Re: Question about jessie

2019-04-02 Thread Cédric Devillers
Hello, thank you very much for these answers. I had not seen the previous posts. Regards, CD Le 01/04/2019 à 14:23, Pierre Fourès a écrit : Hello, I have been wondering about the same question in the latest days and here is some of the gathering. The jessie-backports are deprecated since Ju

Re: BUSTER install - CATCH-22

2019-04-02 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/01/2019 06:11 PM, Jason wrote: On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 07:23:49AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 03/31/2019 08:55 AM, bw wrote: In-Reply-To: The installation, having put the DVD1 ISO on a flash drive, encountered no problems *HOWEVER* I need several packages [gparted, tcl, tk] whic

Re: BUSTER install - CATCH-22

2019-04-02 Thread tomas
On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 05:33:05AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] > I was wondering about that. I've never had a clear understanding of > when to use 1 slash and when to use 3. I assumed that in this case 1 > was acceptable because how Synaptic's error message was phrased when > attempting Ed

Re: Xfce Power Manger and watching movies full screen

2019-04-02 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-02, Georgios wrote: > I'm watching movies through netflix so I do not have any ideas how to > write a script that will do that thing. I guess the script should detect > if an application is in full screen mode. > Here's a GPL script not far from your desire (can't vouch for it, though)

Re: Xfce Power Manger and watching movies full screen

2019-04-02 Thread David Wright
On Tue 02 Apr 2019 at 08:55:58 (+0300), Georgios wrote: > I'm watching movies through netflix so I do not have any ideas how to > write a script that will do that thing. I guess the script should detect > if an application is in full screen mode. What the script is doing is signalling your intent

old never used memorex cd media

2019-04-02 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I have a spindle of memorex cd-r's, and I've now downloaded and burnt 4 copy's of the buster netinstall image to a series of them. But I can't get any of them to boot. Does old, these are at least 5 years old, cd'r media go bad? However the sha256sum's of both the file and the

Re: old never used memorex cd media

2019-04-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Gene Heskett wrote: > Does old, these are at least 5 years old, cd'r media go bad? Not necessarily. More often a drive loses the ability to work with media which are still good with other drives. > However the sha256sum's of both the file and the just burnt /dev/sr0 > match. This is the 5th

Re: free software to paid work

2019-04-02 Thread Paul Sutton
On 30/03/2019 21:44, Jan Claeys wrote: > On Thu, 2019-03-28 at 09:25 +, Paul Sutton wrote: >> In an effort to reach out to people and recruit much needed help for >> contributors to free software, I just wondered if there were any >> examples of where people have gained either full time wo

Re: old never used memorex cd media

2019-04-02 Thread Brian
On Tue 02 Apr 2019 at 14:08:15 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; Greetings, old man. > > I have a spindle of memorex cd-r's, and I've now downloaded and burnt 4 > copy's of the buster netinstall image to a series of them. 99% of users write netinstall images to a a USB stick. They k

Re: old never used memorex cd media

2019-04-02 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 08:55:52PM +0100, Brian wrote: > 99% of users write netinstall images to a a USB stick. Is it really that high? I still use CDs. I feel like more than 1% of us do, but maybe I'm mistaken. Then again, I don't know how one would accurately measure this.

Re: old never used memorex cd media

2019-04-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 02 April 2019 15:55:52 Brian wrote: > On Tue 02 Apr 2019 at 14:08:15 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > Greetings, old man. > > > I have a spindle of memorex cd-r's, and I've now downloaded and > > burnt 4 copy's of the buster netinstall image to a series of them. > > 99

Re: old never used memorex cd media

2019-04-02 Thread Felix Miata
Brian composed on 2019-04-02 20:55 (UTC+0100): > On Tue 02 Apr 2019 at 14:08:15 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> I have a spindle of memorex cd-r's, and I've now downloaded and burnt 4 >> copy's of the buster netinstall image to a series of them. My open spool of Office Depot CD-R probably still

Re: old never used memorex cd media

2019-04-02 Thread Brian
On Tue 02 Apr 2019 at 18:14:17 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Brian composed on 2019-04-02 20:55 (UTC+0100): > > > On Tue 02 Apr 2019 at 14:08:15 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > >> I have a spindle of memorex cd-r's, and I've now downloaded and burnt 4 > >> copy's of the buster netinstall image to

Re: old never used memorex cd media

2019-04-02 Thread Brian
On Tue 02 Apr 2019 at 16:02:59 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 08:55:52PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > 99% of users write netinstall images to a a USB stick. > > Is it really that high? I still use CDs. I feel like more than 1% of > us do, but maybe I'm mistaken. > > Then agai

Re: old never used memorex cd media

2019-04-02 Thread Brian
On Tue 02 Apr 2019 at 16:14:23 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 02 April 2019 15:55:52 Brian wrote: > > > > Update? You are moving on to buster? Or is that a step too far? > > Until Buster is official, thats a step too far. This is my main house > box. At your time of life, living danger

Re: old never used memorex cd media

2019-04-02 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-02 23:14, Felix Miata wrote: 99% of users write netinstall images to a a USB stick. Cite please? If there are 100 users on this list, Gene plus Greg plus me would make 3%. :-D If this is a poll I use DVDs, there is more space to write on. mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Grrrrr, howinhell do I stop the 3 minutes of inactivity shutdown of a new stretch install?

2019-04-02 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I have stretch about half installed. But everytime I setup synaptic to install a few hundred of MY favs, and I leave to take care of my invalid missus for 5 minutes, I come back to a shutdown machine, blinking the green power led, and the job I sent synaptic to do is only 5% don

Re: Grrrrr, howinhell do I stop the 3 minutes of inactivity shutdown of a new stretch install?

2019-04-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 02 April 2019 22:05:11 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I have stretch about half installed. But everytime I setup synaptic to > install a few hundred of MY favs, and I leave to take care of my > invalid missus for 5 minutes, I come back to a shutdown machine, > blinking the gr