Re: Moving from a proprietary OS - unnecessarily inful experience -- was [Re: I wish to advocate linux]

2013-03-01 Thread Jack Schneider
On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:37:32 -0500 Miles Fidelman wrote: > Brian wrote: > > On Fri 01 Mar 2013 at 08:34:57 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > >> Fair enough, but... I have to say it > >> > >> Back in my day, we not only had to walk to school, uphill, in both > >> directions, in the snow, but

Re: Laptop fan control

2012-12-22 Thread Jack Schneider
On Sat, 22 Dec 2012 19:33:31 +1100 Daniel Dalton wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using a Dell vostro 3350 machine. > > At times I feel the intensity of the fan is unnecessarily high. > > This occurs when for example using firefox or watching flash. > > It seems most times when I restart the gui t

Re: Need help recovering hard drive

2012-12-11 Thread Jack Schneider
On Sun, 09 Dec 2012 14:42:48 -0600 Dennis Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > One of my hard drives quit working, and as luck would have > it, just before the scheduled backup! So I need to recover > some info that has been updated/added since the last backup. > > First, is there any thing I can do

Printing problem jpeg file size gets multiplied???

2011-07-11 Thread Jack Schneider
Hi, All I have two jpeg files on my desktop. Both show correct file sizes in Properties. Running Debian Squeeze Up2date. Printer is Lexmark C540 Xl, printer properties shows connected to printer. via my local network. Using Gthumb to print, it sends to queue and hangs... never prints... Lexmark

Re: Difficulty installing Debian 6.0.0 on an old computer

2011-02-11 Thread Jack Schneider
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:29:44 + Brian wrote: > On Wed 09 Feb 2011 at 18:13:54 -0600, Jason Hsu wrote: > > > Thanks, Brian, I'll try installing Lenny and then upgrading. If I > > still have trouble with Squeeze, then I'll have to stick with Lenny > > until I buy a somewhat newer computer that

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-22 Thread Jack Schneider
On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 04:54:32 -0500 Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Jack Schneider > wrote: > > > >  I think I found a significant glitch.. I appears that mdadm is > >  confused.  I think it happened when I created the /dev/md2 array > > from the

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-21 Thread Jack Schneider
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:31:29 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > Jack Schneider wrote: > > It booted to the correct grub menu then to Busy Box. I am thinking > > it goes to BB because it can't find /var and or /usr on the > > md1/sda5 LVM partition. > > Very likely. >

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-18 Thread Jack Schneider
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:19:11 -0200 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Jack Schneider wrote: > > Both /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab show entries for /dev/md126.. > > > > What the ... ? > > After you modified thei files in the real filesystem, did

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-18 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:43:16 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > Jack Schneider wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > mdadm --stop /dev/md125 > > > mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 > > > --update=super-minor /dev/sda1 /dev/sdc1 > > > > > > mdadm --stop /de

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system. Corrections!!!!!

2011-01-18 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:43:16 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > Jack Schneider wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > mdadm --stop /dev/md125 > > > mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 > > > --update=super-minor /dev/sda1 /dev/sdc1 > > > > > > mdadm --stop /de

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system. Corrections!!!!!

2011-01-17 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:50:12 -0600 Jack Schneider wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:48:29 -0700 > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Jack Schneider wrote: > > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > > But, and this is an important but, did you previously add the > > > &g

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system. Corrections!!!!!

2011-01-17 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:48:29 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > Jack Schneider wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > But, and this is an important but, did you previously add the new > > > disk array to the LVM volume group on the above array? If so > > > then you are

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system. Corrections!!!!!

2011-01-17 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:48:29 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > Jack Schneider wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote:> will be well.. > > I have my fingers crossed for you that it will all be okay. > > > I have not done the things you have suggested above. I'll wait f

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system. 2nd Corrections!!!!!

2011-01-17 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 07:19:03 -0600 Jack Schneider wrote: > On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:42:49 -0700 > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Jack, > > > > With your pastebin information and the mdstat information (that last > > information in your mail and pastebins was critical

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system. Corrections!!!!!

2011-01-17 Thread Jack Schneider
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:42:49 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > Jack, > > With your pastebin information and the mdstat information (that last > information in your mail and pastebins was critical good stuff) and > I found this old posting from you too: :-) > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/200

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system. Corrections!!!!!

2011-01-16 Thread Jack Schneider
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 16:57:46 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > Jack Schneider wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Jack Schneider wrote: > > > > I have a raid1 based W/S running Debian Squeeze uptodate. (was > > > > until ~7 days ago) There are 4 drives, 2 of whic

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-16 Thread Jack Schneider
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 16:57:46 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > Jack Schneider wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Jack Schneider wrote: > > > > I have a raid1 based W/S running Debian Squeeze uptodate. (was > > > > until ~7 days ago) There are 4 drives, 2 of whic

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-16 Thread Jack Schneider
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 16:57:46 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > Jack Schneider wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Jack Schneider wrote: > > > > I have a raid1 based W/S running Debian Squeeze uptodate. (was > > > > until ~7 days ago) There are 4 drives, 2 of whic

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-15 Thread Jack Schneider
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 05:25:45 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > Jack Schneider wrote: > > I have a raid1 based W/S running Debian Squeeze uptodate. (was > > until ~7 days ago) There are 4 drives, 2 of which had never been > > used or formatted. I configured a new array using Disk Ut

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-15 Thread Jack Schneider
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 12:06:11 -0200 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, Jack Schneider wrote: > > > >> You might want to try configuring grub and fstab to use UUID's > > > >> instead of /dev/mdX.  That removes the possibility that t

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-15 Thread Jack Schneider
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 05:25:45 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > Jack Schneider wrote: > > I have a raid1 based W/S running Debian Squeeze uptodate. (was > > until ~7 days ago) There are 4 drives, 2 of which had never been > > used or formatted. I configured a new array using Disk Ut

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-15 Thread Jack Schneider
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:16:37 -0500 Tom H wrote: > >> > [BIG SNIP] > >> You might want to try configuring grub and fstab to use UUID's > >> instead of /dev/mdX.  That removes the possibility that the kernel > >> will change the mdX designations. > >> > >> Use blkid to find out the UUID's of your p

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-14 Thread Jack Schneider
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 06:06:17 -0600 Jack Schneider wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:43:53 -0500 > Rob Owens wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 08:23:11AM -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: > > > > > > I have a raid1 based W/S running Debian Squeeze uptodate. (was &

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-14 Thread Jack Schneider
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:43:53 -0500 Rob Owens wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 08:23:11AM -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: > > > > I have a raid1 based W/S running Debian Squeeze uptodate. (was > > until ~7 days ago) There are 4 drives, 2 of which had never been > > used o

Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-13 Thread Jack Schneider
I have a raid1 based W/S running Debian Squeeze uptodate. (was until ~7 days ago) There are 4 drives, 2 of which had never been used or formatted. I configured a new array using Disk Utility from a live Ubuntu CD. That's where I screwed up... The end result was the names of the arrays were changed

Re: Iceweasel Glitch ? Irritant! RESOLVED

2010-12-06 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 06 Dec 2010 16:13:51 -0500 Paul Cartwright wrote: > On 12/06/2010 03:18 PM, Jack Schneider wrote: > > How do I find out??? I have never consciously enabled a proxy. > > Thanks, Bob > > now I have to fire up my BLOATED iceweasel, when I have a perfectly >

Re: Iceweasel Glitch ? Irritant!

2010-12-06 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 12:24:16 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > Jack Schneider wrote: > > Whenever Iceweasel starts it puts a login popup to a IP which > > belongs to my ISP. Epiphany does not do it. > > Any ideas about this, and what to do? > > Do you have a proxy configur

Iceweasel Glitch ? Irritant!

2010-12-06 Thread Jack Schneider
Hi, folks Running Squeeze, 2.6.32-5 and Iceweasel 3.5.15 - all up to date. The prob: Whenever Iceweasel starts it puts a login popup to a IP which belongs to my ISP. Epiphany does not do it. Any ideas about this, and what to do? TIA, Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lis

Re: Wifi Can't Connect

2010-03-23 Thread Jack Schneider
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:30:42 -0400 Mark wrote: > On 3/22/10 11:03 PM, Jack Schneider wrote: > > Hi, Mark > > Have you got wpa-supplicant /installed/loaded ? > > You need that for wpa access, I believe... > > > > FWIW > > Jack > > > > Good

Re: Wifi Can't Connect

2010-03-22 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:23:23 -0400 Mark wrote: > I had wifi, now I don't. > > I just upgraded my kernel (using aptitude) from 2.6.26-686 to > 2.6.32-3-686 and followed that with "aptitude full-upgrade", which > removed a number of packages (that I wasn't using anyway) because I > had previously

Re: ACPI problem on linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-amd64 powering off

2010-03-03 Thread Jack Schneider
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 20:37:28 + campbell mcleay wrote: > Hi, > > I am running 64-bit Debian Squeeze with kernel > linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-vserver-amd64, and when > I initiate a shutdown to halt/poweroff the system, either within a > Gnome session or on the console, > it reboots instead of pow

Re: Graphics Diag Query

2010-02-22 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:10:18 -0500 (EST) Stephen Powell wrote: > On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:43:07 -0500 (EST), Jack Schneider wrote: > > Stephen, thanks for the reply...8-) > > I want to find out if the color distortions (smears on left side of > > images) I see on the LCD are d

Re: Graphics Diag Query

2010-02-22 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:51:09 -0500 (EST) Stephen Powell wrote: > On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:06:41 -0500 (EST), Jack Schneider wrote: > > > > Hi, All > > Does any one know of a diagnostic tool to pin down a smeared LCD > > screen? I have an old laptop i386, running lenny

Graphics Diag Query

2010-02-22 Thread Jack Schneider
Hi, All Does any one know of a diagnostic tool to pin down a smeared LCD screen? I have an old laptop i386, running lenny, up2date, 2.6.26-2-486 kernel, which I want to take the load as a parallel-port printer host. It runs a Neomagic NM2093 video chip. I have checked the LCD display with lcdtest

Segmentation fault query.

2010-01-31 Thread Jack Schneider
Hi, all I need some direction. I am running Debian squeeze-amd64 and have encountered a problem. On shutting down with kernel 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 after the system halt, I get a "segmentation fault" and hangs. the system stays powered up. Booting with kernel 2.6.30-1 this does not occur and the sys

Re: Debian Live hangs on cd boot.

2010-01-12 Thread Jack Schneider
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:00:27 -0500 (EST) Stephen Powell wrote: > On 2010-01-12 at 12:23:49 -0500, Jack Schneider wrote: > > Hi, All I have a debian live cd which starts to boot. I get the > > ISOLINUX 3.71 Debian-2008-9-06 Copyright notice. Then it just hangs- > > cd ac

Debian Live hangs on cd boot.

2010-01-12 Thread Jack Schneider
Hi, All I have a debian live cd which starts to boot. I get the ISOLINUX 3.71 Debian-2008-9-06 Copyright notice. Then it just hangs- cd active. Disk is debian-live-502-amd64-gnome-desktop.iso MD5 sums check out...Cd is on-top in bios boot priority. Others, sysrescucd, Ubuntu, Debian testing ne

Re: Debian Testing query

2009-11-18 Thread Jack Schneider
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:53:59 + Tixy wrote: > On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 06:07 -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: > > Hi, All > > > > My /var/log/aptitude shows the last update was 11/12/09. Usually > > that is almost a daily activity for some upgrade/change. Anyone > &

Debian Testing query

2009-11-18 Thread Jack Schneider
Hi, All My /var/log/aptitude shows the last update was 11/12/09. Usually that is almost a daily activity for some upgrade/change. Anyone else seeing this?? TIA, Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: Are there any default "pasteboards" for Debian lists?

2009-11-01 Thread Jack Schneider
On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:04:55 +0100 Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 01. 11. 2009 11:43:21 je Andrei Popescu napisal(a): > > > > How about paste.debian.net? How long is the output anyway? > > Oh, there's no output yet. I was just wondering, for any future > occasions I might need it. > > Thanx > > Hi,

Re: Problem installing Raid + LVM system on new Dell T5500

2009-10-30 Thread Jack Schneider
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:59:20 -0400 S Scharf wrote: > I have a new Dell T5500 with two SATA disks (and a Dell Raid > controller). The BIOS is set to revert to ATA disks if the > 'hardware' Raid signature is not detected. > > I want to install testing with one large software Raid 1 partition as >

Re: kernel panic when doing mkfs.ext3 on a /dev/md0 (/dev/sdb /dev/sdc)

2009-10-27 Thread Jack Schneider
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:05:01 -0300 Leonardo Ruoso wrote: > Hi, > > I have a fresh Debian Lenny Box with three Sata Disks (250GB and 2 X > 500GB). > > "/" is mounted on the first disk (/dev/sda) outside any raid array. > > The other disks (/dev/sdb and /dev/sdc) have only one raid partition > e

Re: Network Manager wants to access default keyring

2009-10-26 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:29:26 -0500 Preston Boyington wrote: > I have Debian Testing with the Gnome environment setup on a friends' > laptop. In an effort to make things easier to use I'm trying to stick > with Network Manager because of the PPP support for the USB cellular > broadband. > > Each

Re: installing mdadm breaks udev (and *lots* of other stuff!) in squeeze

2009-10-24 Thread Jack Schneider
On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:55:04 +1100 Alex Samad wrote: > On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 02:48:32AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Whooo boy! > > > > When I decided to raid my home directories, I never expected this! > > > > Anybody have any suggestions for getting udev and mdadm to coexist? > > > > Rick

Re: initramfs-tools does not add dm-mod.ko to initrd for kernels 2.6.30-2-686 and kernels 2.6.30-2-686-bigmem

2009-10-15 Thread Jack Schneider
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:42:00 -0400 Mitchell Laks wrote: > On 15:47 Thu 15 Oct , Jack Schneider wrote: > > Hi, Mitchell > > FWIW I have exactly the same problem... Whew !!! I didn't cause > > this messI hope!!! > > > > Thanks more that you kno

Re: Raid help needed !

2009-10-15 Thread Jack Schneider
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:23:59 -0500 Jack Schneider wrote: > On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:03:26 -0500 > Jack Schneider wrote: > > > On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:31:36 +0200 > > Tom H wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Jack Schneider > > >

Re: Raid help needed !

2009-10-15 Thread Jack Schneider
Hi, Tim > >> >> what is the error you are getting ? > >> >> what happens when you type mount -a or swapon -a > > >> > Error: "The superblock could not be read or does not describe a > >> > correct ext2 file system..fsck died with exit status 8 > > >> > #   mount -a  gives :  wrong fs type, bad o

Re: initramfs-tools does not add dm-mod.ko to initrd for kernels 2.6.30-2-686 and kernels 2.6.30-2-686-bigmem

2009-10-15 Thread Jack Schneider
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:56:20 -0400 Mitchell Laks wrote: > On 00:05 Thu 15 Oct , Mitchell Laks wrote: > > How can I work around this and what to do? My old kernel 2.6.26 > > works fine How to force initrd to load the dm-mod and other > > device-mapper kernel modules? > > I have added > dm

Re:Raid help needed !

2009-10-15 Thread Jack Schneider
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:03:26 -0500 Jack Schneider wrote: > On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:31:36 +0200 > Tom H wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Jack Schneider > > wrote: > > > On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:19:56 +1100 > > > Alex Samad wrote: > >

Re: Raid help needed !

2009-10-15 Thread Jack Schneider
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:31:36 +0200 Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Jack Schneider > wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:19:56 +1100 > > Alex Samad wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 09:16:47PM -0500, Jack Schneider wrote: > >>> For over tw

Re: Raid help needed !

2009-10-14 Thread Jack Schneider
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:19:56 +1100 Alex Samad wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 09:16:47PM -0500, Jack Schneider wrote: > > Hi, All > > For over two years, I have used /md0 as / and /md1 under lvm2 with 7 > > partitions on this amd64 system. I have migrated from "etch

Re: Raid help needed !

2009-10-14 Thread Jack Schneider
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:03:11 -0400 Justin wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Jack Schneider > wrote: > > Hi, All > > For over two years, I have used /md0 as / and /md1 under lvm2 with 7 > > partitions on this amd64 system.  I have migrated from "etch&qu

Raid help needed !

2009-10-13 Thread Jack Schneider
Hi, All For over two years, I have used /md0 as / and /md1 under lvm2 with 7 partitions on this amd64 system. I have migrated from "etch" to "squeeze" without undue problems. BUT, now I cannot boot either kernel 2.6.30-1 or 2.6.30-2 with grub2, it fails by not finding or identifying my swap part

Re: Odd behavusr

2009-10-12 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:21:12 +0200 steef wrote: > Wayne Topa wrote: > > Hi List > > > > I have noticed some odd behavior with aptitude when doing > > safe-upgrades for the past month or so. On 5 or 6 occasions a > > number of files are downloaded more then once. Below is an example > > on my

Re: Raid disk delimma

2009-09-21 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:03:45 +0200 martin f krafft wrote: > Let's keep this on the list... OK with me.. I normally just hit reply in Claws 3.5. You may get 2 if I use reply-all.. > > also sprach Jack Schneider [2009.09.21.1857 > +0200]: > > Results fr

Re: Grub update problems

2009-09-21 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:54:44 +0300 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun,20.Sep.09, 22:34:23, Frank McCormick wrote: > > [snip grub2 troubles] > > As far as I understand you "fixed" your problem by going back to > grub1. > > > I also don't see any reference in it to the Ubuntu which I have on > > h

Re: Raid disk delimma

2009-09-20 Thread Jack Schneider
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:37:51 +0200 martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Jack Schneider [2009.09.20.0044 > +0200]: > > I get to the "Give root password for maintenance etc." place and > > when I do it will not allow me to find any logs. I can run dmesg > >

Raid disk delimma

2009-09-19 Thread Jack Schneider
Hi, All Somewhere (about 9/15) in my enthusiasm for Debian, Testing up2date & kernel 2.6.30-1-amd64,--updating I said (y) where I should have said (q). My system will not boot correctly. It halts with: fsck died with exit status 8 I have 4 disks, 2 in raid1, ie. 2 in use - 2 unused Disks are

Re: usb floppy, image files

2009-08-20 Thread Jack Schneider
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:08:26 -0400 Hugh Lawson wrote: > > Hello Debian Users, > > I'm looking for a program like 'dd' that can copy image files to > a USB floppy drive. > > I've done some googling without success. > > Hugh Lawson > > Did you you look @ clonezilla-live ?? http://www.clone

Re: Musings on debian-user list

2009-08-03 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:54:56 -0400 Chris Jones wrote: > On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 08:20:58PM EDT, John Hasler wrote: > > Chris Jones writes: > > > I guess so.. though I'm not sure about the usefulness thereof, > > > save for demo'ing the flexibility of, what's the word.. Window > > > Managers..? >

Re: Virtualbox Lenny Guest - Screen resize and Seamless mode

2009-08-03 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:11:49 -0500 Mark Allums wrote: > Jack Schneider wrote: > > On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:33:32 -0500 > > Mark Allums wrote: > > > >> Chris wrote: > >>> On Monday 03 August 2009, go...@dobosevic.com wrote: > >>>> Chris wro

Re: Virtualbox Lenny Guest - Screen resize and Seamless mode

2009-08-03 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:33:32 -0500 Mark Allums wrote: > Chris wrote: > > On Monday 03 August 2009, go...@dobosevic.com wrote: > >> Chris wrote: > >>> I am trying to get Screen resize and Seamless mode working on > >>> Lenny guest systems to no avail. > >>> > >>> I have tried insalling the guest-u

Re: (nautilus:3241): Unique-DBus-WARNING **: Error while sending message: Did not receive a reply.

2009-08-01 Thread Jack Schneider
On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 13:21:33 -0400 Rick Thomas wrote: > On Aug 1, 2009, at 5:28 AM, Leonardo Gaudino wrote: > > > I experience the same problem (only difference is nautilus:3645, > > whatever it means...). A pop-up message appears while loading the > > session showing that phrase. The strange

Re: Blank CDRW wierdness

2009-04-17 Thread Jack Schneider
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:59:17 -0500 John W Foster wrote: > On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 14:16 +0300, Aioanei Rares wrote: > > John W Foster wrote: > > > I have Debian Lenny on a box that I use to burn Data CD's on I > > > have recently noticed that when I burn one and for some reason > > > need to read i

Re: how does GRUB read from /boot on software-RAID partition?

2009-02-24 Thread Jack Schneider
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:14:54 -0500 "Barclay, Daniel" wrote: > Jack Schneider wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:21:23 -0500 > > "Barclay, Daniel" wrote: > > > >> Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > >>> Barclay, Daniel wrote: > ... >

Re: how does GRUB read from /boot on software-RAID partition?

2009-02-24 Thread Jack Schneider
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:21:23 -0500 "Barclay, Daniel" wrote: > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > Barclay, Daniel wrote: > ... > >> Since GRUB hasn't loaded the kernel file yet, GRUB can't be using > >> the kernel and its md driver, and therefore can't be reading the > >> partition _as_a_RAID_ _volum

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-16 Thread Jack Schneider
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:28:45 -0800 Marc Shapiro wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:13:15 -0800 > > Marc Shapiro wrote: > > > >>> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 03:16:49PM +, Avi Greenbury wrote: > >>>> Marc Shapiro wrote: > >&

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-11 Thread Jack Schneider
On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:12:21 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/11/2009 08:32 AM, Jack Schneider wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:06:36 -0600 > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > >> On 02/11/2009 07:47 AM, Jack Schneider wrote: > >> [snip] > >>> We

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-11 Thread Jack Schneider
On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:05:10 -0800 Marc Shapiro wrote: > Jack Schneider wrote: > We are probably the only entities in the universe who spend so much > > energy keeping track of the number of times our planet spins. > > How bazaar! > > Or, "how bizarre." &qu

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-11 Thread Jack Schneider
On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:06:36 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/11/2009 07:47 AM, Jack Schneider wrote: > [snip] > > > > We are probably the only entities in the universe who spend so much > > energy keeping track of the number of times our planet spins. > > How baza

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-11 Thread Jack Schneider
On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:29:37 + David Jardine wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 05:17:47AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > [...] > > No, I think the much better idea would be to ditch timezones and > > put the whole world on UTC. Get rid of DST and 12-hour clocks, > > too, while you're at it

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-10 Thread Jack Schneider
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:42:15 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/10/2009 04:55 PM, Jack Schneider wrote: > [snip] > > > > Due to Obama's intent to automate medical records, do you think > > that it > > I don't think his ultimate purpose is hackable medi

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-10 Thread Jack Schneider
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:45:49 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/10/2009 12:32 PM, Mark Allums wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > >>> Readability and maintainability of "assembly" > >>> language. > >> > >> Yep. The (CISC) VAX instruction set was designed partly with > >> asse

Re: Hypervisor on an existing system?

2008-12-26 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:45:08 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 12/22/08 14:58, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 02:14:06PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> I don't know enough about the subject to be able to intelligently > >> Google, so I thought I'd ask first. > >> > >> My system is

Re: Nit-query

2008-12-23 Thread Jack Schneider
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:24:54 + Tzafr irCohen wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:17:41AM -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: > > > > Hi,all > > I have just used CLI 'users' command. I get two(2) entries for > > myself. Re: > > j...@speeduke:~$ users &g

Re: Nit-query

2008-12-23 Thread Jack Schneider
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:43:50 -0800 Raquel wrote: > On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:17:41 -0600 > Jack Schneider wrote: > > > > > Hi,all > > I have just used CLI 'users' command. I get two(2) entries for > > myself. Re: > > j...@speedu

Nit-query

2008-12-23 Thread Jack Schneider
Hi,all I have just used CLI 'users' command. I get two(2) entries for myself. Re: j...@speeduke:~$ users jack jack Is this normal??? --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Hypervisor on an existing system?

2008-12-23 Thread Jack Schneider
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:12:36 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > On Monday 22 December 2008, Ross Boylan > wrote about 'Re: Hypervisor on an > existing system?': > >All I really wanted was to run MS Windows to watch TV online and > >maybe play games; I'm thinking maybe qemu is the way to go

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2008-12-11 Thread Jack Schneider
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:51:47 + Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 08:54:41AM -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: > > > -- > > > > Hi, I concur with the "DELL" idea. I have an "Precision M60" > > 3-years > > Is that an ans

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2008-12-11 Thread Jack Schneider
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:08:14 +0100 Sjoerd Hardeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Micha Feigin wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Sorry for being a bit off topic but it's time for a new laptop that > > will run linux solely and I'm looking for recomendation on what has > > a good build quallity (will travel

Re: 64-bit Flash Player

2008-11-28 Thread Jack Schneider
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:02:01 +0200 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat,22.Nov.08, 07:59:29, John Hasler wrote: > > Debian-multimedia now has a native 64 bit flashplayer in > > Experimental. I haven't tried it yet so I don't know how well it > > works. > > It needed some hacking to

Re: [OT] Broken flashplayer installation.

2008-11-18 Thread Jack Schneider
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:13:18 -0600 "Stackpole, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Jack Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 3:02 PM > > Subject: Re: [OT] Broken flashplayer installation. > > > > On Tue, 18

Re: [OT] Broken flashplayer installation.

2008-11-18 Thread Jack Schneider
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:18:55 -0600 "Stackpole, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Jack Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 2:01 PM > > Subject: Broken flashplayer installation. > > > > > > Hi,

Re: [OT] Broken flashplayer installation.

2008-11-18 Thread Jack Schneider
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:18:55 -0600 "Stackpole, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Jack Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 2:01 PM > > Subject: Broken flashplayer installation. > > > > > > Hi,

Broken flashplayer installation.

2008-11-18 Thread Jack Schneider
Hi, all. Debian "lenny" Linux Speeduke 2.6.26-1-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Oct 9 14:16:53 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- I get the following errors from Synaptic when trying to reinstall flashplayer-mozilla. RE: E: /var/cache/apt/archives/ia32-libs-libidn11_1.10-0.0_amd64.deb: trying to overwrite `/emu

Re: Nvidia, apt-get & Synaptic

2008-10-28 Thread Jack Schneider
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:52:43 -0500 MLewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm new to the list and Debian, but not new to Linux. I have been > running RH for 10+ years and recently was very impressed with Debian > and decided to make the switch. Congrats to the team that puts Debian > together, i

Re: Issue with URL and firefox (iceweasel)

2008-10-17 Thread Jack Schneider
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:05:17 +0200 "Mathieu Malaterre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > If I click on the following URLs: > > * http://gdcm.svn.sourceforge.net/gdcm/?rev=4628&view=rev > * http://gdcm.svn.sourceforge.net/gdcm/?rev=4627&view=rev > > I can get a 404 error on the seco

Re: House wireless/wired router: choices? Plus wireless neophyte questions.

2008-10-04 Thread Jack Schneider
On Sat, 4 Oct 2008 08:58:41 +0300 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri,03.Oct.08, 01:46:48, Chris Metzler wrote: > > [...] > > One detail not mentioned here was that you should use WPA2 encryption > to protect your wireless network. WEP is easy to crack with standard > Linux tools.

Re: anyone installed nvidia drivers on etch recently?

2008-10-04 Thread Jack Schneider
On Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:24:16 +0100 Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jack Schneider on 04/10/08 03:46, wrote: > > On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:21:18 +0100 > > Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> I'm using "nv", so I though

Re: anyone installed nvidia drivers on etch recently?

2008-10-03 Thread Jack Schneider
On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:21:18 +0100 Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm suffering from repeated crashes in my Eclipse IDE, which is java. > Restarting it is slow and losing work is never much fun anyway, but I > thought I'd find a solution until now. > > I have 4 approaches to the problem:

Re: Best methods?

2008-09-18 Thread Jack Schneider
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:44:56 +0200 Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-09-18 22:34 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Thu,18.Sep.08, 15:18:37, Jack Schneider wrote: > >> > >> Hi, all > >> > >> Just noticed that the r

Best methods?

2008-09-18 Thread Jack Schneider
Hi, all Just noticed that the results of doing [dpkg --get-selections > Packages] gives me a list which includes-- 194 packages marked for "deinstall'. What's the best tool to clean this up, and how to do it?? TIA, Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: BUSY BOX after boot attempt..

2008-09-10 Thread Jack Schneider
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:52:30 +0300 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed,10.Sep.08, 14:24:07, Jack Schneider wrote: > > > Thanks, Andrei for the response. Checked out #s and yes they have > > changed. > > So I need some further guidance... "

Re: BUSY BOX after boot attempt..

2008-09-10 Thread Jack Schneider
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:30:15 +0300 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue,09.Sep.08, 16:00:11, Jack Schneider wrote: > > > > > > -- Hi, all > > > > I created my own problem. I think! > > I have a dual boot Dell M60 laptop. Running Lenn

BUSY BOX after boot attempt..

2008-09-09 Thread Jack Schneider
-- Hi, all I created my own problem. I think! I have a dual boot Dell M60 laptop. Running Lenny, linux kernel 2.6.26-1-686. I have/had a small primary (hda3) as /boot. A larger logical (hda2) with / (hda5) and /home (hda6) + Swap (hda7). hda1 is XP. I used GRML 1.1 iso and gparted to "resiz

Re: xorg update clobbers Nvidia GL

2008-08-16 Thread Jack Schneider
On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:57:51 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 08/16/08 12:57, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > Hello: > > > > It seems every time xorg is updated it clobbers my Nvidia driver > > and, all of a sudden, those cool GLX screen savers, not to mention > > Google Earth (a miss

Re: Gnome/X terminal resize

2008-04-28 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:58:11 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 04/28/08 14:55, Jack Schneider wrote: > > Hi, All > > > > Got a minor problem, > > Desktop and laptop running Debian &q

Gnome/X terminal resize

2008-04-28 Thread Jack Schneider
Hi, All Got a minor problem, Desktop and laptop running Debian "lenny" 2.6.24-1 up to date with updates. Problem: On 'desktop' cannot resize Gnome or X-term windows by dragging borders-- Laptop works fine. Comparing terminal config info to laptop install shows no setup differences. No Errors

Re: Aptitude Abnormality

2008-04-22 Thread Jack Schneider
Thanks, for the reply. On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:34:05 +0200 (CEST) "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jack Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Minor problem... I thinks 8-) > > Just noted an error/warning during an install, as follows: &

Aptitude Abnormality

2008-04-21 Thread Jack Schneider
Hi, All Minor problem... I thinks 8-) Just noted an error/warning during an install, as follows: "database /var/lib/apt/listchanges.db failed to load" Install completed OK. My Sys_Info: Debian "Lenny" Linux Speeduke 2.6.24-1-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Mar 27 16:52:38 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux What does

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