Re: How is typical home computer used today? (back to original question)

2014-12-11 Thread Bret Busby
On 11/12/2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Well... not sure we're typical, then again, as others have asked, what's > typical? Well put; this mailing list is, in itself, probably quite an atypical group of people, to which to put such a question; thence, what proportion of subscribers to this list,

Re: How is typical home computer used today?

2014-12-11 Thread Bret Busby
On 12/12/2014, Bret Busby wrote: > On 12/12/2014, Richard Owlett wrote: >> Lisi Reisz wrote: >>> On Thursday 11 December 2014 14:48:41 Richard Owlett wrote: The OP correctly phrased the question as "How is typical home computer used today?" As I'm the OP, I should know. >>> >>> If

Re: How is typical home computer used today?

2014-12-11 Thread Bret Busby
On 12/12/2014, Richard Owlett wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: >> On Thursday 11 December 2014 14:48:41 Richard Owlett wrote: >>> The OP correctly phrased the question as "How is typical home >>> computer used today?" >>> As I'm the OP, I should know. >> >> If we had trouble understanding it, then you

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20141211_1223+0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 11 dec 14, 18:16:05, Joel Rees wrote: > > > but I'm considering how to implement a forced fsck every now and then, > including an xfs partition, which wouldn't be checked at boot anyway. > insert fsck reminder into to-do list using cron

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20141211_1332+, Brian wrote: > On Wed 10 Dec 2014 at 14:22:59 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > On 20141210_1830+, Brian wrote: > > > On Wed 10 Dec 2014 at 19:23:07 +0300, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > > > > > > > On 10/12/2014 14:04, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > > > > > >Of cou

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-11 Thread seeker5528
On 12/11/2014 8:33 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 08.12.2014 18:59, Marty a écrit : If this proves feasible, that's what I hope to do. I just want to know if anyone thinks it's a good idea, before I commit time and resources. My knowledge of all of the issues is sketchy at best.

Re: About Testing Freeze and KDE

2014-12-11 Thread The Wanderer
On 12/11/2014 at 05:35 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > B. M. wrote: > >> The Wanderer a écrit : >> >>> I understood him as asking why freeze testing with a version >>> which excludes the latest bug fixes, when a newer version which >>> includes them is available. This is not the same as asking why >>> f

Re: How is typical home computer used today?

2014-12-11 Thread seeker5528
On 12/10/2014 11:22 PM, Bret Busby wrote: I make the point that the term is a malapropism. Not that it is invalid. A car central computer, which performs functions like heating the seats, and, determining which seats are occupied, to illuminate "seatbelt not fastened on seat ", are "multi-seat c

Re: [Preseed] Partman expert recipe Error

2014-12-11 Thread Bob Proulx
claude juif wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > I've read this doc > http://ftp.dc.volia.com/pub/debian/preseed/partman-auto-recipe.txt where it > says : > > is the maximal size for the partition, i.e. a limit > size such that there is no sense to make this partition larger. > > The special value "-1"

Re: [Preseed] Partman expert recipe Error

2014-12-11 Thread claude juif
2014-12-12 1:47 GMT+01:00 Bob Proulx : > > claude juif wrote: > > I'm stuck with partman expert_recipe for 3 days now and it's driving me > > crazy. > > The partman part of the installer is one of the more obtuse parts. > > > I've a 250GB hard drive and i try to use the following partition layout :

Re: [Preseed] Partman expert recipe Error

2014-12-11 Thread Bob Proulx
claude juif wrote: > I'm stuck with partman expert_recipe for 3 days now and it's driving me > crazy. The partman part of the installer is one of the more obtuse parts. > I've a 250GB hard drive and i try to use the following partition layout : > > primary partition > 512M /boot > 4096M swap >

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Brian
On Fri 12 Dec 2014 at 07:37:16 +1100, Charlie wrote: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 12:23:10 +0200 Andrei POPESCU sent: > > > > > The root of my sid install was created before that, so I was still > > getting the periodic check for it. The other ext4 filesystems were > > newer, so weren't checked (and

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Atomic in the original word meaning can't be cut, and stopping is a form of cutting. Rolling back is a strategy to permit stopping an atomic operation, but I am unsure thi can be done always. -- Gian Uberto Lauri Messaggio inviato da un tablet On 11/dic/2014, at 17:42, Stefan Monnier wrote: >

Re: Two monitors on a Matrox G450.

2014-12-11 Thread Sven Hartge
Ric Moore wrote: > Didja try here?: > http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/support/drivers/download/?id=143 > (this is from 2006) This contains the HAL I was talking about. >From the README: , | A working installation of XFree86 4.3.0, and X.org versions 6.7.0, | 6.8.0, 6.8.1, 6.8.2, 6.9.0, 7

Re: Bridging and VLANs?

2014-12-11 Thread Sven Hartge
Tim Nelson wrote: > The use case is that I need to bridge eth0 with eth0.2, allowing layer > two traffic to pass seamlessly between interfaces, yet still leave > eth0.3 in a usable state. The switch this system is connected to is > for all intents and purposes outside of my control, which is the

Re: About Testing Freeze and KDE

2014-12-11 Thread Bob Proulx
B. M. wrote: > The Wanderer a écrit : > > I understood him as asking why freeze testing with a version which > > excludes the latest bug fixes, when a newer version which includes them > > is available. This is not the same as asking why freeze testing with a > > version which is not the newest ver

Re: About Testing Freeze and KDE

2014-12-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > When Testing is released as Stable a new name will be chosen for the > > next release and that new name will become Testing. > > Minor nitpick: the names are already known, the release after Jessie > will be Stretch and then next one Buster. > > http

Re: Bridging and VLANs?

2014-12-11 Thread Ric Moore
On 12/11/2014 03:45 PM, Tim Nelson wrote: Greetings- I have an interesting situation that requires bridging some VLAN enabled interfaces together on a Debian 7.x x86 system. On the host, there is a single physical interface passing traffic natively (eth0), and two tagged VLANs also passing traff

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Jape Person
On 12/11/2014 03:37 PM, Charlie wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 12:23:10 +0200 Andrei POPESCU sent: The root of my sid install was created before that, so I was still getting the periodic check for it. The other ext4 filesystems were newer, so weren't checked (and I didn't even notice it). I've j

Re: Two monitors on a Matrox G450.

2014-12-11 Thread Ric Moore
On 12/11/2014 10:40 AM, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: A CRT monitor and an IBM flat monitor are connected to a Matrox G450 adapter. Please, I am not trying to be rude here. but here it comes... Is this in a desktop machine? Can you remove the board? If so, is there a window nearby? Then, open the

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Jape Person
On 12/11/2014 05:57 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 10 dec 14, 15:32:55, Jape Person wrote: But that information plus the linked items (in the info output) grub-reboot and grub-editenv may get me started toward a solution. I just thought of a different approach, using the fact that one can

Re: [minor bitch] about the panel (taskbar) LXDE

2014-12-11 Thread Jape Person
On 12/11/2014 01:56 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Andrei POPESCU writes: On Mi, 10 dec 14, 13:57:01, Harry Putnam wrote: Andrei POPESCU writes: So far every application *except xterm* I have tried has the same icon in the top left corner of its window as well as the taskbar. I tried GTK as well

Bridging and VLANs?

2014-12-11 Thread Tim Nelson
Greetings- I have an interesting situation that requires bridging some VLAN enabled interfaces together on a Debian 7.x x86 system. On the host, there is a single physical interface passing traffic natively (eth0), and two tagged VLANs also passing traffic (eth0.2 and eth0.3). The use case i

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 12:23:10 +0200 Andrei POPESCU sent: > The root of my sid install was created before that, so I was still > getting the periodic check for it. The other ext4 filesystems were > newer, so weren't checked (and I didn't even notice it). > > I've just disabled the automatic che

Re: How is typical home computer used today?

2014-12-11 Thread Richard Owlett
Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 11 December 2014 14:48:41 Richard Owlett wrote: The OP correctly phrased the question as "How is typical home computer used today?" As I'm the OP, I should know. If we had trouble understanding it, then you did *NOT* correctly phrase the question. And you have *

Re: How is typical home computer used today?

2014-12-11 Thread Joe
On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:38:29 -0500 Ric Moore wrote: > On 12/11/2014 01:17 AM, Bret Busby wrote: > > > So much metaphorical male ovine faeces. > > > > And, that is not directed at Lisi; just at the people trying to > > impose their dubious opinions and classifications, of what is, and, > > what h

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Brian
On Thu 11 Dec 2014 at 14:02:52 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 12/11/2014 1:23 PM, Brian wrote: > > > > For less work to set up than the previous method you want to take a look > > at > > > >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799574 > > > > To which Lennart responded that is not

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-11 Thread Ric Moore
On 12/11/2014 11:33 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Well... this model is still very used in enterprises. I do not speak about those old mainframes which are still bought by very huge corporations (at least, I've heard so) Huh? :D Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "Th

Re: How is typical home computer used today?

2014-12-11 Thread Ric Moore
On 12/11/2014 01:17 AM, Bret Busby wrote: So much metaphorical male ovine faeces. And, that is not directed at Lisi; just at the people trying to impose their dubious opinions and classifications, of what is, and, what has been, and, of what should be. Do you suppose Debian has become refuge

Re: How to print duplex when using lpr

2014-12-11 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 11 Dec 2014, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I sometimes use lpr in a pipeline getting postscript from groff. My > printer (HP CP2025dn) has a duplexer and I'd like to use it. I could > look up the Postscript for that, but I'm wondering if there's a way to > force either of groff or lpr to do it fo

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-11 Thread Martin Read
On 11/12/14 17:21, Richard Owlett wrote: There is a market (how large???) for a single user single task computer and OS. It's very large indeed! Apple, and the various customers (e.g. Samsung, LG, HTC) of Google and Microsoft, are quite enthusiastic about selling devices that (superficially)

Re: How to print duplex when using lpr

2014-12-11 Thread Brian
On Thu 11 Dec 2014 at 11:14:23 -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I sometimes use lpr in a pipeline getting postscript from groff. My > printer (HP CP2025dn) has a duplexer and I'd like to use it. I could look > up the Postscript for that, but I'm wondering if there's a way to force > either of grof

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 12/11/2014 1:23 PM, Brian wrote: > On Thu 11 Dec 2014 at 12:11:26 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > >> If Windows can give you the option as to when to perform a potentially >> critical (do not shut down!) and long running process, why can't Linux? > > As far as having the option of an fsck at boo

How to print duplex when using lpr

2014-12-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I sometimes use lpr in a pipeline getting postscript from groff. My printer (HP CP2025dn) has a duplexer and I'd like to use it. I could look up the Postscript for that, but I'm wondering if there's a way to force either of groff or lpr to do it for me. -- Kevin O'Gorman #define QUESTION ((bb)

Re: How is typical home computer used today?

2014-12-11 Thread Ron
On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 13:52:22 -0500 Miles Fidelman wrote: > Well, let's not forget these other common(?) uses of home computers: > - file/print server > - media server - probably headless, accessed via browser on a tablet or > smartphone > - remote access from tablet or smartphone (web browser or

Re: VPN IPSec (Cisco vpnc)

2014-12-11 Thread Mike McGinn
Here are the fields in my default.conf for vpnc and what I use them for: IPSec gateway this is the IP you use to access the vpn IPSec IDwe use this as the ID for the company. IPSec secretthis is the key Xauth username we

Re: [minor bitch] about the panel (taskbar) LXDE

2014-12-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Mi, 10 dec 14, 13:57:01, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Andrei POPESCU writes: >> >> > So far every application *except xterm* I have tried has the same icon >> > in the top left corner of its window as well as the taskbar. I tried GTK >> > as well as Qt applications. To m

Re: VPN IPSec (Cisco vpnc)

2014-12-11 Thread Hajder Rabiee
Ok thank you for your reply. I'll have a second round with the IT admins. The question remains if the pre shared key is the same as the group password? If not, how is it specified in vpnc? On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Frédéric Marchal < frederic.marc...@wowtechnology.com> wrote: > 2014-12

Re: How is typical home computer used today?

2014-12-11 Thread Miles Fidelman
Stefan Monnier wrote: There is a sort of half-way house, whereby a second user can login to a workstation without the first user logging out, but the same keyboard and screen are used and the first user cannot do anything while the second user has control. I don't know how commonly used this is,

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Brian
On Thu 11 Dec 2014 at 12:11:26 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > If Windows can give you the option as to when to perform a potentially > critical (do not shut down!) and long running process, why can't Linux? As far as having the option of an fsck at boot is concerned I've already mentioned grub's d

Re: How is typical home computer used today?

2014-12-11 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 11 December 2014 14:48:41 Richard Owlett wrote: > The OP correctly phrased the question as "How is typical home > computer used today?" > As I'm the OP, I should know. If we had trouble understanding it, then you did *NOT* correctly phrase the question. And you have *STILL* not said

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 12/11/2014 5:53 AM, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > Hi, > fsck may take time. Relax, it needs that time. >>> >>> What if I do not have that time, >> >> Find it (this includes planning - of infrastructure and procedures if >> required). > > Ok, so that means anyone with a nice laptop who wants to

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-11 Thread Richard Owlett
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: [snip] Now, if you think multi-user OSes are not that good, I think there is an OS with a different kernel somewhere (not Linux, not *BSD, not Hurd, not Windows, not ReactOS...) which wants to build a single user system. Can't remember the name, I only rememb

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> > users equally well. If it does, the relevance of having a ^C at boot >> > time for stopping an fsck might be open to examination. >> The issue goes beyond fsck. It's important to be able to interrupt >> various long-running operations (typically waiting for an event) >> during boot. > But so

Re: How is typical home computer used today? (back to original question)

2014-12-11 Thread Richard Owlett
Miles Fidelman wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: Bret Busby wrote: Surely, it would have all been so much simpler, if the original poster in the thread, had put the question "To what personal uses, do people put their computers?". What correlation need there be between *simple* questions and *use

Re: Two monitors on a Matrox G450.

2014-12-11 Thread Sven Hartge
pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > A CRT monitor and an IBM flat monitor are connected to a Matrox G450 > adapter. Both monitors display the command line interface. With X > running, the monitor on output 1 is active; the monitor on output 2 > indicates absence of signal. If the monitors are swapped ac

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-11 Thread berenger . morel
Le 10.12.2014 21:34, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : On Mi, 10 dec 14, 13:27:21, Paul E Condon wrote: What is 'PoC'? Probably will be blindly obvious once I've been told. Most likely "Proof of Concept". Yes. By PoC I mean a small set of program/library which demonstrates that something is doab

Re: how do I locate all the pictures on an Android phone?

2014-12-11 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 02:32:18PM -0200, Andre N Batista wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 06:05:13PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: > > I'm running Jessie on an AMD64 system. > > > > Last night I took some pictures and tried my usual method of > > downloading - I plugged in the phone through USB and sel

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-11 Thread berenger . morel
Le 08.12.2014 18:59, Marty a écrit : On 12/08/2014 10:43 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 08.12.2014 14:18, Marty a écrit : I almost tagged this off-topic but it's directed toward ordinary Debian users (with developer backgrounds). I first raised this on modular-debian but I wa

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 07:51:23 -0300 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 09:07:21 +0100 > Mart van de Wege wrote: > > > This is like all those people who first moved to Ubuntu back in the day, > > complaining about not being able to login as root. > > And how do you keep a mu

Re: how do I locate all the pictures on an Android phone?

2014-12-11 Thread Andre N Batista
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 06:05:13PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: > I'm running Jessie on an AMD64 system. > > Last night I took some pictures and tried my usual method of > downloading - I plugged in the phone through USB and selecting File > Manager when the notification window popped up. Navigating to

Two monitors on a Matrox G450.

2014-12-11 Thread peter
A CRT monitor and an IBM flat monitor are connected to a Matrox G450 adapter. Both monitors display the command line interface. With X running, the monitor on output 1 is active; the monitor on output 2 indicates absence of signal. If the monitors are swapped across the output connectors, o

Re: How is typical home computer used today? (back to original question)

2014-12-11 Thread Miles Fidelman
Richard Owlett wrote: Bret Busby wrote: Surely, it would have all been so much simpler, if the original poster in the thread, had put the question "To what personal uses, do people put their computers?". What correlation need there be between *simple* questions and *useful* answers? The OP

Re: How is typical home computer used today?

2014-12-11 Thread Richard Owlett
Bret Busby wrote: Surely, it would have all been so much simpler, if the original poster in the thread, had put the question "To what personal uses, do people put their computers?". What correlation need there be between *simple* questions and *useful* answers? The OP correctly phrased the

Re: About Testing Freeze and KDE

2014-12-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 10 dec 14, 13:55:13, Bob Proulx wrote: > When Testing is released as Stable a new name will be chosen for the > next release and that new name will become Testing. Minor nitpick: the names are already known, the release after Jessie will be Stretch and then next one Buster. https://lists.

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Stefan Monnier writes: > > users equally well. If it does, the relevance of having a ^C at boot > > time for stopping an fsck might be open to examination. > > The issue goes beyond fsck. It's important to be able to interrupt > various long-running operations (typically waiting for an even

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Jape Person
On 12/11/2014 05:57 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 10 dec 14, 15:32:55, Jape Person wrote: But that information plus the linked items (in the info output) grub-reboot and grub-editenv may get me started toward a solution. I just thought of a different approach, using the fact that one can m

Re: How is typical home computer used today?

2014-12-11 Thread Stefan Monnier
> There is a sort of half-way house, whereby a second user can login > to a workstation without the first user logging out, but the same > keyboard and screen are used and the first user cannot do anything > while the second user has control. I don't know how commonly used this > is, Windows has ha

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Jape Person
On 12/11/2014 05:09 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 10 dec 14, 15:32:55, Jape Person wrote: But that information plus the linked items (in the info output) grub-reboot and grub-editenv may get me started toward a solution. I think at least some of the list subscribers would be grateful for y

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Stefan Monnier
> users equally well. If it does, the relevance of having a ^C at boot > time for stopping an fsck might be open to examination. The issue goes beyond fsck. It's important to be able to interrupt various long-running operations (typically waiting for an event) during boot. Stefan --

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Brian
On Wed 10 Dec 2014 at 14:22:59 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20141210_1830+, Brian wrote: > > On Wed 10 Dec 2014 at 19:23:07 +0300, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > > > > > On 10/12/2014 14:04, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > > > >Of course, there's also the option of completely disabling

RE: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Bonno Bloksma writes: > Ok, so that means anyone with a nice laptop who wants to do some > work "just before" boarding a plane is now "at risk". Just before boarding some plane is the "bad time and place" for some work. > Just had to help someone this morning who had Windows 7 doing > updat

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-11 Thread claude juif
2014-12-11 13:41 GMT+01:00 Marty : > On 12/11/2014 02:02 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> On Wednesday 10 December 2014 18:08:00 Martin Read wrote: >> >>> On 10/12/14 13:26, Marty wrote: >>> > The industry and its plans for FOSS is strongly anti-choice: >>> > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Brian
On Thu 11 Dec 2014 at 10:53:07 +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > > Let fsck run and pray it does not halts claiming it can't fix the > > problem. > When it is started due to an unclean shutdown or something like it, we > can plan. When it simply runs "because it does that sometimes", no > thank you, I

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-11 Thread Marty
On 12/11/2014 02:02 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 10 December 2014 18:08:00 Martin Read wrote: On 10/12/14 13:26, Marty wrote: > The industry and its plans for FOSS is strongly anti-choice: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-January/msg00861.h >tml It appears to me th

RE: C++ compiler g++-4.9

2014-12-11 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi, > On 12/10/2014 01:23 PM, Nick Mpallas wrote: >> I am building a platform and I need to compile apache mesos from >> sources. The issue is that the guys the require support for specific >> c++11 features that in the 4.7 compiler currently supported by debian >> aren't there. Will the g++ co

Re: About Testing Freeze and KDE

2014-12-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 11 dec 14, 12:03:40, B. M. wrote: > > So it depends on the maintainer? Not only. > Is there any public information about how a certain maintainer thinks > about / handles that? I'd be searching the archives of: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-kde-talk http:/

Re: About Testing Freeze and KDE

2014-12-11 Thread Martin Read
On 11/12/14 07:34, B. M. wrote: Le 11 déc. 2014 à 05:10, The Wanderer a écrit : I understood him as asking why freeze testing with a version which excludes the latest bug fixes, when a newer version which includes them is available. This is not the same as asking why freeze testing with a versi

Re: VPN IPSec (Cisco vpnc)

2014-12-11 Thread Frédéric Marchal
2014-12-11 8:04 GMT+01:00 Hajder Rabiee : > Hi > > Trying to connect to VPN at work but keep getting: "vpnc: no response from > target". > > I have created my vpn.conf in /etc/vpnc/myconf.conf and also added Local > Port 1 as I've read some posts that the particular error message might > have t

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 10 dec 14, 15:32:55, Jape Person wrote: > > But that information plus the linked items (in the info output) grub-reboot > and grub-editenv may get me started toward a solution. I just thought of a different approach, using the fact that one can manipulate the "Maximum mount count" without

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Ron
On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 09:07:21 +0100 Mart van de Wege wrote: > This is like all those people who first moved to Ubuntu back in the day, > complaining about not being able to login as root. And how do you keep a multi-user box safe if any user can sudo ? Cheers, Ron. -- L

RE: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi, >> > fsck may take time. Relax, it needs that time. >> >> What if I do not have that time, > > Find it (this includes planning - of infrastructure and procedures if > required). Ok, so that means anyone with a nice laptop who wants to do some work "just before" boarding a plane is now "at r

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Reco
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 06:16:05PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > 2014/12/11 3:48 "Brian" : > > > > On Wed 10 Dec 2014 at 19:23:07 +0300, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > > > > > On 10/12/2014 14:04, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > > > >Of course, there's also the option of completely disabling automat

Re: About Testing Freeze and KDE

2014-12-11 Thread B. M.
Le 11 déc. 2014 à 11:41, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : > On Mi, 10 dec 14, 23:10:36, The Wanderer wrote: >> >> IOW, if version 2.2.4 of a program is packaged, and upstream releases >> version 2.3.0 after the freeze, it might be reasonable to stick with >> 2.2.4 in preparing testing for release - but

Re: About Testing Freeze and KDE

2014-12-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 10 dec 14, 23:10:36, The Wanderer wrote: > > IOW, if version 2.2.4 of a program is packaged, and upstream releases > version 2.3.0 after the freeze, it might be reasonable to stick with > 2.2.4 in preparing testing for release - but if upstream releases 2.2.5 > as a bugfix release for the 2

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 11 dec 14, 18:16:05, Joel Rees wrote: > > Odd. The last time I booted my wheezy-by-install system, it did an > automatic fsck. > > I did nothing in particular to enable that. > > I think you are reading things into the documentation that you want to be > there. Check filesystem creation

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 10 dec 14, 15:32:55, Jape Person wrote: > > But that information plus the linked items (in the info output) grub-reboot > and grub-editenv may get me started toward a solution. I think at least some of the list subscribers would be grateful for your findings. Kind regards, Andrei -- htt

Re: GNU Barcodes

2014-12-11 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 01:54:08AM -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > Dear List - > > I wish to be able to print a barcode .5 inches from top of the page and > centered. > > I generate the barcode - > > yes 12345 | head -84 | barcode -p 5x5.0cm -umm -e CODE39 > test.ps; First of all, try viewing

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Joel Rees
2014/12/11 3:48 "Brian" : > > On Wed 10 Dec 2014 at 19:23:07 +0300, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > > > On 10/12/2014 14:04, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > >Of course, there's also the option of completely disabling automatic > > >fsck (there are several ways to do this), as I understand is the

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Mart van de Wege
Stefan Monnier writes: >>> Actually, it's *always* a surprise. These fsck happen at long enough >>> intervals, that I can never know if it was "4 months ago" or "7 months >>> ago", and neither can I remember which laptop/desktop has the delay set >>> to 172 days vs 194 days vs 98 days vs ... >>

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Christian Groessler writes: > > ^C could be unresponsive nevertheless, the process being stuck in kernel > > space and thus completely oblivious of the signals thrown at it. > > > This would be a different problem hinting at a kernel bug... Non necessarily a bug. We have to accept that exis

Re: GNU Barcodes

2014-12-11 Thread Johann Klammer
On 12/11/2014 08:10 AM, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > Dear List - > > I wish to be able to print a barcode .5 inches from top of the page and > centered. > > I generate the barcode - > > yes 12345 | head -84 | barcode -p 5x5.0cm -umm -e CODE39 > test.ps; > > and print - > > lpr -o media=letter -#1

Re: How is typical home computer used today?

2014-12-11 Thread Bret Busby
On 11/12/2014, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 11 December 2014 07:22:07 Bret Busby wrote: >> Hence, is the term, in the context that it has been otherwise used in >> this thread, to refer instead, to multi-user computers, not a >> malapropism? > > The original term may or may not have been a mala

Re: How is typical home computer used today?

2014-12-11 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 11 December 2014 07:22:07 Bret Busby wrote: > Hence, is the term, in the context that it has been otherwise used in > this thread, to refer instead, to multi-user computers, not a > malapropism? The original term may or may not have been a malapropism. Let us not get into that. But