Re: non-free firmware not found despite unofficial CD

2017-10-08 Thread anxiousmac
On Monday, 9 October 2017 06:50:03 UTC+1, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > > Is there some kind of man page or something to explain what foo.deb is > and or bar.deb is, because in my 20+ years googling or other ways I > don't understand. If not I've been doing fine without knowing. I will > say I pro

Re: Blank screen bug

2017-10-08 Thread anxiousmac
r. Would be nice to know how to investigate. anxiousmac

Re: What is cisco-sccp?

2016-04-05 Thread anxiousmac
On Tuesday, 5 April 2016 05:40:05 UTC+1, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > Thanks for the answer. > > > > grep 2000 /etc/services > cisco-sccp2000/tcp# Cisco SCCP > cisco-sccp2000/udp > > I see that... > Just because you have a line in /etc/services, it does not mean y

Re: Empty logs

2016-04-04 Thread anxiousmac
On Tuesday, 5 April 2016 05:50:04 UTC+1, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > Hello! > > > I have /var/log/messages since some days empty. How could I repair that? > Before it when I run sudo tail -F /var/log/messages I always could see > everything. > > > Please help! Have a look at the "Wireless Disc

Re: Stretch installation boots to read only

2015-12-22 Thread anxiousmac
gt; Gary R. /etc/fstab uses spaces to separate the fields. There may, once upon a time, have been a good reason for that design decision. So your line: /dev/sda1 /ext4 rw noatime 0 1 needs the space between rw and noatime to be replaced by a comma and no space. As Marc pointed out above. anxiousmac

Re: OT: reply styles, family matters

2015-12-01 Thread anxiousmac
his? I mean, > > how on earth could it possibly be patronising? > > I haven't asked him yet, > > -- > Bob Bernstein If I bottom posted at work, no-one would ever discover my replies. I occasionally interleave if a point by point response seems sensible, or if the joke only works that way anxiousmac

Re: Write access to USB

2015-08-04 Thread anxiousmac
On Monday, 3 August 2015 19:30:05 UTC+1, notoneofmy wrote: > On 08/03/2015 07:21 PM, anxiousmac wrote: > > Perhaps related to my issue posted to debian.maint.kde about a week ago? > > > > I happened upon a debian-installer bug report which points out that if one > >

Re: Write access to USB

2015-08-03 Thread anxiousmac
chive: https://lists.debian.org/55bf9c5c.9020...@gmx.de Perhaps related to my issue posted to debian.maint.kde about a week ago? I happened upon a debian-installer bug report which points out that if one needs firmware from a stick during installation a line such as "/dev/sdb1

Re: kde fully broken in debian/testing

2015-08-01 Thread anxiousmac
was one of my problems 10 days ago when updating unstable. I also couldn't navigate through file finder dialogs and that was addressed by installing kio The main missing app for me now is ksudoku. How sad is that? anxiousmac -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.deb

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread anxiousmac
ps://lists.debian.org/20150726040937.ga5...@zip.com.au Years ago, there was some concern about load on ntp servers. And we didn't all have always-on connections. I guess that is still the case. Ntpdate could be run from cron as often as necessary. It was usually good enough unless t