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Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude

2012-04-07 Thread Charles Kroeger
> I never use it any other way. I tend to forget that it has an ncurses > mode. Which would explain why I thought that both apt and aptitude can be > used for day to day operations. I don't have aptitude, never used it. Why would one need apt-get and aptitude together? -- CK -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: [OT] Something about google search

2012-04-07 Thread lina
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Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Miles Fidelman
Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 02:58:24PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 06:11:19 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 04:03:05PM +, Camaleón wrote: Bottom posting has been since long the preferred method for newsgroups and then mailing lists b

Re: [OT] Posting styles (now PGP)

2012-04-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 08/04/12 12:26, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 03:49:09PM -0500, Indulekha wrote: > >> If you and I work together on a secret project for a defense contractor, >> or in banking or something it makes senseto sign business-related emails >> to one another. Yes. Conditional

Re: [OT] Posting styles (was: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN)

2012-04-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 02:58:24PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 06:11:19 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 04:03:05PM +, Camaleón wrote: > >> Bottom posting has been since long the preferred method for newsgroups > >> and then mailing lists but not for

Re: [OT] Free Software Phone was Re: [OT] Re: Free as in speech hardware ebook reader

2012-04-07 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 11:06:30AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Yes - the GTA4 from Golden Delicious is the best and it will run Debian. > Unfortunately the GSM stack is not completely open (OpenStack may change > that), it's pricey (but worth it) and it's lower powered than other > "Smart" phon

Re: ATA/IDE hard drive problem

2012-04-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 08/04/12 09:41, Gary Roach wrote: > I have an older computer that is still completely serviceable that I am > switching over to Linux from win2k. The system has had a glitch for a > long time in that it fails to boot the first time I try. The reason is > that it can't find the WD600BB, 60 GB har

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 08/04/12 10:30, PMA wrote: > > > Scott Ferguson wrote: >> Please don't top-post. How hard is it to move the cursor? >> >> On 08/04/12 00:14, PMA wrote: >> >> >> >>> Nobody in signing thinks a signature is needed to identify him. >> >> Nobody? >> >> Are you serious? I take that you are u

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 03:49:09PM -0500, Indulekha wrote: > So, since I sometimes need big, thigh high rubber boots to keep my feet and > legs dry and clean, I should just wear my big rubber boots everywhere all > time then, right? Then if anyone *cough* *cough* on your leg and tells you its r

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 11:23:35AM +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > > I cannot use S/MIME, because it's not supported by APG nor K9 Mail. Nice try. :) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.3) Gecko/20120329 Icedove/10.0.3 But IT IS supported by Icedove/10.0.3, which you can and ob

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please trim your posts on this mailing list] On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 10:14:34AM -0400, PMA wrote: > I'm not sure "utterly" is quite the word. > Nobody in signing thinks a signature is > needed to identify him. You're not confusing the cryptographic signature with the normal email signature, are

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please don't top post on this list.] On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 05:13:52PM -0400, PMA wrote: > Does signing "in-line" specifically mean typing my name into a given email, > or does it include also whatever signature text I've told my email program > to append automatically? No. I don't know the RF

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 07:48:56PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Apart from Mika... in which case he's best to not sign his posts and > claim his account was hijacked by an idiot. Now thats uncalled for. My point was, that Mika's posts are difficult to read as it is (because he doesn't trim them)

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 08/04/12 05:44, Joey Hess wrote: > Wayne Topa wrote: >> Who would want to spoof YOUR Mail. >> >> I have been on this list for 19 years now and do not recall anyone >> being spoofed. From the tenor of your mails, I doubt anyone would >> gain anything from it. > > This is fallacious, dangerous,

Re: [OT] Free Software Phone was Re: [OT] Re: Free as in speech hardware ebook reader

2012-04-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 08/04/12 02:59, Carl Fink wrote: > Digressing from the OT digression ... anyone know of a smartphone that runs > OSS only? I dislike letting my carrier tell me what hardware features I can > use, for instance. Yes - the GTA4 from Golden Delicious is the best and it will run Debian. Unfortunatel

Re: [OT] Something about google search

2012-04-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 08/04/12 01:47, lina wrote: > Hi, > > For the top line in google page > > Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Documents Calendar More > > Is it possible to delete the Play and Calendar, and bring something > hidden in More up there? Yes. Though I can't see how that might be related to

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread PMA
Scott Ferguson wrote: Please don't top-post. How hard is it to move the cursor? On 08/04/12 00:14, PMA wrote: Nobody in signing thinks a signature is needed to identify him. Nobody? Are you serious? Kind regards Not hard whatsoever. I'm afraid that, hearing so much talk here to th

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 08/04/12 00:46, Lisi wrote: > On Saturday 07 April 2012 15:21:44 Indulekha wrote: >> In linux.debian.user, Richard wrote: >>> The other thing Mika, apart from that huge chunk of signature, why on >>> earth ask for a return receipt. > >> It does tend to announce to the recipient that the sender

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
Please don't top-post. How hard is it to move the cursor? On 08/04/12 00:14, PMA wrote: > Nobody in signing thinks a signature is > needed to identify him. Nobody? Are you serious? Kind regards -- Iceweasel/Firefox/Chrome/Chromium/Iceape/IE extensions for finding answers to questions abo

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Indulekha
In linux.debian.user, Joey Hess wrote: > > --A6N2fC+uXW/VQSAv > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Indulekha wrote: >> So, since I sometimes need big, thigh high rubber boots to keep my feet a= > nd=20 >> legs

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Indulekha
In linux.debian.user, it is written: > > On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 09:21:44AM -0500, Indulekha wrote: >> In linux.debian.user, Richard wrote: >> > On Sat, 7 Apr 2012 14:02:12 +0300 >> > Mika Suomalainen wrote: >> > >> > The other thing Mika, apart from that huge chunk of signature, why on >> > eart

ATA/IDE hard drive problem

2012-04-07 Thread Gary Roach
I have an older computer that is still completely serviceable that I am switching over to Linux from win2k. The system has had a glitch for a long time in that it fails to boot the first time I try. The reason is that it can't find the WD600BB, 60 GB hard drive. A second try usually fixed the p

Re: debian-faq (was ... Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude)

2012-04-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 08:28:33PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > funny. Now if it was a picture of two hippos in a river... that would > make perfect sense. :-) What about the poor hippo who kept swimming in circles after they kicked him off the hippo campus? -- "Religion is excellent stuff for

Re: No sound from Gnash in Iceweasel or Epiphany or from VLC

2012-04-07 Thread istimsak abdulbasir
In squeeze, to get sound working I use this command, #sudo alsa force-reload Works all the time. On Apr 7, 2012 3:46 PM, "Florian Kulzer" wrote: > (Please try to turn off the HTML part of your messages.) > > On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 14:19:15 -0400, Kevin Williams wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The video

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Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Joey Hess
Indulekha wrote: > So, since I sometimes need big, thigh high rubber boots to keep my feet and > legs dry and clean, I should just wear my big rubber boots everywhere all > time then, right? That way whether I'm at the grocery store, the office, or > the barn there'll be no worries. :D A better

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 09:21:44AM -0500, Indulekha wrote: > In linux.debian.user, Richard wrote: > > On Sat, 7 Apr 2012 14:02:12 +0300 > > Mika Suomalainen wrote: > > > > The other thing Mika, apart from that huge chunk of signature, why on > > earth ask for a return receipt. > > It does tend t

Re: missing screen resolutions [resurrected] [SOLVED]

2012-04-07 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 01:31:56AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 04 mar 12, 18:06:21, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > > > 1) which kernel? the latest 2.6 or the 3.0? Any conflicts with > > choosing the 3.0? Libraries? > > $ apt-cache search -n linux-image | grep bpo > linux-image-3.2.0-

Re: Graphical app on startup

2012-04-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 12:47:56PM +0200, Antonio Fernández Pérez wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I would like to get that a graphical application developed in Java runs on > startup of a Debian machine, if is possible without menu, without login > panel and without system messages. Obviously without u

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > GPG Inline signature is easier to verify if you copy-paste that email > from mailing list archive. Not really, since you can just download the mbox version and verify it directly with MIME anyway. > I cannot use S/MIME, because it's not

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread PMA
Does signing "in-line" specifically mean typing my name into a given email, or does it include also whatever signature text I've told my email program to append automatically? Lisi wrote: On Saturday 07 April 2012 20:44:43 Joey Hess wrote: If you're at least some of the time sending mail that i

Re: correct English usage (for every occasion?)

2012-04-07 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 05 April 2012 03:20:50 Scott Ferguson wrote: > layout style (lots of white space, short paragraphs) also plays a large > part in accessibility and allowing comprehension. That is very helpful for the partially sighted too, in addition to those who might find the comprehension difficul

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Indulekha
In linux.debian.user, Joey Hess wrote: > > Wayne Topa wrote: >> Who would want to spoof YOUR Mail. >>=20 >> I have been on this list for 19 years now and do not recall anyone being >> spoofed. From the tenor of your mails, I doubt anyone would gain >> anything from it. > > This is fallacious, dan

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 07 April 2012 20:44:43 Joey Hess wrote: > If you're at least some of the time sending mail that is important to be > reliably attributed to you, it *absolutely* makes sense to sign that > mail. If you're signing some mail, you might as well sign all of it, as > this will habituate peopl

Re: terminal prompts

2012-04-07 Thread Frank McCormick
On 04/07/2012 04:29 PM, Tom H wrote: On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: �I have run into a problem in Mepis but have been unable to get an answer yet from that community group. The distro is based on Debian Squeeze so I thought someone here night have the answer. Normally I

Re: terminal prompts

2012-04-07 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: > >  I have run into a problem in Mepis but have been unable to get an answer > yet from that community group. The distro is based on Debian Squeeze so I > thought someone here night have the answer. Normally I run Debian > Sid...Mepis is just

Re: OT: favorite free-software email-subscription / feeds.

2012-04-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 04:57:34PM +, Camaleón wrote: > - Pan (as newsreader for reading/post to mailing lists) > - Mutt (as e-mail client for personal things) > - Thunderbird (as e-mail client for work) > - Liferea (as news feeder for reading web magazines and newspapers) > > (heck, I now rea

terminal prompts

2012-04-07 Thread Frank McCormick
I have run into a problem in Mepis but have been unable to get an answer yet from that community group. The distro is based on Debian Squeeze so I thought someone here night have the answer. Normally I run Debian Sid...Mepis is just an experiment The distro runs fine but slow under KDE, bu

Re: No sound from Gnash in Iceweasel or Epiphany or from VLC

2012-04-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
(Please try to turn off the HTML part of your messages.) On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 14:19:15 -0400, Kevin Williams wrote: > Hi, > > The video works just fine in both applications, but it has no sound. > However, I can play ogv videos with sound just fine from Gnome Sound > Recorder and Totem Movi

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Joey Hess
Wayne Topa wrote: > Who would want to spoof YOUR Mail. > > I have been on this list for 19 years now and do not recall anyone being > spoofed. From the tenor of your mails, I doubt anyone would gain > anything from it. This is fallacious, dangerous, and probably insulting thinking. I'm sure tha

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Joey Hess
Mika Suomalainen wrote: > As far as I know, I have valid signature. That block which was pasted > here is shown as invalid, because the one who first started > complaining about it didn't use Enigmail and/or pasted only the > signature block without message which it belongs to. You may have a vali

No sound from Gnash in Iceweasel or Epiphany or from VLC

2012-04-07 Thread Kevin Williams
Hi, The video works just fine in both applications, but it has no sound. However, I can play ogv videos with sound just fine from Gnome Sound Recorder and Totem Movie Player. My preferred sound device is a Plantronics .Audio 646 DSP usb headset. I have also tried plugging in a set of Apple e

[OT] Free Software Phone was Re: [OT] Re: Free as in speech hardware ebook reader

2012-04-07 Thread Carl Fink
Digressing from the OT digression ... anyone know of a smartphone that runs OSS only? I dislike letting my carrier tell me what hardware features I can use, for instance. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations

[OT] Re: Free as in speech hardware ebook reader

2012-04-07 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:12:45 +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > Having a bad track record of not taking care of "dead tree" books, I am > looking to buy an electronic book reader. (...) I'm following very closely the ongoing movements of Kobo¹ and Vivaldi². While the former conforms a comple

Re: [OT] Something about google search

2012-04-07 Thread Miles Fidelman
lina wrote: Hi, For the top line in google page Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Documents Calendar More Is it possible to delete the Play and Calendar, and bring something hidden in More up there? Googled for a while and still don't know how to set those things. I expect you coul

Re: OT: favorite free-software email-subscription / feeds.

2012-04-07 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 10:38:49 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: (...) >> Because I consider news (rss feeds) to be a "temporary" source of bits >> (read and ditch) I don't want to "store" anywhere but just help to keep >> me updated/informed (they also allow me to avoid browsing the >> newspapers websites f

Re: [OT] Something about google search

2012-04-07 Thread lina
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 23:47:29 +0800, lina wrote: > >> For the top line in google page >> >> Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Documents Calendar More >> >> Is it possible to delete the Play and Calendar, and bring something >> hidden in Mo

Re: OT: i3 configuration

2012-04-07 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 10:26:40 -0700, Brian Flaherty wrote: > I like tiling window managers and I've played around with awesome and i3 > mainly. I prefer the manual layout of i3 to the dynamic layout of > awesome. However, I like that awesome handles the osd notifications, > let's me know dropbox is

Re: [OT] Something about google search

2012-04-07 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 23:47:29 +0800, lina wrote: > For the top line in google page > > Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Documents Calendar More > > Is it possible to delete the Play and Calendar, and bring something > hidden in More up there? > > Googled for a while and still don't kno

[OT] Something about google search

2012-04-07 Thread lina
Hi, For the top line in google page Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Documents Calendar More Is it possible to delete the Play and Calendar, and bring something hidden in More up there? Googled for a while and still don't know how to set those things. Thanks ahead for your suggestion

Re: Question about how to add icedove compilation bug report

2012-04-07 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 18:26:22 -0300, André Silva wrote: > Hi for all, i'm André Silva (alias Emulatorman), a Parabola distro > Hacker https://parabolagnulinux.org/hackers/#Emulatorman and i'm porting > icedove-10.0.3-3 from Debian to Parabola distro (derivate from > Archlinux) using the source code

Re: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?

2012-04-07 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 07 April 2012 11:20:21 Brian wrote: > > And of course, if I change it, it is not stable.  But what name would you > > give to a Stable installation, which has had a very small number of > > changes installed?  It seems to me that it is legitimate to say:  I want > > my desktop to be bas

Re: [OT] Posting styles (was: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN)

2012-04-07 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 06:11:19 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 04:03:05PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> Bottom posting has been since long the preferred method for newsgroups >> and then mailing lists but not for forums nor business communications. >> >> A bottom posting style d

Re: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?

2012-04-07 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 07 April 2012 11:20:21 Brian wrote: > > And of course, if I change it, it is not stable.  But what name would you > > give to a Stable installation, which has had a very small number of > > changes installed?  It seems to me that it is legitimate to say:  I want > > my desktop to be bas

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Indulekha
In linux.debian.user, PMA wrote: > > Nobody in signing thinks a signature is > needed to identify him. > Do you haff any papers to prove zeese are your papers? -- ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ Indulekha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: debian-faq (was ... Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude)

2012-04-07 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 07 April 2012 11:28:33 Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 07/04/12 19:54, Lisi wrote: > > On Saturday 07 April 2012 00:39:58 Scott Ferguson wrote: > >>> That is about spelling, not grammar. Since requires the perfect tense. > >>> It is quite simply wrong in English to say "since installs".

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 07 April 2012 15:21:44 Indulekha wrote: > In linux.debian.user, Richard wrote: > > The other thing Mika, apart from that huge chunk of signature, why on > > earth ask for a return receipt. > It does tend to announce to the recipient that the sender has > a wildly exaggerated sense of

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Indulekha
In linux.debian.user, Richard wrote: > On Sat, 7 Apr 2012 14:02:12 +0300 > Mika Suomalainen wrote: > > The other thing Mika, apart from that huge chunk of signature, why on > earth ask for a return receipt. It does tend to announce to the recipient that the sender has a wildly exaggerated sense

Re: Question about how to add icedove compilation bug report

2012-04-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 06 apr 12, 18:26:22, André Silva wrote: > So, i want to know if there a alternative to put a bug to Desbian bugs > from other distro e.g: archlinux. Debian bugs are actually just specially formated e-mails http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions a

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread PMA
I'm not sure "utterly" is quite the word. Nobody in signing thinks a signature is needed to identify him. Scott Ferguson wrote: On 07/04/12 18:16, Mika Suomalainen wrote: On 07.04.2012 01:02, Walter Hurry wrote: On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 22:23:07 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: SIGNATURE-

Re: Problems in fonts in console appear again (and rant on /etc/default) in re. the rant

2012-04-07 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120407_111413, Brian wrote: > On Fri 06 Apr 2012 at 21:45:00 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 12:48:35AM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > > > And run 'setupcon' after making the changes? > > > > This works for me. :-) > > > > I never had thought about configuring the cons

Re: How to boot PC-BSD from Debian

2012-04-07 Thread Weaver
> On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 02:48:05AM -0700, Weaver wrote: > [attribution snipped!!!] >> > I booted FreeBSD from Debian's GRUB2 with no problem, also NetBSD. If >> > you still need the link, let me know. >> >> Definitely! >> And thanks. >> I had PC-BSD installed for a while and the entire house fel

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 <...> > The other thing Mika, apart from that huge chunk of signature, why > on earth ask for a return receipt. Thats crazy on a mailing list > unless you want to see how mant actually read your postings. I use > Claws mail ans I can read mail without

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread richard
On Sat, 7 Apr 2012 14:02:12 +0300 Mika Suomalainen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 07.04.2012 13:57, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > On 07/04/12 20:25, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > >> On 07.04.2012 12:48, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >>> On 07/04/12 19:28, Mika Suomalainen wrot

Re: Free as in speech hardware ebook reader

2012-04-07 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
On 04/07/2012 01:07 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Just buy any tablet that suits your price and feature requirements > *and* that will support Debian[*1]. Then install Calibre - it's more > than just an reader, it is a library manager, can read every eBook > type I've heard of, and convert between ty

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp (tmp cleaning)

2012-04-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 07/04/12 10:57, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 07/04/12 09:14, Bob Proulx wrote: >> Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> Bob Proulx wrote: >>> but, but, but I was told Big Data is the Big Thing >> >> I know you are just teasing > > With teeth bared. Whoops - sooorry. Too much chocolate! :-( Just forget

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07.04.2012 13:57, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 07/04/12 20:25, Mika Suomalainen wrote: >> On 07.04.2012 12:48, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> On 07/04/12 19:28, Mika Suomalainen wrote: On 07.04.2012 12:11, Wayne Topa wrote: > On 04/07/2012 04:16 A

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 07/04/12 20:25, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > On 07.04.2012 12:48, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 07/04/12 19:28, Mika Suomalainen wrote: >>> On 07.04.2012 12:11, Wayne Topa wrote: On 04/07/2012 04:16 AM, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 <---snip --

Re: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?

2012-04-07 Thread Brian
On Sat 07 Apr 2012 at 10:44:59 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Friday 06 April 2012 23:16:46 Chris Bannister wrote: > > You seem to be confusing the meaning of stable in the distribution > > sense.  It doesn't mean "free of bugs" or "unlikely to crash", it means > > unchanging/not moving. So by having bac

Re: Problems in fonts in console appear again (and rant on /etc/default)

2012-04-07 Thread Brian
On Fri 06 Apr 2012 at 21:45:00 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 12:48:35AM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > And run 'setupcon' after making the changes? > > This works for me. :-) > > I never had thought about configuring the console before. > > My issue had been 80-character fon

Re: debian-faq (was ... Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude)

2012-04-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 07/04/12 19:54, Lisi wrote: > On Saturday 07 April 2012 00:39:58 Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> That is about spelling, not grammar. Since requires the perfect tense. >>> It is quite simply wrong in English to say "since installs". Leave >>> out the words "since Lenny", and "installs" becomes c

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07.04.2012 12:48, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 07/04/12 19:28, Mika Suomalainen wrote: >> On 07.04.2012 12:11, Wayne Topa wrote: >>> On 04/07/2012 04:16 AM, Mika Suomalainen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >>> <---snip -- > >

Re: Problems in fonts in console appear again

2012-04-07 Thread Brian
On Thu 05 Apr 2012 at 14:13:29 +0100, Brian wrote: > You can do better than this. Install the xfonts-terminus package. I'm a > little surprised your console-setup doesn't offer them. The alarm bells for 'xfonts' should have been louder. The Terminus fonts are in console-terminus on stable and con

Re: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?

2012-04-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 07/04/12 19:44, Lisi wrote: > On Friday 06 April 2012 23:16:46 Chris Bannister wrote: >> You seem to be confusing the meaning of stable in the distribution >> sense. �It doesn't mean "free of bugs" or "unlikely to crash", it means >> unchanging/not moving. So by having backports you are changing

Re: Free as in speech hardware ebook reader

2012-04-07 Thread Curt
On 2012-04-06, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > Hiya, > > Having a bad track record of not taking care of "dead tree" books, I am > looking to buy an electronic book reader. I have a Bookeen Cybook Orizon (which is open-source, if that's your criterion). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: debian-faq (was ... Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude)

2012-04-07 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 07 April 2012 00:39:58 Scott Ferguson wrote: > > That is about spelling, not grammar.  Since requires the perfect tense. > > It is quite simply wrong in English to say "since installs".  Leave > > out the words "since Lenny", and "installs" becomes correct, but loses > > some of the

Re: debian-faq (was ... Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude)

2012-04-07 Thread Lisi
On Friday 06 April 2012 23:43:37 Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > One of the keys to "plain English" is brevity. ;-) > > > > > > http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=4904#comment-303296 > > > > That is about spelling, not grammar.  Since requires the perfect tense. > > It is > > It was supposed to be a

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 07/04/12 19:28, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > On 07.04.2012 12:11, Wayne Topa wrote: >> On 04/07/2012 04:16 AM, Mika Suomalainen wrote: >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> <---snip -- > How utterly ridiculous and pointless to sign messages posted to mailing lists. I a

Re: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?

2012-04-07 Thread Lisi
On Friday 06 April 2012 23:16:46 Chris Bannister wrote: > You seem to be confusing the meaning of stable in the distribution > sense.  It doesn't mean "free of bugs" or "unlikely to crash", it means > unchanging/not moving. So by having backports you are changing that. Yes, I expressed that badly.

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 07/04/12 18:16, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > On 07.04.2012 01:02, Walter Hurry wrote: >> On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 22:23:07 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: >>> SIGNATURE- > >> How utterly ridiculous and pointless to sign messages posted to >> mailing lists. I agree with Chris Bannister. Likewise

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07.04.2012 12:11, Wayne Topa wrote: > On 04/07/2012 04:16 AM, Mika Suomalainen wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > <---snip -- > >>> >>> How utterly ridiculous and pointless to sign messages posted >>> to mailing lists. I agre

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Wayne Topa
On 04/07/2012 04:16 AM, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 <---snip -- > >> >> How utterly ridiculous and pointless to sign messages posted to >> mailing lists. I agree with Chris Bannister. As do I, >> > > In case you haven't noticed, there are other people

Re: Free as in speech hardware ebook reader

2012-04-07 Thread Keith
On 06/04/12 22:12, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: looking for is a hardware reader that is designed to respect my freedoms. Preferably one that runs a GNU/Linux system, and which I am allowed to tinker with. It does not have to work out of the box, and I am prepared to invest time in it and deal wi

Re: Free as in speech hardware ebook reader

2012-04-07 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
Thanks for the quick replies. Calibre is a software reader isn't it? I do use it on my computer, but I was looking for the hardware to install it on. I will keep it in mind. The OLPC seems to be a laptop right? I was looking for something like a tablet. The Nook is interesting, but I would prefe

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07.04.2012 02:28, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Apr 6, 2012 12:24 PM, "Mika Suomalainen" > wrote: > >> No, I had problem in Icedove that it did not sign messages. That >> issue > is fixed now :) > > Would you mind using M

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07.04.2012 01:02, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 22:23:07 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > >> iQIuBAEBCAAYBQJPf0KXERxNaWthIFN1b21hbGFpbmVuAAoJEE21PP6CpGcoycAP >> /iZU6Cdm8buOgsIT0LQEekvpC+ryn00/bUX9Xxcs9VvvBcMeXghr8TMnvbMnRLz1 >> bzlo/

Re: Problems in fonts in console appear again (and rant on /etc/default)

2012-04-07 Thread Joel Roth
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 12:48:35AM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 06 Apr 2012 at 16:29:54 -0500, Indulekha wrote: > > > James Brown, try this in /etc/default/console-setup > > and see what happens: > > > > CHARMAP="UTF-8" > > CODESET="Uni2" > > FONTFACE="TerminusBold" > > FONTSIZE="32x16" > > And