Re: How many packages in Sid

2013-09-05 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Thu, 5 Sep 2013 22:16:39 +0200 sp113438 sp113...@telfort.nl wrote: Hello, How do I find out the number of packages currently in Sid? Google did not help me. Thanks! A GUI based answer is to open Synaptic, select the All header, and the number of packages available for the

Re: Gnome2-style network monitor applet for XFCE

2013-08-30 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 23:11:23 +1000 Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: I seek a network monitor applet for my panels, like could be added in Gnome2: It might have been called netspeed. Basically, it was a black rectangle, scrolling right to left, with color fill below throughput

Re: Gnome2-style network monitor applet for XFCE

2013-08-30 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 02:27:11 +1000 Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: On 8/31/13, Carroll Grigsby cgrigs...@att.net wrote: On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 23:11:23 +1000 Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: I seek a network monitor applet for my panels, like could be added in Gnome2

Re: How to get rid of an entry in grub?

2013-08-30 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 11:11:10 -0700 David Guntner da...@guntner.com wrote: David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Not only that, but given the comments around all the sections that point at /etc/grub.d/{whatever}, does this mean that /boot/grub/grub.cfg is being built by something,

Re: oh no something is definitely wrong adieu debian.

2013-08-28 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 14:31:14 +0200 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: (snip) However, I HAVE NOTHING MORE TO SAY. (snip again) Thank you, thank you, thank you... -- cmg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: wacky question

2013-06-24 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 15:28:18 +0100 Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: whack This is an interesting discussion. But perhaps if we want to continue we should take it off-list? Please do. -- cmg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Where is Jessie?

2013-06-03 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Mon, 03 Jun 2013 13:26:35 +0200 ha hiei.arh...@gmail.com wrote: I have trouble locating the link to download Jessie. Wherever I look for, sooner or later it redirects me to old testing (Wheezy). Could anybody please enlighten me. h Give this a try:

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:37:13 -0700 (PDT) Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: Snip Hope the problem is solvable from your end. Easy solution: Kill file. Bye. -- cmg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Information not on relavant man page - where to find on WEB?

2013-04-10 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:48:26 -0500 Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: Man pages generally do not include information some users would find vital. In fact

Re: MICROSOFT HIRED THESE PEOPLE TO SABOTAGE OPEN SOURCE

2013-04-09 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 04:26:59 -0700 Weaver wea...@riseup.net wrote: On Mon, April 8, 2013 6:56 pm, João Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: Em 08-04-2013 08:03, Ralf Mardorf escreveu: This is an international mailing list and the rules should be civilized and not taken from banana republics. I

Re: OT - Convert output of byte count to GB count?

2013-02-15 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:58:16 +1300 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 02:41:47PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: On 13/02/13 14:32, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 2/12/2013 4:43 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Assumed you'll build a fence, 10m long and every 1m

Re: Poll GNOME 3 + Shell usage

2013-02-11 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:11:00 +0100 Gernot Super superger...@yahoo.com wrote: Dear fellow debian-users, since there are no concrete numbers how many people actually use GNOME 3 with Gnome-Shell (in debian) i set up a poll to get an impression. Thanks for taking the time! Hijacking a