Re: ARMHF: kernel 4.9.144-3 won't boot

2019-02-19 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Tue, 19 Feb 2019 14:35:23 +0300, Reco a écrit : > Hi. > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 10:18:00AM +0100, Morel Bérenger wrote: > > Any idea what is wrong? > > Just as many of us, you've got unlucky, and received a faulty kernel - > see #922478. > It's not just

ARMHF: kernel 4.9.144-3 won't boot

2019-02-19 Thread Morel Bérenger
Hello. I have noticed that the current stable kernel won't boot on beaglebone black SoC: U-Boot loads the kernel, which does nothing but waiting for some time (no text at all) and rebooting the system endlessly. Downgrading the package allows the system to boot anew. Until now, I only provide

Re: Micro-report: using Stable without systemd

2018-10-18 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Wed, 17 Oct 2018 13:02:23 -0400, Gene Heskett a écrit : > On Wednesday 17 October 2018 05:38:38 Morel Bérenger wrote: > > > Le Wed, 17 Oct 2018 04:40:49 -0400, > > > > Gene Heskett a écrit : > > > On Wednesday 17 October 2018 04:00:37 Morel Bérenger wrote:

Re: Micro-report: using Stable without systemd

2018-10-17 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Wed, 17 Oct 2018 04:40:49 -0400, Gene Heskett a écrit : > On Wednesday 17 October 2018 04:00:37 Morel Bérenger wrote: > > > Le Tue, 16 Oct 2018 17:53:37 -0400, > > > > Gene Heskett a écrit : > > > On Tuesday 16 October 2018 13:11:45 Greg Wooledge wrot

Re: Micro-report: using Stable without systemd

2018-10-17 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Tue, 16 Oct 2018 17:53:37 -0400, Gene Heskett a écrit : > For me, its a right PITA because I am forced to goto that machines > keyboard/monitor location when there is something I need to install. I wonder why you don't use a tool like rex in combination with apt/dpkg to update/install

Re: Micro-report: using Stable without systemd

2018-10-17 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Tue, 16 Oct 2018 17:53:37 -0400, Gene Heskett a écrit : > On Tuesday 16 October 2018 13:11:45 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 12:43:40PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > #1 is ssh -Y has been killed from jessie on. No excuse for doing > > > it and bug filing is ignored.

Re: Micro-report: using Stable without systemd

2018-10-16 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Sun, 14 Oct 2018 10:23:15 -0400, Dan Ritter a écrit : > I have encountered no problems that can be attributed to my choice of > init system. Doing the same. Works fine, except the fact network interfaces that are using DHCPCD but are unplugged slow down the boot process *a lot*. I could only

Re: What are the differences between systemd and non-systemd Linux distros?

2018-10-16 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Tue, 16 Oct 2018 05:59:36 +, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming a écrit : > Good afternoon from Singapore, Hello. > What are the differences between systemd and non-systemd Linux > distros? Hard question, but you might found some informations if you dig in the archives of this ML.

pppd: how to die on connection lost

2018-05-17 Thread Morel Bérenger
Hello. I am trying to make the pppd process to die if connection failed or is lost, so that I could restart the connection with a different script (I could tweak the chat script, but I'm still new to modem stuff and from the doc I can hardily find how to only specify the PIN code "once per

any continuous integration tool in the repo?

2018-04-06 Thread Morel Bérenger
Hello. I think everything is in the title: I would like to have CI hosted on my own, but I have to say I don't know that many names of tools, and if possible, I would really like to have something coming from Debian's repos, so that I would not have to worry about updates. So, do any of you

Re: Activate/deactivate kernel parameters without reboot

2018-03-30 Thread Morel Bérenger
Hello. Le Fri, 30 Mar 2018 04:50:06 -0300, rv riveravaldez a écrit : > 'Permiso denegado' means 'Permission denied'. > > > What else shoud/could I do? Maybe you could try to unload the module before changing it's setup? -- SGA Automation 27 Rue Jean-Philippe

Re: some questions about cfengine3

2018-03-27 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Tue, 27 Mar 2018 12:15:41 +0200, <to...@tuxteam.de> a écrit : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 10:10:10AM +0200, Morel Bérenger wrote: > > Le Mon, 26 Mar 2018 20:48:31 +0200, > > deloptes <delop...@gmail.com> a

Re: some questions about cfengine3

2018-03-27 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Mon, 26 Mar 2018 20:48:31 +0200, deloptes <delop...@gmail.com> a écrit : > Morel Bérenger wrote: > > > I have several questions about the cfengine3 package that can be > > found in Debian. > > if you have not to maintain legacy, I recommend ansible or pupp

Re: some questions about cfengine3

2018-03-27 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Mon, 26 Mar 2018 23:22:37 +0200, <to...@tuxteam.de> a écrit : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 03:33:19PM +0200, Morel Bérenger wrote: > > Le Mon, 26 Mar 2018 08:54:22 -0400, > > Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.o

Re: some questions about cfengine3

2018-03-26 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Mon, 26 Mar 2018 08:54:22 -0400, Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> a écrit : > On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 10:37:08AM +0200, Morel Bérenger wrote: > > I have several questions about the cfengine3 package that can be > > found in Debian. > > > > * binaries se

some questions about cfengine3

2018-03-26 Thread Morel Bérenger
Hello. I have several questions about the cfengine3 package that can be found in Debian. * binaries seems to be located into /usr/local/sbin/, is there is a reason for this (not important but intriguing, sounds very unusual from Debian AFAIK)? * in /etc/defaults/cfengine3, there is a mention

Re: No Google bubble? (was: systemd for administrators, printable version.)

2014-11-19 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Mer 19 novembre 2014 16:49, Curt a écrit : So I don't see how Google could have tailored my results. For example, it can guess from your IP from where you come, and show results more... pertinent... considering your location. A easy test: search for test. This word exists in several

Re: Migrating GTK+ project to windows

2014-11-19 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Mar 18 novembre 2014 16:51, Kevin O'Gorman a écrit : I have a project that I'd like to migrate to Windows. I'll likely be using Windows 8.1. GTK+ is portable, or at least that what was said last time I checked so I do not see the point in migrating anything. I think you should start on

Re: udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

2014-11-19 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Lun 17 novembre 2014 19:32, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh a écrit : On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: So, what part of that disk should I extract, which could be usable and sharable? Partition table, of course, which is probably at disk's beginning, but how long might

Re: No Google bubble? (was: systemd for administrators, printable version.)

2014-11-19 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Mer 19 novembre 2014 18:26, Curt a écrit : Now, is bubbling good or not, is a different question and I do not intend to try to answer it :) It may be good for a francophone, si tu ne causes pas la langue de M Shakespeare! Yes, it may. But sometimes it gets annoying, depending on one's

Re: udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

2014-11-19 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Mer 19 novembre 2014 21:16, Scott Ferguson a écrit : On 20/11/14 04:06, Morel Bérenger wrote: Le Lun 17 novembre 2014 19:32, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh a écrit : On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: So, what part of that disk should I extract, which could be

Re: very slow Xorg and/or bash

2014-02-26 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Mer 26 février 2014 7:54, Danny a écrit : Hi, I think you are looking for the answer in the wrong place. Remember that Xorg is totally network aware. When it starts up, it checks your hostname and resolv.conf file. A bad configuration of these two will slow Xorg down considerably.

Re: very slow Xorg and/or bash

2014-02-26 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Mer 26 février 2014 20:48, Morel Bérenger a écrit : Le Mer 26 février 2014 7:54, Danny a écrit : Hi, I think you are looking for the answer in the wrong place. Remember that Xorg is totally network aware. When it starts up, it checks your hostname and resolv.conf file. A bad

very slow Xorg and/or bash

2014-02-24 Thread Morel Bérenger
Hello. Since few days, say 4 or 5, my netbook is *really* slow when a terminal starts. After taking a look with top, it seems that it's bash itself which is the problem: it makes the terminal freezing for at least 15s on login, and almost the same when using auto-completion. There is also xorg,

Re: Don't want a desktop environment

2013-09-22 Thread Morel Bérenger
On 23/09/2013 00:26, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 22.09.2013 01:14, Paul Cartwright a écrit : On 09/21/2013 03:58 PM, Josef Bailey wrote: i3 is a very good wm I just installed ran I3. I have a couple of issues. 1. it breaks Thunderbirds n to go to Next Message in another folder.

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-07 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Mar 7 mai 2013 14:41, Chris Bannister a écrit : On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 01:54:30AM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: I have a very old computer too. I will not claim to use it on a daily basis of course (I have only 2 arms, so I can not manage all my 3 keyboards :p) Ahhh!, but

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-06 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Lun 6 mai 2013 10:37, James Allsopp a écrit : Hi, What I meant was I wan to upgrade an existing system from Squeeze to Wheezy but replacing Gnome2 with XFCE, which seems a more natural upgrade path. I'd rather not have the grief of trying to remove a load of gnome3 libraries. I think I'll

Re: Without SKYPE?

2013-05-03 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Ven 3 mai 2013 0:08, Brian a écrit : On Thu 02 May 2013 at 13:46:50 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: We are in agreement. If you want to get in touch with somone on the Skype network then the Skype software has to be used

Re: Without SKYPE?

2013-05-03 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Jeu 2 mai 2013 21:23, Kelly Clowers a écrit : On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: On 05/02/2013 12:29 PM, Lars Nooden wrote: There are Blink, Linphone, Ekiga, Jitsi, and maybe a few others. Jitsi is quite useful. These are all SIP phones so they can

Re: Problem with Konsole

2013-05-03 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Jeu 2 mai 2013 21:03, Stephen P. Molnar a écrit : 64 bit Debian Testing/XFCE. When I open a console an untitled X File Window opens. This just started today and I don't have a clue as to what is going on. It is rather annoying because I don't get a prompt in the console until I close

Re: What is libspeedchd2.............

2013-05-03 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Ven 3 mai 2013 7:45, Charlie a écrit : Debian wheezy and to upgrade chromium requires libspeedchd2, but it doesn't show up as a debian file? aptitude search libspeedchd2 Nothing shows? I have found only one thing about such thing on the web, here it is Looks like the package is

Re: Problem with Konsole

2013-05-03 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Ven 3 mai 2013 10:20, Lisi Reisz a écrit : On Friday 03 May 2013 09:16:32 Lisi Reisz wrote: On Friday 03 May 2013 09:02:56 Morel Bérenger wrote: Le Jeu 2 mai 2013 21:03, Stephen P. Molnar a écrit : 64 bit Debian Testing/XFCE. When I open a console an untitled X File Window opens

Re: cmake dependency error while compiling darktable (glib2.0 too old)

2013-04-30 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Lun 29 avril 2013 21:42, Markus Neviadomski a écrit : Am 29.04.2013 11:02, schrieb Morel Bérenger: Le Sam 27 avril 2013 15:10, Markus Neviadomski a écrit : Thats the error: -- Found xsltproc CMake Error at cmake/modules/FindGlib.cmake:33 (message): Glib version check failed. Version

Re: terminal emulator compatible with Ecma-48

2013-04-29 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Dim 28 avril 2013 16:45, Chris Davies a écrit : lxterm supports blink. PuTTY (on [at least] Windows) also supports blink - just not by default. tput blink; echo hello; tput sgr0 hello - this flashes in lxterm Thanks, I will try this one. So, I would like to know if

Re: terminal emulator compatible with Ecma-48

2013-04-29 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Dim 28 avril 2013 17:59, Roger Leigh a écrit : The standard is not intended to be implemented in its entirety from my reading of it We have the same document :) But it says that to be compliant (it says exactly that it would be a limited conformance), one must say which parts of it are

Re: /dev/dsp diparait souvent et...

2013-04-29 Thread Morel Bérenger
Here is a rough translation of his message: /dev/dsp often disappear and is replaced (or accompanied) by /dev/dsp1 (or 2) but when there is no /dev/dsp he can not use skype (or have sound on youtube). The command alsa force-reload solves the problem

Re: cmake dependency error while compiling darktable (glib2.0 too old)

2013-04-29 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Sam 27 avril 2013 15:10, Markus Neviadomski a écrit : Thats the error: -- Found xsltproc CMake Error at cmake/modules/FindGlib.cmake:33 (message): Glib version check failed. Version 2.24.2 was found, at least version 2.28 is required Call Stack (most recent call first):

Re: Fwd: Question

2013-04-26 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Jeu 25 avril 2013 20:03, german carutti a écrit : Hello. I am a teacher of hardware and software Argentina high school and yesterday I was going to buy a cell phone, my main option was android, but I have found that this system is corporate because you are not allowed to modify, interact

Re: Install debian from scratch and keep a home partition

2013-04-25 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Jeu 25 avril 2013 12:54, Dan a écrit : Hi, As I explained in a previous email I had an issue with the ATI driver and squeeze and I decided to wipe squeeze and install wheezy. Luckily the home partition is separated from the rest. Which would be the best way to proceed? I was going to

Re: Don't do that!

2013-04-24 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Mar 23 avril 2013 19:00, Kelly Clowers a écrit : On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de wrote: Today I learnt this: Do NOT use ext4 for the /boot partition, where your kernel resides. I did this on my EEEPC to speed up boot, and today I got at boot the

Re: Don't do that!

2013-04-24 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Mer 24 avril 2013 9:42, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 09:10 +0200, Morel Bérenger wrote: Just, I've added the noatime on /boot, since there is really no use to write time at each access. To speed up things. *lol* I've got reasons to use noatime for partitions, to speed

Re: Wheezy Sleezy Gnome

2013-04-24 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Mer 24 avril 2013 7:56, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 19:08 -0700, cletusjenkins wrote: xfce looks the best of the bunch to me. Xfce4 has got to many GNOME dependencies. I'm using it since years, but I don't like it, I just couldn't find a good DE until now. Things for

Re: Highlighting CLI output: what are these terms called?

2013-04-17 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Mer 17 avril 2013 10:22, Dotan Cohen a écrit : The following page has a nice example of how to highlight text in logfiles: http://www.euperia.com/linux/how-to-highlight-keywords-when-using-tail/903 Here is the example: tail -f file.log | perl -pe 's/keyword/\e[1;31;43m$\e[0m/g' What

Re: Unexpected results attempting to install Squeeze(6.0.5) to USB flash drive

2013-04-17 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Mar 16 avril 2013 21:46, Richard Owlett a écrit : CAUTION: My goal does *NOT* resemble a normal install I want to do a full install to a USB flash drive (thumb drive). I am not looking to run the installer ISO from the flash drive. I do not want a LIVE install with or without persistence.

Re: remove unwanted services/packages

2013-04-12 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Ven 12 avril 2013 10:30, binary dreamer a écrit : Hi. i have done a clean install of debian making use of the debootstrap and installing only the base system in a pcengines ALIX 2d13. This system will run only asterisk (CLI) and i need it to be as skinny as possible. i have removed exim4

Re: Using unstable for certain packages

2013-04-12 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Ven 12 avril 2013 13:33, Tom Browder a écrit : Is it possible to fine tune the package sources so as to use unstable only for certain packages? Best regards, Sure. The technique is named apt-pinning, you can find some documentation here: http://wiki.debian.org/AptPreferences -- To

Re: debian-6.0.7-amd64 how to set resolution and refresh for free NVIDIA X drivers?

2013-04-10 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Mar 9 avril 2013 18:59, David Christensen a écrit : I have used the proprietary NVIDIA driver in the past, but would like to use the free Debian drivers instead. Free NVidia drivers by Debian does *not* exists. There is only a package which installs NVidia's drivers. The easier and simpler,

Re: debian-6.0.7-amd64 how to set resolution and refresh for free NVIDIA X drivers?

2013-04-10 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Mer 10 avril 2013 11:28, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : On Wed, 2013-04-10 at 10:51 +0200, Morel Bérenger wrote: In last kernels (around 3.8), it seems that there is also support for better 3D acceleration Nouveau was a PITA for a long time, but nowadays it usually works like a charm, 3D

Re: wheezy still missing php5-suhosin

2013-04-10 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Mer 10 avril 2013 12:36, Andrew McGlashan a écrit : Will php5-suhosin be re-instated any time soon? I have no clue about what instated means :) And if not, what measures can we take to protect Wheezy servers now? Maybe you can reuse the old package. Check the dependencies, it is possible

Re: debian-6.0.7-amd64 how to set resolution and refresh for free NVIDIA X drivers?

2013-04-10 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Mer 10 avril 2013 12:02, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : Yes, AFAIK all your claims a correct! I needed the nv driver for a long time, because nouveau completely didn't work, today it can be possible (but it also still can be impossible) to use 3D and even to use the driver for real-time

Re: debian-6.0.7-amd64 how to set resolution and refresh for free NVIDIA X drivers?

2013-04-10 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Mer 10 avril 2013 16:43, Jonathan Dowland a écrit : On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 11:49:14AM +0200, Morel Bérenger wrote: [Nouveau]'s not still not working like a charm, since I tried kernel 3.8 to try a game (regnum online, bugged as hell, but at least it have a linux client which is playable

Re: Chromium on Sid Very Slow

2013-03-15 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Jeu 14 mars 2013 20:39, David Baron a écrit : This is supposed to be the fastest browser but not right now. I think that when you read XXX is the YYYest in the world then you are trying to use a software for which people are paid to lie. Well, it does not help, I know, but think a little

Re: OT: Windows, a command-line OS (Was: Re: Not for me.)

2013-03-07 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Lun 4 mars 2013 23:35, Alois Mahdal a écrit : Well, I might be wrong, I'm not an admin... but if one here knows how to remove, say, explorer.exe, I would be very happy to learn how to [...] Maybe a good start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_shell_replacement I have already found

Re: Moving from a proprietary OS - unnecessarily inful experience -- was [Re: I wish to advocate linux]

2013-03-07 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Mar 5 mars 2013 16:37, Martin McCormick a écrit : Miles Fidelman writes: In Linux/Unix in general, we have a concept that is rather old of output being something you can send where it needs to go because you may not always predict where somebody will need to send it for a particular job.

Re: Restarting Networking in Debian

2013-03-07 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Mer 6 mars 2013 20:47, Jonathan Cohen a écrit : This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you

Re: Not for me.

2013-03-04 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Lun 4 mars 2013 22:26, Joe a écrit : On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:54:50 -0600 Yaro Kasear y...@marupa.net wrote: Mark is wrong, Windows is also a command-line OS. Hum... for windows 9x (and Me, and 3.x) ok, since they are based on MSDOS, but for NT family, there is no way to run it without

BSD more secure? was: Re: 10 top myths of debian

2013-03-03 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Sam 2 mars 2013 4:44, Miles Fidelman a écrit : Yaro Kasear wrote: I don't know if Debian's the most SECURE distribution. It doesn't really have a hardened profile or anything like what Gentoo offers. (Gentoo isn't a prime example of a secure Linux system, I more point to the concept of

Re: I wish to advocate linux

2013-03-01 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Jeu 28 février 2013 11:32, Chris Bannister a écrit : [Please keep attributions, I presume you are not answering yourself!] On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:39:09AM +0100, Morel Bérenger wrote: what? That's absurd. The only people I know who have their OS installed at a shop are Apple users

Re: Moving from a proprietary OS - unnecessarily inful experience -- was [Re: I wish to advocate linux]

2013-03-01 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Ven 1 mars 2013 0:20, Miles Fidelman a écrit : - those of us who go back a bit date from a time when computer science was an offshoot of electrical engineering analog and digital circuitry before ever touching a computer - gives a very different perspective than starting with programming I

Re: tar - unresponsive machine

2013-03-01 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Jeu 28 février 2013 19:22, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : But isn't it possible to lower the priority automatically (without an additional command like ionice) when a process takes all the I/O resources. Perhaps this isn't clear, but what I mean is that a process shouldn't take constantly all

Re: Removing commited versions from git history

2013-02-28 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Jeu 28 février 2013 3:53, T o n g a écrit : Hi, I want to permanently delete an old revision (or revisions) of single file from Git. Specifically, I want to delete from my public git server repo my initial published version of one single file, but keep the rest of its revisions. How can

Re: I wish to advocate linux

2013-02-28 Thread Morel Bérenger
I posit that your problem with Linux is YOU! What are you doing here? You obviously don't care about helping people. You are wrong. She is trying to help you to understand that your problem with linux is located between your computer and your chair. Well, but I suspect that, to reproduce the

Re: I wish to advocate linux

2013-02-28 Thread Morel Bérenger
Cities that switched from Microsoft to Linux, for their departments, switched back to Windows. Not all. IIRC I've heard of Zurich, recently, said anew that it is interesting to switch to linux because very, very cheaper. And in France, policemen (at least one, affiliated to military) are using

Re: I wish to advocate linux

2013-02-28 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Jeu 28 février 2013 1:04, Mark Filipak a écrit : On 2013/2/27 6:31 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Mark Filipak wrote: On 2013/2/27 11:18 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Hasn't even run it, apprently, or at least wrote in an earlier message But I don't run Linux. Now that's it in a nutshell,

Re: I wish to advocate linux

2013-02-28 Thread Morel Bérenger
what? That's absurd. The only people I know who have their OS installed at a shop are Apple users. Sounds like an ideal country. In France, even if it is illegal, all computers have an installed OS on them. And guess which one? Look, I asked for help. Then things got out of hand. Some Linux

Re: I wish to advocate linux

2013-02-27 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Mer 27 février 2013 1:05, Shane Johnson a écrit : There is also another perspective here, Google and Mozilla are providing a option for those that don't want to bother with loading, installing, and maintaining an OS. Chromebooks and the like might make all OS's for the enthusiast. Shane

Re: Flash and Firefox on Squeeze

2013-02-27 Thread Morel Bérenger
This has worked in the past, but none of these links has made any difference. I shut down Firefox and restarted it after making each of the above links. Still no Flash. One site that I looked at said to make the file executable. Okay. I did that. Still nothing. I might be wrong since I

Re: Rmore details on network was Setting up a network Was: Re: a very carefully asked question?

2013-02-27 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Mer 27 février 2013 15:01, Karen Lewellen a écrit : To keep it basic, since the idea of debian finding the card even if not connected might make sense, I take it that will be the best first step? second, can someone send me the command one might use to learn if ice Wiesel is included on

Re: Thinking about using Debian

2013-02-26 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Mar 26 février 2013 0:35, Mark Filipak a écrit : Are you a fan of Shakespeare tragedies? I think Linux is a good subject. It's so hard to comment constructively without seeming to bitch. It's a tragedy. I would more say that everything humankind do is a good subject ;) I'm an electronics

Re: apt-pining: no priority (or zero) specified for pining

2013-02-25 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Dim 24 février 2013 18:49, Tom H a écrit : On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 6:27 AM, Morel Bérenger berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le Ven 22 février 2013 2:58, Tom H a écrit : On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 09:02:12PM +0100

Re: Cost of packages in disk space?

2013-02-25 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Dim 24 février 2013 23:02, Alois Mahdal a écrit : Hello, I know that due to numerous dependencies and relations, it is a complicated question how much disk space a package costs: * Do we want to count dependencies? How deep (we don't want to count libc* 1 times, do we)? * Do

Re: debian wheezy amd64 freeze

2013-02-25 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Lun 25 février 2013 10:55, Alfredo Alessandrini a écrit : Hi, I've installed the debian wheezy amd64 on a notebook ASUS (Asus n56vz-s4196h). The installation went fine, but I got a crash (after a few minutes of usel). Graphics card and mouse was blocked. ... Where can I find more

RE: Open new session with same user (in GDM)

2013-02-22 Thread Morel Bérenger
It would generalize the principle, but it's a bit like multiple inheritance in C++ vs. single inheritance plus multiple interfaces in Java. Multiple is nice, but it really is a can of worms, which Java tries to sidestep. Mostly, people are just going to say that you can get what you want

Re: apt-pining: no priority (or zero) specified for pining

2013-02-22 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Ven 22 février 2013 2:58, Tom H a écrit : On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 09:02:12PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Well, the error message in title is not the exact one, but a translation of the one I have (which is

Re: Open new session with same user (in GDM)

2013-02-21 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Jeu 21 février 2013 7:29, Alois Mahdal a écrit : On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:55:06 -0600 Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote: Le 21/02/2013 00:32, Mark Allums a écrit : From: Kent West [mailto:we...@acu.edu] On 02/20/2013 04:07 PM, Alois Mahdal wrote: Hello to all! How do I create two

Re: Is there is any wifi firmware in main?

2013-02-20 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Mer 20 février 2013 1:33, agroconsultor0 a écrit : On 02/19/2013 11:00 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: So you'll probably have to live with non-free firmware, either shipped on the device itself or in some firmware-* package in non-free. To be honest, this is what I was expecting, but I thought

Is there is any wifi firmware in main?

2013-02-19 Thread Morel Bérenger
Hello. I am thinking about buying a new laptop, and I wonder if there is any wifi firmware available in main? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: compress files

2013-02-19 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Mar 19 février 2013 15:24, tsit...@linuxmail.org a écrit : hello fellas. i was looking for a way to compress files (.wav) older than 30 days. i created a small script to do the job. #!/bin.bash FILES=`find . -mtime -30 | xargs` tar --no-recursion -czf backup_ *feb*_2013.tgz ${FILES} rm

Re: compress files

2013-02-19 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Mar 19 février 2013 15:37, Darac Marjal a écrit : On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 09:24:23AM -0500, tsit...@linuxmail.org wrote: Fellas and Dames, if you please. [cut] man date I must admit, I prefer having dates with Dames than with Fellas :D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: [1/2OT] bcm4331

2013-02-18 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Lun 18 février 2013 15:08, lina a écrit : Hi, A quick question, does the latest kernel support the bcm4331 wireless card? or does it still need compat-wireless and etc. Thanks with best regards, I am not sure about what you are calling compat-wireless. My netbook have a wl card from

Re: [1/2OT] bcm4331

2013-02-18 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Lun 18 février 2013 15:23, lina a écrit : On Monday 18,February,2013 10:17 PM, Morel Bérenger wrote: Le Lun 18 février 2013 15:08, lina a écrit : Hi, A quick question, does the latest kernel support the bcm4331 wireless card? or does it still need compat-wireless and etc. Thanks

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2013 #160

2013-02-14 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Jeu 14 février 2013 9:07, David Dartnall a écrit : Please take me off your list. Regards David Dartnall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: why my simple ? hasn't get answered?

2013-02-12 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Mar 12 février 2013 10:59, Long Wind a écrit : I am really surprised to find so many help in such a short time. Thanks to all those who reply! I'm more surprised to see help to a question with why my simple ? hasn't get answered? as a title than by the quantity. About quantity, people on

Re: Wake on lan with RTL8111/8168B

2013-02-11 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Lun 11 février 2013 9:27, assir...@nonada.if.usp.br a écrit : Hello, I have an ASUS P8Z77-M motherboard with an onboard RTL8111/8168B network card. I want to enable wake on lan for this card. Wake on lan itself is workg when I call wakeonlan mac address from another machine, but when

Re: Wake on lan with RTL8111/8168B

2013-02-11 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Lun 11 février 2013 10:29, assir...@nonada.if.usp.br a écrit : Le Lun 11 février 2013 9:27, assir...@nonada.if.usp.br a écrit : Hello, I have an ASUS P8Z77-M motherboard with an onboard RTL8111/8168B network card. I want to enable wake on lan for this card. Wake on lan itself is workg

Re: XFCE application shortcuts

2013-02-11 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Lun 11 février 2013 13:02, Lucio Crusca a écrit : Hello *, I'm trying to bind a keyboard shortcut to control sound volume. I've found this: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16t=63591 however when I open Settings Keyboard Application shortcuts and click Add +, the friendly

Re: grub and gpt

2013-02-11 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Lun 11 février 2013 17:09, dAgeCKo a écrit : Hello, Several (about 9) months ago, when I updated grub from squeeze to wheezy, it failed to boot my system (GPT, 2To) so I kept grub at the squeeze version (1.98+20100804). Now that wheezy is coming more and more stable, I want to know if

Re: [OT] computer security (online) training

2013-02-08 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Ven 8 février 2013 8:24, lina a écrit : On Friday 08,February,2013 08:48 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: Sorry for taking advantage of the list a bit but as happens pretty often, this list is more likely to provide useful info on the subject. I want to begin some training in computer security...

Re: For Help!

2013-02-08 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Ven 8 février 2013 8:19, s. keeling a écrit : Aijun Xuan aijun_x...@yahoo.ca: ---485831647-466411508-1354984718=:50704 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hello, Debian: First of all, I would like appreciate what Debian had offered to us! I would thank GUN very much! I am a

Re: Download 3.1: Link is not responding

2013-02-08 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Ven 8 février 2013 7:57, Zvi Vered a écrit : Hello, I have to download debian 3.1 for i386. So I went to: http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/debian-installer/ And clicked on: full CD sets / i386 It seems that the link is not responding. Can you help ? Thanks, Zvika Vered The

Re: PulseAudio--is there a viable alternative?

2013-02-06 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Mer 6 février 2013 1:12, Rob Owens a écrit : On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 09:50:09AM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: Those of you who don't use PA, how do you do network streaming? That is my usecase for PA as it's handy to start a stream on my desktop and send it to the Myth box for playback

Re: Questions about multi-arch and 3rd party packages in Wheezy

2013-02-04 Thread Morel Bérenger
and then tried to install icaclient with ' dpkg -i icaclient-12.1.0_i386.deb' since it is a third party package and not in the debian repositories. Unfortunately, dpkg does not automatically handle dependancies, like agt-get and aptitude do, so I get a list of dependencies, all i386

Re: PulseAudio--is there a viable alternative?

2013-02-04 Thread Morel Bérenger
Pure ALSA works fine if you only need one sound at a time and don't need/want stuff like per source volume, and don't mind Flash sometimes messing up and blocking all access to the sound card. I think you are speaking about OSS here, not about alsa. Alsa is able to play more than one

Re: Gjjijjo

2013-01-29 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Mar 29 janvier 2013 9:35, Karl E. Jorgensen a écrit : Hi On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 09:08:08PM +, Claudia M Jimenez wrote: J. Jhhjjjkjhghv. Ghjiojoy hbn Cbn Flynn Fmjvjfkfg Hkfjfkb Bhiujj Gallup Hlbnnnj ghjkkkjjkn Bkkhlnk Hkk kikuyu Xhllhkyku Hkkjjjuju Hkknnnjh Hmbkh

Re: moving from Kubuntu 10.4 to squeeze

2013-01-29 Thread Morel Bérenger
2. If you really, really what to prevent a package from being installed you have to configure your system accordingly. For example create a file /etc/apt/preferences.d/no-pulseaudio with following contents: Package: pulseaudio Pin: version * Pin-Priority: -1 Explanation: prevent

Re: no .info info on info (was Re: dselect fun)

2013-01-29 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Dim 27 janvier 2013 17:02, wes davidson a écrit : hi morel. you wrote: Note: I did not read the info page of aptitude. i think perhaps there does not exist such a document for aptitude. if i am wrong about this, i would be grateful to learn where it can be obtained. Hum... maybe not

Re: MPD and Last.FM, not connecting or working.

2013-01-24 Thread Morel Bérenger
though it is a bit hard - as diver dependencies of source packages should be satisfied before compiling # aptitude build-dep mpd This one is quite useful to avoid lack of dependencies when trying to compile something which is already in Debian's repo. Of course, if mainstream deps have

Re: [1/2OT] the stat 'D'

2013-01-24 Thread Morel Bérenger
I am new to the xargs, so I don't know how to let it run in background. The waiting is going to kill me, I mean so slow. Thanks ahead for your suggestions, No idea about what is xargs, but I guess that simply calling your script from a console with a '' at end of command will be ok, aka

Re: moving from Kubuntu 10.4 to squeeze

2013-01-24 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Jeu 24 janvier 2013 16:05, Mike McGinn a écrit : I am happy with what I have experienced in my VM and I just want to know if there are any pitfalls I have not foreseen. The only one I can see outside of system being configured differently by default is the hardware support. Using a live

Re: Customized Debian - Was: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-23 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Mar 22 janvier 2013 22:47, John Hasler a écrit : Richard Owlett writes: I've used 026's, paper tape, acoustic couplers, magnetic drums. So have I. We oldsters are made of tough stuff True. P.S. I've just installed it ;) Well, there are people who claim to actually like it.

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