Re: Email Address

2012-07-17 Thread John Hasler
Zach writes: What does it take to get an @debian.org email address? Chris writes: Lots of ?!?!? Nobody has that much money. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Debian packages depending in libslang2

2012-07-17 Thread John Hasler
apt-cache rdepends libslang2 -- John Hasler -- 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/87r4s9n7jw@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-30 Thread John Hasler
Stan Hoeppner writes: Gibberish implies one wouldn't be able to remember the password/phrase. Which is why, as Bruce Schneir recommends, you _write it down_. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-30 Thread John Hasler
and hope the passwords never get used. -- John Hasler -- 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/87d33dchqh@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Re: [OT] secure passwords

2012-07-31 Thread John Hasler
a password!. This leads directly to widespread re-use of trivial passwords. Most people would be better off with a list of random passords taped to the monitor than with what they use now. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law

2012-08-01 Thread John Hasler
was feasible. -- John Hasler -- 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/87fw869kwy@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Re: [OT] Intellectual Property Law

2012-08-01 Thread John Hasler
medieval practice. Only specialized historians and economists will really understand why it existed. -- John Hasler -- 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

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law

2012-08-02 Thread John Hasler
limited circumstances as part of a contract entered into when you purchased the copy from them. In addition, under some circumstances the USA copyright statute grants you limited rights to make copies. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law

2012-08-02 Thread John Hasler
of. -- John Hasler -- 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/87vch185b1@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law

2012-08-02 Thread John Hasler
feasible to not read at all. I'm sure you have neighbors and/or coworkers who are living example of that. -- John Hasler -- 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

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law

2012-08-07 Thread John Hasler
the works: those are abstractions. They purchase copies. Yes, this is nitpicking, but in this context the distinction is important. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law

2012-08-07 Thread John Hasler
in which they agree not to do so. -- John Hasler -- 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/87vcgu22l0@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law

2012-08-07 Thread John Hasler
them substantial damages should I do so. How is this sort of state-mandated monopoly, explicitly intended to prevent competition, compatible with libertarian values? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law

2012-08-07 Thread John Hasler
Ralf writes: The best thing is to be an anarchist! Anarchy is impossible. Some jerk will always jump up and crown himself king. Government is not a necessary evil: it is an inevitable one. The best we can hope for is to minimize it. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law

2012-08-07 Thread John Hasler
--making and distributing copies-- simply no longer needs doing. -- John Hasler -- 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/87fw7y1sp7@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law

2012-08-07 Thread John Hasler
Celejar writes: You are perfectly free to create your own work and compete with me for the same audiences and dollars; the only thing you can't do is copy _my_ work. Thus you have a monopoly on the reproduction of copies of your work. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: [OT] Intellectual Property Law

2012-08-07 Thread John Hasler
nature. So is cooperation. -- John Hasler -- 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/877gta1aix.fsf...@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Re: [OT] Intellectual Property Law

2012-08-07 Thread John Hasler
, while humans die because they've got nothing to eat. dealing with knowledge, it's a shame! I don't think you understand what money is. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law

2012-08-07 Thread John Hasler
of property. Monopolies are commoplace and not, in and of themselves, necessarily either illegal or immoral. Nonetheless copyright creates monopolies where none would otherwise exist: that is its purpose. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: [OT] Intellectual Property Law

2012-08-07 Thread John Hasler
Ralf writes: If you're on work and you've got the idea how to improve something regarding to your job, than you're the copyright holder (it's your intelectual property), but you're not the owner. Are you talking about copyright or patent? USA law treats the two quite differently. -- John

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law

2012-08-08 Thread John Hasler
the same idea. -- John Hasler -- 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/87mx25zik3@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Re: [OT] Will upcoming Debian 8 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

2012-08-09 Thread John Hasler
be a default DE, but is selecting the one of your choice after inserting the second CD that onerous? -- John Hasler -- 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/87ehngypi8

Re: Debian desktop news

2012-08-10 Thread John Hasler
, I suppose, to make Gnome the default desktop on the first DVD but I see no reason why the installer crew should make the extra effort. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Debian 6.0 , not named as GNU/Linux ?

2012-08-12 Thread John Hasler
Guy Gold writes: I've noticed that, up to squeeze, the Debian versions are called Debian GNU/Linux , but, squeeze is called simply Debian , can anyone shed some light on this matter ? There are now Hurd and FreeBSD ports, so Linux is not the only kernel. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Debian 6.0 , not named as GNU/Linux ?

2012-08-12 Thread John Hasler
Richard Hector writes: I don't know if there's any move to make it not need GNU tools. There isn't. -- John Hasler -- 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

Re: Looking for interactive programming with simple graphics like old CoCo BASIC or turbo pascal

2012-08-13 Thread John Hasler
Joel Rees writes: Any other suggestions? Look at qtoctave and maxima. -- John Hasler -- 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/87lihi6fjr

Re: Wheezy and Sun-Java

2012-08-16 Thread John Hasler
started. Iced Tea doesn't seem like such a bad mnemonic for Java. -- John Hasler -- 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/871uj757q9@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Re: having a problem removing a package

2012-08-18 Thread John Hasler
Rodney writes: How can I get this program uninstalled? First do sudo killall bandwidthd to make sure the daemon isn't running. Then edit /etc/init.d/bandwidthd and add the line exit 0 immediately after the first line (which should be #!/bin/sh). Then remove and purge the package. -- John

Re: Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-20 Thread John Hasler
://www.manualowl.com/m/Intel/SE7501CW2/Manual/247398?page=41 -- John Hasler -- 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/87txvxkn1s@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Re: Is redeclipse really non-free?

2012-08-25 Thread John Hasler
The OFL (Open Font License) is incompatible with the DFSG. -- John Hasler -- 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/87vcg6k4pj@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-27 Thread John Hasler
Stephen Powell writes: So why are there motherboards available for 32-bit processors that support installing more than 4G of RAM? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: domain name

2012-09-01 Thread John Hasler
that stuff, the host's domain name relevant to TCP/IP would be in one place... A machine can be in more than one domain. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: domain name

2012-09-01 Thread John Hasler
192.168.1.101. Your FQDN is what the relevant DNS says it is. It isn't something you set locally, though you may want to record it locally for the convenience of programs such as MTAs that want to know. You may want to tell different programs different lies, though. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base

2012-09-02 Thread John Hasler
or superseded. There is no automatic migration from Experimental to anywhere. -- John Hasler -- 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/877gscid4w@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Re: ntpd crashes.

2012-09-20 Thread John Hasler
. Shut down ntpd, set the clock correctly, and wait. I suspect that eventually you'll see the clock jump even without ntpd running. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: privoxy kinda slowish

2012-09-23 Thread John Hasler
? -- John Hasler -- 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/87haqo4if9@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Re: Installation

2012-09-23 Thread John Hasler
own. -- John Hasler -- 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/878vc04cru@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Re: Installation

2012-09-23 Thread John Hasler
permission, for example. You can also make ephemeral copies and, under some circumstances, backup copies. -- John Hasler -- 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

Re: Installation

2012-09-25 Thread John Hasler
lee writes: I've bought something, so I can sell it. I haven't signed any contract whatsoever that says that I can't sell it. That's all there is to it. That is the law here in the USA as well, though Microsoft et al. seem to have convinced some that it isn't. -- John Hasler

Re: Installation

2012-09-25 Thread John Hasler
(an intangible right) in the work. Copyright law gives the owner of the copyright in a work no control over the disposition of copies once they have been created: they are ordinary chattel property just like apples or hammers. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Installation

2012-09-25 Thread John Hasler
. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/117 -- John Hasler -- 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/87a9we2nqt@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Re: Library Problem

2012-09-26 Thread John Hasler
Stephen P. Molnar writes: The error message that I get for a number of applications... Which applications, exactly? ...most recently Opera... What does Opera technical support say? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Using wget to fill in a form

2012-09-28 Thread John Hasler
Hendrik Boom writes: It's more modern, and its classification guides are legitimately available for free download. What about LCC is not in the public domain? http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/ -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: wanted: Debian Cloud hosting provider suggestions

2012-10-04 Thread John Hasler
John Foster writes: What I need from this list is suggestions from those of you who are currently using, and satisfied with different hosting providers. I do want them in the US and that is a requirement. I'm happy with Gandi. They now have US facilities. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Permissions Problem

2012-10-15 Thread John Hasler
(and probably also a csh script, but I repeat myself). -- John Hasler -- 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/87sj9frdw5@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Re: Reason to NOT install from online repositories

2012-10-15 Thread John Hasler
Stan Hoeppner writes: You must be using a totally free dialup service for daily internet access. In many/most US locales dial is as expensive, if not more expensive, than aDSL or cable... In many it is much cheaper (here, for example). In some broadband is not available at all. -- John

Re: A puzzle with internet time and NIST time

2012-10-15 Thread John Hasler
Paul E Condon writes: Ideas? Run cronyc and post the results of the tracking and sources commands. -- John Hasler -- 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

Re: A puzzle with internet time and NIST time

2012-10-16 Thread John Hasler
Paul E Condon writes: Now I am running NTP. Does Ntp agree with your wall clock? -- John Hasler -- 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/87d30ir746

Re: A puzzle with internet time and NIST time

2012-10-16 Thread John Hasler
I just tried name1.glorb.com. It is distributing correct time and your machine is synchronizing properly to it. Your wall clock is broken. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Wally Lepore

2012-10-19 Thread John Hasler
emacs to be installed. So what? -- John Hasler -- 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/87ipa6oyng@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Re: Wally Lepore

2012-10-19 Thread John Hasler
I used emacs back when it was written in TECO and have used a few flavors since. So have I, but I also use the current version. Hint: it has _menus_. I'd *never* advise a new user to use emacs. I would. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Wally Lepore

2012-10-19 Thread John Hasler
/users swear by the vim+mutt route. I use Emacs and Gnus, my wife uses Vi and Mutt. We're still married. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: please put not all into multiarch!

2012-10-20 Thread John Hasler
Lisi writes: A bug report can, I believe, be a request for something that is not there. Yes. It's called a wishlist bug and it is one of the choices offered by reportbug. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Installing Debian on Windows 7 machine?

2012-10-20 Thread John Hasler
Marc writes: Any suggestions as to the best/easiest /safest way to go about this? Get the AMD64 netinst CD, put in the drive, boot the machine, and follow directions. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Installing Debian on Windows 7 machine?

2012-10-20 Thread John Hasler
way to run Windows is in a VM under Linux. Is there any way to migrate a pre-installed copy of Windows into a VM? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: please put not all into multiarch!

2012-10-23 Thread John Hasler
are doing. -- John Hasler -- 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/87zk3dkmv3@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Re: please put not all into multiarch!

2012-10-23 Thread John Hasler
it. -- John Hasler -- 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/87vce0lv8r@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Re: ls sorting order change

2012-05-01 Thread John Hasler
Dan B. wrote: What controls the order that the ls command uses for sorting names? LC_COLLATE. Set it to C. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: what happened to spam filters of this list

2012-06-02 Thread John Hasler
-aft writes: So many spams are directed to this list. Any spam filter there? Yes. At least 99% of the mail that hits the servers is rejected as spam. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-07 Thread John Hasler
Ralf writes: Fortunately there are laws against monopolies... No there aren't. There are laws against _abusing_ monopolies. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: about installing lxde (which xserver)

2012-06-12 Thread John Hasler
a new version. Promptly installing security uploads and doing an occasional dist-upgrade when debian-devel indicates that there are no problems works fine. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Fwd: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-22 Thread John Hasler
this evil step taken by computer makers? UEFI is not evil (though Coreboot is better), and there is a lot more to it than the signing stuff. Even the latter is not intrinsically evil: it all depends on the implementation. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: What to do when testing come to stable on a Debian wheezy/sid?

2012-06-22 Thread John Hasler
Gary Dale writes: Running pure sid like he seems to be is just nuts. I've been running pure Sid since it was invented. Works fine. Of course it would be silly to run Sid and do daily updates. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: What to do when testing come to stable on a Debian wheezy/sid?

2012-06-22 Thread John Hasler
, I suppose. When running Sid you must read both debian-devel and debian-security. -devel will warn you about breakages and transitions so that you will know when and when not to upgrade. -security is obvious. -- John Hasler How do you deal with security updates? Subscribe to the relevant

Re: What to do when testing come to stable on a Debian wheezy/sid?

2012-06-22 Thread John Hasler
be best to wait a while before upgrading anything. It also warns you when you _should_ upgrade. I'm not too sure I'd always rely on -devel for security information. Which is why I said you should subscribe to -security. But then, you should anyway. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-25 Thread John Hasler
a long term support version would be welcome. Are you volunteering? You don't have to be a programmer to help with Debian. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: TLS encrypted source for Debian iso signing keys?

2012-07-03 Thread John Hasler
a channel you can be sure is not controlled by the m-i-t-m that causes you not to trust the Debian keyring... Perhaps you could pay Steve to burn a CDs for you and then have a bonded courier service pick it up and deliver it to you. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Debian stable chromium does not open Facebook

2012-07-10 Thread John Hasler
Stephen Allen writes: That was what I thought the purpose of volatile was. It isn't. See http://www.debian.org/volatile/ . You want backports: http://backports-master.debian.org/ -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: sc, i.e., spread sheet calculator using ncurses

2012-07-13 Thread John Hasler
Nick Lidakis writes: Does anyone use sc, the text based spreadsheet program? My wife uses it extensively in doing the bookkeeping for our business. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: compiling a Debian package

2012-10-28 Thread John Hasler
. -- John Hasler -- 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/87txteiwu2@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Re: compiling a Debian package

2012-10-28 Thread John Hasler
strict. I assume you mean cd dvbcut-0.5.4+svn178. The build fails here as well. File a FTBS bug. -- John Hasler -- 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

Re: compiling a Debian package

2012-10-28 Thread John Hasler
lee writes: Do you have packages from dmo installed? No. I have no need for them. I just compiled dvbcut to check out the bug. I've already deleted it. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: compiling a Debian package

2012-10-28 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: apt-get build-dep should establish the required environment. Andrei writes: Assuming a pure Debian environment. As it turns out the OP does have foreign libraries installed. I don't. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-30 Thread John Hasler
Corporation), IBM, Infineon Technologies, Marvell Technology Group, Nintendo, Nvidia, NXP Semiconductors, OKI, Qualcomm, Samsung, Sharp, STMicroelectronics, and Texas Instruments There are many more. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-30 Thread John Hasler
. There is no intellectual property protection for instruction sets. If there was you can be sure that Amdahl would never have shipped a single computer. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: compiling a Debian package

2012-10-31 Thread John Hasler
contends that the primary purpose of libdvdcss2 is circumvention and so, they contend, distributing it is illegal. If it can be established that its primary purpose in not copyright infringement it will be legal. That has not yet been done so Debian cannot risk distributing it. -- John Hasler

Re: compiling a Debian package

2012-10-31 Thread John Hasler
leads to dead ends. You clearly do not want to use Debian. Free Software is what Debian is about. -- John Hasler -- 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

Re: compiling a Debian package

2012-10-31 Thread John Hasler
Lisi writes: And it does rather sound as though he might be better off with Windows. But at whom would he moan in that case? Microsoft, of course, with the advantage that there would be no danger that they would fix the problems that he moaned about. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Trojan Detected by Kaspersky in One Debian DVD

2012-10-31 Thread John Hasler
http://packages.debian.org/sid/nepenthes -- John Hasler -- 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/87fw4uf5e9@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Re: C Compiler

2012-11-13 Thread John Hasler
. It may already be available from the Debian archive, which contains about 30,000 Free Software packages. -- John Hasler -- 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

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

2012-11-22 Thread John Hasler
environments allow you to use the window manager of your choice. -- John Hasler -- 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/87fw412gfv@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

2012-11-23 Thread John Hasler
Nate writes: Some things seem to fail with 'sudo'. Sudo applies only to the single command that follows it. Thus if you type 'sudo' followed by a pipeline, for example, you may not get the result you expect. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: UserIDs and setups for developers

2012-11-24 Thread John Hasler
No need to create a user. /etc/aliases is what you want. man etc-aliases -- John Hasler -- 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/87mwy61lmh

Re: time zone and UTC issue [rant]

2012-11-28 Thread John Hasler
if the clock jumps back an hour. -- John Hasler -- 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/87624pxfds@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Re: WiFi / Hot-Spot Open Source World

2012-12-10 Thread John Hasler
Shiv. Nath writes: I work with ISP offering service for hotspots and cafe clubs. ... i wish to seek advice form experts. http://www.debian.org/consultants/ -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: [OT] Good quality hair dryer needed for Squeeze

2012-12-10 Thread John Hasler
Mark writes: Any ideas guys? You may find that pressing down or prying up on that part of the board works as well as does the dryer. Inspect the suspicious area of the MOBO carefully with a magnifying glass and then fix the crack or bad solder joint. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Yast for debian

2012-12-17 Thread John Hasler
Kelly writes: I am not sure of the full extent of YAST, but besides installation/removal of software, it does at least account management, service management/configuration (DNS, mail, etc) and firewall configuration. That should not be all in one program. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Yast for debian

2012-12-17 Thread John Hasler
--Dave writes: I have to find myself asking the question, Why on Earth would the maintainers not keep such a valuable package available? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?archive=both;dist=unstable;package=webmin -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: OT: Captchas?

2012-12-19 Thread John Hasler
Ralf writes: In real life [captchas are] most of the times are completely unreadable for me. I often find them insoluble as well. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: OT: Captchas?

2012-12-20 Thread John Hasler
Ralf writes: And as already mentioned before, people using braille are completely lost. Some sites offer audio captchas as an alternative. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Captchas?

2012-12-20 Thread John Hasler
Brad Alexander writes: I also ran into this problem recently on badgerandblade.com, and had to register using midori, because iceweasel would not display the captcha. Works here with Iceweasel 10.0.11 on Sid. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Captchas?

2012-12-20 Thread John Hasler
Brad writes: I'm running 17 from experimental. I just upgraded to 17: still works. I did have to allow scripts from Google to get the CAPTCHA to appear. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: OT: Captchas?

2012-12-21 Thread John Hasler
or three failures. -- John Hasler -- 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/877gobtu59@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Re: Captchas?

2012-12-21 Thread John Hasler
by default. -- John Hasler -- 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/8738yztsvc@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Re: Are all files produced by GPL Ghostscript copyrighted by 'Artifex Software, Inc.'?

2012-12-22 Thread John Hasler
of the file is yours to do with as you see fit. -- John Hasler -- 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/87pq22rubs@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Re: Are all files produced by GPL Ghostscript copyrighted by 'Artifex Software, Inc.'?

2012-12-22 Thread John Hasler
not be protected by copyright at all. If so, you may do with it as you will regardless of the license terms. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Some applications freezing up

2012-12-22 Thread John Hasler
to do than there are good programmers to do it. -- John Hasler -- 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/87a9t5sdcc@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Re: iptables; some IPs are getting through netmasks

2012-12-23 Thread John Hasler
Do you have an iptables rule somewhere that is allowing smtp? -- John Hasler -- 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/87623ssc9u@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Re: Freeze accounts

2012-12-24 Thread John Hasler
. A single fairly simple script can do all of this. It's the sort of thing that Unix admins were expected to know how to write. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: Freeze accounts

2012-12-25 Thread John Hasler
Tom H writes: Sure, that works, too - however, you'll have to edit /etc/shells to include /bin/false and/or /usr/sbin/nologin, 'cause those aren't valid login shells by default. That restriction does not apply to root. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

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