Re: Sound Problem

2017-01-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
If you had your sound set to one speaker system, it could have moved back to the old default speaker system with the 3.5mm jack. That's what happened to me last night while playing in tintin-alteraeon and the speaker I had configured just threw out a tremendous amount of static instead of the

Re: can not set time

2017-02-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
please check that other box and see if it has systemd-timesyncd.service on it. You can probably start that service up and solve that problem. Then try timedatectl set-ntp true. That should make timesync happen on boot. On Sat, 4 Feb 2017, Matthias Bodenbinder wrote: Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2017 08:0

Re: can not set time

2017-02-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
Jude DaShiell: please check that other box and see if it has systemd-timesyncd.service on it. You can probably start that service up and solve that problem. Then try timedatectl set-ntp true. That should make timesync happen on boot. On Sat, 4 Feb 2017, Matthias Bodenbinder wrote: timedatectl

Re: Before I install Debian

2017-02-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
I wonder are org-mode pdf exports good enough to pass for adobe pdf files? It's possible with org-mode to write up an org-mode document and then export that to a pdf file. I do know for sure such pdf files are not accessible (cannot talk) but I don't know about any other failings. emacs-orgmo

Re: An Odd File Name

2017-02-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
I only remember part of this unfortunately. When a situation like this happens you got to get the file's inode number then reference it using that inode number and perhaps open it. This topic was covered shortly in the Unix class I took back in 1990. How to do the rest of it I think is done

Re: A minimal relational database in Debian?

2017-02-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
That is an accessibility bug and ought to be reported as such and cargon copied to debian-accessibility. On Mon, 27 Feb 2017, Richard Owlett wrote: Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 08:17:56 From: Richard Owlett To: debian-user Subject: A minimal relational database in Debian? Resent-Date: Mon, 27 Feb

Re: No sound

2017-02-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
Have you got pulseaudio installed? If so, see if you can find pulsemixer and run pulsemixer and repeat your work then everything should be sounding. If that's not the case, you may need to do aplay -l and check devices one at a time with speaker-test. Hope this helps. On Tue, 28 Feb 2017,

Re: No sound

2017-02-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
Pulseaudio is needed for sound to the same level as a fish needs a bicycle.On Tue, 28 Feb 2017, Hans wrote: Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 12:32:30 From: Hans To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: No sound Resent-Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 17:32:56 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian

Re: A minimal relational database in Debian

2017-03-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
That is most definitely an accessibility bug and left uncorrected will effect many with marginal vision who try to use libreoffice. What's worse it effects all of libreoffice. On Wed, 1 Mar 2017, Richard Owlett wrote: Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 08:48:37 From: Richard Owlett To: debian-user@lists

Re: Recomended tutoial(s) on doing arithmetic in Bash scripts

2017-03-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
No impressive here and no stinkin' page layouts either. However one thing I do use is: let "a=4+3+5+2017" let "b=a%156" let c=a%44" There's an addition example for variable a, a modulus and use of already defined variable for b variable and c variable. Hope this helps. On Sun, 5 Mar 2017, Ric

Re: Recomended tutoial(s) on doing arithmetic in Bash scripts

2017-03-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
Another external tool at least as good as bc is wcalc and once that package gets installed just run wcalc at the command prompt and you'll have quite a load of examples show up. On Sun, 5 Mar 2017, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 11:25:49 From: to...@tuxteam.de To: debian-user@l

Re: procmail, when were the last rights administered?

2017-03-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
formail can also force correct formatting on incoming email. On Tue, 7 Mar 2017, Henning Follmann wrote: Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 09:43:17 From: Henning Follmann To: Gene Heskett Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: procmail, when were the last rights administered? Resent-Date: Tue, 7

what list to umail for this bug?

2015-10-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
I have an acer aspire 5003 notebook I tried installing the debian firmware distro on since it only has wifi communication capability for now. The firmware disk acted like it didn't have any firmware drivers on it when it got down to detecting the network. In reality I had a usb rt2780 wifi ad

Re: Reinstall Stretch - Returns to Grub

2015-10-19 Thread Jude DaShiell
control-alt-f7 gets you back to graphical mode. On Sun, 18 Oct 2015, ray wrote: Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 20:17:52 From: ray To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Reinstall Stretch - Returns to Grub Resent-Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 00:36:09 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org

Re: alsa troubles

2015-10-20 Thread Jude DaShiell
To resolve this kind of problem I recommend finding each alsa package installed on that machine then have aptitude install each of them but put the -r switch on the end of that install command. That will install recommended packages and once done this problem may disappear. On Mon, 19 Oct 201

Re: Google Chrome

2015-10-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
Chromium has not supported chromevox for some time now. I wonder if it's even useable with orca turned on. On Wed, 21 Oct 2015, moxalt wrote: Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 22:25:45 From: moxalt To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Google Chrome Resent-Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 02:26:08 +

Re: Reporting Bug

2015-10-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
Normally I would put a backslash character in front of that apostrophe since it's a special character to bash at least and I suspect several other shell envioonments. Perhaps try O\'Dell by way of an example. I suspect mint hasn't been modified at all and that you haven't interacted so far wi

Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

2015-10-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
It may have, but the proprietary software is unnecessary if you use archlinux to install it and get it up and running. You need wpa_supplicant; iw, dialog and netctl packages installed. Now I have an rt2780 usb wifi adapter and have this working. Once those packages are installed, you run ne

Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

2015-10-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
And certainly not with debian since debian hasn't got netctl. I forgot one command in my last post. This is the first one to do after installing dialog and iw and wpa_supplicant since netcal comes pre-installed. The correct order of commands is: wifi-menu -o netctl list netctl enable network

Re: How to identify obsolete packages (was: Anybody know why aptitude is not installed by default in Sid?)

2015-10-31 Thread Jude DaShiell
I get aptitude to resolve recommended upgrades just by using the -r switch on the command line. There's probably a way to do that using g.u.i. but don't know that one yet. On Sat, 31 Oct 2015, Stephen Powell wrote: Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 10:29:48 From: Stephen Powell To: debian-user@lists.d

Re: Painful BlueTooth Audio

2015-02-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
This is a linux kernel problem created by whoever made the decision that speakers must connect through the quarter-inch jack on the sound card by default. A little more work must have been done to that end since though I was able to connect usb speakers to a linux box and configure alsa to use

have we any twittering-mode users on the list?

2015-03-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
I tried using the package and almost got everything working with the exception of one mystery for me. I get the package authorized with twitter, then the encrypting personal information dialog comes up where I'm asked to enter a master password since I set that variable in my .emacs file. Unf

Re: have we any twittering-mode users on the list?

2015-03-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Thu, 5 Mar 2015, Teemu Likonen wrote: > Jude DaShiell [2015-03-04 23:30:44-05] wrote: > > > I tried using the package and almost got everything working with the > > exception of one mystery for me. > > I use twittering-mode installed from MELPA package archive.

Re: Looking for document and file organisation tools

2015-03-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Fri, 6 Mar 2015, Victor wrote: > On 03/03/2015 18:13, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > What free software is there in the way of organizing lots of documents? > > > > To be more precise, the ones I *need* to organize are the files on hard > > drives, though if I could include documents I have elsewhere

Re: New Install Fails at Step 14

2015-12-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
Did you set message priority to low and set logs to save to a mounted partition? The first adjustment asks more questions and the second preserves logs if something blows up. I think you can even have the logs saved to floppy disk too. On Tue, 29 Dec 2015, Steve Matzura wrote: Date: Tue, 2

Re: is twitter useful for debian?

2015-12-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
With at least ttytter, there is no 140 character limit. You go around that by sending multiple tweets each 140 or fewer characters and ttytter makes that easily done too. On Tue, 29 Dec 2015, Donald Norwood wrote: Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 18:48:14 From: Donald Norwood To: debian-user@lists.de

Re: Recommendation for FTP server

2015-12-31 Thread Jude DaShiell
Look in the /etc/ssh/ directory or /etc/default/ subdirectory those configuration files likely will be in one of those two locations. On Thu, 31 Dec 2015, Steve Matzura wrote: Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 11:32:34 From: Steve Matzura To: debian Subject: Recommendation for FTP server Resent-Date: T

Re: Recommendation for FTP server

2015-12-31 Thread Jude DaShiell
If I were setting up an ftp server, I would create a /pub directory in /home and would also create a /home/pub/incoming directory then lock any guest into the /home/pub and /home/pub/incoming directories. The /home/pub directory would be where I'd put files available for download and the /home

Re: Prevent shutdown with systemctl

2016-01-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
Put each subaccount one per line into /etc/shutdown.deny then reboot. On Mon, 4 Jan 2016, Floris wrote: Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 10:55:56 From: Floris To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" Subject: Prevent shutdown with systemctl Resent-Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 15:56:13 + (UTC) Resent-From: debia

Re: OT misunderstood crackers

2016-01-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
That's being done with automated scripts. Some systems are not configured properly to do correct load balancing and I suspect on such systems those crackers would get through. They have malware to install on your system most likely. On Sun, 10 Jan 2016, Glenn English wrote: Date: Sun, 10 J

Re: Generating ssh key pairs

2016-01-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
One thing that could be done would be to roll a bash script which would run ssh-keygen with acceptable parameters for the system in use and in that bash script have a note displayed telling users how and why to generate good pass phrases and collect the pass phrase from the user and have ssh-ke

Re: Is anybody Running Debian on Acer Aspire E5-571G

2016-01-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
I tried running it on an acer aspire 5003 notebook and it worked okay until trying to configure my network with my rt2800usb wifi adapter. If I get a wifi extender I can plug ethernet into I'll try again it may work then. On Tue, 12 Jan 2016, Dikomodo wrote: Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 18:21:43

Re: Is anybody Running Debian on Acer Aspire E5-571G

2016-01-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
g On Wednesday 13 January 2016 02:40:53 Jude DaShiell wrote: I tried running it on an acer aspire 5003 notebook and it worked okay until trying to configure my network with my rt2800usb wifi adapter. If I get a wifi extender I can plug ethernet into I'll try again it may work then. On Tue, 1

Re: Is anybody Running Debian on Acer Aspire E5-571G

2016-01-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 18:08:56 From: Selim T. Erdo?an To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Is anybody Running Debian on Acer Aspire E5-571G Resent-Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 23:09:21 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 09:40:53PM -0500, Jude DaShiell

Re: Is anybody Running Debian on Acer Aspire E5-571G

2016-01-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
i, 15 Jan 2016 15:47:29 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 14:27:54 + Brian wrote: On Fri 15 Jan 2016 at 08:53:46 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: I ran a netinst installation so no didn't have the nonfree rt2800 package earlier. Anyone know which

Re: Is anybody Running Debian on Acer Aspire E5-571G

2016-01-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
-571G On 13/01/16 22:04, Jude DaShiell wrote: It sure is, and Acer Aspire computers generally are cut down AMD Athelon x64 clones. I proved this since I also have a real AMD K8 Athelon computer vintage 1994 that is still running (how old does it have to get before the Smithsonian Museum gets inter

Re: ?? user in group audio -- but only root can play sound

2016-01-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Mon, 18 Jan 2016, Gregor Zattler wrote: Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 16:22:45 From: Gregor Zattler To: debian-user Subject: Re: ?? user in group audio -- but only root can play sound Resent-Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 21:23:35 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Hi Ric, debian-users

Re: no wifi on jessie install

2016-01-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Mon, 18 Jan 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote: Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 18:22:00 From: Lisi Reisz To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: no wifi on jessie install Resent-Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 23:22:16 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Monday 18 January 2016 18:42:23 Bob Ho

Re: About new mail client

2016-01-19 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Tue, 19 Jan 2016, Jonas Hedman wrote: Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 08:41:22 From: Jonas Hedman To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: About new mail client On 15-12-18 11:12:29, Klearchos-Angelos Gkountras wrote: My branch is sid and used to use icedove as default mail client . I think wi

Re: Fw: Books Inquiry

2016-01-20 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Wed, 20 Jan 2016, jdd wrote: Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 17:26:12 From: jdd To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Fw: Books Inquiry Resent-Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 22:26:32 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Le 20/01/2016 19:43, mohammad Harun a ?crit : It's hard to kn

Re: ?? user in group audio -- but only root can play sound

2016-01-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Thu, 21 Jan 2016, Floris wrote: Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 05:22:59 From: Floris To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: ?? user in group audio -- but only root can play sound Resent-Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 10:23:21 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Op Sat, 16 Jan 2016

Re: ?? user in group audio -- but only root can play sound

2016-01-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
udev may be having adverse impacts on abilities to play sounds from certain cards after reboot. Anyone interested may find sound devices in black listed category they don't want to have black listed. Correcting such black listing for now is beyond my capability since I haven't done enough wit

Re: ?? user in group audio -- but only root can play sound

2016-01-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
:23:08 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Op Fri, 22 Jan 2016 00:10:27 +0100 schreef Jude DaShiell : udev may be having adverse impacts on abilities to play sounds from certain cards after reboot. Anyone interested may find sound devices in black listed category they don&#

Re: ?? user in group audio -- but only root can play sound

2016-01-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 09:40:01AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 22 January 2016 07:44:49 Jude DaShiell wrote: That has to be done inside of udev, udev is the one ring that binds them all. Not nesessarily. When I rebooted sometime in late

Re: Meta key for 'emacs -nw'

2016-02-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
That, or use the escape key and it may be possible to restore that key binding for when emacs -nw is run so hitting alt works again. On Mon, 1 Feb 2016, Nate Bargmann wrote: Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 22:28:50 From: Nate Bargmann To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Meta key for 'emacs -n

Re: Using vlc to Transcode mpeg2 File to mp4

2016-02-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
Why not try: http://mailman.videolan.org/listinfo/vlc On Tue, 9 Feb 2016, Martin McCormick wrote: Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 17:34:14 From: Martin McCormick To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Using vlc to Transcode mpeg2 File to mp4 Resent-Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 01:07:53 + (UTC) Resent-

Re: How to tell the system to load right name for wireless card?

2016-02-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
Hi, this may be a problem on the kernel level having nothing to do with debian. Reason I write this is the computer I use has a ralink adapter card attached to it which is wireless and it's talkingarch linux and I have situations where sometimes the card gets loaded properly on talkingarch and

Re: connect Ethernet to WiFi?

2016-02-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
Look up asus: ea-n66 on the internet, one of those entries ought to be an wifi to ethernet adapter. Unfortunately windows will probably be required with a modern browser to set it up. I have one of these and couldn't do it using command line utilities even with javascript enabled. On Thu, 1

Re: connect Ethernet to WiFi?

2016-02-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
I use a ralink adapter that came with an antenna I think about 4 inches long and it has no trouble communicating with a router two rooms away but I don't know far the router could be moved before the signal degraded. The connector for the antenna is a screw on type. On Thu, 18 Feb 2016, Sven

Re: View all Inboxes on a Debian mail app

2016-02-19 Thread Jude DaShiell
Use of fetchmail with multiple poll account lines in a .fetchmailrc file can do that. On Fri, 19 Feb 2016, Andrew Wood wrote: Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 17:19:02 From: Andrew Wood To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: View all Inboxes on a Debian mail app Resent-Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 22:19:2

Re: How to tell the system to load right name for wireless card?

2016-03-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
I've had two kinds of instances over here when a wireless wifi adapter wasn't picked up correctly. One of them happened when I accidentally changed the usb port the adapter was in and the network profile no longer matched. The second happened as a result of a brown out preparatory to a black

getting correct name on wireless card

2016-03-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
Another type of instance happened to me earlier tonight where the wifi adapter did not connect. I was doing some configuration modification on sound card settings and rebooted the computer. No wifi adapter until after another reboot. Apparently touching anything in the usb domain potentially

Re: wireless not working in strech

2016-03-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
Would you be willing to install Kalilinux? I installed KaliLinux2.0 on a system and was shocked when it not only found my ralink wireless adapter but was able to configure it and go out on the network and install updates during installation. You may also have similar luck using that version w

Re: cd as much as possible

2016-03-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Thu, 10 Mar 2016, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 22:45:09 From: kamaraju kusumanchi To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" , tliko...@iki.fi Subject: Re: cd as much as possible Resent-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 03:45:45 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On

Re: Sudo

2016-03-20 Thread Jude DaShiell
Because in Debian you're probably not mentioned in /etc/sudoers. If your user account were frank, going to root using su you could do something like: echo 'frank ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL' >>/etc/sudoers . then type exit to get back to the frank account and type: sudo -H -i and see what happens.

running Linux without display

2016-04-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
What g.u.i. app or apps prevent graphical user interface Linux from running if no display can be plugged into the computer? --

Re: running Linux without display

2016-04-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
16 16:09, Jude DaShiell a ?crit : What g.u.i. app or apps prevent graphical user interface Linux from running if no display can be plugged into the computer? -- none? jdd --

Re: running Linux without display

2016-04-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
Resent-Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 15:04:46 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Le 01/04/2016 16:52, Jude DaShiell a ?crit : Wrong. Kalilinux Fedora sonargnulinux vinux and ubuntu I can install most linux distros on my headless online server, so I'm sure no monitor is necessa

Re: running Linux without display

2016-04-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
ebian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: running Linux without display Resent-Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 18:20:14 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Le 01/04/2016 17:14, Jude DaShiell a ?crit : Have you tried installing using orca and when finished how far did you get when you booted into

Re: running Linux without display

2016-04-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
For accessibility users, firefox if nothing else is pretty much essential or google chrome with chromevox for access to much of the web especially for commerce transactions. On Fri, 1 Apr 2016, John Hasler wrote: Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 15:16:21 From: John Hasler To: debian-user@lists.debian.o

Re: running Linux without display

2016-04-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
screen reader does not start and I don't get to login prompt yet. One more thing I can try without xdummy or xvfb then it will be time to try those two packages and see if either help. On Sat, 2 Apr 2016, Stefan Monnier wrote: Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 17:53:59 From: Stefan Monnier To: debian-u

Re: running Linux without display

2016-04-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
thanks John, is apt-get useable inside of ash during a system install? For my current situation I would need this package installed on a machine before installation finishes. On Sat, 2 Apr 2016, John Hasler wrote: Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 18:06:53 From: John Hasler To: debian-user@lists.debian.

Re: running Linux without display

2016-04-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
nable java access bridge on windows and that worked as far back as Windows 7. On Sun, 3 Apr 2016, Stefan Monnier wrote: Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 01:45:55 From: Stefan Monnier To: Jude DaShiell Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: running Linux without display screen reader does not s

Re: Flash update

2016-04-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
If you have an old browser but vlc is installed, you may be able to get html5 playing by adding something like this to a .mailcap file: application/oggv; rvlc --quiet --novideo --key-vol-up 123 --no-skinned-playlist -I ncurses '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" The --no-video and --no-skinned-playlist

Re: running Linux without display

2016-04-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Sun, 3 Apr 2016, John Hasler wrote: Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 09:00:10 From: John Hasler To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: running Linux without display Resent-Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 13:00:34 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Jude DaShiell writes: It's pos

Re: running Linux without display

2016-04-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Sun, 3 Apr 2016, Stefan Monnier wrote: Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 10:21:40 From: Stefan Monnier To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: running Linux without display Resent-Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 14:48:09 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org What g.u.i. app or apps preven

Re: running Linux without display

2016-04-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Sun, 3 Apr 2016, John Hasler wrote: Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 11:03:06 From: John Hasler To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: running Linux without display Resent-Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 15:03:35 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Jude DaShiell writes: The machine

Re: OT: what do you know about Linux?

2016-04-26 Thread Jude DaShiell
It's my understanding Linux ignores bios entirely and gets its work done by other means. On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Juan R. de Silva wrote: Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 21:26:05 From: Juan R. de Silva To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: OT: what do you know about Linux? Resent-Date: Tue, 26 Apr 201

Re: Sound with You Tube

2016-04-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Fri, 29 Apr 2016, Curt wrote: Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 05:06:37 From: Curt To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Sound with You Tube Resent-Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 09:07:06 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On 2016-04-28, andrew wrote: Hi Ive read widely but canno

stretch findings (kali flavor)

2016-05-08 Thread Jude DaShiell
1) though stretch finds wireless network card and uses it during installation, it fails to save necessary files such that a working wireless networking connection can be obtained after installation completes and first boot is done, 2) the whole software selection in install is broken no selectio

Re: How to find reason for sporadic chime from computer?

2016-05-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
Find computer's hardware manual and see if chiming is something your hardware will do no matter which operating system is in use to warn about impending undesireable hardware events. You may find a table with the different chime codes and may then find out why this now happens and what to do a

Re: Installer crash at the end of installation

2016-05-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
The stretch installer is flakey; I have an amd k8 athelon and don't use ssd drives on that machine sata disks and nothing in that select packages step would install. On Wed, 11 May 2016, Albin Otterh?ll wrote: Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 18:24:55 From: Albin Otterh?ll To: debian-user@lists.debian

Re: Chromium. Good Alternative for Chrome?

2016-05-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
Chromium used to have screen reader acessibility which was useable with orca but that went away then speech-dispatcher support was available for a short time and now that's gone too. So long as you won't need screen reader accessibility with orca you should be good to go. On Wed, 11 May 2016,

Re: Plug and Pray; My Life with Linux Sound

2016-05-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
alsa is probably a subsystem now of pulseaudio unless all of pulseaudio is off of your system and out of your $HOME directory structure. For that reason, you may need to use pulseaudio tools and they may or may not help you out. Another possibility would be jack2 which is what serious audophi

Re: Something never understood: see USB storage in CLI & mc

2016-05-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
lsusb -v may help. On Wed, 18 May 2016, Ron Leach wrote: Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 05:30:34 From: Ron Leach To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Something never understood: see USB storage in CLI & mc Resent-Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 09:31:05 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.or

Re: apt-get: Why "Unable to find source package" errors?

2017-08-20 Thread Jude DaShiell
Please try apt-cache search emacsbuild-dep apt-cache search emacs25 If both packages show up in above commands then your apt-get command ought to work. On Sun, 20 Aug 2017, Kynn Jones wrote: Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 20:08:07 From: Kynn Jones To: Debian User Subject: apt-get: Why "Unable to fi

Re: One-line password generator

2017-08-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
It's a good idea to write passwords down in reverse too. Just remember you did that though. If someone entered a password completely backward because they got your writing it would maybe be interesting to have an automated email message or text sent to the computer owner or alternatively simp

Re: One-line password generator

2017-08-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
Also, apg with the -a1 switch provides memorable passwords. On Tue, 22 Aug 2017, Jape Person wrote: Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 16:13:59 From: Jape Person To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: One-line password generator Resent-Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 20:15:58 + (UTC) Resent-From: debia

Re: Question to new network device names

2017-08-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
No, this is not just debian, you'll find it on archlinux as well. On Thu, 24 Aug 2017, Hans wrote: Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 07:11:27 From: Hans To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Question to new network device names Resent-Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 11:14:06 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-us

Re: One-line password generator

2017-09-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
We have a 20 character password here with at least two of each kind of symbol in it lowers uppers numbers and symbols. One suggestion I had read about password composition to increase the difficulty slightly was to do all of this and make sure the password starts with a letter either upper or

Re: One-line password generator

2017-09-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
generator Resent-Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2017 17:11:08 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Sat 02 Sep 2017 at 12:52:32 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Jude DaShiell wrote: We have a 20 character password here with at least two of each kind of symbol in it lowers uppers numbers a

Re: Recommended editor for novice programmers?

2017-09-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
emacs has succession arranged, vim does not. If the creator of vim gets struck by lightning and has his brains fried, no succession exists to continue support of vim in the event of his incapacity. Succession of emacs was passed along to three who are known by r.m.s. willing and able to handl

Re: Editor survival [Was: Recommended editor for novice programmers?]

2017-09-08 Thread Jude DaShiell
If you are torn between emacs and vi, it's probably because you haven't run eval-mode inside emacs. On Fri, 8 Sep 2017, Nick Boyce wrote: Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 22:19:49 From: Nick Boyce To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Editor survival [Was: Recommended editor for novice programme

Re: youtube error msg & html5

2017-09-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
apt-get install youtube-viewer cclive youtube-dl On Tue, 12 Sep 2017, Reco wrote: Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 04:24:30 From: Reco To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: youtube error msg & html5 Resent-Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 08:24:49 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org

Re: Why does resolv.conf keep changing?

2017-10-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
If you've got dynamic ip addresses as many of us do, that file has to change to keep your internet connection up. On Mon, 23 Oct 2017, Joe wrote: Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 04:17:11 From: Joe To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Why does resolv.conf keep changing? Resent-Date: Mon, 23 Oc

Re: bash usage.

2017-10-26 Thread Jude DaShiell
bash has a comments syntax to document what may not necessarily be clear with scripts. If I write a script at minimum just below the #!/usr/bin/env bash line I have a # file: line giving the file name followed by a dash and a little bit of a description what the script is supposed to do. Each

Re: No Sound - Puzzle

2017-11-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
please try all of this using pamixer, pulseaudio is controled by its own mixer software not by alsamixer. Remember pulseaudio when installed manages alsa and not the other way around. On Wed, 15 Nov 2017, Thomas George wrote: Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 18:21:07 From: Thomas George To: debian-us

Re: No Sound - Puzzle

2017-11-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
blank line. On 11/15/2017 09:45 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: please try all of this using pamixer, pulseaudio is controled by its own mixer software not by alsamixer.? Remember pulseaudio when installed manages alsa and not the other way around. On Wed, 15 Nov 2017, Thomas George wrote

Re: No Sound - Puzzle - Losing Ground

2017-11-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
It may help if you do rm -fr .config/pulseaudio in your user directory and also in your root directory then reboot your system. This operation should force pulseaudio into a known state which for it will be unknown and pulseaudio would then have to go and do device detection with a clean slate

Re: does elinks have a show hidden links option?

2017-12-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
I'm curious, could lios be used to handle captchas? On Tue, 12 Dec 2017, Karen Lewellen wrote: Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 21:36:53 From: Karen Lewellen To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: does elinks have a show hidden links option? Resent-Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 02:46:14 + (UTC) Resent-F

Re: does elinks have a show hidden links option?

2017-12-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
With a compatible device iphone/ipad or android and the be my eyes app loaded on it it's possible to use the app and request assistance solving the captchas if lios won't work and firefox has been modified so often webvisum is no longer useable. On Tue, 12 Dec 2017, Karen Lewellen wrote: Dat

Re: does elinks have a show hidden links option?

2017-12-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
2 Dec 2017 23:50:33 From: Karen Lewellen To: Jude DaShiell Cc: Dan Purgert , debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: does elinks have a show hidden links option? Resent-Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 04:51:03 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org good for you, however, you are not me. becau

Re: please help! debian won't boot

2017-12-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
When you downloaded what you used to install debian, did the file have a .torrent on the end of it? If not you may have better luck by using a bittorrent client and downloading the torrent form of the file. Reason is integrity checks get done as you download and it could be you got a bad down

Re: Debian, FF & NavyFed

2017-12-19 Thread Jude DaShiell
I have a good friend who has been part of Navy Federal Credit Union for a while and he has had his credit card hacked and replaced three times this year. Forewarned is forearmed and his email address if you want to check is kingtu...@gmail.com. On Tue, 19 Dec 2017, Greg Wooledge wrote: Date

Re: Youtube - newbie guidance

2017-12-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
cliget or youtube-viewer or youtube-dl can do that, but cliget does it with least complexity. On Fri, 22 Dec 2017, Richard Owlett wrote: Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 16:04:06 From: Richard Owlett To: debian-user Subject: Youtube - newbie guidance Resent-Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 21:04:33 + (UTC)

Re: Youtube - newbie guidance

2017-12-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Sat, 23 Dec 2017, songbird wrote: Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2017 08:48:53 From: songbird To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Youtube - newbie guidance Resent-Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2017 14:06:55 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Carl Fink wrote: On 12/22/2017 05:57 PM, son

Re: system boots to terminal

2017-12-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
Check grub config too, a setting in it may have disabled graphical interface too. On Thu, 28 Dec 2017, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2017 09:39:27 From: Tony van der Hoff To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: system boots to terminal Resent-Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2017 14:39:44

Re: Cannot login to GNOME after sid update

2011-10-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
Big problems with gnomeshell over on the orca list, standard advice is to remove gnomeshell and everything pretty much returns to normal. You do understand you're using a version of gnome Linus Torvalds won't have on any of his computers because he considers it too inferior and he's gone on ov

Re: PC speaker stopped working after upgrade to Squeeze

2011-10-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
/etc/rc.local can modprobe pcspkr each time for you if you'd like. I'm sure other places in debian can too, but that's the first I'd think of for now.On Sun, 16 Oct 2011, Roger Lynn wrote: > On 05/10/11 01:30, Roger Lynn wrote: > > On 04/10/11 20:10, Curt wrote: > >> On 2011-10-02, Roger Lynn

any way to listen to url using command line?

2011-10-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
Do tools exist in debian to play the following url with a command line interface media player? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJTwQvgfgMM Jude If I got a nickel for every message I've already sent supporting Microsoft Windows and its applications I'd have enough to retire on comfortably no mat

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