Debian-Linux ally of workstations

2013-04-30 Thread Francesco Pietra
I was looking for some sort of i-device that could allow whifi, directed to reading-downloading literature and be capable of talking - via ssh/scp - with my workstations on a local network (not necessarily wireless). I have been elsewhere suggested Raspberry, which is Debian GNU-Linux driven, alth

Re: sudoers vs admin group

2013-04-30 Thread Bob Proulx
Michael wrote: > Is there any (significant) difference between editing (adding a user > to) the _/etc/sudoers_ file and adding a person to the _admin > group?_ Am I comparing apples and oranges? There is no default "admin" group. I think you are referring to the "sudo" group. (There is an "adm

Re: recreating lenny

2013-04-30 Thread Bob Proulx
Ross Boylan wrote: > I think I need to recreate a lenny system, and could use some advice > about how to do it. The system was i386, while the one I have now > is amd64 (wheezy, though I have access to an amd65 running lenny). You can use debootstrap to create a lenny chroot. I just tried this a

recreating lenny

2013-04-30 Thread Ross Boylan
I think I need to recreate a lenny system, and could use some advice about how to do it. The system was i386, while the one I have now is amd64 (wheezy, though I have access to an amd65 running lenny). I don't think the current debootstap can do lenny, and using the lenny installer or (if I co

Re: can someone replicate this cut and paste bug?

2013-04-30 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 4/30/2013 2:04 PM, songbird wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: ... That's not a 'u' - it's the lower case greek letter mu, which is probably not in the charset you're using (sorry, I can't test it right now). right, it is μ. however, in my LibreOffice document and this text document it is show

Re: sudoers vs admin group

2013-04-30 Thread Aidan Gauland
Jean-Marc writes: > Michael wrote: >> Is there any (significant) difference between editing (adding a user to) >> the _/etc/sudoers_ file and adding a person to the _admin group?_ Am I >> comparing apples and oranges? > Usually, groups are used on GNU/Linux for access control, to control a

Re: terminal emulator compatible with Ecma-48

2013-04-30 Thread Chris Davies
Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Monday, April 29, 2013 5:30:03 PM UTC-4, Chris Davies wrote: >> Thomas Dickey wrote: >> > What I recall of the PuTTY FAQ (a specific pointer would help) is that >> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html > that's not what I meant by "specific". A mi

upgrading mysql -> mariadb...A cleaner way?

2013-04-30 Thread Brad Alexander
Hi, Over the past couple of weeks, I have converted a couple of boxes from mysql to mariadb, citing concerns with oracle's irresponsible handling of mysql. (There was another no-authentication exploit fixed in the massive patch cluster last week.) I have come up with a method of upgrading from my

Re (3): psaux

2013-04-30 Thread peasthope
* Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:54:34 -0700 * From: -dsr- > People would have asked about /dev/ps0 and /dev/ps1. Good point, thanks, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +13606390202 Bcc: peasthope at shaw.ca http://carnot.

Re: MUA: Sylpheed vs Claws-mail

2013-04-30 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
On Wed, 1 May 2013 00:04:48 +0200, Jean-Marc wrote: >Hi everybody, > >I followed you discussions about MUAs and I have some questions about >the same. > >Running a Debian Testing, I use Sylpheed (3.2.0) and Claws-mail >(3.8.1), the second being a fork of the first one if I understand >everything.

Unidentified subject!

2013-04-30 Thread peasthope
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:56:13AM -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > According to Wikipedia, the PS/2 connection was designed in 1987 > and the first release of the Linux kernel was in 1991. Therefore > "/dev/psaux" could have appeared in Unix before it appeared in > Linux. Whether the first a

MUA: Sylpheed vs Claws-mail

2013-04-30 Thread Jean-Marc
Hi everybody, I followed you discussions about MUAs and I have some questions about the same. Running a Debian Testing, I use Sylpheed (3.2.0) and Claws-mail (3.8.1), the second being a fork of the first one if I understand everything. They are difficult to disentangle but I have to say I prefe

Re: sudoers vs admin group

2013-04-30 Thread Jean-Marc
On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:10:41 -0500 Michael wrote: Hi Michael, > Is there any (significant) difference between editing (adding a user to) > the _/etc/sudoers_ file and adding a person to the _admin group?_ Am I > comparing apples and oranges? Usually, groups are used on GNU/Linux for access con

Re: Thanks to All

2013-04-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 06:14:00PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:19:36 -0500 > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Hello Hugo, > > >mine neither > > Are you saying that you don't take into consideration a company's or > developer's morality (insofar as it's possible to know their mo

Re: can someone replicate this cut and paste bug?

2013-04-30 Thread Siard
songbird wrote: > in the future i'll have to proof read every copy and paste > operation for funny translations. i don't know about you and how > much you reference technical documents and copy and paste, but the > sort of mistranslation is one that would make me shudder. > > is there a safer

SpliX and Samsung CLP-500

2013-04-30 Thread Hans Vogelsberger
Since one of the upgrades during the last two weeks or so printing no longer works on my AMD-64 with Debian Testing and Samsung CLP-500. The error message in localhost:631 says: "SpliX cannot open CMS file /usr/share/cups/profiles/samsung/CLP-500cms(2)". There was no directory profiles/samsung

Re: can someone replicate this cut and paste bug?

2013-04-30 Thread Brian
On Tue 30 Apr 2013 at 06:42:33 -0400, songbird wrote: > i don't have access to the original document > other than the link posted above. Bceause I've snipped a bit, it is http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130425/srep01732/pdf/srep01732.pdf > i hope it doesn't happen in other documents as

Re: can someone replicate this cut and paste bug?

2013-04-30 Thread songbird
Jerry Stuckle wrote: ... > That's not a 'u' - it's the lower case greek letter mu, which is > probably not in the charset you're using (sorry, I can't test it right now). right, it is μ. however, in my LibreOffice document and this text document it is showing up correctly when i paste it in fr

Re: can someone replicate this cut and paste bug?

2013-04-30 Thread songbird
Claudius Hubig wrote: > songbird wrote: >> i can verify that in the Times New Roman font i'm >> using in Libreoffice that when i paste a µ into it >> that it does work correctly, but when i hit return >> at the end of the line it translates the initial µ >> into a capital M. this happens on the

Re: can someone replicate this cut and paste bug?

2013-04-30 Thread songbird
Siard wrote: > songbird wrote: >> when cutting and pasting from evince to a terminal the process is >> translating a "um" into a "mm" which is a signifcant change for a >> technical document. >> >> the source document used was downloaded from: >> >> "http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130425/s

Re (2): psaux

2013-04-30 Thread peasthope
From: Bob Proulx Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:24:26 -0600 > In that context it means "auxiliary". As in PS/2 auxiliary device. So this "auxiliary" is essentially synonymous with "peripheral" or "serial peripheral". > Those three letter device names were in general use before MS-DOS > times.

Re: konsole doesn't output the korean string, but xterm did.

2013-04-30 Thread Morning Star
I just install the ttf-baekmuk, and the korean string show up. It works. Thanks. Best regards, Marco On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Lázaro wrote: > dos you have koren fonts installed > > aptitude show ttf-baekmuk > > > Thread name: "konsole doesn't output the korean string, but xterm did." >

Re: psaux

2013-04-30 Thread Bob Proulx
peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Not long ago there was a /dev/psaux. I'm interested in the > terminology. Can guess that "ps" is from PS/2. Correct? > > Can anyone tell the origin of "aux"? A modest effort with > Google hasn't helped. In that context it means "auxiliary". As in PS/2 auxiliary

Re: Thanks to All

2013-04-30 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:19:36 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hello Hugo, >mine neither Are you saying that you don't take into consideration a company's or developer's morality (insofar as it's possible to know their moral stance) when choosing a product/app/whatever? -- Regards _ / )

Re: rpm

2013-04-30 Thread Bob Proulx
ChadDavis wrote: > I'm doing some software development that uses RPM packages. I would like > to have RPM installed on my debian system for trivial and development only > usage. In other words, I don't really plan to manage my system with it at > all; i just want to use it for my dev purposes. >

psaux

2013-04-30 Thread peasthope
Not long ago there was a /dev/psaux. I'm interested in the terminology. Can guess that "ps" is from PS/2. Correct? Can anyone tell the origin of "aux"? A modest effort with Google hasn't helped. Thanks,... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12345678

Re: rpm

2013-04-30 Thread Frank Miles
On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:40:01 +0200, ChadDavis wrote: > I'm doing some software development that uses RPM packages. I would > like to have RPM installed on my debian system for trivial and > development only usage. In other words, I don't really plan to manage > my system with it at all; i just w

Re: Why Wheezy and Not Just Testing? (WAS: Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-30 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:52:38 +0300,Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 22 apr 13, 01:03:41, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > I stayed with F12 almost 2 and a half years past its EOL.  I didn't > > like F15, my next usual upgrade, or the following releases, or the > > direction Fedora was going.  So, I

rpm

2013-04-30 Thread ChadDavis
I'm doing some software development that uses RPM packages. I would like to have RPM installed on my debian system for trivial and development only usage. In other words, I don't really plan to manage my system with it at all; i just want to use it for my dev purposes. My question is whether thi

Re: [OT] Reverse-delete algorithm

2013-04-30 Thread lina
1 function ReverseDelete(edges[] E) 2sort E in decreasing order 3Define an index i ← 0 4while i < size(E) 5 Define edge temp ← E[i] 6 delete E[i] 7 if temp.v1 is not connected to temp.v2 8 E[i] ← temp 9 i ← i + 1 10 return edges[] E

[OT] Reverse-delete algorithm

2013-04-30 Thread lina
Hi all, I am so frustrated about the code implementation of the Reverse-delete algorithm. Anyone has done that or know which codes I can take a reference. Sorry it's a bit OT, but I know no one around I can ask. Thanks very much, Best regards, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

Re: Thanks to All

2013-04-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John Hasler wrote: Siard writes: AFAIK, in general, the older one gets, the less important technical aspects become w.r.t. the choices one makes, and the more important the extent gets to which one can identify himself with the makers/ manufacturers/developers. That has not been my experience.

Re: Why does my ssh session terminate immediately?

2013-04-30 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2013/4/30 Lázaro > > could yopu user haveing some weird shell. For example, the user "chicho" > > have the shell /bin/false for security. Qhen you make > > > > ssh chicho@server > > > > you'll be droped out before breath > > please, sorry the typos error :( > > > look at ClientAliveInterval and

Re: Why does my ssh session terminate immediately?

2013-04-30 Thread Lázaro
> could yopu user haveing some weird shell. For example, the user "chicho" > have the shell /bin/false for security. Qhen you make > > ssh chicho@server > > you'll be droped out before breath please, sorry the typos error :( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: konsole doesn't output the korean string, but xterm did.

2013-04-30 Thread Lázaro
dos you have koren fonts installed aptitude show ttf-baekmuk Thread name: "konsole doesn't output the korean string, but xterm did." Mail number: 1 Date: Mon, Apr 29, 2013 In reply to: Morning Star > > Hi guys, > i just want to ask why the KDE konsole doesn't output the korean > string, but

Re: Why does my ssh session terminate immediately?

2013-04-30 Thread Lázaro
Thread name: "Re: Why does my ssh session terminate immediately?" Mail number: 3 Date: Mon, Apr 29, 2013 In reply to: Bob Proulx > > Andreas Leha wrote: > > PS: I'd still be grateful for more pointers > > I still believe it must be something that has changed in your > environment. It work

Re: Thanks to All

2013-04-30 Thread Siard
John Hasler writes: > Siard writes: > > AFAIK, in general, the older one gets, the less important technical > > aspects become w.r.t. the choices one makes, and the more important > > the extent gets to which one can identify himself with the makers/ > > manufacturers/developers. > > That has not

asus p9x79 pro: headphone does not mute speakers

2013-04-30 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi, I have a Asus P9X79 Pro with AMD64 Wheezy, up to date as for today. Whenever I plug in my headphone in the front panel my speakers, which are plugged in the rear panel, do not mute. Which rather defeats the purpose of the headphone ;-) The manual of the board states that the audio is a "Realt

Re: can someone replicate this cut and paste bug?

2013-04-30 Thread Siard
songbird wrote: > when cutting and pasting from evince to a terminal the process is > translating a "um" into a "mm" which is a signifcant change for a > technical document. > > the source document used was downloaded from: > > "http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130425/srep01732/pdf/srep01732.

Re: can someone replicate this cut and paste bug?

2013-04-30 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear songbird, what a wonderful name that is. songbird wrote: > i can verify that in the Times New Roman font i'm > using in Libreoffice that when i paste a µ into it > that it does work correctly, but when i hit return > at the end of the line it translates the initial µ > into a capital M. t

Re: administration of initscripts

2013-04-30 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 07:51:42PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 12:31:25AM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > If you were a faithful follower of Kernighan UNIX philosophy, you > > > wouldn't touch those nasty BSDs with a bargepole. > > > > R

Re: can someone replicate this cut and paste bug?

2013-04-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 30 April 2013 11:42:33 songbird wrote: > they could be > made aware some kind of strange effect is going on It isn't a strange effect. As Jerry and I said, it is just not preserving the font. No font is conserved. In this case it happens to matter. An initial µ is changed to M beca

Re: can someone replicate this cut and paste bug?

2013-04-30 Thread songbird
Darac Marjal wrote: >songbird wrote: >> when cutting and pasting from evince >> to a terminal the process is translating >> a "um" into a "mm" which is a signifcant >> change for a technical document. >>=20 >> the source document used was downloaded from: >>=20 >> "http://www.nature.com/srep/

Re: can someone replicate this cut and paste bug?

2013-04-30 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 4/30/2013 2:28 AM, songbird wrote: when cutting and pasting from evince to a terminal the process is translating a "um" into a "mm" which is a signifcant change for a technical document. the source document used was downloaded from: "http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130425/srep01732/pd

Re: can someone replicate this cut and paste bug?

2013-04-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 30 April 2013 10:39:53 Brian wrote: > mupdf too. By this time I'd be thinking in terms of 'What is wrong with > the PDF?'. Fonts, glyphs, unicode etc. Not much can be done about it > without access to the source document. The discussion is made harder to follow by rendering the original

Re: can someone replicate this cut and paste bug?

2013-04-30 Thread Brian
On Tue 30 Apr 2013 at 11:32:35 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 30 apr 13, 04:05:16, songbird wrote: > > > > not sure where to file a bug report for this? > > > > anyone have a good suggestion? > > I can reproduce this with Acrobat Reader (acroread package from > deb-multimedia) as we

Re: can someone replicate this cut and paste bug?

2013-04-30 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 02:28:14AM -0400, songbird wrote: > when cutting and pasting from evince > to a terminal the process is translating > a "um" into a "mm" which is a signifcant > change for a technical document. > > the source document used was downloaded from: > > "http://www.nature.c

Re: How to forward serial devices' input to X?

2013-04-30 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 02:48:29PM +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: >Hi, >  We have a barcode scanner used here, which for some reason has to be a >serial device. So all its scanning output is sent to /dev/ttyACM0. If I >`cat /dev/ttyACM0`, I could get the strings. >  Problem

Re: mdadm devices have the same name after install of Debian Wheezy

2013-04-30 Thread John Tate
My mistake. The raid device is showing up in /dev/disk/by-uuid/{the uuid} The /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf in initrd has two entries for /dev/md/0 which are supposed to be I think the two RAID 1 drives I think the wheezy installer might be broken at the moment because the first error is that /etc/mdadm/

Re: IRQ conflict

2013-04-30 Thread maderios
On 04/29/2013 09:42 PM, Maxim Karpenko wrote: Hi I've also saw the same issue with my shared IRQs (and also IRQ was shared with nvidia graphics card). If you look in your dmesg, it suggests you to boot with "irqpoll" option. As for me - this didn't help until I added also "noirqdebug". After th

Re: IRQ conflict

2013-04-30 Thread maderios
On 04/29/2013 09:42 PM, Maxim Karpenko wrote: Hi I've also saw the same issue with my shared IRQs (and also IRQ was shared with nvidia graphics card). If you look in your dmesg, it suggests you to boot with "irqpoll" option. As for me - this didn't help until I added also "noirqdebug". After th

Re: can someone replicate this cut and paste bug?

2013-04-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 30 apr 13, 04:05:16, songbird wrote: > > not sure where to file a bug report for this? > > anyone have a good suggestion? I can reproduce this with Acrobat Reader (acroread package from deb-multimedia) as well. Maybe it's something related to the fonts used? Kind regards, Andrei --

Re: can someone replicate this cut and paste bug?

2013-04-30 Thread songbird
Winfried Boxleitner wrote: > --8323329-1930507433-1367307512=:19659 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > hello, > I can confirm your observation! > > the following applications have the same behaviour: > evince, xpdf and pdftot

Re: How do I list installed packages?

2013-04-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 24 apr 13, 08:43:07, green wrote: > > Following are the commands I use for backup and restore of the package > selection. Please note that I have not needed to use these commands > for some time. In fact, aptitude-create-state-bundle arrived some > time after I implemented this; I have no

Re: can someone replicate this cut and paste bug?

2013-04-30 Thread Winfried Boxleitner
hello, I can confirm your observation! the following applications have the same behaviour: evince, xpdf and pdftotext. they all translate the text: "particle size between 200-500 µm before" into: "particle size between 200–500 mm before" regards winfried On Tue, 30 Apr 2013, songbird wrote:

Re: [Debian installer] Problem with umounting hd-media

2013-04-30 Thread Julien Groselle
Hello, Thank you all for your answers ! First of all we have found a workaround... The USB stick has mounted on /hd-media/ and after iso-scan, the iso file on the /hd-media/ has mounted on /cdrom/ (loop). But after network scanning, the /hd-media/ is unmounted... but /cdrom/ stay active and usab

Re: Why Wheezy and Not Just Testing? (WAS: Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 22 apr 13, 01:03:41, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > I stayed with F12 almost 2 and a half years past its EOL.  I didn't > like F15, my next usual upgrade, or the following releases, or the > direction Fedora was going.  So, I opted against upgrading, but 12 was > having problems.  Time for a

Re: gnome3 mouse issues?

2013-04-30 Thread songbird
chris wrote: > its not a wireless mouse and as i said ive tried several mice and > disabling the internal touchpad. i looked in the logs after the fact > and i dont see anything that stands out to me, but its also tricky > because theres so much other non related noise in the logs its hard to > fil

Re: A home directory on removeable storage ...

2013-04-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 29 apr 13, 17:08:37, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Why do it that way around, rather than have your "primary" > on the local disk and your backup on the removable one? Because one may want to use it on several computers, not necessarily connected. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.o

Re: cmake dependency error while compiling darktable (glib2.0 too old)

2013-04-30 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Lun 29 avril 2013 21:42, Markus Neviadomski a écrit : > Am 29.04.2013 11:02, schrieb "Morel Bérenger": > >> Le Sam 27 avril 2013 15:10, Markus Neviadomski a écrit : >> >>> Thats the error: >>> -- Found xsltproc >>> CMake Error at cmake/modules/FindGlib.cmake:33 (message): >>> Glib version check