Re: java enable in Iceweasel (Sid)? -SOLVED

2012-07-17 Thread Weaver
called out to 'fix' peoples new audio amplifiers and the plug was just switched off at the wall because somebody had used a vacuum cleaner. After that, I could fix most 'defective' amplifiers over the phone. Regards, Weaver. -- Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false

Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-14 Thread Weaver
of being ripped off and having my intelligence insulted by entities that haven't out-grown their acne, that know no more of the situation than quoting their prepared lines from help-desk school at me. Thanks for any time and trouble you may care to take. Regards, Weaver. -- I invite you to name

Calligra

2012-08-15 Thread Weaver
Hello, I just installed KDE's new flag-ship suite, 'Calligra', for five minutes. Kind regards, Weaver -- I invite you to name a society that created a secret prison system, outside the rule of law, where torture takes place, that sooner or later didn't turn the abuse against it's own

Re: Calligra

2012-08-15 Thread Weaver
On Wednesday 15 August 2012 15:50:34 Weaver wrote: Hello, I just installed KDE's new flag-ship suite, 'Calligra', for five minutes. Kind regards, Weaver Did you purged it after 5 minutes? Hello Thierry, No, I just removed it, but probably I should. My eyes hurt. This has been going

Re: Calligra

2012-08-16 Thread Weaver
On Mi, 15 aug 12, 13:41:35, Weaver wrote: No, I just removed it, but probably I should. My eyes hurt. This has been going on for years! KDE have some excellent packages: K3B, Okular, Amarok, etc., but they need to wake up in regard to their office suite. They need to stick

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-16 Thread Weaver
Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:52:59 -0700, Weaver wrote: What's the best programme to employ with regard to logging traffic speed from my ISP? Well, there are online tests that you can run to measure your (up/down) link speed: http://www.speedtest.net/ http://www.ookla.com

libqt4 Broken

2012-08-20 Thread Weaver
: root@Telaman:/home/weaver# aptitude update Hit http://ftp.au.debian.org unstable InRelease Hit http://ftp.au.debian.org unstable/main i386 Packages/DiffIndex Get: 1 http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid InRelease [32.3 kB] Hit http://ftp.au.debian.org unstable/non-free i386 Packages/DiffIndex Hit

Re: libqt4 Broken

2012-08-20 Thread Weaver
On 2012-08-20 16:24 +0200, Weaver wrote: There seems to be issues with libqt4 in the latest update in unstable, on i386. I don't think so, it upgraded fine here. Unpacking replacement libqtgui4:i386 ... dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: fork failed: Cannot allocate memory

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-20 Thread Weaver
On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:52:59 -0700, Weaver wrote: What's the best programme to employ with regard to logging traffic speed from my ISP? Well, there are online tests that you can run to measure your (up/down) link speed: http://www.speedtest.net/ http://www.ookla.com/demo-custom.php I

New Mainboard.

2012-08-21 Thread Weaver
boards, but very open to suggestions. What recommendations and what's the latest on this UEFI rubbish? Grateful for any pointers. Regards, Weaver. -- I invite you to name a society that created a secret prison system, outside the rule of law, where torture takes place, that sooner or later didn't

Re: libqt4 Broken

2012-08-21 Thread Weaver
On 2012-08-20 21:43 +0200, Weaver wrote: On 2012-08-20 16:24 +0200, Weaver wrote: There seems to be issues with libqt4 in the latest update in unstable, on i386. I don't think so, it upgraded fine here. Unpacking replacement libqtgui4:i386 ... dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting

Re: [OT] Re: New Mainboard.

2012-08-21 Thread Weaver
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 04:56:58 -0700, Weaver wrote: I have decided on buying one of these: http://shop.amd.com/us/All/Detail/Processor/HDZ555WFGMBOX?SearchFacets=category%3AProcessor and, as I am going to put it into one of these: http://www.mittoni.com.au/lian-li-black-pca04-mini-tower

Re: [OT] Re: New Mainboard.

2012-08-21 Thread Weaver
recall reading on the subject. Regards, Weaver. -- I invite you to name a society that created a secret prison system, outside the rule of law, where torture takes place, that sooner or later didn't turn the abuse against it's own citizens. -- Naomi Wolf - October 11, 2007 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: New Mainboard.

2012-08-21 Thread Weaver
From: Weaver wea...@riseup.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 4:56 AM Subject: New Mainboard. Greetings all. I have decided on buying one of these: http://shop.amd.com/us/All/Detail/Processor/HDZ555WFGMBOX?SearchFacets

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-22 Thread Weaver
On Aug 21, 2012, at 6:53 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:37:43 -0700, Weaver wrote: I regularly log 40-47Kb/s on updates.. Cheers, And so do we all... The problem here is not the network bandwidth, it's that some parts of the update process have to download a lot of small

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-22 Thread Weaver
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 04:39:46 -0700, Weaver wrote: On Aug 21, 2012, at 6:53 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:37:43 -0700, Weaver wrote: I regularly log 40-47Kb/s on updates.. Cheers, And so do we all... Rick, careful when quoting... Yes, I understand this, Rick, but even

Re: [OT] Re: New Mainboard.

2012-08-22 Thread Weaver
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:55:01 -0700, Weaver wrote: On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 04:56:58 -0700, Weaver wrote: (...) I need recommendations on Micro-ATX boards that will work in with that context. (...) I'd look for either MSI or Gigabyte boards as both brands do high quality products. And I

Re: New Mainboard.

2012-08-22 Thread Weaver
- Original Message - From: Weaver wea...@riseup.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 4:08 PM Subject: Re: New Mainboard. Whether IDE or SATA, you'll get at least two.  I myself prefer

Re: [OT] Re: New Mainboard.

2012-08-23 Thread Weaver
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 4:25 AM, Weaver wea...@riseup.net wrote: This last I have been trying to do, but the large manufacturers seem to be somewhat shy about listing what BIOS is available on each board these days. Once I have short listed the boards I am interested in and are available

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-23 Thread Weaver
On Mi, 22 aug 12, 13:29:52, Weaver wrote: Ping: 69 ms Download: 27.71 Mb/s Upload: 2.28 Mb/s Ok, still far away from the advertised 100 Mb/s, but not that bad. Did you do the test with the recommended server or did you try also other ones? I tried two and the cross-comparison was fairly

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-23 Thread Weaver
Am Mittwoch, 22. August 2012 schrieb Weaver: On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 04:39:46 -0700, Weaver wrote: On Aug 21, 2012, at 6:53 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:37:43 -0700, Weaver wrote: I regularly log 40-47Kb/s on updates.. Cheers, And so do we all... Rick, careful when

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-24 Thread Weaver
On Fri, August 24, 2012 7:47 am, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:29:52 -0700, Weaver wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 04:39:46 -0700, Weaver wrote: On Aug 21, 2012, at 6:53 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) Can you please provide the results of this speed test? http://www.speedtest.net/ I

Re: Advice about removing cruft?

2012-09-03 Thread Weaver
, Weaver. -- The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the 'devil' only in order to drive the TV

Installation

2012-09-07 Thread Weaver
into Lunux was learning what cfdisc was all about and what it was for. Get rid of the hurdles and you facilitate access. With access comes acceptance. ~ Regards, Weaver -- The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed

Re: new installation preserving /home partition

2012-09-07 Thread Weaver
number of occasions. Regards, Weaver -- The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the 'devil' only

Re: new installation preserving /home partition

2012-09-08 Thread Weaver
On Sat, September 8, 2012 1:51 am, lee wrote: Weaver wea...@riseup.net writes: On Fri, September 7, 2012 5:33 pm, Mauricio Calvao wrote: to move on to Debian 6 (squeeze) and then possibly even to Debian sid, which I have already used for some time as the aptosid distribution. I would like

Re: Installation

2012-09-08 Thread Weaver
On Sat, September 8, 2012 8:51 am, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:37:55 -0700, Weaver wrote: I know how hard it can be to see the forest when you are too close to the trees, so I thought I would re-post something I put up in another forum where Miguel de Icaza's recent communication

Re: Installation

2012-09-08 Thread Weaver
On Sat, September 8, 2012 10:07 am, Worrier Poet wrote: On 09/08/2012 11:51 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:37:55 -0700, Weaver wrote: I know how hard it can be to see the forest when you are too close to the trees, so I thought I would re-post something I put up in another forum

Re: Installation

2012-09-08 Thread Weaver
On Sat, September 8, 2012 10:59 am, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Samstag, 8. September 2012 schrieb Camaleón: On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:37:55 -0700, Weaver wrote: I know how hard it can be to see the forest when you are too close to the trees, so I thought I would re-post something I put up

Re: new installation preserving /home partition

2012-09-08 Thread Weaver
On Sat, September 8, 2012 5:28 am, Lisi wrote: On Saturday 08 September 2012 12:05:32 Weaver wrote: That's with reinstalling with the stable disc of the time, then upgrading all the way back up to unstable. No back up. Nothing! Ouch!! You obviously enjoy playing Russian roulette! You

Re: Installation

2012-09-09 Thread Weaver
On Sat, September 8, 2012 6:33 pm, Doug wrote: On 09/08/2012 09:03 PM, Weaver wrote: On Sat, September 8, 2012 8:51 am, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:37:55 -0700, Weaver wrote: I know how hard it can be to see the forest when you are too close to the trees, so I thought I would re

Re: Installation

2012-09-09 Thread Weaver
On Sun, September 9, 2012 5:18 am, lee wrote: Weaver wea...@riseup.net writes: But we are talking about Debian. Specifically partitioning/file system decision making during install. When else would you make such a decision if not before starting the installation? You can't install software

Re: Installation

2012-09-09 Thread Weaver
On Sun, September 9, 2012 6:05 am, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Sonntag, 9. September 2012 schrieb Weaver: Nothing anywhere near as complex as an expert Debian install, which is what I prefer now. You compare an *expert* Debian install with a regular Windows install? No, I am saying

Re: Installation

2012-09-09 Thread Weaver
On Sun, September 9, 2012 6:10 am, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Sonntag, 9. September 2012 schrieb Weaver: Don't know about Debian, it's been a while since I installed that, but I have installed a few others, and in most cases the only things you have to input are your language, your

Re: Installation

2012-09-09 Thread Weaver
On Sun, September 9, 2012 7:43 am, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 08 Sep 2012 18:03:30 -0700, Weaver wrote: On Sat, September 8, 2012 8:51 am, Camaleón wrote: (...) The reason they don't is the install procedure. (...) I think it's not that easy. First, because untechie users neither have

Re: Installation

2012-09-09 Thread Weaver
On Sun, September 9, 2012 1:47 pm, Doug wrote: On 09/09/2012 03:04 AM, Weaver wrote: On Sat, September 8, 2012 6:33 pm, Doug wrote: On 09/08/2012 09:03 PM, Weaver wrote: On Sat, September 8, 2012 8:51 am, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:37:55 -0700, Weaver wrote: I know how hard

Re: Installation

2012-09-09 Thread Weaver
advancement is no more than illusion. Regards, Weaver. -- The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing

Re: Installation

2012-09-10 Thread Weaver
that is preventing uptake. Regards, Weaver. -- It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government. -- Thomas Paine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Installation

2012-09-10 Thread Weaver
On Mon, September 10, 2012 5:10 am, lee wrote: Weaver wea...@riseup.net writes: On Sun, September 9, 2012 5:18 am, lee wrote: Weaver wea...@riseup.net writes: But we are talking about Debian. Specifically partitioning/file system decision making during install. When else would you make

Re: Installation

2012-09-10 Thread Weaver
On Mon, September 10, 2012 4:33 am, lee wrote: Weaver wea...@riseup.net writes: My problem has been, for quite some number of years now, of not just considering my own requirements. I tend to think a little more (w)holistically, because if the context isn't advanced, any appearance

Re: Installation

2012-09-10 Thread Weaver
On Mon, September 10, 2012 7:06 am, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 09 Sep 2012 14:57:20 -0700, Weaver wrote: On Sun, September 9, 2012 7:43 am, Camaleón wrote: You mean you got your linux preinstalled within you computer? That would be nice but I'm afraid not the norm :-) No, I mean that I have

Re: Installation

2012-09-10 Thread Weaver
On Mon, September 10, 2012 8:19 am, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 02:23:10PM -0700, Weaver wrote: But this, again, is not what is being advocated. I see nothing wrong with a small educational process being incorporated into the install procedure. There is the installation

Re: Installation

2012-09-10 Thread Weaver
other packages that I have never used. It's ok, since this one day should enable automatically installation. Regards, Weaver -- It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government. -- Thomas Paine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD

2012-09-10 Thread Weaver
as alsactl init as root? Regards, Weaver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120910105536.GX24280@desktop -- It is the duty of the patriot to protect

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread Weaver
On Tue, September 11, 2012 4:48 am, David Cho-Lerat wrote: Le 11/09/2012 12:36, Chris Bannister a écrit : On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:01:13AM +0200, David Cho-Lerat wrote: Le 11/09/2012 04:23, Weaver a écrit : I get the point. It's just not an accurate or germaine one...because you quoted

Re: OT: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread Weaver
On Tue, September 11, 2012 12:58 am, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 19:49 -0700, Weaver wrote: MC isn't installed by default and I think it should be. I didn't know that MC comes with an editor. I'll install mc today and test it again. Yes, in the configuration settings, you can

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread Weaver
On Tue, September 11, 2012 7:36 am, lee wrote: Weaver wea...@riseup.net writes: On Mon, September 10, 2012 5:10 am, lee wrote: Weaver wea...@riseup.net writes: On Sun, September 9, 2012 5:18 am, lee wrote: Weaver wea...@riseup.net writes: But we are talking about Debian. Specifically

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread Weaver
On Tue, September 11, 2012 7:43 am, lee wrote: Weaver wea...@riseup.net writes: On Mon, September 10, 2012 8:19 am, Chris Bannister wrote: Agreed. But the person who wants to install Debian is not the average end/home user. Exactly, but that's the majority market and I don't see anything

Re: OT: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread Weaver
On Tue, September 11, 2012 10:11 am, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 11 sep 12, 05:47:46, Weaver wrote: On Tue, September 11, 2012 12:58 am, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I didn't know that MC comes with an editor. I'll install mc today and test it again. Yes, in the configuration settings, you can

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread Weaver
On Tue, September 11, 2012 1:17 pm, Lisi wrote: On Tuesday 11 September 2012 20:29:42 Weaver wrote: On Tue, September 11, 2012 7:43 am, lee wrote: Weaver wea...@riseup.net writes: On Mon, September 10, 2012 8:19 am, Chris Bannister wrote: Agreed. But the person who wants to install Debian

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread Weaver
working on this box because I'm still living in the olden days and had it configured for /dev/dvd instead of /dev/sc0. After I got everything working, of course, I discovered the appropriate documentation. Regards, Weaver -- It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government

Re: Installation

2012-09-12 Thread Weaver
On Tue, September 11, 2012 11:07 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 11 sep 12, 12:29:42, Weaver wrote: I am advocating the elimination of that lack of knowledge. You are assuming the user is interested in learning. In my experience it is rather the contrary. And I think choice is what Debian

Re: Installation

2012-09-12 Thread Weaver
On Tue, September 11, 2012 11:22 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 11 sep 12, 14:47:57, Weaver wrote: There is a stage where the installer asks for contrib and non-free apt list inclusions. Only for expert installs AFAIK. Ah yes, that's right! It would probably be best to incorporate

Re: Installation

2012-09-12 Thread Weaver
the user didn't want to handle partitioning at all configuration should be is a separate one, and I may not know as much about the subject as I think I do. I would be an advocate of at least a separate /home partition in the 'Newbie Install'. Regards, Weaver -- It is the duty of the patriot

Re: Installation

2012-09-12 Thread Weaver
On Wed, September 12, 2012 8:45 am, lee wrote: Weaver wea...@riseup.net writes: On Tue, September 11, 2012 7:43 am, lee wrote: Weaver wea...@riseup.net writes: On Mon, September 10, 2012 8:19 am, Chris Bannister wrote: Agreed. But the person who wants to install Debian is not the average

Re: Installation

2012-09-12 Thread Weaver
On Wed, September 12, 2012 8:40 am, lee wrote: Weaver wea...@riseup.net writes: I wouldn't classify partitioning as a 'tiny little detail.' It is one of the many tiny little steps the installer does. Agreed. Many of the steps in the installer are tiny, but I wouldn't classify partitioning

Re: Installation

2012-09-13 Thread Weaver
On Wed, September 12, 2012 7:57 pm, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 19:30 -0700, Weaver wrote: first I will have to find an old drive and do an install to see exactly what is needed Or you use VirtualBox to see it. No, I have to do an install for somebody anyway. Regards, Weaver

Re: Installation

2012-09-13 Thread Weaver
On Thu, September 13, 2012 12:29 am, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 12 sep 12, 17:53:41, Weaver wrote: I would be an advocate of at least a separate /home partition in the 'Newbie Install'. How big? IMVHO a separate /home partition[1] makes sense now[2] only if one can make reasonable

Re: Installation

2012-09-13 Thread Weaver
On Thu, September 13, 2012 12:36 am, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 12 sep 12, 17:12:12, Weaver wrote: On Tue, September 11, 2012 11:07 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 11 sep 12, 12:29:42, Weaver wrote: I am advocating the elimination of that lack of knowledge. You are assuming

Re: Installation

2012-09-13 Thread Weaver
On Thu, September 13, 2012 4:20 am, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 04:10 -0700, Weaver wrote: If you find, in time, that you are running out of drive space, instaal a bigger drive, install the / and swap and again, allocate the rest as /home and copy it over. How big should

Re: Installation

2012-09-13 Thread Weaver
On Thu, September 13, 2012 9:51 am, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 13 sep 12, 04:16:07, Weaver wrote: This is not about you and me, or any debian-user subscriber AFAICT. It's about the type of users that regard the computer as a tool and have no desire to learn about its workings. After

Re: Installation

2012-09-13 Thread Weaver
On Thu, September 13, 2012 9:58 am, lee wrote: Weaver wea...@riseup.net writes: snip You said you want the discussion centred around what happens when a clueless user uses the Debian installer and is presented with a question about partitioning. Now you're talking about increasing

Re: Installation

2012-09-13 Thread Weaver
On Thu, September 13, 2012 9:47 am, lee wrote: Weaver wea...@riseup.net writes: On Wed, September 12, 2012 8:40 am, lee wrote: Weaver wea...@riseup.net writes: I wouldn't classify partitioning as a 'tiny little detail.' It is one of the many tiny little steps the installer does. Agreed

Re: Installation

2012-09-13 Thread Weaver
On Thu, September 13, 2012 12:04 pm, lee wrote: Weaver wea...@riseup.net writes: On Thu, September 13, 2012 12:29 am, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 12 sep 12, 17:53:41, Weaver wrote: I would be an advocate of at least a separate /home partition in the 'Newbie Install'. How big? IMVHO

Re: Installation

2012-09-13 Thread Weaver
On Thu, September 13, 2012 5:26 pm, lee wrote: Weaver wea...@riseup.net writes: On Thu, September 13, 2012 4:20 am, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 04:10 -0700, Weaver wrote: If you find, in time, that you are running out of drive space, instaal a bigger drive, install

Re: Installation

2012-09-15 Thread Weaver
On Sat, September 15, 2012 4:51 am, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2012-09-15 at 04:36 -0700, Weaver wrote: Network is detected automagically through dhcp. Here in the German Ruhrgebiet most people I know use a router, but perhaps in other parts of the world, people use other ways to get

Re: Installation

2012-09-15 Thread Weaver
On Sat, September 15, 2012 5:33 am, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 15 sep 12, 04:36:36, Weaver wrote: Partitioning: Entire disc selected. Separate /home selected. In my opinion, the third option of separate /usr, /var, /tmp/ /home here are wasted, as anybody that is going for that sort

Re: Installation

2012-09-15 Thread Weaver
On Sat, September 15, 2012 5:37 am, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 15 sep 12, 13:51:50, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2012-09-15 at 04:36 -0700, Weaver wrote: Network is detected automagically through dhcp. Here in the German Ruhrgebiet most people I know use a router, but perhaps in other

Re: Installation

2012-09-15 Thread Weaver
On Sat, September 15, 2012 8:15 am, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 04:36:36 -0700, Weaver wrote: Greetings, Newbie Installation of Debian Squeeze 6.0.5 i386 Netinstall disc. IMO, newbies should go for CD or DVD installation disc instead. If they are going to get all their updates

Re: Installation

2012-09-15 Thread Weaver
On Sat, September 15, 2012 11:32 am, lee wrote: Weaver wea...@riseup.net writes: Hello Lee, I look forward, breath abate, to constructive criticism. Computed Partitions. / = 10 GB – Bootable ext3 – I would probably go for a little more than this, because the newbie

Re: Installation

2012-09-15 Thread Weaver
On Sat, September 15, 2012 1:52 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 15 sep 12, 13:18:38, Weaver wrote: On Sat, September 15, 2012 4:51 am, Ralf Mardorf wrote: What is a hostname ;)? I like to be able to name the host, but perhaps this should move to the experts install. Yes. If it can't

Re: Installation

2012-09-15 Thread Weaver
On Sat, September 15, 2012 2:11 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 15 sep 12, 13:35:36, Weaver wrote: Is this a guess or did you actually calculate the installed size? Neither. It's from personal experience. The other two installs are this one I'm posting on = 2778 installed packages

Re: Installation

2012-09-15 Thread Weaver
On Sat, September 15, 2012 8:52 pm, Celejar wrote: On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 14:20:16 -0700 Weaver wea...@riseup.net wrote: ... I don't worry, as I generally install, then upgrade two or three distributions to get to unstable. Why not install unstable directly? I used to, but I haven't been

Re: Installation

2012-09-16 Thread Weaver
On Sat, September 15, 2012 10:12 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 15 sep 12, 21:20:07, Weaver wrote: On Sat, September 15, 2012 8:52 pm, Celejar wrote: Why not install unstable directly? I used to, but I haven't been able to access that in the later duscs. Either that, or I have

Re: Installation

2012-09-16 Thread Weaver
On Sun, September 16, 2012 7:51 am, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 14:20:16 -0700, Weaver wrote: On Sat, September 15, 2012 8:15 am, Camaleón wrote: Newbie Installation of Debian Squeeze 6.0.5 i386 Netinstall disc. IMO, newbies should go for CD or DVD installation disc instead

Re: Installation

2012-09-17 Thread Weaver
On Mon, September 17, 2012 8:11 am, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 04:36:36AM -0700, Weaver wrote: […] Finish Partitioning and Write to Disc At the top is an annotation which says: “This is an overview of your currently configured

Re: Installation

2012-09-18 Thread Weaver
the image over a dial-up connection. It took days. Regards, Weaver -- It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government. -- Thomas Paine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Installation

2012-09-25 Thread Weaver
On Mon, September 24, 2012 10:33 pm, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 02:15:23PM -0700, Weaver wrote: On Mon, September 17, 2012 8:11 am, Chris Bannister wrote: Unless you submit it against d-i as a patch, there *is* no onward. If it gets rejected, there should

Re: Installation

2012-09-25 Thread Weaver
On Tue, September 25, 2012 6:02 am, The Wanderer wrote: On 09/25/2012 03:25 AM, Weaver wrote: On Mon, September 24, 2012 10:33 pm, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 02:15:23PM -0700, Weaver wrote: On Mon, September 17, 2012 8:11 am, Chris Bannister wrote: Patches are still

Re: Application for creating educational flash on Debian? - SOLVED

2012-05-30 Thread Weaver
for the future, not the past. Regards, Weaver. -- Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. — Lucius Annæus Seneca. Terrorism, the new religion. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Computer case

2012-06-01 Thread Weaver
PLUS 760G AM3+ 2xDDR3 Along with an AM3+, 3.6GHz CPU, which will be cheaper now AMD have put out their new line. I like small boxes as I have enough space on an old ProReliant, next door in a bigger room, if I need storage. MATX is fine. Regards, Weaver. -- Religion is regarded by the common

Re: Computer case

2012-06-01 Thread Weaver
and melting all over the place and I've built a few systems. Disassociation with connections in this orientation hasn't occurred either. I don't play 'catch' with my boxes. Hope this helps. Regards, Weaver. -- Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers

Re: xml editor ?

2012-06-03 Thread Weaver
, Weaver. -- Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. — Lucius Annæus Seneca. Terrorism, the new religion. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: xml editor ?

2012-06-03 Thread Weaver
should check out the xml-mode in emacs. If I had emacs installed...I would do...but a 100 meg installation to use XML is a bit much :) Maybe one day. Emacs is a great operating system. It just lacks a good editor. Regards, Weaver. -- Religion is regarded by the common people

Re: alsa

2012-06-06 Thread Weaver
sound like this would falter in some areas and not in others? Grateful for any assistance. Regards, Weaver. -- Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. — Lucius Annæus Seneca. Terrorism, the new religion. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-06 Thread Weaver
There has to be some monopoly abuse scenario here. How is Microsoft permitted to own the BIOS? Garbage. This is a clear cut denial of natural justice. Regards, Weaver. -- Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. — Lucius Annæus

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-06 Thread Weaver
and consternation are what Microsoft want. Don't give them that too. Just keep coding and writing documentation on a continuous 7 day/week, 24 hour/day basis. When it comes to the crunch, they can't compete with that. That's their biggest overhead. Bigger than all the others combined. Regards, Weaver

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-06 Thread Weaver
On 07. 06. 12 00:33, Weaver wrote: There are two issues only to consider here: (1) Who controls the keys and who controls them. (2) I resent any degree of control of the open source software movement being given over into the control of anybody else. Recognise

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-09 Thread Weaver
On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 06:20:12PM -0700, Weaver wrote: After all this time, he still doesn't understand that the free/open source software movement works for itself. He has a bit of an axe to grind. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists http://www.digibarn.com

Re: why ABIWORD?

2012-06-30 Thread Weaver
I use both, for different reasons and don't intermix them. For print off office literature, Abiword is great and LibreOffice has its strengths. Then again, for other things, LyX is good. All good things come in time. Regards, Weaver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: firewall

2012-07-04 Thread Weaver
are best summed up here: http://www.rfxn.com/projects/advanced-policy-firewall/ Regards, Weaver -- Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. — Lucius Annæus Seneca. Terrorism, the new religion. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: firewall

2012-07-05 Thread Weaver
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 3:38 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: *chuckle* A trillion years ago I used a firewall myself. Ports are an issue, I wasn't able to down- or upload by ftp. BUT, How many serious attacks did you notice around the last 30 days? Your aversion to

Re: Iceweasel trouble, anyone else?

2012-07-11 Thread Weaver
. Everything is fine. I've loaded the same pages, exactly and played the video on one that I couldn't access before. With those pages loaded I have loaded even more, while the video was playing with no performance drop. Some days you can't win. Regards, Weaver. -- Religion is regarded

Recommended wireless cards for laptops.

2012-11-26 Thread Weaver
the list re specific personal experience and recommendation. What's reliable and works? Thanks in advance for any time and trouble. Regards, Weaver -- It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government. -- Thomas Paine Registered Linux User: 554515 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Boot loaders for Linux that can also boot FreeBSD

2012-11-29 Thread Weaver
, including the BSDs. Regards, Weaver. -- It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government. -- Thomas Paine Registered Linux User: 554515 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: [OT?] Free Software petition on WhiteHouse.gov

2012-12-25 Thread Weaver
. The quality is known. They won't use it to fly drones with any more. Not now they are beginning to fly so many over the U.S. now, also. Their presence becomes obvious when they crash. The B.S.O.D. takes on a whole new inference. Regards, Weaver. -- It is the duty of the patriot to protect his

Re: [OT?] Free Software petition on WhiteHouse.gov

2012-12-25 Thread Weaver
That would be one of the smartest moves the nation could make -- so it'll probably never happen. Ever tried to look at your medical records -- particularly medical diagnostic images -- using free software? There's software in the repositories now, exactly for this Kind regards, Weaver Yeah

Re: [OT?] Free Software petition on WhiteHouse.gov

2012-12-25 Thread Weaver
On Tue, December 25, 2012 10:19 am, Doug wrote: On 12/25/2012 06:15 AM, Weaver wrote: On Mon, December 24, 2012 10:10 pm, Max Hyre wrote: Dear Debianists: The U.S. president's website has a petition to support the use of Free Software in schools. It might be a good idea for us

Re: Iceweasel is already running ...

2013-01-30 Thread Weaver
/firefox.bak or iceweasel or what ever it's named I get this all the time. There's a cross-reference in the code somewhere, because I find if I restart Icedove, I can then restart iceweasel without any further problem. Do you have Icedove installed? Regards, Weaver. -- It is the duty of the patriot

Re: Anybody have a chromebook? Can it run Debian?

2013-02-02 Thread Weaver
a real possibility Samsung are having serious firmware problems right now. Why not go for hardware that is specifically designed for Linux and remove any potential problems completely? https://zareason.com/shop/Laptops/ Regards, Weaver On 02/02/2013 07:48 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: I

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