Re: A persistent name for a sound device.

2014-02-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/02/14 16:30, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 03/02/14 15:12, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: >> I'm interested to make a persistent name for a sound device. >> The output of "udevadm info -a -p $(udevadm info -q path -n /dev/... )" >> follows. >> What exactly is meant by the last sentence of the intro

Re: Suggest a tool for decoding binary data

2014-02-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 1:28 AM, Chen Wei wrote: > On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 05:36:19PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> I'm about to tackle GPT partitioned disks, and want to decode the >> label. >> >> The data is little-endian, but I want my code to work on little- or >> big-endian machines. I want

Re: A persistent name for a sound device.

2014-02-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/02/14 15:12, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > I'm interested to make a persistent name for a sound device. > The output of "udevadm info -a -p $(udevadm info -q path -n /dev/... )" > follows. > What exactly is meant by the last sentence of the introductory paragraph? > Must the first match occu

A persistent name for a sound device.

2014-02-02 Thread peter
I'm interested to make a persistent name for a sound device. The output of "udevadm info -a -p $(udevadm info -q path -n /dev/... )" follows. What exactly is meant by the last sentence of the introductory paragraph? Must the first match occur in the first stanza of the info? Does "one single

Re: May I introduce to you ..... 'beeb'

2014-02-02 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, 2 Feb 2014, Sharon Kimble wrote: Very cute. BTW, that's one helluva .emacs file you have there. -- IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive p

Re: May I introduce to you ..... 'beeb'

2014-02-02 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 09:11:10 +1100 Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 03/02/14 02:44, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > On Sun, 02 Feb 2014 15:51:04 +1100 > > Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > >> On 02/02/14 00:13, Sharon Kimble wrote: > >>> > >>> May I introduce to you ‘beeb’ the all-singing, all-dancing, > >>> upgr

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-02-02 Thread Nate Bargmann
If you're using Konsole, the beep capability was removed long ago for KDE4. I added to a bug about it on their Bugzilla and the developer stated that it would not be fixed. :-( - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true

Re: You lazy son-of-a-guns out there! (Was: May I introduce to you)

2014-02-02 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Mon, 3 Feb 2014, Joel Rees wrote: But that was droll, Bob. Thank you sir; high praise indeed. I wish I could assert authorship of the thing, but I stole it from another internet (l)user. :-) -- IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and

http.debian.net hash sum mismatch

2014-02-02 Thread Robin
Has anybody else experienced problems over the last couple of days? Or is there a local fix I can apply? For ref: About http.debian.net Brought to you by Raphael Geissert, it aims to solve the problem of choosing a Debian mirror, among other issues. The redirector uses the geo and network locati

Re: You lazy son-of-a-guns out there! (Was: May I introduce to you)

2014-02-02 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Sat, 1 Feb 2014, Doug wrote: > >> On 02/01/2014 02:30 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: >>> >>> On Saturday 01 February 2014 17:58:45 Doug wrote: On 02/01/2014 08:13 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > May I introduce to you 'beeb' the all-s

Re: Any reason not to run amd64 these days?

2014-02-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-02-02 at 15:53 -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: > Thanks, Ralf. > > I do use a couple of 32bit DAWs: Reaper and Power Tracks Pro. I use them > in wine but I also have VMWare. If I just stick with the 32bit versions > of the DAWs, all the 32bit VST plugins should be OK, right? Or are you

Re: You lazy son-of-a-guns out there! (Was: May I introduce to you)

2014-02-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 02:06:45AM -0500, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Sat, 1 Feb 2014, Doug wrote: > > >On 02/01/2014 02:30 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >>On Saturday 01 February 2014 17:58:45 Doug wrote: > >>>On 02/01/2014 08:13 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote: > May I introduce to you ‘beeb’ the all-singin

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-02-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-02-02 at 23:34 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2014-02-01 at 09:54 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Fri, 2014-01-31 at 20:48 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > * On 2014 31 Jan 18:04 -0600, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2014-01-31 at 09:48 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > >

Re: Any reason not to run amd64 these days?

2014-02-02 Thread Rick Macdonald
Thanks, Ralf. I do use a couple of 32bit DAWs: Reaper and Power Tracks Pro. I use them in wine but I also have VMWare. If I just stick with the 32bit versions of the DAWs, all the 32bit VST plugins should be OK, right? Or are you saying there could still be issues? Rick On 02/02/14 03:26 P

Re: Viber on Debian

2014-02-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 03:37:48PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 02/02/14 14:12, Man_Without_Clue wrote: > > Viber just won't start. > > Presuming you are running a 64-bit Debian release. After installing it > with:- > # dpkg -i viber.deb > > did you get any useful messages? > > have you tri

Re: Confused about dist-upgrade

2014-02-02 Thread Brian
On Sun 02 Feb 2014 at 15:22:44 -0500, Tom H wrote: > You hadn't specified "from squeeze to qheezy" and you were therefore > implying that it was a general approach. In my own mind I thought I was responding to the previous post: At any rate, to move from, say, squeeze, to wheezy, my appro

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-02-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-02-01 at 09:54 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2014-01-31 at 20:48 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > * On 2014 31 Jan 18:04 -0600, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Fri, 2014-01-31 at 09:48 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > > MiscBell=FALSE > > > > > > > > Set it to TRUE. > > > > > >

Re: grub efi does not find windows

2014-02-02 Thread berenger . morel
Le 02.02.2014 21:46, Tom H a écrit : On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 5:47 AM, wrote: Le 28.01.2014 11:41, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org a écrit : Sorry for incomplete message. Here is the full message: At my job, I have a computer on which I can choose the OS so, I installed my lovely debian ther

Re: Any reason not to run amd64 these days?

2014-02-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-02-02 at 13:58 -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: > Are there any issues with switching to amd64? What about drivers? There aren't issues. > What about running 32 bit windows and apps in wine Wine and at least VBox can do this. There might be issues for 32-bit VSTs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: May I introduce to you ..... 'beeb'

2014-02-02 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 02 February 2014 15:44:14 Sharon Kimble wrote: > > Are there any potential problems with permissions? e.g.:- > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2010/03/bbc_iplayer_conten > >t_protection.html > > I know of none, Apart, you mean, from the fact that you are posting this on an int

Re: May I introduce to you ..... 'beeb'

2014-02-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/02/14 02:44, Sharon Kimble wrote: > On Sun, 02 Feb 2014 15:51:04 +1100 > Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> On 02/02/14 00:13, Sharon Kimble wrote: >>> >>> May I introduce to you ‘beeb’ the all-singing, all-dancing, upgrade >>> to ‘get-iplayer’! >>> >> >>> >>> Any problems, or further instruction

Kernel panics after wheezy upgrade (but blaming hardware)

2014-02-02 Thread Rick Macdonald
I finally updated my 32bit PC to wheezy in October. Shortly after, I started getting kernel panics (blinking CapsLock/Scroll Lock for about 10 seconds, then it would re-boot itself). I ran memtest for 14 hours; no errors. It often happened while watching videos in iceweasel, especially when s

Any reason not to run amd64 these days?

2014-02-02 Thread Rick Macdonald
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). I'd like to take a step up and get a machine with more memory (12 or 16GB). I've done some sea

Re: grub efi does not find windows

2014-02-02 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 04:34:23PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Wed, 2014-01-29 at 04:16 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: >>> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:47:33AM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org >>> wrote: Thanks in advance for an

Re: Disable ipv6?

2014-02-02 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 6:04 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > > Is there an easy way to do this? > > I don't use it, I don't understand it (yet), so I don't want to use it until > I do understand it. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/01/msg00109.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

Re: grub efi does not find windows

2014-02-02 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 5:47 AM, wrote: > Le 28.01.2014 11:41, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org a écrit : > > Sorry for incomplete message. Here is the full message: > > At my job, I have a computer on which I can choose the OS so, I installed my > lovely debian there (with "some" problems to make i

Re: Poll: Which Init-System should Debian use in the future?

2014-02-02 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:36:07 + (GMT) > Holger Vogt wrote: >> >> http://pollator.com/polls/which-init-system-should-debian-use-in-the-future/votes/new > > I didn't vote because openrc is not on list. openrc replaces sysv-rc and inss

Re: Help with command - cp

2014-02-02 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > BTW, with GNU ls, -r is the same as -R, but doesn't require pressing > :) What do you mean by "GNU ls"? The ls provided by coreutils? If it is, then "-r" mean "reverse the sort order" and "-R" means "recurse through subdirectories".

Re: Confused about dist-upgrade

2014-02-02 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Brian wrote: > On Fri 24 Jan 2014 at 12:52:05 -0500, Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 6:47 PM, Brian wrote: >>> On Thu 23 Jan 2014 at 17:52:00 -0500, Bob Bernstein wrote: At any rate, to move from, say, squeeze, to wheezy, my approach would b

Re: grub efi does not find windows

2014-02-02 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 04:34:23PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2014-01-29 at 04:16 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:47:33AM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org > > wrote: > > > Thanks in advance for any hint about how to make me able to boot > > > windows anew

Re: Moving website to different server

2014-02-02 Thread Veljko
On 2014-Jan-29 18:05, Veljko wrote: > Thanks Jochen, I'll try this in a few days and let you know how it went. In case someone else need something like this, following block worked for me: ProxyRequests off ProxyPass / https://ip_of_new_server:443/ ProxyPassReverse / https://ip_of_new_server:443/

Re: May I introduce to you ..... 'beeb'

2014-02-02 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Sun, 02 Feb 2014 15:51:04 +1100 Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 02/02/14 00:13, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > > > May I introduce to you ‘beeb’ the all-singing, all-dancing, upgrade > > to ‘get-iplayer’! > > > > > > > Any problems, or further instruction required, please let me know. > > > > Thanks

Re: Recovering data from an ext4 on LVM

2014-02-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-02-02 at 15:25 +, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > My next bet would've been ext4magic but it's only available in testing > (my host is stable), and i don't really want to [...] Search for a live media including ext4magic. Keep in mind to mount read only. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: May I introduce to you ..... 'beeb'

2014-02-02 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Sat, 01 Feb 2014 12:58:45 -0500 Doug wrote: > On 02/01/2014 08:13 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > May I introduce to you ‘beeb’ the all-singing, all-danc > ing, upgrade to > > ‘get-iplayer’! > > > > The BBC has some superb radio and TV programmes, some of which they > > have released into the pub

Recovering data from an ext4 on LVM

2014-02-02 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Greetings, I had an ext4 partition accessible via samba share and one day that share became empty. I considered goofing up in Windows, but then found out that there were a lot of warnings in dmesg. The partition was not set to be fsck-ed and was made available via a Xen guest. I did start running

Re: You lazy son-of-a-guns out there! (Was: May I introduce to you)

2014-02-02 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 02 February 2014 07:06:45 Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Sat, 1 Feb 2014, Doug wrote: > > On 02/01/2014 02:30 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> On Saturday 01 February 2014 17:58:45 Doug wrote: > >>> On 02/01/2014 08:13 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote: > May I introduce to you ‘beeb’ the all-singing, al

Re: May I introduce to you ..... 'beeb'

2014-02-02 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 02 February 2014 04:28:52 Doug wrote: > On 02/01/2014 02:30 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 01 February 2014 17:58:45 Doug wrote: > >> On 02/01/2014 08:13 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote: > >>> May I introduce to you ‘beeb’ the all-singing, all-dancing, > >>> upgrade to ‘get-iplayer’! > >>>

Re: Default kernel network variables, sysctl, not secure enough.

2014-02-02 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, 02 Feb 2014 13:47:36 +1300 "C.T.F. Jansen" wrote: > Installed them and looked for man pages, nothing found, then through > /usr/share/doc again. This had a number of extra files in it that seemed > relevant but the variables set were not found as such. A look in > >/usr/share

Re: Iceweasel weird behavior

2014-02-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 13 ian 14, 21:47:53, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > Iceweasel 26? Current sid, so it's 24.2.0esr-1. [snip very useful troubleshooting tips] This issue hasn't been manifesting for me lately, so at the moment I can't troubleshoot it. Thanks, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUs

Re: Suggest a tool for decoding binary data

2014-02-02 Thread Chen Wei
On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 05:36:19PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I'm about to tackle GPT partitioned disks, and want to decode the > label. > > The data is little-endian, but I want my code to work on little- or > big-endian machines. I want it to be a script -- nothing compiled. > > I've figur

Re: "cloning" a debian installation

2014-02-02 Thread Chen Wei
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 09:36:52PM +, Kruppt wrote: > On 2014-01-31, Fabrice Vaillant wrote: > > to suit my computer. The question I'm asking is, what would be the > > simplest way(if it is possible) to "clone" my existing installation > > onto > > the new ssd. > > Yes you can clone it easil

Re: put gparted on minimum system, for disks over 2TB

2014-02-02 Thread Nemeth Gyorgy
2014-01-31 00:50 keltezéssel, C.T.F. Jansen írta: > Tried to setup a 3TB disk using cfdisk and it failed silently. Suggest > that cfdisk is updated to work with current disks; 3 and 4 TB. At least > update the man page. partman is not on the production system and can't > be installed, don't know if