stopwatching.us petition (was ... Re: wacky question.)

2013-06-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 10:44:12PM -0400, Greg wrote: Does anyone think that debian could participate in any programs like PRISM? Or could a lone (or group of) sympathetic DD or DM slip a backdoor or something that could collect private info in the binary packages distributed by debian? Since

Re: counter-PRISM PRISM - Re: wacky question

2013-06-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 01:08:12PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: A counter-PRISM PRISM? Now there's a tautological idea! :) gnupg? Although, there is still the metadata in the message envelope, to worry about. -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are

Re: iceweasel: unresponsive script

2013-06-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 05:43:41AM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, does anyone have some tricks and/or hints to trace `unresponsive script' issue with iceweasel ? Do you mean when your system locks up as the harddrive chugs away? If you find the solution, please please please post

Re: Just a question...........

2013-06-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 03:19:25PM +1000, Charlie wrote: I don't know enough about this hope someone can help: My ISP CEO suggests that this address is BitTorrent: http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main non-free contrib Is that correct? No, he is confused.

Re: Questions about installation

2013-06-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 01:08:12AM -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: the update and that''s with often more than one restart. The same or more file size updates/upgrades in debian will take maybe 5 to 7 minutes w. no restarts at all. And updates/upgrades usually need not be done more than once a

Re: Problems with CD insertion - sid

2013-06-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 07:55:51AM +0200, Oliver Elphick wrote: When a CD is inserted, it does not get mounted (data CD) or properly notified (audio CD). I found that rhythmbox never showed an audio CD as available to play - it should come up under devices on the left-hand sidebar. I then

Re: Need help undeleting a Big gz compressed tar ball

2013-06-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 01:14:47PM -0400, To Ro wrote: I started testing one of the recovered files, with a binary file editor can se a long sequence of zeros at the very beginning of it, took some precautions, and here is what I see ls -lh total 5.8G -r 1 xyz xyz 5.8G Jun 14 17:52

Re: dictionary package

2013-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:31:12PM +0800, lina wrote: On Friday 14,June,2013 11:21 PM, lina wrote: Hi, Which is the best, in your opinion, English dictionary package, which, I wish, can save the history of the words I looked up before. Thanks with best regards, I installed the

Re: RedHat and MariaDB

2013-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 09:10:40PM -0700, Weaver wrote: I'm sick of installing this package and this one and that and the other, then looking up at the end of the install to find that mysql, postgresql, firebird, and two or three other database structures have all been pulled in as

Re: Rhythmbox transcoding to portable player

2013-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 09:17:00PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: When I drag a song to my portable player, using Rhythmbox, it transcodes to the song to mp3. But the bitrate is too low, and I cannot get it to change. I have tried changing the format settings in Preferences, Music, Library

Re: Wheezy Alongside Windows7

2013-06-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 08:46:56AM +, Andy Hawkins wrote: Hi, In article 20130612032340.GB15667@tal, Chris Bannistercbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: There is no try, you either do or you don't. - Yoda If you're going to quote Yoda, at least get it right :) Try not. Do,

Re: Bug report help: debian testing lvm boot

2013-06-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 02:28:08PM +0200, Michael Anckaeart wrote: Hello everyone I got redirected to the Debian users list from the Bug reporting page. I wanted to file a bug report but can't seem to find what package it belongs to and thus can't find for an existing bug or create a new

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy?

2013-06-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 07:27:35PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: I've got xfce window manager installed on pretty-much as it comes fresh-out-of-the-box Wheezy. I'd like to have ctrl-alt-del restart the window manager. I've configured it to do so with dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-

Re: Wheezy Alongside Windows7

2013-06-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 07:04:03PM +0200, basti wrote: RTFM, use google or what else. we don't support lazy users. Huh? Since when? I'm lazy, and I've been helped. :) -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who

Re: Upcoming 7.1 (not 7.0.1?) release - upgrade from 6.0.7 possible?

2013-06-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 11:48:36AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Andrei POPESCU wrote: David Guntner wrote: A request, if I may: Please adjust your mailing program to include the name, but not the E-Mail address on the attribute line. Thanks! If you are worried about spammers this would

Re: Wheezy Alongside Windows7

2013-06-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 05:14:04PM +0100, Joe wrote: On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 03:35:55 +1200 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 07:04:03PM +0200, basti wrote: RTFM, use google or what else. we don't support lazy users. Huh? Since when? I'm lazy

Re: How to consistently install a set of packages?

2013-06-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 10:52:25PM +1000, David wrote: On 06/06/2013, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Jo, 06 iun 13, 14:39:22, David wrote: For my curiosity, could you please provide an example where *system* users need to be synchronized between different machines? Hi

Re: telling apt-get not to remove potentially useful packages?

2013-06-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 01:12:46AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2013-06-02 07:08:53 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 03:16:32PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: How can I tell apt-get not to break the system by removing potentially useful packages? By using apt

Re: telling apt-get not to remove potentially useful packages?

2013-06-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 05:24:57PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: What I was wondering initially was: is libapache2-svn still needed (in which case I should wait for a new version) or are its features integrated in some other package (e.g. from the apache2 source)? A tool analyzing the

Re: telling apt-get not to remove potentially useful packages?

2013-06-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 03:16:32PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: How can I tell apt-get not to break the system by removing potentially useful packages? By using apt-get upgrade instead of apt-get dist-upgrade Have you got an example of where this is a concern? -- If you're not careful, the

Re: Reinstall nouveau driver

2013-06-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 07:26:08AM -0700, Joe Riel wrote: My /etc/default/grub file contained GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=quiet vga=775 should I remove the vga=775 when adding GRUB_GFXMODE=1280x1024 GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep I'd say yes, to avoid conflicts, but you could *actually*

Re: strange authentication request (GNOME)

2013-05-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 09:16:06PM +0400, recovery...@gmail.com wrote: Then, Debian got aptitude, and couple of years later RedHat was like 'up2date is bad, we need something else, let's borrow yum from one of our derivatives'. yum usually gets the job done, if you don't mind wait a little.

Re: strange authentication request (GNOME)

2013-05-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 08:39:00PM +0400, recovery...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 30 May 2013 01:32:27 +1200 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: I am fairly sure that aptitude came AFTER synaptic! While I don't argue with that (I started using Debian when etch was testing

Re: Remove Evolution

2013-05-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 07:26:57AM -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: Thanks for your effort to help me, mucho appreciated! In the light of day the packages it was going to remove were non-essential in the running of gnome-shell. Note to self: Don't do work late in the day. Or too early in the day.

Re: Wheezy. Ugly df -Th output

2013-05-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:28:30PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 03:01:56PM +0400, Leonid Korostyshevski wrote: Is the unstable coreutils will ruin my stable system? Or, if install that with 'no-recommends' option it is absolutely safe? Will it ruin it more than

Re: vlc, mplayer unable to play one particular CDDA / wav file

2013-05-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 06:25:19PM +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: Hi, I'm a bit stuck as to how to report a problem with only a particular track on a particular commercial CD failing to play in mplayer or vlc (current versions in unstable) but playing alright in mplayer2. The track can be

Re: razor-qt

2013-05-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 02:25:35PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 5/21/13, Weaver wea...@riseup.net wrote: On Mon, May 20, 2013 1:30 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 20 mai 13, 12:46:24, Weaver wrote: To those who may be interested: There is now implementation - on github - for more

Re: Search Wheezy-backports?

2013-05-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 10:48:25PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: I tried that. And a couple of variations. I got the same output as just using plain ol' apt-cache search. As part of the test, I searched for an app version that I knew was ONLY in backports. It didn't show up in the search. But

Brother HL-2240D on Debian wheezy (was ... Re: recommend a laser printer)

2013-05-20 Thread Chris Bannister
[fixing subject for archive/google searches.] On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 09:44:23PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: Thanks everyone for the advice. I had never thought of buying a used industrial strength laser printer. When I need a printer, I'll look into that. This particular printer was for a

Re: Error install postgresql-9.1

2013-05-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 10:38:25AM +0200, Fernando ff77 wrote: Update: I tried to install all the packages postgresql from SID. I have not solved. Ouch! Sid is likely to be in a bit of a chaotic state at the moment. I can not understand where is the problem. Then you should not be running

Re: Spurious letter appears in OpenOffice printed document

2013-05-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 07:37:36PM +0100, Brian wrote: On Tue 14 May 2013 at 11:03:14 -0400, George Langford, Sc.D. wrote: Here's a crossover problem. Document prints with a spurious letter in upper left hand corner of image: Intriguing! 1. On debian PC running squeeze, only since

Re: [4/5OT] beamer animation mp4

2013-05-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:04:35AM +0800, lina wrote: Hi, I have a mp4 file, which I wish to put into the beamer. Front seat or rear seat. Thanks ahead for your suggestions, or do you mean: http://groups.google.com/group/beamer-class or:

Re: Man Hates Less

2013-05-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 09:06:00PM -0300, Draco Metallium(Rodrigo S. Cañibano) wrote: You are right! I left a testing on my source list. Now I have to pay for my mistakes. In this case, it was someone elses. :) -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who

Re: Howto: Record playing audio only via ffmpeg/avconv

2013-05-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 01:42:01AM +, T o n g wrote: It'll be much simpler if you have PulseAudio installed. Check out: JFTR. I found the exact opposite! Removing PulseAudio made everything work. -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Released

2013-05-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 09:48:40AM +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: Am 07.05.2013 um 23:23 schrieb Patrick Bartek: Unfortunately, the Thinkpad 240X we're discussing here can't boot directly off a CD or even a USB thumb drive for that matter. Natively, it can only boot off a floppy or

Re: GNOME 3 issue - Evolution is offline due to a network outage

2013-05-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 08:51:54PM +0100, sue wrote: hello the man who helps me usually is away at present, can you tell me step y step how to reconnect the network thanks Read this: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html then watch this:

Re: anyone using shell-fm?

2013-05-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 06:46:17PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: I'm having no luck setting this package up to work on Debian and really would prefer to avoid windows for use of lastfm. The problem I'm having is when shell-fm tries to connect, the site it uses generates an error 403. Is the

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Released

2013-05-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 09:23:44AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 05 mai 13, 19:30:00, Patrick Bartek wrote: I never use the Stable name any more. Learned my lesson a few years ago when I upgraded an install of Etch--sources set to Stable--not realizing that Lenny had just become

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 08:45:30AM -0400, staticsafe wrote: Hmm, I'm following this - http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html - as an upgrade guide. It suggests `apt-get upgrade` first (after changes your sources of course). Umm, that'll be second,

Re: Upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy fails

2013-05-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 09:14:39AM -0400, rlwbonsai wrote: I attempted to upgrade my Averatec 3200 laptop from Squeeze to Wheezy on 5/5/13. The laptop has an AMD Athlon 486 processor and Unichrome graphics. The only non-Debian software installed on this machine is Mozilla Firefox. This

Re: wheezy install missing contrib and non-free

2013-05-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 12:21:24PM -0500, Default User wrote: Hello. I did a fresh install of Debian 7.0.0 (Wheezy), using the debian-7.0.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso. In the past , during the install process, it would ask if the user wanted to include the contrib and non-free repositiories.

Re: md5sum for debian-7.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso

2013-05-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 12:50:58PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Where does one find the md5sum for debian-7.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso? http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/MD5SUMS -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being

Re: running Debian on a Cubieboard

2013-05-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 09:52:22AM +0200, Jean-Marc wrote: On Sat, 4 May 2013 22:33:23 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Andrei, On Sb, 04 mai 13, 04:44:50, Jean-Marc wrote: Hi guys, I bought a Cubieboard some days ago (http://cubieboard.org). I would like

Re: Planning for Disk Encryption

2013-05-02 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please don't top post] On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 08:35:27AM -0700, Steven Rosenberg wrote: Tighten up on your backups. I've been running encrypted partitions (and Umm, I've heard of the expression tighten up on your spending, and tighten up on your drinking which means ease up/slow down. Is this

Re: Thanks to All

2013-04-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 06:14:00PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:19:36 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: Hello Hugo, mine neither Are you saying that you don't take into consideration a company's or developer's morality (insofar as it's possible to know

Re: chess on fics

2013-04-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 10:06:36PM +0300, Klearchos-Angelos Gkountras wrote: I know the command and I installed some clients and I was not happy with someone of them :) Which ones? What was it about them that you were not happy with? Did you see scid: root@tal:~# apt-cache show scid [..] Its

Re: chess on fics

2013-04-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 07:10:01PM +0300, Klearchos-Angelos Gkountras wrote: I want to play on fics [0] but I can't find a good client What kind of client do you use ? [0] www.freechess.org Wrong list for that type of question. You want to find out from the site what clients are

Re: Thanks to All (Was: MUA Yahoo)

2013-04-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 12:15:09PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: Thanks to all who helped getting my Yahoo Mail account switched over to a standard e-mail client, currently Sylpheed 3.2.0. I've always hated using the web interface. All that's left to do other than some final tweaking is

alternative email clients (was ... Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 03:32:41PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: OTOH, I didn't find another mailer that fit halfway to my needs and that does work with the provider settings I need. There is geary. http://www.yorba.org/projects/geary/ I've never used it, myself, but it is an alternative to

Re: .wav to text?

2013-04-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 06:26:45PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: You can then apt-get update again and then update as normal. To clear the database you may also try dpkg --clear-avail, then do a new apt-get update. Will that work? AFAIR, dpkg only knows about locally installed packages, so

Re: Introductory reading on firewall/iptables/etc for new Debian user?

2013-04-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 09:28:17AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I will be using email, Usenet, browser and occasionally file downloading. Nothing on my system should look/act like a server. I want all programs to access the internet after explicitly asking for permission. The response to the

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:37:13AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: From: Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk   On 22 Apr 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: It would be nice if you could trim that to one line. [snip] Yes, it would, but I use Yahoo mail for this list,

Re: How do I list installed packages?

2013-04-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:12:44PM +0200, Mark Weyer wrote: The title is imprecise. Actually, the question is: How do I list installed packages except those automatically installed to satisfy dependencies. In aptitude that would be packages marked as i but not as i A. And if there is no

Re: Alsa sounds too low

2013-04-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 09:31:54AM +0200, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: Yes, of course - but there are the same volume levels as I get with volume icon. Weird. And you have ruled out a hardware problem? (By using a live CD or something similar.) -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 08:03:20AM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: I always use dist-upgrade but there's not a lot a choose. Upgrade upgrades installed packages while dist-upgrade can make more significant changes. Once Wheezy becomes stable the two should do the same thing. However, I prefer to stay

Re: Alsa sounds too low

2013-04-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 04:26:01PM +0200, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: And what to do after installed this package? [volumeicon-alsa] Without installing it myself, (as I've never had any trouble with volume): If you install a package and once it is installed you have no idea what to do afterwards, I

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 06:41:43PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: I always use dist-upgrade but there's not a lot a choose. Upgrade upgrades installed packages while dist-upgrade can make more significant changes. Once Wheezy becomes stable the two should do the same thing. However, I

Re: Alsa sounds too low

2013-04-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 07:14:59PM +0200, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: I use Gnome 2 WM and I get the volume adjust icon on my panel but - as I wrote before - its already in maximized volume but there is not enough always. Have you tried running: # alsamixer as root, and checking the levels? --

Re: what's your Debian uptime?

2013-04-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 06:24:33PM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: Lars Noodén: Oracle hasn't been the best steward for the other FOSS projects […] You are hereby given the Understatement of the Year Award! And it's only April!! :-D -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you

Re: what's your Debian uptime?

2013-04-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 08:18:15PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: On the humor side though I rememeber a story about a guy who moved his apartment. His machine was on a UPS. He determined a way to borrow a second UPS and daisy chain them for more uptime and then drove like a madman halfway

Re: what's your Debian uptime?

2013-04-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 09:45:21AM +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: In 1992 I worked late after usual office hours on my laptop (an IBM 386) connected to the power supply and battery removed (to save lifetime of the battery). Then the cleaning woman stepped in and asked: May I vacuum

Re: what's your Debian uptime?

2013-04-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 01:00:01AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: From now on I *will* use male genital analogies, using phallus, phalli, and phallic, the academically correct words for describing the sociological phenomenon. Then you can sit there and squirm in your chair screaming loudly, as

Re: what's your Debian uptime?

2013-04-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 09:22:18PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: OpenBSD has only had something like two holes in over a decade which is nice for uptime. Let's not get carried away here. I was under the impression that openbsd was one of the best things since sliced bread ... then I read this:

Re: rootfs

2013-04-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 10:50:05AM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: 2013/4/20 Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net Sorry, wrong list for reply. ...though interesting :-) Although, not quite correct: http://www.lowellsmilecenter.com/blog/2008/02/04/calcium-and-stronger-teeth/ -- If

Re: administration of initscripts

2013-04-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 08:30:45PM -0400, staticsafe wrote: On 4/16/2013 19:33, Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:21:02PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: I believe very strongly that it is. universality with Linux supporting

Re: administration of initscripts

2013-04-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:21:02PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: Yes and do you know it was designed to do just what it does for a good reason in 32 kb of code. Hello world is 8kb Not relevant to choosing an init system. I believe very strongly that it is. universality with Linux

Re: netinstall size?

2013-04-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 01:28:20PM -0700, agroconsultor0 wrote: Very smart Debian users in this list: Are you Schizophrenic? Please! Thoughtless remarks like that are unnecessary on this list. -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed,

Re: Using unstable for certain packages

2013-04-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 06:49:46PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: Incidentally. I do wonder if debian stable should accelerate some packages which follow a more stable dev cycle like xfce-4.10 where it has already been well tested. Won't happen. That is what Debian Backports is for. IMHO it is

Re: Internet with Debian

2013-04-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 06:33:18AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: agroconsultor0 wrote: http://wiki.debian.org/SystemAdministration That page states it purpose as: This page lists articles which cover all aspects of administering Debian GNU/Linux systems, including installation, package

Re: wheezy still missing php5-suhosin

2013-04-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 09:11:27AM +0100, Joe wrote: turn it off if so configured. Later and later versions of PHP have become much stricter in many ways, and have offered features like Perl's optional variable discipline, so many of the Suhosin features are What does optional variable

Re: root password

2013-04-12 Thread Chris Bannister
95% of the time, replies go to the list only, you need to be subscribed. (Silly, I know -- since it's an open list!) It is also list policy that you don't CC posters unless requested. I assume new posters expect a personal reply. On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 06:14:48AM -0400, Robert B McKittrick

Re: Serveur with encrypted partition : 2 steps boot.

2013-04-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 09:53:17AM +0200, Erwan David wrote: On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 06:12:55AM CEST, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com said: You mean booting in level 2, where dovecot, postgresql, etc. are not started (but ssh is), then after giving the decryption key and mounting the

Re: netinstall size?

2013-04-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 02:43:28PM -0700, consul tor wrote: Oops, BTW, how could i configure mutt+vi, vim or nano to write emails with 72 characters? the previous email seems weird. I know, it is another question, different thread. thanks anyway. The information is on the Interweb. Google

Re: Partitioning problem

2013-04-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 01:52:57PM +0200, Alexandre De Muer wrote: Hi, When installing from Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0.7 Squeeze - Official kfreebsd-i386 DVD Binary-1 20130223-17:32the following problem issued from guided partition layout:unable to set mount from file-system type swap on ** to

Re: MICROSOFT HIRED THESE PEOPLE TO SABOTAGE OPEN SOURCE

2013-04-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 05:44:59AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2013 08 Apr 03:24 -0500, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Please, continue at d-community-offto...@lists.alioth.debian.org only! Why? This list does not have an iron fisted moderator. Some of the assertions in the picture are true,

Re: MICROSOFT HIRED THESE PEOPLE TO SABOTAGE OPEN SOURCE

2013-04-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 01:30:48AM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: users to open the window to reach and eat an apple, when they were warned that it was the devil's fruit of hidden stuff! This is why we must only teach Python, Bash and C programming, and forgot all other cursed

Re: Fw: Sound Problem -- More Information

2013-04-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 01:59:40PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: Begin forwarded message: Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 11:22:48 -0400 From: Stephen P. Molnar s.mol...@sbcglobal.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Sound Problem 64 bit Debian Wheezy/Testing. I had to reinstall

Re: Wheezy/Testing Sound Problem

2013-04-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 09:40:26AM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I have just re-installed Wheezy/Testing/Xfce on my production computer. Te action was caused by a HD failure. The sound was working before the disaster. The problem is that the sound is not working at this point, other that

Re: Scheduling btrfs scrub on desktop systems

2013-04-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 11:46:59AM +0200, Steven Post wrote: Hello list, I'm using btrfs on several systems, both servers and desktops, and I have scheduled scrub jobs for the servers. But what would be the best way schedule these jobs on desktop systems where you don't know exactly when

Re: Scratchy sound with debian wheezy on ASUS A73B series

2013-04-01 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please don't top post on this mailing list.] On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 11:44:34AM +1300, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: I have been getting this on various machines (FX890 Chipsets(AMD), Sandybridge Machines - others) with all recent kernels from around 3.1 onwards. There must have been a commit

Re: Scheduling btrfs scrub on desktop systems

2013-04-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 05:25:48PM +0200, Steven Post wrote: On Tue, 2013-04-02 at 01:12 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 11:46:59AM +0200, Steven Post wrote: Hello list, I'm using btrfs on several systems, both servers and desktops, and I have scheduled scrub

Re: What's Up With Debian.org?

2013-04-01 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please trim your posts, your sig is overlong as it is without having to see it multiple times.] On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 02:57:54AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: So, has the web site been breached, or,. is it that the Debian Project people think that computer security and security breaches, are

Re: Partimage: Would it be possible to add EXT4 support..?? (Wheezy x64)

2013-03-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 12:42:17AM -0700, DutchGlory wrote: i have a question about Partimage: Would it be possible to add EXT4 support..?? (Wheezy x64) this way i can make a full backup of my system without re-installing everything... You need to file a wishlist bug against the package.

** Correction ** Re: Partimage: Would it be possible to add EXT4 support..?? (Wheezy x64)

2013-03-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 03:19:18AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 12:42:17AM -0700, DutchGlory wrote: i have a question about Partimage: Would it be possible to add EXT4 support..?? (Wheezy x64) this way i can make a full backup of my system without re-installing

Re: Bug#704124: codename 'rc-buggy' not handled correctly

2013-03-28 Thread Chris Bannister
Hi, Hope this brings a laugh to someone. :) - Forwarded message from Paul R. Tagliamonte paul...@gmail.com - Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 07:38:16 -0400 From: Paul R. Tagliamonte paul...@gmail.com To: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de Cc: Martin Zobel-Helas

Re: Fwd: Running Nvidia Driver Without an xorg.conf?

2013-03-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 01:54:31PM +0800, Jianjun Mao wrote: On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.comwrote: Just installed the proprietary nvidia driver on Wheezy 64-bit using the dkms method as outlined in the Nvidia Debian wiki. No problems, except I haven't

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:05:35AM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: 1] What is a MUA? You are using: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:10.0.12) Gecko/20130116 Icedove/10.0.12 That is your Mail User Agent. Icedove is just a repackaged thunderbird. 2] Other than the HTML, Use

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 01:53:11AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: Don't be afraid to search google *BEFORE* posting your question, have a read of: http://catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html G! Sorry. That should be: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- If you're

Re: Battery problem

2013-03-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:25:59AM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: On 12/03/13 11:17, Darac Marjal wrote: On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 09:24:20AM +, Andrea Neroni wrote: Have a look at the output of cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info. In particular, compare the values of design capacity and

Re: Problem with Synaptic in Wheezy/Testing

2013-03-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 08:48:55AM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: Synaptic 0.75.12 in 64 bit Wheezy/Testing This is a new installation (several days ago). Up until yesterday I could open Synaptic as a user from the pull down System/Synaptic Package Manager. This morning that route

Re: FW: Problem with Synaptic in Wheezy/Testing

2013-03-13 Thread Chris Bannister
[That Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0 is one hell of a horrible mailer!] On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 06:10:55AM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: Thanks for your reply. Apparently the problem fixed itself. The next day Synaptic was back to normal. So you didn't do an upgrade and it just magically

Re: Debian Wheezy Grub Problem

2013-03-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:00:35AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: The automation for GRUB2 is crap, edit the grub.cfg manually, then you also could tidy up grub.cfg and get rid of all the nonsense. root@tal:~# ls -al /boot/grub/grub.cfg -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3356 Mar 1 22:53 /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Re: Wanted: an internet free minimal Debian install

2013-03-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 09:32:59AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Perhaps there's a marketing opportunity: Instead of netinst.iso perhaps damn-thats-minimal.iso Might get confused with Damn Small Linux. -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being

Re: Refining the question - was [Re: Wanted: an internet free minimal Debian install]

2013-03-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 09:04:12AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: There may be some 386 machines (dealing with those on a case by case basis would be feasible). Unless I'm very much mistaken, for 386, you'll have to look at BSD. -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the

Re: A question about how to ask a question

2013-03-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 01:21:23PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Freedom does not mean free of effort. I like it! :) Although in this case the OP is not sure what to look for and seems to have made quite a bit of effort IMHO. Not knowing Ubuntu myself, and not using HDMI either I can't offer

Re: Debian on 256MB PIII TabletPC

2013-03-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 09:49:12AM -0500, Steven Grunza wrote: Hello. I would like to install Debian on a laptop with 256 MB of RAM. Is this possible? I was previously running Ubuntu but there are problems in the Ubuntu X11 server code that cause the touchscreen to be unusable. Installing

Re: Missing Driver isci

2013-03-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 08:18:27AM +0100, arne wrote: On Tue, 5 Mar 2013 04:54:10 +0100 sposkpat sposk...@telfort.nl wrote: Do NOT REBOOT. Linux is known to run for years. Until you are sure. If you upgrade a kernel you should reboot afterwards. -- If you're not careful, the newspapers

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 10:17:11AM +, Darac Marjal wrote: On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 06:49:34PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 11:23:49PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: From the directory that the deb is in: dpkg -i wicd_1.7.0+ds1-5+squeeze3_all.deb

Re: Moving from a proprietary OS - unnecessarily inful experience -- was [Re: I wish to advocate linux]

2013-03-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 10:56:18AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: What I like about *nix is that it builds on the experience of 3 decades plus a lot more sound theory. Nobody has scrapped anything that is truly useful to cut corners and that is what I find impressive. I don't

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 11:23:49PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: From the directory that the deb is in: dpkg -i wicd_1.7.0+ds1-5+squeeze3_all.deb If it complains that there are missing dependencies, curse, wish you had used aptitude, and install them. Get the dependencies the same way you got

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