Re: CUPS under jessie
On 20 Jun 2016, Curt wrote: > On 2016-06-20, Charlie S <taoques...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Debian Linux systems, have found HP printers are good and Epson > > printers to be good as well. > > > > Brother printers can be made to work, but it's onerous and not all the > > features work. Maybe it's just the models that I have tried to get > > working are not the models that Debian printing packages favour. So > > have installed the closest possible. Therefore not full featured. > > Brother printer here. Works and worked out of the box without further > ado. HL-2030 laser. Had it for years and years and just keeps on keeping > on. I believe they do offer Linux drivers for their devices, too (which > is at least an effort in the right direction, although not needed for > this particular printer). > I have had no problems with Brother HL-5250DN and HL-5350DN using the driver from the Brother site: Brother-HL-5350DN-Postscript-Brother.ppd on both. AC -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk
Re: Flash update
On 27 Jun 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: [snip] > > > > > > > > 1. Using iplayer with flash involves downloading a file. > > > > > > > > 2. Wouldn't it be nice if the file could be downloaded, preferably > > > > using a program which is in a package in the Debian archives? > > > > > > > > 3. Such a package has been mentioned in this thread. It is extensively > > > >documented at the program's home page and in its manual. > > > > > > > > 4. The file being downloaded is a .flv. While it is being downloaded it > > > >is being stored on disk so it can be accessed and viewed. vlc is one > > > >player which can view .flv files. [snip] I know this is an old thread, but I thought it would be worth mentioning that BBC IPlayer now works without Flash. If you go to the BBC IPlayer web page it says you can access the programs using HTML5. You just have to install a cookie to do this. It's still in beta but it works for me, at least with recent versions of Firefox and Chromium. -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk
Re: Differences Between ThinkPad Models
On 04 Dec 2015, Bob Holtzman wrote: [snip] > > So first and last lenovo for me. > > My exact thoughts. My T420 is so flexible that you have to be careful > when you pick it up so as not to pop the cd drive open. Too bad. I'm > told the earlier ones, when IBM was still in the picture, were rock > solid. Maybe if I cxould find a used T60.. There are good refurbished T60s available on Ebay in Britain. I bought up several of these - almost indistinguishable from new. -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk
Re: Xorg replaces TTY1
On 23 Nov 2015, John L. Ries wrote: > Actually, if someone is starting X via startx instead of a display manager, > it normally means either that the user is trying to test his X > configuration, or that X is only intended to run intermittently, with TTY > mode being the norm. So having X replace the terminal in that circumstance > does not at all strike me as a happy thing, I don't agree with this. I don't use a desktop manager but even if I did, I'd prefer to start X via startx. This gives me more control. If something goes wrong with X you are screwed if you don't have an easily accessible TTY to diagnose the problem. I'm sure I'm not alone in this. -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk
Re: Okay, that's too much now!
On 05 Sep 2015, John Hasler wrote: > Erik Lauritsen writes: > > Freedom of choice my ass! > > You are free to choose FreeBSD. > -- Or OpenBSD, which for my money is a better bet for the Desktop. -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk
Re: OT: linguistic mis-usages (was Re: Remove subject)
On 15 May 2015, The Wanderer wrote: On 05/15/2015 at 07:35 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 09:16:17AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: Since we're well off-topic already, I can't resist citing a rather similar and increasingly prevalent negative usage that makes no sense. I quite often read the phrase: the importance of this cannot be underestimated. It should, of course, be OVER-estimated, or alternatively must not be under-estimated. I think the two usages have No! Why does it need a hyphen? To help indicate that you're separating out (and thus focusing on) the first half of the compound word, while still indicating that you're using the compound word rather than (incorrectly) the matching two-word phrase. What is it with all these hyphens that people are sticking between words these days? I can't speak to all of them, but in a large fraction of cases, they're extremely helpful for communicating the way in which you intend words to group together. [snip] Agreed. And it isn't these days; in fact, in earlier times people used hyphens more than they do now. But I think the fashion pendulum is beginning to swing back (and it's largely a question of fashion). But not entirely fashion. Omitting hyphens can sometimes cause the reader to check momentarily, a kind of mental stumble. E.g. the hyphen in the subject line of this thread is useful; misusages would be confusing. It's a question of courtesy to readers. AC AC -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150515144034.gg18...@ithaca.acampbell.uk
Re: Remove subject
On 11 May 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: [snip] I hear that a _lot_. shudder But I am hearing it more and more in cases like this above where only the negative makes sense. When it is written, some are, I am sure, typos. But I am equally sure that soemtimes when I understand the positive the negative is likely to be meant . I certainly hope this is not becoming a 'modern usage'! (Or should I say 'is becoming a modern usage'?) Yes, you certainly should. ;-) Lisi Since we're well off-topic already, I can't resist citing a rather similar and increasingly prevalent negative usage that makes no sense. I quite often read the phrase: the importance of this cannot be underestimated. It should, of course, be OVER-estimated, or alternatively must not be under-estimated. I think the two usages have become superimposed, as it were. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell http://www.acampbell.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150512081617.ga22...@ithaca.acampbell.uk
Re: Is this a hacking attempt?
On 22 Jan 2015, Marko Randjelovic wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 08:56:33 +0800 Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 2:42 AM, Marko Randjelovic wrote: Fortunately, this works, but there are sites where doesn't. Do you have any examples of sites that still need Flash? Obviously flash game sites still need it but surely almost all of the web has moved away from it at this point? http://tv1.yle.fi/ BBC iPlayer, unfortunately. -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150122160644.ga21...@ithaca.acampbell.org.uk
Re: Re: Iceweasel Latest update stealing bandwidth uselessly -OT
On 07 Dec 2014, Clive Standbridge wrote: I think the Dali Llama is a Spanish surrealistic painting of a South American ruminant, noted for fleecing the tin foil crowd. You win! -- Clive In the film Troy there is a scene in which a lot of animals are stampeding, among which you can glimpse a llama. Evidence of an early contact with the New World? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141207215907.GA18565@rimmer.localdomain -- Anthony Campbell http://www.acampbell.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141208093616.ga1...@parnitha.acampbell.org.uk
Re: the developers have spoken
On 19 Nov 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 03:25:24AM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: No, not necessarily. For many, it means that Debian Linux is dying and will soon be dead -- or rather, no longer relevant. I just hope that the alternative in FreeBSD works out. I encourage you to find out sooner, rather than later, but please don't trouble to tell us whether it does or not. Please DO report back. Some of us really do want to know the state of alternatives. I've found OpenBSD to be better than FreeBSD, at least for me. Much more on my blog for anyone interested. -- Anthony Campbell http://www.acampbell.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141119180814.gg28...@parnitha.acampbell.org.uk
Re: How to enable larger mouse pointers under X
On 08 Nov 2014, Reco wrote: Hi. On Fri, 7 Nov 2014 22:21:27 -1000 Joel Roth jo...@pobox.com wrote: Hi list, I need larger mouse pointers. I'm running sid, using i3 and icewm as window managers. AIUI cursor images are set through X, and do not belong to the window manager. My first attempt was: % apt-get install big-cursor Restarting X brings no change. The docs suggest commenting out Xcursor.theme: whiteglass in /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources, however this didn't help. You've selected a correct package, but docs suggested you a wrong way to configure it (that recommendation applies to xdm only). Try adding 'Xcursor.theme: big-cursor' to your user's .Xresources file. Or, if you need systemwide change - to /etc/X11/Xresources/local. I've always found that the big-cursor package works perfectly. I don't have any desktop environment but have used it for both spectrwm and icewm. Incidentally, it can be used to get a large cursor on other systems too, including ArchLinux and even OpenBSD. I've posted a href=http://www.acampbell.org.uk/serendipity/index.php?/archives/672-A-large-mouse-pointer-for-ArchLinux.html;details here/a. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141109091218.ga...@arcadia.home.gateway
Re: printing
On 17 Aug 2014, Steve Litt wrote: On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 15:26:46 +0200 dick kampman dkamp...@xs4all.nl wrote: [snip] If none of that stuff bears fruit, you can install other programs to configure HP printers. Try those. I always found lprng + magicfilter to work well. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140817172516.gb...@arcadia.home.gateway
Re: Crypt data on the fly
On 02 Jun 2014, Diogene Laerce wrote: On 06/02/2014 06:43 PM, Bzzz wrote: On Mon, 2 Jun 2014 18:32:30 +0200 L.M.J linuxmasterj...@free.fr wrote: I sync my data to a cloud storage online service. I do NOT want to crypt my 60GB data at home, but I want them crypted on the cloud, so, when I rsync the data, I would like to send encrypted files on the fly. I want to have encrypted files, not rsync a 60GB encrypted partition. You could mount the remote service on encfs and either work directly on your remote files or rsync local to remote mount point. This way, remote data is always encrypted while the key's yours. I use crashplan and Im quite happy with them : very professional and they do offer that service. ;) Their website : https://www.code42.com/store/ I'm surprised that no one has mentioned tarsnap: Onlinebackups for the truly paranoid. See www.tarsnap.com. It's specifically for Unix systems - on Windows only via Cygwin. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140603074247.gq13...@arcadia.home.gateway
Re: Debian 5 -- data is plural.
On 20 May 2014, Weaver wrote: [snip] This is only currently in the context of scientific literature and even perhaps dying out in that context, over time, also. It descends from English language inheritance of Latin language terminology, and the English language is moving on, as language ever does. At present, within the context of scientific documentation, this is correct, but elsewhere, no longer necessary. Cheers! Weaver (Technical Communicator) Pedantic or not, I'd never treat data or media as singular. An still worse usage, which I find even with some scientific speakers, is to use bacteria as singular. If we are going to anglicise the word, which I think is a defensible view, we should make the plural to be bacteriums. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140521082343.ga15...@arcadia.home.gateway
Screen resolution [was: Re: Building computer]
On 02 Oct 2013, Stan Hoeppner wrote: [snip] No apology needed. You did in fact peg my age correctly; I will be 61 next month. And I too have known people who run less than the native resolution to make the fonts bigger. When I get to that point, though, I will simply increase the font size so I don't get jaggies and blurry letters. Right now my eyes need the sharpness of the image, not a size increase. [snip] Increasing the size of the term font isn't a solution for the very tiny menu fonts you get in some applications, e.g. imagemagick. For this reason, at least on my desktop with a CRT monitor, I use 1280x1024 instead of 1600x1200. There is no obvious degradation of quality, at least to my worsening eyes. On my laptop this doesn't work well because you get distortion at any resolution other than the native. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131003074542.ga...@arcadia.home.gateway
Re: Choosing among Desktop Enviroments and/or Windows Managers
On 18 Sep 2013, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: [snip] So, if you want to try them (you said you have time, right? ;) ) start with an easy one like i3, and if and when you will like the idea behind, feel free to try more advanced ones. [snip] I like i3 a lot but I don't like the default window arrangement in columns across the screen. Stacked mode is an alternative but the window titles take up a lot of room. I prefer spectrwm, which gets less publicity but for me is cleaner and more intuitive to use. Like i3, it is also configured in plain text. It has all the features I want, and more. My second preference is dwm. This is configured in C, which I don't know, but it isn't difficult to figure out how it works in this case. However, spectrwm adds some very useful features. Actually, most tiling WMs are fairly similar in appearance and work in much the same way. Altbough they are called tiling, I use spectrwm fullscreen most of the time, and I think quite a few people do this. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130919073920.gd...@arcadia.home.gateway
Re: Choosing among Desktop Enviroments and/or Windows Managers
On 17 Sep 2013, Luis Bandarra wrote: #!/bin/sh # script to start a new server with i3 DISPLAY=:0 Xephyr :1 -ac -br -reset -terminate -screen 1280x1024 2 /dev/null sleep 2 DISPLAY=:1 i3 but you can use just the command line's commands... Hope it helps... I use this: # switch to icewm xinit /home/ac/.xxinitrc -- :1 where ,xxinitrc is a modified version of .xinitrc to run icewm (in this case). I can then switch back and forth between spectrwm and icewm with Ctrl-Alt-Fx. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130918064954.gj32...@arcadia.home.gateway
Re: Printer brand recommendations
On 09 Sep 2013, Ross Boylan wrote: Short version: Brother doesn't support linux. I'm considering Lexmark. I too am looking for a B+W laser printer. I just got a Brother HL 5450 to replace a 5150 I had. It fails to print some pages, and I'm sending it back because Brother says they do not provide phone support for Linux. They used to have an email address for linux, but a query there produced no answer. It's supposed to be postscript compatible; since there are issues I wonder if that's in software rather than hardware. I recently bought a Brother 5250DN second-hand for 60 ukp, which was in like-new condition. It has both networking and postscript capabilities. I first used the (quite old) driver for this model available on the Brother site. It worked well at first but then large images came out distorted, with an error message. Following a comment on the net I tried the pxlmono driver and that is working well. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130910074453.gn...@arcadia.home.gateway
Re: TEST
On 29 Aug 2013, staticsafe wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 01:04:35PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: My MUA replied unwanted several times to Re: apt-get upgrade problem with libenchant1c2a. I got several times an error, but seemingly it was sent several times to the list, but didn't came through. Something is fishy, I was able to reply to several other threads to several people and lists. Received. Perhaps your e-mail provider is having issues? -- A reply to a thread I sent a couple of days ago didn't arrive. Let's see if this one does. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130830071530.gk24...@arcadia.home.gateway
Re: A strange new phenomena
On 18 Aug 2013, Harry Putnam wrote: Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net writes: On 8/18/13, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: I've been seeing something entirely new and unexpected during boot up lately. Every few boots, something happens that prevents me logging in. .. It appears to be a mashup of the grub screen (light blue with white scroll). and made into tiles mashed together haphazardly. That, at least, describes the upper portion of the screen. Maybe around 75%. Sounds like a display driver issue. ISTR getting this same problem many years ago. I guess if you had a glimmer of memory about how you went about tracking it down... you would have said so eh? If you have a removeable video card it might be worth taking it out and putting it back. I've solved strange display problems like that a couple of times in the past. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130818100250.ga...@arcadia.home.gateway
Epson Perfection V330
I had my Epson Perfection V330 working well on Debian Sid but I had to reinstall the system. I now have Squeeze running. I downloaded drivers from the Epson site: iscan_2.29.1-5~usb0.1.ltdl3_i386.deb iscan_2.29.1-5~usb0.1.ltdl7_i386.deb iscan-data_1.23.0-1_all.deb I have tried both of these iscan packages but although they seem to install OK the scanner is not recognised. Has anyone got this working? I'd be willing to uprade to Sid if necessary but I'm not sure that would be the answer. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130706104642.gb3...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: Epson Perfection V330 -SOLVED
On 06 Jul 2013, Anthony Campbell wrote: I had my Epson Perfection V330 working well on Debian Sid but I had to reinstall the system. I now have Squeeze running. I downloaded drivers from the Epson site: iscan_2.29.1-5~usb0.1.ltdl3_i386.deb iscan_2.29.1-5~usb0.1.ltdl7_i386.deb iscan-data_1.23.0-1_all.deb I have tried both of these iscan packages but although they seem to install OK the scanner is not recognised. Has anyone got this working? I'd be willing to uprade to Sid if necessary but I'm not sure that would be the answer. AC Thanks to someone on the Sane mailing list I got the solution: install esci-interpreter-perfection-v330_0.2.0-1_i386.deb from the Epson download site. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130706130035.ga18...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: Epson Perfection V330 -SOLVED
On 06 Jul 2013, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 06 July 2013 14:00:35 Anthony Campbell wrote: Thanks to someone on the Sane mailing list Which one? I could find only sane-devel, sane-standard, sane-announce and sane-commit. The IRC channel does say that it offers help, so is that what you meant? I have a problem which could belong on a SANE list, rather than this one. TIA Lisi It's sane-devel. If you look at the web page at http://www.sane-project.org/mailing-lists.html you will see that that it is meant for users as well as developers. A bit illogical, but that's how it works. Regards, Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130706165705.ga2...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: kernel not upgraded to wheezy
On 01 Jul 2013, Joel Rees wrote: Although I have installed the 3.9 kernel and it is present in /boot/grub/menu.lst, it never appears in the menu when I boot. Repeated runs of update-grub don't fix this. I reverted to grub-legacy because of configuration problems with grub2 but that didn't allow the new kernel to appear either. grub2 of course ignores menu.lst, but you say you are using legacy grub. I have been considering going back to legacy grub, since chaining and multibooting in general was easier back then. But it was almost ten years ago that I was mixing BSDs and Linuxes and solaris (6 OS mulitboot, at one point) on the one box. I think legacy was no longer doing that nicely when grub2 started being used. Update-grub with grub2 finds pretty much all my Linux kernels on all my Linux OSses. Finds them, but can't boot them all. I've recently had Mint and Fedora in a spare partition on the first drive, but it would not boot those with any stability. Sometime, I need to find out why. -- Joel Rees For some reason a recent upgrade of grub2 led to a failed configure. I found other people on Google, mainly ubuntu users,with a similar problem but no obvious solution. I purged grub2 and reinstalled, but the same error appeared. That was why I reverted to legacy grub, which at least allowed grub-mkconfig to work but still the new kernel did not appear at boot. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130702070959.gh2...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: kernel not upgraded to wheezy
On 02 Jul 2013, Anthony Campbell wrote: For some reason a recent upgrade of grub2 led to a failed configure. I found other people on Google, mainly ubuntu users,with a similar problem but no obvious solution. I purged grub2 and reinstalled, but the same error appeared. That was why I reverted to legacy grub, which at least allowed grub-mkconfig to work but still the new kernel did not appear at boot. I've just discovered that the new kernel is there but you have to select Advanced during the boot sequence. It is then one of the options offered. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130702174100.ga2...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: kernel not upgraded to wheezy
On 01 Jul 2013, Andrei POPESCU wrote: 1. Since the kernel packages have different names they are not upgrades in the sense of the package manager (like installing package foo version 1.2.3 to upgrade from foo version 0.1.2 is). If you want/need this to be handled by the package manager have a look at the linux-image-flavour packages. 2. The method of installing is irrelevant, the kernel will not be used until you reboot anyway ;) Although I have installed the 3.9 kernel and it is present in /boot/grub/menu.lst, it never appears in the menu when I boot. Repeated runs of update-grub don't fix this. I reverted to grub-legacy because of configuration problems with grub2 but that didn't allow the new kernel to appear either. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130701070858.gb2...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: Sid wants to remove lots of packages
On 04 Jun 2013, John Hasler wrote: Anthony Campbell writes: If I try to install any package I see a list of some 80 packages which were automatically installed and are no longer required. The list includes apt, grub-pc-bin, and grub2-common. Obviously I'm not goint to remove all these... So don't. It's merely informing you that those packages were automatically installed as dependencies and that no packages depending on them remain. If you don't want to see the message mark the packages as manually-installed. Because any developer can upload anything to Sid at any time without regard to dependencies it is not unusual to get funny-looking results when trying to install from it. If you want to run Sid you need to understand a bit about the package-management system. Read the man pages for apt, dpkg, friends. You also sometimes need to wait a bit before installing a new package. -- John Hasler I do understand this. I've been using Sid for years (literally). But although it's quite common to see a lot of necessary packages scheduled for removal if you do dist-upgrade, I don't remember seeing it when trying to install a new package. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87zjv5kifn@thumper.dhh.gt.org -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130605065515.gb23...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: Sid wants to remove lots of packages
On 04 Jun 2013, Goh Lip wrote: Note that in DebianWheezy and beyond tasksel provides and uses dummy packages (known as meta packages) to pull required dependencies. but as there are 80 packages (seems heck a lot), be careful to verify first. So leave them alone till you're sure. Cheers I don't think that was the case. But oddly, the removal message has suddenly disappeared, after I had looked at a couple of packages using wajig show foo. It looks as if something had got slightly out of kilter on my system, though I don't know what it was. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130605071131.gc23...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: Sid wants to remove lots of packages
On 05 Jun 2013, John Hasler wrote: Andrei writes: Not necessarily. The package being installed might conflict with them (for good reasons) and aptitude doesn't always suggest the option with fewer removals. In that case Aptitude would be stating that it proposed to remove them, not merely mentioning that they were no longer required. If I misunderstood and the OP meant the former it is most likely that his new package requires the newest version of some library. Aptitude will then propose the removal of anything that (directly or indirectly) depends on that library but has not been upgraded to use the new version. This is common in Sid and it is the reason packages do not migrate to Testing until all their dependencies can be satisfied there. One can ask Aptitude to propose some other solutions, or just wait a few days and try again. -- John Hasler Yes, that's right; requests to install any package produced a warning that all these packages would be removed. But the problem has gone away now. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130605172438.gf23...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: Sid wants to remove lots of packages
On 05 Jun 2013, Bob Proulx wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: If I try to install any package I see a list of some 80 packages which were automatically installed and are no longer required. The list includes apt, grub-pc-bin, and grub2-common. That does not make sense. Probably your package indexes are messed up. Try running 'apt-get update' again and see if that resolves the problem. If not then try a different mirror. Somehow your list of what is essential has been blown up. Obviously I'm not goint to remove all these; particulaly losing apt would be a disaster. Anyone else seeing this behaviour? Not here. Bob As I've said in another post, the problem has now resolved itself. I still don't know why. It did come back after another refresh but there had been seveeral previouly which didn't fix it. Another mystery ... -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130605173030.gg23...@acampbell.org.uk
Sid wants to remove lots of packages
If I try to install any package I see a list of some 80 packages which were automatically installed and are no longer required. The list includes apt, grub-pc-bin, and grub2-common. Obviously I'm not goint to remove all these; particulaly losing apt would be a disaster. Anyone else seeing this behaviour? AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130604085615.gh9...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: Why can ubuntu dist upgrade dist from within an X session?
On 19 May 2013, Celejar wrote: The release notes are actually somewhat unclear, and I was considering filing a bug report against them. The implication is that there's no recommendation against upgrading from an X session started directly, without any display manager. Is this actually what is meant? Celejar I've been upgrading from within X on Debian for years and never had any problems. But I don't do this remotely, I start X from startx, and I don't use any desktop environment. Perhaps that's why. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130520074029.gb27...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: recommend a laser printer
On 16 May 2013, st wrote: Rob Owens wrote: I'm trying to buy a black and white laser printer for a family member running Wheezy. Can anybody recommend one that you've purchased recently, which used native cups drivers available in Wheezy, which cost $100US or less? Brother HL-2132. Cartridges don't last long, but otherwise it's a great printer for its cost. I've had a Brother HL5240 for a couple of years. It's been good but I don't know what it would cost in the USA. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130517064147.gf16...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: debian sid, kernel 3.8 and volume group not found.
On 13 May 2013, Mauro wrote: Maybe install package amd64-microcode ? I do have it installed. That is just the point - the module is there but it doesn't load. The kernel says it can't find it. Kerne 3.2 has no problem. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130513064758.gg13...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: debian sid, kernel 3.8 and volume group not found.
On 10 May 2013, Mauro wrote: I have two pc, same distro, debian sid, same software, same configuration. I'm using the new kernel 3.8. In one pc the boot is ok, in the other I've volume group xxx not found, I've noticed also a message like module microcode.ko not found. Can you help me? I've noticed the same thing. Specifically, microcode does not load on my desktop machine, which has an AMD Athlon 64 processor. I tried with the AMD64 kernel as well, without success. On my Thinkpad, with an Intel processor, microcode does work but the tp_smapi module (battery charge control) does not load. I've removed this kernel from both machines. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130511075356.ga13...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: Thanks to All
On 01 May 2013, Chris Bannister wrote: 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 their moral stance) when choosing a product/app/whatever? I think the point is that it has nothing to do with age. Probably not. As I shall be 80 this month, I thought it was time to start experimenting with FreeBSD. Clearly a technical challenge; as for morality, I think FreeBSD, like Debian, scores pretty well for that. AC`kkk -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130501072704.gc6...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: Thanks to All
On 01 May 2013, staticsafe wrote: On 5/1/2013 3:27, Anthony Campbell wrote: If you need any help, feel free to subscribe to freebsd-questions[0]. [0] - http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions Yes, thanks - already done that. I'm enjoying my exploration of FreeBSD. AC - Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130501201510.ga10...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?
On 23 Apr 2013, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 07:57:11AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: 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, and that is Yahoo's reply header. I cannot have my own custom reply header, nor can I opt not to have one at all. At least, not that I've been able to find in the Mail Settings. I can, however, edit or erase it from any reply as I did above, but sometimes I forget. Another problem is that your posts are peppered with lots of codes which make them annoying to read on a text-based email reader like mutt. I'm using mutt also but I see no codes. I found out why this was happening; ironically, I had some lines in .muttrc which were supposed to eliminate the problem by translating various codes! I'd put them in about a year ago - don't remember where they came from. Anyway, after I deleted the lines the codes were no longer seen. -- Bob Holtzman If you think you're getting free lunch, check the price of the beer. Key ID: 8D549279 -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130424070722.ga4...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?
On 23 Apr 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: [snip] Another problem is that your posts are peppered with lots of codes which make them annoying to read on a text-based email reader like mutt. Sorry 'bout that, but there's nothing much I can do about it from my end: It's Yahoo Mail that's the problem. I have my mail set to Plain Text but since this is Web browser-based e-mail I'm sure it's not 100% pure ASCII. I don't even think switching to a real e-mail account would solve the problem. With almost everything these days graphic and web-based, smartphone and tablet, the days of pure ASCII e-mail are gone for the most part. Also, if I reply to a message that is other than plain text, my reply inherits their formatting code. I can switch the reply to plain text, that is, Yahoo's version of plain text, but doing so screws up the formatting and quoting of the original message, and I'm left with the daunting task of manually reformatting it. With short messages, this is inconvenient, but not too much of a problem. However, with a long thread with multiple nested layers of quoting, it is almost impossible to manually correct the formatting. So, I just don't switch to plain text in those cases. Sorry. Hope the problem is solvable from your end. Yes; it wasn't entirely your (or Yahoo's) fault. I had some lines in .muttrc which were meant, ironically, to translate such codes! Deleting them has stopped your codes appearing. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130424071223.gb4...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: a problem with CUPS
On 23 Apr 2013, Paul Condon wrote: I have a rather complicated CUPS printing setup, which works, mostly, but not entirely: My printer is an old HP 5MP, laser printer, which I purchased before HP invented the word laserjet because I was committed to Macintosh back then and the HP 5MP offered both parallel port and Apple Talk interfaces. [snip] I'd suggest ditching CUPS and using lprng with magicfilter, especially as this is an old printer. Personally, I dislike CUPS and always use lprng plus magicfilter on all the (new) printers I've had (several different lasers). It's easy to configure and always works. AC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51769a45.9010...@gmail.com -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130424071944.gc4...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: How do I list installed packages?
On 24 Apr 2013, Lars Nooden wrote: On 04/23/2013 09:12 PM, 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 command to list this, where in /etc (or whereever) is the information hidden? Please CC me, I am not subscribed. Thanks in advance, Mark Weyer You could also look at the package deborphan. I believe it will give you the information you are looking for. deborphan -a Regards, /Lars Or 'wajig snapshot':. Generates a list of package=version for all installed packages AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130424072831.gd4...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?
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, and that is Yahoo's reply header. I cannot have my own custom reply header, nor can I opt not to have one at all. At least, not that I've been able to find in the Mail Settings. I can, however, edit or erase it from any reply as I did above, but sometimes I forget. Another problem is that your posts are peppered with lots of codes which make them annoying to read on a text-based email reader like mutt. Regards, Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130423065711.ge...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?
On 23 Apr 2013, Vincent Lefevre wrote: Another problem is that your posts are peppered with lots of codes which make them annoying to read on a text-based email reader like mutt. Strange. I also use Mutt (with various patches) and I don't see any problem with Patrick's mail. Interesting. After some experimenting, it seems that there is something in my .muttrc that is causing this, since if I don't use the configuration file the codes disappear. I shall have to look into this. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130423101010.ga3...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: root password
On 11 Apr 2013, Darac Marjal wrote: On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 12:44:27PM -0400, Robert B McKittrick wrote: my system 6.0.7 does not recognize the root password I gave it when installing. is there any way to reset root without reinstalling? bob Yes. First of all, how are you attempting to use the root password? SSH is usually configured not to allow root passwords, also gksu might be expecting your (user's) password rather than the root password. The best way to check is to press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch to a VT and attempt to log in as root there. If that doesn't work, then you'll need to reset root's password. Make sure your keyboard is sending what you think it is. I was once caught out when an upgrade changed my keyboard from UK to US without my moticing, and my password used keys that had been changed. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130411105511.gb23...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: Tiling window manager based desktop environment (was: Re: MICROSOFT HIRED THESE PEOPLE TO SABOTAGE OPEN SOURCE)
On 09 Apr 2013, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: To be honest, I must admit I found them absolutely useless too in tiling layout. But in stacked or tabbed ones, how could I see on what kind of window I'll go if I can not see their titles? (I guess this is why they are preserved by i3 in those layouts?) If I understand, what you want is a fullscreen mode where you can still switch windows? Spectrwm doesn't have stacked windows in the way that i3 does. It has much the same layouts as dwm, xmonad etc., i.e. with a master window plus others beside it or beneath it, or fullscreen. Amyway, I'd say that both these are very good tiling WMs, and it's a matter of personal taste which you prefer. Of course, tiling WMs in general are an acquired taste and they are not for everyone. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130410072606.gd16...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: Tiling window manager based desktop environment (was: Re: MICROSOFT HIRED THESE PEOPLE TO SABOTAGE OPEN SOURCE)
On 09 Apr 2013, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Well, I know that i3 is very active (as I said, I really like this software, and it is, in my opinion, one of the best I have used in all categories: easiness of config, lightweight, features only related to its job...), and the community around it explains nicely what are their goals: having a software which does only it's job, easy to hack (no stupid restriction to 2000 lines of code by example... can't remember the name of the twm which have such limitation), easy to configure (no programming skills needed: config is not a script, and does not needs to compile i3 to be modified) without fancy features (like rounded corners or transparency in decorations). I like i3 too, but I find that spectrwm has similar features but is better in some respects. I have a comparison of i3, dwm, xmonad, and spectrwm on my blog at http://www.acampbell.org.uk/serendipity/index.php?/archives/609-Four-tiling-window-managers-spectrwm,-i3,-dwm,-xmonad.html. There is quite a lot of other stuff about these window managers on my blog, including how to compile the latest version of spectrwm on Debian (the one in the repository is quite old). -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130409121322.gb16...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: Tiling window manager based desktop environment (was: Re: MICROSOFT HIRED THESE PEOPLE TO SABOTAGE OPEN SOURCE)
On 09 Apr 2013, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Interesting. I just would like to notify you of some imprecise expressions which could lead to error: But I mostly work in stacked mode you should have speak about stacked layout, since the stacking mode is the one used by most Not sure about this. I know about the distinction betwee stacked and tiling WMs, but i3 seems to use mode and layout interchangeably. From the i3 man page: Containers [i.e. windows] can be used in various LAYOUTS. The default MODE is called default and just resizes each client equally so that it fits. And about the problem you found with it, I wonder why you do not use the tabbed layout? (I thought it was possible to hide title bars, but while reading the doc it appears that I was wrong... But I just discovered that there is an option to hide the status bar, nice!) I did use the tabbed layout but the titles took up a lot of horizontal space, which was worse than having them vertically. In spectrwm you can have window titles if you want them but I haven't tried it. I don't really have much need for window titles. Status bar: in spectrwm you can optionally have no frame at all in fullscreen when you turn off the status bar. An absolutely minimal screen. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130409154423.gc16...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: VPN Connections
On 15 Mar 2013, Verde Denim wrote: Am I correct in assuming that in order to setup a vpn connection on wheezy i need to install vpnc (or open-connect) ? -- Regards Jack I've posted an account of my own experience setting up a tunnel in Debian to a vpn server in linux at http://www.acampbell.org.uk/linux/vpn.html. This is for a pptp server; I don't know if that is what you are trying to do, but in any case it may be adaptable to what you need. Regards, Amthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130316091534.gg28...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: More than one window manager
On 31 Jan 2013, Marcin Kłapkowski wrote: Hello, I have Debian wheezy. I use i3 window manager, starting with xdm on tty7. I wanted to test other window managers without changing my basic config, and still using my desktop. Tried on tty6 with: startx /usr/bin/awesome it start nice, and it's working. But when i switch to tty7 and back to tty6 i got console with X.org starting messages, no desktop. I have to stop X and start again. XDM doesn't have choice for window manager, so only .xsession is my choice. Any ideas how to make nice double desktop config? Thanks martin3z, I use this script in spectrwm: # switch to icewm xinit /home/ac/.xxinitrc -- :1 where .xxinitrc is the same as my ordinary .xinitrc except that it starts a different WM (icewm) I then shift between them with Shift-Alt-F8 and Shift-Alt-F7. No doubt you could have three or more WMs if you wanted. I do this because I like tiling WMs but they don't do very well with programs that open a lot of windows, such as xsane or gimp; a stacking WM is better for these. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130201094408.gd32...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: Xmonad usage.
On 25 Jan 2013, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: Switching the WM with update-alternatives struck me as better for a novice reading http://wiki.debian.org/Xmonad . With the method you give on the wiki you have to log out and in again to swap the WM. I prefer to have two different WMs running simultaneously and swap between them with Alt-Shift-F8 and Alt-Shift-F7. I have a little script which launches an alternative WM (icewm in my case): # switch to icewm xinit /home/ac/.xxinitrc -- :1 Where .xxinitrc is my usual .xinitrc altered to launch icewm. Actually, I use spectrwm instead of xmonad (avoids haskell) but the same method applies. I seem to remember that ratpoison has the inbuilt optio to swap window managers. The reason I have this arrangement is that although I like tiling WMs none of them works very well with programs that open a lot of windows, like xsane and gimp. A stacking WM is better for these. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130128093546.gi2...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?
On 20 Jan 2013, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: [snip] If you uncheck them all, as I usually do, you start with a system with almost nothing. Even less is not present in such an installation :D I keep a list of all the packages I normally use and then get the same ones when I install on a new computer. (Obviously this doesn't work for your very first install.) [snip] For a normal usage, testing is better, even if the project claims it is not for production environment. More recent kernels and drivers which means more supported hardware, and updated web browsers are some obvious interesting points here. They are simply the most obvious. [snip] I'd say you are generally better off using Sid. The name Unstable unfortunately gives the impression that it is unsafe, but this is misleading. A quick search for debian unstable vs testing will produce plenty of discussion, mostly favouring Sid. See for example http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-choosing.en.html and http://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/12/20/5-reasons-why-debian-unstable-does-not-deserve-its-name/ Quotes from the second of these: High impact security vulnerabilities will usually be quickly fixed in Stable and Unstable. The stable upload is done by the security team while the unstable one is made by the maintainer. Testing will usually get the fix through the package uploaded to Unstable, so testing users get security updates with a delay. For less serious vulnerabilities, it’s entirely possible that stable does not get any update at all. In that case, unstable/testing users are better served since they will get the fix with the next upstream version anyway. I've been using Sid on all my computers for many years, except for one which I use for lectures and cannot risk falling over just before it's needed. It's been a long time since I encountered a show-stopper after an upgrade. In most cases, you can save yourself by downgrading to the version available in Testing. Or by finding a work-around in the bug tracking system. Or by not upgrading because you have apt-listbugs installed and you have been warned about the problem. This is what I do too. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130121092701.gb29...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: OT: Captchas?
On 20 Dec 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 18:26 +0100, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 20. 12. 2012 01:47:33 je Ralf Mardorf napisal(a): Perhaps I'm a computer and I only guess that I'm human. Captchas seem to be based on the wrong assumption that humans can recognize shapes whereas automata supposedly can't. Judging from the reactions on this list, I should perhaps apply for a patent for *purposely* indeciphrable captchas? I'd just have to invent a companion method for detecting unmistakably human behavior when confronted with such unsolvable captchas, such as: mad stare, hair pulling, keyboard smashing, cursing, kicking the computer, spitting, yelling and the like. I'd like to see robots emulate *that*! That's the most funniest reply in a long time :D, but your patent might have some security gaps, since e.g. spitting could be emulated http://www.synthetic-urine.de/en/products/synthetic-human-body-fluids/synthetic-saliva-din-53160-1.html I heard about artificial penises + artifical urine that should be that natural, that it's used to pass drug screenings. Captchas can be thought of as an attempt to perform the Turing test. Experience suggests that either computers can pass it and/or humans fail. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121221084807.ga2...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: OT: Captchas?
On 20 Dec 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 19:12 -0600, John Hasler wrote: Ralf writes: In real life [captchas are] most of the times are completely unreadable for me. I often find them insoluble as well. :D For people using braille they for sure much more fun, than they are already for you and me :D. I join in the chorus of people who have trouble with the things, especially now that my sight is getting worse. From the other end, as a user, I've also run into a problem. My blog runs on serendipity, which has a spam plugin that uses captchas. I had this turned on but a reader who often posts replies said he couldn't get through it. So I tried myself and the same thing happened: I got through once in about a dozen tries. So I've turned it off, so far without causing a flood of spam. On the other hand, when it was turned on I was still getting literally hundreds of spam piostings, so I don't know how useful the things are anyway. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121220085649.ga1...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: about xfce and window managers
On 27 Nov 2012, John L. Cunningham wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 04:09:07PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: Xmonad is good but for configuration you have to delve into Haskell, In my experience, it's not that bad. Mostly because someone has probably already done what you want it to do AND blogged about it. So you just have to cut-and-paste. which is quite an undertaking. Dwm is easier to configure (in C, but you don't really need to know C to change things). I3 and spectrwm both are I use dwm on all my desktops. Have you heard of anyone using it as a window manager inside a desktop environment? My google-fu is failing me. -- John Yes, I resorted to cut-and-paste from stuff on the net for xmonad myself, but I felt that this was a second-best solution. Xmonad has a good discussion forum, which helps. I don't know about using any tiling wm on a desktop - I haven't used one for years. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121128084923.ga21...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: Printer brand recommendations
On 26 Nov 2012, Curt Howland wrote: Hi. I have a HP inkjet printer, PSC2100 from 2003, which still works fine but something in Debian has changed. It used to print graphics and photographs very well. But a year or so ago graphics stopped being nice and started being grainy and speckled, to the point where the names of roads can't be read in a print of a Google Map. I thought it was just driver confusion at first, but this has been happening on multiple systems, across more than one reinstall. Yet when I use Windows, it works perfectly. It's bad enough and obviously not going to get fixed, that I would like suggestions for a replacement printer/scanner. Epsom? Cannon? What brand do people use that works well with xsane and CUPS? Thank you, Curt- I always use lasers and a separate scanner so this is probably not what you are looking for. Currently I had a Brother and a Samsung, both of which work very well. I'm sure CUPS would work with both but I prefer lprng + magicfilter. The driver from the Brother site used to work for me but for some reason it stopped; however, the ljet4 driver provided with magicfilter is fine. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2012112718.ga17...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: about xfce and window managers
On 26 Nov 2012, John L. Cunningham wrote: On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 07:16:09PM +0200, Klearchos-Angelos Gkountras wrote: I am currently using debian sid with xfce 4.8 . I want to make tiling the windows like awesome or kinda like that . Have you thought about using Xmonad as the wm? http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Using_xmonad_in_XFCE I haven't used it in xfce, but I did use it as the wm for Gnome2 and I was very pleased. John Xmonad is good but for configuration you have to delve into Haskell, which is quite an undertaking. Dwm is easier to configure (in C, but you don't really need to know C to change things). I3 and spectrwm both are configured with plain text files. Of all of them, my current favourite is spectrwm (especially version 2.1.0, not yet packaged for Debian). I've got a lot about my experiments with tiling wms on my linux page and my blog. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121127160907.gb17...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: restart problems monitor or GPU
On 10 Nov 2012, Charles Kroeger wrote: On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 03:00:01 +0100 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: if someone has been fiddling with it. I'm the one who's fiddling with it and if you want to suggest something be specific like what BIOS setting did you have in mind? The bleeding obvious is not helpful. It's probably worth checking the cable connections and trying a different data cable if available. Also, if you have a video card in a slot rather than integral in the MB, take it out and put it back. That has fixed monitor errors for me a couple of times in the past. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2012090143.ga11...@acampbell.org.uk
java enable in Iceweasel (Sid)?
I cannot find the right plugin to make java work in iceweasel (Sid). This what I have installed: arcadia:~:$ java -version java version 1.6.0_24 OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.11.3) (6b24-1.11.3-2) OpenJDK Client VM (build 20.0-b12, mixed mode, sharing) Following a suggestion on google I also installed icedtea-6-plugin but it doesn't seem to produce anything useful, similar to sunjavaplugin.so, which I used to have previously. Do I perhapd need a different version of java altogether? Can anyone point me towards a solution? AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120717085522.ga15...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: java enable in Iceweasel (Sid)?
On 17 Jul 2012, Brad Rogers wrote: On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 09:55:22 +0100 Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk wrote: Hello Anthony, Following a suggestion on google I also installed icedtea-6-plugin but it doesn't seem to produce anything useful, similar to sunjavaplugin.so, which I used to have previously. IcedTea is the correct plugin for the OpenJDK jre and should work. What does about:plugins have to say regarding availability of icedtea? -- Regards _ / ) The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent Now I found you out, I don't think you're so smart Who Are You - Black Sabbath Thanks to both for replies. Results to date: 1. sudo update-java-alternatives --plugin --jre -a is the only commanmd I can get to run without errors, but it doesn't solve things. 2. about:plugins says: Tea-Web Plugin (using IcedTea-Web 1.2 (1.2-2)) File: IcedTeaPlugin.so followed by a list of a lot of applications and Description: IcedTea, Suffixes: class.jar. I found the file IceTeaPlugin.so and copied it to ~/.mozilla/plugins, but still no joy. The page I am trying to access keeps saying I must have java enabled. The above entry from about:plugins seems to say I do, but apparently not. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120717134648.ga17...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: java enable in Iceweasel (Sid)? -SOLVED
OK, I found it - embarrassingly, java was disabled in Preferences! Working OK now - apologies for troubling the list. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120717140720.gb17...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: java enable in Iceweasel (Sid)? -SOLVED
On 17 Jul 2012, Brad Rogers wrote: On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:07:20 +0100 Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk wrote: Hello Anthony, OK, I found it - embarrassingly, java was disabled in Preferences! You've found the problem, that's what counts. Posting the solution to the list is always a good idea. Working OK now - apologies for troubling the list. Hey, it kept us off the streets for half an hour. That can only be a good thing, right? :-) My wife once rang me at work to complain that the computer wasn't working. No lights, nothing. Me: Have you switched it on? Wife: Oh. I didn't know I had to do that. I'm in no position to laugh at her now. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120717171739.gc17...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: firewall
On 04 Jul 2012, Brad Alexander wrote: On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 2:15 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 11:19 +0800, lina wrote: Hi, I don't know which firewall (http://wiki.debian.org/Firewalls) I should choose. Thanks ahead for recommendation, and it will be very nice if you tell me why you recommend this one. To answer drily: Test them and report what firewall does protect you the best against no attacks. Linux for home usage was safe, is safe, will be safe. Yes, it's safe regarding to things I criticize. I don't criticize protection per se, I only worry about t much security for nothing. I disagree. Its about defense in depth. Because what happens if you get a piece of bad software that opens a vulnerability? And yes, that could happen to a home Linux user as easily as a corporate one, since they are using the same update mechanisms. In fact, I would posit that a home user could be at *more* risk, since, in theory, a corporate user would be limited in the amount and types of software installed...Corporate server vs home workstation. I have a home network. A few years ago I was attacked and the ownership of some files was changed. I restoreed them to normal and it happened again, so I reinstalled. Since then I've been using sborewall and there have been no further intrusions. AC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120705080519.ga6...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: why ABIWORD?
On 30 Jun 2012, Joe wrote: On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11:16:04 +0200 Francesco Pietra chiendar...@gmail.com wrote: Hello: With my i386 wheezy, a today update/upgrade led to libreoffice (text) not launching. I resorted to abiword, new in my experience. I found abiword in great troubles with tables made by libreoffice odt. Suddendly, abiword was able to destroy nearly completely the content of the big table. Should my experience be representative, it would be better not to propose text editors that are unable to do what they should. I'm happy to keep both. I find Abiword able to display some Word documents which LibreOffice cannot, and vice versa. I'd have to be fairly desperate to actually create a Word document with either, or even edit one. [snip] I've published six e-books on Smashwords and this requirees submitting them as Word.doc files. I did this successfully with oowriter/libreoffice; I wouldn't say it was enjoyable but it was possible. In fact, I've now published an e-book (Making Word.doc Files in Linux) which explains how I managed it. Several of these books were originally Lyx files and I converted these to rtf for Libreoffice. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120702075818.ga2...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: Stand up for your freedom to install free software
On 25 Jun 2012, Terence wrote: On 25 June 2012 16:31, Adrian Fita adrian.f...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot/statement Trying to sign up on this produces an error message for me. I also can't sign up. I tried pressing the Save button and also the Enter key. I have just tried again by entering name and e-mail address and Enter, and this was successful. HTH Terence Pressing Enter didn't work but the Save button did work today, so perhaps they've fixed it. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120626075934.ga27...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: Stand up for your freedom to install free software
On 25 Jun 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote: http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot/statement Trying to sign up on this produces an error message for me. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120625091356.ga13...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: Can anyone please reproduce this crash in X on Sid?
On 18 May 2012, Arnt Karlsen wrote: [snip] ..;o) Sid is AKA unstable, and for a reason, to get the bugs you find, reported and fixed. Well, yes, I know that, which was why I brought it up. Anyway, I've now reported it as a bug in the X system; the maintainer for xserver-xorg suggests it may be the same as a bug reported for xserver-common, which may well be right. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120521075001.ga7...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: Can anyone please reproduce this crash in X on Sid?
On 17 May 2012, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..ok, what sort of networking do you run? Just connected via cables with static links. ..ok, they may both be alive, despite the zero response. No blinkenlight trio? (CapLock+NumLock+ScrollLock LED's) Nothing visible when that happens. up. ..the 3 tail -f $logfile ideas; 1, over ssh until ssh breaks, 2, over the grub serial console, or, 3, log to your syslog server on your 3'rd box, to capture log files when you try crash X again. Can you spell this out please? I don/t understand. Incidentally, in the last couple of days I made a second installation of Debian on a spare section of disk. In stable everything worked correctly, as expected. I upgraded to Testing and it still worked. I then upgraded to Sid and the problem reappeared. I really can't believe I am the only user finding this. Is it a bug in X on Sid? (I originally reported it as a bug in i3 but it is not confined to that wm.) Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120517082231.gb5...@acampbell.org.uk
Can anyone please reproduce this crash in X on Sid?
I am running Sid on two computers, one with Nouveau, the other with Radeon. In both, if I kill the process corresponding to X *from within X*, either the machine freezes completely (Radeon) or shuts down completely (Nouveau), If I kill it from a tty terminal there is no problem. Is this something peculiar in my setup or can other people running Sid reproduce it? It happens with several different window managers (i3, dwm, icewm); I don't know about desktop managers. It does not happen in Squeeze. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120516074638.ga2...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: Can anyone please reproduce this crash in X on Sid?
On 16 May 2012, Jochen Spieker wrote: Anthony Campbell: I am running Sid on two computers, one with Nouveau, the other with Radeon. In both, if I kill the process corresponding to X *from within X*, either the machine freezes completely (Radeon) or shuts down completely (Nouveau), If I kill it from a tty terminal there is no problem. Do you mean this process? $ pgrep -fl X 2757 /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -br -verbose -novtswitch -auth /var/run/gdm3/auth-for-Debian-gdm-x9qErt/database -nolisten tcp vt7 $ sudo kill 2757 [sudo] password for jrspieker: Nothing unusual happened on my system. I just had to log in again. Graphics adapter: jrspieker@manowar:~ (0) $ lspci | grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07) Yes, that's what I mean. Thanks for trying. It doesn't need to be killed with sudo in my case. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120516103943.ga4...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: Can anyone please reproduce this crash in X on Sid?
On 16 May 2012, Arnt Karlsen wrote: In both, if I kill the process corresponding to X *from within X*, either the machine freezes completely (Radeon) ..how? Ssh too freezes? It no longer responds even to ping etc? Yes, no response to ping. ..are these 2 boxes on wicd etc style networking that dies with X and the desktop? Nothing like that is running. or shuts down completely (Nouveau), ..it powers off??? The computer is still running but the screen is dead. Whereas, with the Radeon machine, the screen is still lit with the WM background showing. If I kill it from a tty terminal there is no problem. ..and what happens if you try to kill X over ssh from the other box? That works too. It's closing from within X itself that locks things up. AC ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120516143642.06840...@celsius.lan -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120516161621.ga4...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: OT - New Google algorithm
On 30 Apr 2012, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:04:57 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: For the last 3 weeks there has been a roughly 70 per cent drop in the number of hits on my web pages (although one of these pages in contrast, has seen a steep increase). Googling finds that there has been a change in the algorithm they use, which is intended to catch people using underhand methbods of inflating their hit rate. (I don't do this.) Has anyone else noticed anything similar? If you are not making use of any automated SEO tool that can be making biased assignments to match your site with the desired keywords, I wouldn't worry too much about it. Wait a bit until Google's algorithm normalizes its results; IIRC, the last update change was done a couple of days ago... Greetings, -- Camaleón Thanks for the reply. No, I don't have anything like that. I'll give it a bit of time, as you say. Regards, Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120501082526.ga2...@acampbell.org.uk
OT - New Google algorithm
For the last 3 weeks there has been a roughly 70 per cent drop in the number of hits on my web pages (although one of these pages in contrast, has seen a steep increase). Googling finds that there has been a change in the algorithm they use, which is intended to catch people using underhand methbods of inflating their hit rate. (I don't do this.) Has anyone else noticed anything similar? -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120430100457.ga5...@acampbell.org.uk
Can't upgrade anyting in Sid
For the last few days apt-get upgrades in Sid always fail with this message: E: Internal error: APT::pkgPackageManager::MaxLoopCount reached in SmartConfigure for libc-bin:i386, aborting According to bug report 669060 this is supposed to be fiexd by the latest version of apt (0.9.1). I downloaded this and installed it with dpkg but the error still comes up. I also tried downloading and installing the latest version of libc-bin, mentioned in the error line, but that had depnendency problems. Any ideas what to try next? AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120418085026.ga23...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: Can't upgrade anyting in Sid - SOLVED
On 18 Apr 2012, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 09:50:26 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: For the last few days apt-get upgrades in Sid always fail with this message: E: Internal error: APT::pkgPackageManager::MaxLoopCount reached in SmartConfigure for libc-bin:i386, aborting According to bug report 669060 this is supposed to be fiexd by the latest version of apt (0.9.1). I downloaded this and installed it with dpkg but the error still comes up. I also tried downloading and installing the latest version of libc-bin, mentioned in the error line, but that had depnendency problems. Any ideas what to try next? Did you upgrade libapt-pkg4.12 to version 0.9.1 as well? That seems to have fixed this problem for me. -- Regards,| Florian | http://www.florian-kulzer.eu Thank you very much - yes, that got it working. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120418113720.ga23...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: iceweasel drawing problems
On 06 Apr 2012, wolf python london wrote: On 6 April 2012 02:11, Dale Harris rod...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone else having problems with iceweasel (on SID) pixelating text within it's window? Chromium is not doing the same thing, so why it makes me think it's not a video card driver problem. I have this problem too. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=656021#20 They say new version of libcairo use some features in X which have had bugs for long time, but old version of libcairo didn't use these features. This bug have been submitted to upstream. I'm getting this on my laptop (radeon mobility X1400) but not my desktop (nvidia). But it's also something to do with the window manager: it happens with i3 but not with icewm. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120406084708.ga9...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: iceweasel drawing problems
On 06 Apr 2012, Sven Joachim wrote: I'm getting this on my laptop (radeon mobility X1400) but not my desktop (nvidia). Do you use the nvidia blob? With nouveau it is reproducible, see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=95 and siblings. But it's also something to do with the window manager: it happens with i3 but not with icewm. I'm using icewm here and had to downgrade libcairo* packages to 1.10.2-7 to stop the display corruptions in iceweasel. Cheers, Sven Yes, you are right; I'm now getting it on icewm as well, though I think less frequently. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120406143759.ga12...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: CUPS and Brother HL-5340D dual whammy
On 01 Mar 2012, Nate Bargmann wrote: I think you're the newest member to our growing club! See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=660420 - Nate I've never got on with CUPS and alwayw use lprng + magicfilter. I have a Brother HL5240 which was working fine in this way until my HDD broke a few weeks ago. After reinstalling Sid on a new disk I had problems getting the printer to work, especially when printing from other machines on the local network. Some helpful advice from the lprng maintainer fixed that. One odd thing: the driver I got from Brother and used previously without problems now no longer worked. However, the ljet4 driver in macicfilter is fine. I have posted full details of how I got the printer working on my blog: http://www.acampbell.org.uk/serendipity/index.php; see the entry for 16 Feb for details. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120303113534.ga29...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: CUPS and Brother HL-5340D dual whammy
On 03 Mar 2012, Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2012 03 Mar 05:38 -0600, Anthony Campbell wrote: I have posted full details of how I got the printer working on my blog: http://www.acampbell.org.uk/serendipity/index.php; see the entry for 16 Feb for details. I did find your blog a few days ago and considered going back to lprng and magicfilter and all. I think I would miss the cups-pdf plug-in as I use it quite a lot with programs that can't export directly to PDF as with Libre Office. - Nate That's strange. I can export files as pdf from libreoffice without problems - I've just done it twice to make sure. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120303143930.ga1...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: Bad news for Epson Perfection v330 - SOLVED
On 24 Feb 2012, Steven Rosenberg wrote: On 02/15/2012 02:29 PM, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 15 Feb 2012, Anthony Campbell wrote: Sorry to follow up to myself but I found a solution. The missing dependency was libltdl3, which is no longer available. But after more googling I found libltdl3_1.5.26-4+lenny1_i386.deb. This allows me to install iscan. Panic over - apologies for over-reaction. I have this same scanner, and I was surprised to find out that it wouldn't work out of the box with Debian Squeeze. I eventually found this same solution (using iscan), including grabbing libtld3 from the Lenny archive. It should be easier than this. According to a correspondent on uk.comp.os.linux I downloaded the wrong file. I should have got iscan_2.28.1-3.ltdl7_i386.deb, which would have included the missing library. As this correspondent rightly remarks, the Epson site is confusing. I have pointed this out to them. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120227090830.ga3...@acampbell.org.uk
Bad news for Epson Perfection v330
I bought one of these in December and it worked well with the driver from Avasys. A couple of days my HDD crashed. After reinstalling on a new one I find that the drivers for this scanner are now being provided by Epson and they are not installable on Debian because of dependency problems. This scanner is therefore now useless to me. Don't buy it. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120215200340.ga2...@ithaca.acampbell.org.uk
Re: Bad news for Epson Perfection v330 - SOLVED
On 15 Feb 2012, Anthony Campbell wrote: I bought one of these in December and it worked well with the driver from Avasys. A couple of days my HDD crashed. After reinstalling on a new one I find that the drivers for this scanner are now being provided by Epson and they are not installable on Debian because of dependency problems. This scanner is therefore now useless to me. Don't buy it. Sorry to follow up to myself but I found a solution. The missing dependency was libltdl3, which is no longer available. But after more googling I found libltdl3_1.5.26-4+lenny1_i386.deb. This allows me to install iscan. Panic over - apologies for over-reaction. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120215222901.ga13...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: lpr command not found
On 03 Feb 2012, Russell L. Harris wrote: There is a bit more to this matter than the package lpr. About a decade ago, the package lprng (ng meaning next generation) fixed most of the problems of the package lpr. Most importantly, the author of lprng carefully documented the procedure for configuring the printing system. And though lprng was carefully wrought and worked well, lprng nonetheless was an elaborate patch of a legacy printing system. In those days, getting printing configured properly was a somewhat complex post-installation process. Then cups was designed, and getting printing working properly in Linux suddenly was a fairly simple matter. Things went well until cups was purchased by Apple, since which event there have been some improvements in printing configuration and management and some regressions. And I miss the marvelous detailed cups test page, which Apple replaced with a primitive and ugly version. Today, lpr simply is one of the commands which cups recognizes; that is, cups controls the printer, and lpr is an element of the command set of cups. For example, I print a man page on the default laser printer with the command string man -t packagename | lpr. And I print address labels on a dot-matrix printer with the command string lpr -Poki labels. RLH Interesting: I didn't know about the purchase by Apple. I always preferred lprng to cups but for some reason one of my laptops no longer gave me /dev/lp0 so I was forced to use cups on that machine. I had some problems with cups last summer (had to take the USB lead out and put it back after each printing) but at present things seem to be more or less all right. I still have lprng on my other machines and don't intend to change unless I have to. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120203104920.gb7...@ithaca.acampbell.org.uk
Re: What´s wrong with fetchmail? (Re: POP3 in Debian)
On 24 Jan 2012, lee wrote: Jon Dowland j...@debian.org writes: I'd strongly recommend using something *other* than fetchmail: getmail or mpop are options. What´s wrong with fetchmail? It's fine if it works for you, but some years ago I had problems authenticting myself to a mail server with fetchmail. I switched to getmail4 and it worked instantly. I can't remember the details now but I've always used getmail4 since them. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - using Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - book reviews, articles, blog, and printed books and ebooks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120124101533.ge30...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: What´s wrong with fetchmail? (Re: POP3 in Debian)
On 24 Jan 2012, Johann Spies wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:15:33PM +0200, Anthony Campbell wrote: It's fine if it works for you, but some years ago I had problems authenticting myself to a mail server with fetchmail. I switched to getmail4 and it worked instantly. I can't remember the details now but I've always used getmail4 since them. I have used fetchmail for many years (might be about 15 now). At more than one stage I experimented with getmail which also worked but I always came back to fetchmail. I found getmail a bit more complicated (or maybe it was just 'strange' for me) to configure properly. Regards Johann Interesting. I found getmail easy to configure, using the examples in the docs as a template. Anyway, this just illustrates one of the nice things about Linux - lots of different ways to get the result you want. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - using Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - book reviews, articles, blog, and printed books and ebooks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120124130430.gf30...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: Keyboard layout detection
On 12 Jan 2012, Scott Ferguson wrote: Have you seen:- http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC Or added the Debian Eee repository:- http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/Repository I've installed Debian on a number of Asus Eee PCs and the generic keyboard has worked fine. Perhaps if the work that went into the wiki and the repository (listed above) doesn't help you could supply the model number and other pertinent details (eg. language selected). I installed Debian on my wife's EEEPC 901 over Christmas and it works fine. I followed the advice on the above wiki and installed eeepc-acpi-scripts. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - using Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - book reviews, articles, blog, and printed books and ebooks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120112094740.gd2...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: Dvorak Keyboards.
On 10 Jan 2012, Dan Serban wrote: That site is down at present. My question: is it really worth the trouble of learning a new way of typing, if you are already a moderately competent touch typist on the QWERTY keyboard? Well, I hope the site has become available to you again since the original message. There, you can see the layout that colemak provides, it's close to Qwerty and provides some pros (maybe some cons) to the layout. While I do admit that it is quite aggravating to learn a new layout; IMHO it has paid off for me. I've learned to effectively touch type, and I feel that my comfort level is certainly higher. I've never been a speedy typer so I cannot add that to the advantages. Though I do find that I make much fewer mistakes and my fingers definitely do not travel as far as I felt that they used to using Qwerty. I suggest you print out whatever layout you ever decide to go with, if you so decide.. then at least you will be able to enter your passwords without too much frustration. If you feel that you have reasons to switch I suggest you give it a shot, otherwise, don't simply add a layer of frustration to your daily routine until you are convinced this is the way to go. Thank you - and yes, the site is up again now. Your advice about deciding to change is similar to that given by colemak. I can see the force of the arguments for changing and if I were younger I'd probably try, but at nearly 78 I doubt if it is worth it. I don't actually have RSI or other problems with qwerty. Not that I'm averse to new ideas: I'm currently making a start on learning a little C. They do suggest that even if you don't make the switch you should reprogram CapsLock to give BackSpace. I had long had it giving Escape (needed frequently in my favourite editor, Vim) but I'm trying it out as BackSpace now. I find I often hit Return instead of the normal BackSpace so this may be worth while. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - using Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - book reviews, articles, blog, and printed books and ebooks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120111090744.ga2...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: Dvorak Keyboards.
On 06 Jan 2012, Dan Serban wrote: On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 09:39:03 -0800 Weaver wea...@riseup.net wrote: Hello all. I've been interested in this subject for some time, because of the greater typing speed potential and lowr incidence of RSI and have even delayed moving from two finger typing with an idea of implementing a Dvorak keyboard into the system. While I don't want to start a flame war, I'd suggest having a look at the colemak layout as well. This has some advantages (I feel) over Dvorak. Then again, it may all boil down to personal preference. http://colemak.com That site is down at present. My question: is it really worth the trouble of learning a new way of typing, if you are already a moderately competent touch typist on the QWERTY keyboard? -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - using Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - book reviews, articles, blog, and printed books and ebooks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120109173552.gb14...@acampbell.org.uk
Can I remove gnome-keyring?
There is currently a bug in gnome-keyring which keeps throwing up an error message about no socket to connec to. I don't know why I have this package, given that I don't use gnome (or any other desktop manager). Will anything dreadful happen if I remove it? -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111213115309.ge8...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: Can I remove gnome-keyring?
On 13 Dec 2011, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:53:09 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: There is currently a bug in gnome-keyring which keeps throwing up an error message about no socket to connec to. I don't know why I have this package, given that I don't use gnome (or any other desktop manager). apt-cache rdepends gnome-keyring will tell you the reverse dependencies for the package. Will anything dreadful happen if I remove it? If it is installed because of a required dependency coming from another package you can't remove it without pain :-) If the package came through a recommended dependency and you nor other program or libray are making use of it, there should be no problems to remove it. I don't know how it got there. But wajig show-remove indicates that nothing else will be removed so I guess it will be all right. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111213155401.gd15...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: Canonscan Lide 110 - anyone used this?
On 23 Nov 2011, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: I've got a scanner that says lide 110 on the top, and it performs to my expectations under gentoo linux with media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.22-r2 . Support was not in stable gentoo when I got the scanner, so I had to use a development version of the drivers until about half a year ago (I think ). The buttons don't work, but that goes for several (most) usb scanners I believe (don't take my word for that). sane-find-scanner -v reports: --- This is sane-find-scanner from sane-backends 1.0.22 found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x1909 [CanoScan], chip=GL124) at libusb:001:003 # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. # Not checking for parallel port scanners. # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports # can't be detected by this program. done --- scanimage -L says: device `genesys:libusb:001:003' is a Canon LiDE 110 flatbed scanner Thanks very much - that is encouraging and exactly what I wanted to know. Debian Sid has the 1.0.22 version of genesys, which is the relevant driver, and /etc/sane.d/genesys.conf lists the Lide 110 among the supported printers. So it _ought_to work. I was worried because I found some people on Ubuntu who had had problems, probably on the previous version of genesys. I'm not bothered about the buttons - they don't work on the Epson Perfection 1650 either, but that never worried me. How have you found the performance of scanner itself? -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2024084513.gd28...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: Debian: A noob query
On 24 Nov 2011, Lisi wrote: but please tell me if KDE is the default of GNOME is the default desktop for debian? GNOME is now the Debian default desktop. There are others, and of course you don't have to use a desktop manager at all. Quite a few people, me included, prefer to use a window manager and no desktop. But I suppose that, coming from Windows, you might feel lost without one. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2024163324.ga4...@acampbell.org.uk
Canonscan Lide 110 - anyone used this?
I need to replace my Epson Perfection 1650 which has died after many years of faithful service. I have ordered a Canonscan Lide 110, which is said to be fully supported by the sane page, using the genesys driver. In my Sid installation there is an entry for the 110 in /etc/sane.d/genesys.conf. So it _ought_ to work, but I have come across posts in other lists (ubuntu) where people report failure. So I have got cold feet about it and am wondering if I ought to return it unopened. Hence my question: has anyone used this model successfully (or not)? AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2023161024.gb28...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: Choosing a distribution (was: Just a simple query)
On 27 Oct 2011, Burhan Hanoglu wrote: [snip] However; perfection for a novice is not just to find another OS or GNU/Linux distribution using which they can do everything on a stable GUI. What eventually is more important is the scene behind the GUI. I have to admit that GUI helps a novice get things configured and work rather quickly and easily, but by achieving the same result the hard way, which takes more time; a novice can end up with real-world experiments. This is when the objective accomplished when the matter is learning Linux; even for a regular user... Sincerely, Burhan A distribution that does everything with the GUI certainly makes things easier for beginners, but I think that unless you take the plunge and become comfortable with the command line you are likely to progress only slowly. I'm very thankful that I came to Linux from DOS. Even at that time I dislike Windows (version 3.0!) so Linux was less of a culture shock than it would otherwise have been. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111027173617.ga3...@ithaca.acampbell.org.uk
Re: VPN linux client
On 22 Oct 2011, J. Bakshi wrote: Dear list, network-manager already has the required plugin to support vpn connection. But what should people do without network-manager ? Any standalone (non gnome/kde) GUI for vpn connection as client in Linux ? Found ike-qtgui but it is based on IPsec... What about the other protocols like openvpn, L2TP etc ? Any nice GUI or CUI ? Thanks If you are trying to use ppto, I have posted a step-by-step description of how I do this on my website: http://www.acampbell.ukfsn.org/linux/vpn.html It is not a gui method but it works. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111022171231.ga3...@ithaca.acampbell.org.uk
Iceweasel segfault on Sid
Following an upgrade today on Sid, iceweasel segfaults. I therefore installed vanilla firefox and that works correctly. I tried the previous version of iceweasel, which I have in the cache, and that segfaulted too, so I don't think this can be an iceweasel bug. I have no idea where to report it. Anyone else seeing this? -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111015152233.ga31...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: Iceweasel segfault on Sid
Thanks to both for replies. Yes, following a further upgrade it's now working again. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111015175451.ga7...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: OT: laptop choice
On 29 Sep 2011, Camaleón wrote: [snip] My preferred brands for laptops are Toshiba and HP (the ones I have tested) and also have good references from Lenovo's (though not directly tried). Having used both Thinkpads and HP, I'd never again choose a laptop that only had a touchpad. I find it almost impossible to avoid hitting the thing accidentally,. with unexpected results. The little joystick on the Thinkpads is a decisive advantage. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110930075704.ga23...@acampbell.org.uk
Anyone using xmonad + vim on sid?
If I start gvim in a tiled terminal window it locks up and the following messages appear in the terminal: E852: The child process failed to start the GUI [xcb] Unknown sequence number while processing queue [xcb] Most likely this is a multi-threaded client and XInitThreads has not been called [xcb] Aborting, sorry about that. gvim: ../../src/xcb_io.c:273: poll_for_event: Assertion `!xcb_xlib_threads_sequence_lost' failed. Vim: Caught deadly signal ABRT Press ENTER or type command to continueVim: Finished. --- If I start gvim from a fullscreen terminal (apart from the first one I open) it works correctly. As a workround I've aliased gvim to gvim -f. This happens in two machines running Sid. It does not happen in another running Squeeze. I have asked about it on the vim and xmonad mailing lists but no result; at least one person says he cannot reproduce the error. I've reported it as a Debian bug but so far have only had a routine acknowledgement. If there is anyone else using this setup, could they please see if they can reproduce it? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110925091428.ga6...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: Anyone using xmonad + vim on sid?
On 25 Sep 2011, Jochen Spieker wrote: Anthony Campbell: If there is anyone else using this setup, could they please see if they can reproduce it? I can only say that I don't have any problems running (g)vim while using awesome. That's interesting: I just tried awesome and I couldn't run gvim from a terminal at all; it came up blank. But I think the problem I've been getting with xmonad may not be real, or at least not serious. The same thing happens in dwm, and it seems that the messages that appear are due to closing gvim. I can edit and save files without anything going wrong. So gvim from a tiled terminal is usable, just a bit ugly when it is closed. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110925154513.ga22...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: a quick Q: how did you handle files from windows
On 20 Sep 2011, steef wrote: lina wrote: Hi, Just wonder are there some tricks to handle the .doc from windows, you know, mainly keep it format and formula. Except went to (ssh) to windows and installation of wine (not tried), are there some good choice? or are there some webpage severs as apps, so can easily handle those things? Thanks ahead for sharing your experience. -- Best Regards, lina ..I use openoffice for years. works fine with some very rare unusual tricky exceptions. kind regards, steef abiword (usually) also catdoc antiword wv (wvText etc.) -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110920153657.ga3...@acampbell.org.uk
