Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 01:04:13PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: By the way, no matter what DE/WM I'm using, I *always* install Xfce just to get xfburn, xfce4-appfinder, and a few other priceless apps. I I find that mp3burn and wodim cater for all my 'burning' desires. :) DE, WM, X, not required.

Re: media 'slideshow': movies + pictures

2014-05-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 08:45:17AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: That's the right way to do random play, IMO, though I've yet to devise an algorithm for doing it properly that seems both clean and functional to my eye. Ah! ... but true random play is just white noise, is it not? -- If you're

Re: repeatable dpkg-buildpackage

2014-05-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 05:06:01PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 18:58 +0400, Reco wrote: fakeroot ... regarding to some claims on this list is a PITA, at least when building a kernel. I run my scripts to build kernel-rts as root. It's a good idea to recommend best

Re: Error message: Possible missing firmware during linux-image upgrade

2014-05-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 06:05:34PM -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote: I happen to have Realtek RTL8111/8168B Gigabit card which works flawlessly with any Debian kernel starting with Squeeze's backported 3.1. How does one find out if the Realtek Gigabit card is 8168B, 8168A, 8168E? man

Re: repeatable dpkg-buildpackage

2014-05-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 11:20:01AM +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: On 05/27/2014 11:15 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 05:06:01PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 18:58 +0400, Reco wrote: fakeroot ... regarding to some claims on this list is a PITA

Re: 'box' as noun, was: wireless can DHCP but not DNS?

2014-05-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 09:52:43AM +, Curt wrote: On 2014-05-23, Joe Pfeiffer pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu wrote: While you are correct, the sentence structure leads one to expect 'box' as a verb and 'ethernets' as a noun. Speaking as another native speaker, it took me two passes to read

Re: friends laptop, no mic found

2014-05-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 09:58:11AM +, Curt wrote: On 2014-05-24, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 06:13:17AM -0400, Rodney D. Myers wrote: I always thought this mail list stripped attachments. I now know ... that it depends on their size

Re: rapidly proliferating sess files in /tmp, eating inodes

2014-05-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 07:34:18AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: I wrote: Google search works just fine with all ads, cookies, scripts, and trackers blocked. Chris Bannister writes: It's probably easier to use https://startpage.com/ :-) How is that easier? They do it all for you. No need

Re: friends laptop, no mic found

2014-05-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 06:13:17AM -0400, Rodney D. Myers wrote: I always thought this mail list stripped attachments. I now know ... that it depends on their size? -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are

Re: rapidly proliferating sess files in /tmp, eating inodes

2014-05-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 09:59:40PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Joel Rees writes: The question of how evil google is/was/is becoming aside... Google search works just fine with all ads, cookies, scripts, and trackers blocked. It's probably easier to use https://startpage.com/ :-) -- If

Re: Anyone using exim with fastmail.fm's smtp server as smart host?

2014-05-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 01:29:04AM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk writes: On Thu 22 May 2014 at 22:43:37 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: I'll be back at it in 2wks or so.. I suspect it will be pretty simple now. It should be after what follows::) In

Re: does gpg gpg2 use same gpg.conf file in home directory what are the best practices to create gpg2 signature ?

2014-05-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 08:34:39AM +0530, war.dhan wrote: ... You'll probably have better luck on a gnupg mailing list: https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/mailing-lists.html -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people

Re: Systemd and vt9

2014-05-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 11:53:04PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: So can anyone who is actually using Systemd now (I am still on Wheezy, BTW) tell me if this is going to be an issue for me? Can I do this once my box has been converted to Systemd? What about that root login on vt9? Don't

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 03:15:44PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: DRM sucks! +10E -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Unable to install Debian 7.5.0

2014-05-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 01:09:03PM +0530, Saptarshi Kapas wrote: Hi, I downloaded debian-7.5.0 from this following location http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.5.0/i386/iso-dvd/ . After download i burn this iso in dvd. After that when i am trying to install this to my local machine,

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:33:48PM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: England (or Great Britain - I'm not sure which) in the late 1800s. One of my other interests, Gilbert and Sullivan, is notably impacted by that, as the license copy of a play wasn't necessarily identical to what ended up being

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 01:39:35PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: 2) When lawmakers are paid to orient what they do this is usually called corruption. Unfortunately, what is corruption in one country is just common business practice in another. -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:54:52AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 5/18/14, Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/17/2014 07:55 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Nobody forces you to install the add-on, certainly not Mozilla or Debian. And that is the part I don't get. Anyone is free to

Re: systemd situation in Jesssie

2014-05-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 09:17:46PM -0400, Theodore Alcapotaxis wrote: - Original Message - From: Martin Vegter Sent: 05/18/14 01:58 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: systemd situation in Jesssie Hello, I have servers running Jessie. Can I continue upgrading

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 12:50:44PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: I can hold a stone, or a stick, and whilst I hold it, it is mine. Unless you stole it ... hey wait a minute, where's my sticks and stones! -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being

Re: Tails

2014-05-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 06:10:44PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 17 May 2014 00:12:48 Theodore Alcapotaxis wrote: BTW what is Tails? Is it the next version of Debian? The current version 7.5 is codenamed Wheezy, correct? Yes, correct. And Testing is Jessie. But Tails is not the

Re: evolution

2014-05-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 03:45:52PM +0200, wi wrote: Hi, I want to use evolution on my desktop-pc and on my laptop and - of course - I want to synchronize all data from it. Is there a possibility? Yes. IMAP is one I know of. What has your Google search come up with? -- If you're not

Re: holding a package against upgrades

2014-05-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 09:31:37AM -0600, United States Ret. wrote: I have been using sid and do not want iceweasel 29. I have decided to revert to iceweasel 24.5 and have now put that on hold (=) in dselect and worry that will override my decision and upgrade anyway. Is there a better way

Re: Confusion

2014-05-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 10:42:10PM -0700, Joshua Anthony wrote: My apologies to those who feel that I have wasted their time and thanks to those who have tried to help. I don't know how I managed to start two threads but this whole business well illustrates the confusion that I originally

Re: [SOLVED] Text files treated like html in apache 2.4

2014-05-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 06:59:17PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: On Mon, 12 May 2014 20:28:24 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: ... But with Apache 2.4, it treats the text file like html and reformats everything, concatenating lines, eliminating blank lines, etc. How do I get it to treat

Re: you don\u2019t know if you don\u2019t ask

2014-05-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 06:36:34PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 11/05/14 17:06, Sharon Kimble wrote: But is there a system-wide solution, just in case it starts happening in some other programme please? Try enabling utf (it's the in thing). IOW, what is the output of the 'locale'

Re: Problems getting Debian DVD to work (Re: Confusion)

2014-05-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 10:57:38AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: I'm trying to suppress laughter while I type this. Are you saying that there was a suspicion that somebody used what, xfburn, to put a single file on an optical disc, and that single file was the .iso intended to put an iso9660 or UDF

Re: Confusion

2014-05-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 06:03:35PM -0700, Joshua Anthony wrote: I have used GNU Linux for years - trying out several distros, all by downloading the Iso file and writing to CD. Ubuntu, Slackware, Puppy, and Gnewsense all install just fine after simply right-clicking on the file and selecting

Re: What happened to palimpsest disk utility in Jessie?

2014-05-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 10:40:06AM +, Артур Истомин wrote: AFAIUI it's been renamed Disks and the executable is /usr/bin/gnome-disks. WTF AFAIUI? ) WTF WTF? GIYF -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people

Re: Upgrade debacle........

2014-05-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 07:48:45AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2014-05-01 at 22:56 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: On 05/01/2014 02:37 PM, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: At the time, I didn't check to see if the file /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache existed.

Decent screenshot site. (was ... Re: JWM )

2014-05-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 10:40:39AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I'm not booted to my Debian now, so here's a screenshot of my Arch's JWM: http://picpaste.com/pics/jwm.1399019915.png Ouch! try this tal% wget 'http://picpaste.com/pics/jwm.1399019915.png' --2014-05-04 01:01:20--

Re: Upgrade debacle........

2014-05-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 12:06:21PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 03 mai 14, 18:25:59, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 07:48:45AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: It was an issue for the OP. It's disputable if somebody who can't solve such an issue on her/his own, should

Re: iceweasel and mozilla-acroread

2014-05-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 02:51:07PM -0400, Dale Harris wrote: Just heard from Christian Marrilat, he's going to get rid of mozilla-acroread: You must forget this package. Now iceweasel include is own pdf reader. Remove this package (I'll also remove this package from my repository) and try to

Re: Upgrade debacle........

2014-05-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 09:12:08AM +1000, Charlie wrote: I reported Bug#742875 which I noticed on an upgrade. Can you add anything to it? I thought that if a command should be issued to implement an upgrade, it would have been run during that upgrade. eg. Halting cups printing system.

Re: name resolution

2014-05-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 12:48:47PM +0530, L V Gandhi wrote: I have name resolution problem in my debian virtual machine. In my host operating system name resolution is ok. Even in debian, ping works. But wget says resolution error as follows. lvgandhi@lvgacersqueeze:~$ ping -c4

Re: Upgrade debacle........

2014-04-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 01:08:09PM +1000, Charlie wrote: Using Debian testing 3.12-1-amd64 Updated and upgraded this morning was told to run this: gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache It didn't do anything of course and when I

Re: dict - phrase challenged

2014-04-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 05:22:50PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Anyone know why my giyf searches and man page readings are failing to What is giyf? determine how to search the gnu/linux dictionaries for a phrase? A dictionary is a book of words, you should be searching a book of phrases.

Re: Systemd

2014-04-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 01:33:30PM +0100, Brian wrote: On Sat 26 Apr 2014 at 12:08:07 +, Curt wrote: On 2014-04-26, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: A not buggy horse and buggy. Isn't that a quote from Travels on the Fringes of Surrey by Orson Cart? He might have

Re: Mobile Broadband with Btooth

2014-04-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 08:43:42AM +0200, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: Hi, How to do that? It always refuse connecting Sorry to be blunt: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and

Re: Mobile Broadband with Btooth

2014-04-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 10:32:45AM +0200, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: It send me in logs - Port already in use Have you googled the 'exact' error message? This more often than not can lead you on the right track to solving 96.75% of most issues. :) So you need to find out what is already using that

Re: Debian Noob and MSCORE fonts

2014-04-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 06:43:59PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 11:39:11 -0500 c. marlow ch...@marlows.org wrote: Hello c., Ok I removed the ones that said SOURCE CODE They're handy to have. It wasn't the wisest move to delete them so reinstate them. I disagree, you

Re: Heartbleed

2014-04-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 02:33:43PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 19/04/14 07:55, Joe wrote: As is the light originating inside peoples' homes and passing out of their windows. In which case it is arguable that it is perfectly acceptable to collect and record that light with a camera

Re: Heartbleed

2014-04-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 12:59:02PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 08:11:27 + (UTC) Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: Hello Curt, On 2014-04-18, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: * I can successfully shave myself to leave exactly four days growth. I've always

Re: Wayland in Debian

2014-04-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 08:11:34PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: Funny thing, after dinking around in synaptic, I'm finding a lot of lib-wayland packages installed within Jessie. If you are worried about library dependencies, I suggest looking at the Gentoo Linux distribution.

Re: Heartbleed (was ... Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...)

2014-04-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 01:55:04AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 4/13/2014 10:03 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: ... considering it is a catastrophe worse than the Y2K bug. This is several orders of magnitude less severe than Y2K. I read https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/04

Re: Heartbleed (was ... Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...)

2014-04-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 08:59:30PM -0400, shawn wilson wrote: On Apr 14, 2014 11:01 AM, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 01:55:04AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 4/13/2014 10:03 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: ... considering it is a catastrophe

Re: Heartbleed (was ... Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...)

2014-04-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:34:29PM -0400, shawn wilson wrote: On Apr 14, 2014 10:11 PM, Richard Hector rich...@walnut.gen.nz wrote: They don't need to send an email, or anything intrusive. They just need to put a big notice on the login page of their internet banking site - along with (or

Re: GNOME dependencies (was ... Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does)

2014-04-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 10:50:03AM +0400, Reco wrote: Hi. On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 16:18:01 +1200 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 12:26:10AM -0400, PaulNM wrote: paul@debguis2:~$ aptitude why libreoffice-writer i gnome Depends libreoffice

Heartbleed (was ... Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...)

2014-04-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 06:37:19PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2014-04-13 at 09:33 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: In what sense do you mean hacked? Cracked, as in passwords and other sensitive information The openssl issues have been baking for how many years? The bug was introduced

GNOME dependencies (was ... Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does)

2014-04-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 12:26:10AM -0400, PaulNM wrote: paul@debguis2:~$ aptitude why libreoffice-writer i gnome Depends libreoffice-writer | abiword (= 2.8) WTF. Shouldn't that be a recommends? Seems like a bug to me. -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the

Re: the importance of defaults ( was: Debian default desktop environment )

2014-04-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 12:17:47PM +0200, alberto fuentes wrote: tl;dr http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tldr My point is that gnome3 is even more disruptive than unity. Do we want to attract users or scare them away? Neither. I suggest that the lack of one option doesn't automatically imply

Re: Copying complete SET of installation DVDs to a USB stick

2014-04-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 09:01:05AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I will be installing Debian at locations which DO NOT have internet. Instead of juggling a stack of DVDs, I want everything on a USB stick. I am using Debian 6.0.5 as test case - it's what I have available. There was no problem

Re: Where's tkmixer?

2014-04-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 12:31:18AM -0400, R. Clayton wrote: I don't use tk but it is here https://packages.debian.org/sid/sound/tkmixer From what I can tell, that's a unstable package for a motorola architecture, while I'm looking for a testing package for an intel architecture. You

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2014 #435

2014-04-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 01:20:22PM -0400, Michael Torres wrote: I am using 7.4 gnome On Apr 10, 2014 2:37 AM, debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: tl;dr Please turn off digest mode if you want to post a question. -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating

Re: Switching OS

2014-04-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 08:30:13PM -0700, Stephen Barr wrote: I have been using Ubuntu for several years now but all of a sudden it has begun locking up, sometimes several times a day. Very annoying, especially when it fouls up file names. I have a lot of work to do on my website and this is

Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does

2014-04-10 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please trim your quotes to just include relevant content, makes it easier to read.] On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 09:04:21PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: After it went Stable, I used just upgrade -- for the most part. So there would be no major changes. This also recommended by Debian. Stable

Re: Cropping a large collection of .PNG screenshots

2014-04-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 03:03:14AM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I have a few hundred screen shots I want to put on a web page, but they are all full-screen and I want to crop to the real contents. This is an identical region in all cases. So I want to script it. So, 2 questions: A) What's

Re: insserv: warning: script ... missing LSB tags and overrides

2014-04-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 11:44:28PM -0700, John Magolske wrote: Hi, After a recent `aptitude dist-upgrade` I'm getting a long string of error messages about scripts ...missing LSB tags and overrides (some insserv: warning: script 'K02grml-home' missing LSB tags and overrides insserv:

Re: no eth0 connection-redux

2014-04-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 10:06:04AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, 05 Apr 2014 20:55:12 -0400 (EDT), Tom Furie wrote: Thread wasn't broken here. The References: header in Robert's mail indicates that it was indeed a reply (to his original post on this thread). Perhaps I need to

Re: Net install cd, Not a Bug Report!!

2014-04-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 11:43:32AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: I suggest you get a good Linux reference book to study. I started with RUNNING LINUX (O'Reilly, pub.). The latest edition is 5,released 2005, which is a little dated, but not much. Buy a used one or find one of the free pdf

Re: Boot up is not Completing, it is Cycling

2014-04-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 05:47:31PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 06 April 2014 06:54:53 Chris Bannister wrote: $ man dmesg $ man dmesg text.txt That produces the same result. IOW 'man dmesg' and 'man dmesg text.txt' followed by 'less text.txt' is no different. You will get a text

Re: Boot up is not Completing, it is Cycling

2014-04-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 02:26:09PM -0700, ray wrote: Due to the time out issue, I am wondering if there might be a BIOS conflict with the Linux installation. I don't know how to get to those boot logs. I have read they should be in /var/log/ and dmesg.log but I don't find that file and

Re: Users Not Receiving List Mail

2014-04-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 08:00:09PM +0100, Brian wrote: Electronic mail is rapidly becoming a toy communication system. How many people would tolerate their usual postal services (Royal Mail in my case) making any decision whatsoever about what they could send or receive? The question is

Re: Found answer - was [Re: Problem writing custom preseed.cfg]

2014-04-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 02:12:57PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: IOW - why do I find my own answer only after posting? Because you don't treat asking the list as a *last* resort? Remember your ignorance is archived. :) -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people

[OT] Sending money through the post (was ... Re: Users Not Receiving List Mail)

2014-04-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 10:18:17AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Friday 04 April 2014 08:05:51 Chris Bannister wrote: You can't send money through the post Since when? An elderly relative used often to do so. (She is dead now, hence the past tense.) Ahh! Should have googled¹ first! :) I

Re: no eth0 connection

2014-04-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 09:52:12AM +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: Am 01.04.2014 um 04:00 schrieb Charles Kroeger ckro...@frankensteinface.com: On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 10:30:03 +0200 François Patte francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr wrote: # lshw -class network

Re: Can't find media on USB storage

2014-03-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 02:49:19PM -0300, Bruno Schneider wrote: I've seen John's messages. My current understating of the problem now follows: - Newer Debian machines have udisks2 and not udisks. It seems udisks2 sucks [1] and is not doing its job like it should. - Udisks and udisks2 are

Re: Locatedb not Updating

2014-03-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 10:48:49PM +0100, Brian wrote: On Mon 31 Mar 2014 at 23:07:24 +0300, David Baron wrote: In the same mail an observation was made. It implied that the file cron-spamassassin-rules was put in /etc/cron.daily by you and not by a Debian package. Do you have a

Re: kernel upgrade

2014-03-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 02:05:57PM +, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 14:31:03 +0100 François Patte francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr wrote: Hello François, Since I installed debian sid (august 2013), I regularly made upgrade, but the kernel doesn't appear to be upgraded.

List installed packages sorted by size.

2014-03-25 Thread Chris Bannister
Hi, Could be useful to someone: dpkg-query -Wf '${Installed-Size}\t${Package}\n' | sort -n | less -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Problem building h263/4 for asterisk from source

2014-03-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 05:05:32PM +, David Woodfall wrote: I tried installing ptlib and openh323 from source but make in ptlib errored out with something that I couldn't fathom out. I'm new to Debian and apt so any help on getting the latest asterisk working with all video codecs would

Re: modem hangup problems continue

2014-03-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 04:10:42PM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: I'm running Squeeze on a P3 board and dialup. My modem gets hungup after 2.5 minutes about 30% - 40% of the time I connect. Being idle, in the middle of fetching email or loading a webpage seems to make no difference. Is there any

Re: Time Zone Questions

2014-03-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:10:32PM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 3/21/2014 10:08 PM, John Hasler wrote: Jerry Stuckle writes: The time needs to be accurate TAI is accurate. UTC is fudged. The Earth is not a clock. BTW GPS time ignores leap seconds. It's what scientists most often use

[OT] Re: Fonts providing emojis?

2014-03-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 07:20:56AM +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: Chris Bannister writes: On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 09:26:01AM +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: on Ottoman turkish (arabic writing - btw ancient Greek students already had TeX (if they knew they had it ;) ). Ay what

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

2014-03-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 09:26:01AM +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: on Ottoman turkish (arabic writing - btw ancient Greek students already had TeX (if they knew they had it ;) ). Ay what? How old *is* Mr Knuth? -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are

Re: Bash completion doesn't prompt files in current directory

2014-03-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 01:54:00PM +0100, Simon Chen wrote: Hi all, After yesterday's upgrade, I find that bash's completion rules changed a bit. She doesn't prompt potent files any more if I don't type the first character in file's name (but still prompt all directories). Say when I have

Re: textstudio installs texlive in jessie

2014-03-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 02:21:52PM +0100, Oliver Kranz wrote: Sorry didnt got this output to english. Any advice how to change language temporary (for one terminal only). Use the LANG environment variable: $ LANG=C command -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the

Re: LVM preseed install fails with partition error

2014-03-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 05:34:17PM +, Brian wrote: I'll note that the mail you sent was about 10096 in size. The file at paste.debian.net is about a third the size of the mail, 3800, and easily compressed to 1200, As an attachment sent to the List it would surely be acceptable. It would

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

2014-03-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 06:02:33AM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: The '-query' option to xrdb is useful. Interesting you used your original .Xresources rather than one modified in the light of your experience. :) That;s because I want my .Xresources to work, I had made colorscheme changes to

Re: My experiences with three CD players on Gnome

2014-03-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 12:51:08PM -0400, Patrick Chkoreff wrote: RhythmBox has a problem. Press Play to begin playing a CD. Press Play again to Pause. Press Play again to resume playing. Nothing happens. Have you reported a bug? SoundJuicer has a problem. The Help says: While playing,

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

2014-03-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 10:22:21AM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: Solved. Are you sure? What do you think will happen on an upgrade of Xorg? I edited the file /etc/X11/Xsession.d/30x11-common_xresources and changed the xorg -merge ... lines to xorge ... and it worked. I don't know if it is a

Re: Debian + Dell + double screen

2014-03-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 09:30:48AM +0400, Dmitrii Kashin wrote: Didn't I ask you not to send me a carbon copy? :/ http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct * If you want to complain to someone who sent you a carbon copy when you did not ask for it, do it privately. -- If you're

Re: On what is helpful and what is not [was: Re: Wifi]

2014-03-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 07:38:01PM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: Everyone is new at sometime or other. A helping hand is always welcome. Remember that honey attracts more flies than vinegar. Actually, you attract more fruit flies with vinegar than honey. -- If you're not careful, the

Re: Wifi

2014-03-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 05:39:20PM -0500, Patrick Chkoreff wrote: Once Debian was installed, I searched around and figured out that I needed to do this: 1. Edit /etc/apt/sources.list, adding non-free to the end of every line starting with deb . contrib should be added as well. 2. Then:

Re: Brainless Debian Stable installation and usage?

2014-03-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 08:47:27AM +, Joe wrote: On Fri, 7 Mar 2014 01:28:11 -0500 Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com litt...@gmail.com wrote: What followed XP was Vista, and who would do that to themselves. In my opinion (not that I'm an expert on Windows), Windows 7 wasn't much

Re: feature request for this mailing list

2014-03-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 02:28:21PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Ok, I see. Well, asking did not cost a lot, and now I know that it will not be made to avoid bloating subject field. No. It is because there are *already* sufficient headers for this purpose. Besides, remember the

Re: Brainless Debian Stable installation and usage?

2014-03-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 09:12:50PM +0400, Reco wrote: Hi. On Sat, 8 Mar 2014 00:04:48 +1300 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Linux also use all available memory? No. Linux will keep unused amount of memory equal to (in kbytes

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems - SysV is FINE.

2014-03-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 04:02:21PM -0800, Arnold Bird wrote: I should be able to chose my init system, just as I am able to chose my kernel, my window manager, my email client, everything. https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/02/msg00503.html Linux IS about choice.

Re: gnutls security breach

2014-03-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 03:10:59AM -0500, Ric Moore wrote: Yeow! I just did update / upgrade to Jessy, but didn't see the security fix come through yet. Ric Jessie is the penultimate¹ worst dist to be running if you are worried about security. ¹ The worst IMHO would be oldstable+n where n=1

Re: Brand new install, now how do I play a Youtube video?

2014-03-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 10:31:34AM -0500, Patrick Chkoreff wrote: I recently installed Debian on this laptop. Here's the detail: $ uname -a Linux laptop 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.54-2 i686 GNU/Linux I'm using the IceWeasel browser, but I can't play a Youtube video. I don't want

Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

2014-03-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Mar 01, 2014 at 11:53:28PM -0600, y...@marupa.net wrote: On Sun, 2014-03-02 at 10:55 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: And then there's NSA (and the companies they outsource to) - they *do* have an agenda that would be furthered by creating divisions and uncertainty in Debian.

Re: Jessie almost freezes every several minutes

2014-02-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 06:54:22PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: Neither top nor iotop shows any processes using any significant resources. Konsole seems to be immune and remains responsive (when I can get to it) but the other programs I have running (usually Dolphin, Kontact, Icedove and Iceweasel)

howto import gpg key (was ... Re: debootstrap etch unknown key)

2014-02-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 10:38:47AM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: Tried gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys B5D0C804ADB11277 and it pulled down the Etch Stable Release Key debian-rele...@lists.debian.org key. $ gpg --fingerprint ADB11277 pub 1024D/ADB11277 2006-09-17 Key fingerprint

Re: [OT] KDM No Longer In KDE ?!?

2014-02-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 08:48:43PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Yes, the problem with multiple personalities - the other ones often are unauthoritative. Also, can never be quite sure what one of those other personalities really means, they say the doggendest things sometimes.. 10 out of 8

Re: systemd: some more questions

2014-02-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 06:34:35PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 15:01 +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: AFAIK udev is part of systemd It was merged by upstream a long, long time ago. Have you got any proof? -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating

Re: systemd: some more questions

2014-02-19 Thread Chris Bannister
[You snipped the attribution!] On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 03:01:56PM +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: (AFAIK this has nothing at all to do with systemd, other than udev sharing its git repository and a certian amount of FUD possibly going on.) AFAIK udev is part of systemd That looks

Re: video compression?

2014-02-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 06:22:13PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 08:23:26AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: Is there a best debian program to compress avi videos enough to send them by email? Very much doubt it. How long does the video run for? What size is it? I have

Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

2014-02-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 02:14:59PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: I also created the Xorg.conf file as mentioned in the wiki. But when I rebooted my system Xorg failed to start. So i figured that I am having a GPU with optimus support and I do not need the Xorg.conf file but instead I need the

Re: reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

2014-02-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 09:01:25AM +, Joe wrote: Eventually a few more clues confirmed that it was an audio problem, and suggested pulseaudio, which I had installed a couple of months earlier for a particular experiment. I ripped it out, and sound no longer worked of course, but my

Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

2014-02-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 10:13:21AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 22:01 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: root@tal:~# lsmod | grep video I would search directly for the driver name ... And if it's not listed? Then you are probably going to have to do a lsmod anyway to see what

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