Re: Irony

2014-08-14 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/15/14, Joel Rees wrote: > Be careful where you see conspiracy. > Look first in your own heart. PS, I forgot my sig: "Be careful where you fail to see comedy. You heart may be in need of some." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Irony

2014-08-14 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/15/14, Joel Rees wrote: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 9:47 AM, AW > wrote: >> On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 09:11:19 +0900 >> Joel Rees wrote: >> >> > When you're grep- or sed-searching a textual log file, you don't care >> > whether all the log entries fit any particular relation or structure >> > de

Re: Irony

2014-08-14 Thread Joel Rees
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 9:47 AM, AW wrote: > On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 09:11:19 +0900 > Joel Rees wrote: > > > When you're grep- or sed-searching a textual log file, you don't care > > whether all the log entries fit any particular relation or structure > > definition, and you don't have to think si

Re: Irony

2014-08-14 Thread Joel Rees
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 10:42 AM, AW wrote: > On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 21:16:16 -0400 > Jerry Stuckle wrote: > > > It NEVER > > contains just one table, even if that table has multiple columns (and > > the database is properly normalized). > > See step 1... selecting the table = selecting the log

Re: Irony

2014-08-14 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20140814_2247+0100, Joe wrote: > On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 14:14:28 -0600 > Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > > > > Comments (opinion) supporting your position that SQL logging is silly. > > > > It is my understanding that SQL is a query language that is designed > > to query (and update) a *relational

Re: Irony

2014-08-14 Thread AW
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 21:16:16 -0400 Jerry Stuckle wrote: > It NEVER > contains just one table, even if that table has multiple columns (and > the database is properly normalized). See step 1... selecting the table = selecting the log file... A multiple table database is precisely the same as

Re: Irony

2014-08-14 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 8/14/2014 8:47 PM, AW wrote: > On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 09:11:19 +0900 > Joel Rees wrote: > > > When you're grep- or sed-searching a textual log file, you don't care > > whether all the log entries fit any particular relation or structure > > definition, and you don't have to think sideways to s

Re: Irony

2014-08-14 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 8/14/2014 6:45 PM, Rusi Mody wrote: > On Friday, August 15, 2014 1:50:02 AM UTC+5:30, Paul E Condon wrote: > >> Comments (opinion) supporting your position that SQL logging is silly. > >> It is my understanding that SQL is a query language that is designed >> to query (and update) a *relationa

Re: Irony

2014-08-14 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 8/14/2014 5:47 PM, Joe wrote: > On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 14:14:28 -0600 > Paul E Condon wrote: > >> >> >> Comments (opinion) supporting your position that SQL logging is silly. >> >> It is my understanding that SQL is a query language that is designed >> to query (and update) a *relational*database

Re: Irony

2014-08-14 Thread AW
On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 09:11:19 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > When you're grep- or sed-searching a textual log file, you don't care > whether all the log entries fit any particular relation or structure > definition, and you don't have to think sideways to search on the > keywords buried in the text

Re: Grammatisticality: systemd fails to poweroff - "A stop job is running for Session 2 of user $USER"

2014-08-14 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/15/14, Steve Litt wrote: > On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 16:14:09 +0200 > sa...@eng.it wrote: >> Zenaan Harkness writes: >> >> > ChrisBanalGrammatistica, >> >> Grammatistica? Which language does this word belong to? Ancient >> Debianese, possibly pre-Vax era? > > At this point, mightn't it be good to

Re: Irony

2014-08-14 Thread Joel Rees
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 6:05 AM, AW wrote: > On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 14:14:28 -0600 > Paul E Condon wrote: > > > Andrew, are your cookies virtuous (lo-cal) or virtual? ;) > > Neither. I prefer homemade chocolate chip using 1/2 cup butter and 1/2 cup > Crisco... Just like my grandmother used to make

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Re: Irony

2014-08-14 Thread Rusi Mody
On Friday, August 15, 2014 1:50:02 AM UTC+5:30, Paul E Condon wrote: > Comments (opinion) supporting your position that SQL logging is silly. > It is my understanding that SQL is a query language that is designed > to query (and update) a *relational*database* that has been designed > according t

Re: Wireless problems - cannot connect zd1211rw

2014-08-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 14 August 2014 22:21:06 Brian wrote: > On Thu 14 Aug 2014 at 20:40:24 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I have a USB wireless card that is a zd1211rw. It does not seem to > > function. > > have you installed zd1211-firmware? Thanks, Brian. :-) I can't test it now, but I haven't, so that i

Re: Irony

2014-08-14 Thread Joe
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 14:14:28 -0600 Paul E Condon wrote: > > > Comments (opinion) supporting your position that SQL logging is silly. > > It is my understanding that SQL is a query language that is designed > to query (and update) a *relational*database* that has been designed > according to des

Re: Wireless problems - cannot connect zd1211rw

2014-08-14 Thread Brian
On Thu 14 Aug 2014 at 20:40:24 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > I have a USB wireless card that is a zd1211rw. It does not seem to function. have you installed zd1211-firmware? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listma

Re: Irony

2014-08-14 Thread AW
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 14:14:28 -0600 Paul E Condon wrote: > Andrew, are your cookies virtuous (lo-cal) or virtual? ;) Neither. I prefer homemade chocolate chip using 1/2 cup butter and 1/2 cup Crisco... Just like my grandmother used to make... > Comments (opinion) supporting your position tha

Re: Irony

2014-08-14 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20140809_1647-0400, AW wrote: > On Sat, 9 Aug 2014 16:26:40 -0400 > Steve Litt wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Some of the reasons I switched my desktop from Ubuntu to Debian were: > > > > 1) To do more config by editor and less by magical binary program. > > > > 2) To get rid of gratu

Re: Wireless problems - cannot connect zd1211rw

2014-08-14 Thread Bzzzz
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 20:40:24 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: > I have a USB wireless card that is a zd1211rw. It does not seem > to function. From what you sent, I'd say it's fully functional; you just have to add a wireless connection in NM (U must know at least the wifi network's name and the passwor

Wireless problems - cannot connect zd1211rw

2014-08-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
I have a USB wireless card that is a zd1211rw. It does not seem to function. I installed wicd, which said that it could find no wireless networks, then remembered that this system appears to have a functioning Network Manager (I didn't know that there was such a thing!) and hastily uninstalled

Re: Using a second monitor

2014-08-14 Thread Ric Moore
On 08/14/2014 01:11 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I use a second monitor on my old Dell Inspiron, and have 3 monitors on my main desktop. Might as well use the last video out to use four. Works a charm with nVidia. I turned off the onboard video in the bios, and installed two PCIe nVidia cards th

Grammatisticality: systemd fails to poweroff - "A stop job is running for Session 2 of user $USER"

2014-08-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 16:14:09 +0200 sa...@eng.it wrote: > Zenaan Harkness writes: > > > ChrisBanalGrammatistica, > > Grammatistica? Which language does this word belong to? Ancient > Debianese, possibly pre-Vax era? > At this point, mightn't it be good to change the subject, just in case the o

Re: networking fails with temporary systemd (was auto starting of ppp has stopped working)

2014-08-14 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, August 14, 2014 10:10:02 PM UTC+5:30, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 14.08.2014 16:02, schrieb Rusi Mody: > > On Thursday, August 14, 2014 3:40:03 PM UTC+5:30, Michael Biebl wrote: > >> Am 14.08.2014 um 05:32 schrieb Rusi Mody: > >>> Aug 14 08:13:15 debian64 pppd[594]: Couldn't open the /de

Re: Using a second monitor

2014-08-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I use a second monitor on my old Dell Inspiron, and have 3 monitors on my main desktop. Both have nVidia hardware, so I load up the nvidia-settings package and find I can configure the monitors as I like. I generally like to extend the desktop, so that each monitor shows different stuff. That me

Re: Using a second monitor

2014-08-14 Thread Bret Busby
On 14/08/2014, Brian wrote: > Argumentum ab auctoritate. :) > Ah; does that mean that the stomach muscles of the argument, cause it to autorotate? -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." -

Re: networking fails with temporary systemd (was auto starting of ppp has stopped working)

2014-08-14 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, August 14, 2014 3:40:03 PM UTC+5:30, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 14.08.2014 um 05:32 schrieb Rusi Mody: > > Aug 14 08:13:15 debian64 pppd[594]: Couldn't open the /dev/ppp device: No > > such file or directory > Since you don't have the /dev/ppp device, I assume you are not using > udev

Re: networking fails with temporary systemd (was auto starting of ppp has stopped working)

2014-08-14 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 14.08.2014 16:02, schrieb Rusi Mody: > On Thursday, August 14, 2014 3:40:03 PM UTC+5:30, Michael Biebl wrote: >> Am 14.08.2014 um 05:32 schrieb Rusi Mody: >>> Aug 14 08:13:15 debian64 pppd[594]: Couldn't open the /dev/ppp device: No >>> such file or directory > >> Since you don't have the /dev

Re: networking fails with temporary systemd (was auto starting of ppp has stopped working)

2014-08-14 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, August 14, 2014 9:10:02 PM UTC+5:30, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Rusi Mody wrote: > > To add to my earlier report: > > I managed to remove graphviz and its associated libraries. > > So that now aptitude dist-upgrade gives me only 1 'issue' : > > The following pack

Re: Using a second monitor

2014-08-14 Thread Brian
On Thu 14 Aug 2014 at 18:04:55 +0200, sa...@eng.it wrote: > > We have come full circle. Which one of us goes to jail and does not > > collect 200 GBP? :) > > May I have the 200 GBP? There's a LMS Garrat Model by Heljan at 199GBP... Of course! I am easily persuaded by an argument from desire.

Re: systemd fails to poweroff - "A stop job is running for Session 2 of user $USER"

2014-08-14 Thread Curt
On 2014-08-14, Iain M Conochie wrote: > Yet this is exactly what my 2 year old car does now. I halt at the > lights and the engine powers off. Is this a bug? Depends. > Given enough usage, a bug can become a feature. Some clever folks turn bugs into features, I reckon: http://www.usatoday.co

Re: systemd fails to poweroff - "A stop job is running for Session 2 of user $USER"

2014-08-14 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/14/2014 10:35 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 1:04 AM, Paul E Condon > wrote: > >> In English, both 'stop job' and 'stopped job' are an adjective >> modifying a noun. The noun in both cases is 'job'. 'stop job' is a >> noun phras

Re: Using a second monitor

2014-08-14 Thread saint
Brian writes: > On Thu 14 Aug 2014 at 17:29:22 +0200, sa...@eng.it wrote: > > > Brian writes: > > > *Your* use of .xinitrc is not the issue. Your advice, without > > > qualification. that users of Debian follow in your footsteps is. > > > The argument is set out in the earlier linked post

Re: Using a second monitor

2014-08-14 Thread Brian
On Thu 14 Aug 2014 at 17:29:22 +0200, sa...@eng.it wrote: > Brian writes: > > *Your* use of .xinitrc is not the issue. Your advice, without > > qualification. that users of Debian follow in your footsteps is. > > The argument is set out in the earlier linked post. > > Can't check right now, bu

Re: systemd fails to poweroff - "A stop job is running for Session 2 of user $USER"

2014-08-14 Thread Iain M Conochie
On 12/08/14 22:23, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 12 August 2014 17:53:19 Martin Steigerwald wrote: But if the english meaning of the words give exact this difference, so well. In my understanding there never was much of a difference between halt and poweroff. I'm not quite clear what you are say

Re: networking fails with temporary systemd (was auto starting of ppp has stopped working)

2014-08-14 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Rusi Mody wrote: > > To add to my earlier report: > > I managed to remove graphviz and its associated libraries. > > So that now aptitude dist-upgrade gives me only 1 'issue' : > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > systemd-sysv : Conflicts: sysvin

Re: New 64-bit Install: Wine

2014-08-14 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "David Baron" > > On Tuesday 12 August 2014 10:36:51 Rob Owens wrote: > > - Original Message - > > > > > From: "David Baron" > > > > > > On Tuesday 12 August 2014 10:10:58 Rob Owens wrote: > > > > - Original Message - > > > > > > > > > From

Re: Using a second monitor

2014-08-14 Thread saint
Brian writes: > *Your* use of .xinitrc is not the issue. Your advice, without > qualification. that users of Debian follow in your footsteps is. > The argument is set out in the earlier linked post. Can't check right now, but if I recall it well I cited both .xinitrc and .xsession, whichever on

Re: Using a second monitor

2014-08-14 Thread Brian
On Thu 14 Aug 2014 at 17:00:08 +0200, sa...@eng.it wrote: > Brian writes: > > On Thu 14 Aug 2014 at 14:22:25 +0200, sa...@eng.it wrote: > > > > > Brian writes: > > > > > > > > Is there a reason to prefer .xinitrc over .xsession with startx? > > > > > > First of all, I used .xinitrc wh

Re: Problem with Debian 6 LTS and vlc

2014-08-14 Thread Go Linux
On Wed, 8/13/14, Bret Busby wrote: Subject: Problem with Debian 6 LTS and vlc To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2014, 11:46 PM I have just tried to install vlc on this laptop. At first attempt, it kept prompting fo

Re: Using a second monitor

2014-08-14 Thread saint
Brian writes: > On Thu 14 Aug 2014 at 14:22:25 +0200, sa...@eng.it wrote: > > > Brian writes: > > > > > > Is there a reason to prefer .xinitrc over .xsession with startx? > > > > First of all, I used .xinitrc when Linux kernel version was below 0, > > my environment is more or less t

Re: networking fails with temporary systemd (was auto starting of ppp has stopped working)

2014-08-14 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, August 14, 2014 8:00:03 PM UTC+5:30, Rusi Mody wrote: > On Thursday, August 14, 2014 3:40:03 PM UTC+5:30, Michael Biebl wrote: > > Could you please post the version of udev (and systemd) you are using? > > > Thanks Michael To add to my earlier report: I managed to remove graphviz a

Re: systemd fails to poweroff - "A stop job is running for Session 2 of user $USER"

2014-08-14 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 1:04 AM, Paul E Condon wrote: > > In English, both 'stop job' and 'stopped job' are an adjective > modifying a noun. The noun in both cases is 'job'. 'stop job' is a > noun phrase expressing a type of job, and must be some kind of geeky > usage. OTOH, the noun phrase 'stopp

Re: Using a second monitor

2014-08-14 Thread Brian
On Thu 14 Aug 2014 at 14:22:25 +0200, sa...@eng.it wrote: > Brian writes: > > > > Is there a reason to prefer .xinitrc over .xsession with startx? > > First of all, I used .xinitrc when Linux kernel version was below 0, > my environment is more or less the same I used on the Sun boxes when I

Re: systemd fails to poweroff - "A stop job is running for Session 2 of user $USER"

2014-08-14 Thread saint
Zenaan Harkness writes: > ChrisBanalGrammatistica, Grammatistica? Which language does this word belong to? Ancient Debianese, possibly pre-Vax era? -- /\ ___Ubuntu: ancient /___/\_|_|\_|__|___Gian Uberto Lauri_ African word //-

Re: networking fails with temporary systemd (was auto starting of ppp has stopped working)

2014-08-14 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, August 14, 2014 3:40:03 PM UTC+5:30, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 14.08.2014 um 05:32 schrieb Rusi Mody: > > Aug 14 08:13:15 debian64 pppd[594]: Couldn't open the /dev/ppp device: No > > such file or directory > Since you don't have the /dev/ppp device, I assume you are not using > udev

Re: default layout for web server (jessie)

2014-08-14 Thread John Bleichert
On Aug 14, 2014, at 6:56 AM, AW wrote: > On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 22:42:12 -0400 > John Bleichert wrote: > >> Apache on Debian > > Jessie = Apache 2.4 > Wheezy = Apache 2.2 > > Apache 2.4 is very different than 2.2... Many things have changed including > variable names, SSL cert configuration, an

Re: systemd fails to poweroff - "A stop job is running for Session 2 of user $USER"

2014-08-14 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/14/14, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 10:03:31PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> On 8/14/14, Paul E Condon wrote: >> > I should stop. I really have very little firm knowledge of systemd, >> > just opinions that make sense to me. (tm) >> >> That's "TM" for YOU son! It's formal

Re: systemd fails to poweroff - "A stop job is running for Session 2 of user $USER"

2014-08-14 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 10:03:31PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 8/14/14, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I should stop. I really have very little firm knowledge of systemd, > > just opinions that make sense to me. (tm) > > That's "TM" for YOU son! It's formal english thank you very much. and > "(t

Re: Using a second monitor

2014-08-14 Thread saint
Brian writes: > On Thu 14 Aug 2014 at 09:08:29 +0200, sa...@eng.it wrote: > > [A nice xrandr howto snipped] > > > One last thing. Since you do not want to issue this command over and > > over again, you can place it into the .xsession file (if you use > > xdm/gdm/kdm) or .xinitrc file if y

Re: systemd fails to poweroff - "A stop job is running for Session 2 of user $USER"

2014-08-14 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/14/14, Paul E Condon wrote: > I should stop. I really have very little firm knowledge of systemd, > just opinions that make sense to me. (tm) That's "TM" for YOU son! It's formal english thank you very much. and "(tm)" is a very sloppy rendition!! I don't know that we can tolerate this level

Re: par2

2014-08-14 Thread AW
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 08:44:16 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > this is not a situation where we are worried about > attackers Crypto is crypto... and md5, sha1, sha256 are cryptographic hashes. And a cryptographic hash is only as good as its slowness in reverse computation and its uniqueness [collisio

Re: par2

2014-08-14 Thread AW
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 08:18:21 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > Did you mean 3xiTB, by any chance? There will be blood... err.. typos. --Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: htt

Re: default layout for web server (jessie)

2014-08-14 Thread AW
On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 22:42:12 -0400 John Bleichert wrote: > Apache on Debian Jessie = Apache 2.4 Wheezy = Apache 2.2 Apache 2.4 is very different than 2.2... Many things have changed including variable names, SSL cert configuration, and many others... this is not a Debian thing. --Andrew --

Re: Using a second monitor

2014-08-14 Thread Brian
On Thu 14 Aug 2014 at 09:08:29 +0200, sa...@eng.it wrote: [A nice xrandr howto snipped] > One last thing. Since you do not want to issue this command over and > over again, you can place it into the .xsession file (if you use > xdm/gdm/kdm) or .xinitrc file if you log on in a text console and the

Re: Using a second monitor

2014-08-14 Thread saint
Elimar Riesebieter writes: > https://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12 Cool page, thank you. -- /\ ___Ubuntu: ancient /___/\_|_|\_|__|___Gian Uberto Lauri_ African word //--\| | \| | Integralista GNUslamico

Re: Using a second monitor

2014-08-14 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Bret Busby [2014-08-14 17:42 +0800]: [...] > After reading the thread, and the above response, it occurred to me, > that this could be worthwhile to add to the debian.org web site, as a > "HowTo", for whoever has the privileges. > > Or, if such a thing exists, a Debian "HowTo" wiki? https://wi

Re: Using a second monitor

2014-08-14 Thread saint
Bret Busby writes: > After reading the thread, and the above response, it occurred to me, > that this could be worthwhile to add to the debian.org web site, as a > "HowTo", for whoever has the privileges. I share the part of my .xinitrc that deals with xrandr # check if the tv I have home is c

Re: networking fails with temporary systemd (was auto starting of ppp has stopped working)

2014-08-14 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 14.08.2014 um 05:32 schrieb Rusi Mody: > Aug 14 08:13:15 debian64 pppd[594]: Couldn't open the /dev/ppp device: No > such file or directory Since you don't have the /dev/ppp device, I assume you are not using udev 208-7? Could you please post the version of udev (and systemd) you are using?

Re: Using a second monitor

2014-08-14 Thread Bret Busby
On 14/08/2014, sa...@eng.it wrote: > Robert D. Hilliard writes: > > Reply To: bobhilli...@gmail.com > >> I have a new Dell Ispiron that dual boots Windows 7 and Debian 7.4. > > The new machine uses the F1 key to connect to the second monitor, but > > it only works in Windows - In Debian pressi

Re: kernel upgrade in squeeze; was Re: TP-link TL-WN722N with Squeeze

2014-08-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 13 aug 14, 17:13:24, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > * From: Andrei POPESCU > * Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 08:32:32 +0300 > > ... complete output from running apt-get ... > > root@armada:/home/peter# apt-get install linux-image-2.6-686-pae ... > root@armada:/home/peter# apt-get install lin

Re: Social Contract (was ... Re: Irony)

2014-08-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 14 aug 14, 09:48:45, Joel Rees wrote: > > A four-four draw in the technical committees should have been a call > to open the discussion to a wider user base, not a call for one member > of the committee to make an arbitrary decision. Things are not > functioning correctly "up" there, even i

Re: Using a second monitor

2014-08-14 Thread saint
Robert D. Hilliard writes: > Reply To: bobhilli...@gmail.com > I have a new Dell Ispiron that dual boots Windows 7 and Debian 7.4. > The new machine uses the F1 key to connect to the second monitor, but > it only works in Windows - In Debian pressing F! is a noop. I would advice to use xrandr