On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 05:56:04PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> > startx -- vt7
>
> That requires specifying it by hand every time startx is run. As I
> indicated, that is unacceptable; I don't have to specify the VT manually
> every time I lanch X now in order to get the current behavior, and I
>
On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 08:09:01AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> Mauro Condarelli composed on 2015-11-22 13:24 (UTC+0100):
>
> > I have been able to make them *both* work (using custom xorg.conf), but not
> > *at the same time* (under debian)
>
> > The working setup (linixmint) does not appear to
On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 11:54:07AM +, Ben Stones wrote:
> Folks,
>
> There are a lot of arguments going around in this e-mail chain and now
> people are just hurting other people's feelings. Arguments are pointless if
> no one agrees with each other ...
Au contraire, arguments are pointless i
On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 09:43:37PM +0300, moxalt wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Nov 2015 10:05:44 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
> > According to you. Not according to "The design of the unix operating
> > system", Maurice >> J. Bach, Prentice/Hall, 1986, page 4:
> >
> > Now that I have cited a definition of "OS"
On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 01:00:43PM -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 11/21/2015 12:02 PM, moxalt wrote:
> >Prison or sanatorium?
>
> Treated properly, as I see it, prison could be much more of a sanitarium.
Life is like a box of breakfast cereal ... *ducks*.
--
"If you're not careful, the newspaper
into the live environment for any extras you might need. I often use it
for resizing Windows partitions I want to keep when installing Debian
(you can install from within the live environment too).
Hope this helps,
--
Chris
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 04:02:41PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 02:56:53AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 01:35:34PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 12:37:06PM +
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 01:35:34PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 12:37:06PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Please stop preaching.
>
> (Darn. Seems I was too subtle last time)
>
> Now you're preaching. Preachers preach... and they're important too
Ummm, no.
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 09:45:48AM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Using strace, the difference seems to be that apt-get clean removes
> /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin. However you don't need to run apt-get
> update : this file seems to be rebuilt by any apt command.
>
> apt-get clean
> apt-cache sho
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 11:56:32PM +, David Parfitt wrote:
> [This mail was also posted to linux.debian.user.]
Ummm, aren't they all eventually?
--
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people
who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the
oppress
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 03:33:13PM +, David Parfitt wrote:
>
> I've often noticed recommendations to uninstall pulseaudio but never seen
> a case where it has been reported to work :) apt-get purge pulseaudio
> wants to take gnome & lots of other stuff with it :((
JFTR, it worked for me, b
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 07:01:41PM +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote:
> This reminds of an outcome that makes your system vulnerable to data theft.
> Following the above steps, anyone having physical access to the device by
What above steps? The context is lost! :(
--
"If you're not careful, the new
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 06:41:50AM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote:
> Brian:
> >
> > To remove every package and the package lists in apt/archives:
> >
> > apt-get clean.
>
> The package lists are unaffected by the clean operation. You do not need
> to run an update afterwards.
Then explain the d
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 02:33:50PM +, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 09:08:35 -0500
> Whit Hansell wrote:
>
> Hello Whit,
>
> >is very small and won't really give me much room. Can anyone with
> >knowledge give me the subdirectories in var/cache that I can empty to
> >get a reas
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 09:46:34AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
> LVM is much more flexible and less prone to do things to your data
> than, say, the tools that re-size your partitions the hard way. You do
> still have to exercise common sense, however.
>
> I've lost a re-sized partition permanently us
effort in the right direction.
Thanks & Regards,
Chris Martin
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On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 06:35:26PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 07:04:38AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 09:05:03AM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> > > Alternatively you could get cron to run a normal script and do
> > &g
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 09:05:03AM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> Alternatively you could get cron to run a normal script and do
> everything in that. Just don't be caught naming your script
> "script.sh" :)
Especially if it's written in Perl. :)
--
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 09:31:53AM -0500, shawn wilson wrote:
> On Nov 16, 2015 5:37 PM, "Lisi Reisz" wrote:
> > department has been trying for an hour". Puzzled, because I thought I had
> > sent a .pdf, and had checked that it opened fine in Evince, I looked at
> the
> > file - groaned - and ren
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 12:42:55AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> My email client chokes on your signature. If I make any attempt to reply, my
> email client freezes.
>
> So I have deleted both your emails.
>
> Try: sorting out your signature (I don't know what is wrong with it), or
> omitting you
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 11:41:33AM +0100, Staszek wrote:
>
> It seems to have been a problem with sound. The videos didn't play at
> all, but once I configured pulseaudio for multiple users (enabling sound
> for the Flash Player user):
> http://billauer.co.il/blog/2014/01/pa-multiple-users/ it jus
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 06:54:40AM +0100, Martin Str|mberg wrote:
> In article David Wright
> wrote:
> > As for script-file extensions in DOS, there was really only .BAT
> > wasn't there?, so the idea of distinguishing .bash, .csh, .py, .pl,
> > .sh, .zsh etc as being inherited from DOS is diffi
On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 07:25:49PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
> 2015/11/12 7:20 "Paulo Roberto" :
> >
> > Dear list,
> >
> > I need some help.
> >
> >
> > After upgrading the openssh-server package to the version:
> >
> > ii openssh-server1:6.9p1-2+b1
> amd64 secur
On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 08:28:31AM +, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:45:19 +0100
> wrote:
>
> Hello to...@tuxteam.de,
>
> >I'm rather with "post here" -- if we are setting up a vote :-)
>
> I'm all in favour of making it easy on the reader (not having to click
> multiple links
On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 10:00:54PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 10.11.2015 um 02:37 schrieb Philippe Clérié:
> > I just caught the YouTube video of Michael Biebl's presentation at
> > systemd.conf. It was good and informative and reminded me of the hard
> > and many faceted work Debian develope
On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 04:45:19PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 08:12:11AM -0700, Charlie Kravetz wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > I have to agree with Felix here [...]
>
> I'm rather with "post here" -- if we are setting up a vote :-)
+1
--
"If you're not careful, the newsp
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 09:23:38PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> >> Pastebin your current /boot/grub/grub.cfg
>
> Pastebin means upload the information to
>
> http://paste.debian.net/
>
> or
>
> http://pastebin.com/
>
> or
>
> http://paste.opensuse.org/
>
> or
>
> http
On 09/11/15 09:23, Piyavkin wrote:
— could you please recommend me some decent UML editor for Linux?
I have a colleague who swears by PlantUML, which uses textual markup and
GraphViz for generating diagrams.
http://www.plantuml.com/
--
Chris
On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 12:56:18AM -0500, Dev Guy wrote:
> Hello while using my system with the KDE desktop manager, my system
> became unresponsive for about 30 seconds, after I was able to only
> move the mouse around but nothing else was accessible. I could still
> see all the windows, then both
On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 08:27:42AM +, Joe wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 22:53:03 +
> Brian wrote:
>
>
> >
> > An attacker must inject a payload into a web page that the user
> > visits. When the page loads in the user’s browser the attacker’s
> > payload will be executed. A user would lik
On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 04:13:44PM +0200, Alex Moonshine wrote:
>
>
> On 11/02/2015 03:22 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> >But some videos are not supported with official precompiled Firefox
> >versions due to obsolete gstreamer:
> >https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=947287
>
> Oh, right.
On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 07:19:46AM -0500, Jack Dangler wrote:
> Got a msg this morning from online bank service that my browser
> (iceweasel) is no longer up to date (equates to ff31) and wants to
> 'either update your browser to a compatible version or install one of
> the following - [list of usu
On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 01:46:35PM +0200, Alex Moonshine wrote:
> On 11/02/2015 12:58 PM, Andrey Rybak wrote:
> >thanks for your answer.
> >its very strange for me that it is not possible to use filezilla in
> >testing. i was using testing brunch in several years and filezilla was
> >presenting in
[Please don't top post on the debian-user mailing list.]
On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 12:34:49PM -0700, John L. Ries wrote:
> And if you're installing X, then it's reasonable for Synaptic and other GUI
> admin tools to be part of the default setup.
I use fvwm, I definitely don't want Synaptic and o
On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 08:45:27AM +, Joe wrote:
> Not in the base system, no, but I'd expect it to be included in any
> system which might be used by newcomers to Linux.
If a newcomer can't figure out apt-get install, then they'd probably be
better off with Ubuntu or Linux Mint.
Intelligent
On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 01:08:24PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
>
> Changeing this to
>
> blackbox:~# cat /etc/udev/rules.d/z61_sispmctl.rules
> SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="04b4", ATTRS{idProduct}=="fd13",
> GROUP="sispmctl", MODE="0664"
> blackbox:~#
>
> fixed the problem.
>
> I am wo
On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 11:44:45AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Saturday 31 October 2015 11:38:25 Chris Bannister wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 03:57:30AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
> > > I notice that Sid is not including aptitude by default in the stock
> > >
On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 03:57:30AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
> I notice that Sid is not including aptitude by default in the stock
> installation. I have to do “apt get install aptitude” manually after
> installation.
>
> Does anybody know why this is?
Oh great! They've fixed it. I hated havin
On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 02:57:48PM +0100, Francois Gouget wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Sep 2015, David Wright wrote:
> [...]
> > So waiting could still be a sensible option at this time. Some of us
> > have yet to finish sorting out jessie (in my case, as a production
> > system, not as an upgrade target).
On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 09:03:20PM -0400, Doug wrote:
> I am not a programmer. (I am also not a user of Debian, but I do keep
> a watch here to see what might be going on in the other popular
> distros.) So I feel it is reasonable to put this out to the readers of
> this list:
>
> What percentage
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 07:39:58PM -0600, Glenn English wrote:
>
> On Oct 26, 2015, at 4:30 PM, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
>
> > What fellow users think?
He did ask to be CC'd, your post has fallen on deaf ears.
--
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people
who are be
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 07:34:48AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 26 October 2015 05:55:10 Martin Str|mberg wrote:
>
> > In article Gene Heskett
> wrote:
> > > On Monday 26 October 2015 02:29:04 Martin Str|mberg wrote:
> > > > I don't understand why you can't. I can create (and did)
> >
On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 11:20:08PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Fri 23 Oct 2015 at 22:37:32 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>
> > On Friday 23 October 2015 19:51:17 Brian wrote:
> > >
> > > To be pedantic: GRUB2 and GRUB1 don't exist in Debian. They don't really
> > > exist under those names on the GNU websi
On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 08:52:42AM +, Curt wrote:
> On 2015-10-22, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> >
> >> Many months ago there was a thread about
> >> longevity of hard drives related to how many boots in their lifetimes.
> >
> > Nonsense. If the boot count mattered for hard disk longevity, there
>
On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 08:20:05AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Monday 19 October 2015 04:55:46 Chris Bannister wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 05:21:53PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > >
> > > Ok, that's clarified, I think, what you mean by DE. You want (I
On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 08:57:30AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
>
> Yes, I'm aware of all that. And I never said the CoC is wrong or should
> be changed. I'm just advocating for dealing with those who fail this
> CoC (especially this little technical item) more gracefully. That's all.
As in a a
On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 05:21:53PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Richard Owlett (rowl...@cloud85.net):
> > I have 2 machines.
> > One is Squeeze with Gnome2 DE.
> > One is Jessie with Mate DE.
> > Desired user name to be "myexperiments" having a minimal set [TBD]
> > privileges.
> > Power on
On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 09:21:49PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > tomas said:
> > Yes, you are right about the CoC part. Still, if someone is picky about
> > *not*
> > being cc'ed, I'd consider it polite to at least do his/her part and express
> > this wish with the headers in use for this pur
On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 11:36:00AM +0100, peter green wrote:
> Is there a way to tell apt to accept expired keys? googling it I only find
> either instructions to download updated keys or instructions to disable GPG
> verification completely.
>
> In the case I just ran into I was able to find an u
On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 10:58:00PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Saturday 17 October 2015 19:38:02 to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > Or do as me and configure your procmail to discard duplicates. Works
> > like a charm.
>
> No doubt due to my inability to configure KMail correctly it is a *
> nuisa
On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 09:10:09AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
>
> How about,
>
> When in doubt, definitely install this package.
>
> or, to guide the reader more carefully,
>
> This package is installed by default. Unless you have a very good
> reason and know what you are doing, leave it
On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 09:26:16AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> I have an acer aspire 5003 notebook I tried installing the debian firmware
> distro on since it only has wifi communication capability for now. The
> firmware disk acted like it didn't have any firmware drivers on it when it
> got do
On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 05:24:10AM +, Fredrik Jonson wrote:
> Michael Biebl wrote:
>
> > Am 16.10.2015 um 19:05 schrieb Fredrik Jonson:
> >
> > > If in doubt, do install this package.
> >
> > Did you maybe misread that as
> > "If in doubt, do *not* install this package".
>
> Yes I did.
On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 08:38:29PM -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote:
> On Fri, October 16, 2015 8:02 pm, dean wrote:
> > What kind of smart phone?
>
> That is what I wish to learn.
>
> If samsung televisions have a microphone, what surveillance should we
> expect of a samsung smartphone which has
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 08:28:14AM +0300, moxalt wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 12:21:16 -0700 (PDT), ray wrote:
>
> > The above reference was for the 'free' version. I have not been able to get
> > the non-free to boot. I have wiped the Win OS and now it just says no
> > bootable device. So I w
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 12:12:11PM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote:
> On 10/09/2015 05:08 PM, Mario Castelán Castro wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > I'm looking for a free (as in freedom) software that will remind me of
> > daily tasks. That is it: one in which I can program reminders to be
> > shown daily at a
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 12:03:15AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Chris Bannister (cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz):
> > On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 08:45:32PM +0300, moxalt wrote:
> > > If GNOME is working fine without it, then I doubt you need it. I think
> > > gnome-pa
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 08:58:25AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
> 2015/10/12 7:14 "Lisi Reisz" :
> >
> > On Sunday 11 October 2015 22:33:16 Timothy Hobbs wrote:
> > > Please don't go all pedantic on us!
> > >
> > > On 10/11/15 23:31, Chris Ban
Please don't top post on the debian-user mailing list.
On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 01:57:11PM -0500, Mario Castelán Castro wrote:
> El 11/10/15 a las 13:13, moxalt escribió:
> >Seriously, though, as much as you dread returning to lynx, it is the most
> >bandwith-friendly option on the table. If you d
On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 09:17:48PM +0300, moxalt wrote:
> > :-) I *think* you meant to say "terrible". :-)
>
> Don't think so. Winky face says sarcasm.
No it doesn't.
--
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people
who are being oppressed, and loving the people who a
On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 08:45:32PM +0300, moxalt wrote:
> If GNOME is working fine without it, then I doubt you need it. I think
> gnome-panel is for GNOME Classic or some such thing, but I'm not sure.
What is this mail pertaining to?
Each mail in a thread should make at least some sense on its o
On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 08:45:32PM +0300, moxalt wrote:
> If GNOME is working fine without it, then I doubt you need it. I think
> gnome-panel is for GNOME Classic or some such thing, but I'm not sure.
What is the context of this mail?
*Baffled!*
--
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will h
On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 11:30:29PM +0200, Francesco Ariis wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 10:01:18PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > Brian isn't always "kind". But he is very knowledgeable and a definite
> > asset
> > to the mailing list. Please don't tell him to go away. As you say in your
> >
On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 09:38:39PM -0400, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
>
> Ah, nice catch... "--reinstall". I've used that *in desperate moments*
> of things not gelling together. I never had problems with it, but I
> can't say that I ever used it on apt.
Another one I've seen recently is:
apt-get up
On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 04:08:31PM -0500, Mario Castelán Castro wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I'm looking for a free (as in freedom) software that will remind me of daily
> tasks. That is it: one in which I can program reminders to be shown daily at
> a certain hour as a window to catch my attention or as a
On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 07:13:01PM -0700, tom arnall wrote:
> I want to setup a system so that when the power button is pushed on
> the PC, the system connects to the internet and starts a browser
> without a login or any other intervention by the user.
>
> There are no security issues.
>
> Is th
On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 11:09:36PM +0200, Miroslav Skoric wrote:
> On 10/08/2015 12:37 AM, Brad Rogers wrote:
>
> >>Thanks. Well I do not have GRUB here but LILO, and there are no saved
> >>old kernels as long as I know.
> >
> >There should be; Debian doesn't delete old kernels as part of the
> >
On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 03:31:00PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> Needing a decently decent resolution but tiny camera, suitable for
> mounting on my cnc machines to give them some machine vision, I came
> across some cheap ones that claimed over 1000 tv lines, for less than 8
> bu
On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 11:31:16PM -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote:
> Further progress:
>
> Launching googlearth from a terminal prompt produces the error message:
>
> /usr/lib/googleearth-bin: error while loading shared libraries:
> libcurl.so.4 cannot open shared object file: No such file or d
Please don't top post on the debian-users mailing list
On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 07:33:52PM +0300, Eliezer Croitoru wrote:
> Hey Chris,
>
> It doesn't matter if some would like them to just vanish.
> They do commit to the client but the scale of things might not be understoo
On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 01:21:12PM +0300, Eliezer Croitoru wrote:
> Hey Martin,
>
> I was reading your note and it is not the reality or something that should
> be done but rather another side to consider when working with software
> vendors.
> I do agree that there is a benefit when the sources a
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 01:24:45PM +0300, Reco wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 07:36:32AM +0300, Eliezer Croitoru wrote:
> > I will not argue since truth can be seen from more then one side.
> > Proprietary software usage is normal in all cases.
>
> No surprise in such position her
On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 11:12:42AM +0300, Jarle Aase wrote:
> On 09/13/2015 10:57 AM, Himanshu Shekhar wrote:
> > I just want to make sure again. How can one upgrade from one
> > version of Debian to other without losing data or without
> > formatiing the partition, simply as Ubuntu does. An earlie
On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 06:18:09PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> * Hans [2015-09-12 18:03 +0200]:
>
> >
> > > Could you please post the output of commands in English, this can be
> > > achieved by using 'LANG=C' before the actual command on the command
> > > line.
> >
> > LANG=C does not w
On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 03:36:18PM +0200, Mark Schabert wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using Debian Jessie 8.2 with jessie-backports in my sources list. Simple
> configuration, I'm
> pretty sure, I'm not the only one having issues now.
> Because of the buggy small display of the LibreOffice Calc sheets
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 08:03:53PM +, Curt wrote:
> On 2015-09-10, Brian wrote:
> > On Thu 10 Sep 2015 at 18:26:52 +0200, Hans wrote:
> >
> >> Maybe you want to give "isomaster" a try. It is in the repos and it is
> >> easy to
> >> handle.
> >
> > Does it prevent making the mistake of not ca
On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 04:55:04PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 09/08/2015 02:29 PM, Chris Bannister wrote:
> >
> >I agree about the shotgun bit, or consider it more like "perfecting your
> >swimming in a shark tank."
> >
> >read:
> >https://w
On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 01:52:56PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 09/08/2015 01:30 PM, Haines Brown wrote:
> >On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 12:38:17PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
>
> >>Methinks you have deb-multimedia configured somehow in your sources.
> >
> >I suspect something else is going on. I also am r
On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 06:33:14AM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote:
>
> > Copyright in this message and any attachments remains with us. It
> > is confidential and may be legally privileged.
>
> *NOW* you bloody tell me! Is it or is it not confidential, and if so,
> what in earth is the disclaimer
On Sun, Sep 06, 2015 at 02:16:09PM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
[BIG snip]
>
> Installing 'flashplayer-mozilla' that is in Debian main will solve the flash
> problem.
# apt-cache show flashplayer-mozilla
N: Can't select versions from package 'flashplayer-mozilla' as it is purely
virtual
N: No
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 12:27:19PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
> For anyone who may have reason to deal with this
> antiquated, anticloud technology, I needed to
> author a couple disks.
>
> I tried videotrans, tovid. Maybe I didn't understand enough
> to use videotrans, and would get better result if
On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 06:39:46PM -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote:
>
> At this point, I think that I should make a fresh installation, keeping in
> mind the comments which you and others have made.
And configure everything from scratch again? That seems a bit extreme.
Isn't it easier just to re
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 09:44:03PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 28 August 2015 21:38:12 Chris Bannister wrote:
> > http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2015/debconf15/
> >systemd_How_we_survived_jessie_and_how_we_will_break_stretch.webm
> >
>
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 09:02:54PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 28 August 2015 13:48:49 Ric Moore wrote:
>
> > On 08/28/2015 12:57 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > But why should I be punished because I use static addresss defined
> > > in the hosts file?
> >
> > Because that was the OLD wa
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 07:12:32PM +0300, Reco wrote:
> To:
>
> Well, there have been long discussions about this, but the problem is
> that what "su" is supposed to do is very unclear. On one hand it's
> supposed *to open a new session* and change a number of execution
> context parameters (uid,
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 10:22:58AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Ric Moore (wayward4...@gmail.com):
>
> > From my own experience, if you replace a network card, udev will
> > automagically name it /dev/eth +1 so eth0 becomes eth1. I'm using
> > eth1 right now. Bugs the hell out of me but th
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 01:39:48PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Thursday 27 August 2015 19:01:32 Chris Bannister wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 11:58:03PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> > > Le nonidi 9 fructidor, an CCXXIII, Renaud OLGIATI a écrit :
> > > > An
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 11:58:03PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> Le nonidi 9 fructidor, an CCXXIII, Renaud OLGIATI a écrit :
> > An added advantage is that on the day you replace your Ethernet NIC
> > because it was fried by lightning, and put a new one in its stead, your
> > network config will
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 12:06:24AM +0200, Christian Seiler wrote:
>
> I remember that 14 years ago a certain CEO called Linux a cancer - and
> that the free software community was up in arms about his comment,
> justifiably so.
It wasn't the CEO of Microsoft was it? If so he reckon he had a dammn
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 01:23:25PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 08/26/2015 11:26 AM, Hans wrote:
>
> >If you think the way "it is testing or unstable, who cares...", then the
> >result will be a bad "stable". Is it that what you want? Don't think so.
>
> What you do is google your butt off, first
On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 05:20:27PM -0500, T. J. Duchene wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 11:59:13 +0200
> Hans wrote:
>
> >
> > Yes, I admit, we are at the moment in an unlucky situation, and I
> > admit, I have no solution for it. For the users I only can give the
> > advice:
> >
> > Do not update
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 01:09:19PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 11:53:09PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> >
> > Please don't top post on this mailing list.
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 06:04:03AM -0500, Hal Wigoda wrote:
> > >
On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 07:24:27PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Sun 23 Aug 2015 at 05:50:46 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 02:24:07PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > > Quoting Chris Bannister (cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz):
> > > > On Wed,
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 02:24:07PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Chris Bannister (cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz):
> > On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 09:34:23AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 19 August 2015 06:23:07 to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > > > I'm
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 05:39:03PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Thu 20 Aug 2015 at 16:25:20 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>
> > On Thursday 20 August 2015 15:30:04 Chris Bannister wrote:
> > > To be fair, there are some Debian.readme which make no sense to an end
> > > user
Please don't top post on this mailing list.
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 06:04:03AM -0500, Hal Wigoda wrote:
> I wouldn't outfit a computer with blu-ray
>
> (Sent from iPhone, so please accept my apologies in advance for any spelling
> or grammatical errors.)
Is the iPhone really that bad? Is proof
On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 09:34:23AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 August 2015 06:23:07 to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > I'm sitting here at Debconf [3], among literally hundreds of Debian
> > developers, all of them working hard (many of them in their free
> > time)
>
> I thought all of the
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 04:18:32PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> Le primidi 1er fructidor, an CCXXIII, Ric Moore a écrit :
> > Pulse generally is a pussycat. It sits on top of alsa and if alsa is broken,
> > pulse is broken.
>
> On the other hand, there are situations where ALSA works perfectly a
On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 09:27:46PM +0100, Joe wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Aug 2015 07:54:19 +1200
> Chris Bannister wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 11:32:37PM +0100, Joe wrote:
> > > A nation of supermarket-keepers.
> >
> > Why does there seem to be preocup
On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 01:48:15PM +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-08-15 at 11:59 +0200, B. M. wrote:
> > - I have no control over the router (firmware updates? security
> > fixes? I assume it's
> > "really cheap" ...)
>
> I would start right there. If you can't get firmware updates,
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