Re: [DNG] Devuan, Firefox and Apulse
Hi there On 18/09/17 22:35, dev wrote: Anyone know if there is an Apulse package for Devuan? I thought I had it working a couple months back but now, on a different machine, I cannot find the Apulse package. I don't remember how I got it working. Checking google of course brings up the git repo for apulse but there looks like some issues about sandboxing. https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse Anyone have it working on Devuan and Firefox 55.0.3 64bit ? How about FF and Jackd? I don't use Jack myself, but a lot people do. Regards, Rob ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] Another problem with systemd and I will switch to devuan
Hi there On 17/09/17 07:49, arne wrote: Another problem with systemd and I will switch to devuan. I had a fierce struggle with rc.local and systemd. Took me 24 hours, lots of coffee and pizza, (to abandon rc.local for most part in the end) I am feeling a pain in my heart if I have to leave debian. It was my companion for 10 years. Now the question: I run debian stretch. is it hard to switch to devuan or is a new install preferred? Sick and tired of systemd, Is use Debian Stretch without systemd or pulseaudio. One box is a server, the other runs XFCE. After upgrading to Stretch, I had to remove the XFCE meta package, in order to get rid of xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin; I use qasmixer instead. On the server I had to write a script to start the VLAN - PPPoE internet link. Before a major release update, I do a systemd reverse dependency check. So far so good. When this fails I probably switch to Devuan. Regards, Rob ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] Proposed change in behaviour for ascii: eudev net.ifnames logic reversing proposal
Hi there On 22/08/17 11:42, Didier Kryn wrote: Le 22/08/2017 à 09:10, Narcis Garcia a écrit : persistent-net.rules allows 100% definitive names. Definitive but with a possible mess. A new eth1 could be created by the kernel in the same time eth0 is renamed to eth1 by Udev. The race problem pointed by Adam. AFAIK you can use any name you like in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules (provided they don't conflict). E.G. nic0, nic1, etc. Which would avoid conflicts and provide definitive names. Regards, Rob ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] FF pulseaudio hard dependency is here
Hi there On 12/03/17 16:49, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: Have you considered rolling your own add-blocking with a list of unwanted sites in /etc/hosts ? A bad idea, because your browser expects some sort of response. It's better to replace unwanted content with a small transparent gif. Regards, Rob ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] resolved
Hi there Klaus Hartnegg wrote: All programmers please read this, and treat it as a list of things not to do. https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2016-June/014964.html Systemd manages to shoot itself in the foot, and in the elbow, and trigger a timebomb, all with one single bullet. AFAIK one can run systemd without resolvd. Or did I miss something? BTW, I run a Debian Jessie server without systemd and it works just fine. I still have to upgrade my GUI box. Regards, Rob ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] adblocking using /etc/hosts
Hi there emnin...@riseup.net wrote: I don't know, if it is the right place here to ask such trivial questions, if not please tell me, no problem at all. I wanted to suggest, for the future, may be for a better user experience, if it is possible and reasonable to create a small script, which would configure /etc/hosts in a way that ad servers and that like were redirected to 0.0.0.0 ? May be this could be done in a way that the user will be prompted, if (s)he would like to install ad-blocking systemwide and also there should be an option to uninstall the created list from /etc/hosts . In my thinking that is a very elegant and easy way to keep the browsers itself small and efficient. But very likely, i'm missing some cons ... (?) The webbrowser wants an object. So the thing to do is to replace the ad with your own content. A small transparent gif is often used. Regards, Rob ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
[DNG] Which desktops work without systemd
Hi there Which desktops work without systemd? A list would be nice. Regards, Rob ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] printing (was Re: Readiness notification)
Hi there Hendrik Boom wrote: Just make sure the package cops-bsd isn't installed. It provides a file /usr/bin/lpr, which is preumably a front end to cups. And cat should be lower-case, obviously. There are plenty of videos illustrating what happens if it isn't. Regards, Rob ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] printing (was Re: Readiness notification)
Hi there Nate Bargmann wrote: As if on cue, IgnorantGuru posts up a very timely and salient post: https://igurublog.wordpress.com/2015/06/13/openwashing-and-other-deceptions-in-linux/ Sadly, CUPS is long one of these technologies ensnared by Apple and now we're beholden to them. At first CUPS was a very good idea and an independent project which was then somehow "bought" by Apple and for a time things improved. Then a couple of years ago Linux support was more or less dropped by Apple and CUPS, which worked flawlessly, almost completely stopped working with my Brother HL-5240 save for Open|LibreOffice. Last night Firefox actually printed to that printer again so perhaps something has turned toward the better. CUPS used to support 1200 DPI on my printer (HP Laserjet P2015DN). Since Apple took over, the CUPS PPD will only do 600 DPI. I fixed this by using the MS Windows PPD, which I extracted from the installation CD that came with the printer. CUPS updates leave the config alone, so it just keeps working. CUPS seems next to impossible to understand, much less troubleshoot. Some things just don't work. I use a printer daemon alongside CUPS to print text (don't install CUPS' BSD LPD emulation). It uses paps to convert UTF-8 into PS. This way, I can even print plain text hieroglyphs. It's the layers upon layers of libraries and the morass of filters and drivers that makes printing a near incomprehensible mess. I am naive enough to think that if a printer supports PS or PCL that it should be trivial to print to it. The reality seems to be another matter completely. Cat Some_File.ps | lpr (bypassing CUPS) should work. If not, it's not a postscript printer. Regards, Rob ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [Dng] donations by mail?
Hi there Martijn Dekkers wrote: ... and they are also criminal groups There are 'alternative' banks. Their services are a bit limited, but they do international credit transfers. Regards, Rob -- Comet: A very large bouncy castle. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [Dng] donations by mail?
Hi there Ста Деюс wrote: Oh NO! No deal w/ the criminal groups! Well, that just leaves (IBAN) credit transfers. Cheques where abolished in 2000. Postal money orders in 2002. Apparently some banks process some US cheques, but they charge extortionate fees. Regards, Rob -- Comet: A very large bouncy castle. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [Dng] donations by mail?
Hi there Hendrik Boom wrote: There is already a payment-processing system that has been in effect much longer than computers or digital networks -- the postal money order sent by ordinary mail. Does that still exist? AFAIK this was abolished decades ago. All we'd need is a mailing address and a warning about what sorts of cheques and the like are easy or too difficult to process. How about paypal? Regards, Rob -- Comet: A very large bouncy castle. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
