Re: OT?: FAT32(/16?) Question: Max. files in top level

2016-12-28 Thread Xen
do...@mail.com schreef op 26-12-2016 3:41: I encountered this many times on windowz FAT32 in a non-root dir, but never on Linux. I suspect that it was/is one of their "Features". The said "Feature" still was there when using ntfs in XP if I remember correctly. Perhaps it's just because Windows

Re: Constant crash on Debian 8.x in Dell T5610

2016-12-28 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 29/12/16 16:03, Julio Cesar Mendez Carvajal wrote: Dear community; I have recently installed Debian 8.x (last edition stable) in my workstation. I am facing frequent, but TO FREQUENT crashes in the system. As a result, the system restart too frequently. Is there any problem with the system

Re: Pendrive computer

2016-12-28 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 29/12/16 15:31, Richard Owlett wrote: On 12/28/2016 4:07 PM, Joe wrote: On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 12:20:06 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: What I'm looking for is a retail product that would compete with PDA's of a decade ago. I think they're called 'smartphones'. Hardware wise, if all cell networ

Re: Quirks noted with install on new machine

2016-12-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 12/28/2016 4:53 PM, Brian wrote: On Wed 28 Dec 2016 at 04:48:41 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: There is a separate issue with default font sizes that I've noticed before, but am now motivated to address. Default fonts are annoyingly small. I know how to adjust them on a per user per font basis

Re: Quirks noted with install on new machine

2016-12-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 12/28/2016 4:46 PM, Brian wrote: On Wed 28 Dec 2016 at 04:48:41 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: I just purchased a used Lenovo T430 and did my interpretation of a minimal install of Debian 8.6.0 with a Mate DE. During install was a warning message that two non-free drivers were "required". As

Re: Pendrive computer

2016-12-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 12/28/2016 2:50 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, December 28, 2016 03:13:46 PM Richard Owlett wrote: On 12/28/2016 12:20 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 12/28/16 1:06 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 12/28/2016 8:31 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Just wondering if anybody on here has ac

Constant crash on Debian 8.x in Dell T5610

2016-12-28 Thread Julio Cesar Mendez Carvajal
Dear community; I have recently installed Debian 8.x (last edition stable) in my workstation. I am facing frequent, but TO FREQUENT crashes in the system. As a result, the system restart too frequently. Is there any problem with the system or any other bug that other people have experienced with

Re: Pendrive computer

2016-12-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 12/28/2016 4:07 PM, Joe wrote: On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 12:20:06 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: What I'm looking for is a retail product that would compete with PDA's of a decade ago. I think they're called 'smartphones'. Hardware wise, if all cell network connectivity was removed - OK. It w

jessie: ALSA fails on first use after reboot

2016-12-28 Thread D. R. Evans
I have a 32-bit system running jessie that gives the following error the first time that I try to use ALSA following a reboot: ERROR: Cannot open audio device: hw:0,0 error number -16 Device or resource busy It doesn't seem to matter how long I wait following a reboot, the above error always

Re: Quirks noted with install on new machine

2016-12-28 Thread Brian
On Wed 28 Dec 2016 at 04:48:41 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > There is a separate issue with default font sizes that I've noticed before, > but am now motivated to address. Default fonts are annoyingly small. I know > how to adjust them on a per user per font basis in Mate's "Appearance > Preferen

Re: Quirks noted with install on new machine

2016-12-28 Thread Brian
On Wed 28 Dec 2016 at 04:48:41 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > I just purchased a used Lenovo T430 and did my interpretation of a minimal > install of Debian 8.6.0 with a Mate DE. > > During install was a warning message that two non-free drivers were > "required". As I had none available I chose

Re: Pendrive computer

2016-12-28 Thread deloptes
Joe wrote: > On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 09:31:20 -0500 > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Just wondering if anybody on here has acquired something like the >> following (basically a computer on a stick / pendrive) and tried >> loading Debian (or any Linux) on it? >> >> Have you found any that aren't pre

Re: OT: Read-Only NFS-mounted Debian System for Library Kiosk PCs, using KACE K2000 as PXE?

2016-12-28 Thread deloptes
David Niklas wrote: >> Just as a quick recap: I'm looking to have the K2000 offer a Debian >> NFS/remote X session to Dell PCs when they netboot, so that I can >> configure some library diskless read-only kiosks allowing library >> patrons to run a web browser, maybe open a document editor, and pr

Re: Pendrive computer

2016-12-28 Thread Joe
On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 12:20:06 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: > > > What I'm looking for is a retail product that would compete with > PDA's of a decade ago. I think they're called 'smartphones'. > > Raspberry (sp?) Pi's have the compute power. But their form > factor is terminally CLUNKY. That

Re: Pendrive computer

2016-12-28 Thread Joe
On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 09:31:20 -0500 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Just wondering if anybody on here has acquired something like the > following (basically a computer on a stick / pendrive) and tried > loading Debian (or any Linux) on it? > > Have you found any that aren't preloaded with Windows? >

Re: Can Synaptic when used with Mate be tweaked

2016-12-28 Thread Joe
On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 14:10:18 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 12/28/2016 11:06 AM, Joe wrote: > > > > Have you no icon (magnifying glass) at all? > > That is correct. > > > If this is missing, you have some kind of installation problem with > > Synaptic, > > I suspected as much. The FIND

Re: Pendrive computer

2016-12-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 12/28/16 3:13 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 12/28/2016 12:20 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 12/28/16 1:06 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 12/28/2016 8:31 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Just wondering if anybody on here has acquired something like the following Even if preloaded with Windoze I

Re: Pendrive computer

2016-12-28 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, December 28, 2016 03:15:35 PM Richard Owlett wrote: > On 12/28/2016 12:12 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> Just wondering if anybody on here has acquired something like the > >> following (basically a computer on a stick / pendrive) and tried > >> loading Debian (or any Linux) on it?

Re: Pendrive computer

2016-12-28 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, December 28, 2016 03:13:46 PM Richard Owlett wrote: > On 12/28/2016 12:20 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > On 12/28/16 1:06 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> On 12/28/2016 8:31 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > >>> Just wondering if anybody on here has acquired something like > >>> the follow

Re: Pendrive computer

2016-12-28 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, December 28, 2016 01:20:07 PM Miles Fidelman wrote: > On 12/28/16 1:06 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 12/28/2016 8:31 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Just wondering if anybody on here has acquired something like the > >> following > > > > Even if preloaded with Windoze I would b

Re: Pendrive computer

2016-12-28 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, December 28, 2016 01:20:06 PM Richard Owlett wrote: > On 12/28/2016 9:20 AM, Charlie Kravetz wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA256 > > > > On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 09:31:20 -0500 > > > > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Just wondering if anybody on here has acquire

Re: Pendrive computer

2016-12-28 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, December 28, 2016 01:12:47 PM Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Just wondering if anybody on here has acquired something like the > > following (basically a computer on a stick / pendrive) and tried > > loading Debian (or any Linux) on it? > > > > Have you found any that aren't preloaded w

Re: Pendrive computer

2016-12-28 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, December 28, 2016 10:20:37 AM Charlie Kravetz wrote: > On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 09:31:20 -0500 > > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > >Just wondering if anybody on here has acquired something like the > >following (basically a computer on a stick / pendrive) and tried loading > >Debian (or any

Pendrive computer

2016-12-28 Thread rhkramer
Oops, sorry, left off the name and link: Intel Compute Stick CS125 Computer with Intel Atom x5 Processor and Windows 10 https://www.amazon.com/Intel-Compute-Computer-Processor- BOXSTK1AW32SC/dp/B01AZC4NHS/?tag=logicemail-20&ascsubtag=ceb730c4-376e-493a- ab22-33e99d7aa8b4 It looks like a USB pend

Re: OT?: FAT32(/16?) Question: Max. files in top level

2016-12-28 Thread doark
On Thu, 8 Dec 2016 13:46:25 +0100 Nicolas George wrote: > > As I recall that there is (or used to be?) a limit on the number of > > files in the > > top level directory of a FAT32 (or 16?) partition / drive. If you > > needed to > > have more files in a directory, you had to create a subdirectory

Subject: firefox + flashplayer on slow pc

2016-12-28 Thread David Niklas
On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 23:10:52 +0100 deloptes wrote: > I have an older notebook with ATI. (Actually I gave it to a friend) > Recently I updated to OS is ubuntu 16.04 from 12.x. > > glxgears looks good, but after installing later firefox when watching > some YT it slows down and video breaks. even

Re: OT: Read-Only NFS-mounted Debian System for Library Kiosk PCs, using KACE K2000 as PXE?

2016-12-28 Thread David Niklas
On Tue, 6 Dec 2016 08:01:26 -0600 Kent West wrote: > On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 1:45 AM, emetib wrote: > > > kent, > > > > i just looked up quest k2000 and there is no mention of linux at all. > > > > are you looking at changing the whole system and putting linux on it? > > trying to have microsoft

Re: Pendrive computer

2016-12-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 12/28/2016 12:12 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: Just wondering if anybody on here has acquired something like the following (basically a computer on a stick / pendrive) and tried loading Debian (or any Linux) on it? Have you found any that aren't preloaded with Windows? Not sure what "comput

Re: Pendrive computer

2016-12-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 12/28/2016 12:20 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 12/28/16 1:06 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 12/28/2016 8:31 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Just wondering if anybody on here has acquired something like the following Even if preloaded with Windoze I would be interested in a product specific re

Re: Can Synaptic when used with Mate be tweaked

2016-12-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 12/28/2016 11:06 AM, Joe wrote: On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 06:33:11 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: I've just installed Jessie with Mate DE to a new machine. On previous installs on other machines, a search icon was present on Synaptic's menu bar. It is not there now, what have I done differently?

Re: chgrp with user

2016-12-28 Thread deloptes
Xen wrote: > Xen schreef op 27-12-2016 23:13: > >> Lost my temper there, Winston would say. Yes, I play video games too. >> What's the problem with that? You have a problem with that too? :). > > Also still want to add, If I may. > No need to be so sensitive to what I say. We also do "wrong" t

Re: Pendrive computer

2016-12-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 12/28/16 1:06 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 12/28/2016 8:31 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Just wondering if anybody on here has acquired something like the following Even if preloaded with Windoze I would be interested in a product specific reference. If it can run Windows(TM) it can run

Re: Pendrive computer

2016-12-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 12/28/2016 9:20 AM, Charlie Kravetz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 09:31:20 -0500 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Just wondering if anybody on here has acquired something like the following (basically a computer on a stick / pendrive) and tried loading

Re: Pendrive computer

2016-12-28 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Just wondering if anybody on here has acquired something like the > following (basically a computer on a stick / pendrive) and tried > loading Debian (or any Linux) on it? > Have you found any that aren't preloaded with Windows? Not sure what "computer on a stick" you're thinking of. All the

Re: Pendrive computer

2016-12-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 12/28/2016 8:31 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Just wondering if anybody on here has acquired something like the following To just what was the referent of "the following"? Is there a specific product that prompted your query? (basically a computer on a stick / pendrive) and tried loading

Re: k3b can't find cdrecord

2016-12-28 Thread Gary Dale
On 28/12/16 12:34 PM, Alberto Luaces wrote: Gary Dale writes: I'm running Debian/Stretch AMD64 using plasma desktop and I'm trying to burn a CD image. However when I start k3b, I get an error message "unable to find cdrecord executable" along with the suggestion that I install cdrtools. K3b ref

Re: k3b can't find cdrecord

2016-12-28 Thread Alberto Luaces
Gary Dale writes: > I'm running Debian/Stretch AMD64 using plasma desktop and I'm trying > to burn a CD image. However when I start k3b, I get an error message > "unable to find cdrecord executable" along with the suggestion that I > install cdrtools. K3b refuses to burn the CD image. > > There is

Re: k3b can't find cdrecord

2016-12-28 Thread Gary Dale
On 28/12/16 11:29 AM, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Stretch AMD64 using plasma desktop and I'm trying to burn a CD image. However when I start k3b, I get an error message "unable to find cdrecord executable" along with the suggestion that I install cdrtools. K3b refuses to burn the CD ima

k3b can't find cdrecord

2016-12-28 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Stretch AMD64 using plasma desktop and I'm trying to burn a CD image. However when I start k3b, I get an error message "unable to find cdrecord executable" along with the suggestion that I install cdrtools. K3b refuses to burn the CD image. There is no package cdrtools but t

Re: Can Synaptic when used with Mate be tweaked

2016-12-28 Thread Joe
On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 06:33:11 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: > I've just installed Jessie with Mate DE to a new machine. > > On previous installs on other machines, a search icon was present > on Synaptic's menu bar. It is not there now, what have I done > differently? Have you no icon (magnifyin

Re: Pendrive computer

2016-12-28 Thread Charlie Kravetz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 09:31:20 -0500 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: >Just wondering if anybody on here has acquired something like the following >(basically a computer on a stick / pendrive) and tried loading Debian (or any >Linux) on it? > >Have you fo

Certbot: Too many certificates already issued for exact set of domains

2016-12-28 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Hello, I had a problem with certbot, a program what automatically renews Lets Encrypt certificates. And it refuses when I wanted to renew by hand, because certbot did try it allready to often. I did not found what I need using a search engine, other then "there is no way other then to wait 7 days

Pendrive computer

2016-12-28 Thread rhkramer
Just wondering if anybody on here has acquired something like the following (basically a computer on a stick / pendrive) and tried loading Debian (or any Linux) on it? Have you found any that aren't preloaded with Windows?

Re: Can Synaptic when used with Mate be tweaked

2016-12-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 12/28/2016 7:31 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 06:33:11AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: As an alternative to the above, is there any way to have Synaptic use an external USB connected drive rather than the internal CD? The external drive is moderately faster and has a conven

Re: Can Synaptic when used with Mate be tweaked

2016-12-28 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 06:33:11AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > As an alternative to the above, is there any way to have Synaptic use an > external USB connected drive rather than the internal CD? The external drive > is moderately faster and has a convent eject button. > A CONVENT EJECT BUTTO

Re: Preventing ACL on cdrom drive...

2016-12-28 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 28/12/2016 à 11:19, Nimrod a écrit : I guess I have to specify suitable permission in the above file. I tried with: ENV{ID_FS_USAGE}=="filesystem|other|crypto", ENV{UDISKS_FILESYSTEM_SHARED}="1", GROUP="users", MODE="0660" (on a single line), but it seems that GROUP and MODE are simply ign

Can Synaptic when used with Mate be tweaked

2016-12-28 Thread Richard Owlett
I've just installed Jessie with Mate DE to a new machine. On previous installs on other machines, a search icon was present on Synaptic's menu bar. It is not there now, what have I done differently? My machine is a laptop whose CD eject button is small and in an awkward location. Is there an

Re: chgrp with user

2016-12-28 Thread Xen
Xen schreef op 27-12-2016 23:13: Lost my temper there, Winston would say. Yes, I play video games too. What's the problem with that? You have a problem with that too? :). Also still want to add, If I may. That even Mediawiki probably doesn't provide all the tools you'd need to completely cir

Stretch and WiFi ALMOST working

2016-12-28 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello Some of you may remember this thread I started earlier this month: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/12/msg00130.html in which I asked for opinions on the best way to connect a stretch box using WiFi. After being educated by the various responses, I went back and took another loo

Quirks noted with install on new machine

2016-12-28 Thread Richard Owlett
I just purchased a used Lenovo T430 and did my interpretation of a minimal install of Debian 8.6.0 with a Mate DE. During install was a warning message that two non-free drivers were "required". As I had none available I chose the option to continue without installing. It went on and I have an

Re: Preventing ACL on cdrom drive...

2016-12-28 Thread Nimrod
On Mon, 2016-12-26 at 22:16 +0100, Nimrod wrote: > On Mon, 2016-12-26 at 18:29 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > > Le 26/12/2016 à 17:28, Nimrod a écrit : > > > On Sat, 2016-12-24 at 05:20 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > > > > > >> Does it help if you mount the cdrom as shared? > > >> See https

Re: Sub interface not working in Debian 8

2016-12-28 Thread Xen
Muhammad Yousuf Khan schreef op 28-12-2016 8:10: Thanks issue is resolved. as i mentioned tcpdump command not receving packets from ISP gateway. thus we discussed this matter with ISP and the restarted the router. and things got fixed. it seems that ISP router keeps the old MAC entries thats why