On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 20:46:06 -0400 (EDT), Steve Litt wrote:
...
I should probably explain my propensity to install a base system, get
it running, and then use the package manager to add the rest. It comes
from long years of usage of Red Hat, Caldera, Mandrake/Mandriva, and
Ubuntu. On
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 07:25:44 -0400 (EDT)
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote:
On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:31:46 -0400 (EDT), Steve Litt wrote:
...
I also unchecked the Debian Desktop selection.
...
Then I did the following:
apt-get install xfce4 xfce4-goodies
apt-get install
On Vi, 21 mar 14, 10:34:03, Darac Marjal wrote:
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:46:38AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Vi, 21 mar 14, 09:52:09, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
You can access the console X was started from even when the machine is
locked.
Seriously? I'd find that to be a
On 2014-03-25 12:08:12 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
Alt-SysRq-F is disabled on sid:
mar 25 12:03:28 sid kernel: SysRq : This sysrq operation is disabled.
But what if someone logs in, uses all the memory left (possibly not
even in a malicious way) so that this triggers the OOM killer, and
the
On 2014-03-23 21:06:55 +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
Seems I'm a little bit old-fashioned ;-)
According to the man-page Xsession(5) the system scripts take care of using a
log-file, given that you indeed don't have ~/.xinitrc .
So maybe the man-page of startx(1) has to be updated, since it
On Mon 24 Mar 2014 at 12:37:36 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
On 2014-03-23 21:06:55 +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
Seems I'm a little bit old-fashioned ;-)
According to the man-page Xsession(5) the system scripts take care of using
a
log-file, given that you indeed don't have
Seems I'm a little bit old-fashioned ;-)
According to the man-page Xsession(5) the system scripts take care of using a
log-file, given that you indeed don't have ~/.xinitrc .
So maybe the man-page of startx(1) has to be updated, since it only talks about
~/.xinitrc .
Best regards,
Jörg-Volker.
On 2014-03-21 17:13:41 +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
Vincent Lefevre writes:
The fact that it is multi-user doesn't mean that it will necessarily
be used by several desktop users.
You can remove spawning the getty on tty you don't want to use.
I don't know how to do this with
On 2014-03-21 13:35:37 -0400, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote:
To cure my paranoia of having stdout going to an unknown place, I made
the following executable /usr/local/bin/exx:
==
#!/bin/bash
startx /dev/null exit
==
I invoke
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 8:51 AM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote:
On Fri 21 Mar 2014 at 12:37:57 -0400, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
wrote:
I think it depends on the situation. If you're at the library with your
laptop and need to go to the bathroom, it's best to take the computer
In order to keep the output of the X-session when starting with the command
startx, something like the following snippet could be inserted into the file
~/.xinitrc :
sessid=${HOSTNAME:-$(uname -n)}-${DISPLAY##*:}
# Send output to file
#
logfile=${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-$HOME}/xinit-${sessid}.log
:
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On 2014-03-22 02:30, Patrick Bartek wrote:
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014, Ken Heard wrote:
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On 2014-03-21 00:30, Patrick Bartek wrote:
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, Ken Heard wrote:
[snip] I never did get LVM going
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote, on 03/22/2014 16:52:
In order to keep the output of the X-session when starting with the command
startx, something like the following snippet could be inserted into the file
~/.xinitrc :
sessid=${HOSTNAME:-$(uname -n)}-${DISPLAY##*:}
# Send output to file
#
On Sat 22 Mar 2014 at 17:50:11 +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote, on 03/22/2014 16:52:
In order to keep the output of the X-session when starting with the command
startx, something like the following snippet could be inserted into the file
~/.xinitrc :
This is the
On Sat, 2014-03-22 at 19:14 +, Brian wrote:
. . .
This is the fourth or fifth time in this thread a recommendation to use
~/.xinitrc has been made. No sensible Debian user would have such a file
in his account. A happy Debian system is one with ~/.xsession.
I'm a Debian newbie, so --
On 2014-03-22 20:14 +0100, Brian wrote:
On Sat 22 Mar 2014 at 17:50:11 +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote, on 03/22/2014 16:52:
In order to keep the output of the X-session when starting with the command
startx, something like the following snippet could be inserted
On Sat 22 Mar 2014 at 15:02:58 -0500, Bill Wood wrote:
On Sat, 2014-03-22 at 19:14 +, Brian wrote:
. . .
This is the fourth or fifth time in this thread a recommendation to use
~/.xinitrc has been made. No sensible Debian user would have such a file
in his account. A happy Debian
On Sat 22 Mar 2014 at 21:19:59 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2014-03-22 20:14 +0100, Brian wrote:
This is the fourth or fifth time in this thread a recommendation to use
~/.xinitrc has been made. No sensible Debian user would have such a file
in his account.
Care to elaborate why not?
On Jo, 20 mar 14, 12:44:21, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
Anyone with physical access to your computer could:
a) logout of your gui session (if it's not screensaver locked), taking
them back to your command line, and depending on your settings of
/etc/sudoers tty_tickets or respectively
On Friday 21 March 2014 04:29:25 Ken Heard wrote:
I discovered just a few minutes ago (c. 11:00 2014-03-21 Friday
where I am) that the latest kernel in wheezy-backports is
3.13.0.bpo1-amd64
Thanks for the heads up Ken. Have just run full-upgrade. Though I
will have ot resatrt to change
On Friday 21 March 2014 05:06:52 Andrei POPESCU wrote:
However, if you
are running amd64 (64 bit) instead of i386 (32 bit) those kernels
will not be available for you to install via apt-get.
I get them via aptitude on Wheezy. I initially installed the
backported kernel (new hardware), and
Andrei POPESCU writes:
3. any user, with or without root access, who doesn't lock his
workstation as needed[1] deserves his fate.
And does not uses startx; exit
You can access the console X was started from even when the machine is
locked.
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On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 02:19:46PM +, Brian wrote:
Ctrl+Alt+F1...F12
For systems with virtual terminal support, these keystroke
combinations are used to switch to virtual terminals 1
through 12, respectively. This can be disabled with the
DontVTSwitch
On Vi, 21 mar 14, 08:10:44, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Friday 21 March 2014 05:06:52 Andrei POPESCU wrote:
However, if you
are running amd64 (64 bit) instead of i386 (32 bit) those kernels
will not be available for you to install via apt-get.
I get them via aptitude on Wheezy. I initially
On Vi, 21 mar 14, 09:52:09, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
You can access the console X was started from even when the machine is
locked.
Seriously? I'd find that to be a severe bug in the said locking
application.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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On Fri 21 Mar 2014 at 09:24:21 +, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 02:19:46PM +, Brian wrote:
Ctrl+Alt+F1...F12
For systems with virtual terminal support, these keystroke
combinations are used to switch to virtual terminals 1
through 12,
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 09:52:03AM +, Brian wrote:
In an xterm (with or without using DontVTSwitch):
brian@localhost:~$ chvt 4
Couldn't gat a file descriptor referring to the console
Doubt no longer. :)
Try via sudo. (risk reduced to: X session left open, terminal left open,
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:46:38AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Vi, 21 mar 14, 09:52:09, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
You can access the console X was started from even when the machine is
locked.
Seriously? I'd find that to be a severe bug in the said locking
application.
It's a
On Fri 21 Mar 2014 at 10:24:54 +, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 09:52:03AM +, Brian wrote:
In an xterm (with or without using DontVTSwitch):
brian@localhost:~$ chvt 4
Couldn't gat a file descriptor referring to the console
Doubt no longer. :)
Try
I may have missed something. If someone has physical access to your
machine can't they just power off and go into single user mode and
change the root password?
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On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:06:03AM +, Robin wrote:
I may have missed something. If someone has physical access to your
machine can't they just power off and go into single user mode and
change the root password?
Maybe, maybe not. Console access doesn't have to mean complete access.
The
On Fri 21 Mar 2014 at 11:18:19 +, Darac Marjal wrote:
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:06:03AM +, Robin wrote:
I may have missed something. If someone has physical access to your
machine can't they just power off and go into single user mode and
change the root password?
Maybe, maybe
Le 19.03.2014 15:03, Lisi Reisz a écrit :
On Wednesday 19 March 2014 11:25:44 Stephen Powell wrote:
On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:31:46 -0400 (EDT), Steve Litt wrote:
...
I also unchecked the Debian Desktop selection.
...
Then I did the following:
apt-get install xfce4 xfce4-goodies
apt-get
Le 20.03.2014 02:44, Zenaan Harkness a écrit :
Yeah, when making a machine for a less technical or less
command-prompt
comfortable person, I like to have it boot into GUI via the desktop
manager. But when setting it up for myself or for people technically
sharp enough to log in and then type
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org writes:
Can't ~/.xinitrc force startx to logout?
H, maybe if you start x with . xinitrc . Would you forgive me if I
don't do the test right now and continue to do the work I am paid for
:) ?
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Le 21.03.2014 13:54, Gian Uberto Lauri a écrit :
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org writes:
Can't ~/.xinitrc force startx to logout?
H, maybe if you start x with . xinitrc . Would you forgive me if
I
don't do the test right now and continue to do the work I am paid for
:) ?
Currently,
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On 03/21/2014 12:43 AM, Ken Heard wrote:
On 2014-03-21 00:30, Patrick Bartek wrote:
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, Ken Heard wrote:
[snip] I never did get LVM going on top of RAID1. Since I had to
use an mini-ITX box there would not be room in it
On 21 March 2014 11:18, Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk wrote:
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:06:03AM +, Robin wrote:
I may have missed something. If someone has physical access to your
machine can't they just power off and go into single user mode and
change the root password?
Maybe,
Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk ha scritto nel messaggio
news:21032014113647.c62190855...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
For the situation when X is started with startx would 'startx exit'
prevent the termination of an X session even if CTRL+ALT+FN etc gets
console access?
I've always used startx
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org writes:
Le 21.03.2014 13:54, Gian Uberto Lauri a écrit :
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org writes:
Can't ~/.xinitrc force startx to logout?
H, maybe if you start x with . xinitrc .
Me _idiot_! (despite the triple expresso shot).
I should have
On Friday 21 March 2014 11:06:03 Robin wrote:
If someone has physical access to your
machine can't they just power off and go into single user mode and
change the root password?
The default on Debian since I have been using it is that the root
password is required for access via single user
On Fri 21 Mar 2014 at 14:25:14 +0100, Valerio Vanni wrote:
Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk ha scritto nel messaggio
news:21032014113647.c62190855...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
For the situation when X is started with startx would 'startx exit'
prevent the termination of an X session even
On 2014-03-21 10:34:03 +, Darac Marjal wrote:
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:46:38AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Vi, 21 mar 14, 09:52:09, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
You can access the console X was started from even when the machine is
locked.
Seriously? I'd find that to be a
On 2014-03-21 11:41:29 +, Brian wrote:
For the situation when X is started with startx would 'startx exit'
prevent the termination of an X session even if CTRL+ALT+FN etc gets
console access?
Doing the exit immediately can have some side effects in some
configurations. For instance, my
Vincent Lefevre writes:
The fact that it is multi-user doesn't mean that it will necessarily
be used by several desktop users.
You can remove spawning the getty on tty you don't want to use.
I don't know how to do this with systemd... With init you had some
nice and well commented entries in
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 09:24:21 +
Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org wrote:
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 02:19:46PM +, Brian wrote:
Ctrl+Alt+F1...F12
For systems with virtual terminal support, these keystroke
combinations are used to switch to virtual terminals 1
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 11:06:03 +
Robin rc.rattusrat...@gmail.com wrote:
I may have missed something. If someone has physical access to your
machine can't they just power off and go into single user mode and
change the root password?
Unless you have a BIOS password or encrypted root
Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com writes:
I think it depends on the situation. If you're at the library with your
laptop and need to go to the bathroom, it's best to take the computer
with you, because it's easier to just walk off with it than to dink
with the command prompt.
Easier and
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:25:14 +0100
Valerio Vanni vale...@valeriovanni.com wrote:
Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk ha scritto nel messaggio
news:21032014113647.c62190855...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
For the situation when X is started with startx would 'startx
exit' prevent the termination
On Fri 21 Mar 2014 at 12:37:57 -0400, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote:
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 11:06:03 +
Robin rc.rattusrat...@gmail.com wrote:
I may have missed something. If someone has physical access to your
machine can't they just power off and go into single user mode and
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014, Ken Heard wrote:
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On 2014-03-21 00:30, Patrick Bartek wrote:
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, Ken Heard wrote:
[snip] I never did get LVM going on top of RAID1. Since I had to
use an mini-ITX box there would not be room in it
On Fri 21 Mar 2014 at 12:37:57 -0400, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote:
I think it depends on the situation. If you're at the library with your
laptop and need to go to the bathroom, it's best to take the computer
with you, because it's easier to just walk off with it than to dink
with
On Fri 21 Mar 2014 at 12:37:57 -0400, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote:
I think it depends on the situation. If you're at the library with your
laptop and need to go to the bathroom, it's best to take the computer
with you, because it's easier to just walk off with it than to dink
with
Am 19.03.2014 um 15:32 schrieb Ken Heard kensli...@teksavvy.com:
My latest experience was a new installation of Wheezy in a new box.
It took me the entire month of January to get the OS and essential
applications to the point where the machine became usable. Yes it
works, but so does a
Helmut Wollmersdorfer writes:
Desktops and laptops get whole disk or whole free space.
I admit that a common user could not be able to benefit from LVM, but
keeping at least system software on one partitions and homes on
another could ease distribution reinstallations.
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On 2014-03-20 12:44:21 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
When logging in at the Linux console (on current kernels at least),
then running startx, there is a security problem:
Anyone with physical access to your computer could:
a) logout of your gui session (if it's not screensaver locked),
On Thursday 20 March 2014 00:12:53 Charles Kroeger wrote:
I'm awfully American but I once lived in your country for many
enjoyable years. Tell me this, are you English Scottish Welsh
Northern Irish or just British
I'm a European British English Cockney. Well, I would be if the
Germans hadn't
On 2014-03-20, Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net wrote:
For instance, type:
sleep 2; exit
and Ctrl-C just after. The sleep 2 is interrupted, but exit
isn't run.
You could still do exec startx, but this may not be OK if you
want *logout files to be sourced for clean-up.
Not using sudo
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote:
On 3/20/14, Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote:
Here's some guidelines to reduce install/run problems.
2. Motherboard and graphic card chips can be a problem in general, new
or old. I try to stick with
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On 2014-03-19 22:31, Don Armstrong wrote:
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014, Ken Heard wrote:
My latest experience was a new installation of Wheezy in a new
box. It took me the entire month of January to get the OS and
essential applications to the point where
On 20/03/14 22:29, Joel Rees wrote:
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net
mailto:z...@freedbms.net wrote:
On 3/20/14, Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com
mailto:bartek...@yahoo.com wrote:
Here's some guidelines to reduce install/run problems.
2.
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On 2014-03-19 23:02, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote:
I have a specific set of secrets:
* Use the network installer,
Did
CLI (ncurses) mode,
Was not sure what these were but discovered that I did use CLI but not
ncurses.
Expert
On Thu 20 Mar 2014 at 12:44:21 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
Yeah, when making a machine for a less technical or less command-prompt
comfortable person, I like to have it boot into GUI via the desktop
manager. But when setting it up for myself or for people technically
sharp enough to log
Hi, Ken,
On Thursday 20 March 2014 13:33:17 Ken Heard wrote:
I think having new hardware newer than available drivers probably
did contribute to some of my problems. I did not however want to
try something new like one of the buntus, even though they are
based on Debian; so I stuck with
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On 2014-03-20 21:19, Lisi Reisz wrote:
I have Wheezy 7.4, Trinity 3.5.13.2 and a backported kernel,
currently 3.12-0.bpo.1-amd64. I have done nothing special - just
updated and upgraded fairly often. Would this newer kernel perhaps
solve some
On Thursday 20 March 2014 14:51:25 Ken Heard wrote:
I also seem to
remember that about a year ago you had trouble activating sound in
your machine. I will work on that problem when I have time.
Yes. :-( And my husband's sound is still not working - he only wanted
it for the first time the
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On 2014-03-20 22:12, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Thursday 20 March 2014 14:51:25 Ken Heard wrote:
I also seem to remember that about a year ago you had trouble
activating sound in your machine. I will work on that problem
when I have time.
Yes. :-(
On Wed 19 Mar 2014 at 22:48:49 -0400, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote:
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 12:44:21 +1100
Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote:
SO: what to do?
What I did for a while was:
a) log in to Linux console
b) startx; exit
Outstanding! I'm going to start doing
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 09:51:25PM +0700, Ken Heard wrote:
Since reading your post I discovered that the latest kernel now
available is 3.12-0.bpo.1-amd64 which I will now install. There are
other kernels mentioned in wheezy-backports labelled pae. Since I
don't know what that means I will
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, Ken Heard wrote:
[snip]
I never did get LVM going on top of RAID1. Since I had to use an
mini-ITX box there would not be room in it for more than the two hard
drives already there and used for the RAID1. I consequently made a
virtue out of necessity by deciding that I
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 2:30 AM, Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote:
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, Ken Heard wrote:
[snip]
I never did get LVM going on top of RAID1. Since I had to use an
mini-ITX box there would not be room in it for more than the two hard
drives already there and used
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 03:12:12AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
Am I missing something here?
When I dig into my LVM setup, I note that much of the LVM functionality seems
to be oriented to providing RAID-like functionality. Would that explain why
people don't seem to be using LVM together with
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 20:33:17 +0700
Ken Heard kensli...@teksavvy.com wrote:
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On 2014-03-19 23:02, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote:
* Tell it to include the nonfree repos
Did not, but ending up installing the ones I needed anyway.
Hi
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On 2014-03-20 21:51, Ken Heard wrote:
On 2014-03-20 21:19, Lisi Reisz wrote:
I have Wheezy 7.4, Trinity 3.5.13.2 and a backported kernel,
currently 3.12-0.bpo.1-amd64. I have done nothing special -
just updated and upgraded fairly often.
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On 2014-03-21 00:30, Patrick Bartek wrote:
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, Ken Heard wrote:
[snip] I never did get LVM going on top of RAID1. Since I had to
use an mini-ITX box there would not be room in it for more than
the two hard drives already there
On Jo, 20 mar 14, 21:51:25, Ken Heard wrote:
Since reading your post I discovered that the latest kernel now
available is 3.12-0.bpo.1-amd64 which I will now install. There are
other kernels mentioned in wheezy-backports labelled pae. Since I
don't know what that means I will avoid them.
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On 2014-03-21 04:30, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote:
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 20:33:17 +0700 Ken Heard
kensli...@teksavvy.com wrote:
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On 2014-03-19 23:02, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
On 21/03/14 16:28, Ken Heard wrote:
On 2014-03-21 04:30, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote:
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 20:33:17 +0700 Ken Heard
kensli...@teksavvy.com wrote:
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On 2014-03-19 23:02, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote:
*
On Tue, 18 Mar 2014, Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
Here's why I like Debian Stable...
My daughter's computer broke, so last night I took a three year, 3GB
RAM, old wreck of a laptop and, using the Debian 7.4 network
installer, installed Wheezy. I chose expert install, told it to
install the
On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:31:46 -0400 (EDT), Steve Litt wrote:
...
I also unchecked the Debian Desktop selection.
...
Then I did the following:
apt-get install xfce4 xfce4-goodies
apt-get install synaptic
apt-get install iceweasel
...
I realize that this is too late for this install, but
On Wednesday 19 March 2014 11:25:44 Stephen Powell wrote:
On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:31:46 -0400 (EDT), Steve Litt wrote:
...
I also unchecked the Debian Desktop selection.
...
Then I did the following:
apt-get install xfce4 xfce4-goodies
apt-get install synaptic
apt-get install
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It never ceases to amaze me that there are people can get various
iterations of Debian working out of the box. Ever since Sarge I
have had no end of trouble either with new installations or upgrades,
to the point that I dread every new iteration. I
On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 10:32:10 Ken Heard wrote:
It never ceases to amaze me that there are people can get various
iterations of Debian working out of the box. Ever since Sarge I
have had no end of trouble either with new installations or upgrades,
to the point that I dread every new
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014, Ken Heard wrote:
My latest experience was a new installation of Wheezy in a new box. It
took me the entire month of January to get the OS and essential
applications to the point where the machine became usable. Yes it
works, but so does a Ford model T. For example I wanted
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:10:02 +0100
Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:
fenestral hordes.
I rather like your description of them but wouldn't it have been more proper to
use
the term 'fenestrated' it is an adjective. In anatomy, this would apply to
'having
perforations, apertures suggesting
On Wednesday 19 March 2014 15:50:41 Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
wrote:
And last but
not least, booting to CLI and using startx gives me that nostalgic
feeling for when I was a young whippersnapper using Red Hat 5.1.
:-)
Lisi
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Ken Heard kensli...@teksavvy.com wrote:
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It never ceases to amaze me that there are people can get various
iterations of Debian working out of the box. Ever since Sarge I
have had no end of trouble either with
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 10:03:03 -0400 (EDT). Lisi Reisz wrote:
Choosing XFCE from the beginning has already been suggested.
I suggested choosing expert install and then choosing XFCE before being
taken back to the ordinary installation. This also has the advantage
that you don't have to type
Hi all,
Last night I took a 2GB RAM, 2006 Compaq laptop, and used the
Debian 7.4.0 to put Wheezy on it. It went almost as smoothly as the
first one, but...
* Half way thru the install for 64 bit it told me there were no suitable
kernels. Even though the laptop identifies as a 64 bit 2 core
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 14:03:03 +
Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:
Choosing XFCE from the beginning has already been suggested.I
suggested choosing expert install and then choosing XFCE before being
taken back to the ordinary installation. This also has the advantage
that you
I'm running squeeze on a 2003 IBM T40 - also 2Gig. It runs fine and
runs Lotus Notes fine as well. I'm backlevel because Notes is broken
on the latest Gnome.
It's just a machine I use to boot, look, shutdown and it's wonderfully
fast for that. Replaced Windows XP which was a pig and going out
On 20/03/14 01:32, Ken Heard wrote:
It never ceases to amaze me that there are people can get various
iterations of Debian working out of the box.
That it does happen is testament that Debian does things right. The
vast majority of people who install Debian for their own use make little
or no
On 20/03/14 04:47, Charles Kroeger wrote:
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:10:02 +0100
Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:
fenestral hordes.
I rather like your description of them but wouldn't it have been more proper
to use
the term 'fenestrated' it is an adjective. In anatomy, this would
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 7:52 AM, Scott Ferguson
scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote:
On 20/03/14 04:47, Charles Kroeger wrote:
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:10:02 +0100
Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:
fenestral hordes.
I rather like your description of them but wouldn't it
On Wednesday 19 March 2014 17:47:20 Charles Kroeger wrote:
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:10:02 +0100
Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:
fenestral hordes.
I rather like your description of them but wouldn't it have been
more proper to use the term 'fenestrated' it is an adjective. In
anatomy,
On Wednesday 19 March 2014 19:45:58 Stephen Powell wrote:
Perhaps you suggested this in another thread, but I don't see it it
this thread, Lisi.
Probably - I didn't check. I was just referring to your reference to
the information being too late for thsi install.
But I believe that the
On Wednesday 19 March 2014 23:18:09 Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Wednesday 19 March 2014 17:47:20 Charles Kroeger wrote:
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:10:02 +0100
Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:
fenestral hordes.
I rather like your description of them but wouldn't it have been
more proper
Reposting to try to get this in the correct thread.
On Wednesday 19 March 2014 17:47:20 Charles Kroeger wrote:
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:10:02 +0100
Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:
fenestral hordes.
I rather like your description of them but wouldn't it have been
more proper to use
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 00:30:03 +0100
Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:
You must be American!
I'm awfully American but I once lived in your country for many enjoyable years.
Tell me this, are you English Scottish Welsh Northern Irish or just British
I got the original from a reference to
On 20/03/14 11:12, Charles Kroeger wrote:
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 00:30:03 +0100
Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:
You must be American!
I'm awfully American but I once lived in your country for many enjoyable
years.
Tell me this, are you English Scottish Welsh Northern Irish or just
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