Re: Great Debian experience

On Tue, 18 Mar 2014, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > Here's why I like Debian Stable... > > My daughter's computer broke, so last night I took a three year, 3GB > RAM, old wreck of a laptop and, using the Debian 7.4 network > installer, installed Wheezy. I chose expert install, told it to > inst

Re: Backup's to DVD

On Wed 19 Mar 2014 at 11:13:15 +1100, Myceneaen Magic wrote: > OK - it 'may' have been mostly humour for the sake of humour (I can't > speak for PAPYRUS TECHNOLOGY, at least until the lawyers have finalised > our takeover of their business). You think we are going to be the pushover Tauris was re

Re: Backup's to DVD

On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 11:49:13AM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > On 16/03/14 05:54 PM, Mr Queue wrote: > >Anyone doing anything interesting to backup data to DVD's? > > > >https://packages.debian.org/sid/dkopp > > > >^^ Looks interesting and overall it's a pretty simple task. Suppose > >I could even us

Long-term support for Squeeze

This may be of interest to those, like me, still have Debian Squeeze deployed:- http://rgeissert.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/debian-squeeze-lts.html NOTE: it's the blog of a Debian developer, not click-bait. But I haven't disabled Ad-Block so don't know if it's ad-free. Partial quotes:- "As announce

Re: Backup's to DVD

On 19/03/14 08:03, PAPYRUS TECHNOLOGIES wrote: > On Tue 18 Mar 2014 at 20:09:03 +0400, Reco wrote: > >> Can you guys please take the reminder of this enlightening >> discussion to d-community-offto...@lists.alioth.debian.org? > > My Dear Reco and fellow subscribers to this esteemed List, Especia

Re: Great Debian experience

Hello, El 18/03/2014 19:54, "Steve Litt" escribió: > > Hi all, > > Here's why I like Debian Stable... > Then I looked up instructions > on how to install Skype, and after a little experimentation because the > instructions weren't perfect, Skype was installed. If you followed wiki.debian.org

Re: Backup's to DVD

Hi. On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 21:03:17 + PAPYRUS TECHNOLOGIES wrote: > I realise (and I'm sure Myceneaen Magic does too) that we have let our > commercial interests override our responsibility to help and advise > users of the Debian OS. The thread drifted after I posted a serious > comment about

Re: Suspend leads to black screen without sleep [Dell Latitude E6440]

Am 31.01.2014 18:29, schrieb Steven Rosenberg: > I had success with suspend by adding resume=/path/to/swap to my GRUB bootline. > > To find your /path/to/swap, use: > > $ swapon -s > > And use that to create your own /resume=/dev/sda2 type of line > (remember, yours will vary depending on your i

Re: Suspend leads to black screen without sleep [Dell Latitude E6440]

Ghislain Vaillant gmail.com> writes: > > > > > > Another issue with my Dell Latitude E6440 with AMD hybrid graphics is suspend not working. Suspend leads to a black screen, the system does not go to sleep and seems to be still running (power LED and fan are still on). > I already t

Pinning by architecture?

Hi, Is there any support for pinning by architecture? I've only found bug report #687255 [1]. Thanks, Malte [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=687255 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Backup's to DVD

On Tue 18 Mar 2014 at 20:09:03 +0400, Reco wrote: > Can you guys please take the reminder of this enlightening discussion to > d-community-offto...@lists.alioth.debian.org? My Dear Reco and fellow subscribers to this esteemed List, My caravan departure has been delayed. There is a security issue

Gnome (wheezy) questions: Language setting, speech synthesis, visually impaired user

Hi, I'm trying to configure a laptop (Debian wheezy) for a visually impaired user, who speaks Spanish. I'm not sure, which desktop to install for her, so I tried the default (Gnome). It's been some time, that I tried Gnome, so I'm a little bit stupid with it: 1. How to configure the language (Sp

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 20:15 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 11:45 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > > I see this kind of thing [...] in messages my kids send me from their > > phones. > > :) PS: What's the bigger issue, a missing font or teenage hormones ;)? -- To UNSUB

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 11:45 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > I see this kind of thing [...] in messages my kids send me from their > phones. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org A

Great Debian experience

Hi all, Here's why I like Debian Stable... My daughter's computer broke, so last night I took a three year, 3GB RAM, old wreck of a laptop and, using the Debian 7.4 network installer, installed Wheezy. I chose expert install, told it to install the nonfree repositories and auto-partition to a sin

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

> On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 10:02 AM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 06:06 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: >> Is it really the case tht there's no pre-built package for this in >> Debian? These characters do seem to be increasingly widely used. > > For my exotic audi

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

> On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 10:02 AM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 06:06 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: >> Is it really the case tht there's no pre-built package for this in >> Debian? These characters do seem to be increasingly widely used. > > For my exotic audi

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

> On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 10:02 AM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 06:06 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: >> Is it really the case tht there's no pre-built package for this in >> Debian? These characters do seem to be increasingly widely used. > > For my exotic audi

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

On 3/18/14, Scott Ferguson wrote: > I use and highly recommend fontmatrix - a font manager/viewer/wizard. NICE tip and why I try to read EVERYTHING.. Just writing to additionally tip (for newer users) that it might take "sudo fontmatrix" to view the full interactive [GUI] if you decide to instal

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

Just in case: the command > >xrdb -merge .Xresources > > is definitely run when X is called. The resources in .Xresources are > merged with those in /etc/X11. If you issue the same command from a > terminal nothing happens to alter the resources available because > they have already been merge

LVM preseed install fails on physical server

I'm seeing the same issue per https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=740271. I've updated the bug with my comments. ┌──┤ [!!] Partition disks ├───┐ │ │ │

Re: Backup's to DVD

On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 20:09 +0400, Reco wrote: > Can you guys please take the reminder of this enlightening discussion to > d-community-offto...@lists.alioth.debian.org? Or better off-list ;), instead of using D-community-offtopic? Some of us are still learning, but we already distinguish, we send

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

On Tue 18 Mar 2014 at 21:17:47 +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > > There - it works. Is there anything you could do to your existing > > .Xresources to make the rest work? Or does it so already? > > Thanks a lot, > I solved it. Just had to change all instances of *color# to xterm*color# > As simple a

Re: Backup's to DVD

On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 15:08:05 + PAPYRUS TECHNOLOGIES wrote: > On Wed 19 Mar 2014 at 01:16:58 +1100, Myceneaen Magic wrote: > > > That's just the sort of blaggards I'd expect a fly-by night purveyor of > > fickle products to associate with. > > This "fly-by night" would really like to do that

SOLVED: Re: .Xresources not loading on start

On Tuesday 18 March 2014 15:47:47 Anubhav Yadav wrote: > Can I change my subject header and all [SOLVED] to it? Because last > time I did it, the mail went as a new thread on the mailing list! No, it went as a new "thread" on Gmail. Gmail routinely breaks threading. It's a pain. :-( It's one

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

> There - it works. Is there anything you could do to your existing > .Xresources to make the rest work? Or does it so already? Thanks a lot, I solved it. Just had to change all instances of *color# to xterm*color# As simple as that! What I liked more was instead of giving me direct solution you

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

On Tue 18 Mar 2014 at 20:20:49 +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > > (If it wasn't clear, I intended you to try the two lines I gave you > > earlier in your existing .Xresources, replacing the ones you have). > > > Sorry, I had the impression that you wanted me to stick to only that colors. > Ok I clear

Re: Backup's to DVD

On Wed 19 Mar 2014 at 01:16:58 +1100, Myceneaen Magic wrote: > That's just the sort of blaggards I'd expect a fly-by night purveyor of > fickle products to associate with. This "fly-by night" would really like to do that now but in response to an urgent message from our representative in Edo I ha

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

> (If it wasn't clear, I intended you to try the two lines I gave you > earlier in your existing .Xresources, replacing the ones you have). > Sorry, I had the impression that you wanted me to stick to only that colors. Ok I cleared my .Xresources and now it has only these to lines. xterm*foregroun

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

On Tue 18 Mar 2014 at 19:28:52 +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > One more thing I would like to point out is that, the above outputs contains > some extra lines in the output of 'xrdb -query" that are *NOT* in my > version of .Xresources. Like > *customization: -color > Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault You

Re: Backup's to DVD

On 19/03/14 00:46, PAPYRUS TECHNOLOGIES wrote: > On Tue 18 Mar 2014 at 21:50:18 +1100, Myceneaen Magic wrote: > >> On 18/03/14 20:54, PAPYRUS TECHNOLOGIES wrote: >>> On Tue 18 Mar 2014 at 11:34:29 +1100, Myceneaen Magic wrote: >>> On 18/03/14 11:02, PAPYRUS TECHNOLOGIES wrote: > On Tue 18

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

On Wed, 2014-03-19 at 00:48 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > These characters do seem to be > > increasingly widely used. > > Agreed. I "guess" you're asking "why is the font not in the Debian > repository?" > > Are their license issues? That would be my first though when > considering why they h

Re: Backup's to DVD

On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 16:54:48 -0500 Mr Queue wrote: > Anyone doing anything interesting to backup data to DVD's? > > https://packages.debian.org/sid/dkopp > > ^^ Looks interesting and overall it's a pretty simple task. Suppose > I could even use tar and split but just curious what others may be

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 06:06 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > Is it really the case tht there's no pre-built package for this in > Debian? These characters do seem to be increasingly widely used. For my exotic audio production needs I prefer Arch Linux over Debian. If you have other exotic ne

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

> Try > > xrdb -query Here is it output, the colors are exactly the same as in my .Xresources. *background:#1b1d1e *color0:#1b1d1e *color1:#f92672 *color10: #b6e354 *color11: #feed6c *color12: #8cedff *color13: #9e6ffe *color14: #899ca1 *color1

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

On 19/03/14 00:06, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > > >> On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 8:19 AM, Scott Ferguson >> wrote: >>> On 18/03/14 22:38, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: What Debian font >>> packages provide emojis? >> >> "apt-file" search and "apt-cache search" give nothing. >> >> Fortunately f

Re: Backup's to DVD

On Tue 18 Mar 2014 at 21:50:18 +1100, Myceneaen Magic wrote: > On 18/03/14 20:54, PAPYRUS TECHNOLOGIES wrote: > > On Tue 18 Mar 2014 at 11:34:29 +1100, Myceneaen Magic wrote: > > > >> On 18/03/14 11:02, PAPYRUS TECHNOLOGIES wrote: > >>> On Tue 18 Mar 2014 at 08:52:14 +1100, Myceneaen Magic wrote:

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

> On , Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > > That does, but requires me to know the answer already. I guess my question > is, > "if i have a Twitter message with a rectangular box with "01f > 1ey" in it, how do i figure out what that is?" Typo--i meant '01f 1e7", as in my original message. I

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

> On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 8:19 AM, Scott Ferguson > wrote: > > On 18/03/14 22:38, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: >> What Debian font packages provide emojis? > > "apt-file" search and "apt-cache search" > give nothing. > > Fortunately fontology is a hobby so I know it's part of Symbola. > >

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 04:01:36PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: || > This suggests that the resources that are loaded into your X server || > by default contain settings with a higher priority than your own || > .Xresources. The xrdb -merge merges your settings, but leaves the || > higher prior

Update Squeeze to Wheezy syslog "audit" entry

Hello, today I have update squeeze to wheezy and now my syslog is full of messaged like: Mar 18 13:38:39 vsrv65965 kernel: [ 8518.427682] type=1400 audit(1395146319.571:8122): avc: denied { read } for pid=989 comm="postgres" name="pg_filenode.map" dev=xvda1 ino=655638 scontext=system_u:system_r

Re: Using LTSP on a Debian server with Raspberry PI thin clients

You might try the berry terminal site: www.berryterminal.com Haven’t tried it, but is looks like a thin client for LSTP that boots from a SD card. Peter On 17 mrt. 2014, at 18:06, James Allsopp wrote: > Hi, > To simplify things I was thinking about running a couple of RPI thin clients > off

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

On 18/03/14 23:18, Joel Rees wrote: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Joel Rees > wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum > mailto:bg271...@yahoo.com>> wrote: > > What Debian font packages provide emojis? > > > > And, in

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

On 18/03/14 22:38, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > What Debian font packages provide emojis? "apt-file" search and "apt-cache search" give nothing. Fortunately fontology is a hobby so I know it's part of Symbola. > At least, thats what i > think they are. Ive seen messages with little rectangular

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum > wrote: > >> What Debian font packages provide emojis? > > > 絵文字？ > Come to think of it, have you looked at the emoji page on wikipedia? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji At least, tha

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > What Debian font packages provide emojis? 絵文字？ > At least, thats what i think they are. Ive seen messages with little > rectangular boxes with "01f 44d" and "01f 1e7" in them, and some googling > suggests these are thumbs-up signs

Fonts providing emojis?

What Debian font packages provide emojis? At least, thats what i think they are. Ive seen messages with little rectangular boxes with "01f 44d" and "01f 1e7" in them, and some googling suggests these are thumbs-up signs and things like that. How doe i get these to display? (Also how do i look t

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

> Are those the default settings, or did you run xrdb -load already? > No I haven't run xrdb -load .Xresources yet These are the same colors that I have used in my .Xresources. -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 04:01:36PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: || > This suggests that the resources that are loaded into your X server || > by default contain settings with a higher priority than your own || > .Xresources. The xrdb -merge merges your settings, but leaves the || > higher prior

Re: which is the best lan messanger

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Debian Admin wrote: > I would like to know which is the best and stable internal chat with out > internet. ejabberd (XMPP) My 2¢, HTH Cheers, Nuno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Backup's to DVD

On 18/03/14 20:54, PAPYRUS TECHNOLOGIES wrote: > On Tue 18 Mar 2014 at 11:34:29 +1100, Myceneaen Magic wrote: > >> On 18/03/14 11:02, PAPYRUS TECHNOLOGIES wrote: >>> On Tue 18 Mar 2014 at 08:52:14 +1100, Myceneaen Magic wrote: >>> On 18/03/14 06:41, PAPYRUS TECHNOLOGIES wrote: > On Mon 1

Re: which is the best lan messanger

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 02:54:59PM +0530, Debian Admin wrote: >I would like to know which is the best and stable internal chat with out >internet. >My requirement is  >        it should have centralized console to manage client users and >their chat logs like messenger server an

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

> This suggests that the resources that are loaded into your X server > by default contain settings with a higher priority than your own > .Xresources. The xrdb -merge merges your settings, but leaves the > higher priority resources there as well, so your settings seem to have > no effect. The xrdb

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 06:02:33AM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: || > The '-query' option to xrdb is useful. Interesting you used your original || > .Xresources rather than one modified in the light of your experience. :) || || That;s because I want my .Xresources to work, I had made colorschem

Re: Backup's to DVD

On Tue 18 Mar 2014 at 11:34:29 +1100, Myceneaen Magic wrote: > On 18/03/14 11:02, PAPYRUS TECHNOLOGIES wrote: > > On Tue 18 Mar 2014 at 08:52:14 +1100, Myceneaen Magic wrote: > > > >> On 18/03/14 06:41, PAPYRUS TECHNOLOGIES wrote: > >>> On Mon 17 Mar 2014 at 17:51:15 +0200, Lars Noodén wrote: > >

Re: initscripts breaks ifupdown

On Du, 16 mar 14, 14:04:12, John Magolske wrote: > > The issue was that ifupdown was pinned to 0.7.44 : ... > Taking a look in /etc/apt/preferences I saw this: > > Explanation: Pinned by apt-listbugs at Sat Nov 09 17:32:44 -0800 2013 > Explanation: #727073: ifupdown: current version som

Re: When fogetting assigned login name rather than password (and disabling root login)

On Lu, 17 mar 14, 08:43:24, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 17/03/14 04:44, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Du, 16 mar 14, 01:24:03, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> > >> In the spirit of investigation I tried testing a few methods of > >> disabling root login (there are likely other methods) > > > > AFAIK th

Re: which is the best lan messanger

On 18/03/14 20:24, Debian Admin wrote: > I would like to know which is the best and stable internal chat with out > internet. > My requirement is > > it should have centralized console to manage client users and > their chat logs like messenger server and client > chat log should

Re: [Resolved] Re: When fogetting assigned login name rather than password

On Lu, 17 mar 14, 08:46:08, Richard Owlett wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >On Sb, 15 mar 14, 09:08:52, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> > >>Sequence was: > >> Do full install install of Squeeze to sda1. Only non-default was > >> size of install partition. > > > >Well, setting a root password is

Re: which is the best lan messanger

Debian Admin writes: > I would like to know which is the best and stable internal chat with out > internet. > My requirement is > > it should have centralized console to manage client users and their > chat logs like messenger server and client > chat log should be save in the ser

which is the best lan messanger

I would like to know which is the best and stable internal chat with out internet. My requirement is it should have centralized console to manage client users and their chat logs like messenger server and client chat log should be save in the server, and this for monitoring purpose

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