Re: Will Iceweasel stay open source?

2014-05-16 Thread Raffaele Morelli
http://xkcd.com/386/ /raffaele

Re: Xfce4, systemd - shutdown via builtin-dialog isn't working

2014-05-16 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 17.05.2014 04:27, schrieb Zenaan Harkness: > I have no display manager. [..] > Also, I would like to see Shutdown and Suspend enabled, of course. Most likely related to [0]. Make sure you have libpam-systemd installed and enabled and when starting the X session to use the same tty as your co

Re: Will Iceweasel stay open source?

2014-05-16 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 5/17/14, Ric Moore wrote: > On 05/16/2014 08:55 AM, Joel Rees wrote: >> Okay, I take it back. >> >> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 9:43 PM, Joel Rees wrote: >>> Scott, you're not adding anything to the conversation, either. >>> >>> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 3:27 AM, Scott Ferguson >>> wrote: [som

Re: Xfce4, systemd - shutdown via builtin-dialog isn't working

2014-05-16 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Happy to receive guidance on new vs old threads... On 4/1/13, Brian wrote: > On Sun 31 Mar 2013 at 20:23:39 +0200, Armin Maisch wrote: >> When I want to log off from Xfce by using the xfce-dialog I find three >> buttons there: logoff (which is working as it should, reboot, which is >> just grey a

Live CD/DVD's Debian Wheezy

2014-05-16 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
I downloaded some .iso's for Debian Wheezy live CD/DVD's and we could not find the superuser access since we were looking at them at night class. This is for a Linux system administration class. Please copy the Professor because he is not on the list. Thanks!

Re: Vertualbox installation errors

2014-05-16 Thread John Bleichert
On 05/16/2014 03:06 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Any ideas will be sincerely appreciated. I really need to get this problem solved. Gary R. On jessie/sid I use virtualbox from wheezy. Works fine on my i7 (amd64 version), using this source: deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian

Re: Will Iceweasel stay open source?

2014-05-16 Thread Joel Rees
Heh. If you missed my sarcasm below, more power to you. On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 3:24 AM, Ric Moore wrote: > On 05/16/2014 08:55 AM, Joel Rees wrote: >> >> Okay, I take it back. >> >> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 9:43 PM, Joel Rees wrote: >>> >>> Scott, you're not adding anything to the conversation,

Re: Tails

2014-05-16 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Theodore Alcapotaxis wrote: >> - Original Message - >> From: Brian >> Sent: 05/17/14 02:26 AM >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Subject: Re: Tails >> >> The adjectives describing "journalist" are completely irrelevant; what >> purpose do they serve? Ad

Re: Tails

2014-05-16 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
> - Original Message - > From: Brian > Sent: 05/17/14 02:26 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Tails > > The adjectives describing "journalist" are completely irrelevant; what > purpose do they serve? Advertising for a sugar daddy on this list is a > first. :). I agree w

USB wake from suspend udev incantation

2014-05-16 Thread Paul Ausbeck
I have a newly built Wheezy 7.5 machine that I wanted to wake from S3 suspend using either a USB keyboard or mouse. This doesn't happen by default, and after researching this topic a bit online, I was unable to find a low complexity method for making it possible. Following some study, I devised

Re: Vertualbox installation errors

2014-05-16 Thread Linux-Fan
On 05/16/2014 09:06 PM, Gary Roach wrote: [...] > Another comment on the above and the Mozilla User Agent comment: I > am sure that much of the software in the Wheezy distro is not 64 bit > software ( Mozilla included) and usually co-exists nicely with the 64 > bit system. How do you get tha

Re: Vertualbox installation errors

2014-05-16 Thread Gary Roach
On 05/15/2014 08:43 AM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi All I have given up on Wine for running some of my Windoz only software. Too many glitches. I am trying to install Virtualbox and am getting installation errors as follows: root@supercrunch:/home/gary# aptitude install virtualbox The following NEW

THE TASK OF THE SCHOOL

2014-05-16 Thread Teja Sukmana
Good evening/morning/afternoon Sorry to bother the father. or mother Introduce my name *Name : Teja SukmanaClass : XI TKJ 1* The school, SMK NEGERI 1 SINDNAG I mean, this is the email sent to add new insights about computers from overseas famous companies such as *DEBIAN.* I would like to kno

Re: squeeze lts

2014-05-16 Thread Brian
On Fri 16 May 2014 at 18:37:56 +, Curt wrote: > On 2014-05-16, Brian wrote: > > > > There is a wiki page on lts. Don't expect minor bugs to be addressed. I > > could be wrong about sources.list but I expected it to be the same as > > now. > > > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Development#U

Re: squeeze lts

2014-05-16 Thread Curt
On 2014-05-16, Brian wrote: > > There is a wiki page on lts. Don't expect minor bugs to be addressed. I > could be wrong about sources.list but I expected it to be the same as > now. > > https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Development#Using_squeeze-lts Important: Squeeze-LTS will only support i386 and

Re: Tails

2014-05-16 Thread Brian
On Thu 15 May 2014 at 21:42:27 -0700, Weaver wrote: > Greetings all, > > Is there anybody on the list in Forteleza, Brazil? > > There's a young, female, investigative journalist there, who wants to > install Tails onto a USB stick, with a persist partition, but she hasn't > got the slightest ide

Re: Will Iceweasel stay open source?

2014-05-16 Thread Ric Moore
On 05/16/2014 08:55 AM, Joel Rees wrote: Okay, I take it back. On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 9:43 PM, Joel Rees wrote: Scott, you're not adding anything to the conversation, either. On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 3:27 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: [something about something called "Fffflash" that may or may

Re: squeeze lts

2014-05-16 Thread Brian
On Thu 15 May 2014 at 16:19:18 -0600, Glenn English wrote: > I see that squeeze is going to be supported a couple years more. > > But I'm not sure what that means. Is apticron going to work? What > should be in /etc/apt/sources.list? There is a wiki page on lts. Don't expect minor bugs to be ad

Re: Iceweasel and DRM

2014-05-16 Thread Brian
On Fri 16 May 2014 at 10:49:50 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > On 16/05/14 05:01 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > >BBC iPlayer did this for some while. But they had a problem. They were > >refusing people access to content for which they had paid. > > > Not 100% familiar with the BBC situation, but I recal

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-16 Thread Curt
On 2014-05-15, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-condemns-partnership-between-mozilla-and-ado= > be-to-support-digital-restrictions-management > > > I use RMS as a guide in the same way that a boat captain would use a > lighthouse. It's good to know where it is, but

Re: Iceweasel and DRM

2014-05-16 Thread Gary Dale
On 16/05/14 05:01 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: Sent to list, where it ought to have gone in the first place. Sorry, Gary. On Thursday 15 May 2014 20:59:22 Gary Dale wrote: If only one browser supports DRM, I'll think twice before doing it. And having though twice you'll go ahead and use it. BBC iPl

Re: Will Iceweasel stay open source?

2014-05-16 Thread Joel Rees
Okay, I take it back. On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 9:43 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > Scott, you're not adding anything to the conversation, either. > > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 3:27 AM, Scott Ferguson > wrote: >> [something about something called "Fffflash" that may or may not be relevant >> to something]

Re: Will Iceweasel stay open source?

2014-05-16 Thread Joel Rees
Scott, you're not adding anything to the conversation, either. On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 3:27 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > [something about something called "Fffflash" that may or may not be relevant > to something] -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart.

Re: Tails

2014-05-16 Thread Martin Smith
On 16/05/2014 13:10, Weaver wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2014 2:28 am, Артур Истомин wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 09:42:27PM -0700, Weaver wrote: Greetings all, Is there anybody on the list in Forteleza, Brazil? There's a young, female, investigative journalist there, who wants to install Tails o

Re: Tails

2014-05-16 Thread Weaver
On Fri, May 16, 2014 2:28 am, Артур Истомин wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 09:42:27PM -0700, Weaver wrote: >> Greetings all, >> >> Is there anybody on the list in Forteleza, Brazil? >> >> There's a young, female, investigative journalist there, who wants to >> install Tails onto a USB stick, wit

Re: skype confuse apt-get

2014-05-16 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2014-05-16 11:57 GMT+02:00 : > > >> Good luck! > Everything is working properly. Problem is only for next: i should > reinstall skype every time when i do "apt-get dist-upgrade". Despite skype > is working ok in time of installation of skype i have message about some > error. The message is ve

Re: skype confuse apt-get

2014-05-16 Thread andrey . rybak
>> Good luck! Everything is working properly. Problem is only for next: i should reinstall skype every time when i do "apt-get dist-upgrade". Despite skype is working ok in time of installation of skype i have message about some error. The message is very ambiguous "errors were encountered w

Re: Tails

2014-05-16 Thread Артур Истомин
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 09:42:27PM -0700, Weaver wrote: > Greetings all, > > Is there anybody on the list in Forteleza, Brazil? > > There's a young, female, investigative journalist there, who wants to > install Tails onto a USB stick, with a persist partition, but she hasn't > got the slightest

Re: Iceweasel and DRM

2014-05-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
Sent to list, where it ought to have gone in the first place. Sorry, Gary. On Thursday 15 May 2014 20:59:22 Gary Dale wrote: > If only one browser supports DRM, > I'll think twice before doing it. And having though twice you'll go ahead and use it. BBC iPlayer did this for some while. But they