On 8/26/2014 1:52 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 04:06:19 -0400
Tom H wrote:
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 6:44 PM, Steve Litt
wrote:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-center/choose-your-side-the-linux-divide-248950?source=IFWNLE_nlt_daily_pm_2014-08-25
There's a OT list for this BS.
Joel Rees grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> 2014/07/23 16:41 "Tony Baldwin" :
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 03:46:56PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
>>> Programming is a field of mathematics. Mathematically speaking, limiting a
>>> language to a declarative syntax does not mean that the language ceases to
Tom H grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:56 PM, David Guntner wrote:
>> Tom H grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>>>
>>> There is one
>>>
>>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-testing/
>>>
>>> but a quick look at t
Tom H grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> There is one
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-testing/
>
> but a quick look at the its archives shows that it isn't a heavily
> used list and that it's not a list for freaking out about systemd.
Neither is this one, but that doesn't seem to stop people...
Sounds like an interesting project! I look forward to seeing the results!
--Dave
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Please excuse my brevity & lack of my usual quote-and-reply style.
On June 18, 2014 1:08:40 PM PDT, Steve Litt wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I just bought a new computer, go
Chris Angelico grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 1:57 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>> Once again you don't understand the difference between a single machine and
>> multiple machines acting as a single server for load balancing and hot
>> backups.
>>
>> And by my counting, e-, f-,
Ralf, please take this to OFF TOPIC. Thanks.
Ralf Mardorf grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 17:02 +0200, Slavko wrote:
>> Ahoj,
>>
>> Dňa Tue, 27 May 2014 16:21:50 +0200 Diogene Laerce
>> napísal:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Maybe I missed the thread : I wasn't there for a while but I
Ralf Mardorf grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-05-23 at 17:33 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
>> Please continue on d-community-offtopic.
>
> True, but I have to clarify something, see below.
Then how about clarifying it on off-topic as requested, rather than
stirring it up over here? O
David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>>
>> Then don't add to the bandwidth with your please to stop. As you've
>> been told before - just ignore the thread. And if you can't do that,
>> get a email re
Jerry Stuckle grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On 5/20/2014 4:21 PM, David Guntner wrote:
>> Jerry Stuckle grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>>> Why would you be against someone protecting their intellectual
>>> property?
>>
>> I'm not, personally. I am,
Jerry Stuckle grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> Why would you be against someone protecting their intellectual
> property?
I'm not, personally. I am, however very much against continued waste of
bandwidth on this increasingly off-topic thread. Please take further
discussion to the off-topic list,
The Wanderer grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
[blah blah blah off topic blah blah blah]
People, this off-topic thread has dragged on WAY too long. There's a
Debian off-topic mailing list, which exists specifically for that
purpose - to let Debian users discuss things that aren't directly
related to
Zenaan Harkness grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
[blah blah blah off topic blah blah blah]
People, this off-topic thread has dragged on WAY too long. There's a
Debian off-topic mailing list, which exists specifically for that
purpose - to let Debian users discuss things that aren't directly
related
Celejar grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
[blah blah blah off topic blah blah blah]
People, this off-topic thread has dragged on WAY too long. There's a
Debian off-topic mailing list, which exists specifically for that
purpose - to let Debian users discuss things that aren't directly
related to Debia
People, this off-topic thread has dragged on WAY too long. There's a
Debian off-topic mailing list, which exists specifically for that
purpose - to let Debian users discuss things that aren't directly
related to Debian.
PLEASE, for the love of $DEITY and to have some compassion for the
people who
People, this off-topic thread has dragged on WAY too long. There's a
Debian off-topic mailing list, which exists specifically for that
purpose - to let Debian users discuss things that aren't directly
related to Debian.
PLEASE, for the love of $DEITY and to have some compassion for the
people who
David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> Harry Putnam grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>> Never used exim but trying to get it setup since the latest version of
>> sendmail seems to have some problems I don't understand on a new debian
>> install.
>
> Just as a
Harry Putnam grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> Never used exim but trying to get it setup since the latest version of
> sendmail seems to have some problems I don't understand on a new debian
> install.
>
> I've pounded along googling and scanning the exim documentation on
> board for a couple of ho
Stephen Powell grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> Well, the joke is on me. The text file I was trying to view was a
> Windows-style text file, with each line (except the last) ending in
> a combination. But it was being served up by Apache running
> on Linux. Linux-style text files have each line
John Hasler grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> David Guntner writes:
>> Again, as someone else pointed out: The key word here is TESTING. You
>> want less updates? Go with the current stable release. That has
>> updates, but not as often.
>
> You can also just not inst
Slavko grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> Ahoj,
>
> Dňa Sat, 10 May 2014 13:00:56 +0100 Brian
> napísal:
>
>> On Sat 10 May 2014 at 10:54:21 +0200, Slavko wrote:
>>
>>> in last weeks (or months?) i see a lot of daily updates in Debian
>>> testing. I am using the testing for years and i am surprised
c. marlow grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> What the heck
> Sorry I'm new to the whole group email / NEWSGROUP thing.
It's called spam. It happens from time to time. It's best to ignore it
when it happens on the mailing list. ;-)
--Dave
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Lisi Reisz grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Saturday 19 April 2014 17:24:20 David Guntner wrote:
>> This discussion would be best continued here:
>>
>> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
>
> And these "suggestions" woul
This discussion would be best continued here:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
Scott Ferguson grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On 19/04/14 19:04, Joe wrote:
>> On Sat, 19 Apr 2014 14:33:43 +1000
>> Scott Ferguson wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Perhaps the solution is not
This discussion is best continued here:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
Joe grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Apr 2014 14:33:43 +1000
> Scott Ferguson wrote:
>
>
>>
>> Perhaps the solution is not greater bureaucracy to safeguard data
>> ignorance,
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
Scott Ferguson grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On 19/04/14 16:51, Tom Furie wrote:> On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 02:33:43PM
> +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>>> On 19/04/14 07:55, Joe wrote:
>>
As is the light originating inside pe
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
Tom Furie grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 02:33:43PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>> On 19/04/14 07:55, Joe wrote:
>
>>> As is the light originating inside peoples' homes and passing out of
>>> their wind
Joel Rees grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> (Reader beware. Length breeds length.)
And this whole thread has gone on (and morphed) entirely too long.
Please take it to the Debian Offtopic list.
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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For those interested:
http://mashable.com/2014/04/09/heartbleed-bug-websites-affected/
--Dave
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John Hasler grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> Henrique writes:
>> It also includes the emails that were read over a
>> heartbleed-vulnerable IMAP, and every data that went over a
>> heartbleed-vulnerable VPN tunnel, for example.
>
> I wasn't aware that IMAP and VPN used heartbeat. I don't see that
Nuno Magalhães grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:19 PM, David Guntner wrote:
>> Presto! Now when you try to access your home machine, you can simply
>> refer to mydomain.org and it will point you to the correct place.
>
> Er... mydomain.org, bei
[Unless there's a reason to take a reply off-list, please keep it on
list so that others can follow the discussion]
Igor Cicimov grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On 11/04/2014 2:52 AM, "David Guntner" wrote:
>>
>> Chris Angelico grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>>
Chris Angelico grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 2:19 AM, David Guntner wrote:
>> what you want to do is
>> create a CNAME record for the domain - set a CNAME of mydomain.org that
>> points to myhostname.someddns.com.
>>
>> Presto! Now
Rick Macdonald grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> [...]
> I only looked at a couple before deciding to use the free service from
> ASUS that is included with the router, so I don't know which of the
> above are actually free. The domain name is not pretty:
> [yourhostname].asuscomm.com, but that doesn
Mark Evans grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> Debian Users
> Dear Sirs;
> What would be the yearly support costs for an e commerce, web facing
> server.
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=debian+commercial+support
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Jonathan Dowland grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 12:13:53PM -0700, David Guntner wrote:
>> "Easier to configure?" Sorry to sound like Ralph in Troll Mode, but it
>> sounds like it was anything *but* that. :D
>
> OP didn't get it worki
Glenn English grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> On Mar 24, 2014, at 10:45 AM, John Foster
> wrote:
>
>> I have been trying to get lighttpd to run as my web server but was
>> not able to get it properly configured.
> [...]
> After 3 days of Lighttpd, I too went back to Apache2. I had it
> running
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> Hello.
>
> As I am starting to subscribe to various mailing lists, I have noticed
> that some uses a kind of tag in subjects. Obviously, it is added by the
> ml-engine, not by users.
> I am also receiving more and more spam since 2 mont
Bret Busby grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Mar 2014, Steve Litt wrote:
>> [...]
>> I'll probably have to add more to that as he comes on line with a slew
>> of other identities, but .procmailrc is a pretty easy filtering
^
>> mechanism.
>
> Is that
Steve Litt grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Here's how I just made my life happier and less stressful:
>
> ==
> GARBAGE=/dev/null
>
> ### DEBIAN LIST UBERSCREAMER ARNOLD BIRD'S 4 ADDRESSES
> :0:
> * ^From.*naturalli...@dcemail.com
> $GARBAGE
>
Kirt Odle grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> Can I get someone to clearly explain to me ( a Debian newbie ) how to
> make aptitude download tshark and ALL of its dependencies, in a
> single operation ??
aptitude install tshark
Comes to mind. :-)
"man aptitude" for more info.
--Dave
Sharon Kimble grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> Thanks Dave, this is what I have -
> #!/bin/bash
> for in in *.mp3
> do
> out=`echo $in|cut -d_ -f 1-15 -`
> mv $in $out.mp3
> done
>
> and I've run it three times on the directory, and here is some of the
> outcomes -
> 4_Extra_at_Bletchley_Park_-
Mark Carroll grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> David Guntner writes:
>
>> Mark Carroll grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> (snip)
>>> for i in *__default\.m??
>>> do mv "$i" "`echo $i | sed 's/.\{17\}\(.\{4\}\)$/\1/'`"
>>&
Mark Carroll grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> Sharon Kimble writes:
> (snip)
>> '15_Minute_Drama_-_AM_Homes_-_This_Book_Will_Save_Your_Life_Episode_5_b00jdlb8_default.m4a'
>>
>> How can I lose the '_b00jdlb8_default' section please? It is always
>> in this format but with different letters an
Sharon Kimble grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> I am using this script to convert radio programmes downloaded with
> 'get-iplayer' from '*.m4a' to '*.mp3', and it works very well.
>
> for i in *.m4a;
> do faad "$i"
> x=`echo "$i"|sed -e 's/.m4a/.w
Ralf Mardorf grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> May I ask you how often you repair mobos or any other
> electronically gear? [...] You are trolling because you seemingly
> don't have experiences with repairing electronically gear during the
> last 20 years, so you aren't aware that vendors have a tend
Ralf Mardorf grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 22:57 -0800, David Guntner wrote:
>> I build almost exclusively with ASUS motherboards, and every one has
>> worked just fine with Windows or Linux. So I'm not exactly sure what
>> you were going for here
Ralf Mardorf grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 19:42 -0800, Schlacta, Christ wrote:
>> Asus is a good brand.
>
> My ASUS mobo doesn't know that it's a good brand for Linux usage.
Given that your motherboard is an inanimate object, it's unlikely that
it knows much of anything.
y...@marupa.net grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 05, 2014 08:27:15 AM David Guntner wrote:
>> Can't speak for him, but for me it's a segmenting issue. If I have to
>> wipe / for example, I'm not wiping things in /usr or /usr/local (where
>&
Zenaan Harkness grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On 2/5/14, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
>>[...]
> Nowadays, the only partitions I use are:
> /boot - about 1GiB
Unless you're planning on having a lot of different kernels installed,
you really don't need a full gig for /boot (it doesn't hurt anything,
thou
David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> Paul E Condon grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>>
>> I need something that I can actually hear even when I not paying
>> attention. I know I asked about getting the beep function working, but
>> now I want to ask about p
Paul E Condon grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> I need something that I can actually hear even when I not paying
> attention. I know I asked about getting the beep function working, but
> now I want to ask about possibilities of getting the external
> speakers, which I know are working for videos
Alex S. grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> On Mon, 06 Jan 2014 19:54:12 -0800
> David Guntner wrote:
>
>> Anyone else here think this is awesome news? :-)
>
> It surely is! Though SteamOS, I believe, is gonna see much more use
> on SteamMachines, than on PCs, and pe
For the benefit of those here who might not be on the "news"
announcement list
Original Message
Subject: Debian Project News - January 6th, 2014
Resent-Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 23:22:33 + (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-n...@lists.debian.org
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 00:22:07 +0100
F
Harry Putnam grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> David Guntner writes:
>
>> Harry Putnam grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>>> What are people using who want to look at live network connections as
>>> they happen? Especially if it can be made to work on win7 as well.
Harry Putnam grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> What are people using who want to look at live network connections as
> they happen? Especially if it can be made to work on win7 as well.
Wireshark comes to mind. :-)
http://www.wireshark.org/
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Jean-Marc grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 23:11:58 -0800
> David Guntner wrote:
>>
>> Really? As I understand it, a 32-bit operating system cannot address
>> more than 4G of memory.
>>
>> What am I missing here?
>
> Some more i
PaulNM grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
>
> On 12/12/2013 02:11 AM, David Guntner wrote:
>> Scott Ferguson grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>>> On 12/12/13 17:42, erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com wrote:
>>>> Dear List -
>>>>
>>>> I am r
Scott Ferguson grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On 12/12/13 17:42, erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com wrote:
>> Dear List -
>>
>> I am running 32 bit sid with a pae kernel. What is the maximum RAM that
>> can be used?
>
> 64GB
Really? As I understand it, a 32-bit operating system cannot address
mor
Tony van der Hoff grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> Hi, list,
>
> I have a squeezy VPS, running Postfix to handle all my mail, plus
> several virtual users, with which I'm entirely satisfied.
>
> I also have a number of remote, normally unattended, locations, with
> dynamic IPs, containing IP camer
Steffen Dettmer grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> Hi,
>
> logrotate seems to execute "postrotate" scripts using /bin/sh and I
> found no way where to specify which script interpreter to use.
> Starting with a she-bang line seem to have no effect. Even if I
> manually run logrotate as root who has /b
Lisi Reisz grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> This thread has now been going on for 11 days. And not intermittently
> for 11 days, but full on with loads of emails every day. It becomes
> less and less relevant to Debian, since Debian is simply not in
> question any more.
>
> Can't we just dr
John Hasler grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> Lisi writes:
>> Can't we just drop it
>
> Can't you just killfile it?
She shouldn't have to. THIS list is for discussing things that are
directly related to Debian Linux. What mail program you want to use for
this, that, and the other doesn't even rem
AP grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 03, 2013 01:27:31 PM David Guntner wrote:
>
>> There's a Debian
>> "Off Topic" list for that, and you bloody well know it.
>
> Well, email client discussion is off-topic...? A wonder...!
Look at th
Ralf Mardorf grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 14:39 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>> This thread began on Nov 24th, 10 days ago. There have been 211 posts
>> (including this one) in this thread. I dare say it ceased being
>> productive or insightful many, many posts ago. And i
François Patte grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> Bonsoir,
>
> I'd like to anable php with apache web server.
>
> apache2 is installed
>
> php5 is installed.
>
>
> apache php module is activated
>
>
> But php is not working...ie.:
>
> phpinfo');
> ?>
>
> does not work in /var/ (with 644
praetorien grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> I'm a Windows user, but Microsoft may collect privacy information
> about users witch is not good, so I wonder does Debian 7.2 collect
> ANY information about Users or monitoring?
I could be wrong, but to the best of my knowledge, NO Lin
Brad Alexander grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> Actually, I can see the point of posting inline, however, leave it to
> google and other mail apps to go and ruin it. In the gmail web interface,
> when you reply to an email or even a thread, you get the text entry box,
> with the message you are r
Brad Alexander grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> I'm just curious why so many people get so upset about top posting. To my
> mind, as threads get longer, those keeping up with the thread would not
> want to scroll through messages that they have already read. I know that I
> don't. If they are commen
Alois Mahdal grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 20:56:59 -0800
> David Guntner wrote:
>>
>> Offhand, I'd say install the packages it wants. :-)
>>
>> Those are all standard repository packages for Debian; start
>> with the gconf-servi
erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> Dear List -
>
> I have done the following -
>
> Downloaded chrome from site into /opt
>
> root@meow:/opt# ls
> google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb
>
> install -
>
> root@meow:/opt# dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb
>
Antonio Paiva grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I would like to set up an ssh server such that, everytime someone tries to
> connect to it, a script will be run to control certain aspects of the
> connection. More specifically, I want to check if certain conditions are
> met and, if
Celejar grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Nov 2013 09:22:37 -0700
> David Guntner wrote:
>
>> I've been a happy customer of Dreamhost for many years. They support
>> mailing lists, announcement lists, as many hosted mailboxes and
>> forwarding address
[Following up to myself :-)]
David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> I've been a happy customer of Dreamhost for many years. They support
> mailing lists, announcement lists, as many hosted mailboxes and
> forwarding addresses as you can handle, offer both shared hosting and
I've been a happy customer of Dreamhost for many years. They support
mailing lists, announcement lists, as many hosted mailboxes and
forwarding addresses as you can handle, offer both shared hosting and
VPS services, and are running Linux. Currently my VPS is Debian, though
they announced recentl
Jerry Stuckle grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On 10/27/2013 5:02 PM, David Guntner wrote:
>> Miles Fidelman grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>>
>> [tl;dr]
>>
>> Can you guys PLEASE take this off-topic discussion somewhere else?
>> Like, maybe, the off-topic lis
Miles Fidelman grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
[tl;dr]
Can you guys PLEASE take this off-topic discussion somewhere else?
Like, maybe, the off-topic list (which, oddly enough, was created for
topics like this)
--Dave
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Hendrik Boom grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> I've been running stable for years now on my server.
>
> I tried to investigate a mail irregularity today by looking in /var/log/
> mail* and discovered none of those files had been updated since May.
> Wasn't that around the time wheezy became stable
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
Stan Hoeppner grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On 10/1/2013 12:29 AM, Rhiamom wrote:
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>>> On Sep 30, 2013, at 10:33 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> ...
>>> It's quite funny to see someone of your knowledge
From http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2011/05/#offtopic ...
Have you ever wanted to discuss things completely unrelated to Debian or
even computers with fellow users or developers? On debian-user the
custom is to put [OT] in the subject and fire away.
Unfortunately, this can be disruptive for un
Ralf Mardorf grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> "Assumed I would post a link, is it ok to post a link with similar
> content? Perhaps interesting for the one who posted the link too."
>
> I'm not kidding. The link was useful for the topic and I quoted from
The "topic" has been *off* topic for this p
Ralf Mardorf grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> IMO the "Security?" thread became interesting by links to Lavabit and
> Schneier.
Yea. You and a couple of other people found it interesting and kept the
topic dragging on. It doesn't change the fact that it was OFF TOPIC for
THIS PARTICULAR MAILIN
Maybe this discussion would best be taken to the Off Topic list? ;)
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Carlo grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> Hi Verde Denim, I like to think with free software, I saw that it is a
> non-free, can we trust of it ? Or this isn't againt debian free software
> guidelines? Why Intel doesn't give a free microcode???
Please don't top post in a E-Mail reply, *especially* on
Darac Marjal grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 08:06:17AM -0700, David Guntner wrote:
>> Matej Kosik grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> This morning I have been puzzled by bash.
>>> After typing the following comma
Matej Kosik grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This morning I have been puzzled by bash.
> After typing the following command:
>
> for i in `seq 1 5`;do echo $i; test $i = 3 && break; done
>
> I see:
>
> 1
> 2
> 3
>
> Which is OK.
>
> However, if the "break" co
Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Sat 31 Aug 2013 at 14:39:09 -0700, David Guntner wrote:
>
>> So knowing how to get it to avoid that particular partition when probing
>> would be useful. I don't know if there's a better way of doing that
>> than the wa
Dom grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On 31/08/13 19:46, David Guntner wrote:
>>
>> I suppose it exists on the partition in a sense, but within the
>> filesystem, it lives as /backup/etc/debian_version. /backup is the only
>> mounted filesystem on /dev/sdb1.
&
Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Sat 31 Aug 2013 at 11:28:53 -0700, David Guntner wrote:
>
>> Well, I guess that's the default configuration. *I* didn't tell it
>> anything. :-) Remember, I started this with, "I've used lilo all my
>
> O
Siard grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> David Guntner wrote:
>> I suppose it exists on the partition in a sense, but within the
>> filesystem, it lives as /backup/etc/debian_version. /backup is the
>> only mounted filesystem on /dev/sdb1.
>
> To have os-prober find an O
Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Sat 31 Aug 2013 at 10:59:34 -0700, David Guntner wrote:
>
>> Because it makes no sense to me, whatsoever, as to why it would be
>> pulling in information from areas that are traditionally not booted
>> from. Like, for example, u
Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Sat 31 Aug 2013 at 10:08:17 -0700, David Guntner wrote:
>
>> Well, what the heck!
>>
>> I hadn't run the backup since before the upgrade to Wheezy. So after
>> removing the partition and restoring it, then running i
Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Sat 31 Aug 2013 at 09:23:40 -0700, David Guntner wrote:
>
>> Well, too late on "before you try that," but I had looked at the
>> partition. None of those files existed on that drive (or partition).
>>
>> I'
Jeff Bauer grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On 08/31/2013 12:23 PM, David Guntner wrote:
>> I've been using it as a sort of backup type of partition, mounted as
>> /backup (until I have time to install backuppc and get it all
>> configured; I've just been doing an r
Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Fri 30 Aug 2013 at 18:10:00 -0700, David Guntner wrote:
>> Grub still seems to think there's Linux on /dev/sdb1. That's
>> aggravating.. I guess I'll just try moving the stuff off of the one
>> and only parti
Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Fri 30 Aug 2013 at 18:10:00 -0700, David Guntner wrote:
>> Grub still seems to think there's Linux on /dev/sdb1. That's
>> aggravating.. I guess I'll just try moving the stuff off of the one
>> and only parti
David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> I'm really starting to think it's just something that got stuck in the
> partition table. Now that I think about it, I think when I re-purposed
> that drive, I deleted all partitions except for sdb1 and then just
> res
Chris Bannister grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 07:58:39PM -0700, David Guntner wrote:
>>
>>> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1 bs=512 count=1
>>> 1+0 records in
>>> 1+0 records out
>>> 512 bytes (512 B) copied, 0.000983331 s, 521 k
Joe Pfeiffer grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> David Guntner writes:
>> Seems like a good idea. I tried it, but it doesn't look like it worked:
>>
>>> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=446 count=1
>>> 1+0 records in
>>> 1+0 records out
>&g
Joe Pfeiffer grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> David Guntner writes:
>
>> Hugo Vanwoerkom grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>>> David Guntner wrote:
>>>> Hmmm. I wonder if the MBR for the drive sill has a loader on it,
>>>> even though I removed all
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