Re: gnu screen and resizing terminal window

2022-01-27 Thread Tim Woodall
On Wed, 26 Jan 2022, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On 2022-01-26 5:55 p.m., Bijan Soleymani wrote: Actually apparently putty does support remote resizing. It just seems that our systems lack the right termcap entries. I managed to resize the putty window by running the command: resize -s height widt

Re: gnu screen and resizing terminal window

2022-01-27 Thread Tim Woodall
On Wed, 26 Jan 2022, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On 2022-01-26 1:45 p.m., Tim Woodall wrote: I have to use PuTTY to connect to a debian server. For reasons that are outwith my control the ssh session disconnects every 24 hrs. Therefore I run screen so after reconnecting I can recover to whereever

Re: gnu screen and resizing terminal window

2022-01-26 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-26 5:55 p.m., Bijan Soleymani wrote: Actually apparently putty does support remote resizing. It just seems that our systems lack the right termcap entries. I managed to resize the putty window by running the command: resize -s height width so: resize -s 24 80 Also adding this: term

Re: gnu screen and resizing terminal window

2022-01-26 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-26 5:42 p.m., Bijan Soleymani wrote: As far as I know this is not a screen feature. Putty controls the window size, it is determined by the default or whatever is saved for that session. You can change what happens when you resize the putty window on the machine running putty. There

Re: gnu screen and resizing terminal window

2022-01-26 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-26 1:45 p.m., Tim Woodall wrote: I have to use PuTTY to connect to a debian server. For reasons that are outwith my control the ssh session disconnects every 24 hrs. Therefore I run screen so after reconnecting I can recover to whereever I was at. However, the PuTTY window does no

Re: gnu screen and resizing terminal window

2022-01-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 26 ian 22, 18:45:41, Tim Woodall wrote: > I have to use PuTTY to connect to a debian server. For reasons that are > outwith my control the ssh session disconnects every 24 hrs. > > Therefore I run screen so after reconnecting I can recover to whereever > I was at. > > However, the PuTTY wi

Re: GNU Guix

2020-09-30 Thread tomas
On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 08:12:37AM +0200, juh wrote: > Am 29.09.20 um 23:10 schrieb Miles Fidelman: > > The question for me, is whether Guix is mature & stable enough for > > production use - vis-a-vis say Gentoo, or building Linux-from-Scratch, > > or one of the BSDs (though SmartOS is starting to

Re: GNU Guix

2020-09-29 Thread juh
Am 29.09.20 um 23:10 schrieb Miles Fidelman: > The question for me, is whether Guix is mature & stable enough for > production use - vis-a-vis say Gentoo, or building Linux-from-Scratch, > or one of the BSDs (though SmartOS is starting to look pretty interesting). I would rather compare it to NixO

Re: GNU Guix

2020-09-29 Thread David Wright
On Tue 29 Sep 2020 at 17:10:13 (-0400), Miles Fidelman wrote: > On 9/29/20 1:04 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > I tried GNU Guix a few years back. I did not find a compelling reason > > other than package roll back to leave Debian for it. Bullseye has the > > nix-bin package available for those w

Re: GNU Guix

2020-09-29 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 9/29/20 1:04 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: I tried GNU Guix a few years back. I did not find a compelling reason other than package roll back to leave Debian for it. Bullseye has the nix-bin package available for those wanting to try it without leaving Debian, I guess. - Nate I've been thinki

Re: GNU Guix

2020-09-29 Thread Nate Bargmann
I tried GNU Guix a few years back. I did not find a compelling reason other than package roll back to leave Debian for it. Bullseye has the nix-bin package available for those wanting to try it without leaving Debian, I guess. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all

Re: Gnu sieve vs Dovecot sieve-filter - sieve-filter extremely slow at lda (writing emails to local mbox files)

2019-09-12 Thread elvis
On 12/9/19 8:06 am, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 07:55:23AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Why is Gnu sieve so extremely fast to batch process an mbox file, but while Dovecot's sieve-filter is an order of magnitude slower? Sequence: - mpop or getmail to pipeline download email

Re: Gnu sieve vs Dovecot sieve-filter - sieve-filter extremely slow at lda (writing emails to local mbox files)

2019-09-11 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 07:55:23AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Why is Gnu sieve so extremely fast to batch process an mbox file, but > while Dovecot's sieve-filter is an order of magnitude slower? > > Sequence: > > - mpop or getmail to pipeline download emails into temp mbox file > - filter

Re: GNU economics

2019-03-11 Thread Brian
On Mon 11 Mar 2019 at 20:30:55 +0100, Marek Mosiewicz wrote: > Hello, > > Debian webpage states about greedy of IT corporations. In my opinion it Citation, please. [Snip] > What do you think about this ? Nothing to do with Debian. -- Brian.

Re: GNU economics

2019-03-11 Thread Joe
On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 20:30:55 +0100 Marek Mosiewicz wrote: > Hello, > > Debian webpage states about greedy of IT corporations. In my opinion > it is not so easy to state it. Of course current cloud offer of MS > Office for $12 per month would means one tryllion a year if 7 billion > people would

Re: GNU/KFreeBSD su Sun Microsystems X2200 M2 AMD 64bit

2017-03-12 Thread pdb
era così difficile dirmi di visitare: http://debian.fastweb.it/debian-cd/8.7.1/amd64 ho perso molto tempo per trovarlo. è questo il modo di invitare la gente ad usare GNU/KFreeBSD? Credi di esser stato corretto nei miei riguardi? Ti sei comprato la Mailing List? È questo il modo di aiutare la

Re: GNU C Library version

2017-01-08 Thread David Wright
On Mon 09 Jan 2017 at 01:05:35 (+), Mike wrote: > Hi, > > Firstly thanks to everyone for their time and effort in coming up > with and maintaining these fantastic alternatives to Windows, its > very much appreciated. I have been using Ubuntu and other Linux > based operating systems for numbe

Re: GNU

2016-09-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, (i maintain GNU xorriso but do not speak for GNU or FSF) Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > their objection to some of Debian might be easily fixable The Debian position is that one should help people to install on hardware of which the manufacturer imposed unsurpassable obstacles for pure FSF-compli

Re: GNU (was Re: Decentralized reliable instant messaging?)

2016-09-08 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 9/8/16, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > If GNU can get people into using GNU software without giving up its > core values, then it normally does. > E.g. there is absolutely no ban on offering GNU software for proprietary > OSes. > > The FSF does not force GNU programs to fully follow the political go

Re: GNU Barcodes

2015-01-03 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 01:22:25AM -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > On 12/11/2014 04:59 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > >On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 01:54:08AM -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > >>Dear List - > >> > >>I wish to be able to print a barcode .5 inches from top of the page and > >>centered. > >> > >

Re: GNU Barcodes

2014-12-23 Thread Ethan Rosenberg
On 12/11/2014 04:59 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 01:54:08AM -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: Dear List - I wish to be able to print a barcode .5 inches from top of the page and centered. I generate the barcode - yes 12345 | head -84 | barcode -p 5x5.0cm -umm -e CODE39 > test.

Re: GNU Barcodes

2014-12-11 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 01:54:08AM -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > Dear List - > > I wish to be able to print a barcode .5 inches from top of the page and > centered. > > I generate the barcode - > > yes 12345 | head -84 | barcode -p 5x5.0cm -umm -e CODE39 > test.ps; First of all, try viewing

Re: GNU Barcodes

2014-12-11 Thread Johann Klammer
On 12/11/2014 08:10 AM, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > Dear List - > > I wish to be able to print a barcode .5 inches from top of the page and > centered. > > I generate the barcode - > > yes 12345 | head -84 | barcode -p 5x5.0cm -umm -e CODE39 > test.ps; > > and print - > > lpr -o media=letter -#1

Re: Gnu Guix (was: Let's have a vote!)

2014-09-17 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2014 17 Sep 15:44 -0500, Andre N Batista wrote: > Have any of you tested Gnu Guix > (https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/#content)? It appears to be a > promissing package manager, I'm guessing _if_ it would be easier to solve > these chain issues with it. I actually only discovered it yesterda

Re: Gnu Guix (was: Let's have a vote!)

2014-09-17 Thread Andre N Batista
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 05:15:39PM -0700, koanhead wrote: > On 09/16/2014 03:00 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 13:05:25 -0500 Nate Bargmann > > wrote: > > > >> * On 2014 16 Sep 12:51 -0500, st wrote: > >>> Surely, I'd love to see the votes on 'What distribution > >>> currently al

Re: gnu screen key binding question - bind a key to: stuff a command + unbind the key binding?

2013-09-03 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 9/3/13, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: > On Tue, 3 Sep 2013, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > >> Does anyone know off-hand how to bind a key in .screenrc, eg >> >> bindkey -k k8 screen >> >> so that the bound key causes some keystrokes to go into the terminal >> to run that command, as well as "a

Re: gnu screen key binding question - bind a key to: stuff a command + unbind the key binding?

2013-09-03 Thread davidson
On Tue, 3 Sep 2013, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Does anyone know off-hand how to bind a key in .screenrc, eg bindkey -k k8 screen so that the bound key causes some keystrokes to go into the terminal to run that command, as well as "at the same time" (probably just prior, or after) to unbind that s

Re: GNU find: "print0" and "-type" arguments

2012-08-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Bob Proulx: > > Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > > martin@merkaba:~/Zeit/find-Test> find \( -type d -print \) -o \( > > > -name "file" -printf "%s %p" \) -o \( -name "anotherfile" -print0 > > > \) . > > > ./anotherfile./dir > > > 0 ./file% > > > martin@merkaba:~/Zeit/find-

Re: GNU find: "print0" and "-type" arguments

2012-08-03 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 3. August 2012 schrieb Bob Proulx: > Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > martin@merkaba:~/Zeit/find-Test> find \( -type d -print \) -o \( > > -name "file" -printf "%s %p" \) -o \( -name "anotherfile" -print0 > > \) . > > ./anotherfile./dir > > 0 ./file% > > martin@merkaba:~/Zeit/find-Test> >

Re: GNU find: "print0" and "-type" arguments

2012-08-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Martin Steigerwald wrote: > martin@merkaba:~/Zeit/find-Test> find \( -type d -print \) -o \( -name "file" > -printf "%s %p" \) -o \( -name "anotherfile" -print0 \) > . > ./anotherfile./dir > 0 ./file% >

Re: GNU find: "print0" and "-type" arguments

2012-08-02 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi! Bill Unruh allowed me to post his personal answer to the list. He answered personally cause otherwise he would get the whole mailing list in the mail instead due to some newsgroup gateway stuff. On Thursday, 2. August 2012 he wrote: > In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 2. A

Re: GNU find: "print0" and "-type" arguments

2012-08-02 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 2. August 2012 schrieb Bob Proulx: > > I see (on a terminal screen that does not display null characters): > > ../dir./file > > You have the order of arguments backwards. You wanted to say this: > > find -type d -print > > That would do the right thing. Doing it the other way

Re: GNU find: "print0" and "-type" arguments

2012-08-02 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 09:12:49PM -0500, Alex Robbins wrote: > >Kumar > Yes, I read the man page and I know what the -print0 option is > supposed to do. Notice, however, that when I executed "find > -print0 -type d" the output (which, we both understand, is delimited > by null characters) include

Re: GNU find: "print0" and "-type" arguments

2012-08-02 Thread Slavko
Hi, Dňa Wed, 01 Aug 2012 19:33:35 -0500 Alex Robbins napísal: > I see (on a terminal screen that does not display null characters): > ../dir./file simple try to switch the arguments: find -type d -print0 ../dir The print0 and others are the "expressions" (see man find) and they must be at end

Re: GNU find: "print0" and "-type" arguments

2012-08-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Alex Robbins wrote: > I have a directory that looks like this: > . > ├── dir > └── file > "dir" is a directory and "file" is a regular file. I execute: > find -type d Here you are using the GNU find extension which allows the path to be omitted. In GNU find the path is optional. In the standar

Re: GNU find: "print0" and "-type" arguments

2012-08-01 Thread kushal . kumaran+debian
Alex Robbins wrote: >I have a directory that looks like this: >. >├── dir >└── file >"dir" is a directory and "file" is a regular file. I execute: >find -type d >and get the output: >. >./dir >This is the expected output. However, when I execute: >find -print0 -type d >I see (on a terminal scre

Re: GNU find: "print0" and "-type" arguments

2012-08-01 Thread Alex Robbins
On 08/01/2012 08:41 PM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 07:33:35PM -0500, Alex Robbins wrote: . ./dir This is the expected output. However, when I execute: find -print0 -type d I see (on a terminal screen that does not display null characters): ../dir./file The same goes for using

Re: GNU find: "print0" and "-type" arguments

2012-08-01 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 07:33:35PM -0500, Alex Robbins wrote: > . > ./dir > This is the expected output. However, when I execute: > find -print0 -type d > I see (on a terminal screen that does not display null characters): > ../dir./file > > The same goes for using "-type f". It appears as thoug

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-11 Thread Randy Kramer
I haven't read this entire thread, so I'm jumping into the middle. John Hasler gave you excellent advice when he suggested creating your own web site (or a web site on some other social media type network) that has less aggressive privacy policies. Then in response to your concern: > But this

[OT]Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-10 Thread Miles Fidelman
Weaver wrote: Nick Lidakis writes: Are there other tool I can use to avoid using facebook? Why not just set up a Web site for your business? Then if you find that you absolutely _must_ be on FaceBook set up a FaceBook account that contains little more than a link to your Web site. Much better

Re: [OT] Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-10 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Nick Lidakis wrote: > >> Are there other tool I can use to avoid using facebook? I did find out >> about and someone else mentioned about Diaspora. It's considered >> decentralized social networking. But can I use some other software to let >

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-10 Thread Weaver
> Nick Lidakis writes: >> Are there other tool I can use to avoid using facebook? > > Why not just set up a Web site for your business? Then if you find that > you absolutely _must_ be on FaceBook set up a FaceBook account that > contains little more than a link to your Web site. Much better! A

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-10 Thread Weaver
> On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 10:51:43AM +1100, Alex Hutton wrote: >> The thing of facebook is people login to facebook and regularly view >> their activity feed. So if you are posting to facebook you are >> appearing in the activity feeds of people who have 'liked' your page. >> People can also messa

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-10 Thread Weaver
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 09:56:10AM +, Jon Dowland wrote: >> On 05/02/12 00:09, Nick Lidakis wrote: >> >But using this facebook app I would still need to create a facebook >> account, >> >yes? >> >> Facebook's privacy concerns only apply to whatever data you give >> them. Set up an account an

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-09 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 09:00:54PM -0500, Nick Lidakis wrote: > On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 12:59:09AM -0300, Carlo Borelli wrote: > > 2012/2/4 Nuno Magalhães > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > It is kinda off-topic (i'd OT it), and being picky it's GNU/Linux > > > Debian, not GNU/Debian Linux. Being extra pi

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-09 Thread John Hasler
Nick Lidakis writes: > Are there other tool I can use to avoid using facebook? Why not just set up a Web site for your business? Then if you find that you absolutely _must_ be on FaceBook set up a FaceBook account that contains little more than a link to your Web site. -- John Hasler -- To UN

[OT] Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-09 Thread Miles Fidelman
Nick Lidakis wrote: Are there other tool I can use to avoid using facebook? I did find out about and someone else mentioned about Diaspora. It's considered decentralized social networking. But can I use some other software to let people know about specials, events, etc., without using things l

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-09 Thread Nick Lidakis
On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 06:35:27AM +0300, Stayvoid wrote: > > Everyone has been telling us that we *absolutely* have to be on facebook... > Please don't use Facebook. > http://stallman.org/facebook.html Yes. I'm well aware of this and most of Stallman's philosophies. > > I've read the tech news

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-09 Thread Nick Lidakis
On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 12:30:05PM +1000, Robert Brockway wrote: > Hi Nick. You may wish to contact David J Patrick who founded > LinuxCaffe (http://www.linuxcaffe.ca) in Toronto, Canada many years > ago. LinuxCaffe is a successful business providing coffee & light > food running completely on Li

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-09 Thread Nick Lidakis
On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 12:59:09AM -0300, Carlo Borelli wrote: > 2012/2/4 Nuno Magalhães > > > Hi, > > > > It is kinda off-topic (i'd OT it), and being picky it's GNU/Linux > > Debian, not GNU/Debian Linux. Being extra picky i'd ask where is > > Manhattan, :) > > > > This topic is absolutely OT

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-09 Thread Nick Lidakis
On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 10:51:43AM +1100, Alex Hutton wrote: > The thing of facebook is people login to facebook and regularly view > their activity feed. So if you are posting to facebook you are > appearing in the activity feeds of people who have 'liked' your page. > People can also message you

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-09 Thread Nick Lidakis
On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 09:56:10AM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > On 05/02/12 00:09, Nick Lidakis wrote: > >But using this facebook app I would still need to create a facebook account, > >yes? > > Facebook's privacy concerns only apply to whatever data you give > them. Set up an account and only supp

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On 05/02/12 00:09, Nick Lidakis wrote: But using this facebook app I would still need to create a facebook account, yes? Facebook's privacy concerns only apply to whatever data you give them. Set up an account and only supply business-data: promotions etc., stuff for which exposure is a *good

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On 05/02/12 00:09, Nick Lidakis wrote: But using this facebook app I would still need to create a facebook account, yes? Facebook's privacy concerns only apply to whatever data you give them. Set up an account and only supply business-data: promotions etc., stuff for which exposure is a *good

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-07 Thread Curt
On 2012-02-05, Weaver wrote: > The difference comes out for those with the eyes and ears to see and hear. > You can lead a girl to Vassar but you can't make her think. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas.

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-06 Thread hvw59601
John Hasler wrote: Scot writes: Even "facts" are built on belief. For certain values of "belief". For all values of "belief", otherwise they could not be "facts". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-05 Thread John Hasler
Scot writes: > Even "facts" are built on belief. For certain values of "belief". -- John Hasler -- 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/87mx8xezmx@thumpe

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-05 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 06/02/12 03:06, Curt wrote: > On 2012-02-05, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> >> While it may be good business advice isn't it hypocrisy to sell a >> product you don't believe in? >> > > Who believes in products? > > Most buyers (I can't account for the "motivations" of all "minorities"). Do you bu

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-05 Thread Weaver
> On Du, 05 feb 12, 12:30:05, Robert Brockway wrote: >> >> One of the best pieces of business advice I ever received was this: >> >> "Don't sell what you like. Sell what people will buy". > > While it may be good business advice isn't it hypocrisy to sell a > product you don't believe in? The di

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-05 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 12:25:58PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sb, 04 feb 12, 18:26:25, Nick Lidakis wrote: > > [big snip] > > Hi Nick, > > Some issues to be aware of (in no particular order) that I encountered > while trying to help my brother with his business: > > FLOSS is not cost fr

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-05 Thread Curt
On 2012-02-05, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > While it may be good business advice isn't it hypocrisy to sell a > product you don't believe in? > Who believes in products? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Re: [OT] Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-05 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 05 February 2012 13:02:35 Nuno Magalhães wrote: > OP oughta focus on intended audience first, then he'll know which means to > use. +1 I think that the intended (or hoped for) clientele is very significant; as also is the type of business: repeat or new every time. We have a local sma

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-05 Thread John Hasler
Andrei writes: > While it may be good business advice isn't it hypocrisy to sell a > product you don't believe in? It isn't hypocrisy to assume that other people know better than you do what is best for them. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

[OT] Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-05 Thread Robert Brockway
On Sun, 5 Feb 2012, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Du, 05 feb 12, 12:30:05, Robert Brockway wrote: One of the best pieces of business advice I ever received was this: "Don't sell what you like. Sell what people will buy". While it may be good business advice isn't it hypocrisy to sell a product

Re: [OT] Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:02:35 +, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 12:27, Camaleón wrote: >> And what's make you think open source projects cannot ask for money? I >> see nothing wrong there. I prefer a company or a project is transparent >> enough to say, "hey, we need $$$ to put

Re: [OT] Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-05 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 12:27, Camaleón wrote: > And what's make you think open source projects cannot ask for money? I > see nothing wrong there. I prefer a company or a project is transparent > enough to say, "hey, we need $$$ to put this working" and ask for it. Diaspora started as a free-for-a

Re: [OT] Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:13:58 +, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 11:20, Camaleón wrote: >> Identi.ca and DIASPORA*, the >> open counterparts for Internet socializing. > > Don't know about identi.ca, but disaspora started asking for money even > before lauch, did they get to act

Re: [OT] Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-05 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 11:20, Camaleón wrote: > Identi.ca and DIASPORA*, the > open counterparts for Internet socializing. Don't know about identi.ca, but disaspora started asking for money even before lauch, did they get to actually leave beta-stage? People who care about their privacy might mo

[OT] Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:26:25 -0500, Nick Lidakis wrote: > I hope this isn't too off topic for this list but smart people lurk > about these parts. It is a bit off-topic, indeed :-) > In a nutshell, my wife and I starting a small business in a family > oriented neighborhood. We're serving coffee,

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 04 feb 12, 18:26:25, Nick Lidakis wrote: [big snip] Hi Nick, Some issues to be aware of (in no particular order) that I encountered while trying to help my brother with his business: FLOSS is not cost free. You may not need to pay for the licenses, but do you have the spare time to inv

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 05 feb 12, 12:30:05, Robert Brockway wrote: > > One of the best pieces of business advice I ever received was this: > > "Don't sell what you like. Sell what people will buy". While it may be good business advice isn't it hypocrisy to sell a product you don't believe in? Kind regards, A

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-04 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 12:30:05PM +1000, Robert Brockway wrote: > On Sat, 4 Feb 2012, Nick Lidakis wrote: > > >In a nutshell, my wife and I starting a small business in a family > >oriented neighborhood. We're serving coffee, espresso and baking > >fresh bread and pastry on premises. The shop wil

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-04 Thread Miles Fidelman
Nick Lidakis wrote: Everyone has been telling us that we *absolutely* have to be on facebook and twitter, if not more, for our coffee house. They argue that it's free marketing and advertising. That we need facebook to advertise events and specials. That most people today check their facebook bef

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media [OT]

2012-02-04 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 05/02/12 15:25, John Hasler wrote: > Carlo Borelli writes: >> Manhattan it isn't that little town next to Niagara Falls? > > It's a town in Kansas. Are you sure? I thought it was (partly) an island sold for a few baubles to native indians (who got the better end of the deal). Kind regards

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-04 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2012 04 Feb 22:27 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Carlo Borelli writes: > > Manhattan it isn't that little town next to Niagara Falls? > > It's a town in Kansas. Yup, just an hour south of here. The Little Apple. Home of Kansas State University. - Nate >> -- "The optimist proclaims that we

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-04 Thread John Hasler
Carlo Borelli writes: > Manhattan it isn't that little town next to Niagara Falls? It's a town in Kansas. -- John Hasler -- 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.

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-04 Thread Carlo Borelli
2012/2/4 Nuno Magalhães > Hi, > > It is kinda off-topic (i'd OT it), and being picky it's GNU/Linux > Debian, not GNU/Debian Linux. Being extra picky i'd ask where is > Manhattan, :) > This topic is absolutely OT and need to be marked OT BTW, Manhattan it isn't that little town next to Niagara

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-04 Thread Stayvoid
> Everyone has been telling us that we *absolutely* have to be on facebook... Please don't use Facebook. http://stallman.org/facebook.html > I've read the tech news concerning facebook's privacy and "intellectual > property" policies. Please don't use this term. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-04 Thread Robert Brockway
On Sat, 4 Feb 2012, Nick Lidakis wrote: In a nutshell, my wife and I starting a small business in a family oriented neighborhood. We're serving coffee, espresso and baking fresh bread and pastry on premises. The shop will be located at the northern tip of Manhattan in the vicinity of Inwood Hi

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-04 Thread Weaver
> I hope this isn't too off topic for this list but smart people lurk about > these parts. Hello Nick, > > In a nutshell, my wife and I starting a small business in a family > oriented > neighborhood. We're serving coffee, espresso and baking fresh bread and > pastry on premises. The shop will be

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-04 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, It is kinda off-topic (i'd OT it), and being picky it's GNU/Linux Debian, not GNU/Debian Linux. Being extra picky i'd ask where is Manhattan, :) There's no inherent incompatibility between FOSS software and social media, that i know of. Your only concern could be the browser but Firefox has b

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-04 Thread Nick Lidakis
On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 10:51:43AM +1100, Alex Hutton wrote: > The thing of facebook is people login to facebook and regularly view > their activity feed. So if you are posting to facebook you are > appearing in the activity feeds of people who have 'liked' your page. > People can also message you

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-04 Thread Alex Hutton
The thing of facebook is people login to facebook and regularly view their activity feed. So if you are posting to facebook you are appearing in the activity feeds of people who have 'liked' your page. People can also message you through facebook and this can be a channel for customer support. You

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-04 Thread Greg Heilers
Advertise it as a place for people who abhor "social media" and who love Linux. You will probably attract a higher class of patrons. 8^) On Feb 4, 2012 5:26 PM, "Nick Lidakis" wrote: I hope this isn't too off topic for this list but smart people lurk about these parts. In a nutshell, my wife

Re: gnu screen - 40 windows limit?

2012-01-13 Thread Evuraan
thanks! that worked. #ifndef MAXWIN # define MAXWIN 409 #endif :) I will never run out of sessions! I threw in the vertical split as well, http://torrez.us/archives/2009/02/24/579/ On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 8:38 PM, toor wrote: > I run across this issue as well. > > I usually recompile screen to

Re: gnu screen - 40 windows limit?

2012-01-12 Thread toor
I run across this issue as well. I usually recompile screen to remove it. If you want to do it with packages, make sure you have the dpkg-dev package installed (you will need make etc. so also grab build-essential which may or may not be a dependancy on dpkg-dev) and use 'apt-get source screen' to

Re: gnu screen - 40 windows limit?

2012-01-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/01/12 10:38, Evuraan wrote: > gnu screen seems to let me open upto 40 windows. When I try for more, it > says "No more windows." - is there a way we can override this limit? > > many thanks in advance. > Strange... What do you get from:- $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/pty/max I get 4096 on stock-

Re: GNU screen, xterm and mouse

2011-10-18 Thread Csanyi Pal
Camaleón writes: > On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:36:20 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > >> I just started using screen when in xterm. >> >> I usually use Midnight Commander (mc) in xterm/screen. I realise soon >> that I can't use mouse in xterm/screen/mc to highlite an item in mc >> panes. >> >> I can do th

Re: GNU screen, xterm and mouse

2011-10-18 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:36:20 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > I just started using screen when in xterm. > > I usually use Midnight Commander (mc) in xterm/screen. I realise soon > that I can't use mouse in xterm/screen/mc to highlite an item in mc > panes. > > I can do that when I'm using xterm/mc bu

Re: GNU .screenrc and scrolling problem

2010-02-26 Thread Sam Leon
Matthew Moore wrote: On Friday February 26 2010 9:42:09 am wishi wrote: Am 26.02.10 12:20, schrieb Alex Samad: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:16:57AM +0100, Marius wrote: Hi! I'm using the xfce4-terminal and GNU screen. However since ... forever I have stuff in my .screenrc that made it recently

Re: GNU .screenrc and scrolling problem

2010-02-26 Thread Chris Burkhardt
On 02/26/2010 10:27 AM, Matthew Moore wrote: > On Friday February 26 2010 9:42:09 am wishi wrote: >> Am 26.02.10 12:20, schrieb Alex Samad: >> Well... when I do that I can scroll up, but just within he >> xfce4-terminal, rxvt... buffer. >> That means I leave screen's screen, where the current scr

Re: GNU .screenrc and scrolling problem

2010-02-26 Thread Matthew Moore
On Friday February 26 2010 9:42:09 am wishi wrote: > Am 26.02.10 12:20, schrieb Alex Samad: > > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:16:57AM +0100, Marius wrote: > >> Hi! > >> > >> I'm using the xfce4-terminal and GNU screen. > >> However since ... forever I have stuff in my .screenrc that made > >> it recen

Re: GNU .screenrc and scrolling problem

2010-02-26 Thread wishi
Am 26.02.10 12:20, schrieb Alex Samad: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:16:57AM +0100, Marius wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I'm using the xfce4-terminal and GNU screen. >> However since ... forever I have stuff in my .screenrc that made >> it recently stopped when I switched to Debian and xfce's term: >> >> defs

Re: GNU .screenrc and scrolling problem

2010-02-26 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:16:57AM +0100, Marius wrote: > Hi! > > I'm using the xfce4-terminal and GNU screen. > However since ... forever I have stuff in my .screenrc that made > it recently stopped when I switched to Debian and xfce's term: > > defscrollback 5000 > termcapinfo xterm|xterms|xs|r

Re: GNU Screen draws artifacts with Vim

2009-06-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:53:53 -0700 "Todd A. Jacobs" wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:01:09PM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > > I use screen extensively with Vim. Recently I tried a new color scheme > > that has a grey background. When scrolling using the keyboard...black > > artifacts ar

Re: GNU Screen draws artifacts with Vim

2009-06-25 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:01:09PM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > I use screen extensively with Vim. Recently I tried a new color scheme > that has a grey background. When scrolling using the keyboard...black > artifacts are left behind where the cursor position was. My terminal > background i

Re: gnu/screen + mutt - mailcap creates a new terminal instance

2009-06-21 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 03:53:58AM EDT, Bob Proulx wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: [..] > > Now on "lenny" although as far as I know I am using the same .muttrc and > > the same /etc/mailcap that I copied over from the "etch" system, what > > happens is that urlview creates a new xterm where it then

Re: gnu/screen + mutt - mailcap creates a new terminal instance

2009-06-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Chris Jones wrote: > Since obviously I run mutt in a terminal, a gnu/screen window actually, > urlview would correctly launch the ELinks browser in the same terminal. > > Now on "lenny" although as far as I know I am using the same .muttrc and > the same /etc/mailcap that I copied over from the "e

Re: Fwd: Re: gnu/screen + mutt - mailcap creates a new terminal instance

2009-06-13 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 01:10:13PM EDT, Chris Jones wrote: > - Forwarded message from Tony Baldwin - > > Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:51:15 -0400 > From: Tony Baldwin > To: Chris Jones > Subject: Re: gnu/screen + mutt - mailcap creates a new terminal instance >

Fwd: Re: gnu/screen + mutt - mailcap creates a new terminal instance

2009-06-13 Thread Chris Jones
- Forwarded message from Tony Baldwin - Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:51:15 -0400 From: Tony Baldwin To: Chris Jones Subject: Re: gnu/screen + mutt - mailcap creates a new terminal instance Chris Jones wrote: > When I needed to view an url embedded in an e-mail, I would hit CTRL-B >

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