Re: Joey Hess is out?

2014-11-07 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 3:19 PM, golinux wrote: > Joey Hess is leaving Debian. Anybody have a context? Anything to do with > the systemd controversy and the monolithic direction Debian is going? > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/11/msg00174.html > I mean, with all the fighting that

Re: INTEL HD Graphics

2014-11-07 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Man_Without_Clue wrote: > Does anybody know if Intel HD 4600 or higher is supported by Debian or > distro? > > I have seen numerous postings about problems with Intel with Linux even with > Ubuntu... > > Anybody using Intel on Debian? I don't know where you have se

Re: finding a dependency chain

2014-09-02 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Brian wrote: > On Tue 02 Sep 2014 at 14:21:06 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> Huh, and from this I just found that in Experimental there is a new >> version of policykit-1 that depends on "systemd" directly and also... >> libm

Re: finding a dependency chain

2014-09-02 Thread Kelly Clowers
ge may vary. Huh, and from this I just found that in Experimental there is a new version of policykit-1 that depends on "systemd" directly and also... libmozjs??? That sounds odd... Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &quo

Re: USB keyboard: what driver(s)?

2014-01-10 Thread Kelly Clowers
in the kernel) You say it does not work, how so? Do numlock etc lights toggle? Do any other keys work? If it is graphical, can you get to the terminal and does it work there? Cheers, Kelly Clowers

Re: NAS hdd's in Debian desktop computer?

2013-11-22 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 5:13 AM, Jon N wrote: ​​ > > Which leads to my questions. If the NAS drive is installed in a > desktop computer running Debian Linux what is the result of this? > Will this command just be ignored? Will the shorter time the drive > spends trying to perform whatever opera

Re: top posting

2013-11-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > The usual objection to top posting is that it destroys the logical > flow of the conversation (and no doubt someone will post a > conversation in reverse order to illustrate the point). ​ >> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Brad Alexand

Re: top posting

2013-11-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > The usual objection to top posting is that it destroys the logical > flow of the conversation (and no doubt someone will post a > conversation in reverse order to illustrate the point). But I agree > with you, and for years read my email i

MS Natural Up and Left mapped wrong

2013-11-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
Hadn't upgraded my Sid box in a while, I did, and suddenly two of my directional keys are mapped wrong. Up gives me Backspace (Backspace key also works...), and Left gives me Alt GR from xev: KeyPress event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x141, root 0xaf, subw 0x0, time 3924411, (12,251)

Re: Printer brand recommendations

2013-09-12 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Beco wrote: > Hi guys, > > Thank you all for your valuable information and help! > > I just bought a black-only EPSON M105 inkjet printer, with WIFI. > > It printed perfectly! > > No cables needed, no CDs, nothing. Just energy, and the WPS botton to > connect to m

Re: which program can reduce quality of mp3

2013-09-12 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: > MP3 is notoriously bad for low Bitrate audio. Look at Opus and/or Speex > encoding. > > > On 12 September 2013 11:35, Long Wind wrote: > >> I use the command below: >> >> lame --mp3input --preset 30 input.mp3 output.mp3 >> >> Thank you

Re: Dot files, get them out of the way

2013-07-08 Thread Kelly Clowers
r a user to customize the locations (since they are env vars, not hardcoded). There is a little library as well to make things even easier (libxdg-basedir). Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&q

Re: Skype in sid?

2013-07-08 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Johann Spies wrote: > I did follow that instructions and it worked for a while until a > dist-upgrade some time ago. That is my problem. The libraries of Sid > changed too often to keep the package 'skype' happy. I haven't had an issue with having Skype:386 insta

Re: Switching to 64 bit

2013-06-30 Thread Kelly Clowers
RES and 5.3 GB VIRT (probably north of 200 tabs) Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- 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/CAFoWM=_ekugdoudpp6b9onec7ror-mjbydherwhp-o__qjc...@mail.gmail.com

Re: Graphic card advice

2013-06-24 Thread Kelly Clowers
onderfully well supported Open Source drivers (no closed drivers at all). If you do need more power, I personally would go with AMD a generation back (OSS drivers). I am not willing to use closed drivers, both for ideology and for the hassle the create with kernel updates...others may disagree..

Re: is there a debian utility for this?

2013-06-18 Thread Kelly Clowers
containing HTML and CSS files. It is absolutely not (X)HTML, nor CSS (it is a zip file though). It is XML. You might be thinking of .epub ebook format... Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: What's the nick name?

2013-06-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
Even as an atheist, I agree it is Wheezy ;-) On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Conrad Nelson wrote: > On 06/17/2013 10:37 AM, Nikolas Kallis wrote: >> >> For God's sake, what is the nick name of my Debian? I am using Debian 7.0. >> >> > For God's sake, it's Wheezy. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: cheap hw raid or raid software?

2013-05-25 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi folks! > > I've an old pc with Sil3114 hardware raid card. How is reliable this > cheap hardware? > > What is better: use a raid software or a raid hardware with this card? Sil3114 is NOT hardware RAID. It is fakeRAID. Hardware RAID cards t

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-09 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Mark Allums wrote: >> DRM ebooks will not work that way (unless you strip them of course), >> and the publishing industry has not yet followed the music industry on >> DRM > > Anyone who runs Wine can install Adobe Digital Editions, which will allow > download of c

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-09 Thread Kelly Clowers
create a kobobooks.com account. Lame. I buy most of my books from there, so it isn't lame. What is lame is how often sync and upgrades fails, especially (but far from exclusively) on Wine. But I have rarely had any issue with the simple mass storage aspect on Linux

Re: Without SKYPE?

2013-05-09 Thread Kelly Clowers
t you use. But Jitsi is a pretty good xmpp client (AV and even multiuser AV with the right server) and runs on those three (and soon Android) Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact li

Re: Strange things going on in Sid

2013-05-08 Thread Kelly Clowers
curses mode, mind you) and have never found a better way to manage my packages. I use Unstable+Experimental and at times have mixed in Ubuntu repos. I love flying through the dependency chains as fast as I can think, and jumping around with vi-style searching. I think the last time

Re: Planning for Disk Encryption

2013-05-02 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 6:43 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > [Please don't top post] > > On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 08:35:27AM -0700, Steven Rosenberg wrote: >> Tighten up on your backups. I've been running encrypted partitions (and > > Umm, I've heard of the expression "tighten up on your spending", To

Re: Without SKYPE?

2013-05-02 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Brian wrote: > On Thu 02 May 2013 at 16:22:55 -0400, staticsafe wrote: > >> On 5/2/2013 16:14, Brian wrote: >> > On Thu 02 May 2013 at 15:28:08 -0400, staticsafe wrote: >> > >> >> On 5/2/2013 15:24, Brian wrote: >> >>> >> >>> I did. How does it allow someone not run

Re: Without SKYPE?

2013-05-02 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Brian wrote: > On Thu 02 May 2013 at 15:13:51 -0400, staticsafe wrote: > >> On 5/2/2013 15:10, Brian wrote: >> > On Thu 02 May 2013 at 19:25:57 +0100, Nuno Magalhăes wrote: >> > >> >> Since you didn't clarify what you mean by "alternative to Skype", i'll >> >> go w

Re: Without SKYPE?

2013-05-02 Thread Kelly Clowers
you can even do multiperson video chat. There are also relays and failovers from xmpp to sip if needed. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archiv

Re: Don't do that!

2013-04-23 Thread Kelly Clowers
I would use ext2 or 3 or 4 with out the journal, since it would eat up a bit of space on a small partition. But that is it. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- 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/CAFoWM=_jTMpU1Xi=b2iV=QLX3AoyTC-fGoVPSZUh=gogyq4...@mail.gmail.com

Re: dbus - Was: A thread that shouldn't be mentioned anymore

2013-04-13 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 10:34:36 -0700 > Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> >> DBus isn't a problem per se, it just can cause issues, when implemented >> >> without thinking about the needs of all users? >> &g

Re: dbus - Was: A thread that shouldn't be mentioned anymore

2013-04-13 Thread Kelly Clowers
umb. Are you sure about that? I have never seen anything dbus related in any version of Mozilla or Firefox, aside from one extension that never really when anywhere. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: debian-6.0.7-amd64 how to set resolution and refresh for free NVIDIA X drivers?

2013-04-12 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 9:27 PM, David Christensen wrote: > > I tried my hand at writing the simplest xorg.conf I could -- every time the > screen turned black and I was effectively locked out. (Apparently, > Ctrl+Alt+Backspace no longer kills X servers, nor does any of the other > keystrokes I t

Re: dbus - Was: A thread that shouldn't be mentioned anymore

2013-04-09 Thread Kelly Clowers
h CDE. Believe me, you don't want to deal with its bullshit. And that is coming from a user/admin POV. From everything I have heard it was worse for a programmer. I have done some simple Dbus stuff in Python and such, it seems simple enough. I never want to have to program any Corba... Cheers, K

Re: MICROSOFT HIRED THESE PEOPLE TO SABOTAGE OPEN SOURCE

2013-04-08 Thread Kelly Clowers
his is not a forum for FUD. Please take it elsewhere. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- 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/CAFoWM=9vvxgpdx-0v_a

Re: What's Up With Debian.org?

2013-04-01 Thread Kelly Clowers
ould not even be very Lulz-worthy), and they would certainly reference Anon, 4chan and or some 4chan meme as well as using lolspeak. No, it looks like exactly what it is: the legitimate admins when and changed the front page for some reason (in this case, April Fools). Plenty of other sites

Re: USB keyboard glitch

2013-03-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
ubmit_urb(ctrl) failed > > Is there a way to figure out exactly what the chipset on the keyboard is, and > maybe get this fixed? > It's the "Windows Media pro USB keyboard" by Gearhead. Model# KB3600MPU. lsusb -v output for the keyboard is the starting place at least...

Re: Help diagnosing USB disk issue?

2013-03-15 Thread Kelly Clowers
in, but still nothing from the X201 upon connecting > the harddrive. > > Any thoughts on what the problem is or how I can diagnose it? > > Thanks for your time! Have you tried it on different ports? Do other USB devices (flash drives, keyboard/mouse, etc) work in the port(s) you are try

Re: Chromium on Sid Very Slow

2013-03-15 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:39 PM, David Baron wrote: > This is supposed to be the fastest browser but not right now. > > > > Almost unusable. Rekonq and others do far better. > What is slow? Page rendering? Tab/window opening? interacting with the page? Cheers, Kelly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Firefox is too eager

2013-03-15 Thread Kelly Clowers
e: firefox -ProfileManager You will get the profile manager window, please create a new one and see if you have similar issues. > > Turn off JavaScript. If that is too invasive, install the Adblock Plus > and NoScript extensions. Ad-Block Plus and NoScript are always good ideas. Chee

Re: has your squeeze ever crashed?

2013-03-13 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Yaro Kasear wrote: > > That's still a far cry from NO FLASH EVER FOR LINUX, which was the original > assertion. Just "no Flash outside of Chrome." No, it is exactly what we said. Adobe does not develop Flash for Linux anymore. Google does, but only for Chrome. A

Re: has your squeeze ever crashed?

2013-03-13 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Yaro Kasear wrote: > On 03/13/2013 10:53 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> >> Long Wind wrote: >>> >>> linux is stable, or is it? >>> flash player >> >> >> Linux is stable and flash player isn't Linux, flash player development for >> Linux already is dropped, there will

Re: has your squeeze ever crashed?

2013-03-13 Thread Kelly Clowers
either have to SSH in from another computer or use the power button (soft off or hard reset), as the X lock up prevented input from working (even ctrl-alt-backspace or ctrl-alt-F1). A few times it managed to get the kernel, and I could not SSH or soft off. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBS

Re: has your squeeze ever crashed?

2013-03-13 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Long Wind wrote: >> >> linux is stable, or is it? >> flash player > > > Linux is stable and flash player isn't Linux, flash player development for > Linux already is dropped, there will be no future versions for Linux. If > people want Microso

Re: -- SPAM --Re: Rooting an Android Tablet on Debian

2013-03-11 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 06:14:19PM +0200, David Baron wrote: >> On Monday 11 March 2013 00:27:39 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org >> wrote: >> > >> > (Charles Kroeger, Sun Mar 10 20:57:18 2013) >> > I got a Kobo Arc that runs A

Re: Rooting an Android Tablet on Debian

2013-03-11 Thread Kelly Clowers
id uses the Linux Kernel, but that is about it. It is not really anymore closely related to Debian than to Fedora or Slackware. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debi

Re: choosing a web browser

2013-03-10 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > the seamonkey package may be what you're looking for. It combines firefox > with thunderbird in a single package and uses less system resources. It > also doesn't update constantly either. Technically, it does not combine them; rather FF a

Re: Wanted: an internet free minimal Debian install

2013-03-10 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: >> Richard Owlett wrote: >> > Installation iso on a CD or flash drive as desired. ( target iso >> > size is ~100MB, smaller if possible) >> >> AFAIK Debian CD#1 is the smallest fully standalone install supported. >> But at the

Re: encrypt connection pc to proxy server

2013-03-06 Thread Kelly Clowers
> I assumed you had a proxy somewhere, to which you were connecting. > >> >> PS: by secure i meant not readable browsing history from my ISP. > > OK. In that case, con

Re: compress files

2013-02-19 Thread Kelly Clowers
ething like vorbis on q4-q6 will give very good sound and give much smaller size, if you don't mind lossy. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- 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/CAFoWM=9od2xval4j_nkvzwcvobnfjucubcnusch5bgmur8y...@mail.gmail.com

Re: Firefox under Squeeze

2013-02-14 Thread Kelly Clowers
. 1) untar it to the directory you want (I use /usr/local/lib/firefox) 2) optionally make a symlink to the "firefox" executable in the install dir to "firefox" in /usr/local/bin or so, to be able to call it without the path. /root/firefox isn't a good place for it, bu

Re: why my simple ? hasn't get answered?

2013-02-13 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 4:37 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 02:33 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: >> > Linux consumer audio :D. I wonder what's the cause for "Device or >> > resource busy". It isn't. Linux pro-audio is easier to use. >>

Re: why my simple ? hasn't get answered?

2013-02-12 Thread Kelly Clowers
> > Maybe I should read xmms2 manual I would try: https://xmms2.org/wiki/Using_the_application and also look at https://xmms2.org/wiki/FAQ#Troubleshooting Try the cli client first, if you can get it working, then worry about the gui clients. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Firefox & Iceweasel

2013-02-05 Thread Kelly Clowers
make a second profile for the other browser. If you want to have them match up in bookmarks and so forth, you could use Firefox Sync. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: PulseAudio--is there a viable alternative?

2013-02-04 Thread Kelly Clowers
fully tested out my T61 yet. Huh, hard to tell for sure but looks like the ALC883 does have hardware mixing and multiple DACs. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

Re: Starting Iceweasel drjom the command line

2013-02-04 Thread Kelly Clowers
-No-Remote "www.example.com" http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.deb

Re: PulseAudio--is there a viable alternative?

2013-02-04 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 08:36:34AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 8:28 AM, "Morel Bérenger" >> wrote: >> >> Pure ALSA works fine if you only need one sound at a time and don&#x

Re: PulseAudio--is there a viable alternative?

2013-02-04 Thread Kelly Clowers
;s > sounds) Nope, I am talking about ALSA. ALSA can only play more than one source at a time with its dmix utility (ALSA itself is fundamentally unable to do mixing) , but I have never, ever seen dmix work at all. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.de

Re: PulseAudio--is there a viable alternative?

2013-02-04 Thread Kelly Clowers
FAIK. Anyway, it was far buggier than PA ever was. Pure ALSA works fine if you only need one sound at a time and don't need/want stuff like per source volume, and don't mind Flash sometimes messing up and blocking all access to the sound card. Cheers, Kelly Clowers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Steam on Debian

2013-01-31 Thread Kelly Clowers
e pretty easy now, if you have Sid. You need the new glibc from experimental. Then open of the newest Steam .deb and edit the control file to get rid of Ubuntu's epoch of 1 on PulseAudio. Repack, install, run Steam once to update, and then run it. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNS

Re: 32-bit to 64-bit

2013-01-24 Thread Kelly Clowers
ven have multiarch? Anyway, even if it did, it would be better in Precise. And don't try both at once! In fact break into as many pieces as possible, I would say. And don't try to rely on the apt/aptitude auto-solver. I would just use aptitude in interactive mode and manually resolve issues

Re: 32-bit to 64-bit

2013-01-24 Thread Kelly Clowers
with the package manager, like when I combined significant parts of Ubuntu (X and GTK) into my Debian install, and later transitioned back to pure Debian. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Talking to my cable modem

2013-01-23 Thread Kelly Clowers
know. Glad it worked, though! Pretty sure one reason they use .100.1 is to avoid stepping on the toes of home routers, since they are often used together. As far as settings, I think you have to hack it a bit to do that, if it is possible at all. It is on some Motos, I know... Cheers, Kelly Clowers

Re: Talking to my cable modem

2013-01-23 Thread Kelly Clowers
to use 192.168.100.1 Actually, I think that might be semi-standard, at least try it. If it has snmp, you could look for that with, say, nmap (assuming it is enabled) http://serverfault.com/questions/415521/how-to-find-all-the-snmp-enabled-devices-in-my-network Cheers, Kelly Clowers --

Re: a tool to have specific images on X root window

2013-01-18 Thread Kelly Clowers
/to/image.file I believe Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- 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/CAFoWM=8z6dqhjpgoszoplu-bfjrsope81wfaemdgvshb-mu...@mail.gmail.com

Re: Yast for debian

2012-12-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Monte Milanuk wrote: > On 12/17/2012 08:03 AM, Kelly Clowers wrote: >> >> >> I am not sure of the full extent of YAST, but besides >> installation/removal of software, it does at least account management, >> service management/c

Re: Yast for debian

2012-12-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
dist=unstable;package=webmin> And specifically http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=343897 So it was yanked from unstable at the beginning of 2006 and then propagated down normally, with Etch (2007) releasing without it. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: Yast for debian

2012-12-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
(YAST has a TUI mode and a GUI mode like SMIT/SMITTY; no web interface). I do not know of anything like it in Debian since webmin was removed. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- 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/CAFoWM=82tfq-sbesemwcibhymtr8jk-utht8sqb5hs-js85...@mail.gmail.com

Re: [OT] Good quality hair dryer needed for Squeeze

2012-12-11 Thread Kelly Clowers
display, but you don't have to buy anything... And anyway it sounds like this MB never gets to post. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arc

Re: [OT] Good quality hair dryer needed for Squeeze

2012-12-11 Thread Kelly Clowers
econd case, it should be more about ambient temperature, not about if there was a rain storm. Two years old, huh? So the warranty is.probably well over. I would say just get a new Mobo. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

Re: Debian ISO file

2012-12-08 Thread Kelly Clowers
gt; I dont want to explain it you. If you are not interested in helping me. > Please be SHUT UP and allow other to. Please remember that this mailing list > have got you as dowry. Your last sentence makes no sense what so ever. Anyway, you will in fact have to explain yourself to someone he

Re: USB 3 card

2012-12-03 Thread Kelly Clowers
ince the card came with a windows driver. It worked for > him, and we swapped his card out. His works for me. It was a no-name brand, > but it uses the NEC chipset, and seems to be working just fine here. What is the pci id (lspci -vn or for Windows: http://www.vm-help.com/esx/esx3i

Re: Quest: Moving IDE drives between machines

2012-11-30 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Joe wrote: > On Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:06:51 -0800 > Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Dennis Wicks wrote: >> > Greetings: >> > >> > One of my Linux machines has crashed and root drive or IDE >

Re: Quest: Moving IDE drives between machines

2012-11-30 Thread Kelly Clowers
), due to the the NT HAL...but even there it should* be possible as long as stay on the same brand (Intel/AMD) on relatively modern systems (say, x86-64 era) * I have not tested this. Not responsible if it lets the magic smoke out of your computer :-) Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Boot loaders for Linux that can also boot FreeBSD

2012-11-29 Thread Kelly Clowers
ount selected partition appeared. Maybe needs the BSD slice listed? or maybe needs "insmod ufs2"? And probably should be "set root=" instead of "rootnoverify" http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=5918 Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: shells (was Re: About standards Was: Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta4 release)

2012-11-27 Thread Kelly Clowers
omeday I'll try zsh or csh. When I'll have the time :D >> >> You should go really left-field and try rc! (but not for /bin/sh.) >> > > > Never heard of it. What is "rc"? > I do believe it is the shell from Plan 9 Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UN

Re: Mobile devices ... any of them still use Linux?

2012-11-26 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Carl Fink wrote: > I don't mean Android, a proprietary OS build on the Linux kernel just as > MacOS is built on the BSD kernel. > > Are there any phones or tablets people are aware of that use actual, FOSS, > Linux as their OS? I still use the Nokia N900 with Maem

Re: Swap partition vs swap file

2012-11-21 Thread Kelly Clowers
Pretty sure the partition is far more common. The file version is there if you need it, but hopefully you don't. Having the pages sit in a file on top of a filesystem just adds some extra layers, probably decreases performance a bit, AFAIK On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:23 PM, David Guntner wrote: >

Re: vim

2012-11-16 Thread Kelly Clowers
Definitely not plain vi/vim Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- 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/CAFoWM=_8xc7X+MknN=ke-jzgztulrt9m8-jhvc_istd8ghu...@mail.gmail.com

Re: sid is not for newbies.

2012-11-16 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: > The trouble is that testing is very variable: pretty good from freeze onwards, > terrible immediately after freeze, etc. - not consistent. Neither is Sid, it does the same thing. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Does Debian dictionary/glossary/acronym list exist?

2012-11-01 Thread Kelly Clowers
also of era of S100, CPM, KIM, SYM, CBM etc etc etc ;) Try http://wiki.debian.org/Glossary and http://www.infodrom.org/Debian/doc/acronyms.html And a general google may work for some things (depending on how overloaded it is), maybe with "debian" added to the search. Cheers, Kelly Clowers --

Re: Mailbox, Mysql or Folder.

2012-11-01 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Kelly Clowers: >> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote: >> >>> I don't think there are many people (or organisations) that keep their >>> e-mails in relational databases. Sure, mail

Re: compiling a Debian package

2012-11-01 Thread Kelly Clowers
ebian-announce. I expect it sometime between 2038 and never. Unless you mean something besides support for i386/x86-32, but there is no indication of that from the context. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: Mailbox, Mysql or Folder.

2012-11-01 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote: > >> [Disclaimer: I only run a mail server for mainly personal use. I have >> less than ten users on that system but the configuration is comparable >> t

Re: Mailbox, Mysql or Folder.

2012-11-01 Thread Kelly Clowers
age Engine (ESE) aka JET Blue (not the same code as JET Red, which was the old Access engine). MS looked at moving Exchange to SQL Server, but decided not to. AFAIK, Exchange is the only major mail server to do this. Cheers, Kelly Clowers

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-29 Thread Kelly Clowers
ntel doesn't do. Certainly they are far more friendly to FOSS than Nvidia. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- 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

Re: NVIDIA OpenGL driver

2012-10-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
This needs to go to the list, not me On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 2:47 AM, Zhigang Song <10054114...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Friday, October 19, 2012 11:16 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: >> >> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 6:34 AM, Zhigang Song<10054114...@gmail.com> >> wrot

Re: aptitude vs apt-get (was ... Re: mount cdrom?)

2012-10-19 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Lisi wrote: > > > On Friday 19 October 2012 16:05:46 Kelly Clowers wrote: >> >> I swear I saw it on the Aptitude page on the Debian wiki, but I guess >> it was somewhere else, because I just looked and it is not. > > "I swear

Re: NVIDIA OpenGL driver

2012-10-19 Thread Kelly Clowers
you mean you installed the Nvidia binary driver or do you mean the Nouveau Open Source driver? Please post the first five or so lines of output from running "glxinfo" on the command line. While we are at it, might as well post the output from "lsmod". Cheers, Kelly Clowers

Re: aptitude vs apt-get (was ... Re: mount cdrom?)

2012-10-19 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:05:55AM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: >> I recommend using aptitude for everything. It replaces apt-get and >> apt-cache, ... > > root@tal:~# dpkg -S /usr/bin/apt-get > apt: /usr/bin/apt

Re: Listen to audio..........

2012-10-18 Thread Kelly Clowers
M on it (which normal Audio CDs do not support). Do you know if it plays in a cd player (not a computer)? And where is this Windows program "Arcade" from? I cannot find it anywhere... Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: can't create an UDF file system on a CD-RW

2012-10-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
h. The > Rasberry Pi, unfortunately it's twice as expensive as promised by the > hype and I hardly have enough money to survive. However, this Rasberry > thingy does siren calls ;). Raspberry Pi is cool (not my cup of tea, but cool nonetheless). It looks like it is selling for 35

Re: can't create an UDF file system on a CD-RW

2012-10-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
do have DVD-RAM, I am not surprised there where problems. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- 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/CAFoWM=9cbh4wm665u9i7h

Re: mount cdrom?

2012-10-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
tibles if using *both* aptitude and apt-get, but both of those are in the past now. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- 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: Listen to audio..........

2012-10-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
io cd, they do not have file extensions, they are tracks, not exactly files in the usual sense. Some graphical file browsers will display them with the .cda extension, but that is artificial, not technically correct. VLC should handle CD audio fine, use Media -> Open disc Cheers, Kelly Clowers --

Re: ssh connection

2012-10-02 Thread Kelly Clowers
ibosh even what I > have got. > > Anyone got any suggestions what I could try? Could I supply more helpful > data? I have done a ssh -v and the result is below. What does your sshd config file look like on A? Are you using RSA certs for authentication? Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- T

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-10-01 Thread Kelly Clowers
ch, I note that the Debian ports page has changed, it now has improved descriptions that call out Xeon and Core2 and Itanium by name, which I don't believe it did before. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-27 Thread Kelly Clowers
e computers. It is/was meant to compete with high-end modern SPARCs and IBM POWER, and to some extent IBM zSeries/System Z, and it was a replacement for HP's PA-RISC. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&

Re: Drivers for ethernet chip on the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard.

2012-09-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
ID 1083. The related driver atl1e does not, so it is not that. At least through 3.4, atl1c is marked experimental... What do you get with "ifconfig -a"? I see references to doing: echo "1969 1083" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/atl1c/new_id But I think that would apply for cases wh

Re: enter BIOS menu

2012-09-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 9:02 AM, lina wrote: > On Thursday 20,September,2012 11:55 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 8:38 AM, lina wrote: >>>> >>>> I am not sure if I understand your problem. >>>> >>>> On (my) HP PC F10

Re: Drivers for ethernet chip on the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard.

2012-09-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Lisi wrote: > On Thursday 20 September 2012 16:43:10 Kelly Clowers wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Lisi wrote: >> > My on-board ethernet chip is not working in Debian Squeeze. > [snip] >> The Gigabyte specs say it is an

Re: enter BIOS menu

2012-09-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
ks to me like the bios you mentioned goes with Intel processors, so of course VT-x is what you want. It looks like many of these BIOSes have the VT-x option under a tab relating to security. Check there and see what you can find. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: Drivers for ethernet chip on the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard.

2012-09-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
he section for the chip from the output of lspci -v Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- 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/CAFoWM=-fed7_g9tc1t0kp1r-7x2gfz1qshfs4rkxcysu2qg...@mail.gmail.com

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