On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 11:36:47 +0200
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Mi, 26 mar 14, 20:11:07, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote:
> >
> > No. Dan asked for any tips. He didn't ask for package lists or other
> > time consuming stuff, which I wouldn't have had t
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 07:25:44 -0400 (EDT)
Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:31:46 -0400 (EDT), Steve Litt wrote:
> >
> > ...
> > I also unchecked the Debian Desktop selection.
> > ...
> > Then I did the following:
> >
> > apt-get install xfce4 xfce4-goodies
> > apt-get install synap
On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 23:03:01 +0200
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Mi, 26 mar 14, 10:25:08, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote:
> >
> > I have no idea which mobos Debian handles out of the box, but what
> > I've observed is that life is much nicer if:
> >
On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 09:17:40 -0400
Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 11:19:42PM +1100, Ike Shields wrote:
> > I have Gigabyte mother board with AMD cpu No. GA-78LMT-S2P
> > I need the drivers for it. I am using Debian Release 7.4 (wheezy)
> > 64-bit
>
> Everything on that motherboard s
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 16:38:25 -0600
Paul E Condon wrote:
> Over the years since Potato, I have noticed that while each new
> release was bigger and better than its predecessor, the web site
> became more and more convoluted and difficult to navigate. I'm not a
> web designer, as well as not being
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:25:14 +0100
"Valerio Vanni" wrote:
> "Brian" ha scritto nel messaggio
> news:21032014113647.c62190855...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
>
> > For the situation when X is started with startx would 'startx &
> > exit' prevent the termination of an X session even if CTRL+ALT
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:37:39 -0400
ken wrote:
> I'm where you are, currently using a decades-old Dell Latitude with a
> couple cracks in it and a non-working screen. It's plugged into an
> old CRT monitor. Although, like yours, the battery lasts maybe
> fifteen minutes, it's still good for wh
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 11:06:03 +
Robin wrote:
> I may have missed something. If someone has physical access to your
> machine can't they just power off and go into single user mode and
> change the root password?
Unless you have a BIOS password or encrypted root partition (or
encrypted partiti
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 09:24:21 +
Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 02:19:46PM +, Brian wrote:
> >Ctrl+Alt+F1...F12
> > For systems with virtual terminal support, these keystroke
> > combinations are used to switch to virtual terminals 1
> > throug
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 17:48:10 -0700
Rick Thomas wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've got a MacPro G5 that refuses to run Jessie (crashes on
> shutdowns, and sometimes crashes randomly without explicit
> shutdown). So I have to use Wheezy on it.
>
> I have a snazzy new HP OfficeJet 4630 "all-in-one" printer.
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 20:33:17 +0700
Ken Heard wrote:
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> On 2014-03-19 23:02, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote:
>
> > * Tell it to include the nonfree repos
>
> Did not, but ending up installing the ones I nee
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 12:44:21 +1100
Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> > Yeah, when making a machine for a less technical or less
> > command-prompt comfortable person, I like to have it boot into GUI
> > via the desktop manager. But when setting it up for myself or for
> > people technically sharp enough t
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 14:03:03 +
Lisi Reisz wrote:
> Choosing XFCE from the beginning has already been suggested.I
> suggested choosing expert install and then choosing XFCE before being
> taken back to the ordinary installation. This also has the advantage
> that you don't have to type
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 21:32:10 +0700
Ken Heard wrote:
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> It never ceases to amaze me that there are people can get various
> iterations of Debian "working out of the box". Ever since Sarge I
> have had no end of trouble either with new installati
On Mon, 17 Mar 2014 09:57:07 +0100
an...@cyberh0me.net wrote:
> >> On Sun, 2014-03-16 at 16:54 -0500, Mr Queue wrote:
> >> > I already have a pair of backup servers in different physical
> >> > locations
> >>
> >> That's good. DVDs IMHO are useless as serious backup medias.
> >
> > Because?
> >
On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 16:54:48 -0500
Mr Queue wrote:
> Anyone doing anything interesting to backup data to DVD's?
>
> https://packages.debian.org/sid/dkopp
I back up to Blu-Ray, among other things.
Often (I try to do it daily) I back up to a backup server via rsync.
Then, every few weeks, I make
On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 23:02:59 +0100
Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-03-16 at 16:54 -0500, Mr Queue wrote:
> > I already have a pair of backup servers in different physical
> > locations
>
> That's good. DVDs IMHO are useless as serious backup medias.
Because?
Thanks,
SteveT
Steve Litt
On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 10:35:36 +1100
Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> > Conclusion: Gnome Player wins.
>
> Correction: The command line wins :)
>
> cdcd wodim (contains readom) bashburn
> cdargs cdrskin cdtool FTW
Hi Zenaan,
Are you doing -pad and padsize=63s? Back in the day, Linux had a flaw,
c
On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 09:34:22 -0500
Richard Owlett wrote:
> Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > [1] not sure how this works with a disabled root account though, in
> > case you chose this during installation. Would a kind list
> > subscriber with such a setup please test and clarify this for us?
>
> I'm a
On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 12:38:48 +
Tom Furie wrote:
> Having gone back to re-read Richard's original post, he does state
> that he was bringing up an install without GUI. Which poses the
> question "why not just log in as root to get the user name?" unless
> root logins are disabled, which leads
On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 11:01:15 +
Tom Furie wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 05:45:14AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> > If another OS had not been available but I knew the root password,
> > is there some way I could have gained access as root?
>
> The classic approach to this problem is to
On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 13:10:11 +1100 (EST)
Charlie Schroeder wrote:
>
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:14:26 -0400 "Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
> litt...@gmail.com" suggested this:
>
> >But as Dave said, yelling at first-time poster for a non-repeated
> >minor
On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:53:05 +1100
Scott Ferguson wrote:
> Can we all move on to helping Debian users with the technical problems
> now? :)
Of course we can, if somebody doesn't yell and scream and drive them
away before we can give them assistance.
Thanks,
SteveT
Steve Litt*
On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 08:16:12 +1100
Charlie wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 11:15:11 -0400 Dave Woyciesjes sent:
>
> > It's attitudes like that that keep people away from Debian &
> > Linux.
>
> Do you think so?
I definitely think so. And if we ever want our OS of choice to have
sufficient marke
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 16:27:43 +0100
Hans wrote:
> Am Montag, 10. März 2014, 13:47:18 schrieb an...@cyberh0me.net:
> > > I accidently deleted my inbox folder (I mean the special "inbox"
> > > aka "Posteingang") in kmail2. Now I cannot create a new one.
> > >
> > > How can I get it back without mes
On Sun, 09 Mar 2014 21:55:05 -0400
Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> On 3/9/2014 9:42 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Monday 10 March 2014 00:15:18 Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
> >> Really, calling the OP a "nub" ( whatever the hell he means by
> >> that) isn't an insult?
> >
> > "nub", short for newbie, i.e. new us
On Sun, 9 Mar 2014 08:13:43 -0700
"LOwens" wrote:
> Steve et al
> I have a somewhat elderly Sony Vaio lappy with a Wi_Fi switch on the
> side which enables/disables WiFi. The switch is a bit touchy and
> often must be toggled several times before WiFi is enabled.
> Larry
Hi Larry,
The way I p
On Sat, 08 Mar 2014 23:35:26 -0600
Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> On 3/8/2014 10:02 PM, Tom Furie wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 09:51:52PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> >> On 3/8/2014 2:18 PM, Patrick Alouidor wrote:
> >>> Hello all. I'm not sure if it me but I have a fresh install of
> >>> Debian 7
On Sat, 08 Mar 2014 15:18:17 -0500
Patrick Alouidor wrote:
> Hello all. I'm not sure if it me but I have a fresh install of Debian
> 7 on laptop Toshiba C-55A5310. and For some reason I cannot enable my
> wifi switch. I have been pressing the F keys but no luck. please This
> is my first Laptop e
On Sat, 8 Mar 2014 00:04:48 +1300
Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 08:47:27AM +, Joe wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 Mar 2014 01:28:11 -0500
> > "Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com" wrote:
> >
> >
> > >
> > > What followed XP w
On Fri, 7 Mar 2014 11:22:58 +0200
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Vi, 07 mar 14, 08:05:21, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> > On 06/03/2014 22:07, Patrick Chkoreff wrote:
> > > I'll try to keep the noise down
> > > henceforth, and aim to help others as I develop more expertise.
> >
> > Don't be afraid to as
On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 08:05:21 +
Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On 06/03/2014 22:07, Patrick Chkoreff wrote:
> > I'll try to keep the noise down
> > henceforth, and aim to help others as I develop more expertise.
>
> Don't be afraid to ask any questions. Ignore any useless answers.
+1
You know, t
On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 05:31:56 +0100
Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-03-06 at 20:16 -0500, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
> wrote:
> > Are you guys cool with my friends, who would all be raw newbies,
> > joining this list?
>
> A few rhetorical questions:
>
> W
On Thu, 6 Mar 2014 21:42:50 -0600
Mr Queue wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Mar 2014 20:16:05 -0500
> "Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com" wrote:
>
> > 6: Are you guys cool with my friends, who would all be raw newbies,
> >joining this list?
>
>
> Steve that&#
Hi all,
I have several friends, with Windows XP, who are now considering moving
to Linux because of XP's impending stoppage of support. Normally, I'd
just tell them to install Xubuntu. But some of these people have memory
starved machines, and in my travels I've found that, using the Network
Insta
On Thu, 6 Mar 2014 20:04:00 -0500
Rob Owens wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 10:31:34AM -0500, Patrick Chkoreff wrote:
> > I recently installed Debian on this laptop. Here's the detail:
> >
> > $ uname -a
> > Linux laptop 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.54-2 i686 GNU/Linux
> >
> > I'm using
On Thu, 6 Mar 2014 19:33:14 +
Brian wrote:
> On Thu 06 Mar 2014 at 13:55:44 -0500, Patrick Chkoreff wrote:
> > On the other hand, Reco suggested that I use this image instead:
> >
> > debian-7.4.0-amd64-netinst.iso
>
> He was very kind and took pity on your predicament.
I'd characterize
On Thu, 06 Mar 2014 11:08:03 -0800
David Guntner wrote:
> berenger.mo...@neutralite.org grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > As I am starting to subscribe to various mailing lists, I have
> > noticed that some uses a kind of tag in subjects. Obviously, it is
> > added by the ml-engin
On Thu, 06 Mar 2014 10:31:34 -0500
Patrick Chkoreff wrote:
> I recently installed Debian on this laptop. Here's the detail:
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux laptop 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.54-2 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> I'm using the IceWeasel browser, but I can't play a Youtube video. I
> don't want
On Tue, 04 Mar 2014 10:16:35 +0100
Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> At least for Jessie as far as I understand all other inits are still
> planned to be packaged. So either stick with sysv + insserv or choose
> another one.
>
> The decision was just about *the default*. (Is this so difficult to
> cr
On Tue, 4 Mar 2014 16:38:17 +0800 (WST)
Bret Busby wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Mar 2014, Steve Litt wrote:
>
> > GARBAGE=/dev/null
> >
> > ### DEBIAN LIST UBERSCREAMER ARNOLD BIRD'S 4 ADDRESSES
> > :0:
> > * ^From.*naturalli...@dcemail.com
> > $GARBAGE
> >
> > :0:
> > * ^From.*arnoldb...@cosmicemail.c
On Tue, 4 Mar 2014 09:05:41 +0100
Raffaele Morelli wrote:
>
> Lately I would add
>
> :0B
> * .*(systemd)
> $GARBAGE
>
> :0
> * ^Subject.*(systemd)
> $GARBAGE
I can't do that, because I really need to know about that stuff. When
Jessie becomes stable, I'm going to try to work with systemd. But
On Mon, 03 Mar 2014 23:46:39 -0800
David Guntner wrote:
> Steve Litt grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> > GARBAGE=/dev/null
> >
> > ### DEBIAN LIST UBERSCREAMER ARNOLD BIRD'S 4 ADDRESSES
> > :0:
> > * ^From.*naturalli...@dcemail.com
> > $GARBAGE
> >
> > :0:
> > * ^From.*arnoldb...@cosmicemail.co
On Tue, 04 Mar 2014 04:07:33 +0100
Jerome BENOIT wrote:
>
>
> On 04/03/14 02:50, Steve Litt wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I just checked with my local Linux group (GoLUG), and the opinions
> > there are that systemd is not a particularly good thing. I also
> > heard from our LUG's most vocif
On Sun, 2 Mar 2014 19:26:48 -0800
"Natural Linux" wrote:
> System V is NOT hard to "maintain"
> The scripts were written YEARS ago. They're fine. They do NOT need to
> be changed. Debian SysV has concurrent boot aswell.
Hey Natural Linux
You and I are different.
When I post, I put my real nam
On Sun, 2 Mar 2014 11:31:08 -0700
ghaverla wrote:
> Most of the programming I have done is numerical methods,
What language did you use? I've used a little bit of Scheme, and kind
of liked it for numbers.
When you say numerical methods programming, do you mean this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w
On Sat, 1 Mar 2014 18:26:25 -0700
ghaverla wrote:
>
> I will try Sabyon (sp?). But it looks like it might move to systemd
> willingly leaving no option. It is based on Gentoo, which I could
> move to.
Gord,
I tested Sabayon during my last "distro shootout", and it's *a lot*
different than Deb
On Sat, 01 Mar 2014 12:11:35 -0500
Gary Dale wrote:
> On 01/03/14 11:30 AM, Gary Dale wrote:
> > I shut down iceweasel and things seemed noticeably faster. I was
> > still getting the solid disk light intermittently but it's didn't
> > slow the system to a crawl. After restarting Iceweasel and
>
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