Using the eject command I get the following message:
eject: unable to eject, last error: Inappropriate ioctl for device
This is new: I used the drive to install the OS (jessie? Debian 9, anyway)
and I've actually--not too recently--listened to a CD on it.
Feeding The Duck the message didn't h
The drive also does not respond to the physical control on the
case.
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Dave Williamsd...@eskimo.com
On Sat, Nov 05, 2016 at 03:01:14PM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote:
> Does anybody know of a piece of software that you can give an URL to,
> and it will then fetch the url and email the contents to you?
>
> This could be a stand-alone app on the desktop, or a plug-in to a
> browser, or a web site, or some
On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 05:24:34PM -, Frank Miles wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 18:30:02 +0200, jeremy bentham wrote:
>
> > This could be a vim question, but since sudo's involved I'll
> > start here.
> >
> > I am thrashing about, trying to get wheezy
This could be a vim question, but since sudo's involved I'll
start here.
I am thrashing about, trying to get wheezy going on a new machine
(well, new to me. I think the huckster term-of-art is
"pre-owned": I had the pleasure of wiping dollarbill inc's crap
off it).
Anyway, I got vim installed,
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 10:18:59PM +0200, Hans wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> can someone explain, why lynx sometimes forbid websites or supresses websites?
>
> I needed a driver from Nvidia. As I had no X available, I tried download
> using
> lynx.
Many sites block lynx, because it can be used as a c
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 11:43:17PM -0600, Glenn English wrote:
>
> On Apr 22, 2015, at 9:22 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
>
> > jeremy bentham wrote:
> >> I am finally abandonning my fifteen-year-old computer and Lenny
> >> for a six (?) year old used Gateway 2802 (as
I am finally abandonning my fifteen-year-old computer and Lenny
for a six (?) year old used Gateway 2802 (as a Bad Consumer
(tm) I never buy anything new if I can avoid it) and, right now,
it has a start at Wheezy on it.
I happened to read on another list, and then verified for myself,
that /bin/s
Thanks for the replies.
I can now peruse my photos with digikam, but I am not sure what
it cost me; I suspect I'll find out when next I reboot.
Installing digikam resulted, apparently, in pulling in half of
kde--cruft to me--*and* a new initrd!
I think I've had it with apt; dpkg from now on, reg
>From time to time threads appear here describing troubles mounting
digital cameras. I never paid much attention to them, because I didn't
have a digital camera and had no intention of acquiring one.
Time makes liars of us all, I guess. I now have a Nikon L30, and I
can't get my Lenny machine (y
On Nov 19 s. keeling wrote:
> jeremy bentham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Please, no {advice, orders} to upgrade to etch. Consider this a
> > question about aptitude/sources.list/archives.
That does look kind of trollish. Sorry. Post in haste, repent
at leisure.
> Fin
On Nov 19 you wrote:
> On Mon,17.Nov.08, 19:32:42, jeremy bentham wrote:
> > > > My sources.list
> > > > deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/ sarge main contrib
> > > > non-free
> > > > per the README at the archive site.
> >
On Nov 18 you wrote:
> On 2008-11-17 23:44 +0100, jeremy bentham wrote:
> > I can't use aptitude anymore.
> > It was working, pre-sarge-archive.
> > Typing aptitude on the command line gives me this:
> > W: Couldn't stat source package list http://archi
I can't use aptitude anymore.
It was working, pre-sarge-archive.
Typing aptitude on the command line gives me this:
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://archive.debian.org sarge/main
Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.debian.org_debian-archive_dists_sarge_
main_binary-i386_Packages) - s
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