Re: [OT] testing on unstable sources list

2020-04-01 Thread dalios
On 4/1/20 6:46 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 01 apr 20, 15:49:25, dalios wrote: >> On 3/30/20 2:26 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> [...] and still retain testing in sources.list (having testing in >>> sources.list when running unstable is a good idea anyway). >> >> Can you be so kind and ex

Re: Things Kids Shouldn't Do at Home

2020-04-01 Thread local10
On 2020-04-01 18:07, Martin McCormick wrote: >> Out of curiosity, I wondered what might happen if I had >> two thumb drives containing the same UUID. >> Nothing bad really unless the system is supposed to boot from one of them and both are present in the system at boot time. I have two HDDs

Re: Things Kids Shouldn't Do at Home

2020-04-01 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 02.04.2020 06:07, Martin McCormick wrote: > I have killed an 8 GB thumb drive while doing an experiment. > > I had 2 8 GB PNY drives. One has a FAT 32 file system > and the other had no partitions on it as I had deleted the ones > that were there. > > The good drive had it's UUID ta

Re: Can't get Logitech webcam c910 to operate under stretch

2020-04-01 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 17:14:29 +0200 Bernard wrote: > testing with cheese, it doesn't record any sound. Thanks in advance for Try testing the camera with other software, e.g., ffmpeg, mpv, vlc: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Webcam_setup https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Webcam Celejar

Re: Things Kids Shouldn't Do at Home

2020-04-01 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-04-01 18:07, Martin McCormick wrote: I have killed an 8 GB thumb drive while doing an experiment. I had 2 8 GB PNY drives. One has a FAT 32 file system and the other had no partitions on it as I had deleted the ones that were there. The good drive had it's UUID tagged t

Re: Small Open Source Digital Classroom

2020-04-01 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 19:27:37 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 01 apr 20, 08:58:16, Celejar wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 03:57:17 + > > "Russell L. Harris" wrote: > > > > > server. And Jitsi is open source. What more could you ask? > > > > I am indeed strongly tempted to try that. I s

Re: Things Kids Shouldn't Do at Home

2020-04-01 Thread songbird
um, if you've plugged in one device with a certain UUID and you've got a mount point and an /etc/fstab entry for it and then plug in another i suspect the 2nd device would not cause anything to happen. what you might want to do is unplug the working device and then plug in the one that doesn't

Things Kids Shouldn't Do at Home

2020-04-01 Thread Martin McCormick
I have killed an 8 GB thumb drive while doing an experiment. I had 2 8 GB PNY drives. One has a FAT 32 file system and the other had no partitions on it as I had deleted the ones that were there. The good drive had it's UUID tagged to mount on a directory I called /flash. The fs

Re: Issue with package kept back

2020-04-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2020-04-01 15:17 -0500, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > I'm having a problem on an x86_64 install running sid. Specifically, > the package phonon-backend-gstreamer-common will not upgrade from v. > 4.9.1-1 to what is currently (since 2019-11-06) in sid, v. 4.10.0-1. > > When I do my normal apt-get upd

Re: Small Open Source Digital Classroom

2020-04-01 Thread Markos
Em 31-03-2020 13:44, Markos escreveu: Hi Friends, My wife is a teacher and is trying to teach remote lessons using only WhatsApp video calls. To help her I am looking for a package in the Debian repository to organize virtual classes for small groups, 5 or 6 students maximum. Any suggesti

Issue with package kept back

2020-04-01 Thread Dutch Ingraham
Hi all: I'm having a problem on an x86_64 install running sid. Specifically, the package phonon-backend-gstreamer-common will not upgrade from v. 4.9.1-1 to what is currently (since 2019-11-06) in sid, v. 4.10.0-1. When I do my normal apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade, I receive the messag

Re: change the mount point of my flash drive

2020-04-01 Thread tomas
On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 10:07:58PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 01 apr 20, 18:49:45, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > > > Maybe you can convince LibreOffice to use relative paths instead of > > > absolute paths? > > > > This is what I proposed, too. Much less hassle. OTOH you have to > >

Re: change the mount point of my flash drive

2020-04-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 01 apr 20, 18:49:45, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > Maybe you can convince LibreOffice to use relative paths instead of > > absolute paths? > > This is what I proposed, too. Much less hassle. OTOH you have to > plan a bit when moving documents elsewhere (but you would have > to with abso

Re: MATE saving of desktops, layouts, (testing,unstable)

2020-04-01 Thread songbird
songbird wrote: ... > thanks for info, ideas. i did find ~/.config/session-state and have made a backup copy of it, but i'm not sure i have the whole picture or not captured by that. next time it happens we'll see... :) songbird

Re: change the mount point of my flash drive

2020-04-01 Thread tomas
On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 07:35:04PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 01 apr 20, 22:31:38, kaye n wrote: > > Hello Friends! > > > > It seems that in Debian, my USB flash drive is automatically mounted at: > > > > /media/user/myflashdrive > > > > Is it possible to permanently change it to /med

Re: change the mount point of my flash drive

2020-04-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 01 apr 20, 22:31:38, kaye n wrote: > Hello Friends! > > It seems that in Debian, my USB flash drive is automatically mounted at: > > /media/user/myflashdrive > > Is it possible to permanently change it to /media/myflashdrive ? > > The reason is because I have many LibreOffice Calc files

Re: Small Open Source Digital Classroom

2020-04-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 01 apr 20, 08:58:16, Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 03:57:17 + > "Russell L. Harris" wrote: > > > server. And Jitsi is open source. What more could you ask? > > I am indeed strongly tempted to try that. I suppose I'm just spoiled by > Debian - I almost always install stuff from

Re: [OT] testing on unstable sources list

2020-04-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 01 apr 20, 15:49:25, dalios wrote: > On 3/30/20 2:26 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > >> [...] and still retain testing in sources.list (having testing in > > sources.list when running unstable is a good idea anyway). > > Can you be so kind and explain to me how is that a good idea? I am > _

Re: Small Open Source Digital Classroom

2020-04-01 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 08:58:16AM -0400, Celejar wrote: I am indeed strongly tempted to try that. I suppose I'm just spoiled by Debian - I almost always install stuff from the repos, and I tend to assume (probably somewhat unreasonably) that if something isn't there, there's a good reason for it

Can't get Logitech webcam c910 to operate under stretch

2020-04-01 Thread Bernard
testing with cheese, it doesn't record any sound. Thanks in advance for your help Bernard

Re: change the mount point of my flash drive

2020-04-01 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Wednesday, 1 April 2020 10:31:38 -04 kaye n wrote: > Hello Friends! > > It seems that in Debian, my USB flash drive is automatically mounted at: > > /media/user/myflashdrive > > Is it possible to permanently change it to /media/myflashdrive ? > > The reason is because I have many LibreOffice Cal

Re: change the mount point of my flash drive

2020-04-01 Thread Linux-Fan
kaye n writes: Hello Friends! It seems that in Debian, my USB flash drive is automatically mounted at: /media/user/myflashdrive Not in general / not here. YMMV. Is it possible to permanently change it to /media/myflashdrive ? I do not know, but a symlink created by command # ln -

Re: change the mount point of my flash drive

2020-04-01 Thread tomas
On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 10:31:38PM +0800, kaye n wrote: > Hello Friends! > > It seems that in Debian, my USB flash drive is automatically mounted at: > > /media/user/myflashdrive I guess this "user" is a placeholder for the actual user name, right? > Is it possible to permanently

change the mount point of my flash drive

2020-04-01 Thread kaye n
Hello Friends! It seems that in Debian, my USB flash drive is automatically mounted at: /media/user/myflashdrive Is it possible to permanently change it to /media/myflashdrive ? The reason is because I have many LibreOffice Calc files in my flash drive that are linked to each other. The 'user'

Re: Small Open Source Digital Classroom

2020-04-01 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 09:11:55 +0200 juh wrote: > Am 01.04.20 um 01:09 schrieb Celejar: > > I spend some time today trying to find a libre alternative to Zoom, > > preferably one in the Debian repos, but came up empty. The closest I > > found were indeed Jitsi Meet (a part of the much larger Jitsi p

Re: Small Open Source Digital Classroom

2020-04-01 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 03:57:17 + "Russell L. Harris" wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 07:09:35PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > >Actually, *no* official Debian repository currently contains Jitsi. It > >was removed in 2017, apparently due to QA issues, although I don't know > >the whole story: > > Per

Re: [OT] testing on unstable sources list

2020-04-01 Thread dalios
On 3/30/20 2:26 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: (snip) >> [...] and still retain testing in sources.list (having testing in > sources.list when running unstable is a good idea anyway). (snip) > Kind regards, > Andrei > Can you be so kind and explain to me how is that a good idea? I am _definitely

Re: Small Open Source Digital Classroom

2020-04-01 Thread mick crane
On 2020-03-31 21:30, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 10:27:28PM +0200, n...@dismail.de wrote: On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 08:17:56PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > […] Recently I was looking at zoom.us - seems to be in > hype now - can be installed in debian and can be used as video confer

Re: Small Open Source Digital Classroom

2020-04-01 Thread juh
Am 01.04.20 um 13:14 schrieb deloptes: > juh wrote: > >> My hosting cooperative Hostsharing runs BigBlueButton on Debian >> machines. We recently made a stress test with 47 participants to see >> what requirements are needed in reality. > > very good - as far as I see theoretically it should be p

Re: Small Open Source Digital Classroom

2020-04-01 Thread deloptes
juh wrote: > My hosting cooperative Hostsharing runs BigBlueButton on Debian > machines. We recently made a stress test with 47 participants to see > what requirements are needed in reality. very good - as far as I see theoretically it should be possible to run it on windows, but no one tried ...

Re: xfce4-terminal appears upon log in

2020-04-01 Thread nito
Hi, On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 05:15:37PM +0800, kaye n wrote: > I'm not sure what I did, but when I log into my Debian, xfce4-terminal > opens automatically. > > Desktop: Xfce 4.12.4 I'm guessing you either added the terminal to autostart on login, or you once told XFCE to save your session on log

xfce4-terminal appears upon log in

2020-04-01 Thread kaye n
Hello Friends I'm not sure what I did, but when I log into my Debian, xfce4-terminal opens automatically. My system: Kernel: 4.19.0-6-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.4 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)

Re: Small Open Source Digital Classroom

2020-04-01 Thread Richard Hector
On 1/04/20 8:11 pm, juh wrote: > Use a translation server if you want to read it all but the figures > should be clear enough. Commas are useful :-) > Use a translation server if you want to read it all, but the figures > should be clear enough. > Use a translation server if you want to read it,

Re: Small Open Source Digital Classroom

2020-04-01 Thread deloptes
juh wrote: > We wrote a report about our test in German. > > https://www.hostsharing.net/blog/2020/03/30/bigbluebutton-im-lasttest/ > > Use a translation server if you want to read it all but the figures > should be clear enough. What is the ratio for the bandwidth - up/down? For example I hav

Re: dropbear-bin ssh key conversion on Buster

2020-04-01 Thread john doe
On 3/31/2020 10:12 PM, André Rodier wrote: > Hello, > > I have a Debian Buster installed, with a dropbear SSH server. > > The dropbear-bin package, comes with a tool to convert keys fron > OpenSSH. This tool worked on Stretch, but is now broken on Buster. > > I tried the Bullseye version, and it is

Re: Small Open Source Digital Classroom

2020-04-01 Thread tomas
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 09:14:00PM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 10:27:59PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 03:09:47PM -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: > > >>I second Zoom. You can install it via flatpak, which might make you > >>feel better

Re: Small Open Source Digital Classroom

2020-04-01 Thread juh
Am 01.04.20 um 01:09 schrieb Celejar: > I spend some time today trying to find a libre alternative to Zoom, > preferably one in the Debian repos, but came up empty. The closest I > found were indeed Jitsi Meet (a part of the much larger Jitsi project), > and BigBlueButton, libre but designed to be