Re: [OFFTOPIC] Plonk (wss: Meta: behavior on list)

2021-08-14 Thread Michael Howard
On 14/08/2021 20:51, Curt wrote: On 2021-08-14, Michael Howard wrote: On 14/08/2021 16:08, Charles Curley wrote: Don't forget IP over drums, and of course IP over lanterns in church steeples ("Two if by sea", etc.) Please take this shit off list! IP overwrou

Fwd: [OFFTOPIC] Plonk (wss: Meta: behavior on list)

2021-08-14 Thread Michael Howard
and her is an off list reply reply from the less than honourable Polyna Forwarded Message Subject:Re: [OFFTOPIC] Plonk (wss: Meta: behavior on list) Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2021 15:41:22 -0400 From: Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside To: Michael Howard On

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Plonk (wss: Meta: behavior on list)

2021-08-14 Thread Michael Howard
On 14/08/2021 20:25, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: Hi, On 2021-08-14 2:53 p.m., Michael Howard wrote: On 14/08/2021 16:08, Charles Curley wrote: On Sat, 14 Aug 2021 07:37:00 -0500 John Hasler wrote: tomas writes: But... Usenet was /before/ 'phone, wasn't it? Yup.  B

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Plonk (wss: Meta: behavior on list)

2021-08-14 Thread Michael Howard
slow, but worked. And, of course, pigeons. Don't forget IP over drums, and of course IP over lanterns in church steeples ("Two if by sea", etc.) Please take this shit off list!!!!! -- Michael Howard.

Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????)

2021-02-25 Thread Michael Howard
well.. https://www.brow.sh/ Maybe later. It isn't in repository and depends on Firefox. I'm strongly pro-SeaMonkey ;} Err, where do think SeaMonkey evolved from? -- Michael Howard.

Re: 'ddgr' cli for duckduckgo snafu?

2021-02-23 Thread Michael Howard
27;s office in the country? -- Michael Howard.

Re: Accessing raid from multiple hosts

2021-02-07 Thread Michael Howard
On 07/02/2021 15:44, Sven Hartge wrote: Michael Howard wrote: On 07/02/2021 14:35, john doe wrote: I have a multiboot system (Buster and Stretch),, the raid was configured on Buster and works well. now, I need to access that same raid from Stretch. Has anyone been able to access a raid from

Re: Accessing raid from multiple hosts

2021-02-07 Thread Michael Howard
? -- Michael Howard.

Re: sharing a network connection from debian to non-debian

2021-01-16 Thread Michael Howard
On 16/01/2021 05:02, Dan Hitt wrote: In 2016, i had a computer with mint on it (which is a form of ubuntu), and it was connected to an internet modem.  There was a super simple gui on it that i could use to share that connection with some older hardware that were not directly connected to the i

Re: Disk errors ...

2021-01-13 Thread Michael Howard
On 13/01/2021 22:53, David Christensen wrote: On 2021-01-13 14:34, Michael Stone wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 01:55:37PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: If you have any red SATA cables, replace them with new black SATA 6 Make sure you wear a beaded neckless while doing that under a full m

Re: simple-scan fails with Canon LiDE 300--except as root

2021-01-08 Thread Michael Howard
s a standard user, it's usually permissions. Is the user a member of the correct groups etc? -- Michael Howard

Re: restarting pppd automatically

2020-12-28 Thread Michael Howard
ress on it) and  run the command 'pon dsl-provider' if it wasn't up. -- Michael Howard

Re: TFTPD-HPA permissions

2020-11-18 Thread Michael Howard
ls -l /srv: drwsrwsrwx 2 root root4096 Nov 18 19:37 tftp Any ideas? Thanks Andrew A vague memory but does the file not need to already exist on the server with some older cisco kit? Try touching the file on the server first. Mike. -- Michael Howard

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

2020-05-31 Thread Michael Howard
On 31/05/2020 20:52, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, May 31, 2020 01:43:46 PM Michael Howard wrote: On 31/05/2020 15:59, Thomas Schmitt wrote: If a backup shall have a chance to be absolutely safe it must be done while the backuped filesystems are unmounted or mounted read-only

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

2020-05-31 Thread Michael Howard
On 31/05/2020 15:59, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Michael Howard wrote: With linux (debian) you could just create an image (using dd for example) of the drive in order to restore it at a later date. If a backup shall have a chance to be absolutely safe it must be done while the backuped

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

2020-05-31 Thread Michael Howard
pristine state, what is easier or quicker than doing a re-install? Just retain (or obtain) a copy of the original install media. It doesnt get much quicker than a barebones netinst of debian. -- Michael Howard

Re: armhf: buster: TLS / HTTPS partly broken

2020-05-05 Thread Michael Howard
work? Doesn't need interaction. Apologies if I missed something, haven't read the whole thread. -- Michael Howard

Re: apt-mark hold issue (apt Installed: 1.8.2 armhf)

2020-04-19 Thread Michael Howard
nd, it should maintain the status quo and mutually exclusive packages should be suitable for 'marking'. -- Michael Howard

Re: apt-mark hold issue (apt Installed: 1.8.2 armhf)

2020-04-19 Thread Michael Howard
On 19/04/2020 17:34, Michael Lange wrote: Hi, On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 09:25:18 +0200 Sven Hartge wrote: Michael Howard wrote: root@bamford:/etc# apt-mark hold sudo sudo-ldap sudo set on hold. sudo-ldap set on hold. root@bamford:/etc# apt-mark showhold bash dash sudo sudo-ldap Still good, but

Re: Kind reminder: please don't reply to and/or quote spam, ever

2020-04-19 Thread Michael Howard
On 19/04/2020 12:01, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 11:56:32AM +0100, Michael Howard wrote: On 19/04/2020 11:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 11:45:49AM +0100, Michael Howard wrote: [...] Never used it myself though as I control my own mail server. Just

Re: Bouncing a message from Thunderbird [was: Kind reminder: please don't reply to and/or quote spam, ever]

2020-04-19 Thread Michael Howard
On 19/04/2020 11:56, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 11:50:01AM +0100, Michael Howard wrote: [...] Don't do boasting, but I have installed TB thousands of times, just like I've installed linux and windows thousands of times. No big deal is it? Sorry if I came ac

Re: Kind reminder: please don't reply to and/or quote spam, ever

2020-04-19 Thread Michael Howard
On 19/04/2020 11:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 11:45:49AM +0100, Michael Howard wrote: [...] If there's any thunderbird expert here: hey, tell us how that works, and I promise to edit the Debian wiki :-) There is a mail redirect plugin for TB here,

Re: Bouncing a message from Thunderbird [was: Kind reminder: please don't reply to and/or quote spam, ever]

2020-04-19 Thread Michael Howard
On 19/04/2020 11:42, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 11:16:50AM +0100, Michael Howard wrote: [...] No way. Thing wanted to set up an account and refused to play with me without one. You mean an email client wanted you to setup an email account? Wow, how absurd :) Indeed. I

Re: Kind reminder: please don't reply to and/or quote spam, ever

2020-04-19 Thread Michael Howard
mailredirect.sourceforge.io/installation.html. Never used it myself though as I control my own mail server. -- Michael Howard

Re: Bouncing a message from Thunderbird [was: Kind reminder: please don't reply to and/or quote spam, ever]

2020-04-19 Thread Michael Howard
x27;t ever be your friend. Furrfu. Seriously, what account? Never, ever, been asked to do anything untoward when installing Thunderbird and I've done it thousands of times, quite literally. -- Michael Howard

Re: apt-mark hold issue (apt Installed: 1.8.2 armhf)

2020-04-18 Thread Michael Howard
On 18/04/2020 21:34, Michael Howard wrote: On 18/04/2020 21:02, Sven Hartge wrote: Michael Howard wrote: I've not used apt-mark much (or it's previous methods) so I'm a bit confused by what I'm seeing. If I use 'apt-mark hold ' and then 'apt-mark showh

Re: apt-mark hold issue (apt Installed: 1.8.2 armhf)

2020-04-18 Thread Michael Howard
On 18/04/2020 21:02, Sven Hartge wrote: Michael Howard wrote: I've not used apt-mark much (or it's previous methods) so I'm a bit confused by what I'm seeing. If I use 'apt-mark hold ' and then 'apt-mark showhold' I get ' ' listed. If I then

apt-mark hold issue (apt Installed: 1.8.2 armhf)

2020-04-18 Thread Michael Howard
whold' I get only '' listed. This can't be right, surely? Am I missing something? -- Michael Howard

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-13 Thread Michael Howard
On 13/04/2020 19:18, Sven Hartge wrote: Michael Howard wrote: On 13/04/2020 17:49, John Hasler wrote: Michael Howard writes: In your opinion. Total rubbish in my opinion. Far better to have more channels open than just one where possible. Not when the channels connect to different pools

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-13 Thread Michael Howard
cern with Javascript. I have read what there is of Discourse using Lynx. Am I missing out an anything? Can you provide some of the links you used? -- Michael Howard

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-13 Thread Michael Howard
On 13/04/2020 17:49, John Hasler wrote: Michael Howard writes: In your opinion. Total rubbish in my opinion. Far better to have more channels open than just one where possible. Not when the channels connect to different pools. Sorry, which different pools are you refering to? -- Michael

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-13 Thread Michael Howard
should commit to *one* communications channel and only one, as to not create parallel "societies". In your opinion. Total rubbish in my opinion. Far better to have more channels open than just one where possible. -- Michael Howard

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-13 Thread Michael Howard
earch engine, which brings up the spot in their Maps app). I found this surprising (in my vast ignorance). Both maxmind and geoip.com put me about three miles from my actual location (both at the same point). Celejar maxmind put's me 134.7 miles away from my location. -- Michael Howard

Re: DOH

2020-04-12 Thread Michael Howard
tever scheme the sysadmin has set up for DNS. I don't have polite words for that. Cheers -- t Security has a lot to answer for. It's amazing how much is done in this day and age, in _all_ walks of life, in the name of so called security. -- Michael Howard

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread Michael Howard
-user regulars will give it a try with an open mind. Cheers, Andy Just another cog in the Debian control wheel. Pass me that woolly cardigan and those sandals please ... I still remember when Debian was for the community. -- Michael Howard

Re: question

2020-03-26 Thread Michael Howard
>New...' give it a name, select 'After Sending' (and de-select any others as appropriate), select 'Match all messages' then add the actiion 'Copy Message to' and 'Choose Folder...' -- Michael Howard

Re: Buster without systemd?

2020-03-23 Thread Michael Howard
On 23/03/2020 23:20, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 15:15:14 + Michael Howard wrote: On 23/03/2020 14:28, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 08:37:47 -0400 Jude DaShiell wrote: There is devuan-ascii 2.x but I don't know its equivalent to buster. That s

Re: Buster without systemd?

2020-03-23 Thread Michael Howard
On 23/03/2020 16:31, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 23/03/2020 15:15, Michael Howard wrote: On 23/03/2020 14:28, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 08:37:47 -0400 Jude DaShiell wrote: I know it's a sensitive subject, and I really don't want to upset the list, there's

Re: Buster without systemd?

2020-03-23 Thread Michael Howard
evuan hasn't release its "Buster" version yet. B It can be upgraded to 'beowulf' using apt of course. -- Michael Howard

Re: “No application currently records sound.”

2020-03-07 Thread Michael Howard
d. -- Michael Howard

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Michael Howard
easier for users to setup accounts on their devices. -- Michael Howard

Re: Using ISO images as a repository

2020-01-03 Thread Michael Howard
. HOWEVER, all I've ever seen is the kludge of individually loop mounting all the ISO files. Is that my only option? TIA No, not your only option. You could copy all the files locally and use dpkg-scanpackages. You could use reprepro. There are many ways to skin a cat. -- Michael Howard

Re: Debian 8

2020-01-02 Thread Michael Howard
On 02/01/2020 16:53, Hector Leon wrote: Good Morning; Is there a way to get a copy of Debian 8? Thank you ! Very Respectfully; Hector M Leon http://archive.debian.org/ ? -- Michael Howard

Re: KISS gpg

2019-10-31 Thread Michael Howard
On 31/10/2019 15:22, The Wanderer wrote: On 2019-10-31 at 11:18, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 02:12:54AM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: If you kill all agents to stop them interfering, then use the - --homedir option of gpg with a copy of your files, I think you will have what

Re: Script does not do what it is told to do

2019-10-25 Thread Michael Howard
On 25/10/2019 16:37, David Wright wrote: On Fri 25 Oct 2019 at 14:28:02 (+0100), Michael Howard wrote: On 25/10/2019 14:11, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 08:33:09AM +0100, Michael Howard wrote: On 24/10/2019 23:37, Ken Heard wrote: #!/bin/bash # Script to back up all browser

Re: Script does not do what it is told to do

2019-10-25 Thread Michael Howard
On 25/10/2019 14:11, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 08:33:09AM +0100, Michael Howard wrote: On 24/10/2019 23:37, Ken Heard wrote: #!/bin/bash # Script to back up all browser files in directory /home/ken/mozilla. STARTDIR=$PWD cd /home/ken tar -czf /media/fde/backups/kbrowsers.tgz

Re: Script does not do what it is told to do

2019-10-25 Thread Michael Howard
On 24/10/2019 23:37, Ken Heard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Whenever I run this script -- or several others like it #!/bin/bash # Script to back up all browser files in directory /home/ken/mozilla. STARTDIR=$PWD cd /home/ken tar -czf /media/fde/backups/kbrowsers.tgz --e

Re: [OT] replacement for SystemRescueCD

2019-10-24 Thread Michael Howard
On 24/10/2019 07:51, David wrote: On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 at 15:44, Default User wrote: Guys, [...] Guys, thanks for the feedback. I'm not sure what I will do yet. Hi, I'm sure you don't intend to offend, but in future please try to choose words that cannot accidentally be understood as excludi

MP30-AR0 arm64 sdcard slot not detected

2019-10-18 Thread Michael Howard
I've just re-installed debian (stretch) on the Gigabyte MP30-AR0 board using the installer netinst iso (any later install images fail) and the sdcard slot is not showing up. The kernel is vmlinuz-4.9.0-11-arm64 and I have also rebuilt it ensuring all the MMC options I should need are selected.

Re: attempted install of buster arm64 net-install on rp4 fails instantly

2019-09-08 Thread Michael Howard
those instructions. Eh? How do you work that out? -- Mike Howard

Re: Delete all after a pattern

2019-08-31 Thread Michael Howard
!) off of the original topic, there is also this: cat filename | sed [the above expression] | spong filename .. and yet another useless use of cat :) -- Mike Howard

Re: Solution to "pathetic email complaints"

2019-08-19 Thread Michael Howard
On 19/08/2019 19:35, Richard Owlett wrote: TANSTAAFL, TINSTAAFL, TNSTAAFL    etc ;/ I have a *PAID* email provider. I have a *PAID* Usenet provider. IOW   *CHEAPSKATES LOSE*    u get what you paid for Er, glad you got that off your chest! -- Mike Howard

Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone

2019-08-14 Thread Michael Howard
On 14/08/2019 03:18, Keith Steensma wrote: On 8/13/2019 5:29 PM, Keith Steensma wrote: On 8/13/2019 1:16 PM, Michael Howard wrote: On 13/08/2019 18:40, Keith Steensma wrote: On 8/13/2019 11:35 AM, Michael Howard wrote: On 13/08/2019 16:31, Joe wrote: On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 15:28:04 +0200

Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone

2019-08-13 Thread Michael Howard
On 13/08/2019 18:40, Keith Steensma wrote: On 8/13/2019 11:35 AM, Michael Howard wrote: On 13/08/2019 16:31, Joe wrote: On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 15:28:04 +0200 wrote: On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 08:23:35AM -0500, Keith Steensma wrote: On 8/12/2019 4:00 PM, elvis wrote: On 12/8/19 11:23 pm

Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone

2019-08-13 Thread Michael Howard
TY regularly, but I seem to recall that it didn't use OpenSSH-type keys and insisted on generating its own and providing a conversion to an OpenSSH key, which then had to be placed on the server. Is it possible this procedure may have gone amiss This has happened to me a couple of times. Regenerating and converting solved the problem. -- Mike Howard

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread Michael Howard
serious disadvantages doing so? /Kaj PulseAudio gives sound across the network. Wouldn't be without it. -- Mike Howard

Re: Re: Moving Debian from one HD to another

2019-05-19 Thread Annzia Howard
Sent from my iPhone

Re: build vs install

2019-04-09 Thread Michael Howard
On 09/04/2019 19:03, Lee wrote: On 4/9/19, Michael Howard wrote: On 09/04/2019 16:35, Lee wrote: What are the downsides to getting the source code and doing the build/install myself vs. using a pre-built package other than I'm responsible for noticing the software needs to be updated?

Re: build vs install

2019-04-09 Thread Michael Howard
take care of install/updates/uninstall. Admittedly, it could be a bit of work initially with versions so far apart as above but it is an option. -- Mike Howard

How do I report a bug to Debian? ... as ReportBug has bugs.

2018-12-06 Thread Howard Johnson
Aloha, The URL for the Debian Bug project apparently isn't working or has changed.  I've found two links that are not working.  The first one is here in ReportBug, where the blue link for "Homepage of reportbug project" is broken.  (The yellow tool tip shows the bad URL being tried). Here is

Re: ssh

2018-11-18 Thread Michael Howard
ith a shell of your choice and a secure password. You don't need to remember the password, as you are using keys, so it can be ridiculously secure. A standard user cant do much harm if you don't give it any more privileges than it needs. -- Mike Howard

Re: ssh

2018-11-18 Thread Michael Howard
/false is normal ? Yes, it is normal. A user with /bin/false as his ahell should not be able to login. These days www-data has /bin/false too, which caught be out, until I changed it back. -- Mike Howard

Re: ssh

2018-11-12 Thread Michael Howard
p/ssh-/agent.?? ssh -p blah blah' this worked for me, but as I say, it weirdly went away before I found the real underlying problem. I now don't need to use this mechanism, dunno why and I was too busy to continue to track it down. Hope this helps. -- Mike Howard

Re: samba print shares SOLVED

2015-07-28 Thread Roger Howard
On Thu, 25 Jun 2015, Roger Howard wrote: I have a problem printing from Windows 7 to a Linux machine which has only occurred since the upgrade to Debian Jessie. I have reported the bug to bugzilla.samba.org (as bug #11271) and there has been essentially no response so far. This problem is

any Samba users?

2015-07-08 Thread Roger Howard
I am beginning to suspect that I may be the only Samba user that subscribes to this list. I have had a problem with printing that started when I did the upgrade to Jessie. I would appreciate hearing from other users, and finding whether they have similar problems. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

samba print shares

2015-06-25 Thread Roger Howard
I have a problem printing from Windows 7 to a Linux machine which has only occurred since the upgrade to Debian Jessie. I have reported the bug to bugzilla.samba.org (as bug #11271) and there has been essentially no response so far. The Jessie upgrade moved samba from version 3.6 to version 4

Re: Qs re: capture card, composite input, devices

2015-05-19 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On 2015-05-18, Kent West wrote: > On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 6:56 AM, Howard Eisenberger wrote: > >> On 2015-05-15, Kent West wrote: >> >> > I currently have an RCA-style cable (yellow-tip) going from the VCR's >> > composite video output to the "Comp

Re: Qs re: capture card, composite input, devices

2015-05-18 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On 2015-05-15, Kent West wrote: > I currently have an RCA-style cable (yellow-tip) going from the VCR's > composite video output to the "Comp In" (yellow) input on the interface > that also has the coax connectors. I also have a stereo RCA cable (red & > yellow tips) going from the VCR's audio

Re: problem with Samba on Jessie

2015-05-07 Thread Roger Howard
Having done some research on my problem with Samba 4.1.17 as provided by Debian Jessie, it seems that it is documented as bug 10604 on the Samba bugzilla. It looks as though the Debian providers should fix their version of Samba with the appropriate patch. My access to shares problem disappear

problem with Samba on Jessie

2015-05-06 Thread Roger Howard
I have a problem browsing shares on a Debian machine just upgraded to Jessie. The problem occurs when attempting to connect from a windows 7 machine, from another Debian machine running Samba but not yet upgraded, and also using smbclient on the machine itself. On a first attempt to connect th

Re: [OT] alternative to dsndynamic.com?

2014-11-25 Thread Howard Eisenberger
stopped working again today. The site is up, but my dynamic domain doesn't resolve. For backup I use a script for my IP address without using a domain name. Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: [OT] alternative to dsndynamic.com?

2014-11-24 Thread Howard Eisenberger
y http://myip.dnsdynamic.org/ Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cdipp5f1sh...@mid.individual.net

Re: Possible to add an LVM to existing Wheezy box

2013-12-31 Thread Howard
On 31/12/2013 16:44, Shane Johnson wrote: Some more information would be helpful as well. Does the existing data contain the OS? What are you trying to achieve by moving the data? More info: existing partition The existing partition would be from our 'filesystem backup' machine, which runs

Re: What's Up With Debian.org?

2013-04-01 Thread Howard Lee Harkness
"unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5159e662.3030...@vanderhoff.org > > -- Howard Lee Harkness (214) 390-4896

Re: whether to install Squeeze or Wheezy

2013-02-06 Thread Howard Lee Harkness
tested Wheezy. I didn't check the RAM usage, but I found > Gnome Classic to be much more responsive than Gnome 3 Shell (same > machine, same OS). I think it may be due to my laptop's lack of > hardware graphic acceleration, but that's just a guess. > > -Rob > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130206231452.ga29...@aurora.owens.net > > -- Howard Lee Harkness (214) 390-4896

Re: Problem With exim4 smtp authenication

2012-12-12 Thread Howard Eisenberger
pdate-exim4.conf.conf dc_smarthost='smtp.gmail.com::587' in /etc/exim4/passwd.client *.google.com:myusern...@gmail.com:mypassword (any other entries commented out) in /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.localmacros REMOTE_SMTP_RETURN_PATH=myusern...@gmail.com REMOTE_SMTP_HELO_DATA=(You may not need this. I

Re: [OT] End of the world

2012-12-01 Thread Howard Lee Harkness
values of virtue. > > > Thank you Debian Users! > Beco > I will bet $50,000 that the world will *not* end on December 21st. Or for that matter, on any other specific date that you would like to bet on. :)) -- Howard Lee Harkness (214) 390-4896

Re: Loadlin and Squeeze kernel 2.6.32

2012-07-14 Thread Howard Eisenberger
. See http://gujin.sourceforge.net/ Download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gujin/files/standard/ Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists

Re: accented characters in text console

2012-06-23 Thread Howard Eisenberger
T="us" XKBVARIANT="" XKBOPTIONS="" I get "Dead" keys with XKBMODEL="pc105" XKBLAYOUT="us" XKBVARIANT="intl" XKBOPTIONS="" (I don't use this) My LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Debian 6.0.5 and loadlin

2012-06-21 Thread Howard Eisenberger
gt; to go to FreeDOS. Thank you for posting this update. I have done my installation, so I will use it next time. I don't know how the OP has made out. Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: Debian 6.0.5 and loadlin

2012-06-16 Thread Howard Eisenberger
exe) to install wheezy on an old laptop with no CD drive. http://gujin.sourceforge.net/ Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/a450blf4k...@mid.individual.net

Re: [OT] Mails coming from "joe1assis...@gmail.com"

2012-05-04 Thread Howard Eisenberger
ists.bofh.it/listinfo/linux-gate Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/a0hf7afv4...@mid.individual.net

Re: debian squeeze / lynx / m.facebook.com

2012-02-21 Thread Howard Eisenberger
.6, ncurses 5.7.20100313(wide) Built on linux-gnu Jan 26 2011 07:15:23 Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/9qhbf3f9k...@mid.individual.net

Re: Intel LAN controller problems

2011-08-09 Thread Charles Howard
> On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:02:18 +, Charles Howard wrote: > > I've bought a new machine with Intel DH67CF motherboard and am trying to > > install squeeze. This has an Intel® 82579V Gigabit Ethernet Controller. > (...) > I remember a recent thread about that erro

Intel LAN controller problems

2011-08-09 Thread Charles Howard
Hi, I've bought a new machine with Intel DH67CF motherboard and am trying to install squeeze. This has an Intel® 82579V Gigabit Ethernet Controller. Using a netinstall cd I get the message that `No ethernet card was detected. ...' Intel offers e1000e-1.4.4.tar.gz for this controller. (I

Re: Avoid POP3

2011-05-22 Thread Howard Eisenberger
mails from them with Fetchmail (which then forwards in on > to my mail server via smtp). I don't however leave the messages on the > server, but I think there is a Fetchmail option to do so. fetchmail -k Also, mutt -f pop(s)://mail.example.com/ to read e-mail on a POP3 server &qu

Re: Plugin Flash Player for sparc ?

2011-02-24 Thread Howard Eisenberger
package for sparc. On my Ultra 60 with 2x450mhz, 2GB ram, and Creator graphics card running Debian sparc, the best I can do is to use youtube-dl or clive to download youtube videos and play the low-res ones with mplayer (or vlc). I play the higher-res ones on a PC. Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSU

Re: [OT] Mail list issue.

2010-12-10 Thread Howard Eisenberger
Greetings, Howard E. Ottawa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1libt7-ur@gonif.dnyndns.org

Re: Older Toshiba won't restart only halt

2010-11-11 Thread Howard Eisenberger
to fix this? Don't have this > problem with other laptops of the same era that I've installed Debian > on either. Same thing here with a cheapo Intel P4 motherboard running Squeeze. No desktop manager. I haven't investigated, as the machine is rarely used, but it looks like th

Re: debian list problem

2010-11-04 Thread Howard Eisenberger
tacted them and hope that I will soon be removed. Isn't it the smarthost cpoproxy1-pub.bluehost.com (69.89.21.11) that is rejected, not the dynamic IP address (93.139.23.178) ? Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On 2010-09-07, B. Alexander wrote: > So what do others use? Iceweasel, iceape, lynx here. Straight Debian on x86 and sparc. Regards, Howard E. Ottawa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: meta-question

2010-08-18 Thread Howard Eisenberger
> > This is kind of confusing. Can someone clarify for me what I need to do be a > full-fledged participant in this discussion group? To post to linux.* via NNTP see: http://lists.bofh.it/listinfo/linux-gate Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lis

Re: Creating a (bootable) DOS floppy disk image

2010-05-30 Thread Howard Eisenberger
o.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/unofficial/balder/ Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5me9d7-0ue@gonif.dnyndns.org

Re: Configuring a US keyboard with umlauts in sid (hal etc?)

2009-11-26 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On 2009-11-25, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 14:59, Howard Eisenberger wrote: >> On 2009-11-23, Frank Küster wrote: >> >>> in xorg.conf, I used this definition for my keyboard: >>> >>> Section "InputDevice" >>>

Re: clive doesn't extract youtube file

2009-11-26 Thread Howard Eisenberger
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucOVqmhXa-o in my browser Youtube says, "This video has been removed by the user. " Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Configuring a US keyboard with umlauts in sid (hal etc?)

2009-11-24 Thread Howard Eisenberger
-session) setxkbmap -model evdev -option compose:menu I suppose it depends on how you start X as to where you would put this. Someone else may be able to help with that. As far as I know, you can run setxkbmap in an x-terminal to test it. Regards, Howard E. Ottawa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Wireless Adapter Card compatibility

2009-08-18 Thread Howard Eisenberger
G at home so N is not a requirement. I'm using one of these in a couple of old laptops with Debian testing. Old Ralink RT2500 chipset, similar to the Belkin? http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250432973717&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT Regards, Howard E. --

Re: Recommended Audio CD player?

2009-07-17 Thread Howard Eisenberger
error during boot. I don't have these problems using the old kernal, 2.6.26. I haven't investigated. Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: DNS problem in testing?

2009-06-28 Thread Howard Eisenberger
Thomson SpeedTouch 510 DSL modem/gateway.) Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: USB PCI card to buy

2009-04-07 Thread Howard Eisenberger
PCI625USB21 6-port (4+2) with nvidia chipset > > PCI330USB2 4-port (3+1) with NEC D7201026c chipset > > PCI 220USB 3-port (2+1) with VIA VT6202 chipset. > > in sort of this order of preference. > > Any suggestions? Things to avoid? NEC chipsets work for me. I

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