Re: The strange case of sudo segfaulting on exit

2021-05-04 Thread Rich
ies for fun. Thanks to anyone who read the above longwinded writeup, - Rich On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 12:37 AM Rich wrote: > > Hi all, > reportbug pointed me here because I wasn't sure where to file this > bug. I'll start by summarizing the observed behavior, and then go i

The strange case of sudo segfaulting on exit

2021-05-04 Thread Rich
...]'" segfaults on the VirtualBox VM but not the KVM VM. Thanks, - Rich [1] - debian-bullseye-DI-alpha3-amd64-netinst.iso, if curious

Re: non-smart debian phone

2020-08-06 Thread Rich Morin
Is the screen really a show-stopper? If not, how about getting a PinePhone CE, and running Mobian or postmarketOS on it? https://store.pine64.org/product/pinephone-community-edition-postmarketos-with-convergence-package-limited-edition-linux-smartphone/ -r > From: Dan Hitt > Subject: non-smar

Does “apt-get install” follow “recommends” links recursively?

2020-02-05 Thread Rich Morin
Debian's "apt-get install" command is documented as following "recommends" links by default. It also follows "depends" links, presumably in a recursive fashion. However, I haven't been able to find out if it also follows recommends links recursively. For example, let's say that I run "apt-get i

Four new mailing lists of possible interest

2019-02-07 Thread Rich Kulawiec
Use the email addresses/URLs to subscribe, if you wish. mint-users Discussion of the Mint Linux distribution mint-users-requ...@firemountain.net http://www.firemountain.net/mailman/listinfo/mint-users (independent, not affiliated with the Mint L

Re: [OT] Best (o better than yahoo) mail provider for malinglists

2018-09-19 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 06:12:15PM +0200, Francesco Porro wrote: > As a member of this mailing list, I have a little (OT) question for you: > which is the best free email service around to receive mailing lists? None. Free email services are wholly inadequate for professional uses like participat

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

2018-08-10 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 11:46:12AM -, Dan Purgert wrote: > Not familiar with procmail. A quick perusal of the manpage seems to > indicate this is a local mail "processor" for sorting things, as opposed > to say something on the mailserver itself? Correct. Procmail uses a set of rules to deci

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

2018-08-10 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 06:24:55AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > I get more mail than that before breakfast. If you've got the > right tools, it's easy to deal with. This is an excellent point. Many of the people who lodge complaints like the one that started this discussion thread have chosen very

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

2018-08-09 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 05:39:36PM +, tech wrote: > Should'nt be time to move away from an old mail-listing to something more > modern like a bugzilla or else ??? No. This is an absolutely terrible idea. Here's why mailing lists are (along with Usenet newsgroups) vastly superior to web-base

Re: Writing to 2 TB USB hard drive fails

2015-02-11 Thread Rich Hare
Rich Hare wrote: Petter Adsen wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 10:28:21 -0500 Rich Hare wrote: I am new to Debian, but learning. My issue involves 2 TB USB hard drives. I have been using Debian via the Knoppix bootable CD to back up a couple of Win XP computers. Has

Writing to 2 TB USB hard drive fails

2015-02-11 Thread Rich Hare
sing one of the smaller drives and then copy it over to one of the 2 TB drives, but this is a kludge, long-term. If you have any suggestions, or ideas for further tests, I would appreciate them. Rich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...

2009-06-29 Thread Rich Griffiths
e recommendations on the Debian web site. In particular, update etch before upgrading to lenny, and back up your data and config files, just in case ;-) -- Rich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...

2009-06-29 Thread Rich Griffiths
t a line like: i A xserver-xorg-video-vesa - X.Org X server -- VESA display driver You probably won't see the 'i' at the beginning of the line, which indicates that the vesa module is installed. If you don't see that, you'll need to install xserver-xorg-vide

Re: problem with nvidia module and kernel 2.6.26-2-amd64 SOLVED

2009-06-28 Thread Rich Griffiths
3 months with the '-2-' image and the '-1-' nvidia, but I'm delighted to have the current problem solved so simply. -- Rich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

problem with nvidia module and kernel 2.6.26-2-amd64

2009-06-27 Thread Rich Griffiths
x27; (update), 'U' (upgrade), and 'g' (go) options, which reinstalled linux- image-2.6.26-2-amd64, but I get the same nvidia failure with that kernel. Helpful advice, please! -- Rich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Enabling MySpace in Iceweasel, et al.

2009-06-12 Thread Rich Griffiths
) date, and then move it to the iceweasel plugins directory or make a link there. I tried a couple of alternatives available in Lenny (gnash and another I've forgotten) and they didn't work as universally as the one from Adobe. BTW, you seem to be sending both plain text and HTML. Please try to turn off HTML. -- Rich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays?

2009-05-31 Thread Rich Griffiths
looking over the available add-ons and plug-ins . Rich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Second ethernet card seems to cause networking failure?

2009-05-26 Thread Rich Griffiths
omehow the system seems confused about > which interface to use. > > Any other thoughts/ideas welcome! > > -f > * This may be a somewhat naive question, but ... Do the HWaddr's reported by ifconfig correctly match the MAC addresses for both eth0 and eth1? Rich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: digitalizing audio records from vinyl supports

2009-05-19 Thread Rich Griffiths
ome .ogg, but mostly mp3. "Without too much trouble"? Well, it was pretty laborious, but the results are good. Hope that helps. Rich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Print Server

2009-03-31 Thread Rich Griffiths
uot;Share published printers connected to this system". You should then be able to go to another computer, install the printer(s) you just published, and print. Rich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: pidgin

2008-12-14 Thread Rich Healey
but I have since started >> using aMSN. I am uncertain as to whether pidgin has off-line messaging >> support, but I do know that aMSN does. It is a very feature rich program, >> and it works well. It is only MSN capable however, so if you need the other >> protocols that

Re: I get too many emails

2008-10-28 Thread Rich Healey
gt; Patrick Harris > I subscribe to a lot of lists with all of my addresses, I use a combination of Gmail's filtering and procmail on the addresses managed on my servers. Because I use IMAP I don't see all the list traffic unless I look at it. Rich - -- Rich Healey - iTReign \

Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-23 Thread Rich Healey
ve me more verbose information. I'm > not saying it's not there, just that I didn't see it ;) > I think you'll find apt-get dist-upgrade (or full-upgrade, aptitude changed as of lenny, i dunno what apt-get is doing) Will give you the info you're looking for, basica

Re: You are a broken record (was Re: friend cannot see me on msn)

2008-10-23 Thread Rich Healey
on, email / XMPP is available to them. If they want it to be easy (especially from windows, msn is standard, i believe) they're free to. Rich - -- Rich Healey - iTReign \.''`. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer / Systems Admin \ : :' : /[EMAIL PROT

Re: Debian on MacBook

2008-10-20 Thread Rich Healey
er answers in their >> mailing lists/forums. > > Ops sorry, made a mistake. I meant running Debian on a MacBook. :) > > > I ran Debian testing (Lenny) single boot for some time on my MBP without issue. Rich - -- Rich Healey - iTReign \.''`. /

Re: Why not thunderbird

2008-10-17 Thread Rich Healey
; So why icedove is not providing the thunderbird command? >> >> thanks >> > > You can try making a link: > > ln -s /usr/bin/icedove /usr/bin/thunderbird > > Sam > > I'd make it in /usr/local/ . Debian likes to keep it's /usr tree to itself

Re: how to check a cd-rom?

2008-10-17 Thread Rich Healey
md5sum: /cdrom: Is a directory >> Isn't /cdrom a symlink to /dev/cdrom...? > > $ ls -l /cdrom > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2008-07-11 00:40 /cdrom -> media/cdrom > >> Maybe give it the real device path rahther. > > He did try that... > > Regards,

Re: old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64

2008-10-15 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-10-15 05:37 +0200, Rich Healey wrote: > >> Paul Johnson wrote: >>> Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >>>> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:29:55PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >>>> &

Re: 64 bit kernel, 32-bit userland (was Re: old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64)

2008-10-14 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/14/08 23:14, Rich Healey wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 10/14/08 22:37, Rich Healey wrote: >>> [snip] >>>> I'd disagree. 32bit + 64bit kernel is always a good idea, and 64 b

Re:[OT] Old Boxen [WAS] old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64

2008-10-14 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 02:37:11PM +1100, Rich Healey wrote: >> Paul Johnson wrote: >>> Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >>>> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:29:55PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >>&g

Re: 64 bit kernel, 32-bit userland (was Re: old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64)

2008-10-14 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/14/08 22:37, Rich Healey wrote: > [snip] >> I'd disagree. 32bit + 64bit kernel is always a good idea, and 64 bit > > How do you do that? Just install the amd64 kernel and reboot? > Yup :) Very

Re: old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64

2008-10-14 Thread Rich Healey
rappers do exist. I run a 64 bit userland on a PPC machine (this _IS_ a bad idea, but I need the speed..) @Doug, I do love old machines, let us know how you go. I have some disks that you're welcome to, perhaps we can work something out with shipping? If you have some old kit lying around, perha

Re: how to add a virtual directory in apache with support to php files?

2008-10-08 Thread Rich Healey
it? thanks > This is probably better directed at an apache list, but from memory you need to take your handler directives and nest them in the directory tags. Or apply them globally. Sorry for the vague reply - -- Rich Healey - iTReign \.''`. / [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: icedove

2008-10-07 Thread Rich Healey
can > select the number corresponding to your desired web browser. From memory, you > need to run this as root. > > Although, as others have pointed out, some apps hold app specific settings, > thus they might also need to be changed. > > Kind Regards, > Jaime Kind

Re: how to change the default web browser from epiphany to iceweasel?

2008-10-07 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Star Liu wrote: > thank you. do you have any IM so that i can add you into my debian group? > Hi Star, You've already added me, but as Andrei points out the IRC is a very consistent place to find support/kill time. Kind Regards

Re: how to change the default web browser from epiphany to iceweasel?

2008-10-06 Thread Rich Healey
s > > What desktopenvironment? Also, in pidgin's settings i believe this can be changed. something like iceweasel %u for the browser command - -- Rich Healey - iTReign \.''`. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer / Systems Admin \ : :' : /

Re: need help on configing alsa in sarge

2008-10-05 Thread Rich Healey
y alsa config file in etch to sarge? > Possibly, but you'd need to check that there were no changes between then configuration settings (uie, added removed features). Can I ask why you're using Sarge still? In a month or so it will be 2 releases old! Rich - -- Rich Healey - iTRe

Re: Debian testing + xen 3.2.1 + dom0 kernel 2.6.18 + clvm 2.x -> impossible ?

2008-09-30 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Van Biesen wrote: > Because you can't use a newer kernel as a xen dom0 kernel. The only working > dom0 kernel ( at the moment ) is a 2.6.18 afaik. > > Kindest regards, > > Peter. > > On Tuesday 30 September 20

Re: Debian testing + xen 3.2.1 + dom0 kernel 2.6.18 + clvm 2.x -> impossible ?

2008-09-30 Thread Rich Healey
sing something > ? Has anybody used clvm with xen ? > > Kindest regards, > > Peter. Why exactly do you want to use the Etch kernel? - -- Rich Healey - iTReign \.''`. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer / Systems Admin \ : :' : /[EMAIL PROTECTED] A

Re: Is Novel Suse not friendly to real linux world? and how about Red hat and Debian?

2008-09-18 Thread Rich Healey
are, in my mind at about the same level as myself getting paid to support/implement Debian systems. > 3. Shall Debian follow the way of Red hat to have a nonfree enterprise > edition? > 4. Do Debian has the danger of IP lawsuits "created" by microsoft? > > Knowing what you'

Re: [OT] Debian Sig

2008-09-18 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob Cox wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 16:43:06 +1000, Rich Healey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > >> Bob Cox wrote: > >>> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=debian+logo+ascii+art >>> >>> leads

Re: reply-to-list for icedove? was Re: [OT] was Re: diff display

2008-09-11 Thread Rich Healey
x27;s manually, >> but unfortunately this is error prone. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Johannes >> > I have "reply to mailing list 0.3.1" and it works ok with Icedove here. > > https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/thunderbird/addon/4455 > > It is con

Re: [OT] Debian Sig

2008-09-10 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [[Sorry Bob, hit the wrong reply button!]] Bob Cox wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:49:53 +1000, Rich Healey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > >> >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> >> Hash: SHA1 >>

[OT] Debian Sig

2008-09-10 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've seen a ASCII art sig on this list, of the debian swirl.. but can't nut out what to google to find it! If anyone's got it that'd be great.. Cheers Rich - -- Rich Healey - iTReign \/ [EMAIL

Re: Challenge - Getting Debian Working on a Pair of Real Old Laptops

2008-09-04 Thread Rich Healey
Tips? > > > > > > My 480CDT was great with Sid, Till it died (housemates spilled beer on it). My trick was aptitude purge python. (I'm a python coder so I put it back), but that strips the system down. You can also pass init=/bin/sh to the kernel and work your way up fo

Re: favor needed by debian beginner

2008-09-03 Thread Rich Healey
rce them to use vi/nano > and the CLI for much of the work. My arguement to them is that > different distributions of Linux/UNIX have different apps associated > with them; however all(at least all I have seen) have vi and of > course the standard terminal interface. As such, as lon

Re: need help with cc

2008-08-23 Thread Rich Healey
r you. > >> If you get a segmentation fault, that suggests that the code being >> compiled is faulty. > > Blame the compiler That's a CompSci 101 mistake. > Erm.. I believe he was blaming the coder :P - -- Rich Healey - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer

Re: can't configure networking for static IP address

2008-08-11 Thread Rich Healey
way insurance is paying up but that person still goes to jail). Perhaps he gathers some information on the clandestine party, perhaps he helps them come to justice. Perhaps nothing bad happens! He's behind a nat gateway, and long before he's offering services, his box needs to become pub

Re: installing a package from lenny on an etch machine...

2008-08-02 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mumia W.. wrote: > On 08/01/2008 12:17 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> [...] >> As you can see, the "doc" package installed OK, but the "server" >> package needs a later version of some basic C libraries. >> >> I'd rather not upgrade the Etch machine to Lenn

Re: [OT] Move IMAP Mail

2008-07-29 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Rich Healey escreveu: >> I have a quick question, I just got an iPhone, and want to hook against >> my gmail account, but as it stands i need to have thunderbird running to >> filter all my mail

[OT] Move IMAP Mail

2008-07-29 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a quick question, I just got an iPhone, and want to hook against my gmail account, but as it stands i need to have thunderbird running to filter all my mail so i don't get all my listmail in my inbox on my phone. Gmail's filters/labels don't wo

Re: virtual machine choices in Debian

2008-07-17 Thread Rich Healey
H.S. wrote: > > Hello, > > Many months ago I had first installed a virtual machine, VMWare. I used > it for a few months and then never touched. IIRC, it was free for > students back then. > > This week I looked it up again (I still have the virtual machines > installed) and wanted to reinstall

Re: [OT] Incredible world-wide transportation network

2008-07-16 Thread Rich Healey
uying the drive, Amdek amber monitor. It did have > 640k of RAM and dual 360k floppies when I bought it in 1989. > All this talk has be wanting to get my 286 going.. Really need to sort out some Minix install media. Rich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-23 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/23/08 21:36, Rich Healey wrote: >> s. keeling wrote: >>> Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>>> Can't use it with other nix users, (although i'd see them creating new >>>

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-23 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 s. keeling wrote: > Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> Can't use it with other nix users, (although i'd see them creating new >> windows with my statusline), but works great for my technically >> il

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-23 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 s. keeling wrote: > Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> Can't use it with other nix users, (although i'd see them creating new >> windows with my statusline), but works great for my technically >> il

Re: Wine package dependencies

2008-06-23 Thread Rich Healey
.0 is in unstable. 1.0rc2-1 is in > testing. Unstable does not play well with others: Don't try to pull > unstable sources on a testing box. > I've never had any issues mixing them...? After all, testing is just week old unstable anyway. - -- Rich Healey - [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-22 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/21/08 22:23, Rich Healey wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 06/20/08 09:12, Dotan Cohen wrote: >>>> 2008/6/20 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>>>>> Well, it is a

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-21 Thread Rich Healey
in from outside. > > Even if, in this instance, there's no "harm" (she's you're wife, > after all), it's still Bad Practice, and that makes for Bad Habits. > > In 15 seconds you can create user "dotan" on that machine, and log > in as it,

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-19 Thread Rich Healey
;d see them creating new windows with my statusline), but works great for my technically illiterate housemate. That and putting xeyes all over his desktop remotely is hilarious. - -- Rich Healey - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer / Systems Admin - OpenPGP: 0x8C8147807 MSN: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-16 Thread Rich Healey
"|xmessage -nearmouse -file -` is simple enough. > > cheers, > Owen. > > My housemates and I use msn for talking crap, and my irc network for shouting abuse at each other in a more readable way. - -- Rich Healey - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer / Systems Admin - Op

debian build tools

2008-06-16 Thread Rich Healey
a pissing match, you both produce great software that i enjoy using). So any guides on how to do this would be great (A "do x,y,z" would be handy short term.. but really I'm looking for docs). Sorry if these exist somewhere obvious and I haven't found them. Rich - -- Ric

Re: Which IM, blog and email service are best for debian users?

2008-06-16 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 04:04:10PM +1000, Rich Healey wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 06/15/08 05:46, Star Liu wrote: >>

Re: Which IM, blog and email service are best for debian users?

2008-06-15 Thread Rich Healey
s as root is a bad idea, but this isn't ubuntu. If I want to play with [whatever] as root, then it should damn well let me. That said, the user who actually has some need to do it probably has the necessary skills to just remove the (e)uid check. - -- Rich Healey - [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [soopar OT] Mac killed my keybaord

2008-06-13 Thread Rich Healey
et a keyboard with the old firmware, it's not supported. How is this good customer service. > If you don't want to actually interact with the user input devices and user > interfaces we're discussing, I certainly can't make you. You do have to > admit to yourself,

Re: apt-get joke

2008-05-24 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Owen Townend wrote: > On 25/05/2008, Sjoerd Hiemstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sun, 25 May 2008 03:11:05 +1000 Owen Townen wrote: >> > On 24/05/2008, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> http://www.lessaid.net/fun/apt-get-wife.pn

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

2008-05-15 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > On 15/05/2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> >> On 05/15/08 12:41, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: >> > On 14/05/2008, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Apt pinning suspect?

2008-05-13 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Samad wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 03:54:10PM +1000, Rich Healey wrote: > Jaime Tarrant wrote: >>>> Rich Healey wrote: >>>> Hi List, >>>> >> [snip] > I'll give that a shot, although

Re: Apt pinning suspect?

2008-05-12 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jaime Tarrant wrote: > Rich Healey wrote: > Hi List, > > I've got a Lenny/Unstable/Experimental laptop that I use for work (yes, > i realise that precariously mixing 3 releases is stupid.. but I'm > committed now so oh w

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-12 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/12/08 19:28, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: > [snip] >>> Maybe you're a Starving College Student, or maybe things cost more >>> in India (tariffs on imported Chinese goods?), but 17" LCD monitors >>> are prett

Re: [OT] Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-12 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/12/08 18:47, Rich Healey wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 05/12/08 09:35, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: >>>> I have a 15" monitor at home running at 1024x768. I find that for most >>

Re: [OT] Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-12 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/12/08 09:35, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: >> I have a 15" monitor at home running at 1024x768. I find that for most > > Maybe you're a Starving College Student, or maybe things cost more > in India (tariffs on imported Chinese g

Apt pinning suspect?

2008-05-12 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi List, I've got a Lenny/Unstable/Experimental laptop that I use for work (yes, i realise that precariously mixing 3 releases is stupid.. but I'm committed now so oh well.) Anyway, the point is that my pure unstable/experimental box at home has pull

Re: gfortran Permission denied

2008-05-08 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 michael wrote: > Hello list, > > as you guess I am having serious boot problems, grub loading fails at stage > 1.5 with "Error 17". > > I did not install/re-install anything, resize partitions or anything else > could do something wrong. I was trasfe

Re: ircii question

2008-05-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > s. keeling wrote: >> Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>> What package or packages need to be installed so when I connect to >>> an irc server I don't get the message Ident is disabled? >>> >> >> pidentd >> >> >>

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Emilio Perea wrote: > On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 10:46:33AM +1000, Rich Healey wrote: >> for the record, it's VERY broken in Vista. >> >> running "edit" in cmd or powershell, gives, >> >> |=

Re: Clearing SWAP

2008-05-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Fri May 2 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> If they float and are not ducks ... nor made of wood, then they must be >>> ... ? >> Positively buoyant non-wooden non-ducks. Or witches. > > hey, wait, **I** can float! especially in

Re: Issue with VMware (2)

2008-05-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Doug Mitton wrote: > (Sorry, repost due to error.) > > On Mon, 05 May 2008 20:10:14 +0200, you wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> So I installed VMware server, had to use the any-any update for I use the >> 2.6.24 kernel and >> when I try to run it, it says

Re: Cannot remove Google maps sidebar

2008-05-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Allums wrote: > Cameron Hutchison wrote: >> When I visit Google maps (http://maps.google.com/) using either Epiphany >> or Iceweasel on my Debian sid system, I do not get the little triangle >> button in the map sidebar that collapses it. This onl

Re: Cannot remove Google maps sidebar

2008-05-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cameron Hutchison wrote: > Rich Healey wrote: > >> Cameron Hutchison wrote: >>> When I visit Google maps (http://maps.google.com/) using either Epiphany >>> or Iceweasel on my Debian sid system, I do not get the little

Re: Cannot remove Google maps sidebar

2008-05-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cameron Hutchison wrote: > When I visit Google maps (http://maps.google.com/) using either Epiphany > or Iceweasel on my Debian sid system, I do not get the little triangle > button in the map sidebar that collapses it. This only happens for me > with

Re: C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-06 Thread Rich Healey
c. > > > (The ios::sync_with_stdio(); line may differ slightly on different C++ > implementations. I haven't used it in a while. May be spelled synch_. > Too lazy to look it up. > > The fscanf line may just be wrong. I quit writing C programs years ago. > Too old, memor

Re: [Kind of OT] Why's this look like gibberish

2008-05-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 NN_il_Confusionario wrote: >> * From: Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Eterm sounds like what you're looking for... or xterm? > > I have already tried all the debian x-terminal packages available since > debia

Re: [Kind of OT] Why's this look like gibberish to me?

2008-05-05 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 10:20:32PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: >> The problem, if one exists, is what font the terminal is using >> sudo apt-get install xfonts-efont-unicode xfonts-efont-unicode-ib > > What about the linux

Re: Notebook Latitude D630 don't shutdown properly after update

2008-04-29 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Mark wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 07:02:35PM +, Marcelo wrote: >> Kevin Mark verizon.net> writes: >> >>> Have you tried booting with the last kernel version and checking if this >>> fixes the issue? >> Yes! I had been installed the kerne

Re: JFS / Unsupported file systems

2008-04-28 Thread Rich Healey
etc, it seems to be > a lot faster when manipulating these files, deletes etc. > > But i do have a ups attached to the machine >> hose perhaps i should switch my downloads partition over. Rich -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using

Re: Debian crash randomly

2008-04-28 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > On 28/04/2008, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> But how does the distribution advance if *NOONE* runs testing/unstable? > > Oh, it's great that people are running both of those,

Re: Debian crash randomly

2008-04-28 Thread Rich Healey
pdate with dpkg from the sid repos, and then let that advance sink into the background). Then i have 2 desktops which run sid, on different archtypes, and give me basis for comparison, and a chance to play with the latest and greatest, although i still wind up building a lot of svn and cvs code. Regards

Force process to swap?

2008-04-23 Thread Rich Healey
is pretty quick, and i would think totally adequate to let it download/upload files from. Is there some way of forcing this? Cheers Rich Healey -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http:/

[OT] openWRT (was: 2 ISPs ( 2 gateways) and a Debian Box)

2008-04-23 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 biaAlex Samad wrote: [snip] > I would also suggest make the adsl modem (routers?) in bridged mode and > firewall up the debian box and do it all there. Similiar to what I have done. > The only > difference right now is i use openwrt (linux distro for

Re: External IP

2008-04-22 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rafael asked for source.. So my stroke of genius follows... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/public_html]$ cat ip.php [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/public_html]$ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://e

Re: External IP

2008-04-22 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lee Glidewell wrote: > On Tuesday 22 April 2008 10:12:41 pm Rafael Fontenelle wrote: >> I can see that you're running behind a router or something similar. If you >> want to use a shell script to return the IP to the stdout, you could >> probably use '

Re: OT: what scripting language to learn?

2008-04-16 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 03:23:57AM +0200, s. keeling wrote: > >> I strongly agree, and this knowledge is portable. All of the *nix >> tools, including shell, perl, and python, rely on regex >> understanding. > > One can ge

Re: checking life of battery?

2008-04-16 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > 1) Is there any way to check the life of a battery on a Dell Inspiron 6400 > E1505? I am using Debian Etch. > > 2) How to find out the number of cells in the battery? The manual says it > can be "6-cell smart lithium ion

Re: migrating to 64 bit...

2008-04-16 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:32:26PM -0500, Sam Leon wrote: >> Could one easily upgrade to an amd64 system just by formating /, >> reinstalling with the proper arch, and then reinstalling all the apps >> that were installed an

Re: Read-only root (/) except /et

2008-04-13 Thread Rich Healey
t changes by the >>> administrator, who can take care or write-protects or reburning media. >> I'd suggest to approach it as a live CD thingy, its a well tried path. >> Anything else is frought with dragons. > > Sure. I didn't mean to hijack the topic. Its just s

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-11 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/10/08 13:51, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 04:04:30PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 04/06/08 15:51, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sunday 06 April 2008 05:03:13 am Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/06/08 02:20

Re: TR: How to verify package integrity after they have been downloaded?

2008-04-07 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > [Redirecting to debian-user, because this has nothing to do with > debian-security] > > Julien Stuby wrote on 2008-04-07 22:15: > Please try not to break threads. >> Julien Stuby wrote on 2008-04-7 at 21:54 UTC+1 : >

Re: vncserver automation

2008-04-07 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim Pazarena wrote: > I am having trouble getting vncserver to automatically start after a > reboot. > It seems that setting a script in rc.5 doesn't work. signing on to the > CLI after > a boot, and it starts up fine. (executing vncserver on the CLI a

Re: grep trick

2008-04-07 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Bird wrote: > On Mon April 7 2008 16:03:28 Chris Bannister wrote: >> export GREP_COLOR=33 >> alias grep='grep --colour=always' > > This will break any scripts which assume that the output > of grep has not been annotated with color escape sequenc

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