On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 11:54 PM Bruce H. wrote:
> Why do you have to make it so hard to sign up to the user forums?
> Auto gen passwords do not work, and the requirements are excessive!
>
Was previously unaware Debian had a web forum. Why bother when we have
mailing lists that have none of the
On Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 09:46 Bret Busby wrote:
> My understanding is that, to run Linux, or, any non-MS operating system,
> with nvidia graphics, especially, if you have nvidia Optimus, you need
> to run Ubuntu Linux.
>
Have you looked at the Debian wiki? Because the Nvidia pages do correctly
sh
On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 1:20 PM Jonathan Marquardt
wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 06:32:29PM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > Thing that should not work but almost always works for me: Mark the
> nvidia
> > GL packages for reinstall and let aptitude do its thing, restart
On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 5:41 PM Jonathan Marquardt
wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 01:24:50PM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > I'd recommend using pvkrun instead of primusrun if available.
>
> Gives me the same error messages :(
>
> > This looks like you're som
On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 6:11 AM Jonathan Marquardt
wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have a Dell XPS 15 with a dedicated NVIDIA GPU and I have a working
> bumblebee setup. It works with all kinds of games, except for steam ones.
> I'm trying to run Proton games with primusrun but it somehow doesn't work.
> Here
On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 11:57 PM Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> David Wright writes:
>
> > On Mon 29 Nov 2021 at 17:47:24 (-0500), Jude DaShiell wrote:
> >> sudo doesn't ask me for my password and I didn't even touch /etc/sudoers
> >> to do it. A file placed in /etc/sudoers.d with permissions of 0440
>
On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 3:52 PM Long Wind wrote:
>
> i always use stable or old releases
When it's ready. But we're coming up rapidly on full freeze in a
couple weeks. https://release.debian.org/bullseye/freeze_policy.html#full
On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 10:40 AM Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 06:24:20PM +0300, IL Ka wrote:
> > On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 6:22 PM Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <
> > deb...@polynamaude.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi !
> > > Is there some IRC channel for Debian ?
> > >
> >
> > http
On Sat, Apr 3, 2021 at 11:39 AM George Shuklin
wrote:
> It looks to me like they desperately want to jump away from debs into
> 'vendor friendly packaging'
>
There's nothing user-unfriendly about .debs. They just don't want to
maintain their software and are looking for a "fire and forget" solu
On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 3:14 AM Teemu Likonen wrote:
> I guess we all know by now that mail user agent software don't agree
> with all the different semantics of replying. Widely supported features
> are "reply to sender" (Reply-To, From) and "reply to all". Debian
> mailing list policy (send only
On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 9:18 PM John Hasler wrote:
> Mike writes:
> > Of the 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ America/Chicago and CST6CDT
> > are the only two that might apply to me. Are the rest of any use to me
> > at all? If so how?
>
> Do you ever need to convert the time and date in some d
On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 12:46 PM local10 wrote:
> What would be a reasonably secure and simple way to encrypt files on Linux
> and then send them to a non-technical Windows user so she would be able
> decrypt and read them?
>
GnuPG. It's in Debian, there's Windows versions on its website, and
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 9:21 AM Dan Ritter wrote:
> Paul Johnson wrote:
> > I'm trying to work out where I can disable the touchpad completely in
> KDE.
> > I can seem to do it when certain devices are plugged in, but there
> doesn't
> > seem to be a w
I'm trying to work out where I can disable the touchpad completely in KDE.
I can seem to do it when certain devices are plugged in, but there doesn't
seem to be a way to make it always off. I've got a trackpoint and the
touchpad just exists to get in the way.
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10
On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 6:13 AM wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 12:29:43PM +0200, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > Perhaps OP can solve this mystery for us.
>
> nyah, nyah.
>
> > The fact that my email is not in reply to a specific message is
> > intentional and is done to avoid fin
On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 12:14 PM deloptes wrote:
> Miles Fidelman wrote:
>
> > It's only a good solution if people actually adopt and use them.
> > They/them/their has caught on, but it's kind of hard to differentiate
> > singular/plural when you use them to be gender neutral.
>
> No people will
On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 2:14 PM Eike Lantzsch wrote:
> On the danger of starting a flame war ...
> thinking about the article by Gunnar Wolf on Planet Debian
>
> instead of "whitelist" and "blacklist" I would like to propose the terms:
> "allowlist" and "rejectlist"
> instead of (for example on d
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 8:17 AM Nicolas George wrote:
> Michael Stone (12020-06-10):
> > Properly configured mailing list software does no such thing, since it's
> a
> > misuse of the reply-to header.
>
> A misuse that works, compared to non-misuses that regularly bring back
> "don't cc me" subth
On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 4:20 PM Default User
wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2020, 16:55 Default User wrote:
>
>> Hi, all.
>>
>> As an experiment, I just installed Debian 10.4 Stable on a spare drive,
>> and installed kde on it.
>>
>> I have not tried kde in many years, so am not really familiar with i
On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 10:49 AM wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 06, 2020 at 01:06:02PM +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote:
>
> > [...] Btw BBB is also far away from a secure platform imho.
>
> Quite possible. Still, you can choose a server run by people you
> trust. And the developers seem to be quite responsiv
On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 11:45 AM Peter Ehlert wrote:
> Family is using Zoom, International.
> They will use Zoom, and I need to participate.
>
> I use Debian Mate Stable, and Firefox ESR
>
> I am concerned about security, duh!
> Looking for ideas.
>
Look into Big Blue Button and see if you can ge
On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 8:42 AM Liam Powell wrote:
> I only need Debian GNU/Linux to detect it and know which GPU is to
> passthrough it to my Windows gaming VM, to play Windows-only games.
>
Might I suggest a better way? You don't generally need a fullblown VM for
gaming and you'll take a dece
On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 7:34 PM Aidan Gauland wrote:
> I want to set up a file server on my home LAN with just consumer-grade
> hardware, and run Debian stable on it. For hardware, I am probably
> going to get a refurbished mid-range tower with a four to six 3.5" SATA
> drive capacity, and put W
On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 11:40 AM Patrick Bartek wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jan 2020 09:39:28 -0700
> "Harold Hartley" wrote:
>
> > I did a net-install and installed with no problems.
> > The only problem I’m having is when I want to check for updates or
> install a file, it tells me that I’m not in the
On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 8:06 AM Dan Ritter wrote:
> This sounds like a hardware problem, actually. Try cleaning out
> the jack -- you could have some dust trapped in there making
> the connection fail.
>
Variation on the theme, but you were right, it was a hardware problem. I
didn't have the L
Debian Testing with the stock PulseAudio install. Combo jack
headphones/microphone. Can't hear microphone except briefly when mute
switch clicks either direction, or earbuds that came with my phone except
when mute button is held down. Lenovo N586. Played around with alsatools
and pavucontrol b
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 8:11 PM Dominic Knight
wrote:
> Does anyone have any knowledge or experience of this to share. Or even
> any thoughts on security which could be useful.
>
> https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/
>
> Under the install for Linux section it says to set up a Debian machine
On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 12:15 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On 03/06/18 08:45 AM, Paul Johnson wrote:
>
> I have a laptop that I frequently use with an external monitor, but on
>> the lefthand side. Now by default, XFCE assumes that I want the monitor
>> to be on the righ
I have a laptop that I frequently use with an external monitor, but on the
lefthand side. Now by default, XFCE assumes that I want the monitor to be
on the right, and the top of the laptop to be even with the top of the
external monitor. I would love it if there's a way to get it to assume I
want
On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 12:43 AM, David Christensen <
dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote:
> On 05/26/18 21:16, Paul Johnson wrote:
>
>> On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 7:21 PM, David Christensen
>>
>>> Have you considered a self-encrypting drive ...
>>>
>&g
On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 7:21 PM, David Christensen <
dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote:
> On 05/25/18 11:55, Robert Dodier wrote:
>
>> I'm working with Debian 9. I gather that there is a full-disk
>> encryption option for the standard Debian installer, which, as I
>> understand it, does not include
On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 10:49 AM, Marc Auslander
wrote:
> The safest way to fix an ip address in a dhcp served network is to tell
> the dhcp server to associate that address with the mac of the unit. The
> address should be outside the dhcp range you set up. I normall pin down
> all my connecte
On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 8:10 AM, Stefan Monnier
wrote:
> >>> In Korea, all most people are using KakaoTalk (android app).
> >>> If i am wrong, sorry, and let it go to off-topic.
> >> It's not decentralized. IOW you're dependent on one central
> >> server/company and everything goes through them,
On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 6:19 AM, Nicolas George wrote:
>
> (Also, I wonder why people always fiddle with the cumbersome 192.168
> instead
> of going for simply 10.)
>
>
While it shouldn't matter, I've seen some serious networking brain damage
if your router or the border router happen to be both
On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 6:38 AM, Jesse Stephen
wrote:
>
> is there away to put chromecast on my diebian pc?
>
The chromecast extension to chrome does work in Debian.
On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 6:05 AM, Mostafa Shahverdy
wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 03:24:07AM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 8:23 AM, Mostafa Shahverdy >
> > wrote:
> >
> > Have you tried the open drivers with arandr yet?
> >
>
&
On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 8:23 AM, Mostafa Shahverdy
wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> I have an ultra wide monitor that supports 2560x1080.
> While I have a Radeon 5450 graphic card, running Debian Sid, I only can
> get 1920x1080.
> I installed firmware-linux-nonfree to get it running. So why isn't my
> c
On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 10:25 PM, Stanley Reznicek
wrote:
>
> Why is there no update notifier in Debian 8.4.0?
It's been replaced by gnome-packagekit.
> A better selection of desktop wallpapers would be nice.
A little silly to keep more than a basic selection in the packages at this
point, a
On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 4:59 AM, David Baron wrote:
> On Sunday 10 April 2016 19:06:46 Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> > On 10/04/2016 5:51 PM, David Baron wrote:
> > > Non of my weather widgets work any longer. OK, Yahoo changed their API,
> > > but
> > > the updated widget still does not work. Neithe
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Alberto Salvia Novella <
es204904...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nearly all compact Linux computers feasible for gaming are sold
> exclusively using NVIDIA graphics, and that company is hostile to libre
> software.
>
> So I think it is very important that we support AMD ri
On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 3:57 AM, Andrew McGlashan <
andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:
> On 1/09/2015 3:08 AM, pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote:
> > If you want to exit the shell normally, typically the 'exit' command
> > will suffice (it depends on your shell, obviously).
>
> And if, fo
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> Maybe you'll find an answer here:
> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:T400
No dice. I'm not totally sold on using fglrx-legacy on this if one of the
radeon drivers will do 3d acceleration.
OK, I'm stumped. I've tried a couple ways now and I'm going around in
circles and tearing my fur out over this... what's the best approach to
getting 3D acceleration going on a ThinkPad T400?
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 5:50 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Friday 21 August 2015 10:28:43 Diogene Laerce wrote:
> > So should you (the OP) run an AV ?
> >
> > Well.. I guess. IMVHO ;)
>
> We are all almost all agreed that he should run one to protect his
> Windows using friends from viruses which m
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 3:45 PM, John Hasler wrote:
> While it would be possible (though very difficult) to write malware for
> Linux the main reason why we needn't worry about it on the desktop is
> that there are so few of us using it that it not worth the criminals'
> time to create it.
>
The
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Renaud OLGIATI <
ren...@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 19:33:17 +0100
> Brian wrote:
>
> > On Thu 20 Aug 2015 at 20:24:16 +0200, Diogene Laerce wrote:
>
> > > > Hello guys. I wanted to know if antivirus is required for Debian or
> > > > for
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 9:51 PM, Ben Case wrote:
> can you get metatrader 4 software in Debian or can you use mt4's from
> different brokers?
>
You might have to contact your vendor on that one; I see a Linux version
but know nothing of the specifics of what it takes.
On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 2:17 PM, David Baron wrote:
> I come to this list for new, advice, discussion on Debian installation,
> software, packages, problems, advice. It has help and saved my skin
> (system)
> times in the past. Do not read every word of every post but those of
> interest
> as this
Would be nice if all the available tiles of scenery were in the Debian
archive, that way we could get the area we're interested without having to
go through a huge PITA.
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 4:00 AM, David Baron wrote:
> This has a huge amount of data, 1.5 gig. It is not possible to install o
On Jun 8, 2014 3:11 AM, "Sharon Kimble" wrote:
>
> Revisiting a question that I asked in March last year about how to
> auto-empty a trash bin.
>
> This has worked very well until today, when on one of my drives it
> also deleted the trash bin as well, so my follow-on script to give
> me the size
On Apr 1, 2014 5:24 PM, "Anubhav Yadav" wrote:
> Any help. Sorry for the incomplete first message in the thread.
If you don't need the VPN support that nm has, take a look at wicd. Wicd
has the advantage of also having a cli and a curses interface.
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Mike McGinn wrote:
> When the hinges went on my Toshiba I was able to attach a small piece of
> metal
> to the back to hold the screen up. Got another two years out of it.
>
The hinges seem to be a consistent weak point on these machines. My
boyfriend had a Satel
On Mar 19, 2014 7:28 AM, "André" wrote:
> When using the automatic partition scheme, Debian creates a root
partition of about 320Mb.
>
> It maybe enough to start, but this is too small after a while, for many
reasons:
Which leaves me wondering how to rectify the situation later.
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Reco wrote:
> 1) Settings in /etc/default/keyboard. Applies at every boot and every X
> session start.
> Just add you preferences to XKBOPTIONS like this:
>
> XKBOPTIONS="compose:menu"
>
OOoh, this appeared to have scratched the itch, thanks!
I've used setxkbmap -option compose:menu multiple times in XFCE, but for
some reason, something keeps kicking it back over to the same useless
functionality that the menu key has in Windows. What's the real way to
bind compose to the menu key and make it stick?
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:12 AM, basti wrote:
> Can this cache moved to SSD?
> Months ago I read articles about SSD and Flash Memory like:
> - "Disable logging on SSD"
> - "Disable cache on SSD"
> - "Don't swap on SSD" ...
>
> And today?
> How long will the SSD work without data loss?
>
How many
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD <
erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com> wrote:
> The sound on Skype (sid) is impossible!! It is so chopped up that it is
> impossible to make a call. The sound recorder and audio streams [YouTube,
> video on Wall Street Journal] work perfectly.
U
Greetings, everybody.
I wonder who else sees this at the moment on systems running Jessie. I know
that running the testing version will require bug fixing sometimes, I don't
mind that. I just need some help to understand what's wrong. I am running
XCFE4, some of the problems I see may be specific
On a Dell Precision M4600 laptop, I installed a clean Wheezy release,
installed nvidia drivers along with the dkms packages that go with. Because
of network driver trouble, I took the kernel from sid.
After that, everything works fine. I mean, video is fine. Networking still
a problem. Here is my
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> Why on earth does so much of the default desktops depend on polkit when
> very little breaks when it is disabled!
>
Because "very little" is not "nothing at all."
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Brad Alexander wrote:
>
> Bret apparently has never been online on April 1st before. A *lot* of tech
> sites pull April Fools jokes. Slashdot used to be notorious for it,
> especially when Rob Malda was at the helm...
>
All of yesterday's articles were ROT13'd thi
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Vincent Hobeïka
wrote:
>
> $ aplay -l
> Liste des Périphériques Matériels PLAYBACK
> carte 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], périphérique 0: ALC269VB Analog [ALC269VB Analog]
> Sous-périphériques: 1/1
> Sous-périphérique #0: subdevice #0
> carte 1: Generic [HD-Audi
On Monday, February 4, 2013, Darac Marjal wrote:
>
> Actually, that depends on the hardware. If your hardware can do hardware
> mixing (I know of at least one SoundBlaster that can, but I can't
> remember which model at the moment), then you can play simultaneous
> streams. But for most cards, you
On Monday, February 4, 2013, Kelly Clowers wrote:
>
> Esound is (mostly?) unmaintained for a long time AFAIK. Anyway, it was
> far buggier than PA ever was.
>
Not that either are fun to deal with when all you want to do is be able to
get Second Life's voice support to work.
>
> Pure ALSA works
I've got a fresh install of Debian Wheezy Beta 4 on this Dell
Precision M4600 laptop. This is the net install version. I'm working
through a set of problems that others might want to know about.
On the system, as originally installed, the cpu frequency scaling
monitors show the CPU frequency is st
I'm top posting because nobody should be expected to go through all that stuff.
I believe you have to decide now whether your system is going to be
amd64 only or multiarch. Because you now have ia32-libs installed,
that means you want to have both 32 and 64. The ia32-libs framework
is the old way
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Agbefia wrote:
>
> To whom it may concern:
> I have a Dell laptop Studio that runs on Win7 operating system.i tried to
> install Debian but something went wrong and my laptop cannot boot and it
> seems all my data on the hard drive were erased and I cannot access
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
>
> Thinkpad. Avoid ATI graphics if possible.
>
I think you spelled nVidia wrong.
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/06/torvalds-nvidia-linux/
I run a Lenovo ThinkPad, but I repair Dells for a living. I just have to
wonder what the heck Dell was thinking having Fn and Ctrl in opposite of
correct order...
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Kushal Kumaran <
kushal.kumaran+deb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Lars Noodén writes:
>
> > On 11/12/12,
Any Experimental users who can tell me what the kernel numbers mean in
the Experimental repository? I see flaws in the kernels 3.4, and 3.5,
and wonder if other people see them too, or if they even care to
report problems because those kernels are, well, Experimental. I'm
running a system with Debi
On Tuesday, October 2, 2012, Darac Marjal wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 09:26:25AM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote:
> >Has anybody successfully added Google Cloud Print to CUPS on Debian?
> �I've
> >googled it, poked around a little bit, but couldn't find a good
&
Has anybody successfully added Google Cloud Print to CUPS on Debian? I've
googled it, poked around a little bit, but couldn't find a good tutorial.
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Brian wrote:
>
> The advice given at
>
>
> http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/adding-an-alsa-software-pre-amp-to-fix-low-sound-levels/
>
> does work. There is an extra control in alsamixer and rebooting is
> not necessary to get it. See how you go on.
>
>
Well, that
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 4:01 AM, Darac Marjal wrote:
> There are two possibilities I can think of. One is that you're using
> pulseaudio and not checking its volume level (to confirm this, start
> alsamixer and press F6 to select a different 'card').
>
Didn't think I was using pulseaudio, checked
On Sep 25, 2012 12:18 PM, "Conrad Nelson" wrote:
> Any ideas on why ALSA is suddenly outputting my sound so very quietly
despite my volume levels being all the way up?
Annoyingly, this has always been a problem for me with a Thinkpad T400.
I'd be interested in a fix, too.
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:13:53 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote:
>
>> On a student's Debian system, I ran some updates and resulted in gdm
>> refusing to start, with the error message that shows a picture of a sad
>>
On a student's Debian system, I ran some updates and resulted in gdm
refusing to start, with the error message that shows a picture of a
sad computer and a message says:
Oh no! Something has gone wrong.
A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please contact a
system administrator.
I
Concerning Debian Squeeze/Wheezy wireless:
I have Dell Precision M4600 and have had a lot of trouble connecting
to wireless networks. I was constantly failing to join networks, as
described https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676382 and on
other bug trackers. Here's my blog about it
http:
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Camaleón wrote:
>
> It's become a tradition that the reward for reading all the way through
> our first post-freeze mail is to be one of the first few to know the
> name of the next release. Continuing in that vein, we are happy to
> announce that Debian 8.0 will
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>
> I ask because of the references to foundation?
Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
On Jun 5, 2012 10:27 AM, "Curt Howland" wrote:
> Maybe I'm the only person getting the group though debian-user-digest,
> and maybe I'm the only one reading it in plain text, but has anyone
> else noticed the HUGE increase in the quantity of digests, which
> consist mostly of the expanded headers
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:04 PM, a0z wrote:
> On 31/05/12 04:43, Paul Johnson wrote:
>> I've tried every variation I can think of.
>>
>
> Have you tried "apt-cache search"?
>
>
> a0z@kit:~$ apt-cache search linux 3.2 amd64
> linux-headers-3.
I've not built LInux kernels since, well, 1999, when I ran RedHat
linux (before EL existed). I've compiled separate modules for the
touchpad many times lately, but never a whole kernel. And never on a
Debian system.
Now I've got a laptop with an Intel Centrino Ultimate 6300 wireless
device and i
On May 29, 2012 7:53 AM, "lina" wrote:
> I am under wheezy, when I use the apt-get source package
> I will get the wheezy version by default.
>
> What if I want to get the sid one, how can I do that without going to
> the debian webpage.
If you have Sid sources in your apt configuration, then "ap
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2012-05-14 19:26 +0200, Paul Johnson wrote:
>
>> On a Dell Precision workstation, there is an Nvidia Quadro card with a
>> weird connector in which we have a "dongle" thing that provides plugs
>> fo
On a Dell Precision workstation, there is an Nvidia Quadro card with a
weird connector in which we have a "dongle" thing that provides plugs
for four monitors. I've been running RedHat Linux 5.5 for a while and
decided to try the Debian net installer
The graphical install proceeds as usual (I've d
On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 12:08 PM, David Baron wrote:
> These are really getting annoying.
>
> Is this a problem with the list server or what?
Messages with unidentified subjects? Means someone sent the list mail
without a subject line. Otherwise, you're going to need to be more
specific.
--
T
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Brad Alexander wrote:
> ...And sure enough, I appear to. Is it as simple as installing
> libgl1-nvidia-alternatives-ia32, libgl1-nvidia-glx-ia32, and
> nvidia-glx-ia32? Can I install these alongside the amd64 ones without
> negative impact?
You pretty much have t
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Mika Suomalainen wrote:
> GPG Inline signature is easier to verify if you copy-paste that email
> from mailing list archive.
Not really, since you can just download the mbox version and verify it
directly with MIME anyway.
> I cannot use S/MIME, because it's not
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 1:48 PM, richard wrote:
> THIS LIST SEEMS TO HAVE A HIGH POPULATION OF SELF APPOINTED PREMADONNAS
> THAT ARE ONLY CAPABLE OF CRITICISM.
Can we get this guy tossed out the door? Talk about a negative nancy.
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On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 2:30 AM, richard wrote:
> Mika as you have appointed yourself as a list policeman, please explain
> how I am to test on whether or not I am now able to see my first
> posting without send a post ?
Post a relevant reply to an existing thread. Test messages are banned
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On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Mika Suomalainen
wrote:
> With phones, it's easier to follow top posting in my opinion.
I usually read/post from my phone. I'm going to have to strongly
disagree with that. Top posting makes it that much harder to properly
edit a reply for on a mobile device, wh
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:25:42 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote:
>
>> Could someone explain me, what are "top- and bottom posting" styles?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
Though it's generally ideal to go with a conversational style,
in
On Mar 20, 2012 11:49 PM, "严海东" wrote:
>
> Dear all:
> I have a problem with using wget and curl on debian amd64
> when I type a command -- wget www.XXX.com, error messages
> will display as below:
Just a heads up, EXAMPLE.COM and EXAMPLE.ORG are reserved as dummy names
for giving
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Stayvoid wrote:
>
> What is more secure: dedicated server or VPS?
> I've been told that a hoster has an ability to look through the files on the
> VM.
> Why people use this solution for MTAs? Do they care about privacy? Is
> it possible to hide your data from the
On Mar 7, 2012 3:47 PM, "Sian Mountbatten" wrote:
> AFAIK, there is a command which says how long a process takes to
complete. Its invoked with the command to be timed as an argument. Does
anybody know what it is?
Oddly enough, it's time(1).
Sure, you can just tell people to RTFM. Or you can just post the patch.
The patch is naturally easier and takes substantially less effort to
create and post than being a dick about it on an internationally
distributed mailing list.
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Don deJuan wrote:
>
> Seriousl
Seems like this could be made easier by mailing the .reg file (or throwing
it in a webspace someplace) with the correct key and value already set.
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Don deJuan wrote:
> On 02/21/2012 03:58 PM, Doug wrote:
>
>> On 2/21/2012 1:00 AM, Don deJuan wrote:
>>
>>> On 02/20
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> I run my machine on UCT, or something like it (timezone +0). Every time
> I boot to Windows XP (which I need to do once in a blue moon) Windows
> takes it on itself to set my clock as if the UCT time were actually local
> time. I have no id
On Sat, 2012-01-07 at 23:22 -0800, Weaver wrote:
> > It's a shame this doesn't support "USA Cherokee" layout.
> >
> When I was reading their site yesterday, they made a point of feedback
> being appreciated and wanting to implement new formats, so an approach in
> that direction could be well in o
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