Re: Adobe Flash

2015-11-20 Thread Ron
w your example or not. But telling them what they "should" do, unless it relates to behaviour that affexts you directly(*) is the first step on the road to intolerance, persecution, the Talibans and the Inquisition, etc. Cheers, Ron. * Of course there is the difference between &

Re: Adobe Flash

2015-11-20 Thread Ron
wn religion is better than ours ? Cheers, Ron. -- The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. -- Oscar Wilde -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org --

Re: Adobe Flash

2015-11-21 Thread Ron
On Fri, 20 Nov 2015 23:23:02 -0700 Glenn English wrote: > Chill a bit, folks. There's no question that vi is better than emacs :-).. Of course it is; yet we do not go round preaching to all and sundry "You should use vi"... Cheers, Ron. -- You do ill if you

Re: Adobe Flash

2015-11-21 Thread Ron
llowing the precept wisely given by the Fathers of the American Constitution, never try to impose your religion on others ! Cheers, Ron. -- You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, when you do not rightly understand.

Re: Adobe Flash

2015-11-21 Thread Ron
like vi better", "I believe vi is better suited to what you want to do" and on the other "you should use vi". Cheers, Ron. -- First Law of Bicycling: No matter which way you ride,

Re: The word 'should'. (was: Adobe Flash)

2015-11-21 Thread Ron
u try to force others to hold those same opinions that you start on the road to intolerance and persecution. Cheers, Ron. -- First Law of Bicycling: No matter which way you ride, it's uphill a

Re: The word 'should'

2015-11-22 Thread Ron
not forcing anyone to use free software. > I try to convince with arguments. No; you are not trying to convince, with or without arguments, but you attempt to dictate what we can and cannot do. Wont work. Cheers, Ron. -- It is easier to fight for one's principles

Re: The word 'should'

2015-11-22 Thread Ron
work. > You are asserting something without any support. Dicating implies > coercion. Show how I am coercing or trying to coerce people. By saying we "should" do something. Cheers, Ron. -- Fortunate is he for whom the belle toils. -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org --

Prob activating Samba

2015-11-23 Thread Ron
Trying to activate Samba with chkconfig, I get: root@ron:/home/ron # chkconfig –add smb 5 Usage: chkconfig -s service on|off|runlevels Yet according to man chkconfig: SYNOPSIS chkconfig -t|--terse [names] chkconfig -s|--set [name state] chkconfig -e|--edit [names

Re: Prob activating Samba

2015-11-23 Thread Ron
On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 16:08:03 +0100 Petter Adsen wrote: > On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 11:59:35 -0300 > Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > > > Trying to activate Samba with chkconfig, I get: > > > > root@ron:/home/ron # chkconfig –add smb 5 >

Re: Prob activating Samba

2015-11-23 Thread Ron
PS Running Wheezy / XFCE, no systemd. Cheers, Ron. -- Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay -and claims a halo for his dishonesty

Re: Prob activating Samba

2015-11-23 Thread Ron
On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 18:11:47 +0200 Teemu Likonen wrote: > Renaud OLGIATI [2015-11-23 12:59:38-03] wrote: > > > root@ron:/home/ron # chkconfig -–add smb > ^^ > You have these two different characters there: > > - U+002D HYPHEN-MINU

Re:

2015-11-23 Thread Ron
my raspberry pi B+. Thanks for answers. Plug it in, and launch wicd; refresh to see all the available wifi networks, choose yours, and configure. Cheers, Ron. -- To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To

Re: Prob activating Samba

2015-11-23 Thread Ron
On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 14:18:07 -0500 Dan Ritter wrote: > > OK Ta; changed the CL to what you gave me: > > root@ron:/home/ron # chkconfig --add smb > > smb: unknown service > > Just checked in Synaptic, have both Samba, Samba-common and > > Samba-common-bin install

Re: Prob activating Samba

2015-11-23 Thread Ron
On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 15:58:47 -0500 Gene Heskett wrote: > I put a bounty on > wipeing windows from anything I own in about 1997. No regrets yet. SWMBO has some hardware that only speaks Windows, alas... Cheers, Ron. -- There never was a good war or a bad

Re: boot takes too long (swap?)

2015-11-26 Thread Ron
On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 11:13:24 -0500 Felix Miata wrote: > Easier to change fstab to mount swap LABEL= instead of UUID=, then /dev/sd6 noneswapsw 0 0 Cheers, Ron. -- Stercus acci

Re: boot takes too long (swap?)

2015-11-26 Thread Ron
gt; because of the stick or external enumerated as sda instead of the internal > HD. By LABEL and by UUID both avoid that risk. No risk: when I want to boot from the USB I do it (F8 at boot) from the Grub installed on the USB. No UUID crap needed. Cheers, Ron. --

Re: Xorg replaces TTY1

2015-11-26 Thread Ron
gnificant cost of human interface changes and > should be considered. Only obsolete for those who have switched to systemd-Linux; the documentation remains still valid for users of GNU-Linux. Cheers, Ron. -- An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less

Re: Xorg replaces TTY1

2015-11-26 Thread Ron
ed new users. One wonders why did they abandon the principle of backward compatibility ? Cheers, Ron. -- There comes a time in the affairs of a man when he has to take the bull by the tail and

Re: Xorg replaces TTY1

2015-11-26 Thread Ron
hat was before ? And ensure that what worked before still works with (or in spite of) the innovations and improvements ?? Cheers, Ron. -- There comes a time in the affairs of a man when he has to take the bull by the tail and fac

Re: [OT] Soliciting Advice on e-mail and web-hosting providers

2015-11-28 Thread Ron
but when I go on a trip . stop automatic download, and can access it on their web-site. Cheers, Ron. -- La superstition met le monde entier en flammes; la philosophie les eteint. --Volta

Re: installing Debian on USB flash drive for use in many machines

2015-11-28 Thread Ron
Why not use Knoppix, instead of re-inventing the wheel ? Cheers, Ron. -- Those of you who think you know everything are very annoying those of us who do. -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org --

SATA HD hotplug "Authentication is required"

2015-11-29 Thread Ron
e CLI, did not work: root@ron:/home/ron # mount /dev/sdi1 mount: can't find /dev/sdi1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab How do I get it to mount ? Cheers, Ron. -- They also surf, who only stand on waves. -- http:/

Re: SATA HD hotplug "Authentication is required"

2015-11-29 Thread Ron
ot;Authentication is required". > > > > Is that udev throwing a tantrum ? > > > > Tried mounting it from the CLI, did not work: > > > > root@ron:/home/ron # mount /dev/sdi1 > > mount: can't find /dev/sdi1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab > > >

Re: SATA HD hotplug "Authentication is required" (SOLVED)

2015-11-30 Thread Ron
/devices/ -name sdb /sys/devices/pci:00/:00:1f.2/host4/target4:0:0/4:0:0:0/block/sdb If rules fail to reload automatically # udevadm control --reload - Cheers, Ron. -- No one ever built a statue to a critic. -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org --

Re: SATA HD hotplug "Authentication is required" (SOLVED)(NOT)

2015-12-05 Thread Ron
SATA drives, and one has to log in as root, and mount then, before use ? Cheers, Ron. -- Le client n'a jamais tort. -- César Ritz -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org --

Re: SATA HD hotplug "Authentication is required"

2015-12-05 Thread Ron
how up as "HintSystem: true" in the > output of "udisksctl dump". root@ron:/home/ron # udisksctl dump bash: udisksctl: command not found ??? Cheers, Ron. -- Le client n'a jamais tort. -- César Ritz

Re: SATA HD hotplug "Authentication is required"

2015-12-06 Thread Ron
ue" in the > > > output of "udisksctl dump". > > root@ron:/home/ron # udisksctl dump > > bash: udisksctl: command not found > > ??? > dpkg -l udisks2 root@ron:/home/ron # apt-get install udisks2 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency

Re: SATA HD hotplug "Authentication is required"

2015-12-06 Thread Ron
evices > > > > > for > > > > > which the default policykit rules only allow mounting with > > > > > authentication. These should show up as "HintSystem: true" in the > > > > > output of "udisksctl dump". > > >

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Ron
On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 09:07:21 +0100 Mart van de Wege wrote: > This is like all those people who first moved to Ubuntu back in the day, > complaining about not being able to login as root. And how do you keep a multi-user box safe if any user can sudo ? Cheers,

Re: How is typical home computer used today?

2014-12-11 Thread Ron
rtphone (web browser or screen > mirroring software) - increasingly common among couch potatoes Not to mention the Pentium I box happily recycled, headless, running IPCop firewall to protect the LAN from intrusion. Cheers, Ron. -- Profund and/or wi

Re: How is typical home computer used today?

2014-12-12 Thread Ron
On Fri, 12 Dec 2014 18:07:03 -0500 Ric Moore wrote: > So maybe we could consider a standard for "home computer" that it "runs > on 110V with less than X amount of watts"? Except that for the greater part of the world it would be 220 Volts... Cheers, Ron. --

Re: Unable to install bootloader on software raid

2014-12-13 Thread Ron
add dmraid=true at the end of the GRUB boot line. Cheers, Ron. -- Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason. -- Lord Chesterfi

Re: How is typical home computer used today?

2014-12-13 Thread Ron
le of the console a brass manometer, with instruction to do an emergency stop if the pressure dropped below 6kg/cm^2; that was for the water cooling the vacuum tubes.. Cheers, Ron. -- The way to love anything is to realize that it migh

Re: Transición a Debian

2014-12-13 Thread Ron
On Sat, 13 Dec 2014 12:15:05 -0500 JAWV WV wrote: > por ejemplo instalé la > versión 7.7.0 y dentro de 5 o 6 meses la versión estable mejorada es > liberada , me toca re-instalar o simplemente puedo actualizar la versión > 7.7.0 para que pase a ser la 8.0.1 . Pues en verdad actualizar es instalar

Re: Transición a Debian

2014-12-13 Thread Ron
quirer could find the answer, or help, in his own language. Cheers, Ron. -- Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen. -- Heinrich

Re: How is typical home computer used today?

2014-12-14 Thread Ron
en two phases (if your house is wired for three-phase current). Cheers, Ron. -- Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and appl

Re: How is typical home computer used today?

2014-12-14 Thread Ron
1.9030...@merit.unu.edu > > supposed to have 220 +/- 10%, which covers from 200 to 240 and a bit more. Cheers, Ron. -- Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it in

Re: How is typical home computer used today?

2014-12-15 Thread Ron
On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 08:01:07 + (UTC) Curt wrote: > > In Europe we have 220 Volts between phase and neutre, and 380 Volts > > between two phases (if your house is wired for three-phase current). > > Paraguay is in Europe now? Never claimed it was, why ? Cheers, Ro

Re: music based applications in debian?

2014-12-15 Thread Ron
I use the free prog Bagpipe, by Philippe Corgier http://r.fifi.free.fr/BagPipe/english.htm but it is rather specialized, as it caters to the needs of the Scottish Highland Bagpipe player ;-3) Cheers, Ron. -- Documentation is like sex: when it is

Re: music based applications in debian?

2014-12-15 Thread Ron
longer works, some dependency is buggered ;-3( $ /usr/bin/easyabc Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/easyabc/easy_abc.py", line 197, in import wx ImportError: No module named wx Cheers, Ron. -- Documentation is like sex:

Re: How is typical home computer used today?

2014-12-15 Thread Ron
laimed it was, why ? > In Europe *we* *have* I think he meant. Well, I lived in Europe for over fifty years... Cheers, Ron. -- A diplomat is man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never her age.

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-17 Thread Ron
Pentium II box, as the install would not work on more recent hardware ;-3( Seems you can still find it for download on the net. Cheers, Ron. -- Behind every successful man there stands a woman, telling him he is wrong

USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-19 Thread Ron
I plug in a USB pen drive, and launch dd to copy an iso image. # dd bs=4M if=debian-live-7.6.0-amd64-rescue.iso of=/dev/sdi && sync dd: opening `/dev/sdi': Read-only file system Is there a way to force it to mount read-write ? Cheers, Ron. -- We&

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-19 Thread Ron
O9660 file system which, by design, is read-only. No, when I launch dd it contains a FAT32 file system. > > Is there a way to force it to mount read-write ? > Nothing is mounted during the reading and writing process. Then why does dd complain, and refuse to run ? Cheers, Ron.

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-19 Thread Ron
dd bs=4M if=debian-live-7.6.0-amd64-rescue.iso of=/dev/sdi && sync dd: opening `/dev/sdi': Read-only file system The drive does not have a HW write-protection switch. Where does this Write Protect come from, how can one get rid of it ? ? Cheers, Ron. -- Government is not the

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-19 Thread Ron
hich-doesnt-exist # touch /dev/somefile-which-doesnt-exist # ls -l /dev/somefile-which-doesnt-exist -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 19 09:54 /dev/somefile-which-doesnt-exist My gast remains fiercely flabbered... Cheers, Ron. -- George Orwell was an optimist.

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-21 Thread Ron
On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 15:07:25 -0300 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > # ls -l /dev/sdi > brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 128 Dec 19 07:59 /dev/sdi Anyone know where I could find info on the special permission denoted by the leading b in the permissions above, and same for the trailing T ?

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-21 Thread Ron
he t; chmod o-T does not work. Maybe there is a simpler way, but this one did work. Only fly in the ointment is that gparted still complains that: Unable to open /dev/sdi read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/sdi has been opened read-

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-21 Thread Ron
at your USB stick has > cocked its toes up? I still doubt that, given I can read the contents. Cheers, Ron. -- Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

udev madness ?

2014-12-27 Thread Ron
/dev/sde brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 65 Dec 27 17:01 /dev/sde1 Why does it fail to auto-mount, and does not appear in Thunar or Pcmanfm ? udev gone mad ? Cheers, Ron. PS The card is perfectly readable and writeable in my phone, or in SWMBO's windows Vista box. -- The abili

Re: udev madness ?

2014-12-28 Thread Ron
esys Logic, Inc. USB-2.0 4-Port HUB Bus 006 Device 002: ID 413c:2107 Dell Computer Corp. Bus 006 Device 003: ID 046d:c408 Logitech, Inc. Marble Mouse (4-button) Bus 004 Device 003: ID 03f0:2504 Hewlett-Packard DeskJet F4200 series Same for ls /media, in both cases : # ls /media cdrom cdrom0 flop

USB camera prog ?

2015-01-04 Thread Ron
I am looking for a prog that will display on screen, and save, pictures taken with a USB camera connected to the box. Better obviously with a GUI; but I do not care to install a load of Gnome or KDE bloat. Any idea, advice, etc ? Cheers, Ron. -- Learning does not consist of knowing

Re: USB camera prog ?

2015-01-04 Thread Ron
KDE bloat. > > Any idea, advice, etc ? > you should try cheese https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Cheese Thank you, Marcos, but I specifically excluded anything that brought Gnome (or KDE) bloat to my box. Cheese wants to install 49 other packages, including Nautilus... Cheers, Ron. --

Re: USB camera prog ?

2015-01-04 Thread Ron
On Sun, 04 Jan 2015 21:19:46 +0100 Hans wrote: > Maybe Camorama or GUVCView is what you are looking for. Maybe, there are some > commandline tools, too. Many thanks, Camorama is exactly what I was hoping for. Cheers, Ron. -- King Herod has been greatly misunde

Re: Recent upgrade 'broke' sleep & hibernate in KDE Plasma Battery Monitor

2015-01-14 Thread Ron
On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 06:58:00 -0500 Mike McGinn wrote: > Don't complain about my top post. I don't care and will ignore you. We'll complain about not trimming the post. Cheers, Ron. -- 99 percent of lawyers give t

Re: how to paste selected text / keyboard shortcut

2015-01-19 Thread Ron
with the central button the same way so??). It depends on the pastee app having the focus, for which you have to go and click in its window after selecting in the pasting app window. Cheers, Ron. -- Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent ins

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-23 Thread Ron
On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 18:46:04 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > Touché. :-( Yes, that wasn't very nice. But one can hardly compare 1985 > with > now! Hard drives were in single figure gig sizes. More like meg sizes... Cheers, Ron. -- Non omnia

Display in a console

2015-01-23 Thread Ron
, and keep characters at a legible size in consoles ? Cheers, Ron. -- God, I wish ignorance was painful. -- James Knox -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org -- -- To UNSUBSCR

Question a-propos a USB modem

2015-01-24 Thread Ron
When I plug in my USB modem, it is recogniz"ed and mounted on /dev/ttyACM0 Sadly, it is not accessible to the user as: root@ron # ls -l /dev/ttyA* crw-rw---T 1 root dialout 166, 0 Jan 24 11:23 /dev/ttyACM0 and I must chmod a+rw before users can use it. Is there a way to make it mount crw-

Re: Question a-propos a USB modem

2015-01-24 Thread Ron
On Sat, 24 Jan 2015 15:35:15 +0100 Hans wrote: > > When I plug in my USB modem, it is recognized and mounted on /dev/ttyACM0 > > Sadly, it is not accessible to the user as: > > root@ron # ls -l /dev/ttyA* > > crw-rw---T 1 root dialout 166, 0 Jan 24 11:23 /dev/ttyACM0 &

Re: Question a-propos a USB modem

2015-01-24 Thread Ron
On Sat, 24 Jan 2015 21:45:09 + Philip Ashmore wrote: > just reboot the machine. Shades of MS Windows ;-3( Thanks to all for your help. Cheers, Ron. -- It is not too late to turn back from the Gates of Hell. Use Li

No vi in rescue mode ?

2015-01-26 Thread Ron
it available in the rescue console ? Cheers, Ron. -- Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit. -- Mahatma Gandhi

Re: No vi in rescue mode ?

2015-01-26 Thread Ron
> > So I give the root password, and # vi /etc/fstab. Surprise ! I get vi: > > command not found > Which version of Debian? I have vi in Debian Wheezy (Stable). You have it in the rescue console ? Cheers, Ron. -- A new koan:

Re: No vi in rescue mode ?

2015-01-27 Thread Ron
On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 18:27:26 +0100 Michael Biebl wrote: > Were you dropped into the initramfs rescue shell? Yes, and http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.de

Re: Display in a console (Solved)

2015-01-27 Thread Ron
configure console-setup Worked, but only after editing /etc/default/console.setup (as root) as per David Wright's advice so it reads: #FONTFACE="Fixed" FONTFACE="Terminus" FONTSIZE="8x16" FONTSIZE="10x20" FONTSIZE="12x24" F

Re: apt-get / aptitude [g]libc update not to prompt for restart and not restart

2015-01-29 Thread Ron
rting > the services and without asking what to do. > > Would you know the right option? Install needrestart and run it after upgrading.. Cheers, Ron. -- Pro is to con as progress is to Congress. -- http

Re: New problem with GIMP plugin file-jpeg

2015-01-30 Thread Ron
On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 11:24:32 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > What about the Japanese? not to mention the Israelis, Farsis, Urdus, and the Muslims ? Cheers, Ron. -- A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the fa

Re: gedit slow with a 1.5Mb text file

2015-02-01 Thread Ron
tripping up > gedit performance wise perhaps? (And vi/gvim, presentation wise?) > Any advice or tips on this, especially from Windows to Linux converts, would > be gratefully received. Possibly non-formatted, with one line per paragraph ? Cheers, Ron. -- ¿Porqué a medida que

Systemsd's image

2015-02-02 Thread Ron
(see page 4) Cheers, Ron. -- The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. -- Benjamin Dis

Re: Systemsd's image

2015-02-02 Thread Ron
tation... > > > > https://rhsummit.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/summit_demystifying_systemd1.pdf > > (see page 4) > Inexistant. The pdf exists, and loads perfectly. ? Cheers, Ron. -- Faith and force - the destroyers of the modern world.

Re: 3rd new wheezy install

2015-02-05 Thread Ron
TBE. This is why , having been bit once, follow the procedure for new installations: - Have the /home directory on a separate physical unit. - Physically disconnect said unit during the install. - Reconnect after the install has been done without problem, adding the relevant line to /etc/fsta

Re: 3rd new wheezy install

2015-02-05 Thread Ron
ill know nothing about it; you install, then once installed connect your home CD, boot a live CD, find and delete the content of the /home created by the installer, add the /dev/sdXXX of your old home drive to fstab, and reboot. The installer never sees your old /home so never gets a chance to

Re: missing segfault messages

2015-02-06 Thread Ron
://partclone.org ? :) Or http://clonezilla.org ? ;-3) Cheers, Ron. -- Fortunate is he for whom the belle toils. -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: unmet dependencies: libcurl4-openssl-dev

2015-02-06 Thread Ron
On Fri, 06 Feb 2015 23:31:51 +0530 Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > The missus is asking "who's Jessie and why are you thinking of her?" ;) > > Sure, I'd upgrade to Jessie That will please the missus... Cheers, Ron. -- Against logic the

Re: Skype, Pulseaudio, very quite output from a speaker

2015-02-15 Thread Ron
t have > this opportunity as fo yet. Thanks for your thoughts. I solved the same problem by setting the output volume in pavucontrol. Cheers, Ron. -- Go placidly amid the noise and waste, and remember what value there may be in ownin

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-17 Thread Ron
On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 16:28:04 + Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > "i disagree with what you are saying, but i will defend your right to say it". > i believe it was someone famous who wrote that, Attributed to Voltaire; but does not appear in his writings.

Re: recommended ftp clients for Debian

2015-02-24 Thread Ron
On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 14:11:13 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > I want a simple ftp client, for putting not getting, that is easy and > pleasant > to use. GUI based. For the use of non-geeks as well as myself. I am quite pleased with Gftp. Cheers, Ron. -- I don'

Re: recommended ftp clients for Debian

2015-02-25 Thread Ron
> With gFTP being apparently on its way out, being apparently removed by Debian > 8, gftp runs well under 7.7, so you have a bit more time before having to change. Anyway I am not unduly worried as I'll be shifting some time ahead for a systemd-free distribution. Cheers, Ron. -

Re: File transfer

2015-02-26 Thread Ron
directly RJ45 to RJ45 ? Cheers, Ron. -- As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White

Re: File transfer

2015-02-26 Thread Ron
t works". Not much of a problem: (Install and) open wicd, Wired Network Properties, click Use Static IPs, and 192.168.1.x, and 255.255.255.0 Cheers, Ron. -- As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On so

Re: Sorting directories by size

2015-02-28 Thread Ron
> that 254G comes before 1,3T? Use sort -h ? Cheers, Ron. -- Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations ? -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org -- -- To UNSUBS

Re: xfce 4.12 in Debian.

2015-03-04 Thread Ron
home, and the only women who would speak in public were the prostitutes... Cheers, Ron. -- The problem with an honest day's work, is that you get an honest day's pay for it.

Re: No feedback from systemd / "systemctl stop X"... Nothing on stdout, nothing that `echo $?` can see...

2015-03-11 Thread Ron
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 18:16:48 -0300 Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: > What am I missing? SysVinit... Cheers, Ron. -- The light at the end of the tunnel may be the headlight of an approaching train. -- h

Re: mouse moves, but doesn't left-click

2015-03-15 Thread Ron
e you tested with another mouse, that it is not a HW problem ? Cheers, Ron. -- The easiest thing of all is to deceive one's self; for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true.

Re: searching for a "structure viewer" tool

2015-03-20 Thread Ron
; > > Then it should take arbitrary binary file and display contents of the > file nicely according to the description. > > If found such a tool exists for MS Windows [1]. I remember there was > similar for MS DOS. Is there something like that for the Debian GNU/Linux? COBO

Re: sound vanished with a reboot?

2015-03-24 Thread Ron
n) helps keep up to date, as it is now 36.0.3 whereas Iceweasel is still at ? 31.5.3 ? Cheers, Ron. -- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -- Arthur C

Re: sound vanished with a reboot?

2015-03-24 Thread Ron
On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 10:01:23 -0500 John Hasler wrote: > What doe 36 have that 33 doesn't? Security (and other) upgrades... Cheers, Ron. -- Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to

Re: sound vanished with a reboot?

2015-03-25 Thread Ron
some new version has come out and should be looked for. When using SolydX I had an applet in the panel that warned me when upgrades were available, but I have found nothing similar in Debian. Cheers, Ron. -- What is moral is what you feel good after and wh

Is this an April Fool joke running early ? (Systemd to fork the kernel)

2015-03-30 Thread Ron
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20150330#community Or is it serious ? Cheers, Ron. -- The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilised being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his

Re: Is this an April Fool joke running early ? (Systemd to fork the kernel)

2015-03-30 Thread Ron
7;t thinking about this > before. I hope he does, and follows the idea. That way he can fork off, with his systemd bloatware and his own kernel, and leave the rest of the Linux world return to sanity. Cheers, Ron. -- Falling in

Re: Is this an April Fool joke running early ? (Systemd to fork the kernel)

2015-03-31 Thread Ron
words - no cooperation, discussion > and respect, we will take over! Completely wrong... Not to mention so much easier for malware devs... Cheers, Ron. -- Toute loi qui viole les droits imprescriptibles de l'homme, est essentiellement injuste et tyrann

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-02 Thread Ron
y-z so I can, in case of problem, easily revert to the earlier version by changing dir name again. . And I have a link in /usr/bin pointing to /opt/firefox/firefox Cheers, Ron. -- The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it wil

Re: debian 8

2015-04-10 Thread Ron
On Fri, 10 Apr 2015 18:11:42 -0400 (EDT) Bob Bernstein wrote: > > I don't get on with XFCE either - but that isn't > > Wheezy's fault. > It's clearly George W. Bush's fault. And Tony Bliar ? Cheers, Ron. --

Re: Realtek firmware

2015-04-16 Thread Ron
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 12:27:43 -0400 German wrote: > I don't think this is important what chip I have. I think that all realtek > firmware installs in one package. Excrept that some Realtek-chipped NICs do not work under Linux. Cheers, Ron. -- All that is necess

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-29 Thread Ron
nitors... Cheers, Ron. -- So many beautiful women, and so little time. -- John Barrymore -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org -- -- To UNSUB

Re: Question: Why do you dist-upgrade?

2015-04-29 Thread Ron
Not to mention that unlike an install, a dist-upgrade does not require reinstalling all the special configs and tweaks you may have added to the system. Cheers, Ron. -- Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one o

Re: README.mirrors.txt small bugs

2015-05-11 Thread Ron
g?subject=unsubscribe> Is that not clear enough for you ? Cheers, Ron. -- Most people want either less corruption or more of a chance to participate in it. -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org -

Re: no root file system after encryption

2015-05-11 Thread Ron
s a better bet > nowadays as far as present and future reliability goes. What is the pint of a journal for a fs that does not change outside of system upgrades ? Cheers, Ron. -- If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make t

Re: We are neophytes needing to install UBUNTU first (then after a while we'll try DEBIAN)

2015-05-13 Thread Ron
On Wed, 13 May 2015 12:08:49 +0200 Jazz Au Duc wrote: > We would like to install UBUNTU , in order to work with good versions of > GIMP & SCRIBUS . > Can you help us ? > Thanks from Brittany. Le genre de question qui ne va pas améliorer l'image des Bretons. Tu ferais mieux de trouver une liste

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