Re: package for dropbox

2012-12-30 Thread Dick Thomas
I've found the debian repo package doesn't work, it installs but when run the daemon says it's install incorrectly and forwards me to the dropbox website. this might of changed since I last tried but it might be better to get it from their website Dick Thomas On 30 December 20

Re: package for dropbox

2012-12-30 Thread Dick Thomas
top-post his reply above all the others. Just sayin'.... > > Dick Thomas grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > On 30 December 2012 18:26, David Guntner wrote: > >> > >> Just as an asside, dropbox.com has a Debian .deb package that can be > >> downloaded

wheezy network manager and normal users

2013-01-05 Thread Dick Thomas
Hello, I've got a laptop that more than just I use, but network manger seems to ask for the sudo/root password when adding a new wireless key. I don't want other users having sudo access but I want them to be-able to use new networks I've try tried adding user to netdev but that just seems to all

startech pcie capture card

2013-01-07 Thread Dick Thomas
that can capture HDMI & VGA Regards Dick Thomas -- About.me http://about.me/dick.thomas Blog: www.xpd259.co.uk G+: www.google.com/profiles/xpd259

Re: ISO downloads are corrupted

2013-01-08 Thread Dick Thomas
On 8 January 2013 15:18, Markos wrote: > Dear Dick, > > I don't have any experience with jigdo or torrents. > > I will read about it. > > Thanks, > Markos > > Em Dom, 2013-01-06 às 15:51 +, Dick William Thomas escreveu: > > > > On Sun, 2013-01-06 at 12:54 -0200, Markos wrote: > > > Dear, > >

Re: Installing Debian on an SSD

2013-01-08 Thread Dick Thomas
On 8 January 2013 19:16, Grześ Andruszkiewicz wrote: > Hi, > > Does the Debian installer work out of the box for SSDs? I.e. I heard > that you need to align the partitions to 32bit virtual clusters (is it > actually true?). Are there any other things I need to take into > account while installing

Re: ISO downloads are corrupted

2013-01-08 Thread Dick Thomas
On 8 January 2013 20:59, Bob Proulx wrote: > Doug wrote: > > Markos wrote: > > >I don't have any experience with jigdo or torrents. > > > > Some years ago I was trying to install distro with jigdo, and > > gave up. I have never seen such a confusing, stupid thing > > in my life! If the program i

Debian Wiki

2013-01-13 Thread Dick Thomas
Hello, are there any limits on what can be added to the wiki? I'm asking as there are so many things on the arch wiki I've "fixed" to work on debian that I feel I should post somewhere Dick Thomas -- About.me http://about.me/dick.thomas Blog: www.xpd259.co.uk G+: www

Re: Debian Wiki

2013-01-14 Thread Dick Thomas
On 14 January 2013 15:47, green wrote: > Dick Thomas wrote at 2013-01-13 23:19 -0600: >> are there any limits on what can be added to the wiki? >> I'm asking as there are so many things on the arch wiki I've "fixed" >> to work on debian >> that I

Re: Debian 7

2013-02-21 Thread Dick Thomas
About.me http://about.me/dick.thomas Blog: www.xpd259.co.uk G+: www.google.com/profiles/xpd259 gpg key: C791809B On 21 February 2013 20:42, Thore wrote: > Hi, > I use wheezy on my Servers. > If you have no poeple who needs the server every time (like in business). > Than you can use wheezy. >

Re: use another /dev/tty0 as /dev/random

2013-02-22 Thread Dick Thomas
worked it out, i neeed the app rng-tools and set my device as /dev/foo :) About.me http://about.me/dick.thomas Blog: www.xpd259.co.uk G+: www.google.com/profiles/xpd259 gpg key: C791809B On 22 February 2013 17:05, Dick Thomas wrote: > I'm making a random number generator out of

use another /dev/tty0 as /dev/random

2013-02-22 Thread Dick Thomas
I'm making a random number generator out of bit and Arduino but that isn't the question my Question is is it possible to use a serial imput from the Arduino as /dev/random I've no idea what to even google to do this any help or pointers where to start would be fantastic Dick About.me http://a

10 top myths of debian

2013-03-01 Thread Dick Thomas
Debian the easiest of the lot) *** Debian is always out of date and even the "stable" is unsecure as its backported fixes rather than updates and any other points you could think of wouldl be awesome Dick Thomas About.me http://about.me/dick.thomas Blog: www.xpd259.co.uk G+: www.goog

Raid 5

2013-03-06 Thread Dick Thomas
What is the best way to setup a raid 5 array (4* 2TB drives) should I make raid 5 for my system and /home then raid 0 or 1 for the boot, or should I buy a 5th drive for system/boot and install in the standard way? as this is my 1st time on debian and not sure what would be best Dick Thomas

Re: Raid 5

2013-03-06 Thread Dick Thomas
x27;, [tab] and add 'dmraid=true' again. > Then get thee to a shell and 'grub-install --recheck /dev/sdaX' for each > partition. > > > > > On 03/06/2013 01:37 PM, Dick Thomas wrote: >> >> What is the best way to setup a raid 5 array (4* 2TB drives) &g

Re: Raid 5

2013-03-06 Thread Dick Thomas
y, chroot to the / partition and install > grub. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject > of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5137998e.3090...@rogers.co

Re: Raid 5

2013-03-06 Thread Dick Thomas
On 6 March 2013 21:49, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Gary Dale wrote: >> >> Sorry but this isn't difficult (although it may affect top-posters more than >> bottom posters :) ). The Debian installer allows you to create a whole-disk >> RAID array then partition it. You have a sing

cd ISO with automatic ssh statup

2013-04-02 Thread Dick Thomas
the a*** Dick Thomas About.me http://about.me/dick.thomas Blog: www.xpd259.co.uk G+: www.google.com/profiles/xpd259

differences between installs affecting hardware

2013-04-13 Thread Dick Thomas
mod blackmacgic (the capture card module) and restart X But if I install Xfce 1st using the same netboot cdrom and then install the gnome task it works perfectly What differences would installing Xfce 1st make that installing gnome over the top make? (Just so I can report a bug to them) Dick T

Re: debian sid, kernel 3.8 and volume group not found.

2013-05-12 Thread Dick Thomas
On 13 May 2013 00:25, Mauro wrote: > It is already installed. > > > On 12 May 2013 15:25, Alan Greenberger wrote: >> >> On 2013-05-11, Mauro wrote: >> > >> > Yes I've did not mention that the machine where the new kernel does not >> > work has an amd64 processor. >> > >> > >> > On 11 May 2013 09

Re: debian sid, kernel 3.8 and volume group not found.

2013-05-12 Thread Dick Thomas
On 13 May 2013 00:56, Mauro wrote: > I've not tried, I'll do. > But why there's no need to add rootdelay in the other machine? > > > On 13 May 2013 01:53, Dick Thomas wrote: >> >> On 13 May 2013 00:25, Mauro wrote: >> > It is already i

crackle and distortion on KDE audio

2013-05-22 Thread Dick Thomas
ound card and a sound blaster FX TI Is there some setting that might fix this (other than removing pulse audio as I need that)? I don't know what output from the CLI to give to hints what might be wrong Dick Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: crackle and distortion on KDE audio

2013-05-25 Thread Dick Thomas
On 23/05/13 00:14, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2013-05-22 at 23:30 +0100, Dick Thomas wrote: >> I've just installed KDE on wheezy >> as I have a black magic pro capture card and on gnome it kills all >> user permissions >> (Shutdown, eject cdrom, etc) but with KDE

Re: 32bit apps under amd64 and nvidia

2013-05-26 Thread Dick Thomas
On 26/05/13 07:21, Alex Moonshine wrote: > >> On Sun, 26 May 2013 08:01:33 +0200 >> "Hans-J. Ullrich" mailto:hans.ullr...@loop.de>> > wrote: >> > >> > This will not work. The problem is missing libxvmc1:ii386, which got >> > a dependency problem. There is a bugreport related to it. They say, >> >

Re: kmail under wheezy

2013-06-18 Thread Dick Thomas
s I'm currently using Ice-dove and I'm sure I read somewhere that It has been dropped by Mozilla and I need a replacement client Dick Thomas -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJR

Re: kmail under wheezy

2013-06-18 Thread Dick Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19/06/13 02:06, Mike McGinn wrote: > Hi All, > Is anyone using KDE and Kmail under Wheezy? How does it work? Is it stable > enough to use or should I wait to update from Squeeze? > > Thanks, > Mike > this is why I shouldn't type half asleep, :o)

br0 with only one interface and IPv6

2013-06-26 Thread Dick Thomas
et6 static address 2a01:348:6::: netmask 64 many thanks Dick Thomas -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRytedAAoJEF0vI0WYYxBR+wQH/je5UEgXHG3xod

Re: INSTALLATION OF DEBIAN IN WINDOWS XP

2013-06-26 Thread Dick Thomas
be.com/watch?v=VpipA-_3nSs or just a plain over writing of everything https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kdX5jlJ7NU or you can search the lot at www.youtube,com/xpd259 while I Don't claim to be an expert making these videos I make them to show how easy it can be :0) Dick Thomas -BEGIN PGP

Re: installation problem

2016-01-17 Thread Dick Thomas
t; so.. how i could resolve this problem , any help from you, please > > robert, waiting for your response 1st question, Have you done a custom partitioning ? I ask as I've only seen this error on my installs when I've done a encrypted root on and didn't leave a /boot unencrypted regards Dick Thomas