Re: Screen size trouble with Xorg

2014-06-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-06-16 at 08:03 -0500, Mike Bailey wrote: If I send an ctrl+alt+f2 to switch to tty2, I am able to use the entirety of the monitor, which tells me that this is an issue somewhere in X. Is it a multisync monitor? You perhaps need to configure the monitor's settings on the monitor.

Re: Re: Screen size trouble with Xorg

2014-06-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-06-16 at 09:23 -0500, Mike Bailey wrote: Is it a multisync monitor? You perhaps need to configure the monitor's settings on the monitor. When using the GUI the frequencies of my monitor are 81.9KHz/89.9Hz, if I switch to tty2 the frequencies are 48.3KHz/59.9Hz on an Arch

Re: systemd (was ... Re: Article on swift, responsive computers)

2014-06-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-06-16 at 19:57 +0100, Brian wrote: From the man himself: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-May/198927.html Please don't post links to the troll and Linux enemy Lennart Poettering. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: systemd (was ... Re: Article on swift, responsive computers)

2014-06-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-06-16 at 19:57 +0100, Brian wrote: From the man himself: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-May/198927.html Please don't post links to the troll and Linux enemy Lennart Poettering. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: boot order

2014-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 01:46 -0400, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: echo ${SHUTDOWNBODY} | mail -s ${SHUTDOWNSUBJECT} ${EMAIL} sleep 4 RETVAL=$? i can't comment on the rest of the script, but you probably want RETVAL to be the exit status of the pipeline that sends the mail.

Re: boot order

2014-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 09:10 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 01:46 -0400, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: echo ${SHUTDOWNBODY} | mail -s ${SHUTDOWNSUBJECT} ${EMAIL} sleep 4 RETVAL=$? i can't comment on the rest of the script, but you probably want RETVAL

Re: boot order

2014-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 09:34 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 09:10 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 01:46 -0400, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: echo ${SHUTDOWNBODY} | mail -s ${SHUTDOWNSUBJECT} ${EMAIL} sleep 4 RETVAL=$? i can't

Re: boot order

2014-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
My apologize for the PPS, but without the it also seems to work: [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ cat .msmtp.mail/fraud.mail | msmtp -a default ralf.mard...@rocketmial.com; RETVAL=$?; echo $RETVAL 0 The 0 is displayed with delay, IOW RETVAL=$?; echo $RETVAL has to wait until the sending of the mail

Re: boot order

2014-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
My mega-apologize for the PPPS :S [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ RETVAL=foo_bar [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ cat .msmtp.mail/fraud.mail | msmtp -a default ralf.mard...@rocketmial.com; RETVAL=$?; echo $RETVAL 0 [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ RETVAL=foo_bar [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ cat

Re: boot order

2014-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 09:56 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: My mega-apologize for the PPPS :S [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ RETVAL=foo_bar [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ cat .msmtp.mail/fraud.mail | msmtp -a default ralf.mard...@rocketmial.com; RETVAL=$?; echo $RETVAL 0 [rocketmouse@archlinux

Re: Off-topic: boot order

2014-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 11:05 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: Anyone who sends unfiltered content from the Internet over any amateur radio mode is asking for trouble. Keep in mind, that at least in Germany, you need a license to do amateur radio, it's not citizens' band, at least not in Germany.

Re: Off-topic: boot order

2014-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 11:50 -0400, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: i had hoped that this bikeshedding BS over OP's domain name would blow over after ralf wisely reminded us to assume good faith. alas... On Sun, 15 Jun 2014, Curt wrote: On 2014-06-15, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice

Re: Off-topic: boot order

2014-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 17:03 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 15 June 2014 16:50:01 david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: i had hoped that this bikeshedding BS over OP's domain name would blow over after ralf wisely reminded us to assume good faith. There is no sensible way that his reply

Re: Off-topic: boot order

2014-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 18:29 +0200, B wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2014 18:12:00 +0200 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: It's idiotic to send a response to such a mail, but you couldn't resist. It's idiotic that we have each week a discussion about top-posting, I wouldn't

Re: Article on swift, responsive computers

2014-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 14:58 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/201406/201406.htm At the moment we IMO should stay away from Razor-Qt for daily usage, but it can't harm to install it and to monitor it's progress. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor-qt IMO much of the

Re: Article on swift, responsive computers

2014-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 21:22 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 14:58 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/201406/201406.htm At the moment we IMO should stay away from Razor-Qt for daily usage, but it can't harm to install it and to monitor it's progress

Off-topic: boot order

2014-06-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-06-14 at 23:20 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 14 June 2014 22:11:05 Pol Hallen wrote: domain (mine) of email (mine) is not your problem and if you don't like it's not my problem ;-) No, but if all of us decide not to like it, and kill-file you as I am now doing, it

Re: PulseAudio (was Re: Sid Foibles)

2014-06-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2014-06-12 at 13:22 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 11 iun 14, 01:32:37, B wrote: From what you report, Ralf, the kinda site attack they suffered should never happen, or at least should have been circumvented very fast (IF there is somebody strong enough to handle that).

Re: hardware errors

2014-06-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-06-11 at 21:01 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Richard Hector rich...@walnut.gen.nz wrote: [...] Yep. Halfway through the third pass; no errors yet. I'm not holding my breath. Any ideas on where to read up on those error messages, to figure out what

Re: Debian memtest package faulty? (was ... Re: hardware errors)

2014-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 21:06 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: So you are saying the Debian and Ubuntu versions are buggy? Which live media version works for you? Have you filed a bug? Does the memtest86+ package work from the grub menu, for you? I can't say if it would work from the GRUB menu

Re: hardware errors

2014-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 21:24 +1200, Richard Hector wrote: On 09/06/14 11:35, B wrote: On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 11:22:25 +1200 Richard Hector rich...@walnut.gen.nz wrote: I assume the RAM needs replacing - is it possible to figure out which DIMM(s)? Install memtest86+ and boot on

Re: Please delete all my Post from my E-Mail adress !

2014-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 12:10 +0200, Finjan, Salam wrote: Good day, please delete my post from mailing list! E-Mail:salam.fin...@nds.aok.de Thank you very much Finjan You need to send similar requests to the admin and not to the list, but you don't need to send this request, since this

Re: Debian memtest package faulty? (was ... Re: hardware errors)

2014-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 13:00 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 21:06 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: So you are saying the Debian and Ubuntu versions are buggy? Which live media version works for you? Have you filed a bug? Does the memtest86+ package work from the grub

Re: hardware errors

2014-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 23:07 +1200, Richard Hector wrote: On 10/06/14 23:04, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 21:24 +1200, Richard Hector wrote: On 09/06/14 11:35, B wrote: On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 11:22:25 +1200 Richard Hector rich...@walnut.gen.nz wrote: I assume the RAM

Re: GPG Keys..... was Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 07:12 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: For one thing, I don't think the real JS would send to me as well as to the list. I wouldn't do it on purpose, anyway :) Or send top-posting HTML formatted mails. Or ... The fake to be Jerry wasn't done very good, but it anyway caused

Re: unable to mount removable media with xfce4 version 4.10.1

2014-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 23:20 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 08:22:51AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 17:48 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 08:31:34PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: In this case systemd likely is for udev

Re: unable to mount removable media with xfce4 version 4.10.1

2014-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 19:15 +0400, Reco wrote: So, maybe 'merged' is a wrong word to describe udev-systemd relationship. But it fits. All of your points IMO are true. Nobody, neither me, mentions that currently it is impossible to use udev without caring (too much) about systemd. IIUC Reco

Re: unable to mount removable media with xfce4 version 4.10.1

2014-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 17:35 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 19:15 +0400, Reco wrote: So, maybe 'merged' is a wrong word to describe udev-systemd relationship. But it fits. Perhaps merged indeed is a bad term, it is merged by the upstream's source tree, but it still

PS: unable to mount removable media with xfce4 version 4.10.1

2014-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Is GNOME3 easily available by other *nix alike systems? If not, what could be the reason? Do other *nix alike systems provide systemd? If not, what's the reason? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Handy ls: was Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 11:42 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: to find those immense files that were put in the wrong places (downloaded distros mostly) Obsessional neurotics like me don't need to care about such things. It's unlikely that we miss to care about deleting stuff that was randomly

Re: PulseAudio (was Re: Sid Foibles)

2014-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 18:15 +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: I use the PC speaker for notifications/warnings/what ever and I use ALSA to play sound from e.g. a YouTube video and for pro-audio I use jackd, jackd

Re: PulseAudio (was Re: Sid Foibles)

2014-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-06-11 at 01:32 +0200, B wrote: That's a pity for such a good idea but I don't think the omen's good; we'll see (or not…) It's not the first time the homepage was hacked :(. Everybody is welcome to help ;). take a look at

Re: unable to mount removable media with xfce4 version 4.10.1

2014-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 17:48 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 08:31:34PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: In this case systemd likely is for udev, wich usually also is used without systemd, but it's merged by upstream. Just a guess NO it isn't merged!!! Please stop

Re: wine-unstable 64 bit

2014-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 11:45 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Never tried to do that myself, but it should work: _ install build-dependencies of the package you want ( #aptitude build-dep package ) _ download the source package ( $apt-get source package ) _ replace the source

Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-06-08 at 18:57 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: The 'dot' at the start of the filename is how *nix systems traditionally mark a hidden file. Any filename beginning with a dot will be treated as hidden, and any filename not beginning with one won't. To see them in a terminal, the

Re: PulseAudio (was Re: Sid Foibles)

2014-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 15:51 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: PulseAudio is one of the multiple layer which are made to simplify the use of sound systems. It's called a sound server. Which means ( roughly, I'm not a translator ): So, the softwares which are using ALSA will send

Re: PulseAudio (was Re: Sid Foibles)

2014-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 16:52 +0200, Erwan David wrote: Le 09/06/2014 16:09, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : For averaged desktop audio users pulseaudio does provide a more or IMO rather less way to handle audio streams. What do you mean here ? I do notr use pulseaudio, what would it give me

Re: unable to mount removable media with xfce4 version 4.10.1

2014-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 03:14 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 02:56:53PM +0400, Reco wrote: On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 01:31:26PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Quote from the first link: The udev built from the systemd source tree will stay compatible with

Re: unable to mount removable media with xfce4 version 4.10.1

2014-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 17:35 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: udev is merged with udev ^ systemd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org

Re: unable to mount removable media with xfce4 version 4.10.1

2014-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 17:35 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I'm using systemd for my everyday Linux since years To be more precise, for my Arch that was stable until a few days ago, I at least use systemd, from = to =: [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ grep systemd /var/log/pacman.log [snip] [2013-02-17

Re: PulseAudio (was Re: Sid Foibles)

2014-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 18:56 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 09 iun 14, 09:30:01, Steve Litt wrote: I look forward to hearing how other people do or don't work with PulseAudio (and ALSA) in this thread. I'll try to explain it simply, but I have a feeling this will turn out quite

Re: Listing packages installed from experimental

2014-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 17:25 -0700, David Glover-Aoki wrote: I'm running wheezy but have some packages installed from experimental. How can I list all the packages currently installed from experimental? It can't harm to do some research ;).

Re: Listing packages installed from experimental

2014-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 05:14 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 17:25 -0700, David Glover-Aoki wrote: I'm running wheezy but have some packages installed from experimental. How can I list all the packages currently installed from experimental? It can't harm to do some

Re: Killfiling: was Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
As we can see now, killfiling Horatio or banning him from the list is impossible, he simply will use another email address. Jerry, did you notice that there also was sent a mail to the Debian off-topic list, most likely from Horatio, using the j.stuc...@outlook.com address? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Auto-emptying of trash.

2014-06-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
That's strange, since rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty seemingly shouldn't remove the directory. I wasn't aware about this, so I tested it, resp. compared it to rm -r [1]. Perhaps you should post the complete script, the culprit seems not to be rmdir. [1] [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ touch

Re: Auto-emptying of trash.

2014-06-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-06-08 at 10:40 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: That's strange, since rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty seemingly shouldn't remove the directory. I wasn't aware about this, so I tested it, resp. compared it to rm -r [1]. Perhaps you should post the complete script, the culprit seems

Re: Auto-emptying of trash.

2014-06-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-06-08 at 10:44 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2014-06-08 at 10:40 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: That's strange, since rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty seemingly shouldn't remove the directory. I wasn't aware about this, so I tested it, resp. compared it to rm -r [1

Re: Jessie PowerPC installer doesn't see USB keyboard on PowerPC Mac machines

2014-06-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-06-08 at 10:46 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: On Sun, Jun 08, 2014 at 12:14:56AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2014-06-07 at 15:04 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: Hmmm... I originally reported this back in November. After a while, it went away for me. Downloading

Re: GPG Keys..... was Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-06-08 at 17:53 +0200, Bzzz wrote: On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 01:43:28 +1000 Andrew McGlashan andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au wrote: If one is living in the USA or western Europe getting one's key signed shouldn't be too difficult. How about Australia? Not allowed: if

Re: GPG Keys..... was Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 00:22 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 08 iun 14, 22:05:03, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I will not sign my emails to mailing lists, however, you're mistaken, several people subscribed to Debian user sign there mails. Those people are not blacklisted, perhaps

Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 01:08 +0200, Filip wrote: $ ls -lA I recommend to add the h option. $ ls -hAl t or d sometimes are useful too, but by default I tend to use -hAl. Mnemonic, HAL, resp. HAL 9000 is the computer in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: hardware errors

2014-06-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 01:35 +0200, B wrote: On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 11:22:25 +1200 Richard Hector rich...@walnut.gen.nz wrote: I assume the RAM needs replacing - is it possible to figure out which DIMM(s)? Install memtest86+ and boot on it, then leave at least 3 complete cycles to run.

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

2014-06-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-06-07 at 21:43 +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: [snip] Andrew do _not_ reply to Horatio yet. Only consider to reply, assumed he should apologized to the list and especially to Jerry! TIA, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Jessie PowerPC installer doesn't see USB keyboard on PowerPC Mac machines

2014-06-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-06-07 at 15:04 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: Hmmm... I originally reported this back in November. After a while, it went away for me. Downloading the latest (about January time-frame) netinst image worked fine -- both Jessie and Wheezy. I haven't tried it recently, though.

Re: Jessie PowerPC installer doesn't see USB keyboard on PowerPC Mac machines

2014-06-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-06-08 at 00:14 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2014-06-07 at 15:04 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: Hmmm... I originally reported this back in November. After a while, it went away for me. Downloading the latest (about January time-frame) netinst image worked fine -- both

Re: unable to mount removable media with xfce4 version 4.10.1

2014-06-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 10:56 +0200, François Patte wrote: Le 06/06/2014 10:29, David Dušanić a écrit : 05.06.2014, 15:28, François Patte francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr: Bonjour, Since last upgrade, I cannot mount (or umount) any removable media under xfce4: I can see the

Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 21:38 +1200, Richard Hector wrote: On 06/06/14 05:22, Bob Holtzman wrote: Why should I subscribe to d-community-offtopic? Isn't chkrootkit a Debian package? No, it's a linux package. Debian in merely one of the distros that carries it in their repos. Um, no.

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

2014-06-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 02:52 -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote: I bet that no one here is willing to give that kind of awesome answers, assuming that they know. The so-called experts here will tell me to first read the official Debian Reference manual, man pages and maybe a book on bash scripting

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

2014-06-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 03:09 -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote: Did you know that I'm dyslexic? And there are many categories of dyslexia? I suffer from dyslexia too, but I'm highly gifted and I guess your IQ is also higher than 45. Learning by doing, to understand --help and man pages is great when

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

2014-06-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 10:39 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: Your claim of having an IQ of 45 is an insult to those who really DO have an IQ of 45. Full ACK! People with mental handicaps are welcome! Usually people with mental handicaps are not that eloquent as Horatio is ;). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

2014-06-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 09:03 -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote: __ From: Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net To: Horatio Leragon hlera...@yahoo.com Sent: Friday, June 6, 2014 10:35 PM Subject: Re: Post-installation: how to

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

2014-06-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 12:35 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: On 06/06/2014 12:17 PM, Bzzz wrote: On Fri, 6 Jun 2014 09:08:58 -0700 (PDT) Horatio Leragon hlera...@yahoo.com wrote: I do have an IQ of 45. This explains a lot… Which IQ scale is this score on? Most of the scale charts

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

2014-06-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 15:04 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 6/6/2014 2:59 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Please Jerry and Horatio stopp this flame war. And especially you Horatio, consider if the above words from you are appropriate. IMO this goes much too far. :( Ralf, You're right

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi Horatio, On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 22:13 -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote: I now understand why Ubuntu is way more popular than Debian Opinions like that can better be discussed at the Debian off-topic list. Ubuntu does cast a bad light on free software, regarding to the Unity lenses spyware that

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 04:18 -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote: How do I learn it? Learning by doing ;). $ chown --help Usage: chown [OPTION]... [OWNER][:[GROUP]] FILE... or: chown [OPTION]... --reference=RFILE FILE... [snip] Examples: chown root /uChange the owner of /u to root.

Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
If you like more uncertainty, you should read about e.g. heartbleed, Unity Lenses and Hans Reiser ;). You are aware that Linux is from this planet? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 14:24 +0200, Slavko wrote: Yes, there are bad boys on this world, which attempt to compromise foreign computers. In some countries it a normal government practice. Yes, AFAIK in Ponyland, aka Friendship Gardens, it's _not_ normal government practise. Horatio, please

Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 14:37 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 14:24 +0200, Slavko wrote: Yes, there are bad boys on this world, which attempt to compromise foreign computers. In some countries it a normal government practice. Yes, AFAIK in Ponyland, aka Friendship Gardens

Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 14:18 -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: BTW you would be well served to read this site: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html I'm surprised that you haven't been steered to it before, way before. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/06/msg00185.html ;)

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 15:50 -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote: apt-get -f install means a force install, am I correct? No, you aren't! -f, --fix-broken Fix; attempt to correct a system with broken dependencies in place. - http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=apt-get dpkg -i doesn't

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 00:14 +0100, Brian wrote: No. please see apt-get(8) (man apt-get) A note to the OP. Yet you might not be able to understand the syntax of a man(ual)page, but you need to learn it. Btw. you could use a search engine to do research in the Internet. https://startpage.com/

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 01:54 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: https://startpage.com/ Search term: apt-get manual First hit: http://linux.die.net/man/8/apt-get JFTR for the search term: apt-get man or for: apt-get manpage The second hit is manpages.debian.net

Re: Create backup of system-connections on a USB stick

2014-06-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-06-01 at 04:42 -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote: __ From: Filip fi...@fbvnet.be To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Horatio Leragon hlera...@yahoo.com Sent: Sunday, June 1, 2014 3:34 PM Subject: Re: Create

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-31 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2014-05-30 at 12:54 +0200, Thierry de Coulon wrote: Who cares if it's a DE or not if it does all one expects from one? I don't care and btw. I don't claim that JWM is a DE. The discussion started about speed. I don't think it was about a quick startup, but about a fast GUI performance.

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-31 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-05-31 at 08:51 -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: Sawfish and openbox, even metacity would fit in this last just manages windows category, and, in fact, don't even include a panel, which I think JWM has by default. Correct, JWM e.g. provides a panel by default, OTOH JWM anyway needs less

Re: Create backup of system-connections on a USB stick

2014-05-31 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 01 Jun 2014 04:04:29 +0200, Horatio Leragon hlera...@yahoo.com wrote: Andrei POPESCU, Saturday, May 31, 2014 10:35 PM: Probably simplest is to switch to root an copy the files to the stick. How do I switch to root? During installation of Debian, I expressly clicked No to Allow

Re: Create backup of system-connections on a USB stick

2014-05-31 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-06-01 at 06:29 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Assumed there's no data on the stick, IOW assumed you plan to copy to a stick, then don't copy the directories and files directly, but write the directories and files to a tar archive, so all the permissions are preserved and you're

Re: What is the difference between linux-image-amd64 and linux-image-3.2.0.4-amd64?

2014-05-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
dep: linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 - https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/linux-image-amd64 linux-image-amd64 is a meta-package, that installs linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64. If you install the meta-package, I guess an update of the meta-package will replace linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64, if there should be a

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 29 May 2014 19:04:13 +0200, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Tony, do you know of any documentation or other evidence of how Openbox, Xfce, LXDE, IceWM, and fvwm2 stack up against each other as far as lightness? What's your definition of lightness? WM/DE Memory (MB):

Re: Cloning hdds of different sizes

2014-05-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2014-05-29 at 22:05 +0300, Catalin Soare wrote: dd was running like so: dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sda. #!/bin/sh dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sda echo dd exit status: $? dd.log exit Assumed the exit status isn't 0, there was an error. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2014-05-29 at 22:26 +0200, Gour wrote: Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: If there's a lighter weight DE I'd like to know. http://i3wm.org/ A tiling WM isn't a DE. Regarding to this https://l3net.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/cmp-all4.png comparing MB, JWM is as

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2014-05-29 at 23:07 +0200, Gour wrote: Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net writes: A tiling WM isn't a DE. Can you tell me what is missing? It has status bar, systray, launcher, workspaces...ability to launch specific app in a specific workspace. There is upcoming feature

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 20:15 -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: jwm, openbox, wmii, tritium, etc., are window managers that might reduce your load. Correct, however, it doesn't matter if you run JWM or KDE4, when just using a browser, on an averaged dual-core machine. There won't be noticeable

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 14:24 -0700, tom arnall wrote: debian over ubuntu hands down for speed and for efficient resources utilization. it's a harder install, but for me well worth the extra work. This claim is nonsense. Upstart likely will shorten the startup for Ubuntu, even while it might

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2014-05-29 at 06:43 +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: 2014-05-29 6:27 GMT+02:00 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net: On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 20:15 -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: jwm, openbox, wmii, tritium, etc., are window managers that might reduce your load

Re: repeatable dpkg-buildpackage

2014-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Note that when building a headers package you must run the entire make-kpkg command under fakeroot: you can't use the --rootcmd fakeroot option in this case. - https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/10/msg2.html So I'm 50% mistaken and 50% right ;). I anyway need to run my scripts as root

Re: Assange and NSA

2014-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 09:41 -0500, John Hasler wrote: The title of the blog tells you all you need to know. JFTR the article includes a link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owned. Anyway, I already at the beginning of the Julian Assange affair got the impression, that Julian Assange isn't

Re: Assange and NSA

2014-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 17:02 +0200, Slavko wrote: Ahoj, Dňa Tue, 27 May 2014 16:21:50 +0200 Diogene Laerce me_buss...@yahoo.fr napísal: Hi, Maybe I missed the thread : I wasn't there for a while but I would like to have your advice on that article :

Re: Assange and NSA

2014-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 11:20 -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: On 05/27/2014 11:13 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 17:02 +0200, Slavko wrote: Ahoj, Dňa Tue, 27 May 2014 16:21:50 +0200 Diogene Laerce me_buss...@yahoo.fr napísal: Hi, Maybe I missed the thread : I wasn't

Re: Assange and NSA

2014-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 17:25 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 11:20 -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: On 05/27/2014 11:13 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 17:02 +0200, Slavko wrote: Ahoj, Dňa Tue, 27 May 2014 16:21:50 +0200 Diogene Laerce me_buss...@yahoo.fr

Re: Assange and NSA

2014-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 17:54 +0200, Diogene Laerce wrote: Ok it seems that nobody is feeling really threaten by the NSA That's something completely different. In Germany we are aware that the NSA does absolutely control German Internet nodes. The German Internet is not German, it's American. Not

Re: want to revert back to gnome classic mode.

2014-05-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-05-25 at 18:09 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: I don't know how to tell. I could find no place to set the xfce window manager, and I didn't want to change something on the openbox settings and then restart X or Openbox, because I just have too many windows open and too much to do. If

Re: repeatable dpkg-buildpackage

2014-05-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 18:58 +0400, Reco wrote: fakeroot ... regarding to some claims on this list is a PITA, at least when building a kernel. I run my scripts to build kernel-rts as root. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

OT: GNOME-Terminal is blank or inactive in Awesome WM on Debian 7

2014-05-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 11:21 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Mon, 26 May 2014 09:55:14 +0100 Joe j...@jretrading.com wrote: Another possibility is that it is working fine, but with black text. No, I'm not joking, I've seen this more than once. You could try typing the name of an application

OT: repeatable dpkg-buildpackage

2014-05-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 12:40 -0400, Tom H wrote: On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 18:58 +0400, Reco wrote: fakeroot ... regarding to some claims on this list is a PITA, at least when building a kernel. I run my

Re: 'Authentication is required' while mounting drives in any Window Manager

2014-05-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 22:57 +0600, Muntasim Ul Haque wrote: I tried several Window Manager and all of them have the same problem: while mounting any drive, they show an error saying 'authentication is required. Failed to mount drive.' Now what's the solution? While mounting in any Desktop

Re: Iceweasel and DRM

2014-05-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2014-05-23 at 17:33 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Please continue on d-community-offtopic. True, but I have to clarify something, see below. On 5/23/14, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Sun, 18 May 2014 22:31:18 -0400 Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote:

Re: Iceweasel and DRM

2014-05-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-05-24 at 13:58 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Being against DRM isn't clownery :(. I made a living from artwork many times in my live, without the need of idiotic copy protections. If the people who like your work don't like to pay you, consider for what people you're making your work

Re: Iceweasel and DRM

2014-05-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-05-24 at 14:07 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2014-05-24 at 13:58 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Being against DRM isn't clownery :(. I made a living from artwork many times in my live, without the need of idiotic copy protections. If the people who like your work don't like

Re: Iceweasel and DRM

2014-05-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-05-24 at 08:55 -0400, Jeff Bauer wrote: lulz intellectual piss Try a different translator, Ralf. I guess the context is good enough to understand, that I tried to say intellectual work that is not more helpful than a bottle of piss would be, when you want to barter this

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