Re: apt-get upgrade (security packages)

2013-10-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
When you patch a package locally, I'd recommend updating the package version at the same time by eg adding or incrementing an epoch (in 1:2.3-4, the epoch is the 1) This will mean your local package version will be higher than any package update to the stable repositories. Note however it woul

Re: xtrs z80

2013-10-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Beco beco.cc> writes: > Is xtrs broken under wheezy? What is it anyway? A Tandy Trash 80 emulator? -- Stan -- 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/loom.

Re: Strange PGP signature

2013-10-15 Thread Dmitrii Kashin
"Aort Conda" writes: > What is this? The file on official cd mirror is different. Did not get what you are talking about. Everything is normal, see: % gpg --verify SHA512SUMS.sign SHA512SUMS gpg: Signature made Mon Oct 14 01:19:32 2013 MSK using RSA key ID

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 14 October 2013 13:41:51 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > I have no idea about how it works in other countries, but in > France, when the enterprise is big enough, sysadmins does not take > care of single systems. That job is left to people with less > qualifications. I think that

Re: virtualbox fails to compile module on 3.10

2013-10-15 Thread Nickolay Todoroff
On 10/13/2013 10:17 PM, recovery...@gmail.com wrote: > > http://packages.debian.org/wheezy-backports/virtualbox-dkms > http://packages.debian.org/wheezy-backports/virtualbox > > Reco > Thanks a lot Reco, this solved the problem. I installed it using: apt-get -t wheezy-backports install virt

Sharing Internet to Android Devices

2013-10-15 Thread Muntasim-Ul-Haque
Hi, I want to share Internet from my Debian to my Android phone. How can I do that? -- 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/525d0b02.80...@inventati.org

Re: Sharing Internet to Android Devices

2013-10-15 Thread J B
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:29:38 +0600 Muntasim-Ul-Haque wrote: > Hi, > I want to share Internet from my Debian to my Android phone. How can I > do that? > > use wifi router -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: Strange PGP signature

2013-10-15 Thread Marko Randjelovic
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 13:08:43 +0400 Dmitrii Kashin wrote: > "Aort Conda" writes: > > > What is this? The file on official cd mirror is different. > > Did not get what you are talking about. > Everything is normal, see: > > > % gpg --verify SHA512SUMS.sign SHA512SUMS

Re: Strange PGP signature

2013-10-15 Thread Dmitrii Kashin
Marko Randjelovic writes: > $ gpg --verify SHA512SUMS.sign SHA512SUMS # attached file > gpg: Signature made Sun 13 Oct 2013 11:19:32 PM CEST using RSA key ID 6294BE9B > gpg: Good signature from "Debian CD signing key " > > $ gpg --verify SHA512SUMS.sign2 SHA512SUMS # > http://cdimage.debian.org/

Re: pcmanfm no window/gui, one user only

2013-10-15 Thread Tazman Deville
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 02:06:19PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 13:44 +0200, Tazman Deville wrote: > > Well, someone suggested looking in dmesg, but, of course, there's > > absolutely nothing relevant there. > > This would display the output of the kernel ring buffer, to see

Re: pcmanfm no window/gui, one user only

2013-10-15 Thread Tazman Deville
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 02:22:06PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > Le 13.10.2013 13:44, Tazman Deville a écrit : > >On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 08:11:10PM +0200, Tony Baldwin wrote: > >>Friends, > >> > >>For some reason, when I try to use pcmanfm as my user, I can not. > >>I can sta

wpa_supplicant: /sbin/wpa_supplicant daemon failed to start

2013-10-15 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Hello, (I use wheezy xfce) I'm not subscribed to debian-user but I have a problem that looks like a bug but I do not know which package is concerned. After last upgrade I get this message at boot time: -8<- Listening on LPF/w

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-10-15 at 10:27 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > In our household, it is my husband's job to grow the vegitables and it > is my job to cook them. Neither of us gets paid for it. While I agree with the rest of the explanation, I disagree with the above part. It's a barter deal, it just isn't

Re: Sharing Internet to Android Devices

2013-10-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-10-15 at 15:23 +0530, J B wrote: > On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:29:38 +0600 > Muntasim-Ul-Haque wrote: > > > Hi, > > I want to share Internet from my Debian to my Android phone. How can I > > do that? > > > > > > use wifi router That is something different ;). The OP was asking for a

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread Jeff Bauer
Apropos: http://bit.ly/1cR4LnG Regards, Jeff -- hangout: ##b0rked on irc.freenode.net diversion: http://alienjeff.net - visit The Fringe quote: "The foundation of authority is based upon the consent of the people." - Thomas Hooker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: pcmanfm mount troubles in jessie

2013-10-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 06:06:20PM +0400, Main Backup wrote: > > Hi! > > I have some issues with pcmanfm mount external drives. It happens when I > start pcmanfm from user. > Ok. So, I have no gnome, kde, systemd or anything like that installed on my > computer. > I use openbox and pcmanfm for

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread Miles Fidelman
Catherine Gramze wrote: On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 21:12:32 -0400 Jerry Stuckle wrote: Maybe where you are, but not in the world scheme of things. A router is a specific box. A (A)DSL modem may also contain a firewall, etc. But most (A)DSL modems, cable modems, etc., only have one Ethernet port.

Re: who could take the time to figure out how to contact linux ? so complicated !

2013-10-15 Thread berenger . morel
Le 14.10.2013 21:37, Konrad Neitzel a écrit : Hi! On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 13:57 -0500, Catherine Gramze wrote: We need to know first if Larry has a successfully running Debian installation, and if so, is it Wheezy, Jessie, Squeeze or Sid? I think Larry needs some help to modify his sources.

Re: apt-get upgrade (security packages)

2013-10-15 Thread berenger . morel
Le 14.10.2013 22:11, Pol Hallen a écrit : I can't everytime do updates from main repository because many packages of this server are patched. Using pinning for all of your packages is a solution, but I would not call it the easiest one. Why not simply freezing them in aptitude/apt-*/dpkg? F

Re: Problems with util-linux in Debian Sid

2013-10-15 Thread Curt
On 2013-07-15, Alexandre Teles wrote: > e2fsprogs pre-depends on util-linux (>=2.15~rc1-1) http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=717012 Isn't that you up (in) there? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=716923 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.deb

Re: pcmanfm no window/gui, one user only

2013-10-15 Thread berenger . morel
Le 15.10.2013 12:42, Tazman Deville a écrit : On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 02:22:06PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 13.10.2013 13:44, Tazman Deville a écrit : >On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 08:11:10PM +0200, Tony Baldwin wrote: >>Friends, >> >>For some reason, when I try to use pcmanfm

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread berenger . morel
Le 15.10.2013 03:28, Catherine Gramze a écrit : On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 21:12:32 -0400 Jerry Stuckle wrote: Maybe where you are, but not in the world scheme of things. A router is a specific box. A (A)DSL modem may also contain a firewall, etc. But most (A)DSL modems, cable modems, etc., onl

hibernate gone?

2013-10-15 Thread Joel Rees
Since the point release over the weekend, neither of my debian boxes (32 bit AMDx86 and 64 bit Intel Atomizer) seem to be hibernating. Is everybody else seeing this? -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/15/2013 8:53 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 15.10.2013 03:28, Catherine Gramze a écrit : On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 21:12:32 -0400 Jerry Stuckle wrote: Maybe where you are, but not in the world scheme of things. A router is a specific box. A (A)DSL modem may also contain a fi

Re: hibernate gone?

2013-10-15 Thread rudu
Le 15/10/2013 15:17, Joel Rees a écrit : Since the point release over the weekend, neither of my debian boxes (32 bit AMDx86 and 64 bit Intel Atomizer) seem to be hibernating. Is everybody else seeing this? +1 here. Jessie kernel 3.10.3-amd64 Since a week or so, I can hibernate but it won't wak

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread berenger . morel
Le 15.10.2013 15:36, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : If you want to confuse things by getting into the OSI model, modems are Layer 1 (Physical). Routers are Layer 3 (Network). Thanks for precision. I stayed away from this because it's mainly of interest to engineers and network programmers; the only

Mouse cursor stays black in Xfce (unstable)

2013-10-15 Thread Nate Bargmann
As I've not seen mention of this I thought I'd ask. I am using the latest Xfce packages in Unstable with Lightdm as the login manager. Sometime back I noticed the mouse cursor was black instead of white from the dmz-cursor-theme package. No matter how much fiddling I've not been able to restore

Re: Logitech unified wireless

2013-10-15 Thread Gareth de Vaux
On Mon 2013-10-14 (07:18), Dan Ritter wrote: > There's a utility called solaar which can reprogram Logitech > mice and keyboards to use a plugged-in receiver; it's at > http://pwr.github.io/Solaar/index.html Ran into this today too (with the logitech mk520 keyboard/mouse), seems like you need to u

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread Catherine Gramze
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 23:37:25 -0400 Jerry Stuckle wrote: > No, a cable modem does both MOdulation and DEModulation - which is > why it is called a MODEM. > > On the internet, input/output on one side of the modem is digital, > through an RJ-45 to category cable. > > But you can only have one di

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/15/2013 10:06 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 15.10.2013 15:36, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : If you want to confuse things by getting into the OSI model, modems are Layer 1 (Physical). Routers are Layer 3 (Network). Thanks for precision. I stayed away from this because it's mai

Re: Set widescreen resolution in console

2013-10-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 14 October 2013 00:29:26 Antonio Paiva wrote: > what is Debian > Jessie? The current Testing. It has not, I believe, got a number yet, but I would expect it to be Debian 8 eventually. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jerry Stuckle wrote: Programmers nowadays do not have to manage computer's memory too, but it seem that when they know how low level works they write more robust programs. Not necessarily. I've seen great programmers who don't know or worry about the internals. And I've seen poor programme

Re: Set widescreen resolution in console

2013-10-15 Thread Dmitrii Kashin
Lisi Reisz writes: > On Monday 14 October 2013 00:29:26 Antonio Paiva wrote: >> what is Debian >> Jessie? > > The current Testing. It has not, I believe, got a number yet, but I > would expect it to be Debian 8 eventually. You're wrong. It has. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/20

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 03:43:21PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > I know I wont teach that to anyone here, but modems are not > computing stuff, at all. They are simply here to transform numeric > signals to analogical ones, and vice versa. I wonder why someone > would explicitly cal

Re: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

2013-10-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 02:38:40PM +, Curt wrote: > On 2013-10-14, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org > wrote: > > > > Now that you say it, it's obvious. > > I was simply thinking that HTML was the source of the problem, because > > I only noticed such problems with HTML mails. Was a stupid reaso

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread Miles Fidelman
Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 03:43:21PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: I know I wont teach that to anyone here, but modems are not computing stuff, at all. They are simply here to transform numeric signals to analogical ones, and vice versa. I wonder why someone wo

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/15/2013 1:21 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: Programmers nowadays do not have to manage computer's memory too, but it seem that when they know how low level works they write more robust programs. Not necessarily. I've seen great programmers who don't know or worry about

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:10:09AM -0300, Marcelo Lacerda wrote: > Just to make it clear in my normal package management these are > *all* commands that I use: > > # apt-get update > # apt-get upgrade > # apt-get dist-upgrade > # apt-get install foo-bar > # apt-get install -f > # apt-get remove|pu

Re: who could take the time to figure out how to contact linux ? so complicated !

2013-10-15 Thread Joe
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 14:04:24 +0200 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > Note that it can be asked at installation time, if you do not use the > default "question level". In expert mode, it will ask you if you want > to enable contrib and/or non-free. I think that behavior is strange: > peo

Re: mediatomb install fails on wheezy

2013-10-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 08:42:29PM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: > >> http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/other/stable.html > > > > thank you for this useful link. > > how come mediatomb is not listed here. It should be in category: > > "Number that have a fix prepared and waiting to up

Re: apt-get upgrade (security packages)

2013-10-15 Thread Joe
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 14:14:38 +0200 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Le 14.10.2013 22:11, Pol Hallen a écrit : > > I can't everytime do updates from main repository because many > > packages > > of this server are patched. > > Using pinning for all of your packages is a solution, but I woul

Re: Sharing Internet to Android Devices

2013-10-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 01:08:34PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2013-10-15 at 15:23 +0530, J B wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:29:38 +0600 > > Muntasim-Ul-Haque wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > I want to share Internet from my Debian to my Android phone. How can I > > > do that? > > > > > >

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/15/2013 1:21 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: Programmers nowadays do not have to manage computer's memory too, but it seem that when they know how low level works they write more robust programs. Not necessarily. I've seen great programmers who do

virtual packages missing ?

2013-10-15 Thread Frank McCormick
After removing some (I thought) un-needed libraries this morning, I ran into a problem of missing virtual packages. When ever I now try to do anything with aptitude, I get this result: The following partially installed packages will be configured: google-chrome-stable{b} No packages will be

apf firewall showing module problem "ipt_recent"

2013-10-15 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i am unable to use RAB in apf firewall. it is showing me this error {rab} force set RAB disabled, kernel module ipt_recent not found. i tried to install the module but no luck root@fw:/etc/apf-firewall# modprobe ipt_recent root@fw:/etc/apf-firewall# echo $? 0 root@fw:/etc/apf-firewall# lsmod |

Re: xtrs z80

2013-10-15 Thread Beco
On 15 October 2013 04:38, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Beco beco.cc> writes: > > > Is xtrs broken under wheezy? > > What is it anyway? A Tandy Trash 80 emulator? > > -- > Stan > > Hi Stan, Yep, its an emulator for TRS-80 ! Please, don't call it by its ugly nickname (Trash!) :) I'm having lots of fu

Question for you network/DNS/Apache gurus;

2013-10-15 Thread John W. Foster
I have a web site established on a remote hosted VPS server system. I have full root access. I use Debian linux on my personal system (wheezy) & on the remotely hosted site (squeeze). I use Godaddy as my domain registrar. I have the domain for the remotely hosted VPS site set up at Godaddy. I hav

Re: Question for you network/DNS/Apache gurus;

2013-10-15 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi I'll have a bite on this one... On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 01:50:46PM -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > I have a web site established on a remote hosted VPS server system. > I have full root access. > I use Debian linux on my personal system (wheezy) & on the remotely > hosted site (squeeze). > I u

Re: xtrs z80

2013-10-15 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 03:47:26PM -0300, Beco wrote: > > > > On 15 October 2013 04:38, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Beco beco.cc> writes: > > > Is xtrs broken under wheezy? > > What is it anyway?  A Tandy Trash 80 emulator? > > -- > Stan > > > > Hi Stan, > > Yep, it

Re: apt-get upgrade (security packages)

2013-10-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Pol Hallen wrote: > I can't everytime do updates from main repository because many packages > of this server are patched. How did you patch those? Did you rebuild the package with a local version string and your changes? Or did you simply wack the files on the disk? In any case you should defin

Re: Question for you network/DNS/Apache gurus;

2013-10-15 Thread Jesse Molina
Sounds like your Apache config may not be correct. You should post the relavant portion. You need to elaborate on "It opens the startup page but will do nothing else.". What is a startup page? Nobody but you knows what this means. On 10/15/13 11:50 AM, John W. Foster wrote: I have a we

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/15/2013 2:26 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/15/2013 1:21 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: Programmers nowadays do not have to manage computer's memory too, but it seem that when they know how low level works they write more robust programs. Not nec

Re: Question for you network/DNS/Apache gurus;

2013-10-15 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jesse Molina wrote: Sounds like your Apache config may not be correct. You should post the relavant portion. You need to elaborate on "It opens the startup page but will do nothing else.". What is a startup page? Nobody but you knows what this means. On 10/15/13 11:50 AM, John W. Fost

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-15 Thread Ivan Kovnatsky
On Oct 15, 2013 at 20:52, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:10:09AM -0300, Marcelo Lacerda wrote: > > Just to make it clear in my normal package management these are > > *all* commands that I use: > > > > # apt-get update > > # apt-get upgrade > > # apt-get dist-upgrade > > # ap

Re: apf firewall showing module problem "ipt_recent"

2013-10-15 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
solved, When complied from source it worked http://www.rfxn.com/downloads/apf-current.tar.gz. it seems to me a bug. On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 11:47 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > i am unable to use RAB in apf firewall. it is showing me this error > > {rab} force set RAB disabled, kernel module

Re: pcmanfm no window/gui, one user only

2013-10-15 Thread Tazman Deville
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 02:33:20PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > Le 15.10.2013 12:42, Tazman Deville a écrit : > >On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 02:22:06PM +0200, > >berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > >> > >> > >>Le 13.10.2013 13:44, Tazman Deville a écrit : > >>>On Fri, Sep 27,

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/15/2013 2:26 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Geeze Jerry, you're just so wrong, on so many things. What's a "coder"? In over 40 years of programming, I've met many programmers, but no "coders". Some were better than others - but none had "limited and low-level skil

Re: Oops - copied iso image to wrong device

2013-10-15 Thread mark ryan
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 1:55 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > The problem is that you didn't delete it, but you've overwritten the > data, OTOH the ISO is very small, so not very much is overwritten. First > you need to try to recover the partition table. Assumed this should > work, then mount the driv

Re: Oops - copied iso image to wrong device

2013-10-15 Thread mark ryan
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Brian wrote: > On Sun 13 Oct 2013 at 00:54:44 +, mark ryan wrote: > > > I was creating a bootable USB stick from an installer image on another > > external hard drive. I did a cat debian-7.1.0-i386-netinst.iso > /dev/sdb > > when I meant /dev/sdc. sdb was my

Re: pcmanfm no window/gui, one user only

2013-10-15 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
Tazman Deville, 15.10.2013: > > You're talking about moving every .configfile in my $HOME? > That sounds a bit drastic, and possibly a bad idea. > Can we narrow it down to what possible files might actually affect > it without implementing such drastic measures? I don't know much about pcmanfm, b

Re: pcmanfm no window/gui, one user only

2013-10-15 Thread berenger . morel
Le 15.10.2013 23:38, Tazman Deville a écrit : You're talking about moving every .configfile in my $HOME? Yes. That sounds a bit drastic, and possibly a bad idea. Why that? It is only moving. Doing a backup, in fact. If you are feared by that, you can also create a new user, and copy conf

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread berenger . morel
Le 15.10.2013 19:32, Chris Bannister a écrit : On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 03:43:21PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: I know I wont teach that to anyone here, but modems are not computing stuff, at all. They are simply here to transform numeric signals to analogical ones, and vice vers

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread berenger . morel
Le 15.10.2013 18:28, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : Why? Do you know how a TV signal is encoded at the station? How it is modulated onto the carrier? The operation of the RF and IF strips in your TV? The frequencies of the local oscillator(s) being used? How the RF signal is demodulated? How the

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread berenger . morel
Le 16.10.2013 00:42, Miles Fidelman a écrit : I'm trying to figure out what kinds of things you see "programmers" working on that don't need serious knowledge of the underlying operating system, computer hardware, and i/o environment. I do not think every programmer needs serious knowledge outs

Re: virtual packages missing ?

2013-10-15 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 02:40:34PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > After removing some (I thought) un-needed libraries this morning, I > ran into a problem of missing virtual packages. > When ever I now try to do anything with aptitude, I get > this result: > > > > > The following partially ins

Re: Question for you network/DNS/Apache gurus;

2013-10-15 Thread John W. Foster
On Tue, 2013-10-15 at 19:56 +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > Hi > > I'll have a bite on this one... > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 01:50:46PM -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > > I have a web site established on a remote hosted VPS server system. > > I have full root access. > > I use Debian linux on

Re: Question for you network/DNS/Apache gurus;

2013-10-15 Thread John W. Foster
On Tue, 2013-10-15 at 16:52 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Jesse Molina wrote: > > > > Sounds like your Apache config may not be correct. You should post > > the relavant portion. > > > > You need to elaborate on "It opens the startup page but will do > > nothing else.". What is a startup page

Re: wpa_supplicant: /sbin/wpa_supplicant daemon failed to start

2013-10-15 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 01:00:36PM +0200, Gerard ROBIN wrote: > Hello, > (I use wheezy xfce) > I'm not subscribed to debian-user but I have a problem that looks like a > bug but I do not know which package is concerned. > After last upgrade I get this message at boot time: > > ---

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/15/2013 6:50 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/15/2013 2:26 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Geeze Jerry, you're just so wrong, on so many things. What's a "coder"? In over 40 years of programming, I've met many programmers, but no "coders". Some were better than othe

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/15/2013 7:40 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 15.10.2013 18:28, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : Why? Do you know how a TV signal is encoded at the station? How it is modulated onto the carrier? The operation of the RF and IF strips in your TV? The frequencies of the local oscillat

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/15/2013 7:39 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Sorry for the broken thread. Let me try this again. Le 15.10.2013 18:28, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : Why? Do you know how a TV signal is encoded at the station? How it is modulated onto the carrier? The operation of the RF and IF

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/15/2013 6:42 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Sorry for the broken thread. Let me try this again. Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/15/2013 2:26 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Geeze Jerry, you're just so wrong, on so many things. What's a "coder"? In over 40 years of programming, I've met many pr

Re: pcmanfm no window/gui, one user only

2013-10-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-10-16 at 01:04 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > Le 15.10.2013 23:38, Tazman Deville a écrit : > > You're talking about moving every .configfile in my $HOME? > > Yes. > > > That sounds a bit drastic, and possibly a bad idea. > > Why that? It is only moving. Hi, I di

Re: virtual packages missing ?

2013-10-15 Thread Frank McCormick
On 15/10/13 08:05 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 02:40:34PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: After removing some (I thought) un-needed libraries this morning, I ran into a problem of missing virtual packages. When ever I now try to do anything with aptitude, I get this result:

Re: Sharing Internet to Android Devices

2013-10-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-10-16 at 07:17 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 01:08:34PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:29:38 +0600 > > > Muntasim-Ul-Haque wrote: > > > > I want to share Internet from my Debian to my Android phone. How > > > > can I do that? > > > >

Re: xtrs z80

2013-10-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/15/2013 1:47 PM, Beco wrote: > On 15 October 2013 04:38, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> Beco beco.cc> writes: >> >>> Is xtrs broken under wheezy? >> >> What is it anyway? A Tandy Trash 80 emulator? > Hi Stan, > > Yep, its an emulator for TRS-80 ! Please, don't call it by its ugly > nickname

Re: Recursion is needed (Wheezy)

2013-10-15 Thread yudi santosa
Here the error : root@ns01:~#nslookup www.google.com ;; Got recursion not available from 192.168.1.1, trying next server ;; Got SERVFAIL reply from 127.0.0.1, trying next server Server: 127.0.0.1 Address:127.0.0.1#53 ** server cant't find www.google.com: NXDOMAIN Regards, YUDI

Re: xtrs z80

2013-10-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-10-15 at 22:17 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > I taught myself BASIC, Pascal, and Assembly Language > > I don't know if C was even available for the TRS-80 back then. Unlikely, I taught myself BASIC, Pascal, and Assembler on a C64 and AFAIK C was never available for the C64. I've got d

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/15/2013 6:50 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/15/2013 2:26 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Geeze Jerry, you're just so wrong, on so many things. What's a "coder"? In over 40 years of programming, I've met many programmers, but no "coders". Some

Re: xtrs z80

2013-10-15 Thread Glenn English
On Oct 15, 2013, at 9:17 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > I don't know if C was even available for the TRS-80 back then. If it > was it didn't cross my RADAR. It might well have been. One of my first jobs in computing was to write an evaluation of 3 C compilers on a Xerox CP/M box. I don't remember

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jerry Stuckle wrote: Why? Do you know how a TV signal is encoded at the station? How it is modulated onto the carrier? The operation of the RF and IF strips in your TV? The frequencies of the local oscillator(s) being used? How the RF signal is demodulated? How the video and audio are

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread Erwan David
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 01:10:42AM CEST, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org said: > > > Le 15.10.2013 19:32, Chris Bannister a écrit : > >On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 03:43:21PM +0200, > >berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > >>I know I wont teach that to anyone here, but modems are not > >>computing stuf

Re: xtrs z80

2013-10-15 Thread Beco
On 16 October 2013 00:37, Glenn English wrote: > > On Oct 15, 2013, at 9:17 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> I don't know if C was even available for the TRS-80 back then. If it >> was it didn't cross my RADAR. > > It might well have been. One of my first jobs in computing was to write an > evaluat