Re: vanilla kernel + firmware

2013-09-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/10/2013 9:02 AM, Laurent Debian wrote: > Hi all > I have recently expereinced kernel oops with vanilla kernel ( from git > current version is 3.11.0) and I report a bug here : > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60759 . > I was respond to check i included properly the last firmwa

Re: how to turn on compositing in metacity (using Debian testing) ?

2013-09-11 Thread shirish शिरीष
I guess in the later part I did the work. I just had to reboot and compositing worked. Now I guess I just have to wait for gnome-control-center 3.8 to enter testing (seems like it's going to take a long time.) -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email

how to turn on compositing in metacity (using Debian testing) ?

2013-09-11 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, How do I turn on compositing in Metacity in GNOME 3? I am in GNOME Classic or GNOME-Fallback using GNOME testing. This is my integrated graphics card :- $ lspci | grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 10) I am

Re: Security?

2013-09-11 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 9/12/13, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > iphone 5s fingerprint > > The people don't care, they are willing to give them everything. This is bullshit! I am one of "the people", I care! I make a difference - only very small, but I make a difference. Some people I meet don't care, I say goodbye. Some peo

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel processor microcode security update

2013-09-11 Thread Richard Hector
On 08/09/13 09:38, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > For a P4, which is extremely unlikely to get > any further microcode updates (unlikely but not impossible, as there are > "embedded" P4 parts that have a 10-year support life and might still get an > update for whatever reason), I guess the N

Re: Security?

2013-09-11 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 9/12/13, Slavko wrote: >> Here it's not allowed to steal a car, but if you leave the key in the >> lock and go away and somebody does steal your car, it's considered as >> contributory fault. > > Yes, and how many people consider stealing the car as normal and not > as criminal? Don't matter w

Re: How many packages in Sid

2013-09-11 Thread Richard Hector
On 07/09/13 19:02, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 10:06:46PM +0100, Brian wrote: >> On Thu 05 Sep 2013 at 22:16:39 +0200, sp113438 wrote: >> >>> How do I find out the number of packages currently in Sid? >>> Google did not help me. >> >> An example: >> >> wget ftp://ftp.debian.o

under GDM3 printer outputs only blank pages

2013-09-11 Thread Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph.
Hello: I finally upgraded to Wheezy and GDM3 in August. Since then, my Postscript printer which functioned correctly under GDM2 outputs ONLY blank pages when print requests are submitted to CUPS. The printer does function correctly if I run: cat PS_FILE.ps > /dev/lp0 But using "lp PS_F

Re: Printer brand recommendations

2013-09-11 Thread Beco
Hi guys, Thank you all for your valuable information and help! I just bought a black-only EPSON M105 inkjet printer, with WIFI. It printed perfectly! No cables needed, no CDs, nothing. Just energy, and the WPS botton to connect to my router, find out the IP address, and added as socket://192.1

Re: which program can reduce quality of mp3

2013-09-11 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 16:48:41 -0400 Long Wind wrote: > the mp3 file is too big, 128kbps > I want to reduce it to 40kbps avconv (or ffmpeg) Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Ar

Re: Re: Security?

2013-09-11 Thread shawn wilson
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > If you need to know a name server IP by heart Google is good too ;). > > > And since (almost) everyone I know uses them (they come after 127.0.0.1 unbound for me), I would kill to have those logs - just immagine all of the juicy info you can

I need expert help on audio/video encoding

2013-09-11 Thread Long Wind
I still have a old distro that runs kernel 2.4 because helix producer runs on it (producer use real media format) Can you help me use mencoder? I need to capture video from v4l interface and audio from linein of sound card producer can do the job, the output is about 100 MB per hour It does it on

Re: which program can reduce quality of mp3

2013-09-11 Thread Joel Wirāmu Pauling
MP3 is notoriously bad for low Bitrate audio. Look at Opus and/or Speex encoding. On 12 September 2013 11:35, Long Wind wrote: > I use the command below: > > lame --mp3input --preset 30 input.mp3 output.mp3 > > Thank you! > > > On 9/11/13, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 4:4

Re: which program can reduce quality of mp3

2013-09-11 Thread Long Wind
I use the command below: lame --mp3input --preset 30 input.mp3 output.mp3 Thank you! On 9/11/13, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Long Wind wrote: >> the mp3 file is too big, 128kbps >> I want to reduce it to 40kbps >> >> Thanks! > > I use lame to reduce stereo mp3 fi

Re: Re: Security?

2013-09-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 18:35 -0400, Shawn Wilson wrote: > *shrug* google auto-uncorrecting my searches and bringing up results > without words I put in a search in a 2 word query might be worse. Not > sure which I prefer - I find ddg gives some obscure stuff google > failed to return but I still sta

Re: Re: Security?

2013-09-11 Thread Shawn Wilson
Ralf Mardorf wrote: >On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 17:25 -0400, Shawn Wilson wrote: >> >> david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: >> >On Wed, 11 Sep 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> > >> >> I dislike Google, but if I search something I very often end up >with >> >> using Google. Duck Duck Go and ixquick very o

Re: Security?

2013-09-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 15:53 -0400, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: > On Wed, 11 Sep 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > I dislike Google, but if I search something I very often end up with > > using Google. Duck Duck Go and ixquick very often fail. > > according to my understanding, > > https:

Re: Re: Security?

2013-09-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 17:25 -0400, Shawn Wilson wrote: > > david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: > >On Wed, 11 Sep 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > >> I dislike Google, but if I search something I very often end up with > >> using Google. Duck Duck Go and ixquick very often fail. > > > >according to

which program can reduce quality of mp3

2013-09-11 Thread Long Wind
the mp3 file is too big, 128kbps I want to reduce it to 40kbps Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cab-gxzd0fxk63pvpvxm2dmzjbqog6c2jtcw3mdxvhmg5d

Re: Security?

2013-09-11 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 1:57 AM, David Guntner wrote: > Maybe this discussion would best be taken to the Off Topic list? ;) > Certificates are supposed to refer to policies. For example, This certificate is for checking that the website you've reached is really our website. This certif

Re: nm eth0 connection(2)

2013-09-11 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 07:47:10AM -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Robert Holtzm wrote: > > > > Running updated wheezy on a thinkpad T420i w/ xfce DE. > > > > With great embarrassment, after stoutly defending nm, eth0 no longer > > connects. This only happens when I run whee

Re: nm eth0 connection

2013-09-11 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 08:15:35AM -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Robert Holtzm wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 04:48:03PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Robert Holtzm wrote: > >>> > >>> Running updated wheezy on a thinkpad T420i w/

Re: which program can reduce quality of mp3

2013-09-11 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Long Wind wrote: > the mp3 file is too big, 128kbps > I want to reduce it to 40kbps > > Thanks! I use lame to reduce stereo mp3 files to mono; it (as one might expect) halves the filesize. Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: Re: Security?

2013-09-11 Thread Shawn Wilson
david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: >On Wed, 11 Sep 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> I dislike Google, but if I search something I very often end up with >> using Google. Duck Duck Go and ixquick very often fail. > >according to my understanding, > > https://startpage.com > >... is a google scrape

Re: Re: Security?

2013-09-11 Thread davidson
On Wed, 11 Sep 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I dislike Google, but if I search something I very often end up with using Google. Duck Duck Go and ixquick very often fail. according to my understanding, https://startpage.com ... is a google scraper, sort of like what scroogle used to be, and whic

Re: Printer brand recommendations

2013-09-11 Thread Beco
Thanks, guys. John, this 2 HP became my priorities for now. Please, anyone knows about Epson m105, and Samsung ml_2165w ? Thanks, Beco On 10 Sep 2013 08:04, "John Lindsay" wrote: > > > On 09/09/13 01:48 PM, Beco wrote: > >> Hi guys, >> >> Please allow me to revive this thread. (Let me know if

Re: Re: Security?

2013-09-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 09:45 -0700, consultor wrote: > The situation that i can see, is that every US, commercial entity, can > not be trusted anymore around the world; and specially by US citizens. > > If it had happened, that more than 99 % of them were able to go against > their clients; it mean

Re: Security?

2013-09-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 09:57 -0700, David Guntner wrote: > Maybe this discussion would best be taken to the Off Topic list? ;) Or we simply finish the discussion. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

Re: building from source for different arch

2013-09-11 Thread recoverym4n
On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 21:03:47 +0200 Slavko wrote: > Hi, > > Dňa Wed, 11 Sep 2013 23:00:03 +0400 recovery...@gmail.com napísal: > > > Unless you intend to do something very strange (i.e. amd64.deb which > > contains i386 binaries), you'll probably better build package for i386 > > in a pure i386

Re: building from source for different arch

2013-09-11 Thread recoverym4n
Hi. On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 23:20:34 +0200 Lucio Crusca wrote: > I'm trying to build opus package from source for both amd64 and i386, after > having applied the patch by Pino Toscano I've found here: > > $ dpkg-buildpackage -ai386 >From my limited experience in this area, invoking dpkg-build

Re: Printer brand recommendations

2013-09-11 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Alan Greenberger wrote: > On 2013-09-10, Ross Boylan wrote: > > --001a11c2be66bf88eb04e60200cd > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > > > Short version: Brother doesn't support linux. I'm considering Lexmark. > > > > I too am looking for a B+W las

Re: building from source for different arch

2013-09-11 Thread Slavko
Hi, Dňa Wed, 11 Sep 2013 23:00:03 +0400 recovery...@gmail.com napísal: > Unless you intend to do something very strange (i.e. amd64.deb which > contains i386 binaries), you'll probably better build package for i386 > in a pure i386 chroot (easily made by deboostrap). Or in chroot created by the

Re: Re: Security?

2013-09-11 Thread consultor
The situation that i can see, is that every US, commercial entity, can not be trusted anymore around the world; and specially by US citizens. If it had happened, that more than 99 % of them were able to go against their clients; it means that they are not trusted anymore. Microsoft, Google, Yahoo,

Re: Security?

2013-09-11 Thread David Guntner
Maybe this discussion would best be taken to the Off Topic list? ;) smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Security?

2013-09-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 17:54 +0200, Slavko wrote: > Who is tolerating evil behavior, is participating on it... I do not tolerate it, but crime is "normal", it's naive to believe in a world without crime. I wouldn't read a postcard that wasn't sent to me, for two reasons, it would be unethical to do

Re: Apache2 neds to ne reset

2013-09-11 Thread Balamurugan
Dear John, Please download apache as a tar.gz and try installing in a local path rather installing as a system(/usr/bin or /usr/local/bin). In this way, you can configure to the most minute level. If you find any issues, you can simply remove that path. That is it. Steps: 1. tar -xzvf 2. c

KDE IM and GTalk SSL certificate

2013-09-11 Thread Alberto Luaces
Hi, since yesterday I cannot connect to my gtalk account from KDE IM, since the "contacts" program says that the SSL certificate is not valid. Any clue about that? Thanks, -- Alberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Security?

2013-09-11 Thread Slavko
Hi, Dňa Tue, 10 Sep 2013 20:40:16 +0200 Ralf Mardorf napísal: > On Tue, 2013-09-10 at 18:22 +0200, Slavko wrote: > > But i am surprised by the small amount of responses too. Nobody > > takes care about this? Or people afraid already? > > If I would have secret data on my computer that is connec

Re: Security?

2013-09-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
iphone 5s fingerprint The people don't care, they are willing to give them everything. This is democracy. I don't own a mobile phone, btw. not regarding to the fear that they could track me, I simply don't need it. However, now the idiots will give them their fingerprints. This discussion is abou

Re: Security?

2013-09-11 Thread Luther Blissett
On Mon, 2013-09-09 at 20:07 +0200, Slavko wrote: > Ahoj, > > Dňa Sun, 8 Sep 2013 11:27:36 -0700 lati...@vcn.bc.ca napísal: > > > Hello list. > > What do you think about it? > > > > https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/09/the_nsa_is_brea.html > > > > What can one think about this? Here

Re: Subversion disappeared from apache after upgrade in testing?

2013-09-11 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-09-11 14:11:35 +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: > hubert depesz lubaczewski: > > > > Anyway - the questions are: > > 1. will libapache2-svn be back in some time? It seems that there is a patch somewhere. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=712004 for more information. >

Re: Printer brand recommendations

2013-09-11 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2013-09-10, Ross Boylan wrote: > --001a11c2be66bf88eb04e60200cd > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Short version: Brother doesn't support linux. I'm considering Lexmark. > > I too am looking for a B+W laser printer. I just got a Brother HL 5450 to > replace a 5150 I had. It

Re: nm eth0 connection

2013-09-11 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Robert Holtzm wrote: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 04:48:03PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Robert Holtzm wrote: >>> >>> Running updated wheezy on a thinkpad T420i w/ xfce DE. >>> >>> With great embarrassment, after stoutly defendin

Re: Subversion disappeared from apache after upgrade in testing?

2013-09-11 Thread Jochen Spieker
hubert depesz lubaczewski: > > Anyway - the questions are: > 1. will libapache2-svn be back in some time? > 2. if not, how can I get to my repo data now? You can start svnserve for your repository and switch --relocate your working copies to the new (svn://) URL. J. -- I am not scared of death

Re: linux's make oldconfig: Save in addition to [N/m/y/?], and ctrl-[C/\] to abort

2013-09-11 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Regid Ichira wrote: > On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 09:55:08PM -0400, John D. Hendrickson and Sara > Darnell wrote: >> >> 2) you can run make oldconfig to get a recycled config without >> running in text interactive mode [y/n/m]. read the directions. > > Do you mean the

Re: block a program from access the Internet.

2013-09-11 Thread Jeffrin Jose
On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 11:01:38AM -, atar wrote: > Hi there!! > > Just wanted to know please if there's a way to block a specific > program from accessing the Internet while preserving at the same > time the ability of other programs to access the Internet, and if > there's a way, so how? ma

Subversion disappeared from apache after upgrade in testing?

2013-09-11 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
Hi, yesterday I did upgrade of Debian testing (apt-get update; apt-get upgrade). Afterwards - my svn server stopped working. Apparently libapache2-svn is missing. I did some search, and found http://serverfault.com/questions/513399/debian-after-upgrade-apache-to-2-4-4-libapache2-svn-wont-work but

Re: nm eth0 connection

2013-09-11 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Robert Holtzm wrote: > > Running updated wheezy on a thinkpad T420i w/ xfce DE. > > With great embarrassment, after stoutly defending nm, eth0 no longer > connects. This only happens when I run wheezy. The connection is fine > when I run the other distros on the hd

Re: Bash variable escaping

2013-09-11 Thread Denis Witt
On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 11:37:55 +0200 Vincent Zweije wrote: > All these will pass the single quotes to salt which is wrong. #3 also > misses the closing double quote. My mistake, when I put it together in the mail. > || machines='*' > || salt $machines > || salt ${machines} > || salt "${machin

Re: Bash variable escaping

2013-09-11 Thread Vincent Zweije
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 10:46:38AM +0200, Denis Witt wrote: || I expect the program (salt) to see exactly '*' (single quote, asterisk, || single quote). You may expect so, but salt does not. || See examples of the salt-syntax here: || http://docs.saltstack.com/topics/targeting/globbing.html

Akonadi / Kmail Problem

2013-09-11 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, I am running debian/jessie. After upgrading to kmail2 I discovered, that randomly (this means wthin one or two days a week), a window pops up, whch want me to enter the password for my mailaccount. Strangely it is every time the same mailaccount. I have several ones. It is no differe

Re: Bash variable escaping

2013-09-11 Thread Denis Witt
On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 22:22:06 +0100 Chris Davies wrote: > Do you expect the program to see the asterisk character itself, or an > expansion into the corresponding list of files in the current folder? Hi, I expect the program (salt) to see exactly '*' (single quote, asterisk, single quote). See