Re: systemd question

2014-04-09 Thread Pavel Volkov
On Monday, 7 April 2014 22:38:45 MSK, Hans wrote: Hi folks, just an understanding question. In README.debian stand this sentence: --- To test systemd, add: init=/bin/systemd to the kernel command line and then rebooting, or install the systemd-sysv package. -- Just wondering. I this

Re: BD-R and wheezy

2014-04-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Kevin Price: > Is there an easy way to burn BD-R on wheezy? Assuming that the drive is at /dev/sr0 and offers rw-permission xorriso -as cdrecord -v dev=/dev/sr0 your_image.iso If you have more than one drive, get an overview (as superuser) by xorriso -devices If you want slow Defect M

Re: Problem installing

2014-04-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 09 apr 14, 18:16:14, Michael Torres wrote: > I am trying to boot using a live cd using a macbook pro. I downloaded > the amd64 version because i have a for i7 processor. when it boots, > the screen turns black and only a small line is visible. why is this, > and how can i fix it? What Li

Re: Must run pulseaudio as root to get sound

2014-04-09 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 09 Apr 2014, Kyle Bentley wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm running Jessie x64 with the XFCE DE. I've noticed that as of last > week sometime, after an update, I have to kill pulseaudio, and restart > it with "pulseaudio -D --system" in order to get any sound. I haven't > made any modifi

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Re: /var/cache/man/...

2014-04-09 Thread Doug
On 04/09/2014 08:50 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 10/04/14 10:07, Doug wrote: /snip/ The only characters that anyone could reasonably need can be formed by setting up a Compose key. Do you have a source for that or is it just an opinion from the viewpoint of a particular location? The part

Re: Cropping a large collection of .PNG screenshots

2014-04-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 03:03:14AM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I have a few hundred screen shots I want to put on a web page, but > they are all full-screen and I want to crop to the real contents. > This is an identical region in all cases. So I want to script it. > > So, 2 questions: > A) Wh

Must run pulseaudio as root to get sound

2014-04-09 Thread Kyle Bentley
Hello everyone, I'm running Jessie x64 with the XFCE DE. I've noticed that as of last week sometime, after an update, I have to kill pulseaudio, and restart it with "pulseaudio -D --system" in order to get any sound. I haven't made any modifications that I think would have any influence on pulse

Re: /var/cache/man/...

2014-04-09 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 10/04/14 10:07, Doug wrote: > > On 04/09/2014 07:14 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 10/04/14 01:44, Mike McClain wrote: >>> The other day I noticed my computer clutteres up with many >>> directories in /var/cache/man/ for languages I don't speak so I >>> deleted them. >> That was a mistake. Y

Re: BD-R and wheezy

2014-04-09 Thread Mark Neyhart
On 04/09/2014 02:32 PM, Kevin Price wrote: > Is there an easy way to burn BD-R on wheezy? I met a guy at a LUG that wanted > to try linux but he lives out in the middle of nowhere and has 56k. Since I > have cable, I downloaded the Blu Ray images using jigdo. I am having a lot of > trouble burni

Re: /var/cache/man/...

2014-04-09 Thread Doug
On 04/09/2014 07:14 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 10/04/14 01:44, Mike McClain wrote: The other day I noticed my computer clutteres up with many directories in /var/cache/man/ for languages I don't speak so I deleted them. That was a mistake. You're new to this "sysadmin" stuff right? ;) snip/

Re: BD-R and wheezy

2014-04-09 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 10/04/14 08:32, Kevin Price wrote: > Is there an easy way to burn BD-R on wheezy? Yes. Several. And much fine documentation on the subject. > I met a guy at a LUG > that wanted to try linux but he lives out in the middle of nowhere > and has 56k. Since I have cable, I downloaded the Blu Ray i

Re: BD-R and wheezy

2014-04-09 Thread Kevin Price
On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 11:05:42PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 06:32:01PM -0400, Kevin Price wrote: > > Is there an easy way to burn BD-R on wheezy? I met a guy at a LUG that > > wanted to try linux but he lives out in the middle of nowhere and has 56k. > > Since I h

Re: /var/cache/man/...

2014-04-09 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 10/04/14 01:44, Mike McClain wrote: > The other day I noticed my computer clutteres up with many > directories in /var/cache/man/ for languages I don't speak so I > deleted them. That was a mistake. You're new to this "sysadmin" stuff right? ;) > Today they're back but I can't tell how they go

/var/cache/man/...

2014-04-09 Thread Mike McClain
The other day I noticed my computer clutteres up with many directories in /var/cache/man/ for languages I don't speak so I deleted them. Today they're back but I can't tell how they got there. Nothing in /etc/cron/* says anything about recreating them. I assume mandb did it but can't tell what

Problem installing

2014-04-09 Thread Michael Torres
I am trying to boot using a live cd using a macbook pro. I downloaded the amd64 version because i have a for i7 processor. when it boots, the screen turns black and only a small line is visible. why is this, and how can i fix it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org w

BD-R and wheezy

2014-04-09 Thread Kevin Price
Is there an easy way to burn BD-R on wheezy? I met a guy at a LUG that wanted to try linux but he lives out in the middle of nowhere and has 56k. Since I have cable, I downloaded the Blu Ray images using jigdo. I am having a lot of trouble burning them to disk. I tried basero, but that gives the

Re: is there a risk to program in java since sun is bought by oracle

2014-04-09 Thread Kevin Price
No, there are several open implementations of the jdk, java is the recommended language for Android, and oracle has continued to support java well. Maybe someone knows something that I don't, but it seems like you should hack in the language you like best. On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 09:31:49PM +01

Re: Cropping a large collection of .PNG screenshots

2014-04-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 09 apr 14, 08:59:51, Steve Litt wrote: > > Or, you can just redirect ls into a file, use Vim to convert and rename > each file individually. Could you please elaborate on this? Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and d

Re: Cropping a large collection of .PNG screenshots

2014-04-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 03:12:40PM +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > | > find . -name "*.png" | parallel -P8 convert -quality 95 {} -geometry 1280 > /tmp/{.}.jpg| Alternatively find . -name "*.png" -exec convert -quality 95 {} -geometry 1280 /tmp/{}.jpg + note '+' not '\;' which denotes to run

is there a risk to program in java since sun is bought by oracle

2014-04-09 Thread abdelkader belahcene
is there a risk to program in java since sun is bought by oracle ?

Re: OpenSSL Heartbleed bug, Apache still vulnerable?

2014-04-09 Thread shawn wilson
On Apr 9, 2014 3:51 PM, "Sven Hartge" wrote: > > Curt wrote: > > On 2014-04-09, Jochen Spieker wrote: > > >> The repository now contains a fixed version (0.9.4.2-r413). I tested it > >> and the new version looks fine. > > > Don't mean to hijack, but is this a useful tool? > > > http://filippo.io

Re: OpenSSL Heartbleed bug, Apache still vulnerable?

2014-04-09 Thread Sven Hartge
Curt wrote: > On 2014-04-09, Jochen Spieker wrote: >> The repository now contains a fixed version (0.9.4.2-r413). I tested it >> and the new version looks fine. > Don't mean to hijack, but is this a useful tool? > http://filippo.io/Heartbleed/ To scan your complete network in mere seconds:

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Pascal Obry wrote: Le mardi 08 avril 2014 à 15:51 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : DynDNS just announced that their free hostname program in 30 days will no longer be gratis. I use that with ddclient to update the IP address for my blog. Are there other free alternatives

Re: OpenSSL Heartbleed bug, Apache still vulnerable?

2014-04-09 Thread Curt
On 2014-04-09, Jochen Spieker wrote: >> http://filippo.io/Heartbleed/ > > Yes, it is. Qualys tests for the new attack as well now: > > https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/ > Thank you. The ssllabs test seems quite thorough! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: OpenSSL Heartbleed bug, Apache still vulnerable?

2014-04-09 Thread Jochen Spieker
Curt: > On 2014-04-09, Jochen Spieker wrote: >> >> The repository now contains a fixed version (0.9.4.2-r413). I tested it >> and the new version looks fine. > > Don't mean to hijack, but is this a useful tool? > > http://filippo.io/Heartbleed/ Yes, it is. Qualys tests for the new attack as

Re: OpenSSL Heartbleed bug, Apache still vulnerable?

2014-04-09 Thread Curt
On 2014-04-09, Jochen Spieker wrote: > > The repository now contains a fixed version (0.9.4.2-r413). I tested it > and the new version looks fine. Don't mean to hijack, but is this a useful tool? http://filippo.io/Heartbleed/ (I'm an ignorant end user who has just woken up to the issue of ble

Re: OpenSSL Heartbleed bug, Apache still vulnerable?

2014-04-09 Thread Jochen Spieker
Jochen Spieker: > Sven Hartge: >> >> I presume mod_spdy is not from any offical package (cannot find any >> package matching "spdy" in Debian anywhere) but a module compiled by >> yourself? > > I think I installed a .deb from Google which added the file > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mod-spdy.list: >

Re: smokeping on jessie

2014-04-09 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 09 April 2014 15:25:27 an...@cyberh0me.net wrote: > hello, > > please could you help me to install smokeping on jessie? > > i am using the testing repo > > > deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ testing main > deb-src http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ testing main > > deb http://securi

Re: where is libgtk2 (for Raspbian)?

2014-04-09 Thread Dom
On 09/04/14 14:01, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 09 April 2014 01:40:48 Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson wrote: But this is not a support list for raspbian, they must have theyr own support. Currently Raspbian doesn't maintain a forum of its own. http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianForums The best plac

smokeping on jessie

2014-04-09 Thread andre
hello, please could you help me to install smokeping on jessie? i am using the testing repo deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ testing main deb-src http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ testing main deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main deb-src http://security.debian.org/ testing/

Re: Cropping a large collection of .PNG screenshots

2014-04-09 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 04/09/2014 12:03 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I have a few hundred screen shots I want to put on a web page, but they are all full-screen and I want to crop to the real contents. This is an identical region in all cases. So I want to script it. So, 2 questions: A) What's the best tool for the j

Re: where is libgtk2 (for Raspbian)?

2014-04-09 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 09 April 2014 01:40:48 Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson wrote: > But this is not a support list for raspbian, they must have theyr > own support. Currently Raspbian doesn't maintain a forum of its own. http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianForums Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Cropping a large collection of .PNG screenshots

2014-04-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 9 Apr 2014 03:03:14 -0700 "Kevin O'Gorman" wrote: > I have a few hundred screen shots I want to put on a web page, but > they are all full-screen and I want to crop to the real contents. > This is an identical region in all cases. So I want to script it. > > So, 2 questions: > A) What's

Re: How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-09 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 06 April 2014 04:43:51 ray wrote: > > At logon, you can choose between any desktop environments and > > window > > > > managers you have installed, and usually there is also a 'last > > one > > > > used' entry. > > > > Joe > > Great, thank you. I can now switch. I was hoping to see a ch

Re: XFCE upgrade wheezy->jessie feedback

2014-04-09 Thread Aaron Taddei
Martin, This has to do with the panel separator in xfce 4.10. You have to add a separator between window buttons and workspace switcher. Then you need to set style to transparent and check the expand check box. This is how I was able to emulate xfce 4.8 in 4.10. /VR Aaron On 04/08/201

Re: Maildir ext4 slowness

2014-04-09 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 11:53:52PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > As with any MUA directly accessing maildir files performance gradually > slows down over time with more and more mail files because they are > scattered across the filesystem, especially with EXT, much less so with > XFS. Seeking to

Re: Maildir ext4 slowness

2014-04-09 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 11:29:26AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 08 apr 14, 22:47:05, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > > > Of late, I've observed that folders with over 1000 messages seem quite > > slow to respond (order of 3-4 seconds), which wasn't really happening > > in the old days when I was

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 03:51:01PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > DynDNS just announced that their free hostname program in 30 days > will no longer be gratis. > I use that with ddclient to update the IP address for my blog. > Are there other free alternatives? That's a shame. If you ha

Re: Maildir ext4 slowness

2014-04-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 09:34:17AM +0100, Steve wrote: > http://lumail.org/ > > Although it is unlikely I wonder if anybody here has tested it under > ext4? I'd never heard of it, but thanks for sharing, it looks interesting. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: debmirror not installing libdigest-sha-perl, even though it is a dependency

2014-04-09 Thread Kushal Kumaran
Zenaan Harkness writes: > Any idea why the following: > > $ dpkg -s debmirror|grep Status > Status: install ok installed > > $ apt-cache show debmirror|grep Depends > Depends: perl (>= 5.10), libnet-perl, libdigest-md5-perl, > libdigest-sha-perl, liblockfile-simple-perl, rsync, bzip2, libwww-perl

Re: How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-09 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 09:12:05AM +0100, Joe wrote: > On Sat, 5 Apr 2014 20:22:55 -0400 > Stephen Allen wrote: > > I see this mentioned a lot that Gnome-Shell won't run on hardware more > > than a "few" years old. This is patently false. I've run it on a > > laptop more than 7 years old with no

Re: Cropping a large collection of .PNG screenshots

2014-04-09 Thread HdV
On 2014-04-09 03:03:14 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I have a few hundred screen shots I want to put on a web page, but > they are all full-screen and I want to crop to the real contents. > This is an identical region in all cases. So I want to script it. > > So, 2 questions: > A) What's the best tool

Re: Cropping a large collection of .PNG screenshots

2014-04-09 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2014-04-09 12:03 GMT+02:00 Kevin O'Gorman : > I have a few hundred screen shots I want to put on a web page, but > they are all full-screen and I want to crop to the real contents. > This is an identical region in all cases. So I want to script it. > > So, 2 questions: > A) What's the best tool f

Re: Cropping a large collection of .PNG screenshots

2014-04-09 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 09/04/14 20:03, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:> I have a few hundred screen shots I want to put on a web page, but > they are all full-screen and I want to crop to the real contents. > This is an identical region in all cases. So I want to script it. > > So, 2 questions: A) What's the best tool for th

Re: Cropping a large collection of .PNG screenshots

2014-04-09 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Kevin O'Gorman writes: > I have a few hundred screen shots I want to put on a web page, but > they are all full-screen and I want to crop to the real contents. > This is an identical region in all cases. So I want to script it. If it's really the identical region of the screen I wold consider

Cropping a large collection of .PNG screenshots

2014-04-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I have a few hundred screen shots I want to put on a web page, but they are all full-screen and I want to crop to the real contents. This is an identical region in all cases. So I want to script it. So, 2 questions: A) What's the best tool for the job? Gimp, irfanview, or something else? B) Is t

debmirror not installing libdigest-sha-perl, even though it is a dependency

2014-04-09 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Any idea why the following: $ dpkg -s debmirror|grep Status Status: install ok installed $ apt-cache show debmirror|grep Depends Depends: perl (>= 5.10), libnet-perl, libdigest-md5-perl, libdigest-sha-perl, liblockfile-simple-perl, rsync, bzip2, libwww-perl (>= 5.815), libnet-inet6glue-perl $ dp

Re: Maildir ext4 slowness

2014-04-09 Thread Steve
> I've seen that mutt was faster when using a locl imap server, with > header_cache and tokyocabinet as a db lib, than with same setting and > direct maildir access. I wrote a console-based mail-client, with lua scripting, modelled upon mutt: http://lumail.org/ Although it is unlikely

Re: Maildir ext4 slowness

2014-04-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 08 apr 14, 22:47:05, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > Of late, I've observed that folders with over 1000 messages seem quite > slow to respond (order of 3-4 seconds), which wasn't really happening > in the old days when I was using mboxes. I get at most 2-3 seconds with 12000+ messages Maildirs :)

Re: Maildir ext4 slowness

2014-04-09 Thread Erwan David
On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 08:19:09AM CEST, Raffaele Morelli said: > 2014-04-09 6:53 GMT+02:00 Stan Hoeppner : > > > > > Mutt, as with other MUAs, creates a header cache so it only needs to > > read the headers of new mail files. If you're slowing down with large > > maildir folders, the most like

Re: Maildir ext4 slowness

2014-04-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
> On 9 Apr 2014, at 07:19, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > There a set header_cache option to add in muttrc. Yes turn that on. It makes a big difference. Consider also archiving older mail to a compressed mbox via the "archivemail" tool. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debi