Freeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: sources.list

2011-03-14 Thread Freeman
gt; > running with the basic sources.list and am curious as to what gets added > > where to sources.list? > > > P.S. If you're looking for fun and danger with your sources.list: https://sites.google.com/site/mydebiansourceslist/ -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not

Re: sources.list

2011-03-14 Thread Freeman
ng in the Gnome menu under Admin. Also in Synaptic > Settings > Repository. -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

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