Re: why??why?why??

On Saturday 11 March 2017 02:46:17 Jimmy Johnson wrote: > Ubuntu is just another way to say Debian Ouch. :-( Ouch :-( Ouch :-( NO! NO! NO! Il y quand meme une difference! Vive la difference! (Quotation from French Parlement. Please excuse my not faffing around with fonts.) Lisi

Re: Upgrading Jessie to Stretch

On Saturday 04 March 2017 22:16:49 Sven Joachim wrote: > Your best bet is probably to just try "apt-get dist-upgrade" and if that > does not work, file a bug against the upgrade-reports pseudopackage. As general advice to the nervous among us, does one 1) wait a bit; or 2) do a fresh install and

Re: Printing packages

On Saturday 04 March 2017 21:33:44 Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Brian writes: > > Try > > > > apt-get purge cups > > > > Don't say "yes"! > > That command will only show, among the packages that depend on cups, the > ones that are *already* installed on your system, won't

Re: Correction: Re: Printing packages

On Sunday 05 March 2017 02:52:25 Doug wrote: > On 03/04/2017 03:29 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 04 March 2017 20:12:49 Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> <$aptitude search > >> cups | less.>, > > > > <$aptitude search cups | less> > > > >

Correction: Re: Printing packages

On Saturday 04 March 2017 20:12:49 Lisi Reisz wrote: > <$aptitude search > cups | less.>, <$aptitude search cups | less> No full stop. (Point? it is nearly 65 years since I did 6th grade!!) Lisi

Re: Printing packages

On Saturday 04 March 2017 19:53:39 Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Cindy-Sue Causey writes: > > On 3/4/17, Brian wrote: > >> On Sat 04 Mar 2017 at 18:18:03 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >>> In order to print, I used to do: > >>> > >>> # aptitude install

Re: Security hole in LXDE?

On Tuesday 28 February 2017 17:45:57 David Wright wrote: > Both aptitude and synaptic can run by an ordinary user, and it's a > very safe way to run them when you don't yet fully understand their > abilities. To extend for the sake of pedantic ultra-clarity, and not to contradict: aptitude can

Re: A cumulative reply [Re: A minimal relational database in Debian?]

On Monday 27 February 2017 19:59:17 sunrise wrote: > On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 10:46:16 -0600 > > Richard Owlett wrote: > >On 02/27/2017 09:44 AM, Joe wrote: > >> On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 08:53:30 -0600 > >> > >> Richard Owlett wrote: > >>> On 02/27/2017 07:43 AM,

Re: A minimal relational database in Debian?

On Monday 27 February 2017 13:17:56 Richard Owlett wrote: > I looked at at LibreOffice Base. It was unusable as its "help" system > provided no intrinsic way to increase fonts to a legible size. You prompted me to look. As you say, it is unusable and ctrl-+ has no effect at all. It is clearly

Re: A minimal relational database in Debian?

On Monday 27 February 2017 13:28:44 Christian Seiler wrote: > often [Ctrl] + [+] will help > increase font sizes. Not in this case. Lisi

Re: Debian/Stretch: how to boot in text mode

On Wednesday 01 February 2017 21:56:11 Ennio-Sr wrote: > P:S: I'm answering your message from mutt (in a console) from my laptop > as I messed up with postfix on main PC \o/ Yay!! Goodee!! No more HTML. :-) Long may your main PC be out of action! Lisi

Re: CUPS in stretch does NOT WORK - Ricoh printer SP112 SP112-su

On Saturday 04 February 2017 23:04:00 Roba wrote: > Brian: > > On Sat 04 Feb 2017 at 14:55:18 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > >> Indulge us, and add a line to your cupsd.conf as follows: > >> > >> Listen localhost:631 > >> > >> and restart CUPS and see what happens. > > > > It would solve his

Re: Attempt to run debootstrap

On Wednesday 22 February 2017 17:32:46 Richard Owlett wrote: > Learn to love apt-get. I does some things more conveniently than a GUI > can. YMMV ;! aptitude is great on the command line. And does some things (but not all) more conveniently than apt-get. Besides, it is NOT a GUI application.

Re: Attempt to run debootstrap

On Wednesday 22 February 2017 16:14:28 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > (GUI) packages such as aptitude Hey! aptitude has got a TUI, but *not* a GUI, and many of us run it on the command line. Lisi

Re: Fwd: Library Install Problem.

On Friday 17 February 2017 20:04:12 S. P. Molnar wrote: > If I try to install libcuda1 with Synaptic, the process throws an error: > > 'E: Internal Error. No file name for libcuda1:ams64' This looks distinctly odd. It looks as though it ought to be libcuda1:amd64 with a 'd' instead of the 's'.

Re: Last spam: Let me know Munich Mayor's email address, please..

On Friday 17 February 2017 09:43:16 Stephen Powell wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2017, at 04:30, Andre Müller wrote: > > The day comes closer, that we remove all politicians and do our own > > constitution. > > This is the only way to change the whole system. I'm sick of it and many > > people in whole

Re: Issues with power management

On Wednesday 08 February 2017 10:50:52 solitone wrote: > What do you suggest to do to investigate this issue? Not hijack another thread. Lisi

Slight correction was Re: Before I install Debian

On Sunday 12 February 2017 20:40:40 Lisi Reisz wrote: > and didn't read carefully enough. and *** I *** didn't read carefully enough. (As it stands it is open to being misread.) Lisi

Re: Before I install Debian

On Sunday 12 February 2017 13:44:02 Sven Hartge wrote: > >> I think the main point is being missed. > > > > Yes, by you.  You asked whether Adobe Acrobat, which is a proprietary > > program belonging to Adobe, would run on Debian.  Sven said no. > > No, the question was, if it is available "with

Re: Before I install Debian

On Sunday 12 February 2017 02:49:41 John Culleton wrote: > On Sat, 11 Feb 2017 14:13:20 -0700 > > Bob Holtzman wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 03:54:34PM -0500, Doug wrote: > > > On 02/10/2017 03:45 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: > > > >John Culleton wrote: > >

Re: Stretch stable and jessie testing - repositories listed

On Thursday 09 February 2017 20:46:14 Brian wrote: > Sid is unstable and unstable is Sid. It doesn't matter which one > is chosen to be in sources.list. Agreed. But I like patterns. ;-) > Mind you, stable is Jessie and Jessie > is stable. It's only testing/whatever you have to be careful

Re: Stretch stable and jessie testing - repositories listed

On Thursday 09 February 2017 17:51:00 GiaThnYgeia wrote: > Lisi Reisz: > > So let's start at the beginning. > > OK > > > What exactly does your sources.list currently say? > > (/etc/apt/sources.list) Please copy and paste it. > > I deleted the headers #

Re: Stretch stable and jessie testing - repositories listed

On Thursday 09 February 2017 16:28:39 Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi, Katrin. > > On 09/02/17 13:09, GiaThnYgeia wrote: > >> Here is a jessie source: > >> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib > >> Here is a stretch source: > >> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch

Re: Why gets unattended-upgrades installed after Debian jessie -> Debian stretch upgrade?

On Tuesday 07 February 2017 14:31:54 Mart van de Wege wrote: > Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> writes: > > On Monday 06 February 2017 18:24:38 Mart van de Wege wrote: > >> Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> writes: > >> > On Monday 06 February 2017 13:54:

Re: Why packets (from my ISP to me) on the WAN VC side of my router are twice the size of packets on the Ethernet (and a corresponding twice as many bytes)

On Tuesday 07 February 2017 00:13:42 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, February 06, 2017 06:24:40 PM Dan Purgert wrote: > > It's a bit hard to figure out what you're actually seeing happen though, > > since your post somehow repeated itself several times, in a pretty big > > mess (there

Re: Why gets unattended-upgrades installed after Debian jessie -> Debian stretch upgrade?

On Monday 06 February 2017 18:24:38 Mart van de Wege wrote: > Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> writes: > > On Monday 06 February 2017 13:54:11 Brian wrote: > >> On Mon 06 Feb 2017 at 13:19:00 +, Patrick Schleizer wrote: > >> > The unattended-upgrades w

Re: Why gets unattended-upgrades installed after Debian jessie -> Debian stretch upgrade?

On Monday 06 February 2017 16:55:25 Joe wrote: > On Mon, 6 Feb 2017 16:30:36 + > > Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Monday 06 February 2017 13:54:11 Brian wrote: > > > On Mon 06 Feb 2017 at 13:19:00 +, Patrick Schleizer wrote: &

Re: Why gets unattended-upgrades installed after Debian jessie -> Debian stretch upgrade?

On Monday 06 February 2017 13:54:11 Brian wrote: > On Mon 06 Feb 2017 at 13:19:00 +, Patrick Schleizer wrote: > > The unattended-upgrades was not installed on my Debian jessie system. > > After upgrading to Debian stretch, the package unattended-upgrades got > > installed. 'reverse-depends

Re: upgrade failed debian 8.7

And please don't break threads. In addition to Ric's "Please don't top post". This email above which I am top posting requires a lot of effort on the part of any potential helper. No "history". Thread broken. Replied to wrong email . Lisi On Sunday 05 February 2017 11:24:34 Mike Nunn

Re: Installing a package downloaded from snapshot - was [Re: Mate error message under Debian 8.6.0]

On Friday 27 January 2017 21:13:35 Ryan Cunningham wrote: > This includes the message that you sent, and any other message of a similar > type. If this continues, and we cannot reasonably reach a compromise, I > will send a message to the list owner requesting that you be forcefully >

Re: Early boot became slower

On Friday 27 January 2017 16:56:32 Mattia Oss wrote: > This can be seen in the 3rd > video. By you. Not by me - nor apparently by Felix. Lisi

Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600

On Thursday 19 January 2017 06:02:08 Doug wrote: > On 01/19/2017 12:01 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: > > Jimmy Johnson writes: > >> Hi Martin, > >> > >> How much memory does the Dell Inspiron 2600 Series Laptop take? > > > > I gave Dell the service tag number and found

Re: Stretch changes the time of my laptop

On Wednesday 18 January 2017 13:33:38 Gerard ROBIN wrote: > Hello, > I installed stretch on a external usb hard drive and when I boot on the > had drive and I shut down, then I boot again, but on the internal hard > drive, with jessie, the time is delayed by one hour. > > I would like to know if

Re: how to config wireless card

On Friday 13 January 2017 09:20:12 Long Wind wrote: > In XP, wireless config is easy I wish those of who are so fond of XP would just use XP. Lisi

Re: How to fix screen resolution ( has been set to 1024 * 768 )

On Monday 09 January 2017 10:34:23 manashpal wrote: > After installing Debian latest Jessie in my system, I am getting a 1024*768 > screen resolution, but my monitor can render 1366*768. it is unlikely to > have got such a unexpected screen resolution like 1024*768. on the other > hand ubuntu,

Re: Failure searching forfile known to exist

On Monday 09 January 2017 15:34:44 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 1/9/2017 8:13 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 12:23:47AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> I could not remember where "profiles.ini" was stored. > > > > locate profiles.ini > > find ~ -name profiles.ini > > Works

[´Solved] Re: More info, still urgent :-) [was: Re: Urgent help needed - Debian boot hangs]

I received the following private reply. Since it says "and all others" I am sending it to the list! (with the subject header taken from my private reply) Glad you got it solved, Hans. Lisi -- Hi Lisi & all others, Am 08.01.2017 um 13:0

Re: More info, still urgent :-) [was: Re: Urgent help needed - Debian boot hangs]

On Sunday 08 January 2017 09:56:34 h...@hanswkraus.com wrote: > Hi, > > I've found a monitor which was able to display the Grub menu. In the > "Advanced options for Debian GNU/Linux" I found the entries: > > Debian GNU/Linux with Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 > Debian GNU/Linux with Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64

Re: Potential problem with aptitude search?

On Thursday 05 January 2017 03:28:23 Sven Hartge wrote: > Carl Fink wrote: > > Thoughts? I'll submit a bug report if warranted but I thought I'd get the > > community's opinion first. > > aptitude search the package name and only the package name by default. > > If you want

Re: INTERIM Resolution - was [Re: Trouble shooting a "thinkfan" problem on a Lenovo T430 Thinkpad]

On Monday 02 January 2017 12:43:15 Curt wrote: > On 2017-01-02, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I'll not pursue the installation of thinkfan as I see no benefit > > and do see the possibility of breaking something. I'll continue > > to investigate the various display and logging

Re: Do have programs have poor documentation?

On Monday 02 January 2017 01:00:56 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 01 January 2017 14:46:30 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > I cannot recall ever seeing a more complete information about > > > anything I ever looked up, telling me something that wasn't in the > > >

Re: [OT] Antikythera mechanism [was Re: Do have programs have poor documentation?]

On Sunday 01 January 2017 23:48:47 Joel Rees wrote: > On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 1:10 AM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sunday 01 January 2017 14:54:09 Joel Rees wrote: > >> On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Miles Fidelman > >> > >> <mfide

Re: [OT] Antikythera mechanism [was Re: Do have programs have poor documentation?]

On Sunday 01 January 2017 14:54:09 Joel Rees wrote: > On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Miles Fidelman > > wrote: > > On 12/30/16 7:07 PM, deloptes wrote: No, I wrote that. > >>> In what way is the Antikythera mechanism not a computer? And where did > >>> your 400

Re: Do have programs have poor documentation? (was ... Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal")

On Sunday 01 January 2017 11:52:20 Xen wrote: > Lisi Reisz schreef op 31-12-2016 10:30: > > Which make me bad at writing? > > > > Lisi > > Refusing to write good documentation on purpose. "%(&_++**!& Lisi

Re: productivity tips

On Sunday 01 January 2017 00:36:42 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > Hi.. I can't remember if it was this year or last so we can pretend it > was this year that I stumbled upon the concept of "mindmapping" (mind > mapping). I just ran a quick "apt-cache search" on it and didn't see > much available when

Re: Do have programs have poor documentation? (was ... Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal")

On Saturday 31 December 2016 08:48:09 Xen wrote: > Oh and yes, mentioning someone else's behaviour to another person is not > an ad hominem attack Catherine. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ad+homonem=ad+homonem=chrome..69i57.3014j0j7=chrome=UTF-8 How can something which attacks a named person

Re: Do have programs have poor documentation? (was ... Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal")

On Saturday 31 December 2016 07:23:13 Xen wrote: > Lisi Reisz schreef op 30-12-2016 3:31: > > On Friday 30 December 2016 01:37:53 Xen wrote: > >> Re Lisi: > > > > You clearly find wittering on yourself more fun than actually reading > > what > > other peop

Re: Do have programs have poor documentation? (was ... Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal")

On Saturday 31 December 2016 00:07:34 deloptes wrote: > > If he is not employed, as most open source developers are not, he can't > > be fired.  People who are doing things as a hobby and because they enjoy > > them, do the bits they enjoy.  Which is why so much wonderful open source > > software

Re: Do have programs have poor documentation? (was ... Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal")

On Friday 30 December 2016 19:46:59 deloptes wrote: > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > Well, just to add another viewpoint (and because it was (is?) a sore > > point with me): > > > > * I used to program on paper (and, really, still do on those rare > > occasions)--I think out what I plan to do, even

Re: Do have programs have poor documentation? (was ... Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal")

On Friday 30 December 2016 14:46:01 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, December 30, 2016 09:24:28 AM Dan Purgert wrote: > > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > My suggestion is you spend less time discussing it, and get started on > > > writing a few bman pages... > > > > Probably should be

Re: not possible to install apt-transport-https package on jessie

On Friday 30 December 2016 13:45:49 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 30/12/2016 à 14:19, John Naggets a écrit : > > Do you have an idea which line could be missing? Here is the content > > of my /etc/apt/sources.list file: > > > > deb http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian jessie main > > deb-src

Re: Do have programs have poor documentation? (was ... Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal")

On Friday 30 December 2016 01:37:53 Xen wrote: > You do realize that coding implies hammering on a keyboard too, right? No, I do not realise that coding *implies* hammering on a keyboard. Coding the lazy modern way can be done via a keyboard. But coding itself most emphatically does not imply

Re: Do have programs have poor documentation? (was ... Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal")

On Friday 30 December 2016 02:23:15 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > My suggestion is you spend less time discussing it, and get started on > writing a few bman pages... :-)) +1! Lisi

Re: Do have programs have poor documentation? (was ... Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal")

On Friday 30 December 2016 01:37:53 Xen wrote: > Re Lisi: You clearly find wittering on yourself more fun than actually reading what other people have written. You have actually quoted my precise words, then accused me in your paraphrase of having said something completely different. Try

Re: Pendrive computer

On Thursday 29 December 2016 02:31:49 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 12/28/2016 4:07 PM, Joe wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 12:20:06 -0600 > > > > Richard Owlett wrote: > >> What I'm looking for is a retail product that would compete with > >> PDA's of a decade ago. > > > > I

Re: [Partial Resolution] Re: Synaptic icons - where defined/explained?

On Wednesday 28 December 2016 02:40:33 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 12/27/2016 4:42 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 December 2016 22:34:35 Richard Owlett wrote: > >> On 12/27/2016 12:55 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > >>> On 12/27/2016 8:40 AM, Richard Owlett wrote

Re: [Partial Resolution] Re: Synaptic icons - where defined/explained?

On Tuesday 27 December 2016 22:34:35 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 12/27/2016 12:55 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 12/27/2016 8:40 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > >>[snip] > >> I can't give any info from the particular box in use at the start > >> of this thread. It has developed some strange,

Re: Synaptic icons - where defined/explained?

On Monday 26 December 2016 20:10:16 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 12/26/2016 2:02 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Dec 2016 13:46:15 -0600 > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > Hello Richard, > > > >> The only repository it has ever seen is DVD 1 of 13 of Debian > >> 8.6.0 ;! >

Re: Synaptic icons - where defined/explained?

On Monday 26 December 2016 12:21:15 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 12/26/2016 4:12 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Dec 2016 01:47:25 -0600 > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > Hello Richard, > > > > {hopefully with a clearer head and a more stable connection...} > > > >> I

Re: Synaptic icons - where defined/explained?

On Sunday 25 December 2016 20:21:20 Richard Owlett wrote: > Where is the icon [a yellow star in otherwise blank box] defined? > Not in > https://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=synaptic=0 >n=0=Debian+8+jessie=html=en > > A graphic accessed from Help->Icon Legend says only "Not >

Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

On Monday 19 December 2016 18:58:43 Joe wrote: > On Mon, 19 Dec 2016 12:38:51 +0100 > > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2016-12-16 18:06:26 +, Joe wrote: > > > Do you have X running? > > > > Not always. > > > > > I use Synaptic in these situations, where it is easy to try

Re: Why I can not install software on debian easily?

On Tuesday 20 December 2016 16:25:33 Lisi Reisz wrote: > It was originally done on KDE 3, because it is so configurable.  And that > is why I use TDE, KDE 3's successor. Because it is very configurable, not because Adam used it for his Dad. Lisi

Re: Why I can not install software on debian easily?

On Tuesday 20 December 2016 12:25:52 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 12/19/2016 5:28 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > > [1] Actual case. Thinks she is using Windows because she has > > LibreOffice. Certainly not representative of all grandmothers. > > I suspect the User Experience is as important as

Re: Why I can not install software on debian easily?

On Monday 19 December 2016 23:28:24 Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > [1] Actual case. Thinks she is using Windows because she has > LibreOffice. Certainly not representative of all grandmothers. Glad you acknowledge that. ;-) Some of us dislike Ubuntu. ;-) Lisi

Re: Apt problem

On Monday 19 December 2016 08:45:08 Gmail wrote: > After upgrading my Libranet (Sarge-based) system, I now end up with the > following messages after doing anything apt-get based (including Synaptic): > > W: No priority (or zero) specified for pin > W: No priority (or zero) specified for pin > >

Re: Apt problem

On Monday 19 December 2016 08:45:08 Gmail wrote: > After upgrading my Libranet (Sarge-based) system, I now end up with the > following messages after doing anything apt-get based (including Synaptic): > > W: No priority (or zero) specified for pin > W: No priority (or zero) specified for pin > >

Re: best practices for fighting spam with Debian?

On Friday 16 December 2016 22:40:22 Brian wrote: > On Fri 16 Dec 2016 at 22:40:01 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 09:31:06PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Friday 16 December 2016 21:19:45 Joe wrote: > > > > On Fri, 16 Dec 2016 20:55

Re: best practices for fighting spam with Debian?

On Friday 16 December 2016 21:19:45 Joe wrote: > On Fri, 16 Dec 2016 20:55:32 + > > Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The fact that some people do not know > > enough to use Spam folders differently from deleted mail is not a > > reason why the

Re: best practices for fighting spam with Debian?

On Friday 16 December 2016 09:58:36 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > At least in the case of delivery to the SPAM box the mail has been > > actually delivered to the user. > > "Technically", yes. No, not just technically. Actually. The recipient then has the choice whether to ignore it or not. > >

Re: network setup

On Wednesday 14 December 2016 11:33:21 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > David's answer illustrated my point so beautifully that i had to > say thanks. What point??? Lisi

Re: spam filtering question?

On Saturday 10 December 2016 21:46:19 Karen Lewellen wrote: > What favored Ubuntu help list? You have asked an Ubuntu question on the Debian help list. I think that Cindy is suggesting that for Ubuntu questions, an Ubuntu help-list is more appropriate than a Debian help-list. > I stated at the

Re: network setup

On Wednesday 14 December 2016 09:13:49 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 08:54:07PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > [...] > > > Eh? How does calling something by the string "wlx00c0ca364bd2" instead > > of "wlan0" make it less

Re: Package update problem...{***SOLVED***}

On Tuesday 13 December 2016 19:23:49 Mark Neidorff wrote: > On Monday, 12/12/16 11:49:01 PM kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > > Sorry to seem stubborn, but I don't consider giving a user account full > > > administrative

Thank you. was: Re: Brother HL-L2300D Mono Laser

On Friday 09 December 2016 00:21:06 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 08 December 2016 23:52:21 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Any comments on this printer? Brother HL-L2300D Mono Laser > > > > There seems to be a .deb for an LPR and CUPSwrapper driver. > > > > Thanks. &

Re: Brother HL-L2300D Mono Laser

On Thursday 08 December 2016 23:52:21 Lisi Reisz wrote: > Any comments on this printer? Brother HL-L2300D Mono Laser > > There seems to be a .deb for an LPR and CUPSwrapper driver. > > Thanks. > > Lisi That was intended to have this URL in it, for the .deb: http://su

Brother HL-L2300D Mono Laser

Any comments on this printer? Brother HL-L2300D Mono Laser There seems to be a .deb for an LPR and CUPSwrapper driver. Thanks. Lisi

Re: Advantages of Debian "backports" over "testing"?

On Thursday 08 December 2016 11:06:55 Martin T wrote: > One more question regarding Debian backports- is it a good practice to > prefer latest versions from backports(jessie-backports) by default > while using stable(jessie) distribution? Definitely not. [snip] > Or is it a better practice to

Re: ssh doesn't work.

On Thursday 08 December 2016 04:19:00 EenyMeenyMinyMoa wrote: > Hi, > > 2016-12-08 5:25 GMT+09:00 Brian : > > Random script kiddy attacks are of absolutely no consequence. Annoying > > perhaps, but no threat whatsoever. In terms of security, changing the > > port number for

Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

On Wednesday 07 December 2016 14:55:40 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2016-10-13 00:09:02 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 07 October 2016 15:43:17 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > On 2016-10-04 22:51:34 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 04 October 2016

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

On Tuesday 06 December 2016 02:51:33 Jape Person wrote: > Yes, I know I can tell some browsers to give me light text on a dark > background, but that never works as well as the control I have in my > mail client. Out of interest, which do you use? I need a backup, for when the bit-rot on the

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

On Sunday 04 December 2016 14:55:10 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sunday, December 04, 2016 06:50:17 AM Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 03 December 2016 20:14:21 Jape Person wrote: > > > I > > > have a horrible time reading this stuff through a browser interface. >

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

On Saturday 03 December 2016 20:14:21 Jape Person wrote: > I > have a horrible time reading this stuff through a browser interface. Yes, sorry. :-( I have a horrible time with archives being illegible in browsers - but I thought that that was a problem restricted to the partially sighted: the

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

On Saturday 03 December 2016 18:09:50 Jape Person wrote: > Hi, > > I'm replying to myself at the top of the thread because I saw -- out of > the corner of my eye -- that there were two recent additions to the thread. > > Unfortunately, a) I use POP3 and download all my mail immediately from > the

Re: debian on lenovo carbon thinkpad 4th generation confirmation report

On Wednesday 30 November 2016 00:50:04 Mirko Parthey wrote: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 10:59:35PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > I didn't know that kernels > 4.1 are available as jessie-backports. > > > Thanks. Regards, Karol > > > > Only 4.7. The others

Re: debian on lenovo carbon thinkpad 4th generation confirmation report

On Tuesday 29 November 2016 20:36:29 iqwue Wabv wrote: > Richard, > > I didn't know that kernels > 4.1 are available as jessie-backports. Thanks. > Regards, Karol Only 4.7. The others appear not to be available any more. Lisi

Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian repositories

On Tuesday 29 November 2016 12:51:52 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 06:31:48AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > > [...] > > > I just looked at the intro of > > https://debtags.alioth.debian.org/paper-debtags.html . > > It appears

Re: debian on lenovo carbon thinkpad 4th generation confirmation report

On Monday 28 November 2016 16:58:49 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 04:57:12PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Monday 28 November 2016 13:09:06 Richard Hector wrote: > > > FWIW, newer kernels are available in jessie-backports; you don't need > > > to u

Re: debian on lenovo carbon thinkpad 4th generation confirmation report

On Monday 28 November 2016 13:09:06 Richard Hector wrote: > On 27/11/16 04:53, iqwue Wabv wrote: > > 1) jessie wifi doesn't work because lack of drivers for Intel® Dual Band > > Wireless-AC 8260 > > > > which is only available in >4.1 linux kernel. So I have to upgrade my > > installation from

Re: *WHY* does Debootstrap wiki page point Users to Ubuntu?

On Monday 28 November 2016 12:54:08 Henning Follmann wrote: > On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 06:43:54PM -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > Hi, All :) > > > > Please forgive me if I have simply missed the memo where we bought > > Ubuntu or Ubuntu bought Debian to where this is an appropriate move. > > > >

Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific

On Tuesday 22 November 2016 15:38:04 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 11/22/2016 9:16 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 09:09:01AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> On 11/21/2016 12:43 PM, Joe wrote: > >>> While this does not actually constitute automounting, I suggest that it > >>>

Re: All settings are lost at logout

On Monday 21 November 2016 23:34:06 Kaj wrote: > Den 2016-11-21 17:18, skrev Kent West: > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Kaj <70147pers...@telia.com > > > wrote: > > > > Den 2016-11-21 15:53, skrev Kent West: > > > On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 8:41 AM,

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

On Saturday 19 November 2016 18:02:24 Jape Person wrote: > For my "new" printer, maybe I should just find a > way to put that old LaserJet directly on the network. Install CUPS, client and server, on all the machines on your network, attach the printer to one of the machines (a dedicated printer

Re: [REPOST] Recovering when di misleads Synaptic et al.

Why do we need three copies of this?? Lisi On Saturday 19 November 2016 21:17:57 Richard Owlett wrote: > This is *NOT* a bug report. > > I have a _USED_ laptop set aside for learning and experimentation. > It has had as many as a half dozen clean installs in a single day ;/ > The CD drive has

Re: MURPHY'S LAW RULES - was [Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific]

On Sunday 20 November 2016 20:54:17 Brian wrote: [snip whole thread which doesn't match subject line] The most frustrating thing about this whole thread, which I had been saving because I have a SANE problem (more later), and SANE problems are often to do with permissions, is that it has

Re: Setting up reportbug

On Monday 21 November 2016 00:03:53 David Christensen wrote: > If you answer the prompts in the right way, 'reportbug' will connect to > a Debian mail server. That gets entered during initial set-up. Perhaps the OP could purge, making sure to get rid of all conf files, and then install again,

Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal"

On Thursday 17 November 2016 14:41:23 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 11/16/2016 8:52 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Wednesday 16 November 2016 14:13:49 Richard Owlett wrote: > >> There exist SOC projects to encourage/mentor > >> fledgling programmers. > >> Conside

Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal"

On Thursday 17 November 2016 12:12:57 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 06:39:18PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Wednesday 16 November 2016 15:18:14 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > Your answer highlights the problem, although it's not quite what you >

Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal"

On Wednesday 16 November 2016 15:18:14 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Your answer highlights the problem, although it's not quite what you said: > the pay-off is, better docs! Which are very important. I said no **obvious** pay-off. That is not the same as no payoff. Lisi

Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal"

On Wednesday 16 November 2016 14:13:49 Richard Owlett wrote: > There exist SOC projects to encourage/mentor > fledgling programmers. > Considering the state of documentation, esp man pages, why no SOD > projects for potential tech writers. There is no obvious pay-off for Google - or anyone else

Re: No right or middle click on XFCE desktop after Upgrade from Jessie to Stretch

On Wednesday 16 November 2016 07:01:16 dmacdoug wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 06:02:27PM -0800, Mike Kupfer wrote: > > dmacdoug wrote: > > > A month or two ago I moved a certain computer from jessie > > > to stretch and after doing so found that neither the right > > > nor the middle mouse

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