Re: buster netinst timezone

2019-08-10 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 10:39:23PM -0500, David Wright wrote: It's not clear to me why you couldn't select this, nor why your files would have the wrong timestamp. Here's some output from a buster installation on acer. As it was my first, I kept the typescript. ... Thanks, David. For some

buster netinst timezone

2019-08-09 Thread Russell L. Harris
The netinst cd image for Buster 10.0.0 does not offer a UTC option for English -> United States. This is a critical bug; every installer without exception should offer UTC. Is there a work-around, so that files written during the installation process have the correct datestamp? One suggestion

Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-03 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 11:39:39AM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: In Jessie and Stretch, gnome-disk-utility-3.22.1 (which labels itself "Disks") sometimes balks at the instructions I give it. But that is what happens when you use a GUI instead of the command line, and particularly when the utility

Re: which mutt?

2019-05-03 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 09:40:05AM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 05/03/2019 04:43 AM, Francisco M Neto wrote: AFAIK in Stretch Mutt actually means Neomutt. There was a flamewar... I found the war in the threads, but I did not find the outcome. In Buster, Mutt means Mutt, and Neomutt means

Link Question

2019-05-03 Thread Jason Russell
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which mutt?

2019-05-02 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Debian 9 (amd64), I installed Mutt. The synaptic description says the package is 1.7.2 and has neoMutt patches. But the "V" command in Mutt reports the version as "NeoMutt 20170113 (1.7.2)". I searched and read a number of list threads on the matter of Mutt vs. neoMutt, but most of the

Re: debian zfs spl dkms build fails

2017-10-26 Thread Russell L. Carter
On 10/25/17 22:19, David Christensen wrote: On 10/25/17 21:23, Russell L. Carter wrote: Greetings.  Your reply is completely nonresponsive to the zfs kernel upgrade situation as it is today on debian. Why did you bother?  It's weird. I don't actually care very much.  I'm going to go back

Re: debian zfs spl dkms build fails

2017-10-25 Thread Russell L. Carter
Greetings. Your reply is completely nonresponsive to the zfs kernel upgrade situation as it is today on debian. Why did you bother? It's weird. I don't actually care very much. I'm going to go back to dumb extfs if required. I'm just fishing for some sanity here. Thanks, Russell On 10/25

debian zfs spl dkms build fails

2017-10-25 Thread Russell L. Carter
tro that isn't broken for zfsonlinux distro kernel updates? Otherwise a complete reinstall back to the dumb world of ext4, as I need a metal 8 core box for comparative testing. Thanks, Russell

Updated Clients Contacts 2017

2017-09-18 Thread oliva . russell
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Re: How to get ssh to run in daemon script

2016-11-28 Thread Russell Gadd
On 28/11/16 12:30, Richard Hector wrote: ... nas doesn't recognise login as authorised user Turns out this was the issue - problem solved.For some reason the interactive successful use of ssh must have used my non-root users key even when run by (su) root in a graphical terminal. I needed

Re: How to get ssh to run in daemon script

2016-11-27 Thread Russell Gadd
On 27/11/16 13:00, Nemeth Gyorgy wrote: ... What user runs the daemon? If it is a separate user then run the ssh with that user interactively. If the user does not have the ~/.ssh/known_hosts file or the destination host is not in it, then you will have problems. I've now discovered that the

How to get ssh to run in daemon script

2016-11-27 Thread Russell Gadd
I am trying to add a command into a script to shut down my NAS when the UPS detects a power loss. There is a daemon apcupsd which gets a signal from the UPS and runs various scripts which can be modified by the user. I have a script doshutdown as follows #!/bin/sh ... various messages and

Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script

2016-03-24 Thread Russell Gadd
On 24/03/16 00:30, David Wright wrote: ... I don't know what you mean by "login" script because you haven't yet told us (I believe) what your machine is configured to do when you boot it up. If you've installed some sort of Desktop Environment, then the DE has the responsibility of

Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script

2016-03-22 Thread Russell Gadd
On 22/03/16 20:20, Seeker wrote: ... Create '~/.xprofile' and put your export commands and extra non-desktop specific stuff you always want to run there. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xprofile Later, Seeker Thanks. I might try this later.

Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script

2016-03-22 Thread Russell Gadd
On 22/03/16 19:00, The Wanderer wrote: ... How did you test? By launching a new terminal (with bash set as your default shell), by running the command 'bash' in an existing terminal, by logging all of the way out (to the main login prompt, if not to a full reboot) and then logging back in, or

Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script

2016-03-22 Thread Russell Gadd
On 22/03/16 02:40, David Christensen wrote: ... Did you remember the 'export' in .profile? export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin It might help to add echo's in the various scripts to check the order in which they run -- e.g. verify that .bash_profile runs before your bash login script, so that

User's bin path not recognised in login script

2016-03-21 Thread Russell Gadd
The bash login script I have added in to my startup programs does not recognise /home/user/bin as part of the path, whereas it used to when I was running Linux Mint (I'm a recent refugee). I've got PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" in ~/.bashrc and also in ~/.profile, together with a ~/.bash_profile

Re: Thin Mate window edges

2016-03-10 Thread Russell Gadd
On 03/03/16 22:30, Siard wrote: ... After restarting Mate, you will see that windows have wider borders, so that's an improvement at least. But they can be made even wider if desired. As root, edit usr/share/themes/Spidey/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml. You will see these lines near the

Thin Mate window edges

2016-03-02 Thread Russell Gadd
I have just installed Jessie with the Mate desktop. My screen is 1920 x 1080. I find grabbing the edges or corner of a window with the mouse pointer in order to extend it is very fiddly. Is this due to the border being very thin? Are there any options to make this easier, such as choosing a window

cyapa kernel module equivalent in 4.1.0-2-amd64

2015-09-11 Thread Russell L. Carter
include only a module 'cyapatp'. This does not detect the c720 trackpad. Where should I go to figure out what to do? Thanks, Russell

sorting mail residing in a local directory

2015-08-12 Thread Russell L. Harris
After a multi-hour download, I have in a directory of the local machine roughly a gigabyte (1000 megabytes) of email. The mail is in Maildir format. Much of the mail is spam or junk. However, the mail includes some important emails, so searching and sorting is necessary. The local machine is

Re: audacity startup fails stretch amd64

2015-06-13 Thread Russell L. Carter
On 06/13/15 01:30, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 13 June 2015 05:41:02 Russell L. Carter wrote: Hi! On 06/12/15 19:29, Ric Moore wrote: On 06/12/2015 08:31 PM, Russell L. Carter wrote: Hi, I am trying to launch audacity on a stretch amd64 system, and the following happens: 1. I get

Re: audacity startup fails stretch amd64

2015-06-13 Thread Russell L. Carter
On 06/13/15 10:36, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Fri, 2015-06-12 at 17:31 -0700, Russell L. Carter wrote: Hi, I am trying to launch audacity on a stretch amd64 system, and the following happens: 1. I get a popup with text Audacity could not find a place to store temporary files. Please

Re: audacity startup fails stretch amd64

2015-06-12 Thread Russell L. Carter
Hi! On 06/12/15 19:29, Ric Moore wrote: On 06/12/2015 08:31 PM, Russell L. Carter wrote: Hi, I am trying to launch audacity on a stretch amd64 system, and the following happens: 1. I get a popup with text Audacity could not find a place to store temporary files. Please enter

audacity startup fails stretch amd64

2015-06-12 Thread Russell L. Carter
. The googleman doesn't provide any clues. Ideas? Many thanks, Russell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/557b79d3.5030...@pinyon.org

Re: Trying to upgrade bash on squeeze, running into errors

2014-09-29 Thread Russell Jones
on how to get past this issue? Thanks! On 9/26/2014 6:43 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2014, Russell Jones wrote: I've seen several posts about this Bash upgrade issue, but no real answers on how to get past it. Any assistance would be appreciated, thank you! This looks like

Trying to upgrade bash on squeeze, running into errors

2014-09-26 Thread Russell Jones
Hi all, I've seen several posts about this Bash upgrade issue, but no real answers on how to get past it. Any assistance would be appreciated, thank you! apt-get install bash Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages:

Re: Shutting down lessens computer life............

2013-12-11 Thread Russell Powers
On December 11, 2013 at 1:59 AM Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Lu, 09 dec 13, 17:21:11, Steven Rosenberg wrote: I don't see well-used laptops lasting longer than 5 years. Something's bound to go wrong. What about not well used laptops? Seriously, as far as I recall

Re: isc-dhcp-server not receiving DHCPDISCOVER

2013-12-07 Thread Russell L. Carter
On 12/05/2013 06:04 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Russell L. Carter wrote: Ok, I need to do some experimenting here. I've broken out a long patch cable to bypass the switch I would really be surprised if the switch has broken down. Not impossible of course. But what are the odds? I think

isc-dhcp-server not receiving DHCPDISCOVER

2013-12-05 Thread Russell L. Carter
UDP broadcast is blocked from reaching the server, but what could cause that? Any ideas much appreciated. Russell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: isc-dhcp-server not receiving DHCPDISCOVER

2013-12-05 Thread Russell L. Carter
Greetings Bob, On 12/05/2013 04:27 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Russell L. Carter wrote: I've got an internal net with several dual-homed jessie boxen. I see that you have 10.0.10.0/24 on one and 10.0.11.0/24 on the other. Is that correct? And you only want dhcpd to serve DHCP requests

Re: who uses dual boot? [was: How to start using a free OS]

2013-11-12 Thread Russell Powers
On November 12, 2013 at 8:32 AM Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: What are other people's experiences? How many folks here use Windows (or Mac o/s) on the same machine as a linux distribution? Do you dual-boot or do you virtualize? Besides needing Windows for work and

Re: disks differ after cloning with dd

2013-11-12 Thread Russell Powers
On November 12, 2013 at 9:40 AM Andre Majorel aym-nai...@teaser.fr wrote: Unfortunately, GNU dd does not have a --progress option but last time I looked, it responded to signal USR1 by writing its current stats on stderr. So you can use ps to find out the PID of your dd(1) process then kill

Failed dist-upgrade of 7.1/wheezy and can't reboot/halt (sysvinit related)

2013-07-31 Thread Russell Warren
I've recently done a small dist-upgrade on 7.1/wheezy that failed ( https://dpaste.de/iVgQo/raw/) and I can now no longer do a reboot or halt. When I try, I get this error: shutdown: timeout opening/writing control channel /run/initctl init: timeout opening/writing control channel

Re: Failed dist-upgrade of 7.1/wheezy and can't reboot/halt (sysvinit related)

2013-07-31 Thread Russell Warren
Ow. Uninstalling the running init is likely to cause problems. If possible, install upstart and sysvinit alongside each other... No, wait. upstart conflicts with sysvinit. I would suggest that, unless you meant to switch inits, you re-install upstart (which will remove sysvinit again). If

Re: a problem with CUPS

2013-04-23 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Paul Condon pecond...@gmail.com [130423 14:30]: ... My problem is that CUPS software does not handle .pdf files easily. If I try to print file, zyx.pdf, by typing lpr zyx.pdf , the command is accepted, the light flashes on the printer and after a while a piece of paper comes out of the

Re: what's your Debian uptime?

2013-04-17 Thread Adam Russell
Linux STRUMMER 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Sep 21 03:36:44 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux 22:46:24 up 272 days, 14:08, 2 users, load average: 1.00, 1.10, 1.07 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

spamassassin and detailed logs

2013-04-15 Thread Russell Coker
spamd: result: . 1 - DKIM_ADSP_DISCARD,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY Currently I'm getting log entries like the above from SpamAssassin. spamd: result: . 1 - DKIM_ADSP_DISCARD=1,SPF_PASS=-1,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=1,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY=0 I want to see something like the above with

Re: spamassassin and detailed logs

2013-04-15 Thread Russell Coker
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: How about piping the email through: | spamassassin -d -t -D 21 | less That will produce a summary at the bottom with the points from each rule that fired. Is that good enough? Thanks for the suggestion, however there are several problems with this.

Re: sound juicer over-range

2013-03-07 Thread Russell L. Harris
For the sake of future searches for this thread, clipping is a better keyword than is over-range. And I finally realized that the distortion associated with the clipping which I am experiencing is very much like sibilance or the distortion produced by a kazoo. %%% I searched for discussions of

sound juicer over-range

2013-03-06 Thread Russell L. Harris
Sound Juicer 2.28.2 in Debian Squeeze (i386) was easy to use, ran quickly, and appeared to function properly when ripping tracks of an audiobook CD to .flac files. But upon subsequent listening to the .flac files, over-ranges about once per minute were apparent; I verified these by loading the

Re: sound juicer over-range

2013-03-06 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Aubrey Raech aubreyra...@gmail.com [130306 22:27]: ... Sound Juicer 2.28.2 in Debian Squeeze (i386) was easy to use, ran quickly, and appeared to function properly when ripping tracks of an audiobook CD to .flac files. But upon subsequent listening to the .flac files, over-ranges

Re: sound juicer over-range

2013-03-06 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Aubrey Raech aubreyra...@gmail.com [130307 04:15]: On Wed, 6 Mar 2013 23:14:47 + Russell L. Harris rlhar...@broadcaster.org wrote: ... It occurs to me that I could use an editor such as Audacity to reduce the signal amplitude; but I do not know whether that approach would give results

alternatives to skype

2013-02-09 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Philip Ashmore cont...@philipashmore.com [130209 09:45]: WebRTC is fast becoming the standard for this. Even Skype is thinking about adopting this for phone to tablet to pc video chats without plug-ins - see http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webrtc/basics/ Because you appear to have a

Re: HP printing issue

2013-01-16 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com [130116 15:00]: I have an HP 2055DN printer connected to an office network. ... CUPS I don't see any way to adjust the print margins The machine appears to have built-in Postscript 3; hopefully you are utilizing Postscript (and not PCL). If so, you should

Re: Dead USB drive?

2012-12-27 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Sharon Kimble skimbl...@gmail.com [121227 06:18]: Do you think that 'Disk utility 2.30.1' would be able to rescue a USB hard drive that has had Debian 6 accidentally installed on it, over the vital backups? The USB drive has just been sitting on the shelf for two years and not been used

Re: Dead USB drive?

2012-12-25 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be [121225 22:42]: Now, the USB stick is clearly recognized as plugged, but nothing more; As a possible quick fix, ask a friend to plug the usb device into his Window$ machine and allow W$ to format the device. However, on Squeeze, I have found

wheezy how-to

2012-12-17 Thread Russell L. Harris
Can you recommend a good Wheezy HOWTO for users forcibly being migrated from the Gnome environment of Etch, Lenny, or Squeeze? I dread having to learn all the details of how to configure and use Wheezy once it becomes stable. RH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: SOLVED was: Re: 404 errors with Squeeze security

2012-12-14 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com [121214 09:16]: On Wednesday 12 December 2012 21:43:38 Lisi Reisz wrote: For about the last half hour, I have been getting the following errors when trying first to install, then to repair, amarok-trinity: ... It says: org/ squeeze where it should say

Re: [OT] Good quality hair dryer needed for Squeeze

2012-12-10 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Mark Panen mark.pa...@gmail.com [121210 22:50]: ... Every time I shut down my machine due to a thunderstorm and try to power up again after a couple of hours the machine is dead and only he LED on the MOBO is on. ... The only thing that works is hot air from a hair dryer directed at the MOBO

Re: [OT] Good quality hair dryer needed for Squeeze

2012-12-10 Thread Russell L. Harris
* John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com [121210 23:27]: You may find that pressing down or prying up on that part of the board works as well as does the dryer. Inspect the suspicious area of the MOBO carefully with a magnifying glass and then fix the crack or bad solder joint. The problem is that

Re: [OT] Good quality hair dryer needed for Squeeze

2012-12-10 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com [121211 00:51]: How old is your * motherboard? Could it be suffering from the bad capacitor * problems of the last decade? Are any of the caps bulging? This * has been a terrible problem for many motherboards and LCD * monitors. There were several years there

Re: User group in SW Missouri?

2012-11-29 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net [121129 13:21]: Russell L. Harris wrote: Check with local colleges. Snicker ;/ What are you saying? Even if you are in a rural area, is there not a college (or community college) within easy driving distance? Even a drive of, say, fifty miles each way

Re: Printer brand recommendations

2012-11-29 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Tyler D tdo...@gmail.com [121129 19:30]: On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk wrote: On 26 Nov 2012, Curt Howland wrote: ... At least for my specific printer, Brother has put out Linux drivers... Recently I picked up a close-out special -- a Brother

Re: User group in SW Missouri?

2012-11-28 Thread Russell L. Harris
* slick.coo...@gmail.com slick.coo...@gmail.com [121129 05:00]: On Saturday, July 14, 2012 4:20:01 PM UTC-5, Richard Owlett wrote: Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/14/2012 9:39 AM, Chris wrote: From: Richard Owlettrowl...@cloud85.net ... In my experience these gatherings serve mostly a social

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta4 release

2012-11-26 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Worrier Poet worrier.p...@comcast.net [121126 17:24]: To each his own. I like the releases to work reasonably well -- whenever they come out. I appreciate that the Debian release teams have continued to emphasize quality over release scheduling. The best solution for the I must have the

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta4 release

2012-11-26 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Beco r...@beco.cc [121126 21:36]: In any case, I didn't mean: I must have the very latest, and I must have it now Forgive me for painting with too broad a brush. I did not mean to target you specifically, or even to include you in the group to which I referred. It's not helpful how

Re: SD card formatting problem

2012-11-18 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Saturday 17 November 2012 10:36:07 you wrote: I have a 32GB sd card that I have been trying to use as a transfer disk for a 19GB file. If you must interface with Window$, you should look at the Debian package ntfs-3g; there is a manual page and a wiki (www.debian.org/NTFS). As an

Re: jigdo + approx + netinstall -- need for a coherent system

2012-11-17 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org [121117 11:09]: ... If you are half-offline, think about apt-zip ... I thank you for your observations, Osamu. I was not aware of apt-zip; I may have use for it. RLH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

jigdo + approx + netinstall -- need for a coherent system

2012-11-16 Thread Russell L. Harris
Have I missed something? (1) jigdo-lite provides a foolproof and relatively easy method for the individual to keep on hand locally an up-to-date copy of one or more Debian releases, in the form of ISO images for CD or DVD. In particular, jigdo-lite: - minimizes loading of the Debian

Re: Directory ownership

2012-11-11 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Gean Ceretta geancere...@linuxmail.org [12 05:45]: I've tried change the ownership of the directory with: I recently was unable to change ownership, permissions, etc., of a directory. Finally I discovered that I somehow had mounted the directory twice, and that the second mount was

Re: multi-boot+grub2+separate boot partition

2012-11-10 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk [121110 13:18]: On Sat 10 Nov 2012 at 06:34:27 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: ... I instructed the Squeeze installer to install grub2 to /dev/sda1. I instructed the Wheezy installer to install grub2 to /dev/sda7. I instructed the Ubuntu installer to install

Re: Visualization of directory tree of my machine

2012-11-09 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net [121109 12:54]: I'm running Debian 6.0.5 with the default gnome desktop. The default file browser (Nautilus?) does not give the view/perspective I need. If all you need is visualization, the Debian package tree might be the answer. But if you wish to

multi-boot+grub2+separate boot partition

2012-11-09 Thread Russell L. Harris
I wish to use grub2 to multi-boot the following systems: = Debian stable (Squeeze) on /dev/sda6 = Debian testing (Wheezy) on /dev/sda7 = Ubuntu (10.x) on /dev/sda8 This is a work machine and my primary interest is stable. But I need to become familiar with Wheezy,

Re: Debian repository on external USB

2012-11-06 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com [121106 07:03]: ... etc would be needed. and due to the problem of slow bandwidth i want to make a local/portable repository server so that i can point the repository and just use apt-get command for any installation. instead ... What you need is an

Re: A puzzle with internet time and NIST time

2012-10-16 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Helmut Wollmersdorfer helmut.wollmersdor...@fixpunkt.de [121016 12:12]: My experience with radio clocks is that they have cheap electronic components failing to work after some time. Unless you have more than one atomic clock and both agree, the first thing to do is remove the battery from

Re: Current user friendly documentation of Debian repository structure and use???

2012-10-03 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net [121003 12:42]: My end goal is to search out a script that will place the contents of the 8 DVD set of Debian 6.0.5 on a hard drive in such a way that the hard disk can be accessed by apt-get. Have you looked at approx? Surely approx-import can import

Re: hard drive clean / microsoft hidden partition

2012-09-23 Thread Russell L. Harris
* d d rot...@gmail.com [120922 18:51]: I need advice on removal of the microsoft hidden partition and other software from a hard drive leaving a completely clean hard drive. please respond by email only as I do not have reliable email Dick 315+399-6113 It sounds as if your wish is

Re: Please help parsing file [sed, awk, fortran, bash]

2012-08-30 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net [120831 00:39]: daniel jimenez apparently described a *HOMEWORK* problem: ... I need some help fixing the format of some pretty strangely compressed data files. An example would be like this: This exercise provides the impetus to learn to use a very useful

Re: [OT] Re: Computer case

2012-06-02 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net [120602 17:33]: ... Most of my music gear is 19 too. I placed the gear on shelfs, but I tend to switch to a 19 cabinet, to get rid of the wide and lengthy shelfs. A tower could be 26 high, if I would get rid of the shelfs. The only issue, a 19 or a

Re: [OT] Re: Computer case

2012-06-02 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net [120603 02:51]: [1] I still need to check the current prices for wood etc.. Of course, building a rack made of wood from the bulk garbage still would be less expensive. FWIW I don't need something as stable as a flight case. I still own one

Re: Does anyone care about dialup?

2012-05-08 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Paul Zimmerman aiwa...@yahoo.com [120507 22:36]: Why is it so difficult to get dialup to work in Linux? ... Does anyone working on Linux care about dialup? Some people do still have uses for it, and some even depend on it. Unless you have time to burn, the most pragmatic approach likely is

the nature of code and other images

2012-04-12 Thread Russell L. Harris
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/04/code-not-physical-property/ Does not the ruling that computer code is not physical property apply to recordings in the audio and video realms? All these are images, and not the original substance (which is intangible). Is not the assertion that

Re: skype?

2012-04-10 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com [120410 15:48]: On 10/04/12 04:24, Russell L. Harris wrote: I am concerned with the big brother privacy, ... Note also that Skype is encrypted, but Skype has a history of handing out the private key. Which precisely is my concern

Re: skype?

2012-04-09 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk [120409 00:33]: On Sun 08 Apr 2012 at 17:53:02 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: * Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com [120408 17:39]: ... To be an exact replacement which will work on the Skype network in the same way as the Skype client? Can't

Re: skype?

2012-04-08 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com [120408 17:39]: ... though we would love to find another multi-platform, easy to install voip program, preferably open source, to replace it. I also need such a package. It appears to me that Ekiga (formerly gnomemeeting) is a good

Re: Debian From Scratch Revisited

2012-04-05 Thread Russell L. Harris
* David L. Craig dlc_...@verizon.net [120405 05:48]: The latest item I encountered about DFS is from April 2006 and it apparently never reached version 1.00 (maybe somebody remembers the story). Thus, it looks like I need to reinvent that wheel by absorbing all the pertinent DD docs and

Re: correct English usage

2012-04-03 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Camaleón noela...@gmail.com [120403 13:51]: On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 05:29:56 -0500, Indulekha wrote: In linux.debian.user, you wrote: On Mon, 2 Apr 2012, Paul E Condon wrote: As far as I know, Squeeze is posterior to Lenny, and the recommended Commonly-used English terms which

Re: simple stand-alone firewall

2012-03-30 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Russell L. Harris rlhar...@broadcaster.org [120324 07:15]: From the standpoint of protection of a LAN (two or three machines) for a home or home office... ... Is there a good firewall application in Debian which provides a secure default configuration? Or must I learn how to configure

simple stand-alone firewall

2012-03-24 Thread Russell L. Harris
From the standpoint of protection of a LAN (two or three machines) for a home or home office, how effective is a firmware-based firewall/router in comparison with a software-based stand-alone firewall/router? Is either significantly better than the other? I am thinking in terms of devoting an

NAS no longer mounting at boot

2012-02-23 Thread Russell Gadd
I have this in /etc/fstab //nasbox/dataNAS /mnt/dataNAS cifs rw,user,exec,iocharset=utf8,user=xyz,password=xxx,uid=1000,gid=1000 Up to recently it used to mount at boot time but doesn't any more. I assume some update changed things. Unfortunately I only use this system once or twice a week and I

unable to add jet-direct laserjet postscript with raw queue

2012-02-15 Thread Russell L. Harris
I am running Squeeze on an i386, with the Gnome desktop. Under CUPS, I am unable to add a HP LaserJet4 with Postscript and a Jet-Direct ethernet card. The problem is that I am unable to specify a raw queue. CUPS appears to me to have a bug, because it repeatedly asks for the root password for

Re: Restoring filenames from partly damaged ext4-filesystem

2012-02-10 Thread Russell L. Harris
I, too, very recently lost all the files on a 1000 Gbyte drive, because of a stupid blunder in attempting to format a USB flash drive. From this, I learned two things: (1) Even a simple listing of the contents of a drive would be invaluable in attempting to restore the drive from other sources.

Re: [OT] Using dvorak

2012-02-09 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Martin Steigerwald mar...@lichtvoll.de [120209 02:33]: Am Mittwoch, 8. Februar 2012 schrieb Sylvain: On 08. 02. 12 09:41, Martin Steigerwald wrote: […] How does it work when you have to use a qwert(zy) keymapping sometimes? Would that still work out nicely enough? That is why they put

Re: lenovo s205 installation problems

2012-02-07 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com [120207 12:12]: On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 6:12 AM, Russell L. Harris rlhar...@broadcaster.org wrote: Some GPT labelled disks need to have the boot flag set on the bios_grub partition (in violation of the EFI spec) for a box to be bootable. And some Lenovo models

Re: lenovo s205 installation problems

2012-02-06 Thread Russell L. Harris
* doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net [120205 23:54]: Just out of curiosity, will the machine boot up on an installation disk from Microsoft? Maybe the machine is defective? Hi, Doug. Do you mean, does M$ install? Inasmuch as the machine boots the Debian DVD, I don't understand what I would learn

Re: [OT] how to take care of hand - dvorak

2012-02-05 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Arnt Karlsen a...@c2i.net [120205 23:54]: On Sat, 4 Feb 2012 16:37:47 +, Russell wrote in message 20120204163747.GC2339@cromwell.tmiaf: From the Gnome desktop, use the system - preferences - keyboard - layouts menu to select USA Dvorak (a regrettable compromise) or USA Classic

Re: [OT] how to take care of hand

2012-02-04 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com [120203 19:21]: On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 20:08, Russell L. Harris rlhar...@broadcaster.org wrote: I thought that heat promotes circulation, not cold. That the ice pack promotes circulation is simply my supposition, and may be wrong. The focus and emphasis

lenovo s205 installation problems

2012-02-04 Thread Russell L. Harris
I am trying to install Debian stable (Squeeze, 6.0.4) on a Lenovo S205, which has an AMD E-350 processor and a 750-Gbyte WD7500BPVT drive. The 205 has no internal optical drive, but it does have three USB ports and one SDHC card slot. I created a bootable GParted USB flash memory stick. It

Re: [OT] how to take care of hand - dvorak

2012-02-04 Thread Russell L. Harris
* lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com [120204 16:12]: How do I start the dvorak? sorry I just started finishing reading the wikipage about dvorak. From the Gnome desktop, use the system - preferences - keyboard - layouts menu to select USA Dvorak (a regrettable compromise) or USA Classic Dvorak

Re: lenovo s205 installation problems

2012-02-04 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk [120204 19:54]: On Sat 04 Feb 2012 at 14:12:10 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: (2) The BIOS setup gives two options for SATA Controller working mode; they are AHCI and IDE (compatible mode). Some of the articles I found on this matter recommend IDE mode

Re: lenovo s205 installation problems

2012-02-04 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk [120204 19:54]: On Sat 04 Feb 2012 at 14:12:10 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: (2) The BIOS setup gives two options for SATA Controller working mode; they are AHCI and IDE (compatible mode). If trying the mode which isn't the 'wrong mode' still results

Re: lenovo s205 installation problems

2012-02-04 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Russell L. Harris rlhar...@broadcaster.org [120205 01:30]: Just now it occurred to me that perhaps the BIOS mode during partitioning may be causing the failure to boot. Accordingly, I now am doing an installation in which I allow the 6.0.4 installer to partition the entire drive, having

Re: lenovo s205 installation problems

2012-02-04 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Russell L. Harris rlhar...@broadcaster.org [120205 02:12]: * Russell L. Harris rlhar...@broadcaster.org [120205 01:30]: Just now it occurred to me that perhaps the BIOS mode during partitioning may be causing the failure to boot. Accordingly, I now am doing an installation in which I

Re: lenovo s205 installation problems

2012-02-04 Thread Russell L. Harris
For the record (in case someone else is considering purchase of an S205), the second installation attempt -- with BIOS set to IDE -- likewise failed. CORRECTION: -- with BIOS set to AHCI -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: lpr command not found

2012-02-03 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk [120203 11:21]: Interesting: I didn't know about the purchase by Apple. I always preferred lprng to cups but for some reason one of my laptops no longer gave me /dev/lp0 so I was forced to use cups on that machine. I had some problems with cups last

Re: [OT] how to take care of hand

2012-02-03 Thread Russell L. Harris
* lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com [120203 17:00]: Hi, are there some suggestions about how to take care of hand? for weeks, I felt the hand especially the thumb get strengh-less in typing, and kinda of stiff, I can't avoid using mouse ( even has changed to a light one) and keyboard,

Re: lpr command not found

2012-02-02 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com [120203 05:40]: Stan Hoeppner wrote: For whatever reason the folks around here seem to prefer lprng over lpr. And of course the lpr command is also provided by cups-bsd / cups. So there seem to be three flavors available. There is a bit more to this matter than

bounce in getmail log

2012-01-21 Thread Russell L. Harris
I am using getmail4 to retrieve mail and maildrop to sort the messages. I previously discovered that any misconfiguration of the maildrop configuration file, .mailfilter, causes getmail to return with an error and thus causes messages to be bounced. My getmail log has about a hundred lines of

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