On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 10:14:06AM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
> Le nonidi 29 pluviôse, an CCXXIV, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit :
> > It can be creepily smart, like knowing the branches in your project
> > when you do git checkout bla or things like that. Not bad.
>
> You mean what zsh already did in
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 09:09:54PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> On Wed 17 Feb 2016 at 18:09:03 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
> > On 2/17/2016 5:34 PM, David Wright wrote:
> > >On Wed 17 Feb 2016 at 14:07:30 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
> > >>[snip]
> > >>>Depends on what you consider to be 'fast
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 11:02:48AM -0800, Gary Roach wrote:
> On 02/16/2016 09:53 PM, Chris Bannister wrote:
> >On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:46:08AM -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
> >>It would be sweet if we didn't encourage people to post subject lines like
> >>"I nee
On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 09:46:56AM +, Darac Marjal wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 02:48:14PM -0600, Tim McDonough wrote:
> >
> >Anyone have a recommendation for a good reference/tutorial on systemd as
> >it applies to Debian Jessie?
> >
> >It's very frustrating to work on configuring static I
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 06:29:06PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote:
>
> If you want to do that I think you need to have some examples of sensible
> posts and silly ones for new subscribers to scan through before they become
> debian debutantes
>
> Perhaps we could use popular song titles e.g
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:46:08AM -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
>
> It would be sweet if we didn't encourage people to post subject lines like
> "I need help". It helps no one else but the OP. Ric
If only we had a list of psychiatrists or GPs for their area.
--
"If you're not careful, the newspapers
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 11:13:27AM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> A point of order here: All this applies to Wheezy; I don't know now
> that Debian has adopted systemd and udev has it as a dependency that
> all this will work the same.
Oh, so Wheezy will work without udev?
--
"If you're not car
On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 04:34:14PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
> I have been pounding my head against this wall for a
> couple of days. The mpeg2 streams come from a HDHomerun_prime box
> which produces DLNA streams. I am trying to convert them using
> vlc to mp4 files to play on an AppleT
On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 11:06:56AM +0100, sb...@secure.mailbox.org wrote:
> Hi list members,
>
> I have successfully installed stretch from a usb stick onto which I had
> downloaded the latest amd64 weekly-build DVD-1.iso and other necessary
> init files.
> Well, after the install process had fini
On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 10:11:22AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 04/02/2016, Fedele Mantuano wrote:
>
>
>
> > Before Debian, I used Ubuntu 15.10 and I didn't have this issue.
> >
>
> I think that that could be the simple solution.
>
> It took me two years to get an external monitor working on
On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 01:53:33AM +, Juan R. de Silva wrote:
> > I use the Debian cron script 'apticron'. It talks directly with Debian,
> > so it knows about updates to all Debian software. I have cron run it in
> > the middle of the night. It downloads the updates, and in the morning I
> > h
On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 10:53:55AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>
> Not quite. It still does need the sentence:
> "Please upgrade your kernel before or while upgrading udev."
> Perhaps even better:
> "Please upgrade your kernel before upgrading udev."
> to precede it, since that would obviously be th
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:19:26PM +, Brian wrote:
> This might be an improvement:
>
> You can force the installation of this version of udev, WHICH WILL NOT
> WORK WITH YOUR PRESENT, RUNNING KERNEL AT THE NEXT REBOOT, by creating
> the /etc/udev/kernel-upgrade file.
That sounds confusi
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:38:36PM +0200, Selim T. Erdoğan wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 01:41:24PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > Am 26.01.2016 um 11:08 schrieb Chris Bannister:
> > > On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 11:58:16AM +0100, Martin Hanson wrote:
> > >>
>
On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 10:34:09PM -0500, Francis Gerund wrote:
> >>
> >> -- or, would something else be better?
> >>
> >
> > Something else would be better- not using jessie-backports. If you're
> > already using testing, enabling jessie-backports is pointless and will
> > put you halfway into Fra
On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 11:58:16AM +0100, Martin Hanson wrote:
>
> Please upgrade your kernel before or while upgrading udev.
>
> AT YOUR OWN RISK, you can force the installation of this version of udev
> WHICH DOES NOT WORK WITH YOUR RUNNING KERNEL AND WILL BREAK YOUR SYSTEM
> AT THE NEXT REBOOT
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 01:23:25PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>
> I had this problem once and had to delete the package cache and the update to
> let it rebuild.
Delete everything in the '/var/lib/apt/lists/partial' directory also.
--
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating t
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 09:37:52PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 15.01.2016 22:47, startrekfan wrote:
>
> > *squid3 Version 3.4.8* is deployed in the Jessie stable
> > repository.*This version is outdated and has some security risks!!*.
> > Version 3.5 is more secure but unfortunately it's only
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:10:45PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote:
> First using # dpkg -l grep | alsa
> everything listed, remove with # dpkg -P (packages) You can list them all
> with a
> space between each for a sequential purge.
Seriously? Why on earth would anyone purge alsa?
--
"If you're
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 05:57:52PM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 08:17:42 +1300 Chris Bannister
> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 06:18:09PM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote:
> > > On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 20:31:18 +0200
> > > Amr Saber wrote:
> &g
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 07:19:00PM +, Brian wrote:
> On Wed 20 Jan 2016 at 20:02:37 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 07:03:33PM +, Brian wrote:
> > > A small point: duplicate bugs are merged, not close
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 10:51:53AM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote:
> On 21/12/15 23:59, Chris Bannister wrote:
> >> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
Umm, I didn't write that. (You went overboard with your snipping.)
> > Sent using mutt fro
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 07:03:33PM +, Brian wrote:
> A small point: duplicate bugs are merged, not closed. You could do it if
>
> you are confident in your judgement. A more pertinent point is whether
>
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 06:28:17PM +0100, Gregor Zattler wrote:
> Thinking about: mpd is also not in these groups and I can her
> music.
>
> So that's still not it.
>
> When I play some sound, I see aplay working, but do not hear sound:
>
> $ play /home/grfz/Downloads/tuxok.wav
Just as an
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:38:11AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 January 2016 09:59:23 Chris Bannister wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 05:19:34PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > I hadn't thought of that. My bad. OTOH, although no one has come thru
> > &
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 06:57:45PM -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 11:42:23AM -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote:
> > Finally got around to installing jessie (clean install) on a thinkpad
> > 420 and all seemes to go well except there is no wireless, only ethernet.
> >
> > lsmod shows
On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 04:38:02PM -0500, David Niklas wrote:
>
> You two are really funny.
> This thread is kinda funny too, don't you guys have more productive things
> to do then argue?
Probably the best time, at a guess, is *after* productive work.
--
"If you're not careful, the newspapers
On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 05:19:34PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> I hadn't thought of that. My bad. OTOH, although no one has come thru
> the router except to view my web page, do I really want to do that in
> the event they do get thru? That could make their raising a little hell
> just that
On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 12:28:32PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 16 January 2016 10:57:55 Curt wrote:
>
> > On 2016-01-16, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > >> So its full path is /home/gene/eagle-7.5.0/bin/eagle, not
> > >> /bin/eagle?
> > >>
> > >> Lisi
> > >
> > > I was cd'd to /home/gene/eag
On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 04:49:35PM +1100, David wrote:
> On 16 January 2016 at 15:48, Steve Matzura wrote:
> > On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 01:55:38 +0300, Reco wrote:
> >
> >>A simple solution:
> >>
> >>iptables -I INPUT -p dcp -s 59.46.71.0/24 -j DROP
> >
> > iptables v1.4.21: unknown protocol "dcp" spec
On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 12:09:47PM +0200, / vt wrote:
>
> Sorry for the rant but this is driving me crazy - I don't see the point of
> this change. It makes me a thousand times slower.
You'll have to file a bug report in the usual manner. I'm sorry, but
your rant has fallen on deaf ears, we are j
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 06:37:49PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
>
> Since the gEDA kit in the repo's seems to be rather broken, I thought I'd
> give eagle another chance, so I downloaded, from the cadsoft site, the
> latest 64 bit linux installer, but can't find a help file, and o
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 06:18:09PM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 20:31:18 +0200
> Amr Saber wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
> > While I was configuring some thing in the sources.list file as apt-get
> > couldn't get any package I wanted or asked for (I double checked the
> > spelling for
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 04:50:04PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> ;-)
>
> And please, no group "hugs" among strangers. ;-)
I remember a 'poster' I had years ago which read "There are no strangers
here, only friends we haven't met." ;-)
--
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 12:36:33PM -0600, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote:
> On Wed, January 13, 2016 12:31 pm, Amr Saber wrote:
> > The problem is that the sources.list file was accidentally deleted
> > and I can't find any version of it online
>
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-f
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 03:05:05PM +0200, Moreanu Robert - Nicolae wrote:
> hi,
>
> i have to file word.docx and excel.xlsx on my hdd on desktop of debian and
> I want to copy them from a live Linuxmint usbstick but I cant because I
> have denied
>
> permission acces on them, also I can't open th
On Sat, Jan 09, 2016 at 07:24:29PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> I can see all that in synaptic to prove its there, and mc agree's, but
> its in html and iceweasel has lost the ability to open a file on a local
> filesystem. No clue why as there sure should not be an ssl problem on a
> local
On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 04:53:34PM +0100, jdd wrote:
> fdisk -l
>
> gives all the necessary info
>
> example:
>
> Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
> /dev/sdc1 * 2048 62910463 6290841630G 83 Linux
> /dev/sdc262910464 937701375 874790912 417,1G f
o the health care system for her/his
> > treatments?
>
> Chris Bannister writes:
> > I personally resent that.
>
> Do you also resent people who engage in other dangerous hobbies?
I suggest you read what I wrote again, including the part you snipped.
--
"If you'
On Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 04:14:46PM +, Brian wrote:
> On Sat 02 Jan 2016 at 04:11:38 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 11:15:03PM +, Brian wrote:
> > > On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 23:01:43 +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > >
>
On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 08:03:48PM +0100, jdd wrote:
> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch4.en.html
>
> see
>
> 4.8 Restricting system reboots through the console
>
> mostly:
>
> If you want to restrict this, you must check the /etc/inittab so that the
> line that includ
On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 05:48:02PM +0100, Giuseppe Longo wrote:
>
> I'm almost sure that my laptop have an hybrid card, I've already found
> this solution on google
For the archives, it would be nice to know what the solution is.
--
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating th
On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 09:32:36AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> A side question to Steve, "Is this post screen reader friendly?"
That reminds me of the lecturers who say 'Hands up if you can't hear me
at the back.'
--
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people
wh
On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 12:16:30PM -0200, Markos wrote:
> Hi,
> I just installed Ktouch in Debian Jessie, but I can not open the screen with
> the keyboard to do the lessons.
>
> Any tips?
search google, check bugs, if no luck then post back here with a helpful
problem description.
--
"If you'
On Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 07:41:52PM +0100, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> Anders Andersson writes:
>
> >> After I did sudo aptitude dist-upgrade I lost
> >> support for Unicode chars in the ttys as well as
> >> xterm. Instead I get '?'. Ideas?
> >
> > One idea would be to post a list of packages which
> >
On Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 03:45:40PM +, Brian wrote:
> On Sat 02 Jan 2016 at 03:54:38 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
>
> > (BTW, top-posting makes it difficult to reply, and I couldn't be bothered
> > copying and pasting to correct it.)
>
> You would do well to
On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 08:37:12AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 08:52:24PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote:
> > I'm also aware that the respondents to this thread so far appear to be
> > (apologies if I'm mistaken) male; I'm not sure whether the women of
> > the list have de
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 11:15:03PM +, Brian wrote:
> On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 23:01:43 +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>
> > On Wednesday 30 December 2015 19:54:50 Brian wrote:
> > > On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 19:39:10 +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday 30 December 2015 17:29:30 Brian wrote:
> > >
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 02:34:55PM -0500, Steve Matzura wrote:
> True, but who knew that? I go with what I know most of the time, and
> what I know about Jigdo can be summed up in one word: nothing. So when
> I see a URL that purports to be the one to use, I use it. This is what
> makes me crazy ab
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 10:36:33AM -0500, Steve Matzura wrote:
> This is what I could get from the wget portion of the Jigdo process
> running on a Windows 7 SP1 machine. I used a pair of files called
> debian-8.2.0-amd64-BD-1 (.jigdo and .template) downloaded yesterday,
> and the mirror at debian.
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 10:22:30AM -0500, Steve Matzura wrote:
> So since my installation is virgin and is failing at Step 14, should I
> just start again and see if I get any further this time, or is there
> anything I should choose or specify differently when trying again?
I don't know what step
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 03:32:04PM +0100, Hans wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 30. Dezember 2015, 12:58:23 schrieb Jörg-Volker Peetz:
> Hi Jörg-Volker
> > Did you take a look at dmesg on both systems? Something like
> >
> > grep -E '(enp|eth)' /var/log/dmesg
> This showed no useful information. The only o
On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 06:48:14PM -0500, Donald Norwood wrote:
> The people in charge of twitter do not use Twitter for 2-way
> communication, only for announcements and to highlight events
> or happenings in the F/OSS community.
I guess you mean "The people in charge of the Debian twitter accou
On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 10:38:28AM -0500, Anthony Mapes wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA512
>
> While we're on the topic of signatures, what do you consider to be good
> and bad to include in signatures?
Very amusing! You've made my day. :)
> - --
> Anthony Mapes
> -
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 11:12:29AM +0200, Klearchos-Angelos Gkountras
wrote:
>
> My branch is sid and used to use icedove as default mail client . I
> think with enigmail is kinda broken and I can't use as encryption and
> sign messages . any suggestions ? I am thinking about sylpheed or
> claws .
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 06:28:35PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
>
> Of course I removed the "was": it wasn't in the subject line of the
> post you were responding to.
Did you get out of the wrong side of bed? Inserting 'was' is normal
practice when starting a sub thread.
--
"If you're not carefu
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 11:27:15AM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> > On 08/12/15 13:41, Chris Bannister wrote:
> >
> >> *groan* *sigh* ... I wonder why there's not a 'dpkg
> >> --prin
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 11:49:19PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Friday 11 December 2015 23:33:52 Chris Bannister wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 09:20:38PM -0500, Francis Gerund wrote:
[...]
> > > "What's wrong with just using a launcher anyway, if it comes up
On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 12:53:09PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>
> "Bottom posting" posting after the message to which the reply is made,
> so that people who are reading the reply, if they are worth anything,
> will read the message to which the reply is made, before reading the
> reply that is made
[PLease don't top post.]
On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 09:20:38PM -0500, Francis Gerund wrote:
> I am using the Gnome 3 "classic" desktop.
>
> When I push the mouser pointer up into the hot-spot in the upper left
> corner of the screen, a (sort of) oval pops up containing a magnifying
> glass icon and
On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 01:47:19PM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> On 08/12/15 13:41, Chris Bannister wrote:
>
> >*groan* *sigh* ... I wonder why there's not a 'dpkg
> >--print-architectures' which prints out *all* the architectures it knows
> >about.
&
On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 06:48:45AM +0100, Matthias Bodenbinder wrote:
> Am 06.12.2015 um 22:47 schrieb Klaus Jantzen:
> > dpkg --remove-architecture i368
> > apt-get update
> >
> > But I cannot add the correct architecture:
> >
> > dpkg --add-architecture i386
> > apt-get update
> > dpkg --print-
On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 10:07:01PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Two issues that come to mind here:
> a/ cups-browsed.service declares a dependency on avahi-daemon.service.
> So it should be stopped before avahi-daemon. But apparently you don't
> have any avahi-daemon process anymore.
> Would be in
On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 08:12:24PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> In the meantime, its hit another 200 users, discouraging them from ever
> touching linux again. In that regard, we are our own worst enemy at
> times. Unfortunately, the oar I steer this ship with could be swapped
> for a tooth
On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 08:47:00PM +0100, Erwan David wrote:
> Le 02/12/2015 20:41, Chris Bannister a écrit :
> > On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 02:21:04PM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote:
> >> I often counter that by passing my would-be reply through tac and
> >> top-post it th
On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 02:21:04PM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote:
>
> I often counter that by passing my would-be reply through tac and
> top-post it that way.
>
> Then they see it from my perspective.
What is 'tac'?
--
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people
who
On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 11:25:16AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
>
> Some people think "all information" should be saved for the future. Others
> don't. It's your choice. Be aware that "all information" in the case of Xorg
> logs and dmesg is voluminous, and like other mailing list info, stays on the
On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 08:31:29PM -0500, Bob Bernstein wrote:
>
> "Please don't respond line by line. It is patronizing and
> annoying."
What did he say when you asked what he meant by this? I mean, how on
earth could it possibly be patronising?
I'm guessing your nephew isn't subscribed to any
On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 09:27:02PM -0500, Neal P. Murphy wrote:
> I'll top-post here because I am replying to the entire message (quoted below).
Sorry to be picky, but there was nothing in the text to which you
directly replied to.
I think personal correspondence is completely different to posti
On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 05:10:33PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> On 11/30/2015 04:45 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote:
> >Marc Shapiro wrote:
> >
> >>On 11/30/2015 04:01 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote:
> >>>- Boot a Live image and see what resolution it gives you.
> >>I can still boot into Wheezy and get 1920x1080.
> >
On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 12:33:33PM +0100, Mart van de Wege wrote:
> Chris Bannister writes:
>
> > On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 01:22:25PM +0100, rgfoiugztfgvbhjk wrote:
> >> Does anybody know who Debian-+ is, why he is starting pulseaudio and
> >> using my headsets, an
On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 11:18:16AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2015-11-28 21:16:20 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 12:10:01PM +, Brian wrote:
> > > On Fri 27 Nov 2015 at 18:29:20 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > >
> > >
On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 07:32:25PM +, Alan Chandler wrote:
> Just recently, I notice a sudden slowing down of the display of areas of the
> screen in Chrome when it fully maximised ( but still with toolbar etc on
> display)
>
> I am running a dual monitor gnome 3 setup with intel display drive
On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 11:14:24AM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> But maybe one should change the first statement in the package
> description:
> https://packages.debian.org/sid/build-essential
>
> "If you do not plan to build Debian packages, you don't
>need this package."
If you want to
On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 12:10:01PM +, Brian wrote:
> On Fri 27 Nov 2015 at 18:29:20 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 06:40:00PM +, Brian wrote:
> > > On Wed 25 Nov 2015 at 15:48:48 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > >
> > &g
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 09:42:51PM +0800, Alex Vong wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Nexttime please send mail to instead of
> since the later list is mostly for
> junior maintainers instead of users.
Ummm, whenever anyone has a question about packaging and they ask on the
debian-user list, they invariably get
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 01:22:25PM +0100, rgfoiugztfgvbhjk wrote:
> Does anybody know who Debian-+ is, why he is starting pulseaudio and
> using my headsets, and if this is a bug that should be reported
> against pulseaudio or something else?
If you purge pulseaudio, does everything work as you wa
On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 03:59:26PM +, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> might feel slow compared to a 'normal' installation.) The live iso, on
> the other hand, is intended for installation and system rescue and is
> read-only.
Isn't the term 'live' a misnomer in that case.
Thanks for the warning, I woul
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 03:05:26PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> Renaud writes:
> > One wonders why did they abandon the principle of backward compatibility ?
>
> Brian writes:
> > How does that relate to the principle of constant inovation and
> > improvement?
>
> By way of continuity. Sometimes
On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 06:40:00PM +, Brian wrote:
> On Wed 25 Nov 2015 at 15:48:48 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>
> > On 2015-11-25 12:58:15 +, Brian wrote:
> > > This is where I think the confusion lies. Quoting
> > >
> > > https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/23004/
> > >
> > >
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 08:21:55AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 08:22:20AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > On 23 Nov 2015, John L. Ries wrote:
> > > Actually, if someone is starting X via startx instead of a display
> > > manager,
> >
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 06:54:34PM +, Brian wrote:
> On Thu 26 Nov 2015 at 11:04:23 -0600, John Hasler wrote:
>
> > Marc writes:
> > > Not alone, at all. I run Mate, but I boot to a console, log in there,
> > > and use startx to get my X session.
> >
> > So do I, and I have a decades-old mus
On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 08:22:20AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 23 Nov 2015, John L. Ries wrote:
> > Actually, if someone is starting X via startx instead of a display manager,
> > it normally means either that the user is trying to test his X
> > configuration, or that X is only intended to
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 04:11:13PM +, Andrew Puschak wrote:
> Hi Everyone!
>
> I inherited some Debian servers running 7 wheezy and am upgrading to 8
> jessie. During apt-get upgrade (after setting /etc/apt/sources.list to
> jessie) I get a less command displaying changelogs as seen below with
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 06:11:47PM +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> Renaud OLGIATI [2015-11-23 12:59:38-03] wrote:
>
> > root@ron:/home/ron # chkconfig -–add smb
> ^^
> You have these two different characters there:
>
> - U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS
> – U+2013 EN DA
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 08:32:43AM +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> On Monday 23 November 2015 05:19:43 Mauro Condarelli wrote:
> > In my case there was NO log to /var/log/xorg.0.log.
>
> Since xorg-server (2:1.17.3-1), Xorg log may end up in ~/.local/share/xorg/
>
> Hope this helps
I've only go
On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 05:56:35PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> I think I knew what you meant Lisi, but on this side of the small pond we
> spell it teensy, meaning a very small quantity of something. Like a
> pinch of salt in a recipe. Thats normally less than a dash unless you
> shake the
On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 05:56:04PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> > startx -- vt7
>
> That requires specifying it by hand every time startx is run. As I
> indicated, that is unacceptable; I don't have to specify the VT manually
> every time I lanch X now in order to get the current behavior, and I
>
On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 08:09:01AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> Mauro Condarelli composed on 2015-11-22 13:24 (UTC+0100):
>
> > I have been able to make them *both* work (using custom xorg.conf), but not
> > *at the same time* (under debian)
>
> > The working setup (linixmint) does not appear to
On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 11:54:07AM +, Ben Stones wrote:
> Folks,
>
> There are a lot of arguments going around in this e-mail chain and now
> people are just hurting other people's feelings. Arguments are pointless if
> no one agrees with each other ...
Au contraire, arguments are pointless i
On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 09:43:37PM +0300, moxalt wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Nov 2015 10:05:44 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
> > According to you. Not according to "The design of the unix operating
> > system", Maurice >> J. Bach, Prentice/Hall, 1986, page 4:
> >
> > Now that I have cited a definition of "OS"
On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 01:00:43PM -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 11/21/2015 12:02 PM, moxalt wrote:
> >Prison or sanatorium?
>
> Treated properly, as I see it, prison could be much more of a sanitarium.
Life is like a box of breakfast cereal ... *ducks*.
--
"If you're not careful, the newspaper
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 04:02:41PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 02:56:53AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 01:35:34PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 12:37:06PM +
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 01:35:34PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 12:37:06PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Please stop preaching.
>
> (Darn. Seems I was too subtle last time)
>
> Now you're preaching. Preachers preach... and they're important too
Ummm, no.
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 09:45:48AM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Using strace, the difference seems to be that apt-get clean removes
> /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin. However you don't need to run apt-get
> update : this file seems to be rebuilt by any apt command.
>
> apt-get clean
> apt-cache sho
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 11:56:32PM +, David Parfitt wrote:
> [This mail was also posted to linux.debian.user.]
Ummm, aren't they all eventually?
--
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people
who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the
oppress
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 03:33:13PM +, David Parfitt wrote:
>
> I've often noticed recommendations to uninstall pulseaudio but never seen
> a case where it has been reported to work :) apt-get purge pulseaudio
> wants to take gnome & lots of other stuff with it :((
JFTR, it worked for me, b
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 07:01:41PM +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote:
> This reminds of an outcome that makes your system vulnerable to data theft.
> Following the above steps, anyone having physical access to the device by
What above steps? The context is lost! :(
--
"If you're not careful, the new
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 06:41:50AM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote:
> Brian:
> >
> > To remove every package and the package lists in apt/archives:
> >
> > apt-get clean.
>
> The package lists are unaffected by the clean operation. You do not need
> to run an update afterwards.
Then explain the d
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 02:33:50PM +, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 09:08:35 -0500
> Whit Hansell wrote:
>
> Hello Whit,
>
> >is very small and won't really give me much room. Can anyone with
> >knowledge give me the subdirectories in var/cache that I can empty to
> >get a reas
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