Re: failure of cheese with a Microsoft LifeCam NX-6000

2017-09-06 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 03:40:38PM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Thanks to everyone who replied. > > * From: Reco > * Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 18:16:08 +0300 > > This is [w]here I'd say 'screw it' and use 'mpv' or 'ffmpeg' instead of > > 'cheese', but YMMV. > > mpv and ffmp

OT: Re: Suitable text ed

2017-09-06 Thread Mike McClain
On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 02:31:08AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > The total configuration generally is not a single file, usually broken up > according to its order in the programs bootup, first being the basic > config, then the first of what could be 2 or 3 .hal files, some of which > can't be ru

No sound after reboot on Debian Testing: a cautionary tale

2017-09-06 Thread Carl Fink
So I rebooted today and no sound card is set up. It was working as recently as a couple of hours before. I had just done a full-upgrade. Some results: lspci -v | grep -A7 -i "audio" 00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40) Subsystem:

Re: Stretch installation: thumb drive recognized as /dev/sda

2017-09-06 Thread David Christensen
On 09/06/17 06:07, gentoo...@runbox.com wrote: I installed Stretch on my Thinkpad from a USB flash drive. Only after the installation, during the first boot did I notice that something was wrong. GRUB failed to load the kernel and after a short diagnosis I learned that for some reason, the Debian

Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch

2017-09-06 Thread Ben Finney
Borden Rhodes writes: > You can't say that something is a stable upgrade from the previous > version and then be surprised that users are annoyed when they find it > isn't. When annoyed users are unable or unwilling – and I make no judgement here, in what we've seen described in this thread, abo

Re: name for wireless interface

2017-09-06 Thread peter
>> What is the origin of the long name, wlxa0f3c10a28f7? * From: Kushal Kumaran * Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 22:45:44 -0700 > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#new-interface-names OK, yes, just the MAC or Ethernet address prefixed with "wlx".

Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch

2017-09-06 Thread Borden Rhodes
>> - Hello, >> Is this the Chevrolet users' support group? >> I just bought this new Chevy and I am having all kinds of problems I've >> never had before with a Chevy or any other car for that matter. >> - What problems are you having, because all other owners are happy. >> - Pretty much anythi

Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch

2017-09-06 Thread Gary Roach
On 08/21/2017 06:00 PM, Ben Finney wrote: Borden Rhodes writes: Interesting. I have 3 machines running Stretch. I originally went from Wheezy stable to Stretch Testing and let Stretch slide back into stable. I have had absolutely no problems with stability or speed. Although I do find that the

Re: failure of cheese with a Microsoft LifeCam NX-6000

2017-09-06 Thread peter
Thanks to everyone who replied. * From: Reco * Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 18:16:08 +0300 > This is [w]here I'd say 'screw it' and use 'mpv' or 'ffmpeg' instead of > 'cheese', but YMMV. mpv and ffmpeg are installed. To try mpv, a device should be specified and recognized. guest@imager:~

Re: Recommended editor for novice programmers?

2017-09-06 Thread Gary Roach
On 09/06/2017 11:13 AM, Ben Finney wrote: Johann Spies writes: Some alternatives which (some of them may have been mentioned in this thread): Atom - a fairly new and versatile one as far as I know PyCharm (not a native Debian Package) but very nice to debug Python with. The community edition

Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch

2017-09-06 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 09:18:04AM -0700, tony mollica wrote: > It's time. Can't stand it any longer so Jessie to get reinstalled. > > This fresh install of Stretch has given me network problems, slow display to > the point of having to wait for a mouse click or wheel movement to take > effect al

Re: Windows program on Debian

2017-09-06 Thread Gary Roach
On 09/05/2017 07:10 PM, 黃世緯 wrote: My computer is 11 years old, with single-channel ram, 80GB IDE hard drive etc. The most important thing is the virtualisation, is it okay to install Windows programme on linux? I've been experimenting with KVM virtual machine lately. I've also used wine and

Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround?

2017-09-06 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: > I gave up on the kde breakage that never gets fixed by kde, and on this > boxen, and one of my more well-endowed cnc boxes its TDE r14.0.0.x all > the way down, so I am still running kmail 1.9, its had at least 99% of > all the kde bugs swatted.  Its a fork of kde 3.5. > Sa

Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch

2017-09-06 Thread Brian
On Wed 06 Sep 2017 at 14:29:35 -0400, Fungi4All wrote: > - Hello, > Is this the Chevrolet users' support group? > I just bought this new Chevy and I am having all kinds of problems I've never > had before with a Chevy or any other car for that matter. > - What problems are you having, because a

Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround?

2017-09-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 06 September 2017 13:39:01 deloptes wrote: > kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > FWIW, I also thought that you lost 6 months of work based on what > > you wrote initially. Happy to hear that the damage is much less. But > > even that can be very frustrating, right? > > > > Along with the b

Re: testing, upgrade of openssl libssl1.1 ( 1.1.0f-3 => 1.1.0f-4 )

2017-09-06 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 06:01:18PM +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 09:57:09AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > Isn't there any LD_PRELOAD trick one could play? [...] > There'll be once someone writes it. Maybe I'l

Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch

2017-09-06 Thread Ben Finney
tony mollica writes: > This fresh install of Stretch has given me network problems, slow > display to the point of having to wait for a mouse click or wheel > movement to take effect along with some other less important changes > that needed to be disabled, bypassed or otherwise massaged to work.

Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch

2017-09-06 Thread Fungi4All
- Hello, Is this the Chevrolet users' support group? I just bought this new Chevy and I am having all kinds of problems I've never had before with a Chevy or any other car for that matter. - What problems are you having, because all other owners are happy. - Pretty much anything I was used to d

Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround?

2017-09-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 06 September 2017 12:27:37 kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 9:01 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > The ability to edit the copy buffer in a different tab, doing a > > buffer wide edit to change the axis references in the buffer, so > > that those edits are done and stan

Re: Recommended editor for novice programmers?

2017-09-06 Thread Ben Finney
Johann Spies writes: > Some alternatives which (some of them may have been mentioned in this > thread): > > Atom - a fairly new and versatile one as far as I know > PyCharm (not a native Debian Package) but very nice to debug Python > with. The community edition is free. > Bluefish (especially wh

Re: Windows program on Debian

2017-09-06 Thread Doug
On 09/06/2017 03:11 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 10:10:37AM +0800, 黃世緯 wrote: My computer is 11 years old, with single-channel ram, 80GB IDE hard drive etc. The most important thing is the virtualisation, is it okay to insta

Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround?

2017-09-06 Thread deloptes
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > FWIW, I also thought that you lost 6 months of work based on what you > wrote initially. Happy to hear that the damage is much less. But even > that can be very frustrating, right? > > Along with the backups, may I suggest you to store all your work in > version contr

Re: Strange results with an additional HD -- any idea why?

2017-09-06 Thread James H. H. Lampert
Oops: Forgot to hit "Reply List" on a reply I'd intended to be public. My bad. Dan Ritter and "deloptes" both advised me to put the "Auxiliary" drive's mount point someplace other than /media. When I finally had a chance to do so late yesterday afternoon, that solved the problem. I never w

Re: I just installed "tomcat8" and "tomcat8-admin" on a Debian 8.9 box, via an apt-get

2017-09-06 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 8/31/17, 8:32 PM, david...@freevolt.org wrote: Have you added the jessie-backports repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list yet? There's a how-to for that here, along with other information you might like to know: https://wiki.debian.org/Backports#Using_the_command_line Thanks, "david.

Re: failure of cheese with a Microsoft LifeCam NX-6000

2017-09-06 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 9/6/17, Reco wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 08:46:13PM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: >> Any insights about these messages when cheese fails? > > Sure. > >> guest@imager:~$ cheese >> >> (cheese:1572): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: cheese.css:7:35: >> The style property GtkScrollbar:

Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch

2017-09-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 09:18:04AM -0700, tony mollica wrote: > This fresh install of Stretch has given me network problems, slow display to > the point of having to wait for a mouse click or wheel movement to take > effect [...] Sounds like video drivers and firmware, again. The Linux kernel phi

Re: failure of cheese with a Microsoft LifeCam NX-6000

2017-09-06 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 9/5/17, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Any insights about these messages when cheese fails? > > guest@imager:~$ cheese > > (cheese:1572): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: cheese.css:7:35: > The style property GtkScrollbar:min-slider-length is deprecated and > shouldn't be used anymore. It w

Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround?

2017-09-06 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 9:01 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > The ability to edit the copy buffer in a different tab, doing a buffer > wide edit to change the axis references in the buffer, so that those > edits are done and stand a chance of being correct when the main buffer > has been scrolled to the

Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch

2017-09-06 Thread tony mollica
It's time. Can't stand it any longer so Jessie to get reinstalled. This fresh install of Stretch has given me network problems, slow display to the point of having to wait for a mouse click or wheel movement to take effect along with some other less important changes that needed to be disable

Re: Recommended editor for novice programmers?

2017-09-06 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/06/2017 08:07 AM, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: [snip] <😇> But convert to the true one editor, infidels :) :) :) :) :) :) :) ! You did mean TECO didn't you?

Re: failure of cheese with a Microsoft LifeCam NX-6000

2017-09-06 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 08:46:13PM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Any insights about these messages when cheese fails? Sure. > guest@imager:~$ cheese > > (cheese:1572): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: cheese.css:7:35: > The style property GtkScrollbar:min-slider-length is

Re: testing, upgrade of openssl libssl1.1 ( 1.1.0f-3 => 1.1.0f-4 )

2017-09-06 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 09:57:09AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 11:40:46PM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > > Michael Grant wrote: > > > > > Is there something I can set on Debian side to force this newer > > > openssl to accept older 1.x connections? > > > >

Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround?

2017-09-06 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 10:02:45AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: [...] > Replace all that file and directory management with git. > > edit /cncmaster/cnc-machine-A/config > git commit /cncmaster/cnc-machine-A/config To harp on my previous post: git

Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround?

2017-09-06 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 02:31:08AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 06 September 2017 00:09:31 kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 7:37 AM, Gene Heskett > wrote: > > > On Friday 17 March 2017 05:49:30 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > >> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 09:54:42AM

Stretch installation: thumb drive recognized as /dev/sda

2017-09-06 Thread gentooman
I installed Stretch on my Thinkpad from a USB flash drive. Only after the installation, during the first boot did I notice that something was wrong. GRUB failed to load the kernel and after a short diagnosis I learned that for some reason, the Debian installer saw my USB thumb drive as /dev/sda and

Re: Recommended editor for novice programmers?

2017-09-06 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
> "GH" == Gene Heskett writes: GH> On Wednesday 06 September 2017 04:16:36 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 04:19:03PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> > To paraphrase someone else paraphrasing Voltaire: I may disagree >> > with your choice of text editor, but I

Re: Recommended editor for novice programmers?

2017-09-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 06 September 2017 04:16:36 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 04:19:03PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > [...] > > > To paraphrase someone else paraphrasing Voltaire: I may disagree > > with your choice of text editor, but I will defend to the death your > > right to use i

Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround?

2017-09-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 06 September 2017 03:12:36 Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 06.09.17 02:31, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 06 September 2017 00:09:31 kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > > > The total configuration generally is not a single file, usually > > broken up according to its order in the progr

Re: networkd: get ipv6 slaac address only at boot despite IPv6AcceptRA=false

2017-09-06 Thread Zoltán Herman
Network-manager is running?

Re: networkd: get ipv6 slaac address only at boot despite IPv6AcceptRA=false

2017-09-06 Thread BRINER Cédric
Hi, I finally uninstalled ifupdown to not get these ip anymore. But I still not understand why does /etc/inetd/networking is running at boot when it is disabled ? cED Le 06. 09. 17 à 10:39, BRINER Cédric a écrit : > systemd 232 > debian stretch 9.1 > > Hi, > > I configure my ip stack with syst

Re: Nvidia Quadro FX880M and debian sid

2017-09-06 Thread Felix Miata
Pétùr composed on 2017-09-06 10:38 (UTC+0200): > I have installed Debian (Sid) on a Dell precision M4500 from 2010. > It has the Nvidia Quadro FX 880M graphical card. I have some freezes and > graphical glitches when using the nouveau driver. They appears time to > time (the window I was using is

Re: Recommended editor for novice programmers?

2017-09-06 Thread Johann Spies
I use emacs (mostly for programming and writing documentation and LaTeX) and vim(mostly when I edit configuration files or very large text files). Some alternatives which (some of them may have been mentioned in this thread): Atom - a fairly new and versatile one as far as I know PyCharm (not a n

Re: testing, upgrade of openssl libssl1.1 ( 1.1.0f-3 => 1.1.0f-4 )

2017-09-06 Thread Sven Hartge
Michael Grant wrote: > I downloaded libssl1.1_1.1.0f-3_amd64.deb > and did: > dpkg -i libssl1.1_1.1.0f-3_amd64.deb > restarted sendmail and dovecot and everyone can now connect. Be sure to either pin or hold the package at that version: "apt-mark hold libssl" or the next "apt dist-upgrade" wi

Re: Recommended editor for novice programmers?

2017-09-06 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
> "NB" == Nick Boyce writes: NB> I don't want to provoke any religious war here, and sorry if I NB> offend anybody, but: emacs is ridiculously heavy-weight, Indeed is larger than any other editor, but AFAIK is the only editor exposing the language it is implemented in. NB> and I can NB> nev

networkd: get ipv6 slaac address only at boot despite IPv6AcceptRA=false

2017-09-06 Thread BRINER Cédric
systemd 232 debian stretch 9.1 Hi, I configure my ip stack with systemd-networkd. I do have a dual stack (v4 and v6). There is a router advertisement on fd69:620:600:b00:: and on 2001:620:600:b00:: and the ipv6 choosed is on a other network fd69:620:600:11:: The problem is that my ip configurati

Nvidia Quadro FX880M and debian sid

2017-09-06 Thread Pétùr
Hello, I have installed Debian (Sid) on a Dell precision M4500 from 2010. It has the Nvidia Quadro FX 880M graphical card. I have some freezes and graphical glitches when using the nouveau driver. They appears time to time (the window I was using is still there but I cannot see it anymore except

Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround?

2017-09-06 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 05:12:36PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: [...] > A VCS only allows you to retrieve versions which have been checked in, > but that might help if it encourages you to do that immediately at the > end of an editing session, ra

Re: Recommended editor for novice programmers?

2017-09-06 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 04:19:03PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: [...] > To paraphrase someone else paraphrasing Voltaire: I may disagree with > your choice of text editor, but I will defend to the death your right to > use it. There. This is the one to

Re: Windows program on Debian

2017-09-06 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 10:10:37AM +0800, 黃世緯 wrote: > My computer is 11 years old, with single-channel ram, 80GB IDE hard > drive etc. > > The most important thing is the virtualisation, is it okay to > install Windows programme on linux? The most i

Re: testing, upgrade of openssl libssl1.1 ( 1.1.0f-3 => 1.1.0f-4 )

2017-09-06 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 11:40:46PM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > Michael Grant wrote: > > > Is there something I can set on Debian side to force this newer > > openssl to accept older 1.x connections? > > No, you can't. > > Kurt Roeckx, the DD mainta

Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround?

2017-09-06 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 06.09.17 02:31, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 06 September 2017 00:09:31 kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > The total configuration generally is not a single file, usually broken up > according to its order in the programs bootup, first being the basic > config, then the first of what could