Re: Re: No Video

2013-12-01 Thread erosenberg
  - Original Message - From: Hudson Flavio Meneses Lacerda To:"Andrei POPESCU" Cc: Sent:Fri, 29 Nov 2013 17:54:49 -0200 Subject:Re: Re: No Video Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 29 nov 13, 12:41:12, erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com [1] wrote: >> >> Andrei -Sorry for the problem. If it

Re: Need help recovering from 'experiment' in firefox [SOLVED]

2013-12-01 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20131201_190904, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sun, 1 Dec 2013 11:32:29 -0700 > Paul E Condon wrote: > > Hello Paul, > > >rookie's query thread. I managed to get my firefox into a condition > >where the specified start page in preferences is 'about:blank' but the > >actual start page is 'New Tab'.

Re: apparently they somehow have their adler32 cake as part of Debian Linux ...

2013-12-01 Thread Albretch Mueller
> Unless it is implemented in a separate library or utility you will have to > look at rsync's or zlib's code to see how it is implemented. ~ Well, since that hashing algorithm is logically independent and it used in many algorithms including rsync and zlib used extensively, I thought it would be

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-01 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20131201_102725, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20131201_133458, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Sun, 2013-12-01 at 13:29 +0100, Linux-Fan wrote: > > > IIRC the start page is integrated in Firefox as "about:home" (at least > > > with newer versions) so nothing is loaded from the Google servers as > > > lo

Re: Need help recovering from 'experiment' in firefox

2013-12-01 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 1 Dec 2013 11:32:29 -0700 Paul E Condon wrote: Hello Paul, >rookie's query thread. I managed to get my firefox into a condition >where the specified start page in preferences is 'about:blank' but the >actual start page is 'New Tab'. I can change the text in the 'Home Here, I can't speci

Need help recovering from 'experiment' in firefox

2013-12-01 Thread Paul E Condon
I was trying different preference settings in firefox per the long rookie's query thread. I managed to get my firefox into a condition where the specified start page in preferences is 'about:blank' but the actual start page is 'New Tab'. I can change the text in the 'Home Page:' text box but changi

Re: [debian-user] Howto build Debian source packages (tar.gz)??

2013-12-01 Thread Nick Rudnick
Dear all, here is how it worked for me: > apt-get install debhelper ### (>= 9) > apt-get install dkms > apt-get install quilt > apt-get install nvidia-support Some packages I got from elsewhere (by googling), e.g.: + http://packages.debian.org/wheezy-backports/amd64/glx-alternative-mesa/download

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-01 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20131201_133458, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2013-12-01 at 13:29 +0100, Linux-Fan wrote: > > IIRC the start page is integrated in Firefox as "about:home" (at least > > with newer versions) so nothing is loaded from the Google servers as > > long as you do not enter any search term and press En

Re: Share VPN connection

2013-12-01 Thread François Fayard
Hi, I finally got it to work using the same steps as before. I have no idea why it works now and it did not use too. Thanks for all you help. François On Nov 30, 2013, at 23:51 , Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 12/1/13, Ron Leach wrote: >> On 30/11/2013 20:22, François Fayard wrote: > > Francoi

Re: 0.7.46 changelog: Change /run/network ownership to root:netdev.

2013-12-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 30 nov 13, 21:40:38, Regid Ichira wrote: > Sent this message to ifupdown@packages.d.o a few days ago. So far, > I didn't get a reply. Perhaps I should have asked the list prior to > asking the maintainer. > > Package: ifupdown > Version: 0.7.46.1 > > $ zgrep -B3 netdev /usr/share/d

Re: Getting apt-cdrom to work

2013-12-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 30 nov 13, 17:19:07, Brian Sammon wrote: > On Sat, 30 Nov 2013 12:49:13 +0200 > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > Could you please post the output of > > > > apt-cache policy > > apt-cache policy acpi > > # apt-cache policy > Package files: > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > release

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-01 Thread Joe
On Sun, 01 Dec 2013 15:07:46 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2013-12-01 at 13:01 +, Joe wrote: > > On Sun, 01 Dec 2013 13:32:30 +0100 > > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > Sylpheed > > > > + claws-mail > > We need to explain that Sylpheed and Claws are more or less the same > candidate. > >

Re: Firestarter Events always empty

2013-12-01 Thread Gábor Hársfalvi
2013/12/1 Andreas Rönnquist > On Sun, 1 Dec 2013 13:31:28 +0100, > Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > > >Why? > > > >Thanks for all possible answers > > From the Debian description at [1]: > > "Firestarter is no longer developed and is missing some critical > features such as IPv6 support, so users may be

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-12-01 at 13:01 +, Joe wrote: > On Sun, 01 Dec 2013 13:32:30 +0100 > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Sylpheed > > + claws-mail We need to explain that Sylpheed and Claws are more or less the same candidate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claws_Mail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylpheed

Re: Firestarter Events always empty

2013-12-01 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
On Sun, 1 Dec 2013 13:31:28 +0100, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: >Why? > >Thanks for all possible answers From the Debian description at [1]: "Firestarter is no longer developed and is missing some critical features such as IPv6 support, so users may be advised to look into more modern alternatives suc

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-01 Thread Joe
On Sun, 01 Dec 2013 13:32:30 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2013-12-01 at 17:54 +0530, AP wrote: > > Correct but at least if some particular MUA is used by several > > people (more than any other MUA is used by some people) then the > > particular MUA is worthy of use. Though I think it coul

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-01 Thread AP
On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Thunderbird is the most use GUI MUA, because it's used on other > platforms too. IOW, for Debian it's Icedove. Debian needs to rename > Thunderbird, but that's another story. > Mozillas (not only Thunderbird/Icedove), KMail, Evolution and Syl

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-12-01 at 13:29 +0100, Linux-Fan wrote: > IIRC the start page is integrated in Firefox as "about:home" (at least > with newer versions) so nothing is loaded from the Google servers as > long as you do not enter any search term and press Enter. Without reading the code I'll test it soon

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-12-01 at 17:54 +0530, AP wrote: > Correct but at least if some particular MUA is used by several people > (more than any other MUA is used by some people) then the particular > MUA is worthy of use. Though I think it could be either of Thunderbird > or Evolution or KMailbut I am no

Firestarter Events always empty

2013-12-01 Thread Gábor Hársfalvi
Why? Thanks for all possible answers

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-01 Thread Linux-Fan
On 12/01/2013 10:57 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2013-12-01 at 02:40 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote: >> You can go to the preferences and choose another start page >> if you like. (That's not Thunderbird, of course, that's Firefox.) >> Anyway, if you'd rather have Bing, you can have it. Or Yahoo.

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-01 Thread AP
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I guess I will test it this weekend or within the next month. But I also > will test KMail on different installs. I'm undecided what DE I will use > in the future and also what MUA. For me it's important that I can use > the same DE and MUA w

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-01 Thread AP
On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 5:07 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > "Dear AP, unfortunately you have made an assumption here based on > irrelevant non-technical innuendo from Ralph (see above). But I won't > hold that against you. For now :)" No no I just read everybody's views but didn't make any assumpti

Re: Share VPN connection

2013-12-01 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Ron Leach a écrit : > On 30/11/2013 20:22, François Fayard wrote: >> >> With the VPN, route gives : >> >> Kernel IP routing table >> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface >> default * 0.0.0.0 U 0 00 ppp0 >> 10.42

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-12-01 at 02:40 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote: > You can go to the preferences and choose another start page > if you like. (That's not Thunderbird, of course, that's Firefox.) > Anyway, if you'd rather have Bing, you can have it. Or Yahoo. > Or whatever pleases you. I wasn't talking abo

Re: Share VPN connection

2013-12-01 Thread Joe
On Sun, 1 Dec 2013 09:51:04 +1100 Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > e) be clear on the difference between PTPP tunnelling link, > unencrypted, which looks acts and quacks like a VPN-duck to the other > machines on your local LAN, as compared to a true VPN, which also > encrypts the tunnel. > PPTP us