Re: Systemd

2014-04-25 Thread Steve Litt
about the days when you could recover a borked Linux computer just by booting a live CD. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Well I am in XFCE for right now since LDXE keeps crapping out

2014-04-24 Thread Steve Litt
about the point made in the preceding paragraph: http://www.troubleshooters.com/tpromag/200104/200104.htm#_editors_desk SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Logging of commands in a bash script to a file

2014-04-23 Thread Steve Litt
point. HTH, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Alternatives to grub and lilo? was grub2 menu problems

2014-04-23 Thread Steve Litt
. And I don't want to wade through seven files to turn those things off. Basically, I'd like something like LILO that understands ext4. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Well I am in XFCE for right now since LDXE keeps crapping out

2014-04-22 Thread Steve Litt
: Every time I've seen LXDE, it acted identically to every other time. So I'm hoping it's just some sort of install glitch. HTH, and please don't give up on Linux. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Why still heartbleed on Wheezy SOLVED

2014-04-20 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 20 Apr 2014 05:57:57 + Jimmy Wu jimmywu...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 5:39 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Hi all, I installed Wheezy on my backup server, then did this: apt-get update apt-get upgrade root@bupserv:/backupserver/stevebup

Re: Why still heartbleed on Wheezy SOLVED AGAIN

2014-04-20 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 20 Apr 2014 07:32:20 +0100 Dom to...@rpdom.net wrote: On 20/04/14 06:39, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I installed Wheezy on my backup server, then did this: apt-get update apt-get upgrade root@bupserv:/backupserver/stevebup# openssl version OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013

Why still heartbleed on Wheezy

2014-04-19 Thread Steve Litt
as 'volatile' deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free == Any ideas how I should proceed? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http

Re: Heartbleed

2014-04-17 Thread Steve Litt
mailing lists demanding why their product doesn't look like a native ios app. Til then, I'll have to stick with Debian, Ubuntu, and some BSD's. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Heartbleed (was ... Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...)

2014-04-16 Thread Steve Litt
, many eyes had surely already looked at the same code before this final look. I'd feel a lot better with 200 eyes than 4. Even 10 would make me nervous. But the fault is partly mine. I never contributed to the OpenSSL project, either with dollars or eyes. SteveT Steve Litt

Re: Cropping a large collection of .PNG screenshots

2014-04-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 13:21:19 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Sb, 12 apr 14, 12:26:48, Steve Litt wrote: On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 00:43:45 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Mi, 09 apr 14, 08:59:51, Steve Litt wrote: Or, you can just

Re: Cropping a large collection of .PNG screenshots

2014-04-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 00:43:45 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Mi, 09 apr 14, 08:59:51, Steve Litt wrote: Or, you can just redirect ls into a file, use Vim to convert and rename each file individually. Could you please elaborate on this? ls -1 *.png doit.sh

Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...

2014-04-12 Thread Steve Litt
single password, or just passwords to sensitive sites/information? Lisi I'm changing every password: That's about 100 of them. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Switching OS

2014-04-11 Thread Steve Litt
necessary, xset acceleration to 3 and threshold to a tiny amount. Be aware that acceleration is a poor substitute for sensitivity: Extreme acceleration turns mousing into a golf game with a drive, a tee shot, and a put: Not conducive to productivity. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http

Re: Installation issue

2014-04-11 Thread Steve Litt
X, and then reinstall it so you can start it with startx, and use a different window manager or desktop environment. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Cropping a large collection of .PNG screenshots

2014-04-09 Thread Steve Litt
ls into a file, use Vim to convert and rename each file individually. HTH, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-08 Thread Steve Litt
? I use http://freedns.afraid.org/ with inadyn. I use http://freedns.afraid.org also, and have nothing but good things to say about them. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Unable to start nm-applet

2014-04-06 Thread Steve Litt
kill and killall command but xfwm4 respawns itself back as soon as I kill it. I think there's an Xfce setting to tell what window manager you want to use with it, and if I'm correct about that, there's no need to kill one and start the other every time. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt

Re: Net install cd, Not a Bug Report!!

2014-04-06 Thread Steve Litt
that with Ubuntu. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: Boot up is not Completing, it is Cycling

2014-04-05 Thread Steve Litt
into Windows and then back into Linux, it worked fine. So boot a live CD and see what happens. It's a 5 minute diagnostic test that just might shed some light on things. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance

About not receiving email

2014-04-03 Thread Steve Litt
can configure whether you want copies of your own email sent to you (I do). But I don't know how to adjust this config item with the debian-user list. Does anyone know how I'd do this? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human

Re: About not receiving email

2014-04-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 3 Apr 2014 18:13:39 +0100 Brad Rogers b...@fineby.me.uk wrote: On Thu, 3 Apr 2014 11:07:40 -0400 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Hello Steve, copies of your own email sent to you (I do). But I don't know how to adjust this config item with the debian-user list. Does

Re: About not receiving email

2014-04-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 3 Apr 2014 11:54:38 -0400 Henning Follmann hfollm...@itcfollmann.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 11:07:40AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I receive this list's email from everybody except myself. Having completely re-done my .procmailrc (and turned it into a script

What an intriguing post: Backup's to DVD

2014-03-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 30 Mar 2014 16:59:55 +0200 Wilko Fokken wfok...@web.de wrote: As a Frisian, living at the North Sea: on clay, surrounded by reeds, Wilko, this is so creative, so cute, so humorous, so on-topic, and so necessary, especially the part about a death camp, that I'm overwhelmed trying to

Re: dirvish still a good choice?

2014-03-29 Thread Steve Litt
over top of rsync that its been stable and hasn't needed attention in all this time. I know nothing about Dirvish, but if any software works, there are not needed the updates. Except security updates, if needed. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com

Re: best way to backup USB stick

2014-03-29 Thread Steve Litt
stick device (not the partition, the whole device) to a file. I would think then that you could dd that file ontop of any USB stick as large or larger than the original. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance

Docker on Wheezy?

2014-03-28 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Anyone have experience setting up Docker on Wheezy? I'm going to try to do that tonight, so if anyone has helpful hints, please let me know. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: dirvish still a good choice?

2014-03-28 Thread Steve Litt
of excludes. HTH, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: Gigabyte mother board AMD cpu

2014-03-27 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 11:36:47 +0200 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Mi, 26 mar 14, 20:11:07, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote: No. Dan asked for any tips. He didn't ask for package lists or other time consuming stuff, which I wouldn't have had time for. He asked

Re: Gigabyte mother board AMD cpu

2014-03-26 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
is that life is much nicer if: * You do the network install * Choose Expert install or whatever it's called * Say yes (default is no) to install nonfree software When I do that, stuff just works. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training

Re: Gigabyte mother board AMD cpu

2014-03-26 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 23:03:01 +0200 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com 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 network

Re: Great Debian experience

2014-03-26 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 07:25:44 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:31:46 -0400 (EDT), Steve Litt wrote: ... I also unchecked the Debian Desktop selection. ... Then I did the following: apt-get install xfce4 xfce4-goodies apt-get install

Re: Need a printer driver that's in Jessie, but must run Wheezy.

2014-03-21 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
printer. Jessie has a cups driver for it, but Wheezy doesn't. I've looked in the Wheezy backports but to no avail. Is there some way to extract just the driver for this printer from a Jessie machine and install it on my Wheezy G5? Docker? Has anyone tried that on Wheezy? SteveT Steve

Re: Security Implications of running startx from command line - was Re: Startx: was Great Debian experience

2014-03-21 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
don't switch to a VT to do CLI stuff, or even to kill X because X hung (not so much in Debian, but in other distros). I'd rather shut down the computer when I leave to go to the bathroom than set it up so I couldn't Ctrl+Alt+F3 to get a CLI environment any time I wanted. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt

Re: Security Implications of running startx from command line - was Re: Startx: was Great Debian experience

2014-03-21 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
. But if I were working in a cube farm with a desktop, where hundreds of people walk by my computer every day, and in fact some might actually have business being on my computer, disabling a 5 second route to a command prompt logged in as me would be a very good thing. SteveT Steve Litt

Re: Debian on a Dell Latitude E7440

2014-03-21 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
. Another excellent use for it is as an OpenBSD/pf firewall. Much less bulky than a desktop, uses less electricity than an average desktop, and in its normal operation you ssh into it so no keyboard or monitor is needed. http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/pf/ SteveT Steve Litt* http

Re: Security Implications of running startx from command line - was Re: Startx: was Great Debian experience

2014-03-21 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
computers. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: cdimage.debian.org how-to? what gives? [solved]

2014-03-21 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
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Re: Great Debian experience

2014-03-20 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 20:33:17 +0700 Ken Heard kensli...@teksavvy.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-03-19 23:02, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote: * Tell it to include the nonfree repos Did not, but ending up installing the ones I needed anyway. Hi

Re: Great Debian experience

2014-03-19 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
: The next time I get new hardware, I'll try Debian Stable first, but if the hardware is newer than the drivers in Debian Stable, I'll use Xubuntu, and then a year later go to Debian Stable. HTH, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human

Great Debian experience, part 2

2014-03-19 Thread Steve Litt
the laptop's Broadcom wifi card a year ago, and hadn't replaced it. Time for a wifi dongle. :-) This laptop is now surprisingly peppy, considering it's 7 years old and has only 2GB of RAM. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human

Startx: was Great Debian experience

2014-03-19 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
really don't want a GUI running, even though the machine's a desktop (or notebook). Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Security Implications of running startx from command line - was Re: Startx: was Great Debian experience

2014-03-19 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
, and will do that. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Great Debian experience

2014-03-18 Thread Steve Litt
, and works-every-time Wheezy, this is the perfect laptop. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Backup's to DVD

2014-03-17 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
driven, incremental backup server, as described at http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/200609/200609.htm * Back up from the backup server to Blu-Ray * Back up from the backup server to Western Digital 2.5 drives Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com

Re: Backup's to DVD

2014-03-16 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- 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

Re: Backup's to DVD

2014-03-16 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
few weeks, I make tarballs of the major trees, and back up the tarballs to DVD. I make a 25GB file, loopback mount and format it UDF, store all the files on it, then use growisofs to burn it to Blu-Ray. http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/blu-ray-backup.htm SteveT Steve Litt* http

Re: When fogetting assigned login name rather than password

2014-03-15 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
when we switch to systemd? Thanks for the info. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: When fogetting assigned login name rather than password

2014-03-15 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
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Re: When fogetting assigned login name rather than password

2014-03-15 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
have your way with the machine. HTH, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Wodim: Was: My experiences with three CD players on Gnome

2014-03-15 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
the md5sum against that of the iso you burned? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: On what is helpful and what is not [was: Re: Wifi]

2014-03-11 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 13:10:11 +1100 (EST) Charlie Schroeder aries...@ipstarmail.com.au wrote: On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:14:26 -0400 Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com litt...@gmail.com suggested this: But as Dave said, yelling at first-time poster for a non-repeated minor mistake is just

Re: [Solved:] kmail2 inbox folder problem

2014-03-10 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: On what is helpful and what is not [was: Re: Wifi]

2014-03-10 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
to road rage, and the other loses yet another Linux user and gives the hardware vendors even more reason to ignore Linux compatibility. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: [OT] Re: On why you should volunteer my way(?)

2014-03-10 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
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Dirty switches: was Wifi

2014-03-09 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
wrote on lubricating electronic contacts: http://www.troubleshooters.com/tpromag/200310/200310.htm HTH, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: On what is helpful and what is not [was: Re: Wifi]

2014-03-09 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
on UrbanDictionary.Com, the authoritative reference on all things slang, and it appears that nub is not merely noob, it's much more insulting: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nub Also, consider the context in which it was said. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com

Re: Brainless Debian Stable installation and usage?

2014-03-08 Thread Steve Litt at Troubleshooters.Com
On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 18:54:13 +0100 Guy Marcenac g...@posteurs.com wrote: Le 07/03/2014 02:16, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com a écrit : Hi all, I have several friends, with Windows XP, who are now considering moving to Linux because of XP's impending stoppage of support. Normally

Re: Wifi

2014-03-08 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
to read it: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/wifitricks/travelrouter.htm http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/201205/201205.htm#_Get_Wifi_to_Work http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/200612/200612.htm HTH, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting

Re: Wifi

2014-03-08 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
-users yesterday: Don't be afraid to ask any questions. Ignore any useless answers. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: I mistakenly installed 32 bit Debian. How can I ensure that I'm installing 64 bit?

2014-03-07 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
in that channel. So Patrick, Jonathan's right: Don't be afraid to ask any questions. Ignore any useless answers. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: I mistakenly installed 32 bit Debian. How can I ensure that I'm installing 64 bit?

2014-03-07 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
Which I think was Jonathan's point. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Brainless Debian Stable installation and usage?

2014-03-07 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
On Sat, 8 Mar 2014 00:04:48 +1300 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 08:47:27AM +, Joe wrote: On Fri, 7 Mar 2014 01:28:11 -0500 Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com litt...@gmail.com wrote: What followed XP was Vista, and who would do

Re: Brand new install, now how do I play a Youtube video?

2014-03-06 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
the instructions you referenced above. But I had to do a some fooling around and experimentation. Also, as I remember, I had to reboot after completing the instructions and doing my fooling around. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training

Re: feature request for this mailing list

2014-03-06 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
perfectly. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: I mistakenly installed 32 bit Debian. How can I ensure that I'm installing 64 bit?

2014-03-06 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
characterize it as Reco was very kind, in the tradition of free software mailing lists, and answered Patrick's question. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Brand new install, now how do I play a Youtube video?

2014-03-06 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
since I've used it, so I can't really say if I recommend it or not. -Rob Before he does that, he should shut down, then power up. As I remember, I got where he is now, and a complete reboot got the videos playing. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com

Brainless Debian Stable installation and usage?

2014-03-06 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
, joining this list? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: Brainless Debian Stable installation and usage?

2014-03-06 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
On Thu, 6 Mar 2014 21:42:50 -0600 Mr Queue li...@mrqueue.com wrote: On Thu, 6 Mar 2014 20:16:05 -0500 Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com litt...@gmail.com wrote: 6: Are you guys cool with my friends, who would all be raw newbies, joining this list? Steve that's what the GOLUG

Re: Brainless Debian Stable installation and usage?

2014-03-06 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 05:31:56 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Thu, 2014-03-06 at 20:16 -0500, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote: Are you guys cool with my friends, who would all be raw newbies, joining this list? A few rhetorical questions: What do your

Re: Here's how to make yourself happier

2014-03-04 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
On Mon, 03 Mar 2014 23:46:39 -0800 David Guntner da...@guntner.com wrote: Steve Litt grabbed a keyboard and wrote: clip GARBAGE=/dev/null ### DEBIAN LIST UBERSCREAMER ARNOLD BIRD'S 4 ADDRESSES :0: * ^From.*naturalli...@dcemail.com $GARBAGE :0: * ^From.*arnoldb

Re: Here's how to make yourself happier

2014-03-04 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
with systemd. But if that becomes problematic, I'll need a plan B. A lot of today's traffic was very informative stuff about system startup. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Email filtering - was Re: Here's how to make yourself happier

2014-03-04 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
On Tue, 4 Mar 2014 16:38:17 +0800 (WST) Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote: On Tue, 4 Mar 2014, Steve Litt wrote: clip GARBAGE=/dev/null ### DEBIAN LIST UBERSCREAMER ARNOLD BIRD'S 4 ADDRESSES :0: * ^From.*naturalli...@dcemail.com $GARBAGE :0: * ^From.*arnoldb

Re: Replacing systemd

2014-03-04 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 3 Mar 2014 22:31:08 -0500 Dan Ritter d...@randomstring.org wrote: On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 08:50:09PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: Hi everyone, I just checked with my local Linux group (GoLUG), and the opinions there are that systemd is not a particularly good thing. I also heard

Re: Replacing systemd

2014-03-04 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
difficult to crasp?) Yes, it *was* hard for me to grasp. Reading all the email, I didn't understand that I'd still have a choice. Now I do, and this is very good news. If I can change it, this becomes a non-issue. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems - SysV is FINE.

2014-03-03 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
just find a distro not using systemd, switch to it, join *their* list, and gloat how much better their distro is than Debian. Do that, and you can even use your real name proudly. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance

Replacing systemd

2014-03-03 Thread Steve Litt
Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- 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

Re: Replacing systemd

2014-03-03 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
On Tue, 04 Mar 2014 04:07:33 +0100 Jerome BENOIT g62993...@rezozer.net wrote: On 04/03/14 02:50, Steve Litt wrote: Hi everyone, I just checked with my local Linux group (GoLUG), and the opinions there are that systemd is not a particularly good thing. I also heard from our LUG's

Here's how to make yourself happier

2014-03-03 Thread Steve Litt
you don't have to hear that stuff. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

2014-03-02 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
, and like its solid ease. Systemd would need to be awfully bad for me to give that up. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Numerical Methods Programming: was: Four people decided the yadda yadda yadda

2014-03-02 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
inviting, because I'm continually forgetting more and more of my high school and college math. I'd love to know what you're doing and how you're doing it. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Debian init choices

2014-03-02 Thread Steve Litt
, to be a little too black-boxy for my taste, and from what I read, systemd won't be much different in that regard. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Jessie almost freezes every several minutes

2014-03-01 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
is a spectacular timesaver if bound to a hotkey. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

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