Re: Debian 5 -- "data" is plural.

2014-05-26 Thread Dan B.
Ken Heard wrote:> ... > Some people however do use the word "medias". On the other hand does > anyone use the word datas? If not, it is logical to conclude that > they give word "data" a plural meaning. Wrong--what is logical to conclude is that they consider "data" what another poster called a

Re: Debian 5 -- is going back to Roman Empire

2014-05-21 Thread John Hasler
André Nunes Batista writes: > But your despise will be here for the record... "Despise"? -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: ht

Re: Debian 5 -- is going back to Roman Empire

2014-05-21 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Wed, 2014-05-21 at 10:03 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > On 2014-05-21 04:23, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 20 May 2014, Weaver wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > Pedantic or not, I'd never treat data or media as singular. An > > still worse usage, which I find even with some scientific speakers, > > is t

Re: Debian 5 -- "data" is plural.

2014-05-21 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-05-21 04:23, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 20 May 2014, Weaver wrote: > > [snip] > Pedantic or not, I'd never treat data or media as singular. An > still worse usage, which I find even with some scientific speakers, > is to use bacteria as sin

Re: Debian 5 -- "data" is plural.

2014-05-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 20 May 2014, Weaver wrote: [snip] > This is only currently in the context of scientific literature and even > perhaps dying out in that context, over time, also. > > It descends from English language inheritance of Latin language > terminology, and the English language is moving on, as langu

Re: Debian 5 -- "data" is plural.

2014-05-20 Thread Weaver
On Tue, May 20, 2014 8:00 am, Ken Heard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2014-05-19 16:22, Mike McGinn wrote: > > > >> I would suggest identifying an backing up the scientific data. I >> would suggest putting a backuo program in place and auditing the >> backups to

Re: Debian 5 -- "data" is plural.

2014-05-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 20 May 2014 21:50:27 Slavko wrote: > This is international ML, not all posters are native English speakers > (BTW i never meet any native English speaker), then IMO some tolerance > is needed (and expected). I agree, Slavko. But, to be fair to Ken, some at least of those using data as

Re: Debian 5 -- "data" is plural.

2014-05-20 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Tue, 20 May 2014 14:49:02 -0400 Ken Heard napísal: > The Oxford English Dictionary however agrees with me. This is international ML, not all posters are native English speakers (BTW i never meet any native English speaker), then IMO some tolerance is needed (and expected). regards -

Re: Debian 5 -- "data" is plural.

2014-05-20 Thread Filip
On Tue, 20 May 2014 14:49:02 -0400 Ken Heard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2014-05-20 12:16, Filip wrote: > > > On Tue, 20 May 2014 17:03:16 +0100 Lisi Reisz > > wrote: > > > >> (Sorry, Ken. re-sending correctly to list.) > >> > >> On Tuesday 20 May 2014 16

Re: Debian 5 -- "data" is plural.

2014-05-20 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-05-20 12:16, Filip wrote: > On Tue, 20 May 2014 17:03:16 +0100 Lisi Reisz > wrote: > >> (Sorry, Ken. re-sending correctly to list.) >> >> On Tuesday 20 May 2014 16:00:42 Ken Heard wrote: >>> Please note everybody that the word "data" is pl

Re: Debian 5 -- "data" is plural.

2014-05-20 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-05-20 12:03, Lisi Reisz wrote: > (Sorry, Ken. resending correctly to list.) > > On Tuesday 20 May 2014 16:00:42 Ken Heard wrote: >> Please note everybody that the word "data" is plural. The >> beginning of the last line quoted above should c

Re: Debian 5 -- "data" is plural.

2014-05-20 Thread Terence
Yeah, if you'm dumb, why not be dumbder.. Wen us all jess grunts is be no confison yeah! On 20 May 2014 19:19, Brian wrote: > On Tue 20 May 2014 at 17:03:16 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Tuesday 20 May 2014 16:00:42 Ken Heard wrote: > > > Please note everybody that the word "data" is p

Re: Debian 5 -- "data" is plural.

2014-05-20 Thread Brian
On Tue 20 May 2014 at 17:03:16 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 20 May 2014 16:00:42 Ken Heard wrote: > > Please note everybody that the word "data" is plural. The beginning > > of the last line quoted above should consequently read "all the > > scientific data *are* backed up." Other posts

Re: Debian 5 -- "data" is plural.

2014-05-20 Thread Filip
On Tue, 20 May 2014 17:03:16 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: > (Sorry, Ken. resending correctly to list.) > > On Tuesday 20 May 2014 16:00:42 Ken Heard wrote: > > Please note everybody that the word "data" is plural. The beginning > > of the last line quoted above should consequently read "all the > >

Re: Debian 5 -- "data" is plural.

2014-05-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
(Sorry, Ken. resending correctly to list.) On Tuesday 20 May 2014 16:00:42 Ken Heard wrote: > Please note everybody that the word "data" is plural. The beginning > of the last line quoted above should consequently read "all the > scientific data *are* backed up." Other posts in this thread make

Re: Debian 5 -- "data" is plural.

2014-05-20 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-05-19 16:22, Mike McGinn wrote: > I would suggest identifying an backing up the scientific data. I > would suggest putting a backuo program in place and auditing the > backups to make sure that all the scientific data is backed up. > Only th

Re: Debian 5

2014-05-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 20 mai 14, 10:35:34, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 19 mai 14, 15:40:05, Jim Harris wrote: > > We checked the archives, however they seem to be closed at this time. > > Check http://achive.debian.org ^^^ Sorry, that is a*r*chive, of course. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://

Re: Debian 5

2014-05-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 19 mai 14, 15:40:05, Jim Harris wrote: > We checked the archives, however they seem to be closed at this time. Check http://achive.debian.org Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.deb

Re: Debian 5

2014-05-19 Thread Paul E Condon
Jim, Within a few hundred yards of your facility, if its on UofP home campus, is a world center of computing experts, maybe several world centers. Many of the computer experts in these centers are also experts on Debian and some of them may have had a hand in the original setting up of the compute

Re: Debian 5

2014-05-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 19 May 2014 20:40:05 Jim Harris wrote: > I ran into a situation whereby a server was not well maintained and > contains some critical scientific information for someone I know. Updating and upgrading only matters if the machine is in contact with the outside world. Otherwise, if it is

Re: Debian 5

2014-05-19 Thread Mr. Queue
On 5/19/2014 2:40 PM, Jim Harris wrote: > I ran into a situation whereby a server was not well maintained and contains > some critical scientific information for someone I know. It has not been > properly maintained since the system was put together using very talented > computer people at the t

Re: Debian 5

2014-05-19 Thread John Bleichert
On 05/19/2014 03:40 PM, Jim Harris wrote: If it can be saved, what would be a suggestion? Thank you. Depends on the data format. Upgrading it would be arduous and time consuming. It would probably take less to backup the data, re-install the server to bring it up to date and then bring th

Re: Debian 5

2014-05-19 Thread Mike McGinn
On Monday, May 19, 2014 15:40:05 Jim Harris wrote: > I ran into a situation whereby a server was not well maintained and > contains some critical scientific information for someone I know. It has > not been properly maintained since the system was put together using very > talented computer people

Re: Debian 5

2013-01-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Benitez, Alejandro (Infolink Miami) wrote: > There any via to fix the following : > > W: GPG error: http://archive.debian.org lenny/updates Release: The following > signatures were invalid: KEYEXPIRED 1356982504 W: GPG error: > http://archive.debian.org lenny/volatile Release: The following sig

RE: Debian 5

2013-01-28 Thread Benitez, Alejandro (Infolink Miami)
Hi, There any via to fix the following : W: GPG error: http://archive.debian.org lenny/updates Release: The following signatures were invalid: KEYEXPIRED 1356982504 W: GPG error: http://archive.debian.org lenny/volatile Release: The following signatures were invalid: KEYEXPIRED 1358963195 W:

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-31 Thread Keith McKenzie
>> On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Joel Rees wrote: >> >> From research that I had previously done, the simplest option (for me, >> being a fairly simple kind of person) appeared to be PC-BSD >> (http://www.pcbsd.org/). PC-BSD 8.x had only a KDE GUI (from memory), >> and I am, a GNOME GUI user (from memory,

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-30 Thread Richard Hector
On 31/07/12 13:35, Joel Rees wrote: Looking at Samsung's pages, they say the scanner is compatible with twain, so you should be able to take a scan from it okay. Um, my understanding of TWAIN may be rusty and incomplete, but my understanding is that it's an interface between their (Windows) sc

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-30 Thread Joel Rees
On 7/25/12, Bret Busby wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Joel Rees wrote: > >> >> On 7/23/12, Bret Busby wrote: >>> [...] >>> >>> One of the reasons that I wanted to be able to log in as root, is to >>> perform an update on that system. >>> >>> The system is running Firestarter on Debian 5. >>> >>> H

Re: Samsung CLX-3185 driver(s) - was Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query about root account

2012-07-26 Thread Bret Busby
On Thu, 26 Jul 2012, Lisi wrote: On Thursday 26 July 2012 05:19:34 Bret Busby wrote: I found two distinct problems, when I tried using the URL in one of the screenshots from the splix web site; the URL apparently being for CUPS. The first, relates to -> "Find New Printers". Selecting this bu

Re: Samsung CLX-3185 driver(s) - was Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query about root account

2012-07-26 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 26 July 2012 05:19:34 Bret Busby wrote: > I found two distinct problems, when I tried using the URL in one of the > screenshots from the splix web site; the URL apparently being for CUPS. > > The first, relates to -> "Find New Printers". Selecting > this button, leads to > > " > Availa

Re: Samsung CLX-3185 driver(s) - was Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query about root account

2012-07-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 26 iul 12, 12:19:34, Bret Busby wrote: > > Also, in switching on the printer, I get dialogue box "New printer > found Samsung CLX-3180 series" I select "Search", which opens up two > dialogue boxes, and the one "New Printer", in choosing "Select > printer from database" and "Samsung", gives

Re: Samsung CLX-3185 driver(s) - was Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query about root account

2012-07-25 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Lisi wrote: On Wednesday 25 July 2012 21:20:52 Andrei POPESCU wrote: But, splix does not appear in any of the menu's, and the web site for splix, does not include any instructions, including how to run splix. Splix is a driver, so you will not find it in any menu. Instea

Re: Samsung CLX-3185 driver(s) - was Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query about root account

2012-07-25 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 25 July 2012 21:20:52 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > But, splix does not appear in any of the menu's, and the web site > > for splix, does not include any instructions, including how to run > > splix. > > Splix is a driver, so you will not find it in any menu. Instead you > should try to ad

Re: Samsung CLX-3185 driver(s) - was Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 26 iul 12, 00:48:20, Bret Busby wrote: > > I believe that it was Debian 5 with which I had tried splix previously. > > In looking at http://splix.ap2c.org/ , the Samsung CLX-3185 is not > listed as being compatible with splix. > > However, using Synaptic, I have installed splix. > > But,

Re: Samsung CLX-3185 driver(s) - was Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-25 Thread Slavko
Hi, Dňa Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:48:20 +0800 (WST) Bret Busby napísal: > I believe that it was Debian 5 with which I had tried splix previously. > > In looking at http://splix.ap2c.org/ , the Samsung CLX-3185 is not > listed as being compatible with splix. My experiences with splix and (another ty

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-25 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:18:34 From: Andrei POPESCU To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account On Ma, 24 iul 12, 01:20:26, Bret Busby wrote: It seems strange (to me), that notification of an update

Samsung CLX-3185 driver(s) - was Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-25 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 24 iul 12, 01:34:16, Bret Busby wrote: My previous experience with splix, is not good. From memory, I tried splix with the first CLX-3185FW (it died a few months ago, just before the Debian 5 workstation died, from memory - we have an unsaf

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-25 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 02:42:44 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Camaleón wrote: > > >> On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 01:20:26 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: >> >> (...) >> >>> It seems strange (to me), that notification of an update release is >>> broadcast, and then all repositories of that versio

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-25 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 02:27:25 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jul 2012, Camaleón wrote: (...) >>> Debian archive mirror hostname: >>> (http://http.debian.net/debian-archive) >> >> You can try here with just the hostname, that is: "http.debian.net" >> >>> Please enter the directory in which

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 24 iul 12, 01:20:26, Bret Busby wrote: > > It seems strange (to me), that notification of an update release is > broadcast, and then all repositories of that version, are > disappeared at the same time as that release. Quoting from the announcement: , | Please note that the oldstable

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 24 iul 12, 01:34:16, Bret Busby wrote: > > My previous experience with splix, is not good. > > >From memory, I tried splix with the first CLX-3185FW (it died a > >few > months ago, just before the Debian 5 workstation died, from memory - > we have an unsafe electricity supply in this state

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-24 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Joel Rees wrote: On 7/23/12, Bret Busby wrote: [...] One of the reasons that I wanted to be able to log in as root, is to perform an update on that system. The system is running Firestarter on Debian 5. However, another problem has arisen, that indicates that that syst

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-24 Thread Joel Rees
On 7/23/12, Bret Busby wrote: > [...] > > One of the reasons that I wanted to be able to log in as root, is to > perform an update on that system. > > The system is running Firestarter on Debian 5. > > However, another problem has arisen, that indicates that that system > apparently cannot be upda

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-24 Thread Bret Busby
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 01:20:26 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: (...) It seems strange (to me), that notification of an update release is broadcast, and then all repositories of that version, are disappeared at the same time as that release. No repo has dissapear

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-24 Thread Bret Busby
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 02:04:37 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 18:23:02 +0100, Brian wrote: As sure as I can be without moving round the world and after reading http.debian.net. But it is easy for you t

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-24 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 02:04:37 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Camaleón wrote: > > >> On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 18:23:02 +0100, Brian wrote: >>> As sure as I can be without moving round the world and after reading >>> http.debian.net. But it is easy for you to test for your country. >>>

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-24 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 01:45:15 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Brian wrote: > > >> On Mon 23 Jul 2012 at 17:14:42 +, Camaleón wrote: >>> debian.net ! debian.org >> >> > I think that should be > debian.net != debian.org (?) > :) (...) Yes if you wanted to be programmatically

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-23 Thread Bret Busby
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 01:20:26 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: (...) It seems strange (to me), that notification of an update release is broadcast, and then all repositories of that version, are disappeared at the same time as that release. No repo has dissapeared but moved. Do the ISO images for D

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-23 Thread Brian
On Mon 23 Jul 2012 at 17:37:50 +, Camaleón wrote: > *** > Using the redirector > > Replace your currently configured Debian mirror in sources.list with the > following address: > > (...) > > Archived releases (archive.debian.org): > > http://http.debian.net/debian-archive > *** > > The

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-23 Thread Bret Busby
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 18:23:02 +0100, Brian wrote: On Mon 23 Jul 2012 at 17:14:42 +, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:47:45 +0100, Brian wrote: Neither will work as none of the mirrors used by http.debian.net has the Lenny achive on it. Mmm..

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-23 Thread Bret Busby
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Brian wrote: On Mon 23 Jul 2012 at 17:14:42 +, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:47:45 +0100, Brian wrote: Neither will work as none of the mirrors used by http.debian.net has the Lenny achive on it. Mmm... sure? ;-) debian.net ! debian.org I think that

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-23 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 18:23:02 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Mon 23 Jul 2012 at 17:14:42 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:47:45 +0100, Brian wrote: >> >> > Neither will work as none of the mirrors used by http.debian.net has >> > the Lenny achive on it. >> >> Mmm... sure? ;-) >> >>

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-23 Thread Bret Busby
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Lisi wrote: On Sunday 22 July 2012 19:08:46 Andrei POPESCU wrote: But I was unable to install the drivers for the printer, on the Debian 6 workstation. Try splix. +1 Lisi My previous experience with splix, is not good. From memory, I tried splix with the first C

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-23 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 01:20:26 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: (...) > It seems strange (to me), that notification of an update release is > broadcast, and then all repositories of that version, are disappeared at > the same time as that release. No repo has dissapeared but moved. > Do the ISO images fo

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-23 Thread Brian
On Mon 23 Jul 2012 at 17:14:42 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:47:45 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > Neither will work as none of the mirrors used by http.debian.net has the > > Lenny achive on it. > > Mmm... sure? ;-) > > debian.net ! debian.org As sure as I can be without moving ro

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-23 Thread Bret Busby
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Brian wrote: Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:47:45 From: Brian Reply-To: debian-user To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account Resent-Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:48:03 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Mon

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-23 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:47:45 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Mon 23 Jul 2012 at 17:39:23 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: >> Try putting the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list on that Debian >> 5. >> >> deb http://http.debian.net/debian-archive/debian lenny deb-src >> http://http.debian.net/debian-a

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-23 Thread Brian
On Mon 23 Jul 2012 at 17:39:23 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > On 22.07.2012 20:49, Bret Busby wrote: > > However, another problem has arisen, that indicates that that > > system apparently cannot be updated, and has to stay as it is, > > without having been updated for about a year or so, which

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-23 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 22.07.2012 20:49, Bret Busby wrote: > However, another problem has arisen, that indicates that that > system apparently cannot be updated, and has to stay as it is, > without having been updated for about a year or so, which is > unfortunate for a

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-23 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 22 July 2012 19:08:46 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > But I was unable to install the drivers for the printer, on the > > Debian 6 workstation. > > Try splix. +1 Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-23 Thread Keith McKenzie
. > > > Maybe this is what you want (?) > > http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian-5.0/main/installer-i386/20090123lenny10/images/cdrom/ > > HTH > -- That is, I think, one of the places that I looked. But, with what is there, being " Index of /debian/dists/Debian-5.0/main/installer-i386

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-23 Thread Bret Busby
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Keith McKenzie wrote: Bret Busby wrote: I have a Samsung MFP printer thing; a CLX-3185FW, and I had been able to use it with a Debian 5 system that I had been using. Then, the Debian 5 system went awry (a separate system from the firewall system), and became apparently un

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-23 Thread Keith McKenzie
Bret Busby wrote: > > I have a Samsung MFP printer thing; a CLX-3185FW, and I had been > able to use it with a Debian 5 system that I had been using. Then, > the Debian 5 system went awry (a separate system from the firewall > system), and became apparently unusable. > > So, I installed Debian 6

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 23 iul 12, 01:49:21, Bret Busby wrote: > > I have a Samsung MFP printer thing; a CLX-3185FW, and I had been > able to use it with a Debian 5 system that I had been using. Then, > the Debian 5 system went awry (a separate system from the firewall > system), and became apparently unusable. >

Apparently resolved - was Re: Debian 5 update system broken

2011-12-05 Thread Bret Busby
On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, Bret Busby wrote: which I think is the same error message. It now seems to be fixed. I have apparently now managed to perform an update, in which Evince was apparently updated. Thank you to the people responsible for getting it fixed. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Aust

Re: Debian 5 update system broken

2011-12-04 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:48:17 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On Sun, 4 Dec 2011, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> That was fast... is now solved. Good job! > > But I have just tried again, and I get > > " > Could not initialize the package information > > A unresolvable problem occurred while initializing

Re: Debian 5 update system broken

2011-12-04 Thread Bret Busby
On Sun, 4 Dec 2011, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:05:19 +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:58:13 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: With an update notification (the gold star with the exclamation mark, in the taskbar), I got the following error. (...) Already reported: http:/

Re: Debian 5 update system broken

2011-12-04 Thread Bret Busby
On Sun, 4 Dec 2011, Camaleón wrote: Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 12:13:02 + (UTC) From: Camaleón To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian 5 update system broken Resent-Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 12:15:49 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:05:19

Re: Debian 5 update system broken

2011-12-04 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:05:19 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:58:13 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: >> With an update notification (the gold star with the exclamation mark, >> in the taskbar), I got the following error. > > (...) > > Already reported: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin

Re: Debian 5 update system broken

2011-12-04 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:58:13 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > I am running Debian 5 on this computer (have been so far unable to > instal Debian 6 on anything). > > With an update notification (the gold star with the exclamation mark, in > the taskbar), I got the following error. (...) Al

Re: debian 5 iso missing

2011-03-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 22 mar 11, 21:37:02, Karl Wolf wrote: > Hello, > > MAybe that's stupid thing, but I searched on archive.debian.org and I can't > find it. > It's really strange, maybe I'm blind but I can't find it. I tried find the > netinst for amd64 on other websites, but there is only link to debian >

Re: Debian 5 installation

2011-01-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 11:47:23PM +0100, David Jardine wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 11:07:58AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/TRUCULANT > > Hmm! Over at Oxford we spell it "truculent". ;) Arrgh!!, I should of noticed that when I cut/p

Re: Debian 5 installation

2011-01-03 Thread Lisi
On Monday 03 January 2011 22:47:23 David Jardine wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 11:07:58AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/TRUCULANT > > Hmm! Over at Oxford we spell it "truculent". ;) At the other place too! ;-) Lisi -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Debian 5 installation

2011-01-03 Thread David Jardine
On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 11:07:58AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 04:31:01PM +, Lisi wrote: > > +1 As always someone else can express my thoughts better than I can. > > Camaleón's English is so good that I often forget that she is not English. > > But come to think

Re: Debian 5 installation

2011-01-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 04:31:01PM +, Lisi wrote: > +1 As always someone else can express my thoughts better than I can. > Camaleón's English is so good that I often forget that she is not English. > But come to think of it, perhaps cantankerous is even better in this case! http://www.web

Re: Debian 5 installation

2011-01-03 Thread Lisi
On Monday 03 January 2011 15:38:51 Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 03/01/11 15:29, Camaleón wrote: > > Not sure if "picky" is the correct term. I wanted to use an adjective to > > designate people who is... (let me search for a synonym) "punctilious/ > > touchy"? In Spanish that is "quisquilloso". >

Re: Debian 5 installation

2011-01-03 Thread Lisi
On Monday 03 January 2011 15:29:16 Camaleón wrote: > "punctilious/ > touchy"? picky _and_ prickly!! Yes, touchy is the word I was looking for and didn't find! "touchy and irritable". But you _do_ seem to mean picky as well - tho' it did not seem to me that it was his pickiness that needed co

Re: Debian 5 installation

2011-01-03 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 03/01/11 15:29, Camaleón wrote: Not sure if "picky" is the correct term. I wanted to use an adjective to designate people who is... (let me search for a synonym) "punctilious/ touchy"? In Spanish that is "quisquilloso". According to Google Translate http://translate.google.com/#auto|en|quis

Re: Debian 5 installation

2011-01-03 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:34:19 +, Lisi wrote: > On Monday 06 December 2010 09:30:50 Camaleón wrote: >> But no need to be so picky > > Camaleón - > > I thought that this was a typing error the first time I saw it, but I > think it is a slight semantic error. I think that you mean "prickly" >

Re: Debian 5 installation

2011-01-03 Thread Lisi
On Monday 06 December 2010 09:30:50 Camaleón wrote: > But no need to be so picky Camaleón - I thought that this was a typing error the first time I saw it, but I think it is a slight semantic error. I think that you mean "prickly" (easily irritated), not "picky" (choosy, fussy). If you do ac

Re: Debian 5 installation

2010-12-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 12:36:20PM +, Harry Scott wrote: > I wanted help to install a nvidia legacy graphics driver for TNT 2 AGP > so I thought to contact the user lists for guidance. This was not > possible because: > 1 When I tried to use evolution after asking permission (used windows

Re: Debian 5 installation

2010-12-11 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 08:55:39 -0500 (EST), Tom H wrote: > > Anyone who's been subscribed to this list for any length of time knows > that Camaleon is one of the most helpful members here! > I agree. Camaleón has earned her place on this list. As for the OP, he clearly doesn't understand a numbe

Re: Debian 5 installation

2010-12-11 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:14:33 +, H Scott wrote: (...) >> > Before I do that I have to get sound from my c-media driver. >> >> If you need advice, ask. But no need to be so picky when someone >> replies to your messages. If do not understand something, just ask the >> user what is he/she referr

Re: Debian 5 installation

2010-12-11 Thread Tom H
2010/12/7 H Scott : > > You think, Cameleon, that I am picky because I think an OS with an automatic > configuration should be able to correctly configure a Nvidia TNT2 video card > with a CMedia sound board. Slackware and Zenwalk do a fine job of it. > Let me say that in one regard you are mistake

Re: Debian 5 installation

2010-12-11 Thread H Scott
al Message - From: "Camaleón" To: "Debian [en]" Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 9:30 AM Subject: Re: Debian 5 installation > El 2010-12-06 a las 08:33 -, Harry escribió: > > (resending to the list) > > > - Original Message - > > From: "Ca

Re: Debian 5 installation

2010-12-06 Thread Camaleón
El 2010-12-06 a las 08:33 -, Harry escribió: (resending to the list) > - Original Message - > From: "Camaleón" > To: > Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 12:59 PM > Subject: Re: Debian 5 installation > > > > On Sat, 04 Dec 2010 12:36:20 +,

Re: Debian 5 installation

2010-12-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 04 Dec 2010 12:36:20 +, Harry Scott wrote: > I wanted help to install a nvidia legacy graphics driver for TNT 2 AGP > so I thought to contact the user lists for guidance. This was not > possible because: > 1 When I tried to use evolution after asking permission (used windows > mail to

Re: Debian 5 server - auto-reconnect to wireless networks?

2010-04-05 Thread chombee
After some time with a newer version of network manager my experience is the same as Klistvud's. Although the automatically reconnecting behaviour seems to be enabled, it doesn't always work. Perhaps bugs in the wireless card driver, or in network manager, or perhaps it's just cause as Mirko says n

Re: Debian 5 server - auto-reconnect to wireless networks?

2010-03-16 Thread chombee
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:51:13AM +0100, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 23. 02. 2010 16:57:26 je chombee napisal(a): >> it has a static IP so I can ssh to it >> over the internet. I think network manager (when working correctly) is >> actually perfect for it, it should keep the connection to my home >> wi

Re: Debian 5 security issue

2010-03-10 Thread Mark Allums
On 2010-03-09 21:46, Bret Busby wrote: In running sybaptic, to check for available system updates, I encountered the following message, and it is not the first time that I have encountered the message. "Granted permissions without asking for password The '/usr/sbin/synaptic' program was started

Re: Debian 5 security issue

2010-03-10 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 22:46:31 -0500 (EST), Bret Busby wrote: > > In running sybaptic, to check for available system updates, I > encountered the following message, and it is not the first time that I > have encountered the message. > > "Granted permissions without asking for password > > The '/u

Re: Debian 5 security issue

2010-03-10 Thread Tom H
>> The '/usr/sbin/synaptic' program was started with the privileges of the >> root user without the need to ask for a password, due to your system's >> authentication mechanism setup. >> It is possible that you are being allowed to run specific programs as user >> root without the need for a passw

Re: Debian 5 security issue

2010-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-09 21:46, Bret Busby wrote: Hello. In running sybaptic, to check for available system updates, I encountered the following message, and it is not the first time that I have encountered the message. "Granted permissions without asking for password I think this is specific to this

Re: Debian 5 server - auto-reconnect to wireless networks?

2010-02-25 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 23. 02. 2010 16:57:26 je chombee napisal(a): it has a static IP so I can ssh to it over the internet. I think network manager (when working correctly) is actually perfect for it, it should keep the connection to my home wireless network alive, but it's also very easy and convenient for oth

Re: Debian 5 server - auto-reconnect to wireless networks?

2010-02-25 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 22. 02. 2010 12:55:24 je Mirko Parthey napisal(a): The network manager package description says it "is not intended for usage on servers". If you want an interface to be permanently up, without even logging in, you should set it up in /etc/network/interfaces. I'll second that. I have a s

Re: Debian 5 server - auto-reconnect to wireless networks?

2010-02-23 Thread chombee
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:55:24PM +0100, Mirko Parthey wrote: > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 04:46:51PM +, chombee wrote: > > I'm wondering how to get my Debian server to automatically reconnect to > > my wireless network. The server is an OLPC XO-1 running Debian 5 Stable > > via the DebXO distrib

Re: Debian 5 server - auto-reconnect to wireless networks?

2010-02-22 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 04:46:51PM +, chombee wrote: > I'm wondering how to get my Debian server to automatically reconnect to > my wireless network. The server is an OLPC XO-1 running Debian 5 Stable > via the DebXO distribution. It does not have a wired ethernet port, it > connects to the int

Re: Debian 5 broken

2009-12-25 Thread Bret Busby
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009, Bret Busby wrote: Hello. In upgrading my Debian 5 system on this computer, the upgrade (using Synaptic) hung, so I went to a console session and used shutdown -r now, as the GUI was no longer usable, and Debian 5 was thus broken. After several hours of repairs, the sys

Re: Debian 5

2009-10-23 Thread Mr. Wang Long
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 16:27, Matthew Smith wrote: > Quoth Tanco . at 2009-10-22 18:28... >> Which rare intel CPUs? >> p4 core2duo , p4 D series processors.. got nothing >> however even if the cpu version is wrong.. >> the start screen should show up? >> I get completely nothing from the Install?

Re: Debian 5

2009-10-22 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20091022_095833, Tanco . wrote: > Which rare intel CPUs? > p4 core2duo , p4 D series processors.. got nothing > however even if the cpu version is wrong.. > the start screen should show up? > I get completely nothing from the Install? > Tanco, I think all Debian install disks are configured to

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