Re: Cinnamon and security updates

2015-05-19 Thread D.E. Bil
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 12:54:10AM +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: Op 18-05-15 om 23:11 schreef Ralph Katz: On 05/18/2015 03:30 PM, Paul van der Vlis wrote: Hello, When using a Cinnamon desktop in Debian 8, I don't get warnings when there are security updates. Is there a way to add

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-15 Thread D.E. Bil
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 03:38:44PM -0700, Joris Bolsens wrote: Hey all, I've got a smallish Debian server that I'm currently not really using for anything. At the moment I have it as my own imagehost, general fileserver, vpn, and a pastebin like thing. What are some cool/fun/weird things

Re: old software

2015-03-11 Thread D.E. Bil
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 10:43:50AM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2015-03-11, D.E. Bil kas...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 09:33:43AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 11 March 2015 09:09:27 D.E. Bil wrote: Also, installing from unofficial repositories is a bad idea

Re: old software

2015-03-11 Thread D.E. Bil
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 07:36:42PM -0400, James wrote: I installed Debian7 but it has old software. It's the price of stability[1]. You might want to consider other distributions if you really need fresher software. Another option would be to run a mixed testing/unstable system[2], however if

Re: old software

2015-03-11 Thread D.E. Bil
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 09:33:43AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 11 March 2015 09:09:27 D.E. Bil wrote: Also, installing from unofficial repositories is a bad idea. Especially on a stable system. wheezy-backports an unofficial repository? Isn't that being a littl epurist? I

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-08 Thread D.E. Bil
On Sun, Jun 08, 2014 at 01:55:26PM +0200, Slavko wrote: AFAIK, the functionality of the apt-get and aptitude is compatible in these days, with only one difference - the ncurses interface in aptitude. And more human-readable logs in /var/log/aptitude. -- debil :wq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Gnome 3 password-protected screensaver / Jessie

2014-05-29 Thread D.E. Bil
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 06:31:52PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: Does such a thing exist and how can I activate it if it does? Install suckless-tools and check out slock. -- debil :wq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Can't patch Heartbleed bug?

2014-04-11 Thread D.E. Bil
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 08:33:38AM +1000, Charlie wrote: I'm already to g on Jessie. Is that good? openssl: Installed: 1.0.1g-2 Candidate: 1.0.1g-2 Version table: *** 1.0.1g-2 0 Am I the only one utilizing aptitude changelog package? -- debil :wq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Can't patch Heartbleed bug?

2014-04-11 Thread D.E. Bil
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 02:19:29PM +0400, Reco wrote: Hi. On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 01:00:09PM +0300, D.E. Bil wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 08:33:38AM +1000, Charlie wrote: I'm already to g on Jessie. Is that good? openssl: Installed: 1.0.1g-2 Candidate: 1.0.1g-2

Re: klondike ( freecell?) gone in jessie?

2014-02-10 Thread D.E. Bil
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:18:53PM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 02/10/2014 12:10 PM, y...@marupa.net wrote: what happened, or is it just not ready for jessie?? If you're a KDE user you can find both these games in KPatience. nope, I run MATE.. MATE will be included by default in

Re: clonezilla WORKS !

2014-01-10 Thread D.E. Bil
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 03:29:37PM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: I am running wheezy amd_64 .. remind me to NOT add experimental to my sources ever again!! I've been running testing/unstable with a dash of experimental for almost as long as I've been running Debian GNU/Linux - six years maybe?

Re: How do I mount mmc card so that a non-root user has write access?

2013-12-22 Thread D.E. Bil
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 12:39:20PM +0100, Marko Randjelovic wrote: On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 22:39:32 -0700 Lawrence Galka kala...@gmail.com wrote: I am running debian wheezy with the lxde desktop environment. When I insert a mmc card, it gets detected as /dev/mmcblk0p1 and mounted in

Re: Best Mail Client

2013-12-05 Thread D.E. Bil
On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 11:01:31AM -0600, lostson wrote: Evolution In threads like these? No. -- debil :wq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-11-30 Thread D.E. Bil
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 05:49:26PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 05:21:38PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Don't believe a claim that something should be the best MUA, that are just our opinions for the way we use MUAs. Yeah, but some suck less than others! :) Quoted

Re: software for (reminder) recommendation

2013-11-14 Thread D.E. Bil
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 01:03:50AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 11:24 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: TIP: A great way to find packages is with 'apt-cache search', IOW 'apt-cache search remind' :) Assumed a GUI should be ok, Synaptic is good for searching software,

Re: software for (reminder) recommendation

2013-11-13 Thread D.E. Bil
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 07:25:59AM -0500, Jeff Bauer wrote: On 11/12/2013 11:09 PM, lina wrote: Hi, Which package I can be installed which may serve as calender, Just remind me when, where and what I need attend or prepare? Barebones would be cal. Type man cal for details. Also, _wyrd_

Re: Why Debian

2013-11-09 Thread D.E. Bil
On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 05:40:06AM -0200, Beco wrote: On 8 Nov 2013 14:15, Alberto Salvia Novella es204904...@gmail.com wrote: Summarizing: Which are the very important reasons why do you prefer Debian over Ubuntu? Why to use a Debian based OS if you can use Debian? Exactly. Ubuntu

Re: maintained web-browser (

2013-10-24 Thread D.E. Bil
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:05:55PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: You might take a look at Xombrero, although it's not in Debian. It's based on Webkit and has the capability built-in to use a Javascript whitelist. See https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/xombrero I am reading

Re: which MTA to choose for a simple client?

2013-10-09 Thread D.E. Bil
On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 03:13:27AM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: So, here is my question: What would you use as a MTA on a Debian system made for an end-user? mutt fetchmail procmail msmtp Check out

Re: which MTA to choose for a simple client?

2013-10-09 Thread D.E. Bil
On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 02:16:20PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 01:02:09PM +0300, D.E. Bil wrote: On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 03:13:27AM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: What would you use as a MTA on a Debian system made for an end-user? mutt

Re: had to remove tin

2013-07-13 Thread D.E. Bil
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 08:23:56AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: I installed tin and once I got it connected to my news server and got all of the preliminaries out of the way I used rtin and tried to do a search for alt.astrology-moderated. I tried with the (/) and later with the (s) to