Re: systemd (was ... Re: Article on swift, responsive computers)

2014-06-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-06-16 at 19:57 +0100, Brian wrote: > From the man himself: > > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-May/198927.html Please don't post links to the troll and Linux enemy Lennart Poettering. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: systemd (was ... Re: Article on swift, responsive computers)

2014-06-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-06-16 at 19:57 +0100, Brian wrote: > From the man himself: > > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-May/198927.html Please don't post links to the troll and Linux enemy Lennart Poettering. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Re: Screen size trouble with Xorg

2014-06-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-06-16 at 09:23 -0500, Mike Bailey wrote: > > Is it a multisync monitor? You perhaps need to configure the monitor's > > settings on the monitor. > > > > When using the GUI the frequencies of my monitor are 81.9KHz/89.9Hz, if > > I switch to tty2 the frequencies are 48.3KHz/59.9Hz on a

Re: Screen size trouble with Xorg

2014-06-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-06-16 at 08:03 -0500, Mike Bailey wrote: > If I send an ctrl+alt+f2 to switch to tty2, I am able to use the > entirety of the monitor, which tells me that this is an issue somewhere > in X. Is it a multisync monitor? You perhaps need to configure the monitor's settings on the monito

Re: Article on swift, responsive computers

2014-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 21:22 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 14:58 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/201406/201406.htm > > At the moment we IMO should stay away from Razor-Qt for daily usage, but > it can't harm to install

Re: Article on swift, responsive computers

2014-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 14:58 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/201406/201406.htm At the moment we IMO should stay away from Razor-Qt for daily usage, but it can't harm to install it and to monitor it's progress. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor-qt IMO much of the ev

Re: Off-topic: boot order

2014-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 18:29 +0200, B wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jun 2014 18:12:00 +0200 > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > It's idiotic to > > send a response to such a mail, but you couldn't resist. It's > > idiotic that we have each week a discussion about top-p

Re: Off-topic: boot order

2014-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 17:03 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 15 June 2014 16:50:01 david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: > > i had hoped that this bikeshedding BS over OP's domain name would blow > > over after ralf wisely reminded us to assume good faith. > > There is no sensible way that his r

Re: Off-topic: boot order

2014-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 11:50 -0400, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: > i had hoped that this bikeshedding BS over OP's domain name would blow > over after ralf wisely reminded us to assume good faith. > > alas... > > On Sun, 15 Jun 2014, Curt wrote: > > > On

Re: Off-topic: boot order

2014-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 11:05 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > Anyone who sends unfiltered content from the Internet over any amateur > radio mode is asking for trouble. Keep in mind, that at least in Germany, you need a license to do amateur radio, it's not citizens' band, at least not in Germany. Int

Re: boot order

2014-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 09:56 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > My mega-apologize for the PPPS :S > > [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ RETVAL=foo_bar > [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ cat .msmtp.mail/fraud.mail | msmtp -a default > ralf.mard...@rocketmial.com; RETVAL=$?; echo $RETVAL > 0 > [

Re: boot order

2014-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
My mega-apologize for the PPPS :S [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ RETVAL=foo_bar [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ cat .msmtp.mail/fraud.mail | msmtp -a default ralf.mard...@rocketmial.com; RETVAL=$?; echo $RETVAL 0 [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ RETVAL=foo_bar [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ cat .msmtp.mail/fraud.ma

Re: boot order

2014-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
My apologize for the PPS, but without the && it also seems to work: [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ cat .msmtp.mail/fraud.mail | msmtp -a default ralf.mard...@rocketmial.com; RETVAL=$?; echo $RETVAL 0 The "0" is displayed with delay, IOW RETVAL=$?; echo $RETVAL has to wait until the sending of the m

Re: boot order

2014-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 09:34 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 09:10 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 01:46 -0400, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: > > > > > > echo "${SHUTDOWNBODY}" | mail -s "${SHUTDOWNSUBJECT}&

Re: boot order

2014-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 09:10 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 01:46 -0400, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: > > > > echo "${SHUTDOWNBODY}" | mail -s "${SHUTDOWNSUBJECT}" ${EMAIL} > > > sleep 4 > > > RETVAL=$? > &

Re: boot order

2014-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 01:46 -0400, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: > > echo "${SHUTDOWNBODY}" | mail -s "${SHUTDOWNSUBJECT}" ${EMAIL} > > sleep 4 > > RETVAL=$? > > i can't comment on the rest of the script, but you probably want > RETVAL to be the exit status of the pipeline that sends the

Off-topic: boot order

2014-06-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-06-14 at 23:20 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 14 June 2014 22:11:05 Pol Hallen wrote: > > domain (mine) of email (mine) is not your problem and if you don't like > > it's not my problem ;-) > > No, but if all of us decide not to like it, and kill-file you as I am now > doing,

Re: PulseAudio (was Re: Sid Foibles)

2014-06-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2014-06-12 at 13:22 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 11 iun 14, 01:32:37, B wrote: > > From what you report, Ralf, the kinda site attack they > > suffered should never happen, or at least should have been > > circumvented very fast (IF there is somebody strong enough > > to handle

Re: hardware errors

2014-06-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-06-11 at 21:01 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Richard Hector wrote: > > [...] > > Yep. Halfway through the third pass; no errors yet. I'm not holding my > > breath. > > Any ideas on where to read up on those error messages, to figure out > > what they actua

Re: PulseAudio (was Re: Sid Foibles)

2014-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-06-11 at 01:32 +0200, B wrote: > That's a pity for such a good idea but I don't think the > omen's good; we'll see (or not…) It's not the first time the homepage was hacked :(. Everybody is welcome to help ;). take a look at http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-dev/

Re: PulseAudio (was Re: Sid Foibles)

2014-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 18:15 +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > I use the PC speaker for > > notifications/warnings/what ever and I use ALSA to play sound from e.g. > > a YouTube video and for pro-audio I use jac

Re: Handy ls: was Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 11:42 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > to find those immense files that were put in the wrong places > (downloaded distros mostly) Obsessional neurotics like me don't need to care about such things. It's unlikely that we miss to care about deleting stuff that was randomly download

PS: unable to mount removable media with xfce4 version 4.10.1

2014-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Is GNOME3 easily available by other *nix alike systems? If not, what could be the reason? Do other *nix alike systems provide systemd? If not, what's the reason? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.d

Re: unable to mount removable media with xfce4 version 4.10.1

2014-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 17:35 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 19:15 +0400, Reco wrote: > > So, maybe 'merged' is a wrong word to describe udev-systemd > > relationship. But it fits. Perhaps "merged" indeed is a bad term, it is merged by the upst

Re: unable to mount removable media with xfce4 version 4.10.1

2014-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 19:15 +0400, Reco wrote: > So, maybe 'merged' is a wrong word to describe udev-systemd > relationship. But it fits. All of your points IMO are "true". Nobody, neither me, mentions that currently it is impossible to use udev without caring (too much) about systemd. IIUC Reco

Re: unable to mount removable media with xfce4 version 4.10.1

2014-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 23:20 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 08:22:51AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 17:48 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 08:31:34PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > &g

Re: GPG Keys..... was Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 07:12 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > > For one thing, I don't think the real JS would send to me as well as > > to the list. > > I wouldn't do it on purpose, anyway :) Or send top-posting HTML formatted mails. Or ... The fake to be Jerry wasn't done very good, but it anyway c

Re: hardware errors

2014-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 23:07 +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > On 10/06/14 23:04, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 21:24 +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > >> On 09/06/14 11:35, B wrote: > >>> On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 11:22:25 +1200 Richard Hector > >>&

Re: Debian memtest package faulty? (was ... Re: hardware errors)

2014-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 13:00 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 21:06 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > So you are saying the Debian and Ubuntu versions are buggy? Which "live > > media" version works for you? > > > > Have you filed a bug? >

Re: Please delete all my Post from my E-Mail adress !

2014-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 12:10 +0200, Finjan, Salam wrote: > Good day, > please delete my post from mailing list! > > E-Mail:salam.fin...@nds.aok.de > Thank you very much > Finjan You need to send similar requests to the admin and not to the list, but you don't need to send this request, since t

Re: hardware errors

2014-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 21:24 +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > On 09/06/14 11:35, B wrote: > > On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 11:22:25 +1200 Richard Hector > > wrote: > > > >> I assume the RAM needs replacing - is it possible to figure out > >> which DIMM(s)? > > > > Install memtest86+ and boot on it, the

Re: Debian memtest package faulty? (was ... Re: hardware errors)

2014-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 21:06 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > So you are saying the Debian and Ubuntu versions are buggy? Which "live > media" version works for you? > > Have you filed a bug? > > Does the memtest86+ package work from the grub menu, for you? I can't say if it would work from the GR

Re: Listing packages installed from experimental

2014-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 05:14 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 17:25 -0700, David Glover-Aoki wrote: > > I'm running wheezy but have some packages installed from experimental. > > > > How can I list all the packages currently installed from experimental

Re: Listing packages installed from experimental

2014-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 17:25 -0700, David Glover-Aoki wrote: > I'm running wheezy but have some packages installed from experimental. > > How can I list all the packages currently installed from experimental? It can't harm to do some research ;). https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=apt-sh

Re: PulseAudio (was Re: Sid Foibles)

2014-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 18:56 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 09 iun 14, 09:30:01, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > I look forward to hearing how other people do or don't work with > > PulseAudio (and ALSA) in this thread. > > I'll try to explain it simply, but I have a feeling this will turn out >

Re: unable to mount removable media with xfce4 version 4.10.1

2014-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 17:35 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I'm using systemd for my everyday Linux since years To be more precise, for my Arch that was stable until a few days ago, I at least use systemd, from <= to >=: [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ grep systemd /var/log/pacman.log [

Re: unable to mount removable media with xfce4 version 4.10.1

2014-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 17:35 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > udev is merged with udev ^ systemd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lis

Re: unable to mount removable media with xfce4 version 4.10.1

2014-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 03:14 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 02:56:53PM +0400, Reco wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 01:31:26PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > Quote from the first link: > > > > > > The udev built from the systemd source tree will stay compatible >

Re: PulseAudio (was Re: Sid Foibles)

2014-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 16:52 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Le 09/06/2014 16:09, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : > > For averaged desktop audio users pulseaudio does provide a more or IMO > > rather less way to handle audio streams. > > What do you mean here ? I do notr use pulseaudio,

Re: PulseAudio (was Re: Sid Foibles)

2014-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 15:51 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > PulseAudio is one of the multiple layer which are made to "simplify" > the use of sound systems. It's called a "sound server". > Which means ( roughly, I'm not a translator ): > "So, the softwares which are using ALSA will

Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-06-08 at 18:57 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > The 'dot' at the start of the filename is how *nix systems > traditionally mark a "hidden file". Any filename beginning with a dot > will be treated as "hidden", and any filename not beginning with one > won't. > > To see them in a terminal,

Re: wine-unstable 64 bit

2014-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 11:45 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Never tried to do that myself, but it should work: > > _ install build-dependencies of the package you want ( #aptitude > build-dep ) > _ download the source package ( $apt-get source ) > _ replace the source code with of

Re: unable to mount removable media with xfce4 version 4.10.1

2014-06-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 17:48 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 08:31:34PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > In this case "systemd" likely is for udev, wich usually also is used > > without systemd, but it's merged by upstream. Just a gue

Re: hardware errors

2014-06-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 01:35 +0200, B wrote: > On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 11:22:25 +1200 > Richard Hector wrote: > > > I assume the RAM needs replacing - is it possible to figure out > > which DIMM(s)? > > Install memtest86+ and boot on it, then leave at least > 3 complete cycles to run. I would us

Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 01:08 +0200, Filip wrote: > $ ls -lA I recommend to add the h option. $ ls -hAl t or d sometimes are useful too, but by default I tend to use -hAl. Mnemonic, HAL, resp. HAL 9000 is the computer in the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: GPG Keys..... was Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 00:22 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 08 iun 14, 22:05:03, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > I will not sign my emails to mailing lists, however, you're mistaken, > > several people subscribed to Debian user sign there mails. Those people > &

Re: GPG Keys..... was Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-06-08 at 17:53 +0200, Bzzz wrote: > On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 01:43:28 +1000 > Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > > > If one is living in the USA or western Europe getting one's key > > > signed shouldn't be too difficult. > > > > How about Australia? > > Not allowed: if you sign your e-mails,

Re: Jessie PowerPC installer doesn't see USB keyboard on PowerPC Mac machines

2014-06-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-06-08 at 10:46 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > On Sun, Jun 08, 2014 at 12:14:56AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Sat, 2014-06-07 at 15:04 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > Hmmm... > > > > > > I originally reported this back in November. > > &

Re: Auto-emptying of trash.

2014-06-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-06-08 at 10:44 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2014-06-08 at 10:40 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > That's strange, since "rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty" seemingly > > shouldn't remove the directory. I wasn't aware about this, so I tested

Re: Auto-emptying of trash.

2014-06-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-06-08 at 10:40 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > That's strange, since "rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty" seemingly > shouldn't remove the directory. I wasn't aware about this, so I tested > it, resp. compared it to "rm -r" [1]. > > Perhap

Re: Auto-emptying of trash.

2014-06-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
That's strange, since "rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty" seemingly shouldn't remove the directory. I wasn't aware about this, so I tested it, resp. compared it to "rm -r" [1]. Perhaps you should post the complete script, the culprit seems not to be "rmdir". [1] [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ touch ~/

Re: Killfiling: was Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
As we can see now, killfiling Horatio or banning him from the list is impossible, he simply will use another email address. Jerry, did you notice that there also was sent a mail to the Debian off-topic list, most likely from Horatio, using the j.stuc...@outlook.com address? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Jessie PowerPC installer doesn't see USB keyboard on PowerPC Mac machines

2014-06-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-06-08 at 00:14 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2014-06-07 at 15:04 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Hmmm... > > > > I originally reported this back in November. > > > > After a while, it went away for me. Downloading the latest (about January

Re: Jessie PowerPC installer doesn't see USB keyboard on PowerPC Mac machines

2014-06-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-06-07 at 15:04 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > Hmmm... > > I originally reported this back in November. > > After a while, it went away for me. Downloading the latest (about January > time-frame) "netinst" image worked fine -- both Jessie and Wheezy. I haven't > tried it recently, th

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

2014-06-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-06-07 at 21:43 +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: [snip] Andrew do _not_ reply to Horatio yet. Only consider to reply, assumed he should apologized to the list and especially to Jerry! TIA, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

2014-06-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 15:04 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 6/6/2014 2:59 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Please Jerry and Horatio stopp this flame war. And especially you > > Horatio, consider if the above words from you are appropriate. IMO this > &

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

2014-06-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 12:35 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 06/06/2014 12:17 PM, Bzzz wrote: > > > On Fri, 6 Jun 2014 09:08:58 -0700 (PDT) Horatio Leragon > > wrote: > > > >> I do have an IQ of 45. > > > > This explains a lot… > > Which IQ scale is this score on? > > Most of the scale charts

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

2014-06-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 09:03 -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote: > > > > __ > From: Jerry Stuckle > To: Horatio Leragon > Sent: Friday, June 6, 2014 10:35 PM > Subject: Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter >

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

2014-06-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 10:39 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > Your claim of having an IQ of 45 is an insult to those who really DO > have an IQ of 45. Full ACK! People with mental handicaps are welcome! Usually people with mental handicaps are not that eloquent as Horatio is ;). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

2014-06-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 03:09 -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote: > Did you know that I'm dyslexic? And there are many categories of > dyslexia? I suffer from dyslexia too, but I'm highly gifted and I guess your IQ is also higher than 45. Learning by doing, to understand --help and man pages is great when

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

2014-06-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 02:52 -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote: > I bet that no one here is willing to give that kind of awesome > answers, assuming that they know. The so-called experts here will tell > me to first read the official Debian Reference manual, "man pages" and > maybe a book on bash scripti

Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 21:38 +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > On 06/06/14 05:22, Bob Holtzman wrote: > >> Why should I subscribe to "d-community-offtopic"? Isn't > >> chkrootkit a Debian package? > > > > No, it's a linux package. Debian in merely one of the distros that > > carries it in their repos

Re: unable to mount removable media with xfce4 version 4.10.1

2014-06-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 10:56 +0200, François Patte wrote: > Le 06/06/2014 10:29, David Dušanić a écrit : > > 05.06.2014, 15:28, "François Patte" > > : > >> Bonjour, > >> > >> Since last upgrade, I cannot mount (or umount) any removable > >> media under xfce4: > >> > >> I can see the icon on the d

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi Horatio, On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 22:13 -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote: > I now understand why Ubuntu is way more popular than Debian Opinions like that can better be discussed at the Debian off-topic list. Ubuntu does cast a bad light on free software, regarding to the Unity lenses spyware that i

Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 14:18 -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: > BTW you would be well served to read this site: > > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > I'm surprised that you haven't been steered to it before, way before. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/06/msg00185.html ;

Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 14:37 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 14:24 +0200, Slavko wrote: > > Yes, there are bad boys on this world, which attempt to compromise > > foreign computers. In some countries it a normal government practice. > > Yes, AFAIK in Pon

Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 14:24 +0200, Slavko wrote: > Yes, there are bad boys on this world, which attempt to compromise > foreign computers. In some countries it a normal government practice. Yes, AFAIK in Ponyland, aka Friendship Gardens, it's _not_ normal government practise. Horatio, please subs

Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
If you like more uncertainty, you should read about e.g. "heartbleed", "Unity Lenses" and "Hans Reiser" ;). You are aware that Linux is from this planet? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.or

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 04:18 -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote: > How do I learn it? Learning by doing ;). $ chown --help Usage: chown [OPTION]... [OWNER][:[GROUP]] FILE... or: chown [OPTION]... --reference=RFILE FILE... [snip] Examples: chown root /uChange the owner of /u to "root". c

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 01:54 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > https://startpage.com/ Search term: apt-get manual > First hit: > http://linux.die.net/man/8/apt-get JFTR for the search term: apt-get man or for: apt-get manpage The second hit is manpages.debian.net ;).

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 00:14 +0100, Brian wrote: > No. please see apt-get(8) (man apt-get) A note to the OP. Yet you might not be able to understand the syntax of a man(ual)page, but you need to learn it. Btw. you could use a search engine to do research in the Internet. https://startpage.com/

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 15:50 -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote: > apt-get -f install > > means a "force" install, am I correct? No, you aren't! "-f, --fix-broken Fix; attempt to correct a system with broken dependencies in place." - http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=apt-get dpkg -i d

Re: Create backup of system-connections on a USB stick

2014-06-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-06-01 at 04:42 -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote: > > > __ > From: Filip > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: Horatio Leragon > Sent: Sunday, June 1, 2014 3:34 PM > Subject: Re: Create backup of system-connections

Re: Create backup of system-connections on a USB stick

2014-05-31 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-06-01 at 06:29 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Assumed there's no data on the stick, IOW assumed you plan to copy to a > stick, then don't copy the directories and files directly, but write the > directories and files to a tar archive, so all the permissions ar

Re: Create backup of system-connections on a USB stick

2014-05-31 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 01 Jun 2014 04:04:29 +0200, Horatio Leragon wrote: Andrei POPESCU, Saturday, May 31, 2014 10:35 PM: Probably simplest is to switch to root an copy the files to the stick. How do I switch to root? During installation of Debian, I expressly clicked "No" to "Allow login as root" optio

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-31 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-05-31 at 08:51 -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > Sawfish and openbox, even metacity would fit in this last "just > manages windows" category, and, in fact, don't even include a panel, > which I think JWM has by default. Correct, JWM e.g. provides a panel by default, OTOH JWM anyway needs l

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-31 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2014-05-30 at 12:54 +0200, Thierry de Coulon wrote: > Who cares if "it's a DE" or not if it does all one expects from one? I don't care and btw. I don't claim that JWM is a DE. The discussion started about "speed". I don't think it was about a quick startup, but about a "fast" GUI performa

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2014-05-29 at 23:07 +0200, Gour wrote: > Ralf Mardorf writes: > > > A tiling WM isn't a DE. > > Can you tell me what is missing? > > It has status bar, systray, launcher, workspaces...ability to launch > specific app in a specific workspace. There is

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2014-05-29 at 22:26 +0200, Gour wrote: > Andrei POPESCU writes: > > > If there's a lighter weight DE I'd like to know. > > http://i3wm.org/ A tiling WM isn't a DE. Regarding to this https://l3net.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/cmp-all4.png comparing MB, JWM is as lightweight as i3, but th

Re: Cloning hdds of different sizes

2014-05-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2014-05-29 at 22:05 +0300, Catalin Soare wrote: > dd was running like so: dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sda. #!/bin/sh dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sda echo "dd exit status: $?" >> dd.log exit Assumed the exit status isn't 0, there was an error. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 29 May 2014 19:04:13 +0200, Steve Litt wrote: Tony, do you know of any documentation or other evidence of how Openbox, Xfce, LXDE, IceWM, and fvwm2 stack up against each other as far as "lightness"? What's your definition of lightness? WM/DE Memory (MB): https://l3net.files.wordpress

Re: What is the difference between linux-image-amd64 and linux-image-3.2.0.4-amd64?

2014-05-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
"dep: linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64" - https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/linux-image-amd64 linux-image-amd64 is a meta-package, that installs linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64. If you install the meta-package, I guess an update of the meta-package will replace linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64, if there should be a

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2014-05-29 at 06:43 +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > 2014-05-29 6:27 GMT+02:00 Ralf Mardorf : > On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 20:15 -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > > jwm, openbox, wmii, tritium, etc., are window managers that might > > reduce your load. > >

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 14:24 -0700, tom arnall wrote: > debian over ubuntu hands down for speed and for efficient resources > utilization. it's a harder install, but for me well worth the extra > work. This claim is nonsense. Upstart likely will shorten the startup for Ubuntu, even while it might s

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 20:15 -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > jwm, openbox, wmii, tritium, etc., are window managers that might reduce > your load. Correct, however, it doesn't matter if you run JWM or KDE4, when just using a browser, on an averaged dual-core machine. There won't be noticeable performa

Re: Assange and NSA

2014-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 17:54 +0200, Diogene Laerce wrote: > Ok it seems that nobody is feeling really threaten by the NSA That's something completely different. In Germany we are aware that the NSA does absolutely control German Internet nodes. The German Internet is not German, it's American. Not

Re: Assange and NSA

2014-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 17:25 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 11:20 -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: > > On 05/27/2014 11:13 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 17:02 +0200, Slavko wrote: > > >> Ahoj, > > >> > > >&

Re: Assange and NSA

2014-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 11:20 -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: > On 05/27/2014 11:13 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 17:02 +0200, Slavko wrote: > >> Ahoj, > >> > >> Dňa Tue, 27 May 2014 16:21:50 +0200 Diogene Laerce > >> napísal: > >&g

Re: Assange and NSA

2014-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 17:02 +0200, Slavko wrote: > Ahoj, > > Dňa Tue, 27 May 2014 16:21:50 +0200 Diogene Laerce > napísal: > > > Hi, > > > > Maybe I missed the thread : I wasn't there for a while but I would > > like to have your advice on that article : > > > > http://igurublog.wordpress.com/

Re: Assange and NSA

2014-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 09:41 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > The title of the blog tells you all you need to know. JFTR the article includes a link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owned. Anyway, I already at the beginning of the Julian Assange affair got the impression, that Julian Assange isn't worki

Re: repeatable dpkg-buildpackage

2014-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
"Note that when building a headers package you must run the entire make-kpkg command under fakeroot: you can't use the --rootcmd fakeroot option in this case." - https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/10/msg2.html So I'm 50% mistaken and 50% right ;). I anyway need to run my scripts as root

Re: 'Authentication is required' while mounting drives in any Window Manager

2014-05-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 22:57 +0600, Muntasim Ul Haque wrote: > I tried several Window Manager and all of them have the same problem: > while mounting any drive, they show an error saying 'authentication is > required. Failed to mount drive.' Now what's the solution? While > mounting in any Deskto

OT: repeatable dpkg-buildpackage

2014-05-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 12:40 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 18:58 +0400, Reco wrote: > >> > >> fakeroot > > > > ... regarding to some claims on this list is a PITA, at least when

OT: GNOME-Terminal is blank or inactive in Awesome WM on Debian 7

2014-05-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 11:21 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Mon, 26 May 2014 09:55:14 +0100 > Joe wrote: > > > > Another possibility is that it is working fine, but with black text. > > No, I'm not joking, I've seen this more than once. You could try > > typing the name of an application you know

Re: repeatable dpkg-buildpackage

2014-05-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 18:58 +0400, Reco wrote: > fakeroot ... regarding to some claims on this list is a PITA, at least when building a kernel. I run my scripts to build kernel-rts as root. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: want to revert back to gnome classic mode.

2014-05-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-05-25 at 18:09 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > I don't know how to tell. I could find no place to set the xfce window > manager, and I didn't want to change something on the openbox settings > and then restart X or Openbox, because I just have too many windows > open and too much to do. >

Re: want to revert back to gnome classic mode.

2014-05-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-05-25 at 00:27 +0200, Filip wrote: > On Sat, 24 May 2014 21:50:32 +0200 > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Sat, 2014-05-24 at 15:34 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > feh to set the root window to a nice background image. > > > > I use feh --bg-scale

Re: rapidly proliferating sess files in /tmp, eating inodes

2014-05-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-05-25 at 00:04 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2014-05-24 at 22:31 +0100, Padraig Rocks wrote: > > > If one has an objection to using google (privacy, tracking, cookies) > > is it not a little hypocritical to use Startpage which is still > > relying

Re: rapidly proliferating sess files in /tmp, eating inodes

2014-05-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-05-24 at 22:31 +0100, Padraig Rocks wrote: > If one has an objection to using google (privacy, tracking, cookies) > is it not a little hypocritical to use Startpage which is still > relying on Google search anyway ? Yesno, it is and it isn't at the same time, if you ask this questio

Re: want to revert back to gnome classic mode.

2014-05-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-05-24 at 14:30 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > On Sat, 24 May 2014 23:09:04 +0200 > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > > > xfe > > > > Nice, I didn't know it. I likely will use it in the future. > > > > > > > &g

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