RE: need help on wheezy installation

2018-01-02 Thread Richard Zimmerman
> is it possible to network install, with specifying ftp/http server? My experience, YES works well when it works… If there is a glitch during download and a package is corrupt, the whole install fails…. Regards, Richard

RE: systemd (was Debian, FF & NavyFed)

2017-12-19 Thread Richard Zimmerman
>From: Nicholas Geovanis [mailto:nickgeova...@gmail.com] >Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 2:30 PM > > > Hmm. So it is possible that you will come to hate Linux now too ;-)) Only dabbled in systemd so far and not liking it. Been watching the CentOS list and this list. CentOS / RHEL seems to ha

RE: Debian, FF & NavyFed

2017-12-19 Thread Richard Zimmerman
>-Original Message- >From: Cindy-Sue Causey [mailto:butterflyby...@gmail.com] >Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 11:58 AM > >COINCIDENTALLY.. From yesterday's W3C newsletter: >https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/6696 >https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/ Excellent site. I

RE: Debian, FF & NavyFed

2017-12-19 Thread Richard Zimmerman
>Just because Forth is no longer a going concern, doesn't imply you have to > debase yourself. Move to a truly "higher-level language", say Erlang or >something like that. Stay out of the gutter. It's your soul, dude. >:-) Never heard of Erlang till just now…. Interesting but not interested.

RE: Debian, FF & NavyFed

2017-12-19 Thread Richard Zimmerman
>> As soon they come back with and display my balance all the text >> turnes to grey and a twiddler pops up and it stays like that forever. >> NFCU's tech support will not admit to knowing who's waiting for >> what just we don't support Linux. Speaking as a programmer. You write websites for

RE: OT: Troubleshooting an IP device on a LAN from another LAN--would a VPN work?

2017-12-08 Thread Richard Zimmerman
> I'll look into LogMein later today or tomorrow A free option but they irritate you with advertising is Teamviewer FREE for individual use. Just pay attention and keep it patched up. They keep finding security holes... WFIW, Richard

RE: Upgrading from very-old Debian

2017-11-29 Thread Richard Zimmerman
>Backup the data to an external usb drive or the whole source drive if you >are keen on that, for example. Then do a "clean" install of a new system > on the original drive. Otherwise you might run into issues, where you >might miss out on an important package, if you snapshot upgrade one >by on

RE: Upgrading from very-old Debian

2017-11-28 Thread Richard Zimmerman
>>The last few steps of this are straightforward; oldoldstable is still >>available in the repos, as far as I'm aware. The first ones are more of >>a problem; if I understand matters correctly, anything prior to >>oldoldstable is removed from the live repos, although its .deb files >>are still

FW: FW: Debian package on Windows

2016-02-22 Thread Richard Zimmerman
ple of good package manager from rpm world - there's > zypper. > Reco I will have a look at that... So, to get this back on track for a Debian forum, anything better then aptitude I should look at? Kind regards and thanks, Richard --- Richard Zimmerman Systems / Network Administrat

FW: Debian package on Windows

2016-02-22 Thread Richard Zimmerman
nning Debian Jessie as I'm looking at possibly moving back. Regards, Richard --- Richard Zimmerman Systems / Network Administrator River Bend Hose Specialty, Inc. S Main Street South Bend, IN 46601-3337 (574) 233-1133 (574) 280-7284 Fax