Re: Printer brand recommendations

2013-09-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 11:56:23PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: Maybe I'll try a color laser, though Consumer Reports says they don't have good print quality for photos. Maybe a: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dye-sublimation_printer :) Also, I think the paper quality is an issue for photo quality

Re: building from source for different arch

2013-09-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 06:30:41PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 11:20:34PM +0200, Lucio Crusca wrote: I'm trying to build opus package from source for both amd64 and i386, after having applied the patch by Pino Toscano I've found here: You might want to have a look

Re: Security?

2013-09-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 12:20:44PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: There is one ultimate reality, and it knows all the prime factors of all the keys. If your god is not that ultimate reality, get a better God. Please, let's not go down that track. Let's keep the discussion based on rationality and

Re: Reg: gcc option for printing large number (large double)

2013-09-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 08:21:43AM +0100, Dom wrote: It does have a manpage: http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=float.h root@tal:~# apt-cache show manpages-dev but perhaps you don't have it installed. I certainly don't. root@tal:~# apt-cache policy manpages-dev -- If you're

Re: Printer brand recommendations

2013-09-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 03:16:31PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: On 09/09/13 14:42, ken wrote: I've used Epson with success, but won't another one. The cost of the cartridges is so high, it's like I'm buying the printer over and over again every year. HP cartridges are also very expensive

Re: How many packages in Sid

2013-09-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 10:52:48PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 22:16 +0200, sp113438 wrote: How do I find out the number of packages currently in Sid? This doesn't give any information about the quantity of software available from upstream, Which is not what the OP

Re: How many packages in Sid

2013-09-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 10:06:46PM +0100, Brian wrote: On Thu 05 Sep 2013 at 22:16:39 +0200, sp113438 wrote: How do I find out the number of packages currently in Sid? Google did not help me. An example: wget ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz

Re: Re: Cannot view all my android folders in nautilus after mounting android as MTP

2013-09-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 04:04:37PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: Tried gmtp, it wont seem to work. I think I need to do some tweaks on my mobile side, maybe need to root it and install some files. (saying this after reading some posts on the nexus threads on xda-developers) I've just had a play

Re: Cannot view all my android folders in nautilus after mounting android as MTP

2013-09-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 06:35:57PM +0200, Siard wrote: Anubhav Yadav: Chris Bannister: Can't you just treat it as a normal USB stick? e.g. Plug it in select connect to PC on phone. then # mount /dev/sdb /mnt (get some error msgs) It gives me this no medium found

Re: tri-boot debian, debian-without-dm, and windows with newer debian using partitions from older debian?

2013-09-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 12:23:11AM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: On Wed, 2013-09-04 at 19:33 +0100, Brian wrote: Possibly. But why bother? Debian may be a Good Thing - but why do you need more than one installation? If you do, why not just do it? One for using an OS as a normal user (the

Re: tri-boot debian, debian-without-dm, and windows with newer debian using partitions from older debian?

2013-09-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 11:43:41AM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 10:17:31PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: You can still use the command line AND have a GUI installed. How are you going to view a graphic without a GUI? # apt-get install caca-utils $ cacaview lena.jpg

Re: itunes under debian

2013-09-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 05:45:14PM -0500, Conrad Nelson wrote: MTP is a terrific protocol, but one thing I wish MTP-ready devices would still use is USB Mass Storage. It's not glamorous or fancy, or necessarily fast, but one thing it *is* is universal. Not all operating systems or programs

Re: What has happened to proof reading? (was ... Re: root user)

2013-09-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 03:45:49PM -0400, William Hopkins wrote: A top poster is surely not one to talk about grammar :P What's worse a top poster who doesn't trim or a bottom poster who doesn't trim? -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being

Re: NFS in schroot/sbuild

2013-09-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 02:42:44PM +0200, Khaled Blah wrote: Hi all, I'd like to mount an NFS mount point into a schroot session. I understand I need to edit /etc/schroot/sbuild/fstab on the host to do so but all my attempts so far failed. Does anyone here know how it can be done?

Re: Re: Cannot view all my android folders in nautilus after mounting android as MTP

2013-09-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 08:38:18PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: As above or as before? As before. Yes I saw the thread! In that case I'm stumped. Sorry I can't help you any further. -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and

Re: What has happened to proof reading? (was ... Re: root user)

2013-09-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 09:53:25AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 21:27 +0200, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 05:40:22AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 11:05:12PM +0700, st wrote: Edit /etc/aliases to add a line saying

Re: Cannot view all my android folders in nautilus after mounting android as MTP

2013-09-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 10:07:58AM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 04:23:08AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: Did you select connect storage to PC on phone like I said? (That has to be successful before trying anything else!) You have to enable USB debugging on the phone

Re: Cannot view all my android folders in nautilus after mounting android as MTP

2013-09-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 09:34:50AM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: On Mon, 2013-09-02 at 04:23 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 03:39:39PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: Can't you just treat it as a normal USB stick? e.g. Plug it in select connect to PC

Re: How to get rid of an entry in grub?

2013-09-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 02:39:09PM -0700, David Guntner wrote: Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Sat 31 Aug 2013 at 11:28:53 -0700, David Guntner wrote: Well, I guess that's the default configuration. *I* didn't tell it anything. :-) Remember, I started this with, I've used lilo

Re: Cannot view all my android folders in nautilus after mounting android as MTP

2013-09-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 03:39:39PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: Can't you just treat it as a normal USB stick? e.g. Plug it in select connect to PC on phone. then # mount /dev/sdb /mnt (get some error msgs) It gives me this no medium found on /dev/sdb Did you select connect

Re: Does linux-image-3.10-2-amd64 package must have kernel-headers on SID?

2013-09-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 08:39:45AM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz writes: Is linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 not working for you? IOW, why the need/urge to upgrade to the latest kernel? Why not? That is not an answer, but another question

What has happened to proof reading? (was ... Re: root user)

2013-09-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 11:05:12PM +0700, st wrote: Edit /etc/aliases to add a line saying, root: youraddr...@of.choi.ce and run the newaliaces command. Hey, c'mon guys! Can you please check what you type BEFORE hitting send. -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you

Re: Packaging ELOG for Debian

2013-08-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 01:21:40PM +0200, Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote: Hi. I'd like to package ELOG for the new Debian. I'm a complete beginner in this matter, but I spent some time configuring it for my desktop. Could you help me do this (links to package maintainance, Elog tips, security,

Re: oh no something is definitly wrong adieu debian.

2013-08-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 05:58:09PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: I wonder, maybe that mr update can be integrated in deb system, so that the git repo would be check as if it was just a line in /etc/apt/sources.list ? That would be really awesome!

Re: Cannot view all my android folders in nautilus after mounting android as MTP

2013-08-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 09:40:46PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: Hello list, I am using an android phone running 4.0.4 ICS and when I connect my phone with USB( and select MTP as transfer protocol), it gets mounted on linux, but I am able to view very few folders. There are many folders in

Re: How to get rid of an entry in grub?

2013-08-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 07:58:39PM -0700, David Guntner wrote: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1 bs=512 count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 512 bytes (512 B) copied, 0.000983331 s, 521 kB/s # update-grub Generating grub.cfg ... Found background image:

Re: Does linux-image-3.10-2-amd64 package must have kernel-headers on SID?

2013-08-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 10:40:24AM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: Hi, on my Debian GNU/Linux SID when I install the linux-image-3.10-2-amd64 package it complains for kernel headers, it can not find. kernel headers? or do you mean linux-headers? There is:

Re: oh no something is definitly wrong adieu debian.

2013-08-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 07:18:57PM +0100, Joe wrote: On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 21:04:40 +1200 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: Hint: unstable does not mean buggy. In theory. And in practice. All software has bugs, and hopefully most of the showstoppers are caught before

Re: apt-get upgrade problem with libenchant1c2a

2013-08-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 02:34:42PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Sharon Kimble wrote: Hugo. Please adjust you're posting style as it is impossible to read what you're saying as its indistinguishable from the rest of the conversation. It just appears that you're signing the email without any

Re: Wireless works, wired doesn't [Debian 6.0.7]

2013-08-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:58:18PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: Yes, NM likes to do its own configuring and is apt to clash with anything in /etc/network/interfaces. Mmmm, apt-to-clash (-bash: apt-to-clash: command not found) :) -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the

Re: dhcpd runs as root

2013-08-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 09:25:31AM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: The problem with changing upstream code is it is not a one-shot deal. Changes must be investigated and applied every time a new version comes out, which means someone has to keep track of the changes which were done, and see how

Re: oh no something is definitly wrong adieu debian.

2013-08-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 01:29:58PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I explained that you can't do that, if you experience a dependency hell or an unstable environment. To contribute that way users and developers need stable up-to-date releases of software + sometimes newer releases than the

Re: oh no something is definitely wrong adieu debian.

2013-08-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 11:09:48AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Wow, thank you for the link. Than Ubuntu in the future will cause much more issues, when you talk to upstream, than they already do by their Ubuntu and Debian disgusting policy

Re: oh no something is definitely wrong adieu debian.

2013-08-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 06:18:58PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2013-08-28 at 11:46 -0400, Tom H wrote: I use Ubuntu :) then you likely will run into the same issue like me and better pretend that you don not use the best distro for your needs, since Debian is the best distro for

Re: Goran Gligoric RPM

2013-08-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 07:51:21PM -0400, Doug wrote: However: a program called alien (I don't know if that is available on Debian, or that's something else you have to go round the corner to get) is supposed to make RPMs available to deb systems, and vice versa. What is wrong with root@tal:~#

Re: scanner claimed by usbfs

2013-08-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 12:40:36PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: I was briefly able to use my scanner, but while the scanner application (Skanlite) was running it became inaccessible. About that time the logs show Aug 24 11:46:03 tempserver kernel: [6950936.545558] usb 3-1.2: usbfs: interface 0

Re: with DHCP, forcing a DNS address at your local computer?

2013-08-25 Thread Chris Bannister
Sorry about the nitpicking, but really! are you trying to confuse the OP or help him/her? On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 09:07:38PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: If you want to get changed it by DHCP, install the package resolveconf, then Really? root@tal:~# apt-cache search resolveconf

udevadm 'trigger' vs 'control --reload-rules' (was ... Re: scanner claimed by usbfs)

2013-08-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 10:11:32AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: Perhaps you or someone else could explain to me the difference between udevadm trigger and udevadm control --reload-rules and the circumstances under which each is appropriate? Didn't know about 'udevadm control --reload-rules',

Re: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 05:10:05PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: I have the misfortune of never having learned Latin. If you've ever seen the graffiti scene in 'The Life of Brian' then you may use a word other than misfortune. :) -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the

Re: deb-multimedia repository

2013-08-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 12:13:44PM +0200, François Patte wrote: Bonjour, I tried to install libdvdcss2 from this repository and followed a tuto explaining that: 1- install deb-multimedia-keyring this package was not found seems to be correct because the sources-list file should be

Re: Wheezy installer problem

2013-08-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 01:25:08PM -0700, holtzm wrote: On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 02:34:40PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 05:47:32PM -0700, holtzm wrote: The problem was a bad cd. Another installed w/ no problem. We don't need no stickin' checksum. No sir. Not us

Re: A strange new phenomena

2013-08-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 03:18:22PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Yes. The only sliver was upgrade to sid, ... Ouch! That's bad advice, the point of no return. or the latest xorg-driver Apparently it was working at some stage and it was an UPGRADE which CAUSED the OP's problem? So upgrading

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 09:25:23PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2013-08-18 at 03:12 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: johndoe sounds like a great name for an admin account. There's a Debian BSD port ;), so how about Charlie Root? [snip] too long, didn't read IOW, tl;dr -- If you're not

Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

2013-08-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 10:54:56AM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: root@Innovator:~# apt-key update gpg: key B98321F9: Squeeze Stable Release Key debian-rele...@lists.debian.org not changed gpg: key 473041FA: Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (6.0/squeeze) ftpmas...@debian.org not changed

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 12:17:46PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2013-08-18 at 21:33 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 09:25:23PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: [snip] too long, didn't read IOW, tl;dr In my opinion it won't add more sane security

Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

2013-08-18 Thread Chris Bannister
Having trouble sending some mail -- trying again. Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 23:26:00 +1200 From: Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 04:31

Re: Email Issues (was: Installing mysqldump)

2013-08-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 01:49:32AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2013-08-13 at 17:14 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: I don't know how well the box drawing characters will come through Perfectly here :). 5496 r Aug09 Ethan Rosenberg (1.2K) Installing mysqldump 5497Aug09 Gary

Re: Quoting Style

2013-08-16 Thread Chris Bannister
Subject adjusted to be more meaningfull. On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:35:07PM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear List - I appreciate your CONSTRUCTIVE criticism. I surely do not wish to have my posts unanswered. Introduction - Industrial standard I think is, top quoting and styled

Re: Wheezy installer problem

2013-08-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 08:02:57AM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: After installing Wheezy 7.0 twice on different machines w/ no problems I can't get 7.1 to install in manual mode on my amd64 laptop. Um, OK Anyone else see this problem? I *seem* to remember an upgrade to the

Re: UPS monitoring with nut

2013-08-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 01:15:51PM +0930, Ash Narayanan wrote: I can't seem to find any up to date guides. Are there any? Or is one allowed to upload a package to Debian without any instructions on how to use it? Unfortunately, yes. OTOH, if you installed a chess playing program, would you

Re: Using Thunderbird to reply to a mailing list Was Re: Quoting Style

2013-08-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 05:35:40PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: I need to apologise to the list. I was trying to alter my usual method of replying to the list to one that still worked properly, I thought. Clearly it didn't and I have broken the thread. So I shall resend the original of this

Re: Wheezy installer problem

2013-08-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 05:47:32PM -0700, holtzm wrote: The problem was a bad cd. Another installed w/ no problem. We don't need no stickin' checksum. No sir. Not us. uh, uhright! Isn't it ... need no stinkin' checksum. or am I witnessing etymology/evolution in action. :( -- If you're

Re: RFE: moving networking out of the kernel and into to user land ...

2013-08-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 07:14:32AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Chris Bannister writes: Since I expect that anything that affects the kernel itself is going to be handled by the Linux kernel developers, you might want to post the above questions on the linux-kernel mailing list

Re: RFE: moving networking out of the kernel and into to user land ...

2013-08-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:48:01AM -0700, David Guntner wrote: I don't think that the Debian *USER* mailing list is necessarily the best place to discuss/debate the above stuff. :-) Since I expect that anything that affects the kernel itself is going to be handled by the Linux kernel

Re: Problems installing wheezy

2013-08-11 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please don't top post on this list, see: http://catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html] On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 07:00:37AM +, Anubhav Yadav wrote: Thanks a lot, I read the documentation and mistook the word mounted for unmounted. I will be more careful next time. One question though,

Re: icedove configuration problem

2013-08-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 11:22:09AM +0200, François Patte wrote: What shall I do? Change my email address? Use mutt? If you like mutt, why would you use anything else? :) -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people

Re: How to apply patch?

2013-08-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 03:48:46PM +0200, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: Hi, I've found it - http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/raring/gnomeradio/raring/view/head:/debian/patches/gnomeradio-device.patch And I wish to apply on my system. What is output of root@tal:~# apt-cache

Re: Oops!

2013-08-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 06:56:56PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: Nothing to do with subject Could you please provide a meaningful subject relating to your post. -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing

How to recover after unintentional 'dpkg --unpack' ? (was ... Re: Dpkg SNAFU was Re: Oops!)

2013-08-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 06:13:20PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: Changing subject as suggested by Chris, and reposting original question. - Still an unhelpful question, esp when one knows the true meaning of SNAFU have

Re: Php5 question

2013-08-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 06:49:43PM -0500, John W. Foster wrote: on the remote servers that I work with. Any way to get rid of this error PHP Deprecated: Comments starting with '#' are deprecated in /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/ming.ini on line 1 in Unknown on line 0 JFTR, that is not an error!

Re: wheezy upgrade - no sound

2013-08-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 10:22:12AM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 05:36:19PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: Got new speakers - no go. Installed pavucontrol as per https://support.mayfirst.org/wiki/faq/pulse-debug - I can hear clicks when I enable/disable the device

Re: No Desktop - Anyone else??

2013-08-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 12:31:01AM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Anyone else want to chime in? Yeah! Please don't top post. Please trim out unnecessary content. Also, I think you'd get better help if you upgraded your mail client. It is not easy to differentiate your response from the

Re: Wheezy upgrade - php5-suhosin missing?

2013-08-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 06:03:13PM -0700, David Guntner wrote: I've just finally gotten to upgrading from squeeze to wheezy (and am still doing the cleanup of various kinks, etc.), and it would appear that php5-suhosin has gone missing. A package you might want to install is apt-listchanges.

Re: Reg: Mysql used instead of MariaDB

2013-08-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 10:44:16AM +0530, Balamurugan wrote: Dear Team, I am a highly admired fan of free software movement and its philosophy. I am having a doubt in Debian 7.1 stable release about MySQL addition. Since MariaDB has become the open source replacement for MySQL, why was

Re: Icedove no longer allows transfer of emails between folders

2013-08-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 04:21:28AM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: What would cause an Icedove function suddenly no longer to respond after having working properly since installation of the Icedove package? Has there been any recent updates/upgrades? -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have

Re: Icedove no longer allows transfer of emails between folders

2013-08-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 11:04:27AM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: On 2013-08-04 07:24, Chris Bannister wrote: Has there been any recent updates/upgrades? No there haven't been. ... Oh? The only package changes which took place immediately before the reported problem appeared were

Re: no xorg

2013-07-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 07:12:54PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Tue, 30 Jul 2013, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 08:19:49AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: Just remember when updating to use dist-upgrade instead of regular upgrade to have the most current files installed

Re: Continuous brute force attempt from own server !!! (OT question)

2013-07-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 08:49:35AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: And I find myself puzzling over whether re-cycling a password by running it through an encryption device and using the encryption result as the new password is better or worse than using a random password generator. Obviously,

Re: Problems with installing HP LaserJet M1005 usb printer on debian clients on a network

2013-07-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 02:16:30AM +0530, Arvind wrote: ps: Wonder if it is appropriate to add the status [Solved] to the Yes, that is the best procedure. subject line - would be helpful for someone searching online and for subscribers using mutt etc., but would break the thread in web

Re: Blank Screen Asus Zenbook UX32A-DB31

2013-07-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 07:59:51PM -0500, Justin Phelps wrote: Debian Stable (7.1) Asus Zenbook UX32A-DB31 DVD Install with Gnome or XFCE Install works fine, setups up UEFI, full disk encryption. The whole nine yards. Boot to the system after installation, and the boot process shows Whole

Re: package recommendation for grammar checker

2013-07-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 10:50:28PM +0800, lina wrote: I tried two online, both are not correct at all. I am very clumsy about grammar, so difficulty for me. ^^ difficult :) English is not an easy language.

Re: Continuous brute force attempt from own server !!! (OT question)

2013-07-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 09:16:50PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Switching to a new one and disposing of the older one is, for whatever reason, usually called rotating the keys. Probably because of perceived similarities to rotating

Re: Continuous brute force attempt from own server !!! (OT question)

2013-07-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 11:26:17PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: Do you mean actually recycled? Or are you thinking of one-time pads? Not really. Umm, what about: http://www.logicalsecurity.com/resources/whitepapers/Cryptography.pdf ... We'll cite two kinds of rotation ciphering machines: the

Re: no xorg

2013-07-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 08:19:49AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Mon, 29 Jul 2013, sp113438 wrote: Anyway, it's too late to check out myself since I installed Sid ;) Just remember when updating to use dist-upgrade instead of regular upgrade to have the most current files installed instead

Re: root.root and netdev group for /dev/net/tun ?

2013-07-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 10:28:01AM +0200, Erwan David wrote: I think that what is found in /etc/udev/rules predates /lib/udev/rules, thus just putting the modified line in a file in this directory should

Re: GnomeControlCenter - Funny stuff

2013-07-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 03:11:59PM +0100, Klaus wrote: On 26/07/13 14:36, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 25 July 2013 22:05:18 Jean-Marc wrote: Click on it and wait 5 seconds. Thank's for sharing this experience of what you will see with me. Can you not give an idea of what it is, having

Re: Debian Testing VMWare-Tools Bad Variable Name

2013-07-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 09:31:34AM -0500, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: This is a long shot but for some reason I was reminded of having trouble with a non-debian script a few months ago, that also asked to be run by /bin/sh (as your attachment did). At the time, on my wheezy system (while it was

Re: Wheezy cdrom dvd tray opens randomly

2013-07-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 05:21:46PM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: Hi -- On a fresh wheezy install, the cdrom dvd tray opens randomly. The same computer ran Lenny and Squeeze without ever having this issue. So I'm sure it's not hardware. There are no clues in the logs. Some days the tray opens

Re: wheezy keyboard shortcuts w/ lxde

2013-07-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 09:33:06PM +1000, David wrote: The file is ~/.config/openbox/lxde-rc.xml Make a backup copy of it first in case something goes wrong. Open it up in a text editor, try some sensible changes based on the example of the existing contents and the reference information, and

Re: *Another* Backup software question...

2013-07-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 09:27:51PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2013-07-13 at 12:18 -0600, Glenn English wrote: On Jul 13, 2013, at 3:08 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I'm interested in experiences of others. In my experience CDs and DVDs more likely will fail, than HDDs do. My 10

Re: What's with the blue overlining in text consoles?

2013-07-16 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please don't top post on this mailing list] On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 05:10:18PM +0200, commandline wrote: Never heard of something similar to start with. Few guesses. * Terminal Emulation ? Check what happens if you switch from say xterm to linux to vt100 to ... Stephen did say when

Re: audio packages not authenticated?

2013-07-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 10:58:11AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: FWIW, after installing several different mixer/controller widgets, I finally found one that allowed me to un-mute the output. (Top-post seems most appropriate to me here, since my solution doesn't seem to fit naturally into the flow

Re: nvidia module

2013-07-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 10:13:01AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2013-07-10 at 14:58 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 05:03:40PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: From the package description of dkms (Dynamic Kernel Module Support Framework); Then why isn't it dkmsf

Re: nvidia module

2013-07-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 05:03:40PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: From the package description of dkms (Dynamic Kernel Module Support Framework); Then why isn't it dkmsf? -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are

Re: Dotfiles

2013-07-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 01:08:05AM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Tue, 02 Jul 2013 16:06:17 -0500, Yaro Yaro wrote: Package managers don't track .dotfiles. No, they don't. That, of course, is part of the problem. Ummm, no it isn't. It is a serious bug if any package interferes with files

Re: why i can not burn cd ?

2013-07-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 05:43:18PM +0800, pengsir wrote: when i insert a blank cd to burn iso file into it ,i get the message (please the attachment) how can i solve it? What Desktop are you using? One way to solve it is to use wodim as root on the command line e.g.: root@tal:~# wodim -v

Re: why i can not burn cd ?

2013-07-01 Thread Chris Bannister
Please keep it on list. my desktop is lxde ,here is output of the command root@debian:/home/debian# wodim dev=/dev/sr0 /home/debian/debian-7.1.0.iso wodim: No write mode specified. wodim: Assuming -tao mode. wodim: Future versions of wodim may have different drive dependent defaults. Error

Re: Shrunken Synaptic dialog window

2013-07-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 03:40:15PM -0500, chris dunn wrote: I upgraded from Wheezy to testing a couple of weeks or so ago. Ever since (or possibly before) when I open Synaptic for any purpose, and cause the terminal window to open in order to review the changes taking place, I get a shrunken

Re: Bitcoin donation

2013-06-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 09:56:04PM +0200, Laszlo Furesz wrote: To whom it may concern, Firstly, I would like to thank you for your work. I was wondering if you considered accepting Bitcoin donations? I would definitely donate some if you had a bitcoin address and I think many others

Re: Operation not permitted error when using su

2013-06-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 04:00:41PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: I have discovered a problem recently when using su to switch to a user other than root on a Gnome Terminal session. Let's say I login to the graphical desktop using a userid of fred. When I launch a Gnome Terminal session, I'm

Re: trouble formatting 3TB Seagate external HDrives. need help

2013-06-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:24:33PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: What I do for every new disk before I use it is an exhaustive read/write check with badblocks. It reads and writes every block multiple times with various bitpatterns and random bitpatterns, and check that they can be read

Re: Separate partitions for filesystems (was Re: computer rendered un-usable)

2013-06-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 06:49:57PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 18:09 +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: David Guntner: As you can see, I'm a BIG believer in separation of filesystems. grin Judging from your usage of df -k (instead of -g or -h) and the number of

Re: wacky question

2013-06-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 08:08:11PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: And we tend to get caught up in the wrong battles and find ourselves converted to their world. And conflate the government's stupidities with God's intent for us to learn hard lessons. Oh, please! Don't go there. Please read:

Re: counter-PRISM PRISM - Re: wacky question

2013-06-25 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please don't top post on this list.] On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 08:05:04PM -0400, låzaro wrote: Make yourself this question: I'm s important? The CIA is looking for me? There have not another way for waste CIA's time and money than look for me; a Mr. Nobody?

Re: computer rendered un-usable

2013-06-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 07:46:11AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2013-06-22 at 22:56 -0400, Doug wrote: / and /home and /swap. It usually makes no sense to have it on separated partitions. Not sure what you mean here, but having /home on a separate partition makes a lot of sense. And

CD's play on commandline but not in GNOME (was ... Re: Problems with CD insertion - sid)

2013-06-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 11:18:04AM +0200, Oliver Elphick wrote: On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 22:31 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: ...I'd try installing cdtool, and see if it plays with that. Yes, it does. Ah! OK. It seems as though the problem lies with GNOME. I'm sorry, but I don't use GNOME

Re: wacky question

2013-06-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 05:07:01PM -0400, Greg wrote: Harmless data like what religious group you descend from? Something that is considered innocuous today might be considered differently at a later time by a less tolerant government. I think most of this should be dropped or moved

Re: Problems with CD insertion - sid

2013-06-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 03:56:12PM +0200, Oliver Elphick wrote: First, I was wrong about it's not mounting the data CD. I was looking in the wrong place. So it is only about audio CDs. As far as I am aware, you don't mount audio CD's. As far as I can see, then, the problem is further on in

Re: /dev/dsp missing in Wheezy

2013-06-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:49:03AM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:16:15 -0400 amber gilchrist wrote: I want to throw out another problem I am having in this Wheezy upgrade: sound! I used to use ALSA with Squeeze, no problems. After the upgrade, I am able to get sound in

Re: wacky question

2013-06-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 12:56:46PM +0800, lina wrote: On Thursday 20,June,2013 10:44 AM, Greg wrote: Does anyone think that debian could participate in any programs like PRISM? Or could a lone (or group of) sympathetic DD or DM slip a backdoor or something that could collect private info in

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