Re: Monthly FAQ for the Debian-user mailing list (last modified 20250301)

2025-03-01 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Mar 1, 2025, 9:12 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > You might want to add a bullet point addressing folks adding "SOLVED" > and similar to titles. Either allow it or forbid it. But write it down > so everyone knows what the policy is. > > I recommend the list forbid it. A mailing list is not a f

Re: can you parse and "tail" at once? (and if you can't why not?)

2023-10-22 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Oct 22, 2023, 10:39 PM Albretch Mueller wrote: > OK, Greg's suggestion once again "made my day". > I know at some point I will have to code everything in some > programming language, but for now I will just get things done as > quickly as possible. > Also, Greg, please, I would like fo

Re: Creality don't sound great (Was: Re: Is it possible to downgrade openssl?)

2023-08-04 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 11:33 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > Andy Smith wrote: > > > > Sounds like an absolutely shit-tier company. I hope there are > > alternatives in the 3d-printing world, a world that I know almost > > nothing about. > > Many, but Creality makes really cheap 3D printers, so > lots of

Re: Is it possible to downgrade openssl?

2023-07-30 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 10:42 PM Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 30/07/2023 05:16, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > I'd already reached the conclusion that messing with openssl was a bad > > idea. Unfortunately, Creality is unresponsive to pleas to fix their > > software. >

Re: Is it possible to downgrade openssl?

2023-07-29 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Jul 29, 2023, 6:03 PM Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 04:14:30PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 28, 2023, 4:10 PM Brian wrote: > > > On Fri 28 Jul 2023 at 16:04:10 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > > > any wa

Re: Is it possible to downgrade openssl?

2023-07-29 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 10:42 AM wrote: > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > On 28/07/2023 17:04, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > > I have an AppImage from Creality which segfaults with a QT ssl > > > error. Googling tells me that the latest version of OpenSSL (3.x) > >

Re: Is it possible to downgrade openssl?

2023-07-28 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, Jul 28, 2023, 4:10 PM Brian wrote: > On Fri 28 Jul 2023 at 16:04:10 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > > I have an AppImage from Creality which segfaults with a QT ssl error. > > Googling tells me that the latest version of OpenSSL (3.x) omits some > X509 > >

Is it possible to downgrade openssl?

2023-07-28 Thread Patrick Wiseman
I have an AppImage from Creality which segfaults with a QT ssl error. Googling tells me that the latest version of OpenSSL (3.x) omits some X509 functionality, which can be found in OpenSSL-1.1. (And someone reports that installing it solves the problem.) But I can't find that package. Is there any

Re: RFP: deadEarth RPG documentation - free and open RPG game

2023-06-28 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Not the list to make such requests On Wed, Jun 28, 2023, 11:30 AM Joshua Allen wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: deadearth > Version : second edition > Upstream Contact: i...@thegamecrafter.com > * URL : > https://web.archive.org/web/200

Re: qt.network.ssl problems (OT?)

2023-06-21 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 5:30 PM gene heskett wrote: > > I have no idea about the creality clone, but klipper runs perfectly fine > on a bananapi-m5 w/4gigs of dram in front of the printer. klipper > itself is a 2 part thing, one part replacing the usually crippled marlin > in the printers contro

Re: qt.network.ssl problems (OT?)

2023-06-20 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 2:18 PM Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2023, 2:02 PM gene heskett wrote: > >> On 6/20/23 13:33, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> > Hello, all: >> > >> > This may be a little off-topic, in which case, apologies, but there'

Re: qt.network.ssl problems (OT?)

2023-06-20 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Tue, Jun 20, 2023, 2:02 PM gene heskett wrote: > On 6/20/23 13:33, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > Hello, all: > > > > This may be a little off-topic, in which case, apologies, but there's so > > much knowledge here, maybe someone can help. > > > > I

qt.network.ssl problems (OT?)

2023-06-20 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello, all: This may be a little off-topic, in which case, apologies, but there's so much knowledge here, maybe someone can help. I recently acquired a Creality 3D printer, and Creality has supplied an AppImage to operate it. When I execute it, I get these errors and a segmentation fault: qt.net

Re: Evolution email (problem?)

2023-04-26 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Can't explain it, but it strikes me it's almost certainly a permissions problem. Patrick On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 11:06 AM Default User wrote: > Strange . . . > > I run Debian 11 (Bullseye) Stable, up to date, Gnome 3 desktop > environment. > > I recently set up Evolution email. Works okay.

Re: Getting PC with Ubuntu; change to Debian?

2023-03-02 Thread Patrick Wiseman
ous paces yet, but I'm back on familiar territory. Cheers Patrick On Sun, Dec 4, 2022, 9:51 PM Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Hello, fellow Debian users: > > I've had Debian on my computers for a very long time (can't remember > exactly when but early 2000's for sure);

Getting PC with Ubuntu; change to Debian?

2022-12-04 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello, fellow Debian users: I've had Debian on my computers for a very long time (can't remember exactly when but early 2000's for sure); and I've had Lenovo laptops for ages too. I finally need to replace my main laptop (an at least 10-year old ThinkPad), so I've bought an X1 from Lenovo, with Ub

Re: Can't create a password successfully.

2022-04-04 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Chrome does that. On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 10:04 AM Curt wrote: > On 2022-04-03, Brian wrote: > > > >> One of the bits of advice is to use long passwords made up of three > >> random words and to use a different password per website / to use > >> your web browser to generate an appropriate rando

Re: xfce not controlling desktop

2020-05-25 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 3:42 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > Hello, all: > > > > Since a recent upgrade of my testing system to debian 10, xfce no longer > > controls the desktop, so no background image, no right-click to bring up > > the menu,

xfce not controlling desktop

2020-05-25 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello, all: Since a recent upgrade of my testing system to debian 10, xfce no longer controls the desktop, so no background image, no right-click to bring up the menu, etc. Top and bottom panels works as they always have. Any thoughts? Hope you're all staying safe and well Cheers Patrick

Kazam 1.5.x - anyone successfully installed?

2020-05-18 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello, fellow users of Debian: Kazam is a screencasting tool much recommended. Debian has version 1.4.5, but it lacks webcam support, which is available in the 1.5.x version. I have the source code for version 1.5.4 (acquired by running 'bzr branch lp:kazam/unstable' which returns the latest versi

Re: Print Settings issue

2020-01-07 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 1:08 PM kaye n wrote: > By the way, I tried this: > > sudo apt install ./epson-inkjet-printer-201207w_1.0.0-1lsb3.2_amd64.deb > > and I got: > > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Note, selecting 'epson-inkjet-prin

Re: What's the device name of my microSD card?

2019-04-21 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 2:38 PM Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 2:30 PM Erik Josefsson < > erik.hjalmar.josefs...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 4/21/19 6:14 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> >> From the command line, 'df' returns free dis

Re: What's the device name of my microSD card?

2019-04-21 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 2:30 PM Erik Josefsson < erik.hjalmar.josefs...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 4/21/19 6:14 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > From the command line, 'df' returns free disk space and lists all mounted > devices by device name. (One of probably many ways t

Fwd: What's the device name of my microSD card?

2019-04-21 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Sorry - relied to OP not to list. -- Forwarded message - From: Patrick Wiseman Date: Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 2:13 PM Subject: Re: What's the device name of my microSD card? To: Erik Josefsson On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 2:03 PM Erik Josefsson < erik.hjalmar.josefs...@gmail.co

Re: Microsoft Does It Again

2018-08-21 Thread Patrick Wiseman
A quick Google search for 'convert ooxml to tsv' yields several results; this one looks interesting: https://gist.github.com/3290599 Assuming it works, you should then be able to import the TSV file into Libre Office Calc. Patrick On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 11:14 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I

Re: color unstable under jessie

2018-05-05 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, May 5, 2018, 6:11 PM tom arnall wrote: > Greetings! > > over the last few weeks i've been having trouble on my system with > color. the color on the screen becomes very unstable, and keeps going > into a state where most of the color is pink. has anyone else had this > problem. > I had t

Re: XFCE problems

2018-03-30 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 6:45 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: > I use XFCE and usually my name, the clock and some other > stuff is at the right of the top status(?) bar and the App > icon and window names are at the left. And they stay there. > Something has changed. everything is bunched up to the left

Re: Problem selecting options for cp command

2016-09-05 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > I attempted to copy contents of one partition to another using >cp -R /media/richard/myrepo /media/richard/test > > /media/richard/myrepo is a hard disk partition > /media/richard/test is a USB flash drive > I think what you want is t

Re: epub files and debian?

2016-08-23 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 2:04 PM, Nicolas George wrote: > Le septidi 7 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Patrick Wiseman a écrit : > > You might want to rename with a .zip extension. The command line tool, > > unzip, used to require a zip extension. > > I do not doubt your statement, but

Re: epub files and debian?

2016-08-23 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi, > Let me be sure I understand you. > If I have a file with the extension epub I can treat it as a zip file > finding an html file inside? > or do I need to save the file as a zip one first? > Thanks, > Karen > > [It doesn't bother me,

Re: off topic: chromebook

2016-06-23 Thread Patrick Wiseman
A Google search for 'emacs on chromebook' (which you surely could have conducted yourself?) yields, as its top result: http://endlessparentheses.com/emacs-is-available-on-chromebook-and-chrome.html Patrick On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 7:07 AM, Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희) wrote: > Is there chromebook to r

Re: Annoying pop-up window

2016-04-10 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Renaud OLGIATI < ren...@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> wrote: > On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 18:06:19 +0100 > Brad Rogers wrote: > > > Look at "Device Notifier settings" or whatever your chosen DE calls it. > > Running XFCE, I find nothing about the pop-up window in either > Not

Re: Trouble getting posted

2016-04-09 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 12:04 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > I have tried to post a couple of things in the last few days with no > results. My posts never show up. So this is another test. > > Is it possible that your email client is not showing your post in your inbox until it gets a reply? Gmail does

Network-Manager icon in systray keeps disappearing

2016-04-07 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Debian testing; xfce systray. 'sudo service network-manager restart' doesn't bring it back. Networking continues to work, but I can't control VPN connections and disconnections. This morning, after a reboot (seemed the quickest way to get the icon back) it let me connect to a VPN but then disappea

Re: Cups, Gutenprint, and Plain Text

2016-01-02 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 11:16 AM, John Hasler wrote: > Ok, I installed Cups+Gutenprint on my server because Magicfilter doesn't > support my "new" printer. After a struggle I have it printing pdfs both > locally and remotely. > > Plain text, however, is too much for it. With Magicfilter I just t

Re: Test Post (Ignore)

2015-09-16 Thread Patrick Wiseman
It won't, until someone replies to it on the debian user list. That's a "feature" of gmail. Patrick On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 5:13 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > Just a test to see if this email gets mirrored back to me. > > B >

Re: user name / password

2015-08-23 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Edward Lewandoski wrote: > I am trying to instal debian 8.1.0 Jessie. Debian is asking for a user name > and password.I can not get past the black install screen that wants a user > name and password to continue. Is it not simply asking you to _create_ a new us

Re: IP address

2015-07-17 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 2:25 PM, John J. Boyer wrote: > I have net-tools. ifconfig works only for root. WHY? On other distros > ordinary users can use it. You haven't been listening to what others have been telling you. ifconfig resides in sbin, which is in root's but not the ordinary user's path

Re: boot hangs when no ethernet cable is plugged in

2015-07-09 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2015-07-09 14:19:48 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: >> Am 09.07.2015 um 12:21 schrieb Vincent Lefevre: >> > Remove the "allow-hotplug eth0" line and have eth0 be brought up >> > automatically when there's an Ethernet signal? I haven't seen an

Re: Why is libapache2-mod-auth-mysql not in Jessie?

2015-05-15 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Fri, 15 May 2015, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> I just upgraded a server from Wheezy to Jessie, only to find that my >> authentication is broken because libapache2-mod-auth-mysql is not >> available in Jessie (it's

Why is libapache2-mod-auth-mysql not in Jessie?

2015-05-15 Thread Patrick Wiseman
I just upgraded a server from Wheezy to Jessie, only to find that my authentication is broken because libapache2-mod-auth-mysql is not available in Jessie (it's in Squeeze, Wheezy and Sid). I tried to install the package from Sid, but dpkg complains that apache2.2-common is not installed, which is

Re: Remove subject

2015-05-11 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 11 May 2015 21:45:33 Jochen Spieker wrote: >> [Cc'ed to OP since I am sure (s)he is subscribed] > > This is a modern usage that I find very confusing. I take it to mean what I > would phrase "Cc'ed to OP since I am NOT sure (s)he is s

Re: Power completely drained in hibernate mode?

2015-05-02 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 5:02 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Darac Marjal wrote: >> Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> > Any thoughts about how to diagnose what's going on? (It's also >> > painfully slow to get back up to speed coming out of hibernation, but >> > that

Re: Power completely drained in hibernate mode?

2015-04-29 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 09:50:18AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> Hello: >> >> To hibernate, I use 'sudo pm-hibernate' (because the hibernate button >> on my Xfce power manager tells me 'Sleep ve

Power completely drained in hibernate mode?

2015-04-29 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello: To hibernate, I use 'sudo pm-hibernate' (because the hibernate button on my Xfce power manager tells me 'Sleep verb not supported'). I thought hibernate mode was not supposed to use any power, but after 4 days, my laptop was powerless (it wasn't when I hibernated). Any thoughts about how t

All installed packages disappeared from aptitude

2015-04-27 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello: I just updated and upgraded a 'testing' system (so listed in sources.list) and aptitude shows no installed packages. Here's a typical aptitude entry: i A apache2 2.4.10-9 and another: ih perl 5.20.1-5 (The 'h' because I put it on hold when I saw it was among many potentially broken pa

Re: change sources.list to follow testing, not jessie

2015-04-16 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 5:25 PM, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Joe (j...@jretrading.com): >> On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 21:11:06 +0100 >> Lisi Reisz wrote: >> > As opposed to problems in a fortnight? If you change all of them, >> > you will have a whirlwind as soon as Jessie becomes Stable. If I >> >

Re: gedit slow with a 1.5Mb text file

2015-02-01 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 10:30 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > Sorry, Wayne. :-( This was meant to go to the list. I hope that someone can > explain the answer! > > On Sunday 01 February 2015 12:42:00 Wayne Hartell wrote: >> I grabbed a 1.5MB text file from Windows (converted using dos2unix, not >> that i

Re: Unable to upgrade testing system

2015-01-02 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Jan 2, 2015 6:33 PM, "Sam Varghese" wrote: > > I have been trying to upgrade a system that is running testing. for the > past couple of weeks and have been getting the following errors: [oodles of errors] > Processing was halted because there were too many errors. > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dp

Re: Script to email details not working in cron

2015-01-02 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Manikandan M wrote: > Hi, > > I have written a small script to email (using ssmpt) some details, and > scheduled it in crontab. The script is running as per time mentioned in the > cron but ssmtp is not sending the mail. please find the details below. > > user@host

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-20 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 10:21 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Not you Patrick, someone else. > I am sort of quoting > "I still do not know what you have against > it is far superior to wordperfect. > Odd idea about a virtual machine too. > The is far superior is the sort of thing I mean. Especially

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-20 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > I seem to recall making this point when i shared that while I respect the > *personal* computing choices of others, I need not emulate them. > In fact I never asked for word processing suggestions at all. Mine, works, > for, me...and I th

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-20 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > On 20/12/14 03:34 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> >> On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: >>> >>> On Saturday 20 December 2014 20:05:43 Patrick Wiseman wrote: >>>> >>&

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-20 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 20 December 2014 20:05:43 Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Gary Dale wrote: >> > On 20/12/14 02:15 PM, Doug wrote: >> >> On 12/20/2014 12:17 PM, Gary Dale wrote: >> >

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-20 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > On 20/12/14 02:15 PM, Doug wrote: >> >> On 12/20/2014 12:17 PM, Gary Dale wrote: >>> >>> On 17/12/14 11:35 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: Who said anything about running windows? The only windows I have are made of glass lol. Altho

Re: Removing USB entry in /etc/fstab in standard installations

2014-12-15 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Christoph Baumhardt wrote: > Hi, > > I had problems a while ago with several USB sticks on Debian Jessie. For all > non-root users they were automounted read-only. But there was no way of > writing something onto the sticks for a non-privileged user. Fiddling aroun

Re: Headless server just got suspended by updating systemd

2014-11-26 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 09:30:27AM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> happened. But the upgrade was of over a thousand packages. All I was >> trying to do was to provide information which might prove helpful to >> other

Re: Headless server just got suspended by updating systemd

2014-11-26 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 11:50 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 26/11/14 12:46, Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> On 26/11/2014 11:07 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> And *what do we know about the original "customisation"* that was >>> made - which may have 'some' bearing on the "badness" of the >>> upgrade/u

Re: Headless server just got suspended by updating systemd

2014-11-24 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 06:01:45PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: >> 2014/11/24 17:18 "Jonathan Dowland" : >> > I guess your argument makes sense if you are talking about all source >> packages >> > from the systemd stable, including logind; it's

Re: Headless server just got suspended by updating systemd

2014-11-23 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 8:13 PM, koanhead wrote: > On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 00:00:02 +0100, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > >> I am NOT starting another flamewar about systemd... > > we hope. Since I said so, why would you doubt it? >> >> Looking at the laptop, I noticed tha

Re: Headless server just got suspended by updating systemd

2014-11-23 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 8:58 PM, Matt Ventura wrote: > On 11/23/2014 2:36 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> >> I am NOT starting another flamewar about systemd, but I was just >> upgrading a headless system (an old T61p laptop which has no >> functioning screen any more bu

Headless server just got suspended by updating systemd

2014-11-23 Thread Patrick Wiseman
I am NOT starting another flamewar about systemd, but I was just upgrading a headless system (an old T61p laptop which has no functioning screen any more but which otherwise runs well and which I use as an internal webserver) by running aptitude in an ssh session. All went well until udev got upgra

Re: Installing Android development software

2014-11-09 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Steve Greig wrote: > I thought I would try and build an Android app and see that you have > to download and install some software: > adt-bundle-linux-x86_64-20140702.zip > > > Before doing this (I often find installs go wrong) I was wondering if > it is possible to

Re: Error code 1...........

2014-10-20 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 6:20 PM, Charlie wrote: > > From my keyboard: >Debian Jessie on laptop. > > Probably nothing but: > > The following packages will be upgraded: > libjpeg-progs > 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 100 not upgraded. > 40 not fully installed o

Re: bash vulnerability jessie

2014-09-26 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sep 26, 2014 11:56 AM, "Harry Putnam" wrote: > > After an `aptitude full-upgrade' this morning. I still get the > `VULNERABLE' answer to `x='() { :;}; echo VULNERABLE' bash -c :' > > I hope that is the correct string... (extracted while googling on > vulnerability) > > I did ssh to my user fro

Re: In dire need of assistant desperate lively hood involved.

2014-07-27 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Please don't feed the trolls On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 9:59 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 7/28/14, Stephen Pruitt wrote: > > hi i have 2 issues i would like your help with i just installed Debian > 7 i > > whose using microsoft windows 7 and i back up the files on to a USB and i > > would lik

Re: Advice needed re TV internet media machine.

2014-07-05 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 05 July 2014 17:30:19 Joe wrote: >> Joel mentioned the Raspberry Pi, which is a very low-power [ARM] >> device, which does the UK catchup channels pretty well, apart from the >> occasional glitch when a provider thoughtlessly changes

Re: Off-topic posting (was Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management)

2014-05-20 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Top posting here, as everything below is WAY OT. Sorry, Jerry, as old a hand as you may be, you're wrong. Take this "conversation" elsewhere, and stop embarrassing yourself and polluting this otherwise useful list. Cheers Patrick On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 5/20/20

Re: can't get wicd to work

2014-05-19 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Hans wrote: > >> What am I doing wrong? > > I got this problem, when I had network-manager installed, too. It looked for > me, like they do not want exist together. I have no explanantion for it, but > deinstalling and purging all network-manager packages fixed the

Re: Is zeitgeist safe?

2014-05-06 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Will you people please take this crap off-list? Patrick On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20140506_1525-0500, John Hasler wrote: >> Theodore Alcapotaxis writes: >> > Did you know that Linus Torvalds had to include some NSA-friendly code >> > (a.k.a. backdoors) in his Linu

Network Manager networking disabled after suspend

2014-04-11 Thread Patrick Wiseman
I know, I know, I Googled it and lots of people have had a similar problem, but nowhere is there a satisfactory solution posted. I have two frequently updated testing systems and I'm seeing this problem on only one of them (both laptops, both typically connected via wifi). On the one with the prob

Re: Was I deleted?

2014-03-31 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Hans wrote: > Hey, was I rermoved from the list? Or is the mailserver down? Apparently neither. Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: ht

Re: Another apt-get update: "Hash Sum mismatch"

2014-03-29 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Craig L. wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a local mirror of stable, and last night I added the testing > repository and apparently successfully mirrored it. > > On another system, I have a VM running stable, and another running > testing. The stable VM has been arou

Re: Should I be concerned that w/who reported 0 users?

2014-01-14 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> I manage a virtual machine remotely, running Debian stable. Recently, >> both 'w' and 'who' were reporting zero users. The machine had been up >> for 141 days, so I did '

Should I be concerned that w/who reported 0 users?

2014-01-13 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hi: I manage a virtual machine remotely, running Debian stable. Recently, both 'w' and 'who' were reporting zero users. The machine had been up for 141 days, so I did 'sudo shutdown -r now' and returned to it a few minutes later, when 'w' and 'who' reported appropriately. Is this any cause for con

Re: Installing TrueType Fonts (TTF)

2013-12-10 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Muntasim-Ul-Haque wrote: > Hi, > I was a GNOME user and recently I switched to XFCE in Debian to see how > things works here after reading that XFCE would be the default DE in the > upcoming Debian Jessie. BTW, TrueType Fonts (TTF) would open in GNOME with a > dial

Re: How do I get rid of the "launchpad" in XFCE?

2013-12-05 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Thu, 05 Dec 2013 17:47:25 -0500 (EST), Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> As for "Automatically show and hide the panel", I can't find where to set >> this. Besides, it seems to me that that will get rid of the thing across >> the top of the scr

Re: How do I get rid of the "launchpad" in XFCE?

2013-12-05 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > I'm sure that this must be one of the most common questions for new XFCE > users, but I can't seem to find an answer. If only I knew what the > proper terminology for this thing is, I'm sure I could find the answer > with an internet search.

Re: top posting

2013-11-20 Thread Patrick Wiseman
The usual objection to top posting is that it destroys the logical flow of the conversation (and no doubt someone will post a conversation in reverse order to illustrate the point). But I agree with you, and for years read my email in reverse chronological order precisely so that I could save time

Re: 3D printer

2013-11-03 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 03 November 2013 14:21:58 Celejar wrote: >> On Sun, 3 Nov 2013 03:59:37 -0200 >> >> Beco wrote: >> > Hi guys, >> > >> > This is an open thread, if that is allowed. >> >> What's an open thread? > > +1 Off topic? Patrick -- To UNSU

google-chrome-unstable apparently removes its executable

2013-10-06 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Updating two testing systems this morning, I found that my Chrome suddenly became unable to find any web pages. Attempting to relaunch, it wasn't there! 'which google-chrome' returned nothing. I tried 'sudo apt-get install google-chrome-unstable', but it was already installed. Finally, on both sys

Re: which program can reduce quality of mp3

2013-09-11 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Long Wind wrote: > the mp3 file is too big, 128kbps > I want to reduce it to 40kbps > > Thanks! I use lame to reduce stereo mp3 files to mono; it (as one might expect) halves the filesize. Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: nm eth0 connection

2013-09-10 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Robert Holtzm wrote: > Running updated wheezy on a thinkpad T420i w/ xfce DE. > > With great embarrassment, after stoutly defending nm, eth0 no longer > connects. This only happens when I run wheezy. The connection is fine > when I run the other distros on the hdd,

Laptop suspends against my will

2013-08-25 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello: I have a laptop running xfce4. I have set the power manager to lock the screen when the lid is closed. (The laptop never goes anywhere, it just sits on a desk, and I like to be able to ssh into it even when it's closed.) That setting hasn't changed, but recently something is suspending the

Re: xfce on jessie has no icons on desktop

2013-08-17 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Sorry! Sent privately instead of to the list. On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Today, after I rebooted after an upgrade a day or two ago, suddenly there > are no icons on my desktop in xfce. Usually it has

Re: Holy Gnome3 Invasion, Batman! - Testing Upgrades 06/30/2013

2013-06-30 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Jape Person wrote: > Hi! > > Forgive the facetious thread title, please. I just about got knocked out of my > socks this morning when I ran my daily upgrade checks in aptitude. > > I run Debian testing with Xfce, and I'd like to keep it that way. Me, too. > Abou

Who decided we don't need update-notifier any more?

2013-06-27 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Yes, I know, I've done the research and some GNOME folks decided we don't need it any more and "upgraded" us (I'm speaking of those of us on a testing system) to GNOME PackageKit. Well, since I use aptitude for all my package management, I don't consider it much of an upgrade. Why do people insist

Re: google chrome browser being kept back on squeeze?

2013-06-22 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > Since sometime last week, apt-get upgrade and dist-upgrade both report that > google-chrome-stable has been kept back. > > Anyone else seeing this? Anyone know why? It may be because chrome requires (and so depends on) a newer libc6. I saw this

Re: Another xfce4 panel Q: no right justify? [SOLVED]

2013-06-17 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Since the xfce4 update, it doesn't seem possible to align some icons > to the right of a screenwide panel as I used to do. Does anyone have a > fix, or did upstream "fix" something which wasn't broken? A

Another xfce4 panel Q: no right justify?

2013-06-17 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Since the xfce4 update, it doesn't seem possible to align some icons to the right of a screenwide panel as I used to do. Does anyone have a fix, or did upstream "fix" something which wasn't broken? Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

Re: Re (2): CUPS, "Add Printer Error".

2013-06-06 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 2:24 PM, wrote: > From: "John L. Cunningham" > Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 23:32:43 -0400 >> ... make sure lpadmin is actually set as the administrator user group. > > peter@dalton:~$ grep lpadmin /etc/cups/cupsd.conf > SystemGroup lpadmin > peter@dalton:~$ grep lpadmin /etc

Re: disk-upgrade removes 'less'

2013-05-10 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Oops, sorry, gmail defaults got me again! So now replying to list. On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Hörmetjan Yiltiz wrote: >> Hi, >> >> After changing 'wheezy' to 'testing' in sources.list

Re: Testing upgrades?

2013-05-09 Thread Patrick Wiseman
I had well over 200 on two machines, so something must be amiss at your end. I use aptitude and have it update (but not install) automatically. Perhaps you need to do a manual update? Patrick On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Ed Jabbour wrote: > ** > > Sorry about the blank message. > > > > Sou

Re: Too many emails

2013-05-08 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:56 PM, francis picabia wrote: > > > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Valaki Valahol wrote: >> >> Hello ... >> >> Since I have subscribed to Your email list I am getting any kind >> of emails, not only those concerning my question... >> Is this normal and how can I stop re

Re: grey screen in googleearth

2013-03-10 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 10:29 PM, sp113438 wrote: > Hello, > > I ran 'make-googleearth-package' and installed google-earth. > Result: grey screen in the Google-earth window instead of the globe, map. > > My system: > Squeeze > amd64 > nvidia-driver 'NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-310.32.run' > kernel 2.6.32-

Re: choosing a web browser

2013-03-09 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 10:35 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Update: > > * Google Chromium > This does not appear (in an hour of usage) to have the CPU-spikes > problem of iceweasel/firefox. > Performance is fine on my modern laptop. > Tabs work; CTRL-PgUp/Dn works. > Has private browsing mode. I'm h

Chrome and Flash - a problem solved

2013-02-04 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello, all: Flash had recently stopped working in my Chrome browser. Googling revealed I was not alone, but it also suggested a solution, which worked. In 'chrome://plugins', I disabled 'libpepflash.so' (if memory serves), leaving Flash handling to the Adobe plugin. No need to restart Chrome; Flas

Re: package for dropbox

2012-12-30 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 8:56 AM, lina wrote: > Hi, > > I use xfce4, I wonder which is the best package to pick for dropbox, > > nautilus-dropbox - Dropbox integration for Nautilus I use this with great success. It plugs right into xfce4 and doesn't have a bunch of dependencies. (It "suggests"

xfwm4 failure and fix

2012-11-24 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello, all: Just fyi, on a recent restart of my testing machine with xfce, my window manager appeared broken (no workspaces, no title bars, etc.). Googling revealed that xfwm4, for reasons unexplained, had not been restored when the session restarted. One suggestion was Alt-F2 which, in xfce, brin

Re: The "Oh, No..." error when gdm is trying to start

2012-08-16 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:13:53 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: >> >>> On a student's Debian system, I ran some updates and resulted in gdm >>> refusing to start, with the error message that show

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