), but there are still distros that use old fashioned init
(Slackware comes to mind).
And all of the above constitutes a lot more choice than you get from
either Apple or Microsoft.
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XFCE ("The cholesterol free desktop") is a full desktop system and is
included in Debian (I greatly prefer it to both GNOME and KDE). It
shows up as a category in Synaptic, so you shouldn't have much trouble
finding it.
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I used to use ReiserFS and liked it, but I don't think much work has been
done on it since Hans Reiser went to jail. Lately, I've been using ext4,
which seems to work quite nicely.
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distros that are probably more appropriate.
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On Thu, 12 Jan 2017, Brian wrote:
> On Thu 12 Jan 2017 at 11:43:02 -0800, Patr
Python to do the whole
job.
Hope it helps...
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>
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> I have a little
What do you mean by "unlimited access"? That is normally a permission
issue (unless this is something like VFAT).
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case of exemplary documentation), so I use the actual device names
unless the OS labels them and generates the fstab entries for me.
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available code (programmers would much rather program than
document their work, which is why making one's code self-documenting is
always a plus). Experimentation is good (if one has time), but easy to
learn is better.
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I actually found out about the path issue as a brand new UNIX user
(OSF/1, to be exact) in 1994 (I was a die hard DOS user before that).
To this day, I have "." in my path, but last and only on my personal
account (never as root).
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Any chance the current directory is not in your path?
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On 11/4/16 6:51 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Today I've been having we
On Monday 2016-10-31 12:27, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Whither goest LVM?
I normally put it on a primary partition as if I'm using it, I've never
needed more than four partitions. But I know of no reason why it can't
go on a logical partition.
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Better than what Archimedes did (yes, I know I'm top posting).
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> Be aware
the patch).
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> Oops, my apologies, I did have a senior moment (but not the one I alllu
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On May 18, 2016, at 7:41 PM, Gene Heskett
<ghesk...@shentel.net<mailto:ghesk...@shentel.net>> wrote:
On Wednesday 18 May 2016 19:09:02 John L. Ries wro
(perhaps ash, dash, or ksh) to see
if it works there. This will hopefully rule out the possibility of a bash bug.
John L. Ries
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From: Logan Erbst <lo...@iccamnetworking.us>
Sent: Wednesday, May 18
all if one
knew the origin of the word: It comes from Guy Fawkes and originally referred
to his effigy traditionally hanged on Guy Fawkes Day.
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impression for the past several years.
There may be no good cure for the former (but a better systemadm would
help), but there is for the latter.
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I can't speak for anyone else, but I found systemd to be ridiculously
counterintuitive and poorly documented when I was first exposed to it. To this
day, the standard GUI configurator for it (systemadm) is so limited as to be
nearly useless; and I find hand-configuring a new service to be a
the installation simply die without explanation?
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Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 10:57:19
Actually, I rather like the logo. It does have the advantage of being
instantly recognizable.
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On Mon, 11 Apr 2016, Siard
You definitely confused me, and I'm still not entirely sure what you want. But
you can set the window title for a PuTTY session and keep it from changing in
the manner I described in my initial response. I assume you have a different
PuTTY profile for each server to which you connect, so
ave button.
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Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2016 07:29:17
From: Aero Maxx <aero.max...@gmail.com>
that the NAS will do this automatically when
it finds out the connection is point to point.
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On Friday 2016-03-18 12:44, John L. Ries wrote:
, as that will definitely slow things down (it
seems that a lot more handshaking is required to connect through the air
than through a physical cable).
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to consider when you're doing your reinstall.
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Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 21:36:45
to assume that at least a few people find it useful,
otherwise we would not be having this discussion.
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t them from violence) would do a lot more.
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On Thu, 31 Dec 2015, John Hasler wrote:
Javier Barroso writes:
As workaround, y
If the news report is correct, he appears to have self destructed,
which is even sadder.
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On Thu, 31 Dec 2015, Steve Matzura
preference).
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. Even inaction has associated
costs.
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On Sun, 20 Dec 2015, Himanshu Shekhar
refused to restart and the system pretty much went catatonic as soon as I
logged out. It turned out to be a bad video driver (downgrading the
kernel fixed it).
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not at all strike me as a happy thing,
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On Sun, 22 Nov 2015, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
Le 22.11.2015 10:51, Bert
On Sat, 2015-11-21 at 12:55 -0600, Joel Rees wrote:
> That's the common way of explaining fstab, and it is, indeed, the way
> I should have explained it if I were going to bother explaining it
> where slaves to convention congregate.
I agree with your points, but it's rude to sneer.
Which systems do you intend to dual boot? My understanding is that if
one of them is Windows, you're out of luck; but you can always run
Windows in a VM and let Linux manage the LVM file systems.
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LVM should work the same way for both distros, but just in case, you might
want to do the initial setup in Squeeze. I don't know if anything has
changed in the LVM format in the past 20 years, but...
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of doing so (unnecessary dependencies are bad).
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On Mon, 2 Nov 2015, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Nov 2, 2015, at 12:45 AM, Joe &l
in Alpine 2.11 under Debian/Jessie.
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On Mon, 28 Sep 2015, Bob Bernstein wrote:
I run alpine, built from source, on my Jessie
e readable than SystemD files; I am slowly coming to grips with
SystemD and I'm sure I will be come more proficient with it as time goes
on (but systemadm in its present form is still almost useless; systemctl
is much better).
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to block them categorically, so they get what they want).
Ideals are good, but one still has to deal with reality.
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) primitive, but at least now I have some idea as
to how to work the system.
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Thanks all,
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These are not the droids you
I used to find 419 solicitations rather amusing (yes, it's possible to be
both evil and amusing at the same time), but now the creativity has pretty
much gone out of them, so they no longer even have any entertainment
value.
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and my efforts to install it
separately under Wheezy after de-Ubuntuing the box failed miserably.
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On Wed, 18 Mar 2015, Charlie wrote
configuration
tool if I could help it.
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necessarily obvious to anyone else). And people can be tactfully
told to RTM (to include reading FAQs) when it's appropriate to do so. In
my case, I'll cite the manual when the answer is there.
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On Mon, 24 Feb 2014, Scott Ferguson wrote:
Yes - you are paranoid. There is no conspiracy. Those files were
installed by the operator/user/sysadmin.
So relax. :)
Besides, we're not scheduled to come after you until next month.
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On Wed, 29 Jan 2014, Rob Owens wrote:
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 2:04 PM, John L. Ries jr...@salford-systems.com
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I actually had a similar job when my wife asked me to set up
public WiFi
for her yarn shop (her office and mine are also on site). What
I ended up doing
I'm reposting this in hopes that I get a response this time.
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This has actually been
at this point, I'm merely excluding it from
backups.
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I think you need to (as user):
chmod 755 .gvfs
If you really want to get rid of it, you need to unmount it first. df
won't show it, but it is a mount point.
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to the
outer one using NAS. It works fine, except that my VOIP box has to be
outside of both routers.
It might work better, however, to connect each router separately to the
ISP's interface if that's supported.
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/nomail.xpm
My remote desktop client is Remmina 0.9.99.1 running under Fedora 20 (but
I don't think it matters).
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#spawning a new process
source $HOME/script1
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would be constant.
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