Re: How do I permanently disable unattended downloads of software/security updates?

2021-06-03 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 6/3/21 5:15 PM, Stella Ashburne wrote: Hi Greg Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2021 at 9:55 AM From: "Greg Wooledge" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: How do I permanently disable unattended downloads of software/security updates? I gave some alternatives that will reveal more infor

Re: How do I permanently disable unattended downloads of software/security updates?

2021-06-04 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 6/3/21 11:15 PM, Stella Ashburne wrote: Hi Thomas Thank you for your help and time. I really appreciate it. Sent: Friday, June 04, 2021 at 10:23 AM From: "Thomas D. Dean" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: How do I permanently disable unattended downloads of softwar

Re: Memory allocation failed during fsck of large EXT4 filesystem

2021-07-05 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 7/5/21 1:54 PM, Michael Stone wrote: On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 12:53:39PM +0300, IL Ka wrote: 7TB seems like too much for one partition imho. Consider splitting it into the parts That's silly. It's 2021; 7TB isn't particularly large and there's no value in breaking things into multiple parti

Re: Suspicious post [was: Problème d'installation]

2019-09-03 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 9/3/19 1:55 PM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 09:18:43AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 11:50:12PM +0200, Siard wrote: [...] Suspicious post, nevertheless. Strange e-mail address, strange name, and... the .tar.xz file appears to contain an execut

Re: hp 3762

2019-10-12 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 10/12/19 8:34 AM, steef wrote: Hi folks, my pixma 280 canonprinter gave it up after years, so I need another. Is HPDeskjet 3762 a good (simple) replacement? Is somebody out there who has some experience with HP-printers?? Thank you and a good day to you all, Steef groningen, holland ps

Commands in /etc/rc.local Fail

2013-02-23 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On boot, wlan0 fails to come up. After login, > sudo ifup wlan0 works. > uname -a Linux zd7000 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Sun Sep 23 09:49:36 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux > cat /etc/rc.local /sbin/modprobe -r b43 /sbin/modprobe b43 /sbin/ifup wlan0 exit 0 But, the b43-pci-bridge driver is still in use.

Re: Commands in /etc/rc.local Fail

2013-02-23 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 02/23/13 23:12, Roman V.Leon. wrote: On 23.02.2013 13:42, Thomas D. Dean wrote: On boot, wlan0 fails to come up. After login, > sudo ifup wlan0 works. > uname -a Linux zd7000 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Sun Sep 23 09:49:36 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux > cat /etc/rc.local /sbin/modprobe -r

Re: Commands in /etc/rc.local Fail

2013-02-24 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 02/23/13 23:29, Roman V.Leon. wrote: On 24.02.2013 11:19, Thomas D. Dean wrote: On 02/23/13 23:12, Roman V.Leon. wrote: On 23.02.2013 13:42, Thomas D. Dean wrote: On boot, wlan0 fails to come up. After login, > sudo ifup wlan0 works. > uname -a Linux zd7000 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Sun

Re: Commands in /etc/rc.local Fail

2013-02-24 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 02/24/13 00:23, Thomas D. Dean wrote: After more investigation, it appears that some time is needed between loading the driver and ifup. # ifdown wlan0 && modprobe -v -r b43 && modprobe -v b43 && ifup wlan0 fails. # ifdown wlan0 && modprobe -v -r b

Re: Commands in /etc/rc.local Fail SOLVED

2013-02-24 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 02/24/13 00:59, Thomas D. Dean wrote: On 02/24/13 00:23, Thomas D. Dean wrote: sudo update-initramfs -u Fixed the problem. Tom Dean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.or

Re: Commands in /etc/rc.local Fail

2013-02-24 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 02/24/13 01:10, Roman V.Leon. wrote: On 24.02.2013 12:59, Thomas D. Dean wrote: On 02/24/13 00:23, Thomas D. Dean wrote: After more investigation, it appears that some time is needed between loading the driver and ifup. # ifdown wlan0 && modprobe -v -r b43 && modprobe -v b

Cross Compile X86_64 host arm_32 target

2013-02-24 Thread Thomas D. Dean
Host> uname -a Linux P9X79 3.2.0-38-generic #60-Ubuntu SMP Wed Feb 13 13:22:43 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Target> uname -a Linux raspberrypi 3.2.27+ #250 PREEMPT Thu Oct 18 19:03:02 BST 2012 armv6l GNU/Linux I installed Host> sudo apt-get install gcc-4.6-arm-linux-gnueabi Host>

Re: Moving from a proprietary OS - unnecessarily inful experience -- was [Re: I wish to advocate linux]

2013-02-28 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 02/28/13 11:31, Richard Owlett wrote: Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 28 February 2013 16:01:03 Richard Owlett wrote: as a senior citizen moving from Windows(tm) to Debian(tm?), Why is your seniority relevant? Just trying to convey that I've enough real-world experience to have a valid

Re: Moving from a proprietary OS - unnecessarily inful experience -- was [Re: I wish to advocate linux]

2013-02-28 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 02/28/13 13:09, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 02/28/13 11:31, Richard Owlett wrote: Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 28 February 2013 16:01:03 Richard Owlett wrote: as a senior citizen moving from Windows(tm) to Debian(tm?), Why is your seniority relevant? Just trying to convey that I've e

ESC[4m does not produce underline

2013-03-01 Thread Thomas D. Dean
The ANSI standard lists ESC[4m as the code to produce an underline > export TERM=ansi80x25 > printf "\033[4masdfasdfasdf" produces green text, not underline text as stated in the standard. If I put the same in c code, it works #include int main() { fputs("\033[4masdfasdf",stdout); return 0; }

Re: ESC[4m does not produce underline OOPS

2013-03-01 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 03/01/13 11:35, Thomas D. Dean wrote: The ANSI standard lists ESC[4m as the code to produce an underline > export TERM=ansi80x25 > printf "\033[4masdfasdfasdf" produces green text, not underline text as stated in the standard. If I put the same in c code, it works #i

Re: ESC[4m does not produce underline OOPS

2013-03-01 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 03/01/13 16:56, Glenn English wrote: The linux console is a HDMI display attached to a RaspberryPi. I changed to ncurses5. Looks like the display does not support underline. Thanks, Tom Dean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: ESC[4m does not produce underline

2013-03-04 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 03/04/13 10:12, Doug wrote: On 03/04/2013 11:59 AM, Chris Davies wrote: Thomas D. Dean wrote: The ANSI standard lists ESC[4m as the code to produce an underline export TERM=ansi80x25 printf "\033[4masdfasdfasdf" produces green text, not underline text as stated in the standar

Re: USB 3.0 support

2014-06-27 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 06/27/14 14:47, Gary Dale wrote: This may not be revelant, but, I had a problem with USB 3.0 devices under Ubuntu. I traced that to a linux USB bug. I think I still see artifacts of USB problems in both Ubuntu and Debian. [Bug 1151622] Re: 050d:0237 [ASUS P9X79 PRO] The usb driver appear

Re: Can't install Debian - USB keyboard doesn't turn on until Windows loads

2014-06-28 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 06/27/14 22:11, Kitty Cat wrote: Yes. I have previously searched and found such things like this: Bios may access the keyboard without turning on any leds. Look at http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000192.htm Turn on power to the computer. As soon as you do this, start pressing the F

Re: Can't install Debian - USB keyboard doesn't turn on until Windows loads

2014-06-28 Thread Thomas D. Dean
When you try to access BIOS from thekeyboard, make sure the keyboard is connected directly to the computer, not through a hub. Tom Dean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Can't install Debian - USB keyboard doesn't turn on until Windows loads

2014-06-28 Thread Thomas D. Dean
There is sometimes a very short window to access the BIOS. On my (different) system, as soon as I power up, I start tapping the F2 key, about 2 times per second. After several seconds, I get into BIOS. There may be some exact moment to press F2 one time, but, I have not found it. I can not