Re: Debian Stretch Am Confused about /dev/dsp

2018-08-30 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 03:10:24PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > The software I wrote doesn't predate oss but some > documentation I red years ago that probably does predate oss was > what I used to wrige some C routines that send and receive sound > plus use ioctl to set, say, /dev/dsp or

Re: Debian Stretch Am Confused about /dev/dsp

2018-08-30 Thread Martin McCormick
Greg Wooledge writes: > /dev/dsp is part of the legacy OSS (Open Sound System) interface. If > you play audio using only ALSA, or ALSA + Pulse, you do not need this > older interface. > > If your software requires the /dev/dsp interface (because it predates > ALSA), you can try loading the snd-p

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

2018-08-30 Thread Joe
On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 13:35:35 - (UTC) Dan Purgert wrote: > Joe wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 09:49:06 - (UTC) > > Dan Purgert wrote: > >> Isn't that what Facebook, et. al. already do? It's AOL all over > >> again. > > Not quite yet. I can still invent a completely new protocol, send >

Re: What is Firefox on Debian Stretch nearest future?

2018-08-30 Thread local10
Aug 30, 2018, 11:15 AM by nemomm...@gmail.com: > I hope it's faster than the previous releases. It was/is dog slow. > What do you do with Firefox that it's so slow? Firefox has lots of problems but its speed was never a problem for me, even on older PCs. In my experience people who complain abou

Re: Debian Stretch Am Confused about /dev/dsp

2018-08-30 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 12:14:57PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > After successfully installing stretch on a system, there > was no /dev/dsp. I needed to play some mp3 files and so > installed mplayer. [...] /dev/dsp is part of the legacy OSS (Open Sound System) interface. If you play a

Debian Stretch Am Confused about /dev/dsp

2018-08-30 Thread Martin McCormick
After successfully installing stretch on a system, there was no /dev/dsp. I needed to play some mp3 files and so installed mplayer. The mp3's played and I also discovered /dev/dsp for the on-board sound chip and /dev/dsp1 for a USB card which began to work when used with an application I

Bug#907640: compiz: Migrating to compiz-reloaded?

2018-08-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: compiz Severity: important Hello, The launchpad upstream for compiz has switched to light maintenance mode and will not make further development since Ubuntu has stopped using it. How do people feel about switching to compiz-reloaded? https://gitlab.com/compiz Basically they restarted

Re: What is Firefox on Debian Stretch nearest future?

2018-08-30 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 09:28:35 +0200 Stefan K wrote: > Hi, > > Debian will be upgrade to Firefox 60.2 esr.,it will be available at > 2018-09-05 > [snip] I hope it's faster than the previous releases. It was/is dog slow. That's one of the reasons I switched to Firefox Quantum. Have had no problems

Re: What is Firefox on Debian Stretch nearest future?

2018-08-30 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 09:28:35 +0200, Stefan K wrote: > Hi, > > Debian will be upgrade to Firefox 60.2 esr.,it will be available at > 2018-09-05 > > more information about this: > https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/amd64/release-notes/ch- information.html#browser-security > https://bugs.debi

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

2018-08-30 Thread Dan Purgert
Joe wrote: > On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 09:49:06 - (UTC) > Dan Purgert wrote: >> Isn't that what Facebook, et. al. already do? It's AOL all over again. >> > Not quite yet. I can still invent a completely new protocol, send you > the details, and we can exchange data over the Net using it. One day, >

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

2018-08-30 Thread Joe
On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 09:49:06 - (UTC) Dan Purgert wrote: > Joe wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 12:24:42 -0500 > > John Hasler wrote: > > > >> tomás writes: > >> > Well, I've succeeded already with a few people moving from > >> > gmail/outlook to posteo.de. Every little bit counts. > >>

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

2018-08-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 30 August 2018 05:53:32 Dan Purgert wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 29 August 2018 11:53:50 Dan Purgert wrote: > >> Gene Heskett wrote: > >> > On Wednesday 29 August 2018 08:25:36 Dan Purgert wrote: > >> >> Gene Heskett wrote: > >> >> > On Wednesday 29 August 2018 06:37:2

Re: Network issue

2018-08-30 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 06:38:50AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 07:32:24AM +0300, Reco wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 06:43:00PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 09:58:47PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > > > 3) e1000e may be bad, but vmxnet

Re: Network issue

2018-08-30 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 07:32:24AM +0300, Reco wrote: On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 06:43:00PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 09:58:47PM +0300, Reco wrote: > 3) e1000e may be bad, but vmxnet3 will make oom-killer an everyday > reality. SR-IOV is a way to go. everyday? really? whe

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

2018-08-30 Thread Dan Purgert
Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 29 August 2018 11:53:50 Dan Purgert wrote: > >> Gene Heskett wrote: >> > On Wednesday 29 August 2018 08:25:36 Dan Purgert wrote: >> >> Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> > On Wednesday 29 August 2018 06:37:25 Dan Purgert wrote: >> >> >> (as an aside, whoever came up with H

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

2018-08-30 Thread Dan Purgert
Joe wrote: > On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 12:24:42 -0500 > John Hasler wrote: > >> tomás writes: >> > Well, I've succeeded already with a few people moving from >> > gmail/outlook to posteo.de. Every little bit counts. >> >> I'm sure we're losing ground, though. > > If we get to the point where the majo

Re: What is Firefox on Debian Stretch nearest future?

2018-08-30 Thread Stefan K
Hi, Debian will be upgrade to Firefox 60.2 esr.,it will be available at 2018-09-05 more information about this: https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.html#browser-security https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=815006 (chapter "About stable releas