On 12/04/2015, Petter Adsen wrote:
>
>
> Now that you mention security, that leads me to another question - are
> there any good books on writing secure programs? I would guess that
> would be a good thing to think about from the start, as to learn good
> practices?
>
I believe that this is wh
On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 15:51:24 +0800
Bret Busby wrote:
> On 12/04/2015, Petter Adsen wrote:
> > Now that you mention security, that leads me to another question -
> > are there any good books on writing secure programs? I would guess
> > that would be a good thing to think about from the start, as
Thanx!
Added your recommended lines to sources.list, called 'apt update' and
everything worked fine except that evolution won't start after the
update. Well I'll sort that out.
ftp.de has always been allright for Wheezy but somehow didn't seem to be
the best choice for Jessie.
Cheeree-o
Frank
On 12/04/15 09:33, Petter Adsen wrote:
On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 15:51:24 +0800
Bret Busby wrote:
On 12/04/2015, Petter Adsen wrote:
Now that you mention security, that leads me to another question -
are there any good books on writing secure programs? I would guess
that would be a good thing to
Since a couple of days I have a problem with ibus (and anthy): I
am not able to switch input methods; if I press the shortcut keys nothing
happens, even though in the "Preferences" panel of Ibus "Anthy-Japanese"
is present.
I killed the daemon and reinvoked it with `ibus-daemon -v` to check what w
Quoting Jean-Marc (jean-m...@6jf.be):
> Two words to give the status of the Debian Jessie installation on my brand
> new Acer Aspire v13 v3.
> Everything works like a charm (webcam, mic, trackpad, wifi using non-free
> firmware, network).
That's great to hear. But please do tell us which way you
Quoting Iain M Conochie (i...@thargoid.co.uk):
> On 12/04/15 09:33, Petter Adsen wrote:
> >On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 15:51:24 +0800 Bret Busby wrote:
> >>On 12/04/2015, Petter Adsen wrote:
> >>>Another thing - I have been thinking about also learning Python, for
> >>>instance for interacting with GTK,
On 04/11/2015 11:43 PM, Petter Adsen wrote:
I want to thank everyone for their answers in this thread, you have all
been very helpful.
YW.
On 04/11/2015 11:43 PM, Petter Adsen wrote:
Now that you mention security, that leads me to another question - are
there any good books on writing secure
[I'm hoping this isn't a duplicate post, but my first
attempt was rejected by bendel.debian.org as forged.]
Quoting Luis Finotti (luis.fino...@gmail.com):
> 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
Hi all.
According to documentations, gnome-core package is considered to be the very
minimal gnome installation in Debian. But in my personal experience it is not
so. Just after installing Debian, I installed gnome-core just to have the
minimal gnome installation. Then I noticed that totem, the
Thank you.
I understood as follows:
The applets disappears in gnome3 (no alt-right_mouse_button menu).
Gnome3 uses extensions instead of applets.
Extensions can be installed trought pacakge or browser (enabling plugins)
There are similar extensions to the old applets.
The Jessie package gnome
[I'm hoping this isn't a duplicate post, but my first
attempt was rejected by bendel.debian.org as forged.]
Quoting Rodolfo Medina (rodolfo.med...@gmail.com):
> According to documentations, gnome-core package is considered to be the very
> minimal gnome installation in Debian. But in my personal
On Apr 12, 2015, at 10:35 AM, David Christensen
wrote:
> There now are a number of university-level lectures and/or courses available
> online for free. For example, SICP 1 e.:
>
> http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-001-structure-and-interpretation-of-co
On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 18:19:35 +
Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> According to documentations, gnome-core package is considered to be
> the very minimal gnome installation in Debian. But in my personal
> experience it is not so. Just after installing Debian, I installed
> gnome-core just
On 4/12/2015 11:19 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
Hi all.
According to documentations, gnome-core package is considered to be the very
minimal gnome installation in Debian. But in my personal experience it is not
so. Just after installing Debian, I installed gnome-core just to have the
minimal gn
On 04/12/2015 02:19 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
Hi all.
According to documentations, gnome-core package is considered to be the very
minimal gnome installation in Debian. But in my personal experience it is not
so. Just after installing Debian, I installed gnome-core just to have the
minimal gno
Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com):
> As I have previously stated, elsewhere, I have not been able to get a
> screensaver and screenlock, to properly run, on Debian 7; the only
> thing that I have found, so far, is the trojan horse that is part of
> the xfce interface, and, on a previous occ
On Saturday 11 April 2015 04:50:12 M7 wrote:
> i can manually bring it up using vconfig add eth0 4 and have access. Upon
> reboot, ifconfig only shows me lo interface.
>
> Any help would be appreciated!
Have you got NetworkManager running?
Lisi
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On 12/04/15 17:34, David Wright wrote:
Quoting Iain M Conochie (i...@thargoid.co.uk):
IMHO, the issues with perl and python is that you will have to
understand Object Orientated Programming (OOP) to get the most out
of them, especially for GUI development. This was one of the reasons
I drew a
On Sun, 12 Apr 2015, Glenn English wrote:
My Pentium laptop gets the job done, eventually, but
the more modern Xeon box downstairs is much easier
to live with...
A Xeon home machine? Please tell us more about it.
Details too.
(I am thinking in terms of the same thing, sort of,
i.e. refur
On Sun, 12 Apr 2015, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> According to documentations, gnome-core package is considered to be
> the very minimal gnome installation in Debian. But in my personal
> experience it is not so. Just after installing Debian, I installed
> gnome-core just to have the min
Quoting Iain M Conochie (i...@thargoid.co.uk):
> On 12/04/15 17:34, David Wright wrote:
> >Quoting Iain M Conochie (i...@thargoid.co.uk):
> >
> >>IMHO, the issues with perl and python is that you will have to
> >>understand Object Orientated Programming (OOP) to get the most out
> >>of them, especi
Me again, sorry. My question about the hardware failure was more out
of curiosity than anything else, because it's unusual for software
problems to break hardware (though quite possible). On to software...
Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com):
> So, I have found xfce, on Debian 7, to be too d
On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 11:50:40AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> In that situation, my first course of action would be to hide anything
> but the essential sources.list contents of, basically, something like
>
> # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.1.0 _Wheezy_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1
> 201306
On 13/04/2015, David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com):
>> As I have previously stated, elsewhere, I have not been able to get a
>> screensaver and screenlock, to properly run, on Debian 7; the only
>> thing that I have found, so far, is the trojan horse that is part of
>>
On 13/04/2015, David Wright wrote:
> Me again, sorry. My question about the hardware failure was more out
> of curiosity than anything else, because it's unusual for software
> problems to break hardware (though quite possible). On to software...
>
> Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com):
>> S
On 10/04/2015, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Friday 10 April 2015 05:38:27 Bret Busby wrote:
>> On my Debian 6 desktop
>> computer, from the menu's, is
>> System -> Preferences -> Monitors
>> which has the option "Detect monitors".
>
> This is a matter of desktop environment choice, not distro version ch
On 10/04/2015, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Thursday 09 April 2015 10:22:23 Bret Busby wrote:
>> Does Debian 7 work with external monitors?
>
> Yes. Though I have found that the external monitor needs to be there, and
> on,
> before I boot up, in order for it to be seen. (Acer Aspire One)
>
> Lisi
>
On 10/04/2015, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 09/04/2015, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
>> Bret Busby writes:
>> > 00.01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD nee ATI
>> > Device 9852
>>
>> Type xrandr. You should have one entry for each possible connector.
>>
>
>
> "
> # xrandr
> xrandr:
On 13/04/2015, David Wright wrote:
>And lastly, just out of interest, I don't recall your saying
> whether you have tried installing and running D8 yet.
>
>
Apart from not having GNOME Classic, I note that Debian 8, as with
Debian 7, appears to be missing iceape.
I do not remember how, but, f
On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 18:55:54 -0700
Patrick Bartek wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Apr 2015, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>
> Of course, if you really want TOTAL control of your GUI, a window
> manager is the way to go. That's what I did. Installed Openbox. The
> same WM that LXDE uses. A little more work, but
bri...@aracnet.com writes:
the most inconvenient thing about not using gnome is not having
a way to handle USS mass storage devices.
Perhaps pmount or autofs might be of use ?
Alexis.
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On 13/04/2015, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 13/04/2015, David Wright wrote:
>
>
>
>>And lastly, just out of interest, I don't recall your saying
>> whether you have tried installing and running D8 yet.
>>
>>
>
> Apart from not having GNOME Classic, I note that Debian 8, as with
> Debian 7, appears to
On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 09:35:25 -0700
David Christensen wrote:
> On 04/12/2015 01:33 AM, Petter Adsen wrote:> OK, thank you, I will
> definitely consider Perl also, as I already know
> > a little and have a few books on it.
>
> I'd advise learning one language well, where "well" includes security
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