Re: qmail package in bullseye

2021-12-24 Thread ed neville
is now public domain, so the licence shouldn't be a problem now. <http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html> qmail with JMS's patchset has been mostly just fine for me. However, if I were doing things again, I would suggest postfix since things like SSL are included and it follows some of the compartmentalised design of qmail. Ed

Re: /usr/share/doc/*/copyright

2021-03-14 Thread Ed Redd
cliaming my shit. The package Ian set it up for someone to Publish it. On Sat, Mar 13, 2021, 4:55 AM Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 12:44:49AM -0600, Ed Redd wrote: > > Please post the General Public license at the bottom of the page? I > > scripted my name

/usr/share/doc/*/copyright

2021-03-12 Thread Ed Redd
Please post the General Public license at the bottom of the page? I scripted my name on the license April 12 2020 and Debianized a package manager. Now theyre trying to cover it up with a bullshit license

Re: Replacement Email Client

2020-10-25 Thread ed
ason for modern web 2.0 compatibility. Heading down that route is moving the minimum communication requirements further away from people who are visually impaired. There will come a day when my eyes start fail me. This is a preference though, if a GUI reader is required, Sylpheed variants seem good. Ed

Re: Replacement Email Client

2020-10-25 Thread Ed
e. But something makes me itchy about loading spam HTML from anywhere, especially if it is one of those ransomware mails. Ed

Re: what calculator do you use?

2020-07-13 Thread Ed Redd
1+ On Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 2:31 AM kaye n wrote: > Hello Friends, > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see any calculator app in my Debian > os. > What do you guys use? I'm having trouble with Galculator. > Thank you! > >

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-06 Thread Ed Neville
sult me telepathically! -- Best regards, Ed http://www.s5h.net/

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-05 Thread Ed
On 2019-08-06 09:02+0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 05 aug 19, 21:56:55, Ed wrote: > > > > How do you run two login managers though so that you can have two users > > share the same computer without having to log out? In other words, > > whilst I go and make din

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-05 Thread Ed
hen you use that console: crw--- 1 ed tty 4, 1 2019-08-06 06:57:48 /dev/tty1 [ 757.147] (--) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: touchpad found [ 778.512] (II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch [ 786.321] (II) AIGLX: Resuming AIGLX clients after VT switch [ 786.32

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-05 Thread Ed
On 2019-08-05 13:11+0200, deloptes wrote: > IMO you can not run multiple X sessions from the same user. I am not > 100% sure, but I can imagine what would happen with the session > manager. I have done in the past, one 'ed' would run xfce and another would run evilwm. Howev

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-05 Thread Ed
On 2019-08-05 09:57-, Curt wrote: > On 2019-08-04, Ed wrote: > > Hello, > > > > For years I would happily ctrl-alt-f<1-6> for an additional x.org > > session by running 'startx' and another window manager. Until now-ish. > > > > What

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-05 Thread Ed
y1 as a habit going back many moons. That didn't solve it for me, unfortunately. I will try again this week with a selection of different Debian versions. To explain a little more about why I used this heavily, my local user 'ed' would have a normal xfce desktop, whilst my working

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-04 Thread Ed Neville
at.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1663050 > and any possible appearance in Debian months ago. That seems to be a different issue not vt switching from a lightdm/gdm spawned X to a tty spawned X crashing the login manager's X. -- Best regards, Ed http://www.s5h.net/

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-04 Thread Ed
to have two displays running. I find user separation sufficient for most working-from-home tasks without needing to store a virtual disk image. -- Best regards, Ed http://www.s5h.net/

x and virtual consoles

2019-08-04 Thread Ed
pped past me without noticing? -- Best regards, Ed http://www.s5h.net/

firefox-esr security update for Jessie?

2018-06-27 Thread Ed Jabbour
I see that firefox-esr has a security update. It is only for Stretch. What are we Jessie users to do?

Please take me off of your list

2016-11-14 Thread Ed Eastman
Thanks, Ed Eastman

Re: /dev/block ???

2015-11-25 Thread Ed Jabbour
Sorry for the double post.

/dev/block ???

2015-11-25 Thread Ed Jabbour
Ran df -hT, and along with the usual partitions there's this: /dev/block/8:3 ext4 12G 4.1G 7.3G 36% / I have never seen that before. What is it?

/dev/block ???

2015-11-25 Thread Ed Jabbour
Ran df -hT and along with th usual partitions it lists /dev/block/8:3 ext4 12G 4.1G 7.3G 36% /. I never saw that before. What is it?

Install fail on a Macbook

2015-11-07 Thread Ed Jabbour
Tried - and failed - to install Wheezy on an old - late 2008 - Macbook. It's an Intel machine running Mavericks. First, I used OSX's diskutil to create a 120 GB partition formatted fat32. Ran the netinst installer. created 3 partitions, root, home and swap. So the disk had 6 partitions -

Re: apt-get update hanging on security and backports.

2015-10-12 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Monday, October 12, 2015 02:34:25 AM Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sun, 11 Oct 2015 21:19:32 -0400 > > Ed Jabbour wrote: > > Running Wheezy. Recently, update has been hanging on > > http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main and > > http://http.debian

apt-get update hanging on security and backports.

2015-10-11 Thread Ed Jabbour
Running Wheezy. Recently, update has been hanging on http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main and http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-backports main. The other repos at uchicago.edu breeze through, but the two above just sit there waiting -- waiting -- waiting until they finally con

newbie help request

2015-05-11 Thread Ed R
Greetings, I've just installed debian 8.0 on a thinkpad t41 laptop. Installed w/ grub boot selected as this is only OS on system. All seemed to go well until reboot which failed due cache sync errors. Current symptons are I can't restart from the software as I see a "Kernel Panic - not syncing att

Choice of init system?

2014-09-18 Thread Ed Jabbour
Does (or will) the Jessie install offer a choice of systemd or sys5init? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201409182015.57493.e...@att.net

Re: Network Manager doesn't pick up network.

2014-05-09 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Friday, May 09, 2014 12:47:45 PM staticsafe wrote: > On 5/9/2014 11:28, Ed Jabbour wrote: > > Running stable, kde and network-manager-gnome. The modem/router > > provides two wireless network options - one 2.4 GHz, the other 5. > > However, net/mgr only picks up the 2.4 -

Network Manager doesn't pick up network.

2014-05-09 Thread Ed Jabbour
Running stable, kde and network-manager-gnome. The modem/router provides two wireless network options - one 2.4 GHz, the other 5. However, net/mgr only picks up the 2.4 - the 5 doesn't show at all. I thought maybe the 5 signal wasn't strong enough, so I moved the laptop right next to the mod

Re: [OT] non technical Q: bad or worse. Was: To do the same as Windows safe mode...........

2014-01-01 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Wednesday, January 01, 2014 01:27:09 PM Doug wrote: > I think it's useless to try and teach anybody English on the 'net > here. I've been trying to correct "loose" for "lose" for years > with no result. What I find particularly galling is "I could care less" when what is meant is "I couldn't

X crashes

2013-10-16 Thread Ed Jabbour
Running testing, and using the nouveau driver for a GeForce 7150M / nForce 630M GPU. X sporadically crashes to a black screen where things scroll by too fast for me to read. I’ve tried to examine kern.log and Xorg.0.log, as well as google searches. Xorg.0.log shows an error: cat /var/log/

Testing upgrades?

2013-05-09 Thread Ed Jabbour
Sorry about the blank message. Sources.list point to testing. I've received no upgrades since Wheezy went stable. I thought that upon a new stable release, packages flooded into testing from sid I don't know if that simply hasn't happened yet or something's wrong with my system. Any advice

Dual boot with OS X and Wheezy.

2012-12-01 Thread Ed Jabbour
Trying to dual boot OSX and Wheezy on a late 2008 Macbook running Mountain Lion. Following steps found on the web, I first created an empty partition using OSX's Disk Utility - 80 GB for OSX and 80GB free for Wheezy. However, when I reached the partitioning step in the Wheezy install, it id'd

Re: Identify PCI/PCI-X/AGP devices nature

2012-11-21 Thread ed mente
> Is it possible to find out what kind of PCI/PCI-X/AGP device is > installed on a PC? you can start by running lspci -vv -- 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.

Re: ACPI issues: backlight and more

2012-11-19 Thread ed mente
> Have you tried a kernel ml? yes, but with no luck http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.acpi.devel/56974 -- 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/87ip9021g

Re: ACPI issues: backlight and more

2012-11-19 Thread ed mente
> Sorry, but Ubuntu is not Debian. Have you tried asking on an Ubuntu > mailing list? No, I haven't. The thing is that the issue is with the ACPI kernel modules. The kernel is vanilla and custom build one. Nothing is particularly Distribution specific and I thought I might get valuable support her

Re: systemd intermittent startup

2012-11-18 Thread ed mente
Have you tried booting from another device and fsck on your root and boot partitions? -- 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/87y5hy2hwh@noname.com

ACPI issues: backlight and more

2012-11-18 Thread ed mente
PU is Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N450 @ 1.66GHz.=20 Sorry if you find the question irrelevant to this list. Any help would be appreciated. -- Best regards, Ed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

ACPI issues: backlight keys

2012-11-18 Thread ed mente
Hi, I'm currently running with the kernel parameter acpi=off as this is the only way I found to control the laptop's backlight with the keys while in console mode in the Framebuffer. How can I retain control over the backlight if ACPI is ON? Besides, as you can see from the logs below, I have al

ACPI issues: backlight and more

2012-11-18 Thread ed mente
Hi, I'm currently running this laptop with acpi=off as this is the only way to control the backlight with the keys while in console mode in the Framebuffer. How can I retain control over the backlight if ACPI is ON? Besides, as you can see from the logs below I have all kinds of ACPI issues besi

ACPI issues: backlight keys, etc.

2012-11-18 Thread ed mente
e.org/gmane.linux.acpi.devel/56974 Thanks in advance. -- Best regards, Ed -- 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/87ip937wqk@noname.com

Removing deb-multimedia pkgs w/o removing everything

2012-09-15 Thread Ed Jabbour
I'd like to remove packages gotten from deb-multimedia and replace some from the Debian repos. However, removing them will also remove a bunch of libs and kde progs. E.g., apt-get remove libavcodec53 yields: 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 190 to remove and 1 not upgraded. I'm not up to reins

Broken cups.

2012-05-25 Thread Ed Siefker
I am unable to print on my HP 1300n. I have cups installed, along with hpijs and hplip. I will append an actual list of packages to this email. My user is a member of both groups 'lp' and 'lpadmin'. Dmesg identifies my printer as "usb 5-2", and the device entry looks like this: crw-rw-r-T+ 1

Re: Manual's Tutorial #2 fails to boot from menu

2012-02-22 Thread Ed E
Moving this to debian-l...@lists.debian.org -- 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/1329930081.74370.yahoomailclas...@web161704.mail.bf1.yahoo.com

Manual's Tutorial #2 fails to boot from menu

2012-02-19 Thread Ed E
I built "Tutorial 2: A web browser utility" from Section 16.3 the Debian Live Manual dated Mon 21 Nov 2011 01:14:20 PM EST. I build the image on 2/17/12. It fails to initialize from the boot sceen prompt of "Live". It generates a beep, but nothing else. Both of the "Other options" work fine. The

Re: No cdrom device

2011-12-23 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Friday, December 23, 2011 7:32:22 PM Vincent Lefevre wrote: >Yes, /dev/scd0 disappeared after a recent upgrade (after 2011-11-17). Why do I still get error msgs referring to scd0?? > Running lshw *as root* says which /dev files can be used. > In my case: > >*-cdrom >

No cdrom device

2011-12-23 Thread Ed Jabbour
CDROM tray will not respond to "eject": [Fri Dec 23] edj:~$ eject eject: tried to use `/media/cdrom0' as device name but it is no block device eject: tried to use `/dev/scd0' as device name but it is no block device eject: unable to find or open device for: `cdrom'

SOLUTION: Re: Best practices for current Chrome/Chromium and/or Firefox/Icewasel in squeeze?

2011-07-31 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 17:05 Tue 26 Jul, Dr. Ed Morbius (dredmorb...@gmail.com) wrote: > I've recently been made aware of some of the benefits of the Chrome / > Chromium and Firefox. > > Running Squeeze, the most recent Chromium release is from May 13, and > Firefox 5 isn't available either

Re: Best practices for current Chrome/Chromium and/or Firefox/Icewasel in squeeze?

2011-07-26 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 16:35 Tue 26 Jul, Greg Madden (gomadtr...@gci.net) wrote: > > > On Tuesday 26 July 2011 04:05:47 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > I've recently been made aware of some of the benefits of the Chrome / > > Chromium and Firefox. > > > > Running Squeeze, the mo

Best practices for current Chrome/Chromium and/or Firefox/Icewasel in squeeze?

2011-07-26 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
t. What's best practices? Method or pointer to docs appreciated. Thanks. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist| When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Unlimited| Go to Krell! -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Debian-6.0.2.1-i386 and Intel 82845G - install fine,no screen on boot

2011-07-14 Thread Ed Siegner
eature, different from that used in "etch". Looking at the archives, others are having problems but I have not seen a successful resolve. Have any other ideals? Ed Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:26:03 -0700, Ed Siegner wrote: (...) An ssh connection was made from a rem

Debian-6.0.2.1-i386 and Intel 82845G - install fine,no screen on boot

2011-07-11 Thread Ed Siegner
7;t seem resolved but were a little different. I've attached the listing of "dmesg" and "lspic -v" - others available on request. Has anyone seen this problem? Did I miss a solution? Any input will be appreciated. Thanks, Ed 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 8

Re: generating graphs

2011-06-11 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
-system graphing, there are tools which will mine sar (sysstat Debian package) data. ksar is an interactive tool. You can also output delimited sar data for processing in tools of your own choosing (awk, perl, ruby, python, gnuplot, R, ...). -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /|

Re: USR 5633 Robotics Modem in Debian

2011-05-25 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
R. I'm asking if > anyone knows a way for USR. The only way you'll be able to use it is to set up a computer running Windows, allow it to run the modem, and use that as your Internet gateway. It. Just. Won't. Work. Under. Linux. Full stop. Otherwise: I'd try to swap for cmp

Re: Re: Why does Linux crash?

2011-04-20 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
#x27;d suggest you not do so, as you don't understand the problem and would be producing noise in the system. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist| When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Unlimited|

Re: changing my e-mail address

2011-04-16 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
a single answer to my question ! The answer to your question is: unsubscribe the old address. Subscribe the new one. Your subscription has no other semantics other than to 1) route mail to the subscribed address and 2) (sometimes) allow you to post to a given list (if it's limited to

Re: New user questions

2011-04-13 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 10:22 Wed 13 Apr, Freeman (hew...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 03:45:10PM -0700, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > on 13:03 Tue 12 Apr, Freeman (hew...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 01:38:47PM -0700, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > > > on 10:

Re: New to Linux

2011-04-12 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
ocate info2www Then point your browser at http://localhost/dwww > I have experiences with the Search Technology. I have also created a forum > to promote programming among my peers where we organize monthly contests on > this portal. www.code.vrglinug.org Um. So, are you asking a question or s

Re: New user questions

2011-04-12 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 13:03 Tue 12 Apr, Freeman (hew...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 01:38:47PM -0700, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > on 10:15 Mon 11 Apr, Michael (mmorse...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > I used Debian about four years ago and enjoyed it. The computer I > > > had it o

Re: New user questions

2011-04-11 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 09:53 Tue 12 Apr, chris (che...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 13:38 -0700, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > on 10:15 Mon 11 Apr, Michael (mmorse...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > I used Debian about four years ago and enjoyed it. The computer I > > > had it on died

Re: Suggestions for bayesian network software

2011-04-11 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
even if it is through Wine. R? http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Bayesian.html http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/Conferences/DSC-2003/Proceedings/BottcherDethlefsen.pdf http://www.mascherini.org/MascheriniStefaniniFrascati.pdf -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /|

Re: Free PDF viewer that can search for text across line-breaks?

2011-04-11 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
xclip copy #!/bin/sh # Xclip copy export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin xclip ---- Solves the vi/vim "how do I read in text" problem as well: :r !xp -- D

Re: New user questions

2011-04-11 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on but am having some issues. aptitude upgrade wife is slated for the 10.0 release. > First, is this the correct newsgroup for such "newbies"? Yes, it is. What's your question? -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist| W

Re: obtaining copy of debian

2011-04-11 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
ood guide, through the Debian Installation Guide lists architectures, and the Debian FAQ identifies these by chip type: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch02s01.html.en http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-compat.en.html#s-arches -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientis

Re: CD burning programs with verification

2011-04-09 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
satisfy your minimal deps requirement. You can do your own md5sum / sha1sum verification using any command-line utilities you choose. xcdroast + same works for me. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist| When you seek unlimited power Krell P

Re: obtaining copy of debian

2011-04-09 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
an.org/releases/stable/amd64/ The Debian Documentation homepage is another good place to start looking for help: http://www.debian.org/doc/ I'd particularly recommend the FAQ: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ A bit of attitude adjustment might also be in order. -- Dr.

Re: Managing large numbers (100+) of Debian-based machines

2011-04-07 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
uot;guinea pig" group for testing updates (some things just can't be tested in an automated fashion), essential for end-user deployments. A bevvy of other things I'm leaving out, but I'd like to see what others have to say. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientis

Re: Daily email from my remote calendar

2011-03-30 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 07:54 Wed 30 Mar, Gregory Seidman (gsslist+deb...@anthropohedron.net) wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 03:42:53PM -0700, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > on 08:55 Tue 29 Mar, Gregory Seidman (gsslist+deb...@anthropohedron.net) > > wrote: > > > I'm looking for somethin

Debian 6.0 and Raid

2011-03-30 Thread Ed Curtis
I'm installing Deb 6.0 on a system with and I2O raid adapter and a single raid 5 and the installation is not able to install a boot loader on the raid, either LILO or Grub. Is this normal? Ed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: Daily email from my remote calendar

2011-03-29 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
rwise: you should be able to mount the remote calendar via FUISE, grab it via cadaver, or other similar means. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist| When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Unlimited|

OT: crypto, auth, CAs, web-of-trust, and phony certs

2011-03-23 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
or. And good crypto, both in its implementation and execution, is hard. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist| When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Unlimited| Go to Krell! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Weird WM behavior after changing video cards

2011-03-22 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
n decide if this is something that needs to be addressed, but at least there will be a record of the issue. If others have a similar (or more severe) problem, they may be able to draw a connection between the two. Much better than a mailing list mention. -- Dr. Ed Morb

Re: Having trouble with Cron

2011-03-22 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 13:42 Tue 22 Mar, Ed Curtis (e_cur...@homes2see.com) wrote: > Maybe someone can help out with this. I have a bash script I run at > 1am every morning via an entry in cron.d. It records an echo in a > file when done so I can record it running. The trouble I'm having > wit

Re: Signature debian CDs

2011-03-22 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 20:46 Mon 21 Mar, Dan (ganc...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > on 22:48 Mon 21 Mar, Andrei Popescu (andreimpope...@gmail.com) wrote: > >> On Lu, 21 mar 11, 13:33:16, Dan wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > &

Having trouble with Cron

2011-03-22 Thread Ed Curtis
cron.d/backuppublishers I have * 1 * * * root/bin/backuppublishers The script is an rsync routine and an echo to my log file. Thanks, Ed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debi

Re: Signature debian CDs

2011-03-21 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
panding on this: The signature is valid (it cryptographically matches the signing key), but identity is unverified, based on your (OP's) trust path. You've got an assurance that the file contents haven't been changed since they were signed, but no definite assurance of the key&#

Re: Scrolling display problem in browsers firefox,konqueror

2011-03-18 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
... and see if you have the same corruption. If you don't, it's an X issue (at least in part). If you do, it's elsewhere. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist| When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Unlim

Re: need help with sed problem

2011-03-18 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
xt.txt > > Thanks a lot... I did not know that was possible... > > I used the # separator. Worked just fine Please note that '#' is a valid filesystem name character. There are relatively few values which are safely excludable. In your case this should

Re: help controlling beep in wheezy gnome desktop

2011-03-16 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
pplet. > > Thanks. gnome-volume-control has what I need --- and something I didn't > ask for but is much to my liking: I can change the beep to a dog bark > and entertain my dog, Daisy. My this forever quiet the madding crowd who insist that Debian isn't sufficiently dog-frien

Re: On-going problems with flashplugin for IW

2011-03-16 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
er browser controls or plugins such as NoScript? In my experience, javascript must be enabled to allow Flash plugins to work. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist| When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Unlimited

Re: SPAM SPAM SPAM !!! Re: Sip?

2011-03-16 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
cause it's stable, unlike the .ly extensions which > are hosted in Libya, You're confounding domain registration with hosting site. As of a few moments ago, bit.ly resolved to 168.143.172.53, which appears to be hosted by Verio in Dallas or NTT America, with a postal address in Cen

Re: Canonical source for the new CD signing key's fingerprint?

2011-03-16 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 21:03 Wed 16 Mar, Steve McIntyre (st...@einval.com) wrote: > Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > >on 04:56 Wed 16 Mar, Todd A. Jacobs (codegnome.consulting+deb...@gmail.com) > >wrote: > >> I've recently downloaded the net installation image for Squeeze, but > >> am r

Re: help controlling beep in wheezy gnome desktop

2011-03-16 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
ind it. > Are there some packages that I should install, but are not part of > what is done by the tasksel desktop task? Can you mute this via one of the mixer settings? 'xset -b' disables bell for most console apps. Otherwise ... that's about all I've got. -- Dr.

Re: SPAM SPAM SPAM !!! Re: Sip?

2011-03-16 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
f confidence, Andrei > Regards, A smidge of context would have been helpful. Well, a smidge /more/ than 'SIP'. I'd seen reference to the GNU Free Call project elsewhere. But otherwise this was just a tad on the terse side. Even Twitter allows you 140 bytes. -- Dr. Ed Mor

Re: Canonical source for the new CD signing key's fingerprint?

2011-03-16 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
to the associated GPG private key wrote it, and (assuming the signature validates), content hasn't been altered. Without known trusted signatures on my key, I could be anybody. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist| When you

Re: kde missing documentation

2011-03-14 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 14:55 Mon 14 Mar, Andreas Goesele (goes...@hfph.mwn.de) wrote: > "Dr. Ed Morbius" writes: > > > on 23:40 Sun 13 Mar, Andreas Goesele (goes...@hfph.mwn.de) wrote: > >> Hi! > >> > >> I just noticed that (after upgrading to squeeze) I'

Re: kde missing documentation

2011-03-13 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
/index.html does not exist. Install the relevant *-doc packages. aptitude search kde.*doc ... will likely list more than you need. 'kdebase-doc, kde-base-doc-html' would be a good start. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist

Re: File server without the Xserver

2011-03-12 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
rogram to your heart's content. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist| When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Unlimited| Go to Krell! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: Mail filtering / rules: mutt + offlineimap + ???

2011-03-12 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 23:42 Fri 11 Mar, Joel Roth (jo...@pobox.com) wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 04:47:43PM -0800, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > I've been been using mutt + offlineimap for great justice ... except for > > filtering. > > > > I've previously relied on procma

Re: File server without the Xserver

2011-03-11 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
dX11Trusted yes > > that's really about it. just ssh -x and export DISPLAY=0:0 > (iirc) and launch whatever you want. No export is necessary. In fact, that will break SSH's X11 forwarding, as it creates its own socket and sets DISPLAY appropriately. -- Dr. Ed Morbius,

Re: File server without the Xserver

2011-03-11 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 19:57 Fri 11 Mar, Dan (ganc...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > on 18:37 Fri 11 Mar, Dan (ganc...@gmail.com) wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius > >> wrote: > > xauth is required by xbase-c

Mail filtering / rules: mutt + offlineimap + ???

2011-03-11 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
certain messages as well. Hrm ... imapfilter according to the Consilience blog: http://blog.grossmeier.net/2009/01/25/imapfilterofflineimapmsmtpmuttabook/ What are others using for this, and/or set up the bomb? -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler

Re: File server without the Xserver

2011-03-11 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 18:37 Fri 11 Mar, Dan (ganc...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > > on 15:41 Fri 11 Mar, Dan (ganc...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am going to prepare a File Server with Debian in a ProLiant and I

Re: File server without the Xserver

2011-03-11 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
installed to use, or (in the case of Oracle), simply to /install/ their products. Nuts. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist| When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Unlimited| Go to Krell! -

Re: Fglrx left lint on my Squeeze box!

2011-03-11 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 08:02 Fri 11 Mar, Klistvud (quotati...@aliceadsl.fr) wrote: > Dne, 11. 03. 2011 06:00:18 je Dr. Ed Morbius napisal(a): > >on 21:03 Thu 10 Mar, Klistvud (quotati...@aliceadsl.fr) wrote: > >> Howdie, fellow Debianites! > >> > >> Upon installing Squeeze weeks ag

Re: Fglrx left lint on my Squeeze box!

2011-03-11 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 08:02 Fri 11 Mar, Klistvud (quotati...@aliceadsl.fr) wrote: > Dne, 11. 03. 2011 06:00:18 je Dr. Ed Morbius napisal(a): > >on 21:03 Thu 10 Mar, Klistvud (quotati...@aliceadsl.fr) wrote: > >> Howdie, fellow Debianites! > >> > >> Upon installing Squeeze weeks ag

Re: Fglrx left lint on my Squeeze box!

2011-03-10 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
oop to avoid the obvious tedium involved, unless you're into obvious tedium, of course, not that there's anything wrong with that). > Specifically, what do you make of those symlinks under /etc/rcx.d/ ? > Will they slow down my boots perceptibly? I'm almos

Re: new hard drive usb "WD My Passport essential SE" 1Tb

2011-03-03 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
n > (squeeze)? dmesg | tail -20 lsusb Post output. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist| When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Unlimited| Go to Krell! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: Mounting and FTPing with SSH

2011-03-03 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
For truly transparent access, look to FUSE and sshfs: http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist| When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Unlimited| Go to K

Re: Debian Newbie need help

2011-03-03 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
aid: xrandr is probably your first resource, though you can also muck with /etc/X11/xorg.conf. As others have noted: post /var/log/Xorg.0.log -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist| When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Un

Re: VMware Workstation

2011-03-02 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 23:50 Wed 02 Mar, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net (teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net) wrote: > Ed Morbius ask; > > Does anyone have actual or apparent performance comparisons between vbox > and VMWare? > > Why would one chose one over the other? > - > > I would say VMWa

Re: VMware Workstation

2011-03-02 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 14:54 Wed 02 Mar, Greg Madden (gomadtr...@gci.net) wrote: > > > On Wednesday 02 March 2011 01:59:50 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > > Why would one chose one over the other? > > OT but, Vbox is gpl and in Debians repositoriies. Well, yeah, besides the obvious I mea

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