On Mon, 27 Jan 2014, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> [snip]
>
> I have MATE running, evidently very nicely, on a home wheezy
> machine, so _real soon now_ I will put it on my new wheezy on the
> vpn. I looked at cinnamon but, unlike MATE, they have not yet seen
> fit to create a repo of debs that I cou
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014, Patrick Bartek wrote:
Or does your VPS use the system's hardware you're logging in from
to display the VPS desktop?
Yes.
Do you own the hardware your VPS runs on...
No.
or does a "service" and you just purchase space.
Yes. Since I think they do a bang-up job, here'
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jan 2014, Patrick Bartek wrote:
>
> > Your system probably older, and lacks the hardware requirements to
> > run GNOME 3 -- mine does, too -- and hence it drops to fallback
> > mode. The problem is usually the graphics card.
>
> My machine,
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014, Patrick Bartek wrote:
Your system probably older, and lacks the hardware requirements to run
GNOME 3 -- mine does, too -- and hence it drops to fallback mode. The
problem is usually the graphics card.
My machine, a "virtual private server," has NO video card. I even
ran
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> I just upgraded squeeze to wheezy on a remote vps host, a "Linode."
> Gnome will only launch as far as running the session provided by the
> gnome-session-fallback' package.
>
> Prior to installing _that_ package gnome's failure was sufficiently
> ha
I just upgraded squeeze to wheezy on a remote vps host, a "Linode."
Gnome will only launch as far as running the session provided by the
gnome-session-fallback' package.
Prior to installing _that_ package gnome's failure was sufficiently
hard to prevent the vpn server on the host from launchin
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 11:59:28AM +, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 00:39:47 +1300
> Chris Bannister wrote:
>
> Hello Chris,
>
> >keep my own version of the config file, which led to my crisis.
> >Now if I had known to compare the new '/etc/vim/vimrc' with my one ...
>
> IDK what
On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 00:39:47 +1300
Chris Bannister wrote:
Hello Chris,
>keep my own version of the config file, which led to my crisis.
>Now if I had known to compare the new '/etc/vim/vimrc' with my one ...
IDK what it was like then, but nowadays you're asked if you wish to view
the difference
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 07:53:28PM -0500, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> Why oh why do I ever choose the package maintainer's config for a
> package I have already config'd? It's one of those questions that
> plagues perennial philosophy. But I digress...
It can bite you both ways! e.g. if a major new ver
On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 19:53:28 -0500 (EST)
Bob Bernstein wrote:
>
> Why oh why do I ever choose the package maintainer's config for a
> package I have already config'd? It's one of those questions that
> plagues perennial philosophy.
Because sometimes if you don't, things break badly.
Upgradi
When we last left Bob he was preparing to upgrade a host from
squeeze to wheezy, using apt-get. That has been on the whole a
roaring success, with only a sprinkling of issues -- the usual
headache with dovecot, due *entirely* to pilot error.
Why oh why do I ever choose the package maintainer
11 matches
Mail list logo
