On Sunday, March 02, 2014 01:28:57 PM Doug wrote:
> On 03/02/2014 02:02 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> > On 02/03/14 16:53, y...@marupa.net wrote:
> >> On Sunday, March 02, 2014 04:25:13 PM Scott Ferguson wrote:
> >>> On 02/03/14 11:28, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-03-02 at 10:55 +1100, Sco
On Sunday, March 02, 2014 07:21:28 PM Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 01, 2014 at 11:53:28PM -0600, y...@marupa.net wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 2014-03-02 at 10:55 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> > > And then there's NSA (and the companies they outsource to) - they *do*
> > > have an agenda that wou
On Sunday, March 02, 2014 04:25:13 PM Scott Ferguson wrote:
> On 02/03/14 11:28, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Sun, 2014-03-02 at 10:55 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> >> Here's mine:-
> >> troll elsewhere - try rabbleRus.org or LetMeTellUWhat2Do.mob
> >>
> > :D
> >
> > We Arch users made a poll. Eve
On Sunday, March 02, 2014 01:34:20 AM Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-03-02 at 10:55 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> > Here's mine:-
> > troll elsewhere - try rabbleRus.org or LetMeTellUWhat2Do.mob
> :
> :D
>
> We Arch users made a poll. Even if more users would have been against
> systemd, the
On Monday, February 24, 2014 03:48:04 PM Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 09:43:39AM -0600, y...@marupa.net wrote:
> > On Monday, February 24, 2014 04:40:39 PM ha wrote:
> > > On 02/24/14 16:24, ha wrote:
> > > > Hi!
> > > >
> > > >> Try to find that file. ( run something
On Monday, February 24, 2014 04:40:39 PM ha wrote:
> On 02/24/14 16:24, ha wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> >> Try to find that file. ( run something like "find / -name vmtoolsd" )
> >
> > I did. It only shows that files are there:
> > /etc/pam.d/vmtoolsd
> > /usr/bin/vmtoolsd
>
> By the way, there is also
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 12:12:20 PM Frank McCormick wrote:
> I have been noticing this error in .xsession-errors file lately:
>
>
> glibtop: Non-standard uts for running kernel:
> release 3.12-1-686-pae=3.12.0 gives version code 199680
>
>
> Can someone explain what's this about ? Should
On Monday, February 17, 2014 07:18:40 PM Erwan David wrote:
> Le 17/02/2014 19:02, y...@marupa.net a écrit :
> > On Monday, February 17, 2014 12:00:23 PM y...@marupa.net wrote:
> >> On Monday, February 17, 2014 06:02:47 PM Erwan David wrote:
> >>> Le 17/02/2014 17:27, y...@marupa.net a écrit :
> >>
On Monday, February 17, 2014 12:00:23 PM y...@marupa.net wrote:
> On Monday, February 17, 2014 06:02:47 PM Erwan David wrote:
> > Le 17/02/2014 17:27, y...@marupa.net a écrit :
> > > On Monday, February 17, 2014 04:13:11 PM Nick Boyce wrote:
> > >> Sorry - this isn't strictly a Debian KDE question,
On Monday, February 17, 2014 04:55:48 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 16:46 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> For each drive
> $ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sd...
> now and a few minutes later, then compare the RAW_VALUE for
> ID#4 Start_Stop_Count and/or ID#193 Load_Cycle_Count.
>
> https://e
On Sunday, February 16, 2014 06:24:10 PM LM--- wrote:
> Dear developers,
>
> I WANT BOMBONO DVD
> for the next Debian release
>
> ;-))
>
> It's simply working great here!
>
> ludo
What is a "Bombono DVD?"
Conrad
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On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 04:50:49 PM Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
> Ralf Mardorf writes:
> > If we like it or dislike it, sysvinit / init scripts are dead.
>
> Sounds like a Bad News(TM).
Why bad news? SysV init's been dead through most of the rest of *nix-land
(Even most certified Unixen do
On Monday, February 10, 2014 11:24:14 AM Paul Cartwright wrote:
> I just upgraded to Jessie from wheezy. Took most of Saturday afternoon..
> looks like most everything got upgraded ok, EXCEPT...
> I used to have klondike/freecell installed, but it isn't there anymore.
> The only thing still in Syna
On Wednesday, February 05, 2014 08:27:15 AM David Guntner wrote:
> Zenaan Harkness grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> > On 2/5/14, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
> >>[...]
> >>
> > Nowadays, the only partitions I use are:
> > /boot - about 1GiB
>
> Unless you're planning on having a lot of different kernels i
On Sunday, February 02, 2014 01:58:54 PM Rick Macdonald wrote:
> I've been running 32bit Debian since release 0.93, before buzz was
> released. I've been through a few PCs over these 20 years, and now my
> latest one is dying on me (HP Dual core Pentium D, 4GB RAM).
>
Sorry to see your dual core i
On Thursday, January 16, 2014 10:40:40 PM Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On 1/16/14, Ma Xiaojun wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Jarth Berilcosm wrote:
> >> Looking back on using Linux as a desktop OS for almost 15 years we've
> >> seen tons of features added but not much in terms of 'bite'
On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 04:53:15 PM Jarth Berilcosm wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 17:29:01 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>
> I'm using a news-reader and could not find the off-topic mailinglist.
>
> Sorry to say so but your reply sounds more like rambling than anything.
> I'll reply to the par
On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 11:15:26 AM John Hasler wrote:
> Gian Uberto Lauri writes:
> > Some of your argument seems to suggest that the Debian installer should
> > not offer the option of leaving the root password blank
>
> Gian Uberto Lauri
>
> > IT DOES? AAARGH!
>
> It *disables*
On Monday, December 09, 2013 03:56:12 PM Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> On 09/12/13 15:16, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Monday 09 December 2013 14:03:57 Muntasim-Ul-Haque wrote:
> >> I'm a Broadband Internet user and I'm billed for the time
> >> my Internet connection is active. Sometimes it happens that I
On Tuesday, December 03, 2013 12:12:36 AM Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 11:51:41AM -0600, y...@marupa.net wrote:
>
> .snip.
>
> > Oh, that does clear it up. But again, I don't see that as a "free vs.
> > nonfree" issue. Most software will choose defaul
On Monday, December 02, 2013 06:26:26 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-12-02 at 11:20 -0600, y...@marupa.net wrote:
> > On Monday, December 02, 2013 05:56:09 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2013-12-02 at 10:27 -0600, y...@marupa.net wrote:
> > > > On Monday, December 02, 2013 05:14:17 PM
On Monday, December 02, 2013 05:56:09 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-12-02 at 10:27 -0600, y...@marupa.net wrote:
> > On Monday, December 02, 2013 05:14:17 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > > On Mon, 02 Dec 2013 15:14:27 +0100, AP
> > >
> > > wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Ralf Ma
On Monday, December 02, 2013 05:46:04 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-12-02 at 20:52 +0530, AP wrote:
> > But still you say it good and the fact that many people use
> > it, makes me a trust for it
>
> Perhaps more people use Outlook Express ;)? Seriously, Thunderbird might
> even be more us
On Monday, December 02, 2013 05:14:17 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Dec 2013 15:14:27 +0100, AP
>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Ralf Mardorf
> >
> > wrote:
> >> I can't remember what I tested a while ago. Perhaps Claws, maybe
> >> Sylpheed. I'll try _both_ again.
> >
> > H
Package managers don't track .dotfiles. Those are created at runtime by
your software.
On Jul 2, 2013 3:49 PM, "Hendrik Boom" wrote:
> There are lots of .dotfiles cluttering my home directory.
>
> No doubt some of them are useful.
>
> Many, though, are probably remnants of packages of years past
Honestly, there's not really any major issue with Flash on 64-bit unless
you use nspluginwrapper. Use native 64-bit flash.
Debian's multilib is a lot better, so the only issue is maybe in support
for software only "available" in 32-bit.
Conrad
On Jun 27, 2013 7:12 PM, "Frank McCormick" wrote:
>
I noticed if you set this to upgrade in Synaptic it will require you to
pretty much remove your entire Debian install package by package.
On Jun 21, 2013 3:40 AM, "David Baron" wrote:
>
> These packages are "held back" right now because of a changeover from
package:arch to package-arch, it seems.
On 04/16/2013 03:02 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
Lets not pollute this useful thread with systemd
It seems a thread about init systems and administration/tweaking of them is the
most appropriate place for systemd to be mentioned. Not least that it can solve
the problem the OP had. It should not be
On 04/16/2013 11:55 AM, Thilo Six wrote:
Hello Michael,
Excerpt from Michael Biebl:
-- --
+ dropping human readable textfiles in favour of c binary code, which
makes it
needless more complex to debug the whole show.
That's non-sense. systemd unit files are text-files in ini-like format
and
On 04/16/2013 04:33 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
+ dropping human readable textfiles in favour of c binary code, which makes it
needless more complex to debug the whole show.
That's non-sense. systemd unit files are text-files in ini-like format
and much more readable then shell scripts with all th
On 04/15/2013 07:13 PM, Michael Biebl wrote:
Am 15.04.2013 21:35, schrieb Thilo Six:
+ dropping human readable textfiles in favour of c binary code, which makes it
needless more complex to debug the whole show.
That's non-sense. systemd unit files are text-files in ini-like format
and much more
On 04/15/2013 05:02 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
I have been using Debian for many years now. In all of that time I
have never wanted to "manage" init scripts. I always wonder. What
are people trying to do?
Hi Bob,
For an example of where one will want to "manage" the init scripts,
take a look
On 04/14/2013 09:04 AM, Charles Blair wrote:
Is there a safe way to write, from linux to the windows
part of a dual-boot system?
Assuming the version of Windows is XP or better: NTFS-3G can mount a
Windows filesystem read-write with no issue.
Conrad
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On 04/09/2013 06:55 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
(snip)
Why does Debian by default have the "iced" Mozillas?
Because they're the only distribution that cares about the free software
zealotry enough to comply with the Firefox trademark guideline? Just
spitballing there.
Most people consider firefo
On 04/08/2013 10:07 PM, Joel Roth wrote:
On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 04:49:40AM +, Dirk wrote:
http://i.imgur.com/6Oja0bm.png
https://boards.4chan.org/g/res/32881623
I wondered about this. Looking at one example: D-Bus,
with which I was minimally acquainted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Bus
On 03/13/2013 12:19 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote:
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Yaro Kasear wrote:
On 03/13/2013 10:53 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Long Wind wrote:
linux is stable, or is it?
flash player
Linux is stable and flash player isn't Linux, flash player development for
Linux alrea
On 03/13/2013 10:53 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Long Wind wrote:
linux is stable, or is it?
flash player
Linux is stable and flash player isn't Linux, flash player development
for Linux already is dropped, there will be no future versions for
Linux. If people want Microsoft/Apple, regarding to A
On 03/04/2013 08:48 PM, Doug wrote:
On 03/04/2013 09:07 PM, William Ivanski wrote:
On 04-03-2013 22:39, Yaro Kasear wrote:
When (U)EFI completely replaces BIOS THEN DOS will be completely
dead. Right now it's just a horribly obsolete OS used by people
afraid of kernels or enterprises
On 03/04/2013 08:07 PM, William Ivanski wrote:
On 04-03-2013 22:39, Yaro Kasear wrote:
When (U)EFI completely replaces BIOS THEN DOS will be completely
dead. Right now it's just a horribly obsolete OS used by people
afraid of kernels or enterprises that refuse to upgrade some of
On 03/04/2013 03:26 PM, Joe wrote:
On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:54:50 -0600
Yaro Kasear wrote:
You can still run a very successful desktop system on Linux without
installing Xorg server at any point. The only command line that
hasn't modernized even a little bit is DOS.
I hate to be the o
On 03/04/2013 02:44 PM, João Luis Meloni Assirati wrote:
Em 04-03-2013 17:09, Mark Filipak escreveu:
On 2013/3/4 2:35 PM, João Luis Meloni Assirati wrote:
So you cannot reproduce the bug, right?
I didn't try, João Luis.
For you, I will.
No, not for me. This list is archived and new Debian
On 03/04/2013 09:59 AM, Mark Filipak wrote:
Thank you all. I've learned a lot here. I did manage to get Debian
installed, though it was through a side door that was opened by Debian
Live. I'm grateful for that. I will continue to look for a Linux with
which I can live.
In private messages wi
On 03/02/2013 03:13 AM, Joe wrote:
On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 23:59:21 -0600
Yaro Kasear wrote:
If he is a troll, then why are we still feeding him?
Because we're all hoping to pick up some scraps ourselves. It's rare
that even this kind of discussion produces absolutely nothing of
On 03/01/2013 11:57 PM, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote:
Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote:
Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote:
Windows-NT 3.5 was probably the finest OS ever written
Let us see who will be the first to bite the troll :)
Do you really want to start a "debate" on best OS ever? Tal
On 03/01/2013 05:19 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Friday 01 March 2013 22:33:37 Dick Thomas wrote:
Debian is always out of date and even the "stable" is unsecure as
its backported fixes rather than updates
Sorry to answer piecemeal. Debian stable starts to go out of date as soon as
it is released
On 02/05/2013 01:44 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
Am Dienstag, 5. Februar 2013 schrieb darkestkhan:
Mixing works out of the box here too - some integrated Intel audio
chipset.
AFAIK in recent versions of ALSA / distributions shipping it, by default
dmix is automatically configured and used.
On
On 02/05/2013 09:50 AM, Nate Bargmann wrote:
Those of you who don't use PA, how do you do network streaming? That is
my usecase for PA as it's handy to start a stream on my desktop and send
it to the Myth box for playback through the amp. I can do that from the
laptop if I choose as well. The
On 02/03/13 08:28, Carl Fink wrote:
> So PulseAudio continues to be buggy to the point of infuriation. Developers,
> after years of work, have signally failed to fix it.
>
> Is eSound still usable? Mabye ALSA? Anything?
Just get rid of PA (Unless you're using GNOME 3) and just use ALSA
barebones (O
On 01/20/2013 06:35 AM, Mark Allums wrote:
Slashdot reported that SolusOS has announced a fork of the Gnome 3 Fallback
Mode. It is designed to bring back the mode that was cut from Gnome 3 with
version 3.8. Like the original fallback mode, it uses gtk3 and does not
require hardware acceleration
On 01/20/2013 12:26 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 05:59:42 +0100, Yaro Kasear wrote:
Even the "non-free" stuff provided for Debian in their official repos
or in many third party repos is perfectly safe and usable.
non-free provided by Debian is safe
regarding to t
On 01/19/2013 06:55 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 01:39:55 +0100, Yaro Kasear wrote:
Linux system I'd recommend Arch instead.
Which I don't call a rolling release. Arch was my preferred distro. If
you have a distro with releases you can make hard transitions. For
On 01/19/2013 05:07 PM, ventur...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hello:
Please provide some examples of common problems when using Debian GNU
/ LINUXso that I may more effectively gain a better handle on the
trouble-shooting process.
Thank you!
Sincerely,
Herschel
Maybe the primary problem comes with
On 01/15/2013 02:18 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:
Michael Biebl wrote:
Am 15.01.2013 09:04, schrieb Bob Proulx:
Maroš Žilka wrote:
device files are creatied by /dev/MAKEDEV but in my debian stable
That documentation is the classic legacy way. It has since been
completely obsoleted. The new way is w
in a signed
value. I suggest experimenting with that to make sure that any important
behavior dependent on the value works properly. Thought o be honest if
they were planning on using a negative value for something important
they should have left the variable signed.
Yaro
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If that option doesn't work out, you can usually grab any old Linux live
media of the same architecture as what you have installed and set up a
chroot onto your install, which will get you root access onto your
installed system.
Then you just run passwd to change it.
On 12/29/2012 11:58 PM, Z
On 08/01/2012 11:06 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
On 01/08/12 11:52 PM, Yaro Kasear wrote:
On 08/01/2012 02:55 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Mi, 01 aug 12, 22:30:52, Teemu Likonen wrote:
Titanus Eramius [2012-08-01 21:18:03 +0200] wrote:
My 2 cents on this is, that once packages is installed from
On 08/01/2012 02:55 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Mi, 01 aug 12, 22:30:52, Teemu Likonen wrote:
Titanus Eramius [2012-08-01 21:18:03 +0200] wrote:
My 2 cents on this is, that once packages is installed from Debian
Multimedia it's very hard to go back to stable. But if one keeps using
Debian Mul
On 08/01/2012 02:18 PM, Titanus Eramius wrote:
On Wed, 01 Aug 2012 21:20:59 +0300
Teemu Likonen wrote:
Gary Dale [2012-08-01 13:55:09 -0400] wrote:
Agreed. I would also advise people to stay away from
debian-multimedia. It's packages are incompatible with standard
Debian packages in many cas
On 07/31/2012 01:42 PM, Celejar wrote:
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:30:50 +0300
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Jo, 19 iul 12, 22:50:25, Celejar wrote:
Quite true - and completely irrelevant to my point. I don't deny that
money can be made with FLOSS, just that it's pointless to try to sell
copies of one'
On 07/30/2012 03:25 AM, Gary Dale wrote:
On 30/07/12 03:04 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote:
hvw59601 care2.com> writes:
Camaleón wrote:
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 10:41:00 -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
Then choose one that you like (because of price/design) and then check
about its current support st
On 07/29/2012 03:27 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 16:09 -0400, Tom H wrote:
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 14:05 -0400, Tom H wrote:
/media/mount_point
switched to
/run/media/user_name/mount_point
It's not an Arch change. It's an u
On 07/28/2012 04:14 PM, Robert Holtzm wrote:
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 03:43:15PM -0500, Yaro Kasear wrote:
.snip...
Since the official (And proprietary.) nVidia driver has no support
for KMS, this sort of feature never "natively" works in a desktop
environ
On 07/28/2012 02:41 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
On 28/07/12 03:24 PM, Britton Kerin wrote:
I installed all the nvidia driver kernel xserver packages, but now
it seems that gnome doesn't know what size the monitor is anymore
(all fonts way too large etc.)
System->Preferences->Monitors looks like the at
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