Re: Battery problem

2013-03-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:25:59AM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > On 12/03/13 11:17, Darac Marjal wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 09:24:20AM +, Andrea Neroni wrote: > > Have a look at the output of "cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info". In > > particular, compare the values of "design capa

Re: Problem with Synaptic in Wheezy/Testing

2013-03-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 08:48:55AM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > Synaptic 0.75.12 in 64 bit Wheezy/Testing > > This is a new installation (several days ago). Up until yesterday I > could open Synaptic as a user from the pull down System/Synaptic Package > Manager. > > This morning that route

Re: Up to date Sid: Custom kernel, trying to install Virtualbox

2013-03-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-03-12 at 19:21 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Curt Howland wrote: > > Good evening. Up-to-date Sid, 32 bit. > > > > I've been trying to install VirtualBox, both from the Sid main > > archives and the Oracle > > virtualbox-4.2_4.2.8-83876~Debian~wheezy_i386.deb package. > > > > Both

Re: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-13 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:43 AM, keshav prabhakar wrote: > > looks like I didn't 'reply all' before.. >> >> As a start and without diagnosing further, I'd boot from an install CD >> in rescue mode and re-create the initramfs either with >> "update-initramfs -u -k ..." or "update-initramfs -d -k .

Re: Debian Wheezy Grub Problem

2013-03-13 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > My main Linux computer (64bit CPU) is about six or seven years old now > and has had a number of distributions running. As I haven't had any > luck with upgrades, I've always done a complete installation. > > Currently the Grub boot me

Re: Up to date Sid: Custom kernel, trying to install Virtualbox

2013-03-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 09:22 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2013-03-12 at 22:55 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Curt Howland wrote: > > > Also, VB was crashing my system quite reliably last time I had it > > > installed, and I just got a new CPU. Since I assume VB was accessing > > > some damaged

Re: Up to date Sid: Custom kernel, trying to install Virtualbox

2013-03-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-03-12 at 22:55 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Curt Howland wrote: > > Also, VB was crashing my system quite reliably last time I had it > > installed, and I just got a new CPU. Since I assume VB was accessing > > some damaged part of my old CPU, I wanted to try VB before and after > > the

Re: Debian Wheezy Grub Problem

2013-03-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 04:34 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Stephen P. Molnar > wrote: > > > > My main Linux computer (64bit CPU) is about six or seven years old now > > and has had a number of distributions running. As I haven't had any > > luck with upgrades, I've always

Re: Battery problem

2013-03-13 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Tuesday 12 March 2013 10:00:06 am Andrea Neroni wrote: > > I was thinking of top too, but even if top shouldn't show something, it > > still could be, that CPU frequency scaling and energy saving for the > > graphics and HDD are different between the Win and Debian installs. > > Hi and thanks f

Re: has your squeeze ever crashed?

2013-03-13 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 02:55:04AM -0400, Long Wind wrote: > linux is stable, or is it? > my squeeze has just crashed > it doesn't respond to key press > two of three lights in up right corner of keyboard blink Debian uses the term "stable" in the sense of "unchanging" rather than "rock-solid reli

FW: Problem with Synaptic in Wheezy/Testing

2013-03-13 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
Thanks for your reply. Apparently the problem fixed itself. The next day Synaptic was back to normal. Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariate www.FoundationForChemistry.

Re: has your squeeze ever crashed?

2013-03-13 Thread steef
Long Wind schreef: linux is stable, or is it? my squeeze has just crashed it doesn't respond to key press two of three lights in up right corner of keyboard blink I suspect flash player in browser might be the cause the player is downloaded from adobe site and installed by myself besides I often

Re: permissions on a Verbatim USB external drive

2013-03-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 12 March 2013 18:58:16 John L. Cunningham wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 05:31:57PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > The Verbatim belongs to User, and needs to function on his box. But it > > cannot be written to from his box, even as root, and returns "access > > denied" to most files an

Re: FW: Problem with Synaptic in Wheezy/Testing

2013-03-13 Thread Chris Bannister
[That "Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0" is one hell of a horrible mailer!] On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 06:10:55AM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > Thanks for your reply. Apparently the problem fixed itself. The next day > Synaptic was back to normal. So you didn't do an upgrade and it just magically

Re: rootkit/virus/trojan on squeeze 32 bit

2013-03-13 Thread Sergey Spiridonov
Hi Richard On 03/13/2013 03:59 AM, Richard Hector wrote: This was the problem! Thank you very much. I installed prelink looong time ago (> 3 years). Why do I got this problem suddenly right now, after so many years? - no idea. Probably some configuration file got overwritten during update. So

Re: Debian Wheezy Grub Problem

2013-03-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:00:35AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > The automation for GRUB2 is crap, edit the grub.cfg manually, then you > also could tidy up grub.cfg and get rid of all the nonsense. root@tal:~# ls -al /boot/grub/grub.cfg -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3356 Mar 1 22:53 /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Re: Debian Wheezy Grub Problem

2013-03-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 00:28 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:00:35AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > The automation for GRUB2 is crap, edit the grub.cfg manually, then you > > also could tidy up grub.cfg and get rid of all the nonsense. > > root@tal:~# ls -al /boot/grub/gr

Re: Debian Wheezy Grub Problem

2013-03-13 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 5:00 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 04:34 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> You can set the default in "/etc/default/grub" as >> 'GRUB_DEFAULT="Debian GNU/Linux (6.0.4)"'. > > The automation for GRUB2 is crap, edit the grub.cfg manually, then you > also could tidy u

Re: Debian Wheezy Grub Problem

2013-03-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 09:07 -0400, Tom H wrote: > > menuentry 'Ubuntu Quantal, kernel 3.6.5-rt14' { > > set root='(hd1,9)'; set legacy_hdbias='0' > > legacy_kernel '/boot/vmlinuz-3.6.5-rt14' '/boot/vmlinuz-3.6.5-rt14' > > 'root=/dev/sdb9' 'ro' 'quiet' '' > > legacy_initrd '/boot/initrd.img-3.6.5-rt

Re: permissions on a Verbatim USB external drive

2013-03-13 Thread João Luis Meloni Assirati
Em 13-03-2013 07:37, Lisi Reisz escreveu: On Tuesday 12 March 2013 18:58:16 John L. Cunningham wrote: On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 05:31:57PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: The Verbatim belongs to User, and needs to function on his box. But it cannot be written to from his box, even as root, and returns

VirtualBox causing session crash

2013-03-13 Thread Verde Denim
After yesterday's updates to Wheezy - I start Virtualbox 4.1.18 and after selecting the 'start' of any virtual machine, my session is ended and I'm logged out. Anyone else seeing this behavior? -- Regards Jack Boston Tea Party, Coercive Acts, Powder Alarm, Revolution Lessons not learned are boun

Re: permissions on a Verbatim USB external drive

2013-03-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 13 March 2013 14:55:01 João Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: > Em 13-03-2013 07:37, Lisi Reisz escreveu: > > On Tuesday 12 March 2013 18:58:16 John L. Cunningham wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 05:31:57PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >>> The Verbatim belongs to User, and needs to function

Re: has your squeeze ever crashed?

2013-03-13 Thread Gary Dale
On 13/03/13 02:55 AM, Long Wind wrote: linux is stable, or is it? my squeeze has just crashed it doesn't respond to key press two of three lights in up right corner of keyboard blink I suspect flash player in browser might be the cause the player is downloaded from adobe site and installed by my

Re: has your squeeze ever crashed?

2013-03-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Long Wind wrote: linux is stable, or is it? flash player Linux is stable and flash player isn't Linux, flash player development for Linux already is dropped, there will be no future versions for Linux. If people want Microsoft/Apple, regarding to Apple flash player is a bad example ;), th

Re: has your squeeze ever crashed?

2013-03-13 Thread sp113438
On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 02:55:04 -0400 Long Wind wrote: My PC crashed 3 times in a year without a trace in /var/log. I could use Alt+SySReq+S,U,B to reboot (I use flashplugin-nonfree and google-earth.) > linux is stable, or is it? > my squeeze has just crashed > it doesn't respond to key press > two

Re: has your squeeze ever crashed?

2013-03-13 Thread Joao Luis Meloni Assirati
> linux is stable, or is it? Absolutely stable and crashproof? No. Anyone who says that has no idea what he is talking about. You can compare Linux operating systems to other operating systems if you wish, though. > my squeeze has just crashed > it doesn't respond to key press > two of three ligh

Re: has your squeeze ever crashed?

2013-03-13 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Long Wind wrote: >> >> linux is stable, or is it? >> flash player > > > Linux is stable and flash player isn't Linux, flash player development for > Linux already is dropped, there will be no future versions for Linux. If > people want Microso

Re: has your squeeze ever crashed?

2013-03-13 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: >> linux is stable, or is it? > > Absolutely stable and crashproof? No. Anyone who says that has no idea > what he is talking about. You can compare Linux operating systems to other > operating systems if you wish, though. > >> my s

Re: has your squeeze ever crashed?

2013-03-13 Thread Gary Dale
On 13/03/13 12:52 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Long Wind wrote: linux is stable, or is it? flash player Linux is stable and flash player isn't Linux, flash player development for Linux already is dropped, there will be no future versions for

Re: has your squeeze ever crashed?

2013-03-13 Thread Yaro Kasear
On 03/13/2013 10:53 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Long Wind wrote: linux is stable, or is it? flash player Linux is stable and flash player isn't Linux, flash player development for Linux already is dropped, there will be no future versions for Linux. If people want Microsoft/Apple, regarding to A

Itroductry info on permission issues and implications - where? -was [Re: permissions on a Verbatim USB external drive]

2013-03-13 Thread Richard Owlett
João Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: [snip] Since vfat filesystems don't hold UNIX permissions, it has to be mounted with the umask and/or uid, gid options. If it is plugged through USB and you have a mount desktop service communicating with dbus, all should be automatic. However, if User mounts it

Re: has your squeeze ever crashed?

2013-03-13 Thread Shane Johnson
> Linux is stable and flash player isn't Linux, flash player development for >> Linux already is dropped, there will be no future versions for Linux. If >> people want Microsoft/Apple, regarding to Apple flash player is a bad >> example ;), they should use Microsft/Apple. Linux is an OS for itsel

Re: has your squeeze ever crashed?

2013-03-13 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Yaro Kasear wrote: > On 03/13/2013 10:53 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> >> Long Wind wrote: >>> >>> linux is stable, or is it? >>> flash player >> >> >> Linux is stable and flash player isn't Linux, flash player development for >> Linux already is dropped, there will

Re: has your squeeze ever crashed?

2013-03-13 Thread Yaro Kasear
On 03/13/2013 12:19 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Yaro Kasear wrote: On 03/13/2013 10:53 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Long Wind wrote: linux is stable, or is it? flash player Linux is stable and flash player isn't Linux, flash player development for Linux already is

Kernel stability relation to HW-specific code?

2013-03-13 Thread Alois Mahdal
Hello, slightly OT, maybe... (specific to kernel, not Debian). On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:03:24 -0300 "Joao Luis Meloni Assirati" wrote: > Squeeze is now more than 2 years old and in this period I > installed and administered dozens of debian computers. I had > the oportunity to see lots of crashes

Re: has your squeeze ever crashed?

2013-03-13 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Yaro Kasear wrote: > > That's still a far cry from NO FLASH EVER FOR LINUX, which was the original > assertion. Just "no Flash outside of Chrome." No, it is exactly what we said. Adobe does not develop Flash for Linux anymore. Google does, but only for Chrome. A

Re: VirtualBox causing session crash

2013-03-13 Thread Ximo
On 03/13/2013 04:07 PM, Verde Denim wrote: After yesterday's updates to Wheezy - I start Virtualbox 4.1.18 and after selecting the 'start' of any virtual machine, my session is ended and I'm logged out. Anyone else seeing this behavior? Hello, Did you check the log file `/var/log/Xorg.0.log`?.

Re: has your squeeze ever crashed?

2013-03-13 Thread Nick Lidakis
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 08:11:36AM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:55 PM, Long Wind wrote: > > linux is stable, or is it? > > Sure, but there is difference between stable and "never crashes, > ever". Namely one is a real thing, and the other does not and cannot > exist, i

Re: Kernel stability relation to HW-specific code?

2013-03-13 Thread Joao Luis Meloni Assirati
> Hello, > > slightly OT, maybe... (specific to kernel, not Debian). > > On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:03:24 -0300 > "Joao Luis Meloni Assirati" wrote: >> Squeeze is now more than 2 years old and in this period I >> installed and administered dozens of debian computers. I had >> the oportunity to see lot

Re: has your squeeze ever crashed?

2013-03-13 Thread Gary Dale
On 13/03/13 02:35 PM, Nick Lidakis wrote: On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 08:11:36AM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:55 PM, Long Wind wrote: linux is stable, or is it? Sure, but there is difference between stable and "never crashes, ever". Namely one is a real thing, and the ot

Re: Itroductry info on permission issues and implications - where? -was [Re: permissions on a Verbatim USB external drive]

2013-03-13 Thread Joao Luis Meloni Assirati
> João Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: >> [snip] >> >> Since vfat filesystems don't hold UNIX permissions, it has >> to be mounted with the umask and/or uid, gid options. If it >> is plugged through USB and you have a mount desktop service >> communicating with dbus, all should be automatic. However, >

Re: Debian Wheezy Grub Problem

2013-03-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-03-13 12:59 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 00:28 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:00:35AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> > The automation for GRUB2 is crap, edit the grub.cfg manually, then you >> > also could tidy up grub.cfg and get rid of al

Re: has your squeeze ever crashed?

2013-03-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-03-13 18:59 +0100, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Yaro Kasear wrote: >> >> Further, it's still not a big thing. Gnash, while certainly not up to par >> with Flash itself, is fine for most usage. Depends on your usage, but my impression is that Gnash does not wor

Re: has your squeeze ever crashed?

2013-03-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 09:52 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > Long Wind wrote: > >> > >> linux is stable, or is it? > >> flash player > > > > > > Linux is stable and flash player isn't Linux, flash player development for > > Linux already is d

Re: has your squeeze ever crashed?

2013-03-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 10:01 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > or even just Mozilla The most used browsers by me are Mozilla browsers. I like them, but beside their advantages, they've got some drawbacks. I usually have magic keys disabled and often needed to reset, when using Mozillas. -- To UNSUB

Re: "iwconfig wlan0 power off" on module load

2013-03-13 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
basti, 11.03.2013: > I have fixed with > > iface wlan0 inet dhcp > wireless-power off > > in /etc/network/interfaces. > This works for now. I did it by adding a line to /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules: SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="rt2500pci", KERNEL=="wlan0", RUN="/sb

Re: has your squeeze ever crashed?

2013-03-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 13:04 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > Moreover, you can also use Gnash if you don't like Adobe's Flash. If you can use Gnash, than you don't need Flash, I guess you even don't need Gnash anymore, to get what Gnash does support. Gnash doesn't provide what Flash does provide. I won'

Re: has your squeeze ever crashed?

2013-03-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 12:26 -0500, Yaro Kasear wrote: > On 03/13/2013 12:19 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Yaro Kasear wrote: > >> On 03/13/2013 10:53 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >>> Long Wind wrote: > linux is stable, or is it? > flash player > >>> > >>> Li

Re: has your squeeze ever crashed?

2013-03-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Forwarded Message From: Ralf Mardorf To: linux-audio-u...@lists.linuxaudio.org Subject: OT: [LAU] multimedia content Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:37:43 +0100 On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 19:41 +0100, Robin Gareus wrote: > On 03/07/2013 04:18 AM, Patrick Shirkey wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm

Re: Debian Wheezy Grub Problem

2013-03-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 21:16 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > For anyone who actually thinks about following Ralf's advice: if you > do > that, it is also necessary to divert /usr/sbin/update-grub and replace > it with something harmless, say a symlink to /bin/true. Otherwise the > local changes to gru

[SOLVED] Re: Up to date Sid: Custom kernel, trying to install Virtualbox

2013-03-13 Thread Curt Howland
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Curt Howland wrote: > = > Uninstalling modules from DKMS > Attempting to install using DKMS > > Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/4.2.8/source -> > /usr/src/vboxhost-4.2.8 > > DKMS: add completed. > Failed to install using DKMS, attemptin

Re: Debian Wheezy Grub Problem

2013-03-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-03-13 23:19 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 21:16 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: >> For anyone who actually thinks about following Ralf's advice: if you >> do >> that, it is also necessary to divert /usr/sbin/update-grub and replace >> it with something harmless, say a symli

Re: Wheezy amd64 XFCE how to burn Blu-Ray (BD-R )discs?

2013-03-13 Thread David Christensen
On 03/12/13 18:47, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Googling 'k3b blu ray' got me to http://www.k3b.org/ which says that k3b > burns blu ray discs. Let us know if it is true. On 03/12/13 18:50, Gary Dale wrote: On 12/03/13 09:47 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: You don't need anything special to burn blu-ray

Re: Debian Wheezy Grub Problem

2013-03-13 Thread Brian
On Wed 13 Mar 2013 at 23:19:57 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 21:16 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > > For anyone who actually thinks about following Ralf's advice: if you > > do > > that, it is also necessary to divert /usr/sbin/update-grub and replace > > it with something harmle

Re: Debian Wheezy Grub Problem

2013-03-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 00:00 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > dpkg-divert http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/118 I wasn't aware that it's that easy :D, not especially regarding to the GRUB issue, but it would have saved me some work with other packages. OTOH, because I wasn't aware of this,

Re: Wheezy amd64 XFCE how to burn Blu-Ray (BD-R )discs?

2013-03-13 Thread Shane Johnson
> Thanks for the replies. :-) > > > I'm looking for something simple that's integrated with GUI/desktop OOTB. > Something like Brasero. But, Wheezy amd64 XFCE Brasero doesn't seem to > support burning of Blu-Ray discs (?). > > > apt-cache search doesn't seem to offer any Blu-Ray burning applic

Re: Wheezy amd64 XFCE how to burn Blu-Ray (BD-R )discs?

2013-03-13 Thread David Christensen
On 03/13/13 16:19, Shane Johnson wrote: http://www.k3b.org/ They have supported Blu-ray burning since 2.0 and I am running wheezy which runs 2.0.2 and I don't have any problems burning any type of media. Okay. I've installed it and have started a BD-R burn... David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Wheezy amd64 XFCE how to burn Blu-Ray (BD-R )discs?

2013-03-13 Thread Gary Dale
On 13/03/13 06:57 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 03/12/13 18:47, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Googling 'k3b blu ray' got me to http://www.k3b.org/ which says that k3b > burns blu ray discs. Let us know if it is true. On 03/12/13 18:50, Gary Dale wrote: On 12/03/13 09:47 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote

Re: Itroductry info on permission issues and implications - where? -was [Re: permissions on a Verbatim USB external drive]

2013-03-13 Thread owens
- Original Message - From: Joao Luis Meloni Assirati To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: 3/13/2013 7:31:19 PM Subject: Re: Itroductry info on permission issues and implications - where? -was [Re: permissions on a Verbatim USB external drive] > João Luis Meloni Assirati wrote:

newer kernels from experimental?

2013-03-13 Thread Brad Alexander
While it isn't quite getting long in the tooth, sid is still sporting the 3.2.x kernel. Now as I recall, Greg KH said that this would be the next long term support kernel, but I would like to play with some of the newer features from the later 3.x kernels from experimental, like f2fs and btrfs. I w

Archiving Selected emails from icedove

2013-03-13 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all; I need to archive to disk all of my emails from one organization for the year of 2012. I wish to burn them to CD in a format that others could read much later. Can anyone tell me how to do this.I think that the real problems are getting the selected emails out of icedove and then getti

Re: newer kernels from experimental?

2013-03-13 Thread Gary Dale
On 13/03/13 09:00 PM, Brad Alexander wrote: While it isn't quite getting long in the tooth, sid is still sporting the 3.2.x kernel. Now as I recall, Greg KH said that this would be the next long term support kernel, but I would like to play with some of the newer features from the later 3.x ker

Fwd: newer kernels from experimental?

2013-03-13 Thread Brad Alexander
Sorry. Didn't check the reply field. -- Forwarded message -- From: Brad Alexander Date: Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:22 PM Subject: Re: newer kernels from experimental? To: g...@dalefamily.org On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > I wouldn't use any of the newer fil

Re: Archiving Selected emails from icedove

2013-03-13 Thread Gary Dale
On 13/03/13 08:11 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all; I need to archive to disk all of my emails from one organization for the year of 2012. I wish to burn them to CD in a format that others could read much later. Can anyone tell me how to do this.I think that the real problems are getting the sele

Re: newer kernels from experimental?

2013-03-13 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 21:00:47 -0400 Brad Alexander wrote: > While it isn't quite getting long in the tooth, sid is still sporting the > 3.2.x kernel. Now as I recall, Greg KH said that this would be the next > long term support kernel, but I would like to play with some of the newer > features fro

Re: newer kernels from experimental?

2013-03-13 Thread Johan Grönqvist
2013-03-14 02:00, Brad Alexander skrev: [...] sid is still sporting the 3.2.x kernel. [...] I would like to play with some of the newer features from the later 3.x kernels from experimental, [...] I was wondering if anyone is running any of them, and if they are stable enough for day-to-day use.