How to get rid of an entry in grub?

2013-08-30 Thread David Guntner
Hello, I'm running Wheezy. I used to use lilo for my boot manager. I liked it. Nice simple config file that I could understand. :-) I gave in a while ago and went with grub (grub2, I expect), since that's what Debian seems to prefer using and I decided I just didn't want to fight with the inst

Re: How to get rid of an entry in grub?

2013-08-30 Thread David Guntner
David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > Not only that, but given the comments around all the sections that point > at /etc/grub.d/{whatever}, does this mean that /boot/grub/grub.cfg is > being built by something, from those other files? If so, it seems that > directly edi

Re: How to get rid of an entry in grub?

2013-08-30 Thread David Guntner
[I'm on the list, so there's no reason to reply off-list unless it's something more personal or that nobody would be likely to want to read... :-)] Dan Ritter grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:15:48AM -0700, David Guntner wrote: >> I'm guessi

Re: How to get rid of an entry in grub?

2013-08-30 Thread David Guntner
Ralf Mardorf grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Fri, 2013-08-30 at 21:49 +0100, Klaus wrote: >> On 30/08/13 19:11, David Guntner wrote: >>> David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: >>>> >>>> Not only that, but given the comments around all the section

Re: How to get rid of an entry in grub?

2013-08-30 Thread David Guntner
Klaus grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On 30/08/13 19:11, David Guntner wrote: >> David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: >>> >>> Not only that, but given the comments around all the sections that point >>> at /etc/grub.d/{whatever}, does this mean that /boot

Re: How to get rid of an entry in grub?

2013-08-30 Thread David Guntner
Hugo Vanwoerkom grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > David Guntner wrote: >> Hmmm. I wonder if the MBR for the drive sill has a loader on it, >> even though I removed all partitions and repartitioned it? Is there a >> utility out there that can wipe the MBR of a drive without

Re: How to get rid of an entry in grub?

2013-08-30 Thread David Guntner
Joe Pfeiffer grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > David Guntner writes: > >> Hugo Vanwoerkom grabbed a keyboard and wrote: >>> David Guntner wrote: >>>> Hmmm. I wonder if the MBR for the drive sill has a loader on it, >>>> even though I removed all

Re: How to get rid of an entry in grub?

2013-08-30 Thread David Guntner
Joe Pfeiffer grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > David Guntner writes: >> Seems like a good idea. I tried it, but it doesn't look like it worked: >> >>> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=446 count=1 >>> 1+0 records in >>> 1+0 records out >&g

Re: How to get rid of an entry in grub?

2013-08-31 Thread David Guntner
Chris Bannister grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 07:58:39PM -0700, David Guntner wrote: >> >>> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1 bs=512 count=1 >>> 1+0 records in >>> 1+0 records out >>> 512 bytes (512 B) copied, 0.000983331 s, 521 k

Re: How to get rid of an entry in grub?

2013-08-31 Thread David Guntner
David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > I'm really starting to think it's just something that got stuck in the > partition table. Now that I think about it, I think when I re-purposed > that drive, I deleted all partitions except for sdb1 and then just > res

Re: How to get rid of an entry in grub?

2013-08-31 Thread David Guntner
Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Fri 30 Aug 2013 at 18:10:00 -0700, David Guntner wrote: >> Grub still seems to think there's Linux on /dev/sdb1. That's >> aggravating.. I guess I'll just try moving the stuff off of the one >> and only parti

Re: How to get rid of an entry in grub?

2013-08-31 Thread David Guntner
Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Fri 30 Aug 2013 at 18:10:00 -0700, David Guntner wrote: >> Grub still seems to think there's Linux on /dev/sdb1. That's >> aggravating.. I guess I'll just try moving the stuff off of the one >> and only parti

Backing up via rsync (was Re: How to get rid of an entry in grub?)

2013-08-31 Thread David Guntner
Jeff Bauer grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On 08/31/2013 12:23 PM, David Guntner wrote: >> I've been using it as a sort of backup type of partition, mounted as >> /backup (until I have time to install backuppc and get it all >> configured; I've just been doing an r

Re: How to get rid of an entry in grub?

2013-08-31 Thread David Guntner
Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Sat 31 Aug 2013 at 09:23:40 -0700, David Guntner wrote: > >> Well, too late on "before you try that," but I had looked at the >> partition. None of those files existed on that drive (or partition). >> >> I'

Re: How to get rid of an entry in grub?

2013-08-31 Thread David Guntner
Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Sat 31 Aug 2013 at 10:08:17 -0700, David Guntner wrote: > >> Well, what the heck! >> >> I hadn't run the backup since before the upgrade to Wheezy. So after >> removing the partition and restoring it, then running i

Re: How to get rid of an entry in grub?

2013-08-31 Thread David Guntner
Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Sat 31 Aug 2013 at 10:59:34 -0700, David Guntner wrote: > >> Because it makes no sense to me, whatsoever, as to why it would be >> pulling in information from areas that are traditionally not booted >> from. Like, for example, u

Re: How to get rid of an entry in grub?

2013-08-31 Thread David Guntner
Siard grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > David Guntner wrote: >> I suppose it exists on the partition in a sense, but within the >> filesystem, it lives as /backup/etc/debian_version. /backup is the >> only mounted filesystem on /dev/sdb1. > > To have os-prober find an O

Re: How to get rid of an entry in grub?

2013-08-31 Thread David Guntner
Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Sat 31 Aug 2013 at 11:28:53 -0700, David Guntner wrote: > >> Well, I guess that's the default configuration. *I* didn't tell it >> anything. :-) Remember, I started this with, "I've used lilo all my > > O

Re: How to get rid of an entry in grub?

2013-08-31 Thread David Guntner
Dom grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On 31/08/13 19:46, David Guntner wrote: >> >> I suppose it exists on the partition in a sense, but within the >> filesystem, it lives as /backup/etc/debian_version. /backup is the only >> mounted filesystem on /dev/sdb1. &

Re: How to get rid of an entry in grub?

2013-08-31 Thread David Guntner
Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Sat 31 Aug 2013 at 14:39:09 -0700, David Guntner wrote: > >> So knowing how to get it to avoid that particular partition when probing >> would be useful. I don't know if there's a better way of doing that >> than the wa

Re: strange bash behavior

2013-09-02 Thread David Guntner
Matej Kosik grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Hello, > > This morning I have been puzzled by bash. > After typing the following command: > > for i in `seq 1 5`;do echo $i; test $i = 3 && break; done > > I see: > > 1 > 2 > 3 > > Which is OK. > > However, if the "break" co

Re: strange bash behavior

2013-09-02 Thread David Guntner
Darac Marjal grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 08:06:17AM -0700, David Guntner wrote: >> Matej Kosik grabbed a keyboard and wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> This morning I have been puzzled by bash. >>> After typing the following comma

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel processor microcode security update

2013-09-04 Thread David Guntner
Carlo grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Hi Verde Denim, I like to think with free software, I saw that it is a > non-free, can we trust of it ? Or this isn't againt debian free software > guidelines? Why Intel doesn't give a free microcode??? Please don't top post in a E-Mail reply, *especially* on

Re: Security?

2013-09-11 Thread David Guntner
Maybe this discussion would best be taken to the Off Topic list? ;) smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Code Of Conduct (was ... Re: Security?)

2013-09-23 Thread David Guntner
Ralf Mardorf grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > IMO the "Security?" thread became interesting by links to Lavabit and > Schneier. Yea. You and a couple of other people found it interesting and kept the topic dragging on. It doesn't change the fact that it was OFF TOPIC for THIS PARTICULAR MAILIN

Re: Code Of Conduct (was ... Re: Security?)

2013-09-23 Thread David Guntner
Ralf Mardorf grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > "Assumed I would post a link, is it ok to post a link with similar > content? Perhaps interesting for the one who posted the link too." > > I'm not kidding. The link was useful for the topic and I quoted from The "topic" has been *off* topic for this p

Re: Building computer - power supplies

2013-09-29 Thread David Guntner
From http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2011/05/#offtopic ... Have you ever wanted to discuss things completely unrelated to Debian or even computers with fellow users or developers? On debian-user the custom is to put [OT] in the subject and fire away. Unfortunately, this can be disruptive for un

Re: Building computer

2013-10-01 Thread David Guntner
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic Stan Hoeppner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On 10/1/2013 12:29 AM, Rhiamom wrote: >> >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >>> On Sep 30, 2013, at 10:33 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > ... >>> It's quite funny to see someone of your knowledge

Re: Mail logs missing in wheezy

2013-10-01 Thread David Guntner
Hendrik Boom grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > I've been running stable for years now on my server. > > I tried to investigate a mail irregularity today by looking in /var/log/ > mail* and discovered none of those files had been updated since May. > Wasn't that around the time wheezy became stable

Re: What's the easiest and/or simplest part of Linux Kernel?

2013-10-27 Thread David Guntner
Miles Fidelman grabbed a keyboard and wrote: [tl;dr] Can you guys PLEASE take this off-topic discussion somewhere else? Like, maybe, the off-topic list (which, oddly enough, was created for topics like this) --Dave smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: What's the easiest and/or simplest part of Linux Kernel?

2013-10-27 Thread David Guntner
Jerry Stuckle grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On 10/27/2013 5:02 PM, David Guntner wrote: >> Miles Fidelman grabbed a keyboard and wrote: >> >> [tl;dr] >> >> Can you guys PLEASE take this off-topic discussion somewhere else? >> Like, maybe, the off-topic lis

Re: Hosting advice

2013-11-01 Thread David Guntner
I've been a happy customer of Dreamhost for many years. They support mailing lists, announcement lists, as many hosted mailboxes and forwarding addresses as you can handle, offer both shared hosting and VPS services, and are running Linux. Currently my VPS is Debian, though they announced recentl

Re: Hosting advice

2013-11-01 Thread David Guntner
[Following up to myself :-)] David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > I've been a happy customer of Dreamhost for many years. They support > mailing lists, announcement lists, as many hosted mailboxes and > forwarding addresses as you can handle, offer both shared hosting and

Re: Hosting advice

2013-11-01 Thread David Guntner
Celejar grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Fri, 01 Nov 2013 09:22:37 -0700 > David Guntner wrote: > >> I've been a happy customer of Dreamhost for many years. They support >> mailing lists, announcement lists, as many hosted mailboxes and >> forwarding address

Re: Run script for each ssh login

2013-11-13 Thread David Guntner
Antonio Paiva grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I would like to set up an ssh server such that, everytime someone tries to > connect to it, a script will be run to control certain aspects of the > connection. More specifically, I want to check if certain conditions are > met and, if

Re: Install Google Chrome

2013-11-17 Thread David Guntner
erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Dear List - > > I have done the following - > > Downloaded chrome from site into /opt > > root@meow:/opt# ls > google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb > > install - > > root@meow:/opt# dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb >

Re: Install Google Chrome

2013-11-17 Thread David Guntner
Alois Mahdal grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 20:56:59 -0800 > David Guntner wrote: >> >> Offhand, I'd say install the packages it wants. :-) >> >> Those are all standard repository packages for Debian; start >> with the gconf-servi

Re: top posting

2013-11-20 Thread David Guntner
Brad Alexander grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > I'm just curious why so many people get so upset about top posting. To my > mind, as threads get longer, those keeping up with the thread would not > want to scroll through messages that they have already read. I know that I > don't. If they are commen

Google & other web mail (was Re: top posting)

2013-11-20 Thread David Guntner
Brad Alexander grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > Actually, I can see the point of posting inline, however, leave it to > google and other mail apps to go and ruin it. In the gmail web interface, > when you reply to an email or even a thread, you get the text entry box, > with the message you are r

Re: Privacy Debian 7

2013-11-25 Thread David Guntner
praetorien grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Hello there, > > I'm a Windows user, but Microsoft may collect privacy information > about users witch is not good, so I wonder does Debian 7.2 collect > ANY information about Users or monitoring? I could be wrong, but to the best of my knowledge, NO Lin

Re: how to activate php in apache

2013-12-02 Thread David Guntner
François Patte grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Bonsoir, > > I'd like to anable php with apache web server. > > apache2 is installed > > php5 is installed. > > > apache php module is activated > > > But php is not working...ie.: > > phpinfo'); > ?> > > does not work in /var/ (with 644

apt / aptitude question

2012-11-11 Thread David Guntner
Hello, Mandriva refugee here. :-) New to Debian, but have been using some form of *NIX since 1986. Have been a happy Mandriva user since the Mandrake 7 days, but that new company that purchased it, resulting in them losing most of their talent, has finally caused me to leave; the last update to

Re: apt / aptitude question

2012-11-11 Thread David Guntner
Andreas Rönnquist grabbed a keyboard and wrote: >[I wrote]: >> >> It will spit back a list of all packages that provide that filename or >> any part of it. It's treated like a substring - for example if I type >> "urpmf kross" it will list the package that provides /usr/bin/kross, >> and will then

Re: Noob Question :-/ ....

2012-11-12 Thread David Guntner
William A. Mahaffey III grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On 11/12/12 11:10, Tom Furie wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 11:50:20AM -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >> >>> [root@opty165a:/etc, Sun Nov 11, 11:44 AM] 593 # mount -t ext3 >>> /dev/ad0s1 /mnt >>> mount: /dev/ad0s1 : No such device >

Re: Noob Question :-/ ....

2012-11-12 Thread David Guntner
William A. Mahaffey III grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On 11/12/12 16:27, David Guntner wrote: >> William A. Mahaffey III grabbed a keyboard and wrote: >>> >>> ad[0,6]s1 are the 2 offending partitions. Also, in the interlude, I went >>> ahead & e2f

Re: Noob Question :-/ ....

2012-11-13 Thread David Guntner
William A. Mahaffey III grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On 11/12/12 18:24, David Guntner wrote: >> Ok, try this just for grins. Edit your /etc/mtab file, and add the >> following line: >> >> /dev/ad6s1 /mnt/ad6s1 ext2fs ro 0 0 >> >> (I'm following your

IMAP4/POP3 server that supports mbox?

2012-11-17 Thread David Guntner
Yes, I'm one of those fogies who still prefers the main mailbox for users to be in /var/spool/mail (which is apparently a link to /var/mail in Debian :-) ). I need an IMAP4/POP3 server which supports SSL, and while the IMAP server can access the userspace of the logged-in user to get to files in t

Re: IMAP4/POP3 server that supports mbox?

2012-11-17 Thread David Guntner
Sven Hartge grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > David Guntner wrote: > >> Yes, I'm one of those fogies who still prefers the main mailbox for >> users to be in /var/spool/mail (which is apparently a link to /var/mail >> in Debian :-) ). > >> I need an IMAP4/POP

Re: IMAP4/POP3 server that supports mbox?

2012-11-17 Thread David Guntner
mouss grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Le 18/11/2012 03:54, David Guntner a écrit : >> Sven Hartge grabbed a keyboard and wrote: >>> >>> The answer is: Dovecot >>> >>> Documentation for version 1 included in Debian Squeeze is at >>> http://wi

Re: IMAP4/POP3 server that supports mbox?

2012-11-18 Thread David Guntner
staticsafe grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On 11/18/2012 0:07, David Guntner wrote: >> mouss grabbed a keyboard and wrote: >>> >>> it actually works well with postfix (dovecot provides a simple >>> authentication solution for postfix). >> >> What

Dovecot configuration issues for IMAP/POP3 (squeeze)

2012-11-18 Thread David Guntner
Thanks to those who pointed me in that direction, I've now got Dovecot running on my test system. However, I've got some issues that I'm hoping someone here can help out with. I did a bunch of googling to find some of what I needed, but I'm not sure how to adjust things at this point (and some st

Re: Dovecot configuration issues for IMAP/POP3 (squeeze)

2012-11-18 Thread David Guntner
(This accidentally went directly to mouss instead of back to the list - resending) mouss grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Le 18/11/2012 16:34, David Guntner a écrit : >> I've discovered, somewhat to my dismay, that Dovecot will just sit >> there and cheerfully let you keep maki

Re: Dovecot configuration issues for IMAP/POP3 (squeeze)

2012-11-18 Thread David Guntner
Glenn English grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > On Nov 18, 2012, at 2:00 PM, David Guntner wrote: >> Assuming I could get a meaningful log entry with each bad attempt, >> I could have fail2ban act - but that's still pretty useless since >> as far as I understand i

Re: Dovecot configuration issues for IMAP/POP3 (squeeze)

2012-11-18 Thread David Guntner
David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: [Lots of fail2ban stuff] Well, holy cow! That's what I get for starting a conversation. :-) I'm not the type to just ask a question or answer replies and just sit there waiting, I start mucking around and googling more and stuff. Just disco

Re: (SOLVED) Dovecot configuration issues for IMAP/POP3 (squeeze)

2012-11-18 Thread David Guntner
David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > [Lots of fail2ban stuff] > > Well, holy cow! That's what I get for starting a conversation. :-) I'm > not the type to just ask a question or answer replies and just sit there &

Thunderbird not working with Dovecot

2012-11-20 Thread David Guntner
Well, at least not completely. I've got Dovecot up and running, but for some reason, Thunderbird won't work with it quite right. I'll select an unread message, and the header will change in the display, but the body doesn't appear - the status bar just says "Downloading message..." and it sits th

Re: Thunderbird not working with Dovecot

2012-11-21 Thread David Guntner
puter, not local to the Debian box) and it never behaved this way prior to the switch to Debian and Dovecot. So if anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them... :-) David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Well, at least not completely. I've got Dovecot up and running, but for

Re: Thunderbird not working with Dovecot

2012-11-21 Thread David Guntner
Jochen Spieker grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > David Guntner: >> >> Watching the syslog, I can see what's happening when I move to another >> message is that a *new* login connection is being established (without >> closing the old one) with the IMAP server. A

Re: Thunderbird not working with Dovecot

2012-11-21 Thread David Guntner
John L. Cunningham grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 07:44:29PM -0800, David Guntner wrote: >> Well, at least not completely. I've got Dovecot up and running, but for >> some reason, Thunderbird won't work with it quite right. I'll select

Re: Thunderbird not working with Dovecot

2012-11-21 Thread David Guntner
Jochen Spieker grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > David Guntner: >> Thunderbird isn't >> supposed to be opening a new connection with each message it tries to >> read; it should just read them with the one connection it has. > > Well, it usually uses more than one co

Re: Thunderbird not working with Dovecot

2012-11-21 Thread David Guntner
Jochen Spieker grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Ok, so your assumption is that some connections to Dovecot hang for an > unknown reason and that's why Thunderbird creates new ones? In order to > debug that, I would increase logfile verbosity für Dovecot (probably > including authentication logging)

Swap partition vs swap file

2012-11-21 Thread David Guntner
Hi all, While still trying to figure out why Thunderbird isn't working so well with Dovecot, I figured I'd move onto another mystery; thought I'd seek out some opinions here. :-) When setting up Linux systems, I've always set up a separate swap partition. I was reading a few days ago that appare

Re: Thunderbird not working with Dovecot

2012-11-21 Thread David Guntner
Other than that, everything is the same. So why is it only hanging up when going after a message currently flagged as unread? This just keeps getting more and more bizarre. David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Jochen Spieker grabbed a keyboard and wrote: >> Ok, so your assum

Re: Thunderbird not working with Dovecot

2012-11-26 Thread David Guntner
Jochen Spieker grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > For further analysis, you can follow Dovecot's instructions. They even > have a separate page for TB: > > http://wiki.dovecot.org/Debugging/Thunderbird > > You can also try to upgrade to the backport[1] of Dovecot 2.1. Beware > that this upgrade i

Re: Thunderbird not working with Dovecot

2012-11-27 Thread David Guntner
mouss grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Le 21/11/2012 04:44, David Guntner a écrit : >> >> It never did this with the IMAP server that I was using on my old >> system >> >> My mail reader in my smart phone works just fine with it, BTW. :-) >> >> I g

Re: which package has a binary like this sendmail one in exim?

2012-11-28 Thread David Guntner
Britton Kerin grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Hi folks, > > I know exim sometimes contains a sendmail binary because on one system I > get this: > > britt...@brittonkerin.com [~]# sendmail --version > Exim version 4.76 #1 built 26-Oct-2012 16:41:54 > Copyright (c) University of Cambridge, 1

Linux vs BSD (was Re: how many users is enough?)

2012-12-01 Thread David Guntner
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Le 01.12.2012 07:50, Chris Bannister a écrit : >> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 02:35:41PM +0100, "Morel Bérenger" wrote: >>> If I am not wrong, .NET have documented specifications, and I ~think~ >>> they are also doing some free softwares. >>

KDE4 - way to add to "k" menu for *all* users?

2012-12-01 Thread David Guntner
Hi, all. I could have sworn that once upon a time, running kmenuedit as root would let you set the menu items for all users on the system. Now, unfortunately, it only seems to edit the menu for the root user. Is there a way under KDE4 to edit the menu entries, and then have it save the new/chang

Re: KDE4 - way to add to "k" menu for *all* users?

2012-12-03 Thread David Guntner
So, no one has any ideas/info on this? Am I the only Debian user who doesn't use GNOME? :-) David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Hi, all. > > I could have sworn that once upon a time, running kmenuedit as root > would let you set the menu items for all users on

Re: KDE4 - way to add to "k" menu for *all* users?

2012-12-03 Thread David Guntner
Brad Rogers grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Mon, 03 Dec 2012 05:51:01 -0800 > David Guntner wrote: > > Hello David, > >> So, no one has any ideas/info on this? Am I the only Debian user who > > I've never tried what to do what you're asking. It may

Re: KDE4 - way to add to "k" menu for *all* users?

2012-12-03 Thread David Guntner
Jay DeKing grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > >> David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: >>> >>> I could have sworn that once upon a time, running kmenuedit as >>> root would let you set the menu items for all users on the >>> system. Now, unfo

Re: KDE4 - way to add to "k" menu for *all* users?

2012-12-03 Thread David Guntner
Brad Rogers grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Mon, 03 Dec 2012 06:18:49 -0800 > David Guntner wrote: > > Hello David, > >> So I guess I'll go find a KDE list and join long enough to ask the >> question. :-) > > How about ? Oh! Ok, I didn't know

Re: KDE4 - way to add to "k" menu for *all* users?

2012-12-03 Thread David Guntner
Brad Rogers grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Mon, 03 Dec 2012 06:15:01 -0800 > David Guntner wrote: > > Hello David, > >> Yea, I wasn't completely clear about that. It was under KDE3 where I >> had been able to do that, back on my old Mandriva setup. It wou

Tractor-feed paper (was Re: Shell prompt)

2012-12-10 Thread David Guntner
Lisi Reisz grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Monday 10 December 2012 09:55:28 Chris Bannister wrote: >> Is it double sheeted with a carbon paper arrangement so the second sheet >> is a carbon copy of the original? > > I've not come across that. I have only seen and used single "sheets". But >

Re: Tractor-feed paper (was Re: Shell prompt)

2012-12-10 Thread David Guntner
On 12/10/2012 03:21 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 06:39:49AM -0800, David Guntner wrote: >> third, etc., copy. Of course either carbon or NCR paper needs to be run >> on a dot-matrix or other impact-type printer. High-speed laser printers >> use

Re: testing-dedicated ML? ( was Re: End of hypocrisy ? )

2014-07-21 Thread David Guntner
Tom H grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > There is one > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-testing/ > > but a quick look at the its archives shows that it isn't a heavily > used list and that it's not a list for freaking out about systemd. Neither is this one, but that doesn't seem to stop people...

Re: testing-dedicated ML? ( was Re: End of hypocrisy ? )

2014-07-21 Thread David Guntner
Tom H grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:56 PM, David Guntner wrote: >> Tom H grabbed a keyboard and wrote: >>> >>> There is one >>> >>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-testing/ >>> >>> but a quick look at t

Re: FWIW: script vs. configurtion file

2014-07-23 Thread David Guntner
Joel Rees grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > 2014/07/23 16:41 "Tony Baldwin" : >> >> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 03:46:56PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: >>> Programming is a field of mathematics. Mathematically speaking, limiting a >>> language to a declarative syntax does not mean that the language ceases to

Re: Choose your side on the Linux divide

2014-08-26 Thread David Guntner
On 8/26/2014 1:52 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 04:06:19 -0400 Tom H wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 6:44 PM, Steve Litt wrote: http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-center/choose-your-side-the-linux-divide-248950?source=IFWNLE_nlt_daily_pm_2014-08-25 There's a OT list for this BS.

Re: Reverting back to apache2 from lighttpd: have issues

2014-03-24 Thread David Guntner
Glenn English grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > On Mar 24, 2014, at 10:45 AM, John Foster > wrote: > >> I have been trying to get lighttpd to run as my web server but was >> not able to get it properly configured. > [...] > After 3 days of Lighttpd, I too went back to Apache2. I had it > running

Re: Reverting back to apache2 from lighttpd: have issues

2014-03-24 Thread David Guntner
Jonathan Dowland grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 12:13:53PM -0700, David Guntner wrote: >> "Easier to configure?" Sorry to sound like Ralph in Troll Mode, but it >> sounds like it was anything *but* that. :D > > OP didn't get it worki

Re: Debian commercial support.

2014-03-25 Thread David Guntner
Mark Evans grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Debian Users > Dear Sirs; > What would be the yearly support costs for an e commerce, web facing > server. http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=debian+commercial+support smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Ways to use DDNS with your own domain name (was Re: DynDNS no longer free.)

2014-04-10 Thread David Guntner
Rick Macdonald grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > [...] > I only looked at a couple before deciding to use the free service from > ASUS that is included with the router, so I don't know which of the > above are actually free. The domain name is not pretty: > [yourhostname].asuscomm.com, but that doesn

Re: Ways to use DDNS with your own domain name (was Re: DynDNS no longer free.)

2014-04-10 Thread David Guntner
Chris Angelico grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 2:19 AM, David Guntner wrote: >> what you want to do is >> create a CNAME record for the domain - set a CNAME of mydomain.org that >> points to myhostname.someddns.com. >> >> Presto! Now

Re: Ways to use DDNS with your own domain name (was Re: DynDNS no longer free.)

2014-04-11 Thread David Guntner
[Unless there's a reason to take a reply off-list, please keep it on list so that others can follow the discussion] Igor Cicimov grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On 11/04/2014 2:52 AM, "David Guntner" wrote: >> >> Chris Angelico grabbed a keyboard and wrote: >>

Re: Ways to use DDNS with your own domain name (was Re: DynDNS no longer free.)

2014-04-11 Thread David Guntner
Nuno Magalhães grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:19 PM, David Guntner wrote: >> Presto! Now when you try to access your home machine, you can simply >> refer to mydomain.org and it will point you to the correct place. > > Er... mydomain.org, bei

Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...

2014-04-13 Thread David Guntner
John Hasler grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Henrique writes: >> It also includes the emails that were read over a >> heartbleed-vulnerable IMAP, and every data that went over a >> heartbleed-vulnerable VPN tunnel, for example. > > I wasn't aware that IMAP and VPN used heartbeat. I don't see that

Re: Heartbleed (was ... Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...)

2014-04-14 Thread David Guntner
For those interested: http://mashable.com/2014/04/09/heartbleed-bug-websites-affected/ --Dave smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Heartbleed (was ... Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...)

2014-04-18 Thread David Guntner
Joel Rees grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > (Reader beware. Length breeds length.) And this whole thread has gone on (and morphed) entirely too long. Please take it to the Debian Offtopic list. http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cr

Re: Heartbleed

2014-04-19 Thread David Guntner
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic Tom Furie grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 02:33:43PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 19/04/14 07:55, Joe wrote: > >>> As is the light originating inside peoples' homes and passing out of >>> their wind

Re: Heartbleed

2014-04-19 Thread David Guntner
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic Scott Ferguson grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On 19/04/14 16:51, Tom Furie wrote:> On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 02:33:43PM > +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> On 19/04/14 07:55, Joe wrote: >> As is the light originating inside pe

Re: Heartbleed

2014-04-19 Thread David Guntner
This discussion is best continued here: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic Joe grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Sat, 19 Apr 2014 14:33:43 +1000 > Scott Ferguson wrote: > > >> >> Perhaps the solution is not greater bureaucracy to safeguard data >> ignorance,

Re: Heartbleed

2014-04-19 Thread David Guntner
This discussion would be best continued here: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic Scott Ferguson grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On 19/04/14 19:04, Joe wrote: >> On Sat, 19 Apr 2014 14:33:43 +1000 >> Scott Ferguson wrote: >> >> >>> >>> Perhaps the solution is not

Re: Heartbleed

2014-04-19 Thread David Guntner
Lisi Reisz grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Saturday 19 April 2014 17:24:20 David Guntner wrote: >> This discussion would be best continued here: >> >> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic > > And these "suggestions" woul

Re: Improve your students’ math proficiency with Lymboo Math

2014-04-21 Thread David Guntner
c. marlow grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > What the heck > Sorry I'm new to the whole group email / NEWSGROUP thing. It's called spam. It happens from time to time. It's best to ignore it when it happens on the mailing list. ;-) --Dave smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cry

Re: Is Debian still Debian?

2014-05-10 Thread David Guntner
Slavko grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Ahoj, > > Dňa Sat, 10 May 2014 13:00:56 +0100 Brian > napísal: > >> On Sat 10 May 2014 at 10:54:21 +0200, Slavko wrote: >> >>> in last weeks (or months?) i see a lot of daily updates in Debian >>> testing. I am using the testing for years and i am surprised

Re: Is Debian still Debian?

2014-05-10 Thread David Guntner
John Hasler grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > David Guntner writes: >> Again, as someone else pointed out: The key word here is TESTING. You >> want less updates? Go with the current stable release. That has >> updates, but not as often. > > You can also just not inst

Re: [SOLVED] Text files treated like html in apache 2.4

2014-05-13 Thread David Guntner
Stephen Powell grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Well, the joke is on me. The text file I was trying to view was a > Windows-style text file, with each line (except the last) ending in > a combination. But it was being served up by Apache running > on Linux. Linux-style text files have each line

Re: set higher verbosity in exim4 output

2014-05-18 Thread David Guntner
Harry Putnam grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Never used exim but trying to get it setup since the latest version of > sendmail seems to have some problems I don't understand on a new debian > install. > > I've pounded along googling and scanning the exim documentation on > board for a couple of ho

Re: set higher verbosity in exim4 output

2014-05-18 Thread David Guntner
David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Harry Putnam grabbed a keyboard and wrote: >> Never used exim but trying to get it setup since the latest version of >> sendmail seems to have some problems I don't understand on a new debian >> install. > > Just as a

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