Re: New Dell Inspiron: Screen flicker (SOLVED)

> Felix Miata wrote: > > Harris composed on 2016-09-17 09:38 (UTC-0400): > > Felix Miata wrote: > Harris composed on 2016-09-17 08:57 (UTC): > I just got a new Dell laptop to replace my former one that I ran Debian on > with no issues -- unfortunately with this one, the screen flickers when I

Re: Firewall - basic config?

On 04/27/2016 05:22 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 01:04:36PM -0400, Harris Paltrowitz wrote: 2. I found that "ufw" works as a line-command-based-front-end to iptables. Good call. ufw is (IMHO) one of the best iptables-frontends for basic FWs. I am particularly f

Re: Posts don't show on list

Yup, we got it. Evidently we don't receive a copy of our own messages... On Apr 21, 2016, at 8:37 PM, Gary Roach wrote: For the last several weeks my posts to this site have not been showing up. I am not sure whether they are getting through or not. Someone respond

Re: Iceweasel security updates?

On 04/12/2016 12:08 PM, The Wanderer wrote The Firefox development process follows a type of cascading release: http://www.askvg.com/mozilla-updates-firefox-update-channels-nightly-aurora-beta-and-release/ There are nightly builds, which are compiled every night from the public source tree

Re: Iceweasel security updates?

On 04/12/2016 12:16 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: Aurora is alpha and will be 47 - a long way from release-ready - and beta is almost release-ready, so probably 46. If you had trouble with esr45, why not try release? It should be up to date and stable. esr45 is supposed to be 45 long term support -

Re: Iceweasel security updates?

On 04/12/2016 11:06 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 12 April 2016 15:14:08 Harris Paltrowitz wrote: I tried Firefox 45 last week but as you may remember from my recent emails, I experienced major issues with choppy videos in Youtube using Firefox 45, but not with Iceweasel 38.7.1. I've since

Re: Iceweasel security updates?

On 04/12/2016 09:43 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 12 April 2016 14:09:12 Harris Paltrowitz wrote: Hey all, Recently when I started using Debian I noticed that the version of Iceweasel that Jessie comes with is 38.7.1, whereas the latest Firefox is 45. I also noticed that when I visit

Iceweasel security updates?

Hey all, Recently when I started using Debian I noticed that the version of Iceweasel that Jessie comes with is 38.7.1, whereas the latest Firefox is 45. I also noticed that when I visit www.citibank.com using Iceweasel 38.7.1 the Citibank website tells me that my browser is out of date and

Re: What Package?

On Apr 10, 2016, at 11:56 AM, Curt wrote: Those that do still use it (Flash) should upgrade to the newest version (which I believe is 11.2.202.616) as they've recently fixed some critical vulnerabilities (on 4-7-2016). - Any idea whether the package

Re: Choppy video on Youtube

On 04/06/2016 08:31 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Wed, 06 Apr 2016, Harris Paltrowitz wrote: Hi all, First, I'm asking for help on this list because I've observed this to be a very august group :) and I'm actually a bit in awe to be in the presence of Debian developers... I've only been using

Re: Choppy video on Youtube

On 04/07/2016 01:12 PM, Felix Miata wrote: If you'd like to continue with Firefox, turning off hardware acceleration might help. This was fixed upstream quite some time ago, but maybe that problem has returned. Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> General tab -> Browsing section -> unselect

Re: Choppy video on Youtube

On 04/07/2016 10:25 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: If you do have hardware rendering: * What process uses the CPU? Firefox, Xorg or something else? * Does it happen with other browsers, like Chromium too? Very interesting -- the problem does NOT occur on Chromium! I have the latest Chromium (

Re: Choppy video on Youtube

On 04/07/2016 09:04 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 07 April 2016 13:12:45 Harris Paltrowitz wrote: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics What kernel have you got? $ uname -v My output from that command is: #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt25-1 (2016-03-06) I have

Re: Choppy video on Youtube

On 04/06/2016 08:31 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: Why did you install the 32-bit version? You have a 64-bit system, right? Well from what I had read, I saw my RAM as borderline (4gb) and I read something stating that with a low-end CPU, things should run faster with the 32-bit version. A few

Re: Choppy video on Youtube

On 04/06/2016 03:11 PM, Felix Miata wrote: I don't see Bay Trail on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_chipsets which likely means your laptop's construction design predates Jessie's original release a year ago. Maybe Stretch has support for it? I unfortunately don't know how to

Re: Choppy video on Youtube

On 04/06/2016 02:16 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 04/06/2016 12:45 PM, Harris Paltrowitz wrote: - Graphics: Intel Bay Trail x86/MMX/SSE2 I would love to receive help from this list... thanks much much in advance! Do you have your Intel video driver installed?? Video played back here just fine

Re: Choppy video on Youtube

On Apr 6, 2016, at 2:16 PM, Ric Moore <wayward4...@gmail.com> wrote: On 04/06/2016 12:45 PM, Harris Paltrowitz wrote: > - Graphics: Intel Bay Trail x86/MMX/SSE2 > > I would love to receive help from this list... thanks much much in advance! Do you have your Intel video driver

Choppy video on Youtube

Hi all, First, I'm asking for help on this list because I've observed this to be a very august group :) and I'm actually a bit in awe to be in the presence of Debian developers... I've only been using Debian for a few weeks -- I'm not new to Linux or Unix, although I'm still a relative

Re: What Package?

On Apr 3, 2016, at 12:29 PM, Siard wrote: Then, for those cases where html5 is not yet available, UNinstall flashplayer-nonfree. Adobe has stopped Linux support for it, so it's too old for those cases that require a newer version. -- Hi, So if