Re: off topic Question of the day..

On Sun 10 Jul 2016 at 23:22:29 (-0400), Doug wrote: > On 07/10/2016 09:20 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > >On Sunday, July 10, 2016 08:33:37 PM David Wright wrote: > >> BTW I do find American paper weights about as obfuscated as anything. [...] > >> Yes, paper; but how much? > > > >From a quick

Straying further OT, Re: off topic Question of the day..

On Sun 10 Jul 2016 at 21:20:39 (-0400), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sunday, July 10, 2016 08:33:37 PM David Wright wrote: > > BTW I do find American paper weights about as obfuscated as anything. > > I think you need to serve an apprenticeship in printing to have a clue. > > There'a website

Re: off topic Question of the day..

On 07/10/2016 09:20 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, July 10, 2016 08:33:37 PM David Wright wrote: > BTW I do find American paper weights about as obfuscated as anything. > I think you need to serve an apprenticeship in printing to have a clue. > There'a website

Potentialy OT: Firefox downloads over 6 GB of data streaming < 1 GB movie.

Debian Jessie with Firefox 47.0.1 from Mozilla Debian Team. Firefox uses "automatic cache management", which is default. The problem showed up just recently. Today for a test sake I streamed a movie https://archive.org/details/ SoylentGreen1973. The size of MPEG4 file is 919.8 MB. All apps,

Re: off topic Question of the day..

On Sunday, July 10, 2016 08:33:37 PM David Wright wrote: > BTW I do find American paper weights about as obfuscated as anything. > I think you need to serve an apprenticeship in printing to have a clue. > There'a website http://okpaper.com/calculators/lbs-to-gsm that claims > to do the conversion.

Re: bluetooth headset connected but no sound

Have you configured pavucontrol? Under the "Output Devices" tab you should see the BT headphones and other audio devices in your system. If you don't see the BT device (even if you do see it) then go to the "Configuration" tab and make sure the BT device is in Hi fi playback mode (A2DP) and not

Re: off topic Question of the day..

I'm finding this excahnge harder and harder to follow... On Sun 10 Jul 2016 at 18:28:31 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 10 July 2016 15:01:42 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Sunday 10 July 2016 19:47:19 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Sunday 10 July 2016 14:26:01 John Hasler wrote: > > > > Gene

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Re: off topic Question of the day..

On Sunday 10 July 2016 23:51:15 Gene Heskett wrote: > I've obviously got too many hobbies. No such thing as too many hobbies!! ;-) Lisi

Re: off topic Question of the day..

On Sunday 10 July 2016 18:45:05 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 10 July 2016 23:21:44 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 10 July 2016 14:58:16 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > Does the image cover the whole sheet of paper?? > > > > I can make it pretty close to borderless with another 1 or 2 > > percentage

Re: off topic Question of the day..

On Sunday 10 July 2016 17:27:45 David Wright wrote: > On Sun 10 Jul 2016 at 00:09:34 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > It feeds the short edge in first, unlike the paper trays, both of > > which can be set for several different sizes, but they both feed > > long edge first. So once its been

Re: off topic Question of the day..

On Sunday 10 July 2016 23:21:44 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 10 July 2016 14:58:16 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Does the image cover the whole sheet of paper?? > > I can make it pretty close to borderless with another 1 or 2 percentage > points of size increase. I was wondering whether any of the

Re: off topic Question of the day..

On Sunday 10 July 2016 15:01:42 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 10 July 2016 19:47:19 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 10 July 2016 14:26:01 John Hasler wrote: > > > Gene writes: > > > > Anything but letter, or maybe legal, is special order on this > > > > side of the pond. > > > > > > Lots of

Re: off topic Question of the day..

On Sunday 10 July 2016 14:58:16 Lisi Reisz wrote: > Does the image cover the whole sheet of paper?? I can make it pretty close to borderless with another 1 or 2 percentage points of size increase. Its a logic flow diagram and to get the text in a logic box big enough to read, it occupies a

Re: paper sizes (was: off topic Question of the day..)

Gene Heskett composed on 2016-07-10 13:38 (UTC-0400): Wikipedia agrees, tabloid is 11x17 portrait, ledger is 17x11 landscape. But according to the other internet resources, 11x17 is a bastard American only size. It's a legacy American size, 11x8.5 letter paper times two side-by-side, one of

Re: off topic Question of the day..

On Sun 10 Jul 2016 at 00:09:34 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > It feeds the short edge in first, unlike the paper trays, both of which > can be set for several different sizes, but they both feed long edge > first. So once its been grabbed, there is still about 14.25 inches of > paper hanging

UEFI bootloaders (was: Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?)

There has been some mention of booting UEFI systems in this thread. This appears to be a comprehensive resource: http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/index.html Many bootloaders are covered, and the author also mentions his own project, rEFInd http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/ cheers, --

Re: How to prevent /tmp files from being deleted at reboot

That was how it has "always" worked before. But now systemd ignores TMPTIME, and also seems to ignore it's own "age" option, unless I'm not using it right. Original Message On a testing/sid system with sysvinit-core, the script /etc/init.d/mountall-bootclean.sh (linked to

Re: openssl too old and what to do about it

ng0: > > I am in the position where I have to run at least one Debian > stable based server, and with the recent upgrade of a search > engine, I can no longer use its proxy functionality. > This would require a version of OpenSSL which is not available in > Debian stable at this point. Which

Re: off topic Question of the day..

On Sunday 10 July 2016 19:47:19 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 10 July 2016 14:26:01 John Hasler wrote: > > Gene writes: > > > Anything but letter, or maybe legal, is special order on this side > > > of the pond. > > > > Lots of outfits such as OfficeMax claim to stock A3. > >

Re: off topic Question of the day..

Does the image cover the whole sheet of paper?? On Sunday 10 July 2016 05:09:34 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 09 July 2016 21:51:52 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Saturday, July 09, 2016 07:14:24 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > > > I believe it is. Checking, yes. If that is the correct size, and

Re: off topic Question of the day..

On Sunday 10 July 2016 14:26:01 John Hasler wrote: > Gene writes: > > Anything but letter, or maybe legal, is special order on this side > > of the pond. > > Lots of outfits such as OfficeMax claim to stock A3. > http://www.a4supplies.com/ claims to have everthing A size. Uh huh, and thats

Re: Archivos de código.

El 10/07/16 a las 14:18, Santiago Vila escribió: On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 02:11:47PM -0400, alparkom wrote: Imagino que irá en /usr/local/src o /usr/src. Mala idea. Si lo pones en algún lugar de /usr entonces tendrás que compilarlo como root, cuando en general no hace ninguna falta. En

Re: Archivos de código.

On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 02:11:47PM -0400, alparkom wrote: > Imagino que irá en /usr/local/src o /usr/src. Mala idea. Si lo pones en algún lugar de /usr entonces tendrás que compilarlo como root, cuando en general no hace ninguna falta. Si no se te ocurre nada, puedes usar $HOME/src. Por otro

Re: off topic Question of the day..

On Sun 10 Jul 2016 at 13:38:14 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 10 July 2016 06:34:00 deloptes wrote: > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Anybody here got the magic incantation to keep it from shrinking the > > > image to unusability on the paper in the two front trays? > > > > I doubt it

Re: off topic Question of the day..

Gene writes: > Anything but letter, or maybe legal, is special order on this side of > the pond. Lots of outfits such as OfficeMax claim to stock A3. http://www.a4supplies.com/ claims to have everthing A size. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Archivos de código.

No. Para darme a entender daré un ejemplo. Descargué el source code de Python, lo compilé e instalé... ahora donde dejo el código de Python? Ya está instalado, pero no quiero borrarlo. Eso. Imagino que irá en /usr/local/src o /usr/src. El 10/07/16 a las 14:09, Javier Marcon escribió: El

Re: Archivos de código.

El 10/07/16 a las 14:15, Camaleón escribió: > El Sun, 10 Jul 2016 12:54:27 -0400, alparkom escribió: > >> El 10/07/16 a las 12:51, Camaleón escribió: >>> El Sun, 10 Jul 2016 11:53:18 -0400, alparkom escribió: >>> Buenas. Tengo una pequeña duda y no encontré respuesta en los buscadores

Re: off topic Question of the day..

On Sunday 10 July 2016 09:09:24 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 10 July 2016 05:09:34 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > I don't know how easy it is to buy A series paper in the US > > Gene, you haven't answered this. I would say, about as easy as these > pesky non-memorable American sizes are to buy over

Re: off topic Question of the day..

On Sunday 10 July 2016 06:34:00 deloptes wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Anybody here got the magic incantation to keep it from shrinking the > > image to unusability on the paper in the two front trays? > > I doubt it shrinks the image only when paper fed from specific tray. > Perhaps you

Re: Archivos de código.

El Sun, 10 Jul 2016 12:54:27 -0400, alparkom escribió: > El 10/07/16 a las 12:51, Camaleón escribió: >> El Sun, 10 Jul 2016 11:53:18 -0400, alparkom escribió: >> >>> Buenas. Tengo una pequeña duda y no encontré respuesta en los >>> buscadores (quizá no supe buscar por términos que no conosco).

Re: openssl too old and what to do about it

On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 06:34:09PM CEST, ng0 said: > I am not subscribed and don't plan to - please keep me in CC when > replying. > > Hi, > > I am in the position where I have to run at least one Debian > stable based server, and with the recent upgrade of a search >

openssl too old and what to do about it

I am not subscribed and don't plan to - please keep me in CC when replying. Hi, I am in the position where I have to run at least one Debian stable based server, and with the recent upgrade of a search engine, I can no longer use its proxy functionality. This would require a version of OpenSSL

Re: Archivos de código.

El 10/07/16 a las 12:51, Camaleón escribió: El Sun, 10 Jul 2016 11:53:18 -0400, alparkom escribió: Buenas. Tengo una pequeña duda y no encontré respuesta en los buscadores (quizá no supe buscar por términos que no conosco). Existe una carpeta destinada a sources code que hayas compilado?

Re: Archivos de código.

El Sun, 10 Jul 2016 11:53:18 -0400, alparkom escribió: > Buenas. Tengo una pequeña duda y no encontré respuesta en los buscadores > (quizá no supe buscar por términos que no conosco). > > > Existe una carpeta destinada a sources code que hayas compilado? Digo, > he compilado ciertos programas y

bluetooth headset connected but no sound

Hi list, I have connected BT headset to my debian box following the wiki https://wiki.debian.org/BluetoothUser/a2dp blueman applet successfully connects the headset and being connected the BT headset also announces the same. Jul 10 16:41:05 localhost bluetoothd[21780]:

Re: Docker in Debian Jessie

Le 10/07/2016 à 18:21, Gilles Mocellin a écrit : > Le 08/07/2016 à 21:08, Daniel Bareiro a écrit : >> Hello, Gilles. >> [...] > >> From what I've read here [1], it seems that this filesystem was >> introduced with Linux 3.18. And I'm using here 3.16: >> >> # uname -a >> Linux orion 3.16.0-4-amd64

Re: Docker in Debian Jessie

Le 08/07/2016 à 21:08, Daniel Bareiro a écrit : Hello, Gilles. [...] From what I've read here [1], it seems that this filesystem was introduced with Linux 3.18. And I'm using here 3.16: # uname -a Linux orion 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt25-2 (2016-04-08) x86_64 GNU/Linux Are you

Archivos de código.

Buenas. Tengo una pequeña duda y no encontré respuesta en los buscadores (quizá no supe buscar por términos que no conosco). Existe una carpeta destinada a sources code que hayas compilado? Digo, he compilado ciertos programas y los archivos de código quedan ahí... me gustaría guardarlos

Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

On Sun 10 Jul 2016 at 08:38:15 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 7/9/2016 4:00 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > >[snip] > >>What I'd like to find which I've had no luck with so far, is finding a > >>Debian > >>installer cmdline option to skip the waste of time that is installation of > >>any

Re: Boot probleem, alleen knipperende cursor

Op 10-07-16 om 13:14 schreef Geert Stappers: > On Sat, Jul 09, 2016 at 09:05:17PM +0200, Frans van Berckel wrote: >> On Sat, 2016-07-09 at 20:12 +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: >>> Hallo, >>> >>> Ik heb al vele computer problemen gezien, maar dit nog niet. >>> >>> Booten gaat goed, maar na grub en

Re: off topic Question of the day..

On 2016-07-10, Gene Heskett wrote: > > That sounds like I'd get landscape without specifying it if I chose > ledger. Does anyone know if thats the case with our wheezy/tde printing > filter? Ledger isn't one of the choices, and tabloid spits out blank > paper. And

Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

On 7/9/2016 4:00 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: [snip] What I'd like to find which I've had no luck with so far, is finding a Debian installer cmdline option to skip the waste of time that is installation of any bootloader. My disks get generic MBR code and Grub installed by me before any OS gets

Re: How to prevent /tmp files from being deleted at reboot

[Sat, 9 Jul 2016 23:16:29 +0200] MI wrote: [...] Sorry, I can not help with the configuration issue... :( > PS: > > IMO: If you have a program that relies on files or directories > > in /tmp being persistent, then that program is buggy, not Debian. > > It's not a

Re: debían jessie bug con multipath

El Sat, 09 Jul 2016 20:18:59 -0600, Ricky Gutierrez escribió: > Hola lista , he estado haciendo algunas pruebas con debían jessie y una > san iscsi , y he notado un comportamiento extraño en cuanto al multipath > , por ejemplo si reinicio los servidores el multipath no se carga. > > como me doy

Re: off topic Question of the day..

On Sunday 10 July 2016 05:09:34 Gene Heskett wrote: > > I don't know how easy it is to buy A series paper in the US Gene, you haven't answered this. I would say, about as easy as these pesky non-memorable American sizes are to buy over here!! Lisi

Re: Firefox ESR & gnome keyring consommation CPU

Désolé de la réponse tardive, Malheureusement, l'utilisation d'un nouveau profile ne change rien à mon problème... D'autres idées peut-être ? Damien Le mardi 21 juin 2016 à 21:56 +0200, Haricophile a écrit : > Le Tue, 21 Jun 2016 21:08:04 +0200, > Damien TOURDE a écrit : >

Re: off topic Question of the day..

On Sunday 10 July 2016 04:43:13 Curt wrote: > On 2016-07-09, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Is Tabloid > >> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size#North_American_paper_size > >>s ) in the list? > > > > I believe it is. Checking, yes. If that is the correct size, and its > >

Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

On Sun, Jul 10, 2016, at 03:31, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > AFAICS, elilo is not available any more in stretch and sid. > I'm sorry to hear that. I don't have any UEFI-based systems right now, so it's not an issue for me -- yet. But it may be someday. On the other hand, CSM-less UEFI systems

FIXED - I hope!! Laptop wireless problem

On Saturday 02 July 2016 01:15:27 Lisi Reisz wrote: > The built in wireless on the Dell Inspiron 9300 suddenly stopped working. > > Having poked around a bit with wicd and network-manager (not > simultaneously), I am checking whether the problem is sudden hardware > failure. I plugged in a USB

Re: Boot probleem, alleen knipperende cursor

On Sat, Jul 09, 2016 at 09:05:17PM +0200, Frans van Berckel wrote: > On Sat, 2016-07-09 at 20:12 +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > > Hallo, > > > > Ik heb al vele computer problemen gezien, maar dit nog niet. > > > > Booten gaat goed, maar na grub en initramfs volgt er alleen een > > knipperende

Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

On Sun 10 Jul 2016 at 10:31:38 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Jul 09, 2016 at 11:15:08PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > [...] > > > This is a common misconception. Debian is about providing the best free > > operating system possible. > > In your humble opinion. > > (sorry, I know I'm

Re: off topic Question of the day..

Gene Heskett wrote: > Anybody here got the magic incantation to keep it from shrinking the > image to unusability on the paper in the two front trays? I doubt it shrinks the image only when paper fed from specific tray. Perhaps you should think in the opposite direction - shrink the image to the

Re: Linux has come a long way

On Sunday 10 July 2016 07:02:42 kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Linux has come a long way! I have been dreading to go wireless on my > desktop for a while. A while ago, the process was like this - grab > drivers from manufacters website, custom compile kernels, read > documentation on how to connect

Re: off topic Question of the day..

On 2016-07-09, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Is Tabloid >> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size#North_American_paper_sizes ) >> in the list? > > I believe it is. Checking, yes. If that is the correct size, and its > truly borderless when selected as "tabloid(borderless)", if

Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jul 09, 2016 at 11:15:08PM +0100, Brian wrote: [...] > This is a common misconception. Debian is about providing the best free > operating system possible. In your humble opinion. (sorry, I know I'm feeding it, but I couldn't resist). -

Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

Le 09/07/2016 à 22:41, Stephen Powell a écrit : So I'm not concerned about it's maintenance status. As long as there are PCs with a BIOS, or a CSM, lilo will remain usable. If the BIOS/CSM goes, lilo goes with it. lilo can't function without a BIOS/CSM. But for UEFI-only systems, there's

Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

Le 09/07/2016 à 22:00, Brian a écrit : All well and good but the installer inexplicably offers a choice between GRUB and LILO. The installer manual is unhelpful on which to choose. A newcomer wouldn't have a clue. We do them no service with this retrograde offering. Get rid of it. What is the

Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

Stephen Powell wrote: > As far as LILO being unmaintained is concerned, I wouldn't be too concerned > about that. I've been thinking about offering to maintain it myself. I > haven't > heard from Joachim lately. Maybe I'll drop him another line. I think LILO is an important part of Linux

Linux has come a long way

Linux has come a long way! I have been dreading to go wireless on my desktop for a while. A while ago, the process was like this - grab drivers from manufacters website, custom compile kernels, read documentation on how to connect to a password encrypted network. If something does not work, search