Re: do you find old firefox is better than new one?

2018-12-19 Thread Carl Fink
Solution to the DRM popup at the bottom of this thread: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1121195 -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com Thinking and logic and stuff at Reasonably Literate http://reasonablyliterate.com

Re: do you find old firefox is better than new one?

2018-12-16 Thread Carl Fink
l just the offending tab, without having to restart the browser entirely. Unfortunately, the mechanism involves using htop to identify the offending thread (it will generally be using 160% of CPU, somehow) and using kill -15. Disappointing. -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com Thinking

Re: Low-Cost Tablet PC suitable for Debian

2018-12-12 Thread Carl Fink
Crouton. (Also Ubuntu.) Setup for me took under 30 minutes. You can even have separate sandboxed (chrooted) instances of Debian and/or Ubuntu for different purposes. You could even simultaneously run Android, ChromeOS, and Debian applications. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@ni

Re: Making a modal window

2018-12-09 Thread Carl Fink
his own display manager in Python, except that his DM would then hand off to another DM to actually start a session. -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com Thinking and logic and stuff at Reasonably Literate http://reasonablyliterate.com

Re: Setting up a chroot on a Jessie system to compile a program using sid

2018-12-08 Thread Carl Fink
le chroot-ed environments more straight forward, eliminating the need to setup some settings manually, such as bind mount system partitions like "/sys" into chroot. Most userland VMs are just (collections of) files, neither folders nor partitions. -- Carl Fink c...@fi

Re: does anyone know how to calm down 'tracker-store'?

2018-11-26 Thread Carl Fink
-store that I just uninstalled it. I never use desktop search anyway, so no loss. -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com Thinking and logic and stuff at Reasonably Literate http://reasonablyliterate.com

Re: Why has nouveau vs. NVIDIA problem not been addressed?

2018-11-15 Thread Carl Fink
ously removing nouveau. That's the Debian Way to install the commercial driver. -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com Thinking and logic and stuff at Reasonably Literate http://reasonablyliterate.com

Re: Hibernate in Testing

2018-10-31 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 02:18:52PM +, Piotr Martyniuk wrote: > On 2018-10-08, Hans wrote: > > Am Montag, 8. Oktober 2018, 04:00:50 CEST schrieb Carl Fink: > > Hibernate is not working any more since over a year. They say, this cannot > > be > > fixed

Re: Help me Linux

2018-10-30 Thread Carl Fink
re more difficult with Linux tools? The FOSS philosophy says that if you find flaws in a Free Software project, the polite and useful reaction is to report the issue to the developers so that they can fix it. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read John Grant's book, Corrupted Science: http://a.co/9UsUoGu Dedicated to ... Carl Fink!

Re: www-data

2018-10-28 Thread Carl Fink
On 10/28/2018 05:16 PM, mick crane wrote: what's the deal with www-data ? I never made that user I dunno if it has a password or what ? these are things that some setup / install makes ? mick It's created by the Apache installer. Check the Apache docs. -- Carl Fink c

CUPS/foomatic/HP

2018-10-13 Thread Carl Fink
So should foomatic-filters conflict with CUPS? Because in Testing it would seem that it does. -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com Thinking and logic and stuff at Reasonably Literate http://reasonablyliterate.com

Hibernate in Testing

2018-10-07 Thread Carl Fink
Hi, Has anyone else noticed in the past few days that Testing can no longer hibernate? Or is it just me? Thanks -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com Thinking and logic and stuff at Reasonably Literate http://reasonablyliterate.com

Re: Trying to use SP Flash Tool (Mediatek), latest version requires libpng12-0, which is not available

2018-09-18 Thread Carl Fink
as suggested crossthread: I get the exact error mentioned in my original message:     dpkg: error processing archive libpng12-0_1.2.50-2+deb8u3_amd64.deb (--install):     unable to install new version of '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng12.so.0': No such file or directory -- Carl Fink c

Trying to use SP Flash Tool (Mediatek), latest version requires libpng12-0, which is not available

2018-09-17 Thread Carl Fink
requiring old libraries unless you build static!) Thanks. -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com Thinking and logic and stuff at Reasonably Literate http://reasonablyliterate.com

Re: What is the mailing list software used by lists.debian.org?

2018-08-19 Thread Carl Fink
. To avoid being coy, it's a package called "SmartList" which is free and which is available as a Debian package, IIRC. -- Carl Fink

Re: Wine error message

2018-08-04 Thread Carl Fink
. -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com Thinking and logic and stuff at Reasonably Literate http://reasonablyliterate.com

Re: Wine error message

2018-08-04 Thread Carl Fink
for a more stable system, maybe the "unstable" distribution of Debian is not an ideal choice? -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com Thinking and logic and stuff at Reasonably Literate http://reasonablyliterate.com

libcurl and Virtualbox issue in Testing

2018-07-19 Thread Carl Fink
. Is this a libcurl bug, or what? Thanks. -- Carl Fink  c...@finknetwork.com Thinking and logic and stuff at Reasonably Literate http://reasonablyliterate.com

Re: apt-get update hangs forever

2018-07-15 Thread Carl Fink
to understand the reason and to solve it? thanks May we assume you tried switching repos? Because the only times I've seen that, a particular repository was unreachable. -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com Thinking and logic and stuff at Reasonably Literate http://reasonablyliterate.com

Re: Thunderbird always launching 2 copies.

2018-07-15 Thread Carl Fink
the command line, instead of by clicking a link? What is the result of 'which thunderbird'? -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com Thinking and logic and stuff at Reasonably Literate http://reasonablyliterate.com

VT2 for Xorg?

2018-07-07 Thread Carl Fink
Anyone else have this? Since using the nVidia fix posted to this list, Xorg is claiming VT2, not VT7 as usual. No biggie once I figured it out, but odd. -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com Thinking and logic and stuff at Reasonably Literate http://reasonablyliterate.com

Re: Kernel upgrade = freeze on boot (linux-image-4.16.0-2-amd64)

2018-07-04 Thread Carl Fink
ercopy_fallback=y See https://bugs.debian.org/901919 for details. -- Andreas Beckmann Thu, 28 Jun 2018 12:32:19 +0200 This workaround works fine for me. Currently, I'm using nvidia-driver (390.67-1) and Linux (4.16.0-2-amd64). I am late in saying it, but thank you, Guillaume. This als

Kernel upgrade = freeze on boot (linux-image-4.16.0-2-amd64)

2018-07-01 Thread Carl Fink
). Multiple reboots give the same behavior, never giving me either a console or X prompt. I rebooted to .0.1 and removed .0.2 for the time being. Thoughts? -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com

Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle?

2018-07-01 Thread Carl Fink
is an order of magnitude. -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com Thinking and logic and stuff at Reasonably Literate http://reasonablyliterate.com

Re: Beowulf gone?

2018-06-24 Thread Carl Fink
It would seem the Debian Beowulf project petered out almost 20 years ago. It was based here: https://www.debian.org/ports/beowulf/ The last non-spam message to the debian-beowulf list was in 2010 or so. https://lists.debian.org/debian-beowulf/ -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com

Re: System freeze using web browsers

2018-05-09 Thread Carl Fink
rite down the IP address before trying a web browser.) -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com Thinking and logic and stuff at Reasonably Literate http://reasonablyliterate.com

Re: WTF does Firefox 58?

2018-03-04 Thread Carl Fink
w-stop-firefox-making-automatic-connections -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com Thinking and logic and stuff at Reasonably Literate http://reasonablyliterate.com

Re: Kernel for Spectre and Meltdown

2018-01-29 Thread Carl Fink
ere you need neither Spectre nor Meltdown to compromise. Be fair: you also don't need Spectre or Meldtdown to compromise Linux-based computers. Somethings as simple as going a week between installing security upgrades can do it. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com

Re: Acrobat Reader stops works

2018-01-15 Thread Carl Fink
Another thought: according to the app database at winehq.org, it's possible to install the Windows version under Linux. -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com Thinking and logic and stuff at Reasonably Literate http://reasonablyliterate.com

Re: Installing and running legacy software (was Re: Problem using "dpkg -i")

2018-01-15 Thread Carl Fink
ssues should be minimized. You might look at SeaMonkey, a community continuation of the old integrated browser/mailer/HTML editor that Netscape originally released. I found its HTML editing function pretty usable back when I needed it. https://wiki.debian.org/Seamonkey -- Carl Fink

Re: Acrobat Reader stops works

2018-01-15 Thread Carl Fink
with the same libraries(and the same versions) acroread work. Any hints/thoughts? migrate to evince ? That's rather an unhelpful answer, isn't it? Kamil, can you post the actual output of strace? What version of Debian you are using would also be good, especially kernel version. -- Carl Fink

Re: MTP devices leave multiple copies under Devices in file managers

2018-01-07 Thread Carl Fink
to me to look for a kernel bug because I don't know the underpinnings of the process (MTP mountpoints?) and wasn't aware that a kernel process (module?) was involved. Much appreciated. -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com Thinking and logic and stuff at Reasonably Literate http

Re: MTP devices leave multiple copies under Devices in file managers

2018-01-06 Thread Carl Fink
On 01/06/2018 03:06 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: On 07/01/18 03:54, Carl Fink wrote: I have a couple of Android devices that mount using MTP. Recently I was trying to install LineageOS on one (which failed because the USB port on the phone physically failed halfway through, but that's a side

MTP devices leave multiple copies under Devices in file managers

2018-01-06 Thread Carl Fink
, but I do not know where and of course documentation exists, somewhere, but I do not know where. Relevant software installed: Debian Testing gmtp go-mtpfs jmtpfs mtp-tools How can I clean this up? Thanks. -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com Thinking and logic and stuff at Reasonabl

Re: Youtube - newbie guidance

2017-12-23 Thread Carl Fink
On 12/23/2017 08:48 AM, songbird wrote: Carl Fink wrote: On 12/22/2017 05:57 PM, songbird wrote: ... there is a pause button, just don't close the tab. :) This is incorrect. Google/Alphabet is not stupid. If you pause a video you can then close the tab, the browser, turn off

Re: Youtube - newbie guidance

2017-12-22 Thread Carl Fink
from just before where you paused it. It's actually quite convenient. -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com Thinking and logic and stuff at Reasonably Literate http://reasonablyliterate.com

Re: Pycollada doesn't import, even if it is installed.

2017-12-07 Thread Carl Fink
is really unstable. Certain commands are instant segfault. Thanks, John. -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com Thinking and logic and stuff at Reasonably Literate http://reasonablyliterate.com

Pycollada doesn't import, even if it is installed.

2017-11-29 Thread Carl Fink
ts cut off there on the status bar. Switching between Python2 and Python3 has no effect. I can't find a Python module named "WebGUI" at all. What the? Any suggestions? Running Testing on an AMD64 CPU. Add'l information if you can tell me what would be useful. Thanks. -- Carl Fin

Firefox Quantum in Debian?

2017-11-17 Thread Carl Fink
Any idea when Quantum (new ff release) will move into Unstable? Testing? (I run Testing on my workstation.) Thanks. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct!

No sound after reboot on Debian Testing: a cautionary tale

2017-09-06 Thread Carl Fink
o.) aplay -l aplay: device_list:270: no soundcards found... I happen to be a fairly experienced Debian guy, so I tried modprobe snd_hda_intel Lo and behold, sound was back. So why did this particular reboot result in that module not auto-loading? Should I submit a bug? --

Re: Replace systemd

2017-07-05 Thread Carl Fink
use both Debian and Devuan. I personally have 4 PCs just in my apartment (not counting the company laptop), one of which runs Debian, as does my VPS. Another runs Ubuntu (required to keep it under warranty, I'm not a big fan) and a third Puppy Linux. -- Carl Fink

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-25 Thread Carl Fink
this and things like it: make sure the library is world-readable. -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com Thinking and logic and stuff at Reasonably Literate http://reasonablyliterate.com

Re: apt-get upgrade problem

2017-06-21 Thread Carl Fink
tried typing "apt-get install firefox-esr"? It should tell you why it's held back. The other thing would be "apt-get dist-upgrade". -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com Thinking and logic and stuff at Reasonably Literate http://reasonablyliterate.com

Stretch upgrade: lost PHP features?

2017-06-19 Thread Carl Fink
Having upgraded my virtual server to Stretch, I discovered that tt-rss was broken because the upgrade automatically switched me to PHP 7.0, but did not auto-install MySQL support or php-mbstring support for that version. Is this a bug, expected behavior, or did I miss something when upgrading?

Re: The file could not be renamed

2017-04-06 Thread Carl Fink
o avail. You need to be more specific. How do you "go to rename" a file? From a bash shell? Some graphical file manager, e.g. caja? Are these files actually remote as your error message indicates, or local? Can you rename local files, if they're remote? Do you have the correct privileges (w

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-04-06 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 03:08:33PM +0100, Martin Read wrote: > On 06/04/17 14:03, Carl Fink wrote: > > Second set of hardware is a false requirement. Go to, say, > > http://nosupportlinuxhosting.com and rent a VM for $1/month > > *cough* That site does not offer VM hosting fo

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-04-06 Thread Carl Fink
Second set of hardware is a false requirement. Go to, say, http://nosupportlinuxhosting.com and rent a VM for $1/month and set up your server there. Make it work. If you insist on physical hardware, you can then clone the working setup back to your physical server. -- Carl Fink

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-04-03 Thread Carl Fink
ked the installer to add that option and submitted it as a variant? -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct!

Thunderbird (OK, "Icedove") has no icon in task-switching panel in Xfce

2017-03-26 Thread Carl Fink
the Xfce4 panel. Is this a bug? Are others seeing this? It is not a huge deal, but it's annoying because I always task-switch with alt-tab and finding Thunderbird is harder when it has a nondistinctive icon that does not match the one in its button on the main Xfce panel. Thanks. -- Carl Fink

Re: Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Arch Linux recognize my Acer Aspire S wifi, debian does not

2017-03-16 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 10:33:22PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 15 Mar 2017 at 23:21:12 (-0400), Carl Fink wrote: > > Not everyone has access to wired networks. I don't, to name just one > > example of a person who does not. My last Debian install, I had to > > use U

Re: Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Arch Linux recognize my Acer Aspire S wifi, debian does not

2017-03-15 Thread Carl Fink
Not everyone has access to wired networks. I don't, to name just one example of a person who does not. My last Debian install, I had to use USB networking over my mobile phone to download non-free wifi chipset firmware. On 03/15/2017 11:13 PM, Davor Balder wrote: Do you have access to

Re: USB3 Monitors

2017-02-25 Thread Carl Fink
On 02/25/2017 10:33 PM, Brian Sammon wrote: As far as I am aware, video-over-USB is "displaylink". Including "displaylink" in your web search may provide results Thank you, that was exactly the missing piece. You may want to consider USB-powered monitors that use a more traditional video

USB3 Monitors

2017-02-25 Thread Carl Fink
Does anyone know whether Debian (or the kernel in general, I guess) supports USB3 monitors? A quick web search finds no mention of it, if so. If this support does exist, does that knowledgeable person know whether a boot console is supported, or the USB monitor can only be secondary, with a more

Debian-compatible "compute stick" thingy

2017-02-03 Thread Carl Fink
gig of RAM (even better, 8). Storage could be minimal, because external drives are cheap these days, too. Fanless would be a bonus. Thanks. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct!

Re: Debian natively on Android device

2017-02-02 Thread Carl Fink
perate as superuser) you can install an arbitrary OS. There are Free Software ROMs out there, like LineageOS (http://lineageos.org/), and in principle there's no reason somoene couldn't create a Debian distro for Android, but it would be an enormous job and nobody has actually done so (that I know abo

Potential problem with aptitude search?

2017-01-04 Thread Carl Fink
get the community's opinion first. Note that "aptitude search voip" finds nothing, either. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct!

Re: Problems with hibernation - randomly cannot resume.

2016-11-18 Thread Carl Fink
this for a while. Suspend/hibernate worked correctly on this same system with Jessie. Carl Fink

Re: WiFi works during install, not after

2016-10-29 Thread Carl Fink
On 10/29/2016 10:21 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 26 October 2016 18:24:04 Carl Fink wrote: Thanks. I actually remember seeing it now that you remind me. Define "desktop". I set up Xfce4. But did you do so DURING INSTALLATION? So the complete question, which you have still no

Re: Fwd: WiFi works during install, not after

2016-10-26 Thread Carl Fink
hoping it would work differently. It seems the Devuan developers haven't changed whatever package bungles this. Interestingly, FWIW, Debian Mint DOES work. I could just break down and reinstall that, but I was hoping to help by reporting the bug, if nothing else. -- Carl Fink c

Re: WiFi works during install, not after

2016-10-26 Thread Carl Fink
Thanks. I actually remember seeing it now that you remind me. Define "desktop". I set up Xfce4. Carl On 10/26/2016 01:19 PM, Brian wrote: On Wed 26 Oct 2016 at 12:57:54 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: Brian (and list): I actually went back to the archive (https://lists.debian.org/debian

Re: Fwd: WiFi works during install, not after

2016-10-26 Thread Carl Fink
On 10/25/2016 12:48 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: I've been following your problem. Had something similar happen years ago. Have you checked if you installed "Laptop Tools" which includes wifi packages? They usually don't get installed automatically. Have you tried manually shutting down wifi and

Re: WiFi works during install, not after

2016-10-26 Thread Carl Fink
Brian (and list): I actually went back to the archive (https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/10/msg00852.html) and I can't locate your first message containing the mysterious "first question". It also isn't in my mailbox. Could you perhaps repeat? Carl Fink On 10/25/201

Re: WiFi works during install, not after

2016-10-25 Thread Carl Fink
ate DOES find a module of that name in staging. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct!

Re: WiFi works during install, not after

2016-10-25 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 09:45:41AM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sun 23 Oct 2016 at 17:09:06 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > Interestingly, the rtl8723au module is NOT loaded, and "modprobe rtl8723au" > > fails with a message about the module not being found, even though it's >

Re: Fwd: WiFi works during install, not after

2016-10-25 Thread Carl Fink
gt;Do you have the firmware also after installation? Yes. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct!

Fwd: WiFi works during install, not after

2016-10-24 Thread Carl Fink
-Date:Sun, 23 Oct 2016 21:09:25 + (UTC) Resent-From:debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 17:09:06 -0400 From: Carl Fink <c...@finknetwork.com> To: Debian Users <debian-user@lists.debian.org> So I have a ThinkPad Yoga 11s ultrabook. If I copy over

WiFi works during install, not after

2016-10-23 Thread Carl Fink
I don't remember how to change the path that is searched for loadable modules. Any insights would be most gratefully received. -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com

Re: Can't install security update: server name not resolved

2016-10-21 Thread Carl Fink
On 10/21/2016 02:36 PM, Morten Bergman wrote: I was seeing that too. Tried again, this time through a VPN, and it worked. It was apparently temporary. Worked when I got home from, well, work. Thanks. -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com

Can't install security update: server name not resolved

2016-10-21 Thread Carl Fink
Anyone else seeing this? E: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux/linux-headers-3.16.0-4-amd64_3.16.36-1+deb8u2_amd64.deb Could not resolve 'security-cdn.debian.org Any suggestions? -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog

Re: libre office fail

2016-09-24 Thread Carl Fink
-1' failed ric@iam:~/Documents/Dennis/pdf$ This is critical. :( Ric Information that might help would include what distro you are running. Sid? Given that this is a GTK error, one might also suggest posting versions of stuff like the various GTK libraries (libgtk*). Just guessing. -- Carl Fin

Re: mount MTP phone

2016-09-04 Thread Carl Fink
IIRC. How about mount.mtpfs? -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com

Re: mount MTP phone

2016-09-04 Thread Carl Fink
On 09/04/2016 09:40 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: On 09/04/2016 09:35 PM, Carl Fink wrote: Could be hardware. Have you tried the simplest test of all: plugging the phone into a different USB port? Can other computers detect it? Is the phone unlocked? My own phone is only detected if I unlock

Re: mount MTP phone

2016-09-04 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Sep 04, 2016 at 09:30:38PM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > On 09/04/2016 09:22 PM, Carl Fink wrote: > > On 09/04/2016 09:13 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: > > > I'm at a loss, friends: > > > I have a phone (Motorola Droid Turbo), which functions as an MTP > >

Re: mount MTP phone

2016-09-04 Thread Carl Fink
, however. I don't know what else to do to try and diagnose or resolve the matter. Anyone? I'm running Jessie on AMD64 Have you looked at /var/log/syslog for the relevant period? -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com

Re: Grossly OT - WW2 start

2016-04-05 Thread Carl Fink
"This list is not moderated ..." >From https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ Dammit! If this was netnews I'd newgroup debian-user-politics in a heartbeat and start moving messages there. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.n

Re: Grossly OT SO STOP IT ALREADY!

2016-04-03 Thread Carl Fink
Does this list have moderators? Because this is absurd. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct!

Re: Grossly OT - WW2 start

2016-03-28 Thread Carl Fink
in Syria soon. > Really strange world, we live in. Can this subthread be moved to debian-user-silly-conspiracy-theory where it belongs? -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct!

Re: [OT] Linux for Lettuce

2015-10-23 Thread Carl Fink
d in that case (Smyth paid nothing, for starters). -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct!

Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?

2015-10-14 Thread Carl Fink
ccess. It's hard for ISPs not to support tablets. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct!

Re: Isn't this a security compromise?

2015-10-14 Thread Carl Fink
oot-password-in-debian-ubuntu.html > > These tutorials assume that a person has the possession of his/her machine > which is true for non-mobile devices. But how can one make sure that the > security of laptop/tablet having any distro of linux is not compromised? Encrypt the h

Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers?

2015-10-10 Thread Carl Fink
pause button. For me that's a Flash video, interestingly. And Flashblock blocks it. They do claim to also block HTML5, give it a try. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct!

Re: how to sum a column in openoffice calc

2015-09-16 Thread Carl Fink
!!! > > > > PS: I'm in China and can't use google to find answer Pardon my piggybacking on Sven's message, I don't have the original. I wonder if Mr. Li may have left out the "=" before his formula? It should look like: =SUM(N1:N8) -- Carl Fink

Re: how to sum a column in openoffice calc

2015-09-16 Thread Carl Fink
em the items in those cells are not numbers at all. They're labels (text) that therefore add up to zero. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct!

Re: the IBM keyboard

2015-08-30 Thread Carl Fink
/efficiency.pdf Jacob Nielsen has argued that people _feel_ more efficient using just the keyboard, but objective measurements don't agree. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct!

Re: [OT] Is Devuan a hoax?

2015-06-08 Thread Carl Fink
able to run my key applications also without problem. The project seems to be coming along quite nicely (still needs to replace udev). I look forward to a Beta. The issue perhaps being that Devuan has gone silent? Haven't updated the web site or posted to the mailing list in some time. -- Carl

Re: jessie: Firefox download dialog unusable

2015-03-01 Thread Carl Fink
On 03/01/2015 03:32 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 03/01/2015 05:42 AM, Felix Natter wrote: Liam O'Toole liam.p.oto...@gmail.com writes: hello Liam, On 2015-02-28, Felix Natter fnat...@gmx.net wrote: hi, I get an unusable download dialog in firefox (iceweasel) of current jessie (updated this

Re: What do I use for Flash on firefox?

2015-01-03 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jan 03, 2015 at 08:47:54PM -0500, Gevorg Abrahamian wrote: Maybe you can take a look at Pipelight. I use it for Silverlight support but I believe it supports Flash as well. Or just Flash? Install flashplugin-nonfree. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com

Re: What do I use for Flash on firefox?

2015-01-03 Thread Carl Fink
packages extract it from there and make it available without chrome). That if you really need up to date flash on gecko browsers (npapi). Thanks. That's good to know. (Not the original poster, but grateful.) -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog

Re: Virtualbox install problems on Wheezy with 3.16.0 backports kernel

2014-12-27 Thread Carl Fink
of dkms for an AMD64 kernel. As this list taught me some time ago, that can cause problems. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: wine does nothing

2014-12-23 Thread Carl Fink
software. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-20 Thread Carl Fink
. Seconded. I used to design software interfaces, and I'd be totally embarassed by OOo, especially Impress with its commands scattered inconsistently and without a schema among two kinds of menus and two different types of toolbar. What a mess. -- Carl Fink nitpick

Re: Possible comprommission, what to do ?

2014-11-13 Thread Carl Fink
. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: need help in rights delegation to a freelance web developer

2014-11-11 Thread Carl Fink
could presumably skip mod_php and just use PHP as CGI but it would be both slower and potentially less secure. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: need help in rights delegation to a freelance web developer

2014-11-10 Thread Carl Fink
GUI. If security is a concern (and it probably should be) you might consider sandboxing WorPress and having its MySQL instance be separate from any other MySQL uses on your server. Or maybe even putting it on its own virtual instance. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com

Re: need help in rights delegation to a freelance web developer

2014-11-10 Thread Carl Fink
. do you guys think there should be some modules required in order to work things properly. Much more information needed. Is this developer also doing non-WordPress things? Is this a different developer? Most importantly, exactly what problems is he having? -- Carl Fink

Re: Joey Hess is out?

2014-11-08 Thread Carl Fink
mental processes_ and not Mr. Hess at all, and if I have in any way offended him or his friends, I apologize. I will try not to do that again. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can

Re: Joey Hess is out?

2014-11-07 Thread Carl Fink
Anyone else read the subject line and think, Why would I care that Joey is gay? -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: umask has no man page?

2014-11-04 Thread Carl Fink
to understandwhat I wrote. It's almost as if you read unclearly. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: umask has no man page?

2014-11-02 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Nov 02, 2014 at 03:51:25PM +, Iain M Conochie wrote: On 02/11/14 05:58, Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, 2014-11-02 at 14:17 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: Succinct! man pam_umask? That is not a solution to the original question I asked, unless you alias it to man umask. You don't

umask has no man page?

2014-11-01 Thread Carl Fink
realized it must be a Bash builtin and found that man page, but how would a beginner know that? Surely a symbolic link could be set up for umask as well as the others (bg, eval, fg, read, etc.)? Should I file this as a bug against Sid? I know there's no chance it will make it into Wheezy. -- Carl Fink

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