Re: Debian Security Tracker down (503)

2021-11-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/01/2021 02:46 AM, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: Hello, Are you aware of any maintenance on https://security-tracker.debian.org? It's currently down: "Error 503 Backend unavailable, connection timeout" Thank you in advance & Best regards, l0f4r0 It's up now.

Re: Missing posts at https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/05/mail2.html

2021-10-23 Thread Richard Owlett
On 10/23/2021 10:06 AM, Boyuan Yang wrote: Hi, 在 2021-10-23星期六的 09:32 -0500,Richard Owlett写道: For May 21 https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/05/mail2.html shows *ONLY* 8 posts in *ONLY* threads for that date. That should read "... in *ONLY* 3 threads ..." My local copy in

Missing posts at https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/05/mail2.html

2021-10-23 Thread Richard Owlett
For May 21 https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/05/mail2.html shows *ONLY* 8 posts in *ONLY* threads for that date. My local copy in SeaMonkey shows 25 posts in 10 threads.

Re: Please fix the packages search

2021-06-16 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/16/2021 06:36 PM, iio7 wrote: Hi, There is a major problem with the search feature on packages.debian.org It's impossible to search for packages with small names. Try searching for "php" in order to determine what package versions are available and you get: Error keyword too short

Re: Odd link behavior from https://manpages.debian.org/buster/apt/apt-cdrom.8.en.html

2021-06-13 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/12/2021 07:38 PM, Paul Wise wrote: On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 11:56 AM Richard Owlett wrote: When I click on *ANY* of the links from https://manpages.debian.org/buster/apt/apt-cdrom.8.en.html I never finish connecting. I cannot reproduce this issue myself (using Firefox ESR

Odd link behavior from https://manpages.debian.org/buster/apt/apt-cdrom.8.en.html

2021-06-12 Thread Richard Owlett
My browser is SeaMonkey { Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49.4} My OS is Debian 9.13 When I click on *ANY* of the links from https://manpages.debian.org/buster/apt/apt-cdrom.8.en.html I never finish connecting. However if I enter the reference

WHAT is CDN - was {Re: https://www.debian.org/mirror/list debian.inode.at 403 Forbidden}

2021-03-18 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/12/2021 08:49 PM, Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 4:54 PM mx vx wrote: The mirror debian.inode.at is not working any more. Please report a bug against the 'mirrors' package in order to get it removed: https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting Please note that Debian recommends

Re: Automatic grub-update

2021-02-18 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/18/2021 04:58 AM, Dr Ananda Amatya wrote: I am a Debian newbe. I am using debian in an old IBM ThinkPad(T43). I update the ssytem using sudo apt update regularly. When I receive mwssages of new package updates I go into superuser mode and use apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. Lately I

Re: Problem with new www.debian.org

2020-12-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 12/24/2020 07:36 AM, Carsten Schoenert wrote: Hello Richard, Am 24.12.20 um 14:02 schrieb Richard Owlett: I know graphics on homepages are currently popular. *BUT* I find it much less useful that the old version. I used the old version as an obvious index to the site. and *what

Problem with new www.debian.org

2020-12-24 Thread Richard Owlett
I know graphics on homepages are currently popular. *BUT* I find it much less useful that the old version. I used the old version as an obvious index to the site. Pretty pictures don't serve as well. Many home pages include a link to a "site index". As debian.org is a very large/complex site a

Re: Need a command

2020-06-13 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/12/2020 10:13 PM, sebul wrote: Is your question debian www related? It's not. He is running Kali. He posted to debian-user. 2020년 6월 13일 (토) 12:00, ROHIT SONI 님이 작성: Hello sir My linux window last command not found Processing triggers for sgml-base (1.30)

Re: No information on "os-prober" package available

2020-06-08 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/08/2020 06:12 AM, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Mon, 2020-06-08 at 05:30 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: But there is a documentation problem. https://dyn.manpages.debian.org/jump?q=os-prober responds Manpage not found Sorry, the manpage “os-prober” was not found! Did you spell it correctly

Re: No information on "os-prober" package available

2020-06-08 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/08/2020 01:16 AM, Tomas Pospisek wrote: On 08.06.20 04:40, Detlef Lechner wrote: Hi. I called in Debian stable in Firefox the website https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=%22os-prober%22=names=all=all=mozilla-search and received the ANSWER: "Error. Suchbegriff ungültig oder nicht

Re: web site link down

2020-06-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/01/2020 02:33 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi Jim! On Mon, 1 Jun 2020 10:33:55 +1000 Jim Dunn wrote: Hey, just wanted to report this link (wiki) down: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases Thx! Jim The link https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases is working fine here (firefox, linux,

Re: Problem at https://packages.debian.org/buster/timeshift

2020-02-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/27/2020 08:12 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 02/26/2020 04:13 AM, Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 9:29 AM Richard Owlett wrote: I followed the link. And, needing more information, I clicked on "Homepage [teejeetech.blogspot.in]" and received the message: Yo

Re: Problem at https://packages.debian.org/buster/timeshift

2020-02-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/26/2020 04:13 AM, Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 9:29 AM Richard Owlett wrote: I followed the link. And, needing more information, I clicked on "Homepage [teejeetech.blogspot.in]" and received the message: You're about to be redirected The blog that used to be h

Problem at https://packages.debian.org/buster/timeshift

2020-02-26 Thread Richard Owlett
A recent post made reference to "timeshift". I had no idea of what it was. Due to context I searched packages.debian.org which identified it as "buster (stable) (utils): System restore utility". I followed the link. And, needing more information, I clicked on "Homepage

Re: Debian website

2020-02-21 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/21/2020 02:37 AM, Thomas Lange wrote: We are working on a new design for the startpage and a few subpages. See https://debian-newhomepage.larjona.net/ for the current status. This does not redesign all pages, but makes the front page much nicer. It's not yet published, because we still

Re: Wiki Down/Misconfigured

2020-02-11 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/10/2020 06:27 PM, Colin Murphy wrote: It looks like the Wiki is down. Page is throwing a 403 error at my end. See attached screenshot https://i.imgur.com/KO1FZkB.png https://wiki.debian.org/ works for me

Re: Bug#944932: www.debian.org: certain pages on www.debian.org are 403 Forbidden

2019-11-18 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/18/2019 03:03 PM, Thomas Lange wrote: I've tried https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.debian.org%2Fsecurity=%28detect+automatically%29=Inline=0 and it gets a 403 Forbidden. So when this service tries to access www.debian.org/security it gets an 403.

Re: Bug#944932: www.debian.org: certain pages on www.debian.org are 403 Forbidden

2019-11-18 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/18/2019 02:53 PM, Christopher Cooper wrote: This should be fixed now, thanks for the report. I'm still seeing 403s for https://www.debian.org/security and some subdirectories (e.g. /security/dsa-long). Christopher Cooper I just clicked the link. No error.

Re: new Debian homepage: request for review

2019-10-09 Thread Richard Owlett
On 10/08/2019 08:05 AM, Carsten Schoenert wrote: Hello Richard, Am 08.10.19 um 14:05 schrieb Richard Owlett: english/index.wml (complete rewrite) english/more.wml (new page) english/intro/why_debian.wml (I completely rewrote this page) You can see the new homepage

Re: new Debian homepage: request for review

2019-10-08 Thread Richard Owlett
On 10/07/2019 03:56 PM, la...@debian.org wrote: Hi all, before starting the translations of the new homepage I like to ask for review from native speakers. Following pages in the new-homepage branch (g...@salsa.debian.org:webmaster-team/webwml.git) needs to be reviewed: english/index.wml

Re: Cannot believe I have to use Google to find the Debian test ISO's

2019-09-20 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/19/2019 04:10 PM, Thomas Lange wrote: On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:49:41 -0400, Boyuan Yang said: > I remember that have long been ongoing efforts in rewriting the Download page > as another separate branch in the webwml repo and I'm wondering about its > progress. There's a

Re: https://www.debian.org/ CONCEALS existence of https://manpages.debian.org/

2019-04-30 Thread Richard Owlett
here about ongoing work to improve the website, I thought it was something that should be addressed. If you are viewing www.debian.org/doc/ in another language without the link to manpages.debian.org, please let us know and we can fix it together with the corresponding translation team. -- Thank

https://www.debian.org/ CONCEALS existence of https://manpages.debian.org/

2019-04-28 Thread Richard Owlett
I was just working with a clean install of Debian. Important implication -- my browser had no access to my extensive set of bookmarks. I needed to refresh my memory on the syntax of a specific command. I went to https://www.debian.org/ . Reference to man-pages *MIA* There should be a

Bug#919634: wiki.debian.org: https://wiki.debian.org/ down

2019-01-18 Thread Richard Owlett
As of the time of this post the wiki seems to be working fine. I browse with SeaMonkey on Debian Stretch (i386) [User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49.4 Build identifier: 20180711182954] On 01/18/2019 12:01 AM, Howard Johnson wrote:

Re: Pages once found on "alioth.debian.org" -- Where?

2018-12-10 Thread Richard Owlett
On 12/10/2018 06:48 AM, Brian Potkin wrote: On Mon 10 Dec 2018 at 05:54:09 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: It has been suggested I investigate vmdebootstrap. https://packages.debian.org/stable/vmdebootstrap says the homepage link is https://vmdebootstrap.alioth.debian.org/ which gives

Pages once found on "alioth.debian.org" -- Where?

2018-12-10 Thread Richard Owlett
It has been suggested I investigate vmdebootstrap. https://packages.debian.org/stable/vmdebootstrap says the homepage link is https://vmdebootstrap.alioth.debian.org/ which gives a "Page Load Error". How do find ages formerly on "alioth.debian.org"? TIA

Re: search problem on historical.packages.debian.org ?

2018-11-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/01/2018 05:16 AM, Holger Wansing wrote: Hi, Matija Nalis wrote: Hi, trying any search on https://historical.packages.debian.org/ produces error: 404 Not Found The requested URL /cgi-bin/dispatcher.fcgi/search was not found on this server. Apache Server at

Re: how fedora overhauled their website

2018-08-04 Thread Richard Owlett
On 08/04/2018 08:04 AM, Thomas Lange wrote: Just an information how fedora cleaned up and reorganized their web pages. JFTR in case we want to do the same in the far future. https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-docs-overhaul/ That link could be valuable in the near term also for the links

Re: A directory tree of www.debian.org/doc/ ?

2018-03-10 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/10/2018 06:09 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, On Sat, Mar 03, 2018 at 05:17:18PM +0100, Laura Arjona Reina wrote: Hello Richard El 02/03/18 a las 15:19, Richard Owlett escribió: By a convoluted set of links, I arrived at Well please be specific. The current point of referral should

A directory tree of www.debian.org/doc/ ?

2018-03-02 Thread Richard Owlett
By a convoluted set of links, I arrived at That page did not have the specific details I wanted. However its format suggested how to organize some data I already had. I went up a level to Unfortunately clicking on "Parent Directory" led me to a HTML document, not a list of sister

Re: I do not want to install Linux

2018-02-07 Thread Richard Owlett
[Reply-to ] Good afternoon. You chose the wrong list for your particular question. Don't worry about it, it frequently happens. This list is specifically for: Web pages design and maintenance Design, structure and translation of Debian web pages. All important

Re: Problem link from https://manpages.debian.org/

2017-09-23 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/23/2017 04:56 AM, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Sat, 2017-09-23 at 04:31 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I was having problems getting some man pages. Attempting to diagnose my problem I went to " 4.Browse the repository index:" . I clicked on the links titled Debian stretch

Re: Problem link from https://manpages.debian.org/

2017-09-23 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/23/2017 04:57 AM, Paul Wise wrote: On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 5:31 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: I clicked on the links titled Debian stretch <https://manpages.debian.org/contents-stretch.html> Debian stretch-backports <https://manpages.debian.org/content

Problem link from https://manpages.debian.org/

2017-09-23 Thread Richard Owlett
I was having problems getting some man pages. Attempting to diagnose my problem I went to " 4.Browse the repository index:" . I clicked on the links titled Debian stretch Debian stretch-backports

FYI: Site FAILURE at https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages

2017-05-21 Thread Richard Owlett
I was looking for man page for "apt-get" I went to https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages Entered "apt-get" in search box. On multiple tries I was sent to https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=stable=all=any=names=apt-get The result was always You have searched for packages that names

Re: Questions prompted by {Re: (no) link to release notes for testing/stretch}

2017-05-20 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/19/2017 08:05 PM, Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 7:31 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: 2. Is there a document (or blog or ??) targeted at someone using a "testing" release for the first time. My interest relates to the move from MySQL to Mariadb - I've already been pointe

Questions prompted by {Re: (no) link to release notes for testing/stretch}

2017-05-19 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/18/2017 09:51 PM, Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 7:00 AM, Selim T. Erdoğan wrote: It would be very helpful for https://www.debian.org/releases/testing/ to have a link to https://www.debian.org/releases/testing/releasenotes and for The template for in-progress releases

Broken link on https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleaseFAQ

2017-04-19 Thread Richard Owlett
Yes, I know it is a wiki - but I don't know the topic. The line "Real i386 info: http://higgs.djpig.de/upgrade-i386/; gives an 'Address Not Found' error.

https://manpages.debian.org/ - PARTIAL breakage

2017-02-23 Thread Richard Owlett
I just went to https://manpages.debian.org/ and entered chroot in the search box. It sent me to https://manpages.debian.org/jessie/manpages-es-extra/chroot.1.es.html . But I don't speak Spanish. To verify it was not a problem on my end I searched for debootstrap. It correctly sent me to

NOW WORING - was [Re: manpages.debian.org Down?]

2017-01-11 Thread Richard Owlett
The site is now accessible. Fast work. On 1/11/2017 6:52 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I just tried to read a several man pages via https://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi . The error message is: The connection was refused when attempting to contact manpages.debian.org. I had no problems ~ 1

manpages.debian.org Down?

2017-01-11 Thread Richard Owlett
I just tried to read a several man pages via https://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi . The error message is: The connection was refused when attempting to contact manpages.debian.org. I had no problems ~ 1 hour ago. No problem accessing other pages on debian.org .

Re: hello

2017-01-08 Thread Richard Owlett
On 1/9/2017 12:01 AM, Ritesh Kakkar wrote: I have problem with debian please tell how to install? We need more information such as your machine, what version you are using, and a description of your problem. This question is more appropriate on debian-user

Broken link on https://wiki.debian.org/iptables

2017-01-04 Thread Richard Owlett
Yes, it is a wiki, but I don't know enough of the subject to suggest another link. There is a link under "Iptables Basics:" leading to http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Security/IPtables_Basics.html . TIA

Re: Possible error on https://wiki.debian.org/Mate

2016-12-08 Thread Richard Owlett
On 12/7/2016 8:15 PM, Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 11:10 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: Under the heading To install MATE, do the following: MATE just core it states: "apt-get install mate-desktop-environment-core" When I installed Jessie I found it necessary to in

Possible error on https://wiki.debian.org/Mate

2016-12-07 Thread Richard Owlett
Yes, it is a wiki. But I'd be doing no favor if ... ;/ Under the heading To install MATE, do the following: MATE just core it states: "apt-get install mate-desktop-environment-core" When I installed Jessie I found it necessary to include xorg. [The wiki page had said "If no graphical

Re: How To Spread Open Source

2016-11-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/24/2016 9:28 PM, Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 11:59 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: I wish I'd known of that link. I suspect it will answer questions I didn't know just how to ask. My I suggest it appear under the "Documentation" heading on https://www.debian.org, o

Re: How To Spread Open Source

2016-11-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/24/2016 5:51 AM, Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 6:59 PM, Tomas Pospisek wrote: I think that's a good idea. Now someone has to do the work. Do you want to have a try at implementing your idea? I expect the person you are replying to probably isn't subscribed. Luckily at least

Re: BROKEN LINK from https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apbs04.html.en#preseed-partman

2016-11-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/23/2016 12:15 PM, Holger Wansing wrote: Hi, Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote: In the third paragraph under the heading "B.4.7. Partitioning" there is a broken link. "debian-installer source repository" points to http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?

BROKEN LINK from https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apbs04.html.en#preseed-partman

2016-11-23 Thread Richard Owlett
In the third paragraph under the heading "B.4.7. Partitioning" there is a broken link. "debian-installer source repository" points to http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=d-i/debian-installer.git;a=tree;f=doc/devel . That gives a 404 error page which states "No such project". Also that

Re:

2016-09-14 Thread Richard Owlett
The primary language of this list is English. You may wish to use https://lists.debian.org/debian-user-french/ On 9/14/2016 7:22 AM, yves koekelkoren wrote: Bonjour, dans la section wifi je trouve ceci: 1. Vérifiez que votre compte utilisateur fait bien partie du groupe netdev .

Re: Debian "man pages" not available

2016-09-08 Thread Richard Owlett
On 9/8/2016 4:58 AM, Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 5:50 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: In the interim, are Debian version of man pages available elsewhere on the net. Some will be different but most will be the same in the Ubuntu manual pages: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/ Thank you

Re: Debian "man pages" not available

2016-09-08 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/12/2016 3:59 AM, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino wrote: On 12 August 2016 at 10:11, Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net <mailto:rowl...@cloud85.net>> wrote: For more than last 12 hours http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi <http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin

Debian "man pages" not available

2016-08-12 Thread Richard Owlett
For more than last 12 hours http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi gives a 404 error http://manpages.debian.org/ yields page saying: " Welcome to glinka! This is glinka, a system run by and for the Debian Project. She does stuff. What kind of stuff and who our kind sponsors are you might

Re: Bug#819664: Re-organise the CD / download pages to make them more useful

2016-04-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 4/1/2016 4:51 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: [snip] Probably the FAQ could be eliminated by addressing most of the entries in the text? Yes, I think so, but in subsidiary pages. I'd like to keep the *first* download page as simple as possible, with the "more..." links for any more details that

Re: Search error on packages.debian.org

2016-01-14 Thread Richard Owlett
On 1/14/2016 3:00 AM, Aurel Mihai wrote: Hello, search section doesn't work for jessie on https://packages.debian.org . For instance apache2 appears unavailable on jessie. https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=apache2=names=stable=all Thanks, That link worked for me just now. It

Re: Please Update Design Of Your website

2015-12-31 Thread Richard Owlett
On 12/31/2015 12:18 AM, lim...@openmailbox.org wrote: On 2015-12-30 21:57, Alex wrote: Hey Guys. It's been a while since you updated your website design. It's almost 2015. the time time to make website to look like more modern. as You know there are a few great CSS frameworks out there like

Re: website errors

2015-11-10 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/9/2015 8:45 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: [snip] After all this is clearly marked as (Obsolete Documentation) by me, there are many strange things. Our choices are * remove this documents * update it (volunteer?) * keep it as is with clear remark (current status) Speaking as a Linux newbie,

Re: website errors

2015-11-10 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/7/2015 6:28 AM, kajair babakhanloo wrote: *Hello, * *It Seems that there is a link on bellow url that redirects to a non-resolvable site: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/repository-howto/repository-howto.en.html The page is labeled "Obsolete Documentation" so that now broken links

Re: ALL manpages.debian.org copies of manpage re FSTAB(5) have a bad link

2015-11-02 Thread Richard Owlett
Paul Wise wrote: On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 3:08 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: A versions [squeeze through sid] have a line reading ... Please re-send your report to the manual page website maintainer: http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/info.html Contact information is at the bottom

Missing information at https://www.debian.org/CD/verify

2015-11-01 Thread Richard Owlett
First sentence says "Official releases of Debian CDs come with signed checksum files." However no indication given where to find those "checksum files". See thread at https://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2015/11/msg0.html .

ALL manpages.debian.org copies of manpage re FSTAB(5) have a bad link

2015-11-01 Thread Richard Owlett
A versions [squeeze through sid] have a line reading "The proper way to read records from fstab is to use the routines getmn-" . The next line begins with "tent(3)" ostensibly linking to a manpage for "tent(3)". See

HTML problem at https://www.debian.org/CD/

2015-11-01 Thread Richard Owlett
https://www.debian.org/CD/ evidently uses a mixture of relative and absolute positioning causing problems for the visually impaired. SeaMonkey allows me to force a minimum font size (in pixels) to make pages legible. The result is the boxes around the following text extend into the list of

Broken links at https://wiki.debian.org/PolicyKit

2015-10-04 Thread Richard Owlett
[Yes, I know its a wiki. But newbies should recognize limits ;] freedesktop.org project page for PolicyKit lists http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PolicyKit It should be http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/polkit PolicyKit Library Reference Manual lists

Broken link from https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/

2015-08-12 Thread Richard Owlett
Broken link from https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/ referring to http://www.cdrkit.org/ at wodim for CD optical media type: wodim -v dev=/dev/sr0 -eject -sao debian-x.y.z-arch-CD-NN.iso

Re: Stormfront Ventures, jbox.ca

2015-05-25 Thread Richard Owlett
Teddy wrote: I purchased Debian 8 32 bit DVD on May 3, 2015 from Stormfront Ventures and never received DVD. Poor replies on inquiries of purchase status. Open claim in PayPal. If proof needed can forward communication emails. I can not explicitly respond to your implicit complaint because:

Problems for new Debian users at www.debian.org

2015-05-14 Thread Richard Owlett
When I first saw Debian Squeeze I had no previous contact with *nix. Pursuing documentation I found that Linux in general, and Debian in particular encouraged customization for the job at hand. Recalling some initial problems I had discovering information I wanted and finding that I had

Re: Sell CD/DVD +USB?

2015-04-20 Thread Richard Owlett
Paul Wise wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 11:44 PM, Alexandre Delanoë wrote: after the mailing on cdvendors@d.o some CD vendors ask if we could add the USB support. Interesting, do you have an example of the USB sticks they are selling? I can give one example

Network timeouts reaching manpages.debian.org

2015-02-01 Thread Richard Owlett
For the approximately the last hour I've been unable to reach manpages.debian.org . The error message says network timeout. I have no problem reaching debian.org . Is this a site problem or something along the route? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

https://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/example-preseed.txt not consistent with https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apbs04.html.en

2014-04-04 Thread Richard Owlett
At the top of https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apbs04.html.en it says: /begin quote B.4. Contents of the preconfiguration file (for wheezy) The configuration fragments used in this appendix are also available as an example preconfiguration file from

Re: https://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/example-preseed.txt not consistent with https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apbs04.html.en

2014-04-04 Thread Richard Owlett
David Prévot wrote: Hi Richard, Thanks for your interest in the Installation Guide. Le 04/04/2014 04:25, Richard Owlett a écrit : At the top of https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apbs04.html.en it says: As stated in this document, “If you have problems or suggestions regarding

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch10

2014-02-22 Thread Richard Owlett
Ive noticed that https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch10 now completely omits section 10.3. The disk image. I found the former content at http://web.archive.org/web/20131224033423/http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch10 . How do I look up why this change

Re: No reference to wiki on Debian homepage

2014-01-24 Thread Richard Owlett
Brian Potkin wrote: On Thu 23 Jan 2014 at 08:13:34 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: I knew there was a Debian wiki but could not recall its URL. I went to http://www.debian.org/ and found no link to the wiki - https://wiki.debian.org/ I think such a link would be valuable. Someone else thought

No reference to wiki on Debian homepage

2014-01-23 Thread Richard Owlett
I knew there was a Debian wiki but could not recall its URL. I went to http://www.debian.org/ and found no link to the wiki - https://wiki.debian.org/ I think such a link would be valuable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Choosing default OS in multi boot system

2013-10-30 Thread Richard Owlett
I have a laptop physically set aside for _experimenting_ with install parameters to determine my optimum configuration. One install will duplicate as closely as possible whatever comes with some donated hardware for the church's after school program for pre-teens. The combination of running

Re: Choosing default OS in multi boot system

2013-10-30 Thread Richard Owlett
Richard Owlett wrote: [snip] Sorry, I clicked on wrong list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52710fad.70...@cloud85.net

http://manpages.debian.net/ - down/moved/discontinued?

2013-10-20 Thread Richard Owlett
http://manpages.debian.net/ has not responded in a couple of days. Is it a malfunction? Has it been moved? TIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

http://lists.debian.org/search.html is not functional

2013-04-27 Thread Richard Owlett
The same underlying bug is expressed on two pages: 1. http://lists.debian.org/search.html 2. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMailingLists/SearchHowto Bug #670947 was filed against http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMailingLists/SearchHowto with priority normal. I believe a higher priority bug

Re: Missing information on pages below http://packages.debian.org

2012-12-28 Thread Richard Owlett
Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 26 dec 12, 23:09:47, Richard Owlett wrote: If you are interested in helping review all the Debian package descriptions, please take a look at this project: http://wiki.debian.org/I18n/SmithReviewProject Not sure I've enough Debian experience to be much help

Missing information on pages below http://packages.debian.org

2012-12-26 Thread Richard Owlett
I use http://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/logtool and http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/debconf as examples. I am new to *nix generally and Debian in particular though I've been a computer user since the early 60's. Linux encourages the user to know what goes on under the hood. Several

Re: Missing information on pages below http://packages.debian.org

2012-12-26 Thread Richard Owlett
Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 2:44 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: Linux encourages the user to know what goes on under the hood. Several times on debian-u...@lists.debian.org I've been pointed to pages under this hierarchy. The results have been uniformly unsatisfying. The pages you