Re: blu ray burning with samsung se506cb in debian jessie

2016-03-19 Thread Jan Gregor
Hello, I tried to burn data to rest of the blu ray disc, that failed and use speed=2. At first it failed with original 25GB image, it was solved by excluding some files and burn only 24GB. Executing 'builtin_dd if=mybluray-disc.udf of=/dev/sr0 obs=32k seek=0' :-( /dev/sr0: 12088320 blocks are

Re: Every opportunity taken (Was: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC...)

2016-03-19 Thread Ric Moore
On 03/17/2016 01:58 AM, Adam Wilson wrote: On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 20:38:04 +0100 deloptes wrote: Martin Read wrote: On 15/03/16 07:45, deloptes wrote: I see recently more python code written than real C/C++. So what? Most programs *shouldn't* be written in C or C++, and I say this as someone

Re: Sudo

2016-03-19 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 20 Mar 2016, John Hasler wrote: >doug writes: >> su allows someone with a root password (and nobody else) to make >> system modifications, etc., which might harm the operation of the >> system. Sudo basically allows anyone with a user password to do the >> same thing > >No it doesn't. Only use

Re: Every opportunity taken (Was: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC...)

2016-03-19 Thread Adam Wilson
On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 20:38:04 +0100 deloptes wrote: > Martin Read wrote: > > > On 15/03/16 07:45, deloptes wrote: > >> I see recently more python code written than real C/C++. > > > > So what? Most programs *shouldn't* be written in C or C++, and I say > > this as someone who loves C and C++ and

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-19 Thread Brian
On Wed 16 Mar 2016 at 12:06:40 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 16 March 2016 10:12:59 Brian wrote: > > > Now find a *small* PDF file and send it directly to the printer with > > netcat: > > > > nc 192.168.71.20 9100 < file.pdf > > > > or > > > > nc BRN001BA9E3811F.local < file.pdf >

Re: computer cann't shut down

2016-03-19 Thread メット
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, Did u try the P switch? shutdown -hP now Hth On 2016年3月20日 12:42:27 JST, Michael Milliman wrote: > > >On 03/19/2016 09:40 PM, lina wrote: >> shutdown -h now >> >> doesn't work. it still reboot. >> >This sounds like an issue with the hardware

Re: computer cann't shut down

2016-03-19 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello Forum: On 20/03/16 04:42, Michael Milliman wrote: > > > On 03/19/2016 09:40 PM, lina wrote: >> shutdown -h now >> >> doesn't work. it still reboot. >> > This sounds like an issue with the hardware or BIOS not with the > Debian OS, or with the Desktop environment. Though I have not had >

Re: computer cann't shut down

2016-03-19 Thread Michael Milliman
On 03/19/2016 09:40 PM, lina wrote: shutdown -h now doesn't work. it still reboot. This sounds like an issue with the hardware or BIOS not with the Debian OS, or with the Desktop environment. Though I have not had this problem, I have had several others related to shutdown/reboot/suspend/

Re: Further to my installation error

2016-03-19 Thread Adam Wilson
On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 16:50:43 -0400 doug wrote: > While you have GParted running, why not make the partitions you want > using that, and format them to ext4. Then when you go to install > the new system, just tell it to use existing partitions. Provided you aren't using GPT, can you use fdisk to

Re: Password protecting grub

2016-03-19 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 05:07:33PM +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > I wish to password protect grub bootloader. I tried the steps available on > online manuals as of RedHat, Ubuntu, etc. All experiments were on a > VirtualBox machine, so my system rema

Re: Installing newer kernels

2016-03-19 Thread David Wright
On Fri 18 Mar 2016 at 18:31:24 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > You're a better man than myself. :-) I recycled all of my Pentium > III machines. My 32-bit Pentium 4's will soon follow... Well, this Pentium III is the last machine I had on my desk at work, so I'll probably run it until it d

Re: Password protecting grub

2016-03-19 Thread arian
hi > But, no way out if you forget the BIOS password. That's why I want to have > GRUB password. You realize that if it's easy for you to circumvent some (broken!) authentication, it's just as easy for an attacker, right? What you want is not possible, in the end. I guess that's why "factory

Re: Further to my installation error

2016-03-19 Thread Adam Wilson
On Wed, 16 Mar 2016 20:49:28 + Brian wrote: > On Wed 16 Mar 2016 at 16:12:20 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > > > Brian composed on 2016-03-16 19:21 (UTC): > > > > >On Tue 15 Mar 2016 at 22:41:14 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > >>Pity it took me until it tried to use CD1 to do a net-install to

Re: computer cann't shut down

2016-03-19 Thread lina
On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 12:19 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Sat, 19 Mar 2016, lina wrote: > >> Every time since I installed the system, > > Which one? Jessie? Testing (Stretch)?, Unstable? > Jessie stable; > Which desktop, if any? on my new iMac. > > What computer? > > During the install, w

Re: computer cann't shut down

2016-03-19 Thread lina
shutdown -h now doesn't work. it still reboot. On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 8:16 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 19 March 2016 23:37:05 Patrick Bartek wrote: >> On Sat, 19 Mar 2016, David Christensen wrote: >> > On 03/19/2016 05:40 AM, lina wrote: >> > > Every time since I installed the system,

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-19 Thread jdd
Le 18/03/2016 13:55, Jarle Aase a écrit : Actually, I need scanning more frequently than I need printing. The scanner works perfectly without any proprietary software on my PC. I have still not printed anything. scanner are for free nowaday (second hand), I even have an unused one :-) jdd

Re: Password protecting grub

2016-03-19 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
Ok! I understand GRUB password and other such passwords are ineffective. I am also aware of the fact that hard drive can be read anywhere unless it is encrypted. The am eager to know a particular way (however bad it may be) to secure a system, which I have not known yet. All efforts yet just stop a

Re: Sudo

2016-03-19 Thread Charlie Kravetz
On Sun, 20 Mar 2016 00:52:23 + Lisi Reisz wrote: >On Sunday 20 March 2016 00:40:52 Ric Moore wrote: >> On 03/19/2016 08:22 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> > On Saturday 19 March 2016 21:13:14 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> >> >> On Sat, Ma

Sound problems

2016-03-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
I have currently no sound. It is an ASROCK N3050B-ITX motherboard with onboard sound with the following specifications: Chipset Intel N3050 Sound Card Type Realtek ALC887 Number of Sound Card Channels 7.1 I have the following information: peter@Eros:~$ lspci -nnk | grep udio 00:1b.0 Audio d

Re: Password protecting grub

2016-03-19 Thread jdd
Le 16/03/2016 13:16, Himanshu Shekhar a écrit : On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 5:39 PM, jdd mailto:j...@dodin.org>> wrote: Le 16/03/2016 12:37, Himanshu Shekhar a écrit : " set superusers="root" password root rootpassword if it's a bash command, it should be "passwd", not

Re: installing icedove from backports

2016-03-19 Thread Sven Hartge
Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 19 March 2016 19:04:19 Sven Hartge wrote: >> Bob Holtzman wrote: >>> apt-get -t jessie-backports install icedove gives "icedove is already >>> the newest version". Same with icedove-extension. >>> >>> The installed version is 38.6.0-1~deb amd64 and the version in

Re: Sudo

2016-03-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 20 March 2016 00:40:52 Ric Moore wrote: > On 03/19/2016 08:22 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 19 March 2016 21:13:14 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 04:15:01PM +, Frank Jones wrote: > >>> I have on

Re: Sudo

2016-03-19 Thread Ric Moore
On 03/19/2016 08:22 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 19 March 2016 21:13:14 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 04:15:01PM +, Frank Jones wrote: I have only been using Linux for a short time why cant I use SUDO on theterminal with

Re: computer cann't shut down

2016-03-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 19 March 2016 23:37:05 Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Sat, 19 Mar 2016, David Christensen wrote: > > On 03/19/2016 05:40 AM, lina wrote: > > > Every time since I installed the system, > > > > > > every time I tried Shut Down, it mainly restart again. > > > > > > I checked online and tried s

Re: Sudo

2016-03-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 19 March 2016 21:13:14 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 04:15:01PM +, Frank Jones wrote: > > I have only been using Linux for a short time why cant I use SUDO on > > theterminal with Debian I use it with Linu Mint.

Re: installing icedove from backports

2016-03-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 19 March 2016 19:04:19 Sven Hartge wrote: > Bob Holtzman wrote: > > apt-get -t jessie-backports install icedove gives "icedove is already > > the newest version". Same with icedove-extension. > > > > The installed version is 38.6.0-1~deb amd64 and the version in jessie > > backports is

Re: Troubleshooting Support Reg

2016-03-19 Thread jdd
Le 17/03/2016 05:55, Mohammed Aathif.C a écrit : Hi Support Team, Hello, this is not a support team (Debian being free software, there is nothing like an official support team :-( We are simple users that try to help others If it's not the right one please redirect me to the right path to

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-19 Thread Jarle Aase
Den 11. mars 2016 19:36, skrev Lisi Reisz: I have been reading this thread a bit at a time. I am bemused. Why, if you want life simple, and Free, etc., go for an AIO, which are notoriously troublesome? Why not go for a simple Brother laser printer? (If you want Brother.) Actually, I need s

Re: Password protecting grub

2016-03-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 17 March 2016 17:04:04 Martin Smith wrote: > On 17/03/2016 04:55, Adam Wilson wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Mar 2016 23:12:06 +0530 Himanshu Shekhar > > > > wrote: > >> Ok! I understand GRUB password and other such passwords are > >> ineffective. I am also aware of the fact that hard drive can

Re: No irq handler for vector

2016-03-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 16 Mar 2016, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2016-03-16 at 11:35, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2016, at 09:45, The Wanderer wrote: > > > >> In my case, it meant that a microcode update which was/is needed on > >> my combination of CPU and motherboard was not being applie

Re: computer cann't shut down

2016-03-19 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 19 Mar 2016, David Christensen wrote: > On 03/19/2016 05:40 AM, lina wrote: > > Every time since I installed the system, > > > > every time I tried Shut Down, it mainly restart again. > > > > I checked online and tried several methods but still don't work. > > > > Can anyone suggest me how

Re: No irq handler for vector

2016-03-19 Thread The Wanderer
On 2016-03-17 at 20:23, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 16 Mar 2016, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2016-03-16 at 11:35, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >>> What processor is this, please? >> >> Core i7-990X Extreme. /proc/cpuinfo reports it as: >> >> cpu family: 6 >> model: 44 >>

Re: Further to my installation error

2016-03-19 Thread Brian
On Wed 16 Mar 2016 at 16:12:20 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Brian composed on 2016-03-16 19:21 (UTC): > > >On Tue 15 Mar 2016 at 22:41:14 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > >>Pity it took me until it tried to use CD1 to do a net-install to realise > >>that!! And I have now run out of writable CDs. :-(

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-19 Thread Adam Wilson
On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 16:10:49 +0100 jdd wrote: > Le 15/03/2016 16:01, David Wright a écrit : > > > You write "Is Airprint free?". Is this a real question or a pointed > > remark designed to create more discussion? I can't tell. Why don't > > you just look it up? > > > > You write "not from me, bu

Re: Firefox vis a vis source of Chrome

2016-03-19 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 17/03/2016 4:04 AM, Felix Miata wrote: > Andrew McGlashan composed on 2016-03-17 02:52 (UTC+1100): > >> ...Let Firefox stand on >> it's own, it doesn't need to be a Chrome clone; heck Chrome was born out >> of Firefox in the first place. > > Chrome/Blink was begotten/forked from Safari/W

Re: ssd firmware and power cycles etc

2016-03-19 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
Hey Michael, It depends if you believe in the voodoo. In general once a SSD drive actually fails there is not much you can do as long as you don't know what the chip does exactly. If you have important data on it then in most cases the suggestion is to have a HDD as a backup device so you won't

Re: Sudo

2016-03-19 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 04:15:01PM +, Frank Jones wrote: > I have only been using Linux for a short time why cant I use SUDO on > theterminal with Debian I use it with Linu Mint. Possibly you have to add yourself to the sudoers file: it's in /etc

Re: Password protecting grub

2016-03-19 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 5:39 PM, jdd wrote: > Le 16/03/2016 12:37, Himanshu Shekhar a écrit : > > " set superusers="root" >>password root rootpassword >> > > if it's a bash command, it should be "passwd", not "password" > > jdd > > Tried! Didn't work. Regards

Re: No irq handler for vector

2016-03-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, Mar 16, 2016, at 09:45, The Wanderer wrote: > In my case, it meant that a microcode update which was/is needed on my > combination of CPU and motherboard was not being applied. This appeared What processor is this, please? -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk

Re: Troubleshooting Support Reg

2016-03-19 Thread deloptes
Mohammed Aathif.C wrote: > Actually my issue is, My Debian(V5) is not booting to desktop. Its > rebooting when I choose Debian OS in Boot Manu. Please let know the > troubleshooting steps without any loss of my data in my machine, I have so > many most important data's. > If you care for your da

Re: ssd firmware and power cycles etc

2016-03-19 Thread David Christensen
On 03/17/2016 01:25 PM, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Folks, I had a problem with a power supply that kept cutting out after about 40 minutes or so. I was running debian stretch reasonably OK from a PNY optima ssd on an FX 8350 cpu running on a sabertooth fx 990 2.0 board with a engt 430 graph

Re: Password protecting grub

2016-03-19 Thread jdd
Le 16/03/2016 12:37, Himanshu Shekhar a écrit : " set superusers="root" password root rootpassword if it's a bash command, it should be "passwd", not "password" jdd

Re: Installing newer kernels

2016-03-19 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 09:21:12AM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Thu, 2016-03-17 at 19:27 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > > Debian 6 is obsolete. You're going to want to do a  > > backup-wipe-install-restore cycle on both machines and move to Deb

Re: flash? [OT]

2016-03-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-03-16, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 15 March 2016 19:58:18 Brian wrote: >> On Tue 15 Mar 2016 at 08:57:20 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> > Even Channel 4, which relies on advertising for its revenue, is totally >> > indifferent to the fact that Linux users can't watch it on a computer. >>

Troubleshooting Support Reg

2016-03-19 Thread Mohammed Aathif.C
Hi Support Team, Hope you were doing well and good. I don't know this is the right mail id that I am throwing my issue. If it's not the right one please redirect me to the right path to get me the right solution. Thanks in Advance, Actually my issue is, My Debian(V5) is not booting to desktop. I

ssd firmware and power cycles etc

2016-03-19 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Folks, I had a problem with a power supply that kept cutting out after about 40 minutes or so. I was running debian stretch reasonably OK from a PNY optima ssd on an FX 8350 cpu running on a sabertooth fx 990 2.0 board with a engt 430 graphics card. The original psu was a Zalman zm 1250 whi

Re: flash? [OT]

2016-03-19 Thread Adam Wilson
On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 12:39:11 -0400 Ric Moore wrote: > On 03/17/2016 01:37 AM, Adam Wilson wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 17:06:12 -0400 Ric Moore > > wrote: > > > >> On 03/14/2016 10:47 PM, David Wright wrote: > >>> On Tue 15 Mar 2016 at 05:30:28 (+0300), Adam Wilson wrote: > >> > They will

Re: Sudo

2016-03-19 Thread Joe
On Sat, 19 Mar 2016 19:57:56 +0100 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Sat, 2016-03-19 at 18:38 +, Joe wrote: > > I've never seen sudo installed by default in any Debian, and I begin > > with expert minimal netinstalls of stable, and I've never seen it > > offered as an option there. My first two acti

Re: wordpress from packages - wp-content location not applied?

2016-03-19 Thread Jiri 'Ghormoon' Novak
Hi, the line in /usr is there by default (in package) and is not applied, until I copy it to /etc. that's the strange part. Gh. arian wrote: > No idea of wordpress, but > >> there is: /usr/share/wordpress/wp-config.php: >> define('WP_CONTENT_DIR', '/var/lib/wordpress/wp-content'); >> >> but t

Re: Installing newer kernels

2016-03-19 Thread David Wright
On Fri 18 Mar 2016 at 20:06:32 (+), Brian wrote: > On Fri 18 Mar 2016 at 14:44:31 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > But I've had no difficulty booting Debian from CD on any of my machines. > > Obviously USBs are unsuitable for the ancient ones, though I await > > a response to > > https://lists

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-19 Thread Brian
On Tue 15 Mar 2016 at 23:18:30 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Gluttons for punishment eh? Remember, you did ask for it :( And nothu > ing has been excised. Uncut outputs are always the best. Thank you very much. [Useful avahi-browse record snipped to save bandwidth] > Now, I note 3 instances of

Re: installing icedove from backports

2016-03-19 Thread Sven Hartge
Bob Holtzman wrote: > apt-get -t jessie-backports install icedove gives "icedove is already > the newest version". Same with icedove-extension. > The installed version is 38.6.0-1~deb amd64 and the version in jessie > backports is 38.7.0-1~deb8u1 > Comments, pointers, help, derision, etc appr

Re: Sudo

2016-03-19 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sat, 2016-03-19 at 18:38 +, Joe wrote: > I've never seen sudo installed by default in any Debian, and I begin > with expert minimal netinstalls of stable, and I've never seen it > offered as an option there. My first two actions on reboot are to > install sudo and mc. By default you are

installing icedove from backports

2016-03-19 Thread Bob Holtzman
apt-get -t jessie-backports install icedove gives "icedove is already the newest version". Same with icedove-extension. The installed version is 38.6.0-1~deb amd64 and the version in jessie backports is 38.7.0-1~deb8u1 Comments, pointers, help, derision, etc appreciated. -- Bob Holtzman A man

Re: Sudo

2016-03-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 19 March 2016 12:15:01 Frank Jones wrote: > I have only been using Linux for a short time why cant I use SUDO on > theterminal with Debian I use it with Linu Mint. Are you first user? s/b #1000 I believe. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty

Re: Further to my installation error

2016-03-19 Thread Adam Wilson
On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 22:41:14 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > So - if you want to format an existing partition properly, so the > stuff on it actually goes, use Gparted not the partitioner in the > Jessie installer. Sad. Is it possible for the d-i partitioning utility to sometimes make mistakes when c

Throughput riddle

2016-03-19 Thread Celejar
Hi, I'm trying to understand the throughput across the different links of my little home network, and am perplexed by the measured wireless throughput. The three main devices I'm interested in: Router: Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH running OpenWrt (Chaos Calmer 15.05). Gigabit WAN and LAN, 802.11bgn wir

Re: Password protecting grub

2016-03-19 Thread Martin Smith
On 17/03/2016 04:55, Adam Wilson wrote: On Wed, 16 Mar 2016 23:12:06 +0530 Himanshu Shekhar wrote: Ok! I understand GRUB password and other such passwords are ineffective. I am also aware of the fact that hard drive can be read anywhere unless it is encrypted. The am eager to know a particular

Re: Sudo

2016-03-19 Thread Joe
On Sun, 20 Mar 2016 04:01:03 +1100 Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Hi, > > On 20/03/2016 3:15 AM, Frank Jones wrote: > > I have only been using Linux for a short time why cant I use SUDO > > on the terminal with Debian I use it with Linu Mint. > > There is, or was at the very least, an installation

Re: computer cann't shut down

2016-03-19 Thread David Christensen
On 03/19/2016 05:40 AM, lina wrote: Every time since I installed the system, every time I tried Shut Down, it mainly restart again. I checked online and tried several methods but still don't work. Can anyone suggest me how to solve it. I'm having the same issue: https://bugs.debian.org/

Re: Installing newer kernels

2016-03-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 18 March 2016 17:55:50 Ric Moore wrote: > On 03/18/2016 01:22 PM, David Christensen wrote: > > On 03/18/2016 01:21 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > >> On Thu, 2016-03-17 at 19:27 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > >>> Debian 6 is obsolete. You're going to want to do a > >>> backup-wipe-install-

Re: wordpress from packages - wp-content location not applied?

2016-03-19 Thread arian
No idea of wordpress, but > there is: /usr/share/wordpress/wp-config.php: > define('WP_CONTENT_DIR', '/var/lib/wordpress/wp-content'); > > but that doesn't have any effect unless I define it in > /etc/wordpress/config-www.domain.tld.conf too. what happens when you define it _only_ in /etc/wor

Re: flash? [OT]

2016-03-19 Thread Ric Moore
On 03/17/2016 01:37 AM, Adam Wilson wrote: On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 17:06:12 -0400 Ric Moore wrote: On 03/14/2016 10:47 PM, David Wright wrote: On Tue 15 Mar 2016 at 05:30:28 (+0300), Adam Wilson wrote: They will notice when lots of people no longer use Flash, and we will force them to react ac

Re: computer cann't shut down

2016-03-19 Thread songbird
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > >> p# shutdown -f now >> Code should not be reached 'Unhandled option' at > > That's a rough way to tell that the option "-f" is not known. > > If i need to shutdown a machine (real or VM), i do as superuser > > shutdown -h now > > > Have a nice day :) ah, haha, t

Re: Installing newer kernels

2016-03-19 Thread David Wright
On Fri 18 Mar 2016 at 10:22:49 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > On 03/18/2016 01:21 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > >On Thu, 2016-03-17 at 19:27 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > >>Debian 6 is obsolete. You're going to want to do a > >>backup-wipe-install-restore cycle on both machines and move to D

Re: Help

2016-03-19 Thread arian
best way to go, grab yourself a live image [1] and try it out yourself. Do yourself a favour and disable the 920m, it's only some 20-40% faster [2](linux numbers may be way off and may favour intel) than the HD 520 and will help you only sometimes get something playable - if you game at all, tha

Re: No irq handler for vector

2016-03-19 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 8:45 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > > I had this for months on end, but it stopped happening a month or two > ago. Thanks for all the information. Can you please provide the kernel version where this error does not show up. thanks raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi | http://raju.s

Re: Password protecting grub

2016-03-19 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
> > But, be advised that once you do this, all the menu entries in grub will > be > > inaccessible until the password is supplied. > > It would be nice to have a way of requiring a password only if it > required > > to boot a non-default entry. > > That's what > menuentry "May be run by any u

Help

2016-03-19 Thread Vlad
I have an Asus x556u i5 6200u GeForce 920m 2gb, support that laptop Debian? Will it work in full power? And what version should i install (i386 or AMD64)? Thanks

Re: flash? [OT]

2016-03-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-03-16, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 16 March 2016 15:47:29 Liam O'Toole wrote: [...] >> >> > I've just tried Channel 4 using Google Chrome[1] on jessie, and >> >> > it seems to work. I say "seems" because the site prompts me for >> >> > account details I don't have, whereas iceweasel

Re: Sound problems

2016-03-19 Thread deloptes
Felix Miata wrote: > /etc/modules.d/ Hi your post is interesting for me. on the debian one it is /etc/modprobe.d/ - no? I have similar chip if not same 00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT HD Audio Controller (rev 0b) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 8 Series HD Audio Con

Re: Help

2016-03-19 Thread ire27
Install AMD64 as your processor supports it. Unless you have a particular reason for needing a 32bit install? My previous ASUS laptop ran Debian great. Although, Debian and Ubuntu both had trouble recognizing my battery in my last Dell Laptop. I am sure there will be some tweaking involved with thi

Re: Sudo

2016-03-19 Thread John Hasler
doug writes: > su allows someone with a root password (and nobody else) to make > system modifications, etc., which might harm the operation of the > system. Sudo basically allows anyone with a user password to do the > same thing No it doesn't. Only users who have been granted sudo privileges ca

Re: Sudo

2016-03-19 Thread John Hasler
Install the sudo package. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Sudo

2016-03-19 Thread doug
On 03/19/2016 01:01 PM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: Hi, On 20/03/2016 3:15 AM, Frank Jones wrote: I have only been using Linux for a short time why cant I use SUDO on the terminal with Debian I use it with Linu Mint. There is, or was at the very least, an installation choice of whether or not to

Re: Sudo

2016-03-19 Thread Charlie Kravetz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 19 Mar 2016 16:15:01 + (UTC) Frank Jones wrote: >I have only been using Linux for a short time why cant I use SUDO on >theterminal with Debian I use it with Linu Mint. Linux Mint does not install a root user. It installs Sudo instead.

Re: Sudo

2016-03-19 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 20/03/2016 3:15 AM, Frank Jones wrote: > I have only been using Linux for a short time why cant I use SUDO on the > terminal with Debian I use it with Linu Mint. There is, or was at the very least, an installation choice of whether or not to setup sudo. It is not foreign to /normal/ Debia

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-19 Thread Jarle Aase
Den 10. mars 2016 21:01, skrev Brian: Did you go through all this to set up scanning on the device? Of course you didn't. So why not do the same with printing and not make a song and a dance about it. Scanning was simple, as the device use standard protocols. Currently I scan to a FTP server

Re: Sudo

2016-03-19 Thread humbert . olivier . 1
Hi Frank, > I have only been using Linux for a short time why cant I use SUDO on the > terminal with Debian I use it with Linu Mint. Because Debian uses by default the "su" command. You can learn about it using "man su" in a terminal. If you really want to use sudo, you can read at https://wik

Automatically mount encrypted disk on terminal using gnome-keyring

2016-03-19 Thread heqamilus
Hi, I have searched for a while but without success. I have an encrypted HDD that I can mount automatically by opening the path of my disk in nautilus because I have saved the password on my user's account. Each time I power on my PC I have to start nautilus and click on my disk. I want to automa

Sudo

2016-03-19 Thread Frank Jones
I have only been using Linux for a short time why cant I use SUDO on theterminal with Debian I use it with Linu Mint.

Re: computer cann't shut down

2016-03-19 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 19 Mar 2016, lina wrote: > Every time since I installed the system, Which one? Jessie? Testing (Stretch)?, Unstable? Which desktop, if any? What computer? During the install, what options did you choose? Or did you just use the defaults? > every time I tried Shut Down, it mainly re

Re: cd as much as possible

2016-03-19 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
> > NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE > > > IMPORTANT: debian is famous for having like 5 different "delete all /tmp/ > files" in it's startup scripts (boot time, runlevel) > > you might very well NOT wish to keep any of your hard sweat in a place that > might by surprise be automatically de

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 March 2016 10:12:59 Brian wrote: > On Tue 15 Mar 2016 at 23:18:30 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Gluttons for punishment eh? Remember, you did ask for it :( And > > nothu ing has been excised. > > Uncut outputs are always the best. Thank you very much. > > [Useful avahi-browse re

Re: flash? [OT]

2016-03-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 16 March 2016 12:54:07 Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2016-03-16, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Tuesday 15 March 2016 19:58:18 Brian wrote: > >> On Tue 15 Mar 2016 at 08:57:20 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> > Even Channel 4, which relies on advertising for its revenue, is > >> > totally indiffere

Re: computer cann't shut down

2016-03-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > p# shutdown -f now > Code should not be reached 'Unhandled option' at That's a rough way to tell that the option "-f" is not known. If i need to shutdown a machine (real or VM), i do as superuser shutdown -h now Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Sound problems

2016-03-19 Thread Felix Miata
deloptes composed on 2016-03-17 09:50 (UTC+0100): Felix Miata wrote: deloptes composed on 2016-03-17 0:05 (UTC+0100): Why should it be related to TDE? I do not think your statement is rectified here. However I did not test anything else. I only mentioned TDE because I know Lisi uses it.

Re: Sound problems

2016-03-19 Thread Adam Wilson
On Wed, 16 Mar 2016 16:22:53 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > I have currently no sound. > > It is an ASROCK N3050B-ITX motherboard with onboard sound with the > following specifications: > > Chipset Intel N3050 > Sound Card Type Realtek ALC887 > Number of Sound Card Channels 7.1 > > I have the fo

Re: Sound problems

2016-03-19 Thread deloptes
Felix Miata wrote: > deloptes composed on 2016-03-17 0:05 (UTC+0100): > >> Felix Miata wrote: > >>> /etc/modules.d/ > >> Hi your post is interesting for me. > >> on the debian one it is /etc/modprobe.d/ - no? > > I screwed up, fingers badly out of sync with eyeballs. :-p modprobe.d/ it > is.

Re: computer cann't shut down

2016-03-19 Thread lina
p# shutdown -f now Code should not be reached 'Unhandled option' at ../src/systemctl/systemctl.c:6316, function shutdown_parse_argv(). Aborting. Aborted On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 9:19 PM, songbird wrote: > lina wrote: > >> Every time since I installed the system, >> >> every time I tried Shut Down,

Re: Firefox vis a vis source of Chrome

2016-03-19 Thread Felix Miata
Andrew McGlashan composed on 2016-03-17 05:16 (UTC+1100): Felix Miata wrote: Andrew McGlashan composed on 2016-03-17 02:52 (UTC+1100): ...Let Firefox stand on it's own, it doesn't need to be a Chrome clone; heck Chrome was born out of Firefox in the first place. Chrome/Blink was beg

Re: ssd firmware and power cycles etc

2016-03-19 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 18/03/2016 7:59 AM, Michael Fothergill wrote: > I will stick with hard drives. Any kind of flash drive can die with little or no notice. However, that article was way back in 2013 ... there have been loads of improvements since then. Current Samsung 850 Pro units in AU have a 10 year warran

wordpress from packages - wp-content location not applied?

2016-03-19 Thread Jiri 'Ghormoon' Novak
Hi, what may I be missing, if the configuration that came with wordpress package doesn't apply correctly? there is: /usr/share/wordpress/wp-config.php: define('WP_CONTENT_DIR', '/var/lib/wordpress/wp-content'); but that doesn't have any effect unless I define it in /etc/wordpress/config-www.d

Re: computer cann't shut down

2016-03-19 Thread songbird
lina wrote: > Every time since I installed the system, > > every time I tried Shut Down, it mainly restart again. > > I checked online and tried several methods but still don't work. > > Can anyone suggest me how to solve it. helps to know what version you are running, along with desktop or win

Re: Further to my installation error

2016-03-19 Thread Brian
On Tue 15 Mar 2016 at 22:41:14 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 15 March 2016 20:22:23 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > So I am trying to use Gparted on Knoppix to wipe the disk thoroughly and > > I'll try in order (with a good Gparted wipe in between) Net install 8.02 > > Worked a treat. No further p

Re: Sound problems

2016-03-19 Thread Ric Moore
On 03/16/2016 12:22 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: I have currently no sound. It is an ASROCK N3050B-ITX motherboard with onboard sound with the following specifications: Chipset Intel N3050 Sound Card Type Realtek ALC887 Number of Sound Card Channels 7.1 I have the following information: peter@Ero

Re: computer cann't shut down

2016-03-19 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 19/03/2016 11:40 PM, lina wrote: > Every time since I installed the system, > > every time I tried Shut Down, it mainly restart again. I had a weird situation with an ordinary desktop running Winblows; it was fixed by removing the fancy Logitech keyboard and plugging in a more simple one. The

Re: Throughput riddle

2016-03-19 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 12:44:30 -0600 (MDT) "John L. Ries" wrote: > I don't know if it will help, but I hook up my Iomega NAS directly to my > desktop machine with a regular cat 5/6 cable (each has two gigabit > Ethernet ports, so each can connect to the rest of my network, as well > as to each o

Re: computer cann't shut down

2016-03-19 Thread lina
I tried 1] systemctl poweroff 2] GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet" to quite splash acpi=force The syslog error is as below: Mar 19 20:04:36 debian kernel: [0.221101] ACPI Error: No handler for Region [CMS0] (88026e048e00) [SystemCMOS] (20140424/evregion-163) Mar 19 20:04:36 debian ke

computer cann't shut down

2016-03-19 Thread lina
Every time since I installed the system, every time I tried Shut Down, it mainly restart again. I checked online and tried several methods but still don't work. Can anyone suggest me how to solve it. Thanks,

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