SOLVED - Re: libreoffice writer no longer allowing two (nor more) space chars to be adjacent - how to fix?

2017-09-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 05:19:40PM +1300, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 25/09/17 16:05, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > This is a strange and unexpected "feature" in the latest Libreoffice > > upgrade on Debian stable: > > in Writer, I can no longer enter more than one space at a time > > (between word

Re: libreoffice writer no longer allowing two (nor more) space chars to be adjacent - how to fix?

2017-09-24 Thread Felix Miata
Ben Caradoc-Davies composed on 2017-09-25 17:19 (UTC+1300): > I also have a vague recollection of HTML editors not allowing multiple > spaces. I do not know if this applies to LibreOffice Writer. I have no familiarity with "HTML editors". I use plain text editors for editing HTML. It is totall

Re: libreoffice writer no longer allowing two (nor more) space chars to be adjacent - how to fix?

2017-09-24 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 25/09/17 16:05, Zenaan Harkness wrote: This is a strange and unexpected "feature" in the latest Libreoffice upgrade on Debian stable: in Writer, I can no longer enter more than one space at a time (between words or sentences)! This is not like at the end of a line where excess spaces are still

libreoffice writer no longer allowing two (nor more) space chars to be adjacent - how to fix?

2017-09-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
This is a strange and unexpected "feature" in the latest Libreoffice upgrade on Debian stable: in Writer, I can no longer enter more than one space at a time (between words or sentences)! This is not like at the end of a line where excess spaces are still there just not seen, and the correspondin

Re: Splitting MP3 files (again)

2017-09-24 Thread Thomas Amm
On Sat, 23 Sep 2017 23:26:40 +0200 deloptes wrote: > Hi all, > I know this topic was discussed quite a few times. > > Now I was thinking that someone of you could know how to solve > following problem. > > I have some remixes (no silence between tracks). How can I split those > easily? > > I n

Re: Splitting MP3 files (again)

2017-09-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 11:26:40PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > Hi all, > I know this topic was discussed quite a few times. > > Now I was thinking that someone of you could know how to solve following > problem. > > I have some remixes (no silence between tracks). How can I split those > easily? >

Re: The mess of package names

2017-09-24 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 9/24/17, Gary Roach wrote: > On 09/19/2017 11:57 AM, Gary Roach wrote: >> Hi all, >> While this may seem to be a bit off topic, I feel that I may get answers >> faster here than any where else. This problem applies to Debian, Ubuntu >> and, to some extent, Mac OS. >> >> I have spent the last mo

Re: [Semi-OT] samba

2017-09-24 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
Cmd script using xcopy.exe or robocopy.exe should be sufficient. On 24.09.2017 18:21, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi all :-) > > I looking for a windows program to automatize transfer of file from > windows to samba file server > > any idea? > > thanks! > > Pol >

Re: Can't find the DNS Servers

2017-09-24 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 08:55:51AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > Don't know why but this message didn't show up on my email so am sending > again. Thanks for the reply Cindy Sue. > > Hi all. > I have been trying for several day to get firefox to work on a newly > installed Debian Stretch

Can't find the DNS Servers

2017-09-24 Thread Gary Roach
Don't know why but this message didn't show up on my email so am sending again. Thanks for the reply Cindy Sue. Hi all. I have been trying for several day to get firefox to work on a newly installed Debian Stretch system. It Seems that Firefox can't find a DNS server. I am having the same prob

Re: The mess of package names

2017-09-24 Thread Gary Roach
On 09/19/2017 11:57 AM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all, While this may seem to be a bit off topic, I feel that I may get answers faster here than any where else. This problem applies to Debian, Ubuntu and, to some extent, Mac OS. I have spent the last month and a half ( or longer) trying to compile an

Re: A custom installer - was [Installing the installer]

2017-09-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/23/2017 10:43 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 09/19/2017 08:56 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: [snip] My goal is NOT a "general purpose GNU/Linux". My goal IS a "thingy/dodad/whatsit" which can perform a single task. That task would be indistinguishable, to a human at a terminal, from a standard i

Re: Splitting MP3 files (again)

2017-09-24 Thread jamesl
Have you considered Audacity? I use the Mac version myself, and it's available for Linux and WinDoze as well. -- JHHL

Re: in /etc/network/interfaces: "auto" vs "allow-hotplug"

2017-09-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 23 Sep 2017, Rick Thomas wrote: > I have two machines (out of a group of ten) that will not bring up > their ethernet interface at boot time if the interfaces is of type > “allow-hotplug”. When I change that to “auto” the interface comes up > at boot with no problem… ... > Anybody have a

[Semi-OT] samba

2017-09-24 Thread Pol Hallen
Hi all :-) I looking for a windows program to automatize transfer of file from windows to samba file server any idea? thanks! Pol

Re: wine in stretch-backports

2017-09-24 Thread Floris
Op Sun, 24 Sep 2017 03:25:55 +0200 schreef Sridhar M. A. : On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 05:02:01AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > Thank you for the link. Installing wine has been on my "to-do" list. > That page also has valuable links for another problem :} > I install wine from wine-

Re: Restore backup to KVM

2017-09-24 Thread Reco
On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 10:58:42AM +0200, solitone wrote: > On 22/09/17 21:38, Reco wrote: > > 2) Your backup is made by rsync(1) or tar(1). > > > > Make yourself a file representing virtual machine disk. > > Apply parted/fdisk/whatever to make appropriate number of partitions > > inside it. Creat

Re: Restore backup to KVM

2017-09-24 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 10:58:42AM +0200, solitone wrote: > On 22/09/17 21:38, Reco wrote: > >2) Your backup is made by rsync(1) or tar(1). > > > >Make yourself a file representing virtual machine disk. > >Apply parted/fdisk/whatever to make appropriat

Re: Restore backup to KVM

2017-09-24 Thread solitone
On 22/09/17 21:38, Reco wrote: 2) Your backup is made by rsync(1) or tar(1). Make yourself a file representing virtual machine disk. Apply parted/fdisk/whatever to make appropriate number of partitions inside it. Create filesystems. Mount these somewhere, invoke rsync(1)/tar(1) as needed. Ok,