Re: Running a FreeBSD guest

2021-03-23 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 23 Mar, 2021 at 17:06:47 +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote: > didier gaumet wrote: [...] > > This one will probably do: > > https://wiki.debian.org/SystemVirtualization > > (particularly the 3rd chapter "System Virtualization" if I understand your > > usecase) > > This is a comprehensive docu

Re: Evolution

2021-04-27 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 27 Apr, 2021 at 18:49:55 +, Jerry Mellon wrote: >Hello, >I have been using Debian 10 now for about 6 months and all of a sudden >Evolution will not allow me to login. >I am getting a box while Evolution is starting and loading that says >"Please enter the password fo

Re: How to commit a new architecture like RISC-V

2021-05-11 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 11 May, 2021 at 14:30:06 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > As I said, I'm just a lowly user. On the contrary, you are an extremely helpful, courteous and entertaining user. :-)

Re: How to reference xxxdvd1.iso in sources.list

2021-05-12 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 12 May, 2021 at 14:05:59 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I've seen a reference to using the ISO file of DVDnn in a sources.list . > I remember that it gets identified as being ISO9660 and labeled as trusted, > But I can't find a detailed example. All I find are references to unpacking > the

Re: About Terminal on Buster

2021-05-27 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 27 May, 2021 at 18:38:55 +0100, mick crane wrote: > > Is there not a program required to do that mouse, click, drag, select ? > I recall with various installations that worked then it didn't and it worked > after installing "g something something" That would be gpm. I haven't seen it in t

Re: problem with speedtest-cli

2021-06-10 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 11 Jun, 2021 at 00:08:51 +0800, kaye n wrote: >Hello guys >kaye@laptop:~$ speedtest-cli >Retrieving [1]speedtest.net configuration... >Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/speedtest-cli", line 11, in >load_entry_point('speedtest-cli==2.0.2', 'con

Re: problem with speedtest-cli

2021-07-01 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 01 Jul, 2021 at 18:52:42 +0800, kaye n wrote: >On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 12:28 AM Liam O'Toole ><[1]liam.p.oto...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Jun, 2021 at 00:08:51 +0800, kaye n wrote: > >Hello guys > >kaye@laptop:~$ s

Re: Buster with MATE without systemd

2020-09-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sat, 19 Sep, 2020 at 14:31:57 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [...] > While I'm an LXDE user myself I do acknowledge that other DEs might have > a different focus and/or priorities. As far as I can tell, providing > many options is something that GNOME seems to explicitly want to avoid, > whet

Re: Insidious systemd

2019-05-28 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2019-05-27, Patrick Bartek wrote: > Hi, all! > > Needing to convert this box from wired ethernet to wireless, I searched > for a suitable network manager and wicd looked good: No desktop > environment dependencies (I use a window manager Openbox and single > lxpanel), compatibility with Openbo

Re: Insidious systemd

2019-05-29 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2019-05-29, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2019-05-28 22:16:27 +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2019-05-27, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> > Hi, all! >> > >> > Needing to convert this box from wired ethernet to wireless, I searched >> > for a suitable

Re: openjdk-8-jre for buster

2019-06-01 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2019-05-31, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: >> "BR" == Brad Rogers writes: > >BR> Not from Debian. See https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/openjdk-8 > >BR> Short version: It's been removed and (to me it looks like) won't >BR> be back. > > Do they run IcedTea against the OpenJDK 11 ? > Java Web Start

Re: Can status column be made to contain only ii?

2019-07-26 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2019-07-15, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > Felix Miata writes: > >> # grep RETT /etc/os-release >> PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)" >> # dpkg -l | grep '^ii' | wc -l >> 867 >> # dpkg -l | grep -v '^ii' | wc -l >> 136 >> # dpkg -l | grep '^rc' | wc -l >> 125 >> # dpkg -l | egrep -v '^ii'|'^r

Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke

2019-09-29 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sun, 29 Sep, 2019 at 10:56:54 -0400, Wayne Sallee wrote: > Debian really needs to work on the manual partitioning part of the > installation. > > It's absolutely pathetic. > > Wayne Sallee > wa...@waynesallee.com > http://www.WayneSallee.com > Thank you for your contribution. I look forward

Re: Night light, sunset and sunrise times in Gnome

2020-03-24 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 24 Mar, 2020 at 18:24:04 -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: > hello, > I am running Gnome in Debian Buster, which comes with the Night Light > feature. I have set up night light in the Sunset/Sunrise setting. I > have also correcly set my timezone (location?). My issue is, sunset is > comi

Re: Night light, sunset and sunrise times in Gnome

2020-03-25 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 24 Mar, 2020 at 19:05:32 -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: > On Tue, 2020-03-24 at 23:31 +0000, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > Are the dawn and dusk times correct in the Night Light configuration > > window? > > > There are two options. Manual or Sunset/Sunrise in

Re: Buster without systemd?

2020-03-25 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 24 Mar, 2020 at 22:04:07 -0500, David Wright wrote: [...] > I don't want a desktop. In fact, wicd doesn't even need X, as it can > run quite happily on a VC to configure a new AP. > > When I return to somewhere I have been before, wicd (the daemon) > usually connects before I have typed

Re: Buster without systemd? [with backtrack]

2020-03-26 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 25 Mar, 2020 at 21:02:17 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 25 Mar 2020 at 20:18:29 (+), Liam O'Toole wrote: > > > > For what it's worth, Network Manager doesn't need a GUI either. Tools > > such as nmcli and nmtui allow you to configure and cont

Re: Re: Debian Squeeze Installer: HTTP proxy server to access outsideworld?

2020-03-26 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 26 Mar, 2020 at 23:34:57 +, Diana Emefa wrote: >I need http to access the outside world This is a mailing list. You have connected to the outside world without HTTP. I hope that you will continue to do so.

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 13 Apr, 2020 at 12:57:54 +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 11:16:02AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [...] > > Whether DoH or DNS-over-TLS, you have to trust the DNS server. > > Yup. That's why I have my own, and every Debian user can have their own > too, using o

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 13 Apr, 2020 at 16:19:55 +0300, Reco wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 12:14:44PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Apr, 2020 at 12:57:54 +0300, Reco wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 11:16:02AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU w

Re: Gnome Screenshot not saving to clipboard

2020-04-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 14 Apr, 2020 at 16:02:07 +, Paulo Roberto wrote: >Hello. >The gnome-screenshot a few updates ago stopped working properly. >It's not saving to the clipboard anymore. >When I run: > >$ gnome-screenshot -a -c > >It activates the selection cursor, after selection

Re: DOH

2020-04-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 at 16:37, John Hasler wrote: > > Liam writes: > > I'm not familiar with bind. Does it work by consulting root name > > servers directly? > > It starts with the root servers and builds a database in exactly the > same way your ISP's DNS server does. In fact, it is probably what

Re: DOH

2020-04-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 14 Apr, 2020 at 23:42:48 +0300, Reco wrote: [...] > > 2. Having completed a DNS lookup unbeknownst to the ISP, we still have > > to make a connection to the resulting IP address through the ISP's > > gateway. The ISP can perform a reverse DNS lookup of the IP address if > > they are deter

Re: DOH

2020-04-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 14 Apr, 2020 at 18:00:41 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Liam writes: > > I think you misunderstand me. I'm talking about making a connection to > > an IP address that you have already obtained by (encrypted) DNS. For > > example, your personal bind instance tells you that www.debian.org > > re

Re: Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-18 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sat, 18 Apr, 2020 at 05:19:40 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I can see any *ONE* previous commands by using the up-arrow key. > But I need to see the *complete* history. F1 is no "Help". > Obviously its stored in a file. Where? > TIA Use the 'history' command, or 'cat ~/.bash_history'. Assumes

Re: Kind reminder: please don't reply to and/or quote spam, ever

2020-04-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sun, 19 Apr, 2020 at 19:11:55 +1000, elvis wrote: > > On 19/4/20 5:03 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [...] > > Note: "bouncing" is also called "redirect" in some mail clients and is > > *not* forwarding (should probably mention this in the wiki).U > > In over 25 years of email I have never come

Re: Groovy 2.4.16 + Java 11 is broken in debian buster stable

2020-04-22 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 22 Apr, 2020 at 22:15:09 +0530, Jayant Tripathi wrote: >[1]https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=929460 >Is there a way to download patched groovy version in debian buster >through apt? >As default groovy version in Buster stable is: Groovy Version: 2.4.16 >J

Re: Groovy 2.4.16 + Java 11 is broken in debian buster stable

2020-04-23 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 23 Apr, 2020 at 11:08:27 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Apr, 2020 at 22:15:09 +0530, Jayant Tripathi wrote: > > >>[1]https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=929460 > >>Is there a way to download patc

Re: Groovy 2.4.16 + Java 11 is broken in debian buster stable

2020-04-23 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 23 Apr, 2020 at 11:53:14 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Apr, 2020 at 11:08:27 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > > >> Backports must not be used to fix bugs in Stable. If groovy from > >> Stable does not work with the ope

Re: One more firewall question

2020-04-25 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sat, 25 Apr, 2020 at 13:08:38 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > One last name stands out in my apache2 logs. > > Is AppleWebKit a bot? There sure are a lot of them. > > Thanks all. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett AppleWebKit appears in the user-agent string sent by chrome and other b

Re: python pip trouble

2020-04-26 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sun, 26 Apr, 2020 at 16:13:28 -0600, ghe wrote: > Buster, Supermicro workstation > > I wanted to install pip (python3 is installed and working well and my > apt mirrors are up to date): > > root@sbox:~# apt install pip > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state

Re: XFCE session problem

2020-04-29 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 29 Apr, 2020 at 08:28:25 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > This morning I ran "apt update && apt upgrade" as usual, and there was > a new kernel, linux-image-4.19.0-8-amd64 4.19.98-1+deb10u1 amd64, to > replace the prior kernel, linux-image-4.19.0-6-amd64 > 4.19.67-2+deb10u2, and several other

Re: Custom application icon do not appear in Gnome and LXQT

2020-05-04 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 04 May, 2020 at 16:28:30 +0200, Yvan Masson wrote: > No problem Didier, I appreciate all answers, even not on the list :-) > > I had not read the Freedesktop wiki before, but unfortunately it does not > help: I thought the solution was here when it says icon "has to have the > same name as

Re: Custom application icon do not appear in Gnome and LXQT

2020-05-04 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 04 May, 2020 at 21:22:20 +0200, Yvan Masson wrote: > Le 04/05/2020 à 17:06, Liam O'Toole a écrit : > > On Mon, 04 May, 2020 at 16:28:30 +0200, Yvan Masson wrote: > > > No problem Didier, I appreciate all answers, even not on the list :-) > > > > >

Re: Custom application icon do not appear in Gnome and LXQT

2020-05-04 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 04 May, 2020 at 22:29:14 +0200, Yvan Masson wrote: > Le 04/05/2020 à 22:21, Liam O'Toole a écrit : > > On Mon, 04 May, 2020 at 21:22:20 +0200, Yvan Masson wrote: > > > Le 04/05/2020 à 17:06, Liam O'Toole a écrit : > > > > On Mon, 04 May, 2

Re: Custom application icon do not appear in Gnome and LXQT

2020-05-05 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 04 May, 2020 at 23:02:16 +0200, Yvan Masson wrote: > Le 04/05/2020 à 22:52, Liam O'Toole a écrit : > > On Mon, 04 May, 2020 at 22:29:14 +0200, Yvan Masson wrote: > > > Le 04/05/2020 à 22:21, Liam O'Toole a écrit : > > > > On Mon, 04 May, 2

Re: Why do I have so many packages to upgrade with Debian 10.4?

2020-05-10 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sun, 10 May, 2020 at 22:03:20 +0200, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > Hi, > > My /etc/apt/sources.list contains links to buster, buster/updates, > buster-updates and buster-backports repositories. I run apt update / apt > upgrade very frequently. > > As you may know, Debian 10.4 was out yesterday. >

Re: apt has a bug, cannot believe it!

2020-05-25 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 25 May, 2020 at 22:12:58 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Le 25/05/2020 à 22:04, Marco Möller a écrit : > > If installing (default parameters in use: with recommends) a package, > > and right afterwards removing it, then the by recommendation drawn in > > packages do not become removed automatic

Re: apt has a bug, cannot believe it!

2020-05-25 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 25 May, 2020 at 23:04:17 +0200, Marco Möller wrote: > On 25.05.20 22:34, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On Mon, 25 May, 2020 at 22:12:58 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > > > Le 25/05/2020 à 22:04, Marco Möller a écrit : > > > > If installing (default parameters

Re: apt has a bug, cannot believe it!

2020-05-25 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 25 May, 2020 at 23:55:02 +0200, Marco Möller wrote: > On 25.05.20 23:24, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > It's OK. I understood your question the first time. > > > > The simple answer is that the '--no-install-recommends&#

Re: why !oh why Debian and application list

2020-06-07 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sun, 07 Jun, 2020 at 20:19:48 +0200, Seeds Notoneofmy wrote: >On 6/7/20 7:52 PM, Peter Ehlert wrote: [...] > What window manager/desktop suite are you using? > >GNOME Metacity That's unusual these days. Are you getting your application menu from gnome-panel?

Re: Default vim colorscheme?

2020-06-22 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 22 Jun, 2020 at 10:53:46 +0200, Lucio wrote: > Il 22/06/20 10:05, elvis ha scritto: > > Somewhere on your system maybe /usr/share/vim  or in /etc that default > > colour scheme is defined or linked to a real colour scheme. Find it. > > I couldn't find the link, but I found /usr/share/vim/v

Re: Default vim colorscheme?

2020-06-22 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 22 Jun, 2020 at 09:35:45 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote: > On Mon, 2020-06-22 at 12:22 +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Jun, 2020 at 10:53:46 +0200, Lucio wrote: > > > Il 22/06/20 10:05, elvis ha scritto: > > > > Somewhere on your system maybe /usr

Re: problem to apply an update with fwupd

2020-06-23 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 23 Jun, 2020 at 20:57:30 +0200, Patrice Duroux wrote: >Hi, >I am facing a strange trouble with a Debian Sid laptop (Dell Precision >7540) both using gnome-software or fwupdmgr: a recent firmware update >does not apply. >So after reboots the update comes back again. Previ

Re: update-alternatives - was [Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment]

2020-06-29 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 29 Jun, 2020 at 10:21:18 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/29/2020 09:12 AM, davidson wrote: [...] > > Have you reviewed any notes regarding what it did for you yesterday? > > Yesterday's problems stemmed from installing mate-desktop-environment rather > than task-mate-desktop ;{ Who

Re: XFCE4 - How to increase font size on applications?

2020-07-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 13 Jul, 2020 at 20:26:57 -0400, hobie of RMN wrote: > Hi, Folks - > > I'm running Linux buster with xce4 desktop. Some applications come up > with font size too small for me to be able to read menu texts, etc., > notably Libre programs and alsamixer, etc. How can I ge3t larger fonts on >

Re: XFCE4 - How to increase font size on applications?

2020-07-16 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 15 Jul, 2020 at 19:01:30 -0400, hobie of RMN wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Jul, 2020 at 20:26:57 -0400, hobie of RMN wrote: > >> Hi, Folks - > >> > >> I'm running Linux buster with xce4 desktop. Some applications come up > >> with font size too small for me to be able to read menu texts, etc., > >

Re: XFCE4 - How to increase font size on applications?

2020-07-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sun, 19 Jul, 2020 at 17:31:12 +1000, Keith bainbridge wrote: > On 16/7/20 9:15 am, hobie of RMN wrote: > > > Perhaps adjust your display setting to smaller numbers? > > > > > > > > > > > > Or is everything else readable? > > Some is, some isn't.:) Firefox, Thunderbird, Leafpad, Notes, Synap

Re: SANE default scanner

2020-07-28 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 27 Jul, 2020 at 15:38:57 +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > John Boxall (12020-07-27): > > I was having the same problem with the same model mfp. I had to go into the > > HPLIP Toolbox app and setup the printer. Once I did that xsane and simple > > scan could find the scanner. > > Thanks for t

[OT] CentOS 6 [Was: Re: how to quickly recover buster boot loader]

2020-08-05 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 05 Aug, 2020 at 00:04:48 +, Long Wind wrote: >i have win7 at sda1 and buster at sda2 >i install centos 6 at sda3, it can boot win7, can't see buster >i mean i can't boot buster now >is there some rescue image that can be written to bootable usb disk? >or do you know

Re: Pastel colours in slrn - why?

2018-07-21 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2018-07-19, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 02:45:32PM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >> On 18/07/18 11:05 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: >> >> > On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 10:24:45AM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >> > What terminal program are you using? Is the behavior the same if you >> > fire u

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

2018-09-04 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2018-09-04, Gene Heskett wrote: > thing they've now given it a "better" name of PTSD (by the libtards > definitions). "Libtards"? Gene, you can do better than that.

Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome

2018-11-05 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2018-11-05, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 11:55:48AM -0500, David Parker wrote: >> Does anyone know why Gnome apparently depends on >> firefox-esr, and how I can just uninstall firefox-esr and leave Gnome alone? > > apt-cache show gnome-core | grep Depends > > It says "... fire

Re: after Stretch VLC is ugly

2018-12-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2018-12-08, Felmon Davis wrote: > Greets! > > I decided to upgrade from Jessie to Stretch last night. it seems to > have worked though there are some oddities. > > now VLC has grotesquely large control buttons ("Play," "Pause", etc.); > the interface in general seems to run on a different 'th

Re: jessie-updates missing

2019-03-28 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2019-03-26, Mike Malcolm wrote: > --07ffdc0584fd528b > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Hello, > > My project has failed to deploy and I'm seeing that there is a 404 error > when trying to access jessie-updates. > > When I go to http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/ > > I

Re: Problem loading Debian 9.8.0

2019-04-12 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2019-04-10, Patrick Gallagher wrote: > --9c7f3b05862d2a11 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Hi Suppot, This is not support. This is a mailing list for users of debian, just like you. > > I installed Debian 9.8.0 on my laptop using an iso DVD image and Virtualbox > 6.0

Re: Bug with Eclipse on debian stretch (with logs attached)

2019-04-25 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2019-04-25, morgan wrote: > Hi, > > I installed Eclipse on my debian stretch but it crashes when launching. > I attached the logs, I don't understand if I could do anything, nor in > which package(s) are the issues. Sorry for not using reportbug for this > report. > > Feel free to contact me fo

Re: buster 10.1 Q

2019-10-12 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sat, 12 Oct, 2019 at 12:53:40 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > What is the replacement for a graphical package manager since synaptic is > deprecated? peferably something that can be run over an ssh -Y > user@machine login. > > Thanks. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett Synaptic is not deprecated in bust

Re: buster 10.1 Q

2019-10-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 14 Oct, 2019 at 08:44:28 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 11:17:55PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On Sat, 12 Oct, 2019 at 12:53:40 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > What is the replacement for a graphical package manager since synaptic is >

Re: changing desktop manager from gnome to xfce in debian

2019-11-03 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sun, 03 Nov, 2019 at 12:41:51 -0800, Dan Hitt wrote: >Hi, >I recently switched from using debian 9 (stretch) to debian 10 >(buster). I did this on a new partition of my disk so i think it >should be a clean install, and it seems to be. >The desktop manager looks different: i

Re: imgur vs stretch

2019-11-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 13 Nov, 2019 at 15:20:20 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > What might I be missing? An adequate description of your problem.

Re: cannot view Trash? now gmail rant

2020-03-05 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 05 Mar, 2020 at 13:13:54 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 05 March 2020 12:15:27 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > Quoting kaye n (2020-03-05 18:02:45) > > > > > I'm going to assume that none of you saw or received my email > > > earlier, so here it is again. > > > > No, that is not ho

Re: now gmail rant

2020-03-06 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 06 Mar, 2020 at 14:24:47 +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote: [...] > > Interesting that I have 3 responses to the original post.Perhaps we have > a time zone issue? Like when I was flamed at 06:00 the morning after, for > not responding to a post I sent at 21:00. We sometimes need a way

Re: Applet to find internet status

2020-03-20 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 20 Mar, 2020 at 19:54:29 +, Bhasker C V wrote: > Hi, > >  I am looking for an applet (a simple one) which indicates the > connectivity to internet (perhaps green when connected to internet and > red/orange when connected but no internet access). I am struggling to > search for this in

Re: installing with Flatpak

2020-03-24 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 23 Mar, 2020 at 17:58:05 -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: > hello, > I would like to ask if there are any drawbacks in installing software > using Flatpak. As far as I understand, this installation method > installs packages in an isolated way (whatever that means). > I would imagine th

Re: How can I see only the latest change log of packages before update ?

2020-03-24 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 24 Mar, 2020 at 00:35:39 +0200, Anastasios Lisgaras wrote: > Hello, > > My update/upgrade system script is about that : > sudo apt update && sudo apt list --upgradable -a && sudo apt > dist-upgrade -y && sudo apt autoremove -y && sudo apt autoclean -y && > sudo apt clean -y > > But I want

Re: how to send files from a pc to my home server and viceversa

2007-02-28 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:27:12 -0500 "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 05:55:47AM -0800, Jordi wrote: > > Hello > > > > Yesterday I was able to run my server. I have 2 computers at home, > > one is server and the other is not. Both are connected to router. >

Re: Fonts from GDM?

2007-03-01 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:12:10 -0500 Matthew K Poer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > An odd situation: When I start Fluxbox (or any other WM) from GDM, I > get to use the font and cursor set by GDM. > > If I start fluxbox with 'startx' I am given another font and cursor. > > If I knew which font and

Re: Network access fails unless tcpdump is running?

2007-03-01 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:10:43 -0500 Marc D Ronell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > I can not ping a remote host successfully unless I have "tcpdump -i > eth0" running, in which case, my network access works fine. > > I am running Debian etch on a Dell Inspiron e1505 laptop. The et

Re: Fonts from GDM?

2007-03-02 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 21:00:27 -0500 Matthew K Poer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > # xdpyinfo | grep resol > resolution:75x75 dots per inch > > # xrdb -q | grep dpi > {no results} > Was this in the GDM or startx session? I'm guessing it was in the GDM session, because there the fonts

Re: Fonts from GDM?

2007-03-02 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 09:57:30 + Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #!/bin/sh > exec $(which X) -br -dpi 75 An update to my own message ... you should probably add the arguments '-nolisten tcp' to the above. -- Liam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Fonts from GDM?

2007-03-02 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:40:53 +0100 Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 09:57 +0000, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > > # xdpyinfo | grep resol > > > resolution:75x75 dots per inch > > > Was this in the GDM or startx session? I

Re: Fonts from GDM?

2007-03-02 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:15:42 -0500 Matthew K Poer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know what the DPI of my monitor is, or how to tell. Try here: http://www.raydreams.com/prog/dpi.aspx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-06 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 22:20:21 -0500 "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 04:31:45PM -1000, Al Eridani wrote: [...] > > Oh this is just too funny! The US protecting the rest of the world? > > When? Where? Hawaii? Cuba? The Philippines? Guatemala? > > > You mean

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-07 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:12:19 +0100 Michael Dominok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 07.03.2007, 07:06 + schrieb Liam O'Toole: > > It's thanks to the old Soviet Union that we in > > Western Europe are not speaking only German. It's thanks to the

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-07 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:14:38 +0100 Michael Dominok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 07.03.2007, 09:02 + schrieb Liam O'Toole: [...] > > I see plenty of linguistic diversity in Europe. Or are you > > referring to this newsgroup? > > Well, i

Re: [OT] aargh.. the big swirl of offtopicness sucks me in, too. help!

2007-03-07 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:18:58 +0100 Michael Dominok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 07.03.2007, 09:43 + schrieb Liam O'Toole: > > On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:14:38 +0100 > > Michael Dominok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Am Mit

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-07 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 06:31:20 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's a great what-if game. I know, I know. There are so many moments in history which are momentous in terms of their subsequent impact, but which seem to have been decided almost by a whim. > > What-if... the Germans

Re: [OT] aargh.. the big swirl of offtopicness sucks me in, too. help!

2007-03-07 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:49:15 +0100 Michael Dominok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 07.03.2007, 13:44 + schrieb Liam O'Toole: > > The Nazis had no long-term interest in Amsterdam, Paris, etc. > > Huh? Interesting. What makes you think that? > Of c

Re: Converting Debian Testing to Stable

2007-03-07 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 12:41:44 -0500 Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > No "apt-get dist-upgrade". You're not changing distributions. You > already have Etch. > > If at some point in the future you wish to change from Etch to a > newer distribution, then that is the time to use "apt-g

Re: [OT] aargh.. the big swirl of offtopicness sucks me in, too. help!

2007-03-07 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 21:05:17 +0100 Michael Dominok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 07.03.2007, 18:47 + schrieb Liam O'Toole: > > On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:49:15 +0100 > > Michael Dominok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Am Mit

Re: [OT] aargh.. the big swirl of offtopicness sucks me in, too. help!

2007-03-07 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:37:58 -0600 Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Liam O'Toole wrote: > > > > There is nothing OT about my contributions. This started as a > > question of whether totalitarian regimes can tolerate diversity. > > I have consi

Re: Off-Topic Posts

2007-03-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:18:12 -0600 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Historically this list has been tolerant of off-topic threads, likely > because such threads have tended to be short-lived. > > However, the off-topic posters (and I have been guilty myself) seem > to have taken this to me

Re: Off-Topic Posts

2007-03-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:19:50 +0100 steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i like, within constraints, political discussions on this list. gave > me sometimes something to think about and/or a good laugh. i hate > one-liners. from what side they come: they are always beside the > point for lack of nua

Re: [OT] aargh.. the big swirl of offtopicness sucks me in, too. help!

2007-03-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:04:21 -0600 Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:37:58 -0600 > > Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Liam O'Toole wrote: > >>

Re: Debian and X fonts

2007-03-09 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:01:31 +0100 Matej Kosik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Friends, > > I am using Debian GNU/Linux Sid. > > When I start `xmms' I get > > ** WARNING **: Failed to open font: > "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-10-*". > > Similarly, when I start `gv' I get > > Warning:

Graphical bittorrent clients in etch

2007-03-09 Thread Liam O'Toole
Hi, I am looking for a graphical bittorrent client for etch. My requirements are that it supports encryption and integrates nicely with the GNOME desktop. Here are the ones I have evaluated so far. azureus: excellent in terms of features, but conflicts with eclipse, which I also need ktorrent: a

Re: Graphical bittorrent clients in etch

2007-03-10 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 22:30:44 -0800 Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Liam O'Toole wrote: > > I am looking for a graphical bittorrent client for etch. My > > requirements are that it supports encryption and integrates nicely > > with the GNOME desktop. Here

Re: vncserver and wrong xinitrc permissions

2007-03-10 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 16:21:48 GMT Marco De Vitis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I installed the vnc4server package on Etch. When launching vncserver, > I want to get a "normal" desktop environment, so I uncommented the > two lines in the ~/.vnc/xstartup file which is automatically created: > >

Re: Blacklisted module still loads!

2007-03-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:52:31 -0400 "A. F. Cano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't know what else to try. I have tested the following in > /etc/modules.conf: > > alias snd-cs46xx off > blacklist snd-cs46xx > install snd-cs46xx /bin/true (found this on a web site) > > in /etc/discover.conf

Re: Updating Gnome menu without logout/login

2007-03-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:43:59 +0400 George Chelidze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All, > > I have the following problem with my sarge installation: > > When I install a new desktop application and if it has a > correspondent item in a menu, I can see it in debian menu but not in > my gnome m

Re: Is that all there is to it??

2007-03-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:43:24 -0300 Cassiano Leal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tarek Soliman wrote: > > An even nicer thing is that you can run sid in a chroot and "try > > before you upgrade" if you have enough space on a partition. > > Really? I didn't know that. What are the basic steps to do i

Re: ddclient cron job

2007-03-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:37:29 -0400 Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to get ddclient to run as a cronjob, but before I do it I > was wondering if it is not safe to do this. > > I normally run under a user account (And not root), and ddclient can't > be run by anyone but the o

Re: ddclient cron job

2007-03-20 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:59:18 -0400 Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 10:31:07PM +0000, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:37:29 -0400 > > Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >

Re: Xserver/KDE problem?

2007-03-22 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:45:34 +0100 Mitja Podreka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello > > After two years of Debianizing I decided to move to Sid. Upgrade went > OK and everything worked well until I installed kdeutils. > Since then I cannot start Xserver/KDE as a user. It doesn't work with > KDM

Re: Installation advice needed for a really stable desktop machine

2007-03-22 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:25:16 -0700 (PDT) Land Haj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I've been using sid for amd64 on my production machine since before > it became an official debian port, but for the next few years I will > have 0 time for fixing stuff that might break, and so I'm gonna use >

Re: Xserver/KDE problem?

2007-03-22 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:57:50 -0400 Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 12:52:24PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Michael Pobega wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 09:45:34AM +0100, Mitja Podreka wrote: [...]

Re: Installation advice needed for a really stable desktop machine

2007-03-22 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:20:44 +0100 Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Liam O'Toole wrote: [...] > > But there is another possibility you should consider. Rather than > > reinstalling, you could cha

Re: host aliases

2007-03-23 Thread Liam O'Toole
vOn Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:24:47 -0400 Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:40:13 +0100 > Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > On 20.03.07 15:18, Celejar wrote: > > > Not sure what you mean. How can I access it directly from the > > > internet wi

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-23 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:32:29 +0100 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > The fact that your working network connection was broken by installing > and then removing avahi-daemon, on the other hand, sounds like a real > bug. (But it is probably not a bug of aptitude.) If aptitude remo

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