Re: Disable a sound card

2016-06-25 Thread Stuart Longland
ards` to make a note of what ID the device has, then add a line to your .asoundrc: > pcm.!default { > type hw > card YOUR_ID_HERE > } > > ctl.!default { > type hw > card YOUR_ID_HERE > } See http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Asoundrc

Re: Building just one module against the current kernel

2016-06-04 Thread Stuart Longland
g one.) Once that is done, you should be able to build modules by running `make modules` and install them with `sudo make modules_install`. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Some Flash news

2016-06-04 Thread Stuart Longland
On 17/05/16 04:20, Erwan David wrote: > Problem is not the browser. Problem is sites/Appliances which require it > (eg. VMWare vcenter) VMWare are allegedly getting rid of their Flash dependence. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's bac

Re: question package

2016-06-04 Thread Stuart Longland
the last update, that might help narrow the field down a bit. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Hello Debian

2016-06-03 Thread Stuart Longland
On 02/06/16 20:48, Pier wrote: > http://… > pierg75@… Yes, that's a URL and an email address. Well done. Now try again with some actual relevant (to the list) content this time. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed u

Re: Debian as My home firewall/router

2016-02-28 Thread Stuart Longland
unction which needs a single OS. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

2016-02-24 Thread Stuart Longland
oftware is no different to this. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: GNOME Shell can't unmount my USB key

2016-02-12 Thread Stuart Longland
such drives in various sizes. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: GNOME Shell can't unmount my USB key

2016-02-09 Thread Stuart Longland
d then is a very dangerous assumption to make, and one that will bite you hard in the bum some day. Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. 1. getting better but nowhere near the longevity of magnetic stor

Re: How to build Debian-based wireless router

2016-01-23 Thread Stuart Longland
like any Ethernet interface. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: About new mail client

2016-01-19 Thread Stuart Longland
Android client) in a number of ways. The two downsides being a lack of incoming mail notification and attachment handling being a pain. Other than that, I find sending a quick email or replying to be easier. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it&#x

Re: www.lists.debian.org

2016-01-19 Thread Stuart Longland
ress, so well and truly in the crosshairs of the ACMA. rep...@submit.spam.acma.gov.au is where such emails can be forwarded, then the ACMA prosecutes for Spam Act violations. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape

Re: Is anybody Running Debian on Acer Aspire E5-571G

2016-01-17 Thread Stuart Longland
rBooks back then. UEFI didn't exist much before 2005, and widespread OS support for UEFI came much later. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Is anybody Running Debian on Acer Aspire E5-571G

2016-01-17 Thread Stuart Longland
that long ago. Wikipedia seems to think they came out in 2003. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_K8 -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Prevent shutdown with systemctl

2016-01-04 Thread Stuart Longland
ure out who you are first before giving the nod to init. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Prevent shutdown with systemctl

2016-01-04 Thread Stuart Longland
le name, permissions and ownership. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Prevent shutdown with systemctl

2016-01-04 Thread Stuart Longland
is a link that allows anyone to execute it. It points >> to /bin/systemctl that also allows anyone to execute it. The first >> part of your problem can be solved simply with fixing the >> permissions for reboot, shutdown & poweroff. > > Dunno about systemctl, but FW

Re: Recommendations for a GUI video editing program?

2016-01-03 Thread Stuart Longland
On 03/01/16 18:17, Udyant Wig wrote: > > On 01/03/2016 01:04 PM, Stuart Longland wrote: > [snip] >> Last time I did any serious multimedia stuff, I think my toolkit >> consisted of Audacity for producing the sound track, then a >> combination of Perl, GNU Make,

Re: Recommendations for a GUI video editing program?

2016-01-02 Thread Stuart Longland
of photos, do the necessary transformations then assemble them into a video. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: AP support for wl driver

2015-12-22 Thread Stuart Longland
On 21/12/15 13:01, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 1:58 AM, Stuart Longland > mailto:stua...@longlandclan.id.au>> wrote: > I've never tried HostAP with this particular device. > > > Please make a try once. We would be pleased to have your expe

Re: AP support for wl driver

2015-12-20 Thread Stuart Longland
istorically, I generally find it easier to avoid them and go with someone like Atheros or Intel, who actively develop their drivers in the Linux mainline kernel. If I wanted a proprietary binary soup I'd use Windows. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: AP support for wl driver

2015-12-19 Thread Stuart Longland
iver is Broadcom's proprietary driver, so you'll need to ask Broadcom directly, nobody else can help you. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: My web site is back

2015-12-12 Thread Stuart Longland
rsync/ssh if they permit that. I'm always a bit leery of web-based file upload facilities. Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: My web site is back

2015-12-12 Thread Stuart Longland
omain. In my case, I was fortunate the old domain still intermittently worked (and still does work), and so I was able to put the redirects in place. Had yi.org just folded altogether however, I'd be stuck in the same way that Stephen was. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven

Re: OT: reply styles, family matters

2015-12-01 Thread Stuart Longland
counter that by passing my would-be reply through tac and top-post it that way. Then they see it from my perspective. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: How to get a PGP SIGNED MESSAGE

2015-11-18 Thread Stuart Longland
ugh. Are you intending to generate signed messages or merely verify them? -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Ransomware meets Linux - on the command line!

2015-11-11 Thread Stuart Longland
On 12/11/15 08:24, Lisi Reisz wrote: > https://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/118624.aspx > Comments. please - I'm not sure how to evaluate this or how to react. I don't see any mention of ransomware threats on that page. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I

Re: Install MSWindz 7 as Virtual Machine on Debian 8

2015-11-10 Thread Stuart Longland
much like using VirtualBox. Not quite as polished, but VirtualBox isn't as nice to use on a headless machine either. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

2015-11-08 Thread Stuart Longland
0:00 That looks like your hotspot device right there. You can't assign eth0 to be your "RED" interface? -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

2015-11-07 Thread Stuart Longland
s is a wireless hotspot. What coax? -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

2015-11-06 Thread Stuart Longland
ntrol. You could even do away with the router and have it feed your LAN directly. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: 64bit run on mips64r2

2015-10-24 Thread Stuart Longland
/building-the-worst-linux-pc-ever/ In that case, code to emulate an ARM machine was programmed into the AVR chip. Given that MIPS machines are generally both more expensive and slower than modern AMD64 systems, one has to question the logic in such an endeavour except maybe to prove it can

Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?

2015-10-13 Thread Stuart Longland
On 14/10/15 13:23, John Hasler wrote: > Lie. Tell them you're running Windows 95. "Ohh sorry, we only support Windows 7 or 8" -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?

2015-10-13 Thread Stuart Longland
rd them the bounce emails you've been getting, then the ball is in their court. I do know what it is like to deal with a clueless helpdesk, spent many hours on the phone with a few here. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?

2015-10-13 Thread Stuart Longland
On 14/10/15 11:53, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 04:15:21 -0400 (EDT), Jochen Spieker wrote: >> >> Stuart Longland: >>> On 13/10/15 09:58, Stephen Powell wrote: >>>> >>>> Unfortunately, I don't. Attached below is one of the m

Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?

2015-10-13 Thread Stuart Longland
rcepting the password being entered on your client machine, from a password store, or capturing it in an outbound connection. - Nasties en route between your computer and your host intercepting the password in cleartext traffic. - Malware intercepting the password on the server end of the connecti

Re: New User

2015-10-13 Thread Stuart Longland
erhaps try to help. > But top-posting, in a thread, of which I haven't seen the beginning, made it > impossible. Apparently backwards things read to like people some. Yes, that's how top posting looks to me. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't los

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

2015-10-13 Thread Stuart Longland
On 13/10/15 15:45, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Mon, October 12, 2015 11:15 pm, Stuart Longland wrote: >> There's also a Windows port of Evince. > > Thanks, Stuart; that knowledge may be useful. But installing Evince > likely is beyond the technical ability of my ass

Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?

2015-10-13 Thread Stuart Longland
s running in a windows environment, maybe even in a v-box, >> just a thought. > > If I were the bot programmer, this would be the first thing I'd try to spoof. Depending on the bot programmer, they probably send an email to themselves using Outlook Express then view the mess

Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?

2015-10-13 Thread Stuart Longland
On 13/10/15 16:36, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > On 10/12/2015 04:58 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: >> On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 16:53:05 -0400 (EDT), Stuart Longland wrote: >>> >>> I'd check the backscatter case, as this requires no skill on the part of >>>

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

2015-10-12 Thread Stuart Longland
On 13/10/15 14:09, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Debian, I have been using evince, but that is to view documents which I > obtain from other sources. There's also a Windows port of Evince. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it'

Re: Regarding R-base-core package for MIPS64 arch

2015-10-12 Thread Stuart Longland
o in the past. I found some packages that JustWork on x86 and AMD64 could do some funny things on MIPS (both o32 and n32, never tried n64). I'm not sure what the status is of mips64 on Debian either. Historically Debian has always been 32-bit on MIPS (aka o32). -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter

Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?

2015-10-12 Thread Stuart Longland
they had done was put my address in the Return-Path. It's worth knowing how to read the headers of emails in this circumstance as it can give you vital information for knowing what is going on. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Sound card question

2015-10-05 Thread Stuart Longland
much as is CLI to computing. > And a microphone is the analogue of a GUI. Not quite. ;-) -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Sound card question

2015-10-03 Thread Stuart Longland
o the appropriate frequency. This also lets you adjust volume levels so that you don't overdrive the input on the transceiver. Nothing worse than a contact with a garbled station because the microphone input is being overdriven. (We have this from time to time on VK4RBN.) -- Stuart Longland (a

Re: KDE file copy to usb device without file cache

2015-10-03 Thread Stuart Longland
". Windows computers (modern ones) have a system tray icon for "safely removing" media. Under KDE, pretty sure removable devices have an "unmount" option when you right-click on them. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it&#x

Re: Touchpad not working properly on ASUS T300LA

2015-09-29 Thread Stuart Longland
830] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: touchpad found > [537692.831] (II) config/udev: Adding input device SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad > (/dev/input/mouse0) > [537692.831] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Ignoring device from InputClass > "touchpad ignore duplicates"

Re: googleearth-package (jessie)

2015-09-29 Thread Stuart Longland
On 30/09/15 10:20, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > Using synaptic, I installed "googleearth-package". But I cannot figure > out what to do with it. I understood Google Earth was going the way of the dodo, so `dpkg -r` might be the best thing to do with it. -- Stuart Longlan

Re: Deleting i386 packages

2015-09-29 Thread Stuart Longland
ave since moved to true multi-arch, and so such kludges are no longer required. However there are still probably packages floating around that still rely upon them. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Terminal Madness?

2015-09-28 Thread Stuart Longland
On 29/09/15 06:44, Mike McGinn wrote: > I am not an alpine user, but I would make sure that there are no > instances of alpine running. > > ps -ef | grep alpine Or alternatively, see what users/processes have the file open: $ fuser -u .pinerc -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-22 Thread Stuart Longland
asked why rsync? Well, cp would do the job too I guess, rsync will resume an interrupted copy whereas cp won't. Piping tar to itself is another way. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-17 Thread Stuart Longland
drom "${dn}/${bn}"/ umount /mnt/cdrom done Now you'll have in addition to the above: /media/distributionA/DVD1/ … /media/distributionA/DVD2/ … .. .. /media/distributionA/DVDn/ … I'm not sure how you'd go about merging the repositories together. Someone el

Re: GRSecurity Closes Stable Patch to Linux Kernel. How do you feel about this?

2015-09-15 Thread Stuart Longland
en kernel. i.e. they're expected to contribute something in return. Regards, - -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJV+IB2AAoJEE36GRQQv

Re: [Newsletter] Why does Debian not recognize my WiFi?

2015-09-06 Thread Stuart Longland
; Copyright in this message and any attachments remains with us. It > is confidential and may be legally privileged. *NOW* you bloody tell me! Is it or is it not confidential, and if so, what in earth is the disclaimer doing at the **BOTTOM** of your email. Do legal people expect us to read email mes

Re: the IBM keyboard

2015-09-03 Thread Stuart Longland
you're performing is predominately a text/data entry exercise, a keyboard-oriented UI is more useful. If however, the activity is more graphic oriented, the mouse becomes more appropriate. Regards, - -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed

Re: the IBM keyboard

2015-09-03 Thread Stuart Longland
y keyboard cable. Then use a DIN-5 → PS/2 adapter to plug it into your PS/2 socket. - -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: is google earth safe to install?

2015-09-03 Thread Stuart Longland
Does this application bypass the kernel to talk to the video card directly? - -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iJ4EARMKAAYFAlXotkwACgkQoCQEvFhlDPlUiQH9F+os5

Re: Dell brightness issue

2015-09-03 Thread Stuart Longland
We'd like to help, but we'll need some context before this will be possible. Regards, - -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iJ4EARMKAAYFAlXotLIACgkQo

Re: 40 xrdp makes VM crawl (was thin client xdmcp setup)

2015-08-27 Thread Stuart Longland
On 25/08/15 23:56, Rusi Mody wrote: > On Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at 12:40:05 PM UTC+5:30, Stuart Longland wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA512 >> >> On 25/08/15 12:28, Rusi Mody wrote: >>> I am teaching python (and some other related stu

Re: thin client xdmcp setup

2015-08-25 Thread Stuart Longland
to query it and things should JustWork. A useful way to test is on another box with X: X -query yourserver :1 You should see X start up and log in to your designated server. At worst you might need -from your-ip for that to work. Regards, - -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL)

Re: www.lists.debian.org

2015-08-23 Thread Stuart Longland
x27;s what people can do: http://www.acma.gov.au/Citizen/Stay-protected/My-mobile-world/Dealing-with-mobile-spam/spam-complaints-reports-and-enquiries -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

systemd vs sysvinit: init script arguments

2015-08-20 Thread Stuart Longland
t to handle it. Is there some way for the init script to tell systemd what subservices are valid or do I have to maintain specialised scripts for systemd? Regards, - -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -BEGI

Re: Me vs. Qemu

2015-08-20 Thread Stuart Longland
e virt-manager provides the console and configuration interface. Many of the larger virtual machine platforms like OpenStack and OpenNebula are libvirt-based. Regards, - -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. --

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-20 Thread Stuart Longland
g security vulnerabilities that permit the malware to infect the machines in the first place, with perhaps an IDS package like TripWire and/or Snort to detect when an intrusion takes place. You decide whether an anti-virus package is truly needed. - -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatte

Re: What pulls in the tray of my /dev/sr1 ?

2015-08-05 Thread Stuart Longland
On 04/08/15 17:06, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Stuart Longland wrote: >> Silly question, but why does re-loading a disc take more than 197 seconds? > > It comes out (intentionally) after a backup run is complete > and went well. (See man xorriso example "

Re: cannot register @forum

2015-08-03 Thread Stuart Longland
help you. Brian would seem to have taken care of the forum contact issue, but in the meantime, there's a "forum" of sorts, here. If you've got queries, by all means feel free to ask here too. :-) -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost

Re: What pulls in the tray of my /dev/sr1 ?

2015-08-03 Thread Stuart Longland
Hi Lisi, On 04/08/15 08:43, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 03 August 2015 23:39:48 Stuart Longland wrote: >> On 28/07/15 22:58, Thomas Schmitt wrote: >>>> The delay seems a bit long for such an action though. >>> >>> My measurements were all between 197 an

Re: What pulls in the tray of my /dev/sr1 ?

2015-08-03 Thread Stuart Longland
esn't take me 3 minutes. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debi

Re: Debugging a LSB init script under systemd

2015-07-09 Thread Stuart Longland
's EXACTLY what I needed. Thanks. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Debugging a LSB init script under systemd

2015-07-08 Thread Stuart Longland
get systemd's view of the situation instead. Is there a way to tell systemd to LEAVE the script alone while I debug it and get it working? Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: BASH

2015-07-05 Thread Stuart Longland
On 01/05/15 22:44, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > while [ "$1" != "" ]; do Another useful way to do this: $# is the number of arguments on the command line. You can do [ $# -gt 0 ] to test when the arguments have been consumed. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL)

Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-07-01 Thread Stuart Longland
swap constantly. There were some options that I could tweak that made it a little better, but not by much, it was still as slow as a 5-day Ashes test. I'm not sure if Webkit would fare better, I could dig up those settings if you're interested. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL

Re: Serial console over Bluetooth dongle to an android device {Will serial console satisfy my need}

2015-07-01 Thread Stuart Longland
er output until the rfcomm connection was established, then send its console output there. Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: Mail and POP3

2015-06-29 Thread Stuart Longland
livered to. Once you set that, and assuming your SMTP server (exim4 in your case) is set up correctly, things should JustWork™. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

mgag200: Anyone seen this off-by-N error before?

2015-06-29 Thread Stuart Longland
7fc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] > Memory at dd80 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M] > Expansion ROM at [disabled] > Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1 Has anyone seen this bug with this driver and/or have any ideas I could try? Regard

Re: Google Chrome and Open-Source derivative listening to me without my approval

2015-06-21 Thread Stuart Longland
vice. It works even when the computer is off. Doesn't matter >> if your machine has a microphone or even any audio input capability. > > I would truly like to know how they could manage that. All it needs is a little sprinkling of paranoia to do its work. :-) -- Stuar

Re: Debian/MIPS Jessie doesn't resolve hostnames? [RESOLVED]

2015-05-31 Thread Stuart Longland
On 31/05/15 09:40, deloptes wrote: > Stuart Longland wrote: >> I'm tempted to try a newer kernel on the thing to see if that helps, >> since the stock Debian/MIPS Cobalt kernels are still at the 3.2 series. > > What has the kernel to do with this precisely? Rather,

Re: Inexpensive Laptop for Debian

2015-05-30 Thread Stuart Longland
eveloped faults. So there is merit in that suggestion: you get an external HDD that you can use in the meantime and an upgrade at the same time. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: Inexpensive Laptop for Debian

2015-05-30 Thread Stuart Longland
ty laptop. The other option might be to look at Lenovo's offerings, there might be some Superfish-ridden ones that sellers will be trying to offload dirt cheap: the malware being easily removed with the Debian installer. ;-) Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't

Re: jessie: need help with serial port

2015-05-28 Thread Stuart Longland
not a case of the ports > being numbered differently under wheezy). > > How do I create an entry for /dev/ttyS4 and associate it with the > correct physical port? Is this on a PCI serial card or some such? Perhaps the card needs a firmware blob or special driver? - -- Stuart Lon

Re: Debian/MIPS Jessie doesn't resolve hostnames?

2015-05-28 Thread Stuart Longland
On 28/05/15 07:26, deloptes wrote: > Stuart Longland wrote: >> Now there isn't yet installation media for Jessie on the Qube, so I used >> the Wheezy installation media to install Debian Wheezy, then updated my >> sources.list and did an `apt-get dist-upgrade` to get to J

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-05-27 Thread Stuart Longland
ed. If you go behind its back, the PID file might get left behind, then you'll have a disagreement between the reality and what the init scripts understand reality to be. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-05-27 Thread Stuart Longland
;> > > It is gnome. > > Another option, drop to single user mode, hit CTRL-ALT-F1 to get to a console screen, log in as root, then run `telinit s` and that should get you back to single user mode. When you're done, `telinit 3` to get back to multi-user mode. -- Stuart Longland (a

Debian/MIPS Jessie doesn't resolve hostnames?

2015-05-27 Thread Stuart Longland
us,Err: uppercase=bad) > ||/ Name Version ArchitectureDescription > +++-=-===-===- > ii libc6:mipsel 2.19-18 mipsel GNU C Library: > Shar

Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

2015-05-25 Thread Stuart Longland
tarted. Use debootstrap to create the Debian/Ubuntu instances, creating the root filesystems in /var/lib/libvirt/images, then use virt-manager to set them up in LXC. https://wiki.debian.org/LXC - -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed

Re: Running Debian with only 213MB Ram?

2015-05-25 Thread Stuart Longland
I began my commute to work of a morning, but have since given up on the idea. I'm not sure if Chromium performs better on low RAM, but modern applications seem to assume at least 512MB RAM these days. Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...i

Re: KVM switch: DVI-D, DVI-I or vga?

2015-05-25 Thread Stuart Longland
verting DVI-D to VGA would also work. Has anyone successfully used a KVM with a heterogeneous DVI-D/VGA environment? - -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -BEGIN PGP SIGNAT

Re: Debian jessie netboot ignores preseed? — SOLVED

2015-05-17 Thread Stuart Longland
On 18/05/15 05:55, Stuart Longland wrote: > Seems the newer installer at least will recognise "-- ---", so that > should allow me to switch back and forth easily. Errm, no, scratch that, the *OLD* Wheezy installer will accept "-- ---", the new Jessie installer still igno

Re: Debian jessie netboot ignores preseed? — SOLVED

2015-05-17 Thread Stuart Longland
On 18/05/15 05:49, Stuart Longland wrote: > On 14/05/15 20:05, Sébastien Delafond wrote: >> On 2015-05-10, Stuart Longland wrote: >>> What am I doing wrong that causes the netboot installer to ignore >>> me? >> >> You need to replace "--" wit

Re: Debian jessie netboot ignores preseed?

2015-05-17 Thread Stuart Longland
On 14/05/15 20:05, Sébastien Delafond wrote: > On 2015-05-10, Stuart Longland wrote: >> What am I doing wrong that causes the netboot installer to ignore >> me? > > You need to replace "--" with "---"; see this comment in the release > notes: > &g

Re: Remove subject

2015-05-17 Thread Stuart Longland
On 12/05/15 17:34, Mis Ntmurth wrote: > Ok thanks > I will contact debian They don't participate in Internet censorship either. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Debian jessie netboot ignores preseed?

2015-05-10 Thread Stuart Longland
of a VM. `wget` successfully downloads this preseed file when I manually run it. What am I doing wrong that causes the netboot installer to ignore me? -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-22 Thread Stuart Longland
is carrier grade NAT, then the whole exercise becomes rather pointless unless you only read your mail on your own private LAN. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-22 Thread Stuart Longland
or http; sniproxy for https) and your actual hosted services are on internal containers in a virtual DMZ. Spinning up minimal LXC instances using deboostrap is a synch and they take very little disk space. - -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it'

Re: Newbie friendly security and firewall docs (cookbook?)

2014-10-08 Thread Stuart Longland
;/ The devil is in the details. > Where is a list of services. > How would Joe the Janitor and Mary the Florist chose? A good start is in /etc/init.d and the update-rc.d utility, but once again, not good in your usecase as it assumes a reasonable level of understanding. The closest in Win

Re: Problems with FAT32

2014-10-06 Thread Stuart Longland
o most Linux installations will use long filenames (and put in garbage short names) when the 'vfat' filesystem is used, or use short filenames if 'msdos' is used. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed u

Re: Newbie friendly security and firewall docs (cookbook?)

2014-10-06 Thread Stuart Longland
id, I wouldn't recommend FVWM for a novice. Not with the need to hand-edit configuration files. I haven't looked at LXDE lately but was pointing out XFCE on the basis that it's reasonably lightweight and still easily configurable by a less technical user. LXDE may well be more approp

Re: Newbie friendly security and firewall docs (cookbook?)

2014-10-06 Thread Stuart Longland
and it saves having to manage two versions of Debian on the same machine. (I'm not sure if Gnome2 is available under Wheezy, I suspect not.) http://www.xfce.org/ Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Downloading sources from an unsigned intranet repository

2014-10-06 Thread Stuart Longland
On 06/10/14 19:43, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 06 oct 14, 14:00:42, Stuart Longland wrote: >> > >> > Now for whatever reason, if I want to *install* those packages. No >> > problem. It'll ask whether I wish to install them even though no one

Re: Re: Downloading sources from an unsigned intranet repository

2014-10-05 Thread Stuart Longland
estion when I tell it to download the package or its sources. This behaviour is inconsistent, as well as painful. Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

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