Re: laptop battery cycling

2012-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-05-28 at 07:10 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2012-05-28 at 00:01 -0400, Doug wrote: > > On 05/27/2012 09:57 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > On 28/05/12 11:37, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > >> For the record, I'm running a Lenovo T420i with a 6 cell battery. > > >> > > >> In the pas

Re: laptop battery cycling

2012-05-27 Thread steef
acpi -b (?) reg., steef Doug wrote: On 05/27/2012 09:57 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 28/05/12 11:37, Robert Holtzman wrote: For the record, I'm running a Lenovo T420i with a 6 cell battery. In the past I've been told that it's bad practice to run a laptop on AC with the battery installed

Re: laptop battery cycling

2012-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-05-28 at 00:01 -0400, Doug wrote: > On 05/27/2012 09:57 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > On 28/05/12 11:37, Robert Holtzman wrote: > >> For the record, I'm running a Lenovo T420i with a 6 cell battery. > >> > >> In the past I've been told that it's bad practice to run a laptop on > >> AC

Re: laptop battery cycling

2012-05-27 Thread Doug
On 05/27/2012 09:57 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 28/05/12 11:37, Robert Holtzman wrote: For the record, I'm running a Lenovo T420i with a 6 cell battery. In the past I've been told that it's bad practice to run a laptop on AC with the battery installed because it would cause reduced battery c

Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-05-27 Thread John W. Foster
On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 23:23 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > On Sun, 27 May 2012 10:28:27 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > Recently I've been having a problem with my web browser: it gets slow, > the mouse and the keyboard don't respond any more and I have to unplug > the machine. Ca

Where is GRUB2's pointer to LVM LV / filesystem containing /boot?

2012-05-27 Thread Dan B.
Where does GRUB2 store its pointer information about which block device holds the filesystem containing /boot/grub (specifically, when using GPT partitioning)? Can that information be displayed (e.g., to see it before and after trying to change it, to confirm the change and which devices it's poi

Re: laptop battery cycling

2012-05-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/05/12 11:37, Robert Holtzman wrote: > For the record, I'm running a Lenovo T420i with a 6 cell battery. > > In the past I've been told that it's bad practice to run a laptop on > AC with the battery installed because it would cause reduced battery > capacity. Your Li-ion battery will have

laptop battery cycling

2012-05-27 Thread Robert Holtzman
For the record, I'm running a Lenovo T420i with a 6 cell battery. In the past I've been told that it's bad practice to run a laptop on AC with the battery installed because it would cause reduced battery capacity. This raises two questions. First, is it true that laptop batteries don't have overc

Re: wheezy armel hostapd

2012-05-27 Thread David Burgess
But it is there for armhf and i386, I do not understand. wpa packages are not there for either hostapd or wpa in armel. If I could find the .config used for the build for armel, I would be able to build from source, but it is unclear (to me) which config is used to build hostapd. I cannot fi

Re: [Solved (kind of)] Re: Installing Wheezy on btrfs only (multi-device)

2012-05-27 Thread Steven Post
On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 18:40 -0400, Tom H wrote: [...] > > Many thanks for your follow-up. It's definitely of interest to me. Glad someone found it useful. > > I was wondering about d-i's progress with btrfs so I tested Wheezy and > Precise. Wheezy's current dailies and weeklies are broken so I'

Re: Problem with Iceweasel and low-quality fonts

2012-05-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-05-27 11:06:18 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 27 May 2012 03:55:30 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > In the Iceweasel preferences, I have the "Allow pages to choose their > > own fonts, instead of my selections above" option enabled. But the > > quality of the fonts is sometimes very low,

Re: Installing Debian on Acer Aspire One

2012-05-27 Thread Brian
On Mon 28 May 2012 at 00:22:51 +0200, José Luis Segura Lucas wrote: [Snipped: Information about an Acer Aspire One] > Anybody knows how can I install Debian from scratch? I would disagree with the advice given in the sentence beginning 'As the Installation Manual states: . . .' Read section 4.3

Re: [Solved (kind of)] Re: Installing Wheezy on btrfs only (multi-device)

2012-05-27 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Steven Post wrote: > On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 03:11 +0200, Steven Post wrote: > > It's been a while since I replied to this thread, and since I solved it > (well.. kind of...) I thought I'd mention how I got this working in the > end and also what happens when a drive

Installing Debian on Acer Aspire One

2012-05-27 Thread José Luis Segura Lucas
Hi all! I'm trying to re-install my Debian on this laptop (an Acer Aspire One) to use it as a server. I just tried this wiki [1] and I can't get it working at all (I substituted the older and non-existing files for newer ones and Debian 5.0.5 netinstall by a actual testing one. Result: after sele

[SOLVED] Re: backing up

2012-05-27 Thread Frank McCormick
On 27/05/12 05:18 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 16:51 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: On 27/05/12 04:42 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: /etc/gdm3/PostSession/Default #!/bin/sh sh ~/a_script exit 0 /home/user_dir/a_script #!/bin/sh cp -R ~/.thunderbird ~/thunderbird.backup exit 0 Ho

Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-05-27 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On May 27, 9:30 pm, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > On Sun, 27 May 2012 10:28:27 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Recently I've been having a problem with my web browser: it gets slow, > the mouse and the keyboard don't respond any more and I have to unplug > the machine. Can anybody suggest

Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-05-27 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On May 27, 9:30 pm, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > On Sun, 27 May 2012 10:28:27 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Recently I've been having a problem with my web browser: it gets slow, > the mouse and the keyboard don't respond any more and I have to unplug > the machine. Can anybody suggest

Re: how to update Debian OS properly

2012-05-27 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 27 May 2012 22:21:39 you wrote: > On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Lisi wrote: > > On Saturday 26 May 2012 12:43:45 you wrote: > >> > I prefer to use aptitude full-upgrade routinely - but I have the code > >> > name in my sources.list, not stable or testing.  I then change the > >> > cod

Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-05-27 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Sun, 27 May 2012 10:28:27 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Recently I've been having a problem with my web browser: it gets slow, the mouse and the keyboard don't respond any more and I have to unplug the machine. Can anybody suggest how I can detect why this happen and provide

Re: backing up

2012-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 16:51 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 27/05/12 04:42 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > >> /etc/gdm3/PostSession/Default > >> > >> #!/bin/sh > >> sh ~/a_script > >> exit 0 > >> > >> /home/user_dir/a_script > >> > >> #!/bin/sh > >> cp -R ~/.thunderbird ~/thunderbird.backup > >>

Re: how to update Debian OS properly

2012-05-27 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Lisi wrote: > On Saturday 26 May 2012 12:43:45 you wrote: >> > I prefer to use aptitude full-upgrade routinely - but I have the code >> > name in my sources.list, not stable or testing.  I then change the code >> > name when I want to get the more recent version.  

Re: backing up

2012-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> /etc/gdm3/PostSession/Default > > #!/bin/sh > sh ~/a_script > exit 0 > > /home/user_dir/a_script > > #!/bin/sh > cp -R ~/.thunderbird ~/thunderbird.backup > exit 0 > > How to check if the file exists is described in the Internet. Before I go off-line a last hint ;p. spinymouse@precise:~$

Re: backing up

2012-05-27 Thread Frank McCormick
On 27/05/12 04:04 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 21:52 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 20:21 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Or you add a flag to a config in all /home/user_dirs, where .thunderbird should be copied and check for this flag. FWIW the user name can be di

Re: backing up

2012-05-27 Thread Frank McCormick
On 27/05/12 03:06 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 14:50 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: Just for fun I created a new user (my wife)..and ran a session under "her" account...she could not write to my directory so nothing happened. I suspect that the user "root" never would run

Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-05-27 Thread Freeman
On Sun, 27 May 2012 17:29:53 + Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Camaleón writes: > > > On Sun, 27 May 2012 10:28:27 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > Err... would be of much help if you say what browser is and what > > Debian release :-). Also, does it happen with a different browser? > > > It i

Re: backing up

2012-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 21:52 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 20:21 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Or you add a flag to a config in all /home/user_dirs, where .thunderbird > > should be copied and check for this flag. FWIW the user name can be > > different from the /home/dir's nam

Re: backing up

2012-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 20:21 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Or you add a flag to a config in all /home/user_dirs, where .thunderbird > should be copied and check for this flag. FWIW the user name can be > different from the /home/dir's name. You still could do this and that, > but perhaps you can use

Re: backing up

2012-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
If there should happen something different for the different $USERs you could use "case" http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/07/bash-case-statement/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archiv

Re: Debian as a DDNS Server

2012-05-27 Thread Jerry Stuckle
Thanks, Camaleón. I have the client side handled (router does that just fine). I had looked at bind9, but didn't figure out that it would do what I needed. Your link helps a lot. On 5/27/2012 12:09 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 27 May 2012 10:18:41 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: I've done som

Re: backing up

2012-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 14:50 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > Just for fun I created a new user (my wife)..and ran a session under > "her" account...she could not write to my directory so nothing happened. I suspect that the user "root" never would run Thunderbird, but assumed the user root wou

Re: backing up

2012-05-27 Thread Frank McCormick
On 27/05/12 02:21 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 13:38 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: On 27/05/12 01:27 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 12:49 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: On 27/05/12 10:04 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: If you added cp -R ~/.thunderbird ~/.thunderbird.b

Re: backing up

2012-05-27 Thread Frank McCormick
On 27/05/12 01:30 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 19:27 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 12:49 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: On 27/05/12 10:04 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: If you added cp -R ~/.thunderbird ~/.thunderbird.backup to a script, than the backup must be in

Re: backing up

2012-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 20:21 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 13:38 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > On 27/05/12 01:27 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 12:49 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > >> On 27/05/12 10:04 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > >>> If you added > >

Re: If you want to install stable released version

2012-05-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 27 mai 12, 08:54:16, Slavko wrote: [snip great explanation] > When new stable version is released, it simple mean that: > > * the actual stable is renamed as oldstable > * the actual testing is renamed to stable > * the actual unstable is copied as new testing. Actually the new testing

Re: backing up

2012-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 13:38 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 27/05/12 01:27 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 12:49 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > >> On 27/05/12 10:04 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >>> If you added > >>> cp -R ~/.thunderbird ~/.thunderbird.backup > >>> to a scrip

Re: backing up

2012-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 19:27 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 12:49 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > On 27/05/12 10:04 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > If you added > > > cp -R ~/.thunderbird ~/.thunderbird.backup > > > to a script, than the backup must be in ~/. > > > > > > Perh

Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-05-27 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 27 May 2012 18:29:53 Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Camaleón writes: > > On Sun, 27 May 2012 10:28:27 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> Recently I've been having a problem with my web browser: it gets slow, > >> the mouse and the keyboard don't respond any more and I have to unplug > >> the mac

Re: backing up

2012-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 12:49 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 27/05/12 10:04 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > If you added > > cp -R ~/.thunderbird ~/.thunderbird.backup > > to a script, than the backup must be in ~/. > > > > Perhaps the script runs "cd /var/lib/gdm3" and you added "cp -R > > ~/.th

Re: [OT] Mails coming from "joe1assis...@gmail.com"

2012-05-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 30. April 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > Hello, > > Is just me who receives this sort of e-mails when replying to certain > messages of this mailing list? *Oh* *my* *goddess*! Is this really true? Please just report to listmasters and then filter for yourself as necessary. Anyway not need

Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 16:01 +, Camaleón wrote: > In the meantime, you can try with Epiphany (if running GNOME) or > Konqueror (for KDE) or http://wiki.debian.org/Opera if you don't wish to install GNOME or KDE related packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: backing up

2012-05-27 Thread Frank McCormick
On 27/05/12 10:04 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: If you added cp -R ~/.thunderbird ~/.thunderbird.backup to a script, than the backup must be in ~/. Perhaps the script runs "cd /var/lib/gdm3" and you added "cp -R ~/.thunderbird .thunderbird.backup", the backup without the path? You should post what

Re: how to update Debian OS properly

2012-05-27 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Lisi wrote: > On Saturday 26 May 2012 18:04:35 Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> I seem to remember the Debian Reference has a good guide to pinning and >> it is up-to-date (thanks to Osamu Aoki). > > Given the OP's confusion, and the fact that he states his main aim as no

Re: Install Squeeze with firmware

2012-05-27 Thread Antispammbox-debian
Ok thanks Regards This down is experiment form usb iso file with firmware writo to usb The command you gave was 'ls /lib'. 'ls /lib/firmware' is in the box above. I am going to suggest you continue this on debian-italian, where you have posted in the past. Give them links to what you have p

Re: wheezy armel hostapd

2012-05-27 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 28 May 2012 00:05:01 +1000, David Burgess wrote: > I cannot find hostapd in armel wheezy. Is this a planned event? It was removed from unstable (and wheezy) because of this: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=674220 But maybe there's still something at the snapshot archive

Re: Debian as a DDNS Server

2012-05-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 27 May 2012 10:18:41 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > I've done some digging around but haven't found exactly what I'm looking > for. (...) > What I would like to do is set up the system with the static IP address > to be a DDNS server, ala dyndns.org or similar. > > The router on the dyna

Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-05-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 27 May 2012 17:29:53 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> On Sun, 27 May 2012 10:28:27 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> >>> Recently I've been having a problem with my web browser: it gets slow, >>> the mouse and the keyboard don't respond any more and I have to unplug >>>

Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
http://linux.about.com/od/softbrowser/Linux_Software_Web_Browsers.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1338134398.2298.68.camel@precise

Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers_for_Unix_and_Unix-like_operating_systems -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1338134199.2298.67.camel@pre

Re: [OT] Annoyances

2012-05-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 27 May 2012 09:26:00 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > By the waythis "joelassistly" guy is not only bothering Debian > users: > > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/133662 As I alredy filtered their e-mails I was not aware of the return. Someone should shutdown those guys ASAP

Re: [OT] Re: mp280

2012-05-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 27 May 2012 14:56:39 +0200, steef wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> On Sun, 27 May 2012 08:36:06 +0200, steef wrote: >> >>> thank you, lisi and camaleon. and, calameon: was that elven maiden >>> galadriel? >> >> Nope... but I let you one more try (hey, don't look at the Internet!) >> ;-) > arwe

Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-05-27 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Camaleón writes: > On Sun, 27 May 2012 10:28:27 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> Recently I've been having a problem with my web browser: it gets slow, >> the mouse and the keyboard don't respond any more and I have to unplug >> the machine. Can anybody suggest how I can detect why this happen a

Re: [SOLVED... sort of] Wheezy printing problem: 2 identical (?) machines and 1 does not print PDFs

2012-05-27 Thread Brian
On Sun 27 May 2012 at 08:56:04 +0200, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > HP > LaserJet 2200 Postscript (recommended) (en) > HP > LaserJet 2200 Postscript (recommended) (en) There are two entries for the same PPD file because two different strings for the printer model - 'HP LaserJet 2200' and 'Hewlett-

Re: Install Squeeze with firmware

2012-05-27 Thread Brian
On Sun 27 May 2012 at 14:58:07 +0200, antispammbox-27 wrote: >> Now please do this: >> >> * >> *Switch to a console. Type * >> * * >> * ls /lib/firmware * >>

Re: Configure sudo

2012-05-27 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 5:54 AM, Denis Witt wrote: > Hi again, > > I came up with this now: > > cat /usr/local/bin/adm.sh Having access to chown and chmod is not secure: cbell@circe:~$ cp /bin/dash . cbell@circe:~$ sudo ./adm.sh chown root:root ./dash Change ownership root:root ./dash cbell@circ

Debian as a DDNS Server

2012-05-27 Thread Jerry Stuckle
Hi, all, I've done some digging around but haven't found exactly what I'm looking for. Basically I have a Debian server with a static IP address (and several domains registered on it). I also have a system with a dynamic domain on a completely different network. What I would like to do i

Re: backing up

2012-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 09:07 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > sid:/var/lib/gdm3# > ls -a . >thunderbird.backup The name already isn't ".thunderbird.backup", but "thunderbird.backup" without the first dot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: backing up

2012-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
If you added > >>> cp -R ~/.thunderbird ~/.thunderbird.backup to a script, than the backup must be in ~/. Perhaps the script runs "cd /var/lib/gdm3" and you added "cp -R ~/.thunderbird .thunderbird.backup", the backup without the path? You should post what exactly you edited. - Ralf -- To UNS

Re: Spam?

2012-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 12:24 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > Finally someone contacted listmaster. I don't expect that the listmaster simply can remove "joe" from the list. I suspect that there's no "joe" subscribed to the list and we need to filter those messages ourself. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

wheezy armel hostapd

2012-05-27 Thread David Burgess
I cannot find hostapd in armel wheezy. Is this a planned event? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fc2348d.9000...@gmail.com

Re: how to update Debian OS properly

2012-05-27 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 25 mai 12, 15:36:40, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 18:28 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >>> >>> In conclusion i found out that i should stick to stable and should not >>> play with the source list until unless it is

Re: Configure sudo

2012-05-27 Thread Tom H
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Richard Hector wrote: > On 26/05/12 01:43, Tom H wrote: >>  * apt-get install but not remove >>> >>> > >>> >  IMO this is possible by setting whole command "apt-get options *" in >>> >  sudoers, but i never tried this. I have on one my server this: >>> >

[OT] Annoyances

2012-05-27 Thread Frank McCormick
By the waythis "joelassistly" guy is not only bothering Debian users: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/133662 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debia

Re: Install Squeeze with firmware

2012-05-27 Thread antispammbox-27
Subject: Re: Install Squeeze with firmware On Sat 26 May 2012 at 22:24:14 +0200, Antispammbox-debian wrote: Hi all Hi (again). The problem is this: Experimental1 with iso file with firmware write on usb: syslog-stick-firmware.txt > do not ask me choice for firmware netcard. After

Re: backing up

2012-05-27 Thread Frank McCormick
On 27/05/12 12:31 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 18:45 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: cp -R ~/.thunderbird ~/.thunderbird.backup Nevermind :) Found the backups in /var/lib/gdm3 Didn't realize that's where GDM would put them. A GDM script can't put ~/.thunderbird.backup

Re: [OT] Re: mp280

2012-05-27 Thread steef
arwen Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 27 May 2012 08:36:06 +0200, steef wrote: thank you, lisi and camaleon. and, calameon: was that elven maiden galadriel? Nope... but I let you one more try (hey, don't look at the Internet!) ;-) Greetings, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

[OT] Re: mp280

2012-05-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 27 May 2012 08:36:06 +0200, steef wrote: > thank you, lisi and camaleon. and, calameon: was that elven maiden > galadriel? Nope... but I let you one more try (hey, don't look at the Internet!) ;-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: [SOLVED... sort of] Wheezy printing problem: 2 identical (?) machines and 1 does not print PDFs

2012-05-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 27 May 2012 08:56:04 +0200, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > My problem is solved: I am able to print with both machines, although > graphics appear to be very slow. Then why "sort of"? I do not know which > driver I am actually using... Congrats for the solved problem :-) Then... to know what

Fwd: Re: mp280

2012-05-27 Thread steef
sorry: 'camaleon' reg., steef --- Begin Message --- thank you, lisi and camaleon. and, calameon: was that elven maiden galadriel? k.r. steef Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 22:18:26 +0200, steef wrote: Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 23 May 2012 15:15:46 -0400, Celejar wrote: On Wed,

Re: Web browser blocks the system

2012-05-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 27 May 2012 10:28:27 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Recently I've been having a problem with my web browser: it gets slow, > the mouse and the keyboard don't respond any more and I have to unplug > the machine. Can anybody suggest how I can detect why this happen and > provide a remedy? E

Re: Problem with Iceweasel and low-quality fonts

2012-05-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 27 May 2012 03:55:30 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > In the Iceweasel preferences, I have the "Allow pages to choose their > own fonts, instead of my selections above" option enabled. But the > quality of the fonts is sometimes very low, a bit like bitmap fonts, > without antialiasing. Ye

Re: Configure sudo

2012-05-27 Thread Denis Witt
And hi again, as listed below I'm using 'mail_always' in my sudoers list. Also I will receive all commands executed using sudo by mail. servername : May 27 12:59:20 : sudotest : TTY=pts/1 ; PWD=/home/sudotest ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/local/bin/adm.sh install apache2 Unfortunately I'm not abl

Re: Configure sudo

2012-05-27 Thread Denis Witt
Hi again, I came up with this now: cat /usr/local/bin/adm.sh - #!/bin/bash case $1 in install) echo "Install $2" apt-get install $2 exit 0 ;; restart) echo "Restart

Re: If you want to install stable released version

2012-05-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 26 May 2012 21:26:09 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > I still do not fully understand the debian system of versioning at its > relationship to the install isos. It's simple: the first released ISO (6.0.0) is being updated on a regular basis (now 6.0.5) to add all the patches that came out af

Web browser blocks the system

2012-05-27 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi to all Debian users. Recently I've been having a problem with my web browser: it gets slow, the mouse and the keyboard don't respond any more and I have to unplug the machine. Can anybody suggest how I can detect why this happen and provide a remedy? Thanks for any help Rodolfo -- To UNSUBS

Re: [SOLVED... sort of] Wheezy printing problem: 2 identical (?) machines and 1 does not print PDFs

2012-05-27 Thread Curt
On 2012-05-27, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: >HP >LaserJet 2200 Series hpijs, 3.12.2 (en) >HP LaserJet >2200 Series, hpcups 3.12.2 (en) > > I do not know the difference between the two, other than the empirical > proof that the first entry does not work and the second does. You have a laser printer

Re: Spam?

2012-05-27 Thread Mika Suomalainen
On 27.05.2012 09:36, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi Listmaster, > > list members receive off-list mails > > From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > but with > > Reply-to: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" > > with the call to post on top: > > "__ > Type y

[solved] Re: dovecot imap: folder location problems

2012-05-27 Thread Richard Hector
On 27/05/12 17:36, Richard Hector wrote: ... As a result, I decided to rename all my folders to not have the ".INBOX" prefix on them. That, I think, was a mistake. I was looking here: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/Courier Specifically, under the 'Manual Conversion' section, which has t

Re: [Junk] Re: backing up

2012-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 09:29 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 27 mai 12, 06:46:42, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Please stop this! > > > > 1. debian-user@lists.debian.org ? > > 2. Don't reply privately by "to" or "cc", reply to the list only. > > 3. Don't use HTML. Use plain text. > > 4. Top postin