Debian with S/PDIF Toslink digital audio input on the Apple G5-PowerPC MacPro

2013-05-05 Thread Rick Thomas
Has anybody used the S/PDIF Toslink inputs on the Apple G5-PowerPC MacPro hardware? Does it work? Are there any secrets I should know before I start? I volunteer at a community radio station. They would like to record and archive the digital audio stream just before it goes out on the

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 05 mai 13, 23:44:36, Carl Fink wrote: > > That's really odd. Reinstalling Debian from scratch only takes an hour at > most, after all. (I use dpkg --get-selections > selections.txt to record > which packages I had installed.) BTW: +

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 05 mai 13, 10:08:56, Gary Dale wrote: > > If your current system uses Stable, you might want to switch that to > Squeeze for a while. I wouldn't advise upgrading servers, etc. to > Wheezy until you've had the chance to test the upgrade on things that > aren't critical. ... and read the

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
[forgot I wanted to comment on the other paragraph as well] On Du, 05 mai 13, 19:30:00, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > I never use the "Stable" name any more. Learned my lesson a > few years ago when I upgraded an install of Etch--sources set to > "Stable"--not realizing that Lenny had just become th

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 05 mai 13, 19:30:00, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > All that's required now is to cease using 'dist-upgrade' for upgrading. > Dist-upgrade was recommended in the user install manual while Wheezy > was still Testing. Now, that it's Stable, 'upgrade' is the recommended > method. Could you please

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 05 mai 13, 15:19:56, staticsafe wrote: > Forwarding to list as it was sent directly to me. > > Original Message > Subject: Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased > Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 20:05:20 +0100 > From: James Allsopp > To: staticsafe > > Hi, > Is there an up to date

Re: "jerks" in net connections

2013-05-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 05 mai 13, 14:15:22, andrey.ry...@bilkent.edu.tr wrote: > > no. it does not help. the problem is not for sshd itself. Same phenomena i > see with browser on this computer. this problem is not specific for ssh > but for network connection generally. It might still be DNS related though. Som

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-05 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 07:30:00PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > I never use the "Stable" name any more. Learned my lesson a > few years ago when I upgraded an install of Etch--sources set to > "Stable"--not realizing that Lenny had just become the new "Stable". I > ended up with a hybrid syste

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-05 Thread CaT
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 07:11:40PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 03:44:35PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > > > > It's very easy to install XFCE. Drill down in the graphical installer > > to other desktops and make your selection > > Or: > > sudo apt-get install xfce4 x

Re: Debian full disk encryption

2013-05-05 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Trim is disabled peer default for security reasons. Cheers, Chris. green schrieb: >John Thoe wrote at 2013-05-05 19:45 -0500: >> For starters, I am using a laptop for SSD so I read that using LUKS >> is not a good option since it disables TRIM. > >I am using cryptsetup, LUKS, and ext4 on a SS

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-05 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 05 May 2013, Gary Dale wrote: > If your apt-sources use Wheezy and not Testing, there is no need to > do anything different. If they use Testing, I'd advise switching to > Stable or Wheezy for a few months until the new Testing becomes > stable enough to use reliably. All apt sources have

Re: Debian full disk encryption

2013-05-05 Thread green
John Thoe wrote at 2013-05-05 19:45 -0500: > For starters, I am using a laptop for SSD so I read that using LUKS > is not a good option since it disables TRIM. I am using cryptsetup, LUKS, and ext4 on a SSD; TRIM seems to work. At least, fstrim seems to work as expected. Note that this is with wh

Re: Debian full disk encryption

2013-05-05 Thread Bob Proulx
John Thoe wrote: > I am trying to set up full disk encryption for Debian. There are a > lot of options available and I cannot choose which one to use.. > > For starters, I am using a laptop for SSD so I read that using LUKS > is not a good option since it disables TRIM. > > Anyways, I came across

Debian full disk encryption

2013-05-05 Thread John Thoe
Hello debian-user, I am trying to set up full disk encryption for Debian. There are a lot of options available and I cannot choose which one to use.. For starters, I am using a laptop for SSD so I read that using LUKS is not a good option since it disables TRIM. Anyways, I came across this vid

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-05 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 03:44:35PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > > It's very easy to install XFCE. Drill down in the graphical installer > to other desktops and make your selection Or: sudo apt-get install xfce4 xfce4-goodies -dsr- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists

Re: How to set emacs' gtk menu font size

2013-05-05 Thread John Hasler
T o n g writes: > I believe emacs is now built with GTK rather than Lucid thumper/~ apt-cache show emacs24-lucid Package: emacs24-lucid Source: emacs24 Version: 24.3+1-1 Installed-Size: 16982 Maintainer: Rob Browning Architecture: amd64 Replaces: emacs24, emacs24-nox Provides: editor, emacs24, em

How to set emacs' gtk menu font size

2013-05-05 Thread T o n g
Hi, >From a certain point of time that I can't remember, emacs started to use gtk style of menus. It didn't bother me until now, because the font size is so big that it distort my emacs window shape. Anyone know how to set the emacs' gtk menu font & size? I believe emacs is now built with G

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-05 Thread Thilo Six
Excerpt from Tony van der Hoff: > On 05/05/13 19:08, Gary Dale wrote: >> If your apt-sources use Wheezy and not Testing, there is no need to do >> anything different. If they use Testing, I'd advise switching to Stable >> or Wheezy for a few months until the new Testing becomes stable enough >> t

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-05 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On Sun, 2013-05-05 at 15:19 -0400, staticsafe wrote: > Forwarding to list as it was sent directly to me. > > > Original Message > Subject: Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased > Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 20:05:20 +0100 > From: James Allsopp > To: staticsafe > > Hi, > Is there an

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-05 Thread staticsafe
Forwarding to list as it was sent directly to me. Original Message Subject: Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 20:05:20 +0100 From: James Allsopp To: staticsafe Hi, Is there an up to date upgrade guide for existing installations? Also I want to replace

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 05 May 2013 18:29:50 Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 05/05/13 19:08, Gary Dale wrote: > > If your apt-sources use Wheezy and not Testing, there is no need to do > > anything different. If they use Testing, I'd advise switching to Stable > > or Wheezy for a few months until the new Testing b

Re: Cmake problem

2013-05-05 Thread berenger . morel
Le 05.05.2013 19:52, Gábor Hársfalvi a écrit : 2013. május 5., vasárnap napon a következőt írta: Le 04.05.2013 20:35, Gábor Hársfalvi a écrit : I've installed cmake package - "2.8.2+dfsg.1-0+squeeze1" - but when I try to use it sends me "CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:5 (compiz_plugin):   Un

Re: Cmake problem

2013-05-05 Thread berenger . morel
Le 04.05.2013 20:35, Gábor Hársfalvi a écrit : I've installed cmake package - "2.8.2+dfsg.1-0+squeeze1" - but when I try to use it sends me "CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:5 (compiz_plugin):   Unknown CMake command "compiz_plugin". CMake Warning (dev) in CMakeLists.txt:   No cmake_minimum_requir

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-05 Thread staticsafe
On 5/5/2013 12:13, Patrick Bartek wrote: > Noted with pleasure Wheezy is officially Stable. > > Guess it's time to switch from dist-upgrade I've been doing all > these months during the transition to Stable to upgrade. > > Thanks to the developers for all their hard work. > > B > > The news po

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-05 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 05/05/13 19:08, Gary Dale wrote: > If your apt-sources use Wheezy and not Testing, there is no need to do > anything different. If they use Testing, I'd advise switching to Stable > or Wheezy for a few months until the new Testing becomes stable enough > to use reliably. > > If your current sys

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-05 Thread Gary Dale
If your apt-sources use Wheezy and not Testing, there is no need to do anything different. If they use Testing, I'd advise switching to Stable or Wheezy for a few months until the new Testing becomes stable enough to use reliably. If your current system uses Stable, you might want to switch that

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-05 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 05. 05. 2013 18:13:07 je Patrick Bartek napisal(a): Noted with pleasure Wheezy is officially Stable. Guess it's time to switch from dist-upgrade I've been doing all these months during the transition to Stable to upgrade. Thanks to the developers for all their hard work. B +1 :) -- Ch

Re: "jerks" in net connections

2013-05-05 Thread Chris Davies
andrey.ry...@bilkent.edu.tr wrote: > no. it does not help. the problem is not for sshd itself. Same phenomena > i see with browser on this computer. this problem is not specific for > ssh but for network connection generally. Take a read on TCP Slow Start [1] and Nagle's algorithm [2]. Chris [1]

Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-05 Thread Patrick Bartek
Noted with pleasure Wheezy is officially Stable. Guess it's time to switch from dist-upgrade I've been doing all these months during the transition to Stable to upgrade. Thanks to the developers for all their hard work. B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: running Debian on a Cubieboard

2013-05-05 Thread Richard Owlett
Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 09:52:22AM +0200, Jean-Marc wrote: On Sat, 4 May 2013 22:33:23 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: Hi Andrei, On Sb, 04 mai 13, 04:44:50, Jean-Marc wrote: Hi guys, I bought a Cubieboard some days ago (http://cubieboard.org). I would like to install a De

Re: Debian package component belonging

2013-05-05 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, On 05/05/13 07:07, Bob Proulx wrote: > Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> Bob Proulx wrote: >>> Jerome BENOIT wrote: Is there an easy way to get it from the .debian.tar.(gz|bz2|xz) ? >>> >>> $ tar xf emacs23-non-dfsg_23.4+1-1.debian.tar.gz --to-stdout >>> debian/control | sed -n '/^Sectio

Re: running Debian on a Cubieboard

2013-05-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 09:52:22AM +0200, Jean-Marc wrote: > On Sat, 4 May 2013 22:33:23 +0300 > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Hi Andrei, > > On Sb, 04 mai 13, 04:44:50, Jean-Marc wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > > > > > I bought a Cubieboard some days ago (http://cubieboard.org). > > > I would like to instal

Re: "jerks" in net connections

2013-05-05 Thread andrey . rybak
> > You'll need to add "UseDNS no" on the server /etc/ssh/sshd_config to do > it. > no. it does not help. the problem is not for sshd itself. Same phenomena i see with browser on this computer. this problem is not specific for ssh but for network connection generally. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Pioneer BDR-*206* Internal Blu-Ray Disc DVD/CD writer and Debian

2013-05-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > > xorriso -outdev /dev/sr0 -map ./my_disk_file /my_iso_file > It burned a 13.4E+09 byte video file in 431 seconds -- 31+ MB/s. :-) So the drive and the operating system together are ready to burn BD media. The installed Brasero seems to be too old resp. runs into a known (and said to be har

Re: Problem with NVIDIA Graphic Card

2013-05-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Is any useful information given, when running $ grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1367748400.1007.16.camel@archlinux

No ipfw binary in Debian GNU/kFreeBSD

2013-05-05 Thread Alexandr Kovalenko
Hello, It turns out that there is no ipfw utility available in freebsd-net-tools package (or any other), while ipfw.ko module does exist. Absence of it renders Debian GNU/kFreeBSD unusable. Yes, I know documentation says to use pf, but pf is different firewall and cannot be used as a replacement

Re: running Debian on a Cubieboard

2013-05-05 Thread Jean-Marc
On Sat, 4 May 2013 22:33:23 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: Hi Andrei, > On Sb, 04 mai 13, 04:44:50, Jean-Marc wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > I bought a Cubieboard some days ago (http://cubieboard.org). > > I would like to install a Debian Testing on it and some useful services > > (webserver, wiki, xm

Re: defoma and registering ttf fonts system wide

2013-05-05 Thread Thilo Six
Hello Excerpt from staticsafe: -- -- >>> I used to use defoma to register ttf fonts. Now that it's gone, >>> how to register ttf fonts system wide now? >> >> Drop the fonts in one of the paths defined in >> /etc/fonts/fonts.conf. Currently this is: >> >> /usr/share/fonts /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fon