>> I'm not arguing one is better than the other, just in all situations
>> neither is the best. You said in another reply that we haven't created
>> a computer that can create as we do,
>What do yo mean we? Just because one person is a good musician doesn't
>mean we are. Just because one person i
On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 23:42:41 -0800 Chris Bannister wrote
>
>Just a bit of advice, if it's not NSFW why on earth do you think it's
>OK on this list? Do you say what ever you like to your mother or anyone
>you meet?
>
Yeah, and that bitch (and the rest of them) don't much appreciat
On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 13:53:20 -0800 Ralf
Mardorf wrote
> I agree, but they will kill you and now me too, because you mentioned
> that. Sexuality is a taboo! It's evil, it doesn't exist in the clean
> computer world!
Any computer sufficiently complex to be considered sentient wil
On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 13:33:31 -0800 Jerry Stuckle wrote
> >
> >
>
> And the only complex machine that can be reproduced by unskilled labor!
>
> Jerry
And not only that, it is in fact quite fun and enjoyable to make people. While
I enjoy tinkering with my computers, it was mo
On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 13:21:49 -0800 Ralf
Mardorf wrote
>
> Living beings are able to self-repair, to eat and to produce the needed
> energy for doing some work. You only need to interrupt electrical power
> given by humans, to kill a machine.
>
I'm not arguing one is better
On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 12:43:10 -0800 Ralf
Mardorf wrote
>
> Why does a manually wound coil for guitars does sound better than a
> mechanically wounded coil does? The mechanically wound coil is more
> precise! Don't underestimate human touch. The human brain is a
> super-computer
On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:57:31 -0800 Ken Heard wrote
> When on 2013-12-28 Saturday I started to install Wheezy on my new desktop
> computer in Thailand the partitions I tried to install were the same ones I
> used with Squeeze in one of my computers in Canada -- RAID1 with two HDDs,
I was given a machine with six scsi drives and I wanted to play around with
RAID setups. The system as given to me was setup with 5 drives in a raid and
one used as /boot. I wanted to use all of them for the raid, so I added a large
ATA drive. On the new drive I made a /boot partition, a swap pa
On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 11:15:44 -0700 François
Patte wrote
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Bonjour,
>
> I would like to make a fresh install of debian and I want to keep my
> previous /home partition ie. forbid the installer to reformat this
> parti
>
> http://www.samsung.com/us/article/tips--tricks-extending-notebook-battery-life
>
>
> it's called "Smart charging", so I guess it should have a config option
> somewhere.
>
> Philip
Thank god I never bought a samsung laptop. I am amazed that samsung has just
recently disco
>>
>It's a feature of modern laptops.
>
>The idea is that the battery lasts longer if you avoid full
>charge/discharge cycles.
>
>Mine is on 80% too - it's normal.
>
>As for how you tell it to charge to 100% because you're planning a bus
>trip - anyone out there, please let me know.
>
I'm using wheezy and in gnome 3, if I disconnect my laptop from its charger and
then at some point suspend. After bringing the system back up and connect the
charger the battery charge indicator in gnome shows incorrect info.
I plug in the charger and the battery charges, but it never reaches 10
There are 3 dvd's for wheezy:
debian-7.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso 2013-05-04 17:14 3.7G
debian-7.0.0-amd64-DVD-2.iso 2013-05-04 17:14 4.4G
debian-7.0.0-amd64-DVD-3.iso 2013-05-04 17:14 4.4G
So just add up the GB's and divide that by your internet connection speed. I
would recommend bittorrent rather th
This gave me a raging vintage-debian-boner, and to get rid of it I am now
installing debian 0.93RC6 on a vm. I started with debian 2.0, I bought a book
with a 1.x version of debian, but I didn't yet own a computer and never so
never actually used it.
Boot and Root Disks!
..
I just installed newstable on my new laptop and am having a weird issue in
gnome. Whenever I launch a small window, like a terminal, calculator or the
file manager and if it appears in the left top corner I cannot grab it with my
mouse pointer, I can't type into a terminal or gedit window. If I
I recently bought a laptop, it came pre-installed with wheezy (because the
nvidia driver needed a newer kernel). I really dislike the new version of
gnome. I feel like my expensive laptop is hobbled. It feels like a slow $100
android tablet instead of a powerful computer.
I can't customize anyt
The gnome clock applet's weather fuction is currently showing the temperature
in Orlando, FL (OIA) is 84F. Outside my house the thermometer says it is 60F.
The weather channel is reporting 59F. The gnome weather applet is reporting 61F.
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On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:25:01 -0800 Hormatzhan Yiltiz
wrote
> I'd like to download some big .iso files, and I use SSD drive.Some would
> recommend avoid writing big stuff (in this case, about 40G!) to SSD if
> possible.
> I have other removable hard disk(s), and if I simply choos
>>I used dia to make a png file diagram of my network. I tried to make one with
>>text, but
>>I couldn't understand it and I made it. I assume the list won't forward
>>attachments, so
>>I posted it at:
>>
>>http://i1309.photobucket.c
but
I couldn't understand it and I made it. I assume the list won't forward
attachments, so
I posted it at:
http://i1309.photobucket.com/albums/s629/CletusJenkins/network_zps9f815828.png
If there is a better way to share things like this to the list let me know.
I only have one "
cletusjenkins to "Ralf Mardorf"
On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:22:08 -0800 Ralf
Mardorf wrote
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:10:45 +0100, wrote:
> > Le 15.01.2013 15:12, Ralf Mardorf a écrit :
> >> If you now will install a package with dependencies, Synaptic will
> &
On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 02:23:29 -0800 Bonno Bloksma wrote
> Hi,
>
> > I have a machine with an internet connection, it acts as a router for
> > other systems on a private network (192.168.2.0/8).
> > I setup a VPN client with openvpn on this machine, the VPN works
> > perfectl
i have a machine with an internet connection, it acts as a router for other
systems on a private network (192.168.2.0/8). I setup a VPN client with openvpn
on this machine, the VPN works perfectly, but when connected to the VPN the
machine does not route for the private network systems.
I can
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:45:08 -0700 Joe wrote
>
> > On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:16:07 -0700
> > cletusjenkins wrote:
> >
> > > Does
> > > using the gui normally work?
> > >
> >
> > Yes, a
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On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:42:15 -0700 Joe wrote
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 20:41:00 +0200
> Registros Web wrote:
>
> Network Manager can handle most OpenVPN configuration options, and is
> a viable alternative to using a command-line invocation w
>Whether you are acting as a server or a client you need to have a
>config file (.conf) in the /etc/openvpn directory (wich is the default
>location where the openvpn service will look for .conf files and will
>try to start those connections automatically when the service is
>started). Check i
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 02:06:17AM -0700, cletusjenkins wrote:
> > I'm trying to connect to a VPN service via openVPN. When I try to connect
> > (via network manager's gui) I get an error saying the openvpn service is
> > not running. I do not see
I'm trying to connect to a VPN service via openVPN. When I try to connect (via
network manager's gui) I get an error saying the openvpn service is not
running. I do not see any errors in messages, syslog, daemon.log or dmesg about
this. When I manually start the service it just says that it is s
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:24:12 -0700 Camaleón wrote
>On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 22:47:24 -0700, cletusjenkins wrote:
>
>> I have a problem with my laptop. When the battery runs down the system
>> won't shut down automatically. I am running stable with gnome. hanks.
I have a problem with my laptop. When the battery runs down the system won't
shut down automatically. I am running stable with gnome. The power manager
detects the battery and reports the charge level correctly. I have the options
setup such that it should shutdown when "battery is critically lo
Thanks so much, that was exactly what I was looking for.
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 01:43:09 -0700 Armin Haas wrote
>Take a look at xdg-user-dirs (and xdg-user-dirs-gtk if your DE is gtk-based).
>
>Cheers
>
>Armin
>
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This is a ridiculously simple question, but my searches are not turning up what
I'm looking for.
Where are the default folders the system puts in your home directory defined
at? I don't mean the dot rc files, but Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Pictures,
Templates, etc.
I don't need most of the
>These symptoms match exactly to Tixy's suggestion, could you please at
>least show us your /etc/fstab?
>
>Kind regards,
>Andrei
Ah, you are right, I completely misunderstood what Tixy was saying! I went to
try what Paul Condon suggested I saw the line specifying /media/usb0 as the
mount po
> You'll have to use Gnome3. You can use it in "Gnome Classic" mode
> (fallback) for now, but it has been strongly hinted that that option
> won't be available for much longer.
>
> I've switched to XFCE, as Gnome3 was too much of a PITA to try and use
> on my laptop (I used pinning to ke
>
> I add one line to /etc/fstab for each labeled usb external drive like
> the following:
>
> LABEL=gflx1 /media/gflx1ext3rw,user,noauto 0 0
>
> And I create the named mount point in /media with:
>
> mkdir /media/gflx1
>
> I have my own system of ch
>
> I often see this when I install Debian on a PC using a USB stick. The
> installer seems to put an entry in /etc/fstab to mount /dev/sdb
> at /media/usb0. I just delete this line.
>
> --
> Tixy
Thanks for your reply. I'm not sure if that is the problem I am having, I
installed
I have several USB external drives. I have them formatted as ext3 and have
assigned them labels (via tune2fs -L). All of my labels are made up of letters
no numbers, spaces or other special characters. When I connect a drive, it's
label is displayed correctly in gnome (on the desktop and when br
I have a machine that is locking up every few days. It doesn't seem to be doing
much when it happens, nor do I see anything in the syslog or messages files. Is
there any way to enable extra logging to try to catch what is going wrong?
Thanks.
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I am trying to reinstall an older machine with an Advansys SCSI host adapter
and not having much luck. I have two of the same model adapters and both have
the same issues. When I boot without either in the machine, it gets well past
my error/stopping point.
I'm booting off of the CD 1, I downlo
Sorry for this not truly being a debian question, but after googling and
duckduckgoing I didn't find a good solution and thought I would ask here. I'm
trying to embed an image in my existing sound (ogg vorbis) files.
I did find a script that makes it a little easier, but no info on how to encode
Is there any problems in general with bittorrent lately? I tried to launch
transmission yesterday and this evening and had issues. I see no traffic up or
down, and when it starts up all my torrents are paused, even the ones I'm just
seeding. I "start" them and I check later and they are all paus
> >
> Also be sure to check out this web framework too, one of the best I've
> ever worked with: https://www.djangoproject.com/.
>
> Cheers,
> Sylvain
Thanks everyone, I will begin reading the suggested links and docs this
weekend. Let hope I don't end up adding any root-able holes
>
>It can be just the drive went bad :-?
>
I have an old cd-drive disk cleaner with a brush that knocks any dust from the
laser emitter. If you don't have one perhaps a blast from a compressed gas
canister could do the trick. Or just simply bend over and try it manually. I'd
double check tha
On 01/31/2012 04:24 PM, cletusjenkins wrote:
>> Hello, I am interested to learn how to program in Python. What debian
>> packages would I need to start coding some basic cgi in apache? Thanks.
>>
>
>There are 2 python book packages:
>diveintopython which covers Pyt
On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:11:23 -0800 Gustavo J Mata wrote
>This is the info for the card:
>
>Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2]
>Network Connection (rev 05)
>
>I installed the ipw2200 driver.
>
Have you installed firmware-linux-nonfree package?
Hello, I am interested to learn how to program in Python. What debian packages
would I need to start coding some basic cgi in apache? Thanks.
On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:16:46 -0800 James
Allsopp wrote
> Hello,
> I really want to be able to use VNC to be able to view the full Gnome
> desktop on my laptop. I've been able to view a grey screen and a
> terminal, using vnc4server and tigervnc or vinagre, but what I'd like
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