Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-30 Thread mody
I think You can't just convert, but there is a project with write support on NTFS volumes... http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ Haven't try myself. Mody signature.asc Description: Digital signature

on-screen-all-desktop-log-watch for Gnome2.4

2003-11-06 Thread mody
ws on all my desktops? Thanks Mody signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Xcdroast, cdrecord and SafeDisk Copy protection

2003-01-28 Thread mody
Hi! On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 08:49:45PM -0500, Nick Lidakis wrote: > Can anyone point me in the right direction? Have You tried cdrdao? Not sure if it helps, but it can copy some copy-protected CDs. (apt-get install cdrdao) Patrik msg26843/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

SOLVED: XFree86 4.2.1 & Matrox G550 & DRI

2003-01-28 Thread mody
Hi, in case someone have the same problem as I had, I'm writting this: I had a strange problem. DRI didn't work after XFree86 4.2.1 update. glxinfo as normal user showed "direct rendering: No", but if run as root showed "direct rendering: Yes". Because DRI worked in XFree86 4.1.x, I thought driver

v4l with Pinnacle PCTV Pro

2003-02-09 Thread mody
Hi, I've just bought Pinnacle PCTV Pro tv card. Its full stereo, but I'm having trouble with it. It only mono. I can watch TV, capture from inputs, listen to radio, but all mono. I'm on Debian Testing with the latest stable bttv 0.7.104. It succesfuly detecteds the card and the tuner. Any ideas?

Re: v4l with Pinnacle PCTV Pro

2003-02-11 Thread mody
The card is stereo, audio cable from the TV card to the sound card is stereo, mixer setting is stereo, but radio, gradio, xawtv still say mono. :-( Mody msg30043/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Vipower IDE to USB rack problem

2003-08-14 Thread mody
blank CDRW fast and full but I can't write. It stops after 3MB written. The Plextor have Burnproof and cdrecord enabled it. lsusb shows Genesys Logic, Inc. device. Help, please! Using Debian testing on 2.4.21 self-compiled kernel. Thanks Mody pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: apt and changelogs

2003-08-14 Thread mody
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 01:54:14AM +0100, Hugh Saunders wrote: > or install apt-listchanges Which is not installable on testing. :-( I miss is! Mody pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Vipower IDE to USB rack problem

2003-08-14 Thread mody
blank CDRW fast and full but I can't write. It stops after 3MB written. The Plextor have Burnproof and cdrecord enabled it. Help, please! Using Debian testing on 2.4.21 self-compiled kernel. Thanks Mody pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Circular dependencies? dpkg -P kdelibs3

2003-08-15 Thread mody
Hi, On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 10:01:37AM +0200, Niels L. Ellegaard wrote: > However I would like to purge instead of remove, and as far as I have > understood this requires that I can purge the packages one at a > time. apt-get remove --purge package1 package2 Would it help? Mody pgp

Re: TV-out without X

2003-08-26 Thread mody
onnector? I have Acer TravelMate with ATI Radeon Mobility M6 LY and there is no TV-out. Is there any HOWTO? Thanks. Mody pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: TV-out without X

2003-08-26 Thread mody
is lot of tweaking with framebuffer... I'm too lazy to try. Thanks. Mody pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Missing characters in utf-8 fonts?

2003-06-05 Thread mody
e can help? Mody PS: using Debian testing with Gnome2.2 backport ii msttcorefonts 1.1.2 Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts ii defoma 0.11.1woody1 Debian Font Manager -- automatic font config ii defoma-doc 0.11.1woody1 Documents of Debian Font Manager i

Re: Missing characters in utf-8 fonts?

2003-06-06 Thread mody
look for some. But I think its something else, because Opera and Mozila use msttfcore fonts... They should be quite complete... Mody pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Sony USB streaming digital cameras and Debian

2003-01-02 Thread mody
Hello! As happy Debian user, I would like to capture videos from my new Sony digital camera. It supports USB streaming. When I plug the camera, hotplug founds it and says: kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/2, assigned device number 2 kernel: usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x54c/0x45) i

gkrellm & /dev/isdninfo

2003-01-02 Thread mody
Hi, got strange problem. Gkrellm can't read /dev/isdninfo when I'm connected through my ISDN line. I've found that: - head -n 6 /dev/isdninfo works connected or not. - cat /dev/isdninfo works only when not connected. - gkrellm's net builtin reads /dev/isdninfo only when not connected. code from g

SOLVED: gkrellm & /dev/isdninfo

2003-01-03 Thread mody
Hi, seems that /dev/isdninfo doesn't like fopen, fread functions. I've patched gkrellm's net.c to use open, read functions and it works, now. Patrik msg22209/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: apt-get update not working properly 11/21/03

2003-11-25 Thread mody
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 10:41:23AM -0600, red wrote: > All, Im getting this from many of my my deb boxen > > any ideas? Yes! Search themailling list archive! http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/files/fw/debian-security-20031121.txt Mody signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [OT] update static html site over ftp (rsync like ftp syncing)

2004-01-16 Thread mody
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:25:45PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > rsync? Can rsync work with ftp server? IMO only with ssh or rsync server. Mody signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How to dpkg -i on broken system

2003-06-29 Thread mody
Hi! If the old-deb do no magic during instalation, You can copy the content of the deb where You need. Nasty but works. Mody pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Upon boot, many strange and useless modules are loaded

2003-07-29 Thread mody
. I have the same problem. Lots of unused modules after boot-up, although my mouse is not affected. Could not solve it... Using Debian testing on self-compiled 2.4.21 kernel. Anyone? Mody pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Upon boot, many strange and useless modules are loaded

2003-07-29 Thread mody
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:21:31PM -0500, Rob VanFleet wrote: > Check /etc/modules. Any module entry in that file will be loaded at > bootup. Nope. :-( Mody # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are # to be loa

Re: Upon boot, many strange and useless modules are loaded

2003-07-30 Thread mody
es, rebooted, but there are still many unused modules still loaded. Mody pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Upon boot, many strange and useless modules are loaded

2003-07-30 Thread mody
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:35:24AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > That should have been /etc/modutils/aliases > > SORRY for the confusion I didn't notice that. :-) I know what file You mean. But it really doesn't help. :-( Mody pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Upon boot, many strange and useless modules are loaded

2003-07-30 Thread mody
odules this way also. Looks good. Because I use self-compiled kernel from Debian source, I'd rather rekompile the kernel with only one IDE module. :-) Thanks Mody pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

swsusp for Debian was: Activating ACPI supend and ACPI Hibernate in klaptop

2003-07-30 Thread mody
y swsusp Do anyone have swsusp patch that would apply against Debian 2.4.21 kernel source? I've tried patches from swsusp.sf.net but there is lot of rejects. I'm not experienced enough to edit kernel files by hand. Thanks Mody pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: swsusp for Debian was: Activating ACPI supend and ACPI Hibernate in klaptop

2003-07-30 Thread mody
I don't know what the debian patches change in the > kernel so I don't know what you loose in return. I'd rather stay with the Debian source. Look at /usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.21/changelog.gz Mody pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Qt-3.3.1

2004-04-01 Thread mody
y, because there is no 3.3.1 version in unstable. HTH Mody signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: No sound/audio

2018-07-19 Thread Rusi Mody
On Tuesday, July 17, 2018 at 11:40:04 PM UTC+5:30, Kaj Persson wrote: > So I started reading on a support site for Firefox, and found a sentence > saying that from version 53, you have to use PulseAudio for all sound in > Firefox. It was like a stab into my back. So, what is this? I get a > feel

Re: systemd+anacron breaks cron jobs?

2018-12-03 Thread Rusi Mody
On Monday, December 3, 2018 at 1:30:07 PM UTC+5:30, Kamil Jońca wrote: > I have in my /etc/cron.daily some local scripts. > Some of them can be occassionally time-consuming. > Recently I found that some of them did not end. > And what I found: > 1. as "everybody" knows, in case of anacron presence,

Re: systemd+anacron breaks cron jobs?

2018-12-04 Thread Rusi Mody
On Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at 1:40:03 PM UTC+5:30, Kamil Jońca wrote: > Rusi Mody writes: > > Best bet is switch to using systemd timers > > Second question: Why systemd kills my jobs? (Yes I know what parameters > are responsible for this, but why they are configured t

Making a modal window

2018-12-09 Thread Rusi Mody
[J Arun Mani] Look up kiosk instead of DM maybe? eg https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Kiosk [Gene/Brian] Yeah I find your surprise surprising... All operating systems (except MSDOS!) have a detailed notion of protection levels, the basic point being that all users are NOT equal. And OS progr

Re: backintime

2019-01-17 Thread Rusi Mody
On Wednesday, January 16, 2019 at 10:30:05 PM UTC+5:30, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > 2 instant questions about backintime, which I just now installed to make > small backups as I work on some machine config files, and some gcode to > go with linuxcnc. > > This after haveing suffered

Re: backintime

2019-01-20 Thread Rusi Mody
On Saturday, January 19, 2019 at 8:30:05 PM UTC+5:30, David wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jan 2019 at 21:07, Andy Smith wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 10:29:49AM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > > For those of you with decades of experience of CVS, you might as well > > > stick with it. > > > > > >

Re: Let's play "Where is X?" (was: logout kills X)

2019-02-03 Thread Rusi Mody
https://www.facebook.com/381862631937250/posts/1867044320085733

Semi-OT: Netboooting diskless Debian

2019-02-04 Thread Rusi Mody
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/linux.debian.user/lSluQKx8g3U/discussion In case it helps: short version: Probably works for Ubuntu not debian Apologies for formatting etc : from phone

Re: shell script problem

2019-02-06 Thread Rusi Mody
I seem to be missing something... Is -.mount literally a thing? Or -- more likely -- are shell's arcane quoting/interpolating rules garbling something quite into a "-" unit?

Label multimeanings : doc bug?

2019-02-26 Thread Rusi Mody
Ref: This stackexchange post: https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/503241/323121 Context: Theres this guy who's really struggling with disk partitioning LVM etc concepts.  That point is not directly relevant to this question. My answer on that post tries to clarify that 'label' can mean 3 things

Re: Label multimeanings : doc bug?

2019-02-26 Thread Rusi Mody
And the space between "disk" and "label" hardly helps any!

Re: Label multimeanings : doc bug?

2019-02-26 Thread Rusi Mody
Reco wrote: Running parted on a logical volume is definitely not the best of ideas Sure! My point was however that for a tool (eg gparted) where label already has the LABEL= sense this other (disklabel) terminology, more common in the BSD world, seems to be an avoidable confusion.

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-28 Thread Rusi Mody
On Monday, September 29, 2014 2:40:02 AM UTC+5:30, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 18:57:12 +0200 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Change is life. > > There is nothing static in life. > How Eastern Philosophical. I may have to climb a mountain and fast for > a month to reach your level of en

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-29 Thread Rusi Mody
On Monday, September 29, 2014 3:40:01 PM UTC+5:30, Reco wrote: > Hi. > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 04:31:01PM +0200, lee wrote: > > Debian already lost me (after over 15 years) when they came up with > > their brokenarch and left users stranded with no possible fix for the > > things they broke. The

systemd-shim to be removed?

2014-09-30 Thread Rusi Mody
Yeah one more systemd thread [Not a rant!] I am getting that systemd-shim is to be removed. Is this expected? This is on testing running aptitude dist-upgrade. Dunno if this means anything: $ aptitude why-not systemd-shim i synapticRecommends gksu | kdebase-bin | policykit-1

Re: systemd-shim to be removed?

2014-10-01 Thread Rusi Mody
On Wednesday, October 1, 2014 11:40:03 AM UTC+5:30, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 30 Sep 2014, Rusi Mody wrote: > > Yeah one more systemd thread [Not a rant!] > > I am getting that systemd-shim is to be removed. > > Is this expected? > It looks like you are trying to in

Re: systemd-shim to be removed?

2014-10-01 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, October 2, 2014 5:40:02 AM UTC+5:30, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 01 oct 14, 19:44:06, Slavko wrote: > > And all these things are named as "systemd alternative" in Debian now > > and as argument that the systemd is not only one possible PID 1. > Your comments from this and other pos

Re: systemd-shim to be removed?

2014-10-02 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, October 2, 2014 2:30:02 PM UTC+5:30, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 01 oct 14, 19:08:37, Rusi Mody wrote: > > Looking up the documentation of the package, I see: > > - > > Description: shim for systemd > > This package emulates the systemd fu

.bash_history disappeared

2014-10-13 Thread Rusi Mody
Subject line about says it. Didnt exactly disappear but became zero-length. Checked because there seemed to nothing in the history. Closed that shell and restarted. The last shell's commands were there, nothing else Wouldn't bother asking were it not for shellshock... Debian jessie (with systemd

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-14 Thread Rusi Mody
On Tuesday, October 14, 2014 5:50:02 PM UTC+5:30, Henning Follmann wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 07:56:40AM -0400, Marty wrote: > > It seems like free software employment and market share come with > > increasing risk to objectivity and technical quality. It's my main > > concern as a Debian use

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Rusi Mody
On Friday, October 17, 2014 8:00:02 PM UTC+5:30, Rob Owens wrote: > - Original Message - > > Now let's see what happens with this! > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2014/10/msg1.html > Very interesting discussion there. Thanks for posting. > -Rob Thank you Ian Jackson and al

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Rusi Mody
On Friday, October 17, 2014 10:10:02 PM UTC+5:30, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 10/17/2014 12:21 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 07:54:06 -0700 (PDT) > > Rusi Mody wrote: > >> On Friday, October 17, 2014 8:00:02 PM UTC+5:30, Rob Owens wrote: > >>> ---

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Rusi Mody
On Saturday, October 18, 2014 10:10:02 PM UTC+5:30, berenge...@neutralite.org wrote: > Le 18.10.2014 16:14, Brian a écrit : > > Which once again raises the main question; what does systemd have to > > do > > with this? The original post gives an unexplained solution to a > > non-existent problem.

Re: All roads to suspend/hibernate lead through systemd?

2014-10-18 Thread Rusi Mody
On Saturday, October 18, 2014 11:40:01 PM UTC+5:30, Nate Bargmann wrote: > No, this is not a troll (seems like that is necessary to state up > front). I have been experimenting with dropping systemd from my laptop > running Sid but find that even with xfce4-power-manager suspend nor > hibernate ar

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-19 Thread Rusi Mody
On Sunday, October 19, 2014 10:00:02 PM UTC+5:30, Slavko wrote: > Ahoj, > napísal: > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 07:02:12PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Friday 17 October 2014 18:30:31 Andre N Batista wrote: > > > > I cannot believe some people still > > > > thinks [snip] that we should simply

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-20 Thread Rusi Mody
On Sunday, October 19, 2014 11:50:02 PM UTC+5:30, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > Slavko wrote: > > Ahoj, > > napísal: > >> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 07:02:12PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >>> On Friday 17 October 2014 18:30:31 Andre N Batista wrote: > I cannot believe some people still > thinks [sni

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Rusi Mody
On Tuesday, October 21, 2014 12:00:01 PM UTC+5:30, Ludovic Meyer wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 09:34:48PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 12:45:11 -0700 > > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > After much vitriolic gnashing of teeth from those opposed to systemd, > > > I wonder... What

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

2014-10-21 Thread Rusi Mody
On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 1:20:03 AM UTC+5:30, Lee Winter wrote: > As a corollary question, are the debian installer isos bootable as is, or is > it mandatory that they be burned to media (CD/DVD/USB) and the media booted? Here is a grub menu entry that can boot ubuntu from an iso image men

Re: Keep using Debian without GNOME and SystemD

2014-10-22 Thread Rusi Mody
On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 12:00:04 PM UTC+5:30, Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis wrote: > Hi, > after spending two days trying unsuccesfuly to have a usable Jessie with > one of the defaults DE > and with no systemd utilities, i decided the following. In the companie's > pc's i support, i'll co

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Rusi Mody
On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 3:20:05 PM UTC+5:30, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Scott Ferguson wrote: > > On 21/10/14 15:10, Miles Fidelman wrote: > >> Scott Ferguson wrote: > >>> Good question Patrick - top posted as I'm referring to the Subject. > >>> On 21/10/14 06:45, Patrick Bartek wrote: > A

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

2014-10-22 Thread Rusi Mody
On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 3:50:05 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: > On Tue 21 Oct 2014 at 20:31:36 -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > > On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 1:20:03 AM UTC+5:30, Lee Winter wrote: > > > As a corollary question, are the debian installer isos bootable as is, or

Re: Keep using Debian without GNOME and SystemD

2014-10-22 Thread Rusi Mody
On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 5:30:06 PM UTC+5:30, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis: > > after spending two days trying unsuccesfuly to have a usable Jessie > > with one of the defaults DE and with no systemd utilities, i decided > > the following. In the companie's pc's i su

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

2014-10-22 Thread Rusi Mody
On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 6:50:06 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: > On Wed 22 Oct 2014 at 04:19:35 -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > > On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 3:50:05 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: > > > No amount of modification will allow an installation from a netinst > > >

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

2014-10-22 Thread Rusi Mody
On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 8:30:05 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: > On Wed 22 Oct 2014 at 07:00:29 -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > > On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 6:50:06 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: > > > menuentry "jessie-DI-b2-i386-netinst" { > > > loopback loop

Re: Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-22 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, October 23, 2014 3:20:05 AM UTC+5:30, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 22 oct 14, 23:26:15, Christian Seiler wrote: > > [snip excelent explanations] > > As penitence for being mean to Steve I've just written > https://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser#systemd Thanks Andrei for that.

Re: Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-23 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, October 23, 2014 4:40:04 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: > On Thu 23 Oct 2014 at 00:44:29 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > As penitence for being mean to Steve I've just written > > https://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser#systemd > Regarding > >apt-get install sysvinit-core systemd-s

Re: Installing/updating packages are very slow

2014-10-23 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, October 23, 2014 11:10:05 AM UTC+5:30, Bob Proulx wrote: > Igor Sverkos wrote: > > As you can see, it is always the "Unpacking" step which is taking all the > > time. > > dpkg has added fsync() calls after all file actions. This > significantly slows down file operations. Basically

Partitioning gpt disk

2014-11-25 Thread Rusi Mody
Trying to setup linux on lenovo laptop. I find that its gpt as expected and there are some 5 partitions (as shown by compmgmt in windows) | recovery | 1G | | EFI | 260M | | OEM | 1G | | Windows8 (C:) | 424G | | Lenovo (D:) | 25G | | Recovery | 14G | Clearly i

Re: Partitioning gpt disk

2014-11-26 Thread Rusi Mody
On Wednesday, November 26, 2014 3:40:04 PM UTC+5:30, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 09:53:14PM -0800, Rusi Mody wrote: > > Trying to setup linux on lenovo laptop. > > I find that its gpt as expected and there are some 5 partitions > > (as shown b

Re: Partitioning gpt disk

2014-11-26 Thread Rusi Mody
On Wednesday, November 26, 2014 6:10:05 PM UTC+5:30, Rusi Mody wrote: > On Wednesday, November 26, 2014 3:40:04 PM UTC+5:30, Darac Marjal wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 09:53:14PM -0800, Rusi Mody wrote: > > > Trying to setup linux on lenovo laptop. > > > I find t

Re: XDG Standard is not evil (was: Re: Why focus on systemd?)

2014-11-28 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, November 27, 2014 8:00:05 AM UTC+5:30, Serge wrote: > 2014/11/16 Peter Nieman wrote: > > Has anyone ever wondered where all these funny directories like ~/.cache, > > ~/.config, ~/.local or even ~/Desktop (with a capital D) came from that > > appeared in Debian after upgrading to - was

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-10 Thread Rusi Mody
On Wednesday, December 10, 2014 10:10:05 PM UTC+5:30, Marty wrote: > On 12/08/2014 09:12 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Monday 08 December 2014 13:18:18 Marty wrote: > >> I would even deign to > >> give users a choice in the matter, > > [snip] > >> Multi-seat PC and other > >> anachronisms probably

Re: Is grub perfect? (was Re: Does LXDE really require lightdm?)

2014-06-28 Thread Rusi Mody
On Saturday, June 28, 2014 9:20:02 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: > On Sat 28 Jun 2014 at 09:00:30 +0200, Thierry de Coulon wrote: > > On Saturday 28 June 2014 05.55:39 Rusi Mody wrote: > > > PS. No I am not defending grub2 -- I find its documentation almost > > > non-e

Re: Is grub perfect? (was Re: Does LXDE really require lightdm?)

2014-06-28 Thread Rusi Mody
On Sunday, June 29, 2014 4:00:01 AM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: > On Sat 28 Jun 2014 at 10:09:28 -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > > On Saturday, June 28, 2014 9:20:02 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: > > > On Sat 28 Jun 2014 at 09:00:30 +0200, Thierry de Coulon wrote: > > > > On Satur

Re: Is grub perfect? (was Re: Does LXDE really require lightdm?)

2014-06-30 Thread Rusi Mody
On Tuesday, July 1, 2014 3:40:02 AM UTC+5:30, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Brian wrote: > > On Mon 30 Jun 2014 at 14:05:10 -0400, Tom H wrote: > >> On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Rusi Mody wrote: > >>> I use the grub command configfile (also mul

Re: Boot hangs with Debian Jessie on Toshiba Satellite C55-A

2014-07-02 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, July 3, 2014 5:00:01 AM UTC+5:30, Sander Marechal wrote: > On 07/01/2014 06:13 PM, Sander Marechal wrote: > > I have a brand new Toshiba Satellite C55-A-1ND. I have installed it so > > that it dual-boots Win8 and Debian (this was an adventure in itself). > > The problem is that I canno

Re: Can't install Debian - USB keyboard doesn't turn on until Windows loads

2014-07-09 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, July 10, 2014 7:30:02 AM UTC+5:30, Kitty Cat wrote: > I have two questions: > 1. Would anyone be willing to give me a link to a simple USB keyboard that you > think would work with this machine at boot time? Perhaps on Amazon.com or > Newegg.com, etc.? > 2. Do you know of a Debian CD o

auto starting of ppp has stopped working

2014-07-31 Thread Rusi Mody
After some recent upgrades (this is on jessie) auto starting of ppp has stopped working. So every time after booting I now have to run pppoeconf. Any ideas? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debi

Re: auto starting of ppp has stopped working

2014-07-31 Thread Rusi Mody
On Friday, August 1, 2014 12:10:02 AM UTC+5:30, Rusi Mody wrote: > After some recent upgrades (this is on jessie) > auto starting of ppp has stopped working. > > > So every time after booting I now have to run pppoeconf. Some progress... and a different question: Doing: # pon

Re: auto starting of ppp has stopped working

2014-08-01 Thread Rusi Mody
On Friday, August 1, 2014 12:20:02 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 09:32:08PM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > > So now the question is: > > What is the 'modern' way of automatically doing 'modprobe pppoe' > > at boot/ifup time? >

Re: auto starting of ppp has stopped working

2014-08-01 Thread Rusi Mody
On Friday, August 1, 2014 1:10:02 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 12:13:43AM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > > On Friday, August 1, 2014 12:20:02 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 09:32:08PM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > >

Re: auto starting of ppp has stopped working

2014-08-01 Thread Rusi Mody
On Friday, August 1, 2014 3:30:02 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 02:04:45AM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > > On Friday, August 1, 2014 1:10:02 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > [...] > > > > tl;dr: > > > http://knowyourmeme

Re: auto starting of ppp has stopped working

2014-08-01 Thread Rusi Mody
On Saturday, August 2, 2014 4:10:02 AM UTC+5:30, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 31.07.2014 20:27, schrieb Rusi Mody: > > After some recent upgrades (this is on jessie) > > auto starting of ppp has stopped working. > > So every time after booting I now have to run pppoeconf. > &

Re: End of hypocrisy, beginning of reason

2014-08-06 Thread Rusi Mody
On Tuesday, August 5, 2014 10:10:02 PM UTC+5:30, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 09:17:15 -0700 > Don Armstrong wrote: > > On Tue, 05 Aug 2014, Slavko wrote: > > > To be precise, i often read about these things: monolitic, binary > > > files and boot speed. I don't like first two and i am n

Re: need help on sound recording using bplay

2014-08-06 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, August 7, 2014 3:40:02 AM UTC+5:30, Long Wind wrote: > I run arecord -L, the output is for programmers, not for an average > end user, I think > I have no success on SUSE either, Linux is hard to use sometime > below is output by arecord -L on SUSE: If you are a 'average end user' w

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-07 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, August 7, 2014 7:40:02 PM UTC+5:30, Steve Litt wrote: > I don't necessarily disagree, but I very strongly believe its first > step should be to go to a text file with one line per event, or perhaps > some sublines. If that text file were designed correctly, perhaps with > field separat

Re: dieting/losing weight programs?

2014-08-07 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, August 7, 2014 2:00:01 PM UTC+5:30, Sharon Kimble wrote: > I've recently been looking in the jessie repos for any programme relating > to diet management, or weight management, i.e. anything at all about > dieting or losing weight. And I can't find any! The nearest I could find > was f

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-07 Thread Rusi Mody
On Friday, August 8, 2014 5:40:01 AM UTC+5:30, Joel Rees wrote: > On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 6:19 AM, AW wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 16:44:39 -0400 > > Tom H wrote: > > > journalctl has output options: > > > -o, --output= > > > Controls the formatting of the journal entries that are shown. Takes

networking fails with temporary systemd (was auto starting of ppp has stopped working)

2014-08-11 Thread Rusi Mody
On Saturday, August 2, 2014 4:10:02 AM UTC+5:30, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 31.07.2014 20:27, schrieb Rusi Mody: > > After some recent upgrades (this is on jessie) > > auto starting of ppp has stopped working. > > So every time after booting I now have to run pppoeconf. > &

Re: networking fails with temporary systemd (was auto starting of ppp has stopped working)

2014-08-13 Thread Rusi Mody
On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 3:20:02 PM UTC+5:30, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 11 aug 14, 07:57:05, Rusi Mody wrote: > > If I start from grub using init=/bin/systemd it boots but networking > > does not work. > > > Please attach the file 'bootlog' after

Re: networking fails with temporary systemd (was auto starting of ppp has stopped working)

2014-08-14 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, August 14, 2014 3:40:03 PM UTC+5:30, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 14.08.2014 um 05:32 schrieb Rusi Mody: > > Aug 14 08:13:15 debian64 pppd[594]: Couldn't open the /dev/ppp device: No > > such file or directory > Since you don't have the /dev/ppp device

Re: networking fails with temporary systemd (was auto starting of ppp has stopped working)

2014-08-14 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, August 14, 2014 8:00:03 PM UTC+5:30, Rusi Mody wrote: > On Thursday, August 14, 2014 3:40:03 PM UTC+5:30, Michael Biebl wrote: > > Could you please post the version of udev (and systemd) you are using? > > > Thanks Michael To add to my earlier report: I managed

Re: networking fails with temporary systemd (was auto starting of ppp has stopped working)

2014-08-14 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, August 14, 2014 9:10:02 PM UTC+5:30, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Rusi Mody wrote: > > To add to my earlier report: > > I managed to remove graphviz and its associated libraries. > > So that now aptitude dist-upgrade gives me only 1 '

Re: networking fails with temporary systemd (was auto starting of ppp has stopped working)

2014-08-14 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, August 14, 2014 3:40:03 PM UTC+5:30, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 14.08.2014 um 05:32 schrieb Rusi Mody: > > Aug 14 08:13:15 debian64 pppd[594]: Couldn't open the /dev/ppp device: No > > such file or directory > Since you don't have the /dev/ppp device

Re: networking fails with temporary systemd (was auto starting of ppp has stopped working)

2014-08-14 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, August 14, 2014 10:10:02 PM UTC+5:30, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 14.08.2014 16:02, schrieb Rusi Mody: > > On Thursday, August 14, 2014 3:40:03 PM UTC+5:30, Michael Biebl wrote: > >> Am 14.08.2014 um 05:32 schrieb Rusi Mody: > >>> Aug 14 08:13:15 debian6

Re: Irony

2014-08-14 Thread Rusi Mody
On Friday, August 15, 2014 1:50:02 AM UTC+5:30, Paul E Condon wrote: > Comments (opinion) supporting your position that SQL logging is silly. > It is my understanding that SQL is a query language that is designed > to query (and update) a *relational*database* that has been designed > according t

Re: auto starting of ppp has stopped working

2014-08-17 Thread Rusi Mody
On Sunday, August 17, 2014 4:50:01 PM UTC+5:30, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 01.08.2014 10:45, schrieb Tom H: > > Either "/etc/modprobe.d/.conf" or in "/etc/modules" if the > > former isn't early enough. > You are mixing two things up here: > /etc/modprobe.conf and /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf are for sp

Re: networking fails with temporary systemd (was auto starting of ppp has stopped working)

2014-08-18 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, August 14, 2014 10:10:02 PM UTC+5:30, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 14.08.2014 16:02, schrieb Rusi Mody: > > On Thursday, August 14, 2014 3:40:03 PM UTC+5:30, Michael Biebl wrote: > >> Am 14.08.2014 um 05:32 schrieb Rusi Mody: > >>> Aug 14 08:13:15 debian6

Re: Anyone got Dragon Naturally Speaking working under Debian Wheezy?

2014-08-18 Thread Rusi Mody
On Monday, August 18, 2014 10:00:02 PM UTC+5:30, brian wrote: > Hi all, > I posted this question to the XFCE users list a couple of days ago but > no takers, so I'll try it here. I also got a timeout on the first > attempt, so due apologies if this message is a duplicate. > Has anyone out there m

Re: Got skype 4.2 to connect again

2014-08-20 Thread Rusi Mody
On Wednesday, August 20, 2014 11:30:02 AM UTC+5:30, Hans wrote: > ! > > Works like a charm! How in the world did you figure that out? > > Hugo > Hi Hugo, > to figure this out was by chance and a littlen bit thinking. > Someone in the skype forum told, he installed skype 4.2 and it connected. So

Re: Multiboot usage

2014-08-20 Thread Rusi Mody
On Wednesday, August 20, 2014 10:30:01 PM UTC+5:30, John Foster wrote: > Any one using multiboot please reply. I have a system that is running > several linux distros, each on its own hard drive. I have also got > windows 7 pro and KfreeBSD on their own hard drives. I want to get the > grub2 osp

Re: networking fails with temporary systemd (was auto starting of ppp has stopped working)

2014-08-21 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, August 14, 2014 10:10:02 PM UTC+5:30, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 14.08.2014 16:02, schrieb Rusi Mody: > > On Thursday, August 14, 2014 3:40:03 PM UTC+5:30, Michael Biebl wrote: > >> Am 14.08.2014 um 05:32 schrieb Rusi Mody: > >>> Aug 14 08:13:15 debian6

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