Re: Any way to 'remove' apt-get?

2006-01-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:43:37 +0100 Marc PERRUDIN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also there are things that apt can do aptitude can't. (Seen in the apt-build script.) Yes, aptitude doesn't have the 'source' command so you can't download source package with aptitude. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$

Re: How to permanently increase aptitude upgrade points

2012-07-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 16 iul 12, 20:32:07, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: Hi, I have a rather acute problem with aptitude. I am tracking wheezy and very often, the resolver wants to remove half my system rather than upgrade a couple of packages. These packages are not held back (aptitude calls them kept

Re: Nvidia binary blob and libcairo2 1.10+

2012-07-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 16 iul 12, 14:43:54, Dan Serban wrote: On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 12:33:31 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: My bad, the guy that made that statement is not the guy at the top of the page and missed that comment. The reality is that it seems that this affects more than

Re: Debian install 6.05

2012-07-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 17 iul 12, 16:31:05, Frank wrote: Sorry if this is in the wrong place! It's even hard to find the right place. debian-user would be a good option, this list is for working on Debian documentation. Please follow-up there (Reply-To set accordingly). I downloaded Debian (first time,

Re: What does group consider to be on topic?

2012-07-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 16 iul 12, 16:57:32, Richard Owlett wrote: Anyone who has followed this group knows I have atypical ideas of OS design ;/ A MAJOR strength of Linux mindset is roll your own. There are multiple Debian based distros which have done that. UNFORTUNATELY, from my perspective, many have

Re: Small xorg?

2012-07-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 18 iul 12, 10:37:14, Patrick Bartek wrote: As I recall, only the required dependencies were installed.  I needed the system to be as lean as possible due to the RAM limitations, but still be easily usable.  Perhaps, a little background for clarification: The Thinkpad 240X

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law [WAS: Re: what graphic card to buy?]

2012-07-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 19 iul 12, 01:17:49, Doug wrote: Sorry for the bandwidth, but I think the Linux user--I'm certainly one of them--needs to realize what real specialized software is, and what it costs to develop, and why it's not free. Please don't confuse free (beer) with free(dom). Also, I don't have

Re: What does group consider to be on topic?

2012-07-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 18 iul 12, 14:47:16, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 02:18:00 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 07:57:11PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:06:28 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: Oh, right! like if you turn your hazard lights on in your car you

Re: Debian packages depending in libslang2

2012-07-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 18 iul 12, 01:35:25, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Is there a way to find all the Debian packages that depend upon libslang2? Like I know that mc and slnr do, but how does one find them all? aptitude search ~Rlibslang2 or aptitude search ?reverse-depends(libslang2) Kind regards,

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law [WAS: Re: what graphic card to buy?]

2012-07-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 19 iul 12, 22:50:25, Celejar wrote: Quite true - and completely irrelevant to my point. I don't deny that money can be made with FLOSS, just that it's pointless to try to sell copies of one's software if it's freely copyable. The examples you give are all of models other than the

Re: Why have d-community-offtopic? (Re: What does group consider to be on topic?)

2012-07-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 20 iul 12, 16:46:31, Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 01:45:15PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:58:36 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: How about suggesting the use of: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic instead?

Space problems with wheezy install [was: Re: WHEEZY]

2012-07-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
[please try to have a more descriptive subject, as I did, otherwise nobody will know if you ask about different issues] On Vi, 20 iul 12, 10:03:47, vykuntam srinivas wrote: hi all,i have upgraded to wheezy.Its looking awesome and nice gdm.Actually i have alloted 10GB of disk space to

Re: difficulty downloading packages, is ftp.us.debian.org having a problem?

2012-07-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 20 iul 12, 08:25:23, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: Keep in mind that Debian is currently migrating to Wheezy. What do you mean by that? Wheezy is not being released just yet, it's just been frozen (it will take a few more months). Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions

Re: difficulty downloading packages, is ftp.us.debian.org having a problem?

2012-07-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 19 iul 12, 22:20:28, Britton Kerin wrote: Hi everyone, I keep trying to download a big pile of packages and most of them keep failing. Internet is working and I can ping things, but most of the packages always fail. I'm wondering if ftp.us.debian.org is really overloaded or

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law [WAS: Re: what graphic card to buy?]

2012-07-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 20 iul 12, 04:29:05, Gary Dale wrote: On 20/07/12 03:30 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 19 iul 12, 22:50:25, Celejar wrote: Quite true - and completely irrelevant to my point. I don't deny that money can be made with FLOSS, just that it's pointless to try to sell copies of one's

Re: modifying template xorg.conf file to change monitor resolution

2012-07-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 20 iul 12, 17:41:59, Michael Fothergill wrote: It's quite a while since I edited an xorg.conf file.The resolution is too low at present - I think I am running at 800 x 600 I ran xrandr (which is a bit magical and mystical to me at present) mikef@Vigor15:~$ xrandr xrandr:

Tools in Debian to create whole disk image (multiple partitions)?

2012-07-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Hello list, My Raspberry Pi arrived a few days ago and yesterday I finally managed to run the installer for Raspbian (Debian wheezy armhf recompiled for the Raspberry Pi). Since the installation is not very fast due to the speed of the SD card (and I may want to contribute images anyway) I

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 22 iul 12, 15:41:16, lina wrote: Thanks, I don't have some basic understanding about samba, will read something about it. just a short quick question, is it necessary to keep it? Only you can tell since we don't know what you use/need. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions

Disabling Recommends [was: Re: is it rational to close the 139 port]

2012-07-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 22 iul 12, 18:58:36, Erwan David wrote: However, I have noticed a tendency for things to be installed or started that open new ports, and it's easy to overlook them. Aptitude in particular will install extra packages that you don't need or want. For this, first thing is to disable

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 22 iul 12, 22:33:49, lina wrote: Another thing I am a little concern, I can ssh from remote server back to laptop without password. Passphraseless keys? but on the remote server, actually someone who has root privilege can easily su lina and ssh to my laptop (sorry to assume like

Re: Tools in Debian to create whole disk image (multiple partitions)?

2012-07-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 22 iul 12, 17:38:58, Sthu Deus wrote: Good time of the day, Andrei. You worte: Any suggestions? Why don't You copy Your installation w/ cp -a and reconfiguring then grub for the copy - to another disk (USB one?). OR I'm missing something? The Raspberry Pi can only boot from an

Re: Disabling Recommends [was: Re: is it rational to close the 139 port]

2012-07-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 22 iul 12, 19:51:33, Erwan David wrote: Yes, indeed. But I've seen too many packages where recommends leeds to installing full gnome where I do not want it, that I prefer having more control (and thus more responsibility). Please do file bugs where appropriate. Kind regards, Andrei

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 23 iul 12, 01:49:21, Bret Busby wrote: I have a Samsung MFP printer thing; a CLX-3185FW, and I had been able to use it with a Debian 5 system that I had been using. Then, the Debian 5 system went awry (a separate system from the firewall system), and became apparently unusable. So,

Re: Disabling Recommends [was: Re: is it rational to close the 139 port]

2012-07-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 22 iul 12, 20:15:33, Erwan David wrote: On 22/07/12 20:07, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Please do file bugs where appropriate. In the past I was too often attacked or mocked, when doing such bug reports that I stopped. Would you care to provide some examples? Kind regards, Andrei

Re: Why have d-community-offtopic? (Re: What does group consider to be on topic?)

2012-07-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 23 iul 12, 08:03:06, Chris Bannister wrote: Are you suggesting that some posts to d-community-offtopic be marked as [OT] ? Of course, Debian stuff is offtopic on -offtopic :p Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers:

Re: Tools in Debian to create whole disk image (multiple partitions)?

2012-07-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 22 iul 12, 22:41:52, Gary Dale wrote: So what you really need is a copy of the files on /boot and /. You don't need the swap space and you don't need the empty space in the main partition. Nope, what I really need is something that would fit here: http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads

Re: Tools in Debian to create whole disk image (multiple partitions)?

2012-07-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 22 iul 12, 19:28:35, Rick Thomas wrote: If all the empty space is filled with something redundant (like, zeroes?) then you can use almost any compress program (gzip comes to mind...) and it will all be compressed out. If the empty space is filled with random junk, it will depend on

Re: Disabling Recommends [was: Re: is it rational to close the 139 port]

2012-07-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 22 iul 12, 20:51:04, Erwan David wrote: bug 375500, but you do not have the whole discussion Note that rephrasing it in 505662 leads to silence. SOme other but I cannot find them back, since they are old : I now prefer directly installing non packaged programs when I encounter such

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 23 iul 12, 04:14:10, lina wrote: Thanks for your suggestions. I didn't realize aptitude would install something else, and sometimes I treated the recommended as something complimentary. Many times I left the laptop to install and myself run outside to take a break. I don't

Re: linux cash register software, i.e, a simple point of sale?

2012-07-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 23 iul 12, 01:03:42, Nick Lidakis wrote: Any simple Linux cash registers out there? My brother tested several POS programs for his restaurant, but found nothing that matched his needs (he needed a software that could do recipes as well), but in his opinion LemonPOS was quite good.

Re: Tools in Debian to create whole disk image (multiple partitions)?

2012-07-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 23 iul 12, 09:15:36, Andrei POPESCU wrote: A compressor of course helps reduce the size a *lot* (it's only 368 MiB gziped), but this introduces an additional step that I was trying to avoid. ... and a gzip/gunzip cycle makes the file non-sparse. I fixed it with cp --sparse always

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 24 iul 12, 01:34:16, Bret Busby wrote: My previous experience with splix, is not good. From memory, I tried splix with the first CLX-3185FW (it died a few months ago, just before the Debian 5 workstation died, from memory - we have an unsafe electricity supply in this state), as

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 24 iul 12, 01:20:26, Bret Busby wrote: It seems strange (to me), that notification of an update release is broadcast, and then all repositories of that version, are disappeared at the same time as that release. Quoting from the announcement: , | Please note that the oldstable

Re: Why have d-community-offtopic? (Re: What does group consider to be on topic?)

2012-07-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 23 iul 12, 13:16:43, Camaleón wrote: Mmm, nope... what made you think that? Anyway, it would be a redundancy but nothing that hurts. I can't tell because I'm unaware about the rules of the offtopic mailing list. The rules are basically: Be excellent to each other! but putting

Re: Tools in Debian to create whole disk image (multiple partitions)?

2012-07-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 23 iul 12, 10:48:29, Mark Neidorff wrote: On Monday 23 July 2012 2:07:42 am Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 22 iul 12, 22:41:52, Gary Dale wrote: So what you really need is a copy of the files on /boot and /. You don't need the swap space and you don't need the empty space

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 23 iul 12, 12:00:37, Mark Allums wrote: True, but the downside is that you're going to experience random, confusing absences of functionality in various applications, and it can sometimes be difficult to figure out why ... It's dependency hell. Removing one highly useless package

Re: Printers using free software only

2012-07-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 23 iul 12, 18:05:45, Brian wrote: All the major applications on the popular DEs are now geared up to output in PDF format when printing. PDF is kind of a subset of PostScript ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdf#PostScript Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian

Re: systemd

2012-07-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 24 iul 12, 12:38:12, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I'm confused, will Debian or will Debian not switch to systemd? Definitely not for wheezy, it's already frozen. As I understand from lurking on -devel, the plan is to demote sysvinit from Essential as soon as the wheezy+1 development cycle

Re: [Solved] Re: Suspend to RAM fails in Debian Wheezy 64 bits

2012-07-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 25 iul 12, 14:26:51, Camaleón wrote: Mmm... it can be a problem with a specific version of the driver or something related to Xorg server. You can try to report it but nvidia is closed source code, I don't know if a bug report in Debian BTS will be tracked :-? It will, but the

Re: Samsung CLX-3185 driver(s) - was Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 26 iul 12, 00:48:20, Bret Busby wrote: I believe that it was Debian 5 with which I had tried splix previously. In looking at http://splix.ap2c.org/ , the Samsung CLX-3185 is not listed as being compatible with splix. However, using Synaptic, I have installed splix. But, splix

Re: Printers using free software only

2012-07-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 25 iul 12, 21:18:19, Brian wrote: On Wed 25 Jul 2012 at 18:02:11 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 23 iul 12, 18:05:45, Brian wrote: All the major applications on the popular DEs are now geared up to output in PDF format when printing. PDF is kind of a subset

Re: Purge Empathy messes up apt

2012-07-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 25 iul 12, 14:37:52, Bob Proulx wrote: I go through and mark the high level packages as manually installed by running the install command again. Since they are already installed it won't do anything but mark them as being wanted. For example: apt-get install libreoffice Just

Re: Samsung CLX-3185 driver(s) - was Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query about root account

2012-07-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 26 iul 12, 12:19:34, Bret Busby wrote: Also, in switching on the printer, I get dialogue box New printer found Samsung CLX-3180 series I select Search, which opens up two dialogue boxes, and the one New Printer, in choosing Select printer from database and Samsung, gives Samsung

Re: systemd

2012-07-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 26 iul 12, 06:30:23, Ralf Mardorf wrote: However, many people claim that pulseaudio is an advantage only. And now everybody claims that systemd is an advantage only. I didn't get this impression from reading -devel. I experienced pulseaudio as a PITA for myself (pro-audio), but also

Re: Purge Empathy messes up apt

2012-07-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 25 iul 12, 18:53:36, Bob Proulx wrote: I would prefer having more smaller bundles that could be installed piecemeal. However the upstream gnome developers don't feel the same way. They would like to see a 100% gnome system top to bottom and think doing anything else is wrong

Re: nouveau (was: systemd)

2012-07-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 26 iul 12, 16:51:53, Vincent Lefevre wrote: There's http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=640464 for which there is nothing new even though I have provided a testcase and the problem is 100% reproducible on two of my machines. A workaround is to disable optimization, but

Re: mail server

2012-07-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 26 iul 12, 10:17:38, Denis Witt wrote: On 25.07.2012 22:14, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: Thanks for letting me know these matters but i am not using it publicly i will be downloading my emails from my hosted mail server. Then you will have to add a tool like fetchmail to your list to

Re: [Partial Solution] Re: wifi connect _FAILS_ - was [Re: FROZEN Wheezy netinst - Where to get?]

2012-07-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 27 iul 12, 07:00:08, Richard Owlett wrote: Unfortunately I did not keep a record of what choices I made so I don't now exactly what was done differently. I've a gut feeling the problem may be more a man-machine interface than software problem. Operator error is not ruled out ;/

Re: Why is FQDN not found?

2012-07-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 27 iul 12, 09:45:02, Kent West wrote: Why can I ping the hostname, but not the fully-qualified domain name of a box? westk@westek:~$ ping k1000 PING k1000.acu.local (150.252.149.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 150.252.149.1: icmp_req=1 ttl=62 time=0.128 ms ^C64 bytes from

Re: mail server

2012-07-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 28 iul 12, 12:53:19, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: is there any good howto on Debian Squeeze on following tools -postfidx -dovecot -postfixadmin (web interface) -roundcube -spamassassin -clamv btw i have a question in my mind . postfix is mail server. but the question raising

Re: Why is FQDN not found?

2012-07-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 27 iul 12, 13:45:36, Kent West wrote: As mentioned in another post, changing the line in /etc/nsswitch.conf from: hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 to: hosts: files dns mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] mdns4 seems to have solved my

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 29 iul 12, 22:27:08, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2012, Brian wrote: used. But if it can be demonstrated that a twenty character password can be forced in a time-frame which makes sense I'll stop doing it and most That depends. Are you using any dictionary

Re: what graphics card to choose

2012-07-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 30 iul 12, 21:33:38, Chris Bannister wrote: JFTR, you don't need accelerated graphics to watch a video. But you may need something like VDPAU. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers:

Re: Getting nVidia to work

2012-07-31 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 31 iul 12, 04:43:09, Mark Panen wrote: Could some please point me to step by step instruction on installing a nVidia driver for a GTS250? Yes: 1. apt-get install nvidia-glx (make sure you remove any traces of the nvidia installer or any other attempts before that) Kind regards,

Re: Getting nVidia to work

2012-07-31 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 31 iul 12, 10:10:38, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 31 iul 12, 04:43:09, Mark Panen wrote: Could some please point me to step by step instruction on installing a nVidia driver for a GTS250? Yes: 1. apt-get install nvidia-glx (make sure you remove any traces of the nvidia

Re: Why compiling.

2012-08-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 31 iul 12, 13:21:40, Celejar wrote: From where? Your network is down and your other machine runs on a custom kernel. Plug the regular machine straight into the internet connection (cable modem) and grab an appropriate kernel. Devil's advocate mode: sorry, your ISP requires

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law [WAS: Re: what graphic card to buy?]

2012-08-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 01 aug 12, 00:59:29, Yaro Kasear wrote: On 07/31/2012 01:42 PM, Celejar wrote: On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:30:50 +0300 Andrei POPESCUandreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Jo, 19 iul 12, 22:50:25, Celejar wrote: Quite true - and completely irrelevant to my point. I don't deny that money can

Re: [OT] secure passwords (was Re: is it rational to close the 139 port)

2012-08-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 31 iul 12, 17:57:38, Bob Proulx wrote: The problem is how many of those can you keep straight in your head? How many web sites and systems all need one of those unique passwords? And you aren't reusing those passwords on multiple unrelated sites are you? As with all things xkcd has

Re: systemd

2012-08-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 31 iul 12, 20:57:57, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Plus I think it makes sense to base a decision whether a software is suitable for me or not on technical facts and my own preferences on how I want the software to work for me. +1 For me it is utterly, totally and absolutely

Re: Squeeze 6.0.6

2012-08-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 01 aug 12, 02:22:40, Mark Panen wrote: Hi, Google is not my friend today. Does anyone know more or less when Squeeze 6.0.6 will be released? Probably when there are enough (security) updates to warrant a new point release. But why do you ask? Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic

Re: Debian multimedia repository

2012-08-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 01 aug 12, 22:30:52, Teemu Likonen wrote: Titanus Eramius [2012-08-01 21:18:03 +0200] wrote: My 2 cents on this is, that once packages is installed from Debian Multimedia it's very hard to go back to stable. But if one keeps using Debian Multimedia there are rarely any problems.

Re: Display Resolution

2012-08-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 02 aug 12, 15:38:45, Nelson Green wrote: I am unsure what either of the errors mean, nor how to proceed from here. Would anyone mind advising me as to what my next step should be? Please attach your full /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /etc/X11/xorg.conf (if any). Kind regards, Andrei --

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law

2012-08-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 02 aug 12, 09:41:59, Celejar wrote: Well, we'll have to agree to disagree here, as we're just disagreeing over irreducible first principles. I, and the law, think that it is reasonable and fair that the creator of certain types of intellectual / cultural artifacts should be entitled

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law [WAS: Re: what graphic card to buy?]

2012-08-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 01 aug 12, 20:23:35, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 1 Aug 2012 19:45:27 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Mi, 01 aug 12, 00:59:29, Yaro Kasear wrote: On 07/31/2012 01:42 PM, Celejar wrote: On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:30:50 +0300 Andrei POPESCUandreimpope...@gmail.com

Re: Display Resolution

2012-08-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 02 aug 12, 16:54:41, Nelson Green wrote: Thanks for the reply. I can't believe I didn't think to look for a log file related to this. And no, there is no xorg.conf, just the Xorg.0.log file. It is quite large, but here it is. I see some interesting lines about the display in it. Am

Re: replacing GDM with a script

2012-08-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 02 aug 12, 12:22:27, Frank McCormick wrote: I am running 3 Linux distros with Sid as my main one. I am curious to know if it's possible to replace GDM with a BASH script. The issue is complicated because I run 3 window managers with Sid and a similar situation with the other 2

Re: Display Resolution

2012-08-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 02 aug 12, 23:48:52, Brian wrote: Before he gets into that, it could be worth checking with dpkg -l | grep xserver-xorg-video that the nouveau package is installed. Unless I'm mistaken, his Xorg.0.log indicates nouveau is already installed. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic

Re: Help identifying an old wireless card

2012-08-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 03 aug 12, 01:29:51, istimsak abdulbasir wrote: What I meant to say, when you enable the non-free repos, will this also install the proprietary drivers for your system? I figured you had to do it manually. Both steps are manual, Debian defaults to being free(dom). Kind regards,

Re: systemd

2012-08-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 03 aug 12, 16:28:30, Joel Rees wrote: systemd is far too disruptive to have been stuffed into the main branch of Fedora the way it was. Good engineering would have been to have set up two concurrent forks of Fedora, to keep reference points available when working on the integration,

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law

2012-08-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 07 aug 12, 09:39:54, Celejar wrote: to be very important/inovative/etc. actually had a hard time getting published. How many others did not make it? Not sure what you're saying here - do you mean that the creators couldn't publish because there was insufficient perceived interest

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law [WAS: Re: what graphic card to buy?]

2012-08-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 07 aug 12, 09:47:11, Celejar wrote: They do - but the first quote in your message was Yaro's. I guess you decided to respond to a quote of mine as cited in his email, instead of responding directly to my email. In such a case, I generally delete the first name in the chain, but I

Re: Setting up to do repetitive installs on ONE machine (cf BabelBox)

2012-08-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 06 aug 12, 08:46:14, Richard Owlett wrote: Are there other routes to my goals I should investigate? FAI? http://fai-project.org Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic

Re: Preserve files on .deb uninstall

2012-08-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 07 aug 12, 11:10:41, Josh Kelley wrote: * Mark the files as conffiles - Not what I'd want in this case, because the files aren't configuration files and should be automatically upgraded when packages are upgraded, I just don't want them automatically deleted when packages are removed.

Re: Will upcoming Debian 7 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

2012-08-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 08 aug 12, 17:45:40, Camaleón wrote: I tagged as OT because the scope (chit-chat) is out of the technical issues expected here. Come on... And it concerns Jessie, not Wheezy (please, don't scare me! ;-) ) Why do you think it doesn't concern Wheezy? Kind regards, Andrei --

Re: replacing GDM with a script

2012-08-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 08 aug 12, 14:51:00, Frank McCormick wrote: At this point I am running SLIM...although I am told now it is unmaintained. How can that be if it's still in the repositories ? Probably because it doesn't have any RC bugs. Anyway it requires a fair amount of config-ing...and much

Re: notify when package upgrade

2012-08-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 09 aug 12, 12:44:08, hvw59601 wrote: Hi, I would like to be notified when package linux-source-3.2 (3.2.23-1) in Sid gets upgraded. Is that possible? I can look of course and find out, but it would be more interesting to be notified. I normally run wheezy which is still at 3.2.21-3.

Re: [OT] Will upcoming Debian 8 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

2012-08-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 10 aug 12, 17:36:15, Camaleón wrote: Yes, and here we had a problem with communication: users were not aware about this issue until they've read it from external sources (blogs, magazines, etc...). I'm susbscribed to Debian News and Debian Announce (and now added debian-devel and

Re: Noniteractive Installation

2012-08-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 09 aug 12, 17:35:10, r...@aarden.us wrote: What do I need to search for to find out how to do this? Is there already a tool to do all of this? Keywords: preseed, fai Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers:

Re: [OT] Will upcoming Debian 8 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

2012-08-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 12 aug 12, 15:08:02, Camaleón wrote: And for -boot and -cd, I can't see a strong reason to follow them, given that I have no direct relation with those projects (I'm neither a developer nor have opened any bug against them) and can't really track all mailing lists for every single

Re: [OT] Cross-posting (was: package wxmacmolplt broken)

2012-08-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 13 aug 12, 04:31:40, Chris Bannister wrote: All I can suggest is that you get a better MUA. I mean what MUA doesn't show you (at least) the CC header? When I'm reading -user (or any other mailing list for the matter) I generally pay no attention at all to the headers. Kind regards,

Re: Testing ALSA and writing an appropriate .asoundrc

2012-08-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 13 aug 12, 08:42:20, José Luis Segura Lucas wrote: I know that you can select the default sound output using a ~/.asoundrc file, and I already tried, but I can't get it properly working. Another way is to force one card to a lower index than the other. See

Re: BUG on http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed -- inconsistent links

2012-08-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 13 aug 12, 15:06:48, Richard Owlett wrote: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed has inconsistent links. It's a wiki, feel free to correct it ;) In the sentence The Installation Guide includes an extensive appendix dedicated to preseeding., extensive appendix links to

Re: BUG in bug reporting instructions

2012-08-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 13 aug 12, 15:32:50, Richard Owlett wrote: Sequence of events: 1. found a problem on http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed [inconsistent links] 2. at bottom of page was link [labeled 'bugs'] to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=wiki.debian.org;dist=unstable .

Re: Managing to get the 4 RAM GiB recognized easily

2012-08-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 15 aug 12, 05:12:46, Gary Dale wrote: If your computer has a 64bit CPU, you could also install the 64bit version of Debian over the existing. Just don't format your /home. Another option not mentioned yet is to install the -amd64 kernel (assuming the CPU supports it). Works just fine

Re: Managing to get the 4 RAM GiB recognized easily

2012-08-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 15 aug 12, 14:50:37, Gary Dale wrote: On 15/08/12 02:13 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Another option not mentioned yet is to install the -amd64 kernel (assuming the CPU supports it). Works just fine for me. It works, but why not just upgrade to full 64 bit if you can? It's not a lot more

Re: Calligra

2012-08-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 15 aug 12, 13:41:35, Weaver wrote: No, I just removed it, but probably I should. My eyes hurt. This has been going on for years! KDE have some excellent packages: K3B, Okular, Amarok, etc., but they need to wake up in regard to their office suite. They need to stick to their

Re: Calligra

2012-08-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 16 aug 12, 03:05:44, Weaver wrote: I'd be very interested in an objective comparison with Libre Office and Abiword/Gnumeric. [snip comparison of LO with AW/GN] I meant those two with Calligra ;) Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers:

Re: having a problem removing a package

2012-08-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 19 aug 12, 13:28:38, Chris Bannister wrote: Ok, first I'd do an apt-get clean Why would you delete the downloaded packages cache because a package fails to remove/purge? Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers:

Re: having a problem removing a package

2012-08-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 19 aug 12, 23:16:28, Chris Bannister wrote: When I saw this: dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... /etc/init.d/bandwidthd: 19: Syntax error: ( unexpected invoke-rc.d: initscript bandwidthd, action stop failed. dpkg: error processing I thought just to be on the

Re: WICD

2012-08-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 20 aug 12, 22:49:04, James Allsopp wrote: HI, I'm running wicd on debian stable and unfortunately wicd can't maintain the connection. Absolutely nothing about the rest of the wireless network has changed. It keeps oscillating through putting interface up obtaining IP addresss Done

Re: man in the middle attack ?

2012-08-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 21 aug 12, 14:02:48, David wrote: On 21/08/2012, Phil Dobbin bukowskis...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to apologise for the abuse you have suffered at the hands of certain members of this list. Uncalled for, rude unhelpful. I agree. Attacking strangers might be a brief distraction

Re: OT: man in the middle attack ?

2012-08-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 21 aug 12, 02:47:29, Chris wrote: Joe doesn't annoy me, but it's not pleasant to read that Joe still annoys some people. IMO this address should be banned. It wouldn't help, as his[1] e-mails go to the private address, not to the list. [1] I'm quite sure it's a misconfigured

Re: man in the middle attack ?

2012-08-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 21 aug 12, 09:36:00, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Please don't make haste in assuming malice. This was meant as please don't assume intent to attack/offend/etc/ I'm sorry if my bad wording offended someone, that was not my intention. The rest still stands: Communication via e-mail

Joe's autoresponder finally turned off? [was: Re: Fwd: OT: man in the middle attack ?]

2012-08-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 21 aug 12, 14:13:06, Bob Proulx wrote: The joe1assistly bad robot is one of the recipients. It then does this: sender - mailing list - many recipients, including newsgroups joe1assistly - sender Mail from joe1assistly never hits the mailing list. There isn't anything the

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 22 aug 12, 13:29:52, Weaver wrote: Ping: 69 ms Download: 27.71 Mb/s Upload: 2.28 Mb/s Ok, still far away from the advertised 100 Mb/s, but not that bad. Did you do the test with the recommended server or did you try also other ones? Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions

Re: Changing to digest form

2012-08-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 23 aug 12, 00:46:41, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I would like to use digest too, if digest isn't broken anymore, please inform me. If I should reply using a digest and something is technical broken (not regarding to the content of my idiotic messages ;), then inform me too. You can always

Re: Changing to digest form

2012-08-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 22 aug 12, 15:16:01, Bob Proulx wrote: For me it means that I need to verify that I got the message by the mailing list too (which always comes later so I usually ignore it for a while first) and that it wasn't a reply only to me. So I can't just ignore them. I have to spend effort

Re: dpkg

2012-08-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 24 aug 12, 00:31:23, lina wrote: Hi, I read the man dpkg, and didn't think too much, just tried the dpkg --clear-selections and then the dpkg --get-selections shows root@Debian:/home/lina# dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall | wc -l 2991 root@Debian:/home/lina# dpkg

Re: Changing to digest form

2012-08-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 23 aug 12, 09:14:18, Mike McClain wrote: Hi Andrei, On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 09:13:52AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: snip You can always subscribe to the relevant bug (too lazy to look up the number for you). Educate me please, how do you subscribe to a bug? http

Re: dpkg

2012-08-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 24 aug 12, 00:46:42, lina wrote: aptitude install -s # aptitude install -s The following packages will be REMOVED: accountsservice acl acpi acpi-fakekey acpi-support acpi-support-base acpid acroread acroread-debian-files acroread-dictionary-en acroread-escript

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