Re: debian 8

2015-04-10 Thread Bret Busby
On 10/04/2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 10 April 2015 10:25:14 Bret Busby wrote: >> So, I have found xfce, on Debian 7, to be too dangerous. > > I seem to remember that XFCE has "lock" and "on" as the default on screen > saver. This is surely almost normal now? Anyhow, if it mattered the on

Re: apt stuck at "Reading database"

2015-04-10 Thread Luis Finotti
Dear all, I've been trying to fix this problem, but have not found a solution yet. (I've also asked at the aptosid list without success.) Before I resigned myself to a reinstall, I thought I'd post the output of strace apt-get dist-upgrade (I killed the process a few seconds after it got st

Re: debian 8

2015-04-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 10 April 2015 20:57:22 Bret Busby wrote: > Since you selectively edited my post, so that the above is now out of > context, I believe that I had previously stated that, in trying to > find the screensaver, having found reference to screensaver, only > under the Settings component, I had t

Re: debian 8

2015-04-10 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Fri, 10 Apr 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: I don't get on with XFCE either - but that isn't Wheezy's fault. It's clearly George W. Bush's fault. -- These are not the droids you are looking for. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Small ARM file server (was: A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.)

2015-04-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Stefan Monnier wrote: > (BTW, I now use a Banana Pi connected via ethernet as a "drive > enclosure" instead: it doesn't even consume more power than the > external power supply of my previous enclosure). I have been playing with the Banana Pi recently too. It is quite a nice little dual core ARM

Re: debian 8

2015-04-10 Thread Ron
On Fri, 10 Apr 2015 18:11:42 -0400 (EDT) Bob Bernstein wrote: > > I don't get on with XFCE either - but that isn't > > Wheezy's fault. > It's clearly George W. Bush's fault. And Tony Bliar ? Cheers, Ron. -- God, I wish ignorance was painful.

Re: Book questions

2015-04-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting Petter Adsen (pet...@synth.no): > I do know a little Perl, I learnt it back when I used it for some CGI > work. This was many years ago, and I haven't really kept it up to date, > but it has come in very handy many times when I don't know how to do > what I need in a shell script. I learnt

Re: Book questions

2015-04-10 Thread Alexis
Iain M Conochie writes: Fair enough, I guess calling it the bible of C programming is going too far ;) Heh! i was actually trying to think of another word instead of 'reference', and 'bible' is much closer to what i was looking for. :-) Not to mention security as well - there is even a

Re: Book questions

2015-04-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com): > > > On Friday 10 April 2015 10:28:24 Alexis wrote: > > Having said that, one thing i always felt was sorely lacking in > > K&R was a more thorough description of pointers. However, i feel > > that issue has now been addressed by Richard Reese's excellen

VLANs won't persist

2015-04-10 Thread M7
Hello, I'm running Debian 7.8 x64 and I'm unable to have my vlan network persist. I've installed the package 'vlan'. I then ran 'modprobe 8021q' to load the kernel and saved it into /etc/modules My /etc/network/interfaces looks like this auto-hotplug eth0.4 iface eth0.4 inet static address

Re: Book questions

2015-04-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 10 April 2015 23:01:14 David Wright wrote: > Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com): > > On Friday 10 April 2015 10:28:24 Alexis wrote: > > > Having said that, one thing i always felt was sorely lacking in > > > K&R was a more thorough description of pointers. However, i feel > > > th

Re: debian 8

2015-04-10 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 10 Apr 2015 13:46:36 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 10 April 2015 10:28:36 Curt wrote: > > There is something else to try: > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key > > > I have occasionally tried that, (when I can remember it) has not > worked yet, for me, even with a wi

Re: Create Plugin or Applet for HDMI output

2015-04-10 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 10 Apr 2015 21:48:04 +0400 Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have Debian Jessie with XFCE installed on my Dell inspiron 7537 > laptop. I often connect my laptop with my TV through HDMI. > Each time I have to go to Settings>Display and then select the TV > screen from there.