[A bit OT] Diagnosing home network

2017-05-19 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello! I have some doubts about the throughput of my home network and I'm hoping for some advice on tools that might help me diagnose it. My home network consists of 2 Debian machines, one Jessie and one Stretch, an LFS mini-ITX machine acting as my firewall, another LFS laptop that is connect

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

2017-05-19 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 11:03:56PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > craigswin wrote: > > > Can you expand on that?  New to VMs, considering them as an alternative > > to dualboot, with Stretch as host and Win7 as a guest to run Vectorworks. > > VMs come with a penalty in performance and functionality >

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

2017-05-19 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 11:10:00PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 12:57:57PM -0400, RavenLX wrote: > >> On 05/17/2017 12:42 PM, craigswin wrote: > >> > > >> > > >> >On 05/17/2017 06:03 AM, RavenLX wrote: > >> > > There are the so called snapshots, whi

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

2017-05-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 05/19/2017 07:19 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 05/18/2017 09:52 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: I have no clue what happened, but the desktop background picture has ceased to be displayed. I'm not even sure where to look to troubleshoot the problem. The salient information is: OS is fully upda

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

2017-05-19 Thread David Christensen
On 05/18/2017 09:52 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: I have no clue what happened, but the desktop background picture has ceased to be displayed. I'm not even sure where to look to troubleshoot the problem. The salient information is: OS is fully updated Testing, MATE desktop environment. I have att

Re: (OT) problem with unknown software

2017-05-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 05/19/2017 05:34 PM, Glenn English wrote: On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 10:37 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Hi Glenn, have you looked at this using gparted, maybe you can get some info there, Just looked. gparted says sdd exists and that it, and the other disks on this machine, all look normal. al

Re: (OT) problem with unknown software

2017-05-19 Thread Glenn English
On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 10:37 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > Hi Glenn, have you looked at this using gparted, maybe you can get some info > there, Just looked. gparted says sdd exists and that it, and the other disks on this machine, all look normal. > also is this partition/drive in fstab? No, bu

Re: (OT) problem with unknown software

2017-05-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 05/19/2017 10:13 AM, Glenn English wrote: On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 12:21 AM, Anders Andersson wrote: You don't write your debian version, or even if you *are* running debian. Presumably you do, since you write here! Sorry, it's an XFCE Jessie. On a SuperMicro desktop. -- Glenn English H

Re: (OT) problem with unknown software

2017-05-19 Thread Glenn English
On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 12:21 AM, Anders Andersson wrote: > You don't write your debian version, or even if you *are* running > debian. Presumably you do, since you write here! Sorry, it's an XFCE Jessie. On a SuperMicro desktop. -- Glenn English

Re: stretch not booting

2017-05-19 Thread Luis Finotti
On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Luis Finotti wrote: [snip] > Any suggestions would be appreciated... > > > Never mind. The screen just went red and opening up to check the video cable I just broke the trackpad (which was secured only by tape). (And it did not fix the screen.) I will just f

Re: stretch not booting

2017-05-19 Thread Luis Finotti
Thanks for your continued help! On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 6:46 AM, Brian wrote: > > GRUB does its job but it appears the problem occurs when control is > handed over to the init system. > > At the GRUB menu edit the linux line to add systemd.unit=rescue.target > or systemd.unit=emergency.target. >

Re: Debian Developers Have Been Listening!

2017-05-19 Thread Jonathan Dowland
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Re: [trinity-users] Re: Strange clicking noise from my laptop hard drive

2017-05-19 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Fri, 19 May 2017, at 14:24, Philip Ashmore wrote: > I got a new hard disk. > I still get the same clicking Could it be the laptop's fan? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: [trinity-users] Re: Strange clicking noise from my laptop hard drive

2017-05-19 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 11/05/17 18:21, Philip Ashmore wrote: On 10/05/17 20:54, Jhoanir Torres wrote: I think your disk is broken. On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Philip Ashmore mailto:cont...@philipashmore.com>> wrote: Hi there. I managed to record it using my laptops built-in microphone. To tho

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

2017-05-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 05/18/2017 10:27 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 5/19/17, Michael Milliman wrote: I have no clue what happened, but the desktop background picture has ceased to be displayed. I'm not even sure where to look to troubleshoot the problem. The salient information is: OS is fully updated Testing,

Re: Samsung ML-1915 printer

2017-05-19 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 07:12:02PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Thu 18 May 2017 at 17:32:33 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > Hi, Brian: > > > > finally I can get back to my printer problem... Thanks a lot for your > > help... > > I'm trying to follow