Re: Deleting i386 packages

2015-09-21 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 09:18:01PM -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > For historical reasons, my x86-64 architecture computers have a large > number of i386 packages on them that I'd just as soon be rid of. is > there a good way to simply tell a package manager that I want everything > invo

Re: Coder friendly font Anonymous Pro (ttf-anonymous-pro)

2015-09-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting Joe Pfeiffer (pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu): > David Wright writes: > > > Quoting Joe Pfeiffer (pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu): > > >> Looks interesting -- I've been using Terminus for quite a while -- it's > >> another fixed-width programmer-friendly font, Comparing it with > >> Anonymous Pro, it seems

Re: Deleting i386 packages

2015-09-21 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
You should probably avoid doing so. We are using systems based on amd64 (64 bit) architecture, still there are many applications that yet depend on the i386 (32 bit) model. 64 bit processors allow 32 apps to run, which lets them function properly on modern computers too. i386 packages should not wo

Deleting i386 packages

2015-09-21 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
For historical reasons, my x86-64 architecture computers have a large number of i386 packages on them that I'd just as soon be rid of. is there a good way to simply tell a package manager that I want everything involving that architecture deleted? The best answer I've found on my own has been to

Re: Coder friendly font Anonymous Pro (ttf-anonymous-pro)

2015-09-21 Thread Nate Bargmann
Everything is a personal preference and thanks for bringing this font to my attention, Cindy. There are so many fonts available that it is time consuming to find just the right one. I've been using Consolas for a long enough time that I could tell immediately that I prefer it over the Anonymous P

Re: Boxed W8/W10 PC; must anything be done, first, to enable dual-bootable later?

2015-09-21 Thread David Christensen
On 09/19/2015 05:17 AM, Eike Lantzsch wrote: First of all I'd do a complete disk image +1 Do this before you boot Windows for the first time. with e.g. Clonezilla. Does Clonezilla have the ability to resize partitions on restore? I used Ghost 2003 on Windows machines back in the day, a

Re: Can't Log in

2015-09-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 22 September 2015 00:00:04 Facundo Aguilera wrote: > Hi! I'm having a very similar problem. I can't login after today's > upgrade. I tried from a console, but it's the same, it shows the > welcome message and then the screen is "cleared", asking for the login > name again. The is no diff

Re: Can't Log in

2015-09-21 Thread Facundo Aguilera
Hi! I'm having a very similar problem. I can't login after today's upgrade. I tried from a console, but it's the same, it shows the welcome message and then the screen is "cleared", asking for the login name again. The is no difference if I try to login with root user. I was able to login with su

Re: Coder friendly font Anonymous Pro (ttf-anonymous-pro)

2015-09-21 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
David Wright writes: > Quoting Joe Pfeiffer (pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu): >> Looks interesting -- I've been using Terminus for quite a while -- it's >> another fixed-width programmer-friendly font, Comparing it with >> Anonymous Pro, it seems a bit narrows and doesn't seem to have as much

Re: Coder friendly font

2015-09-21 Thread Felix Miata
Martin Read composed on 2015-09-21 19:33 (UTC+0100): > Felix Miata wrote: >> http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/Font/fonts-face-samplesM.html and >> http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/Font/fonts-comps-linuxmono.html provide ways to >> compare some common monospace fonts. > Only if you have the fonts already install

Re: Coder friendly font Anonymous Pro (ttf-anonymous-pro)

2015-09-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting Joe Pfeiffer (pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu): > Cindy-Sue Causey writes: > > > One more then I hear my bird feeders calling. Couple days ago I was > > trying to find a pirate friendly font via an "apt-cache search" > > inquiry. No pirates (that weren't part of a *2GB* package, yar!), > > but s

Re: Hash Sum mismatch

2015-09-21 Thread Toth Zoltan
Maybe.. How can I check it ? But If I use IP address ( that use the mirror.list) in my source.list, the update works well. So the original site works well. I think it has some problem with my local mirror, but do not know how can I check and solve it.. On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 5:47 PM, Don Armstro

Re: Coder friendly font

2015-09-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting Curt (cu...@free.fr): > On 2015-09-21, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Monday 21 September 2015 18:16:59 Curt wrote: > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frutiger_%28typeface%29 > >> > >> "Frutiger (pronounced with a hard g) is a series of typefaces named after > >> its Swiss designer, Adrian Fruti

Re: Coder friendly font

2015-09-21 Thread Martin Read
On 21/09/15 19:18, Felix Miata wrote: http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/Font/fonts-face-samplesM.html and http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/Font/fonts-comps-linuxmono.html provide ways to compare some common monospace fonts. Only if you have the fonts already installed, which isn't helpful if you're trying to d

Re: Narrowing down problem source

2015-09-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > Block count: 2284052 > Device block count: 2284064 This matches. The DVD offers more than the ISO claims. (Just rounded up to a multiple of 16 blocks, in this case.) > 1941504+0 records in > 1941504+0 records out And this is wrong. Why does dd not obey but also not

Re: Coder friendly font

2015-09-21 Thread Curt
On 2015-09-21, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 21 September 2015 18:16:59 Curt wrote: >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frutiger_%28typeface%29 >> >> "Frutiger (pronounced with a hard g) is a series of typefaces named after >> its Swiss designer, Adrian Frutiger. Frutiger is a humanist sans-serif >>

Re: Coder friendly font

2015-09-21 Thread Christian Seiler
On 09/21/2015 07:55 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 21 September 2015 18:16:59 Curt wrote: >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frutiger_%28typeface%29 >> >> "Frutiger (pronounced with a hard g) is a series of typefaces named after >> its Swiss designer, Adrian Frutiger. Frutiger is a humanist sans-s

Re: Coder friendly font

2015-09-21 Thread Felix Miata
Joe Pfeiffer composed on 2015-09-21 11:38 (UTC-0600): > rlhar...@oplink.net writes: >> Regarding disambiguity, Courier is one of the best fonts; likewise Times >> Roman. The only problem with Times Roman with respect to coding is that >> it is not fixed-width. > And courier is downright ugly.

Re: Coder friendly font Anonymous Pro (ttf-anonymous-pro)

2015-09-21 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Cindy-Sue Causey writes: > One more then I hear my bird feeders calling. Couple days ago I was > trying to find a pirate friendly font via an "apt-cache search" > inquiry. No pirates (that weren't part of a *2GB* package, yar!), > but stumbled on a font called "Anonymous Pro" that is billed a

Re: Coder friendly font

2015-09-21 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
rlhar...@oplink.net writes: > On Mon, September 21, 2015 11:33 am, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: >> a font called "Anonymous Pro" that is billed as a "fixed width sans serif >> font designed for coders". >> Further description is: "Anonymous Pro (2009) is a family of four >> fixed-width fonts designed

Re: Coder friendly font

2015-09-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 21 September 2015 18:16:59 Curt wrote: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frutiger_%28typeface%29 > > "Frutiger (pronounced with a hard g) is a series of typefaces named after > its Swiss designer, Adrian Frutiger. Frutiger is a humanist sans-serif > typeface, intended to be clear and highly

Re: Coder friendly font

2015-09-21 Thread Tyler D
On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 21 September 2015 17:49:10 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > > Regarding disambiguity, Courier is one of the best fonts; likewise Times > > Roman. The only problem with Times Roman with respect to coding is that > > it is not fixed-width

Re: Coder friendly font

2015-09-21 Thread Curt
On 2015-09-21, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > > Sans-serif is not a desirable attribute, except for certain applications > such as newspaper headlines. Studies have shown that serif fonts are more > readable and less fatiguing, because the serifs of a letter or numeral > convey much information. h

Re: Coder friendly font

2015-09-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 21 September 2015 17:49:10 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > Regarding disambiguity, Courier is one of the best fonts; likewise Times > Roman.  The only problem with Times Roman with respect to coding is that > it is not fixed-width. > > Sans-serif is not a desirable attribute, except for cert

Re: Coder friendly font

2015-09-21 Thread rlharris
On Mon, September 21, 2015 11:33 am, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > a font called "Anonymous Pro" that is billed as a "fixed width sans serif > font designed for coders". > Further description is: "Anonymous Pro (2009) is a family of four > fixed-width fonts designed especially with coding in mind. Cha

CORRECTION Re: Jessie update notes?

2015-09-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 21 September 2015 17:16:54 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 21 September 2015 16:59:40 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > I've read all the other helpful feedback you received. Are you > > interested in taking control of the process manually via terminal? I > > learned a COOL command that was origi

Re: Narrowing down problem source

2015-09-21 Thread Richard Owlett
Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: Block count: 1941504 ... 1941504+0 records in 1941504+0 records out This is ok. Block count: 2284052 ... 1941504+0 records in 1941504+0 records out This is not ok. The variable "block" was computed correctly, but program "dd" did not retrie

Re: Coder friendly font Anonymous Pro (ttf-anonymous-pro)

2015-09-21 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, 21 Sep 2015 12:33:42 -0400 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > One more then I hear my bird feeders calling. Couple days ago I was > trying to find a pirate friendly font via an "apt-cache search" > inquiry. No pirates (that weren't part of a *2GB* package, yar!), > but stumbled on a font

Coder friendly font Anonymous Pro (ttf-anonymous-pro)

2015-09-21 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
One more then I hear my bird feeders calling. Couple days ago I was trying to find a pirate friendly font via an "apt-cache search" inquiry. No pirates (that weren't part of a *2GB* package, yar!), but stumbled on a font called "Anonymous Pro" that is billed as a "fixed width sans serif font de

Re: Jessie update notes?

2015-09-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 21 September 2015 16:59:40 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > I've read all the other helpful feedback you received. Are you > interested in taking control of the process manually via terminal? I > learned a COOL command that was originally shared by *Bob* who > coincidentally responded to this th

Re: Brightness configuration issue

2015-09-21 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
I did it after restart. It works in MATE environment, but not in GNOME. I don't know why! :/ On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 8:40 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Mon, 2015-09-21 at 14:10 +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > > I normally dim my laptop's screen, as I work long. However, I don't > > understand

System admin type package Metche?

2015-09-21 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
Metche for Jessie can be found at: https://packages.debian.org/jessie/metche Anyone ever heard of that? JUST stumbled on it because of the Jessie update thread. Because of cognitive issues, I HAVE to painstakingly verify nearly everything I write anymore. For the Jessie update thread, that meant

Re: Jessie update notes?

2015-09-21 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 9/10/15, Hannu Virtanen wrote: > With 'wheezy' I got always notes when updates were available. > > What should I do to get 'Jessie' checking every day, if updates are > available? I've read all the other helpful feedback you received. Are you interested in taking control of the process manual

Re: Hash Sum mismatch

2015-09-21 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 21 Sep 2015, Toth Zoltan wrote: > Hi Everibody > > I have a problem after upgrade debian wheezy to jessie. > I have a local debian mirror ( Debian jessie 3.16.0-4-amd64) with > "jessie and wheezy" distribution. It's likely that your mirror is out of sync and/or was mirrored from a mirro

Re: Minimal configuration for a laptop

2015-09-21 Thread Joel Rees
2015/01/26 4:28 "Bob Holtzman" : > > On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 02:09:49PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Sunday 25 January 2015 13:50:32 Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:03:18PM +0200, Selim T. Erdoğan wrote: > > > > Two features that I looked for in my Thinkpad were that the

Re: Brightness configuration issue

2015-09-21 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2015-09-21 at 14:10 +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > I normally dim my laptop's screen, as I work long. However, I don't > understand why I have to dim it every time when the laptop restarts. > Doesn't GNOME remembers what brightness I used last time? > Need a way out ! I think that should

Re: Can't Log in

2015-09-21 Thread Linux 4 Bene
Op Mon, 21 Sep 2015 02:31:08 -0700, schreef ray: I have had this happen when my harddisk was at 100%. I got as far as the graphical login, but it didn't accept my login. I'm not sure but I believe I logged in via ssh or maybe I was still connected. I don't recall that. Anyway, on my end it was

Re: Can't Log in

2015-09-21 Thread Heracles
On 21/09/15 22:49, ray wrote: Sven Thank you very much. I have installed LXDE and I don't know how to open a console. Please suggest how I might learn to do that. I had a similar problem with a version of ubuntu after making a lot of changes. To fix the problem I created a new user and th

Re: Can't Log in

2015-09-21 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
Opening a console is same for all sorts of linux distros... ctrl+alt+f4 do your job, and then try any of the combination of ctrl+alt+f*(*: 0-9), if that doesn't work, you can reboot from console sudo shutdown -r now Regarding recovering password, you should read the following, which should probabl

Re: Can't Log in

2015-09-21 Thread ray
Sven Thank you very much. I have installed LXDE and I don't know how to open a console. Please suggest how I might learn to do that.

Hash Sum mismatch

2015-09-21 Thread Toth Zoltan
Hi Everibody I have a problem after upgrade debian wheezy to jessie. I have a local debian mirror ( Debian jessie 3.16.0-4-amd64) with "jessie and wheezy" distribution. I have done the upgrade process these steps. - apt sources.list contain wheezy ditibution.. apt-get update, apt-get upgrade It

Re: Ethernet not working after wakeup

2015-09-21 Thread Joe
On 21/09/2015 09:39, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: I probably had asked this question before, but I had no proper solution and probably, the thread seems to be obsolete. I use internet with Ethernet (the drivers are downloaded from my hardware manufacturer, Realtek, and I have also tried the one that

Re: Can't Log in

2015-09-21 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2015-09-21 at 02:31 -0700, ray wrote: > Another approach I tried was to log in as root (I did not expect that > to work). So I issued: > passwd . > I responded to the two password queries and received a success > signal. I would expect that to solve the issue. > > After logging off, I a

Re: Can't Log in

2015-09-21 Thread ray
Lisi Thank you. Another approach I tried was to log in as root (I did not expect that to work). So I issued: passwd . I responded to the two password queries and received a success signal. I would expect that to solve the issue. After logging off, I attempted to log in with the updated pa

Re: Ethernet not working after wakeup

2015-09-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 21 September 2015 09:39:32 Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > I probably had asked this question before, Yesterday! > but I had no proper solution and > probably, the thread seems to be obsolete. After 16 hours. :-/ > I use internet with Ethernet > (the drivers are downloaded from my hardwa

Re: Problems with wine and fglrx driver

2015-09-21 Thread artem_banschikov
I'm using debian testing/sid amd64+i386, fglrx-driver 15.7-3, wine-development 1.7.51-1. Applications were run from 32-bit wine prefix.

Brightness configuration issue

2015-09-21 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
I normally dim my laptop's screen, as I work long. However, I don't understand why I have to dim it every time when the laptop restarts. Doesn't GNOME remembers what brightness I used last time? Need a way out ! -- Himanshu Shekhar IIIT-Allahabad IRM2015006

Ethernet not working after wakeup

2015-09-21 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
I probably had asked this question before, but I had no proper solution and probably, the thread seems to be obsolete. I use internet with Ethernet (the drivers are downloaded from my hardware manufacturer, Realtek, and I have also tried the one that came bundled with Debian 8.1). However, I found