Re: new firefox for wheezy last night, can't do squat on the net today.

On 2017-04-23, Gene Heskett wrote: What I do is check periodically for updates and when there is one, I open the tar.gz archive from Adobe in Firefox, extract the libflashplayer.so file into my home directory, and copy it over the obsolete libflashplayer.so files on my machine. > And how do you

Measuring aggregate internet useage?

I have always installed Debian from purchased DVD sets as up until about a year ago I was on dialup. I wish to experiment with using netinst. I have a minimal data cap but have accumulated enough unused capacity that I should be able a normal install. I'm not sure of my search terms as the hit

FMIT KMail-Trinity

Lisi Reisz: > Or, in KMail-Trinity, left click on the address, et voilà! A _new_, > correctly > addressed message with a pristine subject line. > > Lisi Please don't say trinity it gets the matrix disturbed I turned my head and the shiskebap was gone kAt(s) > -- "The most violent element

Re: new firefox for wheezy last night, can't do squat on the net today.

On Sunday 23 April 2017 01:54:21 Frank wrote: > Op 23-04-17 om 06:21 schreef Gene Heskett: > > And how do you get that 10 year newer flash? The adobe site doesn't > > show me anything newer than the 11.xx.xx.xxx stuff. > > Really? Both https://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ and > https://get

Re: new firefox for wheezy last night, can't do squat on the net today.

Op 23-04-17 om 12:37 schreef Gene Heskett: On Sunday 23 April 2017 01:54:21 Frank wrote: Op 23-04-17 om 06:21 schreef Gene Heskett: And how do you get that 10 year newer flash? The adobe site doesn't show me anything newer than the 11.xx.xx.xxx stuff. Really? Both https://www.adobe.com/soft

Re: new firefox for wheezy last night, can't do squat on the net today.

On 2017-04-23, Frank de Bruijn wrote: > I usually look in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, but the plugin file there > may actually be a symlink pointing to something in /etc/alternatives, > which in turn will probably point to some other item somewhere in > /usr/lib... To cover all the bases, I hav

Re: new firefox for wheezy last night, can't do squat on the net today.

On Sunday 23 April 2017 07:35:36 Frank de Bruijn wrote: > Op 23-04-17 om 12:37 schreef Gene Heskett: > > On Sunday 23 April 2017 01:54:21 Frank wrote: > >> Op 23-04-17 om 06:21 schreef Gene Heskett: > >>> And how do you get that 10 year newer flash? The adobe site > >>> doesn't show me anything n

Re: new firefox for wheezy last night, can't do squat on the net today.

On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 00:21:28 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 22 April 2017 23:22:45 Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > On Sat, 22 Apr 2017 12:24:32 -0400 Gene Heskett > > > > > > wrote: > > > Went to newegg.com to look for some optical fiber but the front > > > page, while I think its alive, d

Re: Jessie for Udoo X86?

On Tue, 18 Apr 2017 08:30:00 +, GiaThnYgeia wrote: > >Larry Dighera: >> I found the 'debian-8.7.1-amd64-DVD-1.iso' image here: >> , burned it to >> SD card in a USB reader with Rufus , and booted it >> from US

Re: new firefox for wheezy last night, can't do squat on the net today.

On Sunday 23 April 2017 15:15:05 Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 00:21:28 -0400 Gene Heskett > > wrote: > > On Saturday 22 April 2017 23:22:45 Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > On Sat, 22 Apr 2017 12:24:32 -0400 Gene Heskett > > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > Went to newegg.com to look for s

Re: Possibly erroneous "device not present" message during boot

On Wed 12 Apr 2017 at 06:18:51 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Due to circumstances, will note rule out any of hardware, software, or > confused operator as underlying cause. > > BACKGROUND: > The hardware is a used Lenovo T510 laptop purchased a couple of months ago. This machine has an internal

Re: Jessie for Udoo X86?

Larry Dighera: > What is the correct way to configure the system to boot to the command line > UI instead of X11? Do I need to edit things, or add files to, /etc/rc.d > someplace? Or is there a higher-level way to tell systemd that I prefer to > manually launch X11? I don't have an appropriate a

Re: new firefox for wheezy last night, can't do squat on the net today.

On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 15:41:30 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 23 April 2017 15:15:05 Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 00:21:28 -0400 Gene Heskett > > > > > > wrote: > > > On Saturday 22 April 2017 23:22:45 Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > On Sat, 22 Apr 2017 12:24:32 -0400 Gene

Re: Jessie for Udoo X86?

Larry Dighera wrote: ... > What I have discovered thus far, is that Debian wants to launch X11 by > default, instead of the command line UI. That appears to result in a black > screen with a frozen system. > > At this point, I have no idea of the correct way to boot to the command line > interfa

OT Big Dummy mutt question

Mutt (1.5.23) is rebuffing my every attempt to get ispell working. Currently I have in .muttrc: set ispell="ispell --mode=email" This threw no error when mutt launched, so it was with high spirits that I tried to send off deliberately misspelled emails. Alas and alack. these arrived at their

Re: new firefox for wheezy last night, can't do squat on the net today.

On Sun 23 Apr 2017 at 15:42:35 (-0700), Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 15:41:30 -0400 Gene Heskett > wrote: > > > On Sunday 23 April 2017 15:15:05 Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 00:21:28 -0400 Gene Heskett > > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > On Saturday 22 April 2

Re: OT Big Dummy mutt question

On Sun 23 Apr 2017 at 19:47:49 (-0400), Bob Bernstein wrote: > Mutt (1.5.23) is rebuffing my every attempt to get ispell working. > Currently I have in .muttrc: > > set ispell="ispell --mode=email" > > This threw no error when mutt launched, so it was with high spirits > that I tried to send off

Re: OT Big Dummy mutt question

On Sun, 23 Apr 2017, David Wright wrote: According to my key bindings, you should press i when in the compose menu [...] Yes, my 'help' there also shows i associated with ispell. But pressing i only causes the screen to blip very momentarily without showing any ispell activity and then retur

Re: OT Big Dummy mutt question

Bob Bernstein wrote: > Mutt (1.5.23) is rebuffing my every attempt to get ispell > working. Currently I have in .muttrc: > > set ispell="ispell --mode=email" > > This threw no error when mutt launched, so it was with high > spirits that I tried to send off deliberately misspelled emails. > Alas

funny times

when my computer is turned off the clock runs slow. when my computer is turned on the clock runs fast. so any single adjustment in /etc/adjtime doesn't work (as my number of hours off or on the computer each day may change). *chuckles* songbird

Re: new firefox for wheezy last night, can't do squat on the net today.

On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 19:33:12 -0500 David Wright wrote: > [Big Snip] > > > None of which ever worked 100% because the web pages all seemed > > > to be using a different version. The "it works here" syndrome, > > > essentially the same as the N.I.H. beliefs. :( > > > > Well, I'm glad flash is dyi

Re: Jessie for Udoo X86?

David, Thank you for you great response to my inquiry. Very much appreciated. My comments in-line below: On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 14:14:40 -0500, David Wright wrote: >On Thu 20 Apr 2017 at 07:11:53 (-0700), Larry Dighera wrote: > >> What I have discovered thus far, is that Debian wants to launch

Re: OT Big Dummy mutt question

On Sun, 23 Apr 2017, songbird wrote: i'm using the version of mutt in testing/stretch and can say that i have no setting in .muttrc at all and it just works. I tried the "no setting in .muttrc" and that did the trick. Which strikes me as sorta weird, but then, with so much weirdness around

Re: OT Big Dummy mutt question

Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Sun, 23 Apr 2017, songbird wrote: > >> i'm using the version of mutt in testing/stretch >> and can say that i have no setting in .muttrc at >> all and it just works. > > I tried the "no setting in .muttrc" and that did the trick. > > Which strikes me as sorta weird, but t

Re: funny times

Do you use ntp? sudo aptitude install ntp Rick On Apr 23, 2017, at 6:33 PM, songbird wrote: > when my computer is turned off the clock > runs slow. > > when my computer is turned on the clock > runs fast. > > so any single adjustment in /etc/adjtime > doesn't work (as my number of

Console fonts, was Re: Jessie for Udoo X86?

On Sun 23 Apr 2017 at 18:55:03 (-0700), Larry Dighera wrote: > I'd like to have more lines/rows and columns on the console tty. I've read > that 'vidcontrol' may do what I want, unfortunately 'apt-cache show > vidcontrol' reports that it is virtual (unavailable). > > I am grateful for any clue

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