Re: Confusion

2014-05-12 Thread Ric Moore
On 05/10/2014 10:14 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 06:03:35PM -0700, Joshua Anthony wrote: I have used GNU Linux for years - trying out several distros, all by downloading the Iso file and writing to CD. Ubuntu, Slackware, Puppy, and Gnewsense all install just fine after

Re: One of those threads, old stuff: was Confusion

2014-05-12 Thread Ric Moore
On 05/11/2014 10:41 AM, Steve Litt wrote: On Sun, 11 May 2014 15:13:21 +0900 Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Joshua Anthony janf...@yahoo.com.au wrote: [clip] I confess to much ignorance of technical detail - despite 45 years as a computer support

Re: Best list for server only traffic?

2014-05-08 Thread Ric Moore
On 05/08/2014 08:31 AM, Joel Rees wrote: On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 2:09 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org mailto:tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 5/5/2014 2:56 PM, Robert Crawford webgu...@gmail.com mailto:webgu...@gmail.com wrote: You might want look at the complete list

Re: Confusion

2014-05-08 Thread Ric Moore
On 05/08/2014 02:07 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Thu, 08 May 2014 16:31:03 +0930 josh j...@thefamousjoneses.com wrote: Hi, When one has a problem with any GNU/Linux distribution and goes to the Internet for help, one is always a. assured that there is loads of help available and b. directed to a

Re: Is it safe not to install intel-microcode (or amd-microcode)?

2014-05-08 Thread Ric Moore
On 05/08/2014 02:16 PM, A Debian User wrote: Hello, all! I want to have a completely Free install of Debian, which means I will only be using software packages from the main repo, and will be excluding contrib and non-free from my sources file. By doing so, I won't be able to install the

Re: Is zeitgeist safe?

2014-05-06 Thread Ric Moore
On 05/06/2014 02:36 PM, A Debian User wrote: On Tuesday, 06 May, 2014 09:11 AM, John Hasler wrote: Theodore Alcapotaxis writes: It seems that some folks at Debian have introduced NSA-friendly software to spy on users. Produce specifics. On Monday, 05 May, 2014 08:13 AM, A Debian User

Re: SMART data, should I change my HDD?

2014-04-30 Thread Ric Moore
On 04/29/2014 10:31 AM, Steve Litt wrote: I'm very pleased with my Mastercooler HAF912 case, and plan to get more of them. Only one thing I do not like at all, having the front USB and audio front connections at the top of the case. Then all the wires hang down blocking the DVD device,

Re: Systemd

2014-04-27 Thread Ric Moore
On 04/26/2014 06:02 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Ralf Mardorf info.mard...@rocketmail.com writes: On Fri, 2014-04-25 at 21:49 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2014-04-25 at 15:12 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Kinda seems like the (de) evolution of cars, doesn't it? As a kid, I could tune up my

Re: Sun/Oracle Java

2014-04-17 Thread Ric Moore
On 04/17/2014 04:21 AM, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: On 04/16/2014 10:09 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 04/16/2014 03:16 AM, Frank Weißer wrote: Hi Oliver! Facing the same problem a while ago, i somewhere found a hint to add deb http://www.duinsoft.nl/pkg debs all to sources.list. Don't remember

Re: Sun/Oracle Java

2014-04-16 Thread Ric Moore
On 04/16/2014 03:16 AM, Frank Weißer wrote: Hi Oliver! Facing the same problem a while ago, i somewhere found a hint to add deb http://www.duinsoft.nl/pkg debs all to sources.list. Don't remember from where, but it works for me on debian testing. I use this with Debian Wheezy and

Wayland in Debian

2014-04-15 Thread Ric Moore
Funny thing, after dinking around in synaptic, I'm finding a lot of lib-wayland packages installed within Jessie. I tried to un-install and got a message that even my solitaire game would be removed. Yeow! I noted that weston was there in the repo, but not installed. What's the state of the

Re: AMD Graphics on Debian 7.4

2014-04-14 Thread Ric Moore
On 04/13/2014 08:01 PM, ray wrote: Do you have Synaptic installed?? Use that to hunt down and install your packages. If the wheezy version fails you then try the run package ...as a last resort. Or, upgrade to jessie to legally get the latest and greatest. That is what I did to get the newer

Re: AMD Graphics on Debian 7.4

2014-04-13 Thread Ric Moore
On 04/13/2014 02:27 PM, ray wrote: Am I missing something here? I found an alternative at: https://wiki.debian.org/Installing_ATI_fglrx_legacy_with_latest_kernel This is a year old but it addressing building the driver package. Is there any problem with this approach? Thanks for all the input,

Re: Skype - no microphone input sound...

2014-04-13 Thread Ric Moore
On 04/12/2014 08:26 PM, Man_Without_Clue wrote: Is there anyone who is using Skype with no problem at all on Debian Wheezy 64 bit? On 04/12/2014 12:13 AM, Man_Without_Clue wrote: Hi all, I don't know what really is going on and where to start this off. For some reason Skype doesn't pick

Re: Q: LDAP - perl script using Net::LDAP and start_tls gives an error

2014-04-13 Thread Ric Moore
On 04/13/2014 04:45 PM, Snow Leopard wrote: Hi Atle, in my case I am certificate agency (self-signed certificate) and I issue private key and certificate (cacert.pem) as for root CA as for LDAP server (server-key.pem and server-cert.pem) and LDAP perl script client (client-key.pem and

Re: Cropping a large collection of .PNG screenshots

2014-04-10 Thread Ric Moore
On 04/09/2014 10:09 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 03:03:14AM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I have a few hundred screen shots I want to put on a web page, but they are all full-screen and I want to crop to the real contents. This is an identical region in all cases. So I

Re: The quest for a multimonitor screensaver

2014-04-05 Thread Ric Moore
...for four monitors. But, it doesn't jump to fullscreen number 1 monitor (leftmost) , although I can drag the window to the first monitor and pull on the sides and bottom to fill all the monitors. It works, so that is sort of a proof of concept. Anyone know how to achieve the effect

Re: The quest for a multimonitor screensaver

2014-04-05 Thread Ric Moore
Huh, it starts way over to the right-most monitor. Since it is windowed, I can drag it full lenght to the left and I have fishes swimming through all of the monitors. Now to get that full screen and dis-engage when I activate the mouse or keyboard. WHOOPS! Correction! It's starting on the 3rd

The quest for a multimonitor screensaver

2014-04-04 Thread Ric Moore
Uberto Lauri has been a source of great help, And so far I've gotten this far towards a multiscreen screensaver by running one directly like this: ric@iam:/usr/lib/xscreensaver$ ./glschool -geometry 5440x1024+1 ...for four monitors. But, it doesn't jump to fullscreen number 1 monitor

Re: no eth0 connection

2014-03-31 Thread Ric Moore
On 03/31/2014 01:31 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote: I seem to remember this happening after an update but I'm not positive. It did work before. My wireless connection continues to work. Robert, it might be that the upgrade knocked you into using eth1. Try opening a new ethernet connection using

Re: Debian commercial support.

2014-03-29 Thread Ric Moore
On 03/28/2014 08:29 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 3/28/2014 6:42 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 29/03/14 01:11, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 3/28/2014 6:35 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 28/03/14 21:08, Joel Rees wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 9:36 PM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net

Re: Debian commercial support.

2014-03-29 Thread Ric Moore
On 03/29/2014 09:29 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 3/29/2014 6:19 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 03/28/2014 08:29 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 3/28/2014 6:42 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 29/03/14 01:11, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 3/28/2014 6:35 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 28/03/14 21:08, Joel Rees wrote

Re: v4l error using vlc

2014-03-28 Thread Ric Moore
On 03/28/2014 10:35 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: I am trying to use vlc to view streaming video. I start vlc, then go to Media/Open Network Stream and enter the stream URL and click on Play. I then get the following two errors: I went through the tortures of the damned in order to upgrade from

Re: Gigabyte mother board AMD cpu

2014-03-27 Thread Ric Moore
On 03/27/2014 08:59 AM, Weaver wrote: On Wed, March 26, 2014 2:03 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 26 mar 14, 10:25:08, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote: I have no idea which mobos Debian handles out of the box, but what I've observed is that life is much nicer if: * You do the

Re: Which ISO image to download ?

2014-03-27 Thread Ric Moore
On 03/27/2014 04:55 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 26 mar 14, 21:52:30, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 08:46:42AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: https://lists.debian.org/debian-backports/2014/01/msg00063.html Thanks for this - I was unaware of it. I stand by what I said,

Re: Debian commercial support.

2014-03-25 Thread Ric Moore
On 03/25/2014 03:48 PM, David Guntner wrote: Mark Evans grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Debian Users Dear Sirs; What would be the yearly support costs for an e commerce, web facing server. http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=debian+commercial+support If you consider a Proxmox Debian-based solution

Re: [SOLVED]Grub does not recognize lvm physical volume by uuid after restart

2014-03-25 Thread Ric Moore
On 03/25/2014 05:05 PM, André Nunes Batista wrote: On Tue, 2014-03-25 at 14:15 -0300, André Nunes Batista wrote: On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 12:36 +, Darac Marjal wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 12:17:17PM +, Joe wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 11:17:53 + Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk

GLX version

2014-03-21 Thread Ric Moore
I ~THOUGHT~ I could get a GLX version upgrade via software. I have version 1.4 supplied by my nVidia GeDorce GT-520 card. Am I missing something, short of replacing the card, to have version 2.0? I have the Mesa packages installed. Thanx, Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say:

galternatives

2014-03-15 Thread Ric Moore
I am currently running Jessie with galternatives 0.13.5+nmu2 installed. For whatever reason it refuses to allow me to change anything, even run as root. Nor, does synaptic allow me to re-install it. Vey strange. If anyone else has it installed, with that version, would you give it a whirl

gnutls security breach

2014-03-05 Thread Ric Moore
Anyone see this? http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/03/critical-crypto-bug-leaves-linux-hundreds-of-apps-open-to-eavesdropping/ Good thing Red Hat caught it: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0246.html Yeow! I just did update / upgrade to Jessy, but didn't see the security fix come

Multiple monitors - one screensaver

2014-02-24 Thread Ric Moore
Has anyone managed to get one screensaver stretched across multiple monitors? I use the nvidia driver with four monitors using two nvidia cards. Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the

DHCP request IP address

2014-02-24 Thread Ric Moore
Which file do you edit to request an IP address from a DHCP server? It's been awhile! Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome. R.I.P. Dad.

update-grub

2014-02-21 Thread Ric Moore
After bending my brains for a day fixing little problems, after upgrading to Jessie, I'm noticing a weird behavior. I have Ubuntu on /dev/sda3 and Debian on /dev/sdb1. When I run update-grub, it notices the Ubuntu partition yet when I boot, the old selection for Ubuntu is no longer there. It

Last update and Pulse

2014-02-17 Thread Ric Moore
I thought I had it licked, by using a USB port direct instead of using a USB hub, for my headphones, but I'm still getting hit and miss from Pulseaudio. Worked perfectly before. Anyone else seeing high CPU usage? Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: There are two Great Sins in the

harddrives with built-in NAND fkash

2014-02-07 Thread Ric Moore
Do they require any special formating or partitioning to take advantage of the 8 gigs of built-in NAND flash? I'm looking at a Seagate Solid State Hybrid drive - ST2000DX001 Thanks for any info and/or suggestions. Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: There are two Great Sins in

Re: Why Debian

2013-11-20 Thread Ric Moore
On 11/19/2013 03:49 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: When Ubuntu was new, they called me a troll when I said something about Mark Shuttleworth, but all I said became true :). I'm satisfied ;). boink! We shoulda had a V-8 juice! One thing is for certain, This User list is 1000% better than the Ubunutu

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