Re: cgd 2T

2014-06-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 11:28:07PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote: I set up a cgd with: # gpt show cgd1 startsize index contents 0 1 PMBR 1 1 Pri GPT header 2 32 Pri GPT table 34

Re: thanks messages on mailing lists/bug reports

2014-06-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 03:41:50PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 15:45:21 +0200 Sven Bartscher sven.bartsc...@weltraumschlangen.de wrote: Greetings everyone, I recently started contributing to debian. Before that, most of my writing with people I don't know

Re: Please help me OT

2014-06-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 08:09:57AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 06/27/2014 01:56 AM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 01:15:53PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: Makes you wonder how many people who install Debian and have

Re: Please help me OT

2014-06-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 09:13:01PM +0400, Reco wrote: Correct. In fact [1] can mislead people into thinking that subscribing to the maillist to receive an answer is unnecessary: tl;dr. which sentence or paragraph gives you this impression? [1]

Re: overcoming apt's resistance to broken packages

2014-06-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 04:29:51PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: I agree with Josh Triplett that autodetection looking only for 'ati' rather than for the individual modules which 'ati' can implicitly load is a bug that should be fixed. (The point of doing so - questioned in the last comment on

Re: Can't install Debian - USB keyboard doesn't turn on until Windows loads

2014-06-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 11:11:48PM -0600, Kitty Cat wrote: So, what I think I need to do is find a way to get the Debian install DVD to bypass the need to press a key until such time that a USB keyboard driver loads or something like that. I'd try a 'Live CD' first to see if all functions are

Re: Can't install Debian - USB keyboard doesn't turn on until Windows loads

2014-06-28 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please don't top post on this list.] On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 01:26:19AM -0600, Kitty Cat wrote: OK. I managed to get Debian installed. Here is what I did: I had previously installed the Debian installer stuff from the DVD into the Windows bootloader. However, since my keyboard didn't work

Re: Problems installing Perl modules with CPAN on Wheezy

2014-06-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 09:14:09AM -0400, slitt wrote: On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 21:25:41 -0700 David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com wrote: On 06/27/2014 09:15 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: For the record, you might find it more useful to check if Debian has a package first, before

Re: Please help me OT

2014-06-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 05:31:37PM +0400, Reco wrote: On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 19:34:13 +1200 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 09:13:01PM +0400, Reco wrote: Correct. In fact [1] can mislead people into thinking that subscribing to the maillist

Re: OT: programming languages

2014-06-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 06:37:09PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: First, this isn't the slightest bit OT. A week doesn't go by where I don't need to write either a simple script or a slightly bigger program to make Linux do just what I want. I disagree. It has NOTHING to do with debian support,

Re: OT: programming languages

2014-06-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 02:02:54PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: What do people like instead of Perl, and why? Are you aware of the OT mailing list: Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic -- If you're not

Re: Sources licensed under PHP License and not being PHP are not distributable

2014-06-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 08:57:43PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: I'd recommend that we safeguard our users against 'PHP' licensing problems the same way I protect myself against a meteorite hitting me on my way to work tomorrow, and for roughly the same reasons. Because there is nothing you

Re: is this sensible?

2014-06-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 02:26:03PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: This is the problem with non interactive tools: if you do not master the non interactive tool, you do not have real control on it. If it is non interactive, then how do you master it? -- If you're not careful,

Re: Please help me OT

2014-06-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 04:06:45PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: It's much better if your subject line reflects your problem. Please help me doesn't make the topic searchable for anyone else that may have your same problem. Then you are the sole recipient of the help others are investing their

Re: is this sensible?

2014-06-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 02:17:47PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 26.06.2014 12:26, Chris Bannister a écrit : On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 02:26:03PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: This is the problem with non interactive tools: if you do not master the non

Re: Please help me OT

2014-06-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 07:01:23PM +0100, Brian wrote: On Thu 26 Jun 2014 at 22:41:28 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 04:06:45PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: It's much better if your subject line reflects your problem. Please help me doesn't make the topic

Re: Early access to a console (during runlevel 1)

2014-06-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 08:48:26AM +, Curt wrote: On 2014-06-25, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 11:52:46PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: A proactive admin should be aware of these things and schedule appropriate preventative maintenance. May

Re: is this sensible?

2014-06-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:32:22AM +0200, François Patte wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, I wanted to update my gthumb package (wich became ugly for an unknown reason). So I asked: What do yo mean by ...became ugly for an unknown reason...), how do you

Re: Early access to a console (during runlevel 1)

2014-06-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 11:52:46PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: A proactive admin should be aware of these things and schedule appropriate preventative maintenance. May I suggest Qualitative Maintenance as a better strategy. http://assetinsights.net/Glossary/G_Qualitative_Maintenance.html (as

Re: systemd man pages

2014-06-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 09:21:11PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2014-06-18 20:43 +0200, Chris Bannister wrote: Does anyone know where the manpages for systemd are. In the usual places, dpkg -L systemd | grep /usr/share/man. e.g. there is no vconsole.conf man(5) That's because

Re: systemd man pages

2014-06-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 09:34:30PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2014-06-19 20:56 +0200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 09:21:11PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2014-06-18 20:43 +0200, Chris Bannister wrote: Does anyone know where the manpages for systemd

Re: openbsd - netbsd : same yet feels different ...

2014-06-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:32:01PM +0200, Ottavio Caruso wrote: On 17 June 2014 20:59, g.lister g.lis...@nodeunit.com wrote: Hi Mayuresh, snip Can I be grumpy for a second? What happened to bottom posting? Has it gone out of fashion? Interleaved is better! Oh! and trim out any

systemd man pages

2014-06-18 Thread Chris Bannister
Hi, Does anyone know where the manpages for systemd are. e.g. there is no vconsole.conf man(5) root@tal:~# man 5 vconsole.conf No manual entry for vconsole.conf in section 5 root@tal:~# man vconsole.conf No manual entry for vconsole.conf root@tal:~# apt-cache search systemd | grep ' man '

Re: systemd - keyboard key repeat rate (was ... Re: Article on swift, responsive computers)

2014-06-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 10:33:37AM +0100, Brian wrote: On Wed 18 Jun 2014 at 14:31:37 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: One other thing, I sense that the key repeat is not as fast as it was before I installed systemd-sysv. It seems strange that an init system should mess with the keyboard

Re: systemd: tty6

2014-06-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 10:24:20AM +0100, Brian wrote: No getty is ever spawned on tty7 so it is always available for X. If there are login prompts on tty1 to tty5 X will be on tty7. It cannot be run on tty6 because systemd keeps this as an emergency tty. I'm running a screen session on tty6

Re: Confict [debian installer] vs [installer documentation] ?

2014-06-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 12:56:33PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Should this bug be reported against installer or the documentation? Having only dialup and thus unable to download Jessie, is it correct to report it as a possible bug in Jessie also? Use reportbug packagename where

Re: systemd - keyboard key repeat rate (was ... Re: Article on swift, responsive computers)

2014-06-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 07:57:58PM +0100, Brian wrote: On Tue 17 Jun 2014 at 06:25:01 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 05:43:18PM +0100, Brian wrote: On the other hand, not running X on the console you started it from with startx brings a raft of other problems

Re: Ban me

2014-06-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 02:32:37PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: We cannot trust ourselves to act in good conscience, to help one another, to stand up for one another, so we must be bludgeoned into submission, to COMPLY with rules that other men and some women) decided we MUST COMPLY with.

Re: systemd (was ... Re: Article on swift, responsive computers)

2014-06-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 10:34:58AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Montag, 16. Juni 2014, 10:11:00 schrieb Chris Bannister: I am now using it. I don't like how it starts X in the first available TTY but I guess I'll get used to it or spend a few days reading the docs and see what

Re: Multimedia player for video filte type qs

2014-06-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 03:38:09PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: using File Manager, on a Debian 6 system, which shows the video files as having the extension .qs, , but, on a Debian 7.5 amd64 xfce system, using the file manager, it shows, in the instance of the last recorded thumb drive, the video

Re: Multimedia player for video filte type qs

2014-06-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 12:34:13PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: Next up, try VLC and/or mplayer on the file. Both of these players are quite good at detecting file formats and may give you something useful. I think mplayer is being 'tossed' out of the archive. mpv is a good, if not better,

Re: Screen size trouble with Xorg

2014-06-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 08:03:56AM -0500, Mike Bailey wrote: Hello all, Last week I bought myself a new monitor to replace my old 24 monitor. The new monitor is a Samsung S27C500, which is connected via hdmi. The monitor has two inputs: one hdmi, and one vga. I do not have a VGA input on my

Re: systemd (was ... Re: Article on swift, responsive computers)

2014-06-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 05:43:18PM +0100, Brian wrote: On Tue 17 Jun 2014 at 00:40:14 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: Ahh, OK. Must have been reverted. systemd-sysv - Installed: 204-8 Candidate: 204-8 Running Jessie. X running on TTY3 at present, a bit of a pain when switching TTY's

Re: Off-topic: boot order

2014-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 05:44:59AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: colorful language. Since the vocabulary used for the OP's address is less vulgarly, less obscenely than lyrics of common English radio and TV songs in the daytime, But who posts lyrics here? I don't see the connection. I guess we

Re: Resizing LVM issue

2014-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 12:00:12AM +0200, Miroslav Skoric wrote: (Btw, the app apt-on-CD recently started to ask for more space in /tmp. After resizing, that app seems to be happy :-) tal% apt-cache search apt-on-CD tal% Third party? -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you

apt-get update: unnecessary use of disk space

2014-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
Hi, Does this seem necessary? root@tal:~# apt-get clean root@tal:~# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda536G 34G 266M 100% / [...] root@tal:~# apt-get update Hit http://ftp.debian.org jessie InRelease Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates InRelease

Re: apt-get update: unnecessary use of disk space

2014-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 05:59:20AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: Hi, Does this seem necessary? root@tal:~# apt-get clean root@tal:~# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda536G 34G 266M 100% / [...] root@tal:~# apt-get update Hit http

Re: apt-get update: unnecessary use of disk space

2014-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 08:22:55PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2,4K Feb 16 11:33 apt-file drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14K Jun 15 19:21 archives -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39M Jun 15 19:25 pkgcache.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39M Jun 15 19:25 srcpkgcache.bin Ahh!, that

systemd (was ... Re: Article on swift, responsive computers)

2014-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 03:33:43PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: For the record I am using systemd without any issues, but then I am doing so on desktop systems. I just dislike the increasingly monolithic architecture of systemd. No, I don't bring this up to start another flame war as I am no

Re: apt-get update: unnecessary use of disk space

2014-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 11:04:14PM +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: If you are interested in retrieving some disk space on this partition, I would suggest to reduce the percentage of diskspace which may only be allocated by privileged processes. It is normally 5% of the diskspace of a

[scribus] Stalking the wild 'RTL language support' in Scribus

2014-06-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 01:48:30PM +0200, Hans Schmidt wrote: > > Ok, I am sorry. I missed this text because between all the quoted texts > and the signatures etc. etc. it is very hard to quickly see the new > message when it is not a top post ;) > > But I will comply :) That is why trimming

Re: When bug fixes are applied on stable ?

2014-06-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 01:18:46PM +0100, Tom Furie wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 01:21:40PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: However, going through the tutorial is a must, especially if one is transitioning from word processors, otherwise you'll be very frustrated that pressing Enter

Debian memtest package faulty? (was ... Re: hardware errors)

2014-06-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 01:45:53AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 01:35 +0200, B wrote: On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 11:22:25 +1200 Richard Hector rich...@walnut.gen.nz wrote: I assume the RAM needs replacing - is it possible to figure out which DIMM(s)? Install

Re: unable to mount removable media with xfce4 version 4.10.1

2014-06-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 09:56:15AM +0400, Reco wrote: On Mon, 9 Jun 2014 17:48:37 +1200 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 08:31:34PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: In this case systemd likely is for udev, wich usually also is used without systemd

Re: unable to mount removable media with xfce4 version 4.10.1

2014-06-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 08:22:51AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 17:48 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 08:31:34PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: In this case systemd likely is for udev, wich usually also is used without systemd, but it's merged

Re: Bug#750546: ITP: sluice -- rate limiting data piping tool

2014-06-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 11:39:42AM +0100, Colin Ian King wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Colin Ian King colin.k...@canonical.com * Package name: sluice Version : 0.01.00 Upstream Author : Colin King colin.k...@canonical.com * URL :

Re: Closing Debian OT mailing list

2014-06-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 09:11:56AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: You seemingly were off-line when on after the other mail for the Horatio related threads where sent, then you checked your mails and you got the full load off all those Horatio correspondences by one download from the server.

Re: Kernel 3.14.x bug? rm, mv root-owned files

2014-06-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 04:45:37PM +0200, Filip wrote: Removing a directory entries no relation whatsoever to the permissions of the file. Parse error! Does not compute! :) -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the

Re: chromium doesn't launch

2014-06-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 11:44:05PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 11:17 PM, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2014-06-06 14:49 +0200, Joel Rees wrote: Anybody have any ideas why? grep of Xorg.0.log or whatever that was produced this error message, I have no idea

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jun 07, 2014 at 11:10:02PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 07 June 2014 21:41:17 Slavko wrote: apt-get is quicker than aptitude and has (by the release note) The release notes have not been consistent about which they recommend for a particular upgrade. Both have been

Re: unable to mount removable media with xfce4 version 4.10.1

2014-06-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 02:56:53PM +0400, Reco wrote: On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 01:31:26PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Quote from the first link: The udev built from the systemd source tree will stay compatible with non-systemd init systems for a long time. This change is mostly

Re: unable to mount removable media with xfce4 version 4.10.1

2014-06-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 08:31:34PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: In this case systemd likely is for udev, wich usually also is used without systemd, but it's merged by upstream. Just a guess NO it isn't merged!!! Please stop spreading FUD! -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you

Re: package recommendation for daily journal

2014-06-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 11:16:51PM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: On Sunday, June 1, 2014 12:30:01 PM UTC+5:30, lina wrote: Hi, I am looking for a package, which can act as a smart diary or journal to help me remember the records of small things, such as obtain a licensed software, not

Re: Crypt data on the fly

2014-06-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 02:13:23PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: differentiates it from random noise. For some people, being able to prove that data was encrypted is enough of a problem (I live in a country where my government can force me to reveal my keys - refusing or forgetting results in a

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-06-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 09:10:53AM -0400, Celejar wrote: On Sat, 31 May 2014 17:11:16 +1200 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: ... no HDMI cable, doesn't play .webm videos. You have to use youtube-dl not 'cclive -s best' to download the video from youtube yielding

[scribus] Scribus 1.4.4 Released

2014-06-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 09:01:58AM +0300, Kunda Loves Scribus wrote: > On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 12:58 AM, Duane G Canaday > wrote: > > > > Where can I find it for Debian Wheezy? > > > Duane, > Another things in addition to Greg's answer below, a.l.e just recently > posted on the forum about this

Bug#750033: debian-publicity: Description error

2014-05-31 Thread Chris Bannister
Package: debian-publicity Severity: minor Dear List Maintainer, The description for debian-publicity has: Coordination of all the work related to the external communication of Debian: drafting new announces, ... Instead of announces it should be announcements. -- System Information: Debian

Re: Ubuntu Studio Bugs Team

2014-05-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 07:28:44PM +0200, Ross Gammon wrote: Hi All, This is just a quick advertisement for the Ubuntu Studio Bugs Team: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntustudio-bugs In an attempt to try and get more people to join the Team and help triage relevant bugs, the list of packages

Re: Assange and NSA

2014-05-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 09:31:32AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: Off topic on the Debian user list? I think not. I think so. That question is more appropriate for the debian-project list because it concerns the umm, cough, Debian project. It doesn't fit under the category of support. -- If you're

Re: What is the difference between linux-image-amd64 and linux-image-3.2.0.4-amd64?

2014-05-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 07:55:50AM -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote: Quite unlikely, but linux-image-3.2.0.5-amd64 could happen. OMG, 3.2.0.5 is considered an upgrade over 3.2.0.4? 5 is bigger than 4, so yes a higher version means it has been upgraded I was under the impression that 3.3 was

Re: Assange and NSA

2014-05-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 11:53:00AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20140531_2339+1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 09:31:32AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: Off topic on the Debian user list? I think not. I think so. That question is more appropriate for the debian-project

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 11:27:12PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Specs would be nice, but I think the processor and/or video card is doing all the heavy lifting in such a case. Having dedicated video RAM is usually a plus, but I had something like this running on a PIII 500 MHz with 768 MB

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 01:04:13PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: By the way, no matter what DE/WM I'm using, I *always* install Xfce just to get xfburn, xfce4-appfinder, and a few other priceless apps. I I find that mp3burn and wodim cater for all my 'burning' desires. :) DE, WM, X, not required.

Re: media 'slideshow': movies + pictures

2014-05-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 08:45:17AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: That's the right way to do random play, IMO, though I've yet to devise an algorithm for doing it properly that seems both clean and functional to my eye. Ah! ... but true random play is just white noise, is it not? -- If you're

[scribus] [OT] Posting style (was ... Re: Posting)

2014-05-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 10:28:55AM -0400, Gregory Pittman wrote: > We also would like people to change the subject of the response when one > is heading off in some other direction, like this is. Done. > The human side is that people are in a hurry. That goes for the responder also. If the

[scribus] [scribus-dev] PDF/X-1a export in Scribus 1.4.4svn <- GOOD JOB :) !!!

2014-05-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 02:35:47PM +0200, JLuc wrote: > Le 26/05/2014 13:07, a.l.e a ?crit : > >but i don't think that we can throw out people just because they > >don't know what top posting means :-) > > More wichtig IMO is to clean one's message and delete all non required > part of the

[scribus] [scribus-dev] PDF/X-1a export in Scribus 1.4.4svn <- GOOD JOB :) !!!

2014-05-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 01:07:11PM +0200, a.l.e wrote: > avoiding top posting is indeed good, and from times to times somebody > recalls it to the community. and this is also good. > > but i don't think that we can throw out people just because they don't know > what top posting means :-) Of

Re: repeatable dpkg-buildpackage

2014-05-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 05:06:01PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 18:58 +0400, Reco wrote: fakeroot ... regarding to some claims on this list is a PITA, at least when building a kernel. I run my scripts to build kernel-rts as root. It's a good idea to recommend best

Re: Error message: Possible missing firmware during linux-image upgrade

2014-05-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 06:05:34PM -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote: I happen to have Realtek RTL8111/8168B Gigabit card which works flawlessly with any Debian kernel starting with Squeeze's backported 3.1. How does one find out if the Realtek Gigabit card is 8168B, 8168A, 8168E? man

Re: repeatable dpkg-buildpackage

2014-05-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 11:20:01AM +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: On 05/27/2014 11:15 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 05:06:01PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 18:58 +0400, Reco wrote: fakeroot ... regarding to some claims on this list is a PITA

[scribus] [scribus-dev] PDF/X-1a export in Scribus 1.4.4svn <- GOOD JOB :) !!!

2014-05-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 05:44:48PM +0300, Kunda Loves Scribus wrote: [...] Hi guys, Could you please not top post on this mailing list. http://catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Is there no policy about this? -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are

Re: 'box' as noun, was: wireless can DHCP but not DNS?

2014-05-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 09:52:43AM +, Curt wrote: On 2014-05-23, Joe Pfeiffer pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu wrote: While you are correct, the sentence structure leads one to expect 'box' as a verb and 'ethernets' as a noun. Speaking as another native speaker, it took me two passes to read

Re: friends laptop, no mic found

2014-05-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 09:58:11AM +, Curt wrote: On 2014-05-24, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 06:13:17AM -0400, Rodney D. Myers wrote: I always thought this mail list stripped attachments. I now know ... that it depends on their size

Re: rapidly proliferating sess files in /tmp, eating inodes

2014-05-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 07:34:18AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: I wrote: Google search works just fine with all ads, cookies, scripts, and trackers blocked. Chris Bannister writes: It's probably easier to use https://startpage.com/ :-) How is that easier? They do it all for you. No need

Re: Bug#749099: ITP: conv -- Simple ASCII,binary,decimal,hex converter

2014-05-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 11:53:15PM -0300, Marcio de Souza Olivera wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marcio de Souza Olivera m.desouz...@gmail.com * Package name: conv Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : Xfuw89 leonid.x...@gmail.com * URL :

Re: friends laptop, no mic found

2014-05-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 06:13:17AM -0400, Rodney D. Myers wrote: I always thought this mail list stripped attachments. I now know ... that it depends on their size? -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are

Re: rapidly proliferating sess files in /tmp, eating inodes

2014-05-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 09:59:40PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Joel Rees writes: The question of how evil google is/was/is becoming aside... Google search works just fine with all ads, cookies, scripts, and trackers blocked. It's probably easier to use https://startpage.com/ :-) -- If

Re: Anyone using exim with fastmail.fm's smtp server as smart host?

2014-05-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 01:29:04AM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk writes: On Thu 22 May 2014 at 22:43:37 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: I'll be back at it in 2wks or so.. I suspect it will be pretty simple now. It should be after what follows::) In

Re: does gpg gpg2 use same gpg.conf file in home directory what are the best practices to create gpg2 signature ?

2014-05-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 08:34:39AM +0530, war.dhan wrote: ... You'll probably have better luck on a gnupg mailing list: https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/mailing-lists.html -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people

Re: How to start an app by a terminal and to keep it running, when closing the terminal?

2014-05-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 04:25:46PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: On 21/05/14 15:51, Chris Bannister wrote: There is sometimes a fine line between whether a question should be on debian-user or an upstream support channel, e.g. a question about send-hook syntax in mutt belongs on the mutt

Re: Systemd and vt9

2014-05-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 11:53:04PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: So can anyone who is actually using Systemd now (I am still on Wheezy, BTW) tell me if this is going to be an issue for me? Can I do this once my box has been converted to Systemd? What about that root login on vt9? Don't

Re: Iceweasel and DRM

2014-05-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 06:43:04PM -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:13:35AM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: ..snip.. Once again you can't discuss the facts to you make personal attacks. I see no ad hom attack. As a matter of fact, the only

Re: How to start an app by a terminal and to keep it running, when closing the terminal?

2014-05-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 02:49:31PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: On 21/05/14 09:30, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Why is evolution launched, while evowrap --force-shutdown and evoterm --force-shutdown are running? case $1 in JWM) evoterm --force-shutdown while ps aux | grep evowrap

Re: How to start an app by a terminal and to keep it running, when closing the terminal?

2014-05-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 03:31:01PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: On 21/05/14 15:23, Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 02:49:31PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: PS what makes this OT? It isn't a strictly Debian problem, perhaps, is the reason? Almost nothing on d-u

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 03:15:44PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: DRM sucks! +10E -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Unable to install Debian 7.5.0

2014-05-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 01:09:03PM +0530, Saptarshi Kapas wrote: Hi, I downloaded debian-7.5.0 from this following location http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.5.0/i386/iso-dvd/ . After download i burn this iso in dvd. After that when i am trying to install this to my local machine,

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:33:48PM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: England (or Great Britain - I'm not sure which) in the late 1800s. One of my other interests, Gilbert and Sullivan, is notably impacted by that, as the license copy of a play wasn't necessarily identical to what ended up being

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 01:39:35PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: 2) When lawmakers are paid to orient what they do this is usually called corruption. Unfortunately, what is corruption in one country is just common business practice in another. -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:54:52AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 5/18/14, Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/17/2014 07:55 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Nobody forces you to install the add-on, certainly not Mozilla or Debian. And that is the part I don't get. Anyone is free to

Re: systemd situation in Jesssie

2014-05-18 Thread Chris Bannister
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 continue upgrading

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 12:50:44PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: I can hold a stone, or a stick, and whilst I hold it, it is mine. Unless you stole it ... hey wait a minute, where's my sticks and stones! -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being

Re: Tails

2014-05-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 06:10:44PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 17 May 2014 00:12:48 Theodore Alcapotaxis wrote: BTW what is Tails? Is it the next version of Debian? The current version 7.5 is codenamed Wheezy, correct? Yes, correct. And Testing is Jessie. But Tails is not the

Re: evolution

2014-05-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 03:45:52PM +0200, wi wrote: Hi, I want to use evolution on my desktop-pc and on my laptop and - of course - I want to synchronize all data from it. Is there a possibility? Yes. IMAP is one I know of. What has your Google search come up with? -- If you're not

Re: holding a package against upgrades

2014-05-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 09:31:37AM -0600, United States Ret. wrote: I have been using sid and do not want iceweasel 29. I have decided to revert to iceweasel 24.5 and have now put that on hold (=) in dselect and worry that will override my decision and upgrade anyway. Is there a better way

Re: Application for asylum

2014-05-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 08:28:16PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: I can't hum the tune of any previous Eurovision winners. I can't even recall having previously heard the music of any entrants - let alone winners (and that includes after the competition). Oh, come on!

Re: Application for asylum

2014-05-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 10:51:55AM -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 11:03:24AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: ...snip... I need asylum outside of Europe. I can't stand the brain-dead folks anymore. Where? U.S.? Bwhahh. or N.Z. or

Re: Application for asylum

2014-05-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 02:35:09PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: Then you don't want to come here to the US, just watch a Super Bowl halftime show if you want to puke at all that money wasted. I thought that was because of all the pizza, string cheese, hot dogs, chips etc. consumed during the first

Re: Confusion

2014-05-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 10:42:10PM -0700, Joshua Anthony wrote: My apologies to those who feel that I have wasted their time and thanks to those who have tried to help. I don't know how I managed to start two threads but this whole business well illustrates the confusion that I originally

Re: [SOLVED] Text files treated like html in apache 2.4

2014-05-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 06:59:17PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: On Mon, 12 May 2014 20:28:24 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: ... But with Apache 2.4, it treats the text file like html and reformats everything, concatenating lines, eliminating blank lines, etc. How do I get it to treat

Re: Correct syntax of send hook

2014-05-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 04:52:22PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: On 12.05.14 21:28, Mark Filipak wrote: I listen to the BBC almost all the time. I think the hosts butcher English as thoroughly as the average American. True, the modern BBC's English on its website is egregious, with

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