Re: Does "secure" old-stable kernel exist with required intel GPU support

2025-03-26 Thread Oliver Schode
of Debian's repositories and I agree, an (end user) option for the command line would be nice. Oliver

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-03-10 Thread Oliver Schode
their Private mode, but not their TOR mode. > Me too. With any browser, on any platform, always private. In my case it's learned behavior, mainly from the desktop and to avoid data cluttering. I prefer clean states, don't care about sessions or cookies. Oliver

Re: Cookies in Links Web Browser

2025-02-14 Thread Oliver Schode
On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 15:52:38 -0800 David Hoff Jr wrote: > I have a fresh install on Debian 12 with all updates. I am trying > to use Links web browser to access the dailycaller.com web site but am > being blocked. A message says to enable cookies which I have tried > using "links -enable-cookies

Re: Systemctl masked/disabled/etc

2024-12-24 Thread Oliver Schode
Hi, looks like I'm the only one yet as I take it, he wasn't asking about meanings of, or differences between states but rather worries about defaults he may have inadvertently changed. This is about what is essential or required for system operation. > Is there any point to worrying about what's

Re: info is not dead

2024-07-25 Thread Oliver Schode
t beat that for speed or convenience, and when is there no internet connection. Regards, Oliver

Re: Password managers

2023-11-15 Thread Oliver Schode
, as one cannot save let alone annotate anything, but maybe someone else is interested. I'ver never been a fan of managers, don't like to save stuff in the browser(s) and the idea of pulling in 100 MiB or half of the wacky Qt cosmos just in order to save a few phrases makes my nose bleed. Oliver

Re: Virtualization under Bookworm

2023-08-26 Thread Oliver Wenston
n the Intel iGPU, not Nvidia nor AMD GPUs. Best of luck, Oliver On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 2:25 PM Carl Fink wrote: > Hi, > > I have a project that I'd like to work on in a virtual machine hosted on > my Bookworm system. In the old days (5-10 years ago) I used VirtualBox, > jus

Re: "locate" easier to use than "find"

2023-08-24 Thread Oliver Schoede
nstead of 'fd', it's muscle memory. ;) Meanwhile traditional (m)locate got itself replaced with plocate, it wasn't always that fast! Old things go, new arrive, I'm still using bash though. Sorry for going off on another tangent. If anyone is still using 'ag', just consider the options. And yes, GNU 'find' is overcomplicated, I've long made do with a couple of shell functions just to fight the repetition. Oliver

Debian Wiki IP Address Unban Request

2023-08-22 Thread Oliver Wenston
IP unbanned? Thank you very much. Best regards, Oliver

Re: Firefox resource utilization (was Re: A case for supporting antiquated hardware, was Re: A hypervisor for a headless server?)

2023-06-07 Thread Oliver Schoede
bably saved me tangible money too, especially with German electricity costs (who's to blame?), but then what's cheating? Greetings, Oliver

Re: relevance of packages in repositories

2023-05-07 Thread Oliver Schoede
etter reason to dump a whole distribution, and important as a specific editor can be other things you might try before. Like getting in touch with the team, maybe you can help somehow. The user list isn't made for this and most packages are relevant. Oliver

Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

2023-04-02 Thread Oliver Schoede
you make of it, there may not come much after Python: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2023/1/267976-the-end-of-programming/fulltext Be that as it may I don't see much of a reason for learning Perl today unless you're a die-hard hobbyist with near infinite amount of time and an undying penchant for obsolete technology. Oliver

Re: Flatpak memory usage

2023-02-14 Thread Oliver Schoede
x27;s memory supplies. And I don't think any of these solutions is specifically catering to resource-constrained systems. With that you're probably always better off with installing from a single source. Oliver

Re: Choosing neovim over vim as default

2022-11-05 Thread Oliver Schoede
or need to adapt one, they may still care about what editor they use. Once they have to, chances are they're going to learn a new language anyway, because Lua isn't exactly popular. Oliver

Installation of Debian bookworm (testing) on Lenovo IdeaPad 5G 14Q8X05

2022-09-25 Thread Oliver Müller
rmware for SM8450 in the near future? Maybe benefit from Lenovo ThinkPad X13s G1, Snapdragon 8cx Gen3 support in Linux Kernel 5.20. Away from all that do you have any other suggestions to run the installer? Thank you so much and have a nice weekend. Best regards Oliver

Re: Why are some Debian bugs ignored for a long time?

2022-08-21 Thread Oliver Schoede
imagine technically advanced users instead rather sorting some things out themselves immediately, locally, and from experience just forgo the BTS altogether. Oliver

Re: Status of Virtualbox in debian

2022-06-21 Thread Oliver Schoede
this perhaps doesn't always, immediately work OOB on the shiniest, newest kernel releases. If at all possible and stability is the main thing, it's a typical use case for an LTS kernel by the way. Regards, Oliver

Re: Alternatives to ISC dhcp-client ?

2022-05-08 Thread Oliver Schoede
ge, though apparently a much broader solution. I'll be using the legacy one until it's actually removed from Debian and then switch to whatever is recommended, if anything and provided it's not networkd. Oliver https://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd

Re: APT testing and unstabe Firefox: can't find newest version from unstable

2021-09-05 Thread Oliver Schoede
t's from. But easy enough, same with desktop integration. There's no sane reason for using an outdated web browser today. If you want or need to stay purist, there is always ESR. Oliver

Die Strategie des großen Gewinns: wo und wie

2021-01-31 Thread Oliver Dr . Muth
📨 Lass dich grüßen. Wie geht es dir? https://bit.ly/2NFnKvY Oliver Dr. Muth 1/30/2021 7:47:08 PM More than 100 dogs have died after eating recalled pet food FDA updates canine death toll as it probes toxins found

Re: Replacement Email Client

2020-10-24 Thread Oliver Schoede
ell I guess people are different and some always have a browser flinging around anyway. See what works for you. Oliver

Re: Install OpenSMTPD from source or use the Debian packages?

2020-02-12 Thread Mike Oliver
/packages.debian.org/buster-backports/mail/opensmtpd If you don't already have backports enabled, you can read about doing so here: https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/ > Thanks. > > -Tom -- Mike Oliver

Re: Ansible recommendations?

2020-02-11 Thread Mike Oliver
Tom Browder writes: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 9:46 AM Mike Oliver wrote: >> Tom Browder writes: > ... > > Mike, thanks for your help. I just ordered the eBook you suggested. > And, after looking at Rex, I think I'll try the Ansible route for now > (although p

Re: Ansible recommendations?

2020-02-11 Thread Mike Oliver
e. I find that Ansible can be less free-form than SaltStack, but that's not necessarily a bad thing (take a glance at how looping/iteration works to get a sense for what I mean). I preferred working with SaltCloud for initial provisioning of servers, though. Really, either one would be perfectly adequate for the needs you describe. > Thanks. > > -Tom -- Mike Oliver

Re: Ansible recommendations?

2020-02-11 Thread Mike Oliver
r than Ansible. I find that Ansible can be less free-form than SaltStack, but that's not necessarily a bad thing (take a glance at how looping/iteration works to get a sense for what I mean). I preferred working with SaltCloud for initial provisioning of servers, though. Really, either one would be perfectly adequate for the needs you describe. > Thanks. > > -Tom -- Mike Oliver

Hey. wie geht’s?

2019-07-02 Thread Oliver Dr . Muth
Lass dir das nicht entgehen! https://laullansunli1973.blogspot.cl/ ___ Gruß Oliver Dr. Muth

Re: No Books in print on Systemd?

2019-05-19 Thread Oliver Schode
bout as relevant if you're doing Android, or Linux embedded, systemd isn't. Not to mention there haven't been a lot of titles on init scripting either. Best wishes, Oliver

Re: Question on dpkg -l output.

2018-12-21 Thread Oliver Schoede
On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 01:10:34 +0200 aprekates wrote: > In my case both: > > $ dpkg -l w* > > and > > $ dpkg -l 'w*' > > will report the same list > Hi! I'm getting the same sort of output and it seems to me these are packages, dpkg knows about providing some virtual packages, that something

Re: Interphone with SIP-Protocol

2018-11-29 Thread Ben Oliver
On 18-11-29 05:48:03, Dan Ritter wrote: Michelle Konzack wrote: Because my Portal is in a distance of 60m from the Serverbunker and I do not like to install a seperated earth cable, I am now searching for an IP/SIP based Interphone. Best would be with Video. Has someone experience with it and

Re: Interphone with SIP-Protocol

2018-11-29 Thread Ben Oliver
On 18-11-29 10:27:49, Michelle Konzack wrote: Note 1: We have currently -10°C on the Farm and it can go down until -30°C (some years ago it was for one day -39°C), which increase the requirements on the Interphone. Quite an interesting issue. I would probably go down the route of

Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service

2018-11-27 Thread Ben Oliver
On 18-11-26 21:12:19, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 09:37:21 -0500 Mark Neidorff wrote: ... Now, I don't like the webmail interfaces and the limited storage for old Limited storage? Who - big or small player - offers unlimited storage for old emails? My suggestion [0] (a 'small' pla

Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service

2018-11-26 Thread Ben Oliver
On 18-11-26 09:37:21, Mark Neidorff wrote: If you know of an e-mail service that allows me POP3 and SMTP connections would you please post it in a reply. I recommend and use https://www.migadu.com/ They do have a webmail but they focus mainly on providing a simple email service. They have go

Re: portable CD players

2018-11-12 Thread Ben Oliver
On 18-11-10 06:11:34, mick crane wrote: Does anybody know about these portable CD players like Sony Discman ? On the PC I "play stories.m3u" where "stories.m3u" is just a list of mp3 files from librivox.org If I put them on a CD will Discman play them, with a menu selection ? Are they ATRAC or s

Re: need help with bashburn

2018-08-03 Thread Ben Oliver
On 18-08-03 13:51:01, Fred wrote: Hello, I am trying to burn a debian netinst.iso to a cd using bashburn. I have configured bashburn, copied the .iso to /tmp/burn. When I select burn ISO there is a message that flashes way too fast to read and the menu returns but it does not burn anything.

Re: A lot of DMARC e-mails

2018-07-16 Thread Ben Oliver
On 18-07-16 16:16:51, Hubert Hauser wrote: Hi! Should I worry about blacklisting my domain or IP? Is receiving these e-mail during running DMARC normal? How can I disable receiving e-mails from DMARC? Don't worry, it's normal. To disable the emails, I would remove the 'rua' part from your DNS

Re: Unix.Trojan.Vali-6606621-0 FOUND

2018-07-14 Thread Ben Oliver
On 18-07-14 16:52:50, Hubert Hauser wrote: /usr/bin/messages.mailutils: Unix.Trojan.Vali-6606621-0 FOUND /usr/bin/systemd-mount: Unix.Trojan.Vali-6606621-0 FOUND For what it's worth, this has also come up on the Arch Mailing List. I've also seen it on Gentoo [0] and Linux Questions [1]. The pa

Re: PGP Email Client

2018-07-08 Thread Ben Oliver
On 18-07-08 14:42:54, Jude DaShiell wrote: If you can live with the configuration mutt or neomutt can fill the bill. I can never truly recommend mutt to people who aren't used to terminal apps. That said, it's a great piece of software and the PGP handling in particular is really nice with

Re: Laptop recommendation

2018-07-05 Thread Ben Oliver
On 18-07-06 08:43:44, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Default answer to many folks these days⦂ https://puri.sm/ I think they are in the market for a used ThinkPad. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Claws-mail - which plugin for html mails?

2018-07-02 Thread Ben Oliver
On 18-07-02 10:22:57, Jason wrote: Or if they include it but it contains different content than the HTML, or is devoid of any content. The blank plaintext is the ultimate middle finger to the user. At least when it's not there you can fall back to html if you want to. When you put a blank one

Re: Claws-mail - which plugin for html mails?

2018-07-01 Thread Ben Oliver
On 18-06-30 22:31:49, Celejar wrote: I suppose everyone's browsing habits are different. I dislike HTML mail as much as the next guy (well, perhaps not as much as the true believers / fanatics), but I do have to deal with banks, businesses, and other commercial entities who send HTML mail (with a

Re: Claws-mail - which plugin for html mails?

2018-06-29 Thread Ben Oliver
On 18-06-29 08:24:36, Greg Wooledge wrote: If someone sends email which contains only HTML and not a textual part, mutt shows me the raw HTML. And then I delete the email, because if they can't be bothered to send their words in an ordinary plain text message, then I can't be bothered to go out

Re: Claws-mail - which plugin for html mails?

2018-06-28 Thread Ben Oliver
On 18-06-28 08:37:59, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: For one recent example on how HTML mail can subvert (S-MIME) encryption, see efail [1] (and no, don't follow EFF's recommendation quoted there to disable PGP -- better disable HTML). Agreed - pretty bad advice from the EFF. If you have PGP turned o

Re: Very light "private" cloud

2018-05-29 Thread Ben Oliver
Only thing I can vouch for is syncthing, which is a little more setup but worth it. You don't get a webGUI to actually view and download files though, only to manage clients. So it kind of depends on your use case - what is device A and what is device B that people want to sync between? Is it

Re: CD Burning Software

2018-05-19 Thread Ben Oliver
On 18-05-19 22:58:03, Thomas Schmitt wrote: It is not necessarily intended for an esthetically sensitive audience :)) https://screenshots.debian.net/package/xorriso-tcltk It's like a magic eye picture. Eventually you work it out. Some never do.

Re: CD Burning Software

2018-05-19 Thread Ben Oliver
On 18-05-19 22:10:04, Abdullah Ramazanoğlu wrote: On Sat, 19 May 2018 11:36:35 -0700 Herb Garcia said: I'm running Mate on my laptop. I don't see a CD/DVD burning software that came with the build. Any suggestions? But beware of k3b's KDE dependencies. This is a good point, it does bring qu

Re: CD Burning Software

2018-05-19 Thread Ben Oliver
On 18-05-19 11:36:35, Herb Garcia wrote: I'm running Mate on my laptop. I don't see a CD/DVD burning software that came with the build. Any suggestions? Don't do it much anymore but I always used K3b if I'm not using CLI tools.

Re: Time of Removal of Installation media

2018-01-25 Thread Ben Oliver
On 18-01-25 12:00:38, john doe wrote: On 1/25/2018 10:33 AM, Shehriyar Qureshi wrote: Hi, I recently installed Debian Stretch and I was confused as if I installed it correctly. At the end of the installation, I got to the point where it said "Make sure to remove the installation media so you don

Re: Acrobat Reader stops works

2018-01-15 Thread Ben Oliver
On 18-01-15 13:48:02, Markus Schönhaber wrote: Carl Fink, Mo 15 Jan 2018 13:32:27 CET: On 01/15/2018 06:45 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On 15/01/18 13:32, Kamil Jońca wrote: Recently I have to reinstall my system. Most of things works OOTB, but I cannot make Acrobat Reader (9.5.5) to work. Strac

Re: Android Debian - Lets start Debian for Android hw phones

2018-01-07 Thread Ben Oliver
On 18-01-08 02:35:02, arne wrote: On Sun, 7 Jan 2018 19:32:25 -0500 SDA wrote: On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 12:25:50AM +0100, Anders Andersson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 5:50 PM, Samuel wrote: > > could you add a support for wiko > > I have a wiko lenny 4 plus > > Sure! Probably a small job.

Re: Matrox G550 - MGA X server fails

2017-03-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
X server to setuid and am going to swap the video card back in and try again later. On 22 Mar 2017 8:12 pm, "Sven Joachim" wrote: > On 2017-03-22 10:25 +, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > > I am unable to start X using a Matrox Millennium G550 PCIe card. > > > > Th

Matrox G550 - MGA X server fails

2017-03-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
I am unable to start X using a Matrox Millennium G550 PCIe card. This is what I think is the relevant part of the log for the session: #011compiled for 1.19.2, module version = 0.1.0 #011ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 23.0 (--) MGA(0): Chipset: "mgag550" xf86TokenToOptinfo: table is NULL

Re: Unwanted on-screen keyboard - which package.

2016-06-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sun, 2016-06-26 at 03:13 +1200, cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 05:06:13PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > I enabled the on-screen keyboard applet in Cinnamon so as to write > > some > > text with French accents. But then it kept on coming

Unwanted on-screen keyboard - which package.

2016-06-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
I do could get rid of this confounded nuisance until I rebooted again, after purging the antlr packages. But what package should have a bug filed? Using Debian testing on amd64, updated this morning. Thanks Oliver Elphick

Re: curl and form submission

2016-06-07 Thread Oliver Briscbois
On 2016-06-07, Bob wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm trying to automate my internet login which is based on a web form. Good question. I hope someone follows up with an answer. I'll be following this thread. I've been trying the same thing with wget without success Oliver.

Re: Replacing duply for backup

2016-06-05 Thread Oliver Briscbois
On 2016-06-05, heqami...@runbox.com wrote: > You can use rsync for backup via FTP over SSH. > There is an interesting thread on the freebsd-questions list with Subject: rsync or git backups? Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 10:35:06 +0200 Message-ID: (First post in thread) here's a snippet: > * N.J. Tho

Re: Portable Debian?

2016-06-02 Thread Oliver Briscbois
On 2016-05-11, emetib wrote: >I know this is a little off topic, yet I wrote this a while back >because of script kiddies messing with ssh on my server at the time. Thanks for that. Oliver

Debian testing - update has partly broken X, but which package?

2016-05-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
browser). Highlighted text is no longer visible in evolution. The general appearance is very poor. Screenshot available at http://www.lfix.co.uk/images/x-problem.jpeg I would like to know which package is responsible for these features, please. Oliver Elphick Lincolnshire, UK

Re: Creating launcher in Gnome 3

2016-04-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 17:19 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 13:27 +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > > > I'm trying to create a launcher.  Following the explanation in  > > https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/in > &g

Creating launcher in Gnome 3

2016-04-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
does not appear in the menu. So what is missing, please? Oliver Elphick

Re: Do not know which package bug is in

2016-04-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2016-04-01 at 11:34 +0100, Robin Oberg wrote: > On Fri, 2016-04-01 at 11:21 +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > Intermittent failures like that sound more like hardware problems. > > I > > seem to recall reading that charging devices like that demands more > >

Re: Do not know which package bug is in

2016-04-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
ecall reading that charging devices like that demands more power than the computer can supply. Oliver Elphick

Re: How to debug systemd script?

2016-03-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2016-03-29 at 02:33 +1300, chrisb@localhost.localdomain wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 01:00:35PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > How can I find out what is going on to stop the normal init script > > from > > working? Is there some way to force systemctl to log

How to debug systemd script?

2016-03-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
started. How can I find out what is going on to stop the normal init script from working? Is there some way to force systemctl to log what it is doing? If it does log, where does it put the log? Thanks Oliver Elphick

Re: Multi-display - one monitor active but blank

2016-03-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2016-03-22 at 16:36 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: >  > I didn't see a response to the question if this was a laptop? > It isn't.  It's a tower PC. The on-board Intel video is not used; there is a dual-head Nvidia card with both monitors.

Re: Multi-display - one monitor active but blank

2016-03-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2016-03-21 at 20:55 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Oliver Elphick composed on 2016-03-21 22:56 (UTC): > > > What gfxchip powers your displays? > > > > Card: Nvidia > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [NVS > > 300] > > (

Re: Multi-display - one monitor active but blank

2016-03-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
t doesn't ge tmoved. It may have something to do with the momitor itself, but I don't have another one to substitute. Oliver

Re: Multi-display - one monitor active but blank

2016-03-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2016-03-21 at 17:27 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Oliver Elphick composed on 2016-03-21 21:01 (UTC): > > > > > I have two monitors; the second one sometimes comes to life but is > > usually blank. However, the system thinks that it is active and > > displayi

Multi-display - one monitor active but blank

2016-03-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
leaving the monitors turned on 24 hours a day, but I have just installed Debian (instead of Mint) and the problem has come back. Any ideas where to start to solve this, please? -- Oliver Elphick Lincolnshire, England

RE: [PMX:SUSPECT] debian-user-digest Digest V2015 #1360

2015-11-20 Thread Griebel Oliver
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Re: Problem with Spamassassin since upgrade (permissions)

2014-05-29 Thread Oliver Zemann
Thanks, that was the problem. I added the user amavis to the group debian-spamd (usermod -a -G debian-spamd amavis) and now it works, no annoying mails anymore :) Thanks!! Am 29.05.2014 10:49, schrieb Chris Angelico: > On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Oliver Zemann > wrote: >> Wh

Re: Problem with Spamassassin since upgrade (permissions)

2014-05-28 Thread Oliver Zemann
If required, i could also paste the strace somewhere Am 29.05.2014 02:32, schrieb Bob Proulx: > Oliver Zemann wrote: >> Really no one here who could help me with that? > > Probably no one is running amavis-new plus spamassassin plus getting > that message. I am not. >

Re: Problem with Spamassassin since upgrade (permissions)

2014-05-28 Thread Oliver Zemann
ermission denied I really appreciate your help. Kind regards Oli Am 29.05.2014 02:32, schrieb Bob Proulx: > Oliver Zemann wrote: >> Really no one here who could help me with that? > > Probably no one is running amavis-new plus spamassassin plus > getting that message. I am no

Re: Problem with Spamassassin since upgrade (permissions)

2014-05-26 Thread Oliver Zemann
Really no one here who could help me with that? Am 25.05.2014 11:06, schrieb Oliver Zemann: > Hi > > I am recieving an error by cron since a couple of weeks. I cant remember > exactly what was updated, but i am pretty sure it was very related to > that. Before that update, i

Problem with Spamassassin since upgrade (permissions)

2014-05-25 Thread Oliver Zemann
Hi I am recieving an error by cron since a couple of weeks. I cant remember exactly what was updated, but i am pretty sure it was very related to that. Before that update, i never got such emails: subject: Cron test -e /usr/sbin/amavisd-new-cronjob && /usr/sbin/amavisd-new-cronjob sa-sync conten

Re: Sun/Oracle Java

2014-04-18 Thread Oliver Fairhall
Hi, Hope I didn't open a can of worms here. On 17/04/14 10:13, Scott Ferguson wrote: The "presumption" was made that the majority of readers, including the OP, would have the basic intelligence necessary to differentiate between the instructions to use "the latest java package" and an *example*

Re: Sun/Oracle Java

2014-04-16 Thread Oliver Fairhall
ckage of the latest java. > It "just works". > ... > Kind regards On 16/04/14 15:16, Frank Weißer wrote:> Hi Oliver! > Facing the same problem a while ago, i somewhere found a hint to add > > deb http://www.duinsoft.nl/pkg debs all > > to sources.list. Don&

Sun/Oracle Java

2014-04-15 Thread Oliver Fairhall
r use with Debian? I've tried this sort of thing before, but with mixed results. Sorry if this has been covered already - I couldn't see mention of it in my email search. Cheers, Oliver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Why no GNOME-photos in Debian?

2014-03-31 Thread Oliver Propst
I wounder why Gnome-photos [1] is not available in Debian? Any technical reasons that makes it hard to package? 1 https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Photos -- -mvh Oliver Propst -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: textstudio installs texlive in jessie

2014-03-17 Thread Oliver Kranz
2014-03-17 14:47 GMT+01:00 Tom Furie : > On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 01:43:59PM +, Tom Furie wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 02:21:52PM +0100, Oliver Kranz wrote: > > > > Why does texstudio as editor need to install latex packages? > > > Since texstudio is a LaTeX

textstudio installs texlive in jessie

2014-03-17 Thread Oliver Kranz
Why does texstudio as editor need to install latex packages? oliver@crunchbang:~$ sudo apt-get install texstudio Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut. Statusinformationen werden eingelesen Fertig Die folgenden zusätzlichen Pakete werden installiert: fonts

Apple Magic Trackpad/Mouse support in Debian Testing (Jessie) with GNOME 3?

2014-02-10 Thread Oliver Propst
finger scrolling. -- -mvh Oliver Propst

Re: MIT discovered issue with gcc

2013-11-23 Thread Oliver Schneider
On 2013-11-23 15:18, Robert Baron wrote: > Second question: > > Doesn't memcpy allow for overlapping memory, but strcpy does not? Isn't > this why memcpy is preferred over strcpy? IIRC memcpy does not, but memmove does. See: http://linux.die.net/man/3/memcpy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?

2013-10-08 Thread Oliver Fairhall
Hi folks, Good read. Just want to offer my thanks for all the testing and info. Really helps a newb. Cheers, Oli -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/

Re: You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?

2013-10-07 Thread Oliver Fairhall
Thanks for posting on this Jape. I'm new to Debian (preparing to install soon) and will likely be caught by this. Hope it's OK to ask some newby questions. I want a light weight DE, and was thinking to use XFCE (been fine on my other distros). I'm at best an intermediate level with Linux, so w

Re: Dual monitor problems

2013-06-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
On 25/06/13 12:34, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 25 iun 13, 06:56:14, Oliver Elphick wrote: >> I am trying to use two monitors at once, for the first time, using >> an Nvidia dual head card. >> >> I have now got the two monitors displaying a single screen and the >

Dual monitor problems

2013-06-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
back to life. I can pass the mouse into it, or select a window that is on it, but it remains black. The only exception is that it will restore when the screen is locked and I enter my password to unlock it. Where should I look? Debian version: sid, recently updated Oliver Elphick -- To

Re: Problems with CD insertion - sid

2013-06-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
be used at all with an audio CD. Oliver Elphick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1371806284.3409.0.camel@ruth

Re: Problems with CD insertion - sid

2013-06-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
First, I was wrong about it's not mounting the data CD. I was looking in the wrong place. So it is only about audio CDs. When one is inserted: $ sudo udisks --monitor-detail Monitoring activity from the disks daemon. Press Ctrl+C to cancel. changed: /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sr0 Showi

Re: Problems with CD insertion - sid

2013-06-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 20:31 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > For a start: > > Does "eject -T" open/close the drive? 'eject /dev/sr0' opens it (once unmounted), and -t closes it. -T gives an I/O error > Any error messages in /var/log/syslog? No > Does "udevadm trigger" help? --verbose gives a

Re: Problems with CD insertion - sid

2013-06-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 10:32 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 18 iun 13, 07:55:51, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > When a CD is inserted, it does not get mounted (data CD) or properly > > notified (audio CD). > ... > > I don't know where the problem resides. Which packa

Problems with CD insertion - sid

2013-06-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
When a CD is inserted, it does not get mounted (data CD) or properly notified (audio CD). I found that rhythmbox never showed an audio CD as available to play - it should come up under devices on the left-hand sidebar. I then tried setting the system to run VLC instead, using System Settings. St

Re: Debian install including non free

2013-01-01 Thread Oliver Fairhall
Hi, On 29/12/12 21:42, Zenaan Harkness wrote: check out debmirror package also try: apt-cache search debian | egrep mirror Thanks so much for your response. I will look into it, and see what I can do. Cheers, Oliver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Debian install including non free

2012-12-28 Thread Oliver Fairhall
that it is available for Debian's installer to use? Thanks, Oliver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50de67a3.1010...@iinet.net.au

Re: single device to replace ADSL router, WiFi/Ethernet router, SIP router?

2012-01-05 Thread Oliver Kiddle
efun.de/fritzbox/ but that is more concerned with the default firmware and is largely all in German. At a simpler level, you can enable telnet and put a Debian chroot on a USB stick but there isn't a great deal of RAM left for anything you might want to run in the chroot. Anyway, if you want

Debian dial in server -web access under squeeze

2011-10-26 Thread Peter oliver
trying to create a dial in box from modem to Ethernet (LAN DSL) using IBM netvista P4 (2.26c 512mb) with external us robotics 56k modem on com2 System is using new Squeeze install (nuked the XP install on the system)- command line no gui-- need to connect a windows box using ppp to this server to

GDB and ld.so?

2010-11-12 Thread Oliver Schneider
in advance, // Oliver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101112183543.13...@gmx.net

Re: Tell Ubuntu and Debian apart in a shell script ...

2010-08-25 Thread Oliver Schneider
> Maybe use lsb_release, and grep /etc/apt/sources.list as a fallback > method? Yep, sounds like a plan. Thanks, // Oliver -- --- DDKWizard and DDKBUILD: <http://ddkwizard.assarbad.net> Trunk (potentially unstable) ver

Re: Tell Ubuntu and Debian apart in a shell script ...

2010-08-25 Thread Oliver Schneider
hat I'm on to something with: (which lsb_release > /dev/null && `which lsb_release` --id)|awk '{print $3}' ... does not work on older systems which don't have lsb_release, though. Still looking, // Oliver -- -

Tell Ubuntu and Debian apart in a shell script ...

2010-08-25 Thread Oliver Schneider
Is something on the lines of: cat /etc/apt/sources.list|grep '^deb '|grep 'http://security\.'|head -n 1|grep -o 'debian|ubuntu' a safe idea or does it already make too many assumptions? Otherwise, what methods do you use to tell them apart from t

Re: Fascinating problem with bash

2010-08-24 Thread Oliver Schneider
usted to reflect that fact, according to my findings. But thanks a bunch for pointing that out. It's surely more elegant to use this method than to write to a temporary file. Also thanks to Bob for providing the links. Very useful, noted them down. Thanks a lot, // Oliver --

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