Re: [OT] Abbrevition or contraction [was UEFI] someone does

2014-07-12 Thread Curt
On 2014-07-11, Brian wrote: > > Does the following make sense? > >Dr Moriarty, Prof. Andrews and Miss Gladstone all taught at the >University of St Andrews and worked at the BBC? Moriarty! -- H. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

Re: Problem with Debian 7.5 i386 lxde LIVE ISO and Brasero

2014-07-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Bret Busby's Brasero: > SCSI error on write(14096,16): [5 21 02] Invalid address This is a problem between libburn and drive. libburn is supposed to write a sequence of consequtive block addresses in steps of 16. The drive perceives block address 14096 as out of sequence. Since libburn and d

Re: [was UEFI] someone does

2014-07-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 11 Jul 2014 21:18:51 -0400 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 7/11/14, Brad Rogers wrote: > > This is an international list; Different countries have different > > rules of grammar and spelling, even when the language is ostensibly > > the same. > > > > In any case, Mr. used to always have a

What do you guys use instead of youtube-dl and minitube?

2014-07-12 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, The way I get throttled, occasionally the only way I can watch a Youtube video is to download it first and then watch it with smplayer. As far as I can see, Wheezy has no package for either youtube-dl or minitube. What are you guys using to fill that need? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt

Network devices "go bad" a lot in Wheezy

2014-07-12 Thread Steve Litt
:-) Yeah, you read the subject right. Let me explain... Debian (Wheezy 7.5) is the first distro I've seen where this happens. You reboot, and eth0 doesn't work and neither does lo. It's intermittent enough I can't give you an exact reproduction sequence. Sometimes its one, sometimes it's the oth

Re: What do you guys use instead of youtube-dl and minitube?

2014-07-12 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/12/2014 07:18 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > The way I get throttled, occasionally the only way I can watch a > Youtube video is to download it first and then watch it with > smplayer. As far as I can see, Wheezy has no package for eithe

Re: What do you guys use instead of youtube-dl and minitube?

2014-07-12 Thread Jeff Bauer
On 07/12/2014 07:18 AM, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, The way I get throttled, occasionally the only way I can watch a Youtube video is to download it first and then watch it with smplayer. As far as I can see, Wheezy has no package for either youtube-dl or minitube. What are you guys using to fill

Re: What do you guys use instead of youtube-dl and minitube?

2014-07-12 Thread Bzzzz
On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 07:18:46 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > smplayer. As far as I can see, Wheezy has no package for either > youtube-dl or minitube. What are you guys using to fill that need? I use Downloadhelper (mozilla plugin). -- <@Lucos> too much people there! *** Lucos was kicked by kamu (Ye

Re: Network devices "go bad" a lot in Wheezy

2014-07-12 Thread Bzzzz
On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 07:24:38 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > Sometimes its one, sometimes it's the other, sometimes it's both. We don't wanna know about your perversions ;-) Install memtest86+, boot on it and let it make 3 complete rounds to see if RAM is involved (may fail, returning no errors whe

Re: Network devices "go bad" a lot in Wheezy

2014-07-12 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 8:24 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > :-) > > Yeah, you read the subject right. Let me explain... > > Debian (Wheezy 7.5) is the first distro I've seen where this happens. > You reboot, and eth0 doesn't work and neither does lo. It's > intermittent enough I can't give you an exact r

Re: Network devices "go bad" a lot in Wheezy

2014-07-12 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 7:24 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > > Yeah, you read the subject right. Let me explain... > > Debian (Wheezy 7.5) is the first distro I've seen where this happens. > You reboot, and eth0 doesn't work and neither does lo. It's > intermittent enough I can't give you an exact reprodu

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-12 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Brian wrote: > On Fri 11 Jul 2014 at 12:21:57 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: >> >> A bizarre thought just popped into my head, in the form of a little >> voice. The little voice told me that if they guys who controlled the >> decision to go to systemd had been the decisi

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-12 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Brian wrote: > On Fri 11 Jul 2014 at 12:21:57 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: >> >> A bizarre thought just popped into my head, in the form of a little >> voice. The little voice told me that if they guys who controlled the >> decision to go to systemd had been the decisi

Re: What do you guys use instead of youtube-dl and minitube?

2014-07-12 Thread davidson
Hey Steve. On Sat, 12 Jul 2014, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, The way I get throttled, occasionally the only way I can watch a Youtube video is to download it first and then watch it with smplayer. As far as I can see, Wheezy has no package for either youtube-dl or minitube. What are you guys usin

Re: What do you guys use instead of youtube-dl and minitube?

2014-07-12 Thread davidson
On Sat, 12 Jul 2014, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: $ ejynt='Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_2) AppleWebKit/536.26.17(KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0.2 Safari/536.26.17' Actually, you might not need to spoof the user-agent. But I've come to expect intentional breakage along th

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-12 Thread Miles Fidelman
Tom H wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 11 Jul 2014 at 12:21:57 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: A bizarre thought just popped into my head, in the form of a little voice. The little voice told me that if they guys who controlled the decision to go to systemd had been the dec

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-12 Thread Bzzzz
On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 11:26:23 -0400 Miles Fidelman wrote: On the other hand, _nodoby_ is ranting against the kernel memory management; which is terribly more important… -- Bless you! Thanks! … wait, how did you do that? signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: PuTTY SSH client security

2014-07-12 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 11 Jul 2014 08:14:31 -0400 (EDT), Virgo Pärna wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 10:24:50 +0100, Darac Marjal > wrote: >> >> PuTTY is *not* based on OpenSSL[1], so it has never been susceptible to >> the heartbleed bug. >> > > And even if it were based on OpenSSL, it would not have been su

internet traffic does not traverse openvpn server

2014-07-12 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Hi, I've set up an openvpn server and client on two machines running Wheezy, generally in line with this howto: https://wiki.debian.org/openvpn%20for%20server%20and%20client I can ping the server at 10.8.0.1, but according to whatismyip.com, using iceweasel, my local (dynamic) ip is still being s

Re: internet traffic does not traverse openvpn server

2014-07-12 Thread Bzzzz
On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 18:32:55 +0200 Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Clearly I'm missing something; can anyone tell me what magic > incantation is necessary for all internet traffif from my local > client to go over the VPN? Have a look @ "redirect-gateway defl1" > My objective, FWIW, is for me to ap

Re: What do you guys use instead of youtube-dl and minitube?

2014-07-12 Thread Ralph Katz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/12/2014 07:26 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > On 07/12/2014 07:18 AM, Steve Litt wrote: >> smplayer. As far as I can see, Wheezy has no package for either >> youtube-dl or minitube. What are you guys using to fill that need? > > I mainly use cclive, s

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-12 Thread Brian
On Sat 12 Jul 2014 at 11:26:23 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: [Sorry to snip a lot of reasonable comment, but I'd rather concentrate on your final points for now]. > Now, I would hope that by the time Jessie gets released as stable, > bugs and impacts have been minimized, and that the release note

Re: What do you guys use instead of youtube-dl and minitube?

2014-07-12 Thread Siard
Steve Litt wrote: > As far as I can see, Wheezy has no package for either youtube-dl or > minitube. What are you guys using to fill that need? AFAIR, youtube-dl was not admitted to stable because it is subject to changes, due to changes in YouTube itself. This was something the maker of youtube-dl

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-12 Thread Brian
On Sat 12 Jul 2014 at 11:26:23 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Tom H wrote: > >The s/n ratio would be higher in threads such as these if people read > >the documentation... > > > Now that is a rather gratuitous and disingenuous statement. [Snip] > In other words, a pox on your "read the documenta

Re: [was UEFI] someone does

2014-07-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 12 July 2014 01:36:21 Doug wrote: > in what year did the British decide that a pint should have > 20 ounces in it? You do realise that it is fluid ounces in a pint not ounces - and that they are themselves a different size from American ones? Don't start trying to sort out British a

New 64bit Installation: Vim Keymappings

2014-07-12 Thread David Baron
On prior 32-bit installation, had insert/replace explicitly activated by insert key and function shown at bottom. Also had line number, % of file shown. Current installation lack this and insert function is problematic at best, barely usable. Rc-files look the same. What am I missing? -- To

Re: Using xfce4-power-manager with dwm

2014-07-12 Thread Brian
On Thu 10 Jul 2014 at 16:00:30 -0700, Daniel LaFlamme wrote: > Made the tweaks that you suggested to .xsession--thanks. > > I tried removing xfce4-power-manager from .xsession and running it from > an xterm one the desktop was running but I get the same thing. So, I > think there must be somet

Re: [OT] Abbrevition or contraction [was UEFI] someone does

2014-07-12 Thread Brian
On Fri 11 Jul 2014 at 19:52:38 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 7/11/2014 5:06 PM, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 11 Jul 2014 at 16:33:52 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > > > >> On 7/11/2014 3:25 PM, Brian wrote: > >> > >>> You are going to hate me for this: there is no "." after Mr; it is a > >>> contract

New 64bit install: hwclock?

2014-07-12 Thread David Baron
Apparently no longer being saved/restored -- systemd foible? Worked before on 32 bit system on old and make-style init. Trying "fake hwclock" meanwhile :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debia

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-12 Thread Miles Fidelman
Brian wrote: On Sat 12 Jul 2014 at 11:26:23 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: Tom H wrote: The s/n ratio would be higher in threads such as these if people read the documentation... Now that is a rather gratuitous and disingenuous statement. [Snip] In other words, a pox on your "read the docum

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-12 Thread Miles Fidelman
Brian wrote: On Sat 12 Jul 2014 at 11:26:23 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: [Sorry to snip a lot of reasonable comment, but I'd rather concentrate on your final points for now]. Now, I would hope that by the time Jessie gets released as stable, bugs and impacts have been minimized, and that the

android connection

2014-07-12 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, I don't know anything to android but I have to connect an android device to a computer. Are there tools to easily connect debian to android in order to transfer files from and to android? A graphic interface would be preferred... Thank you

Re: android connection

2014-07-12 Thread aminos
Nautilus should work fine . Just be sure to put your device as a /Media device(MTP)/ or a /Camera (PTP)/. On 07/12/2014 11:06 PM, François Patte wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, I don't know anything to android but I have to connect an android device to a computer.

Re: [OT] Abbrevition or contraction [was UEFI] someone does

2014-07-12 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 7/12/2014 3:50 PM, Brian wrote: > On Fri 11 Jul 2014 at 19:52:38 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > >> On 7/11/2014 5:06 PM, Brian wrote: >>> On Fri 11 Jul 2014 at 16:33:52 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >>> On 7/11/2014 3:25 PM, Brian wrote: > You are going to hate me for this: there is

Re: [OT] Abbrevition or contraction [was UEFI] someone does

2014-07-12 Thread Doug
On 07/12/2014 10:46 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 7/12/2014 3:50 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 11 Jul 2014 at 19:52:38 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 7/11/2014 5:06 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 11 Jul 2014 at 16:33:52 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 7/11/2014 3:25 PM, Brian wrote: You are going to hat

Re: [was UEFI] someone does

2014-07-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 09:18:51PM -0400, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > I'm old school taught, too.. To bring it more or less on topic, I > noticed A LOT of changes like that slowly worked their way into > acceptance around the same time the word "computer" was becoming more > commonly uttered.. Not al