Re: Gnome 3 Fallback Mode forked

2013-01-20 Thread Ellwood Blues
2013/1/20 Yaro Kasear : > On 01/20/2013 06:35 AM, Mark Allums wrote: >> >> Slashdot reported that SolusOS has announced a fork of the Gnome 3 >> Fallback >> Mode. It is designed to bring back the mode that was cut from Gnome 3 >> with >> version 3.8. Like the original fallback mode, it uses gtk3

Re: Gnome 3 Fallback Mode forked

2013-01-20 Thread Ellwood Blues
2013/1/20 Mark Allums : > Slashdot reported that SolusOS has announced a fork of the Gnome 3 Fallback > Mode. It is designed to bring back the mode that was cut from Gnome 3 with > version 3.8. Like the original fallback mode, it uses gtk3 and does not > require hardware acceleration. It also al

Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up

2012-05-04 Thread Ellwood Blues
2012/5/4 Martin Steigerwald : > > What kernel is this? Debian Wheezy 3.2.0-1-686-pae > > This only works with util-linux fdisk not gnu-fdisk. I have util-linux installed but I can't find the fdisk you said support -c switch. > Ah. I would try a newer kernel. ;) I've tried the newest on live

Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up

2012-05-03 Thread Ellwood Blues
2012/4/30 Martin Steigerwald : > Am Montag, 30. April 2012 schrieb Ellwood Blues: >> 2012/4/30 Martin Steigerwald : >> > Am Montag, 30. April 2012 schrieb Chris Bannister: >> >> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 08:27:03PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: >> >>

Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up

2012-05-01 Thread Ellwood Blues
2012/4/30 Martin Steigerwald : > Am Montag, 30. April 2012 schrieb Ellwood Blues: >> 2012/4/30 Martin Steigerwald : >> > Am Montag, 30. April 2012 schrieb Chris Bannister: >> >> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 08:27:03PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: >> >>

Re: Anyway of keeping gnome2 while upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-04-30 Thread Ellwood Blues
2012/4/29 Camaleón : the > final decision on what to use and how to use it is always on the user's > side. > > Greetings, I agree with that. Cheers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Ar

Re: Anyway of keeping gnome2 while upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-04-30 Thread Ellwood Blues
eem like Gnome 3 has been finished yet to release > standards from what I have read. > > I seems like Mate is the best option, so if anyone knows a good guide for > getting this set up on Wheezy, I'd be grateful. > > Also does anyone know anything about cinnamon on Debian? > > T

Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up

2012-04-30 Thread Ellwood Blues
2012/4/30 Martin Steigerwald : > Am Montag, 30. April 2012 schrieb Chris Bannister: >> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 08:27:03PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: >> > Hmmm, I´d avoid those with 4 KB hardware sectors that lie to the OS >> > they have 512 byte sectors. Although I think even those should wor

Re: Anyway of keeping gnome2 while upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-04-28 Thread Ellwood Blues
> So thanks but no, I will be be loyal to GNOME until they decide to take a > radical path I can't deal with (like it happened when I moved from KDE 3 > to GNOME 2 because of the poor state of KDE 4.0). So you will be loyal but Gnome won't? I think that that mentality will kill linux. As Jono B

Re: Anyway of keeping gnome2 while upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-04-28 Thread Ellwood Blues
2012/4/27 Ralf Mardorf : > On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 17:26 +0100, Ellwood Blues wrote: >> http://mate-desktop.org/install/#debian > > No experiences here, but I heard that it shouldn't be a good successor > of GNOME2. > I am deciding now which one is may favourite: Xfce

Re: Anyway of keeping gnome2 while upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-04-27 Thread Ellwood Blues
012/4/27 Mika Suomalainen : > On 27.04.2012 13:56, Ellwood Blues wrote: >> 2012/4/26 James Allsopp : >>> Hello, >>> I want to update from Squeeze to Wheezy but want to avoid Gnome 3 at all >>> costs, is there a way of doing this successfully? >>&g

Re: Anyway of keeping gnome2 while upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-04-27 Thread Ellwood Blues
2012/4/26 James Allsopp : > Hello, > I want to update from Squeeze to Wheezy but want to avoid Gnome 3 at all > costs, is there a way of doing this successfully? > > Thanks > James > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject > of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up

2012-04-24 Thread Ellwood Blues
If you want to be happy and trouble-free, try to avoid «Advanced Format» disks. I have 2TB disks and 1.5TB too that work perfectly but I've made the mistake to buy a 3TB WD Caviar Green («Advanced Format») which I can only use on Windows as a 3TB disk, Linux only detects about 780MB if I remember w

Trouble with downloaded images...

2007-10-02 Thread blues
I just dl'ed the latest release from www.debian.org. The first CD (debian-40r1-i386-CD-1) seems to be corrupted...so I used the torrent link and tried to download the CD again, and still cannot get a clean installAny suggestions?? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: What would *really* help you (was Re: Thinking about ...)

2007-09-06 Thread blues
On Sep 6, 4:10 am, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 09/05/07 22:39, blues wrote: > [snip] > > > > > This is where I am up to this point: I have an IMac running Yellow > > Dog, and an old 73

Re: Thinking about devoting a serious part of my life to linux...

2007-09-05 Thread blues
On Sep 5, 6:00 pm, blues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 4, 10:40 pm, icelinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Linux and Open Source in general are definitely the future. > > > In an odd paradox, we can never get rid of copyrights or licenses because

Re: Can you point me to a Yellow Dog group plz...

2007-09-05 Thread blues
On Sep 5, 9:30 pm, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 09/05/07 20:37, blues wrote: > > > I am now trying to get my IMac up and running with Yellow Dog 4.1, and > > I am stuck pretty soon into the ga

Can you point me to a Yellow Dog group plz...

2007-09-05 Thread blues
I am now trying to get my IMac up and running with Yellow Dog 4.1, and I am stuck pretty soon into the gameI have several computers in this room, and all of them can get online no problem...except this IMac...the ethernet cable is plugged in, and I see eth0 in my network configuration window..

Re: Thinking about devoting a serious part of my life to linux...

2007-09-05 Thread blues
On Sep 4, 10:40 pm, icelinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Linux and Open Source in general are definitely the future. > > In an odd paradox, we can never get rid of copyrights or licenses because > then we could not require those companies or persons who sell open source > software to make the

Re: Thinking about devoting a serious part of my life to linux...

2007-09-04 Thread blues
On Sep 4, 7:30 pm, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 09/04/07 17:28, icelinux wrote: > > >>> i like the idea of using free software to monitor and protect > >>> a network, and I hope to make a career out of it...does > >>> anyone have an

Re: Thinking about devoting a serious part of my life to linux...

2007-09-04 Thread blues
On Sep 4, 5:10 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 4, 12:30 am, Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Linux and Open Source in general are definitely the future. > > > First step will be to use Linux full time as your main system. I recently > > started usi

Re: Thinking about devoting a serious part of my life to linux...

2007-09-04 Thread blues
On Sep 4, 6:50 am, "G.W. Haywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 blues wrote: > > > I would really love to become a good sys admin; linux is very > > interesting to me as a popular alternative to the crap business > > mod

Thinking about devoting a serious part of my life to linux...

2007-09-03 Thread blues
I would really love to become a good sys admin; linux is very interesting to me as a popular alternative to the crap business model of MS.i like the idea of using free software to monitor and protect a network, and I hope to make a career out of it...does anyone have any tips as to what i shou