Re: That time IPv6 farted in Gene's church (Was Re: forcedeth?)

2019-05-27 Thread Jimmy Johnson
longer, like so many others who are longtime Debian Users, so please don't troll. Thanks, -- Jimmy Johnson 14.2 - KDE - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda9 - Registered Linux User #380263

Re: That time IPv6 farted in Gene's church (Was Re: forcedeth?)

2019-05-27 Thread Jimmy Johnson
ers here including myself rely on the N-M app, I'm sure we would all be interested in knowing where we stand. Who needs NetworkManager and why? Thanks, -- Jimmy Johnson 14.2 - KDE - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda9 - Registered Linux User #380263

Re: That time IPv6 farted in Gene's church (Was Re: forcedeth?)

2019-05-27 Thread Jimmy Johnson
hare information about where it was reported to I can follow up on it. I sincerely hope that it has not gone unfixed through these many years!!! Who needs it and what for? Why is NetworkManager installed? -- Jimmy Johnson 14.2 - KDE - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda9 - Registered Linux User #380263

Re: That time IPv6 farted in Gene's church (Was Re: forcedeth?)

2019-05-27 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 05/27/2019 12:54 PM, Brian wrote: On Mon 27 May 2019 at 10:19:45 -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 05/27/2019 12:46 AM, Curt wrote: On 2019-05-27, wrote: If Network Manager is giving you grief, please go bark up /that/ tree (I can't say much about N-M, because I banned it from my

Re: That time IPv6 farted in Gene's church (Was Re: forcedeth?)

2019-05-28 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 05/28/2019 08:44 AM, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 10:13:12AM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 05/26/2019 11:03 PM, Andy Smith wrote: There doesn't seem to be any point in interacting further. Andy that's the most helpful thing you've said, I guess

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
is no reason to give /sudo/root/ to anyone but the admin, unless it's a class on system admin. What are you going to do about it? -- Jimmy Johnson Devuan Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda2 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Repair Grumb (grub)

2019-07-12 Thread Jimmy Johnson
of Buster the boot hung with a '>' prompt. AMD computers and complete buster update with wayland cause problems like x not starting or sometimes the user space will freeze with only background service running, input device's stop working. I don't know the fix. -- Ji

Re: Trapped in Gnome

2019-09-12 Thread Jimmy Johnson
I've seen the problem before, reverting back to the old kernel got it going again. -- Jimmy Johnson MX-19-XFCE-4.14 - AMD E2-6110 - EXT4 at sda11 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Laptop recommendation

2018-07-07 Thread Jimmy Johnson
urope, asia/pacific/middle east, oceania, latin america and africa. https://www.craigslist.org/about/sites -- Jimmy Johnson Slackware 14.2-64 - KDE 4.14.32 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda9 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: painted into a corner

2018-08-20 Thread Jimmy Johnson
urn off metadata_csum via tune2fs. #tune2fs -O ^metadata_csum /dev/path/to/disk The above is for ext4, for repairing partition I use this with force. #fsck.ext4 -pvcf /dev/sdxx -- Jimmy Johnson Devuan Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda2 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: painted into a corner

2018-08-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
hat the filesystem will pass fsck. Then turn off metadata_csum via tune2fs. #tune2fs -O ^metadata_csum /dev/path/to/disk The above is for ext4, for repairing partition I use this with force. #fsck.ext4 -pvcf /dev/sdxx -- Jimmy Johnson Devuan Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda2 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: painted into a corner

2018-08-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 08/21/2018 10:28 AM, David Wright wrote: On Mon 20 Aug 2018 at 18:13:22 (-0700), Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 08/20/2018 01:28 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 20 August 2018 11:23:00 Andrew McGlashan wrote: On 20/08/18 05:40, Gene Heskett wrote: Whats the recommended way to do these mounts

Re: painted into a corner

2018-08-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 08/21/2018 05:29 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 21 August 2018 18:33:50 Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 08/19/2018 12:40 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; I just installed stretch to a fresh 2T HD. letting it autopartition and format for separate /, swap, /var and /home partitions. But I

Re: question about memtest86+

2018-08-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 08/22/2018 02:58 PM, Long Wind wrote: i install memtest86+ of stretch to test memory i don't see any error msg, but after a few minutes, it shutdown my PC does that mean my memory is bad? i read manual of memtest86+, can't find explaination Maybe system shutdown due to heat.

Re: question about memtest86+

2018-08-24 Thread Jimmy Johnson
l, install the new memory and start the computer, it does a self test, check the BIOS is the new memory there? Memtest is known to cause heat to the max. Memtest is known to cause budget chips to error. -- Jimmy Johnson Slackware64 14.2 - Just Say No! To SystemD, Plasma5 & Drugs! KDE 4.14.32 -

Re: recovering a partition table

2018-09-07 Thread Jimmy Johnson
-testdisk-and-gparted-live/ -- Jimmy Johnson Devuan Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda2 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: recovering a partition table

2018-09-07 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 09/07/2018 02:06 PM, Dominic Knight wrote: On Fri, 2018-09-07 at 13:02 -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 09/07/2018 12:19 PM, Eike Lantzsch wrote: On Friday, September 7, 2018 5:34:00 PM -04 Dominic Knight wrote: Whilst trying to create one partition out of two (using disks) I appear to have

Re: update problem

2018-09-10 Thread Jimmy Johnson
an Main Repos deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Wheezy - KDE 4.8.4 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda10 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Burn Blu-Ray video on Linux

2018-10-02 Thread Jimmy Johnson
/lib* or /usr/local/lib, either Have I misconfigured something with multi-arch?  Is there a bug I couldn't find a reference too? Any help or suggestions on other software to try? Thanks, Bob This package? https://packages.debian.org/sid/libstdc++6 -- Jimmy Johnson Devuan Jessie - KDE

Re: Reverting firefox-esr upgrade in Buster

2018-11-08 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 11/07/2018 09:43 PM, local10 wrote: Hi, Is there a way to revert firefox-esr upgrade to version 60 in Buster and install back firefox v 52.9.0? Thanks Here: https://pkgs.org/download/firefox-esr -- Jimmy Johnson Slackware64 14.2 - KDE 4.14.32 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda9 Registered

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-12-01 Thread Jimmy Johnson
home directory within the root directory? Wouldn't one less partition be simpler, and therefore (all other things being equal) better? Opinions, please. I dislike top posting. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Wheezy - KDE 4.8.4 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda10 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Gparted error report

2019-01-02 Thread Jimmy Johnson
epair ext4 with #fsck.ext4 -pvcf /dev/sdXX but as above you need to first disable checksum. -- Jimmy Johnson Slackware64 14.2 - KDE 4.14.32 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda9 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Need help making new boot vol

2019-01-15 Thread Jimmy Johnson
m the menu, I think it's in the advanced menu. -- Jimmy Johnson Slackware64 14.2 - KDE 4.14.32 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda9 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check

2019-02-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
ile it's up, I would seriously look at those mount point names; I agree, they are awful. Create some nice new ones to use with your future disk(s). I know little to nothing about a raid, but otherwise I would boot with the new drive installed and run "blkid" then make appr

Re: Mirror release file expired

2019-03-03 Thread Jimmy Johnson
applied. What's the best way to communicate this to the folks who manage that particular mirror -- the Columbia one? http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/ has a contact address. I've seen mirrors expire for one reason or another. Is there anyway to find/get the hits on that address? Thanks

Re: Laptop still extremely slow after replacing msata ssd and putting old one back

2019-03-05 Thread Jimmy Johnson
showing all the installed ram, are there any test you can run from the bios... -- Jimmy Johnson Slackware64 14.2 - KDE 4.14.32 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda9 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: A call to drop gnome

2019-04-18 Thread Jimmy Johnson
raped and will never be mentally or usably the same and Microsoft is happy, I'm glad someone is happy. -- Jimmy Johnson Current - KDE - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda11 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Cannot re-install synaptic on Buster.

2019-04-27 Thread Jimmy Johnson
eat for me. It seems only a few users and even less developers know the power of Synaptic, it's ability's are great and there is no replacement for Synaptic. -- Jimmy Johnson Current - KDE4 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda11 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Cannot re-install synaptic on Buster.

2019-04-28 Thread Jimmy Johnson
, I don't think users are allowed that kind of power any longer. I ran one package and it said I needed to be Wheel, so I installed kuser to add me as wheel, while trying to use kuser I got command not found. -- Jimmy Johnson 14.2 - KDE - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda9 - Registered Linux User #380263

Re: which mutt?

2019-05-03 Thread Jimmy Johnson
ps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=870635 --Francisco -- Jimmy Johnson 14.2 - KDE - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda9 - Registered Linux User #380263

Re: which mutt?

2019-05-03 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 05/03/2019 10:56 AM, David Wright wrote: On Fri 03 May 2019 at 09:40:05 (-0700), Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 05/03/2019 04:43 AM, Francisco M Neto wrote: AFAIK in Stretch Mutt actually means Neomutt. There was a flamewar between the package maintainer and the Mutt guy a while ago about that. It

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-29 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/27/19 10:38 AM, Peter Ehlert wrote: On 10/26/19 5:41 PM, songbird wrote: Peter Ehlert wrote: I have tried it, several times, but was unable to get Grub properly installed... not able to boot. I too would like such a tool    hmm, i have a booting USB stick of stable (before recent releas

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-29 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/29/19 1:56 AM, Joe wrote: On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 01:21:52 -0700 Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 10/27/19 10:38 AM, Peter Ehlert wrote: On 10/26/19 5:41 PM, songbird wrote: Peter Ehlert wrote: I have tried it, several times, but was unable to get Grub properly installed... not able to boot. I

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-29 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/29/19 9:23 AM, deloptes wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: My acer aspire one is not having a problem and another acer with 17 inch screen, hdmi and ddr3 is not having a problem, I can't get at the model right now. You may have to fiddle with your bios, on a samsung I have to go to bios at

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-29 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/29/19 12:22 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: HP UEFI firmwares were among the most broken ones, ignoring EFI boot entries created for GRUB. I swear those new hp's are broken by design just like our main stream(cough) linux. But if you find the right system, using the right kernel you can get

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-29 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/29/19 12:07 PM, Joe wrote: No, it doesn't do legacy. There is no 'legacy' on any BIOS screen. It's an Aspire ES1-132. But Stretch installed in EFI easily and even gave me a dual-boot with Win10, which didn't interest me at the time, but does now. I'm doing a bit of Access work for the firs

Re: looking for a replacement for debian since systemd

2019-12-15 Thread Jimmy Johnson
nd slackware live kde5 and I'm still testing debian but I don't think it's linux anymore than windows10 is, just another mainstream backdoor. Already mentioned are bsd and devuan and devuan has some forks to look at too. -- Jimmy Johnson Slackware64 14.2 - KDE 4.14.32 - AMD

Re: looking for a replacement for debian since systemd

2019-12-15 Thread Jimmy Johnson
encounter! Kde5 on buster without systemd don't work, all kde5 is config for systemd, screen settings and pluseaudio will not save settings, to bad, so sad. Give it a try and see for yourself. -- Jimmy Johnson Slackware64 14.2 - KDE 4.14.32 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda5 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: looking for a replacement for debian since systemd

2019-12-16 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 12/15/19 11:45 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting Jimmy Johnson (2019-12-16 02:13:08) On 12/14/19 5:29 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Hi Alessandro, Quoting Alessandro Vesely (2019-12-14 13:23:14) On Sat 14/Dec/2019 03:18:39 +0100 Kenneth Parker wrote: I use Devuan, especially on older

Re: Howto?

2020-01-26 Thread Jimmy Johnson
.:) Gene will this help? http://www.noah.org/wiki/DEB_package_notes_-_dpkg,_apt,_aptitude,_and_friends#Creating_DEB_packages -- Jimmy Johnson Slackware64 11.19.KDE5 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda7 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: broken HD (sector 0)

2009-07-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
nd at the command line run "testdisk". -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64 + ext4

2009-07-28 Thread Jimmy Johnson
I thought "linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64" had ext4 support built into it or what I'm I doing wrong? I can't mount ext4. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid at sda8 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &q

Re: linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64 + ext4

2009-07-28 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Roger Leigh wrote: On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 03:06:35PM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: I thought "linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64" had ext4 support built into it or what I'm I doing wrong? I can't mount ext4. This kernel is working fine for me with ext4. What errors are you get

Re: linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64 + ext4

2009-07-29 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Roger Leigh wrote: On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 03:06:35PM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: I thought "linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64" had ext4 support built into it or what I'm I doing wrong? I can't mount ext4. This kernel is working fine for me with ext4. What errors are you get

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-13 Thread Jimmy Johnson
S. Fishpaste wrote: Hm sounds like a plan. Do you know offhand which Debian distro has 3.5.x ? Mepis 8.0 is based on Lenny and has 3.5 compiled, you can get it using these repos if you want. "deb ftp://ftp.mepis.com/mepis/ mepis-8.0 main" -- Jimmy Johnson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-13 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Brent Clark wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: Mepis 8.0 is based on Lenny and has 3.5 compiled, you can get it using these repos if you want. "deb ftp://ftp.mepis.com/mepis/ mepis-8.0 main" If you going to make a suggestion for a debian based distro, then you might as well just make

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-13 Thread Jimmy Johnson
S. Fishpaste wrote: On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:45:03 -0700, Jimmy Johnson in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: S. Fishpaste wrote: Hm sounds like a plan. Do you know offhand which Debian distro has 3.5.x ? Mepis 8.0 is based on Lenny and has 3.5 compiled, you can get it using these repos if you

Re: problem updating etch to lenny

2009-08-13 Thread Jimmy Johnson
-enthought-traits python-excelerator python-numeric python-gtk2 python-glade2 python-numpy python-tz python-matplotlib python-uno Then I would install package "keepnote" and then finish by installing the rest of the packages that I want. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid at sda8 Registered

Re: x won't start as a particular user. for other users works fine. what file is causing it? how to troubleshoot?

2009-08-24 Thread Jimmy Johnson
her users, X starts fine. Reminds me of the problem my sister had when she downloaded a music.raw file, she forgot about it and it kept on downloading until her /home partition was full, she called me and said "it's broke." I logged in as root and deleted the file and it was fixed.

Re: how to downgrade and pin package (durep)?

2009-09-29 Thread Jimmy Johnson
I want and then update and go to Package, Force Package, in the drop-down box I would choose the package I want and install it, then lock/pin the package. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid at sda8 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: Hello! Please, I need your help! An advice of what I need to download to

2009-10-05 Thread Jimmy Johnson
information you need to solve your sound problem, if you can not get your sound to work I suggest that you reinstall the latest version of Mepis 8.0 and then ask for help at mepislovers.org where new users can get help when the do not know how to help themselves. -- Jimmy Johnson ANUBIS-EXT4 at sda9

Re: Removing a linux-image.

2009-10-16 Thread Jimmy Johnson
remove and delete all that you find and then run update-grub and you will be fine. Make sure you are awake and don't delete the wrong kernel. :-) -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Testing - EXT4 at sda11 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: test for package dependencies without installing

2009-02-13 Thread Jimmy Johnson
aded, 9 newly installed, 1 to remove and 31 not upgraded. Need to get 225kB/1179kB of archives. After unpacking 2659kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Lenny?

2009-02-14 Thread Jimmy Johnson
ude upgrade" after that's done then do "aptitude full-upgrade", if you already know this then disregard my comments. :) -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lis

KDE

2009-02-16 Thread Jimmy Johnson
While using aptitude to remove a package from my KDE install aptitude wants to remove all of KDE, how do I stop this behavior? -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: From x86 to x86-64

2009-02-16 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/16/2009 08:33 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: [snip] Hi Ron, just to let you know, if you have /home installed to /root and you have another OS installed or a Live CD to use you can delete all files except /home and then install no-format, if you get a warning after

Re: KDE

2009-02-17 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Monday 16 February 2009 21:02:55 Jimmy Johnson wrote: While using aptitude to remove a package from my KDE install aptitude wants to remove all of KDE, how do I stop this behavior? Short answer: You can't and you don't want to. Medium answer: Us

Re: lenny kde artwork

2009-02-17 Thread Jimmy Johnson
-base" and you may also need to install "kdmtheme" the KDM theme manager to get the KDM splash, "moreblue-orbit" is the name of the theme. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNS

Re: DVD install question

2009-02-17 Thread Jimmy Johnson
s to make Lenny final and would like to take this opportunity to thank you and all the Debian volunteers for all the hard work..Thank you, I wish you guys and gals all the best, you're the greatest. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep

Re: lenny on x86

2009-02-18 Thread Jimmy Johnson
to the bottom line: Booting DebianInstaller from floppy-disks is discontinued since Lenny. but...If you tell us why you need to use floppy disc, if you have another system installed and what hardware you have to use, we maybe able to find another way for you to start the install. -- Jimmy

Re: Problems with Lenny Installer

2009-02-18 Thread Jimmy Johnson
n and created a new one, and succeeded in installing lenny :) Thanks for the help! That's a new one for me to put in my memory bank, glad you got it sorted and thinks for letting us know. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupi

Re: Any info about http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com/

2009-02-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
A, Dennis If you know the file you are looking for (debian.exe) then you can Google for it and make it easer to find. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Debian Lenny Based SimplyMEPIS 8.0 is Released

2009-02-23 Thread Jimmy Johnson
installs that took 15 mins or less to install each system and I had no problems at all. If you want a simple, extremely stable and easy to install system, I highly recommend this distro. :) -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To

Re: [OT] Gmail & my replies to this list

2009-02-23 Thread Jimmy Johnson
o my Gmail account. What gives? Why can't I see the replies I send? Others seem to see them, as I've seen people on this respond to my responses. You need to use IMAP and use the folder "All Mail" to see both sent and received mail. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A.

Re: [OT] Gmail & my replies to this list

2009-02-23 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Ken Teague wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: You need to use IMAP and use the folder "All Mail" to see both sent and received mail. This works. Having to go into All Mail to view only what I want to see from this list in a threaded fashion is odd and non-standard. I feel violated!

Re: [OT] Gmail & my replies to this list

2009-02-23 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Daryl Styrk wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: You need to use IMAP and use the folder "All Mail" to see both sent and received mail. That option doesn't available here.? [Gmail] where all the server folder and labels would be found is greyed out. Ideas? Sure, click on you

Re: [OT] Gmail & my replies to this list

2009-02-23 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Daryl Styrk wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: Sure, click on your gmail account, Advanced Features, Manage folder subscriptions, that should do it. Spot on! Thanks.. You're welcome. :) -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple s

Re: Debian Lenny Based SimplyMEPIS 8.0 is Released

2009-02-24 Thread Jimmy Johnson
stems with a click, the list goes on... Sure these things can be done without "One Click Linux", but why? One day the "Debian Live CD Project" may create such a live cd but not today. :) -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep

Re: Debian Lenny Based SimplyMEPIS 8.0 is Released

2009-02-24 Thread Jimmy Johnson
H.S. wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: Neil Ellwood wrote: Personally I haven't found anything easier than Debian and it is more reliable than anything else I have tried. Why use a derivative when the original is marvellous? Hi Neil, I'm along time Debian user (7 years) and if

Re: Debian Lenny Based SimplyMEPIS 8.0 is Released

2009-02-24 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Michael M. Moore wrote: Daryl Styrk wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: Hi Neil, I'm along time Debian user (7 years) and if there was something wrong with Mepis I would not suggest you trying it, saying that, Mepis has one click tools that Debian don't have, like it will repair grub for

Re: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

2009-02-25 Thread Jimmy Johnson
ove Debian. bye bye, -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

2009-02-25 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Andrew McGlashan wrote: Hi, Jimmy Johnson wrote: If you like Fedora then you will love CentOS, in my humble opinion Fedora is no more than testing for Red Hat, while CentOS is Red Hat Enterprise. Umm, I think it would be more correct to compare Fedora with Debian SID -- Fedora is testing

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-25 Thread Jimmy Johnson
. Also they are updated more frequently. Thanks in Advance Dean If you are smart you will give "SimplyMEPIS 8.0" a try before you decide. ;) -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

Re: Can't boot after installation (debian5 on macmini)

2009-02-25 Thread Jimmy Johnson
l the rest just worked. :) With Lenny you should be able to repair the boot as an option on the install cd, anyways good luck. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.deb

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-25 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Ken Teague wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: > If you are smart you will give "SimplyMEPIS 8.0" a try before you decide. ;) Does that make him dumb, stupid or ignorant if he doesn't? It only means what it says. And please keep your reply to the list. Thank you, -- Jimmy Jo

Re: Debian Lenny Based SimplyMEPIS 8.0 is Released

2009-02-25 Thread Jimmy Johnson
tyler wrote: Jimmy Johnson writes: > > > If Warren still hasn't released his tools under a Free license, I > > would question the statement that Warren has given plenty to the > > community. > > He gave his life savings to the development of Mepis and

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-25 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Dean Chester wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Jimmy Johnson <mailto:field.engin...@gmail.com>> wrote: Ken Teague wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: > If you are smart you will give "SimplyMEPIS 8.0" a try before you decide. ;) OK w

Re: aptitude

2009-02-25 Thread Jimmy Johnson
, sorry I can't fix your mess, but, now you have the information you need to keep it from happening again. I hope that helped. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.deb

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-26 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: I have three 64bit systems here and all running Mepis 8.0 64bit, things like flash and YouTube are preconfigured and will work straight out of the box. Here's a link to the Mepis 8.0 User's Manual: www.mepislovers.org/forums/user_manu

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-26 Thread Jimmy Johnson
it OS? -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-26 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: Why do you flame me, maybe you think it's better to recommend Sidux or Ubuntu? I didn't intend to flame you, I am sorry if I sounded like that. If you don't want a flame, please stop yours as well. I just gave my opinion, yo

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-26 Thread Jimmy Johnson
tely remove the 32bit libraries and find that the nothing on my system requires 32bit libraries, except Adobe Acrobat Reader and the only reason I use it is for copy and paste, the flash and java that I use are now all 64bit and so are the rest of my applications. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersf

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-26 Thread Jimmy Johnson
users will see no benefit. In _most_ cases. I imagine the arguments where similar when operating systems moved from 16 bit to 32 bit. ;) -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-26 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Celejar wrote: On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:42:33 -0800 Jimmy Johnson wrote: ... Adobe Acrobat Reader and the only reason I use it is for copy and paste, Copying and pasting works for me from Evince. Is there something specific you can't do? Thanks, I will check that out. -- Jimmy Jo

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-26 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/26/2009 04:47 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/25/2009 01:58 PM, Dean Chester wrote: [snip] OK will try with some live CDs. Next question 32-bit or 64-bit has a C2D processor? On a laptop, I see no advantage to running a 64-bit system. Ron on a

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-26 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jimmy Johnson wrote: I imagine the arguments where similar when operating systems moved from 16 bit to 32 bit. ;) I have never heard of 16 bit userland and a 32 bit kernel, though. In the present case in a sense you can

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-26 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Thorny wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote:>>> Why do you flame me, maybe you think it's better to recommend Sidux or Ubuntu? Johannes Wiedersich wrote:>> I didn't intend to flame you, I am sorry if I sounded like that. If you don't want a flame, please stop yours as wel

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-26 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Celejar wrote: On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:42:33 -0800 Jimmy Johnson wrote: ... Adobe Acrobat Reader and the only reason I use it is for copy and paste, Copying and pasting works for me from Evince. Is there something specific you can't do? Celejar Evince is now installed and wo

Re: Can one install "lenny" from live cd's ?

2009-02-27 Thread Jimmy Johnson
d... At the moment, it is a work in progress: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/HdInstallation -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &q

Re: Recommendation wanted for cheap PCI graphics card with S-Video TV out?

2009-02-27 Thread Jimmy Johnson
ons for cards? Any I should steer clear of? Most any nVidia PCI card will do what you want but getting an older PCI card from an internet store could be a problem, best chance would be ebay or amazon. 316 Results for "nVidia PCI" at amazon.com -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA

Re: Recommendation wanted for cheap PCI graphics card with S-Video TV out?

2009-02-27 Thread Jimmy Johnson
ons for cards? Any I should steer clear of? Most any nVidia PCI card will do what you want but getting an older PCI card from an internet store could be a problem, best chance would be ebay or amazon. 316 Results for "nVidia PCI" at amazon.com -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A.

Re: I'm rather embarrassed to even be asking this...

2009-02-27 Thread Jimmy Johnson
BE.cfm it takes both ECC and NON-ECC -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: grub-probe: error: Cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sdb1. Check your device.map.

2009-02-28 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Daryl Styrk wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: The basics, did you prepare the drive to be booted, did you make a partition active/bootable? Just install "gparted" to look at the drive and as long as you don't have it mounted you can make changes, "gparted" is in

Re: I'm rather embarrassed to even be asking this...

2009-02-28 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Justin The Cynical wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: Justin The Cynical wrote: Long time lurker with a fresh install of Lenny x64 I recently picked up a SuperMicro X7SBE board and populated it with ECC RAM. Among my random wanderings, I realized that I didn't recall seeing anything in the

Re: I'm rather embarrassed to even be asking this...

2009-02-28 Thread Jimmy Johnson
t address, I'll have to see what they say as well, but if any one else has any ideas, I'm all ears. Justin I would call SuperMicro, I see their phone number in the manual. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple

Re: Lenny stable. How to find wmsm WindowMaker applet?

2009-03-01 Thread Jimmy Johnson
nd install the RPM, it has few depends. http://rpmseek.com/rpm-dl/wmsm-0.2.0-alt1.i586.html?hl=com&cbd=0:W:120:1859264:48:0:0 -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-06 Thread Jimmy Johnson
igure, if I want to use RPM type distro I would use CentOS, it's good RPM type distro, Yum not to bad, but Debian all around better distro for me, fast to install, fast to configure and much more software to make me happy. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #3802

Re: Window Borders, Title Bars, etc. Missing in Lenny w/ KDE

2009-03-07 Thread Jimmy Johnson
; the KDE window manager. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Window Borders, Title Bars, etc. Missing in Lenny w/ KDE

2009-03-08 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Hal Vaughan wrote: On Mar 7, 2009, at 9:03 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Sounds to me you are missing the package "kwin" the KDE window manager. That's what I thought, but it's there and reconfiguring it didn't help. Since it's a new system I stopped and

Re: Lenovo laptop - Type Control D to Continue

2009-03-13 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Jimmy Johnson wrote: Hey Guy's I have Lenovo laptop, new "Lenny install" and I'm having to type control+d to continue boot, I looked at "dmesg" and I can't make what the problem is, so I post and maybe someone can figure the problem. If more info is needed

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