Re: IP-Chains, etc.

2000-05-30 Thread ron
Why are you using a proxy, just go to your win network option, to the tcp/ip properties and set the gateway to the lin box, as well as the dns... Ron By the way, did you try adding that masq ipchains rule? On Wed, 31 May 2000, Corey Popelier wrote: > Some additional information I can give,

Re: [PADS] The Corel LINUX Install Process: Under the Hood

2000-02-11 Thread Ron
>Finally, we will discuss procedures for converting an existing >Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 system into a Corel LINUX system. ..should I bring a copy of the GPL and a bottle of correction fluid then??

Re: BT Voyager 1010 (or Linksys WUSB11)

2004-05-08 Thread Ron
don't remeber if Debian had a version. Either way the Berlios was the way to go. Good Luck Ron -- bumper sticker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Install debian on raid system

2004-02-27 Thread ron
(except for RH and SUSE). Could anyone please help as I'm completely stuck right now? Thanks! Ron PS. Could you please cc any replies to me? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Using Debian X windows

2004-02-17 Thread Ron
friendly, what is my problem. Thank you, Ron

Re: How to set up wi-fi device?

2004-05-12 Thread Ron
this helps to get you started, Ron -- bumper sticker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: BT Voyager 1010 (or Linksys WUSB11)

2004-05-10 Thread Ron
}, > { USB_DEVICE(VENDOR_ID_ADDTRON, PRODUCT_ID_ADDTRON_AWU120) }, > > I'll send it to the Amtel driver guys, so that hopefully it'll be "plug > and play" in future. > > Wow, my first real contribution to the open source community! 8-) > Good Show! Ron -- bumper sticker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Configuring the Desktop

2014-11-08 Thread Ron
p file reading "Exec=pcmanfm" the Home folder opens when (double-)clicked with Thunar and not Pcmanfm, which I prefer. How do I get it to open with Pcmanfm ? (If possible with something less violent than "# rm /usr/bin/thunar && ln -s /usr/bin/pcmanfm /us

Re: Has the systemd fork already happened?

2014-11-09 Thread Ron
a.freeforums.org/systemd-t376.html if Debian goes to systemd they will follow suit. Cheers, Ron. -- Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

Re: "Lennart Poettering Linux" -- some real eye openers here ... don't be blindsided!

2014-11-10 Thread Ron
is all about freedom of choice" ? Will the only freedom left be that of not using Linux ? Cheers, Ron. -- Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

Re: Joey Hess is out?

2014-11-11 Thread Ron
'listmoms'? > > Vernacular for moderators, making sure that we play nice. Difficult to call them "gnomes" in a Debian (or even Linux) environment ;-3) Cheers, Ron. -- Intolerance is itself a form of viole

A Synaptic question

2014-11-12 Thread Ron
In my recently installed Debian 7.7 in notice in Synaptic Settings => Repositories => Updates that I can choose to be notified of being notified of a new Ubuntu version. Ubuntu ? Cheers, Ron. -- Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle

Re: A Synaptic question

2014-11-12 Thread Ron
> Ubuntu ? > > Sounds like a bug... And from perusing > http://bugs.debian.org/synaptic it appears to be new > > I recommend that you report this bug - tools like "reportbug" should > help you Done, thank you. Cheers, Ron. -- Intolerance

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-12 Thread Ron
ns > for future use of Debian. Reminds one of a number of case studies in Norman F Dixon's "On The Psychology Of Military Incompetence". Cheers, Ron. -- Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth

Re: Possible comprommission, what to do ?

2014-11-13 Thread Ron
stem in order to have clean utilities), or even provoke a reinstall > with a new download of the whole system ? Have you run rkhunter (or similar) to check if a root-kit has been installed ? Cheers, Ron. -- Behind every successful man there stands a woman,

Ctrl-Alt-F12 to show Kernel messages

2014-11-13 Thread Ron
In a distribution I used long ago (Slackware 96 ? Mandrake 6.0 ?) Ctrl-Alt-F12 would take you to a screen displaying in real time the kernel messages. Is that possible in Debian ? Cheers, Ron. -- Boob's Law:

Re: Installing Chrome

2014-11-13 Thread Ron
nagement information. dpkg -i (cromium-amd64).deb should do it. Followed, if it complains of un-met dependencies, with: apt-get -f install Cheers, Ron. -- Eschew circumloc

Re: Installing Chrome

2014-11-13 Thread Ron
On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 13:01:50 + Tony van der Hoff wrote: > I had to change the file name: > dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb Well, I did not know the name of your .deb file, hence the parenthesis ! Cheers, Ron. -- Good taste, the last and vilest of

Re: Ctrl-Alt-F12 to show Kernel messages

2014-11-13 Thread Ron
u're using rsyslog, add the following to /etc/rsyslog.d/tty12.conf > daemon,mail.*;\ >news.=crit;news.=err;news.=notice;\ >*.=debug;*.=info;\ >*.=notice;*.=warn /dev/tty12 Thanks, this one works beautifully after rebooting. Cheers, Ron. --

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-14 Thread Ron
Not really, you just have to choose whether you download the Gnome-CD, the KDE-CD, or the Xfce-CD (which I prefer). There is choice without being "advanced". Cheers, Ron. -- The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not bel

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Ron
On Sat, 15 Nov 2014 13:49:18 +0200 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > In my opinion the best "defence" against a monopoly[1] of any kind is to > develop competitive alternatives. We have seen how well that worked with MS Windows over the years... Cheers, Ron. --

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-15 Thread Ron
fixed, please > > submit a patch", or the response I got to bug 762116, "Code changes the > > world". > > Why can't you wrap your lines while you're at it? Can't you set your mail client to wrap them for you ? Cheers, Ron. --

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-15 Thread Ron
hominem, and blow whatever's left out my ass. Then, what are you moaning about ? Cheers, Ron. -- My karma just ran over your dogma. -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: No Google bubble? (was: systemd for administrators, printable version.)

2014-11-19 Thread Ron
bandwidthco.com/whitepapers/os/linux/systemd/systemd%20for%20Administrators.pdf > Not same document. I also get 0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-pdf.html Cheers, Ron. -- Image Old houses were scaffolding once,

Re: the developers have spoken

2014-11-19 Thread Ron
On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 09:11:18 -0500 songbird wrote: > let us thank each one of them for their efforts > to continue making Debian what it is: Really ? I thought they were making Debian something quite different from what it is... Cheers, Ron. -- It is better to sl

Re: No Google bubble? (was: systemd for administrators, printable version.)

2014-11-19 Thread Ron
hey will put wikipedia higher in your results. Cheers, Ron. -- We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org -- --

Re: No Google bubble? (was: systemd for administrators, printable version.)

2014-11-19 Thread Ron
I logged in to their services. > > So I don't see how Google could have tailored my results. You may not have but we do; so we don’t get the plain vanilla results you do. Or you don't get the same results as we do. Cheers, Ron. --

Re: Why focus on systemd?

2014-11-22 Thread Ron
On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 21:46:19 +1100 Scott Ferguson wrote: > It lost. Developers are not being forced to do what they don't want. > The winner was "developers will work it out themselves" i.e. Debian won. Another reading being "The Developpers won, Debia

Re: Why focus on systemd?

2014-11-22 Thread Ron
t;The Developpers won, Debian lost"... > > Only reads that way if you have trouble reading - or simple refuse to > acknowledge the view of Debian. No, simply refuse to acknowledge _your_ view of Debian. Cheers, Ron. -- Les lois de notre pays permettent aux rom

Re: systemd-free alternatives are not off topic.

2014-11-22 Thread Ron
e "We are systemd of Borg, resistance is futile" crowd. So they try to silence dissent by bleating "off-topic", which is their way of making sure no-one raises a voice against systemd, exposes its weaknesses, of bring to light the high-handed manner in which it was made the "

Re: enough with the what's (not) on-topic discussions already

2014-11-23 Thread Ron
ule. > > Otherwise, I wonder whether the above, has something to do with > mosques and charities and hospitals? L'Hopital and La Charité were the two main Paris hospitals in the middle-ages, the one run by the city, and the other by the Church; and both were just eq

Re: Creating a peculiar Live-CD

2014-11-28 Thread Ron
On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 13:07:50 -0500 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > CD burners (creators), don't > they eject upon job completion? Only if you ask them to (Preferences...) Cheers, Ron. -- We'll cross that bridge when we come

Problem with a RAID partitions

2014-11-29 Thread Ron
? Cheers, Ron. PS Is there a way to make vi available in the rescue console ? -- Il est dangereux d'avoir raison dans des choses où des hommes accrédités ont tort. -- Vol

Re: Problem with a RAID partitions

2014-11-30 Thread Ron
adm/mdadm.conf : ARRAY /dev/md/7 metadata=1.2 UUID=3a668d80:bac84358:bd22fc1c:9636ae87 name=ron:7 But the corresponding line given by # mdadm --detail --scan is: ARRAY /dev/md7 metadata=1.2 name=ron:7 UUID=d5372c25:8cae85c1:ae9dc0d7:07345036 Should I worry over the shift from /md/7 to /md7, given

Re: Problem with a RAID partitions

2014-11-30 Thread Ron
On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 11:11:14 +0100 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > I have the following line in /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf : > > ARRAY /dev/md/7 metadata=1.2 UUID=3a668d80:bac84358:bd22fc1c:9636ae87 > > name=ron:7 > > But the corresponding line given by # mdadm --detail --sca

Re: Problem with a RAID partitions

2014-11-30 Thread Ron
filesystem on top of it. > > Don't forget to update your initramfs after editing mdadm.conf. > > Grüße, Viel Danke Cheers, Ron. -- I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so.

Re: Debian fork: 'Devuan', Debian without Systemd

2014-12-02 Thread Ron
# apt-get install sysvinit-core > # apt-get install openrc > No one is forcing you to stick with systemd. The "fork" is just silly. Another way to look at it is "forward planning for the release after Jessie, when systemd may well become compulsory..." Cheers,

Re: Debian fork: 'Devuan', Debian without Systemd

2014-12-03 Thread Ron
muzu, and they will explain their actions with"Well, everyone has shifted to systemd, so there is no point..." And we must do something... Cheers, Ron. -- All that is necessary for the forces of evil to triumph is for enough goo

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-05 Thread Ron
On Fri, 5 Dec 2014 20:59:25 + Brian wrote: > But remember our current slogan "Linux is all about choice". One can > choose to boot with or without "fsck.mode=skip". What about the choice to stop fsck it if it has started at an inconvenient moment ? Cheers, Ro

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-06 Thread Ron
waste of time to the user. Better allow for the interruption of fsck to reduce the buggeration level all around. Cheers, Ron. -- I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, let me do now, For I shall no

Re: no microphone in skype

2014-12-06 Thread Ron
from > skype is way better than Google Hangouts. If it is not Microsoft code, > you will be using Google's code. Both of them are proprietary. So I do > not see what the big gain is here. And anyway the computers of most of my Skype correspondents are infectes with the Windows virus...

Re: no microphone in skype

2014-12-06 Thread Ron
t configures in pavucontrol input which microphone I want; make sure it is not muted out. Cheers, Ron. -- No Husband Has Ever Been Shot While Doing The Dishes -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org -- -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: no microphone in skype

2014-12-07 Thread Ron
tes with > the Windows virus... > > > My reaction was the same as Ragu's: please, not another flame war. Grovelling apologies; was not trying to start an OS war, but to explain why I was using Skype in spite of its shortcomings. Cheers, Ron. -- On ne p

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-08 Thread Ron
once they impose their choice. Just now I am giving Slackware a good look-over... Cheers, Ron. -- Boob's Law: You always find something in the last place you look.

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-10 Thread Ron
ing shut-down, since the only time I shut down my box is when there is a power cut, and I have to shut it down quickly, before the UPS gives up. So I certainly do not want an unwanted automatic fsck at that time. Cheers, Ron. -- Progress in

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-10 Thread Ron
On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 09:49:51 +0100 "Gian Uberto Lauri" wrote: > fsck may take time. Relax, it needs that time. What if I do not have that time, and an un-interruptible fsck is launched automatically ? This regression must be got rid of. Cheers, Ron. --

Re: Wheezy Driver for Intel RMS25CB080 RAID Controller

2012-12-28 Thread Ron
Setting linux kernel boot parameter pci=conf1 allows my Intel RAID Controller-RMS25PB080 (LSI 2208/Fusion based) to be detected, and the FW to transition to Ready state. Without this setting the Card FW responds only with 0xF000 Fault (Masked). I found linux kernel series 3.0.0, properly disc

Re: udev foolishness in wheezy

2015-07-27 Thread Ron
was installed, I > think. If it bothers you, try reinstalling. Is there a way to make udev "forget" the names it has assigned ? Cheers, Ron. -- And it should be the law: If you use the word `paradigm' without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you g

Re: udev foolishness in wheezy

2015-07-27 Thread Ron
"forget" all the hot-pluggable drives it has "seen" in the past ? Cheers, Ron. -- Selre bið æghwæe þæt he hsi freond wrece, þonne he fella murne. -- Beowulf

Re: Help - 13-year Debian veteran can't install Jessie

2015-07-27 Thread Ron
me you ask > for it. We are talking ere of making it available at install time... Cheers, Ron. -- Selre bið æghwæe þæt he hsi freond wrece, þonne he fella murne. -- Beowulf

Re: Pitfalls of german-english dictionaries. Was: What pulls in the tray of my /dev/sr1 ?

2015-07-28 Thread Ron
On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 15:30:21 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: > How on earth does it get used in German? I'd like to know - but you had > better reply off list! Please, no, we also want to know ! Cheers, Ron. -- There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, wh

Re: Pitfalls of german-english dictionaries. Was: What pulls in the tray of my /dev/sr1 ?

2015-07-28 Thread Ron
On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 19:19:05 +0200 "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > Ok. By popular demand a link to a comprehensive explanation > of the Deppenapostroph and how to avoid it: Vielen Dank. Grüssen, Ron. -- Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards,

Re: Mozilla Firefox exploit

2015-08-07 Thread Ron
fox/ to /opt/firefox.xx.y.z/ just in case I want/need to return to the n-1 version. Of course my firefox launchers have been modified to point at /opt/firefox/firefox-bin ;-3) Cheers, Ron. -- The ability to speak several languages is an admirable asset, but to be able to hold yo

Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-09 Thread Ron
n the days when a TV set was an expensive luxury. I cannot understand why the UK has not followed the other countries that have ditched TV licensing, and all the attending bureaucracy, and replaced it with a single check box on the income tax form... Cheers, Ron. -- El consejo de la

Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-09 Thread Ron
it's not a tax. The money doesn't go to the govt, it goes to > the BBC. License revenue is still 40% (IIRC) of their revenue. So it was in France (called the "Redevance"), which did not prevent it being now collected with the income tax, and passed of to the OR

Re: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?

2015-08-15 Thread Ron
all. Dare I direct you to 1 Kings 16:11, in the King James version of the Good Book ? Cheers, Ron. -- Any resemblance with any normal person, living or dead, would be purely coincidental. -- http://ww

Re: Security in our local network

2015-08-15 Thread Ron
ter, and give you detailed control of what > protocols go in and out. Read again, he says his router has no ethernet port. Cheers, Ron. -- It is a typically Hohenzollern idea to believe that it is a crime for a country to defend itself after its arm

Re: Raspberry Pi and Raspbian Distribution Disk

2015-08-18 Thread Ron
en years before I even kind > of knew how computers worked. Download the latest release of Raspbian from https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/ then dd it onto your 32GB sd card, and boot the Pi; one of the first thing it will offer you in the setup is to resize the partition, so a

Re: Raspberry Pi and Raspbian Distribution Disk

2015-08-18 Thread Ron
C microcontroller list which some of you may know > about. Raspbian is the ARM-friendly distribution of Debian so I > am not totally off topic but I know this is a stretch. There is the raspbian-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org list. Cheers, Ron. -- A government

Re: Virtual noobie

2015-08-18 Thread Ron
know if I can rely on it on the day when I decide to leave Debian rather than abandon Gnu-Linux and shift to Systemd-Linux. Cheers, Ron. -- No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife in the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style. -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org --

Re: Virtual noobie

2015-08-19 Thread Ron
> systemd may be inescapable. > (I hope that's wrong.) Pestilence and buggeration; will there be no way to avoid that plague ?... Cheers, Ron. -- May your Significant Other always know when you need a hug.

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-20 Thread Ron
ng a mail server, so you can avoid spreading infected mails. Probability of a virus infecting your Linux box is at the present time negligible. Cheers, Ron. -- Le client n'a jamais tort.

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-20 Thread Ron
> > antivirus for Debian? > > > Thank you in advance. > > Required no, advised I guess. > You guessed wrong. Although I know that proof-of-concept viruses (virii ?) have been created in computer labs, has anyone seen one alive in the wild ? Cheers, Ron. --

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-20 Thread Ron
On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 20:30:18 +0100 Brian wrote: > I refuse to take your advice to install AV software simply because I have a > mail server. I am not "well advised". Or you neglect your duty to the clients of your mail server. Cheers, Ron. -- You can always

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-20 Thread Ron
those from Redmont, which makes it more difficult to create something that will work on most Linux systems. Cheers, Ron. -- The Truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Re: Adapter Names on Stretch

2015-08-26 Thread Ron
anges available to those who want or need them, and leave the great majority, who neither need nor want them, to continue as before ? Or has it been decided on high that Debian Linux is no longer about users having the freedom to choose ? Of course the only freedom remains and cannot be taken

Re: Adapter Names on Stretch

2015-08-26 Thread Ron
e coming pox of systemd suits me best; until then I will stay with Wheezy. Cheers, Ron. -- Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org --

Re: Adapter Names on Stretch

2015-08-26 Thread Ron
erent from the one assigned to the old one, since it will have a different MAC address.., Cheers, Ron. -- Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org --

Re: Adapter Names on Stretch

2015-08-26 Thread Ron
rns over the years to keep a store of pares at hand, which is why I am able to send this reply ;-3) Cheers, Ron. -- I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality

Re: Adapter Names on Stretch

2015-08-26 Thread Ron
On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 21:14:00 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > Electricity is not magic, it has rules & regulations intended to tame it. > Here, it works nice. I live in a country where the only rule applying to electricity is: "Pay the bill every month." Cheers, Ron. --

Re: Adapter Names on Stretch

2015-08-27 Thread Ron
require it. No; no such thing is known here, nor planning/zoning regulations, vehicle technical inspection, or until very recently driving test or income tax.. Cheers, Ron. -- A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.

Re: what is the static ip address I assigned to eth0?

2015-08-27 Thread Ron
ess is not in /etc/hosts, and there is no Network Manager > > Applet in the panel. > > How can I determine the address without reinstalling? > Try reading "cat /etc/network/interfaces". Its a text file. Or, as root, run # ifconfig Cheers, Ron. -- A man

Re: Adapter Names on Stretch

2015-08-28 Thread Ron
buying a couple NICs every five or ten years... Cheers, Ron. -- Les cons ça ose tout. C'est même à çà qu'on les reconnaît. -- Michel Audiard -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org --

Another system management tool to disappear.

2015-08-28 Thread Ron
Systemd-Linux to get rid of su: https://tlhp.cf/lennart-poettering-su/ Is this a trend to make _all_ the GNU-Linux tools disappear, and have _everything_ incorporated into systemd ? Cheers, Ron. -- There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX

Re: Adapter Names on Stretch

2015-08-29 Thread Ron
of the beginning as they do in the southern dialects. Cheers, Ron. -- When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -- Sherlock Hol

Re: laptop protection in an office network

2015-08-29 Thread Ron
dapter. Just make sure those dont need an unobtainable driver to run under Linux ;-3) Not very bulky, can be run off the laptop USB, easy to configure, and should keep you reasonably safe from the nasties who lurk in the outside darkness Cheers, Ron. PS

Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

2015-08-30 Thread Ron
not he who is evil, who dares utter the name of He Who Must Not Be Named. HWMNBN, and his followers, are another matter... Cheers, Ron. -- C'est bien plus beau lorsque c'est inutile.

Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

2015-08-30 Thread Ron
menon: It is well documented that the recently converted are the most rabid defenders of their newly-found faith; even though it may be of recent creation (For reference, see Scientology) Cheers, Ron. -- Luck, that's when preparation and op

Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

2015-08-30 Thread Ron
only fix would be to avoid adopting it, or later to get rid of it completely Cheers, Ron. -- Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet. -- P.E. Trudeau -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org --

Re: is google earth safe to install?

2015-09-02 Thread Ron
On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 16:48:35 -0700 Gary Roach wrote: > BTW Google Earth should operate on an AMD chip set if you enable > milti-arch as Sven said. That would seem to be the easier cleaner way to go. It does, on my box, without any problem. Cheers, Ron. -- If you talk to a ma

Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

2015-09-02 Thread Ron
to get ^] does not seem any more > difficult. Except that on my AZERTY keyboard 'Ctrl'+'Alt'+')' gets me nothing at all. To get "]" I have to press "AltGr" + ")", which may explain why "Ctrl" + "AltGr" + ")" gives nothing. Cheers, Ron. -- Never call a man a fool. Borrow from him. -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org --

Re: W.: Re: Jessie on RPI2

2015-09-09 Thread Ron
case Jessie ( debian 8 ) goes ! ( am > not so familiar with it ) . Some time back I took part in a thread on https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=91&t=39002 where this was discussed. Cheers, Ron. -- I refuse to have a battle of wits wit

Making udev forget ?

2015-09-30 Thread Ron
Is there a way to make udev "forget" all the removable storage peripherals it has "seen" ? Cheers, Ron. -- Love built on beauty Soon as beauty dies.

Re: What software can I use to remind me of daily tasks?

2015-10-09 Thread Ron
font "sans bold 24" " Warning: Time to go to bed " Cheers, Ron. -- Dieu n'est pas pour les gros batalions, mais pour ceux qui tirent le mieux. -- Voltaire

Re: Debian 8, KDE Lockup

2015-10-11 Thread Ron
On Sun, 11 Oct 2015 20:55:56 +0300 moxalt wrote: > Basically, don't use GDM with KDE, and don't run KDE on systems that are short > of RAM. Or at all. Yes, better use XFCE or LXDE, which are not bloated messes like KDE or Gnome. Cheers, Ron. -- As a computer, I

Re: unlisted mirrors & non-gui installation

2015-10-13 Thread Ron
ere is the one that > > appears: You preach by example ? ;-3) Cheers, Ron. -- Hate is like acid. It can damage the vessel in which it is stored as well as destroy the object on which it is poured. -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org --

Re: make system boot straight to browser connection

2015-10-16 Thread Ron
On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 09:46:16 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > How much EASIER it would be if you would only give in to the > inevitable coming standardization on systemd. Are you aware how this sound, which bringsg to mind "We are systemd of Borg, resistance is futile"...

Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented

2015-10-17 Thread Ron
ine better than Debian. Completely sufficient to check my email, browse the web, and use google-earth when I am away from home. Cheers, Ron. -- Opportunity always knocks at the least opportune mom

Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented

2015-10-18 Thread Ron
e the time and energy to learn > another operating system such as MX-14. Not difficult, and easy to use as it includes a gaggle of graphical configuration progs; I find it easier than Debian, and would switch my desktop box to it if they had a 64bits version. Highly recommended

Re: System Dorked -- Help!

2015-10-21 Thread Ron
work (password?), and I could recreate > previous users if need be but that does not touch the other errors.)<‭‮ Quoting the relevant query: "So what can I do about this?" Send properly formatted mail, so it is legible ? Cheers, Ron. -- Si v

Re: Debian

2015-10-28 Thread Ron
On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 11:37:53 -0700 Franklin Presley III wrote: > Sent from my iPad And ? Cheers, Ron. -- The difference between science and the fuzzy subject is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholars

Re: [OT] Linux for Lettuce

2015-10-28 Thread Ron
da from decades ago. > Same liars = same poison. Problem is not with their genetically modified stuff, but with their refusal to let GM stuff be labelled as such. Cheers, Ron. -- The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be tol

Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

2015-10-29 Thread Ron
This dongle, which has a long aerial, works out of the box on my raspbian Raspberry-Pi, no driver needed. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00H95C0A2 Cheers, Ron. -- Whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty by close application thereto, it is worse executed by

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

2015-11-03 Thread Ron
On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 23:58:32 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I can wiggle both my ears at the same time. :) > I didn't notice that. Now that _is_ an accomplishment. :-) I can wiggle one at a time... Cheers, Ron. --

Re: networking stopped after upgrade

2015-11-03 Thread Ron
pdate/upgrade. > Any suggestions? Why not use a dedicated firewall distribution, like IPCop ? Cheers, Ron. -- It takes a smart husband to have the last word and not use it. -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org --

Re: Strong Copyleft licenses other than the GNU GPL family.

2015-11-05 Thread Ron
On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 10:27:01 +0100 Nicolas George wrote: > Le quartidi 14 brumaire, an CCXXIV, Mario Castelán Castro a écrit : Would a kind soul be good enough to explain to me how to get the header date to come out as it does here, in the French Republican calendar ? Cheers,

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

2015-11-07 Thread Ron
On Sat, 07 Nov 2015 11:26:18 +0100 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Or does IPCop2 just not include USB drivers ? It does, and I have used them on my IPCop box for years; better burn out an USBToRJ45 adapter than the motherboard when there is a storm strike on the ISP coax. Cheers,

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

2015-11-07 Thread Ron
t from Amazon. Cheers, Ron. -- -I was born an Englishman, and I'll die an Englishman. -Hoots, Mon, hae ye got nae ambition ? -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org --

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

2015-11-08 Thread Ron
rface has only the following options: > >- analog modem >- GSM/3G modem >- ISDN >- PPPoE >- PPTP >- static >- DHCP You might have more luck on the IPCop list ipcop-u...@lists.sourceforge.net Cheers, Ron.

Re: var is full...

2015-11-18 Thread Ron
ar/cache/apt/archive and rm -f *.deb to remove all the old packages. Cheers, Ron. -- Pourquoi contredire une femme ? Il est tellement plus simple d' attendre qu'elle change d'avis.

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