Re: please help! debian won't boot

2017-12-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
When you downloaded what you used to install debian, did the file have a .torrent on the end of it? If not you may have better luck by using a bittorrent client and downloading the torrent form of the file. Reason is integrity checks get done as you download and it could be you got a bad down

Using dnsmasq systemd-resolved resolvconf

2017-12-13 Thread john doe
Hi, On a fresh install of Debian 9 I was seeing the folowing in my logs: Dec 06 01:55:18 dnsmasq[952]: Maximum number of concurrent DNS queries reached (max: 150) Dec 06 01:58:12 dnsmasq[952]: Maximum number of concurrent DNS queries reached (max: 150) Dec 06 04:42:17 kernel: nf_conntrack: n

Need A Website

2017-12-13 Thread Kalyani Choraghad
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Re: please help! debian won't boot

2017-12-13 Thread Jason Brenkus
By cursor what I mean is a flashing underscore line. I tried reinstalling grub2 using super grub. At first I didn't think anything happened, but now I'm getting more then a blinking cursor. The screen now says #floppy0: no floppy controllers found # r8169 :03:00.0 eth0: link up # Ipv6: ADDCONF

Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux?

2017-12-13 Thread x9p
On Wed, December 13, 2017 2:41 pm, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> The weakest link in most chains of Data protection is the person that >> has access to it. > > And rather than breaking knuckles, sometimes it's more ...elegant.. to > just fool/seduce the target, > > > Stefan We know. Poor Assan

Re: overcoming known kernel bug

2017-12-13 Thread deloptes
Brian Oney wrote: > What I find most interesting would be to compile a slimmer, faster kernel, > but I have failed (after consulting the debian kernel handbook). One thing > or the other doesn't work afterwards. Also, I run out of disk space lately > (15Gb is huge!)  My idea was to use the old ker

Re: overcoming known kernel bug

2017-12-13 Thread David Christensen
On 12/13/17 05:49, Jeroen Mathon wrote: Please do not top post: https://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser#What_is_top-posting_.28and_why_shouldn.27t_I_do_it.29.3F Hey David, Please address your posts to the list. Have you tried compiling your kernel from source, or researching if a cert

Re: overcoming known kernel bug

2017-12-13 Thread David Christensen
On 12/13/17 05:22, Brian J. Oney wrote: Please do not top post: https://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser#What_is_top-posting_.28and_why_shouldn.27t_I_do_it.29.3F Dear David, Please address your posts to the list. this is different issue. My CPUs are just fine and I can use the laptop wi

Re: please help! debian won't boot

2017-12-13 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
On 13-12-2017, at 19h 55'54", Pascal Hambourg wrote about "Re: please help! debian won't boot" > Le 13/12/2017 à 10:54, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă a écrit : > >On 13-12-2017, at 01h 41'15", Jason Brenkus wrote about "please help! debian > >won't boot" > >>I am a novice to linux, and I'm in over my hea

Re: please help! debain won't boot

2017-12-13 Thread davidson
On Wed, 13 Dec 2017, davidson wrote: On Wed, 13 Dec 2017, Jason Brenkus wrote: I am a novice to linux, and I'm in over my head. I'm not sure what went wrong or went. I am running Jessie. On startup the pc begins to load and then goes to a screen with nothing but a cursor. Then nothing happens

Re: please help! debian won't boot

2017-12-13 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 13/12/2017 à 10:54, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă a écrit : On 13-12-2017, at 01h 41'15", Jason Brenkus wrote about "please help! debian won't boot" I am a novice to linux, and I'm in over my head. I'm not sure what went wrong or went. I am running Jessie. On startup the pc begins to load and then g

Re: please help! debain won't boot

2017-12-13 Thread davidson
On Wed, 13 Dec 2017, Jason Brenkus wrote: I am a novice to linux, and I'm in over my head. I'm not sure what went wrong or went. I am running Jessie. On startup the pc begins to load and then goes to a screen with nothing but a cursor. Then nothing happens no matter how long i wait. If i boot in

Re: please help! debain won't boot

2017-12-13 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 01:41:15 -0800 Jason Brenkus wrote: > I am a novice to linux, and I'm in over my head. I'm not sure what > went wrong or went. I am running Jessie. On startup the pc begins to > load and then goes to a screen with nothing but a cursor. Then > nothing happens no matter how long

Re: does elinks have a show hidden links option?

2017-12-13 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 06:09:19PM +, Curt wrote: > Or maybe the tacit rule is to always recapitulate the subject line in > the body of the post. I'd go with that one. Many people don't read the subject lines at all, due to years of conditioning on Usenet and mailing lists where the subject l

Re: does elinks have a show hidden links option?

2017-12-13 Thread Curt
On 2017-12-13, davidson wrote: > On Wed, 13 Dec 2017, davidson wrote: > >> On Tue, 12 Dec 2017, Karen Lewellen wrote: >> >>> Hi, >> >> Hi Karen. >> >> I am not a user of elinks, so I can present no direct solution to your >> problem here. Nonetheless, I have a comment or two, which I hope will >>

Re: unison compatibility in stretch

2017-12-13 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 13/12/17 17:29, Anders Andersson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 5:44 PM, Tony van der Hoff > wrote: >> On 13/12/17 15:40, Curt wrote: >>> Sorry for butting in once again, but you do have unison-all installed, >>> the metapackage which allows specifically for the -addversionno "kludge" by >>>

Re: does elinks have a show hidden links option?

2017-12-13 Thread davidson
On Wed, 13 Dec 2017, davidson wrote: On Tue, 12 Dec 2017, Karen Lewellen wrote: Hi, Hi Karen. I am not a user of elinks, so I can present no direct solution to your problem here. Nonetheless, I have a comment or two, which I hope will be understood in accordance with the constructive spirit

Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux?

2017-12-13 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 11:41:08AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > The weakest link in most chains of Data protection is the person that > > has access to it. > > And rather than breaking knuckles, sometimes it's more ...elegant.. to > just fool/sedu

Re: does elinks have a show hidden links option?

2017-12-13 Thread David Wright
On Tue 12 Dec 2017 at 21:36:53 (-0500), Karen Lewellen wrote: …a Subject line. Would puttingdocument.browse.links.numbering 1 into the configuration file help? Presumably it would either reveal the link by numbering it or there would be a gap in the numbering. I don't know of an equivalent com

Re: unison compatibility in stretch

2017-12-13 Thread Anders Andersson
On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 5:44 PM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 13/12/17 15:40, Curt wrote: >> Sorry for butting in once again, but you do have unison-all installed, >> the metapackage which allows specifically for the -addversionno "kludge" by >> bringing in versions 2.32 and 2.40 as per the follo

Re: does elinks have a show hidden links option?

2017-12-13 Thread davidson
On Tue, 12 Dec 2017, Karen Lewellen wrote: Hi, Hi Karen. I am not a user of elinks, so I can present no direct solution to your problem here. Nonetheless, I have a comment or two, which I hope will be understood in accordance with the constructive spirit in which I offer them. working with

MATE needs testers for Atril PDF accessibility

2017-12-13 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
Good morning (from a fresh new debootstrap'ed Stretch Stable). Just found this request for feedback regarding the Atril PDF document viewer. I'd actually never heard of it until just now. Decided their request for feedback might be a mutual knowledge benefit kind of deal with the wider audience her

Re: unison compatibility in stretch

2017-12-13 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 13/12/17 15:40, Curt wrote: > On 2017-12-13, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> It seems the unison developers are a little careless with compatibility >> issues. This situation has arisen previously, then overcome by unison-all. >> >> Thanks for your suggestion of syncthing; I'll give that a go... >

Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux?

2017-12-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
> The weakest link in most chains of Data protection is the person that > has access to it. And rather than breaking knuckles, sometimes it's more ...elegant.. to just fool/seduce the target, Stefan

Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux?

2017-12-13 Thread John Hasler
tomas writes: > Or, as Schneier put it "the NSA is better at breaking knuckles > than at breaking codes". Not NSA. That would be trespassing on another agency's territory. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: unison compatibility in stretch

2017-12-13 Thread Curt
On 2017-12-13, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> > It seems the unison developers are a little careless with compatibility > issues. This situation has arisen previously, then overcome by unison-all. > > Thanks for your suggestion of syncthing; I'll give that a go... Sorry for butting in once again, bu

Re: overcoming known kernel bug

2017-12-13 Thread Brian J. Oney
Hi Jeroen, Thank you for your questions. Yes, I have. >From my reading understanding the linux kernel consists of a lineage of >patches to the source code. I imagine a big ship floating because of a lot of >duct tape. I expect that just applying a recent patch an old kernel would not >be the in

Re: unison compatibility in stretch

2017-12-13 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 13/12/17 13:35, Eric S Fraga wrote: > On Wednesday, 13 Dec 2017 at 12:49, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > > [...] > > unison is a fantastic tool but these incompatibilities make it > incredibly frustrating to use every now and again. > > You could consider the following options: > > 1. build unison y

Re: overcoming known kernel bug

2017-12-13 Thread Jeroen Mathon
Hey David, Have you tried compiling your kernel from source, or researching if a certain option in the kernel config could cause this? Interesting things to look at: Menuconfig, Kernel patches, Custom Drivers. On 12/13/2017 02:22 PM, Brian J. Oney wrote: > Dear David, > > this is different iss

Re: overcoming known kernel bug

2017-12-13 Thread Brian J. Oney
Dear David, this is different issue. My CPUs are just fine and I can use the laptop without issue. Still the my laptop whines. Downgrading, upgrading to a rolling release, or (gasp) installing windows would be running from the problem. Ideally, a kernel shepherd would teach me to coax my sheep to

Re: unison compatibility in stretch

2017-12-13 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Wednesday, 13 Dec 2017 at 12:49, Tony van der Hoff wrote: [...] > The server is running Jessie, the repository does not contain 2.48. > There appears to be no backport. > The client is running Stretch. Its repository does not contain anything > other than 2.48. > >>From what I can see froom go

Re: does elinks have a show hidden links option?

2017-12-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
This disclosure of yours arrived after your original post and had it been included in your original post, I wouldn't have bothered answering your post at all. No, I do not choose to think all people are interchangeable either. On Tue, 12 Dec 2017, Karen Lewellen wrote: Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017

Re: EDA software.

2017-12-13 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 06.12.17 08:57, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Hi, > > At https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTinker/Desktop#EDA is a list of > packages for electronics design automation. According to various > documents, Electric, Fritzing and gEDA, at least, can help to create > schematics. I use librecad but hav

Re: unison compatibility in stretch

2017-12-13 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 12/12/17 11:58, Eric S Fraga wrote: > On Monday, 11 Dec 2017 at 10:36, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > > [...] > >> No: >> >> tony@tony-lx:~$ unison -addversionno tony >> Contacting server... >> bash: unison-2.48: command not found > But you do need to install the various versions you may to use on t

Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux?

2017-12-13 Thread Jeroen Mathon
The weakest link in most chains of Data protection is the person that has access to it. Always keep that in mind. On 12/13/2017 12:34 PM, x9p wrote: > On Wed, December 13, 2017 6:17 am, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > ... >> If they target *you* individually, yes, they have cheaper means at >> their d

Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux?

2017-12-13 Thread x9p
On Wed, December 13, 2017 6:17 am, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: ... > If they target *you* individually, yes, they have cheaper means at > their disposal. That's called "rubber hose cryptanalysis"[1] -- not > pretty. Or, as Schneier put it "the NSA is better at breaking knuckles > than at breaking code

Re: please help! debian won't boot

2017-12-13 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
On 13-12-2017, at 01h 41'15", Jason Brenkus wrote about "please help! debian won't boot" > I am a novice to linux, and I'm in over my head. I'm not sure what went > wrong or went. I am running Jessie. On startup the pc begins to load and > then goes to a screen with nothing but a cursor. Then noth

Re: please help! debain won't boot

2017-12-13 Thread Jeroen Mathon
Does this mining program automatically start at boot? And have you tried running your system with generic graphic drivers? Also your installation did boot becaouse i am sure that you will be able to interact via a free tty. On 12/13/2017 10:41 AM, Jason Brenkus wrote: > mining program. sig

Re: does elinks have a show hidden links option?

2017-12-13 Thread Curt
On 2017-12-13, Karen Lewellen wrote: > As I experience blindness meaning I cannot read the image, and paypal does > not provide as I experience things inclusive ways around this, doing the > verification is not an option. > Oddly enough I have used the browser before, many times in fact...so

please help! debain won't boot

2017-12-13 Thread Jason Brenkus
I am a novice to linux, and I'm in over my head. I'm not sure what went wrong or went. I am running Jessie. On startup the pc begins to load and then goes to a screen with nothing but a cursor. Then nothing happens no matter how long i wait. If i boot in to recover mode i get a screen that says #IP

Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux?

2017-12-13 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 10:25:18PM -0200, x9p wrote: > > On Tue, December 12, 2017 8:00 am, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > ... > > That said, this kinds of attacks are so complex that [...] it > > possibly takes the resources of a nation-state [...] > If