Re: [DNG] Fwd: Bug#832508: O: systemd-shim -- SysVinit shim for systemd

2016-08-04 Thread Arnt Karlsen
on systemd, without that dependency instead." ..can we use it (at least the name) to help people ditch, er, upgrade systemd-shim away from their boxes? -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in se

Re: [DNG] Building w/ gtk2 vs gtk3

2016-07-31 Thread Arnt Karlsen
is "include everything unless it'd pull _really_ > fat dependencies, and even then the optional stuff should still be > packaged", but it depends on whom you package it for. Best to use > your best judgement. > > > Meow! -- ..med vennlig hi

Re: [DNG] Ugly, ugly news

2016-07-30 Thread Arnt Karlsen
..such glacially speedy change require and promotes wise changes, and allows democracy getting started quickly with imperfect constitutions like the anti-semitic one we had from 1814 to 1851. ..optional factcheck googlator: https://translate.google.com/ ;o) ..agai

Re: [DNG] A nice summary about what's bad about SystemD

2016-07-29 Thread Arnt Karlsen
ple? -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists

Re: [DNG] Devuan Sticker Poll

2016-07-29 Thread Arnt Karlsen
> hk > > [0]: https://git.devuan.org/devuan-editors/devuan-art/issues/13 > ..I don't see "DEVUAN GNU/Linux forked from Debian SystemD/Linux", preferably on 2 lines. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his

Re: [DNG] Linux-Speakup-friendly emails: was question about mailing lists

2016-07-28 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
3676 for parser happiness. 3676 is a slight variation of text/plain, with a specified quoting style and soft linebreaks. Blah blah SPCRLF blah is a soft linebreak, blah CRLF blah is a hard linebreak. It's really good for paragraph-oriented text, but poor for ASCII art. Arnt

Re: [DNG] Why Debian 8 Pinning is (or isn't) pointless

2016-07-27 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 27 Jul 2016 16:23:46 -0700, Rick wrote in message <20160727232346.gh10...@linuxmafia.com>: > Quoting Arnt Karlsen (a...@iaksess.no): > > > ..re-running your tests now, do you still get the same results > > now, as back then when you first checked? > &

Re: [DNG] Why Debian 8 Pinning is (or isn't) pointless

2016-07-27 Thread Arnt Karlsen
ply on grounds of the known > facts of what's in the damned thing. > > Now, you guys presumably all have Linux systems. Why pose the > question? Why not just check, if you want to know? ..re-running your tests now, do you still get the same results now, as back then when you first chec

Re: [DNG] Wirth's law

2016-07-27 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
a function in X call one in Y. Arnt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Ugly, ugly news

2016-07-26 Thread Arnt Karlsen
. ..can we use it (at least the name) to help people ditch systemd etc off their boxes? -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, a

Re: [DNG] suspend / hibernate with KDE

2016-07-25 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 23:05:35 +0200, Adam wrote in message <20160725210535.gc15...@angband.pl>: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 07:39:58AM +0200, Klaus Fuerstberger wrote: > > Arnt Karlsen schrieb am 25.07.2016 um 00:18: > > > ..I'm on ascii with daemon-version: 0.9

Re: [DNG] Why Debian 8 Pinning is (or isn't) pointless

2016-07-25 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
of the libsystemd functions. If so, putting a printf("Hello world!") into that function would suffice. OK, so what makes libsystemd different from libc, which comes from the same source? libc is stored in the same directory on the same debian servers

Re: [DNG] suspend / hibernate with KDE

2016-07-25 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 07:39:58 +0200, Klaus wrote in message <5fcaf78f-839d-05dc-04ab-750e0d35b...@arcor.de>: > Arnt Karlsen schrieb am 25.07.2016 um 00:18: > > ..I'm on ascii with daemon-version: 0.99.4, and it's been stuck > > there for a few months, do I need

Re: [DNG] Why Debian 8 Pinning is (or isn't) pointless

2016-07-25 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
loading subsidiary libraries. (The compiler/linker may optimise the library for a particular address, but the address-independency work is still done in principle.) Data is static variables, values of constant strings and such. Arnt ___ Dng mailing

Re: [DNG] Why Debian 8 Pinning is (or isn't) pointless

2016-07-25 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
Hi Rainer, could you describe how this could be used to, say, make all applications that link with libsystemd print "Hello world!" in addition to their normal function? Arnt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dy

Re: [DNG] suspend / hibernate with KDE

2016-07-24 Thread Arnt Karlsen
on ascii with daemon-version: 0.99.4, and it's been stuck there for a few months, do I need to downgrade or some such? -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] F1 and special usernames on the login screen

2016-07-23 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 23 Jul 2016 10:45:43 +0200, Didier wrote in message <57932eb7.6080...@in2p3.fr>: > Le 22/07/2016 23:33, Rick Moen a écrit : > > Quoting Arnt Karlsen (a...@iaksess.no): > > > >> ..bytt ut "inn" med "på", rett oversatt skal dette være: &

Re: [DNG] Mirroring Devuan

2016-07-22 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 09:42:53 +0200, aitor_czr wrote in message <5791ce7d.5000...@gnuinos.org>: > > Hi Arnt, > > On 07/21/2016 01:51 PM, Arnt Karlsen <a...@iaksess.no> wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 12:35:18 +0200, aitor_czr wrote in message > > <5790

Re: [DNG] F1 and special usernames on the login screen

2016-07-22 Thread Arnt Karlsen
my fingers by almost 40 years of > > programming and I find it definitely more convenient for that task. > > Would it help if I apologise pour l'impérialisme américain? ;-> > > (Je crains que nous ne parlons pas de Devuan. Nous devrions parler > des questions techniques, mais

Re: [DNG] F1 and special usernames on the login screen

2016-07-21 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
/actionshots/t4/dasKeyboardUltimateEU.jpg Arnt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] F1 and special usernames on the login screen

2016-07-21 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
that cause malloc bombs, of course, and can ignore this. Arnt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] F1 and special usernames on the login screen

2016-07-21 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
it's sysrq and linux: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/sysrq.txt Arnt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Mirroring Devuan

2016-07-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
ough reprepro could gain some incomplete support for it. (I guess > there is some chance reprepro should already support retrieving > packages from other repositories in this format. Adding such packages > locally is likely not yet possible (though I guess one would have to > try to be

Re: [DNG] with or without libsystemd0

2016-07-20 Thread Arnt Karlsen
pine and gut feelings and whatever bits we do learn. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ___

Re: [DNG] [Grml] Is grml still alive

2016-07-20 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 20 Jul 2016 15:18:53 +0200, Arnt wrote in message <20160720151853.6a52c...@nb6.lan>: > On Wed, 20 Jul 2016 14:09:14 +0200, Alexander wrote in message > <20160720120914.gc25...@smithers.snow-crash.org>: > > > On Wed, 20 Jul 2016, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > >

Re: [DNG] Cannot install Samba on Jessie

2016-07-20 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 20 Jul 2016 14:23:02 +0100, Rowland wrote in message <578f7b36.8030...@gmail.com>: > On 20/07/16 14:10, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Jul 2016 12:15:27 +0100, Rowland wrote in message > > <578f5d4f.2020...@gmail.com>: > > > >> On 20/07/16 1

Re: [DNG] [Grml] Is grml still alive

2016-07-20 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 20 Jul 2016 14:09:14 +0200, Alexander wrote in message <20160720120914.gc25...@smithers.snow-crash.org>: > On Wed, 20 Jul 2016, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > On Wed, 20 Jul 2016 09:25:39 +0200, Klaus wrote in message > > <33d1c1ed-16ae-e76a

Re: [DNG] Cannot install Samba on Jessie

2016-07-20 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 20 Jul 2016 12:15:27 +0100, Rowland wrote in message <578f5d4f.2020...@gmail.com>: > On 20/07/16 12:11, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Jul 2016 22:48:20 +1200, Daniel wrote in message > > <578f56f4.6060...@centurion.net.nz>: > > > >> Hi Ro

Re: [DNG] with or without libsystemd0

2016-07-20 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
xtra thing to check when there's a bug, etc. I'm just saying that libsystemd0 is not horrendous in the way systemd is. Arnt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Cannot install Samba on Jessie

2016-07-20 Thread Arnt Karlsen
repo temporarily to your sources.list to > get around the issue. > > Regards, > Daniel. ..as these conventions come and go these days, can you imagine Hillary giving the Donald, or Putin etc similar access to her email servers? ;oD Even temporarily? ;oD -- ..med vennlig hilsen =

Re: [DNG] F1 and special usernames on the login screen

2016-07-20 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
spend the time to test that case and fix whatever needs fixing. Arnt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] F1 and special usernames on the login screen

2016-07-20 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
Tberefore, the conventional solution to this problem is to require membership in a bespoke group for shutdown/reboot rights. I believe the conventional solution is to locate such hardware behind locked doors and make sure few people have access to the power cabl

Re: [DNG] F1 and special usernames on the login screen

2016-07-20 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
NDA. Arnt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] F1 and special usernames on the login screen

2016-07-19 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
ut that too doesn't have a lot to do with login screens or multiseat. Arnt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] F1 and special usernames on the login screen

2016-07-19 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
droid lock screen. Arnt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

[DNG] ..rubber duck party convention, was: Larcenous mail threads.

2016-07-18 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 18 Jul 2016 08:16:03 +0200, Edward wrote in message

Re: [DNG] C Obfuscated code: a virtue or a vice?

2016-07-15 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
of a small galaxy was parsing, studying and evaluating whatever I said. 2. He asked a stupid question. It's comforting in a way. If even someone like that can ask a stupid question... Arnt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https

Re: [DNG] Why Debian 8 Pinning is (or isn't) pointless

2016-07-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
;o) > > computer' in Norwegian). > > Sorry, no. In Norwegian, that would be 'liten datamaskin'. ...which most Norwegians pronounce "leetn datamashin." ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his anc

Re: [DNG] [Kali Linux 0003165]: Find a way to disable most services by default with systemd

2016-07-12 Thread Arnt Karlsen
t and start etc _whatever_ we want, in VMs, and also keep an open eye on what the fine systemd folks e.g. debian.org are scheming these days. ..nowadays I see Devuan falling apart exactly because Debian is falling apart, for details, run: ' how-can-i-help '. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind

Re: [DNG] systemd==bad

2016-07-11 Thread Arnt Karlsen
we (Devuan) lean on Slackware and alien conversion, at least as a backup plan B to the potential Debian trap? -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case

Re: [DNG] systemd==bad

2016-07-08 Thread Arnt Karlsen
als like the TPP. ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@l

Re: [DNG] systemd==bad

2016-07-08 Thread Arnt Karlsen
is appropriate with this level of > depravity. If we can't trust them, word should get out the their > opinions are bought. > > That is my free opinion ;) ..this clearly is where we could have used a http://groklaw.net/ style website. -- ..med vennlig hil

Re: [DNG] systemd==bad

2016-07-05 Thread Arnt Karlsen
shiny optional pulseaudio-module-udev, where is the udev thing coming from?": arnt@celsius:~$ apt-cache show pulseaudio-module-udev Package: pulseaudio-module-udev Source: pulseaudio Version: 9.0-1 Installed-Size: 89 Maintainer: Pulseaudio maintenance team <pkg-pulseaudio-de...@lists.

Re: [DNG] policykit - another time ...

2016-07-01 Thread Arnt Karlsen
ft with two options: either elaborate > a polkit-shim or discard applications which use it. > > Didier ..is there no --without-policykit switch we can use to recompile? -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his

Re: [DNG] Building w/ gtk2 vs gtk3

2016-07-01 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
of the window. I think this workaround is so little-used and little-known precisely because it doesn't help. It just bypasses the 16-bit limitation and immediately gives you another, much less tractable, problem. Arnt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

Re: [DNG] Mini init script written in Perl boots.

2016-06-20 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
cluding all the code, and I think Linus said he did, too.) Arnt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Mini init script written in Perl boots.

2016-06-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bi

Re: [DNG] Shim

2016-06-13 Thread Arnt Karlsen
re you ok with them viewing you as a crack head conspiracy theorist until they know, or get get first hand experience the hard way themselves? ..good luck, you'll need it! -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...

Re: [DNG] secure boot

2016-06-12 Thread Arnt Karlsen
development and support costs. This would be the > > case even with no underhanded policies, and know that "no > > underhanded policies" goes strictly against Microsoft volume > > licensing policy. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a

[DNG] ..another new(?) step towards Debian systemd: linux-image-4.6.0-1[-rt]-amd-signed, with MSTF keys...

2016-06-11 Thread Arnt Karlsen
really need to stop relying on untrustworthy people. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case

Re: [DNG] Killing background processes on logout [was Re: resolved]

2016-06-09 Thread Arnt Karlsen
suppose I should've said 'operators' or 'developers' > rather than 'users'. ..say 'operators' and||or||and/or 'developers', depending on context. > I really need to work harder at getting myself up to speed so I can > actually be 'useful' in this ... > -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind R

Re: [DNG] How to acknowledge ported version of Open Source program?

2016-06-08 Thread Arnt Karlsen
mmer guy (or gal) who then writes a program reimplementing those specified ideas. ..a different language reimplementation of the eriginal ideas will most probably require at least some manmade "new work" under copyright law. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Kar

Re: [DNG] resolved

2016-06-07 Thread Arnt Karlsen
, either way, you do not wanna have a cranky cranked up nuke in your laptop. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and

Re: [DNG] resolved

2016-06-07 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
. That's a fact? I've met Linus, I've spoken to Jordan K. Hubbard on the phone a few times, and I have run into Jim Gettys and Thomas Roell at conferences. They all seemed pleasant enough, not at all like RMS. Arnt ___ Dng mailing list Dng

Re: [DNG] How to acknowledge ported version of Open Source program?

2016-06-07 Thread Arnt Karlsen
hy you _can_ write your own program as a drop-in replacement to the original C program you once thought of to try port. ..to protect ideas, you need to patent them, which may be done in combinations with copyright protections and contractual terms in e.g. any canned EULA worm pit combination. -- ..

Re: [DNG] Caching binary .deb packages

2016-06-06 Thread Arnt Karlsen
packages.devuan.org? -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] man init

2016-06-04 Thread Arnt Karlsen
t - process control initialization SYNOPSIS /sbin/init [ -a ] [ -s ] [ -b ] [ -z xxx ] [ 0123456Ss ] /sbin/telinit [ -t SECONDS ] [ 0123456sSQqabcUu ] /sbin/telinit [ -e VAR[=VAL] ] DESCRIPTION " -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a nu

[DNG] ..setting up my own lan Devuan mirror, was: ..is there a way to block bad mirrors?

2016-06-01 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 1 Jun 2016 13:30:58 +0200, Jaromil wrote in message <20160601113058.GA8132@reflex>: > On Wed, 01 Jun 2016, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > ..is there a way to block out bad devuan mirrors? > > I'm having trouble getting a few packages out of > > ftp.acc.um

Re: [DNG] ..is there a way to block bad mirrors?

2016-06-01 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 1 Jun 2016 12:56:03 +0200, Arnt wrote in message <20160601125603.01c5d...@nb6.lan>: > Hi, > > ..is there a way to block out bad devuan mirrors? ..and on my first try after posting this, that bad mirror works ok. ..I still prefer setting up my own lan devuan mirror. --

[DNG] ..is there a way to block bad mirrors?

2016-06-01 Thread Arnt Karlsen
able to connect to ftp.acc.umu.se:http: [IP:130.239.18.173 80]", which denies me mariadb-test-data, python-matplotlib-data, python-numpy-doc, selektor, urweb-doc, urwed-mode and a bunch of libspring-*, which is why I prefer setting up my own devuan mirror. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Ki

Re: [DNG] ..weird new zzz-dist on Debian mirrors, to defeat us?, Fw: zzz-dist

2016-05-31 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 1 Jun 2016 00:12:58 +0200, Jaromil wrote in message <20160531221258.GA9551@reflex>: > On Tue, 31 May 2016, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > ..weird new zzz-dist is pushed out on Debian mirrors, > > to defeat our "merged" mirror scheme???, Fw: zzz-di

[DNG] ..weird new zzz-dist on Debian mirrors, to defeat us?, Fw: zzz-dist

2016-05-31 Thread Arnt Karlsen
.@debian.org> > -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ___ Dng mailing list Dng

Re: [DNG] Linux-libre-4.5.4

2016-05-30 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 30 May 2016 20:15:23 +0100, Antonio wrote in message

Re: [DNG] Linux-libre-4.5.4

2016-05-30 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 30 May 2016 17:15:54 +0200, Jaromil wrote in message <20160530151554.GA19164@reflex>: > > > dear Arnt, > > On Mon, 30 May 2016, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > ..this far I'm only aware of political, military, monetary etc > > power/might reasons why th

Re: [DNG] Request for Removal of slim package from Devuan

2016-05-30 Thread Arnt Karlsen
ug-fix build coming out of git that will need guinea pigs. ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and

Re: [DNG] apt-get upgrade does nothing

2016-05-29 Thread Arnt Karlsen
atile' deb http://us.mirror.devuan.org/merged/ jessie-updates main deb-src http://us.mirror.devuan.org/merged/ jessie-updates main -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of

Re: [DNG] You might have seen this already...

2016-05-29 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 29 May 2016 08:20:01 +0200, Edward wrote in message

Re: [DNG] Request for Removal of slim package from Devuan

2016-05-29 Thread Arnt Karlsen
it kills the graphics, keyboard and touch pad drivers. Ssh-ing in works, but the easiest fix is yank the power, do a fsck boot and then boot to the console and switch to kdm or wdm etc. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in hi

Re: [DNG] postgres

2016-05-27 Thread Arnt Karlsen
portbug postgres ". ..we have reportbug set up to devuan.org and not debian.org? -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best

Re: [DNG] Pulseaudio ...

2016-05-25 Thread Arnt Karlsen
are#Sound_servers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_server ..why not try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JACK_Audio_Connection_Kit on ditching PulseAudio? -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... S

Re: [DNG] sudo or su?

2016-05-21 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
The main difference is whether you want to keep being the original user or become root. Sudo keeps yourself when it can, su changes when it can. The difference affects e.g. $PATH, which sudo leaves alone and su resets to root's value. Arnt ___ Dng

Re: [DNG] Artistic decisions - keyboard mappings

2016-05-19 Thread Arnt Karlsen
be able to reset the caps lock key. Check out man timeout. ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _

Re: [DNG] Artistic decisions - keyboard mappings

2016-05-19 Thread Arnt Karlsen
gt; > > > setxkbmap -option caps:none > > Yes, and where should I put this command? ..and, can it be disabled or reset automagically after e.g. 30 seconds? Or on e.g. leaving the text editor briefly? -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar

[DNG] ..all joy now, was: ..booting an old Sid->Ceres past runlevel 1... no login joy

2016-05-18 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 18 May 2016 16:10:19 -0400, Boruch wrote in message <20160518201019.ga1...@e15-2016.optimum.net>: > On 2016-05-18 21:27, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Wed, 18 May 2016 13:05:31 -0400, Boruch wrote in message > > > Sounds to me like an issue with 'p

Re: [DNG] ..booting an old Sid->Ceres past runlevel 1... no login joy

2016-05-18 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 18 May 2016 19:23:27 +0200, Irrwahn wrote in message <48e882e7-9b75-2bb5-769f-a93c4126e...@freenet.de>: > On Wed, 18 May 2016 18:24:23 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > [about booting a system after Debian\Sid to Devuan\Ceres transition] > > > ..now having thrown

Re: [DNG] ..booting an old Sid->Ceres past runlevel 1... no login joy

2016-05-18 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 18 May 2016 13:05:31 -0400, Boruch wrote in message <20160518170531.gk32...@e15-2016.optimum.net>: > On 2016-05-18 18:24, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > DNG, I'm still left with runlevel 1, the damned thin will only > > accept root's passwd on the console, I can start and

[DNG] ..booting an old Sid->Ceres past runlevel 1... no login joy

2016-05-18 Thread Arnt Karlsen
machine so I can see /etc/rcS.d/ and /etc/rc2.d/ listings? -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and

Re: [DNG] Supervision scripts (was Re: OpenRC and Devuan)

2016-05-06 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
? Or do you suggest that when a server process quits because of if(!malloc()) exit() that has different implications regarding restarts and reliability than if the process is killed by the oomkiller? Or what? Arnt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@

Re: [DNG] Supervision scripts (was Re: OpenRC and Devuan)

2016-05-04 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
lification. But then I like TCP better than NCP, etc. Arnt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] My ISP is blocking devuan.org

2016-05-02 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
kill all nameservers. Arnt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Devuan Security Repo (was Re: invalid security certificate)

2016-05-02 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
helle...@dyne.org writes: auto.mirrors does not exist: only auto.mirror does. Unknown names point to www.devuan.org. Auto.mirrors exists as of yesterday. It was on the devuan home page due to a typo. Nextime made the typo work, then fixed the typo. Arnt

Re: [DNG] Gtk Development

2016-04-25 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
kato...@freaknet.org writes: Seeing that 90% of free software uses autohell I guess it might be not so ugly :) That's the Microsoft Windows argument: "Seeing that 90% use windows it can't be so bad". Arnt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@list

Re: [DNG] Which desktops work without systemd

2016-04-25 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
ave the same command, then they use the same keyboard shortcut for that command". The early KDE developers held a session at a place called Arnsberg where the scope of this was hashed out for the KDE. The list on the whiteboard was 10-15 items long (in general

Re: [DNG] Which desktops work without systemd

2016-04-24 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
it was made. So do you want a history lesson, or do you want to go on just being right? Arnt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Printing -- now even pdf works. I have no idea why.

2016-04-22 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
this ambition. Different lpr versions did have various bits of this. IIRC I wrote code to autodetect and support seven different versions of it, and didn't enjoy that task at all. IPP is good, even if Cups isn't the best possible implementation. Arnt

Re: [DNG] suspend

2016-04-12 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
Rainer Weikusat writes: ... their OT posts / trolls / rants / 'news' items for just one month. It would be nice to have a bit less blahblah about random systemd-related topics and a bit more about devuan. I've more or less phased out from the list because of that, actually. Arnt

Re: [DNG] Devuan Rpi2 Lxde

2016-03-12 Thread Arnt Karlsen
hat aitor is rightfully doing. The > packages are already there, and there is no need to support another > port... ..this means Devuan is _not_ the answer for the millions of armv6+FP2/rpi0/1 users out there. Pity, we could have used them here. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards

Re: [DNG] UEFI Secure Boot workaround?

2016-03-04 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
Dr. Nikolaus Klepp writes: Am Freitag, 4. März 2016 schrieb Arnt Gulbrandsen: You said secure boot's security is blown out of the water because it's possible to run untrusted code under certain circumstances. IMHO it provides useful security because (absent mistakes by the owner

Re: [DNG] UEFI Secure Boot workaround?

2016-03-04 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
mistakes by the owner) there are many attackers who cannot make use of those circumstances. Arnt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] UEFI Secure Boot workaround?

2016-03-04 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
evade its security? I'm not interested in how I could misconfigure it, because I'm not worried about attacks by myself. Assuming I configured it sensibly, how would you either access the data or install password-sniffing software? Arnt ___ Dng mailin

Re: [DNG] A heads up about xfce's future

2016-03-01 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
them, and wondered how that design was conceived. Arnt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] systemd==bad

2016-02-22 Thread Arnt Karlsen
hat bad to me - I'm about to start adding Wheezy LTS > repos to my systems. ..this would be the very best starting point for Devuan as a distro. > > But then I still have Squeeze and Lenny systems running (they aren't > broken ...) - don't think I have anything older than that ! -

Re: [DNG] systemd==bad

2016-02-22 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
The number depends on how you count and what you count, but all that's offtopic here.) The other 80% are solidly held by android and ios, but 20% isn't zero. Arnt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Coreutils 8.25 ls output

2016-02-16 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
tmp/foo Arnt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Coreutils 8.25 ls output

2016-02-16 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
ew behaviour doesn't. Arnt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Are you still paranoid if you turned out to be right?

2016-02-13 Thread Arnt Karlsen
Debian archives aren't > searchable. Anyway, these three give you the feel for what I'm talking > about. ..you were too naïve and not nearly paranoid enough: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/NEWS ..our dear Lennart explained my Sid networking problems: ;o) https://www.phoronix

Re: [DNG] Enlightenment anyone? ;)

2016-02-13 Thread Arnt Karlsen
evuan? It's Perrrsssonal now. ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ___ Dng mailing

Re: [DNG] writable efi

2016-02-07 Thread Arnt Karlsen
ald Trump's run for president will survive Debian. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. __

Re: [DNG] Change netman into another name.

2016-02-07 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 6 Feb 2016 13:34:11 +0100, Arnt wrote in message <20160206133411.74d85...@nb6.lan>: > On Sat, 06 Feb 2016 01:46:21 +0100, aitor_czr wrote in message > <56b5425d.6020...@gnuinos.org>: > > > On 02/05/2016 07:18 PM, Go Linux <goli...@yahoo.com>

Re: [DNG] Dng Digest, Vol 17, Issue 39

2016-02-07 Thread Arnt Karlsen
flavor a year ago, rather than todays Raspian Jessie. I have one of each ready for guinea pig service. ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst c

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