Mimic an Xbox 360 controller with an Xbox One controller

2015-10-17 Thread Aidan Gauland
Hello, I recently bought an Xbox One controller and kept my Xbox 360 (wired) controller as a spare controller for playing with friends, and I've run into several games that worked fine with my 360 controller but have slightly off button-mappings with the XBOne controller, or simply don't see the c

Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented

2015-10-17 Thread rlharris
On Sat, October 17, 2015 6:23 pm, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > Or get a second-hand one on ebay; I still take along my EeePC 4G when I > travel, and have recently upgraded its system with MX-14 (non-PAE) which > suits that aging machine better than Debian. > > Completely sufficient to check my email, b

Re: Starting systemd user services on boot on a Debian server [SOLVED]

2015-10-17 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Brian wrote: > On Sat 17 Oct 2015 at 22:52:36 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> On Saturday 17 October 2015 20:19:48 Brian wrote: >> > >> > As my spouse says: >> > >> > "When you go to the Co-op, please do get butter." >> > >> > Her expectations are not necessarily m

Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented

2015-10-17 Thread Ron
On Sat, 17 Oct 2015 14:49:07 -0500 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > So now my goal is to find an alternative to the Asus eeePC. Or get a second-hand one on ebay; I still take along my EeePC 4G when I travel, and have recently upgraded its system with MX-14 (non-PAE) which suits that aging machine

Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented

2015-10-17 Thread rlharris
On Sat, October 17, 2015 5:06 pm, Lisi Reisz wrote: > If we are ignoring age, my early Acer Aspire One ZG5 fits (most of) the > bill admirably and runs Debian beautifully. Does anyone know whether the successor (if any) to the Aspire One ZG5 runs Debian? Russ

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-17 Thread rlharris
On Sat, October 17, 2015 4:58 pm, Lisi Reisz wrote: > And contrary to Debian Mailing List CoC ... Speaking of the Code of Conduct, a matter of much greater import is a severe constraint which is being forced upon e-mail users in general by the stupid and widespread practice of (1) associating an e

Re: Starting systemd user services on boot on a Debian server [SOLVED]

2015-10-17 Thread Brian
On Sat 17 Oct 2015 at 22:52:36 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 17 October 2015 20:19:48 Brian wrote: > > > > As my spouse says: > > > > "When you go to the Co-op, please do get butter." > > > > Her expectations are not necessarily met by the eventual outcome. :) > > :-) > > Yes, but she

Re: Starting systemd user services on boot on a Debian server [SOLVED]

2015-10-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 17 October 2015 20:19:48 Brian wrote: > On Sat 17 Oct 2015 at 19:40:50 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 17 October 2015 12:29:48 Michael Biebl wrote: > > > Am 17.10.2015 um 10:20 schrieb Fredrik Jonson: > > > > In Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > >> On Saturday 17 October 2015 06:24:10

Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented

2015-10-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 17 October 2015 21:22:22 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > I have the first generation EeePC, which I would happily give away, but > I doubt you plan on visiting Sweden anytime soon? ;) If we are ignoring age, my early Acer Aspire One ZG5 fits (most of) the bill admirably and runs Debian beauti

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 17 October 2015 19:38:02 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Or do as me and configure your procmail to discard duplicates. Works > like a charm. No doubt due to my inability to configure KMail correctly it is a * nuisance. It delivers the private one and discards the one to the list. Th

Re: Cannot purge glame

2015-10-17 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 17 Oct 2015 18:24:48 -0300 Hudson Flavio Meneses Lacerda wrote: > Hi. > > I am trying to remove a program (that is not compatible with other > upgrades), but I get the following error message: > > sudo aptitude purge glame > [...] > Removing glame (2.0.1-5) ... > install-i

Cannot purge glame

2015-10-17 Thread Hudson Flavio Meneses Lacerda
Hi. I am trying to remove a program (that is not compatible with other upgrades), but I get the following error message: sudo aptitude purge glame [...] Removing glame (2.0.1-5) ... install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information. dpkg: error processing package glame (--pu

Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented

2015-10-17 Thread rlharris
On Sat, October 17, 2015 3:22 pm, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > No problem! > I have the first generation EeePC, which I would happily give away, but > I doubt you plan on visiting Sweden anytime soon? ;) Your offer is gracious, Sven. However, I just found an outfit which has a few eeePC in stock, at a

editing ~/.gconf/apps/ekiga/contacts/%gconf.xml

2015-10-17 Thread Peter Easthope
Appears that the graphical contact list in ekiga is based upon ~/.gconf/apps/ekiga/contacts/%gconf.xml . Does the first character of the file name, %, have a significance beyond being very unusual? Manipulation of the graphical contact list is too inconvenient. Does anyone keep contacts as plain

Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented

2015-10-17 Thread Joe
On Sat, 17 Oct 2015 15:07:52 -0500 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Sat, October 17, 2015 2:48 pm, Joe wrote: > > I have an Acer Aspire One, unfortunately with the original very slow > > 8GB SSD, but it runs Debian unstable usably. It has wifi ... > > I have a slow laptop, but closed it measures

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-17 Thread Reco
On Sat, 17 Oct 2015 20:38:02 +0200 wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 06:51:22PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > > PS. You should also consider to configure your e-mail client not to > > send CC on this list. > > Reco, > > before scolding someone on th

Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented

2015-10-17 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sat, 2015-10-17 at 14:49 -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Sat, October 17, 2015 2:27 pm, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > > Well, there was at least two questions in your post. I provided a > > suggestion for one of them. > > Forgive me, Sven. When I began this thread, I was thinking strictly

Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented

2015-10-17 Thread rlharris
On Sat, October 17, 2015 2:48 pm, Joe wrote: > I have an Acer Aspire One, unfortunately with the original very slow > 8GB SSD, but it runs Debian unstable usably. It has wifi ... I have a slow laptop, but closed it measures 10in x 15in x 1.5in and weighs 6 pounds. The large screen is nice regardi

Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented

2015-10-17 Thread rlharris
On Sat, October 17, 2015 2:27 pm, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > Well, there was at least two questions in your post. I provided a > suggestion for one of them. Forgive me, Sven. When I began this thread, I was thinking strictly in terms of a smart phone, and did not know of a smartphone forum. After

Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented

2015-10-17 Thread Joe
On Sat, 17 Oct 2015 12:15:33 -0500 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > > I just now remembered the Asus eeePC. Those can run Debian, can they > not? If so, that may be the solution. And the combination of an > eeePc and G4 modem may be less expensive than is a smartphone. > I have an Acer Aspire On

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-17 Thread Brian
On Sat 17 Oct 2015 at 18:51:22 +0300, Reco wrote: > Inability to read OP's mail carefully and in detail did you a > disservice. You see, OP's problem was not about printer configuration. > It was about Debian's network configuration. It would be nice if the OP issued a disclaimer that Debian was

Re: Starting systemd user services on boot on a Debian server [SOLVED]

2015-10-17 Thread Brian
On Sat 17 Oct 2015 at 19:40:50 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 17 October 2015 12:29:48 Michael Biebl wrote: > > Am 17.10.2015 um 10:20 schrieb Fredrik Jonson: > > > In Lisi Reisz wrote: > > >> On Saturday 17 October 2015 06:24:10 Fredrik Jonson wrote: > > >>> Michael Biebl wrote: > > >>>

Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented

2015-10-17 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sat, 2015-10-17 at 12:21 -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > Thank you, Miles; you are the first to answer my original question. Well, there was at least two questions in your post. I provided a suggestion for one of them. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5

Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented

2015-10-17 Thread Brian
On Sat 17 Oct 2015 at 14:53:40 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > > > >Thank you, Miles; you are the first to answer my original question. > > > >Russ > Funny thing about this list :-) ... is that many people try ther best to help users. The original question was

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-17 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 06:51:22PM +0300, Reco wrote: > PS. You should also consider to configure your e-mail client not to > send CC on this list. Reco, before scolding someone on this, consider setting the "Followup-To" or the "Mail-Followup-To" h

Re: Starting systemd user services on boot on a Debian server [SOLVED]

2015-10-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 17 October 2015 12:29:48 Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 17.10.2015 um 10:20 schrieb Fredrik Jonson: > > In Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> On Saturday 17 October 2015 06:24:10 Fredrik Jonson wrote: > >>> Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 16.10.2015 um 19:05 schrieb Fredrik Jonson: > > If in doub

Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented

2015-10-17 Thread Miles Fidelman
rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On Sat, October 17, 2015 12:15 pm, Miles Fidelman wrote: I would like to find something like a smartphone discussion list for the technically-oriented -- not for the "Isn't Siri marvelous?" crowd. regarding the discussion list question - it's funny, but the technicall

Re: Telegram IM 64 bit desktop LXDE

2015-10-17 Thread Zorian M
You should look into https://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/alacarte

Re: Starting systemd user services on boot on a Debian server [SOLVED]

2015-10-17 Thread Brian
On Sat 17 Oct 2015 at 13:29:48 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > We might also consider bumping the prio of libpam-systemd to standard, > as Ansgar suggested. That means, it would be installed by default, > unless you explicitly deselect the standard task in d-i. Looking at the policy manual at ht

Telegram IM 64 bit desktop LXDE

2015-10-17 Thread German
Ok list, I just downloaded and extracted tar.xz file from https://telegram.org/ After extracting I got two files ( which are executable) Telegram and Updater. I am using LXDE, so I wonder how to I make it to my Start/Internet menu in LXDE. Pointers, thoughts are all welcome.

Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented

2015-10-17 Thread rlharris
On Sat, October 17, 2015 12:15 pm, Miles Fidelman wrote: >>> I would like to find something like a smartphone discussion list for >>> the technically-oriented -- not for the "Isn't Siri marvelous?" crowd. > regarding the discussion list question - it's funny, but the technically > knowledgeable fol

Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented

2015-10-17 Thread rlharris
On Sat, October 17, 2015 8:33 am, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Fri, 2015-10-16 at 16:49 -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: >> ...Is there anything small which can run Debian? ... > The modem is the biggest gotcha when it comes to surveillance by > something like the NSA. (I think security updates, cra

Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented

2015-10-17 Thread Miles Fidelman
dean wrote: On 10/17/15 07:49, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: I would like to find something like a smartphone discussion list for the technically-oriented -- not for the "Isn't Siri marvelous?" crowd. I am interested in liabilities regarding security and privacy, rather than in features. regardi

Re: Starting systemd user services on boot on a Debian server [SOLVED]

2015-10-17 Thread Curt
On 2015-10-17, Brian wrote: >> >> The use of 'do' in that way suggests emphasis. If you wanted that >> emphasis, a more unambiguous way is >> >> If in doubt, *install* this package >> >> If the emphasis is unnecessary, just leave out the the 'do'. > > The sentence is unambiguous (there no wor

Re: impending disk failure?

2015-10-17 Thread Miles Fidelman
Dominique Dumont wrote: On Saturday 17 October 2015 14:15:52 Tony van der Hoff wrote: Can anyone please explain what it means, and whether I should be worried? You should check the drive with smartctl. See http://www.smartmontools.org/ HTH Yes.. and be sure to go beyond the basic tests. Fi

Re: impending disk failure?

2015-10-17 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Saturday 17 October 2015 14:15:52 Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Can anyone please explain what it means, and whether I should be worried? You should check the drive with smartctl. See http://www.smartmontools.org/ HTH -- https://github.com/dod38fr/ -o- http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/ http:

Re: Unable to Install Stretch on Laptop, not Loading iwlwifi

2015-10-17 Thread moxalt
On Sat, 17 Oct 2015 07:25:18 -0700 (PDT), ray wrote: > OK, I have network connnectivitiy. > > While reveiwing desktop functions and properties, I found the network app. > All the availabe networks were listed. I selected the one I want to use, > input the password and it connected. So I will h

Re: Tracking down memory leaks

2015-10-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 10/13/2015 07:32 AM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2015-10-13 at 10:26, Marc Shapiro wrote: Is there a way to determine what is using up my memory? I have an 8GB system and every few days the memory usage rises to over 7 GB and up to a GB, or more of swap is used. Granted, I have 3 X sessions run

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-17 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 17 Oct 2015 11:09:11 -0400 "John D. Hendrickson" wrote: > Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 00:34:14 -0500 > > rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > > > >> Yesterday in the office of my associate, I tried without success to > >> install a HP LaserJet 2100TN in a wi

Re: Starting systemd user services on boot on a Debian server [SOLVED]

2015-10-17 Thread Brian
On Sat 17 Oct 2015 at 15:01:55 +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: > Michael Biebl writes: > > > Am 17.10.2015 um 10:20 schrieb Fredrik Jonson: > >> In Lisi Reisz wrote: > >>> On Saturday 17 October 2015 06:24:10 Fredrik Jonson wrote: > Michael Biebl wrote: > > Am 16.10.2015 um 19:05 schr

Re: impending disk failure?

2015-10-17 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 02:15:52PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Hi, > > T'm occasionally getting this message in syslog on my jessie box: > > Oct 17 12:00:19 tony-lx kernel: [ 8838.600489] ata3.00: exception > Emask 0x10 SAct 0x10 SErr 0x40

Re: Unable to Install Stretch on Laptop, not Loading iwlwifi

2015-10-17 Thread ray
OK, I have network connnectivitiy. While reveiwing desktop functions and properties, I found the network app. All the availabe networks were listed. I selected the one I want to use, input the password and it connected. So I will hunt down how to provide this as an automatic connection.

Re: Starting systemd user services on boot on a Debian server [SOLVED]

2015-10-17 Thread Mart van de Wege
Michael Biebl writes: > Am 17.10.2015 um 10:20 schrieb Fredrik Jonson: >> In Lisi Reisz wrote: >>> On Saturday 17 October 2015 06:24:10 Fredrik Jonson wrote: Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 16.10.2015 um 19:05 schrieb Fredrik Jonson: >> If in doubt, do install this package. > >

Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented

2015-10-17 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2015-10-16 at 16:49 -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > So I need to see what is available by way of a smartphone, or perhaps > a > tablet computer. Is there anything small which can run Debian? Even with something like Cyanogenmod, you're running a blob on the modem. The modem is the big

what list to umail for this bug?

2015-10-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
I have an acer aspire 5003 notebook I tried installing the debian firmware distro on since it only has wifi communication capability for now. The firmware disk acted like it didn't have any firmware drivers on it when it got down to detecting the network. In reality I had a usb rt2780 wifi ad

impending disk failure?

2015-10-17 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Hi, T'm occasionally getting this message in syslog on my jessie box: Oct 17 12:00:19 tony-lx kernel: [ 8838.600489] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x10 SErr 0x40 action 0x6 frozen Oct 17 12:00:19 tony-lx kernel: [ 8838.600501] ata3.00: irq_stat 0x0800, interface fatal error Oct 1

Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented

2015-10-17 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Okay, well I think *you* are on the right track; many people will give away waaay too much data using their mobile spy machines ;-) - just ask Richard Stallman for one. On 17/10/2015 12:38 PM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Fri, October

Re: whatsapp on Debian?

2015-10-17 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 17/10/2015 9:52 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I've found several how-to's about installing whatsapp on Linux and > Debian but none of them was useful to me. Anyone out there who was > successful with the issue and can report how to do? I'm no

Re: Starting systemd user services on boot on a Debian server [SOLVED]

2015-10-17 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 17.10.2015 um 10:20 schrieb Fredrik Jonson: > In Lisi Reisz wrote: >> On Saturday 17 October 2015 06:24:10 Fredrik Jonson wrote: >>> Michael Biebl wrote: Am 16.10.2015 um 19:05 schrieb Fredrik Jonson: > If in doubt, do install this package. Did you maybe misread that as

whatsapp on Debian?

2015-10-17 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi all. I've found several how-to's about installing whatsapp on Linux and Debian but none of them was useful to me. Anyone out there who was successful with the issue and can report how to do? Thanks, nice day all of you Rodolfo

Re: No monitor in GNOME Control Center - Color

2015-10-17 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2015-10-16 at 19:57 +0200, Pascal Obry wrote: > Hum, we may be looking at different issues: > > $ gcm-inspect --verbose > 19:54:28 Verbose debugging enabled (on console 1) > > No other output, no display (not sure if one is expected). I usually run it like this: gcm-inspect -d -v 1

Re: Starting systemd user services on boot on a Debian server [SOLVED]

2015-10-17 Thread Fredrik Jonson
In Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 17 October 2015 06:24:10 Fredrik Jonson wrote: > > Michael Biebl wrote: > > > Am 16.10.2015 um 19:05 schrieb Fredrik Jonson: > > > > If in doubt, do install this package. > > > > > > Did you maybe misread that as > > > "If in doubt, do *not* install this pa

Re: No monitor in GNOME Control Center - Color

2015-10-17 Thread Pascal Obry
Le samedi 17 octobre 2015 à 09:47 +0200, Nemeth Gyorgy a écrit : > I use Intel videocard with opensource driver and the problem exists > on my machine also. Ok, so that's more general. Thanks. -- Pascal Obry / Magny Les Hameaux (78) The best way to travel is by means of imagination http

Re: Starting systemd user services on boot on a Debian server [SOLVED]

2015-10-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 17 October 2015 06:24:10 Fredrik Jonson wrote: > Michael Biebl wrote: > > Am 16.10.2015 um 19:05 schrieb Fredrik Jonson: > > > If in doubt, do install this package. > > > > Did you maybe misread that as > > "If in doubt, do *not* install this package". > > Yes I did. I don't know h

Re: systemd alternative for Jessie?

2015-10-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 17 October 2015 01:33:42 David Wright wrote: > Quoting tom arnall (kloro2...@gmail.com): > > what prevents Debian from providing an alternate boot option in Jessie > > which does not use systemd? My Wheezy system seems to do this. > > (Yes, this is the correct thread for this question.)

Re: No monitor in GNOME Control Center - Color

2015-10-17 Thread Nemeth Gyorgy
2015-10-16 18:35 keltezéssel, Pascal Obry írta: > One more question, are you using the NVIDIA proprietary driver? > > I really suspect an issue related to recent upgrade as I don't have > this issue on another machine not using the proprietary driver. I use Intel videocard with opensource driver

Re: systemd alternative for Jessie?

2015-10-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 17 October 2015 00:39:18 tom arnall wrote: > what prevents Debian from providing an alternate boot option in Jessie > which does not use systemd? My Wheezy system seems to do this. Nothing. It provides one. Lisi

Re: Unable to Install Stretch on Laptop, not Loading iwlwifi

2015-10-17 Thread ray
Using lspci -v produces a report of the Intel 7265 which states, and Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi. ip a 1: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo valid_lft forever preferred_lf

Re: make system boot straight to browser connection

2015-10-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 17 October 2015 00:38:09 tom arnall wrote: > what prevents Debian from providing an alternate boot option in Jessie > which does not use systemd? My Wheezy system seems to do this. Nothing. It provides one. Lisi > > On 10/7/15, tom arnall wrote: > > I want to setup a system so that