Re: Windows Shares Abound Continuously

2016-02-29 Thread Martin Smith
On 29/02/2016 00:13, Steve Matzura wrote: Martin: On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 08:44:07 +, you wrote: Ever since Windows 3.11 its networking has been just awful and prone to malfunction without notice, they originally lifted the network stack from FreeBSD but managed to completely screw it, and it

Re: Windows Shares Abound Continuously

2016-02-28 Thread Martin Smith
ed the network stack from FreeBSD but managed to completely screw it, and it is still awful now, both in sharing and even trying to find shares. You would probably be better off putting all that stuff on a samba share on a nice Debian box, you would be much more likely to get a good nights sleep. -- Martin

Re: Good keyboard

2016-02-14 Thread martin f krafft
keys labeled physically. I can touch type, but there are times when I really appreciate to just being able to hit the key as advertised without having to first position, gain my bearing, and then move… -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debian developer

Re: Good keyboard

2016-02-13 Thread martin f krafft
the case. I liked the keyboard, but using it for coding, Vim, etc. just wasn't very easy. The F-keys are unusably small, and to use keys like Insert/End/Home etc. always requires you to move your hands as I found it not doable with just the thumbs. Hth, -- .''`. martin f. krafft

Re: replacement for old /etc/mtab that lists only real filesystems like ext4 or fat

2016-02-11 Thread Martin Read
On 11/02/16 21:25, Jan Gregor wrote: Hello, I used /etc/mtab to list mounted filesystems with their mount options. Unfortunatelly /etc/mtab no longer exists in debian jessie, it is just symlink to /proc/mounts that lists 31 filesystems and I want to see just 2 :-) classic filesystems like ex

Amarok using 5% CPU when idle

2016-02-11 Thread Martin Read
Is there a good reason why Amarok consumes 5% CPU even when it isn't doing anything useful? (2.2GHz amd64 processor) The interactive UI is not open, I'm not writing new files into my music library directory, and it isn't playing any music. -- Please try to use Reply To List when answering e-ma

Re: Good keyboard

2016-02-11 Thread Martin Read
On 11/02/16 18:21, David Christensen wrote: Does anybody have the CODE 104-Key MX Brown, or something similar? Thoughts? Comments? My Das Keyboard has Cherry MX Brown keyswitches. I find it quite pleasant to type on (I type pretty fast), and I can say that while it's not silent, it is certai

Re: Good keyboard

2016-02-11 Thread Martin Smith
On 11/02/2016 06:22, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On Wed, February 10, 2016 11:00 pm, David Niklas wrote: If I'm remembering rightly, a while back (months), there was a discussion about keyboards. I noticed this one and wanted to know if it https://www.crowdsupply.com/ugl/ultimate-hacking-keyboar

Re: Using vlc to Transcode mpeg2 File to mp4

2016-02-10 Thread Martin McCormick
s handbrakecli to do precisely what I needed to do. By late last night, the sleep monster got to me and it is now a new day. Unless something totally unexpected happens, handbreakcli will be the tool of choice. Thanks to all. Martin

Using vlc to Transcode mpeg2 File to mp4

2016-02-09 Thread Martin McCormick
quot;#transcode{avcodec=ts}:std{access=file,mux=mux_mp4,dst=testfile.mp4}" ~/streamwork/ktul.ts ktul.ts is a stream I recorded from a cable channel we receive. vlc plays the .ts file. Martin McCormick

Re: logrotate does not work on my log (Debian Jessie)

2016-01-27 Thread Martin Read
On 27/01/16 21:37, Gene Heskett wrote: What ails the udev maintainer(s) that seem to think the owner and only human user of this machine is to be denied access to its facilities? The udev maintainers have no idea how many users your system is going to have, and udev itself is not sentient.

Re: Problem with udev upgrading from wheezy to jessie

2016-01-24 Thread Martin Hanson
> install both at the same time? Are you kidding me?!

Re: Problem with udev upgrading from wheezy to jessie

2016-01-24 Thread Martin Hanson
Wauw, amazing, just freaking amazing! 24.01.2016, 18:56, "Michael Biebl" : > Am 24.01.2016 um 11:58 schrieb Martin Hanson: >>  I am trying to upgrade a cubox (arm) from Wheezy to Jessie, but I keep >> running into problems with udev. When I try to install latest

Problem with udev upgrading from wheezy to jessie

2016-01-24 Thread Martin Hanson
I am trying to upgrade a cubox (arm) from Wheezy to Jessie, but I keep running into problems with udev. When I try to install latest kernel from backports: # dpkg -i linux-image-4.3.0-0.bpo.1-armmp_4.3.3-7~bpo8+1_armhf.deb dpkg: regarding .../linux-image-4.3.0-0.bpo.1-armmp_4.3.3-7~bpo8+1_armhf.

Re: Debian 8 - Jesse - Letsencrypt deployments

2016-01-14 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Quoting Frank Pikelner : Has anyone deployed "letsencypt" to their Debian 8. There do not seem to be any packages for Jesse (though are in the works) and only way seems to be to pull a package from testing. I deploy the official Debian packages on Jessie using of a Stretch chroot. Cheap workaro

Re: updating ifupdown conflicts with systemd

2016-01-13 Thread Martin Read
On 13/01/16 15:00, Hans wrote: I think, it is very unlucky, to release systremd with these bad dependencies. I hope, the dependencies will be fixed as soon as possible or a big warning should appear, as network is really an essential function. Your warning of these problems is simple: it is the

Solved: Problem with grub-install (d-i, soft RAID6, Jessie)

2016-01-09 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Many thanks to Christian, David, and Pascal! With your hints I was able to solve the problems. Lessons learned: 1. d-i needs to be in "low" questions mode (expert) to allow manual selection of partition type (e.g. DOS/MBR or GPT). 2. d-i seems to call grub-install on /dev/md0, even if user

Problem with grub-install (d-i, soft RAID6, Jessie)

2016-01-07 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Hi, I try to install Jessie with a soft RAID6 of four disks, 1 TB each. The idea is to use the complete disk for RAID and then only on top separate swap and root. The installation worked fine on one machine, but for some reason, grub does not install on the fourth disk. It turns out, that the fou

Re: running etch on AMD Duron 1200 chip

2016-01-06 Thread Martin Smith
On 06/01/2016 18:34, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Folks. I am running Debian etch on an old AMD Duron 1200 box. It's so long since I used it I can't remember if it must be running the 32 bit version of Debian ie 64 bit version cannot run on it? uname -m says i686 which makes me think it is

Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png

2016-01-06 Thread Martin Read
On 06/01/16 14:53, deloptes wrote: BTW a doctor dealing with overweight (political correct word) people stated, most (90%) are fat because they have unhealthy life and food. All desieases they have are a result of it. No one can escape causality. That's it! This is not a blame. This is a fact. Pe

Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png

2016-01-06 Thread Martin Read
On 06/01/16 10:00, Mart van de Wege wrote: There is nothing wrong with trying to reach a reasonable accommodation with people to make them feel more comfortable. The only argument against OP is simply that you feel that they are not asking for a *reasonable* accommodation. That can be debated, bu

Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png

2016-01-01 Thread Martin Read
On 01/01/16 17:47, Ric Moore wrote: On 01/01/2016 11:23 AM, pe...@berghold.net wrote: I'm confused what specifically is meriting censorship? I'm not seeing any full frontal nudity. Ric An image can feature full frontal nudity without being an exercise in sexual objectification, and equally

Re: Creating a .deb package!

2016-01-01 Thread Martin Read
On 31/12/15 17:30, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: I have made some bash scripts (about 300 lines). I want it to be available for direct install along with some additional files for direct use. How can I make the .deb file out of a shell script and about 5 more text files? Also, how can I get it added to

Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png

2015-12-31 Thread Martin Read
On 31/12/15 12:21, deloptes wrote: Fernando Arenas wrote: openclipart2 so which one is bugging you? There's a list at the end of the OP. I don't agree that any of the images on that list need to be removed from Debian for the reasons stated by the OP (I can't comment on whether they cons

Re: systemd-modules-load inserting modules I didn't ask it to insert

2015-12-25 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft [2015-12-26 09:14 +1300]: > systemd-modules-load[136]: Inserted module 'ipmi_devintf' > systemd-modules-load[136]: Inserted module 'ipmi_poweroff' > systemd-modules-load[136]: Failed to insert 'ipmi_si': No such device

systemd-modules-load inserting modules I didn't ask it to insert

2015-12-25 Thread martin f krafft
oc/cmdline /*/modules-load.d/*.conf /etc/modules /etc/initramfs-tools/modules || echo none found none found So, where is systemd getting the idea from that it ought to load these modules? Thanks for any insights! -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debi

Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED]

2015-12-18 Thread Martin Read
On 18/12/15 18:14, Gene Heskett wrote: Ok, I have constructed a recursive pull ~/.wgetrc, but all I get are syntax errors. The file: (which kmail cannit insert, so copy-paste) gene@coyote:~/Documents/dovecot-wiki$ cat ~/.wgetrc -np --follow-ftp -r -l 20 -k Using "info wget" to read the wget us

Re: Changing default XDB browser w/o GNOME etc.

2015-12-13 Thread Martin Read
On 13/12/15 09:19, Eduard Bloch wrote: Observation: various programs use the XDG mechanism (freedesktop configuration method) to start a specific browser to visit a hyperlink. Easy to verify with the xdg-open tool. But how can I change this setting in a persistent way especially when I don't use

Re: My web site is back

2015-12-08 Thread Martin Read
On 08/12/15 16:58, Darac Marjal wrote: On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 11:15:50AM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: If you have bookmarks set for the old site you should update your bookmarks. Some pages from the old site are not on the new site because I judged them to be obsolete. To which, the venerable

Re: Locale-related questions

2015-12-02 Thread Martin Str|mberg
In article Nicolas George wrote: > wchar_t portably. For starters, the i4s at microsoft decided that 64k > characters should be enough for everyone, so if your cross-platform includes > microsoftisms, you can not use wchar_t to represent an Unicode code point. > The i4s at sun had other interest

Re: A stop job is running for...

2015-12-02 Thread Martin Read
On 02/12/15 03:07, James P. Wallen wrote: Thanks for your response, Sven. It's nice to know that someone else has seen this type of problem. I was thinking that this could be self-inflicted. Perhaps that's a little less likely now. So, is this behavior controlled by systemd? I'm not trying to s

Re: Xorg replaces TTY1

2015-12-01 Thread Martin Str|mberg
In article Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 06:54:34PM +, Brian wrote: > > There are still users (an example is in > > this thread) who believe ctrl-alt-backspace no longer works in Debian. > > It does. > So it does! Wonder why it didn't work for me on another machine. :( I

Re: Trying to remove "architecture i386"

2015-12-01 Thread Martin Read
On 01/12/15 08:47, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Do you still have any i386 packages installed? I think running dpkg -l "*:i386" should list them (I don't use multiarch myself, but it works for the native architecture and "*:all"). I can confirm on my multiarch system that the command you sugges

Re: Disable Ctrl-Alt-Del in Jessie

2015-11-30 Thread Martin Read
On 30/11/15 00:05, Bit Head wrote: In Jessie, this is proving to be more challenging as there is no inittab file to edit, and while I could create one, it would only contain commented lines, having a null effect. It seems that in prior releases, one had to explicitly say what to do in order for

Re: debianlive iso with xfce and clamav

2015-11-24 Thread Martin Str|mberg
In article rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > I am attempting to recover data from a virus-damaged Windows machine. For > this work, I wish to run debianlive with xfce desktop and clamav. > I found at: > ttps://www.debian.org/CD/live/ > ISO images for Jessie with xfce desktop. > And debianlive incl

Re: Prob activating Samba

2015-11-23 Thread Martin Smith
On 23/11/2015 19:40, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 14:18:07 -0500 Dan Ritter wrote: OK Ta; changed the CL to what you gave me: root@ron:/home/ron # chkconfig --add smb smb: unknown service Just checked in Synaptic, have both Samba, Samba-common and Samba-common-bin installed

Re: apt-get: why massive upgrade despite pinning everything to stable?

2015-11-20 Thread Martin Read
On 20/11/15 15:07, Kynn Jones wrote: Also, I set the contents of my `/etc/apt/preferences` file to this (the file was empty before): Package: * Pin: release a=stable Looking at the Debian wiki's page on APT preferences[1] and comparing to your file, I notice that you haven't speci

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

2015-11-19 Thread Martin Str|mberg
In article Joel Rees wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Martin Str|mberg wrote: > > [...] > > > >> No information on dual boot. > > > > If with not Linux, it won't work. > That's news to me. > I've mulit-booted openBSD, Fedora i

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

2015-11-18 Thread Martin Str|mberg
In article Richard Owlett wrote: > When searching for more information all I'm finding are > essentially HOWTO's with only a couple of paragraphs on "Whats" > and "Whys". Essentially nothing on "Why not". One good use is when you're encrypting / (and /home if it's own) and swap. I use luks t

RE: Pet Owners List

2015-11-18 Thread Chris Martin
effort in the right direction. Thanks & Regards, Chris Martin --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

Re: Charsets v grep

2015-11-15 Thread Martin Str|mberg
In article R. Clayton wrote: > and I've been getting a lot of this lately: > $ grep ^Subject: cbtm > Binary file cbtm matches > whereas before (a month or so ago) I used to get actual matches on std-out. > It's easy enough to work around like so > $ sed -n -e '/^Subject:/p' < cbtm >

Re: how execute a script

2015-11-15 Thread Martin Str|mberg
In article David Wright wrote: > As for script-file extensions in DOS, there was really only .BAT > wasn't there?, so the idea of distinguishing .bash, .csh, .py, .pl, > .sh, .zsh etc as being inherited from DOS is difficult for me to > understand. Perhaps it's because (MS)DOS begat WINDOWS tha

Xorg reconfigure on keyboard/VGA screen connect with systemd?

2015-11-11 Thread martin f krafft
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Re: i3 Window manager without any other desktop environment

2015-11-10 Thread Martin Read
On 10/11/15 20:19, Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: When I type 'startx' it says 'command not found' Install the 'xorg' package.

Re: How to install init scripts manually?

2015-11-03 Thread Martin T
In addition to symlinks to /etc/rc.d/ directories, insserv adds a ":" line to /etc/init.d/.depend.start file. My mistake was that I added ":" line to /etc/init.d/.depend.start file. regards, Martin On 8/9/14, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 04 aug 14, 13:30:54, Martin T

Re: Anybody know why aptitude is not installed by default in Sid?

2015-10-31 Thread Martin Read
On 31/10/15 12:02, Chris Bannister wrote: Logically, doesn't it make more sense to make it so that you install with the minimum number of packages necessary, and then download any extra packages you want *after* the install? Only if you accept austere minimalism as axiomatically good.

Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume

2015-10-28 Thread Martin Read
On 28/10/15 11:14, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 28 October 2015 01:03:20 Doug wrote: it is now a system which even grandmothers are using. Hey!! Ada Lovelace was a grandmother. Not while she was alive; sadly, she died before any of her children had children of their own.

Re: Installer partitioning problem (was: System Dorked -- Help! (Interim solution!))

2015-10-26 Thread Martin Str|mberg
In article Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 26 October 2015 02:29:04 Martin Str|mberg wrote: > > I don't understand why you can't. I can create (and did) partitions of > > 200 MB size. I use the text based installer and manual partitioning. > > > On a 4k/sect

Installer partitioning problem (was: System Dorked -- Help! (Interim solution!))

2015-10-25 Thread Martin Str|mberg
In article Gene Heskett wrote: > The worst part of that is that the partitioner will not accept a 1 > gigabyte partition, which is a great plenty, so I was forced to use 5% > of the disk as a boot partition. I don't understand why you can't. I can create (and did) partitions of 200 MB size. I

Re: installing/using grub-legacy

2015-10-25 Thread Martin Str|mberg
In article Curt wrote: > https://wiki.debian.org/Grub It seems that page is somewhat outdated/broken: 1. If I follow the "grub2 variants" link below "Up to Debian Lenny" I get "Error two or more packages specified (grub2 lenny)" 2. If I follow the "GRUB 2 variants" link below "Debian Sque

Re: vino/gdm3 keyboard problem

2015-10-21 Thread Martin Herrman
///org/gnome/gjs/modules/lang.js:169 This takes me here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1112982 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794064 Eventually I decided to replace gdm3 with lightdm, everything works like a charm! Thanks for your help! Martin > If you reco

vino/gdm3 keyboard problem

2015-10-20 Thread Martin Herrman
to my desktop. But... when I want to login (the display gets locked after some time), I'm unable to enter the password. After typing 1 or 2 characters the display seems to be refreshed and the typed characters disappear. Any help is really appreciated! Regards, Martin P.S. It is very important for me to have 1 x session running and share that single session. Other solutions are acceptable as well!

Re: make system boot straight to browser connection

2015-10-16 Thread Martin Smith
On 16/10/2015 01:46, Joel Rees wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: [snip] How to do an autologin? In a DE independent way? http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=autologin&apropos=1 gave no relevant links. A Google search gave only d

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-15 Thread Martin Smith
On 15/10/2015 06:34, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: Yesterday in the office of my associate, I tried without success to install a HP LaserJet 2100TN in a wired local area network (LAN) consisting of nothing but a i386 running Windows 8, a modem (which I think also is router) and an ethernet switch.

Re: debian-user list problem

2015-10-12 Thread Martin Str|mberg
In article to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:00:17AM +0200, Martin Str|mberg wrote: > > In article Lisi Reisz > > wrote: > > > D'oh! I was forgetting that this list is not subscribers only

Re: debian-user list problem

2015-10-12 Thread Martin Str|mberg
In article Lisi Reisz wrote: > D'oh! I was forgetting that this list is not subscribers only. Really?! I hope this goes through. I sure have been wanting to reply to some things. I read this as the news group linux.debian.user on aioe.org with tin. Now I hope somebody can tell me if there's

Re: Deleting i386 packages

2015-09-27 Thread Martin Read
On 27/09/15 08:06, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: Like any other job the programmers need money and software authors are not obligated to publish their work to be available to all humanity(or at-least these parts of humanity that are connected to the WWW). The above is something I think is right and it

Re: Deleting i386 packages

2015-09-22 Thread Martin Read
On 22/09/15 13:38, Reco wrote: 1) Users of non-free software (especially users of non-free wine-embedded software) should suffer anyway. It speaks ill of you that you cite this as a reason for not offering cautionary advice to users of proprietary software. If such people *do* in fact deserv

Re: Gnome Audio Alerts

2015-09-22 Thread Martin McCormick
he CS4236 is a goner for anything above squeeze which is a pain because that on-board sound system used inputs from the PC speaker beeper and could send outputs from the analog sound card to the little speaker making it possible to send analog sound to that device if one needed to. Martin

Re: Coder friendly font

2015-09-21 Thread Martin Read
On 21/09/15 19:18, Felix Miata wrote: http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/Font/fonts-face-samplesM.html and http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/Font/fonts-comps-linuxmono.html provide ways to compare some common monospace fonts. Only if you have the fonts already installed, which isn't helpful if you're trying to d

Re: xorg-server not exists in my stretch

2015-09-16 Thread Martin Read
On 16/09/15 12:10, mudongliang wrote: mdl@NjuMdl:~$ sudo apt-get install xorg-server Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package xorg-server The package you are looking for is "xserver-xorg", not "

Re: bluetooth issue

2015-09-09 Thread Martin Read
On 09/09/15 12:43, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: I am a bit novice. I have attached the result of lspci. Can you please suggest the package name? Thanks in anticipation. You have a Broadcom BCM43142 device. Please see https://wiki.debian.org/wl for information on how to install the appropriate soft

Re: bluetooth issue

2015-09-09 Thread Martin Read
On 09/09/15 09:07, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: I have a dell inspiron 15 laptop with intel core i5 5200U and Broadcom hardware. On booting, debian jessie runs fsck and then says some firmware brcm*** failed to load. Also, the bluetooth isnot working. Anybody could please fix this? You probably need

Re: Re : adobe flash player in iceweasel does not work anymore in jessie

2015-09-08 Thread Martin Read
On 06/09/15 22:16, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Installing 'flashplayer-mozilla' that is in Debian main will solve the flash problem. This statement is factually incorrect, as no package of that name exists in jessie main. A package of that name *does* exist in the deb-multimedia repositories.

Re: BIOS size limit for USB flash drives

2015-09-08 Thread Martin Read
On 08/09/15 14:09, Darac Marjal wrote: Just as a point of interest, I understand that most BIOS limits are limits in the ATA command set (that is, PATA and SATA drives experience these issues). Looking at http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/2tib-disc-limit.html I see tha

Re: Re; Okay, that's too much now!

2015-09-07 Thread Martin Read
On 07/09/15 08:29, Andrew McGlashan wrote: I still tend that there should be a desktop version that may or may not optionally have systemd and a server version that definitely does not have systemd. It is, to me, nonsensical to suggest that systemd has no utility in a server context. I mean, t

Re: Okay, that's too much now!

2015-09-06 Thread Martin Read
On 06/09/15 16:11, Doug wrote: Perhaps BCD can read a DOS file. It's the _other_ way I'm thinking of. I want to be able to access BCD from Linux or Windows, and vice-versa-- access Linux and/or Windows from BCD. Anybody know if this is possible, and if so, how? Read/write support for UFS has b

Re: who/w/finger/last printing ip address

2015-09-05 Thread Martin Read
On 05/09/15 23:21, Michael Grant wrote: I have to say in some ways this seems like a feature not a bug! I've long missed the option some other unixes have to inhibit resolving the name. But at the moment the hostname! Frankly, there should be an option to w, who, finger, and last to not resolv

Re: is google earth safe to install?

2015-09-03 Thread Martin Read
On 03/09/15 22:06, Stuart Longland wrote: I'll bite, why an nVidia graphic card? I have a couple, but the Intel GPU in this laptop would run rings around most of them. Surely it only matters that it implements ${OPENGL_FEATURES} to a sufficient standard to run the application. OpenGL's archit

Re: systemd-logind emitting messages to the terminal upon login

2015-09-01 Thread Martin Read
On 01/09/15 04:07, The Wanderer wrote: I believe that's roughly how it works, yes - and I believe rsyslog is intentionally set up that way, so that various system messages which would appear in the active console if the journal were not present will still appear there. It's just that now there ar

Re: quality keyboards

2015-08-31 Thread Martin Read
On 31/08/15 08:09, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: How much do those things cost? Now that a keyboard can be had for $10 or $15, is it better to pay $150 or even $250 for a quality keyboard, or replace a $15 keyboard every year or even every six months? Well, I'm typing this on a Das Keyboard (Cher

Re: laptop protection in an office network

2015-08-30 Thread Martin Read
On 30/08/15 03:20, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: Back in the 1960's and 1970's, manufacturers such as Honeywell and Cherry made keyswitches with a life rating in the tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of keystrokes. Cherry still *are* (or at some point resumed) making mechanical keyswi

Re: Configure Postfix *as* a smart host?

2015-08-30 Thread Martin Smith
On 30/08/2015 00:13, Bob Bernstein wrote: I have an instance of Wheezy running on a VPS (for years) and only now have decided I want to take advantage of the possibility of using it as a smarthost for my home machines, instead of what my cable company makes available, which I confess works just

Re: "apt-get dist-upgrade" shows kept back packages

2015-08-28 Thread Martin T
On 8/27/15, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Martin T (m4rtn...@gmail.com): >> Hi, >> >> as far as I know, kept back packages in Debian are shown in case >> package can not be upgraded with "apt-get upgrade" because upgrade >> requires to install new pack

"apt-get dist-upgrade" shows kept back packages

2015-08-27 Thread Martin T
Installed: 2.6.8-1.1 Candidate: 2.6.8-1.1 Version table: *** 2.6.8-1.1 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status root@server:~# thanks, Martin

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-21 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
such viruses. It's a good neighbour policy. Could you clarify for me what you mean. Should you or shouldn't you run AV software when running a mail server? If your users are on Debian I cannot see why you should do. Well one reason is if your mail server also has webmail. Then your users, Debian based for 90% or their time, would possibly access your mail server from some other more virus affected OS as well. And be at risk that way. /Martin S

Re: cons25 Terminal is Almost but not Quite Right for a Job.

2015-08-20 Thread Martin McCormick
the environment when it is called. Martin

cons25 Terminal is Almost but not Quite Right for a Job.

2015-08-20 Thread Martin McCormick
ursor ends up in the right place. On a scale of 1-10, this problem is maybe a 3, not a show stopper but a bit annoying and usually indicates there are other things that may not work right. Martin McCormick

Re: How come i wrote a NO-BREAK SPACE in xterm+bash ?

2015-08-20 Thread Martin Read
On 20/08/15 06:59, Bonno Bloksma wrote: If you are talking about console use, indeed I would not know why I would want / need it there. Because you might be using your terminal to edit an input file for a document processing system which contains the character, or to create new files that co

Re: Raspberry Pi and Raspbian Distribution Disk

2015-08-18 Thread Martin McCormick
tion, so as to use the whole of the SD card. > > Cheers, That's even better. Many thanks. I'm waiting for a serial console cable, anyway so this works out quite well. Martin

Raspberry Pi and Raspbian Distribution Disk

2015-08-18 Thread Martin McCormick
me stamp read 0 and the locale rules for America/Chicago interprets that as December 31 of 1969 at 18:00. I was 18, then. The Unix operating system was an infant at Bell Labs and it would be another ten years before I even kind of knew how computers worked. Martin McCormick

Re: Security in our local network

2015-08-15 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
gh https:, I certainly have a https:// address for my owncloud instance. Also, you might consider encrypting the file space for users. /Martin s-- * This address is for technical mail lists only. For all other matters, please use my main address at the .org domain. *

Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-14 Thread Martin Read
On 14/08/15 23:03, Brian wrote: On Fri 14 Aug 2015 at 09:08:30 +0100, Martin Read wrote: And yes, the law does distinguish between broadcast programmes and live internet streaming (e.g. the BBC's live coverage of the World Snooker No it doesn't. Watching BBC News being streamed

Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-14 Thread Martin Read
On 12/08/15 18:23, Brian wrote: On Wed 12 Aug 2015 at 16:57:33 +0100, Martin Smith wrote: I suffer from them, I haven't had a tv since 1971, and they can't let go, Unless you have typed and sent your mail from a friend's computer, you do. Conveniently, what the law req

Re: Acceptable use of Debian products

2015-08-13 Thread Martin Read
On 13/08/15 07:29, Rohnan Donohue wrote: My name is Rohnan, and I am a secondary student in Victoria, Australia. I am writting to you to please ask for express permission to host Debian products on a website I am currently producing in one of my classes. This website will host only 'freeware' c

Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-12 Thread Martin McCormick
y services trying to talk over the video buzz and not doing too well. Sorry for the extremely off-topic post, but I thought some might find this interesting. Martin

Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-12 Thread Martin Smith
On 12/08/2015 14:56, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 12 August 2015 14:04:37 marti...@suddenlink.net wrote: Now think, for a second how much money it costs to outfit a van with high-quality broad-spectrum radio receivers, a person to drive and another to tune and evaluate what he/she is re

Re: Login failure after new install

2015-08-09 Thread Martin Smith
work gets done on this iMac. -- Martin -- 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/55c7a7ca.9090...@rakupottery.org.uk

Re: pdumpfs May be a Casualty of Upgrade to Wheezy.

2015-08-06 Thread martin McCormick
Dan Ritter writes > That sounds very much like rsnapshot. Thanks very much. I think this is actually a better solution since it is based on rsync and can use ssh to backup other systems. Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

pdumpfs May be a Casualty of Upgrade to Wheezy.

2015-08-06 Thread martin McCormick
#x27;s backup strategy as similar to something called plan9. All constructive suggestions are greatly appreciated. Martin McCormick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-05 Thread martin McCormick
quot;work" it created looks like I had gotten that part right. Many thanks. Martin McCormick -- 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/20150806005503.JWMQ8837.txofep01.suddenlink.net@localhost

Re: pptp-based vpn I am trying to setup pptpd to initiate a connection to Darac Marjal wrote:

2015-08-05 Thread martin McCormick
evpn" and I am wondering if they should be the same? A couple of lines of binary later, the authentication fails. Man! I love authentication trouble. It's the ultimate case of 20-thousand moving parts. One's broken. Go figure. Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: Question about "mv" operation.

2015-08-04 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
operation. If all is well delete the copy. /Martin S

pptp-based vpn I am trying to setup pptpd to initiate a connection to

2015-08-03 Thread martin McCormick
7 more channels. What does one see when it works? Thank you. Martin McCormick -- 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/20150804012931.RBJX8837.txofep01.suddenlink.net@localhost

Re: scanner not recognized

2015-08-01 Thread Martin Read
On 01/08/15 16:26, Frank McCormick wrote: It's been a while since I used the Canon LIDE 20 scanner attached to my Debian Sid system. Today I found out it's not being recognized. LSUSB doesn't find it on the scan of USB ports. Have you checked that the cable is good? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: nano needs curses.h?

2015-07-23 Thread Martin Read
On 23/07/15 19:06, Lee Winter wrote: The following sequence of commands leads to an error: mkdir nano cd nano apt-get source nano You missed an important step here: sudo apt-get build-dep nano -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: A Question about the Application Called mail or mailx

2015-07-22 Thread Martin G. McCormick
ackage role. > > exim, sendmail, postfix, qmail, masqmail... they all give you > a sendmail command which will do what you want. In this case, it is msmtp which I call as sendmail and it worked like a charm. Many thanks for the help. Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

A Question about the Application Called mail or mailx

2015-07-22 Thread Martin G. McCormick
umentation that mail can read headers such as: From: "martin McCormick" To: mar...@testhost.com Subject: Will this ever work? that are embedded in a message file if one sends a command something like mail -t [filename] but what actually happens when I try this is an error stating

Re: File check at boot

2015-07-21 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
/dev/vda1: Clearing orphaned inode 94755 (uid=106, gid=111, mode=0100600, size=0) /dev/vda1: Clearing orphaned inode 90459 (uid=106, gid=111, mode=0100600, size=0) but I really can't see this causing catastrophic server crashes if unfixed. /Mar

Re: File check at boot

2015-07-21 Thread Martin S
On Tuesday 21 July 2015 20.31.07 Nicolas George wrote: > Le tridi 3 thermidor, an CCXXIII, Martin S a écrit : > > For what it's worth this is a mild example of the I/O error I get in > > connection with the crashes... > > > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/3ezm3jn272xp

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