Re: Debian 8 - Jesse - Letsencrypt deployments

2016-03-08 Thread J M Cerqueira Esteves
I am using letsencrypt from jessie-backports -- started only yesterday, but no problems so far. For those who haven't used jessie-backports before: you may add entries like # Backports. deb http://http.debian.net/debian jessie-backports

Re: Faking it with skype

2014-09-20 Thread J M Cerqueira Esteves
Hi I had Skype 4.2.0.13 working after the editing suggested here, but tested it again today and it is no longer able to sign in --- thus, editing the version number may no longer be useful, at least for some. [in fact I closed my account months ago, just kept an old testing account for such tests

Re: Question about get-selections

2009-04-30 Thread J . M . Roth
I have done more experiments and have come up with these notes for now. #BACKUP dpkg --get-selections | awk '$2 == "install"' > packagesNG_installed aptitude -F '%p' search '~i~M' > packagesNG_autoinstalled debconf-get-selections | grep -Ev '^[[:space:]]*(#|$)' > packagesNG_debconf # RESTORE # ma

Re: Question about get-selections

2009-04-23 Thread J . M . Roth
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. iguanasuicide.net> writes: > In post.gmane.org>, J.M.Roth wrote: > >Now... I've been playing a little bit with this. > > > >First, I get some > >warning: Unknown type error, skipping line > >using debconf-set-selections < ... > > Hrm, that's somewhat troubling. It won't

Re: Question about get-selections

2009-04-22 Thread J . M . Roth
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. iguanasuicide.net> writes: > >I'd rather do > >aptitude -F '%p' search '~i~M' > auto_installed_packages > >Your command does not work if the package state is e.g. 'i A' > >(note the space) > > Actually, it only works in that case. Of course, because of the search > terms

Re: Question about get-selections

2009-04-21 Thread J . M . Roth
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. iguanasuicide.net> writes: > > On Thursday 26 March 2009 22:09:28 Paul E Condon wrote: > >Your suggestion does raise in interesting issue: given a set of > >installed packages in a --get-selections file, and given that the > >dependency information is available in the pack

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-12 Thread J M Cerqueira Esteves
Jeff Soules wrote: > it looks > like there is support for LaTeX on Windows via MiKTeX, per a cursory > look here[1]. I don't know if anyone uses it, but I guess someone > must, since the MiKTeX package is still around... and there is proTeXt (MiKTeX-based): http://www.tug.org/protext/ and also...

Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

2007-04-16 Thread j m g
Try the Sandisk Sansa e200's they run from 1 to 8gb so they might hit your price point somewhere along the way, don't use alkalines, but there is a user replacable li-ion battery. Also, rockbox.org just realeased their firmware replacement in march for the e200 line. I've only had mine for a cou

DEBIAN WON'T BOOT

2004-06-03 Thread J M
Debian won't boot, here's the synopsis of the problem: Most recently the computer began crashing simple programs such as Abiword when attempting to save as well as do other moderate tasks. Up until now, the OS has not given me any trouble (had it for roughly 9 mo). The other night, Debian dec

Re: Setting up on-board sound hardware, also internal modem

2000-10-27 Thread Mr J M Drake
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't have an answer to your question, but rather I've got a > question. I have onboard cmpci as well, at least I think I do, but > all I get in dmesg is: > cmpci: version v2.41-nomodem time 18:27:22 Oct 13 2000 >

Setting up on-board sound hardware, also internal modem

2000-10-25 Thread Mr J M Drake
I'm making slow progress setting up a Debian system on an M800LMR motherboard with onboard sound. The mobo documentation identifies the Linux driver module as cmpci. This loads happily and finds sound hardware, but can't write to it - as seen in this output from dmesg: ... cmpci: version v2.41-nom

Re: ati all in wonder pro ...setup problem

1998-08-30 Thread J M
On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, spOOL wrote: >I can't quite figure out how to setup my ati all in wonder pro for X on >Hamm. I have tried the mach64 thing and that only gives me a black screen. >Am I missing something?? > I have successfully configured the ATI All-in-Wonder Pro for X. It has been my exper