Re: bitz-server: package is not in any development repository ...

2021-05-17 Thread Jörg Frings-Fürst
Hello Albretch, bitz-server has 4 RC-Bugs[1], which could not be fixed by me. No fixes came from the upstream either. Therefore the package had to be removed from testing and unstable. CU Jörg [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?archive=1;src=bitz- server -- New: GPG Fingerprin

Re: bitz-server: package is not in any development repository ...

2021-05-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 17 mai 21, 23:30:33, Albretch Mueller wrote: > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/bitz-server > > bitz-server: ICAP server (RFC 3507) implementation in C++ > > package is gone: This package is not in any development repository. > This probably means that the package has been removed (or has

Re: bitz-server: package is not in any development repository ...

2021-05-17 Thread Albretch Mueller
... and my main interest would be then connecting it to java using the JNI in order to do the deep content inspection and dynamic customization from events happening in java programs. If I were to collaborate with the maintainers of this package, which "prior art": blogs, books, ... would you re

bitz-server: package is not in any development repository ...

2021-05-17 Thread Albretch Mueller
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/bitz-server bitz-server: ICAP server (RFC 3507) implementation in C++ package is gone: This package is not in any development repository. This probably means that the package has been removed (or has been renamed). Thus the information here is of little interest

Re: Has anybody [had] good/bad experiences with the Bose QuietComfort 35 II and Debian ?

2021-05-17 Thread F. Eugene Aumson
They work fine for me. Debian Buster. On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 8:16 AM Ottavio Caruso < ottavio2006-usenet2...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I recently bought some middle of the range wireless noise cancelling > headphones, which I eventually had to return because they would randomly > switch back and fort

Re: help ask microsoft to make eloquance tts open source.

2021-05-17 Thread deloptes
deloptes wrote: > It resonates a lot - as I wrote thesis on dialogue systems and I got very > disappointed by the facts I came across. IMO all technologies that were > financed with public money (i.e. DARPA) should be made publicly available. > In fact AFAIK there is only one engine (the mother of

Re: help ask microsoft to make eloquance tts open source.

2021-05-17 Thread deloptes
Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi everyone, > Sharing because while tts is indeed  part of adaptive technology for many, > and Linux default speech synthesis is not always of the best quality, the > use of tts across devices serving the general public is  becoming more > extensive as well. > There is an

Re: How to capture composite video

2021-05-17 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On Mon May 17 10:56:10 2021 Dan Ritter wrote: > The subsystem you are looking for is V4L2, Video For Linux 2. > > Showing up as /dev/video0 is an extremely positive sign. > > https://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/V4L_capturing is what you > want to read. This looks like a possibility - v4l2-ct

help ask microsoft to make eloquance tts open source.

2021-05-17 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi everyone, Sharing because while tts is indeed part of adaptive technology for many, and Linux default speech synthesis is not always of the best quality, the use of tts across devices serving the general public is becoming more extensive as well. There is an effort at change.org asking Mic

Re: info pages WHERE? -- was [Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?]

2021-05-17 Thread Brian
On Mon 17 May 2021 at 14:39:47 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 07:25:38PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Mon 17 May 2021 at 11:01:33 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > Done! Now, let's try that with pinfo date. I ran pinfo date from my > > > shell, which took

Re: info pages WHERE? -- was [Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?]

2021-05-17 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 07:25:38PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Mon 17 May 2021 at 11:01:33 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > [...] > > > Done! Now, let's try that with pinfo date. I ran pinfo date from my > > shell, which took me to one of the pages within the tree of coreutils > > texinfo documenta

Re: info pages WHERE? -- was [Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?]

2021-05-17 Thread Brian
On Mon 17 May 2021 at 11:01:33 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: [...] > Done! Now, let's try that with pinfo date. I ran pinfo date from my > shell, which took me to one of the pages within the tree of coreutils > texinfo documentation corresponding to the date program. This particular > page is ti

Re: How to capture composite video

2021-05-17 Thread deloptes
Dan Ritter wrote: > The subsystem you are looking for is V4L2, Video For Linux 2. > > Showing up as /dev/video0 is an extremely positive sign. > > https://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/V4L_capturing is what you > want to read. > mencoder will give you different flavors and you could cook the

Re: How to capture composite video

2021-05-17 Thread Dan Ritter
Charlie Gibbs wrote: > I have a number of VHS tapes which I'd like to digitize, and I'm > trying to figure out where to start, hardware- and software-wise. > I'm running Debian Buster (10.5), kernel 4.19.0-10-amd64. I found a > pcHDTV HD-5500, which I believe is basically a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-15

Re: How to capture composite video

2021-05-17 Thread fxkl47BF
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, May 17, 2021 11:39 AM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > I have a number of VHS tapes which I'd like to digitize, and I'm > trying to figure out where to start, hardware- and software-wise. > I'm running Debian Buster (10.5), kernel 4.19.0-10-amd64. I found a > pc

Re: How to capture composite video

2021-05-17 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 5/17/21 9:39 AM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: I have a number of VHS tapes which I'd like to digitize, and I'm trying to figure out where to start, hardware- and software-wise. Do you have a DVD-R video recorder? Simplest way I know is to dub the VHS to DVD, at which point accessing the video from

How to capture composite video

2021-05-17 Thread Charlie Gibbs
I have a number of VHS tapes which I'd like to digitize, and I'm trying to figure out where to start, hardware- and software-wise. I'm running Debian Buster (10.5), kernel 4.19.0-10-amd64. I found a pcHDTV HD-5500, which I believe is basically a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150 tweaked for Linux, and drop

Re: Packages with upgradable origin but kept back: Debian testing: guile-2.2-libs

2021-05-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 17 May 2021 09:36:03 -0500 David Wright wrote: > So I'd look for any non-bullseye holdover packages, and > particlarly any that depend directly or indirectly on > libgc1c2, probably via guile 2.2. Interesting, thank you. I ran apt-cache rdepends guile-2.2-libs /bullseye on orca (fresh

Re: info pages WHERE? -- was [Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?]

2021-05-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: > That's in the info(1) tool. I agree, info has a better search ability > than pinfo(1). Oops. I did not make the connection from your final statement to your mentioning of pinfo. (I could make excuses that you mention "info and pinfo" on the way to the end. But actually

Re: Downloading from lists.debian.org/debian-user in mbox format

2021-05-17 Thread davidson
On Mon, 17 May 2021 davidson wrote: [dd] It seems to me that this rationale depends on a couple of unstated premises: 1. If published, each mbox would contain one month's worth of messages, all of the messages in one file. 2. it is significantly easier for spammers to download a single file con

Re: Downloading from lists.debian.org/debian-user in mbox format

2021-05-17 Thread davidson
On Mon, 17 May 2021 Richard Owlett wrote: On 05/17/2021 08:50 AM, Brian wrote: On Mon 17 May 2021 at 04:58:42 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Some mailing list save posts in mbox format. Is there any way to download specific threads from lists.debian.org/debian-user in mbox format? I've wondere

Re: info pages WHERE? -- was [Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?]

2021-05-17 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 04:09:37PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > the inability to *search* within the > > info page to find occurrences of your keyword can be maddening. > > It's not _that_ terrible. Pressing in > info dd > the "/" key, i get a prompt > Regex

Re: Packages with upgradable origin but kept back: Debian testing: guile-2.2-libs

2021-05-17 Thread David Wright
On Mon 17 May 2021 at 07:16:21 (-0600), Charles Curley wrote: > I upgraded a laptop from Buster to Bullseye recently. I had unattended > upgrades running, and have kept it running since. I have gotten the > following in the unattended upgrades report since: > > Packages with upgradable origin but

Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?

2021-05-17 Thread Brian
On Mon 17 May 2021 at 08:59:43 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [...] > I'll raise you 'cp': > > cp foo.iso /dev/sdb > > > which is both fast and short to type (apparently it's smart about using > the correct block size). > > Unfortunately it's missing dd's equivalent of status=progress. As

Re: info pages WHERE? -- was [Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?]

2021-05-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: > the inability to *search* within the > info page to find occurrences of your keyword can be maddening. It's not _that_ terrible. Pressing in info dd the "/" key, i get a prompt Regexp search []: The input "dsync" brings me to the ‘dsync’ explanation. Pressing "/" a

Re: info pages WHERE? -- was [Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?]

2021-05-17 Thread tomas
On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 09:38:49AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: [...] > Now, as for the info pages themselves: unlike traditional man pages, > where all of the documentation is on one page, in which you can scroll > up and down and search, info pages are chopped up into tiny little > sections, and

Re: Downloading from lists.debian.org/debian-user in mbox format

2021-05-17 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/17/2021 08:50 AM, Brian wrote: On Mon 17 May 2021 at 04:58:42 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Some mailing list save posts in mbox format. Is there any way to download specific threads from lists.debian.org/debian-user in mbox format? No. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/02/msg02

Re: info pages WHERE? -- was [Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?]

2021-05-17 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/17/2021 08:21 AM, IL Ka wrote: I got the impression from the search hits I got info pages were available on the web complete with useful hyperlinks. In a terminal "info dd" gives an annoying blob of text. Due to visual limits I *MUCH* prefer HTML for large amounts of information. All gn

Re: Downloading from lists.debian.org/debian-user in mbox format

2021-05-17 Thread Brian
On Mon 17 May 2021 at 04:58:42 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Some mailing list save posts in mbox format. > Is there any way to download specific threads from > lists.debian.org/debian-user in mbox format? No. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/02/msg02997.html Bug #161440. -- Brian.

Packages with upgradable origin but kept back: Debian testing: guile-2.2-libs

2021-05-17 Thread Charles Curley
I upgraded a laptop from Buster to Bullseye recently. I had unattended upgrades running, and have kept it running since. I have gotten the following in the unattended upgrades report since: Packages with upgradable origin but kept back: Debian testing: guile-2.2-libs root@iorich:/etc/apt# apt

Re: info pages WHERE? -- was [Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?]

2021-05-17 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 03:03:22PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Try typing in a terminal `info dd' and see what happens :) unicorn:~$ info dd bash: info: command not found ;-) GNU's info pages are a highly debated thing, in some circles. Many people despise them, some people love them, and

Re: info pages WHERE? -- was [Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?]

2021-05-17 Thread IL Ka
> I got the impression from the search hits I got info pages were > available on the web complete with useful hyperlinks. > > In a terminal "info dd" gives an annoying blob of text. Due to visual > limits I *MUCH* prefer HTML for large amounts of information. > All gnu info pages are available onl

Re: info pages WHERE? -- was [Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?]

2021-05-17 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/17/2021 08:03 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 07:56:45AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 05/17/2021 03:00 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: ... (this is from the info page, which sometimes is more complete than the man page): My web search turned up only compliments for

Re: info pages WHERE? -- was [Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?]

2021-05-17 Thread tomas
On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 07:56:45AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/17/2021 03:00 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >... (this is from the info page, which sometimes is more complete than the > >man page): > > > > My web search turned up only compliments for info pages. > NOTHING on where to find

Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?

2021-05-17 Thread tomas
On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 03:21:20PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [...] > If my understanding from your quotes and David's links is correct > oflag=sync may be slower in specific circumstances, but it depends on so > many factors (hardware, caches, block size used, etc.) that it is hard > to pre

info pages WHERE? -- was [Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?]

2021-05-17 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/17/2021 03:00 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: ... (this is from the info page, which sometimes is more complete than the man page): My web search turned up only compliments for info pages. NOTHING on where to find :{ Help please.

Re: audacity on Buster - qui est 'input?'

2021-05-17 Thread didier gaumet
Le 17/05/2021 à 13:45, Bob Bernstein a écrit : [...] Much of the focus of the above is setting PulseAudio to launch as a system-wide service, for all users, [...] pulseaudio --daemonize It's not my impression. I agree with the reply of Greg Wooledge: to me, Pulseaudio is automatically starte

Re: audacity on Buster - qui est 'input?'

2021-05-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 17 mai 21, 08:16:39, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 07:45:34AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > > I can take a hint. It seems to me I have to place the statement > > > > pulseaudio --daemonize > > > > in some user file or other but nowhere can I find in that doc (coulda missed

Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?

2021-05-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 17 mai 21, 10:00:22, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 10:29:06AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > Hmm, would you (or anyone else) know what is the difference between > > oflags=sync and conv=fsync? > > Let me put the docs next to each other (this is from the info page

Re: audacity on Buster - qui est 'input?'

2021-05-17 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 07:45:34AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > I can take a hint. It seems to me I have to place the statement > > pulseaudio --daemonize > > in some user file or other but nowhere can I find in that doc (coulda missed > it; I'm an old guy) a suggestion as to what file to use. I

Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?

2021-05-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 17 mai 21, 17:50:24, David wrote: > On Mon, 17 May 2021 at 17:29, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > Hmm, would you (or anyone else) know what is the difference between > > oflags=sync and conv=fsync? > > https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/dd-invocation.html > > https://uni

Re: audacity on Buster - qui est 'input?'

2021-05-17 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Mon, 17 May 2021, didier gaumet wrote: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorial_recording_computer_playback_on_linux.html Much of the focus of the above is setting PulseAudio to launch as a system-wide service, for all users, but it goes on to say that if you make that choice, rather

Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?

2021-05-17 Thread Richard Hector
On 17/05/21 6:30 pm, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: This is one point. The other, which adds more convenience is that dd has an explicit argument for (input and) output file name, whereas cat relies on redirection. This becomes relevant when you try to sudo cat thing > that_other_thing and realise

Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?

2021-05-17 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 06:43:54PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > > cat /dev/sdb > > > > dd /dev/sdb > Is there really no functional difference between the baseline trivial > functionalities of cat and dd? There are two differences: 1) dd is specified to use default input and output block

Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?

2021-05-17 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-05-17 at 02:57, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > >>> When copying a file and writing it to another medium, perhaps eg >>> when writing a DVD .iso file directly to a USB stick, it's >>> ideal. > > The Wanderer wrote: > >> Is there really no functional differenc

Downloading from lists.debian.org/debian-user in mbox format

2021-05-17 Thread Richard Owlett
Some mailing list save posts in mbox format. Is there any way to download specific threads from lists.debian.org/debian-user in mbox format?

Re: KDE and Pulseaudio; swapping users

2021-05-17 Thread deloptes
James Allsopp wrote: > Hi, > Does anyone have a solution for the problem that when I switch users, to > have any sound as the new user, I have to su to root to kill the other > users Pulseaudio. If I don't do this I'm left with a dummy sound card. >From what I read recently but couldn't test beca

KDE and Pulseaudio; swapping users

2021-05-17 Thread James Allsopp
Hi, Does anyone have a solution for the problem that when I switch users, to have any sound as the new user, I have to su to root to kill the other users Pulseaudio. If I don't do this I'm left with a dummy sound card. Thanks James

Re: audacity on Buster - qui est 'input?'

2021-05-17 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, This chapter of the on-line Audacity doc could be of interest to you: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorial_recording_computer_playback_on_linux.html

Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?

2021-05-17 Thread tomas
On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 10:29:06AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 17 mai 21, 08:32:28, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 08:59:43AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > I'll raise you 'cp': > > > > > > cp foo.iso /dev/sdb > > > > > > > > > which is

Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?

2021-05-17 Thread David
On Mon, 17 May 2021 at 17:29, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Hmm, would you (or anyone else) know what is the difference between > oflags=sync and conv=fsync? https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/dd-invocation.html https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/508701/dd-command-oflag-dir

audacity on Buster - qui est 'input?'

2021-05-17 Thread Bob Bernstein
Buster amd64: $ uname -a Linux debian.localdomain 4.19.0-14-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.171-2 (2021-01-30) x86_64 GNU/Linux $ dpkg -l |grep audacity ii audacity 2.2.2-1+b1 amd64fast, cross-platform audio editor ii audacity-data

Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?

2021-05-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 17 mai 21, 08:32:28, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 08:59:43AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > [...] > > > I'll raise you 'cp': > > > > cp foo.iso /dev/sdb > > > > > > which is both fast and short to type (apparently it's smart about using > > the correct block