Re: OT: signatures (was Re: removing TexLive Docs packages)

2015-12-24 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Thu, Dec 24 2015,The Wanderer wrote: > On 2015-12-24 at 07:37, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 23 2015,The Wanderer wrote: >> >> [snipped 32 lines] > > This is standard practice; you don't usually need to indicate that > you've snipped at all (except maybe by leaving a blank line i

Debian on Dell XPS 15

2015-12-24 Thread Dwijesh Gajadur
Hi everyone..I am going to get a new Dell XPS 15 laptop. I want to know if I will be able to install and use Debian on it properly without getting any issues. Has anyone ever used Debian on Dell XPS 15 laptop? Please share your experience. With Kind Regards, Dwijesh

Re: Annoying Keyboard switch

2015-12-24 Thread rlharris
On Thu, December 24, 2015 9:46 pm, Bhasker C V wrote: > When I swtich keyboards, however, I see that the keyboard variant resets > back to US even if last keyboard selected was UK and the system was > shutdown. Running Jessie/Xfce, I occasionally switch from DvorakClassic to QWERTY to accommodate

Annoying Keyboard switch

2015-12-24 Thread Bhasker C V
H, I have a system where I switch keyboards a lot (from UK to US etc.,) I use sid with mate-desktop-environment The keyboard preferences allows an applet in system tray to switch between keyboard types. When I swtich keyboards, however, I see that the keyboard variant resets back to US eve

Re: random reboots of my Lenovo ThinkPad (3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u1) (kernel stack trace)

2015-12-24 Thread Charlie Kravetz
On Fri, 25 Dec 2015 03:16:21 +0100 Staszek wrote: >On 2015-12-24 15:07, Sven Arvidsson wrote: >> Try disabling nouveau, both in the kernel and the xorg driver, and see >> if the crashes stop. > >Ok, but what other driver shall I use instead? > >According to ThinkPad Wiki nv driver works: >http://

Re: random reboots of my Lenovo ThinkPad (3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u1) (kernel stack trace)

2015-12-24 Thread Staszek
On 2015-12-24 15:07, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > Try disabling nouveau, both in the kernel and the xorg driver, and see > if the crashes stop. Ok, but what other driver shall I use instead? According to ThinkPad Wiki nv driver works: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/NVIDIA_Quadro_NVS_140M . Unfortunatel

Re: random reboots of my Lenovo ThinkPad (3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u1) (kernel stack trace)

2015-12-24 Thread Anders Andersson
On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Thu, 2015-12-24 at 14:00 +0100, Staszek wrote: >> Perhaps that is a graphics card... > > Try disabling nouveau, both in the kernel and the xorg driver, and see > if the crashes stop. > > You might also want to try a later kernel/xorg driv

Re: OT: signatures (was Re: removing TexLive Docs packages)

2015-12-24 Thread Anthony Mapes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 While we're on the topic of signatures, what do you consider to be good and bad to include in signatures? I've seen a lot of conflicting opinions online, particularly surrounding whether or not to include your email address. (Are there email client

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 24 December 2015 06:27:44 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 24 December 2015 01:05:14 Bob Bernstein wrote: > > And I have to say, this electrical stuff is a lot sexier than > > poopy linux stuff! > > debian-u...@lists.debian.org ;-) > > More _macho_ perhaps (my landlady got the

OT: signatures (was Re: removing TexLive Docs packages)

2015-12-24 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-12-24 at 07:37, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23 2015,The Wanderer wrote: > > [snipped 32 lines] This is standard practice; you don't usually need to indicate that you've snipped at all (except maybe by leaving a blank line in between the quoted bits where the snip was), much

Re: random reboots of my Lenovo ThinkPad (3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u1) (kernel stack trace)

2015-12-24 Thread Charlie Kravetz
. memtest86+ yields nothing >3. often upon logging into X, before the desktop appears, I am getting >unexpected splash screens; they look like: >http://people.eisenbits.com/~stf/load/20151224-bw-tiling.png , or >sometimes that is a mangled view of what was being displayed before the >cra

Re: random reboots of my Lenovo ThinkPad (3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u1) (kernel stack trace)

2015-12-24 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2015-12-24 at 14:00 +0100, Staszek wrote: > Perhaps that is a graphics card... Try disabling nouveau, both in the kernel and the xorg driver, and see if the crashes stop.  You might also want to try a later kernel/xorg driver/mesa etc. But that might open up another can of worms. -- Che

Re: random reboots of my Lenovo ThinkPad (3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u1) (kernel stack trace)

2015-12-24 Thread Neil Roberts
getting unexpected splash screens; they look like: http://people.eisenbits.com/~stf/load/20151224-bw-tiling.png , or sometimes that is a mangled view of what was being displayed before the crash+reboot. Perhaps that is a graphics card... I had a similar problem on a T520. If you have two graphics

Re: random reboots of my Lenovo ThinkPad (3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u1) (kernel stack trace)

2015-12-24 Thread Staszek
, I am getting unexpected splash screens; they look like: http://people.eisenbits.com/~stf/load/20151224-bw-tiling.png , or sometimes that is a mangled view of what was being displayed before the crash+reboot. Perhaps that is a graphics card... -- http://people.eisenbits.com/~stf/ http://www.eisenbi

Dovecot Problems?

2015-12-24 Thread David Baron
I can no longer log on to my IMAP server from my Android. I can do so from kmail but even the URL is translated to localhost. Using k-9 mail on the android. I have dovecot listening to *,:: (both ivp4 and ivp6) I have tried with and without ssl,tls, neither works I am not sure when it stopped w

Re: removing TexLive Docs packages

2015-12-24 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Wed, Dec 23 2015,The Wanderer wrote: [snipped 32 lines] >> Minor note: I do not recall seeing signatures like yours. > > The standard for signature delimiters is a line consisting of '-- ', as > the first line of the signature block. Software which knows what it's > doing will see this line

Re: removing TexLive Docs packages

2015-12-24 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Wed, Dec 23 2015,Udyant Wig wrote: > On 12/23/2015 12:15 PM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: >> >> I installed TexLive recently and during one of the upgrades, the >> entire texdoc package got installed too. that is humoungous and I'd >> like to remove the doc packages alone and also stop future in

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-24 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 24 December 2015 01:05:14 Bob Bernstein wrote: > And I have to say, this electrical stuff is a lot sexier than > poopy linux stuff! debian-u...@lists.debian.org ;-) More _macho_ perhaps (my landlady got the neighbours out to see when I changed a fuse when I was 23 - definite

Re: Attempt to Move Root

2015-12-24 Thread Nicolas George
Le quartidi 4 nivôse, an CCXXIV, Sven Hartge a écrit : > > The same thing would have worked with without GPT. Especially if you use a > > bios_grub partition instead of an EFI system partition. > Eh? I did use a bios_grub partition, because the server in question uses > a legacy BIOS to boot. Then

Perl Transition

2015-12-24 Thread David Baron
Is this done, ready to play?