Re: How to boot PC-BSD from Debian (was: Query about hard drive partitions maintenance)

> On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:51:05 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > >> On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > so I believe that, in the circumstances, I have to abandon the prospect of installing PC-BSD 9 on this computer. I had some trouble with this myself and tried all sorts of thing

Re: Installing genesys on Debian - lateral thinking time?

On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:19:12 +0100 Lisi wrote: > Suggestions welcomed - so long as they don't entail throwing the > wretched LiDE 110 in the nearest lake - not that I would be able to > find one with any water in it. (Sorry, this is an international list > and that was a local reference. I live

Re: [OT] Posting styles -- Top vs Bottom

On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:55:31 +0200 Tony van der Hoff wrote: ... > Before you started posting here, the polite thing to do would have been > to read the list guidelines, and apply them. Seeing as you appear too > intellectually challenged to find them for yourself, here is the link: > > http:/

Re: group permissions (was chroot ssh and ftp)

Dear Chris, When you pointed out there would be no serious benefit by chrooting the users, I decided to hold this configuration for a while. To isolate the system will take some time, and some bureaucratics :) Now, for the permissions stated before, I got this until now: Professors belong to two

OT:change of mail provider

Hi, Now can I see my postings ??? Please ignore -- -- Best wishes / 73 Richard Bown e-mail: rich...@g8jvm.com or richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk nil carborundum a illegitemis ## Ham Call G8JVM . OS Fedora FC16

Re: OT: change of mail provider

On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:02:42 +0100 richard wrote: > Hi, > now can I see my postings. > lease ignore > Most definitely YES, bye bye gmail for all my mailing lists :) -- -- Best wishes / 73 Richard Bown e-mail: rich...@g8jvm.com or richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk nil carborundum a illegit

Re: Installing genesys on Debian - lateral thinking time?

Is there some scanner software other than SANE I can try? What do people think of Vuescan? The really sad thing about all this is that it works in Ubuntu 11.10 Unity on a live CD. The CD was sloow, but once it had loaded, I could scan with my LiDE 110. The most recent Knoppix, by

OT: change of mail provider

Hi, now can I see my postings. lease ignore -- -- Best wishes / 73 Richard Bown e-mail: rich...@g8jvm.com or richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk nil carborundum a illegitemis ## Ham Call G8JVM . OS Fedora FC16 x86_6

Re: Installing genesys on Debian

On Saturday 31 March 2012 18:34:23 Dom wrote: > On 31/03/12 17:36, ntrfug wrote: > > On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:29:39 +0100 > > > > Lisi wrote: > >> I am trying to install genesys, first in my Lenny box and then in > >> Squeeze. The SANE website says that my scanner is fully supported. > Running Whe

Re: Installing genesys on Debian

On Saturday 31 March 2012 17:36:29 ntrfug wrote: > On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:29:39 +0100 > > Lisi wrote: > > I am trying to install genesys, first in my Lenny box and then in > > Squeeze. The SANE website says that my scanner is fully supported. > > Have you seen this web page? > > http://man.flashnu

Re: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN

On Sat 31 Mar 2012 at 20:28:09 +0200, Leonard Le-Rey wrote: > Hey guys, thanks for your answers! > So the current state is the following: > > 1.) With the Generic-PCL-6-PCL-XL, everything works fine and the PDF > is printed without any problems. This is fine for me for the moment, > of course, du

Re: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN

2012/3/31 Camaleón : > On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:00:23 +0200, Leonard Le-Rey wrote: > >> 2012/3/30 Brian : > > (...) > >>> The PDF file is unlikely to be the problem. >>> >> It is obviously not a driver problem, as the driver from Kyocera is the >> most recent and works fine on other systems (such as

I've changed mail host, delivery test

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Re: Unable to mount external USB devices -- Wheezy KDE

On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:22:59 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > Can you post the error message you get when mounting a device with > ext2 or reiserfs format? The error message is the same when trying to mount a reiserfs device. My recollection is that it's the same for ext2 as well, and I can confirm

Re: Unable to mount external USB devices -- Wheezy KDE

On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:22:59 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > Can you post the error message you get when mounting a device with > ext2 or reiserfs format? My external hard drives are elsewhere, but one of my thumb drives is formatted ext2. I get the same message trying to mount it. Kevin -- To

Re: Installing genesys on Debian

On 31/03/12 17:36, ntrfug wrote: On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:29:39 +0100 Lisi wrote: I am trying to install genesys, first in my Lenny box and then in Squeeze. The SANE website says that my scanner is fully supported. Have you seen this web page? http://man.flashnux.com/en/debian/6/6.0.1/man5/sa

Re: chroot ssh and ftp

Dr Beco wrote: > It's weird though to have a student [...] see his files owned by him, > and group professor, him being a student. The group name is just a label. There's no real reason why you couldn't call it something else. (Stay away from "staff", and be aware that on many systems "users" alr

Re: Unable to mount external USB devices -- Wheezy KDE

On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:59:42 -0500, ntrfug wrote: > For years I have been able to use external hard drives and thumb drives > on my systems, but not since I installed Wheezy. > > I get the following on inserting a SanDisk thumb drive: > > "The requested operation has failed.: Error mounting: mou

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

On 20120331_061146, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Paul E Condon > wrote: > > On 20120329_095413, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> On Mi, 28 mar 12, 16:58:03, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > >> > > You could have also considered uncompressing the tarball somewhere > >> > > else, > >> > >

Unable to mount external USB devices -- Wheezy KDE

For years I have been able to use external hard drives and thumb drives on my systems, but not since I installed Wheezy. I get the following on inserting a SanDisk thumb drive: "The requested operation has failed.: Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with: Unprivileged us

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

On 20120331_114636, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 30 mar 12, 16:40:18, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > Perhaps you are thinking of an officially published requirement. What > > I mean 'requirement' is a condition which by trial is found to be > > necessary for it to work. I tried cases that did not

Re: Installing genesys on Debian

Thanks, Keith. Your reply is appreciated. On Saturday 31 March 2012 17:29:19 Keith McKenzie wrote: > Was there a README to go with it? Several. But they are of no help at all. :-( All about permissions - which shouldn't have any effect when one is running as root. I tried running as root in

Re: Installing genesys on Debian

On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:29:39 +0100 Lisi wrote: > I am trying to install genesys, first in my Lenny box and then in > Squeeze. The SANE website says that my scanner is fully supported. Have you seen this web page? http://man.flashnux.com/en/debian/6/6.0.1/man5/sane-genesys.5.html It shows tha

Re: Installing genesys on Debian

On 31/03/12 14:41, Lisi wrote: I then ran #./configure #make #make install. 'make install' will put the files wherever they should be, that's part of the makefile. Junior:/home/lisi/Scanner/Canon_LiDE-110/sane-backends-1.0.22# sh ./install-sh sane-backends.lsm /etc/sane.d (/etc/sane.d would

Re: Open dialog goes to “recently used” list by default

On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 18:54:28 +0300, Rares Aioanei wrote: > On 03/31/2012 06:37 PM, Peter Schultz wrote: >> I'm running sid with gnome 3, is there a way to get the dialog to open >> the last used directory by default? +1 But seems to be a known "feature" >:-( http://tstarling.com/blog/2011/11/fi

Re: Installing genesys on Debian

On 31/03/12 11:29, Lisi wrote: Junior:/home/lisi/Scanner/Canon_LiDE-110/sane-backends-1.0.22# sh ./install-sh install:no input file specified Junior:/home/lisi/Scanner/Canon_LiDE-110/sane-backends-1.0.22# sh ./install-sh sane-backends.lsm install:no destination specified Junior:/h

Re: [OT] Posting styles -- Top vs Bottom

On 31/03/12 16:40, PMA wrote: Seems to me the important thing is for a given list to adopt one or the other style as standard *for the list*. Take a vote, asking, "Which is more important: seeing the current message immediately (Top), or keeping the flow in one-direction (Bottom)?" Who needs a

Re: Open dialog goes to “recently used” list by default

On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:37:45 -0500 Peter Schultz wrote: > I'm running sid with gnome 3, is there a way to get the dialog to > open the last used directory by default? +1 to that. Man, what a pain that, "recently used," 'option' is. Cybe R. Wizard -- Nice computers don't go down. Larry

Re: Open dialog goes to “recently used” list by default

On 03/31/2012 06:37 PM, Peter Schultz wrote: I'm running sid with gnome 3, is there a way to get the dialog to open the last used directory by default? "the dialog" means what? -- Rares Aioanei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: [OT] Posting styles -- Top vs Bottom

Hello Peter, PMA wrote: > Take a vote, That vote already happened many years ago. > asking, "Which is more important: > seeing the current message immediately (Top), > or keeping the flow in one-direction (Bottom)?" Neither. Interleaved style is the way to go. Best regards, Claudius -- Most

Open dialog goes to “recently used” list by default

I'm running sid with gnome 3, is there a way to get the dialog to open the last used directory by default?

Re: Lilo not recognizing keyboard SOLVED)

On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 22:31:05 -0400 (EDT), Marc Shapiro wrote: > > I apologize for not posting this sooner, but this was the first chance > that I had to reboot and go into the BIOS Setup. > > To answer your questions... > > AMI BIOS v02.54 4/22/2005 > > Features Setup >

Re: [OT] Posting styles -- Top vs Bottom

I've seen passionate debate on this issue, based mainly on disrupted expectation (as the Bottom guy opens the Top guy's email). Seems to me the important thing is for a given list to adopt one or the other style as standard *for the list*. Take a vote, asking, "Which is more important: seeing th

Re: Installing genesys on Debian

On Saturday 31 March 2012 11:29:39 Lisi wrote: > /home/lisi/Scanner/Canon_LiDE-110/sane-backends-1.0.22 I have progressed further, but am still not there. The destination needs to be /etc/sane.d, so: Junior:/home/lisi/Scanner/Canon_LiDE-110/sane-backends-1.0.22# sh ./install-sh sane-backends.

Re: chroot ssh and ftp

> Off the cuff: all student dirs have a group owner of "professors" with > rwx perm, and students are not in that group. > Professors are in group "professors" and the group owner of their dirs > is "professors" but the perms for group are blank (or make the group > owner "admins" or something). >

Re: [OT] Posting styles

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Cladius, On 31.03.2012 13:02, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Did I mention that asking for a return receipt for a mailing list > post is kind of…strange? That is, do you really want all >30k > subscribed users to acknowledge the receipt of your post? > >

Installing genesys on Debian

Hello, all! I am trying to install genesys, first in my Lenny box and then in Squeeze. The SANE website says that my scanner is fully supported. I have downloaded and extracted the file via the SANE website. I am now having problems installing it. The main problem is obviously PEBKAC, but

Re: [OT] Posting styles

Hello Mika, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > On 31.03.2012 12:04, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > > Especially when inline responding (bottom) and your loosy style is > > mixed? > I already changed to bottom posting in Iceweasel and K9 mail. Thanks. Though one should also take the time to trim the pre

Re: apt-listbugs misses #665959 in Sid dist-upgrade

* hvw59601 [2012-03-30 07:06 -0600]: [...] > But the bug gave the fix, although I wonder how the submitter > figured that one out. Works nicely though. /etc/terminfo/README ;-) l => linux Elimar -- The path to source is always uphill! -unknown- -- To UNSUB

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20120329_095413, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Mi, 28 mar 12, 16:58:03, Paul E Condon wrote: >> > > You could have also considered uncompressing the tarball somewhere else, >> > > like $HOME/tmp or $HOME/src, but it sure is a valid solutio

Re: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN

On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:00:23 +0200, Leonard Le-Rey wrote: > 2012/3/30 Brian : (...) >> The PDF file is unlikely to be the problem. >> > It is obviously not a driver problem, as the driver from Kyocera is the > most recent and works fine on other systems (such as Ubuntu 11.10). (...) You can't

Re: [OT] Posting styles

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 31.03.2012 12:04, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > > On Mar 30, 2012 6:36 PM, "Mika Suomalainen" > > wrote: >> >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> >> Thanks :). >> >> But some people like

Re: Some KDE apps depend on kdebase-runtime, which is transitional

On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:00:12 -0400, Max Hyre wrote: > On 03/30/2012 10:26 AM, Camaleón wrote: [] >> Can you post/upload the exact command you used (how did you manage to >> remove tha package) [] > > I was using synaptic. I marked kdebase-runtime for ``complete > removal'' (purging),

Re: [OT] Posting styles

Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:32:45 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: That's what I thought, too, but then I checked: http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ And top vs. bottom posting does NOT seem to be addressed. Sort of surprised me. It is mentioned in this page, which also contains good

How to boot PC-BSD from Debian (was: Query about hard drive partitions maintenance)

On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:51:05 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Camaleón wrote: (...) >>> so I believe that, in the circumstances, I have to abandon the >>> prospect of installing PC-BSD 9 on this computer. >> >> I already pointed out some alternatives and Keith told you about >> vi

Re: [OT] Posting styles

On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:30:07 +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 30/03/12 17:55, Camaleón wrote: >> On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:36:25 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: >> >>> Thanks :). >>> >>> But some people like top posting, like me. I think that with top >>> posting the new message is easier to read

Re: [OT] Posting styles

On Mar 30, 2012 6:36 PM, "Mika Suomalainen" wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Thanks :). > > But some people like top posting, like me. I think that with top > posting the new message is easier to read than, when it's below the quote Selfish. What about people reading

Re: [OT] Posting styles

On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:32:45 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Mika Suomalainen wrote: > >> On 30.03.2012 20:22, Jon Dowland wrote: >>> Debian list policy / code of conduct is NOT to top post. Please >>> respect it. >> Can you link me to Debian list policy / code of conduct? I think that I >> might

Re: [OT] Posting styles

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 31.03.2012 11:52, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:14:33 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > >> Hint: Look for GPG signatures which mention "VERSION: APG" >> something, they are sent from Android phones. > > I still prefer to use the old and

Re: [OT] Posting styles

On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:14:33 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > Hint: Look for GPG signatures which mention "VERSION: APG" something, > they are sent from Android phones. I still prefer to use the old and good e-mail headers, which in your case returns... *** User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x

Re: sharing desktop on debian - freenx?

On Vi, 30 mar 12, 22:38:53, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > > Yes, xrdp does rely on VNC and so performance is not great, but it's > certainly passable for remote administration tasks and light web > browsing. I've had good experiences with x11vnc, especially for remote assistance. Kind regards, And

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

On Vi, 30 mar 12, 16:40:18, Paul E Condon wrote: > > Perhaps you are thinking of an officially published requirement. What > I mean 'requirement' is a condition which by trial is found to be > necessary for it to work. I tried cases that did not meet this > condition and none of them worked, and

Re: Upgrade to wheezy possible?

I tried online to update to wheezy but was foiled by [a] my /usr getting down to 7.5mbs and causing seg faults, and [b] falling foul of a known bug thats in the bug tracking system (I forget which one atm), so was unable to install wheezy. But as my system was part squeeze and part wheezy it was un