Re: Anybody have a chromebook? Can it run Debian?

2013-02-01 Thread Gary Dale
On 01/02/13 06:48 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: I was googling for an inexpensive laptop for a friend and came across the chromebook C710 from Acer: http://www.staples.com/Acer-C710-2847-116-Chromebook/product_125265 or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215914 • Intel

Re: enlighten scribes docs, books etc

2013-02-01 Thread sp11
On Fri, 1 Feb 2013 17:52:24 -0800 ow...@netptc.net wrote: > > > > > > > - Original Message - > From: sp11 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Sent: 2/1/2013 4:40:13 PM > Subject: Re: enlighten scribes docs, books etc > > > On Fri, 1 Feb 2013 07:27:52 -0800 > james gray wrote:

Re: enlighten scribes docs, books etc

2013-02-01 Thread owens
- Original Message - From: sp11 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: 2/1/2013 4:40:13 PM Subject: Re: enlighten scribes docs, books etc On Fri, 1 Feb 2013 07:27:52 -0800 james gray wrote: > hello > i have looked at past e mail going back several months ago trying to > find

Re: killing a job

2013-02-01 Thread Thierry Chatelet
The Saturday 02 February 2013 01:36:32, Bob Proulx wrote : > Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote : > > > If the process won't die then likely it is a zombie. > > > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_process > > > > > > Zombies cannot be killed because they are already dead. Th

Re: How to purge removed package?

2013-02-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 08:41:05AM -0800, David Guntner wrote: > > to clean them up. Everything *except* dovecot-common went away. When > it got to dovecot-common, it just gave me an error message. Oh, and it > deleted /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf for me before erroring out. Oops. This might be

Re: enlighten scribes docs, books etc

2013-02-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 07:27:52AM -0800, james gray wrote: > would like to find any thing that has actual content and is actually > informative in light of the OS structure and system calls in GNU Debian. When you say "system calls" do you mean: System calls (functions provided by the kernel) as

Re: killing a job

2013-02-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Thierry Chatelet wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote : > > If the process won't die then likely it is a zombie. > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_process > > > > Zombies cannot be killed because they are already dead. The most > > common reason they haven't left yet is because their parent pr

Opiekun klienta biznesowego

2013-02-01 Thread biuro
Szanowni Państwo, W związku z wymogami ustawy z dnia 18 lipca 2002 roku o świadczeniu usług drogą elektroniczną (Dz. U. Nr 144 z 9 września 2002 r., poz.1204), chciałbym uzyskać Państwa zgodę na przesłanie informacji dotyczącej przeniesienia numerów Państwa firmy do sieci T-mobile. Jeśli wyraż

Re: killing a job

2013-02-01 Thread Thierry Chatelet
The Saturday 02 February 2013 00:53:48, Bob Proulx wrote : > Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > Ok I got the pid of each instance of vlc. but kill +instance number does > > not kill anything, no moe than pkill vlc!!! > > If the process won't die then likely it is a zombie. > > https://en.wikipedia.org

Re: killing a job

2013-02-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Thierry Chatelet wrote: > Ok I got the pid of each instance of vlc. but kill +instance number does not > kill anything, no moe than pkill vlc!!! If the process won't die then likely it is a zombie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_process Zombies cannot be killed because they are already

Re: killing a job

2013-02-01 Thread Thierry Chatelet
The Saturday 02 February 2013 00:34:21, Adam Wolfe wrote : > "ps -ef | grep vlc" should show you the pids. > > I'd tried to 'kill' them first. If that doesn't work I usually go > straight for a "kill -9". > "killall vlc" might also work, but I'm not positive. > > On 02/01/2013 06:29 PM, Thierry

Anybody have a chromebook? Can it run Debian?

2013-02-01 Thread Rick Thomas
I was googling for an inexpensive laptop for a friend and came across the chromebook C710 from Acer: http://www.staples.com/Acer-C710-2847-116-Chromebook/product_125265 or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215914 • Intel Celeron 847 1.1GHz • 2GB Memory (expandab

Re: killing a job

2013-02-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
Thierry Chatelet wrote: Hi, I have 3 instances of vlc that I can not stop. Top does not give me their process number. How can I get ithem to kill them with kill +process number? Or is there athere a other way to do it? Thierry if you process tools installed you can: pkill vlc -- In theory, th

Re: killing a job

2013-02-01 Thread Adam Wolfe
"ps -ef | grep vlc" should show you the pids. I'd tried to 'kill' them first. If that doesn't work I usually go straight for a "kill -9". "killall vlc" might also work, but I'm not positive. On 02/01/2013 06:29 PM, Thierry Chatelet wrote: Hi, I have 3 instances of vlc that I can not stop. To

killing a job

2013-02-01 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Hi, I have 3 instances of vlc that I can not stop. Top does not give me their process number. How can I get ithem to kill them with kill +process number? Or is there athere a other way to do it? Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: HDMI output

2013-02-01 Thread doug
On 02/01/2013 05:17 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 31 January 2013 19:12:04 Doug wrote: If it worked with the DVR, it should work with the computer on the same setting. It doesn't on my television. DVR is a different "source" setting than VGA. It took me a bit of fiddling to work out why I

Cannot start application via link

2013-02-01 Thread David Guntner
Ok, this one I've searched like crazy for, and haven't been able to come up with anything solid. ;-) So hopefully someone here will have dealt with this and can give me some pointers. I've recently installed PlayOnLinux (which personally, I think is a really neat tool) on my squeeze system. I ru

Re: Iceweasel is already running ...

2013-02-01 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 01 February 2013 14:23:41 Albretch Mueller wrote: > > If you definitely have no firefox/iceweasel/similar process running and > > it still won't start, try removing ~/.mozilla/firefox/profilename/lock > > ~ > but the thing is that I am removing the whole subdirectory: > ~ > ~/.mozilla/f

Re: HDMI output

2013-02-01 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 31 January 2013 19:12:04 Doug wrote: > If it worked with the DVR, it should work with the computer on the same > setting. It doesn't on my television. DVR is a different "source" setting than VGA. It took me a bit of fiddling to work out why I hadn't got a picture. My television m

Re: Backing up system customization: Is Debian packaging better than Remastersys?

2013-02-01 Thread Brad Alexander
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Linux-Fan wrote: > On 01/30/2013 11:29 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Ma, 29 ian 13, 11:20:42, Linux-Fan wrote: >>> On 01/28/2013 11:02 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 27 ian 13, 19:12:40, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Well, for only 4 systems puppet

Re: Backing up system customization: Is Debian packaging better than Remastersys?

2013-02-01 Thread Linux-Fan
On 01/30/2013 11:29 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 29 ian 13, 11:20:42, Linux-Fan wrote: >> On 01/28/2013 11:02 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >>> On Du, 27 ian 13, 19:12:40, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Well, for only 4 systems puppet might be a bit off. I´d suggest starting with

Re: Debian is a translation.

2013-02-01 Thread Gary Dale
On 01/02/13 03:29 PM, Николай wrote: Hello! Your system is translated on the set of languages. Although each user wants to see the system in their own language, but the disk in addition to its native language has many language packs that 99% of users never will be used. Why not share all of t

Debian is a translation.

2013-02-01 Thread Николай
Hello! Your system is translated on the set of languages. Although each user wants to see the system in their own language, but the disk in addition to its native language has many language packs that 99% of users never will be used. Why not share all of the disk images on the languages​​? For

Re: How to purge removed package?

2013-02-01 Thread David Guntner
Andrei POPESCU grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Vi, 01 feb 13, 08:41:05, David Guntner wrote: >> >> aptitude search '~c' > ... >> So, having found several packages with the above command, I did a >> >> aptitude purge '~p' > > Typo or was that the issue (you didn't mention)? Yea, that last one

Re: How to purge removed package?

2013-02-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 01 feb 13, 08:41:05, David Guntner wrote: > > aptitude search '~c' ... > So, having found several packages with the above command, I did a > > aptitude purge '~p' Typo or was that the issue (you didn't mention)? Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and develo

Re: How to purge removed package?

2013-02-01 Thread Dom
On 01/02/13 16:41, David Guntner wrote: Now, this is kind-of an odd one. I've got Dovecot2 installed on Squeeze from squeeze-backports. Originally, I had installed Dovecot (1) from the regular repository. However, there seems to have been one package left in a kind-of hanging state: dovecot-c

Re: How to purge removed package?

2013-02-01 Thread David Guntner
Never mind, figured it out. :-) --Dave David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Now, this is kind-of an odd one. I've got Dovecot2 installed on Squeeze > from squeeze-backports. Originally, I had installed Dovecot (1) from > the regular repository. However, there seems to hav

How to purge removed package?

2013-02-01 Thread David Guntner
Now, this is kind-of an odd one. I've got Dovecot2 installed on Squeeze from squeeze-backports. Originally, I had installed Dovecot (1) from the regular repository. However, there seems to have been one package left in a kind-of hanging state: dovecot-common from version 1. I discovered this w

Re: enlighten scribes docs, books etc

2013-02-01 Thread sp11
On Fri, 1 Feb 2013 07:27:52 -0800 james gray wrote: > hello > i have looked at past e mail going back several months ago trying to > find a recommend on reading`s that was asked and posted. and no i did > not find it. > > i have become burnt out with the elementary, kindergarden, > generalizatio

Re: enlighten scribes docs, books etc

2013-02-01 Thread Wayne Topa
On 02/01/2013 10:27 AM, james gray wrote: hello i have looked at past e mail going back several months ago trying to find a recommend on reading`s that was asked and posted. and no i did not find it. i have become burnt out with the elementary, kindergarden, generalization, going no where reads.

enlighten scribes docs, books etc

2013-02-01 Thread james gray
hello i have looked at past e mail going back several months ago trying to find a recommend on reading`s that was asked and posted. and no i did not find it. i have become burnt out with the elementary, kindergarden, generalization, going no where reads. this is the foot pump and this is the wheel

another Newbie question ldab vs winbind

2013-02-01 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i have heard people suggest using winbind ( i think it is a kerberos base auth ) with samba and ldap with posfix. the question is why. it seem more easier when i configure it for freeNAS and openfire XAMPP server. My experience with samba and winbind was quite difficult however now after configuri

Re: Iceweasel is already running ...

2013-02-01 Thread Albretch Mueller
> If you definitely have no firefox/iceweasel/similar process running and it > still won't start, try removing ~/.mozilla/firefox/profilename/lock ~ but the thing is that I am removing the whole subdirectory: ~ ~/.mozilla/firefox ~ and trying to restart iceweasel ~ lbrtchx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: no .info info on info (was Re: dselect fun)

2013-02-01 Thread wes davidson
I was speaking about the integrated aptitude help page, which is using exactly same interface as info. ah, now i understand. at least, i think i do. i'm assuming by "exactly the same interface" you mean they both take input from and provide output to a terminal? since that describes practical

Re: More than one window manager

2013-02-01 Thread Brian
On Fri 01 Feb 2013 at 01:50:20 +0100, Marcin Kłapkowski wrote: > Ok, it's really nice. But it works for one login at a time. Now I > want start more managers with it. I need to start next xdm somehow. > Running xdm on other tty console doesn't bring me window. Any idea how > start few xdm login wi

Re: HDMI output

2013-02-01 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 31/01/13 20:34, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 31 ian 13, 19:38:39, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> On 31/01/13 19:15, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >>> [You replied to my private address, feel free to put this back on list] >>> >> Oops, sorry! Hereby back on the list. >> >>> On Jo, 31 ian 13, 19:03:17, Ton

Re: More than one window manager

2013-02-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 31 Jan 2013, Marcin Kłapkowski wrote: > Hello, > > I have Debian wheezy. I use i3 window manager, starting with xdm on > tty7. I wanted to test other window managers without changing my basic > config, and still using my desktop. Tried on tty6 with: > startx /usr/bin/awesome > it start nice, an

Re: Steam on Debian

2013-02-01 Thread Alberto Luaces
"Mark Allums" writes: > Thanks for your reply. I am a bit skeptical that many distributions will be > officially supported. Certainly Ubuntu and direct derivatives, possibly > Debian and direct derivatives, probably Fedora and some other RPM-based > distros such as OpenSuSE. Slackware, Arch, an