Re: LACK OF REPONSE TO REQUESTS FOR HELP WHY?

2014-12-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 21 December 2014 07:38:13 tom arnall wrote: > about a week ago i posted a question to which no one has responded. i > think it's a reasonable question for this list. clearly folks on this > list don't think it's worthwhile to respond to it. Oh dear. :-( What on earth leads you to this c

Re: LACK OF REPONSE TO REQUESTS FOR HELP WHY?

2014-12-20 Thread Jessica Litwin
If it were my box I'd fix that gnome-keyring error first, since if I remember correctly, that's where your wifi password gets stored (which nm-applet uses) Try this: http://www.blackmoreops.com/2013/11/19/how-to-fix-warning-gnome-keyring-error/ and see if that helps you. -jkl. On Sun, Dec 21

LACK OF REPONSE TO REQUESTS FOR HELP WHY?

2014-12-20 Thread tom arnall
about a week ago i posted a question to which no one has responded. i think it's a reasonable question for this list. clearly folks on this list don't think it's worthwhile to respond to it. can anyone here at least tell me why? below is the email is sent to this list: i have by the way spent abo

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-20 Thread Doug
On 12/20/2014 11:00 PM, Charles Kroeger wrote: On Sat, 20 Dec 2014 18:20:02 +0100 Gary Dale wrote: Still don't know what you have against LibreOffice. It's almost certainly superior to WP51 in every significant way. WP5.1 users have to have 'reveal codes' or they can't use anything else. D

gnome

2014-12-20 Thread Tom Arnall
WHEN I DO: ~/$ gnome-keyring-daemon --start I GET: Couldn't access conrol socket: /home/tom/.cache/keyring-qGnJVR/control: No such file or directory GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/home/tom/.cache/keyring-laCd8D SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/home/tom/.cache/keyring-laCd8D/ssh GPG_AGENT_INFO=/home/tom/.cache/keyring-

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-20 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Sat, 20 Dec 2014 18:20:02 +0100 Gary Dale wrote: > Still don't know what you have against LibreOffice. It's almost > certainly superior to WP51 in every significant way. WP5.1 users have to have 'reveal codes' or they can't use anything else. -- CK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-20 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 05:28:00PM -0800, Rusi Mody wrote: > Just yesterday struggling with making a presentation with LO Impress. > There are some 3 dozen toolbars of which I was looking for some. > The online docs give one line of text for each -- no icon. > https://help.libreoffice.org/Draw/Too

Re: Changing permission in user's home directory

2014-12-20 Thread David Christensen
On 12/20/2014 06:15 PM, Peter Gerber wrote: On our server we create an user for every of our customer and we run an instance of home-made java application (as the customers respective user). The issue is just who ever set up those servers created a home directory per user and set up everything in

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-20 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 10:21 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Not you Patrick, someone else. > I am sort of quoting > "I still do not know what you have against > it is far superior to wordperfect. > Odd idea about a virtual machine too. > The is far superior is the sort of thing I mean. Especially

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-20 Thread Karen Lewellen
Not you Patrick, someone else. I am sort of quoting "I still do not know what you have against it is far superior to wordperfect. Odd idea about a virtual machine too. The is far superior is the sort of thing I mean. Especially when so many others have reasons to appreciate their own word p

Re: Changing permission in user's home directory

2014-12-20 Thread The Wanderer
On 12/20/2014 at 09:16 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > The Wanderer wrote: > >> As usual when dealing with recursive action under *nix, the answer is >> find: > > Yes! :-) > >> find -P ... > >> The '-P' option tells find to never follow any symlinks. > > A small comment upon the technique. Just noti

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-20 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > I seem to recall making this point when i shared that while I respect the > *personal* computing choices of others, I need not emulate them. > In fact I never asked for word processing suggestions at all. Mine, works, > for, me...and I th

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Brian wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > floppy group. The console user is also set up with the floppy group > > too. Assuming one of libpam, consolekit, systemd-login0 and so forth. > > Therefore the console user doesn't need to be root. They can write to > > the write to it directly. > > It is as

Re: Changing permission in user's home directory

2014-12-20 Thread Peter Gerber
On our server we create an user for every of our customer and we run an instance of home-made java application (as the customers respective user). The issue is just who ever set up those servers created a home directory per user and set up everything in that directory. Including static files nee

Re: Changing permission in user's home directory

2014-12-20 Thread Bob Proulx
The Wanderer wrote: > As usual when dealing with recursive action under *nix, the answer is > find: Yes! :-) > find -P ... > The '-P' option tells find to never follow any symlinks. A small comment upon the technique. Just noting that -P is the default. No need to specify it explicitly.

Re: Changing permission in user's home directory

2014-12-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Peter Gerber wrote: > I want to change permission of a directory, recursively. The directory is a > subdirectory of a user's home directory. Sure. Okay. People do that all of the time. > Is there a way to do this in a secure and easy way with the user having full > write access to the home di

Re: Changing permission in user's home directory

2014-12-20 Thread The Wanderer
On 12/20/2014 at 07:11 PM, Peter Gerber wrote: > I want to change permission of a directory, recursively. The directory is a > subdirectory of a user's home directory. > > Is there a way to do this in a secure and easy way with the user having full > write access to the home directory? > > Let

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-20 Thread Rusi Mody
On Sunday, December 21, 2014 4:40:04 AM UTC+5:30, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > "Just a matter of" doing that? How do I make "." the fill character > for tabs? It's by no means self evident, because I just went through > every menu looking for it. Came across Format, Paragraph, Tabs, Fill > Character, c

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-20 Thread Karen Lewellen
I seem to recall making this point when i shared that while I respect the *personal* computing choices of others, I need not emulate them. In fact I never asked for word processing suggestions at all. Mine, works, for, me...and I think the rich thing about computing is the freedom to use wha

Re: Changing permission in user's home directory

2014-12-20 Thread David Christensen
On 12/20/2014 04:11 PM, Peter Gerber wrote: I want to change permission of a directory, recursively. The directory is a subdirectory of a user's home directory. Why? To what? E.g. what is the technical requirement(s) that forces you to change permission of a directory and/or it's contents, a

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-20 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 20 Dec 2014, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 20 December 2014 23:19:50 Gary Dale wrote: > > On 20/12/14 06:17 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > > > On 20/12/14 06:05 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > [snip] > > Why do we all have to like the same word processor? Indeed. And some of us actually like *doc

Re: Screen rotation question

2014-12-20 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Could be there's no difference, but try the --rotate flag and specify your vga connection xrandr --output VGA1 --rotate right On 12/05/2014 02:32 PM, Jacek Dudek wrote: > X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) -BEGIN P

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-20 Thread Greg Madden
Entertaining thread..cool. Long time since I read a WP, reveal codes, styles dust up :-) I still use WP8 in a NT4 vbox instance for a couple of tasks..I absolutely will not give up, I too miss the dot leader feature for my table of contents. I miss this feature, and a few more. I use the table f

Changing permission in user's home directory

2014-12-20 Thread Peter Gerber
I want to change permission of a directory, recursively. The directory is a subdirectory of a user's home directory. Is there a way to do this in a secure and easy way with the user having full write access to the home directory? Let's assume I would change the permissions as follows $ chgrp -R

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 20 December 2014 23:19:50 Gary Dale wrote: > On 20/12/14 06:17 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > > On 20/12/14 06:05 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: [snip] Why do we all have to like the same word processor? Lisi P.S. Sorry, Gary for the off-list just now. It wasn't aimed only at you and should te

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-20 Thread Brian
On Sat 20 Dec 2014 at 15:13:04 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Brian wrote: > > > Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > > > I plug in a USB pen drive, and launch dd to copy an iso image. > > > > > > > > # dd bs=4M if=debian-live-7.6.0-amd64-rescue.iso of=/dev/sdi && sync > > > > > > Th

Re: remote printing for an USB printer

2014-12-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 20 December 2014 21:03:50 Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Sat, 20 Dec 2014, Brian wrote: > > . . . > > This shows you have the android correctly set up for printing. > >    not exactly: I said that I didn't have anything to setup: just launching > the application and wait for 10 seconds. >

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/12/14 06:17 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 20/12/14 06:05 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: Sorry, meant to send that to Debian user; will do so now, so ignore until it arrives that way. On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 20

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/12/14 06:05 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: Sorry, meant to send that to Debian user; will do so now, so ignore until it arrives that way. On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 20/12/14 03:34 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote:

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-20 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > On 20/12/14 03:34 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> >> On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: >>> >>> On Saturday 20 December 2014 20:05:43 Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > > O

Re: remote printing for an USB printer

2014-12-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 20 December 2014 21:03:50 Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Sat, 20 Dec 2014, Brian wrote: > > . . . > > This shows you have the android correctly set up for printing. > >    not exactly: I said that I didn't have anything to setup: just launching > the application and wait for 10 seconds. >

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/12/14 03:34 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 20 December 2014 20:05:43 Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 20/12/14 02:15 PM, Doug wrote: On 12/20/2014 12:17 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 17/12

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Brian wrote: > > Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > > I plug in a USB pen drive, and launch dd to copy an iso image. > > > > > > # dd bs=4M if=debian-live-7.6.0-amd64-rescue.iso of=/dev/sdi && sync > > > > Thee is no need to be root to copy the ISO. > > Of course there is no need

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/12/14 03:35 PM, Doug wrote: On 12/20/2014 02:30 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 20/12/14 02:15 PM, Doug wrote: On 12/20/2014 12:17 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 17/12/14 11:35 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: Who said anything about running windows? The only windows I have are made of glass lol. Although a

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 19 dec 14, 10:15:32, Brian wrote: > On Fri 19 Dec 2014 at 05:45:33 -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > > I plug in a USB pen drive, and launch dd to copy an iso image. > > > > # dd bs=4M if=debian-live-7.6.0-amd64-rescue.iso of=/dev/sdi && sync > > Thee is no need to be root to copy the ISO

Re: remote printing for an USB printer

2014-12-20 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sat, 20 Dec 2014, Brian wrote: . . . This shows you have the android correctly set up for printing. not exactly: I said that I didn't have anything to setup: just launching the application and wait for 10 seconds. I think that a so mature OS as Debian should provide the same facilit

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-20 Thread Doug
On 12/20/2014 02:30 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 20/12/14 02:15 PM, Doug wrote: On 12/20/2014 12:17 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 17/12/14 11:35 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: Who said anything about running windows? The only windows I have are made of glass lol. Although a virtual dos machine might be intere

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-20 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 20 December 2014 20:05:43 Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Gary Dale wrote: >> > On 20/12/14 02:15 PM, Doug wrote: >> >> On 12/20/2014 12:17 PM, Gary Dale wrote: >> >>> On 17/12/14 11:35 PM, Karen Lewellen

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 20 December 2014 20:05:43 Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > > On 20/12/14 02:15 PM, Doug wrote: > >> On 12/20/2014 12:17 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > >>> On 17/12/14 11:35 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Who said anything about running windows? > >

Re: remote printing for an USB printer

2014-12-20 Thread Brian
On Sat 20 Dec 2014 at 16:25:40 +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > I have a HP photosmmart printer connected via USB to my Debian desktop. > On my android tablet,the "printershare" application found it immedialty, > without providing it any information (just: "look on the wifi network"). and > the ins

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-20 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > On 20/12/14 02:15 PM, Doug wrote: >> >> On 12/20/2014 12:17 PM, Gary Dale wrote: >>> >>> On 17/12/14 11:35 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: Who said anything about running windows? The only windows I have are made of glass lol. Altho

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/12/14 02:15 PM, Doug wrote: On 12/20/2014 12:17 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 17/12/14 11:35 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: Who said anything about running windows? The only windows I have are made of glass lol. Although a virtual dos machine might be interesting if I find anything over much to do

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-20 Thread Doug
On 12/20/2014 12:17 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 17/12/14 11:35 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: Who said anything about running windows? The only windows I have are made of glass lol. Although a virtual dos machine might be interesting if I find anything over much to do with Linux. Thanks for the giggle

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 17/12/14 11:35 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: Who said anything about running windows? The only windows I have are made of glass lol. Although a virtual dos machine might be interesting if I find anything over much to do with Linux. Thanks for the giggle, Kare OK, but you can set up a UNIX vi

remote printing for an USB printer

2014-12-20 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
hi, I have a HP photosmmart printer connected via USB to my Debian desktop. On my android tablet,the "printershare" application found it immedialty, without providing it any information (just: "look on the wifi network"). and the installation was done in less that 10 seconds. On my wheezy laptop,

Re: disk (and other resource) management of virtual machines

2014-12-20 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 02:19:18PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > Is there a way to expose host file systems to the guests? NFS is a > possibility, but the VM's will be running various services that warn > not to use NFS. libvirt doesn't seem to provide the ability to expose > host file systems dire