Re: Password protecting grub

2016-03-19 Thread Adam Wilson
On Wed, 16 Mar 2016 23:12:06 +0530 Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > Ok! I understand GRUB password and other such passwords are > ineffective. I am also aware of the fact that hard drive can be read > anywhere unless it is encrypted. > The am eager to know a particular way

Re: Password protecting grub

2016-03-19 Thread Adam Wilson
On Wed, 16 Mar 2016 21:51:02 +0530 Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > I made all possible tries that came to my head with all your > suggestions. Still, password : command not found. > > However, I think all of use should use grub-password, especially when > we use mobile systems

Re: flash? [OT]

2016-03-19 Thread Adam Wilson
On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 17:06:12 -0400 Ric Moore <wayward4...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 03/14/2016 10:47 PM, David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 15 Mar 2016 at 05:30:28 (+0300), Adam Wilson wrote: > > >> They will notice when lots of people no longer use Flash, and we &g

Re: flash? [OT]

2016-03-14 Thread Adam Wilson
On Mon, 14 Mar 2016 21:47:47 -0500 David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > On Tue 15 Mar 2016 at 05:30:28 (+0300), Adam Wilson wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Mar 2016 19:50:15 + Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> > > wrote: > > > > > On Tue 15 Mar 2016

Re: Every opportunity taken (Was: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC...)

2016-03-14 Thread Adam Wilson
On Mon, 14 Mar 2016 22:58:00 +0100 deloptes <delop...@gmail.com> wrote: > Adam Wilson wrote: > > > If you're referring to the great "should" debate, then this is a > > pretty inaccurate description of what happened. I inadvertently > > used the word &q

Re: flash? [OT]

2016-03-14 Thread Adam Wilson
On Mon, 14 Mar 2016 19:06:27 +0100 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > IMHO its worth to try the web without flash. > HTML5 can do a lot nowadays. Exactly. I don't use Flash, but somehow the world hasn't collapsed around me yet, and (*gasp*) I am still able to get my news. [1] [1]

Re: flash? [OT]

2016-03-14 Thread Adam Wilson
On Mon, 14 Mar 2016 14:13:05 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 14 March 2016 14:06:27 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > > > IMHO its worth to try the web without flash. > > HTML5 can do a lot nowadays. > > And visiting sites without using flash helps to get rid of it. > > > >

Re: flash? [OT]

2016-03-14 Thread Adam Wilson
On Mon, 14 Mar 2016 19:50:15 + Brian wrote: > On Tue 15 Mar 2016 at 06:00:27 +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > > On 15/03/2016 5:13 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Monday 14 March 2016 14:06:27 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > > > > > >> IMHO its worth to try the web

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-14 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sat, 12 Mar 2016 12:46:08 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 12 March 2016 07:50:49 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > So. Now I'll bite off my tongue and take my ball with me. I'm off > > this thread. I can't bear the overall animosity and poking of > > fun at those who try

Re: Every opportunity taken (Was: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC...)

2016-03-14 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sat, 12 Mar 2016 12:46:08 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 12 March 2016 07:50:49 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > So. Now I'll bite off my tongue and take my ball with me. I'm off > > this thread. I can't bear the overall animosity and poking of > > fun at those who try

Re: Bug ?

2016-03-14 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sat, 12 Mar 2016 18:53:22 +0100 Aymeric Do wrote: > Hello, > This is message in english (LANG=C) and example with reportbug : > > (reportbug:2211): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in > module_path: "adwaita", > > (reportbug:2211): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable

Re: Tails -- wheezy based good, jessie based bad

2016-03-13 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 13:02:54 +1100 Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Just reporting that I have a couple of older machines that both work > well with Tails 1.8.2 -- an old Thinkpad that used to run XP and an > old Macbook Pro 4,1 (early 2008). > > Both machines

Re: Installing topmenu in stable

2016-03-11 Thread Adam Wilson
On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 12:54:21 +0100 Sven Arvidsson <s...@whiz.se> wrote: > On Fri, 2016-03-11 at 14:49 +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > > I shall give it a go. Sid, not stretch? Pour quoi? > > Testing might be a closer match in general, but in this case the > versions doe

Re: Installing topmenu in stable

2016-03-11 Thread Adam Wilson
On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 12:41:16 +0100 Sven Arvidsson <s...@whiz.se> wrote: > On Fri, 2016-03-11 at 14:40 +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > > I'm thinking the most Debian-friendly options are either to compile > > them myself from git, or to upgrade to stretch, which I don't really >

Re: Installing topmenu in stable

2016-03-11 Thread Adam Wilson
On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 12:41:16 +0100 Sven Arvidsson <s...@whiz.se> wrote: > On Fri, 2016-03-11 at 14:40 +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > > I'm thinking the most Debian-friendly options are either to compile > > them myself from git, or to upgrade to stretch, which I don't really >

Installing topmenu in stable

2016-03-11 Thread Adam Wilson
In short, I want to install the MATE topmenu applet in Debian stable (Jessie). However, the packages required are not in the stable distribution, only in stretch and sid. What is the best way to go about getting the packages installed? Should I compile them from the sources available at

Re: which files took the space

2016-03-07 Thread Adam Wilson
On Fri, 04 Mar 2016 08:11:43 +0100 Frédéric Marchal <frederic.marc...@wowtechnology.com> wrote: > On Friday 04 March 2016 07:18:59 Adam Wilson wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Mar 2016 04:03:01 +1100 Andrew McGlashan > > > > <andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:

Re: which files took the space

2016-03-03 Thread Adam Wilson
On Fri, 4 Mar 2016 04:03:01 +1100 Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au> wrote: > > > On 4/03/2016 3:07 AM, Adam Wilson wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Mar 2016 03:03:53 +1100 Andrew McGlashan > > <andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:

Re: which files took the space

2016-03-03 Thread Adam Wilson
On Fri, 4 Mar 2016 03:03:53 +1100 Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > > On 3/03/2016 1:51 PM, lina wrote: > > I figured out, there are so many hidden files. > > It also may have been files in the file system, but where another file > system mount hides them

Re: XFS on root

2016-03-03 Thread Adam Wilson
On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 07:09:00 -0300 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 09:52:12 + > Darac Marjal wrote: > > > >Why use Ext2 and not Ext 3 or 4 for /boot? > > > > I believe the reasoning is to keep /boot as simple and

Re: XFS on root

2016-03-01 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 15:17:43 +0100 <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 05:34:18PM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > > On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 23:56:59 +0100 Saša Janiška <g...@atmarama.com> > >

Re: XFS on root

2016-03-01 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 17:19:07 +0100 Saša Janiška <g...@atmarama.com> wrote: > Adam Wilson <mox...@riseup.net> writes: > > > Let me get this straight- /boot on XFS, with GRUB, working > > flawlessly? > > No, but root under btrfs without extra /boot works. &

Re: XFS on root

2016-03-01 Thread Adam Wilson
On Mon, 29 Feb 2016 11:28:57 -0600 Glenn Holmer <shad...@lyonlabs.org> wrote: > On 02/28/2016 01:31 PM, mj wrote: > > On 02/28/2016 03:34 PM, Adam Wilson wrote: > >> Let me get this straight- /boot on XFS, with GRUB, working > >> flawlessly? > > > > I

Re: lxde/openbox temp. deactivate touchpad?

2016-02-28 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 08:11:12 -0500 Haines Brown <hai...@histomat.net> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 03:51:11PM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > > On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 07:42:13 -0500 Haines Brown > > <hai...@histomat.net> wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Feb 28,

Re: XFS on root

2016-02-28 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 23:56:59 +0100 Saša Janiška <g...@atmarama.com> wrote: > Adam Wilson <mox...@riseup.net> writes: > > > My solution to this (because XFS is my favourite filesystem next to > > ReiserFS) has been to use ext2 for /boot and XFS for

Re: lxde/openbox temp. deactivate touchpad?

2016-02-28 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 07:42:13 -0500 Haines Brown wrote: > On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 11:56:53AM +0100, BerndSchmittNews wrote: > > Hello, > > under debian7 I was using gpoint to temporarily deactivate > > touchpad. My acer laptop drives me crazy, after a while the pointer >

Re: Can't recover my graphic session

2016-02-27 Thread Adam Wilson
On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 17:24:17 +0100 Eric <debian-u...@vvmail.fr> wrote: > > > Le 17/02/2016 00:54, debian-u...@vvmail.fr a écrit : > > Le 16/02/2016 16:44, debian-u...@vvmail.fr a écrit : > >> > >> > >> Le 16/02/2016 16:10, Adam Wilson a écrit

Re: XFS on root

2016-02-27 Thread Adam Wilson
On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 12:09:09 -0800 David Christensen wrote: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 11:11:17AM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > > I found that the Wheezy installer offers btrfs (xfs also?), but only > > boots ext[234] > > On 02/26/2016 11:24 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: >

Re: nytimes pages that fail in iceweasel [SOLVED]

2016-02-26 Thread Adam Wilson
On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 10:10:06 +1100 Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au> wrote: > > > On 22/02/2016 2:02 AM, Adam Wilson wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 22:59:26 + Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > And how is pas

Re: Debian and Firefox/Iceweasel

2016-02-25 Thread Adam Wilson
On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 12:39:59 -0800 H Kyu wrote: > ​Hello - > > Recently, Mozilla's Firefox browser introduced a few new features > that got me to remove Firefox on my Windows PC altogether. The > features were Hello, Camera Access (Android), and screen-sharing. > Every

Re: KDE 5 in Debian

2016-02-25 Thread Adam Wilson
On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 03:14:03 +0530 Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > Has anyone tried installing KDE plasma desktop (KDE 5) on Debian > Stable. Yeah, it's not in stable, but is there any way to install it > without losing the benefits of Debian stable. The whole point of Debian

Re: Cannot play any media file using parole in Debian 8 jessie Xfce edition

2016-02-21 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 22:47:16 +0600 Muntasim-Ul Haque wrote: > I installed all the gstreamer plugins needed for parole to work. But > that didn't help much. I can now play mp3's, but not any video or > movie file. Define 'any video or movie file'. What formats

Re: nytimes pages that fail in iceweasel [SOLVED]

2016-02-21 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 22:59:26 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 20 February 2016 16:17:22 Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA256 > > > > Hi, > > > > On 21/02/2016 2:12 AM, Steve Kleene wrote: > > >

Re: Components non-free and contrib are not enabled after installing to virtualbox virtual machine.

2016-02-21 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 11:18:05 +0100 (CET) jds1...@telenet.be wrote: > I downloaded and installed the latest Debian CD image > (http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.3.0/amd64/iso-cd/debian-8.3.0-amd64-CD-1.iso) > > Installing to bare metal enables the components main contrib and > non-free. > >

Re: I need help

2016-02-17 Thread Adam Wilson
On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 15:51:58 +0800 Gener Badenas wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 8:01 AM, Ghaith Etaiwi > wrote: > > > Hello, I'm starting in linux I used Ubuntu and didn't like it and I > > have read that many people that used Debian

Re: Can't recover my graphic session

2016-02-16 Thread Adam Wilson
On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 15:08:24 +0100 Eric wrote: > And thanks for helping me! > I tried dpkg-reconfigure gdm3, but it didn't changed anything > unfortunately I'm still facing that nasty bug. > What can I do more, to fix it or give some more clues about it? I'd > like to

Re: Unexplained caching/journaling action...

2016-02-15 Thread Adam Wilson
On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 02:40:08 +0100 Francesco Ariis <fa...@ariis.it> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 09:44:09PM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > > On Sat, 13 Feb 2016 11:19:21 +0100 Rastko <lylecor...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > >

Re: GRUB failure after updates

2016-02-15 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 18:32:08 + (UTC) mat...@comcast.net wrote: > I have a single core pentium processor system. Not sure about the > version of Debian Linux however I do know: > > > GRUB v1.99-27 > > GNOME Version 3.4.2 For your information, this would appear to be Debian 7.

Re: changing partition names

2016-02-15 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 22:33:23 -0500 Frank McCormick wrote: > On 14/02/16 07:56 PM, Charlie Kravetz wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 19:11:37 -0500 > > Frank McCormick wrote: > > > >> On

Re: Can't recover my graphic session

2016-02-15 Thread Adam Wilson
On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 01:19:02 +0100 Eric wrote: > Hi, > > I'm facing an annoying issue on my debian and hope it's the right > place to talk about it: when I lock my screen or when it enters in > screensaver mode, few minutes after I can't get access to my graphic > session

Re: recommendation for software to make mp4 from a few stils (+ audio track)

2016-02-15 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 20:27:34 -0800 Dan Hitt wrote: > Could anybody please recommend a piece of free software that can take > a few still images together with an audio track and make an mp4 with > them? > > (So i guess it is conceptually something that could produce a timed >

Re: Flash problems again.

2016-02-15 Thread Adam Wilson
On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 23:43:16 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > Aptitude says: > Saving to: > `/tmp/pepperflashplugin-nonfree.TkQKb4rXAE/google-chrome-stable_48.0.2564.109-1_amd64.deb' > > Konsole says: > > lisi@Tux-II:~$ cd /tmp > lisi@Tux-II:/tmp$ ls > kde-lisi

Re: Stretch color scheme problems

2016-02-15 Thread Adam Wilson
On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 17:39:26 -0800 Gary Roach wrote: > Ever since I switch to Stretch I have been having a problem with the > color scheme of various applications. I get a lot of black lettering > on a black background, white on white and dark blue on black >

Re: BTRFS failed

2016-02-14 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 17:05:51 +0100 Bhasker C V wrote: > Hi, > > I have a home dir btrfs on top of luks Surely you mean LUKS on top of btrfs?

Re: Unexplained caching/journaling action...

2016-02-14 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sat, 13 Feb 2016 11:19:21 +0100 Rastko wrote: > Hi, > > and welcome me to the group :P You are welcome, I guess. > The title might be misleading, It is. The title specifies at least something concerning the nature of the problem- your post goes off on a tangent. >

Re: disk space disappeared

2016-02-12 Thread Adam Wilson
On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 17:11:05 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > Have you checked the inodes? He should try df -i.

Re: I need help, install Debian on Macbook pro intel

2016-02-12 Thread Adam Wilson
On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 09:56:01 +0100 err...@free.fr wrote: > I need to adapt keymap, > actualy is a standard azerty keymap, but apple choosed not standard > azerty. (this is not a real problem, we can found many example for > exotic keymap on the web) Can't you just select a different software

Re: PowerTop on Debian Stretch

2016-02-10 Thread Adam Wilson
On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 13:11:43 +0400 Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: > I used PowerTop on Ubuntu 15.10. I found that Ubuntu 15.10 uses > PowerTop 2.7. However Debian Stretch uses PowerTop 2.8. And it seems > that the bug is in the 2.8 version. > > I tried to downgrade PowerTop and

Re: pan 0.139-4+b1 fails to start

2016-01-29 Thread Adam Wilson
On Thu, 28 Jan 2016 15:07:39 + Daud Daud wrote: > Hi > Since this morning's upgrade, pan (0.139-4+b1) fails to start. (Other > details at bottom) I am afraid I have no assistance to offer but this: don't use pan. It is horribly inefficient, crashes unexpectedly when

Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing - SOLVED?

2016-01-26 Thread Adam Wilson
On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 18:12:09 -0500 Francis Gerund wrote: > Hi, Jochen. > > 1) You are correct. It should have been: > > >Then, I did: > > >sudo apt-get check > >sudo apt-get update > >sudo apt-get upgrade > >sudo clean > >sudo autoclean > >sudo autoremove > > My mistake.

Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing - SOLVED?

2016-01-26 Thread Adam Wilson
On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 19:11:40 -0500 Francis Gerund wrote: > So again, perhaps some automated mechanism for upgrading might be > beneficial. Or at least some elaboration or amplification of the > documentation on this subject. And how about a simple guide to "this > is how you

Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing

2016-01-26 Thread Adam Wilson
On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 18:54:14 +0300 Adam Wilson <mox...@riseup.net> wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 21:26:26 -0500 Francis Gerund <ranr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hello . . . > > > > Is this mic on? > > > > What? > Oh, I see. I didn't realise you were just being impatient.

Re: failed to fetch Sid InRelease

2016-01-26 Thread Adam Wilson
On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 17:19:09 -0500 Haines Brown wrote: ># aptitude update >Err: http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable InRelease > temporary failure resolving 'ftp.us.debian.org' >W: Failed to fetch >

Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing - SOLVED?

2016-01-26 Thread Adam Wilson
On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 14:47:11 -0500 Francis Gerund wrote: > Okay, thanks for the tip. Really gonna need to keep up with the > security notices now. > > Or, if it gets too bad, I could just switch to something easier: > https://www.gentoo.org Gentoo? Is that the best you can

Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing

2016-01-25 Thread Adam Wilson
On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 16:15:33 +1100 Keith Bainbridge <keithrbaugro...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 25/01/16 13:29, Adam Wilson wrote: > > I would do something like this: > > > > deb http://http.debian.net/debian testing main > > deb http://http.debian.net/debian

Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing

2016-01-25 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 22:34:09 -0500 Francis Gerund wrote: > Is this about right, to convert from stable to permanent testing? Or > has having backports enabled already made it not doable? I should think this would work.

Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing

2016-01-25 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 21:26:26 -0500 Francis Gerund wrote: > Hello . . . > > Is this mic on? > What?

Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing

2016-01-25 Thread Adam Wilson
On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 12:08:57 +0700 Ken Heard wrote: > Is it possible at this stage to use stretch instead of testing? Then > when testing becomes stable it will not be necessary to change the > sources.list again -- unless of course at that point you want to go >

Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing

2016-01-24 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 17:57:09 -0500 Francis Gerund wrote: > Hi, > > If I run debian 8 (jessie) stable, and this is > my /etc/apt/sources.list : > > > # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8.2.0 _Jessie_ - Official amd64 NETINST > Binary-1 20150906-11:09]/ jessie main > > deb

Re: Debian mirrors broke?

2016-01-24 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 16:31:32 + Michael Fothergill wrote: > netselect-apt > > On 24 January 2016 at 16:11, wrote: > > > > > Hi folks, > > > > Yesterday when doing some work with Dockery against Debian 8, when > > running "apt-get

Re: Books Inquiry

2016-01-22 Thread Adam Wilson
On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 13:58:11 -0700 Bob Holtzman <hol...@cox.net> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 05:50:07AM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 14:36:52 -0700 Bob Holtzman <hol...@cox.net> > > wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016

Re: getting sound in Sid

2016-01-22 Thread Adam Wilson
On Fri, 22 Jan 2016 08:42:49 +0100 wrote: > BTW: I have sound, am running a combination of stable and unstable ??

Re: Books Inquiry

2016-01-22 Thread Adam Wilson
On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 23:14:33 +0100 jdd <j...@dodin.org> wrote: > Le 21/01/2016 21:02, Brian a écrit : > > On Thu 21 Jan 2016 at 16:41:19 +0100, jdd wrote: > > > >> Le 21/01/2016 03:53, Adam Wilson a écrit : > >> > >>> O

Re: Books Inquiry

2016-01-21 Thread Adam Wilson
On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 14:36:52 -0700 Bob Holtzman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 06:43:31PM +, mohammad Harun wrote: > > Sir > > > > Is there any book/guide/tutorial about how to use GUI (graphical > > user interface) or Mouse in Debian ? > > > > It's hard to know how to

Re: Books Inquiry

2016-01-21 Thread Adam Wilson
On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 19:30:08 + Brian wrote: > On Wed 20 Jan 2016 at 18:43:31 +, mohammad Harun wrote: > > > Sir > > > > Is there any book/guide/tutorial about how to use GUI (graphical > > user interface) or Mouse in Debian ? > > > > It's hard to know how to

Re: Is anybody Running Debian on Acer Aspire E5-571G

2016-01-21 Thread Adam Wilson
On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 12:47:05 -0300 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 14:27:54 + > Brian wrote: > > > On Fri 15 Jan 2016 at 08:53:46 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > > > I ran a netinst installation so no didn't have

Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list

2016-01-20 Thread Adam Wilson
On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 19:34:31 + Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > On Fri 15 Jan 2016 at 09:54:30 +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > > > On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 19:08:53 + > > Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > http.debian

Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list

2016-01-20 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 08:17:42 +1300 Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 06:18:09PM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 20:31:18 +0200 > > Amr Saber <amr.m.saber.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi

Re: About new mail client

2016-01-20 Thread Adam Wilson
On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 14:41:22 +0100 Jonas Hedman wrote: > On 15-12-18 11:12:29, Klearchos-Angelos Gkountras wrote: > > My branch is sid and used to use icedove as default mail client . I > > think with enigmail is kinda broken and I can't use as encryption > > and sign

Re: dselect, init and systemd-sysv

2016-01-20 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sun, 17 Jan 2016 11:26:54 +0100 Aldo Maggi wrote: > Yesterday while updating my system via dselect (I'm using testing) > I've received the warning that "init and systemd-sysv" were going to > be uninstalled and I had to approve or deny that action. You have to be

Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list

2016-01-15 Thread Adam Wilson
On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 19:08:53 + Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > On Thu 14 Jan 2016 at 18:18:09 +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > > > On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 20:31:18 +0200 > > Amr Saber <amr.m.saber.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi th

Re: updating ifupdown conflicts with systemd

2016-01-14 Thread Adam Wilson
On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 08:25:45 + Joe <j...@jretrading.com> wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 16:59:19 +0300 > Adam Wilson <mox...@riseup.net> wrote: > > > On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 13:31:30 +0100 > > Maciej Wołoszyn <m.wolos...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >

Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list

2016-01-14 Thread Adam Wilson
On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 20:31:18 +0200 Amr Saber wrote: > Hi there, > While I was configuring some thing in the sources.list file as apt-get > couldn't get any package I wanted or asked for (I double checked the > spelling for each package) and it just said package not

Re: updating ifupdown conflicts with systemd

2016-01-13 Thread Adam Wilson
On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 13:31:30 +0100 Maciej Wołoszyn wrote: > Hi, > > > On my Stretch system updating ifupdown conflicts with systemd. > > I removed ifupdown. > > I got network problems (no loopback) so I wanted to reinstall > > ifupdown, with no luck. > > In my case,

Re: info/ request

2016-01-12 Thread Adam Wilson
On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 15:05:05 +0200 Moreanu Robert - Nicolae wrote: > hi, > > i have to file word.docx and excel.xlsx on my hdd on desktop of > debian and I want to copy them from a live Linuxmint usbstick but I > cant because I have denied > > permission acces on them,

Re: Recommendations for a GUI video editing program?

2016-01-03 Thread Adam Wilson
On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 12:22:35 +0100 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for recommendations for a GUI video editor for simple tasks > (basically for cutting a video, and perhaps for fixing the audio track > lag which sometimes creeps in). > > I have very little experience with video

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

2015-12-25 Thread Adam Wilson
On Thu, 24 Dec 2015 10:38:28 -0500, Anthony Mapes wrote: > (Are there email clients out there that don't display who the sender > was?) If such a mail client exists, its users should not be forgiven.

Re: Confirmacions comandes "amagades"

2015-11-09 Thread Adam Deosdad
hola, crec que és la meva primera coŀlaboració, tot i que fa temps que estic al grup, el paquet per instaŀlar és el openssh-server i després has d'editar l'arxiu /etc/ssh/sshd_config segons les teves necessitats, El dia 9 de novembre de 2015, 17:28, Ernest Adrogué ha escrit:

removing corrupt lost+found dir

2015-08-08 Thread K. Adam Wolfe
Hello all, I've recently upgraded from wheezy to jessie; worth saying but not sure it's related to my issue. I have a directory in lost+found that is giving me a headache. every night my file system goes read-only. I reboot, do an fsck and go through the same process of scanning and

Virtualbox 4.3.28-dfsg-1 install in sid on 4.0.0-2-rt kernel causes hang-up

2015-07-05 Thread adam
Hi! I've just tried to install virtualbox on a rt kernel and got hangup, notebook stopped responding completely at the dkms install state, where it tries to apply the module, think. Any help, where i have to send bug report? Bests, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Contactes amb l'ajuntament de Barcelona?

2015-06-17 Thread Adam Deosdad
Joan m'agrada la idea de presentar-ho com a androids per pcs. A mi se m'ha demanat des de les CUP presentar un pla de migració. La idea que tinc és fer com s'ha fet tradicionalment primer mantenir xps amb libreoffice i thunderbird, i quan es pugue passar ja amb una debian o ubuntu. El dia 17 de

Re: Debian Testing Jess: Server Randomly Reboots - No Logs / Indication - Rsyslog Issue?

2014-06-06 Thread Adam Brenner
On 06/04/2014 11:07 PM, Adam Brenner wrote: Howdy List, I am a recent convert from the RHEL/CentOS community and I am running a server of Debian Testing Jess. I am running the latest 3.14.4-1 kernel and apt-get update apt-get upgrade have no pending installs. The issue I am facing

Debian Testing Jess: Server Randomly Reboots - No Logs / Indication - Rsyslog Issue?

2014-06-05 Thread Adam Brenner
/kern.log 66 lpr.* -/var/log/lpr.log 67 mail.* -/var/log/mail.log 68 user.* -/var/log/user.log Is it the delayed logging dashes a cause of the no logs? Thanks, -Adam -- Adam Brenner a...@aeb.io -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Logging of commands in a bash script to a file

2014-04-22 Thread K. Adam Wolfe
Use redirects: $IP route add ${VPN_NET[$N]} dev ${VPN_IFACE[$N]} src ${VPN_IP[$N]} table $N /some/log/file $IP route add default via ${VPN_GW[$N]} table $N /some/log/file $IP route add ${VPN_NET[$N]} dev ${VPN_IFACE[$N]} src ${VPN_IP[$N]} /some/log/file $IP rule add from ${VPN_IP[$N]}

Proliant Microserver installation

2013-08-22 Thread Adam J. Gamble
until I hit 'Partition disks', I had assumed it would find the 250gb HD built-in ..currently don't have any HDs in the slots. However, it just searches for drives, and returns to the main menu without allowing me to proceed any further. Can someone elucidate the issue? Cheers, Adam

Re: Proliant Microserver installation

2013-08-22 Thread Adam J. Gamble
testing version I've chosen seem a reasonable choice (compatability-wise)? Thanks, Adam On 22/08/2013 11:53, Chris Davies wrote: Adam J. Gamble a...@sleep.cx wrote: Just require some clarification with my Debian install on HP Proliant Microserver (N40L). Installation going fine until I hit

Re: Proliant Microserver installation

2013-08-22 Thread Adam J. Gamble
kernel: [3.320926] sdb: unknown partition table * Aug 22 14:38:41 kernel: [3.279479] sda: unknown partition table Any suggestions greatly appreciated. Adam On 22/08/2013 13:40, Adam J. Gamble wrote: Appologies not 'built-in' so to speak, just no additional drives. Actually as luck

Re: Proliant Microserver installation

2013-08-22 Thread Adam J. Gamble
Fixed! Was same bug as in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=720442#10 On 22/08/2013 09:38, Adam J. Gamble wrote: Hi All, Just require some clarification with my Debian install on HP Proliant Microserver (N40L). I'm using http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/hd

Re: Daemon program that runs scripts when a service become available.

2013-07-03 Thread Adam Wolfe
On 07/01/2013 08:19 AM, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 02:11:06PM +0100, Franco Martelli wrote: This is my network situation, recently I bought a 3G router providing internet connection to my network (an amd64 Desktop PC with Wheezy and a Linksys NSLU2 de-underclocked with

Does linux respect gratuitous arp repies?

2013-06-17 Thread Adam Or
Hi, My name is Adam and I’m researching some issues related to the kernel I just found a web page related to an open issue that I have. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/04/msg01026.html My machine does not create gratuitous arp replies and I wonder why? Can you please assist

Re: what's your Debian uptime?

2013-04-17 Thread Adam Russell
Linux STRUMMER 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Sep 21 03:36:44 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux 22:46:24 up 272 days, 14:08, 2 users, load average: 1.00, 1.10, 1.07 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Run script at boot time

2013-03-20 Thread Adam Wolfe
I'd go with /etc/rc.local That's what it is for. On 03/20/2013 10:23 AM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Hi, Running Squeeze, I would like to run a script (ltsp-update-sshkeys) on each system boot. Where would I place a link to such a script; /etc/init.d hardly seems appropriate? I'm guessing it

Re: Xerrada Sobirania Tecnològica

2013-03-06 Thread Adam Deosdad
No sóc massa de partcipar a la llista, però heu fe parlar de les diverses administracions que treballen en programari lliure ( que no gratuït), ja siguin locals, intenacionals o estatals. Parleu del fracàs del linkat, i de casos d'èxit com guadalinex (extremadura) o camaina (veneçuela) basades

Re: Xerrada Sobirania Tecnològica

2013-03-06 Thread Adam Deosdad
mantinguin les seves relacions amb protocols realment lliures. apa. El dc 06 de 03 de 2013 a les 14:22 +0100, en/na Adam Deosdad va escriure: No sóc massa de partcipar a la llista, però heu fe parlar de les diverses administracions que treballen en programari lliure ( que

Re: Raid 5

2013-03-06 Thread Adam Wolfe
I had one h**l of a time doing this over the weekend. What finally worked for me was creating LOGICAL partitions on each drive and setting them as used for RAID volume devices. This gave me /dev/sda5, /dev/sdb5 etc etc. When grub did it's install, it added all the /dev/sda1 etc partitions and

Re: Raid 5

2013-03-06 Thread Adam Wolfe
Ignore the advice from Adam Wolfe - it's nonsense. Use the Debian installer (advanced mode) to create the RAID 5 array on drives with just one partition (whole disk) as /dev/md0. Then partition the RAID 5 array into / and /home. Install and reboot. If you are using Wheezy this will work

Re: Raid 5

2013-03-06 Thread Adam Wolfe
On 03/06/2013 02:34 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 06/03/13 02:31 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 06/03/13 02:26 PM, Adam Wolfe wrote: Ignore the advice from Adam Wolfe - it's nonsense. Use the Debian installer (advanced mode) to create the RAID 5 array on drives with just one partition (whole disk

Re: Raid 5

2013-03-06 Thread Adam Wolfe
On 03/06/2013 03:04 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 06/03/13 02:37 PM, Adam Wolfe wrote: On 03/06/2013 02:34 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 06/03/13 02:31 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 06/03/13 02:26 PM, Adam Wolfe wrote: Ignore the advice from Adam Wolfe - it's nonsense. Use the Debian installer (advanced

Re: killing a job

2013-02-01 Thread Adam Wolfe
ps -ef | grep vlc should show you the pids. I'd tried to 'kill' them first. If that doesn't work I usually go straight for a kill -9. killall vlc might also work, but I'm not positive. On 02/01/2013 06:29 PM, Thierry Chatelet wrote: Hi, I have 3 instances of vlc that I can not stop. Top

Macintosh LCD brightness control

2012-11-14 Thread adam wolter
Release 6.0.6 (squeeze) i have the PowerPC version installed on a lampShade iMac G4. LCD monitor brightness is controlled by function keys F1 and F2 which have brightness markings. it all works well. i just want to know HOW so i can make similar support in ubuntu. Volume controls work well

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