Screen clear on terminal logout (was Re: Orphaned User Accounts?)

2010-11-03 Thread Morgan Gangwere
all my commands are still visible as root after I log out. Even normal users have their last login shown. its not root-specific, its a problem with the login getter. -- Morgan Gangwere PGP Key at http://indrora.homelinux.org/gpg_key.asc Why? Because it breaks the logical flow of conversation

Re: improve screen resolution

2010-11-03 Thread Morgan Gangwere
EndSection Section ServerLayout Identifier Default Layout Screen Default Screen InputDevice Generic Keyboard InputDevice Configured Mouse InputDevice Synaptics Touchpad EndSection 8 Its worth a shot. -- Morgan Gangwere PGP Key at http

Re: Orphaned User Accounts?

2010-11-02 Thread Morgan Gangwere
/lpd:/bin/sh mail:x:8:8:mail:/var/mail:/bin/sh www-data:x:33:33:www-data:/var/www:/bin/sh nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/nonexistent:/bin/sh indrora:x:1000:1000:Morgan Gangwere,,,:/home/indrora:/bin/zsh sshd:x:104:65534::/var/run/sshd:/usr/sbin/nologin *nix and its friends use LOTS of users to do LOTS

Re: Size of minimal Debian installation

2010-10-30 Thread Morgan Gangwere
difference? The error is almost double the size of Puppy Linux. I again call shenanigans on your VM. -- Morgan Gangwere PGP Key at http://indrora.homelinux.org/gpg_key.asc Why? Because it breaks the logical flow of conversation, plus makes messages unreadable. Top-Posting is evil

Re: Weirdness in ls colorization

2010-10-24 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On 10/23/2010 11:10 AM, Tom H wrote: The Please... files are executable. That and they're bold (Which will cause SO much heartache if you use a custom font like Progsole.) -- Morgan Gangwere PGP Key at http://indrora.homelinux.org/gpg_key.asc Why? Because it breaks the logical flow

Re: LaTeX, Texlive-luatex, Biber installation procedure

2010-10-22 Thread Morgan Gangwere
on that. I've not had much problems doing just normal typesetting. -- Morgan Gangwere PGP Key at http://indrora.homelinux.org/gpg_key.asc Why? Because it breaks the logical flow of conversation, plus makes messages unreadable. Top-Posting is evil. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: Stopping sound preview

2010-10-22 Thread Morgan Gangwere
why the Linux desktop market is vanishing... -- Morgan Gangwere PGP Key at http://indrora.homelinux.org/gpg_key.asc Why? Because it breaks the logical flow of conversation, plus makes messages unreadable. Top-Posting is evil. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Continue without install grub (y/n) confusion

2010-10-19 Thread Morgan Gangwere
... ] , - grub check install - Saying No will loop back ' - grub install - Possible LILO install - Check LILO install / config. GRUB2 doesn't know what the heck is going on. It goes BACK a step going Cool I should install GRUB!... Previous step says I've been here and we get a loop. -- Morgan

Re: Squeeze can't handle ATI M3's anymore. (X11 issue)

2010-10-16 Thread Morgan Gangwere
) As for proprietary drivers, this doesn't *have* any -- they were dropped from support long ago, and now have nice DRI support at 1024x768! -- Morgan Gangwere PGP Key at http://indrora.homelinux.org/gpg_key.asc BOFH Excuse #395: Irradiated tapes. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Chromium Browser Paralysis

2010-10-16 Thread Morgan Gangwere
for Chromium. Remember, using Chromium is just another phrase for Being a google guinea pig -- Morgan Gangwere PGP key at http://indrora.homelinux.org/gpg_key.asc BOFH Excuse #405: Router lost in hedge maze. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

OT Firewire networking (was: Ethernet port dead)

2010-10-16 Thread Morgan Gangwere
between two 1394 capable computers, you use that. They act like normal, everyday, nondescript ether ports in software, no less. -- Morgan Gangwere PGP Key at http://indrora.homelinux.org/gpg_key.asc BOFH Excuse #32: Solar flares causing disk errors. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Chromium Browser Paralysis

2010-10-16 Thread Morgan Gangwere
chromium (I use it as my default browser on Windows and Linux, and soon on Mac too) the release cycle is too fast to allow for appropriate packaging given the speed of Debian packaging. - -- Morgan Gangwere PGP Key at http://indrora.homelinux.org/gpg_key.asc BOFH excuse #495: Lack of entropy

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-16 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:30:24 +0200 Rodolfo Medina wrote: [...] Had any electrical storms? Switches that have been acting up? New carpeting? Power outages? Brownouts? Etc? Sounds like the device is busted, frankly. -- Morgan Gangwere PGP Key at http://indrora.homelinux.org/gpg_key.asc BOFH

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-16 Thread Morgan Gangwere
{Isn't this sounding like insecure.org now?} and doesn't respond to nmap's pings. I call fault on their part. Are you on a PPPoE connection directly or on a NAT'd network? -- Morgan Gangwere PGP Key at http://indrora.homelinux.org/gpg_key.asc BOFH Excuse #43 MTU set too high. signature.asc

Re: Seahorse Terminal Messages

2010-10-16 Thread Morgan Gangwere
Iceweasel than anything -- Just tons of messages that dont mean anything other than LIFE IS GOOD! Try firing up Evolution or the GNOME panel... Its... scary what developers seem to think its a good idea to pummel stdout with. -- Morgan Gangwere PGP Key at http://indrora.homelinux.org/gpg_key.asc

Squeeze can't handle ATI M3's anymore. (X11 issue)

2010-10-15 Thread Morgan Gangwere
seems to have failed more and more over time... -- Morgan Gangwere PGP Key at http://indrora.homelinux.org/gpg_key.asc Why? Because it breaks the logical flow of conversation, plus makes messages unreadable. Top-Posting is evil. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: resume from hibernate [in squeeze]

2010-09-25 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 02:21:58 +0200 [...] I've been noticing the same basic problem. I've installed acpid, hibernate, laptop-detect etc and even rebooted and when I try to suspend, it doesnt come up right. Could this be a lack of the uswusup package in squeeze? -- Morgan Gangwere BOFH excuse

Re: resume from hibernate

2010-09-25 Thread Morgan Gangwere
... hibernate: [01] Executing LockFilePut ... Resumed at Sat Sep 25 10:51:21 MDT 2010 Apparently, my ess maestro3 card must be getting in the way... but it doesn't go away if I unload the driver manually. -- Morgan Gangwere BOFH excuse #956 Bogon generator had pepsi spilled on it. signature.asc

Re: Mainline kernel source curiosity

2010-09-21 Thread Morgan Gangwere
doesn't monger linux/version.h IIRC. -- Morgan Gangwere Why? Because it breaks the logical flow of conversation, plus makes messages unreadable. Top-Posting is evil. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Google Inc. Could Be Compliant to the Chinese Government in Beijing, People's Republic of China (PRC)

2010-09-20 Thread Morgan Gangwere
agreements. -- Morgan Gangwere Why? Because it breaks the logical flow of conversation, plus makes messages unreadable. Top-Posting is evil. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: ps - Illegal Instruction

2010-09-19 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:48:49 -0500 Mark Allums mark wrote: Your problem is probably Virtual PC. Try Virtualbox (free) or VMware server (free) or VMware Desktop (paid and kind of expensive but much more usable for newbies than server). Its a known problem. very much a known problem! its

Re: Why can't ID3 tags be modified in GNOME file's properties?

2010-09-15 Thread Morgan Gangwere
that. -- Morgan Gangwere Why? Because it breaks the logical flow of conversation, plus makes messages unreadable. Top-Posting is evil. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: SSH: remote login returns invalid user

2010-09-11 Thread Morgan Gangwere
] this configuration /works/. [laptop]---(??)--(internets)--[gateway]---[server] This does not. This leads me to beg that there is either a configuration issue that says Dont let anyone who's not on my local network talk to me or a configuration issue with port translation. -- Morgan Gangwere Key ID

Re: single click?

2010-09-11 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On 9/11/2010 3:57 PM, Doug wrote: [stuff about single clicking] That's up to your file manager. I know that in Thunar (my fm of choice) you can set that in the settings panel (one of the last tabs), but I dont know for everything else. -- Morgan Gangwere Why? Because it breaks the logical

Re: finding the right .iso for USB install of Squeeze

2010-09-11 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On 9/11/2010 8:44 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: [stuff] Take a look at GRUB4DOS, which has a way to boot ISOs. Or, use USBCreator. I think your /best/ bet though is going to be using GRUB4DOS. -- Morgan Gangwere Why? Because it breaks the logical flow of conversation, plus makes messages

Re: SSH: remote login returns invalid user

2010-09-11 Thread Morgan Gangwere
on Sun, 12 Sep 2010 00:08:07 -0400, brownh 87hbhva9js@teufel.historicalmaterialism.info attacked their terminal with +Morgan Gangwere 0.fracta...@gmail.com writes: + + on Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:38:04 -0400, brownh + 871v90ax5v@teufel.historicalmaterialism.info attacked their + terminal

Re: xset command setting not sticking

2010-09-09 Thread Morgan Gangwere
a shot. Just a thought... - -- Morgan Gangwere Key ID A8B6F243, available from MIT. BOFH excuse #378: Operators killed by year 2000 bug bite. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJMiH99AAoJEEURiCSotvJD9sQP/18Vbk7/iurzwAQdRb+cPeQU r2LAOBoqxU

Re: How to setup X fonts on Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze?

2010-09-09 Thread Morgan Gangwere
/fonts/conf.d/ however you *dont* need to because it won't ignore them anymore. Make sure you remember to run fc-cache -fv as *root* in order to flush the *system* cache. You /will/ have to restart your X environment in order for them to show up. -- Morgan Gangwere Key ID A8B6F243, available from

Re: alternatives to xnetload

2010-09-08 Thread Morgan Gangwere
, conky living in the upper right hand corner. GKRellM is a bit different, and has a much more graphical look to it. -- Morgan Gangwere Why? Because it breaks the logical flow of conversation, plus makes messages unreadable. Top-Posting is evil. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: Awkward alt-key problem...

2010-09-07 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 09:54:02 +0300 Rares Aioanei debian.dev.l...@gmail.com wrote stuff... Here's the thing... I don't want this to happen. I use my Alt-Keys to be... well /alt keys/, not symbols. -- Morgan Gangwere There is a light at the end of the tunnel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Awkward alt-key problem...

2010-09-07 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 09:28:10 -0500 francis southern wrote: XTerm*altIsNotMeta: true XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true Wonderful! I guess I'm so used to my URxvt that I'd fallen into the idea that Xterm applied the same rules. :D -- Morgan Gangwere the light at the end of the tunnel is the collided

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Morgan Gangwere
the past month or so... Do you use the web interface or a POP3/IMAP interface? The web interface is painfully slow, yes, and most of the time I keep it together with some very carefully crafted userscripts. As someone who's a bit of a security freak - -- Morgan Gangwere We have forgotten

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Morgan Gangwere
for a page to load. - -- Morgan Gangwere We are investigating the light at the end of the tunnel I /dont/ use PGP-Mime because I'm so l33t I read mbox's with cat and less. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJMhmUFAAoJEEURiCSotvJDi44P/jS+7kDMVDSi9kvHRnWqloJC

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Morgan Gangwere
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:44:34 -0600 Aaron Toponce xxx wrote: On 09/07/2010 10:15 AM, Morgan Gangwere wrote: You must not use Chromium/Chrome then. It chews through much more memory with its process-per-tab feature. Much more than Firefox too

Re: No icons, help.

2010-09-07 Thread Morgan Gangwere
source. But thats just me... and I'm one of the freaks that wants CC for code. - -- Morgan Gangwere Key ID A8B6F243, available from MIT. BOFH excuse #161: monitor VLF leakage -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJMhwNPAAoJEEURiCSotvJDgcQP/iKgm13wvNh

Awkward alt-key problem...

2010-09-06 Thread Morgan Gangwere
, subscript 3 for alt-3, mu for alt-4, etc... And it gets rather irritating. I have my /etc/defaults set to: XKBLAYOUT=latitude XKBVARIANT=us Even if I set this to pc105 and - -- Morgan Gangwere Why? Because it breaks the logical flow of conversation, plus makes messages unreadable. Top