Re: network managet and 10.42.0.1/24

2016-06-09 Thread Michael Milliman
On 06/09/2016 03:59 PM, Bhasker C V wrote: Hi all, I am at a loss to find out how to change 10.42.0.1/24 and 10.42.0.x/24 as ip and dhcp range which is used by network manager when configuring a wireless card as an AP. I dont see the setting anywhere and cant find a

Re: network managet and 10.42.0.1/24

2016-06-10 Thread Michael Milliman
P > server. However, I want to use network manager's functionality to create a > hotspot and also be able to control the dhcp range of this hotspot. > This is where I got stuck with the 10.42.0.1 > > > On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 1:55 AM, Michael Milliman < > michael.e.milli...@gmail

Re: SOS

2016-06-03 Thread Michael Milliman
On 06/03/2016 07:12 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 07:05:44AM -0500, Michael Milliman wrote: [...] It got there because his grandson put it there. (He said last time.). Lisi However, what 'it' is is still in question

Re: SOS

2016-06-03 Thread Michael Milliman
On 06/02/2016 09:19 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 02 June 2016 09:44:51 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [CCed, because probably not on list. Perhaps it's just a spam trap -- so be it] He had already had two replies to the same question, which he is

Re: Strange Email Bounce

2016-06-21 Thread Michael Milliman
On 06/21/2016 03:37 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi Lisi Reisz wrote: It is the sender that has the misconfiguration in this case. But what is misconfigured in particular ? The mail clients used are all different: Lisi: User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10[gets no spam] Michael:User-Agent:

Re: Strange Email Bounce

2016-06-21 Thread Michael Milliman
On 06/21/2016 09:24 AM, John Hasler wrote: Charlie writes: Also no longer use that address or Gmail for the list, as The address is obviously toxic... No it isn't. No it is not my email address that is "toxic." I may be able to make some changes to improve such situations in the future,

Re: apache and clients

2016-06-20 Thread Michael Milliman
On 06/19/2016 08:02 AM, Norbert Kiszka wrote: Dnia 2016-06-19, nie o godzinie 14:49 +0200, Pol Hallen pisze: Hi folks! Inside a small lan (less 10 pc) I've a server with apache. I've to install bind/dnsmasq to automatically resolve IP of apache or can I use clients's host file? What's the

Strange Email Bounce

2016-06-20 Thread Michael Milliman
I just replied to an email here on the debian-user list. I have checked the debian-user list archive on debian.org, and the email was indeed received and posted to the list. Nevertheless, I also received a bounce notice which was somewhat disturbing. It reported the email bounced from

Re: Strange Email Bounce

2016-06-20 Thread Michael Milliman
On 06/20/2016 04:32 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Joe wrote: There are algorithms, which are particularly keen on bounces, Interestingly the bounce messages did not appear on the list but only in the mailboxes of the original senders. So either the Debian list server filtered them out or it

Re: Strange Email Bounce

2016-06-20 Thread Michael Milliman
On 06/20/2016 04:32 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Joe wrote: There are algorithms, which are particularly keen on bounces, Interestingly the bounce messages did not appear on the list but only in the mailboxes of the original senders. So either the Debian list server filtered them out or it

Re: The Dreaded 'canberra-gtk-module' !

2016-06-23 Thread Michael Milliman
On 06/23/2016 03:02 PM, Alan McConnell wrote: My mutt will no longer put my text/html mail up on my iceweasel. The error message is: Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" The difficulty seemed to occur after I had done some alterations to my system, trying to get my

Re: Help -- Can't logon at GUI session (ctl-alt-F7)

2016-03-08 Thread Michael Milliman
On 03/08/2016 08:13 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: I fill in user-id and password, click "Sign In" and the screen goes blank, flashes a few times, then comes right back to the sign in screen. Trying to log on with root does the same thing, even though I am supposed to be able to do it. I can

Re: Help -- Can't logon at GUI session (ctl-alt-F7)

2016-03-08 Thread Michael Milliman
On 03/08/2016 08:50 PM, Charlie Kravetz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 20:13:46 -0600 Dennis Wicks wrote: I fill in user-id and password, click "Sign In" and the screen goes blank, flashes a few times, then comes right back to the

Re: computer cann't shut down

2016-03-19 Thread Michael Milliman
On 03/19/2016 09:40 PM, lina wrote: shutdown -h now doesn't work. it still reboot. This sounds like an issue with the hardware or BIOS not with the Debian OS, or with the Desktop environment. Though I have not had this problem, I have had several others related to

Re: Sudo

2016-03-20 Thread Michael Milliman
On 03/20/2016 03:26 AM, Adam Wilson wrote: On Sat, 19 Mar 2016 19:30:57 + Joe wrote: On Sat, 19 Mar 2016 19:57:56 +0100 Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Sat, 2016-03-19 at 18:38 +, Joe wrote: I've never seen sudo installed by default in any Debian, and

Re: computer cann't shut down

2016-03-20 Thread Michael Milliman
On 03/20/2016 03:40 AM, Adam Wilson wrote: On Sun, 20 Mar 2016 05:28:55 +0100 Jerome BENOIT <sphericaltrian...@rezozer.net> wrote: Hello Forum: On 20/03/16 04:42, Michael Milliman wrote: On 03/19/2016 09:40 PM, lina wrote: shutdown -h now doesn't work. it still reboot. This

Re: Sudo

2016-03-21 Thread Michael Milliman
-less:-) Wolf Halton Atlanta Cloud Technology Cybersecurity & Disaster Recovery Solutions Mobile/Text 678-687-6104 -- Sent from my iPhone. Creative word completion courtesy of Apple, Inc. On Mar 21, 2016, at 00:30, Michael Milliman <michael.e.milli...@gmail.com <mailto:michael.e.milli...

Re: Sudo

2016-04-04 Thread Michael Milliman
On 04/03/2016 01:33 PM, Adam Wilson wrote: On Sun, 20 Mar 2016 23:30:03 -0500 Michael Milliman <michael.e.milli...@gmail.com> wrote: On 03/20/2016 03:26 AM, Adam Wilson wrote: On Sat, 19 Mar 2016 19:30:57 + Joe <j...@jretrading.com> wrote: On Sat, 19 Mar 2016 19:57:5

Re: Posts don't show on list

2016-04-21 Thread Michael Milliman
On 04/21/2016 09:18 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Actually this time it worked for the first time in a month. Hopefully the problem has been corrected. Thanks for your reply. Normally we do get a return copy of our posts I have participated in several threads on this list and have asked a few

Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from if useing dash.

2016-04-21 Thread Michael Milliman
On 04/21/2016 11:19 PM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: On 17/04/2016 3:11 AM, Aero Maxx wrote: bin/mailwatcher > /dev/null 2>&1 & Perhaps better still... bin/mailwatcher >& /dev/null & I hadn't thought about that particular incantation. It is one of the strengths of bash (and some other

Re: Firewall - basic config?

2016-04-25 Thread Michael Milliman
On 04/24/2016 03:56 AM, Reco wrote: On Sun, 24 Apr 2016 00:17:51 -0500 Michael Milliman <michael.e.milli...@gmail.com> wrote: Any suggestions/comments would be much appreciated. Thanks very much. Assuming you'd want to keep ufw, you'd need to worry about: Chain ufw-after-in

Re: Firewall - basic config?

2016-04-23 Thread Michael Milliman
On 04/23/2016 01:01 PM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 13:04:36 -0400 Harris Paltrowitz wrote: Hi List, I have a question regarding how I've configured my iptables to act as a very basic "firewall", i.e., one that simply prevents any and all incoming

Re: Jessie Performance under GNOME

2016-05-16 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/16/2016 09:12 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: "Jessie" is not generally very responsive compared to "Wheezy", display update and mouse tracking is very very slow. Could it be that your wheezy install did not use Gnome-3 and that you're now using the standard Gnome-3 desktop (which presumes

Re: Repository Problem

2016-04-15 Thread Michael Milliman
On 04/15/2016 12:06 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I just had a catastrophic crash which necessitated reinstalling Debian. I had been running v-7.2,but decided to upgrade to v-7.10 with a complete install. Now when I update the repositories, regardless of the tool, Synaptic or Aptitude, I

Re: Repository Problem

2016-04-15 Thread Michael Milliman
On 04/15/2016 03:18 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: Dan Ritter wrote: On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 01:06:18PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I just had a catastrophic crash which necessitated reinstalling Debian. I had been running v-7.2,but decided to upgrade to v-7.10 with a

Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from if useing dash.

2016-04-17 Thread Michael Milliman
On 04/16/2016 12:11 PM, Aero Maxx wrote: On 16/04/2016 17:45, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 16 April 2016 12:01:28 Aero Maxx wrote: On 16/04/2016 16:23, Gene Heskett wrote: But when I run it with dash, it doesn't seem to work right, and spams the terminal with its error messages. One

Re: Beginning of the End for Wheezy [sigh!]

2016-04-17 Thread Michael Milliman
On 04/16/2016 07:52 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >choice of inits as a standard option during installs on future > >releases, but I very much doubt it. > > > >B > > > I use Linux Mint on one of my machines. It is init based, not systemd, and has Debian and Ubuntu as it's underpinnings. All

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

2016-04-17 Thread Michael Milliman
On 04/17/2016 07:00 AM, Eike Lantzsch wrote: On Sunday 17 April 2016 11:48:16 Mark Fletcher wrote: On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 3:19 PM Michael Milliman < michael.e.milli...@gmail.com> wrote: I've never really liked systemd, though I must admit it does work and do the job -- I jus

Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from if useing dash.

2016-04-17 Thread Michael Milliman
On 04/17/2016 08:28 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: would anyone ever code: bin/mailwatcher 2>&1 >/dev/null when surely all they need is bin/mailwatcher >/dev/null Interesting question. (Like what is the use case of cat(1) ?) Surely this is one of the less useful

Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from if useing dash.

2016-04-17 Thread Michael Milliman
On 04/17/2016 03:21 AM, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: On Sun, 17 Apr 2016, at 07:25, Michael Milliman wrote: Yes, this is the correct incantation. The difference is very subtle. With ... 2>&1 >/dev/null, the error output is redirected to be the same as the standard output, and then th

Re: Beginning of the End for Wheezy [sigh!]

2016-04-17 Thread Michael Milliman
On 04/17/2016 06:59 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Sun, 17 Apr 2016, Michael Milliman wrote: On 04/16/2016 07:52 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: choice of inits as a standard option during installs on future releases, but I very much doubt it. B I use Linux Mint on one of my machines

Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

2016-07-07 Thread Michael Milliman
On 07/07/2016 01:55 PM, David Wright wrote: On Thu 07 Jul 2016 at 14:39:51 (-0400), Gary Dale wrote: The big selling feature of Grub over Lilo was that it didn't need to updated each time you changed something. That fell by the wayside with Grub 2. Now the big selling feature is that it works

Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

2016-07-07 Thread Michael Milliman
of how/where a usb device is enumerated. On Thursday, July 07, 2016 03:37:12 PM Michael Milliman wrote: On 07/07/2016 01:55 PM, David Wright wrote: On Thu 07 Jul 2016 at 14:39:51 (-0400), Gary Dale wrote: -- 73's Mike, WB5VQX

Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

2016-07-07 Thread Michael Milliman
of how/where a usb device is enumerated. On Thursday, July 07, 2016 03:37:12 PM Michael Milliman wrote: On 07/07/2016 01:55 PM, David Wright wrote: On Thu 07 Jul 2016 at 14:39:51 (-0400), Gary Dale wrote: -- 73's Mike, WB5VQX

Synaptic broke

2017-01-30 Thread Michael Milliman
I just ran across a problem with synaptic. When I start this program, I get a dialog box saying: The value 'jessie-backports' is invalid for APT::Default-Release as such a release is not available in the sources Synaptic then exits with no opportunity to make any changes. I have tried

[Solved??] Re: Synaptic broke

2017-01-30 Thread Michael Milliman
On 01/30/2017 08:32 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: I just ran across a problem with synaptic. When I start this program, I get a dialog box saying: The value 'jessie-backports' is invalid for APT::Default-Release as such a release is not available in the sources Synaptic then exits

Re: User Can Not Log In

2017-02-23 Thread Michael Milliman
On 02/23/2017 04:16 PM, GiaThnYgeia wrote: Michael Milliman: On 02/23/2017 10:47 AM, Dan Norton wrote: While playing around with Xfce, startx, and fvwm I've managed to clobber something such that the user can't log in. All attempts result in a fresh login box with my inputs removed. However

Re: User Can Not Log In

2017-02-24 Thread Michael Milliman
Forwarded Message Subject:Re: User Can Not Log In Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 17:42:30 -0600 From: Michael Milliman <michael.e.milli...@gmail.com> To: Dan Norton <dnor...@mindspring.com> On 02/24/2017 02:12 PM, Dan Norton wrote: -Orig

Re: User Can Not Log In

2017-02-24 Thread Michael Milliman
On 02/24/2017 07:29 PM, Dan Norton wrote: On 02/23/2017 08:40 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: On 02/23/2017 04:16 PM, GiaThnYgeia wrote: Michael Milliman: On 02/23/2017 10:47 AM, Dan Norton wrote: While playing around with Xfce, startx, and fvwm I've managed to clobber something

Re: User Can Not Log In

2017-02-23 Thread Michael Milliman
On 02/23/2017 10:47 AM, Dan Norton wrote: While playing around with Xfce, startx, and fvwm I've managed to clobber something such that the user can't log in. All attempts result in a fresh login box with my inputs removed. However, it is still possible to log in as root. I've tried passwd

Re: networking

2016-08-27 Thread Michael Milliman
On 08/26/2016 06:19 AM, Nicolas George wrote: Le decadi 10 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Pol Hallen a écrit : I suggests him to separate each networks: floor1 - 192.168.1.0/24 floor2 - 192.168.2.0/24 floor3 - 192.168.3.0/24 floor4 - 192.168.4.0/24 Why? You give way too few information about the

SOLVED: Re: Bluetooth problem

2016-08-29 Thread Michael Milliman
(probably against the gdm3 package) in order to have the client.conf file added to the package as a default? On 08/29/2016 09:08 AM, Michael Milliman wrote: Additional information, I grep'ed the device address in all log files and got the following for one instance of a connection attempt

Bluetooth problem

2016-08-29 Thread Michael Milliman
I am running Debian 8.5 on a Toshiba Satellite L755D-S5106 laptop and having the following problem: When trying to connect my bluetooth speakers to the machine, I get all indications that the device is paired and connected. The speaker gives its indication that it is paired and connected as

Re: Bluetooth problem

2016-08-29 Thread Michael Milliman
input device "30:21:48:DD:53:44" (type: KEYBOARD, id 13) Clearly, the majority of this is redundant, but I included it for the sake of completeness. On 08/29/2016 08:48 AM, Michael Milliman wrote: I am running Debian 8.5 on a Toshiba Satellite L755D-S5106 laptop and having the

Stretch Installation

2016-10-03 Thread Michael Milliman
Hey, guys and gals. I have been a Debian user since about 7.6 or so, and currently am running jessie (8.6), and am satisfied with Debian and the Debian philosophy. The only quibble I have had is with the slow schedule for getting newly updated/released software into the distribution. I

Re: new pc and swap

2016-10-30 Thread Michael Milliman
On 10/30/2016 06:56 AM, Pol Hallen wrote: Good sunday to all :-) I bought a new notebook: i7 2.2Ghz, 8Gb ram and ssd 256Gb. Consider that small disk, can I install debian without swap? Does swap still useful? Yes, debian can be installed without swap. Whether swap is useful depends on the

Re: Strange Problem with 'alias'

2016-11-08 Thread Michael Milliman
On Tue, 2016-11-08 at 15:04 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 02:37:34PM -0500, Henning wrote: > > Put your aliases into .bash_ptofile > > No, don't do that. Make your login shell profile source or dot in > ~/.bashrc instead. > Ok, now I have to ask the queston, maybe a

Re: Error Manual del Administrador de Debian

2016-11-10 Thread Michael Milliman
On 11/10/2016 10:00 AM, Marcos Aviles Luque wrote: Muy buenas soy Marcos Avilés, he detectado un error o una errata en el ebook (Manual del Administrador de Debian), en el capítulo: 6.2.4. Opciones de configuración cuando tratamos de configuar el proxy para APT, y modificamos o

Re: reportbug and GMail SMTP servers

2016-11-05 Thread Michael Milliman
On Sat, 2016-11-05 at 09:30 -0700, emetib wrote: > On Saturday, November 5, 2016 at 9:50:04 AM UTC-5, Sophoklis Goumas wrote: > > Hello. > > > > Anybody else having troubles when using GMails' SMTP servers? > > > no It would help to know exactly what the problem is that you are having. What email

Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition

2016-11-11 Thread Michael Milliman
On 11/11/2016 09:47 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: Several years ago I purchased an external 1 TB USB connected drive for backups. The base of the enclosure says it is a Seagate drive. Partitions: #1 is ntfs 293 GiB [146 GiB used] labeled "FreeAgent GoFlex Drive" #2 is extended partition for

Re: Desktop notifications?

2016-11-17 Thread Michael Milliman
On 11/17/2016 10:09 AM, Teemu Likonen wrote: I have a backup script that runs once a day with root privileges. It's handled by systemd timer and service units. I would like to have a desktop notification text when the backup is ready. What I have tried so far: I don't use normal desktop, only

Re: iptables question

2016-11-13 Thread Michael Milliman
On 11/12/2016 06:19 PM, deloptes wrote: Joe wrote: On Sat, 12 Nov 2016 22:15:45 +0100 deloptes wrote: Hi, I need some help and I'll appreciate it. I have a firewall with iptables behind the modem. on this firewall I have eth0 with ip 10..1 to the modem ip:

Python Alternatives?

2016-12-13 Thread Michael Milliman
I currently have both Python 2.7 and Python 3.4 installed on my debain 8.5 (jessie) system. The default Python interpreter on the system is Python 2.7 (as linked by /usr/bin/python). I would prefer this default to be Python 3.4. I can, of course manually change the link in /usr/bin to point

Re: Python Alternatives?

2016-12-15 Thread Michael Milliman
It sounds like the status of the /usr/bin/python link is really a mess with some people/distros doing one thing and others doing something else. I imagine it will settle down eventually to a commonly accepted standard. For now, though, it looks like using either a python2 or python3 shebang,

Re: Cannot autostart apps after boot

2017-01-13 Thread Michael Milliman
It would help quite a bit if you would let us know which version of debian you are using (i.e. wheezy, jessie, stretch, etc.). Personally, I have not had this problem at all running jessie. Also, check your log files to see if there is anything in them that might explain the problem. On

Re: Which driver for RealTek RTL8168 ethernet interface card?

2017-01-14 Thread Michael Milliman
On 01/14/2017 04:13 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 14/01/2017 à 10:18, M.A. Perry a écrit : On boot-up, the monitor briefly shows a message to the effect "... failed to load rtl_nic/rtl8168g-2.fw firmware". Running "dmesg | tail" shows much the same in more detail. Nevertheless, the

Re: Which driver for RealTek RTL8168 ethernet interface card?

2017-01-14 Thread Michael Milliman
On 01/14/2017 04:43 AM, Michael Milliman wrote: On 01/14/2017 04:13 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 14/01/2017 à 10:18, M.A. Perry a écrit : On boot-up, the monitor briefly shows a message to the effect "... failed to load rtl_nic/rtl8168g-2.fw firmware". Running "dmes

Re: problems after installing Debian

2017-03-19 Thread Michael Milliman
On 03/19/2017 07:18 PM, Harry wrote: > Hi, > I have installed Debian 8.5.0 cinnamon i386 .I like the program > after having a lot of crashes with linux mint ! > My problem now is i can't get anything to play a video disc , Totem > does'nt work , video player gives the message could not

Re: problems after installing Debian

2017-03-19 Thread Michael Milliman
On 03/19/2017 07:18 PM, Harry wrote: > Hi, > I have installed Debian 8.5.0 cinnamon i386 .I like the program > after having a lot of crashes with linux mint ! > My problem now is i can't get anything to play a video disc , Totem > does'nt work , video player gives the message could not

Re: 回复: Coorperation

2017-03-16 Thread Michael Milliman
On 03/16/2017 09:21 PM, 李松林 wrote: > Hello, Manager, > > I am a sales from Archermind Technology , we work together with > Mstar , and we want to debug Debian os , > This is a good place to start. Tell us what the problem(s) is/are and there are many people here who may be

Bluetooth Connection Issue

2017-04-04 Thread Michael Milliman
I am running a Toshiba Satellite L755D laptop, debian testing (recently upgraded from jessie), MATE desktop with Blueman bluetooth manager. I was trying to pair a new tablet (running Android 6.0) to my laptop using the Blueman graphical manager. Unfortunately, regardless as to whether the

Re: Missing HDMI display

2017-08-01 Thread Michael Milliman
On Mon, 2017-07-31 at 18:20 -0500, Michael Milliman wrote: > On Sun, 2017-07-30 at 19:23 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Thanks, Felix... > > Michael Milliman composed on 2017-07-30 15:32 (UTC-0500): > > > > > Ok, guys.  I'm working on getting Debian 9.1 with Gnome DEfully

Re: Missing HDMI display

2017-08-02 Thread Michael Milliman
On Wed, 2017-08-02 at 01:48 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Michael Milliman composed on 2017-08-01 21:22 (UTC-0500): > > > With a little more research, I have found that the HDMI interface > > is > > detected and shows up on the xrandr output.  However, it shows up >

Missing HDMI display

2017-07-30 Thread Michael Milliman
Ok, guys. I'm working on getting Debian 9.1 with Gnome DEfully functional with a new laptop. A couple of the issues have been addressed already, and fixed. The next issue is a missing HDMI output. I'm running a very new HP Pavilion Power laptop (model number 15- cb045wm with core i7-7700 CPU,

Re: Missing HDMI display

2017-07-31 Thread Michael Milliman
On Sun, 2017-07-30 at 19:23 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: Thanks, Felix... > Michael Milliman composed on 2017-07-30 15:32 (UTC-0500): > > > Ok, guys.  I'm working on getting Debian 9.1 with Gnome DEfully > > functional with a new laptop.  A couple of the issues have been >

[Solved] Re: More Pulseaudio Issues

2017-07-25 Thread Michael Milliman
On Sat, 2017-07-22 at 11:01 +, Curt wrote: > On 2017-07-22, michael.e.milli...@gmail.com .com> wrote: > > This is a revisit of previous threads dealing with pulseaudio and > > bluetooth devices.  This problem is that there are two instances of > > the > >  

Re: How stable is the frozen stretch?

2017-05-10 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/10/2017 06:57 AM, songbird wrote: [...] > if you wanted to you could have one partition for > booting the stable distribution and only update that > when you have a good time for that. > > the thing with these setups is that in Debian you > don't have to get automatic updates if you

RE: Debian 9 - Stretch has been released!

2017-06-21 Thread Michael Milliman
-Original Message- From: Dalios [mailto:dal...@eumx.net] Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2017 2:24 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian 9 - Stretch has been released! On 06/18/2017 06:42 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: >

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-22 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/22/2017 12:28 PM, Anil Duggirala wrote: > thanks a lot Fungi, > I want to reinstall the whole system, so I will download Strech RC 3 > from here https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ > and then after finishing installation will change 'testing' for > 'jessie', can I do that? >

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

2017-05-22 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/22/2017 02:55 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 02:40:47PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > > [...] > >> As I understand it: > >> * 'apt-get upgrade' is for rolling forward to a new minor revision >> -- e.g. Debian 8.7 to Debian 8.8 -- and/or new packages -- e.g.

Re: Is this sources.list correct?

2017-05-22 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/22/2017 06:21 AM, Fungi4All wrote: > >> Original Message >> Subject: Re: Is this sources.list correct? >> UTC Time: May 22, 2017 6:09 AM >> From: compro...@list.comprofix.com >> fjfj...@protonmail.com >> >> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 12:45:05AM -0400, Fjfj109 wrote: >> > On

Apt Question

2017-05-22 Thread Michael Milliman
I have, for various reasons, the repositories from stable (Jessie), stretch, and sid in my sources.list file. I have Stretch installed and have it running for some time. On occasion, there is a bug in Stretch and I revert to the stable version of the package until the bug gets worked out. I

Re: Apt Question

2017-05-23 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/23/2017 03:57 AM, Fungi4All wrote: > >> Original Message >> Subject: Re: Apt Question >> UTC Time: May 22, 2017 11:02 PM >> From: songb...@anthive.com >> >> Michael Milliman wrote: >> > I have, for various reasons, the

Re: Apt Question

2017-05-23 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/23/2017 08:47 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 09:23:46AM -0400, Fungi4All wrote: >> Original Message >> Subject: Re: Apt Question >> UTC Time: May 23, 2017 11:54 AM >> From: wool...@eeg.ccf.org > >>> If he >>> is already running a sid linux kernel

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

2017-05-24 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/24/2017 06:57 PM, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 24 May 2017 at 17:28:52 (-0500), Michael Milliman wrote: > >> I installed and have been using feh as a stop-gap until the Debian >> repositories catch up to upstream and/or fix the problem in Stretch. >> Been wor

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

2017-05-26 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/26/2017 09:48 AM, Ric Moore wrote: > On 05/25/2017 06:56 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: >> On 05/24/2017 12:26 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > >>> The man page >>> _mentions_ setting wallpaper in passing my noting "Use --no-xinerama to >>>

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

2017-05-26 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/25/2017 05:56 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/24/2017 12:26 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: >> On 05/20/2017 09:31 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: >>> [snip] >>>>> The bug report also lists a workaround (which I haven't tried). >>>>> >>>

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-26 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/26/2017 06:40 PM, Anil Duggirala wrote: > On Fri, May 26, 2017, at 06:18 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: > >> Now means that 4.9+79 is what is now installed on your system. 4.9+80 >> is available from the testing distribution, so that would mean that you >> have

Re: Poor X performance with Intel 8086:22b1 (Braswell)

2017-05-26 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/26/2017 07:35 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > Michael Milliman composed on 2017-05-26 19:06 (UTC-0500): > >> I hadn't checked the posts in the pastebin. As I >> stated, the problem is a little over my head at this point, so I'm not >> sure what the modeset(0) driver bei

Re: Seeing this, is it something I have done or?

2017-05-26 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/26/2017 08:00 PM, Charlie S wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > All recent emails from Debian-user lists have come with quoted text like > this: > > e.g. > > [quote] > > On 05/26/2017 06:59 PM, Somebody wrote: > [...] > [...] > [...] > Thanks, Somebody. I hadn't checked the posts

Re: Poor X performance with Intel 8086:22b1 (Braswell)

2017-05-26 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/26/2017 08:03 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > Michael Milliman composed on 2017-05-26 19:40 (UTC-0500): > >> OK, so the question is, since he is using the default modeset(0) driver, >> what can he do,if anything, to install and try the Intel driver instead >> an

Re: Seeing this, is it something I have done or?

2017-05-26 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/26/2017 08:22 PM, Charlie S wrote: > On Fri, 26 May 2017 20:09:41 -0500 Michael Milliman sent: > >> On 05/26/2017 08:00 PM, Charlie S wrote: >> [...] >> This is interesting. The post that you are quoting is one of mine. >> On my system, the [...]

Re: Poor X performance with Intel 8086:22b1 (Braswell)

2017-05-26 Thread Michael Milliman
this was not originally my thread. Hopefully, the OP has learned some as well. 73's, de WB5VQX -- The Very Quick X-ray On May 26, 2017 21:48, "Felix Miata" <mrma...@earthlink.net> wrote: Michael Milliman composed on 2017-05-26 20:23 (UTC-0500): > ...Does this cp command overwrite an existin

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

2017-05-26 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/25/2017 06:08 AM, Dejan Jocic wrote: > On 25-05-17, Richard Owlett wrote: >> On 05/24/2017 12:26 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> On 05/20/2017 09:31 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: >>>> [snip] >>>>>> The bug report also lists a workaround (wh

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

2017-05-26 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/25/2017 06:27 AM, RavenLX wrote: > On 05/21/2017 05:40 PM, David Christensen wrote: >> As I understand it: >> >> * 'apt-get upgrade' is for rolling forward to a new minor revision >> -- e.g. Debian 8.7 to Debian 8.8 -- and/or new packages -- e.g. >> icedove 1:45.6.0-1~deb8u1 to

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-26 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/26/2017 09:38 AM, Anil Duggirala wrote: > > On Wed, May 24, 2017, at 11:11 PM, Ric Moore wrote: >> Please don't top post. You don't see anyone else doing that do you?? >> Take a clue. Ric > > Sorry for top-posting, I have taken a clue now. > I deactivated Animations in Gnome (Tweak Tool

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-26 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/26/2017 06:40 PM, Anil Duggirala wrote: > On Fri, May 26, 2017, at 06:18 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: > >> Now means that 4.9+79 is what is now installed on your system. 4.9+80 >> is available from the testing distribution, so that would mean that you >> have

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-26 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/26/2017 06:53 PM, Anil Duggirala wrote: > As more examples of the symptoms, in Firefox, scrolling through my > email's Inbox list, is a little sluggish, however, scrolling through a > site that has images and other things (rt.com), I can scroll up and down > more smoothly. > In the

Re: Poor X performance with Intel 8086:22b1 (Braswell)

2017-05-26 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/26/2017 06:59 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > Michael Milliman composed on 2017-05-26 18:18 (UTC-0500): > >> ...someone mentioned checking if the package >> xserver-xorg-video-intel was installed on your system. This package >> should be installed if it is not.

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

2017-05-20 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/20/2017 01:26 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote: > Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > >> If I try to change my images via either "Settings > Desktop" or right >> click on the desktop, that directory and many others are now faded >> out/washed out/blanked out in that way our systems do so that >> something is

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

2017-05-20 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/20/2017 01:56 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote: > Michael Milliman wrote: > >> I have no clue what happened, but the desktop background picture has >> ceased to be displayed. > [...] >> I have attempted to re-set the desktop >> background via both system settings

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

2017-05-20 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/20/2017 06:33 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: > > > On 05/20/2017 01:56 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote: >> Michael Milliman wrote: >> >>> I have no clue what happened, but the desktop background picture has >>> ceased to be displayed. >> [...] >>>

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

2017-05-20 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/19/2017 09:19 PM, David Christensen wrote: > On 05/18/2017 09:52 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: >> I have no clue what happened, but the desktop background picture has >> ceased to be displayed. I'm not even sure where to look to troubleshoot >> the problem. The salie

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-21 Thread Michael Milliman
eady worked out of it. You should be able to run Stretch without problems. I concur with Felix, install Stretch and enjoy :) > > On Sun, May 21, 2017, at 03:57 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: >> On 05/21/2017 12:52 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 05/21/2017 12:2

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-21 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/21/2017 05:09 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > On 05/21/2017 12:57 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> Le 21/05/2017 à 09:55, Jimmy Johnson a écrit : > >>> No, you should NOT have deleted the partition, now your partition table >>> is messed up. >> >> Bullshit. This is just a Gnome error. > > Unless

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-21 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/21/2017 05:48 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > On 05/21/2017 03:25 AM, Michael Milliman wrote: >> >> >> On 05/21/2017 05:09 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: >>> On 05/21/2017 12:57 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >>>> Le 21/05/2017 à 09:55, Jimmy Johnson a écrit :

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

2017-05-21 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/20/2017 09:31 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: > > > On 05/20/2017 06:33 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: >> >> >> On 05/20/2017 01:56 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote: >>> Michael Milliman wrote: >>> >>>> I have no clue what happened, but the d

Re: Debian LiveCDs are missing UFW!

2017-05-27 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/27/2017 06:43 PM, Nomen Nescio wrote: > It's quite pathetic to discover the recent Debian > LiveCDs are missing UFW! > Perhaps an oversight, perhaps not. But, postings of this nature are unlikely to result in anything constructive happening. -- 73's, WB5VQX -- The Very Quick X-ray

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

2017-05-24 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/24/2017 12:26 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/20/2017 09:31 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: >> [snip] >>>> The bug report also lists a workaround (which I haven't tried). >>>> >> The workaround is using the feh package to manually set the background >

Desktop Background Bites the Dust

2017-05-18 Thread Michael Milliman
I have no clue what happened, but the desktop background picture has ceased to be displayed. I'm not even sure where to look to troubleshoot the problem. The salient information is: OS is fully updated Testing, MATE desktop environment. I have attempted to re-set the desktop background via both

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