Re: Installation

2012-09-13 Thread lee
Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Jo, 13 sep 12, 04:16:07, Weaver wrote: >> > >> > This is not about you and me, or any debian-user subscriber AFAICT. It's >> > about the type of users that regard the computer as a tool and have no >> > desire to learn about its workings. After all, one can drive a car

Re: Installation

2012-09-13 Thread lee
"Weaver" writes: > On Thu, September 13, 2012 12:29 am, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Mi, 12 sep 12, 17:53:41, Weaver wrote: >>> >>> I would be an advocate of at least a separate /home partition in the >>> 'Newbie Install'. >> >> How big? IMVHO a separate /home partition[1] makes sense now[2] only

Re: exim, mailname and aliases

2012-09-13 Thread lee
Frank Van Damme writes: > Hello list, > > I'm into a slight struggle with my mail servers. They are satellite > systems (no local mail, everything goes to a smarthost). I figured out > that by changing the mailname to generaldomain.com instead of > themachineshostname.generaldomain.com, all users

networking with virtual machine

2012-09-13 Thread lee
Hi, since I'm not making any progress: I want to set up a VM (running testing) that can be reachable from the outside over the network. I've done that 2 years or so ago and I forgot how to do the networking setup, and network configuration has changed in the meantime. I need to somehow set up a

Re: Installation

2012-09-13 Thread lee
"Weaver" writes: > On Thu, September 13, 2012 4:20 am, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 04:10 -0700, Weaver wrote: >>> If you find, in time, that you are running out of drive space, instaal >>> a bigger drive, install the / and swap and again, allocate the rest >>> as /home and copy i

Re: Installation

2012-09-13 Thread lee
"Weaver" writes: > On Thu, September 13, 2012 9:58 am, lee wrote: >> "Weaver" writes: > >>>> >>>> You said you want the discussion centred around what happens when a >>>> clueless user uses the Debian installer and is presente

Re: networking with virtual machine

2012-09-13 Thread lee
Rob Owens writes: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:32:40PM +0200, lee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> since I'm not making any progress: I want to set up a VM (running >> testing) that can be reachable from the outside over the network. I've >> done that 2

Re: Installation

2012-09-14 Thread lee
"Weaver" writes: > On Thu, September 13, 2012 12:04 pm, lee wrote: >> >> What do you do, or what is the installer supposed to do, when you have >> several disks? Make a RAID-0 out of them and do as you describe? Make >> a RAID-1 or RAID-10 or RAID-5? Onl

Re: Installation

2012-09-14 Thread lee
"Weaver" writes: > The installer is quite specific in regard to where it should place the > installation. Nobody is going to hose any other installed OS unless the > simply refuse to read. > If that's the case they need to lose the current installation to help them > to wake up a little. You're

Re: Installation

2012-09-14 Thread lee
"Weaver" writes: > On Thu, September 13, 2012 5:26 pm, lee wrote: >> >> You cannot determine the size of the /home partition by the size of >> another storage device that may be installed or not, now or in the >> future. > > GParted can. , |

Re: Kernel throwing exception once in a while

2012-09-14 Thread lee
krish writes: > Hi, > > > I wasn't really sure which package to report this bug against, so > writing it to the lists. > > This is happening randomly almost everyday. Not able to figure out why It reminds me of NFS freezing when using cheap network cards. -- Debian testing amd64 -- To UNSU

Re: networking with virtual machine

2012-09-14 Thread lee
Chris Davies writes: > lee wrote: >> That seems to suggest using a bridge[1], and I find that very >> confusing. I understand that apparently I am supposed to replace my >> currently used eth1 by a bride device which uses eth1 and to which I >> could add other ph

Re: Dual-Monitor help

2012-09-14 Thread lee
Nelson Green writes: > >> From: l...@yun.yagibdah.de >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Subject: Re: Dual-Monitor help >> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 03:16:55 +0200 >> >> Nelson Green writes: >> >> > have no choice but to run a GUI of some type. I would li

Re: Installation

2012-09-14 Thread lee
Camaleón writes: > On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 03:49:40 +0200, lee wrote: > >> Camaleón writes: >> >>> On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 02:10:31 +0200, lee wrote: >>>> >>>> It can be ridiculously difficult to install Debian. >>> >>> (...) &

Re: Grub2 with multiple Debians

2012-09-14 Thread lee
Hendrik Boom writes: > It has been my practice when upgrading between Debian releases to make > bootable copies of the OS partitions on my hard drive so that if things > go badly wrong I still have a bootable system. How did you make such copies? > This wirked fine with LILO and GRUB 1, where

Re: Dual-Monitor help

2012-09-15 Thread lee
Bob Proulx writes: > I used FVWM since somewhere in the early 1990's specifically because > it existed as a fully functional window manager that wasn't changing. > It was stable over decades. Think of the Ubuntu Unity transition, the > KDE 3->4 transition, the GNOME 2->3 transition, all very dis

Re: Grub2 with multiple Debians

2012-09-15 Thread lee
Hendrik Boom writes: > On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:06:42 +0200, lee wrote: > >> Hendrik Boom writes: >> >>> Of course, after I've made my copy (with slight changes to /etc/fstab) >>> I have two nearly identical sets of partitions, so it may be tricky to >

Re: Installation

2012-09-15 Thread lee
"Weaver" writes: > Computed Partitions. > > / = 10 GB – Bootable ext3 – I would probably go for a little more than > this, because the newbie appetite wants to try out everything! They don't know what packages to select in the first place. > /swap = 4.1 GB which fits nicely

Re: Installation

2012-09-15 Thread lee
Camaleón writes: > Debian people has done a marvelous work with thteir documentation and > this step (Partitioning) is very well explained there¹ (even it has a > separate Appendix!). > > ¹http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch06s03.html.en#di-partition Just give users a way to find and

What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-15 Thread lee
Hi, trying out chromium, I have found that both seamonkey and chromium are able to play arbitrary videos found on youtube. I used to have libflashplayer.so in the ~/.mozilla/plugins directory which used to play such videos. I have removed it for testing and both browsers still play videos. In t

Re: Installation

2012-09-15 Thread lee
Camaleón writes: > Lee, one of my argumentation points was based precisely in this premise > ("untechie users do not install their OSes¹") so if you want to discuss a > different thing based on your own experience because my user-case does > not match with yours, fine

Re: Removing deb-multimedia pkgs w/o removing everything

2012-09-15 Thread lee
Ed Jabbour writes: > I'd like to remove packages gotten from deb-multimedia and replace > some from the Debian repos. However, removing them will also remove a > bunch of libs and kde progs. E.g., apt-get remove libavcodec53 > yields: > > 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 190 to remove and 1 no

Re: Installation

2012-09-15 Thread lee
"Weaver" writes: > On Sat, September 15, 2012 1:52 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Sb, 15 sep 12, 13:18:38, Weaver wrote: >>> >>> On Sat, September 15, 2012 4:51 am, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>> > >>> > What is a hostname ;)? I like to be able to name the host, but perhaps >>> > this should move to th

Re: Grub2 with multiple Debians

2012-09-15 Thread lee
Dmitriy Matrosov writes: > On 09/15/12 18:23, lee wrote: >> >> Can't we have a boot manager which is independent of the installed OSs? >> Grub kinda does its own thing already, and if there was something like a >> standardised API through which OSs could tell the

Re: Installation

2012-09-15 Thread lee
"Weaver" writes: > What if you have a more mature newbie that is starting his own graphics > business and is trying to keep overheads down by learning GIMP, etc. > Graphics files take up a lot of space. > Potential must be allowed for. Then you must allow for a lot more swap space. Perhaps you

Re: Installation

2012-09-15 Thread lee
"Weaver" writes: > On Sat, September 15, 2012 11:32 am, lee wrote: >> "Weaver" writes: > > Hello Lee, > > I look forward, breath abate, to constructive criticism. > >> >>> Computed Partitions. >>> >&g

Re: Dual-Monitor help

2012-09-15 Thread lee
Bob Proulx writes: > lee wrote: >> Bob Proulx writes: >> > For email I use the 'mutt' mail user agent. It is extremely fast. It >> > ... >> >> I totally agree :) And you're definitely going to love gnus! I've used >> mutt fo

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-15 Thread lee
Peter Viskup writes: > there is something like HTML5 already out. > Try to have a look on http://www.youtube.com/html5 and then search for > HTML5 support for your favorite browser and you will get an answer. Hmmm. They are saying I'm participating in a test and seamonkey supports Video-Tag and

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-15 Thread lee
Frank McCormick writes: > On 15/09/12 06:30 PM, lee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> trying out chromium, I have found that both seamonkey and chromium are >> able to play arbitrary videos found on youtube. I used to have > > Chrome has built-in Flash - it's called

Re: Problematic install - cannot find mirror

2012-09-16 Thread lee
Lisi writes: > Thanks, Chris. This is obviously sensible advice and I was just about to > start downloading CD1 when Brian's post arrived and solved the problem. I do > like this list! You might want to try installer from here some time: http://www.debian.org/CD/live/ DHCP isn't the greate

Re: Installation

2012-09-16 Thread lee
Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Du, 16 sep 12, 02:12:28, lee wrote: >> >> Then tell them about them and give them a working system before and >> during the installation so that they can read the documentation at their >> leisure. > > I think there is a non-zero amo

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-16 Thread lee
Bob Proulx writes: > Frank McCormick wrote: > > Chrome is the nonfree version. It is nonfree because it includes > Flash and probably other nonfree things. Chromium is the free version > and does not have Flash nor any other nonfree thing embedded. That is > the specific difference between Ch

Re: Installation

2012-09-16 Thread lee
Camaleón writes: > On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 20:45:38 +0200, lee wrote: > >> Camaleón writes: >> >>> Lee, one of my argumentation points was based precisely in this premise >>> ("untechie users do not install their OSes¹") so if you want to discuss >

Re: Installation

2012-09-16 Thread lee
Camaleón writes: > On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 20:59:30 +0200, lee wrote: > >> Camaleón writes: >> >>> Debian people has done a marvelous work with thteir documentation and >>> this step (Partitioning) is very well explained there¹ (even it has a >>> separa

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-16 Thread lee
Camaleón writes: > On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:30:23 +0200, lee wrote: > >> trying out chromium, I have found that both seamonkey and chromium are >> able to play arbitrary videos found on youtube. I used to have >> libflashplayer.so in the ~/.mozilla/plugins directory wh

Re: Bug#687804: installation-reports: users are not able to review external documentation while stuck in the installer

2012-09-17 Thread lee
Jon Dowland writes: > The installer (in expert mode) supports an ssh client on an alternative > VT, afaik. One can connect to another machine with stuff already > installed via this if necessary. Surely this is sufficient to address > the request. It requires you to have a computer you can conn

Re: Installation

2012-09-17 Thread lee
Camaleón writes: > On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 22:42:03 +0200, lee wrote: > >> Camaleón writes: > > (...) > >>>> Just give users a way to find and to read this information while they >>>> are using the installer without requiring them to have anything but

Re: Bug#687804: installation-reports: users are not able to review external documentation while stuck in the installer

2012-09-17 Thread lee
Christian PERRIER writes: > Quoting lee (l...@yun.yagibdah.de): >> Package: installation-reports >> Severity: wishlist >> >> Dear Maintainer, >> >> this is a feature request: It would be nice if users would have at >> least a web browser like lynx

Re: Installation

2012-09-17 Thread lee
Camaleón writes: > On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 22:55:50 +0200, lee wrote: > >> Camaleón writes: > > (...) > >>>> This discussion was about users trying to use the D/i to install >>>> Debian. >>> >>> Nope. The core discusion was around &qu

Re: No shutdown after processor change

2012-09-17 Thread lee
Artifex Maximus writes: > I've changed my processor from E5200 to E8400. Since then my computer > does not shutdown. It's possible that you damaged your board in the process. > Sometimes the display and motherboard LEDs become blank but PSU cooler > runs. It's a feature of some PSUs to leave t

Re: networking with virtual machine

2012-09-17 Thread lee
James Allsopp writes: > Hi, > I think I had a similar problem. To solve the problem first you need > to set up a bridge, there's instructions in lots of places on how to Yes, and how do I get shorewall to work with that? > Then you need to alter the VM's xml file, Oh I don't have one yet. It

Re: networking with virtual machine

2012-09-17 Thread lee
Chris Davies writes: > lee wrote: > > No, not really. A bridge on your host is more like this: > > |--- con1+shorewall --- host > Internet --- eth1+shorewall --- [switch] ---|--- con2+sho

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-17 Thread lee
Chris Bannister writes: > On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 04:58:35PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 14:37 +0200, lee wrote: >> > flashgot >> >> I installed something called DownloadHelper, but never used it. > > apt-get show clive

Re: Installation

2012-09-17 Thread lee
Chris Bannister writes: > On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 01:56:50PM +0200, lee wrote: >> >> We seem to already have that! See http://www.debian.org/CD/live/ >> >> Am I stupid or wasn't that there a couple days ago? I looked at these >> pages the other day and d

Re: Installation

2012-09-17 Thread lee
"Christofer C. Bell" writes: > an operating system isn't for you. The "bare metal computer on a > desert island with nothing but a CD" situation you're imagining simply > doesn't happen. Camaleón is exactly right. Yeah, nobody needs a computer because they can always use someone elses. Everyon

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-17 Thread lee
Camaleón writes: > On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 23:09:43 +0200, lee wrote: > > interactive applications. Anyway, what trouble are you having with Adobe > Flash Player? Besides that I hate it, if you use it, you don't have key bindings like you do in mplayer. It probably doesn&#x

Re: Is it safe to remove /usr/share/locale after 'locales' package is removed

2012-09-17 Thread lee
Zsolt Ero writes: > My question is that is it safe to remove the all the leftover file > from /usr/share/locale after removing the locales package? Where do these files come from? Shouldn't they have been removed when purging the package? Do they belong to another package? -- Debian testing

Re: Bug#687804: installation-reports: users are not able to review external documentation while stuck in the installer

2012-09-17 Thread lee
Tom H writes: > You seem to have misunderstood that Christian's one of d-i's > maintainers (he also seems to be a big fan of fonts!): Well, I didn't know any of this, and he didn't mention it. I could help with translations if they need some, no idea how to do that, though. -- Debian testing

Re: edimax usb wifi adapter and squeeze

2012-09-17 Thread lee
L V Gandhi writes: > I have edimax usb wifi adapter in my laptop. It triple boots windows, > squeeze and kubuntu 1204. > I tried as per site http://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x with normal > linux-image 2.6.35. It worked initially and then it stopped working. > Then I saw it worked with out problem in

Re: Installation

2012-09-17 Thread lee
"Christofer C. Bell" writes: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 4:28 PM, lee wrote: >> >> What you call "desert situation" is the most likely one to have. If you >> didn't have it, you were lucky. > > You missed the rest of the quote. I'll

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-17 Thread lee
Rob Owens writes: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 08:26:13PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: >> > >> There used to be mozilla-mplayer, but it looks like it's not in the >> Squeeze repos. There is mozilla-plugin-vlc. Maybe give that a shot. >> > Hmm, I just tried it and many of the videos on youtube and vim

Re: Installation

2012-09-18 Thread lee
Andrei POPESCU writes: > All that information is included in the refrigerators documentation, but > how do you find out about these before buying and taking your fridge > home? You ask the dealer or ask them to let you read the manual *in > advance* ;) That isn't really an option when you bou

Re: Installation

2012-09-18 Thread lee
"Christofer C. Bell" writes: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 8:55 PM, lee wrote: >> "Christofer C. Bell" writes: >>> The desert island situation is not only *not* the most likely one to >>> have *it simply doesn't happen*. >> >> It&#x

Re: Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table

2012-09-18 Thread lee
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi writes: > I am trying to parition a new "Western Digital WD Scorpio Black 750 GB SATA > 3 GB/s 7200 RPM 16 MB Cache Internal Bulk/OEM 2.5-Inch Mobile Hard Drive" > but with no success. > > $sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb > > Disk /dev/sdb: 750.2 GB, 750156372992 bytes > 255 heads,

Re: networking with virtual machine

2012-09-18 Thread lee
Chris Davies writes: > lee wrote: >> Yes and when I replace the interface I have now (eth1) with a bridge >> device (br1), then how do I tell shorewall that the guest is in the dmz >> (for example)? > > You need "bridge" and "routeback" set

Re: Installation

2012-09-18 Thread lee
Camaleón writes: > Your arguments fit perfect as a demostration of my key point that an OS > installation is neither a money nor "I-want-a-bigger-room" related > problem but a user attitude. Still I don't understand what you are trying to say. > I wonder what would you do should you have to l

Re: Installation

2012-09-18 Thread lee
The Wanderer writes: > true. I'd like to do a side-by-side comparison and see what the "choice > points", > and from there the necessary knowledge, for a Windows install actually are. You could try this with MacOS, it might be the easiest one to install. -- Debian testing amd64 -- To UNSU

Re: Installation

2012-09-18 Thread lee
Camaleón writes: > On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:46:03 +0200, lee wrote: >> >> Which is a very vague statement: What characterises "the most untechie >> person on the planet"? For all I know, that could be someone who hasn't >> even been born yet. >

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-18 Thread lee
Camaleón writes: > On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 23:42:57 +0200, lee wrote: > >> There might be the problem that, in a while, you can't play videos with >> it anymore since Adobe says there aren't going to be any further >> releases. I don't know what t

Re: networking with virtual machine

2012-09-18 Thread lee
Neal Murphy writes: > So yes, if you want 'real' networking, you'll need bridges and taps. Thank you, I'll have to look into taps then. Do you think it's a good idea to just create a bridge device with the unused eth0 for this? I could leave eth1 as is and would basically only have to add a zo

Re: Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table

2012-09-18 Thread lee
Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Ma, 18 sep 12, 19:24:45, lee wrote: >> >> > 2) Is "msdos" a valid option to choose for this hard drive? >> >> Is "msdos" a useful partition type for you? Try "Linux", and if it >> works, you can tr

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-18 Thread lee
Lionel Trésaugues writes: > My eyes start to suffer and soon, I can feel that an headache is coming. > > I don't have this feeling at all when I am running either Ubuntu or > any Ubuntu-based distribution (Mint XFCE or Cinnamon edition). > > I tried to adjust the fonts using all the different com

Re: Bug#687804: installation-reports: users are not able to review external documentation while stuck in the installer

2012-09-18 Thread lee
Jon Dowland writes: > The installer (in expert mode) supports an ssh client on an alternative > VT, afaik. One can connect to another machine with stuff already > installed via this if necessary. Surely this is sufficient to address > the request. This requires you to have the other machine you

Re: Bug#687804: installation-reports: users are not able to review external documentation while stuck in the installer

2012-09-18 Thread lee
Richard Owlett writes: > Should one not be able to switch out of the installation process and > into a browser (2 are already included) to search out answers? One should be able to. Since I haven't tried the life-installer yet, I don't know what's possible. It would be nice if one could switch

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-19 Thread lee
Rob Owens writes: > Looks like gecko-mediaplayer is the replacement for mozilla-mplayer. > Testing it now... Let me guess: It doesn't work. -- Debian testing amd64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: Installation

2012-09-19 Thread lee
The Wanderer writes: > If the user buys a computer with the OS preinstalled and the software > preconfigured, that bypasses the OS install even more than making it > artificially easy to install would, and leaves them just as open to potential > later pitfalls. So the easier you make it to use a

Re: Installation

2012-09-19 Thread lee
The Wanderer writes: > On 09/19/2012 09:34 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> I really doubt it. And I doubt it because some things do not change over the >> time which means you still have to know how to partition a hard drive, how to >> boot from CD or what a driver is ;-) > > You still have to know how to

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-19 Thread lee
Camaleón writes: > On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 22:28:30 +0200, lee wrote: > >> Camaleón writes: > > (...) > >> There is also the possibility that they come up with a new version for >> other OSs. They could add features in the new version that make it >> impossi

Re: Installation

2012-09-19 Thread lee
Camaleón writes: > On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:52:14 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> And what about the users who *don't* want to learn, they just want to >> have and use a working computer? > > (...) > > As I already mentioned, they should go for something that suit their > needs, like a tablet or

Re: Bug#687804: installation-reports: users are not able to review external documentation while stuck in the installer

2012-09-19 Thread lee
Samuel Thibault writes: > Brian, le Wed 19 Sep 2012 12:43:43 +0100, a écrit : >> On Wed 19 Sep 2012 at 12:27:57 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> >> > Brian, le Wed 19 Sep 2012 10:41:12 +0100, a écrit : >> > > >> > > Yes, planning ahead is required if you want to stay in X. For a spur of >> > >

Re: Installation

2012-09-19 Thread lee
Helmut Wollmersdorfer writes: > Am 18.09.2012 um 19:06 schrieb Ross Boylan: >> I >> remember someone saying "a pigeon could install Debian" because if you >> just click to accept the default responses you're likely to end up >> with >> a reasonable--not necessarily optimal, but reasonable--syst

Re: Bug#687804: installation-reports: users are not able to review external documentation while stuck in the installer

2012-09-19 Thread lee
Brian writes: > On Wed 19 Sep 2012 at 03:14:05 +0200, lee wrote: > >> Richard Owlett writes: >> >> > Should one not be able to switch out of the installation process and >> > into a browser (2 are already included) to search out answers? >> >> O

Re: networking with virtual machine

2012-09-19 Thread lee
Neal Murphy writes: > On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 05:59:47 PM lee wrote: >> Neal Murphy writes: >> > So yes, if you want 'real' networking, you'll need bridges and taps. >> >> Thank you, I'll have to look into taps then. >> >>

Re: Installation

2012-09-19 Thread lee
Camaleón writes: > Now seriously, I already mentioned that the OS installation process is > not the problem for users to keep linux but the "afterwards", the day-to- > day issues. And here is where the user's attitude becomes so important > and vital for the matter: well informed users (and use

Re: Installation

2012-09-19 Thread lee
The Wanderer writes: > Is that a big enough difference, in your opinion, that I should take the > trouble > to test and document both install processes? What are you going to install on? My suggestion would be to use a software RAID-1 (or RAID-10) and put everything onto that because hard disk

Re: Installation

2012-09-19 Thread lee
Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Mi, 19 sep 12, 18:15:31, lee wrote: >> >> > Because Windows OEM installations are always -regardless the version- >> > quick and take little time but we are not talking here about this, you >> > know... >> >> No, th

Re: Installation

2012-09-19 Thread lee
Celejar writes: > Your numbers are much too high. Maybe it's because I've been more looking at the virtual memory that top shows. What's actually resident can be much less. Still: , [ top ] | PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND

Re: let logrotate create an new empty file?

2012-09-19 Thread lee
Meike Stone writes: > So anyone has an idea to create the logfile? touch /var/log/logfile chown user:user /var/log/logfile chmod u+rw /var/log/logfile # probably not needed >From your explanations, I understand that logrotate would create the file if logrotate rotates the file, which requires

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-20 Thread lee
Lionel Trésaugues writes: > First, thanks all of you to try to solve the issue I encounter with Debian. > > I will come back now to some of the points you mentioned in the discussion. > >> How important is it to you to be able to run Debian? Would it be >> worth some spectacles, or some new one

Re: Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table

2012-09-20 Thread lee
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi writes: > lee wrote: > > There are some warnings when I tried to use fdisk to create a new empty DOS > partition table. Do you know how to eliminate the warning? > > $fdisk -v > fdisk (util-linux 2.20.1) > > $sudo fdisk /dev/sdb > Devic

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-20 Thread lee
Rob Owens writes: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 05:30:29PM +0200, lee wrote: >> Rob Owens writes: >> >> > Looks like gecko-mediaplayer is the replacement for mozilla-mplayer. >> > Testing it now... >> >> Let me guess: It doesn't work. >> &

Re: Installation

2012-09-20 Thread lee
Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Mi, 19 sep 12, 23:52:22, lee wrote: >> >> No, and I don't need to test them all because Cameleon said "always": >> It takes only one which is different to disprove her. > > So the point is to win an argument rather than do

Re: Installation

2012-09-20 Thread lee
Celejar writes: > On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 02:29:18 +0200 > lee wrote: > > Not familiar with gimp or x3; sorry. You never used gimp? X3 is a game --- could be really awesome if it wasn't so buggy. -- Debian testing amd64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists

Re: Installation

2012-09-20 Thread lee
Celejar writes: > If you have an OEM license, it can't be transferred to a different PC: > > http://www.microsoft.com/oem/en/licensing/sblicensing/pages/licensing_for_hobbyists.aspx Why not? I haven't signed any agreement with them. -- Debian testing amd64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-23 Thread lee
Camaleón writes: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:27:35 +0200, lee wrote: > >> Camaleón writes: >>> >>> Should that happens, you will have to choose: looking for a proper >>> replacement of the plugin or simply avoid sites that make use of an >>> uns

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-23 Thread lee
Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Jo, 20 sep 12, 03:11:59, lee wrote: >> >> Thank you! It doesn't seem to reasonably lead to anywhere. Maintaining >> a library of scripts that deal with particular websites which even >> continue to change how they present the video

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-23 Thread lee
Andrei POPESCU writes: > I have however seen LCD monitors behave significantly different > depending on refresh rate. Entire areas were blury, but everything was > fine when I switched to another refresh rate (60Hz -> 75Hz if I remember > correctly). How did you do that? I thought their rate

Re: Installation

2012-09-23 Thread lee
Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Jo, 20 sep 12, 06:31:52, lee wrote: >> Celejar writes: >> >> > If you have an OEM license, it can't be transferred to a different PC: >> > >> > http://www.microsoft.com/oem/en/licensing/sblicensing/pages/licensing_for_h

Re: Installation

2012-09-23 Thread lee
Avi Greenbury writes: > lee wrote: >> >> Besides that, it appears to me that people for reasons that escape me >> are willing to put up with whatever crap and problems their windoze >> throws at them while they *never* would put up with them if Linux threw >> t

Re: Installation

2012-09-23 Thread lee
Camaleón writes: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 23:25:34 +0200, lee wrote: >> >> Following your argumentation, which OS someone uses is only a matter of >> which OS other people someone chooses to surround themselves with are >> using when they do not want to

Re: Installation

2012-09-23 Thread lee
Celejar writes: > On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 06:41:04 +0200 > lee wrote: > >> Celejar writes: >> >> > On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 02:29:18 +0200 >> > lee wrote: >> > >> > Not familiar with gimp or x3; sorry. >> >> You never used gim

Re: Installation

2012-09-23 Thread lee
Camaleón writes: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:15:31 +0200, lee wrote: > >> Camaleón writes: >> >>> On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:52:14 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: >>> >>>> And what about the users who *don't* want to learn, they just want to >>>

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-23 Thread lee
Martin Steigerwald writes: > Am Sonntag, 16. September 2012 schrieb lee: >> >> Adobe says on their website: "Flash Player 11.2 is the last supported >> Flash Player version for Linux. Adobe will continue to provide security >> updates."[1] >> >>

Re: EXIM in Debian

2012-09-23 Thread lee
Joe writes: > I have to admit to using the single file, as I haven't yet had the > enthusiasm to go through my old (sarge?) and heavily-customised one to > break it into the bite-sized conf.d chunks. Just stay with your own configuration file. Split configurations are evil. -- Debian testing

Re: let logrotate create an new empty file?

2012-09-23 Thread lee
Meike Stone writes: >> >From your explanations, I understand that logrotate would create the >> file if logrotate rotates the file, which requires the file to exist in >> the first place, so create it manually and let logrotate rotate and >> create the file in the future. Does that work? (This

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-23 Thread lee
Celejar writes: > On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 03:11:59 +0200 > lee wrote: > > ... > >> isn't something I would want to do, and I don't understand why websites >> which are there to let people watch videos attempt to make watching them >> so difficult for peo

Re: Bug#687804: installation-reports: users are not able to review external documentation while stuck in the installer

2012-09-23 Thread lee
Jon Dowland writes: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 07:58:36PM +0200, lee wrote: >> Jon Dowland writes: >> >> > The installer (in expert mode) supports an ssh client on an alternative >> > VT, afaik. One can connect to another machine with stuff already >> &g

Re: Installation

2012-09-24 Thread lee
Camaleón writes: > On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:41:46 +0200, lee wrote: > >> Companies may have resources they could use to provide support. Simply >> having them doesn't mean that they do. > > They do provide support as long as you pay for it, of course. Laziness > h

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-24 Thread lee
Camaleón writes: > On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:20:20 +0200, lee wrote: > >> Camaleón writes: > >>> Sadly, we can't be sure on what the future will provide, so worrying >>> know is useless and wasteful. The only we can do is having a "Plan B", >

Re: Installation

2012-09-24 Thread lee
Camaleón writes: > On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 17:53:38 +0200, lee wrote: > >> Camaleón writes: >>> >>> For the lazy users who are not interested in what their systems are or >>> run, a big _sure_. If there were nobody solving their issues (and I'm >>&

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