Re: adobe flash player in iceweasel does not work anymore in jessie

2015-09-10 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-09-09, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 09 September 2015 20:46:42 Paul van der Vlis wrote: >> When I need a package from deb-multimedia, I use wget and dpkg. > > A constructive suggestion! That is obviously a good idea. I would call it a kludge, at best. Using

Re: adobe flash player in iceweasel does not work anymore in jessie

2015-09-09 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-09-08, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > Op 08-09-15 om 20:37 schreef Jimmy Johnson: >> On 09/08/2015 10:40 AM, Haines Brown wrote: >>> On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 12:38:17PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: On 09/08/2015 12:25 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > But: why will it

Re: adobe flash player in iceweasel does not work anymore in jessie

2015-09-09 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-09-09, Paul van der Vlis <p...@vandervlis.nl> wrote: > Op 09-09-15 om 12:20 schreef Liam O'Toole: > >> If you use flashplayer-mozilla from deb-multimedia, then you get updates >> automatically. > > When you use cron, you get updates automatically

Re: usb read only

2015-08-31 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-08-30, atux wrote: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > --010609010802020702010907 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > hello everyone. > > i have a usb stick that it gets recognised as read

Re: Starting, installing Redmine

2015-08-18 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-08-18, Gary Roach gary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: Hi all, I have just installed Redmine by the usual method of aptitude install redmine. I selected sqlite as the database. I have had Apache2 running for a long time on my jessie system. Usually, I would expect to find a listing in

Re: How to disable certain keys

2015-08-15 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-08-15, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: It seems you've managed to disable all keys. :-) -- Liam

Re: udev foolishness in wheezy

2015-07-27 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-07-27, Renaud OLGIATI ren...@olgiati-in-paraguay.org wrote: On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 15:48:21 +0100 Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: I am in the process of building up an old MSI K8M890M2-V motherboard, with an Athlon 64X2 at 3.8Ghz on it, to be used for cnc machine control, and

Re: udev foolishness in wheezy

2015-07-27 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-07-27, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 27 July 2015 14:58:58 Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; I am in the process of building up an old MSI K8M890M2-V motherboard, with an Athlon 64X2 at 3.8Ghz on it, to be used for cnc machine control, and while I finally did get

Re: install Arial fonts lost in latex

2015-07-05 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-07-05, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 05 July 2015 05:51:31 mudongliang wrote: Install ttf-mscorefonts-installer And let it do its thing. Cheers Eike I have said in the post that I can't install this package! Because some exe file can not be downloaded!

Re: Gnome 3 VNC server issue

2015-07-04 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-07-03, Rob Nieuwenhuizen ra.nieuwenhui...@gmail.com wrote: When try to enable my vnc server on Debian Jessie: I have to unmanage my network interfaces from /etc/network/interfaces The only way to start remote desktop on my internal interface is to let the gnome network manager

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-07-04 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-06-22, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Is it really too much to ask, for application names to be in english? Yes it is. And, does it have all of thev functionality of gnome 2, including (but not limited to) allowing the panel to be positioned along the bottom of the

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-07-04 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-06-23, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 23/06/2015, Don Armstrong d...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Bret Busby wrote: But all of this digression into discussing the mate desktop environment stll does not get either Debian 6 or 7 working with either the intel, or the

Re: [SOLVED] Re: privoxy refusing connections?

2015-06-06 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-06-06, Kailash Kalyani listskail...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 06 June 2015 08:41 AM, Kailash Kalyani wrote: On Friday 05 June 2015 10:00 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2015-06-05, Kailash Kalyani listskail...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 05 June 2015 08:37 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote

Re: Latest version of gettext not run

2015-06-06 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-06-06, Tomas Nordin tom...@kth.se wrote: On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 01:21:17AM +0100, Martin Read wrote: On 05/06/15 00:27, Tomas Nordin wrote: I have forced installed latest version of gettext: $ dpkg --list gettext ... ii gettext 0.19.3-2~bpo70 i386 GNU ...

Re: [SOLVED] Re: privoxy refusing connections?

2015-06-06 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-06-06, Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/06/2015 06:17 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2015-06-06, Kailash Kalyani listskail...@gmail.com wrote: - SNIP - A search on privoxy.org's mailing list resolved this: http://sourceforge.net/p/ijbswa/mailman/message/30642470/ $sudo

Re: privoxy refusing connections?

2015-06-05 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-06-05, Kailash Kalyani listskail...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Came across privoxy and wanted to test it out so I installed it sudo apt-get install privoxy And configured my browser to use the proxy at 127.0.0.1 port 8118 I keep getting the error: The proxy server is refusing

Re: privoxy refusing connections?

2015-06-05 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-06-05, Kailash Kalyani listskail...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 05 June 2015 08:37 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2015-06-05, Kailash Kalyani listskail...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Came across privoxy and wanted to test it out so I installed it sudo apt-get install privoxy

Re: Two network cards

2015-05-29 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-05-29, michael-spree-michael michael-spree-mich...@gmx.de wrote: Hello, It used to be that one can use two network cards at the same time, after configuring /etc/network/interfaces and making the networks static. This I did. The results; the wifi card won't connect and the wired

Re: why are libraries in jessi more up to date

2015-05-16 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-05-16, Anil Duggirala anilduggir...@fastmail.fm wrote: Im a newbie and would like to know why libraries in Jessie are some much more up to date than in wheezy ? If the libraries have been tested and are stable then why arent they available in the wheezy repositories. I had a terrible

Re: Jessie upgrade now means samba is no longer working

2015-05-15 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-05-15, Alan Chandler a...@chandlerfamily.org.uk wrote: I recently upgraded from wheezy to jessie. I was relying in samba providing guest access to various key folders in my home directory for virtual windows machines to have access to key data After the upgrade samba no longer runs

Re: usb device umount option in menu missing for some devices

2015-05-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-05-13, deloptes delop...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi where I can look for a resolution of following problem. When I plug usb stick or memory card in the notebook I see the option in the menu to mount/umount it and it works great. When I plug the phone (select use as usb storage device in

Re: Iceape, Iceweasel, Icedove Choices?

2015-05-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-05-13, Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info wrote: For some years I have been using the iceape suit but some months ago I was advised the browser was a security risk - it does always start with a notice it should be updated and contains a link to firefox. With the successful upgrade

Re: Lid suspend problem with a Dell Laptop - Jessie

2015-05-11 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-05-11, Janis Hamme lists@hamme.info wrote: Check /etc/systemd/logind.conf and set HandleLidSwitch=ignore I had problems with systemd suspending suspending my nootebook some months ago. However it seems to respect the settings of the xfce power-manger now. Maybe the setting does

Re: xfce autostart command not running

2015-05-07 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-05-07, bri...@aracnet.com bri...@aracnet.com wrote: I've got the following in my Application Autostart tab /usr/bin/setxkbmap -option ctrl:swapcaps but it never executes on start-up. I was hoping someone might be able to tell me how to go about debugging the problem (and yes it

Re: can't run virtualbox in Jessie

2015-05-03 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-05-03, James bjloc...@lockie.ca wrote: On 05/02/2015 07:14 PM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Sat, 02 May 2015 19:03:38 -0400 James bjloc...@lockie.ca wrote: I have Debian Jessie and I can't run it. I get a dialog that says: the virtualbox kernel modules do not match this version of

Re: GUI won't start after wheezy upgrade

2015-05-03 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-05-03, John Aten welcome.to.eye.o.r...@gmail.com wrote: --Apple-Mail-2--756983614 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I am not in fact running wheezy. I got confused, it is Jesse.=20 /etc/apt/sources.list: # Debian packages

Re: Changing starting directory for video players

2015-05-02 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-05-01, Edward C. Jones edcjo...@comcast.net wrote: I use Debian 8.0 (Jessie), amd64 port, and KDE. Dragon Player has starting directory: ~Videos. VLC has starting directory: ~ KPlayer starts at the last directory used. KMPlayer starts at ~/Documents. How do I change the starting

Re: GUI won't start after wheezy upgrade

2015-05-02 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-05-02, John Aten welcome.to.eye.o.r...@gmail.com wrote: --Apple-Mail-1--836995451 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi all, I am running wheezy on an old Dell Inspiron B130. After updating today, = after not having had

Re: various bugs on Debian 8 with Kde

2015-05-01 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-30, Nick n...@nickbooker.uk wrote: On 30/04/15 17:51, g...@libero.it wrote: Hi Giuseppe. 3. Once in some way one succedes to install the system, every time you install a program the program will not appear in the menu list of installed programs. My guess is the programs you've

Re: Synaptic package?

2015-04-30 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-29, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: I just installed new Jessie on my new laptop. I assume it is Synaptic touchpad, but can be wrong. How at all to tell by whom touchpad was made? Anyway, I think it is possible to make my touchpad more responsive. Firmware? Drivers? Clue me in.

Re: apt vs aptitude (was ... Re: non-stable packages infestation)

2015-04-29 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-29, Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: On 04/28/2015 09:51 PM, Marco Segura wrote: I think use aptitude or apt is more a personal decision than any other thing, however I believe aptitude is more powerful. -- Marco T. Segura M. «Cuando naciste, todos reían y solo tu

Re: All installed packages disappeared from aptitude

2015-04-28 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-27, Patrick Wiseman pwise...@gmail.com wrote: Hello: I just updated and upgraded a 'testing' system (so listed in sources.list) and aptitude shows no installed packages. Here's a typical aptitude entry: i A apache2 2.4.10-9 none and another: ih perl 5.20.1-5 none (The 'h'

Re: Proxy authentication on gnome

2015-04-22 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-22, Iuri Guilherme i...@hushmail.me wrote: --=_09865548c132c4c9e7ee8a86ad210a78 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 I couldn't search the list archives for this, but I am having trouble trying to authenticate on proxies servers. In the system

Re: Installing open-vm-tools in Debian Wheezy

2015-04-22 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-22, Eric Gamess egam...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I am trying to install open-vm-tools in Debian 7.8 i386. I tried: apt-get install open-vm-tools And I got an error message: Error! Build of vmhgfs.ko failed for: 3.2.0-4-686-pae (i686) Consult the make.log in the build

Re: define a new keyboard shortcuts in settings/keyboard/shortcuts

2015-04-22 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-22, mudongliang mudonglianga...@hotmail.com wrote: I want to define a new keyboard shortcuts in the graphic settings/keyboard/shortcuts to start-up the gitlab! Name: Gitlab Panel Commands: su -c /opt/gitlab-7.9.3-0/manager-linux-x64.run The attribute of this file is following :

Re: using mpxj to convert xml files to mpp format to share projectlibre files more effectively

2015-04-21 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-21, Michael Fothergill michael.fotherg...@googlemail.com wrote: --001a11c235dcbadff105143f9e64 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Dear Folks, I have been experimenting with projectlibre (openproj). My associates use Microsoft Project. Projectlibre can export files in an

Re: How do I install the Java jni?

2015-04-21 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-21, John J. Boyer john.bo...@abilitiessoft.org wrote: Can't find a package that does it so gcc can find it. Thanks, Do you mean that gcc can't find jni.h? It's included with the JDK. You need to add something like '-I/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-i386/include' when invoking gcc. --

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-17 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-17, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 17/04/2015, David Wright deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk wrote: Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com): On 17/04/2015, Liam O'Toole liam.p.oto...@gmail.com wrote: On 2015-04-16, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 17/04/2015, Ric

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-17 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-17, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 17/04/2015, Liam O'Toole liam.p.oto...@gmail.com wrote: On 2015-04-16, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 17/04/2015, Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Have you tried catalyst for the AMD setup?? Under AMD Mobility

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-17 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-17, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 17/04/2015, Liam O'Toole liam.p.oto...@gmail.com wrote: snip Any browser you run in squeeze was EOL'ed years ago, from a security perspective if nothing else. So, are you claiming that the LTS of Debian 6 LTS, is imaginary

Re: javaws

2015-04-17 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-17, Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/17/2015 04:06 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hi, On 17/04/15 09:53, Ric Moore wrote: On 04/17/2015 03:47 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, On 17/04/15 09:43, Ric Moore wrote: On 04/16/2015 11:44 PM, lina wrote: Just notice

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-17 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-17, David Wright deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk wrote: Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com): The computers upon which I run Debian 6, have only 16 GB of RAM, and, Lucky you. 2GB here. expecially with Debian 6 not having adequate memory management (as previously mentioned, memory

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-16 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-16, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 17/04/2015, Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Have you tried catalyst for the AMD setup?? Under AMD Mobility Product Family your 6000 series is listed.

Re: javaws

2015-04-16 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-16, lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, The problem raised when I tried to Launch Jalview Desktop in the following website: http://www.jalview.org/Help at the top, right corner, there is Launch Jalview Desktop. It worked very well in the past. But today it is just not

Re: Subject: network-console installation and ssh keys

2015-04-15 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-15, Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: On 20150414_2134+, Liam O'Toole wrote: SNIP Put the following in ~/.ssh/config: Host desk UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null StrictHostKeyChecking no See the man page of ssh_config for details. I think

Re: Subject: network-console installation and ssh keys

2015-04-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-14, David Wright da...@lionunicorn.co.uk wrote: I like the new Network Console option in the installer. However, when I reinstall Debian onto a machine called, say, desk select the necessary options, type in the password for the installer session, and then sit back with a machine

Re: Webcam device `not found'

2015-04-09 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-08, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/04/2015, Liam O'Toole liam.p.oto...@gmail.com wrote: On 2015-03-31, Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. On my Acer Aspire One netbook, when I launch cheese, it complain that the device is `not found'. Googling

Re: Webcam device `not found'

2015-04-07 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-03-31, Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. On my Acer Aspire One netbook, when I launch cheese, it complain that the device is `not found'. Googling around I've found many similar issues but no solution. Please help whoever can. I have Sid. Thanks, Rodolfo

Re: javascript in iceweasel

2015-03-29 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-03-29, Bob Holtzman hol...@cox.net wrote: On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 09:41:16PM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2015-03-28, Bob Holtzman hol...@cox.net wrote: Running Wheezy 7.8 w/ iceweasel 31.5.3. Some sites won't work, telling me I need to install/activate javascript. Not sure how

Re: javascript in iceweasel

2015-03-28 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-03-28, Bob Holtzman hol...@cox.net wrote: Running Wheezy 7.8 w/ iceweasel 31.5.3. Some sites won't work, telling me I need to install/activate javascript. Not sure how to do this. I assume java is loaded because I see some icedtea 6 packages installed. No idea how to activate

Re: sound vanished with a reboot?

2015-03-24 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-03-24, Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk wrote: --eDB11BtaWSyaBkpc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 02:47:40AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 12:59:09PM

Re: Redirect HTTPS with Squid3+Squidguard

2015-03-23 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-03-23, linux-michae...@abwesend.de linux-michae...@abwesend.de wrote: Hello Sven and the other, thanks for help. I thought there is a simple and secure way to redirect to an 'This Site has been blocked' Page for HTTP and HTTPS. But when I must destroy the safety from HTTPS this

Re: user can exec the xset, in his crontab, its 100% failure

2015-03-21 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-03-21, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Greetings; Running a wheezy based linux here. While I as a user can use xset to remind the system of the monitors dpms controls, an identical entry in my crontab results in an email that it could not open my 0:0 display. So I cannot

Re: how to force a hold on a missing package during an apt-get upgrade

2015-03-21 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-03-21, tandread tandr...@otenet.gr wrote: dear debian users, I really need to have a program compiled from source (that is, a src dir, not a debian source package) Let's say, the mysql server source distribution I can remove the mysql-* deb packages with dpkg --purge

Re: customize ligthdm manager

2015-03-20 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-03-20, Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk wrote: --lEGEL1/lMxI0MVQ2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 12:18:23PM +0100, Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: Hi everybody, =20 I

Re: customize ligthdm manager

2015-03-20 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-03-20, Abdelkader Belahcene abelahc...@gmail.com wrote: --089e012277468313560511b679c4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hi everybody, I want to enter from a local machine using lightdm manager, to a remote server using XDMCP. I do it with a thin client, I mean on a

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

2015-03-12 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-03-10, Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/10/2015 04:53 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 10 March 2015 03:53:29 Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: all I want is the One True Directive(TM) Ubuntu?? ;-) Sorry, Sivaram. But this is Debian. People don't usually use Debian if they

Re: How can I force a full fsck on a remote system at next reboot?

2015-03-12 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-03-12, Elimar Riesebieter riese...@lxtec.de wrote: * Liam O'Toole liam.p.oto...@gmail.com [2015-03-11 20:44 +]: On 2015-03-11, Elimar Riesebieter riese...@lxtec.de wrote: [...] According to shutdown(8) ... -f Skip fsck on reboot. -F Force fsck

Re: How can I force a full fsck on a remote system at next reboot?

2015-03-12 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-03-12, Liam O'Toole liam.p.oto...@gmail.com wrote: On 2015-03-12, Elimar Riesebieter riese...@lxtec.de wrote: * Liam O'Toole liam.p.oto...@gmail.com [2015-03-11 20:44 +]: On 2015-03-11, Elimar Riesebieter riese...@lxtec.de wrote: [...] According to shutdown(8

Re: How can I force a full fsck on a remote system at next reboot?

2015-03-11 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-03-11, Elimar Riesebieter riese...@lxtec.de wrote: * Jape Person jap...@comcast.net [2015-03-11 14:04 -0400]: [...] I maintain some remote systems that I don't want running a full file system check at inopportune times, but I do make certain that I force a check and examine the

Re: No feedback from systemd / systemctl stop X... Nothing on stdout, nothing that `echo $?` can see...

2015-03-11 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-03-11, Martinx - ジェームズ thiagocmarti...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys, With SysVinit or Upstart, when we stop/start a service, we can see a feedback from the command output. Like service blah stopping... You can do 'systemctl status blah.service'. It gives a nice summary (with colour!) of

Re: No feedback from systemd / systemctl stop X... Nothing on stdout, nothing that `echo $?` can see...

2015-03-11 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-03-11, Renaud OLGIATI ren...@olgiati-in-paraguay.org wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 18:16:48 -0300 Martinx - ジェームズ thiagocmarti...@gmail.com wrote: What am I missing? SysVinit... LOL. (Let's not start all that again.) Cheers, Ron. -- Liam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: old software

2015-03-11 Thread Liam O'Toole
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. Especially on a stable system. wheezy-backports an unofficial

Re: old software

2015-03-11 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-03-11, James bjloc...@lockie.ca wrote: On 03/10/2015 08:23 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2015-03-10, James bjloc...@lockie.ca wrote: I installed Debian7 but it has old software. I manually installed LibreOffice-4.4 (LibreOffice-3 was the default). I also want to upgrade VNC because

Re: Odd Jessie Package Programs Shown in Gnome?

2015-03-10 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-03-10, Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info wrote: The gnome activities show all applications produces three pages of program icons many of which are gray gear wheel icons. I clicked on a few which did nothing. Trying apt-cache show on some of these icons' names I determined they

Re: old software

2015-03-10 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-03-10, James bjloc...@lockie.ca wrote: I installed Debian7 but it has old software. I manually installed LibreOffice-4.4 (LibreOffice-3 was the default). I also want to upgrade VNC because the default is v2.0.3 and the current version is 2.2.0. I followed the instructions on the

Re: Installing Openbox

2015-03-10 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-03-10, Joe j...@jretrading.com wrote: On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 17:33:28 -0500 Derek Jansen derekcjan...@gmail.com wrote: Openbox refuses to start after its installation. I get dropped into TTY1. Using startx works, but Debian will not automatically bring my to TTY7 for Openbox to start.

[OT] Its vs it's [Was: Re: upgrade versus update.]

2015-03-06 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-03-06, pe...@easthope.ca pe...@easthope.ca wrote: Its[sic] purpose is to keep the computer current with the latest security (and other) updates automatically. The use of Its in the original is correct. It's not a mistake. ;-) -- Liam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: jessie: Firefox download dialog unusable

2015-02-28 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-02-28, Felix Natter fnat...@gmx.net wrote: hi, I get an unusable download dialog in firefox (iceweasel) of current jessie (updated this morning): http://www2.inf.fh-brs.de/~fnatte2s/firefox-empty-buttons2.png Clicking on the half-displayed buttons is a no-op. I can reproduce it

Re: hosts file entry for 127.0.1.1

2015-02-28 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-02-28, Philippe Clérié phili...@gcal.net wrote: What is the rationale for the /etc/hosts entry for 127.0.1.1? It tends to be annoying when using dnsmasq as a server for static hosts. It is used when the host uses DHCP to obtain an IP address. One places an entry in /etc/hosts so that

Re: recommended ftp clients for Debian

2015-02-25 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-02-25, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 25/02/2015, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: snip gftp *is* in Debian 7 (though apparently not in 8 - see Liam below). Hmm. With GNOME 2 having been buried by Debian 7, and gFTP being apparently on its way out, being

Re: recommended ftp clients for Debian

2015-02-24 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-02-24, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 24 February 2015 14:11:13 Lisi Reisz wrote: I want a simple ftp client, for putting not getting, that is easy and pleasant to use. GUI based. For the use of non-geeks as well as myself. Many thanks to all who replied. I

Re: SCIM - terminal spreadsheet - sc fork

2015-02-23 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-02-23, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: --Sig_/rpAzsNcN+cDo.tN.Ondk0c6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 13:52:29 + (UTC) Liam O'Toole liam.p.oto...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway, regardless of the terminology

Re: SCIM - terminal spreadsheet - sc fork

2015-02-23 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-02-23, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 23 February 2015 12:19:56 Christian Groessler wrote: fork implicates two or more (independend) development branches. I believe, correct me if I'm wrong, sc was orphaned since at least 15 years. So, the OP when he started to add

Re: about installing Java

2015-02-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-02-13, Jack Chuge zhuge.j...@gmail.com wrote: [SNIP} I know it means nothing to me until I want to install CGoban, a go client been maintaining by kgs(www.gokgs.com). And I found my debian pre-installed a java version of 1.6.0, seems odd for ever. kgs appears to be a Java applet. To

Re: about installing Java

2015-02-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-02-13, Andrew McGlashan andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au wrote: On 13/02/2015 2:52 PM, Jack Chuge wrote: I know it means nothing to me until I want to install CGoban, a go client been maintaining by kgs(www.gokgs.com). And I found my debian pre-installed a java version of 1.6.0,

Re: javascript:void(0)

2015-02-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-02-13, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Friday, February 13, 2015 07:12:37 AM Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2015-02-13, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Greetings; Is there any way to get rid of all these boring screen decorations saying javascipt doesn't work

Re: javascript:void(0)

2015-02-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-02-13, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Friday, February 13, 2015 09:01:25 AM Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2015-02-13, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: [SNIP] Now, the javascript problem? Still remains. A PIMA, if I goto www.cbsnews.com it will start to display

Re: about installing Java

2015-02-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-02-13, Jack Chuge zhuge.j...@gmail.com wrote: Liam O'Toole 於 2015-2-13 19:40 寫道: On 2015-02-13, Jack Chuge zhuge.j...@gmail.com wrote: [SNIP} I know it means nothing to me until I want to install CGoban, a go client been maintaining by kgs(www.gokgs.com). And I found my debian pre

Re: javascript:void(0)

2015-02-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-02-13, Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/13/2015 09:21 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday, February 13, 2015 09:01:25 AM Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2015-02-13, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: [SNIP] Now, the javascript problem? Still remains. A PIMA, if I goto

Re: Is there a way to undo web browser changing desktop manager

2015-02-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-02-13, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/02/2015, Liam O'Toole liam.p.oto...@gmail.com wrote: On 2015-02-12, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. I am running Debian 6 LTS, with the GNOME Desktop Manager (if that is what it is named). I have three web browsers

Re: javascript:void(0)

2015-02-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-02-13, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Greetings; Is there any way to get rid of all these boring screen decorations saying javascipt doesn't work? There are quite a few javascript engines installed, but I haven't managed to find that Magic Twanger yet. Is this a conscious

Re: Is there a way to undo web browser changing desktop manager

2015-02-12 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-02-12, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. I am running Debian 6 LTS, with the GNOME Desktop Manager (if that is what it is named). I have three web browsers open; Arora, Konqueror and Rekonq. Each of the web browsers, is used for different reasons. None of them, appear

Re: theme editor?

2015-02-10 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-02-10, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 03:04:44 AM Petter Adsen wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 02:44:13 -0500 Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Monday, February 09, 2015 11:01:10 PM David Wright wrote: Quoting Gene Heskett

Re: Default Gnome session in Jessie

2015-01-27 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-01-27, Paul van der Vlis p...@vandervlis.nl wrote: Hello, I am looking for a way to define the default gnome-session in Jessie because I want to use gnome-classic as default for all users. In Wheezy I could use the alternatives-system, but in Jessie I only have one choice there:

Re: firefox compaining about missing library

2015-01-16 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-01-16, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Greetings; Does anyone know where to find, for Wheezy, this library? VDPAU backend libvdpau_nouveau.so? Or alternatively, how to install to iceweasal, the missing pluggins that make it work with the real world? Fresh Wheezy install

Re: Late authentication

2015-01-07 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-01-06, August Karlstrom fusionf...@gmail.com wrote: On 2015-01-06 17:40, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2015-01-05, August Karlstrom fusionf...@gmail.com wrote: I tried adding the file /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/test.pkla with the content below (and restarting X) but it made

Re: Late authentication

2015-01-06 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-01-06, Tony van der Hoff t...@vanderhoff.org wrote: On 05/01/15 22:40, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 04 ian 15, 17:02:12, August Karlstrom wrote: I run Debian Wheezy with a simple window manager (Blackbox). If I remember correctly, in Ubuntu some applications like Synaptic and Update

Re: Late authentication

2015-01-06 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-01-05, August Karlstrom fusionf...@gmail.com wrote: On 2015-01-04 17:30, August Karlstrom wrote: I run Debian Wheezy with a simple window manager (Blackbox). If I remember correctly, in Ubuntu some applications like Synaptic and Update Manager ask for sudo password only when/if needed.

Re: About Testing Freeze and KDE

2014-12-09 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2014-12-09, B. M. b-m...@gmx.ch wrote: Hi all, I'm using Debian since about a year now, so this is my first freeze :-) How does the freeze work in regard to KDE: currently, many packages are at 4.14.2, PIM is at 4.14.1 and the latest 4.14 release is 4.14.3 Is it true that the packages

Re: Debian 6 gone wonky overnight

2014-12-01 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2014-12-01, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. I am running Debian 6 on this computer. Overnight, the appearance of the GUI has changed (running GNOME 2.x, I think), with tab labels (if that is the correct term) changed in appearance, so theat they take many times as much

Re: To torpedo Debian and leave RHEL as the only stable option.

2014-10-21 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2014-10-20, John Garret johngarret2...@mail.com wrote: Debian backports security patches (etc) to its stable distribution, which can be used for years and years. RHEL does too, but this costs subscription money. If debian becomes unstable (via systemd etc) and ever more subject to churn,

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-25 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2014-08-22, Buchs, Kevin J. buchs.ke...@mayo.edu wrote: Thanks for the comment, Nuno. I only want to run a single X client, so XDMCP is not the way to go. My problem is solely getting Xorg to start on Debian without the -nolisten tcp argument. On CentOS, this is the default and I can run

Re: XML FOP

2014-08-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2014-08-18, Klaus Jantzen k.d.jant...@t-online.de wrote: Hi, when generating a pdf-file from an xml-file with fop I get the warning [warning] /usr/bin/fop: Unable to locate servlet-api in /usr/share/java Even though the result seems to be OK, I still would like to know what the servlet

Re: Irony

2014-08-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2014-08-12, Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 16:46:38 -0500 John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com wrote: Charles Kroeger writes: You know what they say, If you're not a communist when you're young, there's something wrong with your heart. Churchill: If you're not a

Re: Irony

2014-08-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2014-08-13, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 13 August 2014 11:03:58 Liam O'Toole wrote: Moreover, Churhcill defected from the Liberal party to the Conservative party, and then back again. T'other way round. Lisi Oops, you are correct. I meant to write that his

Re: Wheezy: pressing power button initiates a suspend in parallel with system halt

2014-07-28 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2014-07-28, Marcin Owsiany mar...@owsiany.pl wrote: --001a113ac58ab58dce04ff4229a9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 I'm running stable on an amd64 PC since wheezy release. Until recently, I was able to nicely suspend and resume the system by pressing the hardware power button on

Re: Sid Systemd upgrade

2014-07-21 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2014-07-21, Erwan David er...@rail.eu.org wrote: On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 10:36:30PM CEST, Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org said: (...) This and more excellent documentation at https://wiki.debian.org/systemd#Configuring_for_testing I do not have the ressources to test : no time no

Re: Sid Systemd upgrade

2014-07-21 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2014-07-21, Erwan David er...@rail.eu.org wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 02:26:44PM CEST, Liam O'Toole liam.p.oto...@gmail.com said: On 2014-07-21, Erwan David er...@rail.eu.org wrote: On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 10:36:30PM CEST, Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org said

Re: IP address depending on the MAC

2011-10-06 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-10-06, Ireneusz Szcześniak irek.szczesn...@gmail.com wrote: On 06.10.2011 00:08, Liam O'Toole wrote: Yet another option is to configure clients to send their hostname in the DHCP request. The hostnames will register with dnsmasq's DNS resolver, so you can connect to the clients

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