Re: KDE4 - wrong root password?

2013-03-14 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > since some time I discovered a strange behaviour. Whenever I want to kill a > process, or need root privileges (i.e. with kdesu) and I need to enter my root > password, this is not accepted. > > But - when I use the password of the user I

Re: loading truecrypt from the command line

2013-03-14 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 15/03/2013, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > I dug up my old command line script wrapper for truecrypt. > > Haven't used it for a few years, so YMMV. > > Here it is: > > #!/bin/sh > > DRV=/home/ME/truecrypt-source > VOL=$DRV/data.tc > MNT=/media/truecrypt1 > > truecrypt $VOL $MNT > > > Good luck, > Zen

ffmpeg/avconv doesn't recognize -strict experimental (reposted as top-level thread)

2013-03-14 Thread Joel Roth
Dear List, ffmpeg/avconv aborts even with -strict experimental when input file audio is encoded with AAC. Does the audio *have* to be decoded? I was thinking there might be some kind of pass-through option. The behavior of ffmpeg and avconv appears to be identical. $ avconv -acodec aac -strict

Re: loading truecrypt from the command line

2013-03-14 Thread Zenaan Harkness
I dug up my old command line script wrapper for truecrypt. Haven't used it for a few years, so YMMV. Here it is: #!/bin/sh DRV=/home/ME/truecrypt-source VOL=$DRV/data.tc MNT=/media/truecrypt1 truecrypt $VOL $MNT Good luck, Zenaan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debia

Re: loading truecrypt from the command line

2013-03-14 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 15/03/2013, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 3/15/13, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> i am loading truecrypt from the command line with an alias of "tc" .. >> alias tc='/home/boztu/truecrypt --fs-options=users,uid=$(id >> -u),gid=$(id -g),fmask=0113,dmask=0002 --mount >> /home/boztu/Documents/basket' and i

Re: SSDT

2013-03-14 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/14/2013 07:16 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 14/03/13 06:45 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: On 03/14/2013 06:32 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 14/03/13 06:18 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:

Re: loading truecrypt from the command line

2013-03-14 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 3/15/13, Sharon Kimble wrote: > i am loading truecrypt from the command line with an alias of "tc" .. > alias tc='/home/boztu/truecrypt --fs-options=users,uid=$(id > -u),gid=$(id -g),fmask=0113,dmask=0002 --mount > /home/boztu/Documents/basket' and it comes back with 'mount: wrong fs > type, ba

ffmpeg/avconv doesn't recognize -strict experimental

2013-03-14 Thread Joel Roth
Dear List, ffmpeg/avconv aborts even with -strict experimental when input file audio is encoded with AAC. Does the audio *have* to be decoded? I was thinking there might be some kind of pass-through option. The behavior of ffmpeg and avconv appears to be identical. $ avconv -acodec aac -strict

Re: SSDT

2013-03-14 Thread Gary Dale
On 14/03/13 06:45 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: On 03/14/2013 06:32 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 14/03/13 06:18 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Ethan Rosenberg, PhD /Pres/CEO/ *Hygeia Biomedical Research, Inc* 2 Cameo Ridge Road Monsey, NY 10952 T: 845 352-3908 F: 845 352-7566 erosenb...@hygeiabi

Re: SSDT

2013-03-14 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/14/2013 06:32 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 14/03/13 06:18 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Ethan Rosenberg, PhD Pres/CEO Hygeia Biomedical Research, Inc 2 Cameo Ridge Road Mo

Re: SSDT

2013-03-14 Thread Gary Dale
On 14/03/13 06:18 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Ethan Rosenberg, PhD /Pres/CEO/ *Hygeia Biomedical Research, Inc* 2 Cameo Ridge Road Monsey, NY 10952 T: 845 352-3908 F: 845 352-7566 erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com On 03/14/2013 05:01 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 14/03/13 04:44 PM, Ethan Rosenberg

Re: SSDT

2013-03-14 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Ethan Rosenberg, PhD Pres/CEO Hygeia Biomedical Research, Inc 2 Cameo Ridge Road Monsey, NY 10952 T: 845 352-3908 F: 845 352-7566 erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com On 03/14/2013 05:01

Re: KDE4 - wrong root password?

2013-03-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 21:57 +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Hi folks, > > since some time I discovered a strange behaviour. Whenever I want to kill a > process, or need root privileges (i.e. with kdesu) and I need to enter my > root > password, this is not accepted. > > But - when I use the

Re: KDE4 - wrong root password?

2013-03-14 Thread Gary Dale
On 14/03/13 04:57 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hi folks, since some time I discovered a strange behaviour. Whenever I want to kill a process, or need root privileges (i.e. with kdesu) and I need to enter my root password, this is not accepted. But - when I use the password of the user I am workin

Re: SSDT

2013-03-14 Thread Gary Dale
On 14/03/13 04:44 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: On 03/14/2013 03:16 PM, m...@neidorff.com wrote: Dear list - When I boot my Debian [6.0.1] I receive a message "SSDT not found." How do I fix it? Thanks. Ethan Did you check the media that you booted

KDE4 - wrong root password?

2013-03-14 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, since some time I discovered a strange behaviour. Whenever I want to kill a process, or need root privileges (i.e. with kdesu) and I need to enter my root password, this is not accepted. But - when I use the password of the user I am working with in this cases, it will work. This i

Re: SSDT

2013-03-14 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/14/2013 03:16 PM, m...@neidorff.com wrote: Dear list - When I boot my Debian [6.0.1] I receive a message "SSDT not found." How do I fix it? Thanks. Ethan Did you check the media that you booted from and make

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Chromium on Sid Very Slow

2013-03-14 Thread David Baron
This is supposed to be the fastest browser but not right now. Almost unusable. Rekonq and others do far better. What gives?

Re: SSDT

2013-03-14 Thread mark
> Dear list - > > When I boot my Debian [6.0.1] I receive a message "SSDT not found." > How do I fix it? > > Thanks. > > Ethan Did you check the media that you booted from and make sure that it passed the MD5SUM or other test? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: Firefox is too eager

2013-03-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-03-14 19:43 +0100, Joel Roth wrote: > There are some recent behaviors that I find invasive: > > When I open a link in a new tab, I often get a new > window as well, frequently to the same site, that > I have to close. > > Some are windows from news sites, asking me to subscribe. > > When I

loading truecrypt from the command line

2013-03-14 Thread Sharon Kimble
i am loading truecrypt from the command line with an alias of "tc" .. alias tc='/home/boztu/truecrypt --fs-options=users,uid=$(id -u),gid=$(id -g),fmask=0113,dmask=0002 --mount /home/boztu/Documents/basket' and it comes back with 'mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/mapper/true

Re: Fwd: Linking lapack and C standard library

2013-03-14 Thread Giacomo Mulas
On Thu, 14 Mar 2013, Francesco Pietra wrote: As to the problem of linking lapack, I wonder whether this is because it deal of a C-language code, requiring a fine-tuned calling. Is any C interface to lapack in Debian? Ciao Francesco. There are several implementation of lapack in debian. You sho

Re: Firefox is too eager

2013-03-14 Thread agroconsultor0
On 03/14/2013 11:43 AM, Joel Roth wrote: Hi list, There are some recent behaviors that I find invasive: When I open a link in a new tab, I often get a new window as well, frequently to the same site, that I have to close. Some are windows from news sites, asking me to subscribe. When I roll o

Firefox is too eager

2013-03-14 Thread Joel Roth
Hi list, There are some recent behaviors that I find invasive: When I open a link in a new tab, I often get a new window as well, frequently to the same site, that I have to close. Some are windows from news sites, asking me to subscribe. When I roll over a link, it often pops up a window, smal

Fwd: Linking lapack and C standard library

2013-03-14 Thread Francesco Pietra
I just came across liblapacke liblapacke-dev for amd64 wheezy. Are these packages what is needed to link lapack header files and so files for a C-language program? If so, can these packages be installed in addition to those already installed: liblapack3gf liblapack3gf-dev thanks francesco pie

Feedback on software

2013-03-14 Thread benjamin kent
Hello everybody. Lately I encountered trouble with a MP3 player using the FAT file-system. As others had this problem, too , I wrote a little tool. http://sourceforge.net/projects/plgen/?source=navbar https://freecode.com/projects/plgen Do you have any ideas on how to obtain more feedback on t

Fwd: Linking lapack and C standard library

2013-03-14 Thread Francesco Pietra
As to the problem of linking lapack, I wonder whether this is because it deal of a C-language code, requiring a fine-tuned calling. Is any C interface to lapack in Debian? thanks francesco -- Forwarded message -- From: Francesco Pietra Date: Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 6:35 PM Subject:

Fwd: Linking lapack and C standard library

2013-03-14 Thread Francesco Pietra
No, it is not correct. With the indicated links, patching reports all correct Hunk(s), while a post script is incorrect. So that "make depends" for the program+plugin does not correlate anything. I tried the link to "-L/usr" with same error. It is not clear to me whether it is a problem of path, o

Re: Linking lapack and C standard library

2013-03-14 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Francesco Pietra wrote, on 03/14/13 15:54: > Hello João Luis: > > Sorry for my lack of care in setting the addresses. > > What I did was: install liblapack3gf-dev to complete the > installations, according to previous suggestions. Now, my guess for > the link is > > LIBS="-L/usr/lib -llapack -

Re: Linking lapack and C standard library

2013-03-14 Thread Francesco Pietra
Hello João Luis: Sorry for my lack of care in setting the addresses. What I did was: install liblapack3gf-dev to complete the installations, according to previous suggestions. Now, my guess for the link is LIBS="-L/usr/lib -llapack -L/usr/lib -lstdc++" According to the README, a link to both

Re: Linking lapack and C standard library

2013-03-14 Thread João Luis Meloni Assirati
Em 14-03-2013 08:00, Francesco Pietra escreveu: Hello May I ask how to correctly link lapack and C standard libraries with Debian amd64 wheezy? You mean how to compile a C program, linking both lapack and the standard C library to it? I suppose so in the following. Packages installed: libla

Linking lapack and C standard library

2013-03-14 Thread Francesco Pietra
Hello May I ask how to correctly link lapack and C standard libraries with Debian amd64 wheezy? Packages installed: liblapack3gf liblapack3 libblas3 libc6 libc6-dev ** The code to compile makes a generic example: LIBS="-llapack -lstdc++" thanks francesco pietra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: newer kernels from experimental?

2013-03-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 04:40 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Or, there are a gazillion VM solutions available for precisely this > purpose. For testing a FS a virtual machine is fine, but often you need a "real" install even for playing, that's why I've got a multi-boot with that many Linux. I'm not

Re: Wheezy amd64 XFCE how to burn Blu-Ray (BD-R )discs?

2013-03-14 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, being developer of libburn i would like to correct some technical statements made here. Gary Dale wrote: > The difference between Blu-ray and DVD is that DVD is a super CD > while Blu-ray is a super DVD-RAM. BD-RE are like DVD-RAM, indeed. But BD-R aren't. One can format them to a state cal

Re: newer kernels from experimental?

2013-03-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 3/13/2013 8:00 PM, Brad Alexander wrote: ... > play with ... > features ...like f2fs and btrfs. ... > I was wondering if anyone is running any of them, and if they are stable > enough for day-to-day use. I see a major disconnect here. Playing with something new is not day-day use. You can buy

Re: newer kernels from experimental?

2013-03-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 03:02 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > Some of the 'buntus use 3.4, don't they? Packages for Quantal are already > 3.4, but it's unstable. However, it isn't unstable regarding to the kernel. I also build kernels myself for Ubuntu, it still is buggy as hell. On Arch Linux everythin

Re: newer kernels from experimental?

2013-03-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 21:00 -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: > While it isn't quite getting long in the tooth, sid is still sporting > the 3.2.x kernel. Now as I recall, Greg KH said that this would be the > next long term support kernel, but I would like to play with some of > the newer features from

Re: newer kernels from experimental?

2013-03-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 21:12 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > I wouldn't use any of the newer file systems until they've been around Oops, that's another story, the kernels I use are stable, but I use ext3 and ext4. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

RE: newer kernels from experimental?

2013-03-14 Thread Mark Allums
> From: Johan Grönqvist [mailto:johan.gronqv...@gmail.com] > 2013-03-14 02:00, Brad Alexander skrev: > > [...] sid is still sporting > > the 3.2.x kernel. > > [...] I would like to play with some of the > > newer features from the later 3.x kernels from experimental, [...] > > I was wondering if an

Re: newer kernels from experimental?

2013-03-14 Thread Václav Ovsík
Hi, On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 07:24:19AM +0100, Johan Grönqvist wrote: >... > I considered installing 3.8 from experimental, but that one seems to > move from the old initramfs tools to something called dracut, so I > decided to stay with 3.7, as it works for me. I'm running: zito@bobek:~$ uname -a