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http://www.urbandictionary.com
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decide on standardized spelling, and the two organizations occasionally
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It's quite awkward. So what do I call myself then? Calling
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On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 06:20:57 -0400 (EDT), Nuno Magalhães wrote:
i still get quirky about color instead of colour or centre vs center
(which is which btw?).
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center is the American
is a grain
(wheat, rye, spelt, etc.). And to the best of my knowledge, that
is the only meaning of spelt in American English.
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On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 11:34:23 -0400 (EDT), Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:
... the length came over form [from] France,
but a good deal more recently than 1066
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 18:19:36 -0400 (EDT), Walter Hurry wrote:
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 13:37:06 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
A well-known example is Toys R Us
I don't think that needs explanation. Toys Я Us
is an American company.
Yes, of course. But consul tores (obviously not his real name
that they
drink tea instead of coffee.
By the way really mad to an American means really angry,
not really crazy, just in case you didn't know.
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In England, tea means a full meal.
Sorry to contradict you, but this is inaccurate.
...
Hmm. Maybe that's Australia I was thinking of and I got
the two countries mixed up. Anyway
On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:36:23 -0400 (EDT), John Hasler wrote:
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And I didn't know that the British sense existed. Amazing, isn't it?
Two cultures divided by a common language.
Look up the British meanings of fanny and stuffed.
I did. They're quite different from
. It is covered
in the Alternatives section and is mentioned here and there
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date of September 29, 2011, you're looking at an older cached version
of the page. Reload the page (F5 in iceweasel) to see the most
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If you decide to try kernel-package, make sure that you apply the patch
file listed in the web page. It won't work properly with a version 3
kernel unless you do.
Hum... you mean the one for EDID? I've compiled
, and they want to use it, fine.
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On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 02:12:20PM +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote:
Good day,
Please, Where should I ask questions about debian testing (wheezy).
Thanks
Johan S
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done by default).
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a mistake. For example, I've learned from experience that I need
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update-initramfs -uk $(uname -r)
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Sorry Stephen, but there doesn't seem to be any such list. Were you
thinking of the PPC list?
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Thanks. I had looked at that and I think I've got the video problem
sorted out -- but the boot is still hanging at a later stage as I
explained in my earlier post.
Cheers, Mike.
There is a Debian Mac list; probably get better
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 09:19:52AM +, Curt wrote:
After installing a kernel security update yesterday, I'm getting random
kernel oops when using Google Chrome. Anybody else seeing this
phenomenon?
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No all is fine here on Wheezy 3.0.01 kernel latest Chrome Developer
On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 11:53:14AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
Stephen Allen wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
You already have a root user account. All Unix-like machines will
have a root user superuser account. That is uid 0 on the machine by
definition. All you need to know is the password
On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 08:32:47PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
Stephen Allen wrote:
So I guess perhaps the way forward is to add a root user, install su
and remove sudoers?
You already have a root user account. All Unix-like machines will
have a root user superuser account. That is uid 0
On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 11:00:29PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
Stephen Allen wrote:
Just to follow-up to my previous email, Bob's suggestion didn't work
either. That stanza was already entered.
Are you running Synaptic through sudo? Or is it asking you for the
password itself? I never run
On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 12:48:26PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
I don't think the re part matters. At this point it is simply an
install. And the discussion of sudo was just a red herring
distracting from the real problem. I think the real problem is that
if you are running Synaptic from a
On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 10:32:03PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
darkestkhan wrote:
Stephen Allen wrote:
Unfortuantely the suggested fix didn't work.
Just recently a new sudo entered Wheezy Testing and it changed the
behavior of secure_path. See Bug#639841 for details. But it means
Just to follow-up to my previous email, Bob's suggestion didn't work either.
That stanza was already entered.
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Cool. Thanks for the help.
Strange why that line isn't there aye?
Sudo in sid has just been updated to a version with a different
sudoers file
On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 08:04:20AM +, darkestkhan wrote:
2011/9/3 Stephen Allen marathon.duran...@gmail.com:
On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 11:32:00AM +, darkestkhan wrote:
/etc/sudoers contains informations about who has rights to access root
level privileges (though I know it can do
On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 05:32:03AM +, darkestkhan wrote:
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Hello.
What do I have to do to fix this?
check out /etc/sudoers if it contains all fields
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It contains just 2 fields;
# User privilege
On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 11:32:00AM +, darkestkhan wrote:
2011/9/3 Stephen Allen marathon.duran...@gmail.com:
It contains just 2 fields;
# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
# Allow members of group sudo to execute any command
Hello.
For various reasons, needed to reinstall Debian Testing (Wheezy) on a flash
drive formatted into 2 partitions. A system partition and one for HOME.
Since the install I'm no longer able to use Synaptic with my password (I
enabled sudo in the Installer). I used the exact User name and
On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 05:04:00 -0400 (EDT), Ralf Jung wrote:
On Saturday 27 August 2011 17:57:00 Stephen Powell wrote:
I am in a hurry to get to a wedding; so I don't have time for a more
thorough reply right now; but you might want to take a look at
http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman
to get to a wedding; so I don't have time for a more
thorough reply right now; but you might want to take a look at
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I guess I'm too stupid to figure it out.
I have a pdf document that I would like to add two lines of text to
(different positions, different fonts). Under the 'Page' menu I see an
icon for adding text but it is greyed out. I don't
version 3.81-8.1. There are reported problems
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them is that I get a linux-headers-* package and a libc-dev package too,
whether I want them or not. make-kpkg is more flexible. I only
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of Debian bug report 635536.
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=635563).
At the very least, the above bug report illustrates that there
are known problems with kernel-package with the 3.0 kernel.
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about how one goes about restoration in such cases. In most cases, one
doesn't want to restore the entire 512-byte sector, but only a portion of
it: up to, but not including, the partition table.
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On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:52:53 -0400 (EDT), Aaron Toponce wrote:
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 04:50:35PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
Sometimes restoring a backup copy of the master boot record can be
even more dangerous than wiping it out. The master boot record contains
the master boot
On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 07:34:44 -0400 (EDT), Baurzhan Ismagulov wrote:
That's a pity. IIRC, lilo used to save that under /boot.
It still does. And lilo is still available. And I still use it.
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udisks? If so,
here are some sources of information:
man 1 udisks
man 7 udisks
man polkit
man udisks-daemon
man udisks-tcp-bridge
/usr/share/doc/udisks/*
Separate Debian package udisks-doc
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/udisks
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but it might shed more light on this situation.
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On Sat, 2011-07-16 at 15:40 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote:
...
Issue man udisks for more information.
Yes, this one did the trick...
tcat@lynx:~$ udisks --mount /dev/fd0
Mounted /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/fd0 at /media
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This is a user-specific setting, not a global setting.
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Stephen wrote:
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I'm guessing that elks-libc is what is needed. Is that package installed
on your system?
...
No, it's not installed. Sure seems strange, requiring a 16-bit library
for the build of a 64-bit system. I have
Windows! ;-)
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of bcc; so you may not have it installed on your system if you are in
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On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 04:10:51PM +, T o n g wrote:
Hi,
All my boxes have mlocate working fine, except one Ubuntu box. I guess
that its mlocate db updating is disabled. How to verify it and get it
working?
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Are you sure it's even installed? I noticed on a few
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http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/lilo.htm
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On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote:
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both versions of Grub use unallocated sectors to store extra
code when they are installed in the master boot record. This can
lead to conflicts
On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:54:31 -0400 (EDT), Sven Joachim wrote:
Stephen Powell wrote:
If it's installed in the master boot record, yes. If Grub Version 2
is installed in a partition boot sector, I believe it reads a list of blocks,
just as LILO does.
Only for finding the bootloader itself
. And then, if the lack of support for interlaced modes
has not been addressed in nouveau, I will have to get rid of my
monitor. (My monitor requires an interlaced mode. That's why
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On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 10:12:55AM +0200, Florian Snow wrote:
Hi everyone,
Ralf Mardorf:
I take this issue seriously and try my best to fix the issue, but sorry
everybody, I won't waste time by reading more replies regarding to
posting. I STOP READING AND REPLYING TO THIS THREAD [...]
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 09:17:15PM -0700, Mark wrote:
Hi - I have a work laptop with Windows and since it tracks basically
everything I do, I'd like to install Squeeze to a 2 GB usb stick I have
laying around so I can boot to that instead of the internal hdd for personal
use. I plan on doing
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 03:54:51PM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
Test reply from link in archive at:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/06/msg01787.html
I want to see if the reply ends up in the thread properly, I think
it should as the html link from the online archive is this:
On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 05:05:04 -0400 (EDT), Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 23:13 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:50:28 -0400 (EDT), Morning Star wrote:
i want to join this mailing lists because i have a question about debian.
See http://www.debian.org
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:50:28 -0400 (EDT), Morning Star wrote:
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In pan.2011.05.25.14.04...@gmail.com, Camaleón wrote:
On Wed, 25 May 2011 08:50:56 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
In pan.2011.05.25.11.55...@gmail.com, Camaleón wrote:
Today's
browsers upgrade to a new version in just two months (!) and you are
left with an obsolete package for several
on the web without having to go beyond what is in
Debian main.[1] I suppose I'm just willing to make different choices then
you.
[1] Occasionally, I grab flash from somewhere other than main, but I usually
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On Wed, 25 May 2011 09:21:24 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
In pan.2011.05.25.14.04...@gmail.com, Camaleón wrote:
On Wed, 25 May 2011 08:50:56 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
Obsolete isn't the right term.
How would you call
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:39:03PM -0400, Perry Thompson wrote:
I have been looking for an operating system that would allow me to have
the latest browser, but the stability of Debian Stable, and I realized
that I just want to keep using Debian. I have looked into apt-pinning to
install
is considered an RC bug for Squeeze:
http://release.debian.org/squeeze/rc_policy.txt
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think APT does any timing
calculations during an update that it uses during a download / install /
upgrade.
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be relatively bug-
free and well-tested, but unstable is updated almost continuously so a system
using is can be under quite a lot of flux.
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area for fixes that should be
included in the next point release of stable (which includes both security
updates and important bug fixes). I believe for Squeeze and forward it will
also serve as a staging area for stable-updates (the replacement for
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In 20110519195909.GA8991@Europa.office, Freeman wrote:
Proposed-updates replaces the volatile archive.
No, that's stable-updates, not stable-proposed-updates.
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as free-
from-change as possible. (The patch fixing the issue is isolated, then
mangled to apply to the old version and tested.)
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http
to download photos to a CD-ROM
4. (transitive, nonstandard) to install software.
So, download covers fetch the messages but not remove them from the
server.
So, yeah. There's no way to read anything without downloading it, and that is
obvious.
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moving to Debian.)
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that I
doubt misalignment would be noticed very much.
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. That is, $stbl_ver in
both Lenny and Squeeze.
If $stbl_ver $inst_ver = $bpo_ver then $upgrade_ver will be $inst_ver in
Lenny (100 1) but it will be $bpo_ver (100 == 100) in Squeeze.
Full details of how the candidate is chosen is documented in the
apt_preferences(5) manpage.
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might work. I don't know. Try it and see.
But it requires the partition be ext2 or ext3, I think. extlinux
won't work with other file systems (reiser, xfs, etc.)
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In pan.2011.05.12.09.59...@gmail.com, Camaleón wrote:
On Wed, 11 May 2011 23:24:30 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On 2011-05-11 17:35:20 Freeman wrote:
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 08:30:49PM +, Camaleón wrote:
IMHO, that rule lacks the following preface: Should a user states
his/ her
for this type of mailing list. It's almost impossible to defend a
full-quoted message on this list, since it is publicly archived. Still,
posting style is not covered by the Code of Conduct.
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I have tried (rather well) to steer clear of this thread, although I have
read it with mild enthusiasm. Camaleón and Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. both
appear on this list a lot, I would go as far as to say (just for the sake of
argument) that they equally help
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