Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-03-13 Thread John L. Ries
), 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. --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885

Re: xfce

2017-02-03 Thread John L. Ries
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. ------| John L. Ries | Salfo

Re: What file system to use?

2017-02-01 Thread John L. Ries
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. --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107

Re: Jessie or stretch for server

2017-01-12 Thread John L. Ries
distros that are probably more appropriate. --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885 | --| On Thu, 12 Jan 2017, Brian wrote: > On Thu 12 Jan 2017 at 11:43:02 -0800, Patr

Re: Little question grep

2017-01-08 Thread John L. Ries
Python to do the whole job. Hope it helps... --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885 | --| On Sun, 8 Jan 2017, Hans wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have a little

Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab

2016-12-30 Thread John L. Ries
What do you mean by "unlimited access"? That is normally a permission issue (unless this is something like VFAT). ------| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885 | --|

Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab

2016-12-30 Thread John L. Ries
Actually, I've never really understood the labeling business (another case of exemplary documentation), so I use the actual device names unless the OS labels them and generates the fstab entries for me. --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone

Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal"

2016-11-17 Thread John L. Ries
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. --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems

Re: Trivial script will NOT execute

2016-11-04 Thread John L. Ries
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). ------| John L. Ries

Re: Trivial script will NOT execute

2016-11-04 Thread John L. Ries
Any chance the current directory is not in your path? --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885 | --| On 11/4/16 6:51 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > Today I've been having we

Re: new pc and swap

2016-10-31 Thread John L. Ries
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. --| John L. R

Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION]

2016-10-28 Thread John L. Ries
Better than what Archimedes did (yes, I know I'm top posting). --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885 | --| On Fri, 28 Oct 2016, Richard Owlett wrote: > Be aware

Re: (OT kinda) Newly-discovered TCP flaw

2016-08-12 Thread John L. Ries
the patch). --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885 | --| On Fri, 12 Aug 2016, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Oops, my apologies, I did have a senior moment (but not the one I alllu

Re: Got that network problem solved, now a new one

2016-05-18 Thread John L. Ries
. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885 | --| 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

Re: Got that network problem solved, now a new one

2016-05-18 Thread John L. Ries
(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 Salford Systems Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 or (435)867-8885 From: Logan Erbst <lo...@iccamnetworking.us> Sent: Wednesday, May 18

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-05-10 Thread John L. Ries
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. John L. Ries Salford Systems Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 or (435)867-8885 From: cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz <cbanni

Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup)

2016-04-20 Thread John L. Ries
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. --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885

Re: Beginning of the End for Wheezy [sigh!] (caution: thread deviation)

2016-04-18 Thread John L. Ries
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

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

2016-04-14 Thread John L. Ries
the installation simply die without explanation? --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885 | --| On Thursday 2016-04-14 10:57, EGO-II.1 wrote: Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 10:57:19

Re: [ A little off topic] Best e-mail client for Android

2016-04-11 Thread John L. Ries
Actually, I rather like the logo. It does have the advantage of being instantly recognizable. --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885 | --| On Mon, 11 Apr 2016, Siard

Re: Changing Window Title in Putty

2016-04-10 Thread John L. Ries
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

Re: Changing Window Title in Putty

2016-04-09 Thread John L. Ries
ave button. ------| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885 | --| On Saturday 2016-04-09 07:29, Aero Maxx wrote: Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2016 07:29:17 From: Aero Maxx <aero.max...@gmail.com>

Re: Throughput riddle

2016-03-19 Thread John L. Ries
that the NAS will do this automatically when it finds out the connection is point to point. ------| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885 | --| On Friday 2016-03-18 12:44, John L. Ries wrote:

Re: Throughput riddle

2016-03-19 Thread John L. Ries
, 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). --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885

Re: Is it possible to fully reinstall the base system without affecting /home?

2016-02-22 Thread John L. Ries
to consider when you're doing your reinstall. --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885 | --| On Sunday 2016-02-21 21:36, Kynn Jones wrote: Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 21:36:45

Re: bash-completion, tab and ambiguous globs

2016-02-17 Thread John L. Ries
to assume that at least a few people find it useful, otherwise we would not be having this discussion. --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885 | --| On Wednesday 2016-02-17

Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png

2015-12-31 Thread John L. Ries
t them from violence) would do a lot more. ------| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885 | --| On Thu, 31 Dec 2015, John Hasler wrote: Javier Barroso writes: As workaround, y

Re: RIP and Thank You.

2015-12-31 Thread John L. Ries
If the news report is correct, he appears to have self destructed, which is even sadder. --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885 | --| On Thu, 31 Dec 2015, Steve Matzura

Re: AP support for wl driver

2015-12-21 Thread John L. Ries
preference). There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. Even inaction has associated costs. --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885 | --| On Sun, 20 Dec 2015, Himanshu Shekhar

Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors

2015-11-25 Thread John L. Ries
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). --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885

Re: Xorg replaces TTY1

2015-11-23 Thread John L. Ries
not at all strike me as a happy thing, --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885 | --| On Sun, 22 Nov 2015, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 22.11.2015 10:51, Bert

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

2015-11-21 Thread John L. Ries
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.

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

2015-11-18 Thread John L. Ries
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. --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

2015-11-18 Thread John L. Ries
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... --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone

Re: Anybody know why aptitude is not installed by default in Sid?

2015-11-02 Thread John L. Ries
of doing so (unnecessary dependencies are bad). --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885 | --| On Mon, 2 Nov 2015, Rick Thomas wrote: On Nov 2, 2015, at 12:45 AM, Joe &l

Re: Terminal Madness?

2015-09-28 Thread John L. Ries
in Alpine 2.11 under Debian/Jessie. --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885 | --| On Mon, 28 Sep 2015, Bob Bernstein wrote: I run alpine, built from source, on my Jessie

Re: Okay, that's too much now!

2015-09-08 Thread John L. Ries
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). ------| John L. Ries | Salfo

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

2015-07-27 Thread John L. Ries
to block them categorically, so they get what they want). Ideals are good, but one still has to deal with reality. --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885 | --| On Mon, 27 Jul

Re: systemd equivalent

2015-06-12 Thread John L. Ries
) primitive, but at least now I have some idea as to how to work the system. --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885 | --| Thanks all, -- These are not the droids you

Re: Important and Confidential

2015-04-06 Thread John L. Ries
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. --| John L. Ries | Salford

Re: Might wait with upgrade........

2015-03-18 Thread John L. Ries
and my efforts to install it separately under Wheezy after de-Ubuntuing the box failed miserably. --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885 | --| On Wed, 18 Mar 2015, Charlie wrote

Re: Overflow of RX/TX Bytes on AMD64

2015-02-09 Thread John L. Ries
configuration tool if I could help it. --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885 | --| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Debian right for my use?

2015-01-02 Thread John L. Ries
; you're probably going to want at least as much physical RAM as it's using overall. Hope it helps... --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885 | --| On Wednesday 2014-12-31 21

Re: On what is helpful and what is not [was: Re: Wifi]

2014-03-14 Thread John L. Ries
L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885 | --| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: On what is helpful and what is not [was: Re: Wifi]

2014-03-10 Thread John L. Ries
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. --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-24 Thread John L. Ries
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. --| John L. Ries | Salford

Re: OT: setting up public wifi

2014-01-29 Thread John L. Ries
On Wed, 29 Jan 2014, Rob Owens wrote: On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 2:04 PM, John L. Ries jr...@salford-systems.com wrote: 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

Re: XRDP sessions limited

2014-01-29 Thread John L. Ries
I'm reposting this in hopes that I get a response this time. --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885 | --| On Thu, 23 Jan 2014, John L. Ries wrote: This has actually been

Re: how to remove ? directory

2014-01-28 Thread John L. Ries
at this point, I'm merely excluding it from backups. --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885 | --| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: how to remove ? directory

2014-01-28 Thread John L. Ries
On Tue, 28 Jan 2014, Craig L. wrote: 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. --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619

Re: OT: setting up public wifi

2014-01-28 Thread John L. Ries
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. --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone

XRDP sessions limited

2014-01-23 Thread John L. Ries
/nomail.xpm My remote desktop client is Remmina 0.9.99.1 running under Fedora 20 (but I don't think it matters). --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885

Re: Alias setup through preseed in Wheezy

2014-01-23 Thread John L. Ries
#spawning a new process source $HOME/script1 --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885 | --| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

RE: Alias setup through preseed in Wheezy

2014-01-23 Thread John L. Ries
(just the contents), the contents of $HOME/.bashrc would be constant. --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885 | --| Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 11:13:46 -0700 From: jr