Re: how to practice.

2012-05-18 Thread Alex Hutton
I have a bunch of text files in a particular directory that I use to record various ideas that come to me. I generally name the files like this: i_keyword1_keyword2_keyword3.txt , so for example, i0324_toread_programming_PHP_MVC_OOP.txt So I've got this directory with all these files in them

Re: I accidentally installed lenny's linux-image/linux-header packages and I'm running Squeeze. What to do?

2012-03-25 Thread Alex Hutton
On 24 March 2012 04:25, Martin Steigerwald wrote: […] > I bet thats because the Squeeze kernel is still installed. Several kernels > can be installed beside each other. But read on. […] > These do not show the exact current state of the system. While dpkg.log > shows what has been installed recent

I accidentally installed lenny's linux-image/linux-header packages and I'm running Squeeze. What to do?

2012-03-23 Thread Alex Hutton
Hello, Basically what happened was I did sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude upgrade and I hit 'Y' to accept the packages being installed. Only afterwards did I realise it would be installing packages from Lenny. I tried to hit ctrl-c and ctrl-d to abort aptitude but this didn't seem to work. T

Re: is there no sane, minimal, graphical RSS feed reader in existance?

2012-02-25 Thread Alex Hutton
On 25 February 2012 02:12, Johannes Schauer wrote: > Hi again, > > about half a year ago, I complained about the lack of a good, minimal > RSS reader: I've been using tt-rss for a couple of months and so far I really like it. Cheers, Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-14 Thread Alex Hutton
On 15 February 2012 02:34, green wrote: > I am *not* looking for disposable hardware.  I am *not* interested in > purchasing a maintenance burden.  I need *rock-solid* *long-term* Linux > reliability on *rock-solid* hardware.  Will Compulabs continue to provide > updated custom kernels a year or m

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-14 Thread Alex Hutton
On 13 February 2012 00:57, green wrote: > > So the Trim-Slice is not supported by mainline kernels? > As others said, the main issue is the Tegra 2 is a nvidia chip and CompuLab are reliant on nvidia in order to get things working. I haven't tried upgrading the kernel since I got the original un

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-11 Thread Alex Hutton
On 12 February 2012 15:06, green wrote: > Stan Hoeppner wrote at 2012-02-11 21:15 -0600: >> On 2/11/2012 8:09 PM, green wrote: >> > I need a fanless mini PC; it will run Debian.  It will be used in a >> > production environment. Hi, I share your sympathies. I really hate fan noise! There are ARM

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-04 Thread Alex Hutton
The thing of facebook is people login to facebook and regularly view their activity feed. So if you are posting to facebook you are appearing in the activity feeds of people who have 'liked' your page. People can also message you through facebook and this can be a channel for customer support. You

Re: Squeeze 6.0.3 -> 6.0.4 broke my Xorg

2012-01-30 Thread Alex Hutton
On 30 January 2012 22:56, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:35:25 +1100, Alex Hutton wrote: > >> I'm running a dual monitor setup with fglrx. >> >> I have upgraded from Squeeze 6.0.3 to 6.0.4 and after reboot I only have >> a one monitor desktop. &

Squeeze 6.0.3 -> 6.0.4 broke my Xorg

2012-01-30 Thread Alex Hutton
Hi, I'm running a dual monitor setup with fglrx. I have upgraded from Squeeze 6.0.3 to 6.0.4 and after reboot I only have a one monitor desktop. I am wondering if anyone could tell me where my old xorg.conf went to? And is there a way to configure apt so that upgrades stop clobbering my xorg.co