Re: What is *.cpp.d, and why is it breaking my compilations?

2016-10-18 Thread Jarle Aase
to understand why it is failing. Alll the best, Jarle Den 18. okt. 2016 19:44, skrev Jarle Aase: Hi fellow developers, After upgrading Debian Testing a few weeks ago, some of my pet projects could no longer build. They are all C++ projects, using CMake. I use Kdevelop as my IDE. I waited a while

What is *.cpp.d, and why is it breaking my compilations?

2016-10-18 Thread Jarle Aase
Hi fellow developers, After upgrading Debian Testing a few weeks ago, some of my pet projects could no longer build. They are all C++ projects, using CMake. I use Kdevelop as my IDE. I waited a while and upgraded again today, hoping that the problem would be gone. Unfortunately it was not.

Re: Recommendation: Backup system

2016-10-04 Thread Jarle Aase
I have moved from simple scripts to simple scripts with zbackup in them :) Then I rsync the zbackup directories from different machines to my central backup disks (and distribute from there to cloud storage and off-site disks). zbackup supports deduplication and encryption, and is really a

Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm?

2016-09-09 Thread Jarle Aase
I'll try it when I get the first server assembled. Thanks a lot! Jarle Den 09. sep. 2016 10:31, skrev to...@tuxteam.de: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 10:26:59PM +0300, Jarle Aase wrote: I want to set up a few servers at home. Unfortunately, as I live i

Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm?

2016-09-08 Thread Jarle Aase
I want to set up a few servers at home. Unfortunately, as I live in Bulgaria at the moment, the electric power is gone pretty often for longer periods than my UPS'es can deal with. So my servers will have to be started at least a few times every quarter. Another challenge with living in

Re: Every opportunity taken (Was: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC...)

2016-03-20 Thread Jarle Aase
Den 15. mars 2016 21:38, skrev deloptes: I agree with you more or less, however languages like python or perl open doors to pretend-to-be-programmers. I've seen more often bad python/perl code than c/c++. My observations are also that there is always a penalty, even if you compile the script

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-19 Thread Jarle Aase
Den 11. mars 2016 19:36, skrev Lisi Reisz: I have been reading this thread a bit at a time. I am bemused. Why, if you want life simple, and Free, etc., go for an AIO, which are notoriously troublesome? Why not go for a simple Brother laser printer? (If you want Brother.) Actually, I need

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-19 Thread Jarle Aase
Den 10. mars 2016 21:01, skrev Brian: Did you go through all this to set up scanning on the device? Of course you didn't. So why not do the same with printing and not make a song and a dance about it. Scanning was simple, as the device use standard protocols. Currently I scan to a FTP

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-09 Thread Jarle Aase
Den 09. mars 2016 14:27, skrev Brian: In another mail Jarle Aase said: > I think this printer supports both pcl and postscript. Faint alarm bells sounded in my head - inkjet, inkjet, inkjet. I ignored the warning; after all he was surely in possession of a manual and would know the prin

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-08 Thread Jarle Aase
Thanks for all the hints and suggestions. I have still not got the printing to work, but the scanner successfully sends the scans to my FTP server (https://sourceforge.net/projects/wfde/). That's kind of cool :) The scan quality is fine. I actually like this device. I'll see if I get it to

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-08 Thread Jarle Aase
Den 08. mars 2016 15:39, skrev Dutch Ingraham: When networked printers "print" without errors and without actually printing, it could be your firewall blocking. The printer display says that it is receiving data. Then nothing happens. So the comm-link is OK. Jarle

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-08 Thread Jarle Aase
Den 08. mars 2016 14:02, skrev Brian: I am very skeptical to installing 3rd party deb packages from hardware vendors. I don't think they have quite the same focus on security that I have. Basically, if a network printer require proprietary drivers to work - then it is broken by design. I

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-08 Thread Jarle Aase
Den 08. mars 2016 13:26, skrev deloptes: Of course if you require high level of security you can not trust such binaries, but if you are at this level of security I do not think you will be working at the computer that much or at least use such kind of hardware. In such case it is best to

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-08 Thread Jarle Aase
Den 08. mars 2016 12:15, skrev Sven Arvidsson: On Tue, 2016-03-08 at 12:01 +0200, Jarle Aase wrote: Yes, you are right. That might work. Thank you! Actually, you will probably need the filter binaries too. You can install them manually too, but you will be running non-free software. Some

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-08 Thread Jarle Aase
Den 08. mars 2016 11:53, skrev Sven Arvidsson: On Tue, 2016-03-08 at 11:39 +0200, Jarle Aase wrote: I am very skeptical to installing 3rd party deb packages from hardware I didn't suggest that. I suggested extracting the PPD and using that. Yes, you are right. That might work. Thank you

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-08 Thread Jarle Aase
Den 08. mars 2016 10:05, skrev Sven Arvidsson: On Tue, 2016-03-08 at 00:14 +0200, Jarle Aase wrote: Hi all, I read some good reviews about this network printer/scanner, and noticed that it can scan to email or FTP. So I made the flawed(?) assumption that the printer would work independently

Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-07 Thread Jarle Aase
Hi all, I read some good reviews about this network printer/scanner, and noticed that it can scan to email or FTP. So I made the flawed(?) assumption that the printer would work independently without a software suite / drivers from Brother. I tried to install it with the kde "Print

Re: Debian "testing" is looking really great on my new "Skylake" PC

2016-01-20 Thread Jarle Aase
Den 01/20/16 18:56, skrev Patrick Bartek: What if anything special like disabling Secureboot did you do to facilitate this painless install? Nothing really. I specified "Other OS" and enabled virtualization - that's all that I changed in the BIOS setup. I'm buying a new notebook as a

Debian "testing" is looking really great on my new "Skylake" PC

2016-01-19 Thread Jarle Aase
I built myself a new PC with an Intel i7-6700K ("Skylake" architecture) - and I was prepared for lots of grief and trouble. However, installing Debian "testing" yesterday, from the latest Amd64 snapshot, was absolutely painless. I'm using kde as desktop, and it looks really great. I installed

Re: Upgrading Debian

2015-09-13 Thread Jarle Aase
On 09/13/2015 10:57 AM, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > I just want to make sure again. How can one upgrade from one > version of Debian to other without losing data or without > formatiing the partition, simply as Ubuntu does. An earlier mail in > this mailing list stated to reboot from iso image and

After upgrade, Debian Jessie boots into read-only root file system

2015-09-12 Thread Jarle Aase
Hi, This morning my workstation booted into a read-only root file system. I assumed that it was the old SSD drive that was closing to end of life, - but when I booted my laptop, that also booted into read-only. The system came up after I re-mounted root to read-write, and re-started kdm.

Re: After upgrade, Debian Jessie boots into read-only root file system

2015-09-12 Thread Jarle Aase
, Jarle Aase wrote: > Hi, > > This morning my workstation booted into a read-only root file > system. I assumed that it was the old SSD drive that was closing > to end of life, - but when I booted my laptop, that also booted > into read-only. > > The system came up after I

Problems getting started with QtQuick and QtCreator

2015-05-22 Thread Jarle Aase
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, I have put aside some time this weekend to see what I can do with Qt Quick. However, when I try to compile the skeleton hello world application Qt Creator makes when I create a new project, I get this error: 08:01:47: Running steps for

Re: Problems getting started with QtQuick and QtCreator

2015-05-22 Thread Jarle Aase
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi all, Sorry for the noise. I started trying more of the suggestions in different forum threads regarding this problem, and aptitude install qtdeclarative5-dev solved it. Jarle On 05/23/2015 08:15 AM, Jarle Aase wrote: Hi, I have put

Re: debian 7.0 unsuccessful VMware 10 and 11 installation

2015-02-18 Thread Jarle Aase
it is installed) There is a wiki, but it's not updated for workstation 11. (Use the latest you have, always). | https://wiki.debian.org/VMware Jarle - -- Jarle Aase email: ja...@jgaa.com Author of Free Software.http://www.jgaa.com War FTP Daemon: http

Re: debian 7.0 unsuccessful VMware 10 and 11 installation

2015-02-18 Thread Jarle Aase
information to a log-file somewhere. I don't remember where, but it might be in /tmp. You could issue a lsof command while the installer is running and search for it. Anyway, are you installing as root? Do you have gcc and the linux headers package installed? Jarle - -- Jarle Aase

Tried to boot my laptop from a cafe...

2015-02-01 Thread Jarle Aase
the crap to boot, and then unplug it and walk back to my table. How did this happen? How come Debian is now /more/ useless than Windows? It can't even boot if the hardware configuration is not exactly the way it assumes. WTF! Jarle - -- Jarle Aase email: ja...@jgaa.com Author

Re: Minimal configuration for a laptop

2015-01-22 Thread Jarle Aase
and 2010 year. I kook for a laptop computer of which the sale price began from 2000 Euros. Thank you very much! - -- Jarle Aase email: ja...@jgaa.com Author of Free Software.http://www.jgaa.com War FTP Daemon: http://www.warftp.org Other free software

Re: test VMs

2015-01-08 Thread Jarle Aase
instance, everything was 100% automated). Jarle - -- Jarle Aase email: ja...@jgaa.com Author of Free Software.http://www.jgaa.com War FTP Daemon: http://www.warftp.org Other free software:http://products.jgaa.com NB: If you reply

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-05 Thread Jarle Aase
- -- Jarle Aase email: ja...@jgaa.com Author of Free Software.http://www.jgaa.com War FTP Daemon: http://www.warftp.org Other free software:http://products.jgaa.com NB: If you reply to this message, please include all relevant information from

Re: Unable too boot after fresh install of latest testing

2014-11-11 Thread Jarle Aase
and I'm happy :) There is obviously a bug in the installer in iso-cddebian-testing-amd64-kde-CD-1.iso. How/where is the the appropriate place to report that? Jarle On 11/10/2014 10:16 AM, Jarle Aase wrote: I have been using testing for quite some time. Saturday, I upgraded to the latest version

Unable to start kvm virtual machines after re-install of testing

2014-11-11 Thread Jarle Aase
: 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: -- Jarle Aase email: ja...@jgaa.com Author of Free Software.http://www.jgaa.com War FTP Daemon: http://www.warftp.org Other free software:http://products.jgaa.com NB

Unable too boot after fresh install of latest testing

2014-11-10 Thread Jarle Aase
I have been using testing for quite some time. Saturday, I upgraded to the latest version. That was a disaster. Eventually I gave up fixing the upgrade and performed a fresh install (with encrypted root file system). No matter what I did (I tried 5 - 6 fresh installs on two disks, and a few

Re: Unable too boot after fresh install of latest testing

2014-11-10 Thread Jarle Aase
On 10.11.2014 16:01, Marko Randjelovic wrote: Boot from Install CD/DVD and choose rescue mode. Than you can review grub options and reinstall. Alternatively, you can try lilo. I have tried rescue mode and various grub-install and update-grub commands update-grup makes no difference. With

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-10 Thread Jarle Aase
On 10.11.2014 20:28, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 10.11.2014 um 19:26 schrieb Patrick Bartek: Maybe, the release after Jessie will include an init choice. Ironically, jessie is the first release where you can actually install an alternative init. Up until now you were forced to use sysvinit.

Re: Error setting raw device

2005-06-05 Thread Jarle Aase
with raw devices. Jarle Thanks, Ricky. * To: debian-user@lists.debian.org * Subject: Error setting raw device * From: Jarle Aase [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:45:49 +0200 * Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Old-return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED