On 03/18/2016 07:03 PM, David Wright wrote:
Well, this Pentium III is the last machine I had on my desk at work,
so I'll probably run it until it dies, for sentimental reasons.
I'm retired; you're probably running machines for professional
reasons, which carries responsibilities I no longer have.
On 03/18/2016 01:06 PM, David Wright wrote:
On Fri 18 Mar 2016 at 10:22:49 (-0700), David Christensen wrote:
https://puppetlabs.com/
I can get a lot of hardware for $3000!
That's why I would use the Debian version:
2016-03-18 18:20:22 dpchrist@t7400 ~
$ cat /etc/debian_version
On 19/03/16 09:06, David Wright wrote:
>>> I'm currently using manual procedures and home-grown scripts.
>>> The next step up would be a deployment/ management automation
>>> tool such as Puppet:
>>>
>>> https://puppetlabs.com/
> I can get a lot of hardware for $3000!
Puppet Enterprise is $3000.
On Fri 18 Mar 2016 at 14:41:04 +0200, Jarle Aase wrote:
> Den 10. mars 2016 21:01, skrev Brian:
> >Did you go through all this to set up scanning on the device? Of course
> >you didn't. So why not do the same with printing and not make a song and a
> >dance about it.
> Scanning was simple, as the
On 19/03/16 15:07, David Christensen wrote:
> On 03/18/2016 06:47 PM, Richard Hector wrote:
>> On 19/03/16 14:01, David Christensen wrote:
>>> I use category 5E cables for Gigabit. Category 5 and category
>>> 6 cables were not reliable for me.
>>
>> Cat 5 cables _should_ work, in theory, though I
On 03/18/2016 09:48 AM, Celejar wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to understand the throughput across the different links of
my little home network, and am perplexed by the measured wireless
throughput.
The three main devices I'm interested in:
Router: Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH running OpenWrt (Chaos Calmer 1
On Friday 18 March 2016 20:49:55 David Wright wrote:
> It's far more likely that you forgot to format the partition, if
> that's indeed what you wanted to do.
No. I checked and double checked that the partitions on the disk which I
wanted to use for installation were all marked with the F for fo
On 03/18/2016 01:21 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
On Thu, 2016-03-17 at 19:27 -0700, David Christensen wrote:
Debian 6 is obsolete. You're going to want to do a
backup-wipe-install-restore cycle on both machines and move to Debian
7
(or 8).
Why not do a dist-upgrade?
1. The few times I tried, I
deloptes composed on 2016-03-17 0:05 (UTC+0100):
Felix Miata wrote:
/etc/modules.d/
Hi your post is interesting for me.
on the debian one it is /etc/modprobe.d/ - no?
I screwed up, fingers badly out of sync with eyeballs. :-p modprobe.d/ it is.
I have similar chip if not same
00:
Brian composed on 2016-03-16 20:49 (UTC):
On Wed 16 Mar 2016 at 16:12:20 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
Brian composed on 2016-03-16 19:21 (UTC):
>Why any Debian user should use an antiquated technology to install is
>beyond me. USB sticks are two a penny. Isohybrid images rule; OK!
USB stic
On 16/03/2016 11:40 PM, John Hasler wrote:
> Marc writes:
>> I am perfectly happy to continue downloading from Mozilla if that will
>> keep me current, and Debian's repo will not.
>
> Why do you need to keep current? Just curious.
Well, security is a good reason to remain current; but those ES
Andrew McGlashan composed on 2016-03-17 02:52 (UTC+1100):
...Let Firefox stand on
it's own, it doesn't need to be a Chrome clone; heck Chrome was born out
of Firefox in the first place.
Chrome/Blink was begotten/forked from Safari/WebKit. Blink was
begotten/forked from WebKit. WebKit was
On 03/18/2016 06:47 PM, Richard Hector wrote:
On 19/03/16 14:01, David Christensen wrote:
I use category 5E cables for Gigabit. Category 5 and category 6
cables were not reliable for me.
Cat 5 cables _should_ work, in theory, though I gather some don't work
so well. If you have any cat5 or be
On 03/18/2016 07:47 PM, Richard Hector wrote:
FWIW, most cabling professionals (of which definitely I'm not one)
don't make their own cables unless they absolutely have to. Factory
ones are so much more reliable.
Riser cable, being intended for fixed installation, is solid core. The
appropriate
On 03/18/2016 12:44 PM, David Wright wrote:
On Thu 17 Mar 2016 at 19:27:31 (-0700), David Christensen wrote:
If/ when you get the
Debian installer going, install to a HDD, don't use encryption, and
only install:
SSH server
Standard system utilities
You can add things carefully after
On 03/18/2016 01:22 PM, David Christensen wrote:
On 03/18/2016 01:21 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
On Thu, 2016-03-17 at 19:27 -0700, David Christensen wrote:
Debian 6 is obsolete. You're going to want to do a
backup-wipe-install-restore cycle on both machines and move to Debian
7
(or 8).
Why not
On Fri 18 Mar 2016 at 16:09:47 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Fri 18 Mar 2016 at 20:06:32 (+), Brian wrote:
> > On Fri 18 Mar 2016 at 14:44:31 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> >
> > > But I've had no difficulty booting Debian from CD on any of my machines.
> > > Obviously USBs are unsuitable for
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On 03/18/2016 02:13 PM, Curt wrote:
I have never had a failed dist-upgrade. Of course, you gotta follow the
goddamn directions, do about five or ten minutes of reading of the
appropriate material, which isn't too much to ask I wouldn't think.
This wipe business strikes me as vaguely scatological
On Fri 18 Mar 2016 at 22:52:25 (+), Brian wrote:
> On Fri 18 Mar 2016 at 16:09:47 -0500, David Wright wrote:
>
> > On Fri 18 Mar 2016 at 20:06:32 (+), Brian wrote:
> > > On Fri 18 Mar 2016 at 14:44:31 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > >
> > > > But I've had no difficulty booting Debian from
On 19/03/16 14:01, David Christensen wrote:
> I use category 5E cables for Gigabit. Category 5 and category 6
> cables were not reliable for me.
Cat 5 cables _should_ work, in theory, though I gather some don't work
so well. If you have any cat5 or better cables that are unreliable,
I'd suspect t
On 2016-03-18, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> I agree. The dist upgrade was problematic and I finally had to wipe the root
>> partition for a clean install. Thankfully, from my Caldera days, I use /opt
>
> Hmm.. just to give a counter-point, almost all my current Debian
> installs are the result of a st
On Fri 18 Mar 2016 at 22:21:58 (+), Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Friday 18 March 2016 20:49:55 David Wright wrote:
> > It's far more likely that you forgot to format the partition, if
> > that's indeed what you wanted to do.
>
> No. I checked and double checked that the partitions on the disk which
Jochen Spieker wrote:
> Floris:
>> After updating to apt version 1.2.7 I get a warning on apt-get update:
>> W:
>> gpgv:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/dl.google.com_linux_chrome_deb_dists_stable_Release.gpg:
>> The repository is insufficiently signed by key
>> 4CCA1EAF950CEE4AB83976DCA040830F7FAC599
I made all possible tries that came to my head with all your suggestions.
Still, password : command not found.
However, I think all of use should use grub-password, especially when we
use mobile systems (as laptops), *UNLESS YOU USE A BIOS PASSWORD*. You can
check Google for what to do when you fo
On Wed 16 Mar 2016 at 17:07:33 (+0530), Himanshu Shekhar wrote:
>I wish to password protect grub bootloader. I tried the steps available on
>online manuals as of RedHat, Ubuntu, etc. All experiments were on a
>VirtualBox machine, so my system remains safe. However, I didn't get
>suc
On 2016-03-16, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 March 2016 13:56:50 Lisi Reisz wrote:
>> On Wednesday 16 March 2016 12:54:07 Liam O'Toole wrote:
>> > On 2016-03-16, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>> > > On Tuesday 15 March 2016 19:58:18 Brian wrote:
>> > >> On Tue 15 Mar 2016 at 08:57:20 +, Lisi Reisz
> I agree. The dist upgrade was problematic and I finally had to wipe the root
> partition for a clean install. Thankfully, from my Caldera days, I use /opt
Hmm.. just to give a counter-point, almost all my current Debian
installs are the result of a stream of upgrades+clones from the first
instal
I have been trying to achieve something similar on my system. Password
protection in grub2 appears to be quite different from that in grub-legacy.
In grub2, authentication is activated by the lines (from the grub info
manual, the section on security):
set superusers="root"
password_pbkdf2 root gr
On Wednesday 16 March 2016 15:47:29 Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On 2016-03-16, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Wednesday 16 March 2016 13:56:50 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> >> On Wednesday 16 March 2016 12:54:07 Liam O'Toole wrote:
> >> > On 2016-03-16, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> >> > > On Tuesday 15 March 2016 19:58:18 Bria
On Thu 17 Mar 2016 at 11:52:36 (+0530), Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> I have been trying to achieve something similar on my system. Password
> protection in grub2 appears to be quite different from that in grub-legacy.
... and did you succeed?
> In grub2, authentication is activated by the lines (fr
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