Re: udev being an ass

2019-08-27 Thread Tyler D
On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 2:45 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > I've just swapped machines because that failed one got nailed by a > lightning surge while I was in the shop with a heart attack. 3 > different psu's didn't restore the green led in a decade old dell, so I > swapped the wh

Re: Correct way to install Intermediate certificates in Debian

2019-04-19 Thread Tyler A
On 15/4/19 11:36 am, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: >> On 13.04.2019 23:21, Tyler A wrote: >> I found a temporary solution that at least lets me visit the sites in >> Firefox. >> >> However this doesn't fix OpenSSL (thus things like curl, wget). >> >>

Re: Correct way to install Intermediate certificates in Debian

2019-04-13 Thread Tyler A
;' certDir; do certutil -A -n "${fbasename}" -t "TCu,Cuw,Tuw" -i "${fbasename}".pem -d sql:"$certDir" done done -- Tyler (tya99) rsa4096/0x9C9954F88E388859

Re: Correct way to install Intermediate certificates in Debian

2019-04-13 Thread Tyler A
On 13/4/19 3:57 pm, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > On 13.04.2019 19:40, Tyler A wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I had trouble visiting these two websites in Firefox, Epiphany and >> verifying with OpenSSL. >> >> - Births Deaths and Marriages (Government of South Au

Correct way to install Intermediate certificates in Debian

2019-04-13 Thread Tyler A
7-July/000673.html [6]: https://github.com/p11-glue/p11-kit/issues/115 [7]: http://blog.xelnor.net/firefox-systemcerts/ -- Tyler (tya99) rsa4096/0x9C9954F88E388859

Re: Re: ACPI BIOS ERROR

2018-12-07 Thread Tyler McLean
Having this same exact series of error messages on boot and the first time i press a key after boot. fresh debian install, latest BIOS. super annoying. did you ever resolve this?

Debian Live USB Persistence

2015-11-18 Thread Tyler Nijmeh
Hello! I'm Tyler. I desperately need help setting up full persistence on my 8 Gigabyte flash drive. I already know how to create a partition. I have made one called "persistence" as an ext4. It is set at Primary, as well as the boot partition. I then proceeded to your manual at

Re: Coder friendly font

2015-09-21 Thread Tyler D
On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 21 September 2015 17:49:10 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > > Regarding disambiguity, Courier is one of the best fonts; likewise Times > > Roman. The only problem with Times Roman with respect to coding is that > > it is not fixed-width

Re: Change preferred interface for default gateway?

2013-11-10 Thread Tyler MacDonald
I am using the default (Network Manager), sorry, should have specified... It a pretty vanilla Debian Stable install on a Lenovo T410s. On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Hans wrote: > Am Sonntag, 10. November 2013, 10:26:01 schrieb Tyler MacDonald: > > Hi! It's been awhile. :-)

Change preferred interface for default gateway?

2013-11-10 Thread Tyler MacDonald
ke it depend on *which* wireless/wired connections I am connected to? Some googling turns up ifplugd, but that isn't installed on my system -- so I'm curious what the mechanism is that deletes my default route from wlan3. Thanks, Tyler

Every time `tracker` has a memory leak....

2013-07-29 Thread Tyler MacDonald
This has happened at least a dozen times in the past few years. I've removed tracker a few times, but it's been re-added due to dependencies/recommends. A product that is this immature should not be allowed to be part of the default installation. Again, tonight, I had to SSH in to my PC from anothe

Re: Remplacement for zsafe on wheezy

2013-06-06 Thread Tyler D
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 4:16 AM, Mérof 42 wrote: > Thanks you both, I'm going to test it. > It seem to be better than zsafe, with more options. > I just dislike qt library, but is a different story > > A question about keepassx, I saw it use AES 256bits to store password, is my > password safe if s

Re: USB 3 card

2012-12-13 Thread Tyler D
ox, which uses one of the PCI cards and also on my KUbuntu 12.04 machine which uses the PCIe card. One of the PCI cards claims to use the NEC chipset. Not sure about the others. The NEC chipset seems ubiquitous, though, for almost any USB3 card I ever see. Good Luck! --Tyler -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Printer brand recommendations

2012-11-29 Thread Tyler D
parate scanner. I've had good experience with my Brother printer, HL-4150CDN. At least for my specific printer, Brother has put out Linux drivers... I *think* I've tried/used them in the past, but currently I do not since the default KUbuntu 12.04 desktop allowed me to easily confi

Re: Tell firefox to quit from a shell script

2011-04-10 Thread Tyler Smith
"Todd A. Jacobs" writes: > On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Tyler Smith wrote: > >  alias shib='pkill firefox ; sudo hibernate' > > > The executable you need to kill is "firefox-bin" and not just > "firefox." Give that

Re: Tell firefox to quit from a shell script

2011-04-09 Thread Tyler Smith
>> >> appears to do what I need. >> > > Does that work (to exit gracefully) if Firefox/Iceweasel is running on > Gnome or KDE as well? > > I don't know, I don't have either of those DE installed. wmctrl appears to handle a lot of window-manager things t

Re: Tell firefox to quit from a shell script

2011-04-09 Thread Tyler Smith
Tyler Smith writes: > > Is there a way I can politely ask firefox to quit, less traumatically > than pkill? Hi again, I think I answered my own question: wmctrl -c firefox appears to do what I need. Sorry for the noise, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Tell firefox to quit from a shell script

2011-04-09 Thread Tyler Smith
it can't recover my tabs, or failing to launch the first time and then needing to be called a second time. Is there a way I can politely ask firefox to quit, less traumatically than pkill? Thanks, Tyler ps. My motivation is that I store a lot of passwords in Firefox, and use the master

Re: mouse speed too fast [Solved, sort of]

2011-04-04 Thread Tyler Smith
Tyler Smith writes: > > I did have a xorg.conf, but I made a new one with Xorg -configure, and > modified the mouse section to read: > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "mouse" > Option &quo

Re: mouse speed too fast

2011-04-04 Thread Tyler Smith
d modified the mouse section to read: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "ZAxis

Re: mouse speed too fast

2011-04-03 Thread Tyler Smith
Chance Platt writes: > On 04/03/2011 05:58 PM, Tyler Smith wrote: >> >> I've tried using xset to change the sensitivity, but I have only >> succeeded in making it even faster (for instance, using xset m 10 0). My >> attempts to slow the mouse down (xset m 1/1

mouse speed too fast

2011-04-03 Thread Tyler Smith
at I want a _really_ slow mouse? Thanks, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87lizrlz6z.fsf@guruji.demimonde

What happened to smlnj?

2011-03-14 Thread Tyler Curtis
Hi, Squeeze doesn't appear to have a package for smlnj. Lenny did. What happened? -- Tyler Curtis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.

Re: [SOLVED] fluxbox window buttons lost after move to testing

2011-02-11 Thread Tyler Smith
Tyler Smith writes: > Javier Vasquez writes: > >> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Tyler Smith wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I upgraded fluxbox on the weekend: >>> [UPGRADE] fluxbox 1.1.1+dfsg2-1 -> 1.1.1+git20100908.df2f51b-2 >>> >

Re: fluxbox window buttons lost after move to testing

2011-02-11 Thread Tyler Smith
Javier Vasquez writes: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Tyler Smith wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I upgraded fluxbox on the weekend: >> [UPGRADE] fluxbox 1.1.1+dfsg2-1 -> 1.1.1+git20100908.df2f51b-2 >> >> and now the window decorations don't show the mi

fluxbox window buttons lost after move to testing

2011-02-11 Thread Tyler Smith
fluxbox files are some minor tweaking of the keys file, so I don't think I've broken anything myself, but I"m not sure where to start trouble-shooting. Thanks for any suggestions, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Packages - what's the best way?

2010-11-16 Thread Tyler Smith
Bob Proulx writes: > Tyler Smith wrote: >> Doesn't the 'ALL=(ALL) ALL' line give the user unlimited authority >> anyways? > > It isn't about restricting privilege. Both have superuser privilege. > It is about the invocation environment. > I hadn

Re: Packages - what's the best way?

2010-11-15 Thread Tyler Smith
Kelly Clowers writes: > On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 23:20, Andrei Popescu > wrote: >> On Du, 14 nov 10, 20:54:42, Bob Proulx wrote: >>> >>> And if 'sudo' isn't configured for you then that is the first thing >>> that you will want to do. :-) >>> >>>   # visudo >>>   rob     ALL=(ALL) ALL >> >> What

Re: Attaching vs. pastebin for big outputs

2010-11-01 Thread Tyler Smith
Klistvud writes: > > Personally, I would urge every submitter to edit their logs/files and > expurge anything irrelevant. Ideally, they should do enough > troubleshooting as to be finally able to only leave one line, the one > which the bug/problem is located in. Thus, the dilemma of whether

Re: Printer paused, "/usr/lib/cups/backend/dnssd failed"

2010-10-13 Thread Tyler Smith
he IP address of the > printer/machine instead using its name to avoid "dnssd" service comes > into play. Thanks. It worked fine for a couple of weeks, then stopped again. After that I reconfigured the printer using socket://:9100 (for an hp printer) and it seems to work again

Re: Printer paused, "/usr/lib/cups/backend/dnssd failed"

2010-09-29 Thread Tyler Smith
Camaleón writes: > On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:15:10 -0400, Tyler Smith wrote: > >> Initially, after setting the printer up via the CUPS web interface, >> everything worked fine. Now, sometimes, sending a job to the printer >> results in the printer reporting (via localhos

Printer paused, "/usr/lib/cups/backend/dnssd failed"

2010-09-28 Thread Tyler Smith
discussions that didn't address my specific problem, or detailed discussions I didn't understand. I think I've got the printer itself properly configured, as it does work occasionally, and I had no problems for the first six months or more after installing it. What should I try

Re: Software to handle bits and pieces of information.

2010-08-04 Thread Tyler MacDonald
ve got an android smartphone I'm just using Google Calendar for that stuff. Cheers, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100804193437.ga7...@yi.org

Re: debian-multimedia.org gone?

2010-06-10 Thread Tyler MacDonald
t;), he is doing the restoring. Somebody should restore Christian with a nice cold beer after all this work! :-) - Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100610213826.gi13...@yi.org

Re: debian-multimedia.org gone?

2010-06-09 Thread Tyler MacDonald
MythTV boxes earlier today, I was getting a "connection refused", for over half an hour... so the server was up, apache was down... - Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

wireless button works for bluetooth, not for wlan

2010-05-24 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, One of the recent updates appears to have altered the behaviour of the hard ware wireless switch on my HP Elitebook 6930p. It never used to work at all. Now, it works for bluetooth, but not for regular wireless. With the wireless turned on, I get this: /home/tyler# rfkill list 4: phy1

Re: How do I fsck and XFS file system in "Squeeze"

2010-05-20 Thread Tyler MacDonald
It looks like the tool is called "xfs_repair", and is part of the "xfsprogs" package. http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=xfs_repair&mode=exactfilename&suite=testing&arch=any Cheers, Tyler lrhorer wrote:

Re: ditching mutt

2010-04-08 Thread Tyler MacDonald
f course: Gnus. Hmm. Maybe it is time to learn emacs... :-/ - Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100409002059.ge14...@yi.org

ditching mutt

2010-04-08 Thread Tyler MacDonald
maybe even procmail-parsing and custom keybinding? (Ideally I'd still like to use a terminal to compose/reply to most email, it's just the inbox/IMAP folder management/searching/etc that is getting too unruly for a terminal). Thanks, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Change Useradd Behavior

2010-03-17 Thread Tyler MacDonald
TION useradd is a low level utility for adding users. On Debian, administrators should usually use adduser(8) instead. That said, if you're comfortable using "useradd", go ahead, nobody's stopping you. :-) Cheers, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: Change Useradd Behavior

2010-03-17 Thread Tyler MacDonald
for world-readable home directories (dpkg-reconfigure -plow adduser). Cheers, Tyler Carlos Mennens wrote: > I would like to know if it's possible when creating a new user with > the '/usr/sbin/useradd' script to set the users home directory > permissions to 700 rath

Re: what about acroread in squeeze i386?

2010-02-28 Thread Tyler Smith
have to run more expensive > and more energy demanding 64-bit machines with lenny to have such > packages. Curious about the reason why squeeze has no efficient pdf > reader. > Out of curiosity, what is particularly inefficient about Okular or Evince? Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: OpenOffice and Fluxbox, window sizing problem

2010-02-28 Thread Tyler Smith
"Wayne " writes: > Tyler Smith wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to use openoffice on Debian testing, with Fluxbox as my >> window manager. I use the styles and formatting dropdown, and the >> undocked window it provides when you click on the "

OpenOffice and Fluxbox, window sizing problem

2010-02-28 Thread Tyler Smith
nts the "Styles and Formatting" window is now maximized again! I don't know if this is a fluxbox issue, or an OOO issue, but I've tried setting appropriate options in .fluxbox/apps, and I can't override this very annoying behaviour. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Tyl

Re: 1 last line from upgrade to squeeze

2010-02-19 Thread Tyler MacDonald
mine, I had to fight with gnome etc for awhile too in order to get everything back into place. A "broken" package may be due to failed dependancies, but what "broken" really means is the package was unpacked into the filesystem, but postinst/preinst hooks may have failed to compl

Re: Aptitude message stops install..

2010-01-25 Thread Tyler Smith
s the pager. q should close less and resume the installation. Tyler > > jack-audio-connection-kit (0.118+svn3796-2) unstable; urgency=low > >/etc/init.d/jackd has been removed. > >Former jackd pa

Application launch countdown?

2010-01-06 Thread Tyler MacDonald
t; button. I guess if one doesnt already exist it wont be a huge undertaking to whip one up... Thanks, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Comparing two debian boxes (find which package is different)

2010-01-05 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Hi, I believe dpkg-query will do what you want, something like; dpkg-query --show -f '${Package}\t${Version}\n' Cheers, Tyler Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hi there, > > I would like to compare two debian box. I am trying to figure out > which package version is

Re: Handle each file at a time in loop?

2010-01-04 Thread Tyler MacDonald
ile done When actually working with the filenames, make sure you encase the variable name in double quotes so they dont get split up on the commandline; for file in *.wav do newfile=$(echo "$file" | sed -e "s,foo,bar,g") mv -v "$file" "$newfile"

Re: two questions about ssh tunneling

2009-12-04 Thread Tyler MacDonald
sure is to know your ISP's network topology... - Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: two questions about ssh tunneling

2009-12-04 Thread Tyler MacDonald
hers in the farm can see the traffic?] - I think yes, but > - I'm not sure :O Yes, that's possible. However, in most colocated environments, you are on a switch, not a hub -- so in that case, the attacker would have to be sniffing directly from a router to see your traffic. If you

Re: Fatal: Only RAID1 devices are supported as boot devices

2009-12-04 Thread Tyler MacDonald
s, you can afford a fifth one to do RAID-5 (or to shrink your array to 4.5TB to do RAID-5...) - Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: To run a program under another user.

2009-11-30 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Sthu, Have you tried: "su - username", or "su -c command - username"? Cheers, Tyler Sthu Deus wrote: > Good day. > > > I need to run a console program under another user - if I try to do so with > the help of sudo - ut t

Re: iptables and ports 0, 1

2009-11-30 Thread Tyler Smith
Alex Samad writes: > On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 08:07:55PM -0500, Tyler Smith wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've got a pretty basic iptables setup for my personal laptop, drop >> all input except connections from local host, and allow all outgoing >> requests. >&g

Re: Flash plugin problem - cant click - amd64 unstable

2009-11-30 Thread Tyler Smith
Cameron Hutchison writes: > Cameron Hutchison writes: >>Tyler Smith writes: >>>Cameron Hutchison writes: > >>>> Is anyone else having problems with the flash plugin >>>> (flashplugin-nonfree) on unstable on a 64-bit platform? > >>>

iptables and ports 0, 1

2009-11-29 Thread Tyler Smith
x27; instead of 'stealth' (ie., rejecting requests instead of dropping them). I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, since my setup is so basic. Any suggestions? Thanks, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Flash plugin problem - cant click - amd64 unstable

2009-11-29 Thread Tyler Smith
an view videos full screen. Hopefully this will be resolved in the next version of the flash plugin or gtk, but I don't understand the details. Cheers, Tyler > > On some sites, the flash videos load but the plugin seems to ignore my > mouse clicks so I can't start the video

Re: Squeeze : Keyboard problem as if a key is always pressed

2009-11-29 Thread Tyler Smith
problem. Also to me xev showed > keycode 232 and 233. > > Watching recent updates, I sow acpid 1.0.10-3 -> 1.0.10-4. > Restarting acpid (/etc/init.d/acpid restart) stops the problem until > brightness is set again. I have the same problem, only with the xf86Display key, which on m

perl install paths

2009-11-25 Thread Tyler MacDonald
g. But who is wrong? Is it the built perl, or is it the configuration that comes with CPAN? Thanks, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

unloading sound modules on hibernate

2009-11-23 Thread Tyler Smith
UnloadModules line, but I get the same error. What do I need to do to unload my sound modules during hibernate? Thanks, Tyler here's a list of all the sound-related modules I have: lsmod | grep snd snd_hda_codec_analog53456 1 snd_hda_intel 22192 6 snd_hda_codec

Re: Create amd64 DomU in Debain

2009-11-22 Thread Tyler MacDonald
ith xen-tools. Cheers, Tyler Dan McClung wrote: > I am trying to set up an amd64 DomU. I have a cfg file I have been > copying to create 686 DomUs (the Dom0 is running an amd64 kernel), but > when I use it with the install-arch=amd64 I get an error that it can't > find the

Re: hibernate and hp docking station/external monitor

2009-11-16 Thread Tyler Smith
e cycle if possible. Any ideas? Thanks, Tyler Tyler Smith writes: > Hi, > > I've got a problem with hibernate and resume on my HP Elitebook 6930p. > It works fine for the laptop on its own, but if the laptop is connected > to its docking station, sometimes (but not alw

hibernate and hp docking station/external monitor

2009-11-12 Thread Tyler Smith
and associated hardware properly re-established on resume would be very helpful. Thanks, Tyler Debian Testing Linux eku238261 2.6.30-2-686 #1 SMP Sat Sep 26 01:16:22 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

multiversion w/ apt-ftpachive?

2009-10-26 Thread Tyler MacDonald
ans to ´script´ the generation process for a complete archive. " Thanks, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: What is the best setup to compute in the burning hot sun?

2009-07-31 Thread Tyler MacDonald
out and program, if I can see the screen clearly and not melt my interface to the digial universe. I'll bring a jug of ice cold water and always keep another chilling in the fridge to keep my personal epidermal cooling system operational. - Tyler > > -- > Scooty Puff, S

What is the best setup to compute in the burning hot sun?

2009-07-31 Thread Tyler MacDonald
have successfully used debian for extended periods of time in the burning hot sun? Thanks, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: startx fails

2009-07-20 Thread Tyler MacDonald
ivers? You'll need the "module-assistant" package installed (and be using the non-free apt sources), then; m-a a-i nvidia aptitude install nvidia-glx ... if you already have that, I'm not sure :-/ Cheers, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: customizing Debian's info files

2009-07-15 Thread tyler
Teemu Likonen writes: > On 2009-07-14 21:28 (-0300), tyler wrote: > >> Is there anyway to customize info files in a way that will be >> respected by future package updates? For example, the info entries for >> the R-doc package get filed under "Programming", bu

customizing Debian's info files

2009-07-14 Thread tyler
t it gets overwritten the next time any info files get updated. Any suggestions? Thanks, Tyler -- I'm Tyler Smith and I approve of this email. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: how do i grep boobies

2009-07-04 Thread Tyler MacDonald
lts in this mistaken offence, is that sexual attraction/desire is dehumanizing. If anything, it promotes humanization. I mean, how would you feel if this thread was about dogs? The joke is flawed though; $ clean bash: clean: command not found - Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: iceweasel puzzle

2009-07-03 Thread tyler
plugin, or manually change all instances of 'iceweasel' in about:config to 'firefox'. HTH, Tyler -- There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. -

Re: iceweasel 3.5?

2009-07-01 Thread tyler
wherever is convenient, or if you use a desktop with icons, add one that points to ~/firefox/firefox, and you're all done. I just did that this morning. When Iceweasel 3.5 is ready for my testing system, I'll install that as usual and delete ~/firefox/ Cheers, Tyler -- Friends don

Re: Using terminal output as input

2009-05-14 Thread tyler
t's the difference between firefox and $(which firefox)? They both run the first executable named firefox in your path, don't they? Tyler -- What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. --Bertrand Russell -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Upgrading mdadm-based RAID arrays

2009-05-14 Thread Tyler MacDonald
y I'd really prefer to go with "Plan A". It's cheaper to get started with, far less complicated, and doesn't risk data loss during the move. Any ideas? Is this possible? Thanks, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Upgrading mdadm-based RAID arrays

2009-05-14 Thread Tyler MacDonald
can be given as max which means to choose the largest size that fits on all current drives. Tyler MacDonald wrote: > Hello debian! > > I have a RAID-5 mdadm array with 4x500GB drives (1.4TB usable). I'm > running out of space and am going to buy a new d

evince printer dialog

2009-05-06 Thread tyler
the General tab, Job, Image Quality, and Advanced tabs also appear, but I can't find anywhere to set the configuration options for the printer in any of these tabs. I want to set the print command to 'lp -o fitplot -d ml-2010', which is what I use in xpdf What am I missing? Thanks,

Re: Is it possible to prevent emacs auto saving the filename~?

2009-05-03 Thread tyler
tyler writes: > 明覺 writes: > >> I know that emacs auto save a file named filename~ when I modified the >> file filename, but I do not like the autosaved copy, could i stop this >> function? thanks > > Set auto-save-default to nil, as explained in the Emacs manua

Re: Is it possible to prevent emacs auto saving the filename~?

2009-05-03 Thread tyler
Adding (setq auto-save-default nil) to your .emacs will do this automatically. Cheers, Tyler -- What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. --Bertrand Russell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: bank web page problem in iceweasel/iceape

2009-04-03 Thread tyler
and when I was still using no script I had TD whitelisted. Cheers, Tyler -- What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. --Bertrand Russell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: firmware-linux

2009-04-01 Thread tyler
ue > this soon after a stable release, when "testing" isn't close to a release > candidate. Testing is pretty darn manageable, even for those of us who aren't compiling our own kernels. No offence meant, but you might want to recalibrate your ideas

Re: firmware-linux

2009-04-01 Thread tyler
Andrei Popescu writes: > > But if it breaks you still get to keep both parts. > Well, when you put it that way, it sounds like fun! Cheers, Tyler -- The purpose of models is not to fit the data but to sharpen the questions. --Samuel Karlin -- To UN

Re: firmware-linux

2009-03-31 Thread tyler
Andrei Popescu writes: > On Tue,31.Mar.09, 11:19:37, tyler wrote: >> >> What I want to know is what kinds of problems I might experience when I >> move to a 'free' kernel? > > I'm guessing that the devices which need that firmware will just stop &g

firmware-linux

2009-03-31 Thread tyler
Any explanations would be welcome, Thanks, Tyler ps. I'm running Squeeze on a Thinkpad R60, but I'm interested in the general case as well. -- I have no "intellectual property," and I think that all claimants to such property are thieves. --Wendell Berry h

media player with NFS cacheing?

2009-03-30 Thread Tyler MacDonald
ying? She's running KDE on her desktop but a gnome app would do as well so long as it's easy enough for a three and a half year old to play/pause/fullscreen/quit etc (she's using totem right now). Thanks, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

Re: any software for 3D surfaces visualization in debian sid?

2009-03-16 Thread tyler
Star Liu writes: > I'm looking for a free software which can draw 3D picture if I setup > mathmetical equations and specify its scope, it's an important part of > my current project. thanks! gnuplot might do what you need. Tyler -- When in dou

restarting a locked X server

2009-03-03 Thread tyler
I've pasted the output of one of my failed attempts to invoke startx without rebooting, any suggestions on how I can force a clean start of X would be welcome! Thanks, Tyler X.Org X Server 1.4.2 Release Date: 11 June 2008 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux De

Re: Debian Lenny Based SimplyMEPIS 8.0 is Released

2009-02-25 Thread tyler
tyler writes: > Has Warren since changed his position on licensing his own programs? Apologies for replying to my own post, but I did some more digging, and apparently the Mepis tools have indeed been released under a Free Software license: http://mepislovers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=17

Re: Debian Lenny Based SimplyMEPIS 8.0 is Released

2009-02-25 Thread tyler
t at the time I left, there were barriers on the Mepis side that would prevent the adoption of any of the great tools developed there for inclusion in Debian. I would be happy to be corrected on these points, though. Cheers, Tyler -- Only YOU can stop forest fires. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Iceweasel blocking pop-ups

2009-02-16 Thread tyler
Dennis Wicks writes: > Greetings; > > I turned off the popup blocker in IW but it seems to still be blocking > them. > > I tried it in Iceweasel 3.0.6-1 and it doesn't work at all, even with > the popup blocker turned off. No messages or anything. It shows the > URL when I hold the cursor on the

Re: Replacement for Dillo web browser

2009-02-13 Thread tyler
x before the release, so the package was pulled instead: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=510348 Tyler -- What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. --Bertrand Russell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: resolv.conf getting erased

2009-01-30 Thread tyler
tyler writes: > Thanks for all the tips, on and off-list. I noticed that at the same > time as my resolv.conf was getting cleared, something was bringing up > the eth0 interface. After much poking and prodding, I found that > commenting out the allow-hotplug lines associated wit

Re: resolv.conf getting erased

2009-01-25 Thread tyler
This is something I was messing with months ago, and I have no idea why (or if!) the associated behaviour changed now. Anyways, things seem to be working fine now. We'll see what happens when I plug into eth0 at work tomorrow. Cheers, Tyler -- The contents of this message have been c

Re: resolv.conf getting erased - every 5 minutes

2009-01-24 Thread tyler
tyler writes: > An update to the problem discussed below: on connecting to my wireless > with dhclient ath0, I saw a warning that /etc/resolv.conf was not a > symlink to /etc/resolvconf/run/resolv.conf. This was a consequence of > having to manually correct /etc/resolv.conf to

resolv.conf getting erased [WAS: dhclient not updating]

2009-01-24 Thread tyler
. This breaks my internet connection, or at least my ability to resolve addresses. Calling dhclient ath0 restores the file, but this is getting really annoying. Any idea how I find out what is messing up my resolv.conf files? Thanks, Tyler tyler writes: > Stefan Monnier writes: &

Re: dhclient not updating /etc/resolv.conf

2009-01-23 Thread tyler
no-domain-set.aliant which is, it adds my home domain, but doesn't delete my work domain, and it leaves the nameserver lines pointing at my work dns. ?? Thanks, Tyler -- Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. --

dhclient not updating /etc/resolv.conf

2009-01-22 Thread tyler
subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers, domain-name, domain-name-servers, domain-search, host-name, netbios-name-servers, netbios-scope, interface-mtu, rfc3442-classless-static-routes; --8<---cut here---end--->8--- Thanks,

Re: fetchmail and exchange 2007

2009-01-22 Thread tyler
Stephan Seitz writes: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:27:45AM -0400, tyler wrote: >>fetchmail: Trying to connect to 132.206.153.2/110...connection failed. > > Isn’t the error message self explaining? I suppose so, for folks that are familiar with all these ports and services

fetchmail and exchange 2007

2009-01-22 Thread tyler
Hi, My University just transferred my mail account to MS Exchange 2007. I had been accessing my old account via fetchmail, using the following: poll NON.EXCHANGE.SERVER with proto POP3 and options no dns uidl user 'MYUSERNAME' there with password 'MYPASSWORD' is &

Re: GNU info documents ? How?

2009-01-15 Thread tyler
info file is missing, you'll have to do a bit of searching in the nonfree doc repositories to sort out what you need, and if it's available. You can always add new info files manually in /usr/local/share/info/ if you want to avoid the whole issue. Cheers, Tyler -- W

Re: keep hidden files hidden in gui apps (xpdf) [SOLVED]

2009-01-07 Thread tyler
Last spring I had a question about xpdf's file picker. Fabio has just emailed me the following solution. I'm reposting it here in case anyone else has this problem: On May 22 2008, 8:00 pm, tyler wrote: > > How can I configure iceweasel and xpdf so that they will *not* show >

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