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 Iceweas

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: 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. http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net/ht

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? > > Prefer

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 comm

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

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

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 l

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 t

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 g

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);

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&#

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 >> assumi

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

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. >>>> >>>> Tha

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 > > /editor I think the question was regarding Alpine. -- Regards, S.D.Allen - Toronto -- T

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.or

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 abou

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?

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 w

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 Gmail, Playstore etc. There is a team working on a pure "Open" version called Replicant. Wired magazine recently had a writeup that one interested migh

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

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 de

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-29 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 08:22:23AM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: > lee writes: > > > "Karl E. Jorgensen" writes: > > > >> * not doing "crazy things", like running backports or > >> testing/unstable [2], and no grabbing *.debs from weird places. > > > > Debian isn't as stable as you like to th

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-29 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 11:29:22AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 23:50:45 +1300 > Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 09:49:10PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 18:32:38 -0400 > > > > Yes. I'm a huge believer in wiping and reinstalling major

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-29 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 11:58:30AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Me, I'm personally going to continue fresh installing, because I enjoy > the spring-cleaning aspect of it, and the fact that I'm starting my > new version from a known state. But I'm now aware this is a Steve Litt > quirk, not solid adv

Re: Re: funny text in bash history

2014-09-29 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 06:04:18PM +0100, Clive Standbridge wrote: > That's just for starters. Install the bash-completion package, > un-comment the code in ~/.bashrc following the "enable programmable > completion features" comment, and start a new shell. > > Now when you start typing and press

Re: Synaptic slow when Caribou is running after Gnome-shell update

2014-10-13 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 01:20:39AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 13.10.2014 um 00:21 schrieb Michael Biebl: > > Am 12.10.2014 um 19:01 schrieb Luca Perico: > >> Hi > >> After 3,14 gnome shell update (i use debian jessie) i have see synaptic > >> p.m, very slow to show the package list at startu

Re: HTML5 videos in Jessie

2014-10-13 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 07:14:19PM +0200, Proxy wrote: > Hello, > > I just installed Jessie on one of my partitions. Most of the stuff works > just fine, but I'm having problem playing HTML5 videos on Youtube in > Iceweasel. I can't even watch webm videos from here: > http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/deb

Re: About chromium in Jessie - "API keys missing" and Clang

2014-10-13 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 09:43:40AM +0200, Florent Peterschmitt wrote: > Hello, > > I'm curious about two thing in the chromium browser package in Debian > Jessie: > > - I (we?) get a message about Chromium API keys missing. Does that > avoid Chromium being able to speak with google for sync and

Re: About chromium in Jessie - "API keys missing" and Clang

2014-10-13 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:06:23AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Hi Florent, > > Am Montag, 13. Oktober 2014, 09:43:40 schrieb Florent Peterschmitt: > > Hello, > > > > I'm curious about two thing in the chromium browser package in Debian > > Jessie: > > > > - I (we?) get a message about Ch

Re: About chromium in Jessie - "API keys missing" and Clang

2014-10-13 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:06:23AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Hi Florent, > > Am Montag, 13. Oktober 2014, 09:43:40 schrieb Florent Peterschmitt: > > Hello, > > > > I'm curious about two thing in the chromium browser package in Debian > > Jessie: > > > > - I (we?) get a message about Ch

Re: Synaptic slow when Caribou is running after Gnome-shell update

2014-10-13 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 03:35:51PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 13.10.2014 um 12:06 schrieb Stephen Allen: > > I too had experienced this, seems to be fixed as of yesterday. Thanks > > Michael. > > Unfortunately, this is not fixed yet. > Apparently the start is n

Re: Cinnamon Desktop environment

2014-10-22 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 09:00:05PM -0500, John Foster wrote: > A good place to start would be with Linux Mint LMDE Why? We have up-to-date Cinnamon in Debian Jessie (testing currently). Besides LMDE isn't supported much anymore, One will have difficulties using the Debian repos with it. -- To

Re: Does Debian still have a systemd-must-die metapackage?

2014-10-22 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:55:57AM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 22/10/14 09:13, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Ma, 21 oct 14, 18:41:53, Steve Litt wrote: > >> Does Debian still have a systemd-must-die metapackage, and does it > >> still work in Jessie? > > > > Steve, > > > > I would have e

Re: Warning - bleachbit might kill KDE

2014-11-21 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 07:34:22PM +0100, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > due to a bug in bleachbit, it might happen, that bleachbit fullfills your > partition completely up. This happens, when you activate "delete free space". > > I had the problem, that bleachbit fullfilled my /home/partition, th

Re: Warning - bleachbit might kill KDE

2014-11-22 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 06:53:07PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 21 November 2014 18:42:20 Stephen Allen wrote: > > > So, do not use this option in bleachbit! I already filed a bugreport and > > > think this warning might help others. > > > > You should

Re: Warning - bleachbit might kill KDE

2014-11-22 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 08:34:08AM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 22/11/14 05:53, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 21 November 2014 18:42:20 Stephen Allen wrote: > >>> So, do not use this option in bleachbit! I already filed a bugreport and > >>> thi

Re: systemd-free alternatives are not off topic.

2014-11-23 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 12:01:44AM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > I DO NOT WANT SYSTEMD ON ANY SYSTEM THAT I ADMINISTRATE ... is that so > hard to understand? Loud and clear - So DON'T INSTALL it then! You're ranting because of philisophical differences, and that my friend isn't for -user. Y

Re: Fwd: Gnome/X/Display device issues since before Testing freeze

2014-11-25 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 12:09:10PM +1100, Peter Miller wrote: > I've had the "Oh no! Something went wrong" screen for a couple of > weeks now, since just before Testing went into freeze. > > I've looked everywhere I can and tried all sorts of things, but > nothing solves the problem. I recently up

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-02 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 11:49:15AM +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > Le Mon, 01 Dec 2014 13:45:12 -0500, > Miles Fidelman a écrit : > > > Ric Moore wrote: > > > On 11/30/2014 11:27 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > >> I fear that once systemd is firmly entrenched in Debian as the > > >> defaul

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: > 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 my desktop

Re: Synaptic messed up

2014-06-28 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 07:57:03PM -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > > On 06/27/2014 03:18 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >That needs sorting! > > > >I should have asked: What GUI/DE (Graphical User Interface/Desktop > >Environment) are you using? (So I know what editors you are likely to have. > >Yes,

Re: Synaptic messed up

2014-06-29 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 04:19:08PM +0100, Tom Furie wrote: > On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 07:42:33AM -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > > > Well then, you probably have gvim installed. Anyway editing the sources > > list is easy. On your command line simply enter 'apt edit-source

Re: Synaptic messed up

2014-06-29 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 09:48:30PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 21:40:32 +0100 > Tom Furie wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 03:57:36PM -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > > > On 06/28/2014 11:19 AM, Tom Furie wrote: > > > > > >Are you sure the apt command is available in Whe

Sid - grubpc-bin isc-dhcp-client bugs

2014-07-08 Thread Stephen Allen
For some time these bugs have existed in SID: critical bugs of grub-pc-bin (2.00-22 → 2.02~beta2-10) #741464 - grub-pc-bin: hangs after displaying boot menu grave bugs of isc-dhcp-client (4.2.4-7 → 4.3.0+dfsg-1) #749410 - isc-dhcp-client: shutdown/reboot hangs after K03rsyslog Any idea when

Re: Sid - grubpc-bin isc-dhcp-client bugs

2014-07-09 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 06:41:08PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2014-07-09 08:59 +0200, Tom H wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Stephen Allen > > wrote: > >> > >> For some time these bugs have existed in SID: > >> > >>

Re: Netflix in chrome-unstable on Debian Sid

2014-08-11 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 08:26:35PM -0400, John Holland wrote: > working in Debian Sid VM by jtotheh @slashdot > http://entertainment.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5512583&cid=47639701 Cool thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Error with Latest Google Chrome Stable

2014-09-18 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 07:09:10PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > On 14/09/14 23:40, Kenneth Jacker wrote: < snip > > >Is this a known bug? With Chrome? With Flash? > > > > See https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=410805 > > The suggested place to get a replacement is here >

Re: OT: Pepper Flash Crashes Everywhere

2014-09-18 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 06:14:43PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > Anyone else experiencing this? Haven't found any reports so far. > Chrome & Pepper ran fine before update/upgrade a few days ago. Figured > I'd check before I started mucking about the system trying to fix it. > > Downloaded .deb

Re: Cognitively friendly systemd components graphic

2014-09-25 Thread Stephen Allen
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 09:43:22AM -0400, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > Am calling this a "cognitive friendly" systemd graphic because it is for me: > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Systemd_components.svg > > It and any similar I find soon will be what I primarily lean on to > follow conver

Re: Let's have a vote! I was just banned from debian forum for posting a systemd critical message.

2014-09-25 Thread Stephen Allen
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 09:51:38AM -0700, Gregory Smith wrote: > I was just banned from debian forum for posting a systemd critical message. > > I posted the message found here: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/09/msg01834.html > > It was deleted twice and then: > > You have been *per

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-26 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 11:27:54AM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Martin Read wrote: > >On 25/09/14 15:42, Rob Owens wrote: > >>I agree that "let's wait until we have a good init to move to" should > >>have been more seriously considered, but for some reason people were in > >>a big hurry to make a

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-26 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 03:05:14PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Stephen Allen wrote: > >On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 11:27:54AM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > >>Martin Read wrote: > >>>On 25/09/14 15:42, Rob Owens wrote: > >>>>I agree that "let&#

Jessie Post-Install

2014-03-28 Thread Stephen Allen
After the installation, my wifi wasn't configured (despite it being configured during the net-install) and was very surprised to have XFce as +my default desktop environment. I had been expecting and wanting Gnome-Shell. Shouldn't the wifi have been configured? How in the hell would have a newbie

Re: Jessie Post-Install

2014-03-29 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 12:10:50AM +, Brian wrote: > On Fri 28 Mar 2014 at 19:33:44 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > > > After the installation, my wifi wasn't configured (despite it being > > configured during the net-install) and was very surprised to have Xfce >

Re: kernel upgrade

2014-03-29 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 04:50:50PM +0100, Nemeth Gyorgy wrote: > 2014-03-29 14:31 keltezéssel, François Patte írta: > > > Since I installed debian sid (august 2013), I regularly made upgrade, > > but the kernel doesn't appear to be upgraded. Why? I am running > > 3.2.0-4-amd64 kernel. > > > > Do

Re: kernel upgrade

2014-03-30 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 10:42:52AM +0200, Nemeth Gyorgy wrote: > 2014-03-29 22:29 keltezéssel, Stephen Allen írta: > >> Do you have linux-image-amd64 installed? If not, install it. It always > >> depends on the latest kernel so if there is a newer kernel, it will be > &g

Re: Jessie Post-Install

2014-03-31 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 02:56:09PM -0300, Bruno Schneider wrote: > On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Stephen Allen wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 12:10:50AM +, Brian wrote: > >> On Fri 28 Mar 2014 at 19:33:44 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > >> > Shouldn't th

Re: kernel upgrade

2014-03-31 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 07:46:15PM +0200, Nemeth Gyorgy wrote: > 2014-03-30 14:59 keltezéssel, Stephen Allen írta: > > >> Are you sure? > >> When the kernel version number changes, the > >> linux-image--amd64.deb will be a new package. > >> > &g

Re: kernel upgrade

2014-03-31 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 09:37:28PM +0200, Nemeth Gyorgy wrote: > 2014-03-31 20:07 keltezéssel, Brad Rogers írta: > > For my set of circumstances, it is. However, I neglected to take proper > > note of yours. You're using apt-get (etc.) and I tend to use Synaptic. > > Clearly, behaviour is differe

Re: google drive client on debian

2014-03-31 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 09:58:26AM -0600, ChadDavis wrote: > Has anyone had any experience, recently, with Grive or SyncDrive on Debian > Wheezy? > > Other clients would be fine too, I'm just trying to figure out what my > options are for a Google Drive client on a Debian system. ---end quoted tex

Re: Jessie Post-Install

2014-04-01 Thread Stephen Allen
In my opinion no - expecting new users to Debian to read an install report is problematic. Using the net-install I wasn't prompted for what I wanted in terms of a Desktop Environment. Xfce4 isn't what most users with modern hardware would want in my opinion - it's a Luddite DE. But not having wir

Re: Jessie Post-Install

2014-04-01 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 03:05:57PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Tue 01 Apr 2014 at 06:57:03 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > > > In my opinion no - expecting new users to Debian to read an install > > report is problematic. Using the net-install I wasn't prompted for what I &

Re: Jessie Post-Install

2014-04-01 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 11:49:07PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 01 April 2014 11:57:03 Stephen Allen wrote: > > In my opinion no - expecting new users to Debian to read an install > > report is problematic. Using the net-install I wasn't prompted for > > w

Re: kernel upgrade

2014-04-01 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 11:38:54AM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 18:51:59 -0400 > Stephen Allen wrote: > > Hello Stephen, > > >better although slower. At one time it was the go to, but since I've > >gathered that apt-get has been improved. >

Re: google drive client on debian

2014-04-01 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 09:32:22AM -0600, ChadDavis wrote: > SyncDrive is, from what little I've read, just thin wrapper of a GUI around > the GRIVE project, and built specifically fro the ubuntu repos. That's > what got me thinking that it might be a good fit for debian. > > Of course, the offic

Re: Jessie Post-Install

2014-04-02 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 11:35:14AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 01 apr 14, 21:13:16, Stephen Allen wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 03:05:57PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > > > Install report? Maybe I wasn't clear: from d-i's main menu it only takes

Re: Jessie Post-Install

2014-04-02 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 10:35:40AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 02 April 2014 02:18:18 Stephen Allen wrote: > > Lisi said: > > > Newbies would be ill-advised to start off with Jessie, IMHO. > > >  Stable is a better place to start, especially if the putati

Re: google drive client on debian

2014-04-02 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 11:47:19AM -0600, ChadDavis wrote: > > > Of course, the official linux client from google should probably drop one > > > of these months. > > > > Really?! Last time I had a discussion on G+ they were of the mindset > > that they wanted 3rd parties to develop for it, after al

Re: Not receiving list mail

2014-04-02 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 08:54:54AM -0500, Craig L. wrote: > I have not received any list mailings since 30 March. I see there are at least > two other people reporting the same problem. I doubt my ISP is blocking > anything as they don't even seem to be able to prevent their internal > communicatio

Re: Jessie Post-Install

2014-04-02 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 10:33:12PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 02 apr 14, 14:36:53, Stephen Allen wrote: > > > > Surely the PopCon results should determine that, no? > > Not really, Gnome has been the default for a long time, so it will > naturally have

Re: Not receiving list mail

2014-04-02 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 08:08:25PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Wed 02 Apr 2014 at 14:59:21 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > > > Wonder if the folks having trouble have added their email to the Debian > > Email Whitelist? https://lists.debian.org/whitelist/ > > What does that d

Re: Not receiving list mail

2014-04-02 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 02:27:05PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20140402_145921, Stephen Allen wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 08:54:54AM -0500, Craig L. wrote: > > > I have not received any list mailings since 30 March. I see there are at > > > least > >

Re: Jessie Post-Install

2014-04-03 Thread Stephen Allen
On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 03:10:21PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 02 April 2014 19:31:59 Stephen Allen wrote: > > Yes know about the CDs and the DVDs - I'm talking about what > > happened during a net-install using the defaults. Geesus do really > > expect a new

Re: Not receiving list mail

2014-04-03 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 10:27:02PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > Read the description at Debian.org. I don't get my ideas about why it > is there from hearsay. I didn't know about it until you mentioned it. > I looked for it today and report what I found. > > > Seriously, you would expect people t

Re: Not receiving list mail

2014-04-04 Thread Stephen Allen
On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 06:36:05PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I'm 81yrs, I don't have perfect recall, but in the recent past you went > to the trouble of finding an exact reference as to the purpose of the > white list and you posted it here, but you apparently did not take the > time to read

Re: Not receiving list mail

2014-04-04 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 06:45:59PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 04 Apr 2014 at 12:57:34 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 06:36:05PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > > > I'm 81yrs, I don't have perfect recall, but in the rece

Re: How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-05 Thread Stephen Allen
> ray wrote: > Gnome is referred to as a desktop environment, as it is much more than > just a manager of windows, menus etc. KDE is the other heavyweight DE, > there are two medium-weight DEs, LXDE and Xfce4. There is also at least > one fork of an older version of Gnome, as the current Gnome

Re: How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-09 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 09:12:05AM +0100, Joe wrote: > On Sat, 5 Apr 2014 20:22:55 -0400 > Stephen Allen wrote: > > I see this mentioned a lot that Gnome-Shell won't run on hardware more > > than a "few" years old. This is patently false. I've run it on a

Re: Adobe flash security

2014-04-13 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 02:36:43PM +0200, Slavko wrote: > Hi, > > Dňa Sun, 13 Apr 2014 10:31:01 + Артур Истомин > napísal: > > > # update-flashplugin-nonfree --status > > Flash Player version installed on this system : 11.2.202.335 > > Flash Player version available on upstream site: 11.2.2

Re: Heartbleed (was ... Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...)

2014-04-15 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 02:11:00PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > On 15/04/14 12:59, shawn wilson wrote: > >> That statement was made in the sense that at least the bank could have > >> > issued a statement along the lines of 'you may have heard of the > >> > heartbleed bug, we can assure all of ou

Re: Adobe flash security

2014-04-15 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 03:25:08PM +0200, Rob van der Putten wrote: > Hi there > > > Stephen Allen wrote: > > >+1 Not installed. :( > > A manual install, as suggested by Arthur, works. > For i386, download; > http://fpdownload.macromedia.com

Re: install cinnamon

2014-04-24 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 02:58:28PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Tue 22 Apr 2014 at 11:48:11 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > It would be interesting to know whether this is successful for you. > > On the segfault site Martins provides cinnamon-build.tar.gz. If you > trust the packages it contains (installin

Re: install cinnamon

2014-04-25 Thread Stephen Allen
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 01:40:11PM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Stephen Allen: > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 02:58:28PM +0100, Brian wrote: > >> On Tue 22 Apr 2014 at 11:48:11 +0100, Brian wrote: > >> > >>> It would be interesting to know whether this i

Re: How to remove Google from the "Start screen"?

2014-05-05 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 08:21:46AM +0800, A Debian User wrote: > First of all, sorry for using the term "Start screen" :P > > But when you do a search for applications in a GNOME 3 desktop, two buttons > appear below the screen: "Wikipedia" and "Google". > > Apparently, clicking on either of them

Re: Debian 7.x and desktop environments [somewhat off topic]

2014-05-06 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 09:20:29PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Tue 06 May 2014 at 07:54:58 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > This post is being composed well after a great tree of responses to OP > > have accumulated. In these, as well as in other posts about DE in > > Debian I have seen mentioned th

Re: Is zeitgeist safe?

2014-05-06 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 03:57:27PM -0400, Theodore Alcapotaxis wrote: > > > > - Original Message - > > From: A Debian User > > Sent: 05/06/14 09:44 AM > > To: Theodore Alcapotaxis, debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: Is zeitgeist safe? > > > > Unintentional data leakage? Script

Re: Is zeitgeist safe?

2014-05-07 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 11:09:28PM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 5/6/2014 10:04 PM, Theodore Alcapotaxis wrote: > >>- Original Message - > >>From: Stephen Allen > >>Sent: 05/07/14 09:36 AM > >>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >>Subjec

Re: Is zeitgeist safe?

2014-05-07 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 09:57:40PM -0400, Doug wrote: > > On 05/06/2014 09:36 PM, Stephen Allen wrote: > >On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 03:57:27PM -0400, Theodore Alcapotaxis wrote: > >> > >>>- Original Message - > >>>From: A Debian User &

Re: Thinkpad Backlight Trouble in X in Testing

2014-05-07 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 11:32:58AM +0100, Daniel Moerner wrote: > Hi, > > A quick follow-up on this: It's a general problem with ACPI triggers, > I think. Suspend on lid close is also no longer working. Can't believe > I didn't think to check this before emailing out - sorry. > Both work here on m

Re: Is zeitgeist safe?

2014-05-08 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 09:00:46PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 07/05/14 08:32 PM, Stephen Allen wrote: > > > >There was a debate in Toronto this past Friday with the past director of > >NSA/CIA, Glen Greenwald (and 2 other people whose names I just can't > >

Re: Confusion

2014-05-08 Thread Stephen Allen
On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 02:18:49PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > I think we're doing a disservice to the OP by merely replying to a post with > a subject line like: "Confusion". Sorry, that is not a proper subject line > for a post to a tech list. Someone else started a thread with a proper > subject

Re: One of those threads, old stuff: was Confusion

2014-05-13 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:27:45AM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > >Joel Rees wrote: > > > >>Hey can we start one of those those threads? I think the > >>teletype/paper tape terminal we used in high school to interface with > >>the IMSAI box we built. (Much gratitude to a teacher who used a lot of > >>h

Re: Tails

2014-05-18 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 02:33:21AM -0700, Weaver wrote: > > On Sun, May 18, 2014 2:05 am, Francesco Ariis wrote: > > On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 10:59:31PM -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: > >> Lighten up, lad and stop taking all things literally. > >> > > > > > > > Back OT, someone please tell to the inve

Re: systemd situation in Jesssie

2014-05-18 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 08:37:38PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > On 05/17/2014 02:57 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > >On 2014-05-17 19:58 +0200, Martin Vegter wrote: > > > >>Hello, > >> > >>I am wondering whether systemd will be mandatory in Jessie. > >>At the moment, I can install Jessie without systemd. Wi

Re: systemd situation in Jesssie

2014-05-18 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 09:17:46PM -0400, Theodore Alcapotaxis wrote: > > - Original Message - > > From: Martin Vegter > > Sent: 05/18/14 01:58 AM > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: systemd situation in Jesssie > > > > Hello, > > > > I have servers running Jessie. Can I con

Re: want to revert back to gnome classic mode.

2014-05-21 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 11:57:29AM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > thanks alot guyz, i am actually a server side guy using mostly terminal > window. i am new to gnome and xfce. > so my question is, are all the applications from gnome will be available in > xfce, is it like a layer on the top o

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