Re: Iceweasel/FF makes the embedded videos going 4 times faster when it bugs!

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, 09 May 2010 19:33:16 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón writes: Check if you already have the Adobe flash player version installed in your system. Sure, and even the non-free one, that I

OOwriter always hangs, and then quits unexpectedly when images are copied (copy/paste) from a website

, but as the selection in Iceweasel/FF needs to be `continuous,' they need to be included in my selection if I want to take a bunch of text into OOwriter, and then remove the images from the copied stuff. Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP

Re: OOwriter always hangs, and then quits unexpectedly when images are copied (copy/paste) from a website

/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-liberation/LiberationSerif-Bold.ttf == Directly, OOwriter is closed. That is not the error I get habitually, but this is not better. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your

Re: Is Firefox/Iceweasel leaking?

Iceweasel/Iceape. Thanks. But you specified that when dealing with tabs containing large pages, the browser does not behave as if they were containing light pages, didn't you? That's the problem. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP

Re: Simple tool to extract sound from video?

Phil Requirements wrote: On 2010-05-07 23:52:47 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/07/2010 09:48 PM, Phil Requirements wrote: On 2010-05-07 18:19:44 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Rob Owens wrote: Avidemux can do it also. It's a GUI, but I think it's more

Re: Is Firefox/Iceweasel leaking?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Girish Kulkarni gir...@athene.org.in writes: On Fri, 07 May 2010 19:58:26 +0200 Merciadri Luca wrote: I noticed on many computers with Debian, whatever the kernel (2.6.xx, xx = 26), that, once ``too much'' tabs have been opened, Firefox/Iceweasel

Copy/Paste .ps/.pdf often gives a `snippets' icon

' icon disappears. Why? Is it normal? I do not like copying and pasting files and seeing such an icon, because one might think that these are corrupted files. Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem

Re: Copy/Paste .ps/.pdf often gives a `snippets' icon

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, 08 May 2010 16:09:14 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: When copying and pasting a .ps or a .pdf file, or a serie of such files, the resulting (i.e. pasted) files' icon is often the `snippets' one, i.e

pdftk or related: how to make a bookmark for every inserted PDF?

this? It should be possible, and not too difficult, but I never found any indication in the man pages of pdftk. Thanks. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. (Jonathan Swift) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: Hptalx is buggy once calculator is plugged and linked

. Such a (trivial, as habitual) case should have been handled by the developers, shouldn't it? - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- Only those who keep trying eventually win. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed

Re: help for a new user

/archive/index.php/t-858032.html * http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=29791 * http://www.greenhughes.com/content/huawei-e169g-easy-way * http://www.dbe.cc/?p=36 * http://www.debianhelp.org/node/14439 ? but I hope someone helps me. Sure. -- Merciadri Luca See http

Re: pdftk or related: how to make a bookmark for every inserted PDF?

. I think you meant `pdftk' at the place of `pdfkt'. ¹ http://flavianopetrocchi.blogspot.com Thanks for this link. I'll check it. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that's all. (Oscar

Simple tool to extract sound from video?

+ sound), or simply creates some corrupted file. Thanks all. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

How can I find the port which my HP 50g is connected to?

I do? Note that the HP is connected to an 8-port USB adapter, which is then connected to the front-adapter of my PC. Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. Men

Re: Simple tool to extract sound from video?

Thanks. Is the bitrate automatically selected depending on the video's audio, or is it arbitrarily set as 64 k? I get many == invalid new backstep 695 invalid new backstep 696 == but with quite same numbers. Normal? Anand Sivaram wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 21:19, Merciadri Luca luca.mercia

Re: Simple tool to extract sound from video?

Anand Sivaram wrote: You could use -ab bitrate to set the audio bitrate Sure. It works like great. However, the command line (if any) to encode in mp3 looks less obvious to remember. But .mp2 is not as good as .mp3, at least for bitrates in [0, 256], is it? -- Merciadri Luca See http

Re: Simple tool to extract sound from video?

Rob Owens wrote: Avidemux can do it also. It's a GUI, but I think it's more straightforward to do it with ffmpeg, as suggested above Thanks. ffmpeg does actually, exactly what I want. Thanks. (For such things, people habitually ask for a mere commandline use, at least me.) -- Merciadri Luca

Re: Simple tool to extract sound from video?

Anand Sivaram wrote: I am not sure your particular version of ffmpeg has got mp3 supports Look at ffmpeg -formats. It contains both container and codec formats information, where 'D' means decode, 'E' means encode. Thanks for this pointer. -- Merciadri Luca See http

Re: How can I find the port which my HP 50g is connected to?

My emacs seems to be buggy. Here is the answer with Thunderbird: == From: Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be Subject: Re: How can I find the port which my HP 50g is connected to? Newsgroups: linux.debian.user Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 18:30:39 +0200 Organization: ULg [[PGP Signed

Re: How can I find the port which my HP 50g is connected to?

. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- Live as if you were to die tomorrow; learn as if you were to live forever. (Mahatma Gandhi) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 http

Hptalx is buggy once calculator is plugged and linked

client sending inaccurate timestamps in messages such as _NET_A -- == Any idea? Has somebody already experienced this? Thanks folks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility

Re: Hptalx is buggy once calculator is plugged and linked

I might add that it now never starts normally: the bug-buddy tool directly appears at every startup, ending the process. (Sorry for the second msg.) Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, Now that I know that my calculator is connected through ttyusb0, I have configured HpTalx. Nice, I clicked `Save

Re: Hptalx is buggy once calculator is plugged and linked

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, 07 May 2010 18:40:46 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Now that I know that my calculator is connected through ttyusb0, I have configured HpTalx. Nice, I clicked `Save' and it directly bugged (I had the bug

Is Firefox/Iceweasel leaking?

and more RAM, even when all the pages are completely loaded. Why? Am I the only person who's experiencing this? Is there an objective explanation to this? -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client

Re: Angström manual

to this. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. Little things affect little minds. (Benjamin Disraeli) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Hptalx is buggy once calculator is plugged and linked

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, 07 May 2010 19:36:36 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón writes: Just a wild guess, but try to launch the application as root user. Maybe it's a device permissions issue :-? I had thought about

Current through USB bus

Hi, How can I know how much current goes through each USB port for its related device(s)? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc Description

Aliases with `-'

, which is no good sign. Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. (F. W. Robertson

Re: Current through USB bus

Thanks for all your answers about the current through USB bus. That answered (to) my question. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc Description

Re: Aliases with `-'

. if you edit a Makefile, it knows that it's a Makefile). Thanks again. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. Bad news travels fast. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: Aliases with `-'

Sven Joachim wrote: Syntax highlighting in Emacs' shell-script-mode leaves much to be desired, so this is not really a bad sign. Does it work if you leave out the apostrophes? It worked anyway. But emacs confused me. Sorry! -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be

Re: [OT] Home UPS (was Filesystem recommendations)

, and it is not an interesting thing for both your hardware and what you are currently working on. With the other computer which gave up the gost, I also lost some part of a report I was working for. No doubt I was angry. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP

Re: [OT] Home UPS (was Filesystem recommendations)

. But scanners do. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: USB key accepts data only as root

David Kinyua wrote: Thank you for this Camaleón, I was just about to ask a similar question. On 4/26/2010 7:33 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:16:31 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: To put data on my USB key, I need to be root. This does not sound normal. How can I tweak

Re: URL

Renaud Chrétien wrote: Et voilà ! Beau dessin hein (j'ai trouvé le code tikz sur internet, il n'y avait plus qu'a adapter ^^) :p Merci. Looks kinda nice! Je regarde ça bientôt. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility

Re: URL

Sorry for my precedent e-mail. Mishandling with my e-mail client. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: USB key accepts data only as root

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com writes: On Sunday 25 April 2010 21:06:14 Merciadri Luca wrote: Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net writes: On 04/25/2010 02:47 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Not enough information. Sorry

Re: Replies to the list

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:04:16 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón writes: Does anyone here have to reply to my posts in the same manner? :-? Actually, I have two choices to read your answers. Either I use

Re: Replies to the list

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick Douma n.do...@nekoconeko.nl writes: On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 10:04:16PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 13:56:07 +0200, Nick Douma wrote: On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:47:50AM +

ldconfig: /usr/lib/libwins.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start

Hi, When upgrading with apt-get, I sometimes encounter == ldconfig: /usr/lib/libwins.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start == How can I solve this problem? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP

Re: ldconfig: /usr/lib/libwins.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start

.' :-( -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Replies to the list

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:11:57 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón writes: I use Gmane (e-mail to news gateway) to send posts and read the list via Pan newsreader. From time to time Gmane have had some

Re: ldconfig: /usr/lib/libwins.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start

Camaleón wrote: Did you try file /usr/lib/libwins.so to see the file type? It gives `/usr/lib/libwins.so: data'. P.S.: This time, your message was correctly received in my e-mail inbox. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP

Re: Just testing...

this. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Just testing...

Nick Douma wrote: Hi, On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 03:20:56PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: I did not receive your initial mail, only the reply from Merciadri. Normal, he did not send it to the mailing list, and I sent inadvertently my answer to the mailing list. Sorry. -- Merciadri Luca

Re: ldconfig: /usr/lib/libwins.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start

Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Camaleón schreef: On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:40:30 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: Did you try file /usr/lib/libwins.so to see the file type? It gives `/usr/lib/libwins.so: data'. Review your /var/log/apt/term.* files to find any hint about where

Re: USB key accept data only as root

any change or module load with security levels set high enough. It is more restrictive and more secure, but less fancy for dude behind the keyboard. Thanks, Zoran. But is it the default setting under Debian? -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP

Re: Sharing Iceweasel's bookmarks through LAN

Nick Douma wrote: On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 10:57:07PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: I would rather use X-Marks or something similar to share bookmarks between multiple workstations. It seems a bit more robust to me than just copying the file. I'll try it. Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca

Re: Kernel (de)bug information sent, even if there is no connection

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 22:57:27 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: This looks like kerneloops sends the oopses through a simple URL. Strange. It seems not to even ping a reference IP to see if the connexion is still

USB key accepts data only as root

Hi, To put data on my USB key, I need to be root. This does not sound normal. How can I tweak this? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc

Re: USB key accepts data only as root

| grep sde brw-rw 1 root floppy8, 64 2010-04-25 21:45 sde brw-rw 1 root floppy8, 65 2010-04-25 21:45 sde1 == -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me

Re: USB key accepts data only as root

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net writes: On 04/25/2010 02:47 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Not enough information. Sorry. Automounted from a DE, or manually from the CLI? Automounted, but the related folder is still

Re: Replies to the list

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 13:56:07 +0200, Nick Douma wrote: On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:47:50AM +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 13:26:33 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: P.S.: I never receive your answers

Kernel (de)bug information sent, even if there is no connection

info is marked as `sent' after having chosen a button which allows the reporting tool to send data over the Internet. Why? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me

Re: Kernel (de)bug information sent, even if there is no connection

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:44:46 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: When my Lenny (w. k. 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem) encounters a kernel error, a box pops, and I am asked if I want to report the (de)bug information. Yes

Sharing Iceweasel's bookmarks through LAN

Hi, I am using UNISON to share files between two computers in my LAN. I share my documents, etc., but I would like to share bookmarks too. However, I don't know if Iceweasel puts them in some place. Where could I reach them? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be

Re: Kernel (de)bug information sent, even if there is no connection

kerneloops.conf. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- Life is like a box of chocolate, you never know what you're gonna get. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 http

Re: Sharing Iceweasel's bookmarks through LAN

Nuno Magalhães wrote: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=linux+firefox+bookmark+file Sure it helps. Thanks. I habitually do it, but there, I thought there would not have been any result! -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

Jay Berkenbilt wrote: Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: You might use a password if you wanted to provide complete access for some people and no access for others. For someone who has the password, there is no real protection. I sent some financial documents

Re: Plagiarism (was Re: PDF is blocked for ...)

Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Johannes Wiedersich schreef: May I advertise arXiv for this purpose? http://arxiv.org/ arXiv is a nice website. I tried it, but there is already a repo for my university. Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Merciadri Luca wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Just use a grey-by-dotting watermark for black text, merge the layers and it will be rather difficult to remove the watermark. I did not merge the layers before sending it to them. Problematic? Difficult

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

of good ideas on this thread for managing that trade-off. Yes. Your relevant remark should conclude the thread. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. Procrastination

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-19 16:17, Merciadri Luca wrote: The problem is that Windows is a jailed, restricted, dumbed-down environment operated by so many clueless users. It's almost certain that there is the occasional Windows user (and with a user base approaching 10^9, occasional

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

Gunnar Wolf wrote: Merciadri Luca dijo [Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 05:32:51PM +0200]: Thing is, PDF is a printing-oriented format. It is a close descendent of PostScript, a full-fledged programming language, but geared towards printers. The main point that makes PDF a more convenient format

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

printed. Sure, but how? (For the next time, if any.) They need(ed) to read it, and it must be sufficiently `high-res.' Don't you trust somebody with social security numbers and salary information? Don't give it to them. No choice. I am not the supervisor of the course. -- Merciadri Luca See

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

Jay Berkenbilt wrote: Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: The PDF specification itself recommends using external encryption in this case. From section 7.6.1 of the PDF specification: NOTE: Conforming writers have two choices if the encryption methods and syntax

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Merciadri Luca wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Why would an honest soul ever allow information to be read, but not printed? To maintain honesty? An honest soul (i.e. me, here) has to send some data to some dishonest person. The problem is: either you

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

they can always sent .pdf to somebody and if they can read anybody else can. There is no protection, just legal consequences and sometimes you can't proof anything. As you say. That is the biggest problem in this kind of stuff. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

others. == I think that this discussion does not enter in the scope of Debian Users' list anymore. We shall then stop here to avoid too much O-T messages to be sent to the mailing list. Thanks everybody. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-20 06:58, Merciadri Luca wrote: [snip] In that case, he should be using Acroread, which means you have little to fear. Seems pretty typical to me... It might be pretty typical, but when considered at another scale than `my scale' (i.e. the comparison

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

Gunnar Wolf wrote: Merciadri Luca dijo [Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 02:00:13PM +0200]: Yet, you say in your previous reply they would be able to remove the watermark from the document. That is clearly more complicated. Sure, but I think that PDFs are composed `in layers,' aren't

Re: Plagiarism (was Re: PDF is blocked for ...)

Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-20 07:27, Merciadri Luca wrote: [snip] Haven't Academicians had this problem for centuries? How have the rest of them solved it in the past 30 years? Sure. I don't know precisely. In addition to a watermark, in both the header and footer I'd write something

Re: Plagiarism (was Re: PDF is blocked for ...)

Stephen Powell wrote: On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:13:01 -0400 (EDT), Merciadri Luca wrote: I haven't been following this thread. I just took a look at it today, primarily because there's been so much activity on it. So it's quite possible that I'm repeating sentiments that have been

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Merciadri Luca wrote: Gunnar Wolf wrote: Merciadri Luca dijo [Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 02:00:13PM +0200]: Yet, you say in your previous reply they would be able to remove the watermark from the document. That is clearly more complicated. Sure, but I

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

for a corporation. Thanks for this info. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-20 14:34, Merciadri Luca wrote: [snip] Yup. It regularly bites government agencies who faultily redact FOIA documents. Okay. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem

PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn't work, and you'll annoy the pig. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: Light automatically and randomly reduces some secs. after it has been set to its maximum level

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:33:32 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: As stated in the title, the light on my Asus EEE 1000HE automatically and randomly reduces some seconds after I have set it to its maximum level. Why

Re: Light automatically and randomly reduces some secs. after it has been set to its maximum level

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:33:32 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: As stated in the title, the light on my Asus EEE 1000HE automatically and randomly reduces some seconds after I have set it to its maximum level. Why

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

Neil Williams wrote: On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:31:30 +0200 Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: Anti-features like locking and password protection are not supported and, if implemented, could make the free software tools appear non-free by restricting the functionality

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

I Rattan wrote: On Mon, 19 Apr 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote: yes. Thanks. I assume that this is for the same reason as Mr. Williams pointed out. Are _all_ the free PDF viewers running under Debian in accordance with this principle? -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Pdf anti-features are fake security. Don't trust on them, never. And what do you suggest if one wants some real protection _and_ the benefits of a format like PDF? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

like PDF? Thanks. There is no real protection. Okay. Simple, but definitive. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: Light automatically and randomly reduces some secs. after it has been set to its maximum level

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:52:36 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón writes: Open GConf editor and navigate to /apps/gnome-power-manager/backlight/ idle_brightness. You can tweak many things from

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:31:30 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: I have written a PDF that I have blocked for printing, etc. Acrobat Reader won't print it, because of the restrictions defined on the PDF file's

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

Vincent Danjean wrote: On 19/04/2010 17:32, Merciadri Luca wrote: If you have free software (ie software you have the sources and are able to recompile) and if you can get the information on the screen, then it is only a matter of programmation to be able to have it on printer. So, free

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

before, please], I _had_ to do this, even if this is not the kind of things I like to do. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: Which kernel for ThinkPad 760XD ?

of humor and you like to make your (somewhat old) config appear less depressing to the others' eyes? -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. A half truth is a whole lie

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 15:52 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: At least Evince can be convinced to provide this feature, if you toggle /apps/evince/override_restrictions No problem. Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

principle, I totally agree with you. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

are sometimes useful. I do not say that such a situation couldn't be fixed by natural ways (i.e. speaking, etc.), but I say that when you need to act alone, and that time is running out, technical means sometimes deserve their interest. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

Elias Gabriel Amaral da Silva wrote: 2010/4/19 Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be: Or paper and pencil. That needs some determination. I know that for some cases this 'restriction through inconvenience' is sufficient in practice, but this should not be achievable

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

John Hasler wrote: Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Merciadri Luca writes: What do you mean by real protection? If they possess a copy that they can read they can print it. It should be obvious that there is nothing you can do to stop them. Not so obvious, simply because

Re: Which kernel for ThinkPad 760XD ?

Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Merciadri Luca wrote: Ionreflex wrote: [quote] Linux lol 2.4.27-3-586tsc #1 Tue Dec 5 22:06:26 UTC 2006 i586 GNU/Linux [/quote] What does `lol' mean here? I guess it's just the hostname of the computer in question. Special, but funny. Must be some French

Re: Which kernel for ThinkPad 760XD ?

Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 19:04 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: A very unique and inventive hostname - if that is the output of 'uname -a' That is, objectively, the reason why one tries to find an unique hostname, but we will all agree on the special character

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Merciadri Luca wrote: The real protection would be not to send that information. I was not able to do it, because of `human' and organizational reasons. I had no choice! Why would an honest soul ever allow information to be read, but not printed? To maintain

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

I Rattan wrote: On Mon, 19 Apr 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote: Life is simpler than that: pdf -postscript -print So, do not make the report available!! I had thought about it, but the guy won't think about it, fortunately. But you're right. There are many ways for this. Thanks

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:47:02 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Vincent Danjean wrote: (...) So, what would be the use case to allow a someone to read the information but not print it ? In any case, printing

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

, such a warning would probably serve the same purpose. (It may well be that some PDF viewers in Debian already implement such a dialog.) Nice idea, really. That is a good compromise. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP

Light automatically and randomly reduces some secs. after it has been set to its maximum level

, and the using of the default value. Thanks, -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. It is possible to be born an aristocrat without ever becoming a gentleman. (Nicholas

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