Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 23 January 2015 03:25:42 Gene Heskett wrote: > > You haven't a clue what you are doing when you are partitioning, have > > you? > > Not really, I have only been doing it since 1985 or 6. :) >   No doubt long experienced drivers of horse drawn carriages thought that they were well qualif

Re: SIOCDELRT, or: proper syntax to delete default route for an interface?

2015-01-23 Thread Sven Hartge
Matt Ventura wrote: >> me@client:~$ date ; sudo route -n >> Thu Jan 22 11:48:48 EST 2015 >> Kernel IP routing table >> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface >> 0.0.0.0 10.144.15.100 128.0.0.0 UG1 00 ppp0 >> 0.0.0.0

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-23 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 07:26:02PM +, Brian wrote: > On Thu 22 Jan 2015 at 13:31:36 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Thursday 22 January 2015 09:42:13 Gary Dale did opine > > > > > > 50G for swap?! > > > > The partitioner that sets this up previously setup a bit over 2x the > > memory, 1

Re: Wheezy is installed, blowed up 2 minutes later.

2015-01-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 22 January 2015 14:50:43 Bob Holtzman did opine And Gene did reply: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 03:05:23PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > ..snip.. > > > Even in the expert AND manual modes, and I am getting tired of > > repeating this, you cannot modify the "do not Use"

Re: Wheezy is installed, blowed up 2 minutes later.

2015-01-23 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:29:06PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 22 January 2015 14:50:43 Bob Holtzman did opine > And Gene did reply: > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 03:05:23PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > > > ..snip.. > > > > > Even in the expert AND manual modes, an

Screwed up Jessie Gnome display, no vga

2015-01-23 Thread Thomas H. George
I'm using an old HP desktop, no hdmi. On bootup display is too wide in both console and Gnome displays. Monitor controls cannot correct this so I experimented with the display control in Gnome. Somehow I turned off the vga signal. If I restart gdm3 the Gnome login window appears but after login t

Re: Screwed up Jessie Gnome display, no vga

2015-01-23 Thread Gary Dale
On 23/01/15 10:32 AM, Thomas H. George wrote: I'm using an old HP desktop, no hdmi. On bootup display is too wide in both console and Gnome displays. Monitor controls cannot correct this so I experimented with the display control in Gnome. Somehow I turned off the vga signal. If I restart gdm3

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 23 January 2015 05:47:13 Lisi Reisz did opine And Gene did reply: > On Friday 23 January 2015 03:25:42 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > You haven't a clue what you are doing when you are partitioning, > > > have you? > > > > Not really, I have only been doing it since 1985 or 6. :) > > > > N

Re: Wheezy is installed, blowed up 2 minutes later.

2015-01-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 23 January 2015 07:39:44 Darac Marjal did opine And Gene did reply: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:29:06PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 22 January 2015 14:50:43 Bob Holtzman did opine > > > > And Gene did reply: > > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 03:05:23PM -0500, Gene Heskett wro

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 22 January 2015 14:52:16 Bob Holtzman did opine And Gene did reply: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 01:15:25AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 20 January 2015 19:58:51 Don Armstrong did opine > > > > And Gene did reply: > > > On Tue, 20 Jan 2015, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > and lea

Re: Wheezy is installed, blowed up 2 minutes later.

2015-01-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 23 January 2015 12:48:47 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 23 January 2015 07:39:44 Darac Marjal did opine > > And Gene did reply: > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:29:06PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Thursday 22 January 2015 14:50:43 Bob Holtzman did opine > > > > > > And Gene did rep

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 23 January 2015 12:42:15 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 23 January 2015 05:47:13 Lisi Reisz did opine > > And Gene did reply: > > On Friday 23 January 2015 03:25:42 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > You haven't a clue what you are doing when you are partitioning, > > > > have you? > > > > > >

Re: Wheezy is installed, blowed up 2 minutes later.

2015-01-23 Thread Brian
On Fri 23 Jan 2015 at 18:42:59 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 23 January 2015 12:48:47 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 23 January 2015 07:39:44 Darac Marjal did opine > > > > And Gene did reply: > > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:29:06PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Thursday 22 Janu

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-23 Thread Brian
On Thu 22 Jan 2015 at 22:33:57 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > The Brother supplied ppd's for my HL-3170CDW color laser do not strip and > reformat html that well. It does quite well on most web jobs, like > printing the order ack when I buy something online, but to do a web page > is asking a bi

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-23 Thread Brian
On Fri 23 Jan 2015 at 18:46:04 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 23 January 2015 12:42:15 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 23 January 2015 05:47:13 Lisi Reisz did opine > > > > And Gene did reply: > > > On Friday 23 January 2015 03:25:42 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > > You haven't a clue what yo

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-23 Thread Ron
On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 18:46:04 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > Touché. :-( Yes, that wasn't very nice. But one can hardly compare 1985 > with > now! Hard drives were in single figure gig sizes. More like meg sizes... Cheers, Ron. -- Non omnia possumus omnes.

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-23 Thread Joe
On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 16:08:56 -0300 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 18:46:04 + > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > Touché. :-( Yes, that wasn't very nice. But one can hardly > > compare 1985 with now! Hard drives were in single figure gig sizes. > > More like meg sizes... > I

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 23 January 2015 13:46:04 Lisi Reisz did opine And Gene did reply: > On Friday 23 January 2015 12:42:15 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 23 January 2015 05:47:13 Lisi Reisz did opine > > > > And Gene did reply: > > > On Friday 23 January 2015 03:25:42 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > > You ha

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 23 January 2015 14:07:30 Brian did opine And Gene did reply: > On Thu 22 Jan 2015 at 22:33:57 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > The Brother supplied ppd's for my HL-3170CDW color laser do not strip > > and reformat html that well. It does quite well on most web jobs, > > like printing the o

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-23 Thread Brian
On Fri 23 Jan 2015 at 14:24:45 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 23 January 2015 13:46:04 Lisi Reisz did opine > And Gene did reply: > > On Friday 23 January 2015 12:42:15 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Not really, I have only been doing it since 1985 or 6. :) > > > > > > > > No do

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-23 Thread Brian
On Fri 23 Jan 2015 at 14:35:57 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 23 January 2015 14:07:30 Brian did opine > And Gene did reply: > > On Thu 22 Jan 2015 at 22:33:57 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > The Brother supplied ppd's for my HL-3170CDW color laser do not strip > > > and reformat html tha

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-23 Thread Dom
On 23/01/15 19:21, Joe wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 16:08:56 -0300 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 18:46:04 + Lisi Reisz wrote: Touché. :-( Yes, that wasn't very nice. But one can hardly compare 1985 with now! Hard drives were in single figure gig sizes. More like meg

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 23 January 2015 19:24:45 Gene Heskett wrote: > You are late to the party Lisi, Sorry, Gene. I find you very hard to follow. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arch

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-23 Thread Ric Moore
On 01/23/2015 03:09 PM, Dom wrote: On 23/01/15 19:21, Joe wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 16:08:56 -0300 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 18:46:04 + Lisi Reisz wrote: Touché. :-( Yes, that wasn't very nice. But one can hardly compare 1985 with now! Hard drives were in sing

Re: SIOCDELRT, or: proper syntax to delete default route for an interface?

2015-01-23 Thread Matt Ventura
On 01/23/2015 04:05 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: Matt Ventura wrote: me@client:~$ date ; sudo route -n Thu Jan 22 11:48:48 EST 2015 Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 0.0.0.0 10.144.15.100 128.0.0.0 UG1 0

Re: SIOCDELRT, or: proper syntax to delete default route for an interface?

2015-01-23 Thread Sven Hartge
Matt Ventura wrote: > On 01/23/2015 04:05 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Matt Ventura wrote: > Well, that confirms my original suspicion. The F5 VPN is throwing its > default route over the original one, and that's causing traffic to the > OpenVPN server to try to route over the F5 VPN. Obviously thi

Re: Minimal configuration for a laptop

2015-01-23 Thread Selim T . Erdoğan
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 12:19:02AM -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 1/22/15, Jarle Aase wrote: > > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > If you look for an older laptop, Lenovo ThinkPad may be a good choise. > > The 12" models are relatively portable, and the build quali

Re: Screwed up Jessie Gnome display, no vga - A Klutz Fix

2015-01-23 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:32:42AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > I'm using an old HP desktop, no hdmi. On bootup display is too wide in > both console and Gnome displays. Monitor controls cannot correct this > so I experimented with the display control in Gnome. Somehow I turned > off the vga s

Re: network newbie seeks assistance debugging iptables for VPN tunnel

2015-01-23 Thread Tom Roche
Back to this task after long detours! well, almost: Matt Ventura Fri, 23 Jan 2015 12:47:21 -0800 [1] >> The F5 VPN is throwing its default route over the original one, and that's >> causing traffic to the OpenVPN server to try to route over the F5 VPN. >> Obviously this doesn't work because the t

Display in a console

2015-01-23 Thread Ron
When I boot my box, it starts with a "normal" display of 80 col x 25 lines, then the display changes and the characters become so small as to be illegible. Once in X, I also have the illegible small characters when I open a console with Alr-Ctrl-F1. Is there a way to stop this, and keep charact

Re: Display in a console

2015-01-23 Thread David Wright
Quoting Renaud OLGIATI (ren...@olgiati-in-paraguay.org): > When I boot my box, it starts with a "normal" display of 80 col x 25 lines, > then the display changes and the characters become so small as to be > illegible. > > Once in X, I also have the illegible small characters when I open a conso

Re: Display in a console

2015-01-23 Thread Brian
On Fri 23 Jan 2015 at 20:04:17 -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > When I boot my box, it starts with a "normal" display of 80 col x 25 lines, > then the display changes and the characters become so small as to be > illegible. > > Once in X, I also have the illegible small characters when I open a c

Re: Minimal configuration for a laptop

2015-01-23 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Selim T. Erdoğan wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 12:19:02AM -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > On 1/22/15, Jarle Aase wrote: > > > > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > If you look for an older laptop, Lenovo ThinkPad may be a good > > > chois

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 23 January 2015 15:19:48 Lisi Reisz did opine And Gene did reply: > On Friday 23 January 2015 19:24:45 Gene Heskett wrote: > > You are late to the party Lisi, > > Sorry, Gene. I find you very hard to follow. > > Lisi Sorry Lisi. My arthritic fingers have slowed more than my bra

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 23 January 2015 15:41:06 Ric Moore did opine And Gene did reply: > On 01/23/2015 03:09 PM, Dom wrote: > > On 23/01/15 19:21, Joe wrote: > >> On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 16:08:56 -0300 > >> > >> Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > >>> On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 18:46:04 + > >>> > >>> Lisi Reisz wrote:

Unable to configure UPS options

2015-01-23 Thread Melvin Call
Hello, I have two computers, both running Wheezy and the XFCE4 Desktop. Both have attached UPS devices, and lsusb shows the UPS attached to each machine. Yet, on one I have options to configure actions to take when on battery, and on the other I have no "On Battery" tab. I enabled the battery moni

Re: Unable to configure UPS options

2015-01-23 Thread mrr
On 24/01/2015 03:50, Melvin Call wrote: Hello, I have two computers, both running Wheezy and the XFCE4 Desktop. Both have attached UPS devices, and lsusb shows the UPS attached to each machine. Yet, on one I have options to configure actions to take when on battery, and on the other I have no "O

Re: upgrade kernel

2015-01-23 Thread mrr
On 16/01/2015 17:50, Marc Auslander wrote: Pol Hallen writes: Hi folks! a security updates of kernel is available (from apt-get upgrade), so: must I reboot my pc (after upgrade) to avoid security problems? Is there another way? thanks for help! Pol I always reboot after a kernel related

Re: How to set up GDM3 for multihead?

2015-01-23 Thread Alexis
Ping. Any thoughts on the below? Does GDM3 actually not support multihead X? If it does, is there any documentation (by which i mean: not the source itself) to describe how to set it up for multihead X? Alexis writes: > Hi all, > > Context: Debian Wheezy x86_64 + all available updates. > > Some

Re: Recording sound from a web page

2015-01-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 01/19/2015 12:15 AM, Curt wrote: On 2015-01-18, Marc Shapiro wrote: I am trying to record sound that is playing in firefox, or chrome. I am using Audacity 2.0.1 on Wheezy. I am trying to find an input device that gets the sound straight from the browser output. I can plug in a patch cord

squeeze lts

2015-01-23 Thread Glenn English
I'm getting messages like this: > W: Failed to fetch > http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/squeeze/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz > Unable to connect to http.debian.net:http: [IP: 198.52.129.244 80] Is there trouble at Squeeze LTS? I didn't see these right after LTS started. I do get email fro