Re: One noob, 3 orphan source packages, 14 .deb, looking for a sponsor

2015-08-20 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday 20 August 2015 01:02:32 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > If it is not too daring, then i would propose this roadmap > for refurbishing the burner corner of Debian: > > - I learn what kind of signing is meant with > http://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers > "All packages must be sign

Re: One noob, 3 orphan source packages, 14 .deb, looking for a sponsor

2015-08-20 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday 19 August 2015 19:38:16 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > I see. The man page effect again. > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/dreq.en.html#copyright You can also use "cme update dpkg-copyright" to update debian/copyright file. See [1] for more details. [1] https://ddumont.wor

Re: How come i wrote a NO-BREAK SPACE in xterm+bash ?

2015-08-20 Thread Erwan David
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 04:56:54AM CEST, David Wright said: > Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > > On 2015-08-19 16:33:09 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > Quoting Thomas Schmitt (scdbac...@gmx.net): > > > > But the typographical purpose of NO-BREAK SPACE is to look > > > > like space

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-20 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:46:40PM +0100, Brian wrote: [...] > Your point is a good one, as is John Hasler's. > > But it really doesn't matter how much malware a user has stacked up in > their $HOME as long as the system is safe. The safeness of the

Re: How come i wrote a NO-BREAK SPACE in xterm+bash ?

2015-08-20 Thread David Wright
Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > On 2015-08-19 12:55:39 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > > > In general, one wants NO-BREAK SPACE to be displayed just like a space. > > > > Why would I want a character that doesn't behave as a space to b

Re: How come i wrote a NO-BREAK SPACE in xterm+bash ?

2015-08-20 Thread David Wright
Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > On 2015-08-19 16:33:09 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Thomas Schmitt (scdbac...@gmx.net): > > > But the typographical purpose of NO-BREAK SPACE is to look > > > like space without inviting an automatic line break. > > > So making it look not l

Re: no pulse audio- so now new sound trouble

2015-08-20 Thread briand
On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 10:08:40 +0200 Nicolas George wrote: > Le duodi 2 fructidor, an CCXXIII, bri...@aracnet.com a écrit : > > .asoundrc > > > > pcm.!default { > > type hw > > card 2 > > } > > With this, you are bypassing all the ALSA plugin infrastructure. In > particular, you are bypas

metatrader 4

2015-08-20 Thread Ben Case
can you get metatrader 4 software in Debian or can you use mt4's from different brokers?

Re: How come i wrote a NO-BREAK SPACE in xterm+bash ?

2015-08-20 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-08-19 16:33:09 -0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Thomas Schmitt (scdbac...@gmx.net): > > But the typographical purpose of NO-BREAK SPACE is to look > > like space without inviting an automatic line break. > > So making it look not like space would be absurd. > > But shell input is not a

Re: How come i wrote a NO-BREAK SPACE in xterm+bash ?

2015-08-20 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-08-19 12:55:39 -0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > > In general, one wants NO-BREAK SPACE to be displayed just like a space. > > Why would I want a character that doesn't behave as a space to be > displayed as a normal space? (For example, in the sh

Re: trouble reconfiguring xserver-xorg

2015-08-20 Thread Haines Brown
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:52:50PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2015-08-20 21:17 +0200, Haines Brown wrote: > > > Startx on a jessie desktop machine goes to a VESA display instead of the > > higher resolution supported by my video card. > > That could be a kernel bug, or the sign of a failing

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-20 Thread Nicolas George
Le tridi 3 fructidor, an CCXXIII, Brian a écrit : > Yes. Without system integrity a user's files are worthless. Protecting > the system protects *all* users. That is the responsibility of the > administrator. So basically, you are saying that protecting the system is more important than protecting

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-20 Thread Brian
On Fri 21 Aug 2015 at 00:19:55 +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Le tridi 3 fructidor, an CCXXIII, Brian a écrit : > > But it really doesn't matter how much malware a user has stacked up in > > their $HOME as long as the system is safe. > > Do you really consider that the system, mostly made from fi

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-20 Thread Michael Jones
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, another reason for av is PCI compliance (yes you are targeting software for windows mainly). In a large company I worked for previously a user recieved a mail with some pics, downloaded and clicked around which ended up with their pc, and every

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 20 August 2015 23:19:55 Nicolas George wrote: > Le tridi 3 fructidor, an CCXXIII, Brian a écrit : > > But it really doesn't matter how much malware a user has stacked up in > > their $HOME as long as the system is safe. > > Do you really consider that the system, mostly made from files

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-20 Thread Nicolas George
Le tridi 3 fructidor, an CCXXIII, Brian a écrit : > But it really doesn't matter how much malware a user has stacked up in > their $HOME as long as the system is safe. Do you really consider that the system, mostly made from files widely distributed, is more precious than the users' personal files

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 20 August 2015 22:46:40 Brian wrote: > On Thu 20 Aug 2015 at 17:16:13 -0400, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 15:45:09 -0500 > > > > John Hasler wrote: > > > the main reason why we needn't worry about it on the desktop is > > > that there are so few of us using it that it

systemd vs sysvinit: init script arguments

2015-08-20 Thread Stuart Longland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi all, I've got a silly question regarding systemd. I'm currently writing a data collection software package which pulls data from various sources and provides a real-time and historical data interface for trending and analysis. Basically the dat

Re: Starting, installing Redmine

2015-08-20 Thread Brian
On Thu 20 Aug 2015 at 14:35:00 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > On 08/20/2015 09:39 AM, Brian wrote: > >On Thu 20 Aug 2015 at 16:25:20 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > >>On Thursday 20 August 2015 15:30:04 Chris Bannister wrote: > >>>To be fair, there are some Debian.readme which make no sense to an end >

Re: Me vs. Qemu

2015-08-20 Thread Stuart Longland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 21/08/15 01:39, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 11:26:48AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: >> I am back to the list to submit virt progress (or lack thereof) >> reports. >> >> I have what appears to be a working OpenBSD vm running in a v

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-20 Thread Brian
On Thu 20 Aug 2015 at 17:16:13 -0400, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 15:45:09 -0500 > John Hasler wrote: > > > the main reason why we needn't worry about it on the desktop is > > that there are so few of us using it that it not worth the criminals' > > time to create it. > > Anothe

Re: Starting, installing Redmine

2015-08-20 Thread Gary Roach
On 08/20/2015 09:39 AM, Brian wrote: On Thu 20 Aug 2015 at 16:25:20 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 20 August 2015 15:30:04 Chris Bannister wrote: To be fair, there are some Debian.readme which make no sense to an end user. I've seen some Debian.readme files which talk about about how to

Re: Starting, installing Redmine

2015-08-20 Thread Gary Roach
On 08/20/2015 02:01 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 09:53:52AM +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: I would disable the redmine.conf as it can overlap with apache2-passenger-alias.conf And it makes no sense to have 2 configs for the

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-20 Thread Ron
On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 15:45:09 -0500 John Hasler wrote: > the main reason why we needn't worry about it on the desktop is > that there are so few of us using it that it not worth the criminals' > time to create it. Another is that our systems are not nearly as standardized as those from Redmont,

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-20 Thread Brian
On Thu 20 Aug 2015 at 15:11:09 -0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Brian (a...@cityscape.co.uk): > > On Thu 20 Aug 2015 at 19:24:49 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 21:58:50 +0400 > > > Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: > > > > > > Hello Dwijesh, > > > > > > >Hello guys. I wanted

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-20 Thread Brian
On Thu 20 Aug 2015 at 15:57:26 -0400, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 20:30:18 +0100 > Brian wrote: > > > I refuse to take your advice to install AV software simply because > > I have a mail server. I am not "well advised". > > Or you neglect your duty to the clients of your mail

Re: trouble reconfiguring xserver-xorg

2015-08-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2015-08-20 21:17 +0200, Haines Brown wrote: > Startx on a jessie desktop machine goes to a VESA display instead of the > higher resolution supported by my video card. That could be a kernel bug, or the sign of a failing monitor (it might no longer give correct EDID information, for instance).

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-20 Thread John Hasler
While it would be possible (though very difficult) to write malware for Linux the main reason why we needn't worry about it on the desktop is that there are so few of us using it that it not worth the criminals' time to create it. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
>https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/284124-myth-busting-is-linux-immune-to-viruses Nobody serious would claim that a system like GNU/Linux can be immune. But that doesn't mean that anti-virus software is a good way to protect a GNU/Linux system. Stefan

Re: Ian, this tutorial’s for you

2015-08-20 Thread Tiffany T
Hey Ian,   My emails have been ending up in the spam folder more often than I'd like lately and just wanted to make sure it didn't happen for you - forgetting about it is OK though ;)   Let me know when you can.   Best, Tiffany Tiffany | tiff...@udemy.com Udemy, as featured in: Fortune: "Onlin

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
> We run a list server. Clamav and spamassassin find viruses and spam all > the time. Not finding spam would indeed be pretty scary. As for finding viruses, don't forget that finding viruses is only useful if that virus would have infected some other machine. Viruses "caught" by anti-virus soft

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-20 Thread David Wright
Quoting Brian (a...@cityscape.co.uk): > On Thu 20 Aug 2015 at 19:24:49 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > > > On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 21:58:50 +0400 > > Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: > > > > Hello Dwijesh, > > > > >Hello guys. I wanted to know if antivirus is required for Debian or for > > >linux in general. And

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Hello guys. I wanted to know if antivirus is required for Debian or for > linux in general. And if it is required, what are the recommended antivirus > for Debian? The corresponding Debian package is `unattended-upgrades'. Much more efficient, and much more secure. Stefan

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-20 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 08:30:18PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Thu 20 Aug 2015 at 19:24:49 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > > > On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 21:58:50 +0400 > > Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: > > > > Hello Dwijesh, > > > > >Hello guys. I wanted to know if antivirus is required for Debian or for > > >linu

trouble reconfiguring xserver-xorg

2015-08-20 Thread Haines Brown
Startx on a jessie desktop machine goes to a VESA display instead of the higher resolution supported by my video card. In Xorg log is the error: (EE) NOUVEAU(0): [COPY] failed to allocate class I searched on line for what this means without luck. Only a hint that it might be a harmless err

Request virtualbox setup advice

2015-08-20 Thread Whit Hansell
Hey guys, Been reading the virtual noob posts and a statement there intrigued me. Someone said Oracle recommended using the virtualbox files from their site rather than from the distro(Debian 8 - Jessie-AMD64). I have used virtualbox in the past and had difficulty with I/O(usb) and found out

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-20 Thread Ron
On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 20:30:18 +0100 Brian wrote: > I refuse to take your advice to install AV software simply because I have a > mail server. I am not "well advised". Or you neglect your duty to the clients of your mail server. Cheers, Ron. -- You can always rely on America do

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 20 August 2015 20:50:43 Miles Fidelman wrote: > Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 19:33:17 +0100 > > > > Brian wrote: > >> On Thu 20 Aug 2015 at 20:24:16 +0200, Diogene Laerce wrote: > Hello guys. I wanted to know if antivirus is required for Debian or > for

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-20 Thread Stuart Longland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 21/08/15 04:50, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 19:33:17 +0100 Brian > wrote: > >> On Thu 20 Aug 2015 at 20:24:16 +0200, Diogene Laerce wrote: > Hello guys. I wanted to know if antivirus is required for Debian or for

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 20 August 2015 20:39:39 Miles Fidelman wrote: > doug wrote: > > On 08/20/2015 01:58 PM, Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: > >> Hello guys. I wanted to know if antivirus is required for Debian or > >> for linux in general. And if it is required, what are the recommended > >> antivirus for Debian? >

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-20 Thread Miles Fidelman
Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 19:33:17 +0100 Brian wrote: On Thu 20 Aug 2015 at 20:24:16 +0200, Diogene Laerce wrote: Hello guys. I wanted to know if antivirus is required for Debian or for linux in general. And if it is required, what are the recommended antivirus for Debia

Re: cons25 Terminal is Almost but not Quite Right for a Job.

2015-08-20 Thread Martin McCormick
Darac Marjal wrote: > What terminal are you using? Are you using an actual vt100 terminal, a > vt(NNN) terminal (e.g. a vt200 or vt400 or similar), the linux virtual > console, a terminal emulator (such as xterm, gnome-terminal etc)? > > Ideally, TERM should be set to the name of the actual termi

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-20 Thread Miles Fidelman
doug wrote: On 08/20/2015 01:58 PM, Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: Hello guys. I wanted to know if antivirus is required for Debian or for linux in general. And if it is required, what are the recommended antivirus for Debian? Thank you in advance. With Kind Regards, Dwijesh I use clamav. I don't re

Re: Me vs. Qemu

2015-08-20 Thread Bob Weber
On 08/20/2015 11:26 AM, Bob Bernstein wrote: > I am back to the list to submit virt progress (or lack thereof) reports. > > I have what appears to be a working OpenBSD vm running in a very little tiny > qemu window (have yet to launch X) on my Jessie. > > Please review the following steps I took.

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-20 Thread Brian
On Thu 20 Aug 2015 at 19:24:49 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 21:58:50 +0400 > Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: > > Hello Dwijesh, > > >Hello guys. I wanted to know if antivirus is required for Debian or for > >linux in general. And if it is required, what are the recommended > >antiviru

Re: new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-20 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 14:48:11 -0400 doug wrote: Hello doug, >actually going to watch movies on a laptop? Why not? People watch them on a wristwatch these days. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" Keep your drink j

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-20 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 21:58:50 +0400 Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: Hello Dwijesh, >Hello guys. I wanted to know if antivirus is required for Debian or for >linux in general. And if it is required, what are the recommended >antivirus for Debian? The viruses that run on linux (any distro) are few and far

Re: new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-20 Thread Nicolas George
Le tridi 3 fructidor, an CCXXIII, doug a écrit : > If the DVD is not a writer as well as a player, it's not a good deal at > all, but BluRay is worse Why would it be worse? Anything a DVD drive can do, a BD drive is supposed to be able to do as well. Really, there is no hesitation: if the only d

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-20 Thread doug
On 08/20/2015 01:58 PM, Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: Hello guys. I wanted to know if antivirus is required for Debian or for linux in general. And if it is required, what are the recommended antivirus for Debian? Thank you in advance. With Kind Regards, Dwijesh I use clamav. I don't remember ever s

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-20 Thread Ron
On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 19:33:17 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Thu 20 Aug 2015 at 20:24:16 +0200, Diogene Laerce wrote: > > > Hello guys. I wanted to know if antivirus is required for Debian or > > > for linux in general. And if it is required, what are the recommended > > > antivirus for Debian? > > > Th

Re: new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-20 Thread doug
On 08/20/2015 12:53 PM, ken wrote: On 08/20/2015 10:14 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 20/08/15 06:53 AM, ken wrote: One of the build options for a laptop I'm looking at buying is DVD vs Blu-Ray. I've never used Blue-ray before, so is there some compelling reason, as a Linux guy, to want to get Blu-r

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-20 Thread Brian
On Thu 20 Aug 2015 at 20:24:16 +0200, Diogene Laerce wrote: > Hi, > > Le 20/08/2015 19:58, Dwijesh Gajadur a écrit : > > Hello guys. I wanted to know if antivirus is required for Debian or > > for linux in general. And if it is required, what are the recommended > > antivirus for Debian? > > Than

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-20 Thread Brian
On Thu 20 Aug 2015 at 14:08:44 -0400, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 21:58:50 +0400 > Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: > > > Hello guys. I wanted to know if antivirus is required for Debian or for > > linux in general. And if it is required, what are the recommended antivirus > > for Debian?

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-20 Thread Diogene Laerce
Hi, Le 20/08/2015 19:58, Dwijesh Gajadur a écrit : > Hello guys. I wanted to know if antivirus is required for Debian or > for linux in general. And if it is required, what are the recommended > antivirus for Debian? > Thank you in advance. Required no, advised I guess. https://www.linux.com/lea

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-20 Thread Brian
On Thu 20 Aug 2015 at 21:58:50 +0400, Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: > Hello guys. I wanted to know if antivirus is required for Debian or for > linux in general. And if it is required, what are the recommended antivirus > for Debian? > Thank you in advance. None is needed.

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-20 Thread Ron
On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 21:58:50 +0400 Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: > Hello guys. I wanted to know if antivirus is required for Debian or for > linux in general. And if it is required, what are the recommended antivirus > for Debian? The only time you may want an anti-virus is when you are running a mail

Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-20 Thread Dwijesh Gajadur
Hello guys. I wanted to know if antivirus is required for Debian or for linux in general. And if it is required, what are the recommended antivirus for Debian? Thank you in advance. With Kind Regards, Dwijesh

Re: new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-20 Thread ken
On 08/20/2015 10:14 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 20/08/15 06:53 AM, ken wrote: One of the build options for a laptop I'm looking at buying is DVD vs Blu-Ray. I've never used Blue-ray before, so is there some compelling reason, as a Linux guy, to want to get Blu-ray? The decision isn't that simple

Re: Starting, installing Redmine

2015-08-20 Thread Brian
On Thu 20 Aug 2015 at 16:25:20 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 20 August 2015 15:30:04 Chris Bannister wrote: > > To be fair, there are some Debian.readme which make no sense to an end > > user. I've seen some Debian.readme files which talk about about how to > > compile the program. Hello?

Re: live build

2015-08-20 Thread humbert . olivier . 1
> From: "Gerard ROBIN" > > Hello, > I am using "live build" and I don't need the package > prism2-usb-firmware-installer and I would like to know how prevent this > package to be installed. > On the other hand this package requests a connection unresponsive, and > "lb buid" can't to be complet

Re: Me vs. Qemu

2015-08-20 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 11:26:48AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > I am back to the list to submit virt progress (or lack thereof) > reports. > > I have what appears to be a working OpenBSD vm running in a very > little tiny qemu window (have yet to launch X) on my Jessie. > > Please review the fol

Me vs. Qemu

2015-08-20 Thread Bob Bernstein
I am back to the list to submit virt progress (or lack thereof) reports. I have what appears to be a working OpenBSD vm running in a very little tiny qemu window (have yet to launch X) on my Jessie. Please review the following steps I took. They may be flawed so much as to account for the _

Re: Starting, installing Redmine

2015-08-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 20 August 2015 15:30:04 Chris Bannister wrote: > To be fair, there are some Debian.readme which make no sense to an end > user. I've seen some Debian.readme files which talk about about how to > compile the program. Hello? Isn't Debian a "binary" distribution. Yes. So someone - you? m

Re: cons25 Terminal is Almost but not Quite Right for a Job.

2015-08-20 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 09:50:36AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > I normally use vt100 when in command-line mode but I > needed a different terminal for dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config. > The garbage I get is what one usually receives when the > application is expecting to see a cons25 termin

Re: Starting, installing Redmine (starting over)

2015-08-20 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Hi, I haven't read all the thread. I'm running redmine on a testing/sid system using unicorn and nginx. So I can't help much with the apache configuration. The problem seems to be that you want to install redmine in a sub-URI /redmine . For that I read http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki

Re: [CentOS] new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, ken wrote: > One of the build options for a laptop I'm looking at buying is DVD vs > Blu-Ray. I've never used Blue-ray before, so is there some compelling > reason, as a Linux guy, to want to get Blu-ray? If you want to backup disk files, then BD is much less cumbersome than DVD. My Debian 8

cons25 Terminal is Almost but not Quite Right for a Job.

2015-08-20 Thread Martin McCormick
I normally use vt100 when in command-line mode but I needed a different terminal for dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config. The garbage I get is what one usually receives when the application is expecting to see a cons25 terminal so that is what I set $TERM to as in: export TERM="cons25" It works

Re: Anyone else having password failures at pop.gmail.com?

2015-08-20 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Thursday 20 August 2015 07:53:33 Joel Rees wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 7:22 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > They apparently did something just before 15:00 local time (GMT-4=EDT > > today, as both mailfilter and fetchmail are now reporting a password > > authorization failure. > > > > Thats t

Re: Starting, installing Redmine

2015-08-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 09:34:23AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 19 August 2015 06:23:07 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > I'm sitting here at Debconf [3], among literally hundreds of Debian > > developers, all of them working hard (many of them in their free > > time) > > I thought all of the

Re: Anyone else having password failures at pop.gmail.com?

2015-08-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 20 August 2015 08:40:10 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 20 August 2015 03:39:35 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Thursday 20 August 2015 06:15:40 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > I'm not having problems.  So far.  Your email came via Gmail, > > > > and I'll send this via Gmail and see if it goes

Re: new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/08/15 06:53 AM, ken wrote: One of the build options for a laptop I'm looking at buying is DVD vs Blu-Ray. I've never used Blue-ray before, so is there some compelling reason, as a Linux guy, to want to get Blu-ray? The decision isn't that simple. As others have pointed out, the "no o

Re: should I get rid of pulse audio ?

2015-08-20 Thread Nicolas George
Le quartidi 4 fructidor, an CCXXIII, Chris Bannister a écrit : > What file(s) are you talking about here? ~ $ apt-file show -x '^pulseaudio$' | grep '/usr/share/alsa' pulseaudio: /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/pulse.conf pulseaudio: /usr/share/alsa/pulse-alsa.conf You can see that, at the very least

Re: should I get rid of pulse audio ?

2015-08-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 04:18:32PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Le primidi 1er fructidor, an CCXXIII, Ric Moore a écrit : > > Pulse generally is a pussycat. It sits on top of alsa and if alsa is broken, > > pulse is broken. > > On the other hand, there are situations where ALSA works perfectly a

Re: new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
> One of the build options for a laptop I'm looking at buying is DVD vs > Blu-Ray. I've never used Blue-ray before, so is there some compelling > reason, as a Linux guy, to want to get Blu-ray? Get neither: nowadays an optical reader is just a relic of the past, making your laptop heavier and red

nosh version 1.18

2015-08-20 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
nosh is now up to version 1.18 * http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/Softwares/nosh.html The big news for this release is the nosh-run-system-manager Debian binary package. This, and the new additional service bundles in nosh-bundles, package up everything that is needed for

Re: Anyone else having password failures at pop.gmail.com?

2015-08-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 20 August 2015 03:39:35 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 20 August 2015 06:15:40 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > I'm not having problems.  So far.  Your email came via Gmail, and > > > I'll send this via Gmail and see if it goes through.  If it > > > arrives, it did. ;-) > > > > > > Lisi > >

Re: Problems with php5-fpm/nginx/ownCloud after upgrade

2015-08-20 Thread Peter Ludikovsky
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, For documentation purposes, if someone might stumple on this. On debian-user-german it was suggested [1] that a new snippet has been added to nginx for FastCGI [0]. Using that snippet solved my issue. Regards, Peter Ludikovsky [0] Bug report

Re: [CentOS] new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-20 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 20 Aug 2015, Hal Wigoda wrote: Personal preference. Who uses blu ray? Who uses DVDs? This really isn't a winning discussion. If you want to read/write blu-ray disks, then buy a blu-ray reader/writer. If you don't, don't. You can get a blu ray writer for ~£50, so it really should

Re: [CentOS] new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-20 Thread Hal Wigoda
Personal preference. Who uses blu ray? Who uses DVDs? Anyway. (Sent from iPhone, so please accept my apologies in advance for any spelling or grammatical errors.) > On Aug 20, 2015, at 6:21 AM, ken wrote: > >> On 08/20/2015 07:04 AM, Hal Wigoda wrote: >> I wouldn't outfit a computer wit

Re: [CentOS] new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-20 Thread ken
On 08/20/2015 07:35 AM, Nicolas George wrote: Second, it [Blu-ray] has dmr crap in it that >might require binary only spyware to work. DVD-Video has them too, the only difference is that the crypto in the DRM for DVD is terribly broken. "Broken" in the sense that data is corrupted or i

Re: [CentOS] new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-20 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 07:21:24AM -0400, ken wrote: > On 08/20/2015 07:04 AM, Hal Wigoda wrote: [...] > Is that a personal preference, or are there reasons? Others have responded too, but I think it's worth re-stating it in a short, sweet form: the

Re: [CentOS] new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-20 Thread Nicolas George
Le tridi 3 fructidor, an CCXXIII, Mauricio Tavares a écrit : > One of the compelling reasons > against is that only movies use it. Unless the drive can also burn BD-R disks, in which case you have a reasonably-priced way of storing 22.5 gigaoctsts of data. F

Re: [CentOS] new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-20 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Aug 20, 2015 6:54 AM, "ken" wrote: > > One of the build options for a laptop I'm looking at buying is DVD vs Blu-Ray. I've never used Blue-ray before, so is there some compelling reason, as a Linux guy, to want to get Blu-ray? > First of all, is this going to be your desktop or a server

Re: [CentOS] new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-20 Thread ken
On 08/20/2015 07:04 AM, Hal Wigoda wrote: I wouldn't outfit a computer with blu-ray (Sent from iPhone, so please accept my apologies in advance for any spelling or grammatical errors.) On Aug 20, 2015, at 5:53 AM, ken wrote: One of the build options for a laptop I'm looking at buying is DVD

Re: [CentOS] new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-20 Thread Hal Wigoda
I wouldn't outfit a computer with blu-ray (Sent from iPhone, so please accept my apologies in advance for any spelling or grammatical errors.) > On Aug 20, 2015, at 5:53 AM, ken wrote: > > One of the build options for a laptop I'm looking at buying is DVD vs > Blu-Ray. I've never used Blue-r

Fwd: new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-20 Thread John T. Haggerty
Future proofing mostly. Blueray drives should be backwards compatible with DVD. -- Forwarded message - From: ken Date: Thu, Aug 20, 2015, 04:54 Subject: new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray To: CentOS mailing list , Debian Users < debian-user@lists.debian.org> One of the build options for

new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-20 Thread ken
One of the build options for a laptop I'm looking at buying is DVD vs Blu-Ray. I've never used Blue-ray before, so is there some compelling reason, as a Linux guy, to want to get Blu-ray?

Re: kde5 - the problems do not stop

2015-08-20 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 12:19:28 +0200 Hans wrote: Hello Hans, >Something with archive.debian.org or similar snapshot.debian.org, IIRC. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" Bet you thought you had it all worked out Pro

Re: kde5 - the problems do not stop

2015-08-20 Thread Gabriel Corona
> I know, there is a repo, that helds all packages removed from the repo, but > fogot the URL. Something with archive.debian.org or similar. Or did you get > them some elsewhere? I installed them from my cache: cd /var/cache/apt/archives sudo dpkg -i libkdecorations2-5_4%3a5.3.2-1_amd64.deb \

Re: kde5 - the problems do not stop

2015-08-20 Thread Hans
Am Donnerstag, 20. August 2015, 12:03:43 schrieb Gabriel Corona: > > But now, after my last update, KDE will not start. The splashscreen of > > KDE5 is starting, its progress bar fullfilles to the end and then it > > hangs. > I had the same issue and fixed it by reverting libkdecorations2-5 and > l

Re: kde5 - the problems do not stop

2015-08-20 Thread Gabriel Corona
> But now, after my last update, KDE will not start. The splashscreen of KDE5 > is > starting, its progress bar fullfilles to the end and then it hangs. I had the same issue and fixed it by reverting libkdecorations2-5 and libkdecorations2private5 to 5.3.2-1 as indicated in [1]. [1] https://bug

kde5 - the problems do not stop

2015-08-20 Thread Hans
Hello list, upgrading in debian/testing let me install kde5. Although I got some problems at the beginning, I managed to get it working. However, some minor problems still occured, for example sddm will not start and the process "konsole" will not end, although I closed konsole. But these are

Re: How come i wrote a NO-BREAK SPACE in xterm+bash ?

2015-08-20 Thread ken
On 08/20/2015 01:59 AM, Bonno Bloksma wrote: Hi, In general, one wants NO-BREAK SPACE to be displayed just like a space. Why would I want a character that doesn't behave as a space to be displayed as a normal space? (For example, in the shell, as in the OP's original question.) It seems a re

Re: Starting, installing Redmine

2015-08-20 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 09:53:52AM +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > I would disable the redmine.conf as it can overlap with > apache2-passenger-alias.conf > And it makes no sense to have 2 configs for the same application. Here's where my lack of kn

Re: Anyone else having password failures at pop.gmail.com?

2015-08-20 Thread Brian
On Thu 20 Aug 2015 at 08:39:35 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 20 August 2015 06:15:40 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > I'm not having problems.  So far.  Your email came via Gmail, and I'll > > > send this via Gmail and see if it goes through.  If it arrives, it > > > did. ;-) > > > > > > Lisi >

Re: VC keyboard configuration

2015-08-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, David Wright wrote: > An important file is /etc/console-setup/cached_UTF-8_del.kmap.gz > What I haven't worked out is: what puts this cache file together? > It's obviously been constructed because near the end it says: > # The content of this file will be appended to the keyboard layout. > fol

Re: How come i wrote a NO-BREAK SPACE in xterm+bash ?

2015-08-20 Thread Martin Read
On 20/08/15 06:59, Bonno Bloksma wrote: If you are talking about console use, indeed I would not know why I would want / need it there. Because you might be using your terminal to edit an input file for a document processing system which contains the character, or to create new files that co

Re: no pulse audio- so now new sound trouble

2015-08-20 Thread Nicolas George
Le duodi 2 fructidor, an CCXXIII, bri...@aracnet.com a écrit : > .asoundrc > > pcm.!default { > type hw > card 2 > } With this, you are bypassing all the ALSA plugin infrastructure. In particular, you are bypassing the dmix plugin that allows to share the sound device between several

Re: Starting, installing Redmine

2015-08-20 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/20/2015 09:35 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> content of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled >> > root@supercrunch:/etc/apache2/sites-enabled# ll >> > total 0 >> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Apr 28 00:22 000-default.conf -> >> > ../sites-available/000-de

Re: Problem to apt-get dist-upgrade

2015-08-20 Thread Joe
On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 09:12:19 +0200 (CEST) Magnus R wrote: > Dear all, > > I run Debian Unstable. I haven't been able to do a > > apt-get dist-upgrade > > for some time now since it wants to remove some essential packages > which after upgrading is not installable anymore, for example konsole >

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