MICROSOFT HIRED THESE PEOPLE TO SABOTAGE OPEN SOURCE

2013-04-07 Thread Dirk
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keyboard layout and led monitor.

2013-04-07 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day. I have to switch keyboard layout often and having Scroll lock led to monitor that, it annoys me as it looses at some moment its 'synchronization' (may because i also switch from X to consoles, or just between windows within a single X-session, or between X-sessions) - i.e. i

Re: sync apt/dpkg state between systems?

2013-04-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > I should say a few more words about how to restore. And there is always at least one more thing. After restoring /etc that would include an update of /etc/apt/sources.list which may be different if you had previously installed backports or from other places. Hopefully you did

Re: sync apt/dpkg state between systems?

2013-04-07 Thread Bob Proulx
I should say a few more words about how to restore. Bob Proulx wrote: > * Restore whatever of ... When I said "restore" I would probably use the 'rsync' tool. You said you had the files available. I would use rsync to copy those files from the backup area to the live area. After doing the smal

Re: Nvidia Driver Working [Was: Running Nvidia Driver Without an xorg.conf]

2013-04-07 Thread Patrick Bartek
- Original Message - > From: Andrei POPESCU > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: > Sent: Sunday, April 7, 2013 10:39 AM > Subject: Re: Nvidia Driver Working [Was: Running Nvidia Driver Without an > xorg.conf] > > On Mi, 27 mar 13, 09:14:20, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> >> The abov

Re: sync apt/dpkg state between systems?

2013-04-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Paul Wise wrote: > Yes, I have a backup of these directories: > > /var/lib/aptitude > /var/lib/dpkg > /var/lib/apt > /var/cache/apt > /var/cache/debconf Excellent! You should be able to fully recover. > Sorry, should have been more specific when I said "I had > a backup of my apt and dpkg state

Re: Data Archiving

2013-04-07 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 4/8/13, Gary Roach wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a records archiving problem and don't know where to start. There > are 100 years of records that include hand written material, type > written hard copy, photos and a lot of email. I would like to have a > system based around mysql (if possible) th

Re: sync apt/dpkg state between systems?

2013-04-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2013-04-07 at 11:54 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Do you have a backup of /var/lib/dpkg? Or of /var/backups? Those > contain the state of the previous system. Yes, I have a backup of these directories: /var/lib/aptitude /var/lib/dpkg /var/lib/apt /var/cache/apt /var/cache/debconf Sorry,

Re: lost toolbar

2013-04-07 Thread Wayne Topa
On 04/07/2013 05:39 PM, John Lindsay wrote: On 07/04/13 11:16 AM, John Lindsay wrote: Somehow I seem to have deleted my top toolbar. How do I make a new on/retrieve a standard toolbar or retrieve my old one? I was trying to delete a 'greyed out' icon and deleted the whole bar instead? John Y

Re: lost toolbar

2013-04-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-04-07 at 17:39 -0400, John Lindsay wrote: > Yes, more information should have been provided. I believe I am running > Debian wheezy? When I boot up it says something about debian 6.xxx with > linux 2.xxx. I am running Gnome desktop. Whether its called a panel or > toolbar it is the

Data Archiving

2013-04-07 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all, I have a records archiving problem and don't know where to start. There are 100 years of records that include hand written material, type written hard copy, photos and a lot of email. I would like to have a system based around mysql (if possible) that would allow flexible data mining.

Re: lost toolbar

2013-04-07 Thread John Lindsay
On 07/04/13 11:16 AM, John Lindsay wrote: Somehow I seem to have deleted my top toolbar. How do I make a new on/retrieve a standard toolbar or retrieve my old one? I was trying to delete a 'greyed out' icon and deleted the whole bar instead? John Yes, more information should have been provid

Re: Question about output from 'df'.

2013-04-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Claudius Hubig wrote: > Christian Dysthe wrote: > > When I do 'df' (or look in System Monitor) I see the following for > > file systems: > > /dev/disk/by-uuid/3… 10896648 5101224 5235248 50% / > > /dev/sda5 769760 44844 684980 7% /boot > > /dev/sda7 599139368 344433792 224264420 61% /home > > > > W

Re: lost toolbar

2013-04-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > I suspect the user is running XFCE4 in which I routinely see other > > people with crashed panels. (Other people I support because I don't > > use a heavy desktop myself.) Manually start it back up again. > > > > Alt-F2 xfce4-panel > > However, if t

Re: lost toolbar

2013-04-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-04-07 at 11:57 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Doing an educated guess I suspect the OP is talking about a DE's panel > > and not the tool bar of an app, so likely it's the GNOME panel. I'm > > using expensive crystal ball cleaner, that does improve a lot, but isn't

Re: Mozilla Firefox ESR for 64bit systems

2013-04-07 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Fri, 05 Apr 2013 08:40:02 +0200 "tv.deb...@googlemail.com" wrote: > You can get Iceweasel 17 esr from http://mozilla.debian.net/ without a > sweat, I run it on my amd64 testing systems right now. OK thanks for this, I'll have a look. -- CK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Re: lost toolbar

2013-04-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Doing an educated guess I suspect the OP is talking about a DE's panel > and not the tool bar of an app, so likely it's the GNOME panel. I'm > using expensive crystal ball cleaner, that does improve a lot, but isn't > politically correct, since it's made of unicorn horn and dr

Re: sync apt/dpkg state between systems?

2013-04-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Paul Wise wrote: > [Please CC me in reply] > > I recently had a hardware failure and had to reinstall my system. I had > a backup of my apt and dpkg state directories (but not /usr). I now want > to synchronize the old state to my newly installed system. So, install > all packages I had before, wi

Re: Nvidia Driver Working [Was: Running Nvidia Driver Without an xorg.conf]

2013-04-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 27 mar 13, 09:14:20, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > The above is true only if you're using Xorg--any version, I assume--or > XFree86 version 4.4.0 or greater.   As far as I recall sarge was the last release with XFree86, no need to worry about that in Debian. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://

Re: lost toolbar

2013-04-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-04-07 at 11:51 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > On 04/07/2013 11:16 AM, John Lindsay wrote: > > Somehow I seem to have deleted my top toolbar. How do I make a new > > on/retrieve a standard toolbar or retrieve my old one? I was trying to > > delete a 'greyed out' icon and deleted the whole b

Re: Mozilla Firefox ESR for 64bit systems

2013-04-07 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> But regarding to updates the management by ports for a FreeBSD noop > like me is a PITA and btw. I also prefer binaries to compiling _really > everything_ from source. Theoretically you can manage FreeBSD by a > package management that does provide binaries too, but when I > installed FreeBSD the

Re: Mozilla Firefox ESR for 64bit systems

2013-04-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-04-07 at 16:51 +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > > Breaking the system because Arch haven't tested it well enough, or > > > released the right information happened atleast three times in the 6 > > > months that I used it. > > > > It only happened one time for me, when they switched f

Re: lost toolbar

2013-04-07 Thread Wayne Topa
On 04/07/2013 11:16 AM, John Lindsay wrote: Somehow I seem to have deleted my top toolbar. How do I make a new on/retrieve a standard toolbar or retrieve my old one? I was trying to delete a 'greyed out' icon and deleted the whole bar instead? John I might help if you supplied a bit more infor

lost toolbar

2013-04-07 Thread John Lindsay
Somehow I seem to have deleted my top toolbar. How do I make a new on/retrieve a standard toolbar or retrieve my old one? I was trying to delete a 'greyed out' icon and deleted the whole bar instead? John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: Mozilla Firefox ESR for 64bit systems

2013-04-07 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> > Breaking the system because Arch haven't tested it well enough, or > > released the right information happened atleast three times in the 6 > > months that I used it. > > It only happened one time for me, when they switched from init to > systemd I dropped Arch for perhaps a year. But with D

sync apt/dpkg state between systems?

2013-04-07 Thread Paul Wise
[Please CC me in reply] I recently had a hardware failure and had to reinstall my system. I had a backup of my apt and dpkg state directories (but not /usr). I now want to synchronize the old state to my newly installed system. So, install all packages I had before, with the correct automatically/

Re: Mozilla Firefox ESR for 64bit systems

2013-04-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-04-07 at 15:16 +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > Arch has some good plus points such as a very fast package manager IMO the easiest to use package management, at least by comparison with RPM and DEP. Learning how to build Debian packages does takes a while and you'll forget how to do it

Re: Squeeze X86 with 4GByte RAM?

2013-04-07 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, Kevin Chadwick a écrit : >> If I run grub with "linux-image-2.6.32-5-686-bigmem (Recovery Mode)" it >> starts fine and I have all the 4GByte of RAM - but when I run the same >> without Recovery Mode it shows me black screen with blinking cursor and >> wait forever. >> >> I think it was beca

Re: Sound Problem -- More Information

2013-04-07 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On Sat, 6 Apr 2013 23:40:49 +1300 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 01:59:40PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > > > > > Begin forwarded message: > > > > Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 11:22:48 -0400 > > From: "Stephen P. Molnar" > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Sound

Re: Mozilla Firefox ESR for 64bit systems

2013-04-07 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> > I use Firefox not with Debian, > > but other distros. > > I didn't notice that..I see Arch Linux listed among the multitudes: > > http://futurist.se/gldt/wp-content/uploads/12.10/gldt1210.svg > > You can't have too many Linux distros apparently. What's to like > about Arch Linux? > --

Re: network unrachable problem [SOLVED]

2013-04-07 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 06/04/13 23:46, Bob Proulx wrote: > Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> Well, From reading the man pages (always a good idea) I discovered that >> ifplugd calls ifup/ifdown to do its actual work. >> Manually invoking "ifdown eth0" returned an error "eth0 not configured", > > Ah! So that is the problem

Re: Mozilla Firefox ESR for 64bit systems

2013-04-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-04-07 at 02:44 -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > When you boot your new system you don't (at least I don't) and you > have to tweak it yourself. Easy enough to do but it's likely different > than what you have and you will need to read up on how to get it > going. Hard to do if you don't hav

Re: Mozilla Firefox ESR for 64bit systems

2013-04-07 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat, 6 Apr 2013 22:27:41 -0400 Charles Kroeger wrote: > On Fri, 05 Apr 2013 03:20:04 +0200 > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > I use Firefox not with Debian, > > but other distros. > > I didn't notice that..I see Arch Linux listed among the multitudes: > > http://futurist.se/gldt/wp-content/uplo

Re: Mozilla Firefox ESR for 64bit systems

2013-04-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 22:27 -0400, Charles Kroeger wrote: > On Fri, 05 Apr 2013 03:20:04 +0200 > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > I use Firefox not with Debian, > > but other distros. > > I didn't notice that..I see Arch Linux listed among the multitudes: > > http://futurist.se/gldt/wp-content/uploa