Re: Jessie netinstall CD on very limited internet connection.......

On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Charlie wrote: > > Just curious: > > I used a Jessie netinstall CD, downloaded some time ago, on a > computer belonging to a friend, who has a very limited internet > connection. It gave me an error message after reading the CD and I > think at the step of installi

audio bug

Jessie and Wheezy Reproducible PulseAudio It should be noted that Audacious was set to use PulseAudio, and that when set to Alsa instead, Audacious lowers the system volume as well as increases it and this decibel bug as reported below does not happen. Circumstance: Audacious is open. When ad

Re: PHP memory limit upper bound

Your posts are very hard to follow - perhaps Kmail is a little broken? I've re-edited this post accordingly - though it still incorrectly shows comment precedence. Perhaps you are not simply selecting a response from the list and choosing "reply to" as an option?? On 04/10/14 23:53, Grigor Kolev

Re: apt update problems

On Sun, 5 Oct 2014 06:24:18 +0200 Sven Hartge sent: > >> Knowing what was in your sources.list would save having to guess > >> what you have done incorrectly. > > > This is how it was, a single line in my /etc/apt/sources.list: > > > deb http://http.debian.net/jessie main non-free contrib

Re: Cannot boot when /sbin/init is linked to /lib/systemd/systemd, but works with ../lib/systemd/systemd [SOLVED]

> On September 21, 2014 10:45:44 PM Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > Is anyone else in the same boat (absolute symlink fails even though / is > > not nfs)? Final update: the issue vanished after updating to initramfs-tools 0.118. Thanks, Ben Hutchings!! -Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-u

Re: systemd

John Hasler-3 wrote > There may be packages into > which the upstream authors have twisted Systemd dependencies > inextricably, but that is not anything Debian can change. > -- > John Hasler > jhasler@ > Elmwood, WI USA And sir, that is the problem with Systemd and Debians acceptance of it as

Re: apt update problems

Charlie wrote: > On Sat, 4 Oct 2014 23:13:51 +0100 Brian sent: >> On Sun 05 Oct 2014 at 08:46:12 +1100, Charlie wrote: >>> W: Failed to fetch >>> http://http.debian.net/jessie/dists/main/non-free/binary-amd64/Packages 404 >>> Not Found >> Knowing what was in your sources.list would save havin

Re: 32/64 bit ... downloading install images

Chris Bannister writes: > A MAC is still a PC. PC is short for Personal Computer. Yes. Unfortunately, in common parlance a "peecee" is a desktop computer running Microsoft Windows. As in "Do you have a peecee?" "No. I have a Mac." The "Getting Debian" page refers specifically to "64 bit PC" a

Jessie netinstall CD on very limited internet connection.......

Just curious: I used a Jessie netinstall CD, downloaded some time ago, on a computer belonging to a friend, who has a very limited internet connection. It gave me an error message after reading the CD and I think at the step of installing the base system or just before that. It was something abo

Re: apt update problems

On Sat, 4 Oct 2014 23:13:51 +0100 Brian sent: > On Sun 05 Oct 2014 at 08:46:12 +1100, Charlie wrote: > > > Just tried it to see how it worked, but it doesn't work for me. > > That's because you have done something incorrectly. > > > W: Failed to fetch > > http://http.debian.net/jessie/dists/ma

Re: 32/64 bit ... downloading install images

On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 04:22:21PM -0400, Doug wrote: > On 10/04/2014 11:25 AM, John Hasler wrote: > > Harry Putnam writes: > >> So the unwary reader is led to believe that amd means an architecture > >> different from `pc'. > > > > "pc" doesn't mean an architecture. > > > This is probably not mu

Re: Serial Port Problems

On 10/03/2014 03:33 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 08:43:50AM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: Dear List - I am trying to capture data from a serial port and write it to a file. ethan@meow:/var/www$ cat /dev/ttyS0 > scale_value.html cat: /dev/ttyS0: Device or resource busy lsof

RE: squeeze-lts problem with debian's keyrings or apt

Howdy, > A little concerning that one has to go through that. > :-( I feel releaved that I was not the only one with that problem :) I took another approach, which worked for me: I installed in a virtual maschine a fresh Squeeze version, added squeeze lts-repo and tar-zipped /etc/apt/ and repl

Re: apt update problems

Ric Moore wrote: > On 10/04/2014 05:46 PM, Charlie wrote: >> Just tried it to see how it worked, but it doesn't work for me. >> >> W: Failed to fetch >> http://http.debian.net/jessie/dists/main/non-free/binary-amd64/Packages 404 >> Not Found >> >> W: Failed to fetch >> http://http.debian.net/

Re: apt update problems

On 10/04/2014 05:46 PM, Charlie wrote: Just tried it to see how it worked, but it doesn't work for me. W: Failed to fetch http://http.debian.net/jessie/dists/main/non-free/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found W: Failed to fetch http://http.debian.net/jessie/dists/main/contrib/binary-amd64/Pack

Re: Throw clarity to the world

Alberto Salvia Novella: > Windows 10 has just been launched, so perhaps you'll want to make > sure some people gets educated by giving your insight: > > Felipe de Andrade Neves Lavratti: It seems to be fully flat graphics. I wonder if Lin

Re: MP3 player compatible with Debian

On Saturday 04 October 2014 15:19:26 Lisi Reisz wrote: > There was a thread about MP3 players a bit back, and one in particular > found favour. But my memory, Google-foo, archive-foo have all failed me. > Can any kind person remind me/recommend a suitable inexpensive MP3 player > for me to take o

Re: apt update problems

On Sun 05 Oct 2014 at 08:46:12 +1100, Charlie wrote: > Just tried it to see how it worked, but it doesn't work for me. That's because you have done something incorrectly. > W: Failed to fetch > http://http.debian.net/jessie/dists/main/non-free/binary-amd64/Packages > 404 Not Found There you a

Re: Expletives Deleted

On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 2:17 PM, David Baron wrote: > I come to this list for new, advice, discussion on Debian installation, > software, packages, problems, advice. It has help and saved my skin > (system) > times in the past. Do not read every word of every post but those of > interest > as this

Re: apt update problems

On Sat, 4 Oct 2014 15:21:40 +0100 Brian sent: > On Sat 04 Oct 2014 at 08:05:26 -0500, John Aten wrote: > > > On Oct 4, 2014, at 5:25 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > Here's everything again, with some comments to explain what each > > > line does: > > > > > >

Re: Serial Port Problems

On 10/4/2014 10:48 AM, Markos wrote: > Dear Ethan, > > Your scale has a DB9, DB25 or USB connector? > > It is important to make sure that the cable you are using has the > correct pinout. > > Your scale has come with a cable from manufacturer or you set up the > communication cable yourself? >

Re: MP3 player compatible with Debian

On 10/04/2014 04:52 PM, Intense Red wrote: Respectfully, once you're getting above $100 USD, you're better off getting an cheap android phone/tablet. I didn't catch the first part of this thread, but I agree with you. What I have to wonder about is what is meant by "compatible with Debian".

Re: systemd

Andrew McGlashan writes: > My view is that systemd is a forgone conclusion and no-one whom has > decided that it should be will be convinced otherwise. Systemd as *default* is decided. Systemd as *required* most certainly is not: quite the contrary. There will be alternatives as long as there ar

Re: MP3 player compatible with Debian

> Respectfully, once you're getting above $100 USD, you're better off > getting an cheap android phone/tablet. I didn't catch the first part of this thread, but I agree with you. What I have to wonder about is what is meant by "compatible with Debian". I use a Sansa Clip (e.g. http://www.

Re: Expletives Deleted

On 10/04/2014 04:16 PM, Curt wrote: On 2014-10-04, David Baron wrote: Comeon, folks, I take it we are at least pretending to be professionals. That Professionals? Yeah, or something like that! :) Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world...

Re: lvm: creating a snapshot

On 10/04/2014 04:09 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Fri, 03 Oct 2014, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 08:43:06PM +0200, lee wrote: >>> Can I create a snapshot over the network on disks an another >>> machine? >> >> No > > You can, but not trivially. Use nbd, iscsi or similar to s

Re: MP3 player compatible with Debian

On 10/04/2014 04:15 PM, John Holland wrote: > Its More Like 200$, But The fiio X3 is very nice.plays audiophile formats > like FLAC as well as mp3. Fiio is a Chinese company. > -- > John Holland > jholl...@vin-dit.org > gpg public key ID 0x9551CF2D > Respectfully, once you're getting above $100

Re: lvm: creating a snapshot

I think you can pipe output of dd on the source to netcat, going to a netcat on the destination machine which is piped to dd going to a device or file on that machine. -- John Holland jholl...@vin-dit.org gpg public key ID 0x9551CF2D - Original Message - From: Don Armstrong Sent: 10/

Re: MP3 player compatible with Debian

Its More Like 200$, But The fiio X3 is very nice.plays audiophile formats like FLAC as well as mp3. Fiio is a Chinese company. -- John Holland jholl...@vin-dit.org gpg public key ID 0x9551CF2D - Original Message - From: Joe Sent: 10/04/2014 - 1:39 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Su

Re: 32/64 bit ... downloading install images

On 10/04/2014 11:25 AM, John Hasler wrote: > Harry Putnam writes: >> So the unwary reader is led to believe that amd means an architecture >> different from `pc'. > > "pc" doesn't mean an architecture. > This is probably not much help to the person who provoked the question. "PC" normally means

Re: lvm: creating a snapshot

Zfsonlinux.org has info on using ZFS with debian. I create vm images and snapshot them and clone the snapshots all the time. The clones are writable and only use as much space as corresponds to the difference from the source. The volumes have to be ZVOL s, not regular files. I have found this v

Re: Expletives Deleted

On 2014-10-04, David Baron wrote: > > Comeon, folks, I take it we are at least pretending to be professionals. That Professionals? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://l

Re: lvm: creating a snapshot

On Fri, 03 Oct 2014, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 08:43:06PM +0200, lee wrote: > > Can I create a snapshot over the network on disks an another > > machine? > > No You can, but not trivially. Use nbd, iscsi or similar to share a block device over the network, and then use lv

systemd

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Do I want systemd ? - definitely and absolutely NO. Is there any point arguing here in debian-user ? - definitely NOT. My view is that systemd is a forgone conclusion and no-one whom has decided that it should be will be convinced otherwise. I

Re: Expletives Deleted

On Sat, 04 Oct 2014, David Baron wrote: > Comeon, folks, I take it we are at least pretending to be > professionals. That means a modicum of decorum, common good taste, > self-restraint when called-for. As a side note, behavior which violates the Code of Conduct and the mailing list guidelines are

Re: (Song) About FK Sys___d. Link Enclosed

On Sat 04 Oct 2014 at 19:52:47 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 04 October 2014 19:46:12 Brad Townshend wrote: > > Hey, Looks like I was banned from the mailing list for questioning sys___d! > > Cool, debate and such. > >   > > Here's a song I recorded earlier today. > > I was thinking negat

Re: 32/64 bit ... downloading install images

On 10/04/2014 11:12 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: Andrei POPESCU writes: My machine has nothing to do with amd Well, AMD created the x86-64 architecture we are all using (Intel's IA-64 never became really popular), so actually it does ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amd64 That is interesting. I

Expletives Deleted

I come to this list for new, advice, discussion on Debian installation, software, packages, problems, advice. It has help and saved my skin (system) times in the past. Do not read every word of every post but those of interest as this is a very active list. Some claim systemd has ruined Debian.

Re: (Song) About FK Sys___d. Link Enclosed

On Saturday 04 October 2014 19:46:12 Brad Townshend wrote: > Hey, Looks like I was banned from the mailing list for questioning sys___d! > Cool, debate and such. >   > Here's a song I recorded earlier today. > I was thinking negative thoughts about "sys___D" when doing so: > http://youtu.be/JbRztcL

(Song) About FK Sys___d. Link Enclosed

Hey, Looks like I was banned from the mailing list for questioning sys___d! Cool, debate and such.   Here's a song I recorded earlier today. I was thinking negative thoughts about "sys___D" when doing so: http://youtu.be/JbRztcLaQa8   It is GPL v2 Licensed ofcourse. Fk your system. and Fk you those

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the "Universal Operating System"

Tom Collins wrote > Worthless trash. They need to be stopped, deposed. While many do agree with your sentiment, there is no need to post inflammatory comments such as this. In fact, you do a lot to detract from the cause of those who feel as you do by doing this, so stop, please. If you can't say

Re: (Song) Fk SystemD

On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 06:49:30PM +0200, Tom Collins wrote: [snip masturbation] To quote Jordan Hubbard, Your brand of "advocacy" is akin to having the KKK show up at one's wedding to congradulate the happy couple on their choice of marrying within their race. Some kind

Re: Trolling (was Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the "Universal Operating System")

On Sat 04 Oct 2014 at 07:42:24 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > I don't think most of the people who post things like that are "trolls" > in the classic sense. I think it's more likely that most of them are > just very, very angry, or possibly just outraged, to the point that it > overrides both polit

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the "Universal Operating System"

On Sun 05 Oct 2014 at 00:34:33 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 04/10/14 20:44, Tom Collins wrote: > > Debian nolonger claims to be the "Universal Operating System" > > ?? > > What site where you looking at? Not https://www.debian.org/ > Maybe "they" fixed it, or maybe you have a DNS problem to

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the "Universal Operating System"

On Saturday, October 04, 2014 06:44:43 Tom Collins wrote: > Debian nolonger claims to be the "Universal Operating System" > > On google searches debian pages still turn up like this: > Debian -- Mailing Lists - Debian -- The Universal Operating ... > > When you go to the page "The Universal Oper

Re: MP3 player compatible with Debian

On Sat, 4 Oct 2014 15:19:26 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: > There was a thread about MP3 players a bit back, and one in > particular found favour. But my memory, Google-foo, archive-foo have > all failed me. Can any kind person remind me/recommend a suitable > inexpensive MP3 player for me to take on

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the "Universal Operating System"

On Sat 04 Oct 2014 at 17:37:19 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 04 October 2014 17:07:21 Steve Litt wrote: > > Why you don't redirect my email to /dev/null is a mystery to me. > > As you wish. But you have never descended to calling those you disagree > with "worthless trash". But, as th

Re: MP3 player compatible with Debian

I'm using Sansa Clip+ and it's been great. Additionally I also changed the firmware to Rockbox (http://www.rockbox.org/) which has been a wonderful experience. On 10/04/2014 01:11 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On 4 Oct 2014, at 16:13, Kumar Appaiah wrote: The Sandisk Sansa family is quite

Re: 32/64 bit ... downloading install images

On 2014-10-04, Harry Putnam wrote: > > So the unwary reader is led to believe that amd means an architecture > different from `pc'. PC stands for Personal Computer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

Re: MP3 player compatible with Debian

> On 4 Oct 2014, at 16:13, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > The Sandisk Sansa family is quite good[1]. I personally use the Sansa > Clip+, but have used the old Fuze in the past. While they work out of > the box, many of them support the free alternative firmware Rockbox > for extra goodnessp[2]. Se

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the "Universal Operating System"

> On 4 Oct 2014, at 16:47, Steve Litt wrote: > > Yeah, go ahead. And then three more will pop up for each one you > silence. Are you endorsing the original message in this thread, or am I misinterpreting you? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

(Song) Fk SystemD

youtu.be/JbRztcLaQa8 Fuck Systemd. It is passionless static, worthless. Only here to force us in a direction. And Linus Trovalds agrees 100% with that direction. But he never claimed to be brilliant nor have good taste in women nor be uncorruptable (got to keep that RedHat stock valuable)   This

Re: apt update problems

On 2014-10-04, Brian wrote: > > Ok, http://http.debian.net won't write out a sources.list file for you > but one of its functions is to choose a fast mirror. Amongst the reasons for > choosing it instead of specifying a particular geographical mirror are > I guess everybody knows about this site:

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the "Universal Operating System"

On 04/10/14 17:07, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sat, 04 Oct 2014 12:31:43 +0100 > Tony van der Hoff wrote: > >> On 04/10/14 12:14, Lisi Reisz wrote: >>> On Saturday 04 October 2014 11:44:43 Tom Collins wrote: Worthless trash. They need to be stopped, deposed. >>> >>> This sort of thing makes me so

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the "Universal Operating System"

On 2014-10-04, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > This sort of thing makes me so angry. Is "Tom Collins" "Gregory Smith" by > another name? > It's a cocktail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Ar

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the "Universal Operating System"

On Saturday 04 October 2014 17:07:21 Steve Litt wrote: > Why you don't redirect my email to /dev/null is a mystery to me. As you wish. But you have never descended to calling those you disagree with "worthless trash". Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: How to install qt5 on Wheezy, and is that even a good idea?

Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Sb, 04 oct 14, 16:44:17, Mark Carroll wrote: (snip) > The only time one could say stable is "catching up to testing" is the > moment of a stable release, but even then, it's not quite accurate since > the current testing *becomes* stable, the next testing is started

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the "Universal Operating System"

On Sat, 04 Oct 2014 12:31:43 +0100 Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 04/10/14 12:14, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 04 October 2014 11:44:43 Tom Collins wrote: > >> Worthless trash. They need to be stopped, deposed. > > > > This sort of thing makes me so angry. Is "Tom Collins" "Gregory > > Smit

Re: How to install qt5 on Wheezy, and is that even a good idea?

On Sb, 04 oct 14, 16:44:17, Mark Carroll wrote: > Andrei POPESCU writes: > > On Sb, 23 aug 14, 13:43:50, Mark Carroll wrote: > >> > >> Package: * > >> Pin: release a=testing > >> Pin-Priority: 50 > >> > >> Package: * > >> Pin: release a=unstable > >> Pin-Priority: 40 > > > > This will make bot

Re: Serial Port Problems

Dear Ethan, Your scale has a DB9, DB25 or USB connector? It is important to make sure that the cable you are using has the correct pinout. Your scale has come with a cable from manufacturer or you set up the communication cable yourself? The DB9 serial cable for communication use, in gener

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the "Universal Operating System"

On Sat, 4 Oct 2014 12:14:41 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 04 October 2014 11:44:43 Tom Collins wrote: > > Worthless trash. They need to be stopped, deposed. > > This sort of thing makes me so angry. Is "Tom Collins" "Gregory > Smith" by another name? > > Please, ban anyone whose "discu

Re: How to install qt5 on Wheezy, and is that even a good idea?

Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Sb, 23 aug 14, 13:43:50, Mark Carroll wrote: >> >> In my /etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences I have, >> >> Package: * >> Pin: release a=stable >> Pin-Priority: 600 > > You are increasing priority of stable, from 500 to 600, why? I can't remember; it never seemed to b

Re: [Startubuntu] Throw clarity to the world

It seems to be fully flat graphics. I wonder if Linux distros should follow this trend. On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: > Windows 10 has just been launched, so perhaps you'll want to make sure some > people gets educated by giving your insight: > >

gnome: cannot use the applets (power, network settings, etc)

Folks, Since a few months now, I have not been able to use some settings from the applets (top right corner of screen, gnome). The log off button works, but reboot/shutdown doesn't. I am also not able to configure my wired network connection from the applet. Any change I make does not stick.

Re: MP3 player compatible with Debian

On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 03:19:26PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > There was a thread about MP3 players a bit back, and one in particular found > favour. But my memory, Google-foo, archive-foo have all failed me. Can any > kind person remind me/recommend a suitable inexpensive MP3 player for me to

Re: 32/64 bit ... downloading install images

Harry Putnam writes: > So the unwary reader is led to believe that amd means an architecture > different from `pc'. "pc" doesn't mean an architecture. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: 32/64 bit ... downloading install images

Andrei POPESCU writes: >> My machine has nothing to do with amd > > Well, AMD created the x86-64 architecture we are all using (Intel's > IA-64 never became really popular), so actually it does ;) > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amd64 That is interesting. I would not have guessed at that fact

apt update problems

Begin forwarded message: > From: John Aten > Date: October 4, 2014 10:10:02 AM CDT > To: Brian > Subject: Re: apt update problems > > > On Oct 4, 2014, at 9:21 AM, Brian wrote: > >> On Sat 04 Oct 2014 at 08:05:26 -0500, John Aten wrote: >> >>> On Oct 4, 2014, at 5:25 AM, Andrei POPESCU wro

Re: wrong mount point after update

On 04/10/14 06:00, Marko Randjelovic wrote: On Sat, 4 Oct 2014 00:20:19 +0100 José Silva wrote: On 03/10/14 23:44, José Silva wrote: Hello, On my Jessie x64, until today, I was used to my usb disks being mounted at /media/myuser/disklabel. After today's update, the first disk always get mou

Re: 32/64 bit ... downloading install images

On Sat 04 Oct 2014 at 09:47:46 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > I want to download a jessie weekly build for 64 bit PC. > > What is the appropriate architecture on the downloads? > > My machine has nothing to do with amd but that is the only thing > listed as 64 bit on the pages including jessie or

Re: 32/64 bit ... downloading install images

On Sb, 04 oct 14, 09:47:46, Harry Putnam wrote: > I want to download a jessie weekly build for 64 bit PC. > > What is the appropriate architecture on the downloads? > > My machine has nothing to do with amd Well, AMD created the x86-64 architecture we are all using (Intel's IA-64 never became

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the "Universal Operating System"

On 04/10/14 20:44, Tom Collins wrote: > Debian nolonger claims to be the "Universal Operating System" ?? What site where you looking at? Not https://www.debian.org/ Maybe "they" fixed it, or maybe you have a DNS problem too. ---8<->8-- HTH Kind regards -

Re: apt update problems

On Sat 04 Oct 2014 at 08:05:26 -0500, John Aten wrote: > On Oct 4, 2014, at 5:25 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > Here's everything again, with some comments to explain what each line > > does: > > > > --- > > > > # This is the

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the "Universal Operating System"

On Saturday 04 October 2014 15:05:07 Tanstaafl wrote: > On 10/4/2014 9:33 AM, Jeff Bauer wrote: > > Either could be accurately used. To wit: > > Maybe in general/non computer terminology Not according to Wiktionary, with which I must day I agree: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/depreciate > , but

MP3 player compatible with Debian

There was a thread about MP3 players a bit back, and one in particular found favour. But my memory, Google-foo, archive-foo have all failed me. Can any kind person remind me/recommend a suitable inexpensive MP3 player for me to take on holiday. I want to be able to load it easily frorm/with

Jigdo vs. BitTorrent vs. normal downloads [was: Re: portability of jigdo]

[for the archives] On Du, 31 aug 14, 18:36:42, Rusi Mody wrote: > Context: > On the tex user group, someone was asking/complaining about the difficulties > of downloading texlive. > > - One has to download one (few?) large (in GBs) dvd image > - The user was on a slow/flaky line > > In response

Re: Re: PHP memory limit upper bound

>> >> I need to set the PHP memory limit to more than 512 MB and found that I >> can't. Is this caused by the Suhosin patch (my guess), and how to get >> around it? >> >> (I tried to set suhosin.memory_limit to 1024M: no change. Was told that >> php5-suhosin

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the "Universal Operating System"

On 10/4/2014 9:33 AM, Jeff Bauer wrote: > Either could be accurately used. To wit: Maybe in general/non computer terminology, but not in with respect to computer software... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprecation http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/45295/why-is-there-confusion-between-

Re: 32/64 bit ... downloading install images

On Saturday 04 October 2014 14:47:46 Harry Putnam wrote: > is > amd64 what I should download for a 64 bit PC? Yes. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.

32/64 bit ... downloading install images

I want to download a jessie weekly build for 64 bit PC. What is the appropriate architecture on the downloads? My machine has nothing to do with amd but that is the only thing listed as 64 bit on the pages including jessie or testing. However, at https://www.debian.org/distrib/ the starting pag

Re: lvm: creating a snapshot

"Karl E. Jorgensen" writes: > Hi > > On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 08:43:06PM +0200, lee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> how can I create a LVM snapshot of a VM? >> >> >> root@heimdall:~# lvcreate -L 4G -s /dev/mapper/vg_guests-lv_jarl -n >> lv_snap_jarl /dev/mapper/vg_mydata >> Physical Volume "/dev/mapper/

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the "Universal Operating System"

On 10/04/2014 08:44 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 10/4/2014 6:44 AM, Tom Collins wrote: and "depreciating" (as if they have the right to do that) many programs that rely on gtk2 and non-syst__d. It is 'deprecating', not 'depreciating' (an accounting term). Either could be accurately used. To w

Re: How to install qt5 on Wheezy, and is that even a good idea?

[for the archives] On Sb, 23 aug 14, 13:43:50, Mark Carroll wrote: > > In my /etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences I have, > > Package: * > Pin: release a=stable > Pin-Priority: 600 You are increasing priority of stable, from 500 to 600, why? > and also, > > Package: * > Pin: release a=testing >

Re: Removing unwanted language files from texlive.

You probably want to remove the texlive package (which pulls in most texlive packages) and install texlive-lang-european . -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: apt update problems

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Oct 4, 2014, at 5:25 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 03 oct 14, 22:17:42, Maureen L Thomas wrote: >> On 10/03/2014 03:07 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >>> >>> It's important you attach them since your mailer seems to be a little >>> bit too help

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the "Universal Operating System"

On 10/4/2014 6:44 AM, Tom Collins wrote: > and "depreciating" (as if they have the right to do that) many > programs that rely on gtk2 and non-syst__d. It is 'deprecating', not 'depreciating' (an accounting term). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Trolling (was Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the "Universal Operating System")

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/04/2014 at 07:31 AM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 04/10/14 12:14, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> On Saturday 04 October 2014 11:44:43 Tom Collins wrote: >> >>> Worthless trash. They need to be stopped, deposed. >> >> This sort of thing makes me so

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the "Universal Operating System"

On 04/10/14 12:14, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 04 October 2014 11:44:43 Tom Collins wrote: >> Worthless trash. They need to be stopped, deposed. > > This sort of thing makes me so angry. Is "Tom Collins" "Gregory Smith" by > another name? > > Please, ban anyone whose "discussion" descends t

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the "Universal Operating System"

On Sb, 04 oct 14, 12:14:41, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 04 October 2014 11:44:43 Tom Collins wrote: > > Worthless trash. They need to be stopped, deposed. > > This sort of thing makes me so angry. Is "Tom Collins" "Gregory Smith" by > another name? > > Please, ban anyone whose "discussion"

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the "Universal Operating System"

I'll second that! Saki On 4 October 2014 12:14, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 04 October 2014 11:44:43 Tom Collins wrote: > > Worthless trash. They need to be stopped, deposed. > > This sort of thing makes me so angry. Is "Tom Collins" "Gregory Smith" by > another name? > > Please, ban anyon

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Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the "Universal Operating System"

On Saturday 04 October 2014 11:44:43 Tom Collins wrote: > Worthless trash. They need to be stopped, deposed. This sort of thing makes me so angry. Is "Tom Collins" "Gregory Smith" by another name? Please, ban anyone whose "discussion" descends to this low level. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Debian policy on alternate init systems

2014/10/04 17:30 "Curt" : > > On 2014-10-03, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org < berenger.mo...@neutralite.org> wrote: > > > > > > I like this one, because it makes me smile. I like pieces of softwares > > with "play on words" (this translation sounds strange... is it the > > correct one?) > > It's the

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Debian nolonger claims to be the "Universal Operating System"

Debian nolonger claims to be the "Universal Operating System" On google searches debian pages still turn up like this: Debian -- Mailing Lists - Debian -- The Universal Operating ... When you go to the page "The Universal Operating System" part is gone. A reflection of the problem with the scumba

Re: apt update problems

On Vi, 03 oct 14, 22:17:42, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > On 10/03/2014 03:07 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > >It's important you attach them since your mailer seems to be a little > >bit too helpful in formating your mails and it's important to for us to > >see the same files as apt sees them. > > I t

Re: Debian policy on alternate init systems

On 2014-10-03, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > I like this one, because it makes me smile. I like pieces of softwares > with "play on words" (this translation sounds strange... is it the > correct one?) It's the correct one (jeu de mots). > Oh, and apart from that, for people (if t

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