Document and LBC (Was: Debian *not very good)

2016-11-25 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
heard of it so I tried a quick search of the Net. Landed the potential phrase, "Linux Binary Compatibility". Does anyone know if that sounds anywhere near the right ballpark for that acronym? Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: How to mount a LVM?

2016-11-25 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
d. One very minor caveat (translation: annoyance) to those searches is that I tried it just now and landed at /var/log/auth.log for that *that* grep command I was performing *that very second* while using root access (via sudo). I always get excited when a potentially useful file is found but then turn

*WHY* does Debootstrap wiki page point Users to Ubuntu?

2016-11-27 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
e memo where that's the direction we're going. If it's an executive decision that was made, that's what it is what it is... what it is. #ThankYou to *EVERYONE* who contributes. Debian has been a MAJOR part of my abject poverty level computing for several years now. Cindy :)

Re: Stretch Alpha 8 netinst fails

2016-11-27 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
'm working through a few glitches of my own because I'm working in Sid Unstable. Stretch Alpha 8. Hm. That sounds pretty unstable, too. As soon as those glitches I'm experiencing are worked through, perhaps we could start a new thread on using debootstrap to install Debian. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with plastic sporks *

Re: *WHY* does Debootstrap wiki page point Users to Ubuntu?

2016-11-28 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 11/28/16, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 28 November 2016 12:54:08 Henning Follmann wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 06:43:54PM -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: >> > Hi, All :) >> > >> > Please forgive me if I have simply missed the memo where we bought &g

Re: Manually installed packages (was: Uninstalling Gnome)

2016-11-29 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
there. Everything else that I tried turned out to already be on the apt-mark generated list. Attempts at "accidentally" installing packages already on the apt-mark list all simply responded back with the "is already the newest version" line. It's tied in. libilmbase12 was NOT in my initial apt-mark showmanual query response. It IS on that list now. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with plastic sporks *

Re: Manually installed packages

2016-12-02 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
per under the hood. So far it hasn't *appeared to* hurt anything, and, point blank, there are far more pressing issues needing addressed in my local, real World community at this moment. #Priorities. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with plastic sporks *

Re: Manually installed packages

2016-12-02 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ere is surely some predictable purposeful purpose for the *auto*magically generated "set to manually installed" feature I accidentally trigger (regularly). :) Thanks for you insight. As has been to date, this is an "of least concern" kind of thing for me because nothing within my

Re: spam filtering question?

2016-12-10 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ceive from your favored Ubuntu user help list(s)? Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with plastic sporks *

Tip: nmtui NetworkManager, Terminal Interface (also Bug#694068 + hostname)

2016-12-12 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
org/debian-accessibility/2016/12/msg00031.html [2] Re: Where are WiFi passwords (WPA keys) stored? @ Debian-User https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/12/msg00171.html [3] Re: stretch orca and wifi connection setup @ Debian-Accessibility https://lists.debian.org/debian-accessibility/2016/12/msg00023.html -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with plastic sporks *

Re: Why I can not install software on debian easily?

2016-12-20 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
erent to what I went on about for a seconds in the last week or so. It is my highly unhumble opinion that download numbers have apparently taken a hit "somewhere else" and so troops have hit the ground to re-recruit.. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with plastic sporks *

Re: Building error_XORP

2016-12-26 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
fast.. I am so ready... for a reboot on all of it. Just thinking out loud for the immediate record... *grin* Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * !! Jingle-Jingle-Jingle !! *

Re: productivity tips

2016-12-31 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
have been hugely beneficial for connecting the dots had I learned of the concept five or six years ago. No, I'm not using the concept this second, but FreeMind was one I did specifically test drive a while back. Am not finding it under Sid just this sec so not sure the where or how from the time I did download it. Best wishes in 2017 to everyone! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with plastic sporks *

Multiple reportbug failure reports

2017-01-22 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ul Debian maintenance and releases. The catch-22 is that Debian users need... reportbug... to report an apparent bug with reportbug. :) Just lurking out loud... :) Cindy -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: httpredir.debian.org versus deb.debian.org

2017-01-31 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
tDeb archives I need then I use dpkg to install. Keeping a one-liner sources.list is just my (very stubborn) thing here. There's no "mucking around" through a bunch of lines in that file so it's very *cognitively friendly*. The additional payoff is that you learn a little mo

Re: Debian natively on Android device

2017-01-31 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
tely a-suming facts not in evidence in those kinds of cases. *grin* Just thinking out loud.. :) PS As an afterthought, sometimes inquiries that seem woefully outdated or suchly... are about countries that have inherited things like our absolute bottom basement, bottom dollar throwaways... and they're trying to make them work because that's all they have Cindy [1] https://cascardo.eti.br/blog/GNU_on_a_Smartphone/ -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: [(fwd): Debian/Stretch - network-manager_1.4.4-1 and libbluetooth3_5.43-1]

2017-02-05 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ccidental breakage and/or deletions. I just (manually) thinned that directory out a little, i.e. several thousand files, but it would still be embarrassing to brandish publicly after its recent diet. *grin* Just thinking out loud. I really don't have any other feedback... except maybe... *ACK!* :D Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Publicity: Stretch Freeze/Release Team meeting very soon

2017-02-08 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
e to get used to cozying up to his/her younger sibling, the up and coming shiny new Stretch.. Happy Debian'ing! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * wandering off mumbling: Glad that's where 140MB+ of Libreoffice landed.. * +++ BEGIN FORWARDED

Re: Attempt to run debootstrap

2017-02-22 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
will not work until you've gone through the steps of choosing and installing a desktop environment/login manager, server initiali(s/z)ation tool, yada-yada. You get to learn all kinds of new terms. The entire experience can take several days if you're running on dialup access with no in-house/onsite repository. debootstrap... Feel The Power! :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: No sound

2017-02-28 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
that aumix-gtk, the terminal command is still just the "aumix". Its developers are my #Heros! #TrueStory! It's CRUCIAL that my sound work right now, and that was the avenue that worked to date... on this particular... for now anyway. Hope that helps someone.. *grin* Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with crochet hook *

Re: FIXED [Re: HELP - windows disappear completely when minimized]

2017-03-04 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
nus/xfce-applications.menu because I had a mental tickle file already stored about its possible existence. Had I not found it via a "locate" terminal command line search, my next usual step is to "grep" for an unordinary, thus less commonly found, entry off my menu (e.g. PySo

Re: Printing packages

2017-03-04 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
sts: gutenprint-locales candycane@northpole:~$ apt-cache rdepends printer-driver-gutenprint printer-driver-gutenprint Reverse Depends: gutenprint-doc printer-driver-all-enforce printer-driver-all cups parl-desktop-strict cups-daemon +++ Just thinking out loud Most definitel

Re: Skype

2017-03-04 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
DID remember it was in the Pidgin family (because of having literally LOL'ed). Finch didn't pull up in an "apt-cache search pidgin" query. It might help Finch and any other similar Pidgin family members see more airtime if a reference to Pidgin was in their description text field'y thing... 'y on your end. :) Unless you don't want it to be found a whole lot (yet) for whatever developer known reason(s)... Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * sometimes runs in circles... literally. *

Re: How to >>COMPLETELY<< remove an application?

2017-03-08 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
uot;remove" and "autoremove" but had never pursued *why*. I started using "autoremove" after I kept seeing apt-get proffer it for removal of packages that are no longer dependencies for anything. So from now on... my opening statement will be that I use "apt-get re

Re: prevent "dpkg -l" from showing nonexisting packages

2017-03-13 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
no-brainer "caveat" to using that. You must have rights to access the directory that you're issuing that command from, else it WILL fail. E.g. I can't issue that command while my terminal is showing that I'm sitting in the /etc directory. It DOES work if I change the file path to "~/notUpToDate20170313", e.g.: elf@northpole:/etc$ apt-show-versions | grep -v "uptodate" -i > ~/notUpToDate20170313 I say again... Oooo :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: Package name HELP!

2017-03-24 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
n the fly out of desperation while clicking everything in sight in a grocery store last year. I do it almost daily now just so I never forget.. Good luck! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: Samba domain provisioning tools issues provisioning error on clean Jessie install

2017-03-25 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
it's easier to delete that file per that error message *if* that error occurs versus the headaches that might result if that file was not in place for most other users universally. *?* :) The question: If I get a wild hair later and get a chance to attempt this, do you mind if I "borrow&

Re: Apt trusted.gpg file problems

2017-03-26 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
nd it missed my consciousness that things didn't go all the way through to the normal successful install message. I'd chroot in, and that's when root's "I Have No Name!" identity crisis slash eventual debootstrap install fail came into play. Just thinking out loud. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: Thunderbird (OK, "Icedove") has no icon in task-switching panel in Xfce

2017-03-26 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
rious coding. No, I don't know where to look just this second. I started to try to do the same back when I encountered it, but never got through the process to be able to suggest where to start and finish.. Good luck if you try to help with it.. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: SSH Access Issue

2017-03-26 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ds to show up somewhere in that file. I was consciously putting it in the first block because that seemed to be the *logical* thing to do k/t having touched on programming 20 years ago at a local tech school. :) Just thinking out loud... Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: SSH Access Issue

2017-03-26 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 3/26/17, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 3/26/17, Philippe LeCavalier wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 25, 2017, 17:52 wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 06:56:03PM +, Philippe LeCavalier wrote: >>> >>> > Nevermind. I changed the forward to another box a

Re: strange problem with chromium

2017-03-31 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
quite a few weeks now in Stretch. Those are just observations. It is what it is, there are no complaints. This has been occurring for me through several upgrades of chromium. It's not anything new. It ebbs and flows in frequency and so far is only a minor annoyance. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-S

Re: [TEST RUNS] Re: installer defaults for desktops (was Re: Suggested edit)

2017-04-01 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
working on Debian *usability*... VERY actively: https://lists.debian.org/debian-accessibility/ :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: Can't connect to the internet after "aptitude safe-upgrade"

2015-07-31 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
uot; presents you with a list of only those packages currently in need of upgrades. Maybe by running something like "apt-show-versions" or similar if you find it, you might see appropriate package names leaping off your screen? Or not, grin. Just thinking out loud.. Good luck! Cindy :)

Re: scanner not recognized

2015-08-01 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ce... No fib... He did some promo for one of the Star Trek movies where he (embarrassingly) made a Killer Whale disappear... He was a cutie pie, he was.. As sweet in person as he came across on screen Over and out! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * still

Re: libstdc++6 breaks libboost-date-time1.55.0

2015-08-02 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
IRST TIME I can remember ever hitting a wall.... If anyone has questions specific to mine, my apologies but I won't be around computer all day. Going back out to wrangle that fallen Hickory tree again.. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * bzzz

Re: Prevent package from removal

2015-08-05 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
veral times over the last two days. That kind of thing is VERY user friendly just for reasons like people sometimes DO forget they're on unstable when it runs as... stable as I personally have seen Sid be until the last couple days. -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, U

Re: OT: *FREE* VPN! Why?

2015-08-06 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
for people to access the FREE SPEECH web from within countries that do things like jail and shoot their journalists for writing the TRUTH about Life. Cindy -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * try searching 'what is vpn "free speech" blocked count

Unstable Sid upgrade issues fixed? libreoffice no longer autoremoved

2015-08-10 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
arent how things went, *grin* Good luck, Everyone! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * yaw-w-w-w-w-w-w-wn * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.d

Re: Unstable Sid upgrade issues fixed? libreoffice no longer autoremoved

2015-08-10 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 8/10/15, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > Hi, All.. May be false hope, but I just ran apt-get update and found > libreoffice in there again. Besides being the program EVERYTHING kept > trying to autoremove, libreoffice flat out had disappeared out of any > "needs to be updated&qu

Re: eyes applet

2015-08-13 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
. Does anyone know if either would work in xfce? It's apparently installed on my extremely basic, debootstrapped setup that includes xfce4. I had no idea that was there. Searches like "apt-cache search xeyes" keep turning up x11-apps as the... source. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * rolling my xeyes *

Re: How to fix problems with "libstdc++6 breaks [something]"

2015-08-18 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ies of whatever last distro copy of your own was working 100%... !!-*_ALWAYS_*-!! Don't be a hard head about HAVING to go pure unstable when unstable hits a bump like this past week. Keep a very stable *stable* copy of Debian around just for kicks, too. PPS.. That last one falls under don

Sid Unstable FYI: New libreoffice Depends Upgrade Fails

2015-08-25 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
27;ing-ing out there! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * If I could figure out how to fix it, I surely would. :D *

Re: /var/lib/apt/lists/partial fills entire partition

2015-09-01 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
erver's tired of struggling under the 967 BYTES download rate on my end.. Cindy :) PS Ok, I just checked my inbox one more time before sending this. Elimar and David replied with David's thought being similar to my own. Compression was a word I was actually looking for. Like something

Re: get software list of one software repository

2015-09-04 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
es me about computers and how they work, not to mention the individuals who ever figured out all this shtuff in the first place. :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs... outside because she's overdue to start daily chores *

Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

2015-09-04 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
thing appropriate. I don't know if the difference today is that the quality of websites favored by search engines have changed or if asking fully worded questions any other user might ask has helped after all these years, but there you go. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs... back outside because she's not done with daily chores yet... *

Re: /var/lib/apt/lists/partial fills entire partition [SOLVED]

2015-09-04 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
uld anything like this come up again for you. At least I THINK a report could be generated since I've seen past threads about similar. The threads just completely went over my head at the time outside of mentally toggling that learning experience as a future *to do* Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs... outside *to do* daily chores that never seem *to do* themselves *

Re: /var/lib/apt/lists/partial fills entire partition [SOLVED]

2015-09-04 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 9/4/15, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > Related to your previous reply about "provided it works properly", > maybe someone here with the knowledge of how it's done can tip you on > setting up a report that's automatically generated when update runs. > That&#

Re: laptop-suspend

2015-09-04 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
After that, most if not all times I have to then push something like my up arrow key for it to bring up the log in window. No idea how I ever figured out that works. Mostly likely just started pushing keys out of frustration at some point early on... Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock,

Re: laptop-suspend

2015-09-04 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 9/5/15, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Fri, September 4, 2015 11:12 pm, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: >> I have to >> push the hardware-based sleep button to start the waking process. After >> that, most if not all times I have to then push something like my up >> arro

How hard is it to help Devs fix transition dependency glitches?

2015-09-06 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ly because this is the first unstable I've been through from the start of a new release cycle. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs... in circles sometimes *

Re: Doing Dist-Upgrade or Such

2015-09-08 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
of conflict with apt-cache?? So I just kept flipping back and forth between the two man pages... and trying to really read and *comprehend* apt-cache's one especially.. Is apt-cache's maybe really meaning *FILE*, as in each specific .deb file, and not directory (aka "fold

Re: Upgrading debian to specific minor version

2015-09-09 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
y what you are looking for in 7.8 versus 7.9 Just thinking out loud... Good luck! :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * yawns frequently at this time of day *

Re: uprading from squeeze to jessie

2015-09-11 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
home was my kneejerk to this in the wee middle of last night. And still is right this second today Knowing *why* this *_CHOICE_* is being sought MIGHT carry the weight it would take to change that opinion, though... Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * Favors a Debian clean slate every time! *

Re: Broadcom bluetooth on ASUS Z97-Pro WiFi ac

2015-09-12 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
about here and there. Give me a couple weeks, and it may be that I had to do this myself firsthand, too. Time will tell.. *grin* Hope this helps at least a little.. If nothing else, maybe it at least helped short track someone else's answer... or something. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Caus

Re: How to find pkg specific font belongs to

2015-09-14 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
earch package contents. *smacking head (very hard)* https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_contents Before sharing, I tried umpteen different variations by chopping parts off both the front end and the back end of your desired find.... and got absolute zero every time. Maybe your luck will be

Re: Debian sid transition to KDE 5?

2015-09-15 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
CE_* of package combinations and how all the packages each user chooses interacts amongst themselves in each almost singularly definable setup. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * anyone seen my frei0r? it seems to have taken it on the lam. #hate when that happens. *

Re: xorg-server not exists in my stretch

2015-09-16 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
story.log.1.gz, history.log.2.gz, etc, in that same /var/log/apt directory. If that does NOT exist on your system for any reason, maybe someone else knows of an alternative route to the same information. Hope you find what you're looking for there. Mine does seem to be referencing a before and

Re: Jessie update notes?

2015-09-21 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
7;t be there. You'll only see something blip through there at a rate that's reflective of your Internet connection speed. If you run update one more time and something is still sitting incomplete under "partial", wouldn't hurt to nose around to find out why it's still there

System admin type package Metche?

2015-09-21 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ntended to share the existence of that package. Maybe it's just the thing someone was looking for.... OR not. *grin* Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with plastic sporks *

Coder friendly font Anonymous Pro (ttf-anonymous-pro)

2015-09-21 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ence.. Sharing because it might just help someone else who spends a lot of time using terminals. As I write that, for some reason it comes to mind that it may be standard with large installs. If not, the package name again is ttf-anonymous-pro. Happy Monday! (It *is* Monday, right??) Cind

Re: googleearth-package (jessie)

2015-09-30 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
for Debian with respect to those who author the/our site's webpages. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: how do I suggest an enhancement to apticron?

2015-10-02 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ns being asked AND/OR the mistakes being made by newcomers on that list. :) Good luck whatever method you follow! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: why jessie is quick at boot/shutdown

2015-10-08 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
tlogd" for their other recommendation. That (terminal command line search) output this description: "bootlogd - daemon to log boot messages" Bootlogd may or may not be default installed on various systems. Just for funnsies, running the command "dpkg -s bootlogd" reflects it

Re: Can't reinstall all Jessie packages

2015-10-09 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
occurred for any reason. Your mention of that reminded me of "--fix-missing", also, which I've used on occasion. Whether or not it ever helped, I don't know. Computer's running, but ti's been a LONG time (like whole weeks, ok, months) since I've needed either. Jus

Re: X not working after apt-get upgrade on sid

2015-10-09 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
g bugs that maybe over time it helps inspire people to get involved somehow through repeated exposure to Debian's issues... and also that existing, knowledgeable Devs might incidentally see something pending that they have just the right experience to help fix on the spot now that they are

Re: fstab entry for a 3.6TB drive

2015-10-15 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
d it/LOVED it in a file manager other than Thunar, just can't remember if it was Nautilus or Dolphin. If it's available, it may also be called "bookmark" as an alternative.. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: Extract substring from cat

2015-10-16 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
. $ cat /etc/*-release $ PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux stretch/sid" Unstable is certainly Sid's first, middle, and last name, grin. Stretch nicely defines where Sid is in a release cycle of the moment. a nice little time stamp of sorts ish. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: what list to umail for this bug?

2015-10-18 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
*, one click accomplishes the task "Report as s p am* button on the right top corner of each message in case you find anything that slipped through filters. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: Debian on netbooks: was Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented

2015-10-18 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ery specific but I rarely see that here. Things that don't apply or that remain beyond my comprehension, I simply delete and hope that some tickle of information remains as the whole Debian picture continues to come together in my own Mind. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: is there a way to tell apt to accept expired keys.

2015-10-18 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
would be digging harder for a current key instead of trying to force something that's... "old and moldy".. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: 64bit run on mips64r2

2015-10-20 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
tem-microblazeqemu-system-xtensaeb qemu-nbd qemu-system-microblazeel qemu-unicore32 qemu-or32 qemu-system-mips qemu-x86_64 Good luck! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: Debian 8.2 RAID conf. problem

2015-10-22 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
LOT of time that afternoon. Many months ago there was a thread about longevity of hard drives related to how many boots in their lifetimes. THAT THREAD came to mind THAT AFTERNOON I ate a few boots off my hard drive's lifetime supply that day. *grin* Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: Regarding language display issues

2015-10-22 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
quot; a few times for "hindi". An aside to those who write those descriptions: Don't forget to use **ALL** your special keywords! It's times like this when they matter. :D PS "urdu truetype" still landed no package results. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: Tracking down memory leaks (SOLVED)

2015-10-23 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
tween them on 1GB memory. Again. lol =) Cindy :) ** I'm trying to mentally work through a BAD #1 critical Debian bug without rebooting. Rebooting means losing, breaking the virtual train of thought to this point this second. For people in my cognitive (disability type) Shoes, it represents a major loss. It's why we get stubborn about things like not rebooting sometimes. :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: aptitude loses the lists after "update"ing while offline

2015-10-27 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
. Apt-get tosses partially completed download files into a temporary directory where those files stay until they're ready to be decompressed. The VERY LAST part of the process is that they then overwrite and/or become interwoven into the previous similar/same list files. Just thinking out loud. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: Anybody know why aptitude is not installed by default in Sid?

2015-10-31 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
es like current CD/DVD size limitations. That's when they have to start making those difficult decisions about what packages are shipped and which ones hit the cutting room floor. Just glad I'm not wearing those Shoes. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * plays with plastic bags *

Re: Ransomware meets Linux - on the command line!

2015-11-11 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
y/ For fun, I checked my inbox for any references to the ransomware. There are ZERO references in what's probably at least 150,000 emails or more. For that reason, I'm adding the name here: Ransm-C and Linux/Ransm-C so this thread becomes searchable for it. :) In the end, all the above is

Re: Ransomware meets Linux - on the command line!

2015-11-11 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 11/11/15, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > For fun, I checked my inbox for any references to the ransomware. > There are ZERO references in what's probably at least 150,000 emails > or more. For that reason, I'm adding the name here: Ransm-C and > Linux/Ransm-C so this thre

Re: default English (US) QWERTY layout

2015-11-14 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
, I just reset my keyboard model to Asus, go figure. Wandering off now wondering if I haven't just sunk my own battleship.. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with plastic sporks *

Sid Unstable Upgrade: 111MB space to be freed but NO removed packages?

2015-11-22 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
often something like 10 to maybe 100 *KB* max... Am headed outside to do chores so I won't be around for a while in the event anyone has insight into that sizable number there.. :) Happy Sunday! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Sid Unstable Upgrade: 111MB space to be freed but NO removed packages?

2015-11-22 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 11/22/15, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2015-11-22 08:45 -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > >> >> **111 MB disk space will be freed.** > > This seems to be solely due to the size of g++-5 having shrunk a lot, > because cc1plus is now stripped. Since the changelog doe

Re: Changing Monitor that gdm uses

2015-11-27 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ce the desktop starts the order of the displays is probably* also > wrong, but of course can be fixed in the display settings > > * I say that because the main monitor is numbered 2 and the old monitor > is numbered 1. > > Where is the detection of which monitor is which take pl

Re: Changing Monitor that gdm uses

2015-11-27 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 11/27/15, Alan Chandler wrote: > On 27/11/15 10:46, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: >> On 11/25/15, Alan Chandler wrote: >>> >>> But gdm3 has decided it is going to come up on the secondary monitor. >>> Once the desktop starts the order of the displays is probabl

Re: pianobar login error resurfaces

2015-12-03 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ying to put into words to share, potentially via bug report.. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs... in circles sometimes *

Re: Setting up tap-to-click in gdm3

2015-12-07 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
rds you know to use that I don't might get you better results. I'd leave off the word "touchpad" and see if something pops for "touch screen" that can be adapted for touchpad, if nothing else Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs in circles sometimes *

Re: Apt Archives Usage

2015-12-10 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
potentially time to... autoclean again. *cough* 4.5GB *cough-cough* =) Cindy -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * what's in YOUR archives?! *

Re: Flash problems

2014-12-16 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
chroot the target path to get chroot... you know... (also) working, it's been quite the learning curve week. *Look out!* Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with sporks * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: broken apt " -f install" wont fix what to do ?

2014-12-18 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
n to the error would potentially help someone who's already been in your Shoes. In that second case, I was using "apt-get -f install" myself according to my notes... :) Good luck! :) Cindy :) * For the record, at some point immediately after that chromium fail, I permanently aborted an

Re: udev madness ?

2014-12-28 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ually end up with extremely bottom dollar readers and hubs which would likely also play a notable part in any of this type of issue. Just thinking out loud.. :) Cindy -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * my dog runs with plastic bags. #truestory * -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Possible incompatibility between wheezy gnome and wheezy-backports libreoffice

2014-12-28 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
t; also try *dpkg -i --force-depends [package-name]. SEEMS LIKE it was one of those "don't try this at home, kids", last resort kinds of deal. It actually fixed something for me in a system I eventually killed off permanently some other way instead... Another "thinking out loud&quo

Re: /var/lib/dpkg/status strangeness

2014-12-28 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
g disastrous themselves.. I can remember mentally visualizing the file hierarchy while thinking that every single file in it, no matter how critical, was 100% equally vulnerable at those times of transfers. Couldn't think of the words then but "integrity checks" or some such simi

Re: Unable to upgrade testing system

2015-01-03 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
helped. It would be interesting to hear what Aptitude *does* do under the hood when users tell it to try again.. Each, our favorite package managers... they're what make Debian rock and roll.. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA *

Re: remove me from this list

2015-01-07 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
opers catch this now, could you please help speed up the process of yanking that off the WWW..? Thank you.. Peace and Love to All.. Cindy Sue -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: _COMPLETE_ instructions for debootstrap &/or multistrap

2015-01-08 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
#x27;s all I've got right now. Hope that helps *at least a little*.. Good luck! PS Got any questions on that... shtuff... please so do NOT try asking me... :)) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey \Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with plastic sporks * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Tip: Search Command Line Commands w/First Letters And Tab

2015-01-09 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
f it would be perfect for the next upgrade of something else Debian out there. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with plastic sporks * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: help in purging old packages

2015-01-10 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
you have to orchestrate accordingly to get the most bang out of time spent in front of the screen.. This is a PERFECT tool for that. :) Cindy -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with plastic sporks * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debia

Re: Can't get sound to work

2015-01-17 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
imes at everything that came with xfce4-goodies (via /var/log/apt/history.log) but haven't seen anything that popped off the screen yet as the (hero) fixer. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with plastic sporks * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Re: Ric Moore

2015-01-17 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
offense intended to anyone else's *_CHOICE_*. Seriously! Whatever works however it works... :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with plastic sporks * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: how to paste selected text / keyboard shortcut

2015-01-19 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ighted. Sometimes it will even deselect if you click in between lines of selected text instead of directly over the text itself.. Fun, fun. :) Cindy ) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with plastic sporks * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

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