Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

2015-03-06 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Fri, 06 Mar 2015, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Brian wrote: > > On Fri 06 Mar 2015 at 09:27:23 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 06 Mar 2015, Ken Heard wrote: > >> > >>> Thanks everybody for the collected wisdom. So for me now Jessie > >>> RC1 is it. > >> FYI: Do daily updates using dis

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

2015-03-06 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Fri, 06 Mar 2015, Brian wrote: > On Fri 06 Mar 2015 at 09:27:23 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > On Fri, 06 Mar 2015, Ken Heard wrote: > > > > > Thanks everybody for the collected wisdom. So for me now Jessie > > > RC1 is it. > > > > FYI: Do daily updates using dist-upgrade, instead of up

Re: Looking for document and file organisation tools

2015-03-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Fri, 6 Mar 2015, Victor wrote: > On 03/03/2015 18:13, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > What free software is there in the way of organizing lots of documents? > > > > To be more precise, the ones I *need* to organize are the files on hard > > drives, though if I could include documents I have elsewhere

Re: Recompiling debian kernel

2015-03-06 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 05 Mar 2015 07:25:41 -0500 (EST), csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: > ... > I'm trying to recompile the installed kernel > ... http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm It's not a brief outline. It will take a while to read. But it is thorough; and if you follow the procedure carefully,

Re: alternative to avidemux?

2015-03-06 Thread Anil Duggirala
Im using avconv to do this, it is a part of libav-tools package, and its probably faster if you are doing this on a regular basis, use the -ss option along with the -t option. Im also pretty sure it can add a subtitle channel, although I havent done it, On Tue, 2015-03-03 at 23:39 +0100, Victor w

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

2015-03-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Brian wrote: > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > FYI: Do daily updates using dist-upgrade, instead of upgrade (or the > > equivalent with aptitude, if you use that). Things change quickly and > > sometimes majorly on the path to Stable. You'll want to get ALL those > > changes -- minor and major. "Upgrade

Ouch, sorry. Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

2015-03-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
Shouldn't rush. My typing is lousy. Herewith again: > On Friday 06 March 2015 23:15:12 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 06 March 2015 15:22:21 Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > Somehow, anything that needs daily updates, or upgrades, does not meet > > > any definition of "stable" that I'm familiar w

Re: IO Problems (USB) seem to hang on Boot (AMD64)

2015-03-06 Thread Micheal Smith
So, I'm still having serious issues with this thing: I used the following procedure to update the grub-bootloader, from Linux Mint: mount /dev/sda6 /mnt sudo mount --bind /dev/ /mnt/dev sudo mount --bind /proc/ /mnt/proc sudo mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/etc/resolav.con

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

2015-03-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 06 March 2015 23:15:12 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 06 March 2015 15:22:21 Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Brian wrote: > > > On Fri 06 Mar 2015 at 09:27:23 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > >> On Fri, 06 Mar 2015, Ken Heard wrote: > > >>> Thanks everybody for the collected wisdom. So for me

Re: Looking for document and file organisation tools

2015-03-06 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 6 Mar 2015 10:11:26 -0500 Celejar sent: > I love recoll - I've been using it for years, and I find it > invaluable. Not the most polished software in the world, but it > really works wonders for me. [It's in the Debian official repos.] I used it for quite a time myself, but there was some

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

2015-03-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 06 March 2015 15:22:21 Miles Fidelman wrote: > Brian wrote: > > On Fri 06 Mar 2015 at 09:27:23 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >> On Fri, 06 Mar 2015, Ken Heard wrote: > >>> Thanks everybody for the collected wisdom. So for me now Jessie > >>> RC1 is it. > >> > >> FYI: Do daily updates

Re: USB keyboard required replugging--how to avoid?

2015-03-06 Thread Joe
On Fri, 06 Mar 2015 22:19:59 +0100 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Joe a écrit : > > > > USB is a moderately complex networking protocol > > USB is not a networking protocol. > It is a master-slave peripheral communication bus, just like PCI or > SATA. > > It is not peer to peer, but neither is it

Re: USB keyboard required replugging--how to avoid?

2015-03-06 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Joe a écrit : > > USB is a moderately complex networking protocol USB is not a networking protocol. It is a master-slave peripheral communication bus, just like PCI or SATA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: Re: For which package should I submit this bug report related to WebRTC's GetUserMedia?

2015-03-06 Thread gutinna
Thanks for the tip, but audio output is not the issue. I need to know where WebRTC's GetUserMedia gets its audio input sources from to find out where to submit a bug report. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: [OT] Its vs it's [Was: Re: "upgrade" versus "update".]

2015-03-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 06 March 2015 20:06:00 Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2015-03-06, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > Its[sic] purpose is to keep the computer current with the latest security > > (and other) updates automatically." > > The use of "Its" in the original is correct. It's not a mistake. ;-) :-) It's i

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

2015-03-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 06 March 2015 20:11:52 Brian wrote: > On Fri 06 Mar 2015 at 09:27:23 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Fri, 06 Mar 2015, Ken Heard wrote: > > > Thanks everybody for the collected wisdom. So for me now Jessie RC1 > > > is it. > > > > FYI: Do daily updates using dist-upgrade, instead of

Re: USB keyboard required replugging--how to avoid?

2015-03-06 Thread Glenn English
> On Fri, 6 Mar 2015 12:26:40 + (UTC) > "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" wrote: > > >> The keyboard is a custom build and cannot >> be replaced. I don't know what was done to customize the keyboard. But can it be replaced for a few days/weeks (longer that it takes the regular one to crash), to see

Re: "upgrade" versus "update".

2015-03-06 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Joe a écrit : > > 'Upgrade' using apt-get is equivalent to > 'safe-upgrade' using aptitude, and it means replacing as many packages > as possible with the latest versions without removing or installing > packages other > than those actually being replaced. 'Dist-upgrade' with apt-get, or > 'full

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

2015-03-06 Thread Erwan David
Le 06/03/2015 21:22, Miles Fidelman a écrit : > Brian wrote: >> On Fri 06 Mar 2015 at 09:27:23 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 06 Mar 2015, Ken Heard wrote: >>> Thanks everybody for the collected wisdom. So for me now Jessie RC1 is it. >>> FYI: Do daily updates using dist-upg

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

2015-03-06 Thread Miles Fidelman
Brian wrote: On Fri 06 Mar 2015 at 09:27:23 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Fri, 06 Mar 2015, Ken Heard wrote: Thanks everybody for the collected wisdom. So for me now Jessie RC1 is it. FYI: Do daily updates using dist-upgrade, instead of upgrade (or the equivalent with aptitude, if you use

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

2015-03-06 Thread Brian
On Fri 06 Mar 2015 at 09:27:23 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Fri, 06 Mar 2015, Ken Heard wrote: > > > Thanks everybody for the collected wisdom. So for me now Jessie RC1 > > is it. > > FYI: Do daily updates using dist-upgrade, instead of upgrade (or the > equivalent with aptitude, if you us

[OT] Its vs it's [Was: Re: "upgrade" versus "update".]

2015-03-06 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-03-06, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Its[sic] purpose is to keep the computer current with the latest security > (and other) updates automatically." The use of "Its" in the original is correct. It's not a mistake. ;-) -- Liam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debi

Re: "upgrade" versus "update".

2015-03-06 Thread Joe
On Fri, 06 Mar 2015 08:53:33 -0800 pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > I get that "dist-upgrade" is the replacement of a distribution > by the subsequent distribution. Replacement of wheezy by jessie > for example. What is meant by "upgrade"? In many places it > appears to be synonymous with update. >

Re: "upgrade" versus "update".

2015-03-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 06 March 2015 16:53:33 pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > I get that "dist-upgrade" is the replacement of a distribution > by the subsequent distribution. No, this is wrong. It will only upgrade to the next version if you change your sources list to make it do so. It will just completely upg

Re: For which package should I submit this bug report related to WebRTC's GetUserMedia?

2015-03-06 Thread Ric Moore
On 03/06/2015 07:23 AM, guti...@runbox.com wrote: Hi, I want to submit a bug report concerning presumably WebRTC's GetUserMedia. I'm normally able to use my built-in microphone and web camera without problems, including automatically switching between the built-in microphone and any microphone

Re: "upgrade" versus "update".

2015-03-06 Thread John Hasler
man apt-get -- 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 listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/8761aec77h@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Re: USB keyboard required replugging--how to avoid?

2015-03-06 Thread Joe
On Fri, 6 Mar 2015 12:26:40 + (UTC) "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" wrote: > > At the (obvious in retrospect) suggestion of someone elsethread, I > did just get a 6" extention cable, thus making it trivial to re-plug > it when this happens. I'd rather it just works in the first place, > but this wi

"upgrade" versus "update".

2015-03-06 Thread peter
I get that "dist-upgrade" is the replacement of a distribution by the subsequent distribution. Replacement of wheezy by jessie for example. What is meant by "upgrade"? In many places it appears to be synonymous with update. For example, googling "site:debian.org update upgrade" yields, https

Re: Problems with Helvetica font in ps-print files (was: Environment variables affecting postscript files?)

2015-03-06 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: > I'm having troubles with ps files generated by Emacs ps-print package - > footers are partially cut off. Is it possibile that some environment > variable causes the weird? And how can I know (and work it out)? The problem is worked out simply changing the font used for

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

2015-03-06 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Fri, 06 Mar 2015, Ken Heard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Thanks everybody for the collected wisdom. So for me now Jessie RC1 > is it. FYI: Do daily updates using dist-upgrade, instead of upgrade (or the equivalent with aptitude, if you use that). Things change

Re: apt-offline usage

2015-03-06 Thread peter
From: Chris Bannister Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 01:36:50 +1300 > If you are only going to install one package, why not just > download the deb file and use dpkg to install it? When apt-offline is being used to update a system and an additional package is needed, "--install" is efficacious. Als

Re: Looking for document and file organisation tools

2015-03-06 Thread Victor
On 03/03/2015 18:13, Hendrik Boom wrote: What free software is there in the way of organizing lots of documents? To be more precise, the ones I *need* to organize are the files on hard drives, though if I could include documents I have elsewhere (bookshelves and photocopy files) I wouldn't mind.

Re: Looking for document and file organisation tools

2015-03-06 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 3 Mar 2015 21:18:21 -0800 (PST) Rusi Mody wrote: > On Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at 10:50:04 PM UTC+5:30, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > What free software is there in the way of organizing lots of documents? > > > > To be more precise, the ones I *need* to organize are the files on hard > > drive

Re: Thanks for all your suggestions regarding Xfce!

2015-03-06 Thread Wilko Fokken
I'll give it a try. -- 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.org/20150306130524.ga6...@fok02.laje.edewe.de

For which package should I submit this bug report related to WebRTC's GetUserMedia?

2015-03-06 Thread gutinna
Hi, I want to submit a bug report concerning presumably WebRTC's GetUserMedia. I'm normally able to use my built-in microphone and web camera without problems, including automatically switching between the built-in microphone and any microphone i plug in (I'm running wheezy; my sound card is a

Re: USB keyboard required replugging--how to avoid?

2015-03-06 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
- Original Message - > From: Gary Dale > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: > Sent: Monday, March 2, 2015 11:05 AM > Subject: Re: USB keyboard required replugging--how to avoid? > > On 02/03/15 08:22 AM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > >> Hi, i have a USB keyboard that, every we

Re: xfce 4.12 in Debian.

2015-03-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 11:20:10AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 04 March 2015 11:04:20 Chris Bannister wrote: > > I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she > > must be quiet. Timothy 2:12 > > Tongue in cheek, I hope?? Very much so. Annoying, aren't they.

Re: A suggestion for a new programme in Debian 8?

2015-03-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 06 March 2015 10:13:22 Darac Marjal wrote: > On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 08:36:39PM +, ludo0...@dbmail.com wrote: > >Dear Sirs and Madames, > > > >Could I allow myself to express a wish for the next version of Debian: > > it would be to have the DVD authoring programme "bombono" (

Re: A suggestion for a new programme in Debian 8?

2015-03-06 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 08:36:39PM +, ludo0...@dbmail.com wrote: >Dear Sirs and Madames, > >Could I allow myself to express a wish for the next version of Debian: it >would be to have the DVD authoring programme "bombono" (see >[1]http://www.bombono.org) on the distribution. >

Re: IO Problems (USB) seem to hang on Boot (AMD64)

2015-03-06 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 02:01:38PM -0600, Micheal Smith wrote: >To all Glorious Saviors: >Installation goes smooth.  When asked, during installation, I install >device-specific drivers.  For the record, this is the AMD64 distribution.  >So, whenever my IOMMU Contoller is enabled on

Re: A suggestion for a new programme in Debian 8?

2015-03-06 Thread Floris
Op Thu, 05 Mar 2015 23:13:21 +0100 schreef Martin Read : On 05/03/15 20:36, ludo0...@dbmail.com wrote: Could I allow myself to express a wish for the next version of Debian: it would be to have the DVD authoring programme "bombono" (see http://www.bombono.org) on the distribution. No new so