How to reinstall without loosing configurations?

2019-06-02 Thread Aldo Maggi
Last time I've reinstalled was in 2005 after a failure of Jfs (luckily I had the backup of my files), from them on I've just kept updating and upgrading. It is a couple of years, though, that some programs do not work properly, for instance Firefox (doesn't keep the correct spacing between lines,

Xfce4 - uninstalled pulseaudio - no volume control for alsa for the panel

2018-07-04 Thread Aldo Maggi
As for the Subject, I' ve uninstalled pulseaudio because after an upgrade I couldn't hear anything from the speakers (it happened already in the past more than once). Now I have audio again but it appears that there is no plugin for alsa to use in the lower panel. I've installed "volti", it

Re: Claws-mail - which plugin for html mails?

2018-06-29 Thread Aldo Maggi
Thank you, Hans! But I think that package is obsolete, in fact it appears in Precise Pangolin 12.04, furthermore the package refers to claws-mail 3.8.0, my version is 3.16.0 What I find very strange (I should be used to strange things since I'm Italian :-D ) is that I do not see the reason to

Re: Claws-mail - which plugin for html mails?

2018-06-29 Thread Aldo Maggi
it. Thanks Aldo Il giorno Fri, 29 Jun 2018 08:24:36 -0400 Greg Wooledge ha scritto: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 10:05:47AM +0200, Aldo Maggi wrote: > > Ok, I understand your point, but, I wonder, are you using just lynx > > or links2 for going on Internet? The problems you correctl

Re: Claws-mail - which plugin for html mails?

2018-06-29 Thread Aldo Maggi
Ok, I understand your point, but, I wonder, are you using just lynx or links2 for going on Internet? The problems you correctly point out are not the same with Chromium, Firefox etc.? Thanks Aldo Il giorno Thu, 28 Jun 2018 08:18:44 +0100 Ben Oliver ha scritto: > On 18-06-28 08:37:59,

Re: Claws-mail - which plugin for html mails?

2018-06-29 Thread Aldo Maggi
Ok, I understand your point, but, I wonder, are you using just lynx or links2 for going on Internet? The problems you correctly point out are not the same with Chromium, Firefox etc.? Thanks Aldo Il giorno Thu, 28 Jun 2018 08:18:44 +0100 Ben Oliver ha scritto: > On 18-06-28 08:37:59,

Claws-mail - which plugin for html mails?

2018-06-27 Thread Aldo Maggi
It is now more than one year I have to manually send html content to a browser to see it I know that fancy plugin, which formerly did that job very well automatically, was dismissed because of problems of security with a library, I remember, though, that, formerly, dillo-plugin existed, and BTW

Claws-mail, why dillo-plugin is not available? (I use testing)

2018-06-21 Thread Aldo Maggi
It is now more than one year I have to manually send html content to a browser to see it I know that fancy plugin, which formerly did that job very well automatically, was dismissed because of problems of security with a library, I remember, though, that, formerly, dillo-plugin existed, and BTW

Re: Claws-mail no plugin for html

2018-03-18 Thread Aldo Maggi
Maybe you are right! thank you, Aldo :-) Il giorno Sun, 18 Mar 2018 17:28:53 + Brad Rogers <b...@fineby.me.uk> ha scritto: > On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 18:12:42 +0100 > Aldo Maggi <sentini...@virgilio.it> wrote: > > Hello Aldo, > > >Before disinstalling a pr

Claws-mail no plugin for html

2018-03-18 Thread Aldo Maggi
I'm using Debian testing It is now almost one year that no plugin for viewing html mails exists for claws-mail. To be frank if I wanted just to read text mails I'd be still using mutt. I understand that the fancy plugin (which was formerly in use) has been abandoned because it used a webkit

[SOLVED]Re: My site has become unreachable when I've implemented SSL

2018-02-20 Thread Aldo Maggi
I've edited /etc/hosts adding a line where I put the IP address of the server and the name of site. Now everything works with SSL :-) Thank you to all, Aldo Il giorno Tue, 20 Feb 2018 21:23:52 +0100 Aldo Maggi <sentini...@virgilio.it> ha scritto: > Thank you for answering! > I'm

Re: My site has become unreachable when I've implemented SSL

2018-02-20 Thread Aldo Maggi
com" from a Lan computer, the connection is refused. I think it is a "ufw" problem but I do not know what to check. Thank you anyway, Aldo :-) Il giorno Mon, 19 Feb 2018 21:08:34 -0500 Bob Weber <bobrwe...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > On 2/19/18 2:54 PM, Aldo Maggi wr

Re: My site has become unreachable when I've implemented SSL

2018-02-19 Thread Aldo Maggi
012/apc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0 Il giorno Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:48:25 -0500 Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> ha scritto: > On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 06:36:01PM +0100, Aldo Maggi wrote: > > Anyway, now if I browse writing my IP

My site has become unreachable when I've implemented SSL

2018-02-19 Thread Aldo Maggi
I had my site on my pc and I didn't use SSL, I've bought a small home server and have decided to move my site there. I did everything from the beginning (to be frank, with the help of Google!) So, I've installed MariaDb, Apache2 and PHP7.x and got to the point to see the Apache2 default page both

Re: parted is ALMOST suitable

2016-11-07 Thread Aldo Maggi
[snip] file -s /dev/sda{1..5} | awk '{print $5}' I was just about to post a very similar followup when I discovered a gaping security hole (really, about as big as it gets) on my machine: snowball:404$ ls -l /dev/sda2 brw-rw-rw- 1 root root 8, 2 Nov 7 07:54 /dev/sda2 I use stretch, but

dselect, init and systemd-sysv

2016-01-17 Thread Aldo Maggi
Yesterday while updating my system via dselect (I'm using testing) I've received the warning that "init and systemd-sysv" were going to be uninstalled and I had to approve or deny that action. I've thought that as in previous cases (to be frank not recently but many years ago) there was a

dselect, init and systemd-sysv

2016-01-17 Thread Aldo Maggi
Yesterday while updating my system via dselect (I'm using testing) I've received the warning that "init and systemd-sysv" were going to be uninstalled and I had to approve or deny that action. I've thought that as in previous cases (to be frank not recently but many years ago) there was a

MB ASUS H97M-PLUS

2014-05-28 Thread Aldo Maggi
I want to upgrade my pc, the seller has proposed the above mobo, is anyone using it? compatibility problems? thanks aldo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

chromium doesn't open acroread but the gnome preview

2014-01-14 Thread Aldo Maggi
after an update some months ago, pdf and jpg files started to be opened by gnome preview instead of geeqie and acroread. i use xfce and find gnome preview not very useful because i can print only, not save files were i like. how can i change this behavieur? thanks aldo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

cups - pc in my home lan cannot see the printer after upgrade

2006-08-29 Thread Aldo Maggi
etch runs on my home server, a printer, hp deskjet 5550, is connected to it up to a couple of months ago the other two pc's in my home lan could print on it. after an upgrade it is not any longer the case, indeed when i try to print from them, the name of the printer is not any longer showed in

mount a partition on a dir in the home of a user

2005-05-15 Thread aldo maggi
i use debian sid recently i resized /dev/hda1 (winxp preinstalled in the notebook) in order to have more space available for my documents (my debian is on /dev/hda4) the new partition, /dev/hda5, should be mounted on /home/myuser/documents, a dir which has permissions 770 and owner myuser.myuser i

framebuffer and zsnes

2002-01-30 Thread Aldo Maggi
i use woody, video card matrox millennium g200 agp, kernel 2.4.17 about one month ago i recompiled my kernel in order to activate framebuffer. now my console shows more pleasant char. and i can look at my photos by fbi (though i prefer zgv) some days ago i downloaded the zsnes .deb pkg in order

Can't locate module char-major-10-135

2002-01-29 Thread Aldo Maggi
my distr. is debian woody looking into /var/log/syslog i've found the following line: Jan 29 01:27:05 debian modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-10-135 what should i check in order to settle the matter? thanks aldo -- un newbie per i newbie:

RE: java and other plug-ins in galeon

2002-01-28 Thread Aldo Maggi
[snip] plugins. I also cant figure out which package to install to get the java plugin either. Can anyone help me to get this working. Thanks put in your sources.list the blackdown.org ftp, update, then download the most recent jre deb package, install it, it will do the job aldo --

zsnes: cannot get it work

2002-01-25 Thread Aldo Maggi
i have downloaded zsnes from debian (my son is already using it under win) but my problem is that when i run : zsnes mario.smc (or aerofighter.smc) i can see the starting screen but it flickers (i do not know if it is the right word, i mean the image moves quickly up and down and viceversa). my

help with zgv e svgalib

2001-12-04 Thread Aldo Maggi
my distro is woody - video card matrox mill g200 agp i am trying to utilize programs written for svgalib my problem is that when i run zgv -j photo.jpg i do not get any error but the photo does not show up and the screen remains desolately black i looked int zgv and libvga.conf manuals but could

jslaunch and sound card game port

2001-12-04 Thread Aldo Maggi
i am running woody i would like to make use of jslaunch as a last resort possibility to have a clean shutdown. i went into the man and twickled with options but no joystick button is catched by jslaunch --showbuttons the joystick is connected through the game port of my sound card sb 16 pnp my

woody and mozilla 0.9.5

2001-12-04 Thread Aldo Maggi
i am running woody a week ago i upgraded to mozilla 0.9.5 making use of the deb pkg in woody. three times, while searching in googles and in debian site, mozilla froze everything, the keyboard included. i waited a quarter of an hour but i did not have other chance but reset the box. is that a bug

RE: RE: Preparing audio cd's for burning

2001-12-03 Thread Aldo Maggi
Thanks for your reply. This isn't entirely what I'm looking for. I currently have a collection of wav files on my HD, and I'd like to prepare a cd-image of an audio cd, which I will burn to disc later. I don't think cdrdao can do this? maybe i do not understand entirely your problem, i can just

RE: Preparing audio cd's for burning

2001-12-03 Thread Aldo Maggi
I've tried this, but the burn process failed 4 times (leaving me with 4 nice coasters ;)). I'd like to try to burn a cd-image of the audio cd, instead of several seperate wav files. So far, I haven't found a way to do this. In short: 12 wav files - 1 image - 1 audio cd instead of 12 wav files - 1

matrox g200 and snes9x

2001-12-03 Thread Aldo Maggi
i use woody - my video card is matrox mill g200 agp 8m xfree 4.1 works well though from time to time it crashes but my problem is that snes9x doesn't work as well as in windows: backgrounds do not slide as smoothly as in win. i wonder if that could be due to my card not being utilized at its

Re: What's up with the list?

2001-05-20 Thread Aldo Maggi
* sabato 19 maggio 2001, alle 19:20, John Willey scrive: Now, I appreciate seeing the word die and Outlook in the same sentence as much as the next guy, but why are all the messages on this list suddenly in German? as from yesterday evening it is the same for me:-( aldo -- altra e-mail:

Re: mutt and mailinglists

2001-05-13 Thread Aldo Maggi
* sabato 12 maggio 2001, alle 14:10, chris scrive: hi, i just wann ask, howto tell my mutt that it saves all the mail from this mailing list automaticly in a seperate mailbox? you have to configure procmail aldo -- Odi et amo, quare id faciam fortasse requiris? nescio sed fieri