Re: android connection

2014-07-13 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Sunday 13 July 2014 00.26:00 aminos wrote: Nautilus should work fine . Just be sure to put your device as a /Media device(MTP)/ or a /Camera (PTP)/. On 07/12/2014 11:06 PM, François Patte wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, I don't know anything to

Re: UEFI

2014-07-10 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Thursday 10 July 2014 00.44:20 Steve Litt wrote: And, for eighty bucks more you can get a small (256GB) SSD mounted as /, put nothing on it but /usr and /opt and possibly /boot I would not call a 256 BG SSd small - the biggest I own is 60GB, and all the system runs on it (on a laptop).

Re: UEFI

2014-07-09 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Wednesday 09 July 2014 15.53:22 B wrote: BTW, sorry to hijack a bit this thread, but what could be the advantages to use UEFI (I just have Debian on my laptop and disabled it from ancient posts I read). AFAIK it could be usefull for *very* big disks (but I can't see their use on a

Re: UEFI

2014-07-09 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Wednesday 09 July 2014 19.49:12 Bret Busby wrote: It is my understanding (and, once again, I am no expert), that two distinct advantages of a UEFI/GPT system ofer what it replaced, are that no differentiation exists, between primary and other partitions, and, a UEFI/GPT system, can have up

Re: Windows and UTC system time

2014-07-06 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Saturday 05 July 2014 22.39:57 Doug wrote: Unfortunately, the fix that works in Windows 7 does not work in Windows 8. Microsoft fixed it! --doug One more reason not to use 8. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Windows and UTC system time (was: no subject)

2014-07-06 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Sunday 06 July 2014 00.56:04 Bob Proulx wrote: It doesn't solve the problem because twice a year when DST comes and goes what usually happens is that Windows resets the clock and therefore it gets set forward and back twice. I seem to remeber that you could tell Windows (7?) not to care

Re: Windows and UTC system time (was: no subject)

2014-07-05 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Saturday 05 July 2014 21.38:46 Nelson Green wrote: Good afternoon, This morning I had the mis-fortune of creating a dual-boot system with Debian on a machine that already had windows installed on. I installed a second hard drive, installed Debian, and almost everything works. But I

Re: Is grub perfect? (was Re: Does LXDE really require lightdm?)

2014-06-28 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Saturday 28 June 2014 05.55:39 Rusi Mody wrote: PS. No I am not defending grub2 -- I find its documentation almost non-existent -- just my survival strategies :-) Yes, this is one problem. There are others: - what documentation is existent is not easy to undestand, syntax is complicated.

Re: audacious wheezy

2014-06-20 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Friday 20 June 2014 10.59:43 François Patte wrote: Bonjour, Does anyone use audacious with wheezy and have it working? Yes, I use it regularely and it works, no problem. Audacious 3.2.4-1 here. Can't remember if I had to do anything special, but I don't think so. I have the debian

Re: When bug fixes are applied on stable ?

2014-06-12 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Thursday 12 June 2014 16.20:12 David wrote: On 12 June 2014 16:31, Prunk Dump prunkd...@gmail.com wrote: Moreover some bugs that appear insignificant for a normal Debian user can become critical on entreprise. A simple example is LibreOffice. Some of the tools of the suite does not get

Re: When bug fixes are applied on stable ?

2014-06-12 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Thursday 12 June 2014 22.56:27 Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 12 iun 14, 17:03:18, Thierry de Coulon wrote: My main concern with LibreOffice is that formatting is not consistent if you copen your document on another machine, but th'sts another story. Depending on what you mean by formating

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-08 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Sunday 08 June 2014 00.10:02 Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 07 June 2014 21:41:17 Slavko wrote: apt-get is quicker than aptitude and has (by the release note) The release notes have not been consistent about which they recommend for a particular upgrade. Both have been recommended on

Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-07 Thread Thierry de Coulon
Hello all, I've lived for years using synaptic and I am no so used to aptitude - and I don't want to make mistakes... Possibly my installation is now in such a state that I should reinstall, but everything *is* working. Anyway: - searching for broken packages gives 0 packages in synatiptic

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-07 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Saturday 07 June 2014 11.58:41 Slavko wrote: Ahoj, (...) You need to learn one thing - the A mark in the aptitude, eg (rest of lines removed): ilibpam0g-dev i A libpam0g ^^^ (...) Hope this help you. Thanks Slavko. I'm not sure I got everything, but it shows the way to go:

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-30 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Friday 30 May 2014 10.23:42 David Dušanić wrote: 29.05.2014, 23:19, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net: On Thu, 2014-05-29 at 23:07 +0200, Gour wrote:  Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net writes:  A tiling WM isn't a DE.  Can you tell me what is missing?  It has status

Pitivi or Openshot require removing cups !?

2014-05-24 Thread Thierry de Coulon
I wanted to take a look at Pitivi and Openshot, but both installation require removing *lots* of important things like cups and gimp ?!? I run wheezy, with some backports (required by my motherboard) and a newer version of glibc (to run Master PDF Editor). I can live without these two

Kodak scanner not found or not working

2011-02-18 Thread Thierry de Coulon
I am new to using Debian itself - I have been using Mepis and Ubuntu. I made a test install of Lenny, and just upgraded to Squeeze. the system seems to be working well, I installed Trinity as a Desktop. My problem is with the scanner. I use a Kodak i1220 that requires tah Kodak drivers, wich in