Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie

2015-04-18 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 20:18:17 -0600 Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20150418_1905-0500, David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > > > > > I was running as pec or as root. I forget. Since doing that, I > > > realized that for many years I have been running with my own

Re: [solved] Re: Change partition numbering

2015-04-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
David Wright writes: > Quoting Joe (j...@jretrading.com): >> >> Everything else is likely to refer to the mount points in >> fstab, and if mounting is by UUID, presumably nothing needs to be done >> even there. > > Indeed, and also if using LABELs. That's why I wondered about the > reason for ma

Re: bugs found

2015-04-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Richard Jasmin (frazzledj...@gmail.com): > I have a bug in liberoffice writer that puts text on a new line instead > of using the spacebar to do so. > I cant report the bug as the packages is not listed for liberoffice. ...because there's no such package. OTOH there is one called libreoffi

Re: [solved] Re: Change partition numbering

2015-04-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Joe (j...@jretrading.com): > > What happens next depends on exactly what's on the partitions, and > where the references to /dev/sda1, etc. are. I think there is only > likely to be trouble where grub is involved, as it stores actual disc > locations. I think you're confusing grub with LI

Re: apt-offline usage

2015-04-18 Thread peter
From: franc...@avalenn.eu Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 16:55:01 +0200 > isolated$ apt-offline set --update ... > networked$ apt-offline get ... > isolated$ apt-offline install > isolated$ apt-offline set --upgrade ... > networked$ apt-offline get ... > isolated$ apt-offline install ... > isolated$

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting John Hasler (jhas...@newsguy.com): > Celejar writes: > > I run my main browser instance with all JavaScript disabled… > > So do I. Lots of sites put up banners warning me that some "features" > may not operate properly without JS but generally those are exactly the > "features" that I spe

Re: Encrypting an External HDD

2015-04-18 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 14:25:36 -0700 David Christensen wrote: > On 04/17/2015 12:41 PM, Reco wrote: ... > > [Perl's Math::Random::ISAAC::XS] doesn't seem to use kernel-based entropy > > at all. Thank > > you for pointing me out at it, now I know it so I avoid it. > > ISAAC is very useful when I

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie

2015-04-18 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150418_1905-0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > > > I was running as pec or as root. I forget. Since doing that, I > > realized that for many years I have been running with my own version > > of /etc/ssh/ssh.config. Confronted with the evidence, I

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-18 Thread John Hasler
Celejar writes: > I run my main browser instance with all JavaScript disabled… So do I. Lots of sites put up banners warning me that some "features" may not operate properly without JS but generally those are exactly the "features" that I specifically don't want. A few other sites really won't w

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-18 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 08:38:43 + (UTC) Liam O'Toole wrote: ... > So do you normally run browsers on squeeze with javascript /dis/abled? I'm > surprised that any modern web sites work at all. I run my main browser instance with all JavaScript disabled, and many / most of the sites I use run pe

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie

2015-04-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > I was running as pec or as root. I forget. Since doing that, I > realized that for many years I have been running with my own version > of /etc/ssh/ssh.config. Confronted with the evidence, I recall that > this was a place I found, through exha

Re: [solved] Re: Change partition numbering

2015-04-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: > Rodolfo Medina writes: > >> After resizing a partition on my hard disk, partition numbering changed and >> now number 7 comes before and number 6 comes after: >> >> Model: ATA SAMSUNG MP0402H (scsi) >> Disk /dev/sda: 40.1GB >> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B >>

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie

2015-04-18 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150418_1222-0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20150417_1408-0500, David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > > > > > I have four desktop machines running Jessie. I try to keep them a;; > > > upgraded on whenever new package versions are released. I thought it >

USB3 problem

2015-04-18 Thread James
My external USB3 hard drive worked for a while but it gave an error and dropped the drive and now it won't mount. I'm hoping rebooting will fix it but that is a bit drastic. [12171.656060] xhci_hcd :02:00.0: ERROR no room on ep ring [12171.656067] xhci_hcd :02:00.0: ERR: No room for comm

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie

2015-04-18 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150417_1408-0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > > > I have four desktop machines running Jessie. I try to keep them a;; > > upgraded on whenever new package versions are released. I thought it > > would be fast and simple. I was very wrong. This in

Re: Change partition numbering

2015-04-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Kruppt writes: > On 2015-04-18, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> >> After resizing a partition on my hard disk, >> partition numbering changed and now >> number 7 comes before and number 6 comes after: >> >> Model: ATA SAMSUNG MP0402H (scsi) >> Disk /dev/sda: 40.1GB >> Sector size (logical/physical): 5

Re: [solved] Re: Change partition numbering

2015-04-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: > Rodolfo Medina writes: > >> After resizing a partition on my hard disk, partition numbering changed and >> now number 7 comes before and number 6 comes after: >> >> Model: ATA SAMSUNG MP0402H (scsi) >> Disk /dev/sda: 40.1GB >> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B >>

Re: Change partition numbering

2015-04-18 Thread Kruppt
On 2015-04-18, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi all. > > After resizing a partition on my hard disk, > partition numbering changed and now > number 7 comes before and number 6 comes after: > > Model: ATA SAMSUNG MP0402H (scsi) > Disk /dev/sda: 40.1GB > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B > Partit

Re: [solved] Re: Change partition numbering

2015-04-18 Thread Joe
On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 17:07:10 + Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Rodolfo Medina writes: > > > Hi all. > > > > After resizing a partition on my hard disk, partition numbering > > changed and now number 7 comes before and number 6 comes after: > > > > Model: ATA SAMSUNG MP0402H (scsi) > > Disk /dev/sda

[solved] Re: Change partition numbering

2015-04-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: > Hi all. > > After resizing a partition on my hard disk, partition numbering changed and > now number 7 comes before and number 6 comes after: > > Model: ATA SAMSUNG MP0402H (scsi) > Disk /dev/sda: 40.1GB > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B > Partition Table: msdos

Re: wheezy drive recognition?

2015-04-18 Thread Curt
On 2015-04-17, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Thats good to read Petter, thanks. I got burned a bit early on, running > dd-wrt on an x86 boxen from nothing but flash, It worked great, till the > flashes died, about 3 of the std sized 512 meggers in a month. I suppose much of what holds for minimizing

Change partition numbering

2015-04-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi all. After resizing a partition on my hard disk, partition numbering changed and now number 7 comes before and number 6 comes after: Model: ATA SAMSUNG MP0402H (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 40.1GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Disk Flags: Number Start End Si

upnp no more working

2015-04-18 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
hi everybody, I'm fighting since several days with a problem which appeared on my Jessie desktop about 2 weeks ago. Here are the facts - until end of March, no problem: PC files were seen on all my upnp clients I was using as upnp clients an Android app on my tablet and an ADSL box (french fr

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie

2015-04-18 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150417_1408-0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > > > I have four desktop machines running Jessie. I try to keep them a;; > > upgraded on whenever new package versions are released. I thought it > > would be fast and simple. I was very wrong. This in

Re: Wicd - no wireless networks found

2015-04-18 Thread August Karlstrom
On 2015-04-16 21:40, German wrote: Ok, I installed realtek firmware, running modrpobe rtl8723be returns no output, so I think my card is operational. But Wicd doesn't show any wireless networks. Where to go from here? Thank you In wicd-client, have you switched on WiFi and set Preferences->Gen

Re: bugs found

2015-04-18 Thread August Karlstrom
On 2015-04-18 00:00, Richard Jasmin wrote: I have a bug in liberoffice writer that puts text on a new line instead of using the spacebar to do so. I don't understand what you mean. Do you want the spacebar to work like the return key? -- August -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Hibernate option in Gnome menu? (Jessie)

2015-04-18 Thread W. Martin Borgert
On 2015-04-17 20:23, deloptes wrote: > I had to downgrade upower package (look for a posting in this forum "No > suspend in XFCE without systemd") to get it work again. > It looks like upower dropped the freedesktop actions exposed to dbus and now > the system dows not know of such possibility - ho

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-18 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 15:01:55 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 18/04/2015, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On 2015-04-17, David Wright wrote: > >> Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com): > >>> The computers upon which I run Debian 6, have only 16 GB of RAM, > >>> and, > >> > >> Lucky you. 2GB here. > >>

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-18 Thread Bret Busby
On 18/04/2015, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2015-04-17, David Wright wrote: >> Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com): >>> The computers upon which I run Debian 6, have only 16 GB of RAM, and, >> >> Lucky you. 2GB here. >> >>> expecially with Debian 6 not having adequate memory management (as >>>