Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-14 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [...] > > I had a compassion bypass operation a few years ago. Sorry. :) > > And a tolerance one.;-) But I in fact outlined the monetary and societal > cost, and therefore inefficiency. You don't need compassion to understand > that, just a calcu

Re: Where did libxp6 go?

2015-08-14 Thread Andreas Olsson
fre 2015-08-14 klockan 23:41 -0400 skrev Ron Murray: > I'm running debian testing, and apparently libxp6 (X printing > extension) has been removed. As far as I can tell, it's been removed > from sid as well. Anyone know what happened to it? I have at least > one (non-Debian) program that uses it

Where did libxp6 go?

2015-08-14 Thread Ron Murray
I'm running debian testing, and apparently libxp6 (X printing extension) has been removed. As far as I can tell, it's been removed from sid as well. Anyone know what happened to it? I have at least one (non-Debian) program that uses it, and now it won't compile. Anyone? .Ron -- Ron Murray

Re: convert jpeg to size suitable for printing the image on an A4 with lpr

2015-08-14 Thread Emanuel Berg
This zsh works most of the time: then print the PDF. I say "most of the time" as sometimes the image gets cut in the edges - I don't know why. jpeg2pdf () { local pic=$1 local pdf=${pic:r}.pdf gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite \ -sPAPERSIZE=a4 \ -o $pdf viewjpe

Bug on kdegames?

2015-08-14 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Hi On a brand new stretch install, kdegames does not seem to install the required libraries: libkdeinit5_name-of-the-game.so in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/, so games don't open and give a plasma error. Could someone try to see if I should fill a bug report, or give me advice on trouble shooting.

Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 15 August 2015 00:00:57 Brian wrote: > On Fri 14 Aug 2015 at 22:52:05 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Thursday 13 August 2015 09:38:03 Brian wrote: > > > On Wed 12 Aug 2015 at 20:04:41 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > Quoting Brian (a...@cityscape.co.uk): > > > > > On Wed 12 Aug 2015

Re: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?

2015-08-14 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 04:23:17 -0400 (EDT), didier gaumet wrote: > > Sorry, I didn't catch you were using Ubuntu. Apparently, Ubuntu has > dropped support for 586 procs (their "386" linux images being in fact > 686 ones). That's not the case in Debian, x86 non-PAE procs still being > supported (li

Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-14 Thread Brian
On Fri 14 Aug 2015 at 23:29:24 +0100, Martin Read wrote: > On 14/08/15 23:03, Brian wrote: > >On Fri 14 Aug 2015 at 09:08:30 +0100, Martin Read wrote: > >>And yes, the law does distinguish between broadcast programmes and live > >>internet streaming (e.g. the BBC's live coverage of the World Snook

Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-14 Thread Brian
On Fri 14 Aug 2015 at 22:52:05 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 13 August 2015 09:38:03 Brian wrote: > > On Wed 12 Aug 2015 at 20:04:41 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > Quoting Brian (a...@cityscape.co.uk): > > > > On Wed 12 Aug 2015 at 16:57:33 +0100, Martin Smith wrote: > > > > > On 12/08/

Re: How to disable certain keys

2015-08-14 Thread Brian
On Fri 14 Aug 2015 at 14:26:23 -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: > Brian writes: > > > On Fri 14 Aug 2015 at 15:41:07 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > > >> Some of the keys are causing problems and disrupting what I do, due to > >> the keys apparently being inadvertently pressed. > >> > >> How do I disabl

Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-14 Thread Joe
On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 10:43:00 +0200 Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 13/08/15 03:51, Martin McCormick wrote: > > For those in the UK, We in North America could > > occasionally receive BBC1 from transmitters across the British > > Aisles when Solar activity was high. > > British Aisles?? > A

Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-14 Thread Martin Read
On 14/08/15 23:03, Brian wrote: On Fri 14 Aug 2015 at 09:08:30 +0100, Martin Read wrote: And yes, the law does distinguish between broadcast programmes and live internet streaming (e.g. the BBC's live coverage of the World Snooker No it doesn't. Watching BBC News being streamed live with get_i

Re: help trouble shooting

2015-08-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 13 August 2015 19:11:29 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > Note that if you change the subject line, you start a new thread.  And > every request should be made to the list, so that others can benefit. No!! That is the habit of Google. It is a new "conversation", not a new thread. It is

Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-14 Thread Brian
On Fri 14 Aug 2015 at 09:08:30 +0100, Martin Read wrote: > On 12/08/15 18:23, Brian wrote: > >On Wed 12 Aug 2015 at 16:57:33 +0100, Martin Smith wrote: > >>I suffer from them, I haven't had a tv since 1971, and they can't let go, > > > >Unless you have typed and sent your mail from a friend's comp

Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 13 August 2015 09:38:03 Brian wrote: > On Wed 12 Aug 2015 at 20:04:41 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Brian (a...@cityscape.co.uk): > > > On Wed 12 Aug 2015 at 16:57:33 +0100, Martin Smith wrote: > > > > On 12/08/2015 14:56, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > >The care alone, even were th

Re: How to disable certain keys

2015-08-14 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > I am ready to resort to > mechanically disabling the NUM LOCK key with epoxy cement. Use this glue code instead: xmodmap -e "keysym Num_Lock = " I must say it has a certain appeal not to see the ugly light. But before enabling this automatically, check whether

Re: How to disable certain keys

2015-08-14 Thread rlharris
Of all the keys which need to be disabled, the foremost is NUM LOCK, which is a curse if ever there was a curse. I am ready to resort to mechanically disabling the NUM LOCK key with epoxy cement. RLH

Re: How to disable certain keys

2015-08-14 Thread Carl Johnson
Brian writes: > On Fri 14 Aug 2015 at 15:41:07 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > >> Some of the keys are causing problems and disrupting what I do, due to >> the keys apparently being inadvertently pressed. >> >> How do I disable the key, and, how do I disable the left >> hand key, and, how do I disa

Re: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?

2015-08-14 Thread didier gaumet
Le 14/08/2015 02:39, Stephen Powell a écrit : > On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 03:20:59 -0400 (EDT), didier gaumet wrote: >> >> Gnome-flashback has replaced gnome-fallback: isn't it 2D compatible, >> relying on Metacity instead of Mutter? > > I don't know. All I know is that GNOME3 only worked for me in fal

Re: How to disable certain keys

2015-08-14 Thread Curt
On 2015-08-14, Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > Some of the keys are causing problems and disrupting what I do, due to > the keys apparently being inadvertently pressed. > > How do I disable the key, and, how do I disable the left > hand key, and, how do I disable the keys? I'm reading you can u

Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-14 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 13/08/15 03:51, Martin McCormick wrote: > For those in the UK, We in North America could > occasionally receive BBC1 from transmitters across the British > Aisles when Solar activity was high. British Aisles?? -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France |

Re: How to disable certain keys

2015-08-14 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > Bret Busby wrote: > > How do I disable the key, and, how do I disable the left > > hand key, and, how do I disable the keys? Brian wrote: > xmodmap might have come up. In what way > were the solutions involving this utility or other techniques you came > across unsatisfactory? This prob

Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-14 Thread Martin Read
On 12/08/15 18:23, Brian wrote: On Wed 12 Aug 2015 at 16:57:33 +0100, Martin Smith wrote: I suffer from them, I haven't had a tv since 1971, and they can't let go, Unless you have typed and sent your mail from a friend's computer, you do. Conveniently, what the law requires people to purchas

Re: How to disable certain keys

2015-08-14 Thread Brian
On Fri 14 Aug 2015 at 15:41:07 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > Some of the keys are causing problems and disrupting what I do, due to > the keys apparently being inadvertently pressed. > > How do I disable the key, and, how do I disable the left > hand key, and, how do I disable the keys? > > Than

Another google-hangout issue - all browsers

2015-08-14 Thread Augusto Morais
Hi. I`m having a huge problem with the google-hangouts and other google services (google drive too). This problem happens on debian/ubuntu live/installed but not on Windows. When I open the gmail there is a hangouts feature but when I try to send a message to a friend the browser doesnt send (al

bind9 keytable.c problem

2015-08-14 Thread Wojciech Gintowt
Hi all i have a problem with bind in 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2 in syslog Aug 14 11:42:23 core-gw named[14159]: keytable.c:533: REQUIREkeytable) != ((void *)0)) && (((const isc__magic_t *)(keytable))->magic == ((('K') << 24 | ('T') << 16 | ('b') << 8 | ('l')) failed Aug 14 11:42:23 core-gw na

Re: testing (stretch): Partition disks Guided - set up encrypted LVM-- failed

2015-08-14 Thread nice sw123
Hi John, >> Or must I install Jessie and then change from there to Stretch?? > > That is almost always the best way to install Testing, unless your > intent is to help debug the installer. Ok I ended up doing it like that! (first install a minimal stable [Jessie], then dist-upgrade to testing [S

Strange behaviour with google services - all browsers

2015-08-14 Thread Augusto Morais
Hi. I`m having a huge problem with the google-hangouts and other google services (google drive/youtube too). This problem happens on debian/ubuntu even on live/installed but not on my Windows. When I open the gmail there is a hangouts feature but when I try to send a message to a friend the brow

[SOLVED] Re: Raid1 with disk fails not boot

2015-08-14 Thread Jose Legido
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 7:59 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > On 13/08/15 06:01 AM, Jose Legido wrote: >> >> Hello! >> I have a software RAID1 with 2 discs. When I get out one disk, the >> system not boot directly, I have to do mannually actions: >> >> Loading, please wait... >> Gave up waiting for root dev

Re: Double-click doesn't work in many apps

2015-08-14 Thread Ralph Katz
On 08/14/2015 08:30 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 14 August 2015 12:50:59 Stephen Allen wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 07:41:20PM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: >>> I'm running Jessie and double-click-to-open doesn't work in >>> IceDove,FileManager, Libre, every place so far where I am used to i

Re: help trouble shooting

2015-08-14 Thread Ralph Katz
On 08/13/2015 03:01 PM, John Olson wrote: > Here's the information on the cpu couldn't find # for wireless device > [snipped quote of prior messages] John -- We can't help without more info. There are experts on this list who could help with more info from you. (I am just a debian user like you.

Re: Debian 8

2015-08-14 Thread Pravin Singh
Dear John Being new to Debian from Fedora, what I did is to abort the installation. Download the firmware-realtek_0.44_all.deb to a usb stick from the following site by double clicking one of the mirrors https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/firmware-realtek/download Then I restarted the installation

systemctl boot message

2015-08-14 Thread notoneofmy
I'm trying to solve an NFS issue. The problem is that the client, Debian Jessie, won't mount the remote file system; the NFS server directories specified in fstab. But this can be done in Terminal as root. Errors during boot: systemctl status (and then the directory of the mount point is give

Re: testing (stretch): Partition disks Guided - set up encrypted LVM-- failed

2015-08-14 Thread nice sw123
It is a reported bug. See here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=795463 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=793643

Re: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?

2015-08-14 Thread Roman
Hi! My advice would be MATE. Runs perfectly on D8 and may be installed during setup. Great choice for those, who liked gnome2. 2015-08-14 6:04 GMT+03:00 Seeker : > > > On 8/13/2015 4:58 AM, Bret Busby wrote: > > On 13/08/2015, didier gaumet > wrote: > > Le 13/08/2015 12:13, Bret Busby a écrit

How to disable certain keys

2015-08-14 Thread Bret Busby
Hello. Some of the keys are causing problems and disrupting what I do, due to the keys apparently being inadvertently pressed. How do I disable the key, and, how do I disable the left hand key, and, how do I disable the keys? Thank you in anticipation. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia

Wheezy "NFSv4 callback reply buffer overflowed"

2015-08-14 Thread Piotr Kweclich
Hi, I've recently found on one of my servers, that kernel keeps complaining: "NFSv4 callback reply buffer overflowed" On the client side, system is: Wheezy 7.8 Kernel: SMP Debian 3.2.65-1+deb7u1 x86_64 GNU/Linux nfs-common 1:1.2.6-4 Device working as NFS server is NetAp

Re: testing (stretch): Partition disks Guided - set up encrypted LVM-- failed

2015-08-14 Thread nice sw123
Hi John, >> Or must I install Jessie and then change from there to Stretch?? > > That is almost always the best way to install Testing, unless your > intent is to help debug the installer. Ok I ended up doing it like that! (first install a minimal stable [Jessie], then dist-upgrade to testing [S

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Raid1 with disk fails not boot

2015-08-14 Thread Gary Dale
On 14/08/15 03:25 AM, Jose Legido wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 7:59 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 13/08/15 06:01 AM, Jose Legido wrote: Hello! I have a software RAID1 with 2 discs. When I get out one disk, the system not boot directly, I have to do mannually actions: Loading, please wait... Gave

Re: Double-click doesn't work in many apps

2015-08-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 14 August 2015 12:50:59 Stephen Allen wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 07:41:20PM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: > > I'm running Jessie and double-click-to-open doesn't work in > > IceDove,FileManager, Libre, every place so far where I am used to it > > working previous to Jessie, it now does

Re: Double-click doesn't work in many apps

2015-08-14 Thread Stephen Allen
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 07:41:20PM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: > I'm running Jessie and double-click-to-open doesn't work in > IceDove,FileManager, Libre, every place so far where I am used to it working > previous to Jessie, it now doesn't. > > Anybody have any insight on this? > Dennis, what Des