Re: free cloud

2015-04-09 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 01:31:17AM +0200, deloptes wrote: > I agree - everything comes at a price. There are multiple > issues like NSA, privacy, security and availability of mails > and other data, but everything has its cost. I looked at this post too quickly and thought I saw the phrase "NS

Re: free cloud

2015-04-09 Thread deloptes
Petter Adsen wrote: > are located in Sweden, and thus covered by European data protection > laws. This must be a joke - since when Sweden is protecting any rights of the people? Do you follow up what is going on there? We have equipment in Germany, but looking now for options to do it in Austria

Re: Architecture independent package

2015-04-09 Thread spp mg
ok, I can run hime now. but big problem. This is what I did . 1. apt-get download 2. dpkg -i 3. dpkg --configure --force-all apt-get download hime:i386 hime-data dpkg -i hime_0.9.10-5_i386.deb --ignore-depends=hime-data <--ignore-depends option look like no effect. apt

Re: Book questions

2015-04-09 Thread Bret Busby
On 09/04/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Thu, 09 Apr 2015 23:00:46 +1000 > Alexis wrote: > >> >> Petter Adsen writes: >> >> > For a long time I've been meaning to learn more about regular >> > expressions, and I found the following books: "Mastering Regular >> > Expressions" and "Sed & awk", both

Re: Architecture independent package

2015-04-09 Thread spp mg
Thanks your reply. I know "architecture-independent means this package contains only files which are readable on any arch." But apt disallow install. $ apt-cache depends hime:i386 hime:i386 Depends: libc6:i386 Depends: libcairo2:i386 Depends: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0:i386 Depends: libglib2.0-0

Re: Book questions

2015-04-09 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 03:28:24PM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Thu, 9 Apr 2015 08:32:38 -0400 > Dan Ritter wrote: > > > 'man perlre' (perl regular expressions) is a good reference in > > most cases; more so if you're actually using perl, of course. > > It's been a long time since I used perl

Re: apt-offline usage

2015-04-09 Thread francois
On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 11:29:35AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: franc...@avalenn.eu > Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 13:40:25 +0100 > > If I remember correctly but this is from memory from 3 or 4 years ago > > it is possible to need two round-trip between networked and isolated > > server

Help filing bug report. Segfault in network-manager importing .ovpn files

2015-04-09 Thread Lee Yates
Hi, I got this email from the Debian bugs page. I'm only testing Jessie in a VM while considering moving back from Arch Linux on an older desktop machine. I run Wheezy headless on my VPS but that's it. I came across a consistent bug in Jessie in (I believe) network-manager while importing .ov

Re: Book questions

2015-04-09 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 09 Apr 2015 23:00:46 +1000 Alexis wrote: > > Petter Adsen writes: > > > For a long time I've been meaning to learn more about regular > > expressions, and I found the following books: "Mastering Regular > > Expressions" and "Sed & awk", both from O'Reilly. Does anyone > > have any e

RE: Book questions

2015-04-09 Thread Larry Owens
-Original Message- From: Petter Adsen [mailto:pet...@synth.no] Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2015 5:15 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Book questions This might be a little off-topic, as it is not Debian-specific, but I hope those here with experience will bear with me. I was

Re: Book questions

2015-04-09 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 9 Apr 2015 08:32:38 -0400 Dan Ritter wrote: > On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 02:15:12PM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > > For a long time I've been meaning to learn more about regular > > expressions, and I found the following books: "Mastering Regular > > Expressions" and "Sed & awk", both from O'

Re: free cloud

2015-04-09 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 09 Apr 2015 08:38:12 -0400 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > perspective. I don't feel comfortable with countries that openly > > cooperate with the intelligence services. > > As opposed to those who do it covertly, you mean? > > > Stefan "not funny" Not going into that one, but I mig

Re: Book questions

2015-04-09 Thread Alexis
Petter Adsen writes: For a long time I've been meaning to learn more about regular expressions, and I found the following books: "Mastering Regular Expressions" and "Sed & awk", both from O'Reilly. Does anyone have any experience with these, and an opinion as to which I should start with?

Re: free cloud

2015-04-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
> perspective. I don't feel comfortable with countries that openly cooperate > with the intelligence services. As opposed to those who do it covertly, you mean? Stefan "not funny" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: Architecture independent package

2015-04-09 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 07:57:43PM +0800, sppmg wrote: > Hi all > I want type Chinese in skype in Debian (testing) amd64, so I need this > package : > > "hime" > (skype need "hime-qt4-immodule:i386" , I google to get this .) > > It's will depend "hime-data:i386". But hime-data is architectur

Re: Book questions

2015-04-09 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 02:15:12PM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > For a long time I've been meaning to learn more about regular > expressions, and I found the following books: "Mastering Regular > Expressions" and "Sed & awk", both from O'Reilly. Does anyone have any > experience with these, and an o

Re: Architecture independent package

2015-04-09 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* sppmg [2015-04-09 19:57 +0800]: > Hi all > I want type Chinese in skype in Debian (testing) amd64, so I need this > package : > > "hime" > (skype need "hime-qt4-immodule:i386" , I google to get this .) > > It's will depend "hime-data:i386". But hime-data is architecture > independent pac

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-09 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Op 09-04-15 om 12:02 schreef Bret Busby: > 00.01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD nee ATI > Device 9852 I don't know this device. When it's a relative new device, and does not work well, I would try a newer Linux kernel from backports. Something like this: https://package

Book questions

2015-04-09 Thread Petter Adsen
This might be a little off-topic, as it is not Debian-specific, but I hope those here with experience will bear with me. I was rummaging through a bunch of books I was given when I did some work for a book distributor, and found a few things that might be interesting. For a long time I've been me

Architecture independent package

2015-04-09 Thread sppmg
Hi all I want type Chinese in skype in Debian (testing) amd64, so I need this package : "hime" (skype need "hime-qt4-immodule:i386" , I google to get this .) It's will depend "hime-data:i386". But hime-data is architecture independent package, there is no ":i386" . How can i solve this ? Th

Re: Video Compression

2015-04-09 Thread Jochen Spieker
Thomas H. George: > > I need an beginer's guide to video compression. The man page for ffmpeg > is daunting and I can find no explanations of the tools in libav-tools The whole topic _is_ daunting. The best tool is HandBrake, available in wheezy-backports and testing/sid. > I have short avi HD vi

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-09 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Bret Busby writes: > 00.01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD nee ATI > Device 9852 Type xrandr. You should have one entry for each possible connector. I.E. saint@quigley:~ 12:22:39 [9] $xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2390 x 768, maximum 8192 x 8192 LVDS1 con

Re: Update only of security vulnerabilities?

2015-04-09 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Op 09-04-15 om 11:31 schreef Rafał Radecki: > Hi All :) > > Is usage of > > 1) # unattended-upgrade --dry-run > > command with proper configuration of > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades file the best choice for > checking available security updates? > > Another options as I found are:

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-09 Thread Bret Busby
On 09/04/2015, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > Op 09-04-15 om 11:22 schreef Bret Busby: >> Hello. >> >> On a new installation of Debian 7 on an Acer "laptop" computer with an >> AMD Radeon R2 graphics adaptor, the external monitor does not work. >> >> The external monitor works with MS Win 7, with MS W

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-09 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Op 09-04-15 om 11:22 schreef Bret Busby: > Hello. > > On a new installation of Debian 7 on an Acer "laptop" computer with an > AMD Radeon R2 graphics adaptor, the external monitor does not work. > > The external monitor works with MS Win 7, with MS Win 8, with Debian > 6, and with Ununtu 12.04 an

Update only of security vulnerabilities?

2015-04-09 Thread Rafał Radecki
Hi All :) Is usage of 1) # unattended-upgrade --dry-run command with proper configuration of /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades file the best choice for checking available security updates? Another options as I found are: 2) #apt-get -s dist-upgrade | grep "^Inst" | grep -i security" 3)

Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-09 Thread Bret Busby
Hello. On a new installation of Debian 7 on an Acer "laptop" computer with an AMD Radeon R2 graphics adaptor, the external monitor does not work. The external monitor works with MS Win 7, with MS Win 8, with Debian 6, and with Ununtu 12.04 and with Ubuntu 14.04. On another Acer "laptop" computer

Re: No suspend in XFCE without systemd?

2015-04-09 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Op 09-04-15 om 06:39 schreef Ric Moore: (...) > Let me be clear, if this is a > one time payment to install an operating system, I wouldn't pick a path > that might prove troublesome in the future, which would result in > freebie comebacks IF the customization fails at some point. Most customers

Re: Towards an "instructive" Debian installation

2015-04-09 Thread Richard Owlett
Richard Owlett wrote: [snip why I wish to do install with debootstrap] I list some links I've found useful to varying degrees. Some don't reference debootstrap directly but illustrate side issues that come under the heading "everybody knows that". http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/debootstrap

Re: No suspend in XFCE without systemd?

2015-04-09 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Op 08-04-15 om 23:45 schreef Brian: > On Wed 08 Apr 2015 at 19:07:05 +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > >> I've made a Debian Jessie laptop for a customer, who does not want >> systemd. Because of dependencies with systemd I don't have policykit >> installed. >> >> When I do a "pm-suspend" as root

Re: wget vs curl (was ... Re: debian 8)

2015-04-09 Thread Reco
On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 01:17:15PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > Reco wrote: > > > So, in the case of doubt - you use curl or rebuild wget against > > > openssl. It's that simple. > > I know that people have strong feelings for and against curl and wget. > I haven't ever under

Re: Webcam device `not found'

2015-04-09 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-08, Bret Busby wrote: > On 08/04/2015, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2015-03-31, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >>> Hi all. >>> >>> On my Acer Aspire One netbook, when I launch cheese, it complain that the >>> device is `not found'. Googling around I've found many similar issues but >>> no >>> so

Re: No suspend in XFCE without systemd?

2015-04-09 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Op 09-04-15 om 00:09 schreef deloptes: > Brian wrote: > >> Perhaps you can be more detailed about two things? >> >> 1. What does your customer mean by "does not want systemd""? If this a >> matter of not wanting systemd as the init system Jessie already >> accomodates this. >> >> 2. What steps did