SOLUTION: Re: Best practices for current Chrome/Chromium and/or Firefox/Icewasel in squeeze?

2011-07-31 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 17:05 Tue 26 Jul, Dr. Ed Morbius (dredmorb...@gmail.com) wrote: > I've recently been made aware of some of the benefits of the Chrome / > Chromium and Firefox. > > Running Squeeze, the most recent Chromium release is from May 13, and > Firefox 5 isn't available either

Re: Best practices for current Chrome/Chromium and/or Firefox/Icewasel in squeeze?

2011-07-26 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 16:35 Tue 26 Jul, Greg Madden (gomadtr...@gci.net) wrote: > > > On Tuesday 26 July 2011 04:05:47 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > I've recently been made aware of some of the benefits of the Chrome / > > Chromium and Firefox. > > > > Running Squeeze, the mo

Best practices for current Chrome/Chromium and/or Firefox/Icewasel in squeeze?

2011-07-26 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
t. What's best practices? Method or pointer to docs appreciated. Thanks. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist| When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Unlimited| Go to Krell! -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: generating graphs

2011-06-11 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
-system graphing, there are tools which will mine sar (sysstat Debian package) data. ksar is an interactive tool. You can also output delimited sar data for processing in tools of your own choosing (awk, perl, ruby, python, gnuplot, R, ...). -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /|

Re: USR 5633 Robotics Modem in Debian

2011-05-25 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
R. I'm asking if > anyone knows a way for USR. The only way you'll be able to use it is to set up a computer running Windows, allow it to run the modem, and use that as your Internet gateway. It. Just. Won't. Work. Under. Linux. Full stop. Otherwise: I'd try to swap for cmp

Re: Re: Why does Linux crash?

2011-04-20 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
#x27;d suggest you not do so, as you don't understand the problem and would be producing noise in the system. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist| When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Unlimited|

Re: changing my e-mail address

2011-04-16 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
a single answer to my question ! The answer to your question is: unsubscribe the old address. Subscribe the new one. Your subscription has no other semantics other than to 1) route mail to the subscribed address and 2) (sometimes) allow you to post to a given list (if it's limited to

Re: New user questions

2011-04-13 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 10:22 Wed 13 Apr, Freeman (hew...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 03:45:10PM -0700, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > on 13:03 Tue 12 Apr, Freeman (hew...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 01:38:47PM -0700, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > > > on 10:

Re: New to Linux

2011-04-12 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
ocate info2www Then point your browser at http://localhost/dwww > I have experiences with the Search Technology. I have also created a forum > to promote programming among my peers where we organize monthly contests on > this portal. www.code.vrglinug.org Um. So, are you asking a question or s

Re: New user questions

2011-04-12 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 13:03 Tue 12 Apr, Freeman (hew...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 01:38:47PM -0700, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > on 10:15 Mon 11 Apr, Michael (mmorse...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > I used Debian about four years ago and enjoyed it. The computer I > > > had it o

Re: New user questions

2011-04-11 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 09:53 Tue 12 Apr, chris (che...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 13:38 -0700, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > on 10:15 Mon 11 Apr, Michael (mmorse...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > I used Debian about four years ago and enjoyed it. The computer I > > > had it on died

Re: Suggestions for bayesian network software

2011-04-11 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
even if it is through Wine. R? http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Bayesian.html http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/Conferences/DSC-2003/Proceedings/BottcherDethlefsen.pdf http://www.mascherini.org/MascheriniStefaniniFrascati.pdf -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /|

Re: Free PDF viewer that can search for text across line-breaks?

2011-04-11 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
xclip copy #!/bin/sh # Xclip copy export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin xclip ------------ Solves the vi/vim "how do I read in text" problem as well: :r !xp -- D

Re: New user questions

2011-04-11 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on but am having some issues. aptitude upgrade wife is slated for the 10.0 release. > First, is this the correct newsgroup for such "newbies"? Yes, it is. What's your question? -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist| W

Re: obtaining copy of debian

2011-04-11 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
ood guide, through the Debian Installation Guide lists architectures, and the Debian FAQ identifies these by chip type: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch02s01.html.en http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-compat.en.html#s-arches -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientis

Re: CD burning programs with verification

2011-04-09 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
satisfy your minimal deps requirement. You can do your own md5sum / sha1sum verification using any command-line utilities you choose. xcdroast + same works for me. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist| When you seek unlimited power Krell P

Re: obtaining copy of debian

2011-04-09 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
an.org/releases/stable/amd64/ The Debian Documentation homepage is another good place to start looking for help: http://www.debian.org/doc/ I'd particularly recommend the FAQ: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ A bit of attitude adjustment might also be in order. -- Dr.

Re: Managing large numbers (100+) of Debian-based machines

2011-04-07 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
uot;guinea pig" group for testing updates (some things just can't be tested in an automated fashion), essential for end-user deployments. A bevvy of other things I'm leaving out, but I'd like to see what others have to say. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientis

Re: Daily email from my remote calendar

2011-03-30 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 07:54 Wed 30 Mar, Gregory Seidman (gsslist+deb...@anthropohedron.net) wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 03:42:53PM -0700, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > on 08:55 Tue 29 Mar, Gregory Seidman (gsslist+deb...@anthropohedron.net) > > wrote: > > > I'm looking for somethin

Re: Daily email from my remote calendar

2011-03-29 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
rwise: you should be able to mount the remote calendar via FUISE, grab it via cadaver, or other similar means. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist| When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Unlimited|

OT: crypto, auth, CAs, web-of-trust, and phony certs

2011-03-23 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
or. And good crypto, both in its implementation and execution, is hard. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist| When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Unlimited| Go to Krell! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Weird WM behavior after changing video cards

2011-03-22 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
n decide if this is something that needs to be addressed, but at least there will be a record of the issue. If others have a similar (or more severe) problem, they may be able to draw a connection between the two. Much better than a mailing list mention. -- Dr. Ed Morb

Re: Having trouble with Cron

2011-03-22 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
y day, of every month, and every weekday". You would want to specify some specific minute: 1 1 * * * root/bin/backuppublishers ... says: run on the first minute, of the first hour, ... -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Ps

Re: Signature debian CDs

2011-03-22 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 20:46 Mon 21 Mar, Dan (ganc...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > on 22:48 Mon 21 Mar, Andrei Popescu (andreimpope...@gmail.com) wrote: > >> On Lu, 21 mar 11, 13:33:16, Dan wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > &

Re: Signature debian CDs

2011-03-21 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
panding on this: The signature is valid (it cryptographically matches the signing key), but identity is unverified, based on your (OP's) trust path. You've got an assurance that the file contents haven't been changed since they were signed, but no definite assurance of the key&#

Re: Scrolling display problem in browsers firefox,konqueror

2011-03-18 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
... and see if you have the same corruption. If you don't, it's an X issue (at least in part). If you do, it's elsewhere. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist| When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Unlim

Re: need help with sed problem

2011-03-18 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
xt.txt > > Thanks a lot... I did not know that was possible... > > I used the # separator. Worked just fine Please note that '#' is a valid filesystem name character. There are relatively few values which are safely excludable. In your case this should

Re: help controlling beep in wheezy gnome desktop

2011-03-16 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
pplet. > > Thanks. gnome-volume-control has what I need --- and something I didn't > ask for but is much to my liking: I can change the beep to a dog bark > and entertain my dog, Daisy. My this forever quiet the madding crowd who insist that Debian isn't sufficiently dog-frien

Re: On-going problems with flashplugin for IW

2011-03-16 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
er browser controls or plugins such as NoScript? In my experience, javascript must be enabled to allow Flash plugins to work. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist| When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Unlimited

Re: SPAM SPAM SPAM !!! Re: Sip?

2011-03-16 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
cause it's stable, unlike the .ly extensions which > are hosted in Libya, You're confounding domain registration with hosting site. As of a few moments ago, bit.ly resolved to 168.143.172.53, which appears to be hosted by Verio in Dallas or NTT America, with a postal address in Cen

Re: Canonical source for the new CD signing key's fingerprint?

2011-03-16 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 21:03 Wed 16 Mar, Steve McIntyre (st...@einval.com) wrote: > Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > >on 04:56 Wed 16 Mar, Todd A. Jacobs (codegnome.consulting+deb...@gmail.com) > >wrote: > >> I've recently downloaded the net installation image for Squeeze, but > >> am r

Re: help controlling beep in wheezy gnome desktop

2011-03-16 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
ind it. > Are there some packages that I should install, but are not part of > what is done by the tasksel desktop task? Can you mute this via one of the mixer settings? 'xset -b' disables bell for most console apps. Otherwise ... that's about all I've got. -- Dr.

Re: SPAM SPAM SPAM !!! Re: Sip?

2011-03-16 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
f confidence, Andrei > Regards, A smidge of context would have been helpful. Well, a smidge /more/ than 'SIP'. I'd seen reference to the GNU Free Call project elsewhere. But otherwise this was just a tad on the terse side. Even Twitter allows you 140 bytes. -- Dr. Ed Mor

Re: Canonical source for the new CD signing key's fingerprint?

2011-03-16 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
to the associated GPG private key wrote it, and (assuming the signature validates), content hasn't been altered. Without known trusted signatures on my key, I could be anybody. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist| When you

Re: kde missing documentation

2011-03-14 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 14:55 Mon 14 Mar, Andreas Goesele (goes...@hfph.mwn.de) wrote: > "Dr. Ed Morbius" writes: > > > on 23:40 Sun 13 Mar, Andreas Goesele (goes...@hfph.mwn.de) wrote: > >> Hi! > >> > >> I just noticed that (after upgrading to squeeze) I'

Re: kde missing documentation

2011-03-13 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
/index.html does not exist. Install the relevant *-doc packages. aptitude search kde.*doc ... will likely list more than you need. 'kdebase-doc, kde-base-doc-html' would be a good start. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist

Re: File server without the Xserver

2011-03-12 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
rogram to your heart's content. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist| When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Unlimited| Go to Krell! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: Mail filtering / rules: mutt + offlineimap + ???

2011-03-12 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 23:42 Fri 11 Mar, Joel Roth (jo...@pobox.com) wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 04:47:43PM -0800, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > I've been been using mutt + offlineimap for great justice ... except for > > filtering. > > > > I've previously relied on procma

Re: File server without the Xserver

2011-03-11 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
dX11Trusted yes > > that's really about it. just ssh -x and export DISPLAY=0:0 > (iirc) and launch whatever you want. No export is necessary. In fact, that will break SSH's X11 forwarding, as it creates its own socket and sets DISPLAY appropriately. -- Dr. Ed Morbius,

Re: File server without the Xserver

2011-03-11 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 19:57 Fri 11 Mar, Dan (ganc...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > on 18:37 Fri 11 Mar, Dan (ganc...@gmail.com) wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius > >> wrote: > > xauth is required by xbase-c

Mail filtering / rules: mutt + offlineimap + ???

2011-03-11 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
certain messages as well. Hrm ... imapfilter according to the Consilience blog: http://blog.grossmeier.net/2009/01/25/imapfilterofflineimapmsmtpmuttabook/ What are others using for this, and/or set up the bomb? -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler

Re: File server without the Xserver

2011-03-11 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 18:37 Fri 11 Mar, Dan (ganc...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > > on 15:41 Fri 11 Mar, Dan (ganc...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am going to prepare a File Server with Debian in a ProLiant and I

Re: File server without the Xserver

2011-03-11 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
installed to use, or (in the case of Oracle), simply to /install/ their products. Nuts. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist| When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Unlimited| Go to Krell! -

Re: Fglrx left lint on my Squeeze box!

2011-03-11 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 08:02 Fri 11 Mar, Klistvud (quotati...@aliceadsl.fr) wrote: > Dne, 11. 03. 2011 06:00:18 je Dr. Ed Morbius napisal(a): > >on 21:03 Thu 10 Mar, Klistvud (quotati...@aliceadsl.fr) wrote: > >> Howdie, fellow Debianites! > >> > >> Upon installing Squeeze weeks ag

Re: Fglrx left lint on my Squeeze box!

2011-03-11 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 08:02 Fri 11 Mar, Klistvud (quotati...@aliceadsl.fr) wrote: > Dne, 11. 03. 2011 06:00:18 je Dr. Ed Morbius napisal(a): > >on 21:03 Thu 10 Mar, Klistvud (quotati...@aliceadsl.fr) wrote: > >> Howdie, fellow Debianites! > >> > >> Upon installing Squeeze weeks ag

Re: Fglrx left lint on my Squeeze box!

2011-03-10 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
oop to avoid the obvious tedium involved, unless you're into obvious tedium, of course, not that there's anything wrong with that). > Specifically, what do you make of those symlinks under /etc/rcx.d/ ? > Will they slow down my boots perceptibly? I'm almos

Re: new hard drive usb "WD My Passport essential SE" 1Tb

2011-03-03 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
n > (squeeze)? dmesg | tail -20 lsusb Post output. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist| When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Unlimited| Go to Krell! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: Mounting and FTPing with SSH

2011-03-03 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
For truly transparent access, look to FUSE and sshfs: http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist| When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Unlimited| Go to K

Re: Debian Newbie need help

2011-03-03 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
aid: xrandr is probably your first resource, though you can also muck with /etc/X11/xorg.conf. As others have noted: post /var/log/Xorg.0.log -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist| When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Un

Re: VMware Workstation

2011-03-02 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
ling with license keys and kernel mods (this is a custom build) that are putting me off VMWare. Assuming I can get the images up (initial attempts so far result in an unbootable WinXP image -- I'll post sundry details to an appropriate list later if I can't sort that). -- Dr. Ed

Re: VMware Workstation

2011-03-02 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 14:54 Wed 02 Mar, Greg Madden (gomadtr...@gci.net) wrote: > > > On Wednesday 02 March 2011 01:59:50 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > > Why would one chose one over the other? > > OT but, Vbox is gpl and in Debians repositoriies. Well, yeah, besides the obvious I mea

Re: VMware Workstation

2011-03-02 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
x27; /proc/cpuinfo > > HTH Does anyone have actual or apparent performance comparisons between vbox and VMWare? Why would one chose one over the other? -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist| When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Sy

Re: Debian 6 uninstallable?

2011-03-02 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
tinst iso, not installabe, or, not bootable? Works for me: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/02/msg01938.html -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist| When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Unlimited

Re: How do I troubleshoot my DHCP server and eth1 configuration?

2011-03-01 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
lease when you bring up the desktop interface or run dhclient against it, you're golden. 'dhclient -v eth0' should tell you what's going on. You'll also see queries and leases in both the client and server logs. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot

Re: ata disk error

2011-03-01 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
risk is condensation if you're in a humid area). Note that loss of all of your data is fairly probable in either event. If you do get the drive working, have a suitably large storage device handy and TRANSFER ALL IMPORTANT DATA to it IMMEDIATELY. Once you've done that, bin the drive.

Re: Command line: How do you keep the output from scrolling out of sight?

2011-03-01 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
ate or use futher regex substitutions or commands to clean up / modify data. Mostly I just pipe output to less or redirect to a file as needed. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist| When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems

Re: Sorting by date

2011-02-28 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
sn't mentioned in any of his posts of this same question to the Ubuntu, CentOS, and Debian mailing lists) that output are from 'ls'. https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=%22Jan+23+2011+10%3A42+SOMETHING+2007.12.20.avi%22 The format of the output makes me suspect that it isn'

Re: Sorting by date

2011-02-28 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 12:35 Mon 28 Feb, erikmccaskey64 (erikmccaske...@zoho.com) wrote: > > Original: > Jan 23 2011 10:42 SOMETHING 2007.12.20.avi > Jun 26 2009 SOMETHING 2009.06.25.avi > Feb 12 2010 SOMETHING 2010.02.11.avi > Jan 29 2011 09:17 SOMETHING 2011.01.27.avi > Feb 11 2011 20:06 SOMETHING 2011.02.10.avi >

Re: Debian vs. other firewall/server operating systems

2011-02-28 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
r offerings. LTS, hardware support, ISV support, "the number one name in Linux" all play major roles. CentOS: shops which want all the flexibility, administrative ease, and power of Red Hat with all the marketing and third-party vendor support of Debian. Or could they just be cheap basta

Re: Regular DHCP network drop

2011-02-24 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 21:18 Thu 24 Feb, Camaleón (noela...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:43:02 -0800, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > > on 17:14 Thu 24 Feb, Camaleón wrote: > > >> > And route shows my gateway but it's unpingable. > >> > >> (...) > >

Re: Regular DHCP network drop

2011-02-24 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 17:14 Thu 24 Feb, Camaleón (noela...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:18:21 -0800, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > (...) > > > Feb 23 15:09:12 localhost dhclient: Invalid domain list. > ^^^ > > You should

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

2011-02-24 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 17:25 Thu 24 Feb, Sjoerd Hardeman (sjo...@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl) wrote: > Dr. Ed Morbius schreef: > >on 16:24 Wed 23 Feb, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. (b...@iguanasuicide.net) wrote: > >>On Wednesday 23 February 2011 15:11:25 Carlos Mennens wrote: > > > >>>3. D

Re: Where is the trust?

2011-02-23 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
world doesn't have to, say, worry about the validity and/or moral compass of middle-eastern / north-African governments. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist| When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Unlimited

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

2011-02-23 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
comments are all either set by default, or configurable at install tiem (e.g.: world-readable home directories). -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist| When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Unlimited| Go to Krell! signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Regular DHCP network drop

2011-02-23 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
, but I'd like to know why it's necessary in the first place. DHCP server is a box in the office running CentOS. I see the DHCP requests and lease offers there, no sign of expiry. Suggestions welcomed. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psych

Re: squeeze fails to install

2011-02-18 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 20:34 Thu 17 Feb, Neal Hogan (nealho...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > on 19:30 Thu 17 Feb, Neal Hogan (nealho...@gmail.com) wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius > >> wrote: > >> >

Re: screen resolution in Squeeze?

2011-02-18 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
rk, attach /var/log/Xorg.0.log to your next followup. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist| When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Unlimited| Go to Krell! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-

Re: squeeze fails to install

2011-02-18 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 20:34 Thu 17 Feb, Neal Hogan (nealho...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > on 19:30 Thu 17 Feb, Neal Hogan (nealho...@gmail.com) wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius > >> wrote: > >> >

Re: squeeze fails to install

2011-02-17 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 19:30 Thu 17 Feb, Neal Hogan (nealho...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > I'll generally constrain my followup to the earlier thread rather than > > propogating two separate ones. > > > > on 18:11 Thu 17 Feb, Neal H

Re: Failed logins isn't logged?

2011-02-17 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
> How do I view the log file? > /var/log/faillog Also: man (1) lastb Or /var/log/auth.log (for all authentication events). -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist| When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Unlimited

Re: squeeze fails to install

2011-02-17 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
I'll generally constrain my followup to the earlier thread rather than propogating two separate ones. on 18:11 Thu 17 Feb, Neal Hogan (nealho...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius > wrote: > > on 21:01 Wed 16 Feb, Neal Hogan (nealho...@gmail.c

Re: Is Blackboxwm web site down

2011-02-17 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
based on the error message, I'd suspect bigger issues at sourceforge.net: http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/ You might want to let them know about it. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist| When you seek unlimited pow

Re: Is this statement correct?

2011-02-17 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 12:55 Thu 17 Feb, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. (b...@iguanasuicide.net) wrote: > On Thursday 17 February 2011 12:44:05 Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > LILO was an earlier bootloader. For Linux. Hence: LInux LOader. > > It was a successor to LoadLin, a program to LOAD LINux. That is a

Re: Is this statement correct?

2011-02-17 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
t in? 2: The GNU project != Linux. (The GNU project refers to "Linux" as an OS very consistently as "GNU/Linux", unless they are referring specifically to the Linux kernel). LILO was an earlier bootloader. For Linux. Hence: LInux LOader. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /

Re: fresh squeeze install fails to partition

2011-02-17 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
appens if you create a filesystem manually? 3: Have you checked the disk for errors? Badblocks, checking for any I/O or read/seek complete errors in dmesg. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist| When y

Re: squeeze fails to install

2011-02-17 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
#x27;t > install on a machine that has worked). > > I understand that the majorty of folks on this list are not devs, but > the devs who do subscribe *should* take notice. No? As others have noted: file a bug against debian-installer. That's how devs hear about things. This list

Re: Way to have terminal/console application stack in gnome like in KDE 3.5's kicker?

2011-02-16 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 22:18 Wed 16 Feb, D G Teed (donald.t...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > > on 20:51 Wed 16 Feb, D G Teed (donald.t...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > Having lost KDE 3.5 in the squeeze update, and not being satisfied > > > wi

Re: Two email accounts

2011-02-16 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
haps in a slightly more convoluted manner. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist| When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Unlimited| Go to Krell! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

Re: Way to have terminal/console application stack in gnome like in KDE 3.5's kicker?

2011-02-16 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
, etc., rather than interactively. - Use the KDE Terminal / GNOME Terminal built-in multiplexing features. - Use another terminal multiplexer such as screen or tmux. What are you doing that requires 50 terminal sessions? How do you plan on managing this when your server count doubles? Increases

Re: Middle button copy/paste

2011-02-16 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
x5e1, root 0x120, subw 0x0, time 48540309, (165,140), root:(2443,368), state 0x200, button 2, same_screen YES You may want to try adding a mouse stanza to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf to see if that resolves anything. As others have noted, gpm has NOTHING to do with mouse function

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-16 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 23:00 Wed 09 Feb, Bob Proulx (b...@proulx.com) wrote: > Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > My avoiding use of GNOME/KDE (and hence network-manager and its GUI > > interfaces) doesn't help matters much. I suspect that if I were to run > > one or the other, I'd have fe

Re: List of packages installed by default?

2011-02-10 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
packages installed which have no packages dependent on them (generally libraries). What's your goal here? And if I may suggest, being slightly paranoid is rarely sufficient. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist /| Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist| When you seek unlimit

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-09 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 16:15 Wed 09 Feb, Celejar (cele...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 18:24:28 -0800 > "Dr. Ed Morbius" wrote: > > > on 15:23 Tue 08 Feb, Celejar (cele...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > > > I'm curious - everyone has always seemed to love ThinkPads,

Re: guidance for making a .Xresources file.

2011-02-09 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
hemselves. Yes, _if_ you're going to specify custom xrdb resources, that's the default place to do so, but for the bulk of the userbase, that's probably two or three levels of obscure arcana. An empty .Xresources should work just fine, but if that's required by the tightvnc

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
the 1440x900 screen resolution (a comperable 17" MacBook Pro offers 1680x1050). That said, given alternatives, it's the least bad solution, if not one that leaves me smiling all the time. -- Dr. Ed Morbius Chief Scientist / Robot Wrangler When you seek unlimited power Krell

Re: Oh no, not partitioning again!

2011-02-04 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
t least 2 (and more likely 3-4) kernel + module trees. For /usr, it's the internationalization and language support for packages. /usr/share and /usr/lib/ run over 2.5 GB apiece, and that's _with_ localepurge installed. -- Dr. Ed Morbius Chief Scientist Krell Power Systems Unlimited -- To

Re: Starting NFS common utilities failed!

2011-02-03 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 03:33 Fri 04 Feb, T o n g (mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com) wrote: > On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:04:52 -0800, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > >> How do I fix this problem? > >> > >> % invoke-rc.d nfs-common start > >> Starting NFS common utilities: statd failed! invok

Re: Starting NFS common utilities failed!

2011-02-03 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 20:50 Thu 03 Feb, T o n g (mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com) wrote: > > Hi, > > How do I fix this problem? > > % invoke-rc.d nfs-common start > Starting NFS common utilities: statd failed! > invoke-rc.d: initscript nfs-common, action "start" failed. > > Apparently, it's a common error but nobody kno

Re: Display or graphics problems

2011-02-02 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
ist can't help you, you might find more useful (and native-language) support on debian-chinese-gb: http://lists.debian.org/debian-chinese-gb/ Alternately, you may have an X.org problem, in which case posting /var/log/Xorg.0.log would be helpful. -- Dr. Ed Morbius Chief Scientist Krell

Re: OT: Make Windows act like Debian and copy text just by markingit

2011-01-31 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
>Greetings, > >> > >>-- > >>Camaleón > >> > >> > I'm confused too. Can you be a bit more explicit in your requirement > (an example would help also) OP is referring to X copy/paste. Two obvious solutions suggest themselves: install an X W

Re: aptitude update 255 exit status, no errors/warnings

2011-01-28 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 21:24 Fri 28 Jan, Sven Joachim (svenj...@gmx.de) wrote: > On 2011-01-28 21:07 +0100, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > > Attempting my usual aptitude update and package download today: > > > > aptitude update && aptitude -dy full-upgrade > > > > ..

aptitude update 255 exit status, no errors/warnings

2011-01-28 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
removed from the main archive). Obvious short-term fix is to remove debian-ports from /etc/apt/sources.list, but it would seem aptitude's error handling should also be improved. Anything else I should note before filing a bug? -- Dr. Ed Morbius Chief Scientist Krell Power Sy

Re: Squeeze volatile?

2011-01-27 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
gt; Also, stable-updates will be a symlink to squeeze-updates until Wheezy is > released. > > (This, plus bringing backports in to the core infrastructure, seems to > be part of a trend to make the Debian mirrors look more like the > Ubuntu mirrors. In this case, I think that's a g

Re: Mount all filesystems in fstab, weird problem

2011-01-27 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
-all > Mount all filesystems (of the given types) mentioned in fstab. > > FYI, those filesystems can be mouted just fine: > > % mount -v /lfs/cache21 > /dev/sdb2 on /lfs/cache21 type ext3 (rw) > > % mount -v /lfs/cache31 > /dev/sdc1 on /lfs/cache31 type ext

Re: Strange behaviour of files in /proc Explanation??

2011-01-27 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 00:56 Fri 28 Jan, Lisi (lisi.re...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Thursday 27 January 2011 19:41:06 Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > on 17:43 Thu 27 Jan, Lisi (lisi.re...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > On my main desktop running Lenny and KDE 3.5.10, I can open files in > > > /proc with

Re: Strange behaviour of files in /proc Explanation??

2011-01-27 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
you stick to standard text tools, and not run X sessions as root. -- Dr. Ed Morbius Chief Scientist Krell Power Systems Unlimited -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: display off center

2011-01-27 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
en), or an integrated (e.g.: laptop) display? You can adjust X11 modeline values to shift the display, though that's pretty old-school these days, and it won't affect your console. If you don't have hard or soft display controls, you can Google that topic. -- Dr. Ed Morbius Chief S

Re: Squeeze volatile?

2011-01-27 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
't necessary. You should find that your AV and spam-filter packages update frequently if you're tracking testing/unstable. -- Dr. Ed Morbius Chief Scientist Krell Power Systems Unlimited -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un