Re: Instability in Wheezy system

2012-07-27 Thread Stephen Allen
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:22:23PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: I can say that Chrome and Chromium themselves very unstable on all my systems. Not true on any of my boxen. Running Chromium from Debian SID. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: internet probably broken

2012-07-28 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 12:12:11PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/non-free amd64 Packages 47% [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for headers]E: Method gave invalid 200 URI Start message Every contact made with http.debian.net

Re: internet probably broken

2012-07-29 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 06:53:42PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 09:28:27PM -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 12:12:11PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/non-free amd64 Packages 47% [Waiting for headers

Re: Debian desktop news

2012-08-11 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 09:55:13AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 09:33:04AM -0400, Guy Gold wrote: GNOME 3 is quite different from the GNOME 2 series, and has made some people correspondingly upset. XFCE is fairly similar to GNOME 2, and may suit those people better. In

Re: Debian desktop news

2012-08-12 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 06:09:19AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2012-08-11 at 23:58 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: So please lets stop the misinformation. GNOME3 eats much more resources. GNOME3 breaks every sane workflow for artist. Of course it does, as I stated, Again, on an old

Re: DISQUS

2012-08-12 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 04:11:18PM +1000, Barry White wrote: DISQUS appears to be written to be compatible with windows only, is this correct ? You mean the 3rd party commenting api that some organizations/folks use on their blogs? Don't think so, I installed it recently on my Google Blogspot

Re: Off topic Gimp-2.8_Save and save as bad behavior

2012-08-13 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 03:58:55PM +, Camaleón wrote: Developer's choices can be changed when enough people think they're wrong or simply badly put. That's when you can open a wishlist bug report to politely ask for a review of the default settings. OpenSource Development isn't a

Re: OT: man in the middle attack ?

2012-08-22 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:08:33AM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Ter, 21 Ago 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I used sarcasm, but using sarcasm is bad behavior. And I'm not proud when I misbehave. The problem is that it is not the first time you misbehave. Nor the second, or even third.

Re: Why is Nautilus using 38% CPU?

2012-09-08 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 12:55:06PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: massive snip sorry, I posted a message without any content by accident. I noticed that tracker is doing a lot as well. Is it advisable to disable it? I like Nautilus and use it as a file manager, however don't use it to manage

Re: Anyway of keeping gnome2 while upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-05-09 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 07:32:03PM +0100, Ellwood Blues wrote: 2012/4/27 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net: On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 17:26 +0100, Ellwood Blues wrote: http://mate-desktop.org/install/#debian No experiences here, but I heard that it shouldn't be a good successor of

Re: Not getting mailing list response in my inbox

2012-06-24 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 05:06:03PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 00:20:46 +0900 Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org wrote: Hello Osamu, Then Gmail do not put looped mail into your inbox. AIUI, OP is bemoaning lack of _responses_ to queries, not the failure by gmail to return

Blog Post re libav vs ffmpeg

2012-07-02 Thread Stephen Allen
decided to go the libav route if this blog post is accurate; http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html The author seems quite level headed about his reasoning which do make quite a bit of sense to this reader. Regards, Stephen Allen (1) http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav

Re: mutt messed up. colors black on black cant read any messages

2012-07-03 Thread Stephen Allen
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 11:55:33PM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: Do you source config files from somewhere else? What happens when you comment out _all_ color statements? That didnt change anything. However I noticed that the /tmp file system was full (some pulse_* files) . So I

Re: getting gnome 3

2012-07-10 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 07:39:37PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: I know I go against most people when I say that now I've gotten used to Gnome3 I really like it and would not want to go back. It may be that I run a two screen set-up, but for me the really nice features are +100 Like you I

Re: Debian stable chromium does not open Facebook

2012-07-10 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 12:33:13PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: John W. Foster wrote: Not sure what the issue is, but, I recently installed debian stable chromium and set it as the default browser. This is one of areas where I completely disagree with the Debian methodology. Debian shipped

Re: Gnome3 probe

2012-12-28 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 07:27:47AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: phi debian wrote: Jeez, welcome lxde, adieu gnome3 !!! I installed a fresh debian in a guest as server, then apt-get install lxde. In a matter of minute I got a theme, with solid backgroud, my panel on the right, some usual

Re: switched from Ubuntu 10.04 to Debian Squeeze. Now laptop is making noises, videos lag more, etc.

2011-11-07 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 05:15:22PM -0800, Ashley Meek wrote: Hello all, I just recently switch my eMachines e725 laptop over from Ubuntu 10.04 to Debian Squeeze for stability purposes, but now I am experience slower responses opening programs, webpages, and watching videos. It seems to

Ubuntuone Package

2011-11-18 Thread Stephen Allen
Good morning; Any chance that this package will be included in the Debian archive? Tried to install it but ran into dependency hell and in the end realized that I wasn't going to be able to install it. I had found an e-mail from one of the Ubuntu packagers from some time back indicating that he

Re: xfce weather plugin broken?

2011-11-18 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 06:06:55PM -0500, Pete Orrall wrote: On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 16:31 +, Brian wrote: On Sun 13 Nov 2011 at 10:18:52 -0500, Pete Orrall wrote: What's going on and how do I fix this? https://mail.xfce.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce November 2011. Thanks Brian

Re: Is for this community XFCE the most common DE to replace GNOME 3?

2011-11-18 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 08:39:06PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi :) do most of you replace GNOME 3 by XFCE? I'm undecided what to do, but I guess it would be wise to install parallel to GNOME 3 the most used alternative installed by users who are subscribed to this list. Excepted of

Re: Ubuntuone Package

2011-11-18 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 02:54:18PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:33:33 -0500, Stephen Allen wrote: I had found an e-mail from one of the Ubuntu packagers from some time back indicating that he was going to try to get this included in Debian, due to the problems

Re: Is for this community XFCE the most common DE to replace GNOME 3?

2011-11-19 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 11:51:08AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Vi, 18 nov 11, 19:44:09, Stephen Allen wrote: You might try using Openbox. I run it without a desktop environment and it just works. Even better without the overhead of LXDE. $ ps aux | grep -i lx amp 3151 0.0

Re: xfce weather plugin broken?

2011-11-19 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 05:10:18PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:59:59 -0500 Pete Orrall ppat...@gmail.com dijo: Apparently this affects more than just Xfce users ---end quoted text--- Heads up for testing/Sid users. The plugin has been up dated to a .3

Re: Password Management ?

2011-11-26 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 04:21:52PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Olivier BATARD wrote: I'm just interested on how, after googling for a long time, on a debian, can we manage users's passwords. I mean how can we manage a password database on a web php site for example ? How do you manage

Re: Chromium in Sid not working

2011-11-26 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 07:05:10PM -0600, David Bruce wrote: Hi, I have two Sid systems (one amd64, one 32-bit intel) and Chromium is currently unusable in both - all attempted pages display Aw, Snap, even content on same machine. There appears to be a bug on this:

Re: Password Management ?

2011-11-27 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 12:38:19PM -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 4:59 AM, Olivier BATARD obat...@gmail.com wrote: Envoyé de mon iPhone Anyone knows an offline tool like lastpass ? LastPass is online and KeePass is offline. Honestly, I would trust KeePass over

Re: Chromium in Sid not working

2011-11-27 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 05:37:26PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Stephen Allen wrote: The linux Chrome binary from Google appears to work fine on both machines. I don't use the Debian Chromium as it's too old. I think you must be thinking of the Chromium in Stable Squeeze which released

Re: Chromium in Sid not working

2011-11-30 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 05:28:26PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Stephen Allen wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Stephen Allen wrote: I don't use the Debian Chromium as it's too old. I think you must be thinking of the Chromium in Stable Squeeze which released with version 6. That isn't

Re: How can I get GNOME 2 back

2011-11-30 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 04:24:17PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:33:08 +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Well until then maybe GNOME 3 has evolved into a more usable state. (...) It is usable right now. Current version 3.0 (the one available in testing) is not as easy

Re: what does the s stand for

2011-12-05 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 08:48:00PM -0500, doug wrote: On 12/02/2011 07:11 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: You can get the online upstream GNU copy from here: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/index.html

Re: [OT] where should I look for google sync information ?

2011-12-05 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 08:49:30PM +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: Dear list, I have activated google sync operation in my android phone to sync contact. How can I verify/see those info at my google account ? ---end quoted text--- Maybe it's visible on your Google profile. AFAIK it can be managed

Re: (argh) Could not perform immediate configuration

2011-12-07 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 07:11:40PM -0500, Jeff Gordon wrote: Hi, Folks -- I decided to go ahead and try upgrading to Wheezy on this laptop (Acer Aspire 5250, gift for my sister) to see if any of the three previously mentioned problems might clear. Now I'm stuck at Could not perform

Re: iceweasel no more support by google

2011-12-14 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 03:51:41PM +, Lisi wrote: It probably matters which version you have, and the mozilla site is likely to be more up-to-date. I personally have found, on several computers over the last six months, that Iceweasel works fine with GMail, until I install Google

Re: Ownership of external usb hard drive

2011-12-30 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 07:36:13PM +, Sharon Kimble wrote: On 23 December 2011 15:12, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: On 2011-12-23, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: On 2011-12-22, Walter Hurry walterhu...@lavabit.com wrote: Very succinctly put, except the hard drive is automatically mounted by

Re: pdfedit

2011-08-23 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 06:03:20PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: I guess I'm too stupid to figure it out. I have a pdf document that I would like to add two lines of text to (different positions, different fonts). Under the 'Page' menu I see an icon for adding text but it is greyed out. I don't

ReInstall of System borked Admin Pwd for Apps

2011-09-01 Thread Stephen Allen
Hello. For various reasons, needed to reinstall Debian Testing (Wheezy) on a flash drive formatted into 2 partitions. A system partition and one for HOME. Since the install I'm no longer able to use Synaptic with my password (I enabled sudo in the Installer). I used the exact User name and

Re: ReInstall of System borked Admin Pwd for Apps

2011-09-03 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 05:32:03AM +, darkestkhan wrote: 2011/9/1 Stephen Allen marathon.duran...@gmail.com: Hello. What do I have to do to fix this? check out /etc/sudoers if it contains all fields ---end quoted text--- It contains just 2 fields; # User privilege

Re: ReInstall of System borked Admin Pwd for Apps

2011-09-03 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 11:32:00AM +, darkestkhan wrote: 2011/9/3 Stephen Allen marathon.duran...@gmail.com: It contains just 2 fields;        # User privilege specification        root    ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL        # Allow members of group sudo to execute any command

Re: ReInstall of System borked Admin Pwd for Apps

2011-09-04 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 09:03:38AM +0100, Joe wrote: On Sat, 3 Sep 2011 19:48:33 -0400 Stephen Allen marathon.duran...@gmail.com wrote: Cool. Thanks for the help. Strange why that line isn't there aye? Sudo in sid has just been updated to a version with a different sudoers file

Re: ReInstall of System borked Admin Pwd for Apps

2011-09-04 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 08:04:20AM +, darkestkhan wrote: 2011/9/3 Stephen Allen marathon.duran...@gmail.com: On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 11:32:00AM +, darkestkhan wrote: /etc/sudoers contains informations about who has rights to access root level privileges (though I know it can do

Re: ReInstall of System borked Admin Pwd for Apps

2011-09-05 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 10:32:03PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: darkestkhan wrote: Stephen Allen wrote: Unfortuantely the suggested fix didn't work. Just recently a new sudo entered Wheezy Testing and it changed the behavior of secure_path. See Bug#639841 for details. But it means

Re: ReInstall of System borked Admin Pwd for Apps

2011-09-05 Thread Stephen Allen
Just to follow-up to my previous email, Bob's suggestion didn't work either. That stanza was already entered. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: ReInstall of System borked Admin Pwd for Apps

2011-09-07 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 11:00:29PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Stephen Allen wrote: Just to follow-up to my previous email, Bob's suggestion didn't work either. That stanza was already entered. Are you running Synaptic through sudo? Or is it asking you for the password itself? I never run

Re: ReInstall of System borked Admin Pwd for Apps

2011-09-07 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 12:48:26PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: I don't think the re part matters. At this point it is simply an install. And the discussion of sudo was just a red herring distracting from the real problem. I think the real problem is that if you are running Synaptic from a

Re: ReInstall of System borked Admin Pwd for Apps

2011-09-08 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 08:32:47PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Stephen Allen wrote: So I guess perhaps the way forward is to add a root user, install su and remove sudoers? You already have a root user account. All Unix-like machines will have a root user superuser account. That is uid 0

Re: ReInstall of System borked Admin Pwd for Apps

2011-09-09 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 11:53:14AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Stephen Allen wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: You already have a root user account. All Unix-like machines will have a root user superuser account. That is uid 0 on the machine by definition. All you need to know is the password

Re: kernel oops with Google Chrome after recent security update (2.6.32-35squeeze1)

2011-09-10 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 09:19:52AM +, Curt wrote: After installing a kernel security update yesterday, I'm getting random kernel oops when using Google Chrome. Anybody else seeing this phenomenon? ---end quoted text--- No all is fine here on Wheezy 3.0.01 kernel latest Chrome Developer

Re: Still can't install wheezy on a 2011 iMac

2011-09-16 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 06:00:06PM +1000, Mike Hore wrote: Thanks. I had looked at that and I think I've got the video problem sorted out -- but the boot is still hanging at a later stage as I explained in my earlier post. Cheers, Mike. There is a Debian Mac list; probably get better

Re: Still can't install wheezy on a 2011 iMac

2011-09-19 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:07:26PM +1000, Mike Hore wrote: Sorry Stephen, but there doesn't seem to be any such list. Were you thinking of the PPC list? ---end quoted text--- Thought it was MacOS and not strictly PPC. Guess not? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: debian testing - questions

2011-09-24 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 02:12:20PM +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: Good day, Please, Where should I ask questions about debian testing (wheezy). Thanks Johan S ---end quoted text--- If they're end user questions and not developer related, here is as good a place as any. ;) -- To

Re: Can't upgrade anyting in Sid

2012-04-18 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 01:58:57PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: Does anyone know how this whole ball of wax started ?? Why does it matter, one has to expect issues like this when running Sid. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: any tiny webcam viewer ?

2012-04-24 Thread Stephen Allen
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 06:05:15PM +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:14:35 +0100 Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 12:12:50PM +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: Dear list, I have tested my webcam with guvcviwe and the cam is running fine.

2 users on desktop, should be one right?

2012-04-25 Thread Stephen Allen
Just noticed this when glancing at htop it mentioned 2 users on my laptop, when I should be the only one logged in. who stephen tty7 2012-04-25 11:49 (:0) stephen pts/02012-04-25 11:52 (:0) This is on a Sid box, updated this morning. I have re-booted the laptop in question

Re: 2 users on desktop, should be one right?

2012-04-25 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 04:29:09PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:58:44 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: Just noticed this when glancing at htop it mentioned 2 users on my laptop, when I should be the only one logged in. who stephen tty7 2012-04-25 11:49 (:0

Re: 2 users on desktop, should be one right?

2012-04-25 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 09:24:28PM +0100, Joe wrote: Doesn't do it for me, I'm just seeing the pts entry. joe@jresid:~$ who joe pts/02012-04-25 21:19 (:0) joe@jresid:~$ w 21:21:13 up 2:30, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.14, 0.12 USER TTY FROM

Re: Chromium 11 on Debian 6.0.1 Stable

2011-05-25 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:39:03PM -0400, Perry Thompson wrote: I have been looking for an operating system that would allow me to have the latest browser, but the stability of Debian Stable, and I realized that I just want to keep using Debian. I have looked into apt-pinning to install

Re: Re: posting (was: Threading)

2011-06-27 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 03:54:51PM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: Test reply from link in archive at: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/06/msg01787.html I want to see if the reply ends up in the thread properly, I think it should as the html link from the online archive is this:

Re: posting

2011-06-28 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 10:12:55AM +0200, Florian Snow wrote: Hi everyone, Ralf Mardorf: I take this issue seriously and try my best to fix the issue, but sorry everybody, I won't waste time by reading more replies regarding to posting. I STOP READING AND REPLYING TO THIS THREAD [...]

Re: Running Squeeze on a 2 GB usb stick?

2011-06-28 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 09:17:15PM -0700, Mark wrote: Hi - I have a work laptop with Windows and since it tracks basically everything I do, I'd like to install Squeeze to a 2 GB usb stick I have laying around so I can boot to that instead of the internal hdd for personal use. I plan on doing

Re: mlocate db update disabled

2011-07-11 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 04:10:51PM +, T o n g wrote: Hi, All my boxes have mlocate working fine, except one Ubuntu box. I guess that its mlocate db updating is disabled. How to verify it and get it working? ---end quoted text--- Are you sure it's even installed? I noticed on a few

Re: Browser identification to websites

2007-03-20 Thread Stephen Allen
Ken Heard wrote: Unfortunately too many webmasters design their pages to cater to one widely used browser which has yet to conform to the W3C standard. Opening such sites usually brings a window warning that the user's browser detected by the site will not deliver all the functionality of

Re: Browser identification to websites

2007-03-20 Thread Stephen Allen
Ken Heard wrote: However, I have just discovered that *now* I *can* access this site using Iceweasel with the Default option of the User Agent Switcher extension selected. The only reason I can think of why it works now but did not before was because in the meantime I had closed Iceweasel

Re: Browser identification to websites

2007-03-21 Thread Stephen Allen
Joe Hart wrote: I think we've been through the whole iceweasel == || != firefox issue before. I understand the reasoning behind the name change, and I understand both sides of the issue. What I don't understand is why it has to have such a large impact on us, the users. Probably because

Re: doesn't open office support (Word's) inline comments?

2008-02-09 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 05:30:56PM +, michael wrote: Given I didn't receive anything useful to a similar enquiry before (below) but yet think that I can't be the only person doing this I'll try one more time (or maybe I should put it in as a 'bug'/RFE?): Essentially, MS Word has comments

Re: reliable editting of any PDF file

2008-02-13 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 01:39:46PM +0200, Micha wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:56:06 +0200 Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doesn't Acrobat (adobe) let one add notes to a PDF? That feature sounds familiar. Acrobat yes (although I found it hard to work with). Acrobat reader AFAIK, no.

Re: reliable editting of any PDF file

2008-02-15 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 02:28:00PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 01:58:39PM -0500, Brian McKee wrote: Note that pdf has advanced features that are often used in trade documents like embedded video and search indexes that nothing but Adobe's Reader will do...

Re: [OT] Sun Solaris 10 Manual. Is it done in LaTeX?

2008-02-26 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 05:15:48PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: It's not out of the question that they would have used distiller to build the PDF from PS output from laTeX, but I agree it's more likely some other structured format. XML is a good bet. Or some equally good pro layout tools

Re: Installing Debian from USB pen drive

2008-03-08 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 04:04:50AM -0700, Santanu Chatterjee wrote: Finally, my USB pendrive is working, i.e. booting fine, and the installer is also working correctly. Thanks Adrian and Thierry for your help. Time to dive a little deeper into debian-installer Co. :-) If you have the

Re: How to use Mutt?

2008-01-22 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 07:37:22PM -0500, Allan Wind wrote: On 2008-01-23T13:33:57+1300, Chris Bannister wrote: Can you tell it to use any editor, say vim, or does it still use pico? $ mutt F1 /editorenter I think the question was regarding Alpine. -- Regards, S.D.Allen - Toronto --

Re: Camtasia alternative for linux

2008-01-31 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:58:37PM -0800, sobriquet wrote: Hi. Is there something equivalent to Camtasia (screen recording software) on the windows platform for linux? Preferably, it should yield movies of a level of quality that compares to Camtasia.

Re: Camtasia alternative for linux

2008-01-31 Thread Stephen Allen
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 08:48:04PM +, Stephen Allen wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:58:37PM -0800, sobriquet wrote: Hi. Is there something equivalent to Camtasia (screen recording software) on the windows platform for linux? Preferably, it should yield movies of a level

Exim4 mailq

2006-09-28 Thread Stephen Allen
Greetings: Yesterday for a 20 hr period, my Bell Canada telephone service was down, hence my DSL connection followed. Since I have come back online, I've noticed that the e-mail I was assuming had gone out to my SMARTHOST, (before I noticed the DSL was down) is now in my Exim4 mailq. I've been

Re: Exim4 mailq

2006-09-28 Thread Stephen Allen
Clive Menzies wrote: Stephen Allen wrote: Greetings: Hello Clive: [...] Any ideas, on how to get these delivered ? Thanks. Have you tried restarting exim4? Yup. First thing I tried. Here is what the 'q' looks like (with e-mail addresses removed); 26h 1.0K 1GSYPt-0002lq-0Z

Re: Exim4 mailq

2006-09-28 Thread Stephen Allen
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 10:34:14AM -0400 or thereabouts, celejar wrote: On 9/28/06, Stephen Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right. May have to. Thanks Clive. Have you tried 'exim -qff' ? Hello Celejar: Yes, actually tried '-qf' prior as well -- No change in the 'q'. It seems strange

Re: Exim4 mailq

2006-09-28 Thread Stephen Allen
James wrote: Stephen Allen wrote: Greetings: Yesterday for a 20 hr period, my Bell Canada telephone service was down, hence my DSL connection followed. Since I have come back online, I've noticed that the e-mail I was assuming had gone out to my SMARTHOST, (before I noticed the DSL

Re: Exim4 mailq

2006-09-28 Thread Stephen Allen
On 28/09/2006 celejar wrote: I believe that '-qf' won't resend frozen messages; did you try '-qff' ? Yes. It appears that this will not over-ride the retry time, as per below. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_ smarthost defer (-53): retry time not reached for

Re: Exim4 mailq

2006-09-28 Thread Stephen Allen
Clive Menzies wrote: On (28/09/06 10:59), Stephen Allen wrote: On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 10:34:14AM -0400 or thereabouts, celejar wrote: On 9/28/06, Stephen Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right. May have to. Thanks Clive. Have you tried 'exim -qff' ? Hello Celejar: Yes, actually tried '-qf

Exim GMail smarthost

2006-02-05 Thread Stephen Allen
Hello folks. I've spent this morning Google'ing and Yahoo'ing attempting to find a tutorial for setting up Exim4 to send to GMail Smarthost. Strange, I haven't found anything yet, although I've found a good one on configuring fetchmail for GMail. Does anyone have an URL where it shows someone

Re: Exim GMail smarthost

2006-02-05 Thread Stephen Allen
Stephen Allen wrote: Hello folks. I've spent this morning Google'ing and Yahoo'ing attempting to find a tutorial for setting up Exim4 to send to GMail Smarthost. Strange, I haven't found anything yet, although I've found a good one on configuring fetchmail for GMail. Does anyone have

Re: Exim GMail smarthost

2006-02-05 Thread Stephen Allen
Jacob S wrote: Which exim4 packages are you trying to install? It looks like most of the config files in my /etc/exim4 were created by the exim4-config package, not exim4 or exim4-base, as one might expect. Yeah I was thinking much the same thing, however in installing all the exim4 packages

Re: Exim GMail smarthost

2006-02-06 Thread Stephen Allen
From: Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: David Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Bcc: Subject: Re: Exim GMail smarthost Reply-To: In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 03:25:53PM -0600 or thereabouts, David Berg wrote: Search the archives for my posts. I just posted what your looking for

Re: Exim GMail smarthost

2006-02-06 Thread Stephen Allen
Doesn't the router, transport and TLS have to be configured as well ? All I had to do on my sarge box was configure with debconf for smarthost delivery with smtp.gmail.com for the server, then add the second line to the passwd.config file and e-mails were sent just fine. Hm, well that's

exim4, sa-exim, clamav

2005-07-16 Thread Stephen Allen
OK having lots of problems here. Unfortunately, I've mis configured this setup. Can someone help me out here ? I have the following enabled in my exim4.conf (monolithic); # Dynamically loadable local_scan rules! :-) #local_scan_path = /usr/lib/exim4/accept.so # You don't *really* need to turn

Re: HP Deskjet 6840 Printer Problem

2005-11-25 Thread Stephen Allen
Michael Kerwin wrote: I am trying to get an HP Deskjet 6840 inkjet Printer to work with my Debian 3.1 Sarge stable system. I am trying to get it to work with lpr Use CUPS instead, and check out this article; http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/07/25/2030235.shtml?tid=2tid=9 It supposedly works

Re: just released Grml 2013.09

2013-09-29 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 10:38:49PM +0200, sp113438 wrote: Hi All, To have a new boot-entry with grml: put grml64-full_2013.09.iso (or another one, see below) in the /boot/grml directory sudo apt-get install grml-rescueboot sudo update-grub get the iso at: http://grml.org/download/

Re: google-chrome-unstable apparently removes its executable

2013-10-08 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 11:42:15AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: Updating two testing systems this morning, I found that my Chrome suddenly became unable to find any web pages. Attempting to relaunch, it wasn't there! 'which google-chrome' returned nothing. I tried 'sudo apt-get install

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-08 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 01:33:41PM +0200, Florian Lindner wrote: Hello, Since I'm about to setup a new server using current stable wheezy, I want to recheck some of debian knowledge. What is the prefered tool for installing on the CLI? apt-get or aptitude? Last time I read about it,

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-08 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 11:35:57AM -0400, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Florian Lindner wrote: Since I'm about to setup a new server using current stable wheezy, I want to recheck some of debian knowledge. What is the prefered tool for installing on the CLI? apt-get

Re: upgrade to wheezy

2013-10-23 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 02:20:43AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 00:05 +0200, mess-mate wrote: Thanks to all for the help !! You're welcome, but next time please write in plain text. On most mailing lists and this is one of them, HTML is frowned upon. It was

Re: ANDROID (back to the OQ)

2013-11-01 Thread Stephen Allen
To the OP - Yes Android isn't open (most of it is) the drivers for radio modem and video display for example aren't neither are the Google Apps ie Gmail, Playstore etc. There is a team working on a pure Open version called Replicant. Wired magazine recently had a writeup that one interested

Re: grid in LibreCAD

2013-11-01 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 04:04:52PM -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: Is anyone using LibreCAD? Here it is 1.0.2 in Wheezy. Edit Current drawing preferences units is set to mm. Regardless of the setting in Current drawing preferences grid the snap grid is 10 mm. No evidence of the problem

Re: software for (reminder) recommendation

2013-11-13 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:07:04PM +0800, lina wrote: I checked most, seems none has pop up action before the events. I always miss some seminars I registered. Since you're using Gmail why not install Evolution it can interface with Google's calendar. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Fwd: Re: [OT] Re: Defending yourself

2011-05-12 Thread Stephen Allen
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:03:52AM -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 8:16 AM, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: +20 Oh and as far as that thing I said about having Cred, Camaleón assist more people on this list than just about anyone, so he's got Cred. Pick your

Re: So much for Skype.

2011-05-12 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:58:21AM -0400, Curt Howland wrote: So Skype has been bought by Microsoft. I expect the Linux version of Skype to be abolished in short order. Oh well, thus the fate of proprietary software. I'm sure St. Ignucious is shaking his head with the inevitability of it

Remove Evolution

2013-05-22 Thread Stephen Allen
Greetings. I'd like to remove Evolution from my Debian laptop installation as I use my browser to access email/calendar online via my tablet or phone. When I attempt to do so, aptitude informs me that it will remove pretty much the entire Gnome-Shell as well. How do I remove what I want while

Re: Remove Evolution

2013-05-23 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 08:44:03AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: It's off topic, but I was *sure* this was about a Creationist trying to interfere with biology education. -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com ---end quoted text--- LOLz -- Cheers, Stephen, Toronto My Google+

Re: Remove Evolution

2013-05-23 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 01:06:23PM +0100, Brian wrote: On Wed 22 May 2013 at 07:34:03 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: I'd like to remove Evolution from my Debian laptop installation as I use my browser to access email/calendar online via my tablet or phone. When I attempt to do so

Re: Remove Evolution

2013-05-24 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:52:29AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 23 mai 13, 22:59:00, Stephen Allen wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 01:06:23PM +0100, Brian wrote: On Wed 22 May 2013 at 07:34:03 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: I'd like to remove Evolution from my Debian laptop

Re: Remove Evolution

2013-05-24 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:11:13AM +0100, Brian wrote: On Thu 23 May 2013 at 22:59:00 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 01:06:23PM +0100, Brian wrote: On Wed 22 May 2013 at 07:34:03 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: I'd like to remove Evolution from my Debian laptop

Re: Remove Evolution

2013-05-25 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 07:25:30PM +0100, Brian wrote: On Fri 24 May 2013 at 07:26:57 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:11:13AM +0100, Brian wrote: Well, there is a solution: marking all the dependencies of the meta-package as manually installed

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