Re: Volunteer in need of a mentor

On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Beco wrote: > I'm newbie in the world of packaging, documenting, and so on... so > some patient would be welcome. Also, and that is important to me, I > would like very much to discuss pieces of my C code with a mentor who > 'speaks' this language, to get tips on d

Re: Wheezy with Linux 3.10 from Backports

Hi, Gregory. On Monday, 23 September 2013 19:56:34 -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > The problem I had is that after installing Linux 3.10 from Backports, I > > could not start the operating system since then I enter the passrase. > > The system does not boots and does not even indicate if the pass

ZFS, longterm archive of data and Debian

I have been Googling for the last week on file systems like ZFS and the best way to store and preserve data that needs to be read on a regular basis. I've read many conflicting opinions, in particular about ZFS, and was hoping to get some opinions on this list. Like many music lovers I've ditched

Re: Wheezy with Linux 3.10 from Backports

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:31:06PM -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > The problem I had is that after installing Linux 3.10 from Backports, I > could not start the operating system since then I enter the passrase. > The system does not boots and does not even indicate if the password > is correct or in

Re: Broken threads and missing quotations

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 08:39:14AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 23 September 2013 00:46:51 Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > If you MUA has such a setting, I recommend about 70-chars line > > length for emails, to minimise the "single word on next line after > > quoting and wrapping" problem, seen

Re: lots of complaints with latest upgrade

The errors are caused by operating on a system using LVM, for which one of the disks died and some are missing because I switched to new hardware. Apparently update-grub scans for disks, and the LVM containers are aware of the absent disk, hence the errors. So I think I'm OK for the update, given

Wheezy with Linux 3.10 from Backports

Hi all! Recently I bought a Thinkpad T530 notebook where I installed Debian GNU/Linux Wheezy. On this computer I decided to do the installation on multiple encrypted partitions. This I could do from the installer without problems and then enter passphrases, Debian boots smoothly. But I'm having

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:50:04PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > But I finally googled how, and looked at my boot log > (/var/log/messages). I got the following that seems relevant, > although slighly old: Hmmm, this makes me wonder if maybe your card requires firmware with the new 3.x kernel unde

Re: cron and package upgrade

On 2013-09-23 14:11:31 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > When packages are upgraded (e.g. locales), cron scripts can given > > errors. Is it possible to lock (delay) them during a package upgrade? > > Shouldn't this be done by default? > > I have noticed this at times too. Whe

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

On Monday 23 September 2013 21:27:46 Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:59:56AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > > I then had to manually start pulseaudio with "service pulseaudio > > start." This worked but still no sound. with tools > preferences > > > audio pointed it to pulseaudio for

Re: GRUB error on encrypted sdcard

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:47:54PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I don't know how it does work for a full disk encryption on a sdcard, > but for "averaged" installs on a hard disk drive, there are entries > in /boot/grub/grub.cfg (GRUB 2) or /boot/grub/menu.lst (GRUB legacy). It works more or less

Re: GRUB error on encrypted sdcard

On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 22:47 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 20:12 +, Heptas Torres wrote: > > On 9/23/13, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > Isn't there an error number displayed too? > > > > No, just the error, after which it goes into grub rescue mod. > > I suspect it may be a pro

Re: GRUB error on encrypted sdcard

On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 20:12 +, Heptas Torres wrote: > On 9/23/13, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Isn't there an error number displayed too? > > No, just the error, after which it goes into grub rescue mod. > I suspect it may be a problem with the disk names, but I have little > knowledge of grub. Is

Wine under Squeeze (6.0.5) - Wheere does it get put by Synaptic?

[I do have *DO* have Wheezy, but that machine no work - unrelated problems] I just installed Wine including (so Synaptic verifies) the documentation. Can't find it. Where should it have been put? Only half of of the Windows programs I tested even began to work. I'm assuming "operator error" u

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:59:56AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > I then had to manually start pulseaudio with "service pulseaudio > start." This worked but still no sound. with tools > preferences > audio > pointed it to pulseaudio for its > output device. I started an arbitrary icecast and under Au

Re: GRUB error on encrypted sdcard

On 9/23/13, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 18:58 +, Heptas Torres wrote: >> Hello >> I want to set up wheezy on an encrypted sdcard, which I intend to >> boot/use on different machines. I need an OS on an sdcard, i.e. >> potable, supporting FDE. >> I have installed pretty much the

Re: cron and package upgrade

Vincent Lefevre wrote: > When packages are upgraded (e.g. locales), cron scripts can given > errors. Is it possible to lock (delay) them during a package upgrade? > Shouldn't this be done by default? I have noticed this at times too. When I am doing a full system upgrade from major release to maj

[solved] Set and clear bits in a bash script

On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 14:19 -0300, Beco wrote: > On 23 September 2013 09:43, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Hi, > > > > is there a way to set and clear bits of a byte in a bash script, by > > using "or" and "and" or has this to be done by an annoying workaround? > > > > I don't find an answer, when I sea

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

On 09/22/2013 10:35 AM, Gary Roach wrote: On 09/21/2013 04:18 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 04:07:49PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: In reply to your question: root@mysite:/var/lib# ls -ld /var/lib/alsa drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 29 2012 /var/lib/alsa root@mysit

Re: GRUB error on encrypted sdcard

On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 18:58 +, Heptas Torres wrote: > Hello > I want to set up wheezy on an encrypted sdcard, which I intend to > boot/use on different machines. I need an OS on an sdcard, i.e. > potable, supporting FDE. > I have installed pretty much the default system with LVM and > encryptio

Re: Changes in xmodmap or something?

Bob Proulx writes: [...] > Sorry but I have no more ideas. I can only say that the behavior you > are seeing isn't normal. I don't see it. I believe other people are > not seeing it. Whatever the problem is it is something specific to > your system. The challenge is to find it. You've done

GRUB error on encrypted sdcard

Hello I want to set up wheezy on an encrypted sdcard, which I intend to boot/use on different machines. I need an OS on an sdcard, i.e. potable, supporting FDE. I have installed pretty much the default system with LVM and encryption on an sdcard. I booted first time on a machine and it worked. Then

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Re: Set and clear bits in a bash script

On 23 September 2013 09:43, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi, > > is there a way to set and clear bits of a byte in a bash script, by > using "or" and "and" or has this to be done by an annoying workaround? > > I don't find an answer, when I search the Internet. > > Regards, > Ralf > Hi Ralf, Try this [1

cron and package upgrade

When packages are upgraded (e.g. locales), cron scripts can given errors. Is it possible to lock (delay) them during a package upgrade? Shouldn't this be done by default? -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: Wo

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Re: Code Of Conduct (was ... Re: Security?)

On Monday 23 September 2013 15:39:05 David Guntner wrote: > Yea.  You and a couple of other people found it interesting and > kept the topic dragging on.  It doesn't change the fact that it was > OFF TOPIC for THIS PARTICULAR MAILING LIST. Why doesn't everyone just ignore him? Or if you can't do

Re: Code Of Conduct (was ... Re: Security?)

On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 07:27 -0700, David Guntner wrote: > Posting a link is one thing, quoting from it is another. That's clear, the question is at what point the link becomes an issue. No doubt about it, a link to racist content on this list is offending the CoC, a link to a discussion about a v

Re: Code Of Conduct

Does the obvious pronunciation of the acronym for Code of Conduct, CoC, violate the Code of Conduct? ;-) -- hangout: ##b0rked on irc.freenode.net diversion: http://alienjeff.net - visit The Fringe quote: "The foundation of authority is based upon the consent of the people." - Thomas Hooker --

Re: Code Of Conduct (was ... Re: Security?)

Ralf Mardorf grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > "Assumed I would post a link, is it ok to post a link with similar > content? Perhaps interesting for the one who posted the link too." > > I'm not kidding. The link was useful for the topic and I quoted from The "topic" has been *off* topic for this p

Code Of Conduct (was ... Re: Security?)

Ralf Mardorf grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > IMO the "Security?" thread became interesting by links to Lavabit and > Schneier. Yea. You and a couple of other people found it interesting and kept the topic dragging on. It doesn't change the fact that it was OFF TOPIC for THIS PARTICULAR MAILIN

Re: Code Of Conduct (was ... Re: Security?)

Well, now you got me going. The year is 2012 and contrary to your recent discovery of an alternative to a windows platform -- for some of the rest of us -- it has been almost 35 years since Kerrigan published his how to program in C book and the last thing we are quite bored of revisiting the past.

Re: Code Of Conduct (was ... Re: Security?)

On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 15:15 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I don't think the videos are "censored", resp. taken away by a > collecting society. If the collecting societies ban a video, than there > is information about it and this is the only "censorship" done in > Germany. Nazi content etc. isn't al

Re: Code Of Conduct (was ... Re: Security?)

My question about the link is www.family.friendly.web.page.link.name.nowhere with a discussion about security that contains swearing. It's clear that if such a link would contain a porn video, I'm not allowed to post it, but it's about the topic and not all words are family friendly. So is it ok

Re: Code Of Conduct (was ... Re: Security?)

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 01:45:37PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 23:31 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > I still miss an answer, if it's allowed to post such links, that contain > words as the unwanted word I quoted from the link. I suggest to censor them ... i.e. bas%#@d, f@&

Security? (was ... Re: Code Of Conduct (was ... Re: Security?))

On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 13:43 +0100, Brian wrote: > [Extensive, selective snipping of the original post has taken place. > This mail will also be my one and only one on this topic]. > > > On Mon 23 Sep 2013 at 12:47:52 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > It also would be nice to be professional . . .

Re: Code Of Conduct (was ... Re: Security?)

[Extensive, selective snipping of the original post has taken place. This mail will also be my one and only one on this topic]. On Mon 23 Sep 2013 at 12:47:52 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > It also would be nice to be professional . . . . . On Sunday 8th Sept 2013 at 11:27:36 -0700 lati...@vcn.bc

Set and clear bits in a bash script

Hi, is there a way to set and clear bits of a byte in a bash script, by using "or" and "and" or has this to be done by an annoying workaround? I don't find an answer, when I search the Internet. Regards, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

ftpsync usage help: stable only

Hi all, I want to setup a local mirror, only for "wheezy" / "amd64" / main,contrib,non-free. Reading http://www.debian.org/mirror/ftpmirror "ftpsync" would do the job. I set it up correctly in order to have "amd64", by excluding any other arch. When checking what's downloaded, I notice it down

Re: Broken threads and missing quotations

On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 23:57 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 10:50:02PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Sun, 2013-09-22 at 12:55 -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > > don't trim quotes > > > > Some days ago I trimmed quotes on Linux audio users/developers and was > > ask to qu

Re: [OT]Re: any utility to change ip

On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 23:54 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 04:41:53PM +, Curt wrote: > > > > What's really interesting is that people say WWW (nine syllables), > > instead of World Wide Web (three). > > Here, some people (esp. the media) have this annoying habit of sa

Re: Broken threads and missing quotations

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 05:56:45AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 09:46 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > Please avoid breaking threads > > To add this line won't help, because _most_ users aren't aware what > breaking a thread does mean. They'll soon learn. The idea is not t

Re: Broken threads and missing quotations

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 09:46:51AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 9/23/13, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > _Please_ people. The idea is that we should help each other and that that > > help should be available in the archive for searchers to find. We need to > > be > > both legible and comprehensible.

Re: Broken threads and missing quotations

On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 10:50:02PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2013-09-22 at 12:55 -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > don't trim quotes > > Some days ago I trimmed quotes on Linux audio users/developers and was > ask to quote everything, because out of context the quotes would be > manipulat

Re: [OT]Re: any utility to change ip

On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 04:41:53PM +, Curt wrote: > > What's really interesting is that people say WWW (nine syllables), > instead of World Wide Web (three). Here, some people (esp. the media) have this annoying habit of saying "dub dub dub" instead of "WWW" Akela should feed them to the wo

Re: find'ing files containing certain words (all of them) ...

On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 12:00:54 -0400 Albretch Mueller wrote: > I have come to believe this is one of those problems that is not to > be optimally solved with a script, but a programming language > > lbrtchx > > Probably AWK could be a good compromise :) words.awk: BEGIN { split(p,ws,

Re: Code Of Conduct (was ... Re: Security?)

On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 23:31 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > If you don't want to abide by the CoC [snip] I never claimed that. I only explained that it was a mistake, because this word isn't a hard word here. I was thinking about not to use the word, because I wasn't sure if it is considered as ev

Re: How to customize keys under X?

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: I'd like to customize keys in Debian. I want to set f2/f3/f4/f8 to cut/copy/paste/switch-applications. For switching applications, I tried setting f8 in Settings -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Navigation, but it didn't help

Re: Code Of Conduct (was ... Re: Security?)

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:13:37AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 18:56 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 09:33:26PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > Btw. "fxg a sheep" in Germany is allowed, so claiming asylum should > > > > http://www.debian.org/Ma

Re: Code Of Conduct (was ... Re: Security?)

On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 07:03 -0400, Jeff Bauer wrote: > On 09/23/2013 06:47 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > A quick archive search does show that I helped others on this list > > much more than you did. > > List participation is not a competitive sport. That's correct, but I randomly, without evil

Re: Code Of Conduct (was ... Re: Security?)

On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 06:33 -0400, Darko Gavrilovic wrote: [snip] My apologies, I forgot to mention that 4 from your 4 mails are sent HTML formatted and 2 from your 4 mails used top-posting. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMailingLists Please post only in plain text. Do not submit HTML, h4x0r or sp

Re: Code Of Conduct (was ... Re: Security?)

On 09/23/2013 06:47 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: A quick archive search does show that I helped others on this list much more than you did. List participation is not a competitive sport. -- hangout: ##b0rked on irc.freenode.net diversion: http://alienjeff.net - visit The Fringe quote: "The foundat

Re: Code Of Conduct (was ... Re: Security?)

On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 06:33 -0400, Darko Gavrilovic wrote something that offended netiquette ;), no hard feelings. Btw. as far as I can see you send 4 mails to the list and 3 mails were send to the list and to the person you replied to, no rant, just an information: Reply to the list only! And con

Re: Don't want a desktop environment

Thanks! I went with this solution. All I have done is Install Debian without Desktop selected aptitude install i3 (which installs some other stuff needed by i3) aptitude install xinit (needed for running startx) aptitude install xterm (needed for opening a terminal in i3) Don't really think th

Re: Code Of Conduct (was ... Re: Security?)

On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 06:33 -0400, Darko Gavrilovic wrote: > No one on here cares about your rant or definition of what foul > language is in the little village you happen to reside in on this > planet. Just keep your posts about Debian, useful to the user > community, and keep it professional. It

Re: Code Of Conduct (was ... Re: Security?)

On Sep 23, 2013 5:14 AM, "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: > > On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 18:56 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 09:33:26PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > Btw. "fxg a sheep" in Germany is allowed, so claiming asylum should > > > > http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#c

Re: Code Of Conduct (was ... Re: Security?)

PS: FWIW it's a quote from the link below. The used word has got a German equivalent. It's not sophisticated to use this word in Germany, but it's also not the worst kind of language of the gutter. It's common that nearly everybody does use it. It's very uncommon to use a sophisticated word instead

Re: Code Of Conduct (was ... Re: Security?)

On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 18:56 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 09:33:26PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Btw. "fxg a sheep" in Germany is allowed, so claiming asylum should > > http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct > > * Do not use foul language; besides, so

Re: viewing html or clicking link in Jessie/sid crashes system

On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:02:40 -0700 Paul Scott wrote: > Hi, > > Jessie/sid, Mutt from Gnome-terminal: > > Whenever I try to view an HTML portion of a message in > Mutt or click on a link (a relatively new feature of Terminal?) > my screen displays a repetitive pattern and my system craches > (

Re: Broken threads and missing quotations

On Monday 23 September 2013 00:46:51 Zenaan Harkness wrote: > If you MUA has such a setting, I recommend about 70-chars line > length for emails, to minimise the "single word on next line after > quoting and wrapping" problem, seen above .. My ignorance showing. I thought that that odd wrapping w

Re: find'ing files containing certain words (all of them) ...

On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 12:00:54PM -0400, Albretch Mueller wrote: > I have come to believe this is one of those problems that is not to > be optimally solved with a script, but a programming language What's the difference? OK, you give a script to the cast and a program to the audience, but other

Re: Don't want a desktop environment

Josef Bailey: > > Also since your going to be booting to the cli you will possibly need > to change your runlevl in /etc/inittab > > http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-changing-run-levels.html (Run > level) Debian always boots into runlevel 2 by default. If a login manager (gdm/kdm/lightdm) is

Re: any way to get the mouse position on two places on the screen?

On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 05:34:22AM -0400, Albretch Mueller wrote: > You can tell ffmpeg to screen capture one area of the screen and make a clip JFYI, apt-cache show ffmpeg [...] This package contains the deprecated ffmpeg program. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating