Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-14 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/14/2013 9:28 PM, Catherine Gramze wrote: On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 21:12:32 -0400 Jerry Stuckle wrote: Maybe where you are, but not in the world scheme of things. A router is a specific box. A (A)DSL modem may also contain a firewall, etc. But most (A)DSL modems, cable modems, etc., only h

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-14 Thread John Hasler
Catherine Gramze writes: > [A cable modem] doesn't do any modulating or demodulating. It simply > allows the packets to go from one network to the other. Yes it does. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-us

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-14 Thread Catherine Gramze
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 21:12:32 -0400 Jerry Stuckle wrote: > Maybe where you are, but not in the world scheme of things. > > A router is a specific box. A (A)DSL modem may also contain a > firewall, etc. But most (A)DSL modems, cable modems, etc., only have > one Ethernet port. So people instal

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-14 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/14/2013 4:37 AM, Joe wrote: On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 07:53:50 +1300 Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 09:19:18PM +0100, Joe wrote: though most include routers and other useless stuff. ..when it is normally customary to refer to them as routers. Pedants might call them modem-

Strange PGP signature

2013-10-14 Thread Aort Conda
What is this? The file on official cd mirror is different. SHA512SUMS Description: Attachment: SHA512SUMS SHA512SUMS.sign Description: Attachment: SHA512SUMS.sign

Re: ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 17:27 -0400, John Lindsay wrote: > Just an update --- ran clamtk (clamav) several times until it was clear. > Got avast downloaded and installed and ran it twice. Opened a new > iceweasel then closed it -- reopened and got the 'restore sessions' > message, selected new sess

Re: ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-14 Thread John Lindsay
Just an update --- ran clamtk (clamav) several times until it was clear. Got avast downloaded and installed and ran it twice. Opened a new iceweasel then closed it -- reopened and got the 'restore sessions' message, selected new session and things are back to normal. Thanks for the informatio

Re: apt-get upgrade (security packages)

2013-10-14 Thread Linux-Fan
On 10/14/2013 10:11 PM, Pol Hallen wrote: >> I think the best way to do this is using a normal Debian stable. There >> are only few updates to stable which add features which means that >> update is a security update. > > Huh? > > I use debian 7 stable, but now the upgrade show me 4 security upda

Re: ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-14 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 10:04 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 14:15 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > > What? does everyone have their menus turned off? > > > > (Edit menu -> Preferences -> Contents tab -> disable JavaScript. > > Or am I missing something here?) > > I didn't refer to Ice

Re: apt-get upgrade (security packages)

2013-10-14 Thread Pol Hallen
> Debian point-release was issued over the weekend: Understood! Thanks Steve :-) Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/525c51c0.4050...@fuckaround.o

Re: apt-get upgrade (security packages)

2013-10-14 Thread Pol Hallen
> I think the best way to do this is using a normal Debian stable. There > are only few updates to stable which add features which means that >update is a security update. Huh? I use debian 7 stable, but now the upgrade show me 4 security updates and MANY MANY updates from debian mirros (not from

Re: apt-get upgrade (security packages)

2013-10-14 Thread Linux-Fan
On 10/14/2013 09:43 PM, Pol Hallen wrote: > Howdy :-) > > I've a production server particularly patched. I prefer install only > security packages but keep others packages to same version. > > Should I've some problems if keep only: > > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib

apt-get upgrade (security packages)

2013-10-14 Thread Pol Hallen
Howdy :-) I've a production server particularly patched. I prefer install only security packages but keep others packages to same version. Should I've some problems if keep only: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free to /etc/apt/sources.list or better pin every p

Re: who could take the time to figure out how to contact linux ? so complicated !

2013-10-14 Thread Konrad Neitzel
Hi! On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 13:57 -0500, Catherine Gramze wrote: > We need to know first if Larry has a successfully running Debian > installation, and if so, is it Wheezy, Jessie, Squeeze or Sid? > I think Larry needs some help to modify his sources.list file to > include the non-free repository.

Re: who could take the time to figure out how to contact linux ? so complicated !

2013-10-14 Thread Catherine Gramze
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 14:19:15 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Please, lets merge the two threads into one? > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/10/msg00703.html > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/10/msg00705.html > > Perhaps the OP and anybody else could continue here with replying t

Re: mediatomb install fails on wheezy

2013-10-14 Thread Jochen Spieker
Pierre Frenkiel: > On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Jochen Spieker wrote: > >>> >>> serious bugs of mediatomb (-> 0.12.1-4) >>> #677959 - mediatomb: fails to build against current version of >>> libavformat (Fixed: mediatomb/0.12.1-5) >>> >>> I have several question about this error: >> >> By the wa

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-14 Thread berenger . morel
Le 14.10.2013 16:38, Frank McCormick a écrit : On 14/10/13 09:52 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 13.10.2013 19:44, Frank McCormick a écrit : On 13/10/13 01:02 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 01:10:14PM -0300, msl09 wrote: Oh I have fond memories of aptitude

Re: linux debian

2013-10-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 16:05 +, darkestkhan wrote: > $ sudo aptitude update ; sudo aptitude install flashplugin-nonfree Is aptitude installed by default? If not, aptitude can be replaced with apt-get. It might be helpful to install Synaptic first and then to use Synaptic in the future, to ins

Re: Linux Professional Institute Certification (Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude))

2013-10-14 Thread berenger . morel
Le 14.10.2013 17:01, Joel Rees a écrit : I'm pretty sure the LPI site is translated into French, too. Yep. I have absolutely no problem with English... at least when it is written :) my speaking is probably ugly, since I can rarely practice it. Check it out: http://www.lpi-francophonie.org

Re: linux debian

2013-10-14 Thread darkestkhan
It is actually quite easy - edit your /etc/apt/sources.list so that it contains line (you have to be root to do so (or use sudo)): deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free # [ftp address may be slightly different depending on your preferences] And then you just: $ sudo aptitude

Re: mediatomb install fails on wheezy

2013-10-14 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Jochen Spieker wrote: serious bugs of mediatomb (-> 0.12.1-4) #677959 - mediatomb: fails to build against current version of libavformat (Fixed: mediatomb/0.12.1-5) I have several question about this error: By the way: the above is not an error. I see that:

Re: Problems creating preseed.cfg - syntax?

2013-10-14 Thread Curt
On 2013-10-14, Richard Owlett wrote: >> > > Sorry. I had been focused on solving my immediate problem > immediately - which I did. > I've time set aside this afternoon to reproduce the problem and > create bug report(s) as required. I'll preserve the error > messages as part of those report(s).

Re: mediatomb install fails on wheezy

2013-10-14 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Jochen Spieker wrote: Packages in stable only receive updates for security reasons or in order to fix other serious bugs. You might be interested in backports: I would imagine that a bug which prevents a package to be installed can be called "serious" !! I have sin

Linux Professional Institute Certification (Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude))

2013-10-14 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:41 PM, wrote: > Le 13.10.2013 14:41, Joel Rees a écrit : > >> On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 6:21 AM, wrote: >>> >>> Le 11.10.2013 23:06, Brian a écrit : "are you root?" >>> >>> >>> >>> It does only means you own the system. Not that you can claim to be a >>> s

Re: mediatomb install fails on wheezy

2013-10-14 Thread Jochen Spieker
Pierre Frenkiel: > > Trying to install mediatomb on wheezy, I got: > >serious bugs of mediatomb (-> 0.12.1-4) >#677959 - mediatomb: fails to build against current version of >libavformat (Fixed: mediatomb/0.12.1-5) > > I have several question about this error: By the way: the above

Re: mediatomb install fails on wheezy

2013-10-14 Thread Jochen Spieker
Pierre Frenkiel: > > At last, mediatomb 0.12-5 is now provided by Jessie (don't know since how > long) > I suppose it means that it will arrive in Wheezy some day.. No. Packages don't get moved from testing to stable. Ever. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_debian

Re: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

2013-10-14 Thread Curt
On 2013-10-14, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > Now that you say it, it's obvious. > I was simply thinking that HTML was the source of the problem, because > I only noticed such problems with HTML mails. Was a stupid reasoning. > I can see how one might think that the noobs who use html

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-14 Thread Frank McCormick
On 14/10/13 09:52 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 13.10.2013 19:44, Frank McCormick a écrit : On 13/10/13 01:02 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 01:10:14PM -0300, msl09 wrote: Oh I have fond memories of aptitude breaking my system. Once it suggested me to remove

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-14 Thread Marcelo Lacerda
On 10/13/2013 02:31 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 06:04 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 02:56:13AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2013-10-12 at 19:40 -0400, Tom H wrote: I suspect that the problem's in the examples above are simply PEBKAC. Likely, si

Re: Problems creating preseed.cfg - syntax?

2013-10-14 Thread Richard Owlett
Curt wrote: On 2013-10-14, Richard Owlett wrote: There is evidently an additional package required to use all the features of "debconf-get-selections". After installing debconf-utils my command bombed with an error message from a perl script. It would have been informative and perhaps even

Re: mediatomb install fails on wheezy

2013-10-14 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Mon, 7 Oct 2013, Chris Bannister wrote: hi Chris, Before replying, I waited until the release of the Wheezy version 7.2, but this changed nothing about mediatomb 1/ what means "fixed mediatomb/0.12.1-5" ? The bug no longer exists in version 0.12.1-5 I understood that, but my hidden que

pcmanfm mount troubles in jessie

2013-10-14 Thread Main Backup
Hi! I have some issues with pcmanfm mount external drives. It happens when I start pcmanfm from user. Ok. So, I have no gnome, kde, systemd or anything like that installed on my computer. I use openbox and pcmanfm for mounting all external drives. All was well on wheezy and squeeze. I've use t

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: I know I wont teach that to anyone here, but modems are not computing stuff, at all. They are simply here to transform numeric signals to analogical ones, and vice versa. Well and just to continue the level of pedanticism we've gotten to - there

Re: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

2013-10-14 Thread berenger . morel
Le 14.10.2013 15:29, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 15:21 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Or simply do not use HTML. Endless line, for Evolution available by selecting "Preformatted": This has nothing to do with HTML, I can format my emails using plain text too, HTM

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-14 Thread berenger . morel
Le 13.10.2013 19:44, Frank McCormick a écrit : On 13/10/13 01:02 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 01:10:14PM -0300, msl09 wrote: Oh I have fond memories of aptitude breaking my system. Once it suggested me to remove most of my system, including apt, I thought it was going t

Re: Problems creating preseed.cfg - syntax?

2013-10-14 Thread Richard Owlett
Bob Proulx wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: I'm having several problems getting desired results from preseeding. My Environment: No internet/LAN Install media Debian GNU/Linux 7.1.0 "Wheezy" - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20130615-21:54 preseed.cfg on USB stick You and Brian and I ha

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-14 Thread berenger . morel
Le 14.10.2013 10:37, Joe a écrit : On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 07:53:50 +1300 Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 09:19:18PM +0100, Joe wrote: > > though most include routers and other > > useless stuff. > > ..when it is normally customary to refer to them as routers. > Pedants might cal

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 15:27 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > But, it definitely is a user's... no, sorry, a root's error. A root > should not act or think like a user. (damn, outside of linux context, > that phrase really means nothing...) :D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-u

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-14 Thread berenger . morel
Le 13.10.2013 04:18, green a écrit : Tom H wrote at 2013-10-12 18:40 -0500: I suspect that the problem's in the examples above are simply PEBKAC. I use aptitude, and find it to be *more* useful than apt because of its *interactive* dependency resolver. Probably if people have trouble with a

Re: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

2013-10-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 15:21 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Or simply do not use HTML. Endless line, for Evolution available by selecting "Preformatted": This has nothing to do with HTML, I can format my emails using plain text too, HTML is completely unneeded to do this. Automatic

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-14 Thread berenger . morel
Le 12.10.2013 18:10, msl09 a écrit : Oh I have fond memories of aptitude breaking my system. Once it suggested me to remove most of my system, including apt, I thought it was going to upgrade it so I confirmed it. I had to reinstall apt from the debian packages website. That's why I do not u

Re: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

2013-10-14 Thread berenger . morel
Le 13.10.2013 23:23, Bob Proulx a écrit : Mark Allums wrote: Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I don't nag about endless lines, > ... > It's not the end of the world, but unfavourable when you argument about > not running into issues with your computer, while causing issues for the > list, when you're

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-14 Thread berenger . morel
Le 13.10.2013 20:41, Chris Bannister a écrit : On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 12:11:01AM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: >If you own a system you control it and can do whatever you like >with it. >You can give yourself whatever label you want (sysadmin, >superuser, top >dog etc) - it matt

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 14:57 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 14:41 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > In some countries, owning a car does not authorize you to tinker > > > with it. > > > > I did not known that. Not even changing a wheel or repairing motor, > > di

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 14:41 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > In some countries, owning a car does not authorize you to tinker > > with it. > > I did not known that. Not even changing a wheel or repairing motor, > direction? Usually in those countries, e.g. in Germany, you are allo

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-14 Thread berenger . morel
Le 13.10.2013 14:41, Joel Rees a écrit : On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 6:21 AM, wrote: Le 11.10.2013 23:06, Brian a écrit : "are you root?" It does only means you own the system. Not that you can claim to be a sysadmin. I own my car. I am not a mechanic, but I anyway have the *authorizations*

Re: 64-bit VM on 32-bit host OS on 64-bit hardware

2013-10-14 Thread Luca Cappelletti
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Andre Majorel wrote: > Can you run an amd64 virtual machine if the host is running > Debian i386 ? The hardware would be a recent AMD CPU, so > Pacifica/AMD-V is available. > > The virtualisation systems I'm most interested in are KVM and > Xen but if this sort of

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-14 Thread berenger . morel
Le 13.10.2013 15:40, Joel Rees a écrit : On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 7:11 AM, wrote: [...] if you think that people are free to give themselves the label they want, so you must accept that other are also free to give the labels they want. Long time ago, I studied the "dark side of computer sci

Re: pcmanfm no window/gui, one user only

2013-10-14 Thread berenger . morel
Le 13.10.2013 13:44, Tazman Deville a écrit : On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 08:11:10PM +0200, Tony Baldwin wrote: Friends, For some reason, when I try to use pcmanfm as my user, I can not. I can start it as other users on the system, or with gksu or sudo, but not for my user. So it must be a conf

Re: who could take the time to figure out how to contact linux ? so complicated !

2013-10-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Please, lets merge the two threads into one? http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/10/msg00703.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/10/msg00705.html Perhaps the OP and anybody else could continue here with replying to this request. _We_ users from this _user_ community still need to

Re: [bulk]: who could take the time to figure out how to contact linux ? so complicated !

2013-10-14 Thread Konrad Neitzel
Hi Larry! > larry mckenna hat am 14. Oktober 2013 um 12:25 > geschrieben: > > hi, you are not listening ! i can down load flash player too debian but it > will not install i get either, find supporting software or else i get ; > address not recognised, i can't install anything esle it will do

Re: Re: linux-image-3.10-3-amd64 unbootable: /dev/disk/by-uuid not created

2013-10-14 Thread Stefan Boresch
Hi everyone, just wanting to point out that this is biting me as well (Debian sid, first dist-upgrade since about a week). I am wondering if the problem is not a bit further up the chain ..: I have two physical disks, partitions on which are either raid0 or raid1 managed by mdadm. Looking at my

Re: linux-image-3.10-3-amd64 unbootable: /dev/disk/by-uuid not created

2013-10-14 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 7:26 AM, Jesse Molina wrote: > On 10/12/13 2:40 AM, Jesse Molina wrote: >> >> I have a Debian unstable host which successfully boots from the >> linux-image-3.10-1-amd64 kernel package. However, I recently installed the >> linux-image-3.10-3-amd64 kernel package, and it is

Re: Logitech unified wireless

2013-10-14 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 02:05:17PM -0500, Catherine Gramze wrote: > I ran into a snag getting this set up on my new computer. I found a gem > of info online, telling me I had to use a USB 2 port and not a USB 3 > port, but it still wouldn't work. > > I finally figured out it was a pairing problem,

Re: linux-image-3.10-3-amd64 unbootable: /dev/disk/by-uuid not created

2013-10-14 Thread Jesse Molina
This is confimed bug # 726237. It's actually mdadm. Bad udev rule file. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=726237 On 10/12/13 2:40 AM, Jesse Molina wrote: Hi I have a Debian unstable host which successfully boots from the linux-image-3.10-1-amd64 kernel package. However,

Re: Problems preseeding Wheezy (7.1)

2013-10-14 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Richard Owlett >> wrote: >>> Tom H wrote: On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Richard Owlett >>

Re: linux debian

2013-10-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 12:55 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > If you manually downloaded a .deb you can install it by > > su > cd /path/to/the/downloaded/package.deb > dpkg -i package.deb For a default Ubuntu (and perhaps for current default Debian installs too) sudo -i cd /path/to/the/downloaded/pac

Re: linux debian

2013-10-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
There was a typo that could confuse a newbie, so I correct only this typo: > It might be, that your repositories list doesn't include "non-free", > then apt-get etc. don't have access to _repositories_ that provide > proprietary packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.d

Re: linux debian

2013-10-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 11:17 +0100, larry mckenna wrote: > hi ralph, thnaks for getting back ! why can i not install packages > after downloading them or can you suggest software package that will > open flash player up please ? larry mc kenna. It might be, that your repositories list doesn't inclu

IOMMU issues workaround (was Re: realtek r8189 driver problem on 64 bit kernel)

2013-10-14 Thread Wackojacko
On 12/10/13 16:49, Wackojacko wrote: On 12/10/13 16:37, Gary Dale wrote: On 12/10/13 11:03 AM, Wackojacko wrote: On 12/10/13 15:32, Gary Dale wrote: I had a similar problem but fixed it by enabling IOEMU in the BIOS of my Gigabyte 970A-D3P. I assume you mean IOMMU, I had already enabled this

Re: Problems creating preseed.cfg - syntax?

2013-10-14 Thread Curt
On 2013-10-14, Richard Owlett wrote: > > There is evidently an additional package required to use all the > features of "debconf-get-selections". > > After installing debconf-utils my command bombed with an error > message from a perl script. It would have been informative and perhaps even edif

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude) - OT

2013-10-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Joel Rees wrote: -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. First look for the s. (Couldn't resist.) -- /Never attribute/ to malice that which is adequately explained by/stupidity/. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: Problems creating preseed.cfg - syntax?

2013-10-14 Thread Richard Owlett
Curt wrote: On 2013-10-13, Richard Owlett wrote: Unfortunately when I try bash responds "command not found". apt-get install debconf-utils http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/all/debconf-utils/filelist There is evidently an additional package required to use all the features of "debconf-

Re: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

2013-10-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 09:59 +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: > Just for interest: Why does it damage the drives? GVFS does wake up sleeping drives without reason, this does cause a high amount of spin ups and spin downs. Most drives die regarding to the spin ups, also without GVFS. Really, if a

Re: Debian mirror analysis by release

2013-10-14 Thread Tom Grace
On 13/10/13 11:10, Andre Majorel wrote: Is there a program out there that will scan a Debian mirror (E.G. created by debmirror) and, for each file in it, list the release(s) by which it's used ? It's not quite what you want, but you can look in (for example) ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/st

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-14 Thread Joe
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 07:53:50 +1300 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 09:19:18PM +0100, Joe wrote: > > > though most include routers and other > > > useless stuff. > > > > ..when it is normally customary to refer to them as routers. > > Pedants might call them modem-routers, but n

Re: Oops - copied iso image to wrong device

2013-10-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 10:52:33PM +0100, Brian wrote: > The dd command was recommended on the off-chance GRUB might be put on > the drive now or in the future; it will refuse to install. I see, I didn't know that, thank you. Apparently grub-setup is the bit that complains, and it can be made to

Re: who could take the time to figure out how to contact linux ? so complicated !

2013-10-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 17:22 +1100, Charlie wrote: > HTH to show you that Debian is not responsible for Ubuntu. Debian is responsible for many package names used by Ubuntu, since Ubuntu is based on Debian snapshots. However, the OP seemingly is a newbie. I won't confuse the OP and write about fl

Re: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

2013-10-14 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Am 11.10.2013 um 21:19 schrieb Ralf Mardorf : > On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 20:44:11 +0200, Tom H wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Ralf Mardorf >> wrote: >> > >>> GVFS is absolutely optional software. >> >> You only ever consider things from your limited use-case > > No. > >> Simply bec

Re: ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 14:15 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > What? does everyone have their menus turned off? > > (Edit menu -> Preferences -> Contents tab -> disable JavaScript. > Or am I missing something here?) I didn't refer to Iceweasel for Debian, but tried to help the OP to solve the issue and I

Re: linux debian

2013-10-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 05:09 +0100, larry mckenna wrote: > i looked through your soft ware packagwe list and found a strong snob > tech speak for nerds why can you not be so eliist and name things the > ordinary 5/8 th can read ? You could use synaptic to search for software, e.g. by the keyword "b

Re: ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 07:11 +0400, recovery...@gmail.com wrote: > This is outdated page indeed. Apparently Mozilla Foundation decided > that it will be more user-friendly to double-click on > 'javascript.enabled' at about:config page :) I agree that the smartest way is to use an add-on, assumed a

Re: ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 16:00 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > Install the extension/addon 'noscript' As already mentioned, I don't want to install another add-on. If I need javascript disabled, I can use another browser and if happens to me, what happens to the OP, I'm fixing it the way I described.

Re: [bulk]: who could take the time to figure out how to contact linux ? so complicated !

2013-10-14 Thread Konrad Neitzel
Hi Larry! On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 05:13 +0100, larry mckenna wrote: > > hi folks, finding myself in limbo directly downloaded debian only to > find i need flash player can download flash but can't install ! also > tried to download other version of ubuntu and it downloads but get > address not rec