Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png

2016-01-01 Thread Lee Winter
the data downloaded on the basis that the bits involved were recycled rather than fresh. Prohibit images composed of stale bits! Not. Lee Winter Nashua, New Hampshire United States of America

nano needs curses.h?

2015-07-23 Thread Lee Winter
clude curses.h or is some other package a prerequisite for nano? Lee Winter Nashua, New Hampshire United States of America -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.

Re: Important and Confidential

2015-04-06 Thread Lee Winter
No. If you ask again me answer will be _HELL_NO_. Please go eat something poinsonous and die in agony. Have a bad day. On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 9:20 PM, VACCATION TOUR < jamesmithvaccati...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm sharing some private and important documents with you, kindly click >

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-10 Thread Lee Winter
uld for diversity of choice. There is an option of where > to install grub after all even though most put it on the MBR. But I > agree the init options should be in expert-install. Will make everyone > happy. Freedom of choice is the greatest freedom. > Freedom to make such a consequential choice should not be limited to experts. Lee Winter Nashua, New Hampshire United States of America

Re: redo

2014-10-23 Thread Lee Winter
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 6:45 PM, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard < j.deboynepollard-newsgro...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > Lee Winter: > >> One key component of an effective startup process is dependency >> > > handling. So why not look for one of the best as a model? I >

Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

2014-10-21 Thread Lee Winter
the boot sector of an ISO or img file. But the booted image has to be able to find itself in order to continue the process. Can debian install images find themselves? Thanks for any hints about this topic or where I might look for more information. Lee Winter Nashua, New Hampshire United States

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-20 Thread Lee Winter
. And it is the opposite of monolithic. But the real answer to this question will be found in the specs for the better system. So someone needs to go through the specs for both sysv-init and its competitors marking features to keep and features to kill. Then the real discussion will begin. Lee Winter Nashua, New Hampshire United States of America

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Lee Winter
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 5:24 AM, Richard Hector wrote: > On 19/05/14 17:42, Lee Winter wrote: > > On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 10:50 PM, Zenaan Harkness > <mailto:z...@freedbms.net>> wrote: > > > > Are you aware that there is a useful (from the perspective of &g

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-18 Thread Lee Winter
at all. He said no. At that point further discussion became pointless and I left. > Otherwise I would consider every GPL "protected" product > > to have a BSD or an MIT license. It is my respect for the owner's > ability > > to set terms of use for their prop

Re: Iceweasel and DRM

2014-05-18 Thread Lee Winter
0.00 plus fees and legal costs. Per violation. Are you really going to admit in this public forum that you regularly violate copyright law on purpose? Lee Winter Nashua, New Hampshire (Live Free or Die) United States of America

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-18 Thread Lee Winter
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > On 18/05/14 02:41 PM, Lee Winter wrote: > >> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Gary Dale > garyd...@torfree.net>> wrote: >> >> On 18/05/14 01:49 PM, Lee Winter wrote: >> >>

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-18 Thread Lee Winter
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > On 18/05/14 01:49 PM, Lee Winter wrote: > > On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Gary Dale > garyd...@torfree.net>> wrote: >> >> So freedom from doesn't include freedom from DRM? >> >> >

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-18 Thread Lee Winter
or and tell the DRM people about it in excruciating detail. Whining about DRM is both unsavory and unsatisfying. You aren't free to ignore the consequences of attempting to ignore the law of gravity. Whose "fault" is that? Lee Winter Nashua, New Hampshire (Live Free or Die) United States of America

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-18 Thread Lee Winter
ot Mozilla's, not Adobe's, and certainly not FSF's. Mine. And when you comprehend that then you will then understand why all of the preceding portions of your message just don't matter. Lee Winter Nashua, New Hampshire United States of America

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-18 Thread Lee Winter
an MIT license. It is my respect for the owner's ability to set terms of use for their property that protects GPL'd products. Not the terms of that or any other license. Lee Winter Nashua, New Hampshire United States of America

How to get D-I to put /boot on a flash drive?

2014-05-06 Thread Lee Winter
If I want / to be on a hard drive and /boot to be on a separate drive or partition D-I appears to handle this request gracefully. But if I put / on a hard drive logical partition and /boot on a bootable flash drive partition, e.g, /dev/sdc1, it appears that there is no boot loader (e.g,, GRUB or L

Re: Wiping hard drives - Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2011 #1704

2011-09-20 Thread Lee Winter
his does demonstrate if it is simply a personal drive you > want to zero and sell on eBay, zeroing will cover the situation > well enough. No it will not. But two passes with a TRNG will certainly do so. > The skeptics here await links illustrating data has been > accurately recovered fr

Re: Wiping hard drives - Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2011 #1704

2011-09-19 Thread Lee Winter
replaced due to unreliability or with intermittent errors can deceive DBAN which will happily scrub only the number of sectors reported by the corrupted firmware. So when you run it, particularly when doing batches of drives, you have to verify that the ID and drive info matches the specs on the dr

Re: Wiping hard drives - Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2011 #1704

2011-09-19 Thread Lee Winter
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:57 PM, D G Teed wrote: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Lee Winter > wrote: >> >> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Aaron Toponce >> wrote: >> > On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 08:59:14AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> >> If y

Re: Wiping hard drives - Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2011 #1704

2011-09-19 Thread Lee Winter
I've got better things to do than do several passes on a 2TB > SATA disk, running at 30MBps, and I can sleep at night knowing that no one > will get access to the data. Why do you care how long it takes? Stick the drive in in a spare, low-end machine and let it hum for as long as it

Re: file systems

2011-05-01 Thread Lee Winter
the same. Are you writing from experience? Lee Winter Nashua, New Hampshire United States of America (NDY) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Free book - GNU/Linux Advanced Administration

2010-02-04 Thread Lee Winter
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Kent West wrote: > Why, oh why, don't "professionals" proof-read their material? > > On the first page, in the first paragraph: >> The GNU/Linux systems have reached an important level of maturity, >> allowing to integrate them in almost any kind of work environmen

Re: Does lenny use grub2?

2010-01-29 Thread Lee Winter
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:31:13 -0500 (EST), Matteo Riva wrote: >> I have a squeeze system installed and I wanted to install a debian >> lenny in another partition and I was wondering if there could be >> issues with the bootloader. Does lenny

Re: Sorting elements *and* knowing where each one has been put

2010-01-29 Thread Lee Winter
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > I have some numerical values, i.e. something like > > == > value_1 > value_2 > . > . > . > value_n > == > > There are many ways to sort them, but the `sort' command is clearly > app

Re: OT: Standards was Re: Does everything depend on everything?

2009-10-31 Thread Lee Winter
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dennis Wicks wrote: >> Sadly, only three nations have the good sense not to spend 10's of >> millions of their GNP converting to Yet Another Arbitrary System Of >> Measurement. Burma,

Re: Floppy Net Install Stable

2009-10-29 Thread Lee Winter
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > S. Fishpaste put forth on 10/29/2009 3:41 PM: > >> Does this default to installing Etch, and does one get a choice to switch >> the distro sources list before it's written to disk during the install? I >> don't remember ... > > I'm pretty sur

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-16 Thread Lee Winter
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Matthew Moore wrote: > On Friday October 16 2009 9:11:05 am Lee Winter wrote: >> wrote: >> > This thread *has* to stop! >> >> And you are adding to it in order to shorten it? > > This thread is much like any infinite set. Addi

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-16 Thread Lee Winter
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Leandro Quibem Magnabosco wrote: > This thread *has* to stop! And you are adding to it in order to shorten it? > > =( > > Every time someone replys to this thread, God kills a kitty. Who told you that? > It's true. How would you know? -- Lee -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-13 Thread Lee Winter
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Chris Jones wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 01:09:22PM EDT, Lee Winter wrote: > > [..] > >> This is an excellent example of why there should not be a globally >> defined policy denying the utility of potentially useful features. > &

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-13 Thread Lee Winter
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Chris Jones wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 04:21:40AM EDT, Terence wrote: >> 2009/10/13 Dave Sherohman : > >> > The position I was trying to explain in my earlier message was that, >> > even though 99% of replies to mailing list messages are intended to >> > go

Re: OT: mutt/nano spell checking

2009-10-07 Thread Lee Winter
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 04:27:56PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: >> 'p' for 'paste' does strike me as rather more intuitive >> than Ctrl-V. > > That all depends on your background. I use vi every day (I > am a UNIX systems administrator); most of t

Re: Suggestions for video/tv capture?

2009-10-04 Thread Lee Winter
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Chris Jones wrote: > On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 08:32:09AM EDT, Christer Oldhoff wrote: > > [..] > >> You probably mean "Hauppage PVR-150". > > Actually, it's "Hauppauge" but you are excused, since nobody outside > Long Island knows how to spell it, never mind pronounc

Re: Gmail again

2009-10-03 Thread Lee Winter
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sat, 3 Oct 2009 19:19:53 +0300 > "Jari Fredriksson" wrote: > However, on at least one list I'm on, there are people that *insist* on > only replying privately, not the list. I'm starting to get tired from > the constant need to redirect m

Re: Xfce GNU/Icecat and Gnome-programs

2009-09-21 Thread Lee Winter
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 5:45 AM, ura wrote: > Good day! > I have this problem: using Xfce, browser GNU/Icecat, Evolution, and > other Gnome-programs can not open links to Internet. > How can I fix it? Can you you reach your ISP from the command line with ping? -- Lee -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: OT: Re: There is no planet B

2009-09-20 Thread Lee Winter
ve left of that ecology is thousands of square miles of banded iron formations (BIF), which /s/e/e/ google. Clearly oxygen is the culprit. When it appears with DHMO then watch out. Biological activity caused all of those damaging changes. Many people think we should fix that. I ain't one of

Re: install problem

2009-09-16 Thread Lee Winter
y elementary which I did wrong. But what? What you are looking for is labeled "hd-media". It doesn't mean high density media (floppies). It means USB. Good luck, Lee Winter NP Engineerinr Nashua, New Hampshire -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.deb

Defects in apt-spy and associated documentation

2009-09-13 Thread Lee Winter
ormation on which a user might based decisions regarding the contents of sources.list. 6. [important] Some configurations, which I cannot reliably cause, produce entries of the form "(null)" in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/apt-spy.list. There are no error or warning messages associated wit

Re: Inquiry:How to totally wipe out the entire hard drive

2009-09-12 Thread Lee Winter
proof. In fact they do not even have any evidence. What they have is an opinion as to the difficulty of reaching the goal, about which they should be believed. Please do not confuse "that is hard" with "that is impossible". Meditatively, Lee Winter NP Engineering Nashua,

Re: Installing onto an old laptop

2009-09-12 Thread Lee Winter
# assuming the files in step 1 are on the first parition of an IDE drive kernel linux initrd initrd.gz boot 3. Complete the installation over the internet. Lee Winter NP Engineering Nashua, New Hampshire -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Inquiry:How to totally wipe out the entire hard drive

2009-09-06 Thread Lee Winter
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Christopher Walters wrote: > Lee Winter wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> [snip] > > Jumping into that discussion, here is evidence that this is not possible >> with modern drives: >> >&

Re: Inquiry:How to totally wipe out the entire hard drive

2009-09-06 Thread Lee Winter
ite techniques for all possible drive/recording technologies. After that many non-sensible people claimed that 35 passes was the ne-plus-ultra in disk scribbing, which claim is both invalid and stupid. Lee Winter NP Engineering Nashua, New Hampshire

DBAN (was: Inquiry:How to totally wipe out the entire hard drive)

2009-09-06 Thread Lee Winter
-- Forwarded message -- From: Lee Winter Date: Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 2:21 PM Subject: Re: Inquiry:How to totally wipe out the entire hard drive To: "Andrew M.A. Cater" On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater < amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk> wrote: >