Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients

2016-08-09 Thread Mike McGinn
bin;%PATH% C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe D:\cygwin\home\mike\bin\wwwBackup.sh Now set up a scheduled task to run it every day on the Windows machine and a cron on the Linux machine to delete them after so many days so they don't fill up the disk. Mike -- Mike McGinn KD2CNU Preside

Re: Icedove crashes after recent update

2016-08-04 Thread Mike McGinn
Jessie KDE same as: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=128931 Thanks and regards Emile I had the same problem. So I installed Thunderbird, typed "ln -s .icedove .thunderbird" in my home directory and stopped worrying about it. Mike -- Mike McGinn KD2CNU

Re: wicd trouble -- continued

2016-07-28 Thread Mike McGinn
? Me? Not really. :) I had some trouble with wicd which I cured by making sure that network manager was not running. Make sure NM is stopped and does not start. Mike -- Mike McGinn KD2CNU President, UU Congregation at Rock Tavern * www.uucrt.org Laziness is what separates us from

Re: google-chrome-stable on Wheezy

2016-06-03 Thread Mike McGinn
On 06/03/2016 10:28 AM, SamuelOPH wrote: > ​Hi Mike,​ > > 2016-06-01 6:47 GMT-03:00 Mike McGinn <mailto:mikemcg...@mcginnweb.net>>: > > Hi Samuel, > It is not an issue of need, it is an issue of time. I am the software > engineer / server guy at wo

Re: google-chrome-stable on Wheezy

2016-06-01 Thread Mike McGinn
On 05/31/2016 11:15 PM, SamuelOPH wrote: > > 2016-05-31 21:21 GMT-03:00 Mike McGinn <mailto:mikemcg...@mcginnweb.net>>: > > Again, thanks for all the efforts. I am a bit surprised that there is > not an archive of old chrome versions. One would think they w

Re: google-chrome-stable on Wheezy

2016-05-31 Thread Mike McGinn
ed that there is not an archive of old chrome versions. One would think they would have the room with all the email account space that they give away. Best, Mike -- Mike McGinn KD2CNU President, UU Congregation at Rock Tavern * www.uucrt.org The problem with quotes on the inte

google-chrome-stable on Wheezy

2016-05-31 Thread Mike McGinn
outdated) google-chrome-stable but I can not find a copy of the most recently installed version. Does anyone know where this might be found? Thanks, Mike -- Mike McGinn KD2CNU President, UU Congregation at Rock Tavern * www.uucrt.org The problem with quotes on the internet is that it is

Re: Posts don't show on list

2016-04-30 Thread Mike McGinn
r. I have a fake domain known only to my mail system that is local to the laptop only. I bcc all mail to myself and always get a copy. -- Mike McGinn KD2CNU President, UU Congregation at Rock Tavern More kidneys than eyes ** Registered Linux User 377849

Re: Install MSWindz 7 as Virtual Machine on Debian 8

2015-11-09 Thread Mike McGinn
s! Virtual Box is easy for me. I have a Win 2000 VM that runs on Wheezy. I don't know about Debian 8 or Windows 7, so your mileage may vary. Mike -- Mike McGinn KD2CNU President, UU Congregation at Rock Tavern More kidneys than eyes ** Registered Linux User 377849

Re: Terminal Madness?

2015-09-28 Thread Mike McGinn
;ON THEIR OWN" >> WITHOUT ME TOUCHING A KEY. >> >> I am in an xterm window running in icewm, and its config looks >> like this: >> >> xterm -fg white -bg black -geometry x26 -fa 'Deja vu Sans Bold' >> -fs 24 >> >> (I've since changed

Re: Can't get sound to work

2015-01-16 Thread Mike McGinn
On Friday, January 16, 2015 14:23:21 Doug wrote: > On 01/16/2015 01:24 PM, Robert Latest wrote: When I had a new install I found that the mixer levels were all at zero. Found it after an hour of troubleshooting. -- Mike McGinn KD2CNU Be happy that brainfarts don't s

Re: Recent upgrade 'broke' sleep & hibernate in KDE Plasma Battery Monitor

2015-01-14 Thread Mike McGinn
s to sleep...Failed. > > /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/55NetworkManager suspend suspend: success. > Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/60_wpa_supplicant suspend suspend: > Failed to connect to wpa_supplicant - wpa_ctrl_open: No such file or > directory > > /usr/lib/pm-utils/sle

Re: Continuing to use SysV; LTS [Re: Fwd: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?]

2014-12-31 Thread Mike McGinn
not, who (besides my clients) is going to pay? > > When you can answer that, I can answer your question. > > Jerry This is the problem with Linux, folks use it to make money and feel no obligation to contribute to it. Even if they do not contribute development time, they could budget an

Re: Speed up a WiFI interface ??

2014-12-30 Thread Mike McGinn
eed this up? > > Thanks, > > BF. Just because the card will support 150Mbit/s does not mean the system will. The computer has other things to do besides see to the network, and the router has other connections to service and the system on the other side has other things to do too.

Re: VPN IPSec (Cisco vpnc)

2014-12-11 Thread Mike McGinn
> > I also had to circumvent another problem after the connection was > > established. The route to the gateway is set to 128.0.0.0/1. Half of > > the internet address space is routed through the VPN tunnel. I had to > > configure vpnc to ignore the default route and add my own custom > > routes (I did all of this in the Network Manager). OSX and Windows > > receive the correct route though. I have yet to investigate more > > deeply into that problem. > > > > Frederic -- Mike McGinn KD2CNU Be happy that brainfarts don't smell. No electrons were harmed in sending this message, some were inconvenienced. ** Registered Linux User 377849

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-15 Thread Mike McGinn
replacement because Red Hat used. I do not hear so much about people pulling the patches contributed by Red Hat out of the kernel. All you people are accomplishing is raising the price of tinfoil. > > > It it does, then, > > I'll switch. I'm taking a look at netBSD, even if I guess that I'll have > > a hard time being successful in feeling as comfortable with it than with > > Debian. > > Here's a good place to start your "looking":- > http://www.netbsd.org/contrib/org/ > > Kind regards -- Mike McGinn KD2CNU Be happy that brainfarts don't smell. No electrons were harmed in sending this message, some were inconvenienced. ** Registered Linux User 377849

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the "Universal Operating System"

2014-10-04 Thread Mike McGinn
debian packagers of an earlier age. Where do you get the nerve? What have YOU done besides complain? These developers who VOLUNTEER their time, you dare call them a name. We know who the scumbag is. It is you. -- Mike McGinn KD2CNU Be happy that brainfarts don't smell. No electron

Re: Bash Code Injection Vulnerability via Specially Crafted Environment Variables (CVE-2014-6271)

2014-09-25 Thread Mike McGinn
bash > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > bash is already the newest version. > > Would you mind recommending how best I should proceed? > > Thank you, > > Joe Loiacono Joe - I updated my Squeeze box thi

Re: systemd bug closed - next steps?

2014-09-23 Thread Mike McGinn
alise how closely Debian is reliant on the > C language! Surely, this can't be good! The entire kernel is written in C. A language is just a tool. That is like saying "The sink was installed with a wrench! Surely, this can't be good!" -- Mike McGinn KD2C

Re: Creating a forum for systemd debate

2014-09-16 Thread Mike McGinn
ne were to google "redhat systemd" the RH systemd documentation can be found. I spent some time reading this last night. I found some of the features compelling. Since Red Hat focuses on reliability over all else, I really doubt that systemd will destroy your system. Linux will survive and p

Re: Abusive, Insulting and Off Topic e-mails do not belong on debian-user or any other Debian Mailing list.

2014-06-08 Thread Mike McGinn
> Andrew McGlashan Are we still in preschool? All about how aggrieved who, who insulted who, he took my truck ... Get over it. You are ruining this for those of us who are adults. -- Mike McGinn KD2CNU Be happy that brainfarts don't smell. No electrons were harmed in

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

2014-06-05 Thread Mike McGinn
the person I got the info from admit that their > research so far is extremely limited. Horatio ends up in my spam folder too. With all the vaunted beyesian learning Google brags about they still haven't figured it out. -- Mike McGinn KD2CNU Be happy that brainfarts don'

Re: no plugins under Chrome

2014-06-01 Thread Mike McGinn
On Sunday, June 01, 2014 08:28:40 Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On 1/06/2014 9:43 PM, Mike McGinn wrote: > > What a mess! I have been forcing the version in Synaptic on > > chromium-browser to 34.0.187 ... and it says that is what is installed > > after doing a complete remova

Re: no plugins under Chrome

2014-06-01 Thread Mike McGinn
but do work in Iceweasel. Wondered what > happened. Now I know. > > B What a mess! I have been forcing the version in Synaptic on chromium-browser to 34.0.187 ... and it says that is what is installed after doing a complete removal. But "about" on the browser still reports 35.

Re: can't get wicd to work

2014-05-26 Thread Mike McGinn
tom arnall wrote: > @ Mike McGinn > > I COPIED AND PASTED YOUR CODE INTO A BASH FILE AND RAN IT. THE INSTALL > MESSAGES SEEMED OK, EXCEPT THIS AT THE VERY END: > > Update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-amd64 > W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/t

Re: can't get wicd to work

2014-05-26 Thread Mike McGinn
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Re: Setting up a home gateway/router

2014-05-23 Thread Mike McGinn
LAN part of my home network works, I have setup a DHCPD server for > eth1 interface. I can connect from LAN to my GW with SSH client. > > -- > Regards, from Paul -- Mike McGinn KD2CNU Be happy that brainfarts don't smell. No electrons were harmed in sending this mess

Re: Debian 5

2014-05-19 Thread Mike McGinn
412.383.7460 fax +1- 412.383.9460 > Hi Jim, I would suggest identifying an backing up the scientific data. I would suggest putting a backuo program in place and auditing the backups to make sure that all the scientific data is backed up. Only then would I think about upgrading. Mik

Re: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU { 0}

2014-03-21 Thread Mike McGinn
. Good luck, and I will be watching this thread to see what the answer is. Mike -- Mike McGinn KD2CNU Ex Uno Plurima No electrons were harmed in sending this message, some were inconvenienced. ** Registered Linux User 377849 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU { 0}

2014-03-21 Thread Mike McGinn
: No such file or directory > Mar 21 14:29:10 www syslogd: /dev/:1: No such file or directory > Mar 21 14:29:10 www vmunix: [118396.260268] Code: 00 00 8d bc 27 00 00 00 > 00 fa c3 8d b4 26 00 00 00 00 8d bc 27 00 00 00 00 fb c3 8d b4 26 00 00 00 > 00 8d bc 27 00 00 00 00 fb f4 8d b6 0

Re: Debian on a Dell Latitude E7440

2014-03-20 Thread Mike McGinn
sts about ten minutes, touchpad is dead, and the screen has > several scuffs. Still, it is a shame to see it go. When the hinges went on my Toshiba I was able to attach a small piece of metal to the back to hold the screen up. Got another two years out of it. Mike -- Mike McGinn KD2C

Re: Great Debian experience

2014-03-19 Thread Mike McGinn
For the record, I have a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop with 4G of memory, Debian GNU/Linux 7.4 (wheezy). Mike -- Mike McGinn KD2CNU Ex Uno Plurima No electrons were harmed in sending this message, some were inconvenienced. ** Registered Linux User 377849 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Why Debian

2013-11-09 Thread Mike McGinn
f values these are, and I want > > them to become widespread. And now I feel I have the opportunity to show > > and convince the Ubuntu community to adapt them, and probable with it > > many people around the world. > > > > So I wanted to ask you the following question

Re: itunes under debian

2013-09-03 Thread Mike McGinn
On Tuesday, September 03, 2013 14:16:49 Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Am Dienstag, 3. September 2013, 19:23:20 schrieb Pascal Obry: > > Le 03/09/2013 19:00, Mike McGinn a écrit : > > > Has anyone in this group had any luck getting iTunes to work under > > > Linux? >

itunes under debian

2013-09-03 Thread Mike McGinn
Wheezy and Ubuntu 12.04 installed in VMs. I had no luck yet with getting it to work under 12.04, I will be trying with the Wheezy VM as soon as I get a chance. Has anyone in this group had any luck getting iTunes to work under Linux? -- Mike McGinn KD2CNU Ex Uno Plurima No electrons

Re: QRZ?

2013-08-24 Thread Mike McGinn
repeater stuff for now. 73, Mike -- Mike McGinn KD2CNU Ex Uno Plurima No electrons were harmed in sending this message, some were inconvenienced. ** Registered Linux User 377849 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: what happened to the task bar??

2013-06-28 Thread Mike McGinn
e behaviour in any distrib using gnome 3. > > > > > > > > What you can o (and you can do it in debian) is choose another > > > > environment. Debian gives you the choice. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > >

Re: Aptitude: "1 not upgraded"

2013-06-26 Thread Mike McGinn
running Squeeze where Google Chrome > has complained that it cannot upgrade. > > Lisi Make that three computers still running Squeeze where Google Chrome has complained that it cannot upgrade -- Mike McGinn KD2CNU Ex Uno Plurima No electrons were harmed in sending this mes

Re: kmail under wheezy

2013-06-19 Thread Mike McGinn
On Wednesday, June 19, 2013 02:38:28 Dick Thomas wrote: > On 19/06/13 02:06, Mike McGinn wrote: > > Hi All, Is anyone using KDE and Kmail under Wheezy? How does it > > work? Is it stable enough to use or should I wait to update from > > Squeeze? > > > > Thanks, M

kmail under wheezy

2013-06-18 Thread Mike McGinn
Hi All, Is anyone using KDE and Kmail under Wheezy? How does it work? Is it stable enough to use or should I wait to update from Squeeze? Thanks, Mike -- Mike McGinn KD2CNU Ex Uno Plurima No electrons were harmed in sending this message, some were inconvenienced. ** Registered

Re: VPN Connections

2013-03-15 Thread Mike McGinn
onnect to a Cisco pix at our colo, the only thing is that i disconnects every hour or so when the firewall rekeys. -- Mike McGinn KD2CNU Ex Uno Plurima No electrons were harmed in sending this message, some were inconvenienced. ** Registered Linux User 377849 -- To UN

Re: moving from Kubuntu 10.4 to squeeze

2013-01-27 Thread Mike McGinn
. > > > Hope this increases the signal to noise ratio in that thread again a bit. > > Ciao, Thanks for the tip. I'll try Wheezy in a VM first as I did with Squeeze. I seem to prefer the Debian way of doing things over Ubuntu anyway. For instance I always create a root acco

Re: moving from Kubuntu 10.4 to squeeze

2013-01-25 Thread Mike McGinn
On Friday, January 25, 2013 19:13:45 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Le 24.01.2013 18:06, Mike McGinn a écrit : > > On Thursday, January 24, 2013 11:54:40 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> -Original Message- > > and what about #service mysql restart? > I'm

Re: moving from Kubuntu 10.4 to squeeze

2013-01-25 Thread Mike McGinn
On Friday, January 25, 2013 08:11:48 Rob Owens wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:05:00AM -0500, Mike McGinn wrote: > > I have a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop with 4G of RAM and have been a 'buntu > > user since release 7.04. With each release of the new OS from Kubuntu I > &g

Re: moving from Kubuntu 10.4 to squeeze

2013-01-24 Thread Mike McGinn
n issue. I prefer typing: "/etc/init.d/mysql restart" as an example -- Mike McGinn KD2CNU Ex Uno Plurima No electrons were harmed in sending this message, some were inconvenienced. ** Registered Linux User 377849 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: moving from Kubuntu 10.4 to squeeze

2013-01-24 Thread Mike McGinn
there was a bug with the drivers in one 'buntu version (again I forget, might have been 10.04) which just about drove me nuts until it was fixed. I bought this laptop in early 2009,so it is by no means "new". Mike -- Mike McGinn KD2CNU Ex Uno Plurima No electrons

moving from Kubuntu 10.4 to squeeze

2013-01-24 Thread Mike McGinn
enced in my VM and I just want to know if there are any pitfalls I have not foreseen. My system is backed up every night, so I am not worried about losing anything. -- Mike McGinn KD2CNU Ex Uno Plurima No electrons were harmed in sending this message, some were inconvenienced. ** R