Cookies in Links Web Browser

2025-02-13 Thread David Hoff Jr
I have a fresh install on Debian 12 with all updates. I am trying to use Links web browser to access the dailycaller.com web site but am being blocked. A message says to enable cookies which I have tried using "links -enable-cookies dailycaller.com", but to no avail. Is there a solution to this? I

Re: Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-27 Thread D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a TEXT CONSOLE - no GUI running - so you could play cards. Even better would be a networked card game. s for shuffle the cards, d for deal (with prompt for how many people), w for draw cards, I guess. David On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 2:13 PM Jude DaShiell wrote: >

serial console install

2022-11-21 Thread jeanrocco jr
Hello, I just installed debian-11.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso on my APU2E4, which does not have a vga display but only a serial console. I could not find any documentation in Debian regarding the "Debian GNU/Linux installer boot menu" where you have to type H (help), then TAB and type "boot: install con

Installing an archive version of Debian

2022-09-30 Thread David Hoff Jr
I am attempting to install 32 bit Debian 7 to a old netbook which is the last version of Debian where the text to speech voice Voxin IBM voice works correctly in the console.. In the text installer, when given the choice to choose a mirror I choose choice number 1 which is to do it manually. I am t

mail headers not set (cf question re tar)

2022-09-23 Thread jr
hi, a single reply re the mail headers issue. On Thursday, 22 September 2022 at 09:20:06 UTC+1, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > ... > Your mails lack headers like "In-Reply-To:" or "References:", ... On Thursday, 22 September 2022 at 09:30:05 UTC+1, Tixy wrote: > ... > For a lot (most?) of us, your mes

Re: question re tar

2022-09-22 Thread jr
On Wednesday, 21 September 2022 at 17:10:05 UTC+1, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 04:29:07PM +0100, jr wrote: > > $ locate /jr/ | > > > grep -v -e /.cache/ -e /tmp/ | > > > > that is (one way) how the "ACTUAL CONTENTS" are arrived at.

Re: question re tar

2022-09-21 Thread jr
On Wednesday, 21 September 2022 at 13:10:05 UTC+1, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 12:31:58PM +0100, jr wrote: > > ... > > "What's in the file" > > > > file names, one per line. (and, before you ask, '\n' terminated lines) > Thi

Re: question re tar

2022-09-21 Thread jr
hi, On Wednesday, 21 September 2022 at 01:40:05 UTC+1, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 10:19:50PM +0100, jr wrote: > > On Tuesday, 20 September 2022 at 12:30:05 UTC+1, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > ... > > > With this new information, it occurs to

Re: question re tar

2022-09-20 Thread jr
hi, On Tuesday, 20 September 2022 at 12:30:05 UTC+1, Greg Wooledge wrote: > ... > With this new information, it occurs to me that perhaps the OP did > something like this: ... > unicorn:/tmp/x$ find . | tar cv --files-from=- -f ../foo.tar I prefer 'locate' to 'find'. an no guessing involved, as

Re: question re tar

2022-09-19 Thread jr
On Monday, 19 September 2022 at 10:10:05 UTC+1, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > ... > But you could create a small ext filesystem in a file, mount it and make > experiments with it. oh, that's an excellent suggestion. thanks. will do that in the coming days. > > the "machine" is a VM, pre-installed by

Re: question re tar

2022-09-19 Thread jr
hi, On Sun, 18 Sept 2022 at 21:39, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Will Mengarini wrote: > > Note that the file-type character "h" (the leftmost character in your > > second line of output) isn't documented ... > The 'h' probably comes from {...} > which converts tar file type LNKTYPE to 'h'. thanks. (

Re: shellworld.net (for visually impaired users), (was: Re: question for seasoned links users?)

2022-09-18 Thread jr
hi, (sorry, late to the party :-)) I don't think 'script' has been mentioned yet, a neat way (imo) to record the console/terminal.

Re: question re tar

2022-09-18 Thread jr
hi, > What kind of file system are the files sitting on? btrfs. the system is the pre-installed (on Chromebooks) Debian VM. > What are the *exact* tar commands that you used, to create the archive, > and to get that partial listing that you gave? initially from a shell script, assembling a lis

question re tar

2022-09-18 Thread jr
hi, I hope someone can help me to make 'tar' "behave" as expected. tia. when I create an archive with '-cvWf' I'm used to finding only the files specified, but every time I use 'tar' on this Debian, there is a "link" for each and every

Re: sshd_config

2022-09-07 Thread jr
Greg + Markus, mandatory, ok. thanks for replying. re "well out of date" yep, like the man.. :-) regards.

sshd_config

2022-09-07 Thread jr
hi, am fairly new to Debian and am puzzled that the 'sshd_config' file does not have a setting for the 'UsePrivilegeSeparation' keyword. it is also not mentioned in the man page. on another machine (not Debian) I have OpenSSH s/ware installed which provides the option; the READMEs on both machin

Bullseye Installer Fails to find soundcard

2022-01-14 Thread David J. J. Ring, Jr.
I'm just a user. I've been trying to install Bullseye since the Release Candidates, no luck. The accessible text installer fails to find my sound card. I think my sound card is the second one that Debian finds, so I select that. I do get sound in console once installed, but a blind person wo

Refusal to receive emails from Debian-user Mailing List • debian-user@lists.debian.org

2021-12-09 Thread Edgar Villanueva Jr
Good morning 🌞! I have tried the Debian buster 10 and it's okay though I have to do some research about how to configure it. Thank you 😊 for your help when answering our questions but not I'd like to emphasize that I don't want to receive emails regarding Debian. I will just watch it in YouTube to

Re: How to save filtered less results in a file or on stdout

2021-04-05 Thread jr
on Mon, 5 Apr 2021 17:44:28 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > If you are willing to learn (neo)vim, '(n)vim -R' as 'view' can be used > instead of 'less', with all the power of an advanced editor at your > disposal. or just press 'v' in 'less'? -

Fwd: No Bluetooth adapter found

2020-11-21 Thread Edgar Villanueva Jr
-- Forwarded message - From: Edgar Villanueva Jr Date: Sat, Nov 21, 2020, 5:22 PM Subject: No Bluetooth adapter found To: I'm a new Debian 10 (Buster) gnome user. I can't connect using bluetooth. I'm using Asus laptop x453s. Please help me with this. Thank you!

No Bluetooth adapter found

2020-11-21 Thread Edgar Villanueva Jr
I'm a new Debian 10 (Buster) gnome user. I can't connect using bluetooth. I'm using Asus laptop x453s. Please help me with this. Thank you!

No Bluetooth adapter found

2020-11-21 Thread Edgar Villanueva Jr
I'm a new Debian 10 (Buster) gnome user. I can't connect using bluetooth. I'm using Asus laptop x453s. Please help me with this. Thank you

Configuring my Epson L360 printer in Debian 10, gnome

2020-11-20 Thread Edgar Villanueva Jr
I've tried to follow the instructions and recommended guide before but it didn't work. Thanks 😊

Problem on configuration of Epson L360 printer in Debian 10 gnome

2020-11-20 Thread Edgar Villanueva Jr
I've followed the recommended guide until I arrived at the Epson L364 (driver) preconfigured but when I print, the output is different. I hope you could help me with this! Thanks 😊

Problem on installing software in Debian 10 gnome

2020-11-20 Thread Edgar Villanueva Jr
Good day! I've encountered a Problem when I'm installing gdebi and other software from the software center. It always says that "no application data found" how can I solve this problem? Thanks

Re: How to Fix the apt-get install error: “Media change: please insert the disc labeled ...” in Debian 10.

2020-11-19 Thread Edgar Villanueva Jr
Thank you 😊 so much sir! On Thu, Nov 19, 2020, 4:47 PM Daniel Lange wrote: > Hi Edgar, > > Am 19.11.20 um 09:04 schrieb Edgar Villanueva Jr: > > I was amazed by the description that Debian is robust and reliable etc. > > So I decided to install it. But when I try to insta

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2020-05-08 Thread Thomas McAtee Jr
For some reason unable to file a bug report. Tried under kernel and the Linux Image as well. Here is my issue. I'm using Debian Testing Mate and a couple days ago I did my update/upgrades. I received the new Linux Image 5.6.0.1. After I did the update/upgrade I also did the dist-upgrade as well li

Grub not seeing my root did

2015-08-11 Thread Herminio Hernandez Jr.
I just installed Debian on my MacBook Pro and now it cannot see my root to boot from. On the live CD and manually set the boot flag on the partition but still no go. Has anyone ran into this before? Sent from my iPhone -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: yaboot: How to load Debian8 netboot installation images directly from the boot: prompt?

2015-05-26 Thread Herminio Hernandez Jr.
not >> under iBook :( > > Thanks for the info. I may give it a try. > > -clark >> >> 2015-05-26 14:17 GMT+08:00 clarkw : >> > On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Petter Adsen wrote: >> >> >> >> On Tue, 26 May 2015 13:16:04 +0800 &g

Re: yaboot: How to load Debian8 netboot installation images directly from the boot: prompt?

2015-05-25 Thread Herminio Hernandez Jr
On Tue, 2015-05-26 at 10:22 +0800, Clark Wang wrote: > I have an `iBook G4` and have `Debian 8 (Jessie)` installed on it. > Yesterday I did something stupid (messed up `yaboot.conf` and ran > `ybin`) and now the system cannot boot up. > > The old Debian 8 was installed on a single partition (`/dev

Re: Debian on iBook G4 Running OSX Tiger

2014-12-29 Thread Herminio Hernandez Jr.
If you are looking for debian install walk through for PPC then checkout these two places. http://ppcluddite.blogspot.com/ And http://powerpcliberation.blogspot.ca/2013/07/quick-and-dirty-light-and-fast.html Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 29, 2014, at 7:21 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > >> On Sun, D

Re: How to key Esperanto characters

2011-12-12 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Check out http://askubuntu.com/questions/29731/rebind-alt-key-to-win-using-setxkbmap it might give you some hints to solve your problem. Sorry for top posting, stupid droid email won't allow interspersed reply... -- rbmj Dr Sian Mountbatten wrote: >Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: >

Re: How to key Esperanto characters

2011-12-12 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:40:23 + (UTC) Cousin Stanley wrote: > Doug wrote: > > > > > The answer is to set up your Compose key. > > > > The following link might help > to learn how to set up the Compose key > > http://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/ComposeKey > I just

Re: Choosing a distribution (was: Just a simple query)

2011-10-27 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:58:51 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:59:38 -0400, Burhan Hanoglu wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Camaleón > > wrote: > >> On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:55:40 +0530, Linux Tyro wrote: > >> > >>> I am beginner in Linux and do another job. But I

Re: PCManFM in SID

2011-10-13 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:35:37 -0400 "Robert Blair Mason Jr." wrote: > On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:23:20 +0530 > "Sridhar M.A." wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 04:46:08PM -0400, Robert Blair Mason Jr. > > wrote: > >> > >> PCMa

Re: PCManFM in SID

2011-10-11 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:23:20 +0530 "Sridhar M.A." wrote: > On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 04:46:08PM -0400, Robert Blair Mason Jr. > wrote: >> >> PCManFM Releases: >> >> 0.9.9 - August 2011 - this version works fine >> 0.9.8 (SID) - Oc

Re: installare debian su macair

2011-10-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:15:40 +0200 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Ciao Alessandro, > > Am Montag, 10. Oktober 2011 schrieb alessandro soprana: > > valdagno, 10.10.2011 > > > > ho un mac air da febbraio 2011 e vorrei installare debian. Mentre su > > altri notebook riesco ad installarlo su questo no

Re: PCManFM in SID

2011-10-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:36:50 + (UTC) Walter Hurry wrote: > On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:28:27 -0400, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: > > > Hi list, > > > > Just a quick question - does anybody know where I can go to figure > > out the status of getting a new ve

PCManFM in SID

2011-10-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Hi list, Just a quick question - does anybody know where I can go to figure out the status of getting a new version of PCManFM? The version currently in SID is still pretty old and has some showstopper (won't start, crashes, etc. - these have been filed for some time but not fixed) bugs for those

Re: LXDE Menu editing

2011-10-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 10:55:52 -0600 Javier Vasquez wrote: > On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Robert Blair Mason Jr. > wrote: > > > ... > > > > I don't want to provoke anyone or start a flame war, but why does > > the debian menu system still exist?  It h

Re: LXDE Menu editing

2011-10-08 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 23:25:14 +0100 Richard wrote: > On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 13:03:03 -0500 (CDT) > Blair Mason wrote: > > > Oct 8, 2011 11:52:04 AM, richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I'm trying out LXDE, much less system load, very noticeable . > > > Is there a menu editor simila

Re: HD Data Recovery

2011-10-03 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 23:27:42 + (UTC) Walter Hurry wrote: > On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:07:23 -0400, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: > > > A few days ago one of my parents' computers stopped booting, and > > they don't have any external backups > > I am sick and

HD Data Recovery

2011-10-03 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Hey list, A few days ago one of my parents' computers stopped booting, and they don't have any external backups, so I have to try and backup the data. BIOS POST revealed that the cause was a hard disk error. I swapped the drive in as a slave on another comp of mine and attempted to see if I could

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-03 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:13:25 +0200 Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > On 02/10/2011 18:36, John Hasler wrote: > > consul tores wrote: > > > > Lisi writes: > >> Maybe we should coin an adjective. USian perhaps? > > > > And you can be EUian. > > TERRAn? > (finalizing the spaceship thingy sitting in the gara

Re: OFF-TOPIC: HTML to send data out a certain port

2011-10-03 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:56:36 -1000 Joel Roth wrote: > On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 02:32:15PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > Yes, off-topic, but you folks are the brightest group with which I'm > > affiliated > > > > We're thinking of building a Debian-based web-server that offers up > > a "remote

bind9: DNSSEC SERVFAIL when zone has no DS record

2011-10-03 Thread Sergio Charpinel Jr.
t configured properly and so DNSSEC shouldn't work, but bind shouldn't behave like this. If the zone is not configured properly, bind should query it anyway, the same way it does when the zone isn't signed. I didn't find any related bugs. Btw, I'm using bind 9.7.3 from debia

Re: Curlftpfs replacement?

2011-09-09 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:52:06 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:43:06 -0400, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: > > (...) > > > I do know that FTP doesn't use any encryption unless you use TLS, > > which the servers I'm connecting to appear to u

Re: Curlftpfs replacement?

2011-09-09 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 02:21:11 -0400 Chris Brennan wrote: > On 9/8/2011 11:06 PM, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: > > > > I've googled some, but can't seem to find any active project > > providing FTP mounts. Currently I've installed curlftpfs, but cf >

Curlftpfs replacement?

2011-09-08 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Hi list, I've googled some, but can't seem to find any active project providing FTP mounts. Currently I've installed curlftpfs, but cf wikipedia the project appears to be abandoned. Is there a new version or project that is still being developed upstream that anyone here knows about? Thanks, -

Re: Ugly appearence after upgrade

2011-09-05 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 17:32:27 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:47:46 +, Walter Hurry wrote: > > > On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:57:13 +, Camaleón wrote: > > > >> I neither like gnome-shell in its current state (I tested GNOME > >> 3.0 in openSUSE and did not feel good with i

Re: How to set mailto application

2011-09-02 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:45:49 -0400 "Robert Blair Mason Jr." wrote: > > How can I configure chromium to open claws-mail as the mailto link > handler? Right now it just opens a new chromium window to the new tab > page. > Nevermind, I figured it out. Apparently /usr/b

How to set mailto application

2011-09-01 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Hi list, How can I configure chromium to open claws-mail as the mailto link handler? Right now it just opens a new chromium window to the new tab page. Thanks, -- rbmj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas.

Re: sharing one r/w unix filesystem between different machines and users

2011-08-29 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 19:18:35 -0400 shawn wilson wrote: > I don't understand what is hard about this. I mean if you don't care > about security, just make sure the mount has a umask of 770 (or > whatever) and make an export, reload exports, and mount it from > wherever you want. > > What am I mis

Re: sharing one r/w unix filesystem between different machines and users

2011-08-28 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 10:01:05 -0400 "Robert Blair Mason Jr." wrote: > > I understand OSX doesn't help anyone here... perhaps someone could > request an implementation of this command in the mount source code? > It seems simple - just check if the filesystem has noowne

Re: sharing one r/w unix filesystem between different machines and users

2011-08-28 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 08:41:35 +0200 Christoph Groth wrote: > "Robert Blair Mason Jr." writes: > > > Christoph Groth wrote: > > > > Will something like the following work? This works on any filesystem > > using standard unix permissions (such

Re: sharing one r/w unix filesystem between different machines and users

2011-08-25 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 01:02:57 +0200 Christoph Groth wrote: > Blair Mason writes: > > > Permission schemes on removable media are not too powerful annyway, > > as anyone with root on any machine can change them... my $0.02. > > Exactly -- I wonder whether there are any decent (modern features, >

Re: how to change root passwd (if forgotten)

2011-08-11 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:48:02 -0600 Aaron Toponce wrote: > > sulogin is easy enough to bypass. > > * Boot Live CD > * Mount / > * Edit /etc/inittab > * Comment out si::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS > * Reboot into single user mode > > Much easer than chroots, or any of the other pr

Re: how to change root passwd (if forgotten)

2011-08-11 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 07:14:23 + (GMT) Francois Cerbelle wrote: > Le Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:10:02 +0200, Thierry Chatelet a écrit : > > On Wednesday 10 August 2011 17:53:26 Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > >> if i'm not mistaken you can just go to single user mode on centos > >> by appending "1" or "sing

Re: [SOLVED] GLX Missing

2011-08-11 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
I figured out my issue. I was playing with OpenCL and it pulled in a bunch of nvidia stuff because it was selecting nvidia-libopencl1 by default. Then, when I was googling how to fix the video drivers I was blindly filtering all of the instructions through s/apt-get/aptitude/ and aptitude wasn't

GLX Missing

2011-08-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Hello list, I am unable to get 3d graphics on my laptop. I've tried the standard reinstall xserver-xorg, xserver-xorg-video-intel, dpkg-reconfigure, and then restart, but it hasn't worked. My video card: $ lspci | grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Inte

Re: Boost sound volume?

2011-08-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:06:19 +0200 Tomas Kral wrote: > On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 16:07 +0200, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 06:01:46 -0400 > > Carl Fink wrote: > > > No, it's a well-known problem with PulseAudio. It gives max > > > vol

Re: [OT] plot execution flows from C/C++ sources

2011-08-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:33:46 +0100 Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: > Hello all, > > [ maybe some programers out there... :) ] > > I recently stared working on a project for maintenance and new > developments on an existing huge code base of C/C++ > > It's quite a challenge for newcommers. > > D

Re: Boost sound volume?

2011-08-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 06:01:46 -0400 Carl Fink wrote: > No, it's a well-known problem with PulseAudio. It gives max volumes > much, much lower than Windows for no special reason I know of. Is it possible for me to just kill the PulseAudio server when I'm starting certain applications, or force them

Boost sound volume?

2011-08-09 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Hi list, Is there a way to boost the system sound volume? Playing DVDs in VLC with the alsa, pulseaudio, and vlc volumes all maxed out is still about 30-40% of max volume in 'doze. I don't like pulseaudio, but for some reason skype doesn't work without it, and my family won't allow me to not hav

Re: ad-hoc wifi - network unreachable

2011-08-06 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sat, 06 Aug 2011 21:10:53 +0200 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2011-08-05 09:42:11 -0400, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: > > I am unable to connect to adhoc networks on debian sid using wicd. > > Whenever I try to connect to an adhoc network (in this case the one > > broadc

ad-hoc wifi - network unreachable

2011-08-05 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Hi everyone, I am unable to connect to adhoc networks on debian sid using wicd. Whenever I try to connect to an adhoc network (in this case the one broadcast by barnacle on my phone, but the problem is reproducible on any adhoc network), wicd appears to go through all of the steps to connect succe

Re: wicd

2011-08-03 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:55:26 +0200 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2011-08-03 10:18:15 +1000, Charlie wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 11:45:05 -0400 "Mark Grieveson > > dg...@torfree.net" suggested this: > > > > >So, I looked and > > >found only the latch, which also had something that sort of seemed

Re: Overwriting a 4096 byte sector harddisk drive with random data

2011-07-21 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:36:28 +1000 yudi v wrote: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Robert Blair Mason Jr. > wrote: > > > On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:47:44 +1000 > > yudi v wrote: > > > > > Hi > > > > > > I need to write random data to a partiti

Re: Overwriting a 4096 byte sector harddisk drive with random data

2011-07-21 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:47:44 +1000 yudi v wrote: > Hi > > I need to write random data to a partition before encrypting it. > Suggested way is to use urandom: > > #dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda2 > > What is the use of operand "bs" in the following case? I see the above > command executed as fo

Re: Setting up FTP server with specific username and password

2011-07-20 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:19:15 +0100 Alan Chandler wrote: > On 20/07/11 13:22, Dejan Ribič wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to set up a FTP server, with specific username and > > password, because i have a router backup set up, to backup every > > hour now on Windows 7 I have FTP Server set-up li

Re: ASUS u52 builtin microphone (alsa-driver-linuxant)

2011-07-18 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 18:20:45 -0400 "Robert Blair Mason Jr." wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > So I've been trying to get my laptop (ASUS u52) microphone to work. > First off, if anybody knows how to get the builtin microphone to work > without bothering with alsa-driver

Debian base system snapshot available?

2011-07-11 Thread Herb Miller Jr.
Where can I find a snapshot of the Debian base system to facilitate deployment in a chrooted environment? Is such a thing available? Thank you, Herb

ASUS u52 builtin microphone (alsa-driver-linuxant)

2011-07-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Hello Everyone, So I've been trying to get my laptop (ASUS u52) microphone to work. First off, if anybody knows how to get the builtin microphone to work without bothering with alsa-driver-linuxant, or if I didn't know the correct google-foo to find a binary package for alsa-driver-linuxant that w

Re: New Guy asks: I want to run Squeeze, except for a few particular things...

2011-06-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
y get much attention. My guide hasn't been updated in a while, but it should help point you in the right direction(s). -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: LVM: combining two logical volumes, how?

2011-05-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
writing to /usr is a policy violation, unless the administrator has specifically configured the package to write somewhere under /usr. This is is compliance with the FHS. In any case, my instructions (specifically: remount,ro) would prevent writes from occurring as well. -- B

Re: Wrong permissions to "/" in my debian/testing system

2011-05-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
nd-line parameter. File system permissions are persistent. If you don't see them change you can't be sure whether nothing is trying to change them OR coming is trying to change them, but to what they already are. If you do see them change, then you can start isolating the problem

Re: LVM: combining two logical volumes, how?

2011-05-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
but then the file systems or device mapper devices or whatever you put on top of your LVs could be confused. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.

Re: Wrong permissions 0777 on "/" in my debian/testing system

2011-05-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
set to 0777, just as during normal boot. > >So the problem must be associated somehow with bootloader (grub), >as no initialization scripts are run in this case... File system permissions are stored persistently. If they don't change, you have no indication w

Re: Chromium 11 on Debian 6.0.1 Stable

2011-05-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Camaleón wrote: >On Wed, 25 May 2011 09:21:24 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> In , Camaleón wrote: >>>On Wed, 25 May 2011 08:50:56 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >>>> "Obsolete" isn't the right term. >>> >>>How would

Re: Chromium 11 on Debian 6.0.1 Stable

2011-05-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
t; on the web without having to go beyond what is in Debian main.[1] I suppose I'm just willing to make different choices then you. [1] Occasionally, I grab flash from somewhere other than main, but I usually find it isn't worth having around and uninstall it

Re: Chromium 11 on Debian 6.0.1 Stable

2011-05-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Camaleón wrote: >On Wed, 25 May 2011 08:50:56 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> In , Camaleón wrote: >>>Today's >>>browsers upgrade to a new version in just two months (!) and you are >>>left with an obsolete package for several years. >&

Re: Chromium 11 on Debian 6.0.1 Stable

2011-05-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
, but they are generally well-maintained, quite usable, and in-use (by me, if no one else.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/

Re: How do fixes/improvements to video drivers get rolled out in Squeeze?

2011-05-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
e's more detail about what is considered an RC bug for Squeeze: <http://release.debian.org/squeeze/rc_policy.txt> -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-'

Re: repository change

2011-05-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
urce listed. I don't think APT does any timing calculations during an update that it uses during a download / install / upgrade. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: UUID - autmatically entries?

2011-05-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
s should work as well. (LABEL= and UUID= syntaxes are not dependent on udev, only on a "recent" util-linux, IIRC.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: What is the recommended way to handle squeeze-proposed-updates?

2011-05-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20110519195909.GA8991@Europa.office>, Freeman wrote: >Proposed-updates replaces the volatile archive. No, that's stable-updates, not stable-proposed-updates. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ:

Re: What is the recommended way to handle squeeze-proposed-updates?

2011-05-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
e moved into s-p-u. Traditionally, s-p-u has been sort of a staging area for fixes that should be included in the next point release of stable (which includes both security updates and "important" bug fixes). I believe for Squeeze and forward it will also serve as a sta

Re: What is the recommended way to handle squeeze-proposed-updates?

2011-05-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
by upstream so, depending on the upstream, it may be relatively bug- free and well-tested, but unstable is updated almost continuously so a system using is can be under quite a lot of flux. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net (

Re: Debian update/upgrade good practices?

2011-05-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
bug fixes are "backported" to the old version, in an attempt to keep stable as free- from-change as possible. (The patch fixing the issue is isolated, then mangled to apply to the old version and tested.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanas

Re: Avoid POP3

2011-05-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
ve, nonstandard) to transfer a file to or from removable media. I needed to download photos to a CD-ROM 4. (transitive, nonstandard) to install software. So, download covers "fetch the messages" but not "remove them from the server". So, yeah. There&#x

Re: Poll Summary & Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
upgraded very regularly until moving to Debian.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: T

Re: backports updates

2011-05-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
t; 1) but it will be $bpo_ver (100 == 100) in Squeeze. Full details of how the candidate is chosen is documented in the apt_preferences(5) manpage. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Tracing Filesystem Accesses

2011-05-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
SSDs. However, SSDs have such a performance increase over SMDs that I doubt misalignment would be noticed very much. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://ig

Re: Fwd: Re: [OT] Re: Defending yourself

2011-05-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
reply style, including myself, it is not part of the Code of Conduct for the list. There are certain advantages to the top-posting style, but I think few are relevant for this type of mailing list. It's almost impossible to defend a full-quoted message on this list, since it is

Re: Fwd: Re: [OT] Re: Defending yourself

2011-05-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Camaleón wrote: >On Wed, 11 May 2011 23:24:30 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> On 2011-05-11 17:35:20 Freeman wrote: >>>On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 08:30:49PM +, Camaleón wrote: >>>> IMHO, that rule lacks the following preface: "Should a user st

Re: Fwd: Re: [OT] Re: Defending yourself

2011-05-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-05-11 18:11:56 shawn wilson wrote: >this thread still doesn't have an OT in the subject! It does here: "Re: Fwd: Re: [OT] Re: Defending yourself". -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_))

Re: Fwd: Re: [OT] Re: Defending yourself

2011-05-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
't commercial in nature, so it doesn't qualify under definition #2. It wasn't (made of) meat, so it doesn't qualify under definition #4. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM:

Re: Fwd: Re: [OT] Re: Defending yourself

2011-05-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
ause significant and irreversible damage. Whereas, keeping the reply private causes, at most, temporary and reversible damage. Replies to private messages should be kept private. It is easy enough to prompt the sender to use the list for future correspondence and simultaneously give you pe

Re: Fwd: Re: [OT] Re: Defending yourself

2011-05-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
private mail. You violated this part of list policy: "Do not quote messages that were sent to you by other people in private mail, unless agreed beforehand." -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ:

Re: Nouveau Experiments (was: Re: grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root')

2011-05-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-05-09 20:52:05 Stephen Powell wrote: >On Mon, 09 May 2011 01:45:33 -0400 (EDT), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> The problem I am having is a bit more subtle. The framebuffer completely >> fills my 19" monitor, but the framebuffer has gaps on the bottom and right

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