Re: SATA cables

On 02/13/2016 11:36 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 02/13/2016 04:15 PM, Ric Moore wrote: ... All of my drives were acting flakey, so I took his hint and replaced the cables with black ones. What make and model? Heh, that was 5 years ago, but they are still in use. :) Ric -- My father

Re: SATA cables

On 02/12/2016 12:21 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 02/12/2016 12:24 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: ... > 'hot red' colored wire in a mic cable that always broke, ... > After a year or 2, there was no wire remaining in that tubing, just a > reddish copper dust! Wow. Somebody didn't understand

Re: GLX and nouveau

On 02/12/2016 04:55 AM, Lucio Crusca wrote: And googling for _glapi_tls_Dispatch suggests there could be some ndivia file left behind and that ldd command can help find it, however I don't know what exactly I'm looking for. Can you help me please? Got libGL installed?? Ric -- My father,

Re: I need help

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 -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be

Re: Problems with VLC in jessie

On 02/06/2016 11:50 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: Sorry, forgotten to mention I use Nvidia 340.96-1 proprietary driver. Under tools/preferences/video pick "X11 video output (XCB)" then save and exit and re-start VLC again. I also use "GTK+" under the "interface" tab / "Force Window style".

greeter fails to execute command upstart

As a result of the above error, when I arrive at my greeter panel, the keyboard and mouse are unresponsive, and the system is locked up. I can get in using recovery mode login to text only. root@iam:/media/ric/newroot/var/log/lightdm# more x-0-greeter.log ** Message: Starting

Re: lightdm/xfce4, lost my window manager and my panels and some session state

On 01/28/2016 09:59 PM, Charlie Kravetz wrote: I keep xfce4-panel in startup and sessions, auto-start, just to make sure it always runs. For reasons unknown, it will sometimes fail to start. Running Sid and with last update the greeter fails to respond to the mouse or keyboard (both USB).

Re: ?? user in group audio -- but only root can play sound

On 01/22/2016 11:10 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: One thing udev or the linux kernel is going to have to get over fast is its fixation on the 3.5MM jack for speakers. Newer hardware sooner rather than later will not be including those jacks any longer. Probably the first noticeable instance will be

Re: SOLVED ?? user in group audio -- but only root can play sound

On 01/22/2016 03:40 PM, Gregor Zattler wrote: I now want to learn what problem PA is there to solve. If you have multiple sound devices then pavucontrol will switch between them on the fly. I switch between USB headphones and my USB 7.1 sound system device. Sweet. Ric -- My father,

Re: ?? user in group audio -- but only root can play sound

On 01/16/2016 02:06 PM, Gregor Zattler wrote: Hi there, since a few days my normal user, which is in group sound, cannot play sound (aplay works but no sound) while root can. Any ideas how to debug this? Crank up alsamixer and un-mute whatever became muted. Pulse sits on top of alsa. Look

Re: Libre graphics could become the standard if we push right now

On 01/14/2016 05:10 PM, Zlatan Todoric wrote: On 01/14/2016 09:11 PM, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: Nearly all compact Linux computers feasible for gaming are sold exclusively using NVIDIA graphics, and that company is hostile to libre software. So I think it is very important that we

Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png

On 01/06/2016 08:38 AM, John Hasler wrote: jdd writes: sexism - like describing women as men's toys should be prohibited (apart for historical work), and images may be such. And disrespectful images of pasta should also be prohibited. We've already been through this loop with Supertuxkart,

Re: Audio and HDMI port not working on Jessie

On 01/04/2016 09:17 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 04 January 2016 12:15:09 Giuseppe Longo wrote: [ 15.064330] [drm:radeon_pci_probe] *ERROR* radeon kernel modesetting for R600 or later requires firmware-linux-nonfree. I have no idea how to fix these issues, Please, any help and advice

Re: vivaldi?

On 01/03/2016 10:19 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 03 January 2016 10:13:31 Ric Moore wrote: On 01/03/2016 10:02 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; Trying to find a web browser that actually works here. iceweasel has been so emasculated that it asks about flash everytime, bringing up

Re: vivaldi?

On 01/03/2016 10:02 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; Trying to find a web browser that actually works here. iceweasel has been so emasculated that it asks about flash everytime, bringing up a requester that has a button labeled "allow and remember", but it doesn't remember, you have to

Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png

On 01/01/2016 05:51 PM, Charlie wrote: On Fri, 01 Jan 2016 22:22:13 +0100 deloptes sent: The only solution in my opinion is to explain and give a good example to the children for what is good and what is bad. Once they know it, they do not forget. How often do the children see the worst

Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png

On 01/01/2016 04:47 AM, Joel Rees wrote: I looked at the first twenty or so images in the list, and I agree that the general point of view is very much one that treats people as objects. I would not want my children finding those when looking for clipart. In my opinion, a complaint is

Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png

On 01/01/2016 11:23 AM, pe...@berghold.net wrote: I'm confused what specifically is meriting censorship? I'm not seeing any full frontal nudity. Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only

Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png

On 12/31/2015 07:31 AM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: Thank you for the pointer, I'll install the package immediately, and enjoy a look at those pictures... I'm on it too. :0 Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance,

Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED]

On 12/18/2015 10:19 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 09:31:45 -0500 Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 18 December 2015 05:32:01 Lisi Reisz wrote: Having just by implication been told by someone that only muggles, lusers and/or dinosaurs use POP3, how many others

Re: no response from listmaster

On 12/14/2015 10:06 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 14 December 2015 13:54:09 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: No idea how you could take as "instruction" what only could be meant as a "proposal", but there you go... It was in the imperative. "imperative ‎(countable and uncountable, plural

Re: OT: reply styles, family matters

On 12/02/2015 03:03 PM, John Hasler wrote: Chris Bannister writes: What is 'tac'? DESCRIPTION Write each FILE to standard output, last line first. That's the beauty of UNIX. They have thought of everything you could ever possibly need, including backwards printing. :/ Ric -- My

Re: OT: reply styles, family matters

On 12/02/2015 12:19 PM, Bob Bernstein wrote: On Wed, 2 Dec 2015, Mart van de Wege wrote: If the only time you see interleaved comments is in 'fisked' pieces, then I could understand not feeling comfortable when someone does that in an email reply. Yes, point well taken. I suppose we can

Re: debianlive iso with xfce and clamav

On 11/25/2015 10:54 AM, Brian wrote: On Wed 25 Nov 2015 at 09:37:39 -0600, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On Wed, November 25, 2015 7:22 am, Brian wrote: On Wed 25 Nov 2015 at 11:29:52 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: David is talking about using the USB as an installation target. Personally I would

Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors

On 11/25/2015 05:36 PM, Mauro Condarelli wrote: Il 25/11/2015 22:35, Ric Moore ha scritto: The HUGE reason I recommend the nvidia driver is that you will get much better performance IF you want to play openGL games and less tearing as you move windows from monitor to monitor. Yeah, I am

Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors

On 11/25/2015 03:14 PM, Mauro Condarelli wrote: Pretty Please, tell me this isn't true: The only sensible answer I got from debian list boils down to: "use proprietary driver". This is truly sad, especially since I *know* Linux Mint (which is a debian derivative, through ubuntu parentage) does

Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors

On 11/22/2015 10:44 AM, Mauro Condarelli wrote: Thanks Ric, care to share details on how You managed such a marvel? How did You disable the internal (intel) "video card" (actually inside the CPU chip)? From BIOS? What other configuration did You do? I just disabled the video feature in the

Re: Adobe Flash

On 11/21/2015 06:50 PM, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: El 18/11/15 a las 17:39, Ric Moore escribió: On 11/18/2015 02:24 PM, moxalt wrote: I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux

Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors

On 11/22/2015 07:03 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 11/22/2015 5:46 AM, Mauro Condarelli wrote: I have a setup with two video cards (intel HD Graphics 4600 + NVidia GeForce GTX 770) and four monitors (two for each card). I can see all monitors under Windows, but I can see (active, of course) only

Re: Adobe Flash

On 11/21/2015 12:02 PM, moxalt wrote: On Sat, 21 Nov 2015 10:10:49 -0500, Ric Moore <wayward4...@gmail.com> wrote: On 11/21/2015 08:54 AM, John Hasler wrote: Renaud writes: but following the precept wisely given by the Fathers of the American Constitution, never try to impose your re

Re: Adobe Flash

On 11/21/2015 08:54 AM, John Hasler wrote: Renaud writes: but following the precept wisely given by the Fathers of the American Constitution, never try to impose your religion on others ! It bars the state from using its power to forcibly impose a religion. It has been explicitly interpreted

Re: Adobe Flash

On 11/21/2015 06:21 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Friday 20 November 2015 12:35:34 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: OTOH we woldn't be here were it not for one very vociferous preacher, RMS And there was I thinking I was here because of Linus and Ian. ;-) Me too. Where would be be without Linus? Ric --

Re: Adobe Flash

On 11/20/2015 11:06 PM, moxalt wrote: On Fri, 20 Nov 2015 05:19:46 -0300, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI I understand that everyone's rallying against the outsider here, but really guys? 'Should'? * Of course there is the difference between "You should avoid punching me in the nose" and "You should

Re: Adobe Flash

On 11/21/2015 03:57 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 21 November 2015 06:23:02 Glenn English wrote: On Nov 20, 2015, at 9:48 PM, moxalt wrote: "Should" http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/should http://www.thefreedictionary.com/should

Re: Adobe Flash

On 11/21/2015 11:59 AM, moxalt wrote: On Sat, 21 Nov 2015 10:20:07 -0500, Ric Moore <wayward4...@gmail.com> wrote: On 11/21/2015 06:21 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Friday 20 November 2015 12:35:34 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: OTOH we woldn't be here were it not for one very vociferous preache

Remember Z-modem??

Charles Forsburg has passed away. http://www.anewtradition.com/obituaries/obituary/12060_Charles_Alton_Forsberg -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.

Re: No sound - seeking ideas

On 11/19/2015 01:32 PM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On Thu, November 19, 2015 4:38 am, David Parfitt wrote: I've newly bought a laptop (details at end) & installed Jessie 8.2. All's well except that I have no sound. I've done quite a lot of online research but got nowhere. I'm looking for ANY

Re: Adobe Flash

On 11/19/2015 11:55 AM, moxalt wrote: On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 19:34:38 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: That's a bit arrogant - saying that other people shouldn't watch the news on their computers because you would choose not to do so. Lisi I don't think advocating that others

Re: No sound - seeking ideas

On 11/19/2015 10:33 AM, David Parfitt wrote: [This mail was also posted to linux.debian.user.] Thx for responding, Charlie. On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 13:30:03 +0100, Charlie wrote: On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 10:38:51 + David Parfitt sent: Hi all: I've newly bought a laptop (details at end) &

Re: Adobe Flash

On 11/18/2015 02:24 PM, moxalt wrote: I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Depends who's version of the definition of OS you use: Here's a quote from "The design of the unix

Re: default English (US) QWERTY layout

On 11/15/2015 05:05 PM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On Sun, November 15, 2015 3:46 pm, Ric Moore wrote: Mine says "Generic 105 (intl) PC" for keyboard model and "English (US)" for layout. Hope that helps. That is the "system default" setting used at install time. R

Re: sudo does not respond to settings in /etc/sudoers

On 11/14/2015 03:01 PM, Joe wrote: Your example will still ask for a password, and anyway it's either/or: you can either add yourself to the sudo group or add your name to sudoers, you don't need both. I had to, before it would work. YMMV, Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say:

Re: sudo does not respond to settings in /etc/sudoers

On 11/15/2015 11:18 AM, Joe wrote: On Sun, 15 Nov 2015 10:44:10 -0500 Ric Moore <wayward4...@gmail.com> wrote: On 11/14/2015 03:01 PM, Joe wrote: Your example will still ask for a password, and anyway it's either/or: you can either add yourself to the sudo group or add your name to s

Re: default English (US) QWERTY layout

On 11/15/2015 03:10 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 11/14/2015 09:01 PM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: Would some kindly soul who is a English (US) QWERTY user and who is running Jessie on an i386 system follow the path: applications -> setting -> keyboard -> layout and tell me which is the

Re: default English (US) QWERTY layout

On 11/15/2015 04:34 PM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On Sun, November 15, 2015 2:10 pm, David Christensen wrote: I just did a fresh install of debian-8.2.0-amd64-xfce yesterday: Keyboard model Generic 105-key (Intl) PC Obviously, the keyboard settings menu (reached from xfce by

Re: sudo does not respond to settings in /etc/sudoers

On 11/14/2015 09:36 AM, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: El 14/11/15 a las 02:11, Ken Heard escribió: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In my Wheezy box I want to be able to run any root command as my user without having to enter a password to do so. I assume that there are two ways

Re: soundcard appearing as device, but not working

On 11/12/2015 06:05 AM, Nicolas George wrote: Le duodi 22 brumaire, an CCXXIV, tand read a écrit : (but no alsa modules: lsmod | grep -i alsa shows nil and The ALSA modules are called snd-*, you already observed they are loaded. any idea if I can do anything about it? Any realistic

Re: system crash

On 11/06/2015 10:27 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Fri, 06 Nov 2015, Dev Guy wrote: Hello while using my system with the KDE desktop manager, my system became unresponsive for about 30 seconds, after I was able to only move the mouse around but nothing else was accessible. I could still see all

Re: switch back to gnome 3.16

On 10/27/2015 04:56 PM, Floris wrote: Yes, unfortunately is the combination of Nvidia, Gnome 3.18 and a multi seat setup not working. So I try to figure out where the problem is. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=802335 I'd suggest you separate the Gnome problem from the

Re: Suddenly Unbootable Systemd

On 10/14/2015 07:32 AM, David Baron wrote: Upgraded some KF5 Baloo packages to fix dorked KDE, rebooted, then bingo. Boot stops with lvmetad is not active yet disk/by-uuid/fca . invalid path or logical Then a minute-30 second start job runs for a device (differing uuid). After that,

Re: systemd alternative for Jessie?

On 10/14/2015 03:55 AM, tom arnall wrote: i read the piece on installing without systemd. i get the feeling that the bottom line of it is: good luck. or am i missing something? Yes, you failed to google on month's worth of hundreds of old posts concerning this or you just happen to enjoy

Re: systemd alternative for Jessie?

On 10/13/2015 11:20 PM, tom arnall wrote: I am running Wheezy and notice that the boot options include but aren't limited to systemd. Is it possible to have this arrangement with Jessie? No. :) Ric

Re: Mounting a DVD (busy message)

On 09/23/2015 02:12 PM, David Wright wrote: When I mount a DVD on this wheezy desktop, I get: $ mount /media/cdrom0 mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: /dev/sr0 already mounted or /media/cdrom0 busy $ mount /media/cdrom0 mount: block device /dev/sr0 is

Re: debian8 & graphics

On 09/22/2015 12:27 PM, Charlie Kravetz wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2015 08:53:23 -0700 Rick McDaniel wrote: I loved Debian 8. I tried to install it on several Desktops & laptops. I gave up on the laptops & 2 of the desktops because i could not get the graphics 2

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

On 09/08/2015 02:29 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 01:52:56PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: On 09/08/2015 01:30 PM, Haines Brown wrote: On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 12:38:17PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: Methinks you have deb-multimedia configured somehow in your sources. I suspect

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

On 09/08/2015 12:25 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: But: why will it install in wheezy, but not in Jessie - and yet it is listed in neither. :-/ Methinks you have deb-multimedia configured somehow in your sources. -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world...

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

On 09/08/2015 01:30 PM, Haines Brown wrote: On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 12:38:17PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: Methinks you have deb-multimedia configured somehow in your sources. I suspect something else is going on. I also am running Wheezy and have this line in sources.list: deb http

Re: Re; Okay, that's too much now!

On 09/06/2015 06:28 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Sep 06, 2015 at 08:32:30AM +0200, Greencopper wrote: [...] Why the hell has this collections of utilities from FreeBSD been made dependent upon libsystemd0!?!?!? Freedom of choice my ass!

Re: is google earth safe to install?

On 09/03/2015 05:06 PM, Stuart Longland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 02/09/15 08:55, Ric Moore wrote: Perhaps we should team up and buy some better satellite data to "free" it? Kickstarter anyone? I'm building "Grit". I'll let everyone know ho

Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

On 09/02/2015 10:27 AM, Joel Rees wrote: On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:38 PM, Ric Moore <wayward4...@gmail.com> wrote: On 09/01/2015 10:27 PM, Joel Rees wrote: 2015/09/02 1:04 "Ric Moore" <wayward4...@gmail.com <mailto:wayward4...@gmail.com>>: > > On 08/31

Re: DVD authoring software tested, DVDStyler wins

On 09/02/2015 06:31 AM, Joel Roth wrote: Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 12:27:19PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: For anyone who may have reason to deal with this antiquated, anticloud technology, I needed to author a couple disks. I tried videotrans, tovid. Maybe I didn't understand

Re: is google earth safe to install?

On 09/02/2015 03:52 AM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 16:48:35 -0700 Gary Roach wrote: BTW Google Earth should operate on an AMD chip set if you enable milti-arch as Sven said. That would seem to be the easier cleaner way to go. It does, on my box,

Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

On 09/01/2015 10:27 PM, Joel Rees wrote: 2015/09/02 1:04 "Ric Moore" <wayward4...@gmail.com <mailto:wayward4...@gmail.com>>: > > On 08/31/2015 11:36 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > >> One, I said that he "_does_ seem to [...] have zero sympathy or

Re: is google earth safe to install?

On 09/01/2015 03:53 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 03:47:53PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 01 September 2015 14:09:39 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On Tue, September 1, 2015 9:47 am, Darac Marjal wrote: In that case,

Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

On 08/31/2015 11:36 AM, The Wanderer wrote: One, I said that he "_does_ seem to [...] have zero sympathy or respect in practice for" those things. How would that be different from "he does seem to prefer underage girls"? :0 Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two

Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

On 08/31/2015 08:43 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 08:33:40AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: On 2015-08-31 at 03:47, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Slinging mud at people never helps: Lennart Poettering isn't out there "to get us" --

Re: Adapter Names on Stretch

On 08/28/2015 08:39 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 27 August 2015 19:01:32 Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 11:58:03PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: Le nonidi 9 fructidor, an CCXXIII, Renaud OLGIATI a écrit : An added advantage is that on the day you replace your Ethernet NIC

Re: ask.debian.net

On 08/28/2015 10:45 AM, Lev Lazinskiy wrote: On 08/28/2015 10:40 AM, Ric Moore wrote: On 08/28/2015 08:27 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Friday 28 August 2015 13:18:33 Lev Lazinskiy wrote: I think that there is some value to have a QA style support section Out of interest, what is wrong

Re: ask.debian.net

On 08/28/2015 08:27 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Friday 28 August 2015 13:18:33 Lev Lazinskiy wrote: I think that there is some value to have a QA style support section Out of interest, what is wrong with the mailing list and the forum? Also, out of interest, if the OP cannot use whois to

Re: Adapter Names on Stretch

On 08/28/2015 11:22 AM, David Wright wrote: Quoting Ric Moore (wayward4...@gmail.com): From my own experience, if you replace a network card, udev will automagically name it /dev/eth +1 so eth0 becomes eth1. I'm using eth1 right now. Bugs the hell out of me but the network works, :) That's

Re: Adapter Names on Stretch

On 08/28/2015 09:50 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 09:44:03PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 28 August 2015 21:38:12 Chris Bannister wrote: http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2015/debconf15/

Re: Adapter Names on Stretch

On 08/28/2015 12:57 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: But why should I be punished because I use static addresss defined in the hosts file? Because that was the OLD way to doit. We can't have old no more. I DO have this dim weak hope that systemd will blow NM out of the water finally and replace it

Re: ask.debian.net

On 08/28/2015 01:43 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 28 Aug 2015 at 11:28:20 -0400, Lev Lazinskiy wrote: On 08/28/2015 11:14 AM, Ric Moore wrote: On 08/28/2015 10:45 AM, Lev Lazinskiy wrote: On 08/28/2015 10:40 AM, Ric Moore wrote: On 08/28/2015 08:27 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Friday 28 August

Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

On 08/28/2015 05:45 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Friday 28 August 2015 16:16:11 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: Systemd-Linux to get rid of su: https://tlhp.cf/lennart-poettering-su/ Is this a trend to make _all_ the GNU-Linux tools disappear, and have _everything_ incorporated into systemd ? How come

Re: new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

On 08/27/2015 03:48 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 27 August 2015 19:30:48 Seeker wrote: On a marginally related but not relevant note, that was at a time when hooking a computer to a TV was not so common, My, we have some youngsters on this list now. ;-) Connecting home computers to TVs

Re: kde5 - the problems do not stop

On 08/26/2015 11:26 AM, Hans wrote: If you think the way it is testing or unstable, who cares..., then the result will be a bad stable. Is it that what you want? Don't think so. What you do is google your butt off, first, to resolve the problem on your own if you walk on the wild side.

Re: kde5 - the problems do not stop

On 08/25/2015 06:33 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: Not to seem rude or demeaning in any way, but that is pretty much an axiom. Debian has made public notice in their documentation many times that no one should expect reliable behaviour from any version other than Debian Stable. Unfortunately, in

Re: kde5 - the problems do not stop

On 08/26/2015 08:03 PM, David Wright wrote: Quoting Ric Moore (wayward4...@gmail.com): not those of us who ~willingly~ subject ourselves to breakages. I want those people to be here for at least two reasons: Define those people. Testing and Un-stable isn't for Joe or Jane Lunchbucket

Re: Antivirus for Debian

On 08/21/2015 09:29 AM, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: Well one reason is if your mail server also has webmail. Then your users, Debian based for 90% or their time, would possibly access your mail server from some other more virus affected OS as well. And be at risk that way. That begs the

Re: should I get rid of pulse audio ?

On 08/19/2015 01:31 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 10:02:55PM -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: i know what audio device i should be selecting, i have it set to default in the ~/.asoundrc file and icweweasel just doesn't do

Re: VLC DVD playback is choppy and pixelated

On 08/19/2015 03:20 PM, d...@661.org wrote: On Wed, 19 Aug 2015, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Wed, 2015-08-19 at 09:23 +, d...@661.org wrote: [7fe848002508] vdpau_avcodec generic error: unsupported codec 2 or profile -1 It could be that something goes wrong when you use VDPAU. Try to

Re: should I get rid of pulse audio ?

On 08/18/2015 08:57 AM, Edward Lukacs wrote: My own opinion, for what it's worth, is to keep your system simple, stupid, as the saying goes. I used to feel as you do, and ranted on pulse whenever the opportunity arose. But, that was years ago. Pulse is far more simple to use, when it comes

Re: should I get rid of pulse audio ?

On 08/18/2015 08:57 AM, Edward Lukacs wrote: it took me a half hour to totally eliminate it and set up a complete alsa installation which is utterly reliable. I will not go back, even if pulseaudio is repaired and made less of a system hog. I don't get this. You got alsa working complete

Re: should I get rid of pulse audio ?

On 08/17/2015 10:10 PM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Mon, 17 Aug 2015 13:25:24 +0200 Arno Schuring aelschur...@hotmail.com wrote: Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 13:37:37 -0700 From: bri...@aracnet.com [..snip list of PA inadequacies..] so soliciting opinions on whether or not getting rid of

Re: bluetooth speakers

On 08/18/2015 04:30 AM, François Patte wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 16/08/2015 18:51, bri...@aracnet.com a écrit : On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 16:16:44 +0200 François Patte francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour,

Re: Iceweasel HTML5 video problems

On 08/17/2015 03:18 PM, Paul van der Vlis wrote: Op 17-08-15 om 16:17 schreef Stephan Seitz: On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 03:27:52PM +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: On the machine with Debian 8 the problem is still there, even after removing ~/.mozilla. After looking twice, the problem there is not

Re: should I get rid of pulse audio ?

On 08/17/2015 12:09 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 17 August 2015 11:35:36 Ric Moore wrote: Welcome back, Ric. ;) It's good to be alive! I wound up with a quad bypass. It was like getting fsck AND a re-boot. :) Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: There are two Great Sins

Re: should I get rid of pulse audio ?

On 08/17/2015 02:10 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 01:37:37PM -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: [...] so soliciting opinions on whether or not getting rid of pulse audio is a good idea. Be warned that this has been a long

Re: a simpler printing question

On 06/29/2015 08:36 AM, Brian wrote: On Sun 28 Jun 2015 at 13:27:17 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: maybe. after my struggling with cups i decided to go old school. it took me 10 minutes with LPRNG to be able to print a postscript file, something i have not yet been able to do with cups

Re: Please help with - it seems - no WiFi interface at all

On 06/28/2015 04:26 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: The WiFi hardware on my machine should be Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG, but it is probably dead, because installing firmware-ipw2x00 had no effect. But I have some other WiFi hardware, that I bought yesterday and that's detected - so it seems - on

Re: looking for a sound waveform viewer, but not audacity for reasons explained

On 06/28/2015 08:24 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: Hi, Could somebody please point me to a sound waveform viewer? I'm aware of audacity, which is of course a very fine piece of software. But its function is more to edit than just to view. So, e.g., if you open a sound file, then it wants to create a

Re: looking for a sound waveform viewer, but not audacity for reasons explained

On 06/28/2015 08:24 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: Hi, Could somebody please point me to a sound waveform viewer? I'm aware of audacity, which is of course a very fine piece of software. But its function is more to edit than just to view. So, e.g., if you open a sound file, then it wants to create a

Re: CUPS error message, device already exists

On 06/27/2015 01:16 AM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 03:46:48 -0400 Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: On 26/06/15 01:37 AM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: I'm not sure if this is meaningful, but it would be nice to fix it. failed to CreateDevice:

Re: Connecting laptop to internet via cell network

On 06/26/2015 06:52 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Friday 26 June 2015 22:54:37 Brian wrote: On Fri 26 Jun 2015 at 22:06:26 +0100, Joe wrote: On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 15:55:07 -0500 Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 09:06 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:

Re: Can't Write to dvdrw Device

On 06/25/2015 12:06 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 18:02 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: This isn't unusual. Read/write in GNOME and in fstab has nothing to do with the abilities to write cds. Replying to myself here. Actually, did you want to set up writing to a DVD-RAM? If

Re: Flash update

On 06/25/2015 05:35 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 25 June 2015 20:54:55 Brian wrote: On Thu 25 Jun 2015 at 20:06:47 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 25 June 2015 19:21:07 Brian wrote: I have (or claimed to have) some competence with using iplayer without flash. Could you let the

Re: Change systemd to not be default in Stretch

On 06/25/2015 12:33 AM, Seeker wrote: Even though the more extreme squeeky wheels generally seem to be absent now, or at least refraining from beating a dead horse, the sensitivity from those earlier discussions remains. And, when we finally arrive at Quantum Computing, I'll see a sensitivity

Re: Change systemd to not be default in Stretch

On 06/22/2015 05:54 PM, Zebediah C. McClure wrote: systemd is a lot more all encompassing than init, or any of it's replacements are, and it's the only package that has caused me any headache. I'd love to see the debate reopened, I certainly wouldn't set it as default or mark it stable. Like

Re: Systemd files on a Raspberry Pi

On 06/22/2015 09:16 PM, Zebediah C. McClure wrote: I'm sure it's going to continue, There should be a place for this problem though. I took a quick look at the debian bug-tracker and it looks more like a collection of mailing lists. After looking at how systemd does things, I'd rather have the

Re: Google Chrome and Open-Source derivative listening to me without my approval

On 06/21/2015 06:42 PM, John Hasler wrote: Tim Beelen writes: How do I find out which application is accessing what device? It's all software. There is no hardware involved at all: they use a virtual device. It works even when the computer is off. Doesn't matter if your machine has a

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