Re: typescript of terminal session (was: Was: Ric Moore)

2015-01-19 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
per for utmp/wtmp updates (runtime) lifelines - text-based genealogy software nama - Ecasound-based multitrack recorder/mixer python-colorlog - formatter to use with the logging module of Python 2 python3-colorlog - formatter to use with the logging module of Python 3 shelr - Utility for plain

Re: typescript of terminal session (was: Was: Ric Moore)

2015-01-19 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 1/19/15, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > I just tried a long shot with "apt-cache search record terminal" > > Got back couple interesting looking things. That one on top is right > where it showed up, top of the search. Haven't downloaded and tested > but descri

Re: typescript of terminal session (was: Was: Ric Moore)

2015-01-19 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
Am editing an important *oops* where a command is misspelled. Not sure the proper protocol for doing this so will addend it up here. "asciiname auth" should read "asciinema auth"..: On 1/20/15, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 1/19/15, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: >> >

Re: Minimal configuration for a laptop

2015-01-22 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
it was a HUGE problem with a variety of other distros until this new setup. Pretty much only Openshot movie editor that gets the fan kicked on these days. LOVE IT.. :) FYI, there's also a Debian laptop list if you're interested in it in addition to Debian-User: https://lists.debian.org

Re: typescript of terminal session (was: Was: Ric Moore)

2015-01-22 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 1/22/15, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 02:41:10AM -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: >> >> Ok, sooo... I went ahead and tried asciinema. FAIR WARNING: When it >> asks you if you want to upload your session, it *uploads* your session >> *onto the Net*:

Re: typescript of terminal session (was: Was: Ric Moore)

2015-01-22 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 1/23/15, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 1/22/15, Chris Bannister wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 02:41:10AM -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: >>> >>> Ok, sooo... I went ahead and tried asciinema. FAIR WARNING: When it >>> asks you if you want to upload you

Re: Installing Debian on a Mac

2015-01-26 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
. Personal pics and things remain safe on the one partition, and there's the secondary, functional operating system right there to work from on a second partition while rebuilding the damaged system residing on the third. *grin* Good luck :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pic

Re: Glibc 2.15 not found?

2015-01-31 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
above *KNOWING* Jessie is still labeled as *testing* which means not guaranteed stable even though many of us are finding it works well right now. Good luck whichever route you go! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * Installing Sid?! Got a fire extinguishe

Re: Sound in Jessie

2015-02-01 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
posure to that we have to mess around with groups sometimes might help a newer user anyway so repetition is a win in that respect. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * Sid and I are... having a family spat right now * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: GRUB legal disclaimers before the menu

2015-02-03 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ges won't appear at boot. You'll need to update-grub to finish the process out. The other thing it FEELS LIKE you would need is for that to be the default. Have never had a need to do that so have no clue how to accomplish that one with custom entries.. (yet), but surely there's a t

Re: Debian 7.1 root password issue.

2015-02-03 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
d line as one of your users that has rights to do so? You enter a password, enter it again to confirm, and done deal. It seems a little too easy to do, actually. Every time I do it, my mind wanders off thinking how easy it is to change if someone gains control of one of our sudo enabled user account

Re: Epiphany installation

2015-02-07 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
y intended for day-to-day tasking. It's all about security and/or protecting ourselves from our own accidental slips of the Fingertips while working under the hood. Just thinking out loud because this situation sounded like it has potential to at least in part be something similar.. Cindy -- C

Re: I screwed up gdm3, can't recover - need help with systemctl - more details

2015-02-09 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
k for someone with another "similarly different" problem when they stumble on this thread in the archives... Good luck! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * falls on face occasionally * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.or

Permanent Fave: apt-show-versions -u (Was: help in purging old packages)

2015-02-10 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
lead. It might have been years, if ever, that I stumbled upon it otherwise. It's been a *perfect*, very *_cognitively friendly_* tool for keeping my computer 100% up to date under my particular set of computing circumstances Hope highlighting this helps someone else near as much as it has helped

Re: Upgrading, was Re: jessie upgrade sources.list entries?

2015-02-10 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
hat UUIDs being changed became apparent. Recognizing the first couple and last couple characters of longstanding UUIDs and therefore realizing those suddenly didn't exist was the time saving hero there.. -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * falls on face occasionally.

Re: about installing Java

2015-02-12 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
y could confirm or diss me on it that I'm well meaning but on the wrong track. :)) What I'm looking at is to take Chris' find and just replace it with a Debian repository.. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with plastic sporks *

Re: about installing Java

2015-02-12 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 2/12/15, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 2/12/15, Chris Fisichella wrote: >> >> http://www.webupd8.org/2014/03/how-to-install-oracle-java-8-in-debian.html >> >> They say to run the following: >> >> su - >> echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/webu

Re: Changing the install path of a web package

2015-02-13 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ed about how I set up my systems.. Wasted a LOT of unnecessary, unrecoverable time doing so.. I don't to do that anymore. Well, not much anyway. Developers set things up the way they are for a reason, one primary one being the security of our systems overall.. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Cause

Re: fakeroot to build a package?

2015-02-18 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ain, I'm going to leave that tab open (as a cognitively friendly reminder it's a to-do). I was knocking on the door of being bored again, hadn't broken anything in a few days. That right there looks like a GOOD way to start breaking things again... Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Caus

Re: debootstrap as an valuable instructioanal experience

2015-02-20 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
al attempts at it before debootstrap appeared more "coherent", but I LOVE it now. It's another of my Top 5 finds so far for accomplishing things Debian. Debootstrap has proved a great way to stay current with developers while operating via *dialup* and at... an extremely low income level.. Wi

Re: debootstrap as an valuable instructioanal experience

2015-02-20 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
p that would be useful even for someone who goes the ISO/image install route. Adding a user, changing a password, setting our date and time, those kinds of really basic things. All accomplished very simply via command line when you debootstrap.. :) I'm here working on it.. :) Cindy -- Cindy-

Re: debootstrap as an valuable instructioanal experience

2015-02-21 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ew holes still left in there. We just have to keep helping each other fill in those holes. Of all the things about Debian, this one right here, debootstrap, became the great equalizer for me. I imagine it doing phenomenal things to help introduce Debian to people who never dreamed it was possible t

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

2015-03-04 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ly am dealing with the correct partition at any given moment in time. Have fun, whichever *_CHOICE_* you make! :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * trying to catch up to speed while operating ~4 weeks behind * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-04 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
he package name for me. Only noting that because there's a brand new release, Xfce 4.12, out. I'm a-suming it should still be xfce4-goodies based on that. At this point that was just noise because I'm still seeing xfce4 4.10.1 and xfce4-goodies 4.10 there at Debian for both Jessie

Re: Xfce Not Closing

2015-03-08 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ues to be successful for users. Going that route becomes a logical step on this end when Sid experiences an active upgrade week. Some 75 packages needed upgraded anyway a few days ago, and that count has surely grown in the 2 or 3 days since.. :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens Count

Re: Xfce Not Closing

2015-03-08 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 3/8/15, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 3/8/15, Stephen R Guglielmo wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> I'm running Xfce 4.10 on Jessie. After booting, I log into the console >> with my user account, start my network interface, then run "startx" to >> run

Re: How to boot with the "irqpoll" option?

2015-03-10 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
the OP to where in that might help *IF* that directory does in fact help in this case.. Personally I've copied from /boot/grub/grub.cfg and pasted into 40_custom, altered the pasted section, and then updated GRUB for what were probably successful similar changes. BUT again, cognitively am

Re: Bug#780201: new codename needed for oldstable (due to squeeze-lts) when stable becomes oldstable

2015-03-10 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ally Bret's suggestion, is that the addition into wherever is appropriate/necessary, could be similar to, say, like where we add in a "free floating" "jessie" or "sid" to debootstrap's command.. Or like where we see similar looking "free floating" per

Re: Best replacement for iceape?

2015-03-13 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
le noise just to plant that mental image in case it helps anyone else making the associations.. It's going to help me.. Well, outside of that I just flat out forget the names for all of them, period, unless assisted by seeing them as posted in this case. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Ro

Re: shutdown icon changed

2015-03-20 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ges brings with it an entire new set of icon directories and/or 2) one of those few installed packages maybe overwrites core, errant system icon paths somewhere. Just thinking out loud. :) Cindy -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * kinda just strolling

Re: Debian wheezy on Dell 7535

2015-03-23 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
selections once installed. Maybe that info will help with searching this list's archives, too, for other leads if needed... Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Debian wheezy on Dell 7535

2015-03-24 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
issue when ALSA controls had been failing repeatedly and miserably until his comment appeared. That's why it was a no-brainer it would be *safe* to pose pavucontrol as a potential alternative *_CHOICE_* for any conversation that includes the words "- No Sound". :) Cindy ;) -- Ci

Re: pdf reader

2015-04-19 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ueries like: apt-cache search pdf viewer OR apt-cache search pdf reader For the widest *_CHOICES_*, try several different creative keyword variations because those searches feed off descriptions and such that developers have consciously written into their packages. Good luck! Cindy :)

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-19 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
y that? With this many others of us not having any problems on multiple various browsers, I wonder what (other) secondary things might be interfering. I've run into website fail instances before where it was about cookies I'd block that I didn't know were necessary for that website

Re: python3-xlib lost in Debian

2015-04-26 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
around out there: https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/python-xlib Go ahead and start your brand new email so you can ask your new question, and we can try going from there.. :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape(d sewing machine) * --

Re: Dlna client and backup

2015-06-19 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
se the /home/user hidden files were non-existent. While some files are easy enough to reproduce in that case, it was the missing /home/user/.config directory shtuff that was the absolute heartbreaker that fateful day. :) A Life Lesson Learned the Hard Way... AGAIN. :D Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Ca

Re: IP address

2015-07-17 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ember to try going that route if something suggested here doesn't work right offhand. Didn't remember this time. Trying it as root just now worked. Regular user gets the "bash: ifconfig: command not found" error message. :) Cindy -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens Cou

Re: Recommendations for a GUI video editing program?

2015-12-30 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
in the second on out... A particular joy to me through the whole experience has been that all three programs (OpenShot, Inkscape, and Blender) are available for me even with (still) only one main Debian repository in /etc/apt/sources.list. Hope this helps a little.. :) Cindy -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * speaking of runs with birdseed, here I go-o-o-o-o *

Re: RIP and Thank You.

2015-12-31 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
out there.. Talk to people. Let them know what's going on in your Life. I'm spending a SERIOUS amount of time today kicking myself for having never even thought to track Ian down and follow his musings because of his direct impact on my ability to be able to keep up with the rest of you al

Re: Could this be @jackstormwriter ?

2016-01-05 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
spite of what others might say in their stead. His wishes were very definitive and have been documented for posterity on the W-W-W k/t whoever had the foresight and reacted in time. Just thinking out loud again... Cindy :) ** Things are no longer write-offable as fig-a-ments of someone'

Re: avidemux

2016-01-09 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
as a default repository in a sources.list file for an unrelated HEAVY multimedia packed distribution... Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * still... hm. :( *

Re: avidemux

2016-01-09 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 1/9/16, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > It sounded familiar so *after* writing up a comment that I thought it > wasn't Debian.org specific, I *cough-cough* hit up a search engine. > Front and center on front page search returns was THIS page: > > https://wiki.debian.o

Re: diagnose fcitx problem

2016-01-10 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
l see something there that *might* help while you wait for others to respond... Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * hm.. *

Re: Reporting unmaintained packages

2016-01-18 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
te right(ly), but it SEEMS LIKE the Debian package "reportbug" offers users an on-the-spot opportunity to submit patches pertinent to their reported bug(s). Just thinking out loud again. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * hm. *

Re: eagle-lin64-7.5.0.run, won't

2016-01-19 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
f you all are part of the most recent threads going on about networking failures, would you please consider asking the original posters on those if their affected user is member of netdev? Users like us being a member of netdev became almost a necessity in recent times. Thank you! :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * words #fail me. *

Re: About new mail client

2016-01-20 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
n your email, quoted from the OP. Stuart was simply > quoting your quote. Out of curiosity, I just went dumpster diving in my email's trash bucket. It is in fact from an email by Chris. Chris quoted a previous post by someone else before then responding to it. Chris did not originate

Re: problems running backup

2016-01-20 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
was mounted BUT had quietly been auto-renamed by my system k/t that another partition was already bearing the same label name. Fodder for another eventual thread and why I love and advocate UUIDs over labels or other. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * sometimes words #fail me. *

Re: failed to fetch Sid InRelease

2016-01-27 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
. Mine holds apache2, lockdev, and subsys subdirectories that are all currently empty. /var/lock additionally holds a file named "LCK..ttyACM0". It's recognizable as belonging to my USB dialup modem that is currently in use. In the spirit of continually discovering just what makes Debian tick, I logged off the Internet. As anticipated, /var/LCK..ttyACM0 vanished into thin air and then graciously reappeared upon Internet reconnect. *phew!* Just thinking out loud... again. ) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * sometimes words #fail me. *

Re: disk space disappeared

2016-02-11 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
#x27;t normally visually inspect... and that space usage also was not being reflected numerically via any utility tool package I knew to run at that moment. See why I hadn't tried to write it up yet? *grin!* Cindy -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Phantom Media Devices Created On The Fly (Was: disk space disappeared)

2016-02-11 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
hoots with my Debian copy. In the end, those on-the-fly "phantom" directories were understandably not recognized properly. e.g. unmounted nor indexed, by Debian. They became a permanent, non-disappearing fixture that progressively and very silently was eating up hard drive space:: On

Re: which files took the space

2016-03-03 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
just thinking out loud again mostly because I actually understand the circumstance as presented. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: Software center has shuting down

2016-03-30 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
al command "ps -a" gives me that information, too. That's only for packages that are running (that are being actively used). For the permanent record, it's things just like what you're going through here that landed me at APT where I have never looked back since goin

Re: What is cisco-sccp?

2016-04-03 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
nt quick search without clicking on any pages shows multiple references to VOIP and VOIP capable computers. Mentioning that in case that tickles any memory of using that feature with something. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

OT But Still: Who has Ian's Computer(s)?

2016-04-03 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
.html [2] Wed, 2 Feb 94 19:16 PST with Ian saying, "[A]fter Mike and I open a PO Box tomorrow we're going to announce the existence of ." https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/1994/02/msg00046.html -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * The Shadow Knows. *

Re: Bug report (ASUS M2NPV/VM: Garbled screen instead of GUI)

2016-04-04 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
uld navigate through the garble and into the settings manager. The visuals would be duplicated anywhere from 3 to 7 times across the screen. I just reread the issue description above. It sure sounds VERY familiar although it has been a long time since I've experienced it. :) Just thinking out loud... :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with plastic sporks *

Re: bug reporting and packages

2016-04-04 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ard shortcuts necessary for at least getting to "Log Out" and/or "Settings > Mouse and Touchpad" under the Applications menu. ALT+F1 works for me, grin. Just thinking out loud.. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with plastic sporks *

Re: Disable knotify sounds using xfce

2016-04-09 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
7;s instance is not generating that file at all. One potential inference then might be that knotify had obsoleted it... or something. I can't see where it would do so because it's about local user setting *_CHOICES_* but still... :) Just thinking out loud... again. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with plastic sporks *

Re: Trouble getting posted

2016-04-09 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
lient is not showing your post in your > inbox until it gets a reply? Gmail does that (annoyingly). I just ran a quick search through my own inbox. He's showing up in 2 threads today then nothing previous going backwards until March 16th, I think it was.. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Cau

Tip: [Solved] Correct password login fail when CAPS LOCK not on

2016-04-21 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ends to eliminate the causative keyboard drag in the process. Just thinking out loud... Wishing everyone out there a likewise glass half full kind of day.. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs... in circles more often than she used to.. *

Re: chroot setup problem

2016-04-22 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
omenally basic deboostrap install attempt because I remember being instructed to create that same directory for my own original debootstrap attempts. Good luck! Cindy -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * would run in a pair of rain galoshes... if she owned them *

Re: debian applications for Itunes?

2016-05-12 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
etter results with a similar search against more than just that one basic repository that I use. Good luck! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: apt-get: Why "Unable to find source package" errors?

2017-08-21 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
today. My lines don't have slashes at the end. I didn't do that. Debootstrap sets it up with no trailing slash. In fact I just got to verify for 100% because I ran the first step in debootstrap'ing Sid again a couple hours ago. I just ran the "apt-get build-dep emacs25" command again.. It's working as expected now... so I'm back to leaning heavy on did you "apt-get update"? :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: Package postgresql-9.6 is not configured yet

2017-08-23 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
I'm thinking of: dpkg --configure -a I took that back to "man dpkg" which additionally references "dpkg-reconfigure". PLEASE do *NOT* try these without researching what they do. I *have*, yes, had success, and those sound familiar of part of that success. Maybe someone else has insight based on those *if* they're appropriate to consider as one option in your instance.. Good luck with your situation.. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: STOP

2017-08-26 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 8/26/17, Ben Finney wrote: > Nothin's Gonna > >> STOP > > Us Now Yippee-Ki-Yay

Re: XFCE wm deadlocks on (other) console logout

2017-08-28 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
it. I THOUGHT that F1 was the first console, is it not? Out of pure *panic*, I went down the row. F3, F4, F5.. Mystery solved: F7 is the new F1 in my case. I started to ask if that helps in your case, but it sounds like you're already able to use CTRL+ALT+F1 as expected so *?

Re: Resign me from your lists

2017-08-28 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ine. They're definitely not all the same in case anyone has them backed up and not yet deleted. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * Elsie: A 1958 3/4 ton Studebaker Transtar pickup truck with 3 on the tree. Was lottery image invoking to see this name in spam simultaneous to 2nd piece that used my name *

Re: Resign me from your lists

2017-08-28 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 8/28/17, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 28 August 2017 10:22:48 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > >> On 8/28/17, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> On 28/08/17 01:09, Reco wrote: >> >> > X-Spam-Status contains LDOSUBSCRIBER for you, me, and everyone >> >>

Re: Inconsistent predictable interface names

2017-08-30 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
_setup_link udev builtins as a valid NIC. > It could be fixed in newer udev, or not. > > Long story short - you've found a udev bug. > > A good thing is - it has as easy workaround as creating a .link file > like this: > > [Match] > MACAddress=d8:a2:5e:8d:ab:b1 > [Link] >

Re: want pinning with examples to prevent unwanted package(s) from being installed

2017-08-31 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ackage: wpasupplicant Pin: version 2.5-2+v2.4-3+b1 Pin-Priority: 1001 My apologies, but I'm not able to remember *why* I did it exactly like that. I'm thinking maybe it was specifically "pinned" to that version number... maybe. I do remember that it was garnered from an example somewhere out on the W-W-W. However they explained their own example, that right there helped me at that time. In fact so much so that my inner geekette became a little more empowered that day. * yippee ki ay* :D Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: want pinning with examples to prevent unwanted package(s) from being installed

2017-08-31 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 8/31/17, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 8/31/17, Felix Miata wrote: >> Dejan Jocic composed on 2017-08-31 08:51 (UTC+0200): >> >>> Felix Miata wrote: >> >>>> Over an hour I've been searching in vain, apparently using broken >>>> Goo

Re: Recommended editor for novice programmers?

2017-09-02 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
already have its dependencies installed these days, or it has become more of a stand on its own kind of package. :) ANYWAY... :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: (solved) Re: how to roll back to jessie

2017-09-03 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
it later to learn something new from it Or just delete it down the road and teach yourself something even newer than that because Time is too precious these days. *kernelnewbies, cough-cough* :D Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: network trouble on stretch

2017-09-03 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
. At the top of that is Network Interfaces for Wireless Interface and Wired Interface. That's where I changed mine a while back, and it's been working. DISCLAIMER is that my setup is extremely basic. When all those fancier settings have to be made for multiple computer systems networking together, my successful, quick fix setting there may have no effect at all for that something fancier. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98%

2017-09-04 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
fic detail when people are writing about their problems. :) That's also why people trying to help want to know the *exact* steps a user took to try to do something. The person helping is not being nosey. Seeing exact details might just help them catch a whoops such as that device name standi

Re: (solved) how to roll back to jessie

2017-09-04 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
re releases... or maybe something already exists but just got buried under the surface over time. I can *empathize*, i.e. have experienced this first hand. I can remember favored features, just such as a font's almost "naive" onscreen appearance, changing as all these projects grew up. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: failure of cheese with a Microsoft LifeCam NX-6000

2017-09-06 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
nformational purposes since it was there and applicable): OpenGL - The Industry Standard for High Performance Graphics https://www.opengl.org/ Wikipedia's blurb that shows in search engines: "Open Graphics Library (OpenGL) is a cross-language, cross-platform application programming interface (API) for rendering 2D and 3D vector graphics" Again, maybe if you can fix the non-communication thing between BGR3 and MPEG, that will fix the other or not. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: failure of cheese with a Microsoft LifeCam NX-6000

2017-09-06 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
e previous error that this one will > solve itself. Hey, cool. I think I actually almost came close to what you said a couple times, lol. You just write a little more succinctly than I do, just like Brian. :D I think I heard that about ffmpeg by itself, but that didn't "stick" until this time. I thought it was just more "reference", more of a library sitting in waiting to be drawn from in the background. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: Windows program on Debian

2017-09-08 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
t there because of this thread being about very finite resources. At the very least, it shows there's some thought about this going on in our repositories. Maybe some keywords from it might land other packages of related interest Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: Upgrade from jessie to strech wants to bloat by system

2017-09-08 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
to break my upgrades into small sized chunks while doing them every day (k/t small town dialup access). I'd *almost* be willing to bet that your "the APT database shows it was manually requested, and so will never be auto-removed" comes into play with respect to that apt-get adv

Re: Re: LibreOffice - middle click paste does not work.

2017-09-08 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
m 2:8.0.0197-5+b1 (via apt-get showpkg) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: hibernate uses a wrong UUID

2017-09-09 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ile trying to fix mine: https://wiki.debian.org/Hibernation https://wiki.debian.org/Suspend https://wiki.debian.org/SystemdSuspendSedation I figured: * Those look like they could use a refresh from a knowledgeable person... * I'm surely not the only one who keeps mixing these terms up.. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: libreoffice base crashes when writing HSQLDB

2017-09-11 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
for having taught me that a long time ago and most likely via a right click over an Applications menu entry... or something similar.. a long time ago... :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Helping Debian Astro 1.0 Spread Their Word

2017-09-11 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ian Pure Blend [0] focused for both professional and hobby astronomers, and the software packages [1] covering telescope control, data reduction, presentation and other fields." Happy Debian'ing! :) Cindy :) [0] https://www.debian.org/blends/ [1] https://blends.debian.org/astro/tasks --

Re: Buster SSH

2017-09-11 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
hing to do with keyring(s). "Coincidentally" and/or maybe not was that debian-archive-keyring just updated so maybe something else related also upgraded at the same time. Be it related or not, I haven't seen that message since but have only rebooted maybe once or twice. It could

Re: Laptop Wireless issues

2017-09-13 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
hat directory can be almost anywhere (if not actually anywhere), but the command has to be issued from wherever that .deb landed in the file hierarchy. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * dogs ate my... electric chainsaw cord. literally _hate_ when that happens. #Irma. *

Re: What is the right place to report bugs in OpenJDK?

2017-09-13 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
have a couple citizen science type ideas, actually about 4, that I'm not tellin' NOBODY about until I'm sure my name and/or that of a 1970's teacher gets attached in the right place.. *GRIN* Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * seriously, dogs literally ate my _home_ work. 2 words, not 1. #Irma *

Re: mariadb uninstall/reinstall

2017-09-14 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
packages the way that happens sometimes. Larry, it might others help you if you gave a hint or two about the methods you found online that didn't work. Others may know of successful work-arounds if they hear more about what misfired. You never know, you may have even stumbled onto a bug.. :)

Re: BOINC Screensaver

2017-09-19 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
t 100% stored on our own computers. Beyond that they just plum didn't work, I can't remember how I was able to tell immediately. Seems logical to think that maybe their link/URL can be seen via their options/settings, e.g. the Advanced tab for Xscreensaver. Taking a peek at their sett

Re: My Problem with Stretch - thin mosquito-like noise from HDD partition

2017-09-19 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
o to dig up more details. Cindy :) PS I was just verifying Tibor's name (for the email address field) before sending and now see Alexander's reply. Maybe "Advanced Power Management " is what I saw if that's something's that completely within the hard drive and is somethi

Re: OT: Hurricane

2017-09-22 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
s an effect. Please be safe out there... Cindy -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * . *

Re: Blank screen bug

2017-09-23 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
hed theirs so they did as would be expected per reportbug methodology. They simply addended their experience to a bug subject line that matched their experience... and then got "blessed" for doing so. I genuinely hate when that happens... because that sounds exactly like something I would do under the same circumstances. :) Cindy -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * Geraldine Laverne, did you ever feed your goldfish the other day? *

Re: Can't find the DNS Servers

2017-09-23 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
x27;re places where things can get messed up. That /etc/resolv.conf always resolves itself for me, yayhoo, but maybe something's not quite ok in yours. I'm saying that because my notes are showing one thing, and now my own /etc/resolv.conf has apparently populated itself with an additional line th

Re: The mess of package names

2017-09-24 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
https://github.com/ElmerCSC/elmerfem/ That first one was a search that was very strange. It seemed to pick out single letters and numbers to match those, not the whole word only. It's surely by design. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: dirs mirror

2017-09-26 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
was written to facilitate the synchronization of two large digital music repositories without direct network connection. Patch files of several gigabytes are common in this situation. . Syrep is able to cope with 64 bit file sizes. (LFS) . Syrep is optimized for speed. It may make use of a message dige

Re: no sound on Lenovo Ideapad 110

2017-09-28 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
; > and/or proprietary drivers. >> I have already the latest kernel version, but I would be interested >>having some details about these non-free firmware and drivers. >> Up to now, googling gave me nothing about that. > > 4.9? Or 4.11 or 4.12? 4.13.4 :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: virtualbox - missing packages

2017-09-30 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
e the sound of that "--force" flag. :) It feels like I'm missing one that I've even shared on this list, but it's not coming to mind this morning *if* there is another one. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: virtualbox - missing packages

2017-09-30 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 9/30/17, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 9/30/17, Sven Hoexter wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 09:16:59AM +0200, Hans wrote: >> >>> maybe you need to add this entry in sources.list: >>> >>> deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian stretch

Re: What happened to libreoffice-common in archive?

2017-10-11 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ebian Developers. After that, we can make an informed executive decision regarding going ahead or canning the attempt for the time being.. Anyone have any feedback on what any other package managers do with packages that are on hold? It would be about being a *VERY* newbie friendly feature to at least warn before proceeding on... Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with... pumpkin spice cookies and a slushing cup of (cold) coffee *

Re: LXDE panel disappeared

2017-10-15 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ep lxpanel", too. That might help show if the panel is even active. As an example for mine just now, "grep panel" brought up "xfce4-panel". If anyone knows a different grep [variable/value] would instead be reflected for LXDE's panel(s) in that output, please help share..

Re: where is gmplayer in jessie

2017-11-03 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
Replacing "jessie" with "buster" in that URL lands this (just for starters): "Package: mplayer-gui (2:1.3.0-7) movie player for Unix-like systems (GUI variant)" For whatever development related reasons, it's really not showing up for Jessie.. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

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