Re: Changing Boot Order

2016-03-26 Thread jdd
Le 25/03/2016 23:52, Michael Fothergill a écrit : ​Try this:​ ​http://www.easyuefi.com/index-us.htm​l ​It says it can be installed on linux machines. don't think so. It's a windows app that can also manage linux uefi entries on nvram (not tested with wine?) jdd

Re: Further to my installation error

2016-03-26 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Gene Heskett a écrit : > On Friday 25 March 2016 15:48:56 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > >> Le 20/03/2016 19:58, Gene Heskett a écrit : >>> On Sunday 20 March 2016 14:39:41 Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 20/03/2016 17:56, Gene Heskett a écrit : > Now, I do note that sdb has a re-allocated sector cou

Re: Changing Boot Order

2016-03-26 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Alan McConnell a écrit : > > I am running wheezy, and would like to upgrade to jessie. To > that end I've bought a CD and a USB stick from LinuxCollections. > My problem: when booting I can't get into my bios to change the > boot order. No matter what key I press, the system continues > on with

Re: Changing Boot Order

2016-03-26 Thread Ron
> boot order. No matter what key I press, the system continues > on with a re-boot of my old wheezy. Question: Are you using an USB keyboard ? I remember having the problem some time back, where a default setting of the BIOS had to be changed to enable the BIOS to control USB. And of course

Grossly OT - WW2 start

2016-03-26 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 26/03/16 01:13, Gene Heskett wrote: Thanks Tom. Its hell for an old fart who can still remember his grandfathers tears the night of Dec 7, 1941. Tears because he knew we would declare war. And I believe thats the last war we fully intended to win. Its all been downhill since. Cheers, Gen

Re: Grossly OT - WW2 start

2016-03-26 Thread deloptes
Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 26/03/16 01:13, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Thanks Tom. Its hell for an old fart who can still remember his >> grandfathers tears the night of Dec 7, 1941. Tears because he knew we >> would declare war. >> >> And I believe thats the last war we fully intended to win.

Re: Grossly OT - WW2 start

2016-03-26 Thread Haines Brown
On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 02:37:32PM +0100, deloptes wrote: > > Hmm, despite what you guys seem to think, WW2 started on 1 Sept 1939. It seems obvious that when the war started depends on one's situation. One could argue, for example, that it started in 1937 with the Rape of Nanking. Haines

Re: Grossly OT - WW2 start

2016-03-26 Thread Nicolas George
Le septidi 7 germinal, an CCXXIV, deloptes a écrit : > He is mixing up Perl Harbor 1941 Using regexps in a war is fighting dirty for sure. Regards, -- Nicolas George

Re: Grossly OT - WW2 start

2016-03-26 Thread Terence
If you count Japan's actions in China and Manchuria then the war started in the early 'thirties. As for Germany, Hitler declared war on the USA on the 11 Dec 41, along with Italy, as Hitler, although not legally bound to support Japan if they were the aggressor, believed that the USA would "beat hi

Re: Grossly OT - WW2 start

2016-03-26 Thread Haines Brown
On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 01:57:33PM +, Terence wrote: > If you count Japan's actions in China and Manchuria then the war started in > the > early 'thirties. If we are to be historically accurate, WWII was a continuation of WWI as far as the West is concerned, and perhaps even of the Russo-Japa

Re: Grossly OT - WW2 start

2016-03-26 Thread Terence
I would agree, with the battle of El Alamein coming at the same time, the Wehrmacht were suddenly- and strategically- on the defensive on their major Eastern Front, but also in the south, in their "soft underbelly".. Of course, this all happened long before GNU/Linux and Debian... On 26 March 201

Re: Grossly OT - WW2 start

2016-03-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 26 March 2016 08:22:06 Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 26/03/16 01:13, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Thanks Tom. Its hell for an old fart who can still remember his > > grandfathers tears the night of Dec 7, 1941. Tears because he knew > > we would declare war. > > > > And I believe thats th

Re: Echoaudio wiki, Debian 8.3.0, error -2/-12/-5?

2016-03-26 Thread dymi...@juno.com
The sound now works, but I did have to reboot the computer (there might have been some other way to do it, but modprobe was not enough) as well as use the second firmware location (without the /usr/local/ prefix in the directions). Wall

Re: Changing Boot Order

2016-03-26 Thread Alan McConnell
On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 08:27:10AM -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > > boot order. No matter what key I press, the system continues > > on with a re-boot of my old wheezy. > > Question: Are you using an USB keyboard ? No, I am using a PS2 keyboard, I believe. A white ca

Re: New firefox isn't working

2016-03-26 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Gene Heskett wrote on 03/25/16 16:40: > Greetings all; > > The reason is that it treats every clicked on link in an email, into a > download of the site, which kills lots of time, and the subsequent > display of the site by showing the file://tmp/somehashnumber it has > downloaded in the addres

Re: Changing Boot Order

2016-03-26 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 26 March 2016 16:11:22 Alan McConnell wrote: > I have been told by a kind responder that my keyboard >    is inadequate, and I should borro(buy?) a new one.  Since >    my present keyboard works fine for all purposes up to now, >    I don't see why my difficul

Re: New firefox isn't working

2016-03-26 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Friday 25 March 2016 11:40:10 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > The reason is that it treats every clicked on link in an email, into a > download of the site, which kills lots of time, and the subsequent > display of the site by showing the file://tmp/somehashnumber it has > downloaded i

Re: New Deb 8 and no sshd access from other hosts [SOLVED]

2016-03-26 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > I have installed Deb on my laptop and reused my old Deb 7 .ssh directory. > > I can now ssh into the existing remote servers but cannot ssh into my > laptop from them (as a normal user)--I always get asked for a > password. So the remote serv

Re: Changing Boot Order

2016-03-26 Thread jdd
Le 26/03/2016 17:11, Alan McConnell a écrit : Press to run BIOS setup, or to run boot menu (finish) And there you have it. The last line of the excerpt is exacly the text that appears on my screen. But

Re: New firefox isn't working

2016-03-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 26 March 2016 12:20:40 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote on 03/25/16 16:40: > > Greetings all; > > > > The reason is that it treats every clicked on link in an email, into > > a download of the site, which kills lots of time, and the subsequent > > display of the site by sh

Re: Changing Boot Order

2016-03-26 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 25 March 2016 at 21:01, Alan McConnell wrote: > First, thanks for all the responses. They fell into two classes: > those who advised repeating tapping/pressing on either the F!! > key or the Delete key. I've done that dozens of times, and > received no responses. And I can't change the scr

Re: Changing Boot Order

2016-03-26 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 26 March 2016 at 16:53, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 26 March 2016 16:11:22 Alan McConnell wrote: > > I have been told by a kind responder that my keyboard > > is inadequate, and I should borro(buy?) a new one. Since > > my present keyboard works fine for all purpos

Re: New firefox isn't working

2016-03-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 26 March 2016 13:05:55 Eike Lantzsch wrote: > On Friday 25 March 2016 11:40:10 Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > The reason is that it treats every clicked on link in an email, into > > a download of the site, which kills lots of time, and the subsequent > > display of the

Re: Changing Boot Order

2016-03-26 Thread Felix Miata
Alan McConnell composed on 2016-03-26 12:11 (UTC-0400): I am using a PS2 keyboard, I believe. A white cable from the keyboard back into the top orifice at the back of my standard case. *If* your motherboard has two round ports, stacked or side by side depen

Re: Changing Boot Order (correction)

2016-03-26 Thread Felix Miata
Alan McConnell composed on 2016-03-26 12:11 (UTC-0400): I am using a PS2 keyboard, I believe. A white cable from the keyboard back into the top orifice at the back of my standard case. *If* your motherboard has two round ports, stacked or side by side depen

Re: Changing Boot Order

2016-03-26 Thread David Wright
On Sat 26 Mar 2016 at 12:11:22 (-0400), Alan McConnell wrote: > On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 08:27:10AM -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > > > > boot order. No matter what key I press, the system continues > > > on with a re-boot of my old wheezy. > > > > Question: Are you using an USB keyboard ? >

Re: New firefox isn't working

2016-03-26 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 26 March 2016 17:47:17 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 26 March 2016 13:05:55 Eike Lantzsch wrote: > > On Friday 25 March 2016 11:40:10 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Greetings all; > > > > > > The reason is that it treats every clicked on link in an email, into > > > a download of the sit

Re: Changing Boot Order -- Happiness!

2016-03-26 Thread Alan McConnell
On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 01:53:17PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > > *If* your motherboard has two round ports, stacked or side by side > depending on your orientation, it's time to take another look at > your motherboard's manual, in particular, the "Back Panel Quick > Guide" or similar that depicts t

Re: New Deb 8 and no sshd access from other hosts

2016-03-26 Thread David Wright
A bit early for [SOLVED], I think. On Sat 26 Mar 2016 at 12:08:37 (-0500), Tom Browder wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > > I have installed Deb on my laptop and reused my old Deb 7 .ssh directory. > > > > I can now ssh into the existing remote servers but cannot ssh

Re: Changing Boot Order -- Happiness!

2016-03-26 Thread songbird
Alan McConnell wrote: ... > Yes. My keyboard was plugged into the _green_ port. (my > mouse is elsewhere). So I shut down, changed my keyboard > cord to the purple port . . . Voila! That did the > trick. I can now press F11 and Del and both work as > the manual sa

Re: New firefox isn't working

2016-03-26 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Saturday 26 March 2016 18:18:05 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 26 March 2016 17:47:17 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 26 March 2016 13:05:55 Eike Lantzsch wrote: > > > On Friday 25 March 2016 11:40:10 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Greetings all; > > > > > > > > The reason is that it treats e

using mirrorselect in debian

2016-03-26 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Folks, There is a gentoo package called mirrorselect. I can't see a version of it in debian. If I would try to compile and use it in debian what would be the best way to do that? Comments appreciated ​MF​

Re: New Deb 8 and no sshd access from other hosts [SOLVED]

2016-03-26 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 27/03/2016 4:08 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Tom Browder wrote: >> I have installed Deb on my laptop and reused my old Deb 7 .ssh directory. >> >> I can now ssh into the existing remote servers but cannot ssh into my >> laptop from them (as a normal user)--I alwa

Re: Changing Boot Order -- Happiness!

2016-03-26 Thread Felix Miata
Alan McConnell composed on 2016-03-26 14:57 (UTC-0400): ...I think it fortunate that this E-list contains an expert of the quality of... Please, let's not think of me so much expert as experienced. I can't count the times I've fumbled a keyboard connector into the top port and found t

Re: using mirrorselect in debian

2016-03-26 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 26 Mar 2016 20:52:13 + Michael Fothergill wrote: Hello Michael, >There is a gentoo package called mirrorselect. >I can't see a version of it in debian. Look at netselect-apt -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately a

Re: Changing Boot Order -- Happiness!

2016-03-26 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 26 March 2016 21:50:42 Felix Miata wrote: > Alan McConnell composed on 2016-03-26 14:57 (UTC-0400): > >...I think it fortunate > > that this E-list contains an expert of the quality of... > > Please, let's not think of me so much expert as experienced. I can't count > the times I've

Re: New Deb 8 and no sshd access from other hosts [SOLVED]

2016-03-26 Thread Tom Browder
On Saturday, March 26, 2016, Andrew McGlashan < andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au > wrote: > > On 27/03/2016 4:08 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Tom Browder > wrote: ... > > I found this wonderful resource: > > > > http://www.unixlore.net/articles/troubleshoo

Re: Changing Boot Order -- Happiness!

2016-03-26 Thread Felix Miata
Lisi Reisz composed on 2016-03-26 22:44 (UTC): > I didn't know that the "wrong" one worked in the OS!! I wasn't conscious of any such thing. Alan proved it does at least in Wheezy. > I last put the mouse in > the keyboard one, and vice versa, in the days before they were colour coded, > when suc

Re: New Deb 8 and no sshd access from other hosts [SOLVED]

2016-03-26 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 27/03/2016 10:04 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > On Saturday, March 26, 2016, Andrew McGlashan > I usually restrict with known IP addresses (static ones) and sometimes > with users having to be in a specific group that allows ssh. Also, > authorized keys enforced instead of passwords.

Re: using mirrorselect in debian

2016-03-26 Thread Sven Hartge
Michael Fothergill wrote: > There is a gentoo package called mirrorselect. > I can't see a version of it in debian. > If I would try to compile and use it in debian what would be the best > way to do that? No need for such a package. Just use httpredir.debian.org as your mirror server and a cl

Re: New firefox isn't working

2016-03-26 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Saturday 26 March 2016 18:18:05 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 26 March 2016 17:47:17 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 26 March 2016 13:05:55 Eike Lantzsch wrote: > > > On Friday 25 March 2016 11:40:10 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Greetings all; > > > > > > > > The reason is that it treats e

Re: New firefox isn't working

2016-03-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 26 March 2016 20:13:34 Eike Lantzsch wrote: > On Saturday 26 March 2016 18:18:05 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 26 March 2016 17:47:17 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Saturday 26 March 2016 13:05:55 Eike Lantzsch wrote: > > > > On Friday 25 March 2016 11:40:10 Gene Heskett wrote: > > >

xrandr displays?

2016-03-26 Thread John Conover
Nvidia GeForce 7300 with 1280x1024 monitor connected to the VGA port, and xrandr -q: Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 4096 x 4096 DVI-I-1 connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 338mm x 270mm 1280x1024 60.0*+ 75.0 .

Re: Changing Boot Order

2016-03-26 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 26 Mar 2016 12:11:22 -0400 Alan McConnell wrote: > I am taking up a lot of message time here. But my question is a > very simple one: can one, after booting, and as root, change the > BIOS so that the machine will boot from a DVD if one is present, > or from a USB thumb device, if one is