Re: HTML5 => png or HTML5 => jpg.

2014-07-07 Thread Neal Murphy
On Tuesday, July 08, 2014 02:32:37 AM Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 22:07:24 -0700 > > pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > Is there a software which can convert an HTML5 page to a > > pixel map? Conversion should apply on text, tables, images > > and SVGs, all allowed in HTML5. > > > > rs

Re: HTML5 => png or HTML5 => jpg.

2014-07-07 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 22:07:24 -0700 pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Is there a software which can convert an HTML5 page to a > pixel map? Conversion should apply on text, tables, images > and SVGs, all allowed in HTML5. > > rsvg restricts the source to SVG. What I want is similar > to a scre

Re: HTML5 => png or HTML5 => jpg.

2014-07-07 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
> "p" == peter writes: p> Is there a software which can convert an HTML5 page to a pixel map? p> Conversion should apply on text, tables, images and SVGs, all p> allowed in HTML5. p> rsvg restricts the source to SVG. What I want is similar to a p> screen grab of iceweasel. But invoked by a

HTML5 => png or HTML5 => jpg.

2014-07-07 Thread peter
Is there a software which can convert an HTML5 page to a pixel map? Conversion should apply on text, tables, images and SVGs, all allowed in HTML5. rsvg restricts the source to SVG. What I want is similar to a screen grab of iceweasel. But invoked by a command specifying the height and widt

Re: Sound stopped working after kernel upgrade from 3.2 to 3.14

2014-07-07 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 7/6/14, Weydson Lima wrote: > On 7/5/14, B wrote: >> Try to add a file in /etc/modprobe.d (eg: NAUGHTY_INTEL_SND.conf) >> with a line in: options snd-hda-intel index=-2 (or whatever name >> is your module's name, YMMV) and reboot. > > > What should the file name be? These are the files I h

Re: is this sensible?

2014-07-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 30 iun 14, 12:35:37, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > One of the first things I do when using aptitude on a new computer is > disabling the "auto-repair feature" What feature would that be? > and automatic installation of recommended packages. I do this only on really space const

Re: is this sensible?

2014-07-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 30 iun 14, 14:47:23, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > A program cannot guess what the user has in mind, but there are > choices that are obviously more sensible than others, such as > upgrading a package instead of removing it. Sometimes aptitude > wants to remove hundreds of packages, which is o

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 07 iul 14, 23:41:59, Miroslav Hrabal wrote: > > Regarding reboot and shutdown, it's possible to handle this giving > regular users sudo permission to use /sbin/shutdown (or halt/reboot), > isn't it? Regarding automounting, I thought that it's usually handled > by gvfs? Why would anybody

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-07 Thread Brian
On Mon 07 Jul 2014 at 16:14:25 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 16:03:31 +0200 > berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > > I forgot that systemd is able to "spy" processes it starts, IIRC, to > > avoid tricks like the double fork, which means a better control on > > zombie pro

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-07 Thread Miroslav Hrabal
On Mon, 7 Jul 2014 23:20:15 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 07 iul 14, 21:33:54, Miroslav Hrabal wrote: > > > > Why do you think that OpenRC isn't viable alternative? AFAIK on Gentoo > > it works quite well. I'm currently playing with it on Debian and i > > haven't had any problems so far

Re: watching films full screen

2014-07-07 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 23:08:05 +0200 François Patte wrote: Hello François, >2- How to prevent dpms action when on fullscreen mode? As B suggests; Go with vlc. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" Now I found you

Re: watching films full screen

2014-07-07 Thread Bzzzz
On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 23:08:05 +0200 François Patte wrote: > 1- I would like to configure kaffeine for a "real full screen ie. > without any visible xfce panels. There are only one option in the > menu "configuration": choosing the startup mode! AFAIK, kaffeine has a problem with the xfce taskbar;

Re: SSD optimization on Debian (2014)

2014-07-07 Thread Jochen Spieker
Bob Proulx: > > I am using a high quality SSD that has a signfican't amount ^^^ > of internal over-provisioning. That's the funniest typo I have seen in a long time! :) J. -- I can tell a Whopper[tm] from a BigMac[tm] and Coke[tm] from Pepsi[tm]

watching films full screen

2014-07-07 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, I don't know how to configure apps for watching films full screen: 1- I would like to configure kaffeine for a "real full screen ie. without any visible xfce panels. There are only one option in the menu "configuration": choosing the startup

Re: SSD optimization on Debian (2014)

2014-07-07 Thread Bob Proulx
KS wrote: > I have done the following for optimization (ref: > https://wiki.debian.org/SSDOptimization?action=show&redirect=SSDoptimization): I wanted to say that I think that page needs an update for Wheezy. At one time there were many things needed for SSDs. The biggest being alignment to 4k A

Re: Slow mirror connections

2014-07-07 Thread Berni Elbourn
On 03/07/14 13:46, B wrote: On Thu, 3 Jul 2014 21:31:47 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: My ISP swears it's not them. Yeah, they always do that until a leak tells otherwise :( Check tcp window scaling:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_window_scale_option "off" may just fix a slowdown as descr

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-07 Thread Neal Murphy
On Monday, July 07, 2014 03:49:52 PM Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 07.07.2014 21:29, schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > > To prove my point (on a laptop with LXDE and just a few services): > > $ grep sleep /etc/init.d/* | wc -l > > 27 > > $ ls /etc/init.d/* | wc -l > > 75 > > Yup, the boot speed improvements c

Re: Time synchronization problem

2014-07-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Erwan David wrote: > Roman Gelfand a écrit : > > I have just installed ntpd using apt-get. It appears that after sync > > the time is 22 minutes ahead of the true time. > > > > when I do ntpq -p, I get > > > > remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset > > jitter > >

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 07 iul 14, 21:33:54, Miroslav Hrabal wrote: > > Why do you think that OpenRC isn't viable alternative? AFAIK on Gentoo > it works quite well. I'm currently playing with it on Debian and i > haven't had any problems so far. Because the two major DEs (KDE and Gnome) depend on functionality

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 16:03:31 +0200 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > I forgot that systemd is able to "spy" processes it starts, IIRC, to > avoid tricks like the double fork, which means a better control on > zombie processes. Don't know much about that, though. Dam, dude, doublefork is h

Re: IEEE 802.11-USB adapters with RTL8187L

2014-07-07 Thread Bob Proulx
pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > According to https://wiki.debian.org/rtl818x > these inexpensive adapters should work for Wheezy and later. > http://www.ebay.ca/itm/171177227057 > ... > And an incidental question: has anyone examined an adapter with a > dish antenna such as the first on the list above.

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-07 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 07.07.2014 21:29, schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > To prove my point (on a laptop with LXDE and just a few services): > $ grep sleep /etc/init.d/* | wc -l > 27 > $ ls /etc/init.d/* | wc -l > 75 Yup, the boot speed improvements come from doing things correctly and event based. Socket activation doesn't

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 06 iul 14, 11:15:14, The Wanderer wrote: > > (As far as I can tell, logind itself exists only as the binary > 'systemd-logind', which is packaged as part of the systemd package > rather than in its own logind or systemd-logind package. The same sort > of thing appears to be true of journald

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-07 Thread Miroslav Hrabal
On Mon, 7 Jul 2014 22:03:53 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 05 iul 14, 14:25:57, Steve Litt wrote: > > First things first: I'm Steve Litt, using the same email address I've > > used since 1996. You may or may not believe me a troll, but you have to > > admit I'm not some guy coming around ye

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
[Please mind I'm not an expert on this stuff and I had a beer. Please do correct any factual mistakes I might have made] On Lu, 07 iul 14, 15:40:35, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > From what I know about systemd's behavior, and official documents I have > read from it's authors, systemd

Re: building .debs with "+b1" on the end

2014-07-07 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 02:51:40PM -0400, Brian Sammon wrote: > So I would have to install/learn "sbuild". sbuild can be used to do it, but you don't need sbuild. I think dpkg-buildpackage would be sufficient, but you'd ideally do it in a chroot of some sort, which sbuild manages. Another tool to

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 05 iul 14, 14:25:57, Steve Litt wrote: > First things first: I'm Steve Litt, using the same email address I've > used since 1996. You may or may not believe me a troll, but you have to > admit I'm not some guy coming around yet again with new email address, > trying to fool everybody. ... >

Re: building .debs with "+b1" on the end

2014-07-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-07 20:51 +0200, Brian Sammon wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jul 2014 15:55:22 +0100 > Jonathan Dowland wrote: > >> Packages in the archive with a "+bN" version suffix, such as "+b1", have be >> 'binNMUd': essentially rebuilt without any source changes because the >> environment has changed (such a

Re: building .debs with "+b1" on the end

2014-07-07 Thread Brian Sammon
On Mon, 7 Jul 2014 15:55:22 +0100 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Packages in the archive with a "+bN" version suffix, such as "+b1", have be > 'binNMUd': essentially rebuilt without any source changes because the > environment has changed (such as a version bump of a library dependency). Ah! Thank y

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

2014-07-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 06 iul 14, 23:30:28, Bob Proulx wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Of course now with SSDs that standard thinking needs to be thought out > > > again. I haven't seen any benchmark data for full SSDs. I imagine > > > that it will have much flatter performance curves

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-07 Thread Brian
On Mon 07 Jul 2014 at 17:53:24 +0100, Brian wrote: > With systemd-journald running or not running ('systemctl mask > systemd-journald') 'ps ax' shows /usr/sbin/rsyslogd listening. Messages > are logged to the usual places in /var/log. You can be confident that > the information you already had abo

Re: IEEE 802.11-USB adapters with RTL8187L

2014-07-07 Thread peter
From: "Andrew M.A. Cater" Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 17:06:51 + > It doesn't _have_ to be metallic - a small dish shaped "thing" in any material > that isn't actually RF lossy may show some focussing effect. It also doesn't > have > to be solid - for some RF frequencies, chicken wire with big air

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-07 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Mon, 7 Jul 2014 11:45:32 -0400 Steve Litt napísal: > On Sun, 6 Jul 2014 21:05:10 -0600 > Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > > I've always thought that's *exactly* what makes it a text file. If > every character's ascii value is between 32 and 126, along with > CarriageReturn and Linefeed, it's a

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-07 Thread Brian
On Sun 06 Jul 2014 at 19:01:38 +0100, Brian wrote: > You had the time on similar dubious grounds to doubt the veracity of the > information you were given. It is possible the last mail did not fully or clearly address your major concern. With systemd-journald running or not running ('systemctl m

Re: Deluge disappears

2014-07-07 Thread berenger . morel
Le 02.07.2014 14:57, criego duncan a écrit : I'm running debian testing and keep it pretty up-to-date. I did 'aptitude update' then 'aptitude dist-upgrade' both yesterday and the day before. Last night i noticed that deluge was completely gone from my system. I never intentially uninstalled

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 6 Jul 2014 21:05:10 -0600 Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > My typical experience is that when people distinguish "text" vs > "binary" files, they mean the whole file can reasonably be made sense > of in a text editor (that's not a precise definition, of course, but I > think it serves the purpose).

exim4 with spamassassin ... confused

2014-07-07 Thread Harry Putnam
After digging around in several wiki pages and other google hits on 'debian exim4 spamassassin' I'm thoroughly confused by now. One of the sources: https://wiki.debian.org/Exim#Spam_scanning Under the `Spam scanning' header it tells me exim has a default configuration for spamassassin (-ed HP in

Re: Learning package building - tutorial issue

2014-07-07 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 03:12:28PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Jul 06, 2014 at 09:58:14PM +0200, Linux-Fan wrote: > > I found a much simpler solution: Your `debian/compat` file is called > > `debian/compact` (with an additional ``c''). Just rename it to `compat` > > (without the second

Re: building .debs with "+b1" on the end

2014-07-07 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Packages in the archive with a "+bN" version suffix, such as "+b1", have been 'binNMUd': essentially rebuilt without any source changes because the environment has changed (such as a version bump of a library dependency). In your case it would be worthwhile documenting the fact your package differ

Re: strangely odd

2014-07-07 Thread Bzzzz
On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 16:27:26 +0200 Floris wrote: > synaptic has launched it when you open it an hour ago. I should sleep more, that didn't came to my mind :( Thanks for your helpful answers. -- Melethon: not a bad picture… a real mermaid Paupau: you really think that :D you're so cute! Meleth

Re: strangely odd

2014-07-07 Thread Floris
Op Mon, 07 Jul 2014 16:21:30 +0200 schreef B : On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 16:16:15 +0200 Floris wrote: apt-xapian-index runs update-apt-xapian-index as a cron job daily. Synaptic will also runs this command in the background to rebuild the database. You can also run it manually as root and see h

Re: Is grub perfect? (was Re: Does LXDE really require lightdm?)

2014-07-07 Thread berenger . morel
Le 30.06.2014 20:33, Ric Moore a écrit : On 06/30/2014 06:24 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 28.06.2014 05:14, slitt a écrit : On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 09:33:57 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 7:48 AM, [...] > Grub is a *boot loader*. Lately (last few years), it se

Re: strangely odd

2014-07-07 Thread Bzzzz
On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 16:16:15 +0200 Floris wrote: > apt-xapian-index runs update-apt-xapian-index as a cron job > daily. Synaptic will also runs this command in the background to > rebuild the database. You can also run it manually as root and see > how long it takes. Especially when you rebuild t

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-07 Thread berenger . morel
Le 07.07.2014 15:40, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org a écrit : Le 05.07.2014 20:50, B a écrit : On Sat, 5 Jul 2014 14:25:57 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: My plan is to switch to systemd, see how I like it, and if I don't, install the old boot system, or if that can no longer be done, switch dis

Re: strangely odd

2014-07-07 Thread Floris
Op Mon, 07 Jul 2014 16:05:25 +0200 schreef B : On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 15:05:59 +0200 Floris wrote: Mooo??? When I answered the first time, synaptic was closed and restarted without success. Now, an hour later, the quick search zone's here !? Thanks! apt-xapian-index runs update-apt-xapian

Re: strangely odd

2014-07-07 Thread Bzzzz
On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 15:05:59 +0200 Floris wrote: Mooo??? When I answered the first time, synaptic was closed and restarted without success. Now, an hour later, the quick search zone's here !? Thanks! -- Hamburg was fantastic. Between the whores and the groupies our dicks all just about dropped

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread Bzzzz
On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 09:01:43 -0400 Jerry Stuckle wrote: > What's wrong with that? I also have to use Windows, even when I'm > working on Linux device drivers (and have been for 20+ years). > > Sometimes you don't have a choice in the matter. This is because you don't work hard enough *<;-) --

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-07 Thread berenger . morel
Le 05.07.2014 20:50, B a écrit : On Sat, 5 Jul 2014 14:25:57 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: My plan is to switch to systemd, see how I like it, and if I don't, install the old boot system, or if that can no longer be done, switch distros. I don't see systemd as the end of the world. *But*, I th

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-07 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Brian wrote: > On Mon 07 Jul 2014 at 09:46:22 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > >> Doubting the veracity of information you are given is one of the >> responsibilities you accept when you start thinking for yourself. > > Thinking doesn't stop at doubting. But just because

Re: Multimedia player for video filte type qs

2014-07-07 Thread Curt
On 2014-07-07, Bret Busby wrote: > > So, in vlc, the Tools -> Codec Details for Streams 0 and 1 (Video and > Audio), do not show a difference that easily shows to me, why the vlc > is unable to play a movie such as The Beguiled, as flowingly as other > movies such as Slaughterhouse Five. > Well a

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-07 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Joel Rees wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Nuno Magalhães >> wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:09 AM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: My typical experience is that when people distinguish "text" vs

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 7/7/2014 4:47 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Balint wrote: >> On 05/07/2014 18:14, Tom H wrote: >>> >>> Why are you trolling both the Debian and Fedora lists with this >>> nonsense simultaneously? >> >> because I use Debian and Fedora as well. >>> >>> >>> Why are you doing s

Re: strangely odd

2014-07-07 Thread Bzzzz
On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 15:05:59 +0200 Floris wrote: > install apt-xapian-index and the quick search will be back Nope :( -- Nikos : if theree was alcooohlin whyskt we''d kownn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: strangely odd

2014-07-07 Thread Floris
Op Mon, 07 Jul 2014 14:22:55 +0200 schreef B : On Mon, 7 Jul 2014 21:06:35 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: Here, too, since I installed the 64 bit system about a year ago, both wheezy. Ah, so it is blasted :( > Does anybody knows why and how to fix that ? I've looked around for a setting or o

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-07 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Nuno Magalhães > wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:09 AM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >>> My typical experience is that when people distinguish "text" vs >>> "binary" files, they mean the whole file can reasonably be ma

Re: Advice needed re TV internet media machine.

2014-07-07 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 7:51 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 06 July 2014 11:27:25 Joe wrote: >> We started with keyboard and mouse with the Pi, and then found it was >> controllable by our TV remote control, through the HDMI connection. It >> Just Worked. > > Lucky you. > > Lisi Anyway, the poi

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-07 Thread Brian
On Mon 07 Jul 2014 at 09:46:22 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > Doubting the veracity of information you are given is one of the > responsibilities you accept when you start thinking for yourself. Thinking doesn't stop at doubting. > Calling a peson's choice about how he spends his time "dubious ground

Re: strangely odd

2014-07-07 Thread Bzzzz
On Mon, 7 Jul 2014 21:06:35 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > Here, too, since I installed the 64 bit system about a year ago, > both wheezy. Ah, so it is blasted :( > > Does anybody knows why and how to fix that ? > > I've looked around for a setting or option or customization, > haven't found one ye

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-07 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:09 AM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >> My typical experience is that when people distinguish "text" vs >> "binary" files, they mean the whole file can reasonably be made sense >> of in a text editor (that's not a precise defi

Re: strangely odd

2014-07-07 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 8:37 PM, B wrote: > Hi list, > > on 2 machines (x86, stable & sid), synaptic has a "quick search" > text input zone; but on my laptop (x86_64 & sid), it doesn't. Here, too, since I installed the 64 bit system about a year ago, both wheezy. > Does anybody knows why and

Re: How to make preseed.cfg available in no-internet install?

2014-07-07 Thread Brian
On Sun 06 Jul 2014 at 20:19:27 -0400, Kynn Jones wrote: > Your recipe worked like gangbusters. And it taught me a lot too. Thanks a > lot! Splendid. Thank *you* for the testing and the feedback. Just to add a thing or two. You may decide to have a choice of ISOs; the ones with xfce, gnome, kde

strangely odd

2014-07-07 Thread Bzzzz
Hi list, on 2 machines (x86, stable & sid), synaptic has a "quick search" text input zone; but on my laptop (x86_64 & sid), it doesn't. Does anybody knows why and how to fix that ? -- An atheist is a man with no invisible means of support. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian Wheezy additional IP through Gnome-network-manager

2014-07-07 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 6:18 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:20 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan >> wrote: >>> >>> for some reason i need to assign an additional IP to My LAN. which i did >>> from Gnome-network-manager but ipconfi

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-07 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:09 AM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > My typical experience is that when people distinguish "text" vs > "binary" files, they mean the whole file can reasonably be made sense > of in a text editor (that's not a precise definition, of course, but I > think it serves the purpose). Wh

Re: Debian Wheezy additional IP through Gnome-network-manager

2014-07-07 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Thanks for the correction "ifconfig" Thanks for the tip TOM. instead of "ip addr" command is there anyway i can use network-manger and /etc/network/interfaces at the same time. actually what changes i made in network Manger does not reflect in interfaces file. both have their pros and cons so i d

Re: Multimedia player for video filte type qs

2014-07-07 Thread Bret Busby
On 07/07/2014, Bob Proulx wrote: > Bret Busby wrote: > >> And, I have found that vlc (running on Debian 6), has a problem with >> some of the files, in that the output for some of the files, as with >> the output for mplayer, is choppy (if that is the correct term), >> meaning that it will play

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-07 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 11:15 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > On 07/06/2014 09:54 AM, Martin Read wrote: >> On 06/07/14 00:10, The Wanderer wrote: >>> >>> Can you run logind without systemd or journald? >> >> If you have something else that provides the systemd interfaces >> logind depends on, you can ru

Re: Debian Wheezy additional IP through Gnome-network-manager

2014-07-07 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:20 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > for some reason i need to assign an additional IP to My LAN. which i did > from Gnome-network-manager but ipconfig doesn't show the new IP, i even > "server networking restart" which didnt help. i dont want to restart my > computer fo

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Balint wrote: > On 05/07/2014 18:14, Tom H wrote: >> >> Why are you trolling both the Debian and Fedora lists with this >> nonsense simultaneously? > > because I use Debian and Fedora as well. >> >> >> Why are you doing so from a Windows system if you're such a Linu

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-07 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2014-07-05 20:25 +0200, Steve Litt wrote: >> Then there was >> that upstart thing: a little more convoluted, but still somewhat >> conformant to the Unix Philosophy. Now comes systemd, which, from what >> I've heard, is a further step away

Re: Clone GPT partition table - with Lenny ?

2014-07-07 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 5:53 PM, B wrote: > Rahhh, read too fast, former was for non-GPT, here's > one good pgm that does the trick (also exist as a pkg > in trudububu): > http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/19047/how-can-i-quickly-copy-a-gpt-partition-scheme-from-one-hard-drive-to-another

Re: Clone GPT partition table - with Lenny ?

2014-07-07 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 5:49 PM, B wrote: > > Apparently, this is very easy: > http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/12986/how-to-copy-the-partition-layout-of-a-whole-disk-using-standard-tools You can't uses sfdisk with gpt disks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debi

Re: Clone GPT partition table - with Lenny ?

2014-07-07 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Ron Leach wrote: > > We have a RAID1 server running Lenny, one of whose two 2TB discs comprising > the RAID arrays has failed. The discs were partitioned into 8 partitions > during the Debian Lenny installation, and separate RAID1 arrays were built > on 7 of those p

Re: building .debs with "+b1" on the end

2014-07-07 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 01:37:17AM -0400, Brian Sammon wrote: > I want to re-build a package for personal use, and have a special version > number for my custom build. > > Since I'm not planning on customizing the source or the debian control files, > I think the ideal choice is to build a b

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-07 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Erwan David wrote: > Le 05/07/2014 20:50, B a écrit : >> >> I just made a re-installation on my last laptop and it >> installed by itself when upgrading to sid. >> AFAICS, it is really fast; now, we'll see what problem >> will be raised in the future… (hoping it

Re: Gratuitous reverse rabble rousing? (was Re: why do we use systemd?)

2014-07-07 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > I think it's because they believe, rightly or wrongly, that you're the > same person that came on here before with all sorts of anti-systemd > yelling, not to express an opinion, but to start trouble. If their > belief is wrong, you were treated

Debian Wheezy additional IP through Gnome-network-manager

2014-07-07 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
for some reason i need to assign an additional IP to My LAN. which i did from Gnome-network-manager but ipconfig doesn't show the new IP, i even "server networking restart" which didnt help. i dont want to restart my computer for this small task. i want this to be done with out restart. Please help