Re: gufw problem

2015-12-08 Thread Bret Busby
On 09/12/2015, Jape Person wrote: > > Just as a matter of etiquette for this mailing list, I thought I'd > mention a couple of things. > > 1. It's best not to reply directly to another user's e-mail address -- > unless that user has specifically requested to be CC'd. Most people who > post here

Re: gufw problem

2015-12-08 Thread Jape Person
On 12/08/2015 10:55 PM, Francis Gerund wrote: Yes! Thank you, Jape. This was the answer: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=681315. I guess I'm going to have to learn to hunt down (and to read) bug reports. Ugh! Reading Is Fundamental (blast from the past). When you don't kn

Re: gufw problem

2015-12-08 Thread Francis Gerund
Yes! Thank you, Jape. This was the answer: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=681315. I guess I'm going to have to learn to hunt down (and to read) bug reports. Ugh! Just editing the desktop.gufw file to comment out the offending (and offensive!) line fixed it. It now shows up (an

Re: gufw problem

2015-12-08 Thread Jape Person
On 12/08/2015 09:20 PM, Francis Gerund wrote: I am using the Gnome 3 "classic" desktop. When I push the mouser pointer up into the hot-spot in the upper left corner of the screen, a (sort of) oval pops up containing a magnifying glass icon and the words "Type to search . . . ". If I type in "gu

Re: gufw problem

2015-12-08 Thread Francis Gerund
I am using the Gnome 3 "classic" desktop. When I push the mouser pointer up into the hot-spot in the upper left corner of the screen, a (sort of) oval pops up containing a magnifying glass icon and the words "Type to search . . . ". If I type in "gufw", it just bluntly says "No results.". But if

Re: drawing tablet success

2015-12-08 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 09 December 2015 00:08:00 Dan Ritter wrote: > Since I spend a fair amount of time complaining about the OS I > love, I figure it's only fair to point out success when it > happens unexpectedly. > > I gave my son a Monoprice 10x6.5" drawing tablet today. It's > relatively cheap - about

Re: gufw problem

2015-12-08 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 09 December 2015 01:32:39 Jape Person wrote: > On 12/08/2015 04:57 PM, Francis Gerund wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I just installed Debian 8.2, 64-bit, Gnome desktop, using the > > netinst.iso. Used Synaptic to install Gufw (and ufw as dependency). > > Ufw works fine. > > > > But gufw do

Re: gufw problem

2015-12-08 Thread Jape Person
On 12/08/2015 04:57 PM, Francis Gerund wrote: Hello! I just installed Debian 8.2, 64-bit, Gnome desktop, using the netinst.iso. Used Synaptic to install Gufw (and ufw as dependency). Ufw works fine. But gufw does not show in the application menu or in the favories menu of Gnome. The only way

Re: [OT] Soliciting Advice on e-mail and web-hosting providers

2015-12-08 Thread Gener Badenas
On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 5:57 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 06 December 2015 03:47:55 Joe wrote: > > > On Sat, 5 Dec 2015 18:24:22 -0500 (EST) > > > > Stephen Powell wrote: > > > On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 10:15:08 -0500 (EST), mister s jones wrote: > > > > On Saturday, November 28, 2015 09:49:47 S

Re: [OT] Soliciting Advice on e-mail and web-hosting providers

2015-12-08 Thread Gener Badenas
On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 10:49 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > I currently get my internet connectivity, e-mail service, and web-hosting > service from the same provider. I recently complained to my ISP about > backscatter SPAM I was getting from other people's infected machines > that were sending o

drawing tablet success

2015-12-08 Thread Dan Ritter
Since I spend a fair amount of time complaining about the OS I love, I figure it's only fair to point out success when it happens unexpectedly. I gave my son a Monoprice 10x6.5" drawing tablet today. It's relatively cheap - about $50. He plugged it in to his Jessie PC and to our mutual surprise,

Re: My web site is back

2015-12-08 Thread Gener Badenas
On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 5:50 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, 08 Dec 2015 12:36:44 -0500 (EST), Martin Read wrote: > > On 08/12/15 16:58, Darac Marjal wrote: > >> > >> To which, the venerable W3C replied "Cool URIs don't change": > >> http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html > > > > Your criti

gufw problem

2015-12-08 Thread Francis Gerund
Hello! I just installed Debian 8.2, 64-bit, Gnome desktop, using the netinst.iso. Used Synaptic to install Gufw (and ufw as dependency). Ufw works fine. But gufw does not show in the application menu or in the favories menu of Gnome. The only way to run it seems to be in Gnome terminal (non-log

Re: My web site is back

2015-12-08 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 08 Dec 2015 12:36:44 -0500 (EST), Martin Read wrote: > On 08/12/15 16:58, Darac Marjal wrote: >> >> To which, the venerable W3C replied "Cool URIs don't change": >> http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html > > Your criticism is invalid, given that the action that has clearly been > taken

Re: My web site is back

2015-12-08 Thread Felix Miata
Darac Marjal composed on 2015-12-08 16:58 (UTC): > On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 11:15:50AM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: >>Old site: h t t p : / / u s e r s . w o w w a y . c o m / ~ z l i n u x m a n >>/ >>New site: http://www.stevesdebianstuff.org/ >>If you have bookmarks set for the old site you

Re: My web site is back

2015-12-08 Thread Martin Read
On 08/12/15 16:58, Darac Marjal wrote: On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 11:15:50AM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: If you have bookmarks set for the old site you should update your bookmarks. Some pages from the old site are not on the new site because I judged them to be obsolete. To which, the venerable

Re: My web site is back

2015-12-08 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 11:15:50AM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: Old site: h t t p : / / u s e r s . w o w w a y . c o m / ~ z l i n u x m a n / New site: http://www.stevesdebianstuff.org/ If you have bookmarks set for the old site you should update your bookmarks. Some pages from the old sit

My web site is back

2015-12-08 Thread Stephen Powell
Old site: h t t p : / / u s e r s . w o w w a y . c o m / ~ z l i n u x m a n / New site: http://www.stevesdebianstuff.org/ If you have bookmarks set for the old site you should update your bookmarks. Some pages from the old site are not on the new site because I judged them to be obsolete.

mount command behaviour

2015-12-08 Thread bobafetthotmail
Hi, I was porting in Jessie a script that worked in wheezy, it does the following: -mount --bind "$folderX" "$folderY" -mount -t tmpfs "scriptname" "$folderX" -cp -rfp "$folderY/." -T "$folderX/." It seems that now when mount the folder X as tmpfs (the second step), also the bindmount is mounte

Re: apt-get error messages

2015-12-08 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 08/12/15 13:41, Chris Bannister wrote: *groan* *sigh* ... I wonder why there's not a 'dpkg --print-architectures' which prints out *all* the architectures it knows about. Because you haven't written it yet? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England |

Re: apt-get error messages

2015-12-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 06:48:45AM +0100, Matthias Bodenbinder wrote: > Am 06.12.2015 um 22:47 schrieb Klaus Jantzen: > > dpkg --remove-architecture i368 > > apt-get update > > > > But I cannot add the correct architecture: > > > > dpkg --add-architecture i386 > > apt-get update > > dpkg --print-