Re: Flash update

2015-06-25 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2015-06-24 at 22:48 +0100, Brian wrote: > I can offer you an on-demand service for BBC TV for 10 EURO a month, > paid a year in advance. That will nearly cover what I have to pay out > to > use my TV in the UK. The offer is cheap at the price, offers > excellent > progam quality and it c

Re: Gnome-terminal in Mate, How? (more info. and questions)

2015-06-25 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2015-06-24 at 19:33 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > What is a shortcut in the context of Mate/Gnome? > No errors are reported to me the user. So how do you launch gnome-terminal? What happens when you open mate -terminal and type "gnome-terminal"? I don't use MATE, but I'm sure there is

Re: Flash update

2015-06-25 Thread Gary Dale
On 24/06/15 08:28 AM, The Wanderer wrote: On 06/24/2015 at 07:56 AM, Sheepherd wrote: Hi Rob On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Rob van der Putten wrote: Hi there Sven Arvidsson wrote: Or consider making do without it. :) Any alternatives? I hate flash! The only alternative is GNASH af

Re: Flash update

2015-06-25 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 25 June 2015 08:57:12 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > I'm not going to bend over backwards and pay for a subscription just to > help you find out how to use iplayer without Flash when you could do so > yourself. No, he couldn't. You know that thing called DRM? The BBC has created extra unne

reboot and poweroff fails on Zotac ZBOX Nano CI320

2015-06-25 Thread Jesse Molina
Hi all I have a new Zotac ZBOX Nano CI320. It's a mini-PC based on an Intel Celeron N2930 (Bay Trail). This has been a very problematic system. I blame my troubles on the less-than-quality Zotac (AMI) BIOS. My current problem is that the system will not reboot or poweroff correctly. It ju

Re: minidlan, GMPC and MPD

2015-06-25 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 18:18:56 +0200 notoneofmy wrote: > On 15-06-23 6:12 PM, Proxy One wrote: > > What Debian version do you use? I writing from Wheezy box and I have > > just installed GMPC and gmpc-plugins. There is shout plugin and it can > > be activated. > I'm on Jessie. I spent an entire da

Re: Systemd takes more that 1m 30sec to start firewall at boot

2015-06-25 Thread Johann Spies
Thanks Don. User 132 was Gnome Display Manager. So I removed gdm3 and made lightdm (user 115) my default display manager. That did not make any difference: └─networking.service @4.138s +3.231s └─local-fs.target @4.137s └─run-user-115.mount @

Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-25 Thread Matthijs Wensveen
Hi, I'm running unstable / sid. Yesterday, I suddenly started booting into emergency mode and I'm unsure why. I had a hang the day before, right after a apt-get dist-upgrade, so it might be either one of those, or something else altogether. Booting into emergency mode doesn't help me, as I can ne

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-25 Thread The Wanderer
On 06/25/2015 at 07:54 AM, Matthijs Wensveen wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running unstable / sid. Yesterday, I suddenly started booting > into emergency mode and I'm unsure why. I had a hang the day before, > right after a apt-get dist-upgrade, so it might be either one of > those, or something else alto

Re: network configuration

2015-06-25 Thread notoneofmyseeds
On 06/23/2015 10:22 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Another question: When you are connected to both as you have done what is the output of these commands so that we can see the (as you say broken) state of things? ip addr show ip route show | tac I had a very long and nice response that I lost, as

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-25 Thread The Wanderer
On 06/25/2015 at 08:33 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > On 06/25/2015 at 07:54 AM, Matthijs Wensveen wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm running unstable / sid. Yesterday, I suddenly started booting >> into emergency mode and I'm unsure why. I had a hang the day >> before, right after a apt-get dist-upgrade, so

Re: Google Chrome and Open-Source derivative listening to me without my approval

2015-06-25 Thread Frederic Marchal
On Wednesday 24 June 2015 18:51:24 Jose Martinez wrote: > NaCL -- Sodium Chloride -- common table salt. That just means you have > to add your own!!:-D Actually, it stands for Native Client (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Native_Client). It is Google's attempt to re-invent javascript :-)

Re: troubling ppa's

2015-06-25 Thread notoneofmyseeds
On 06/23/2015 02:24 PM, mudongliang wrote: You should change the source file generated by ppa ! And this too, I've tried to do, but don't know how, or can't. Any ideas you can help. Here are my latest ppa issues: W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/bit-team/stable/ubuntu/dists/jessie/

Re: troubling ppa's

2015-06-25 Thread notoneofmyseeds
On 06/23/2015 02:24 PM, mudongliang wrote: I have met it before ! The list file generated by ppa is not right! And it mixed debian with ubuntu! You should change the source file generated by ppa ! What does this mean and how can I get rid of it, please. The part about been "kept back..." The f

Re: Google Chrome and Open-Source derivative listening to me without my approval

2015-06-25 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 02:57:49PM +0200, Frederic Marchal wrote: > On Wednesday 24 June 2015 18:51:24 Jose Martinez wrote: > > NaCL -- Sodium Chloride -- common table salt. That just means you have > > to add your own!!:-D > > Actually, it stands f

Re: troubling ppa's

2015-06-25 Thread notoneofmyseeds
On 06/23/2015 02:24 PM, mudongliang wrote: I have met it before ! The list file generated by ppa is not right! And it mixed debian with ubuntu! You should change the source file generated by ppa ! Sorry guys, and if it's in ppa via launchpad, this means those of us not using Ubuntu cannot instal

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-25 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 25 June 2015 13:33:25 The Wanderer wrote: > > Booting into emergency mode doesn't help me, as I can neither login > > without a root password, nor continue to default mode with Ctrl-D > > because that just throws me back into emergency mode. > > Why don't you have the root password? Is

Re: troubling ppa's

2015-06-25 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 25 June 2015 14:13:45 notoneofmyseeds wrote: > On 06/23/2015 02:24 PM, mudongliang wrote: > > I have met it before ! The list file generated by ppa is not right! > > And it mixed debian with ubuntu! > > You should change the source file generated by ppa ! > > Sorry guys, and if it's in

Re: troubling ppa's

2015-06-25 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 03:04:13PM +0200, notoneofmyseeds wrote: > On 06/23/2015 02:24 PM, mudongliang wrote: > >I have met it before ! The list file generated by ppa is not right! > >And it mixed debian with ubuntu! > >You should change the source file generated by ppa ! > What does this mean and

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-25 Thread The Wanderer
On 06/25/2015 at 09:22 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 25 June 2015 13:33:25 The Wanderer wrote: > >>> Booting into emergency mode doesn't help me, as I can neither >>> login without a root password, nor continue to default mode with >>> Ctrl-D because that just throws me back into emergency

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 25 June 2015 08:33:25 The Wanderer wrote: > On 06/25/2015 at 07:54 AM, Matthijs Wensveen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm running unstable / sid. Yesterday, I suddenly started booting > > into emergency mode and I'm unsure why. I had a hang the day before, > > right after a apt-get dist-upg

Re: Connecting laptop to internet via cell network

2015-06-25 Thread Fabrizio Carrai
Consider to use almost any Android (and not only) cell for this. The hotspot function works also between USB and the cell networks. Check with your cell provider about the cost when you will travel and connect to another provider (roaming). About Debian you can find some info here https://wiki.deb

Connecting laptop to internet via cell network

2015-06-25 Thread Richard Owlett
I'm looking for a USB modem for cell network (preferred) or a WiFi hot spot (minimally acceptable). Where might I find info on what works cleanly with Debian. I'm in a medium size city in SW Missouri (multiple carriers available). Other usage will be along interstates in eastern U.S. -- To

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-25 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 25 June 2015 14:45:10 The Wanderer wrote: > On 06/25/2015 at 09:22 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Thursday 25 June 2015 13:33:25 The Wanderer wrote: > >>> Booting into emergency mode doesn't help me, as I can neither > >>> login without a root password, nor continue to default mode with >

Re: network configuration

2015-06-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 25 June 2015 08:46:49 notoneofmyseeds wrote: > On 06/23/2015 10:22 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Another question: When you are connected to both as you have done > > what is the output of these commands so that we can see the (as you > > say broken) state of things? > > > >ip addr show

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 25 June 2015 09:22:30 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 25 June 2015 13:33:25 The Wanderer wrote: > > > Booting into emergency mode doesn't help me, as I can neither > > > login without a root password, nor continue to default mode with > > > Ctrl-D because that just throws me back into e

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-25 Thread The Wanderer
On 06/25/2015 at 10:24 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 25 June 2015 09:22:30 Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> On Thursday 25 June 2015 13:33:25 The Wanderer wrote: >>> Why don't you have the root password? Is this not your system, >>> but just one you've been given for ordinary use? >> >> It is pos

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-25 Thread Martin Read
On 25/06/15 15:37, The Wanderer wrote: What happens if you try to log in as root, or to 'go root' (by e.g. running 'su' in a terminal)? Does it error out directly, or can you log in as root by pressing Enter without typing anything (i.e., giving a blank password)? The former would be (as previo

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-25 Thread Ron
On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 10:12:40 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > I have seen this also. The 1st users passwd (sudo) was not acceptable. > For some reason its asking for the root passwd, and the root passwd had > never been setup as everything up to that point had been done using sudo > by the first us

Re: Connecting laptop to internet via cell network

2015-06-25 Thread Richard Owlett
Fabrizio Carrai wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: I'm looking for a USB modem for cell network (preferred) or a WiFi hot spot (minimally acceptable). Where might I find info on what works cleanly with Debian. I'm in a medium size city in SW Missouri (multiple carriers available

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-25 Thread The Wanderer
On 06/25/2015 at 10:47 AM, Martin Read wrote: > On 25/06/15 15:37, The Wanderer wrote: > >> What happens if you try to log in as root, or to 'go root' (by >> e.g. running 'su' in a terminal)? >> >> Does it error out directly, or can you log in as root by pressing >> Enter without typing anything

Re: troubling ppa's

2015-06-25 Thread Brian
On Thu 25 Jun 2015 at 15:02:12 +0200, notoneofmyseeds wrote: > On 06/23/2015 02:24 PM, mudongliang wrote: > >You should change the source file generated by ppa ! > And this too, I've tried to do, but don't know how, or can't. Any > ideas you can help. Here are my latest ppa issues: > > W: Failed

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2015-06-25 13:54 +0200, Matthijs Wensveen wrote: > I'm running unstable / sid. Yesterday, I suddenly started booting into > emergency mode and I'm unsure why. I had a hang the day before, right after > a apt-get dist-upgrade, so it might be either one of those, or something > else altogether. >

Re: Unwanted keyring window in GNOME

2015-06-25 Thread Fekete Tamás
On 2015-06-24 22:17, Sven Arvidsson wrote: It's a password manager, you unlock your other passwords and keys by providing a master password, or it is tied to your login. Thanks. Try running "seahorse" thats the frontend for the manager and delete the keyrings there if you'd like. Seahorse d

Re: Systemd takes more that 1m 30sec to start firewall at boot

2015-06-25 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 25 Jun 2015, Johann Spies wrote: > Thanks Don. > > > User 132 was Gnome Display Manager. > > So I removed gdm3 and made lightdm (user 115) my default display manager. > That did not make any difference: > > └─networking.service @4.138s +3.231s > └─local-fs.tar

Re: Connecting laptop to internet via cell network

2015-06-25 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 09:06 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm looking for a USB modem for cell network (preferred) or a > WiFi hot spot (minimally acceptable). > > Where might I find info on what works cleanly with Debian. > I'm in a medium size city in SW Missouri (multiple carriers > availabl

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 25 June 2015 10:37:38 The Wanderer wrote: > On 06/25/2015 at 10:24 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 25 June 2015 09:22:30 Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> On Thursday 25 June 2015 13:33:25 The Wanderer wrote: > >>> Why don't you have the root password? Is this not your system, > >>> but

Re: Connecting laptop to internet via cell network

2015-06-25 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 25 June 2015 15:47:00 Richard Owlett wrote: > Fabrizio Carrai wrote: > > Richard Owlett wrote: > >> I'm looking for a USB modem for cell network (preferred) or a > >> WiFi hot spot (minimally acceptable). > >> > >> Where might I find info on what works cleanly with Debian. >

Re: Unwanted keyring window in GNOME

2015-06-25 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 17:00 +0200, Fekete Tamás wrote: > However, the Evolution still wants to synchronize my google calendar, > even if I don't want to. When I click on the gnome calendar (top > middle of the screen), a password-requiring windows comes to ask my > password to do it. I'm unable to

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 25 June 2015 10:42:50 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 10:12:40 -0400 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > I have seen this also. The 1st users passwd (sudo) was not > > acceptable. For some reason its asking for the root passwd, and the > > root passwd had never been setup as eve

Re: Gnome-terminal in Mate, How? (more info. and questions)

2015-06-25 Thread Paul E Condon
I looked at my post. I didn't like the words that I saw. I do need to study Mate documentation Please accept my appology. Thanks for your help. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: troubling ppa's

2015-06-25 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 25 June 2015 16:02:01 Brian wrote: > On Thu 25 Jun 2015 at 15:02:12 +0200, notoneofmyseeds wrote: > > On 06/23/2015 02:24 PM, mudongliang wrote: > > >You should change the source file generated by ppa ! > > > > And this too, I've tried to do, but don't know how, or can't. Any > > ideas

Can't Write to dvdrw Device

2015-06-25 Thread Thomas H. George
In Gnome/drives the device is reported as Read Only The installed sata dvdrw drive is listed in fstab and /dev/sr0 and as type udf,iso9600 I did not make this entry in fstab but I have tried modifiying it from user,noauto to rw,user,noauto which has no effect. I also found entries in /media

Re: Connecting laptop to internet via cell network

2015-06-25 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 09:06 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm looking for a USB modem for cell network (preferred) or a > WiFi hot spot (minimally acceptable). > > Where might I find info on what works cleanly with Debian. > I'm in a medium size city in SW Missouri (multiple carriers > availabl

Re: Catching an audio stream.

2015-06-25 Thread Siard
pe...@easthope.ca: > Siard: > > After starting the broadcast, ... > > The broadcast won't start. After a click on the program, nothing > happens. Something is missing. Under Preferences > Applications > there is "AVI video". No mp3. No mp4. Iceweasel must need ome other > extension. Or another

Re: Can't Write to dvdrw Device

2015-06-25 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 11:36:07 -0400 "Thomas H. George" wrote: > In Gnome/drives the device is reported as Read Only > > The installed sata dvdrw drive is listed in fstab and /dev/sr0 and as > type udf,iso9600 > > I did not make this entry in fstab but I have tried modifiying it from > us

Re: Can't Write to dvdrw Device

2015-06-25 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 11:36 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > In Gnome/drives the device is reported as Read Only > > The installed sata dvdrw drive is listed in fstab and /dev/sr0 and as > > type udf,iso9600 > > I did not make this entry in fstab but I have tried modifiying it > from > user,n

Re: Can't Write to dvdrw Device

2015-06-25 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 18:02 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: This isn't unusual. Read/write in GNOME and in fstab has nothing to do > > with the abilities to write cds. Replying to myself here. Actually, did you want to set up writing to a DVD-RAM? If so, I guess having it set writeable in /etc/fstab

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-25 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 09:45:10 -0400 The Wanderer wrote: > On 06/25/2015 at 09:22 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Thursday 25 June 2015 13:33:25 The Wanderer wrote: > > > >>> Booting into emergency mode doesn't help me, as I can neither > >>> login without a root password, nor continue to de

Re: Change systemd to not be default in Stretch

2015-06-25 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 24 Jun 2015, Seeker wrote: > > > On 6/24/2015 3:58 PM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Jun 2015 14:47:27 -0700 > > Seeker wrote: > > > >> Paranoia is the foundation of paranoia, fueled by those who would > >> prevent others from having a choice of using systemd. > > No-one wa

Re: Can't Write to dvdrw Device

2015-06-25 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/25/2015 12:06 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 18:02 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: This isn't unusual. Read/write in GNOME and in fstab has nothing to do with the abilities to write cds. Replying to myself here. Actually, did you want to set up writing to a DVD-RAM? If so,

Debian 8 codecs e.g.: play mpeg/mp4

2015-06-25 Thread Edwin Zarthrusz
Hello, Am trying to sus out how to play mpegs from my digital camera under Debian 8 Jessie. My friend who is more of a hacker than me said: .deb of codecs called something like codecs32 or codecs64 on somewhere like debian-multimedia. How exactly, in simple and straight-forward steps, do I do thi

Re: Can't Write to dvdrw Device

2015-06-25 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 12:40 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > Don't you have to be a member of the cdrom group in order to write? Good call, yes, I had completely forgotten about that. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally sig

Iceweasel audio

2015-06-25 Thread peter
From: Siard Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 17:30:19 +0200 > After starting the broadcast, ... Subtle faults can prevent this from working. Here mozplugger wasn't installed and is now. Iceweasel is displaying http://www.cbc.ca/onthecoast/past-episodes/ . The Tools > Web Developer > Browser Console is o

QDBus connection

2015-06-25 Thread Haines Brown
I'm running Wheezy and installed k3b to burn an ISO to install aptosid. For some reason the aptosid manual said to use it, but I suspect it was only because the author lives in a KDE desktop environment and something like wodim would have done just as well. My problem is that I cannot start k3b be

Re: QDBus connection

2015-06-25 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 14:06 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > I'm running Wheezy and installed k3b to burn an ISO to install > aptosid. For some reason the aptosid manual said to use it, but I > suspect it was only because the author lives in a KDE desktop > environment and something like wodim would ha

Re: Flash update

2015-06-25 Thread Brian
It's nearly always fatal to declare one's participation is at an end. On Thu 25 Jun 2015 at 09:57:12 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Wed, 2015-06-24 at 22:48 +0100, Brian wrote: > > I can offer you an on-demand service for BBC TV for 10 EURO a month, > > paid a year in advance. That will nearl

Re: Debian 8 codecs e.g.: play mpeg/mp4

2015-06-25 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 17:30 +0100, Edwin Zarthrusz wrote: > Hello, > Am trying to sus out how to play mpegs from my digital camera under > Debian > 8 Jessie. My friend who is more of a hacker than me said: > > .deb of codecs called something like codecs32 or > codecs64 on > somewhere like debian-

Re: QDBus connection

2015-06-25 Thread Brian
On Thu 25 Jun 2015 at 14:06:01 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > I'm running Wheezy and installed k3b to burn an ISO to install > aptosid. For some reason the aptosid manual said to use it, but I > suspect it was only because the author lives in a KDE desktop > environment and something like wodim woul

Re: Can't Write to dvdrw Device - Update

2015-06-25 Thread Thomas H. George
On 06/25/2015 11:36 AM, Thomas H. George wrote: In Gnome/drives the device is reported as Read Only The installed sata dvdrw drive is listed in fstab and /dev/sr0 and as type udf,iso9600 I did not make this entry in fstab but I have tried modifiying it from user,noauto to rw,user,noauto whic

Re: Can't Write to dvdrw Device - Update

2015-06-25 Thread Nicolas George
Le septidi 7 messidor, an CCXXIII, Thomas H. George a écrit : > Brasero says Image to Write: "brasero.cue" 469 MB > Disc to Write To: Blank DVD+R Disc: 4.2 GB of Free Space CUE files are for audio CDs, unless I am mistaken. Do you want to write an audio something or the data files? Regards, --

Re: QDBus connection

2015-06-25 Thread Haines Brown
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 07:31:27PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Thu 25 Jun 2015 at 14:06:01 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > > > I'm running Wheezy and installed k3b to burn an ISO to install > > aptosid. For some reason the aptosid manual said to use it, but I > > suspect it was only because the author l

Re: QDBus connection

2015-06-25 Thread Brian
On Thu 25 Jun 2015 at 14:42:38 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 07:31:27PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Thu 25 Jun 2015 at 14:06:01 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > > > > > I'm running Wheezy and installed k3b to burn an ISO to install > > > aptosid. For some reason the aptosid manu

Re: Can't Write to dvdrw Device - Update

2015-06-25 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 20:36 +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Le septidi 7 messidor, an CCXXIII, Thomas H. George a écrit : > > Brasero says Image to Write: "brasero.cue" 469 MB > > Disc to Write To: Blank DVD+R Disc: 4.2 GB of Free Space > > CUE files are for audio CDs, unless I am mistaken. Do you

Re: Flash update

2015-06-25 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 25 June 2015 19:21:07 Brian wrote: > I have (or claimed > to have) some competence with using iplayer without flash. Could you let the rest of us into the secret?? And do you know a way - any way, however closed source - to play 4OD in Debian? I suspect that purge iceweasel and in

Re: Flash update

2015-06-25 Thread Eero Volotinen
How about uninstalling flash and using crome browser? It contains internal flash support.. Eero 25.6.2015 10.57 ap. "Sven Arvidsson" kirjoitti: > On Wed, 2015-06-24 at 22:48 +0100, Brian wrote: > > I can offer you an on-demand service for BBC TV for 10 EURO a month, > > paid a year in advance. T

Re: Flash update

2015-06-25 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 22:13 +0300, Eero Volotinen wrote: > How about uninstalling flash and using crome browser? It contains > internal > flash support.. Chrome is non-free, so many people will probably avoid it. You will of course have to keep up with updates for Chrome if you use it, to get a

Re: Flash update

2015-06-25 Thread Eero Volotinen
Well, flash is also non-free and contains lots of security holes. Br, Eero 25.6.2015 10.18 ip. "Sven Arvidsson" kirjoitti: > On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 22:13 +0300, Eero Volotinen wrote: > > How about uninstalling flash and using crome browser? It contains > > internal > > flash support.. > > Chrome

Re: Can't Write to dvdrw Device - Update

2015-06-25 Thread Thomas H. George
On 06/25/2015 02:55 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 20:36 +0200, Nicolas George wrote: Le septidi 7 messidor, an CCXXIII, Thomas H. George a écrit : Brasero says Image to Write: "brasero.cue" 469 MB Disc to Write To: Blank DVD+R Disc: 4.2 GB of Free Space CUE files are for audi

Re: Flash update

2015-06-25 Thread Brian
On Thu 25 Jun 2015 at 20:06:47 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 25 June 2015 19:21:07 Brian wrote: > > I have (or claimed > > to have) some competence with using iplayer without flash. > > Could you let the rest of us into the secret?? What secret? (He says disingenously). > And do you

Re: Unwanted keyring window in GNOME

2015-06-25 Thread Fekete Tamás
2015-06-25 17:10 keltezéssel, Sven Arvidsson írta: On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 17:00 +0200, Fekete Tamás wrote: However, the Evolution still wants to synchronize my google calendar, even if I don't want to. When I click on the gnome calendar (top middle of the screen), a password-requiring windows c

Re: Can't Write to dvdrw Device - Update

2015-06-25 Thread Sven Arvidsson
> The ogg files are all audio files playable with ogg123. The > description > of Brasero says it is capable of coverting on the fly musical play > lists > of all formats supported by GStreamer. > > I just put a CD-R disc in the drive and Brasero did switch the burn > line > from brasero.cue

Re: Connecting laptop to internet via cell network

2015-06-25 Thread Richard Owlett
Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 25 June 2015 15:47:00 Richard Owlett wrote: Fabrizio Carrai wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: I'm looking for a USB modem for cell network (preferred) or a WiFi hot spot (minimally acceptable). Where might I find info on what works cleanly with Debian.

Re: Connecting laptop to internet via cell network

2015-06-25 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 03:08:04PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > Visiting vendorS' websites and brick-n-mortar locationS I can find > many references to using with Windows(tm) &/or Apple(tm). I'm much > more interested in using with *DEBIAN*! Currently available from Sprint is the Netgear 341U

Re: Can't Write to dvdrw Device - Thanks, Now I Understand

2015-06-25 Thread Thomas H. George
On 06/25/2015 04:07 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: The ogg files are all audio files playable with ogg123. The description of Brasero says it is capable of coverting on the fly musical play lists of all formats supported by GStreamer. I just put a CD-R disc in the drive and Brasero did switch the bur

Re: Connecting laptop to internet via cell network

2015-06-25 Thread Richard Owlett
Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 09:06 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm looking for a USB modem for cell network (preferred) or a WiFi hot spot (minimally acceptable). Where might I find info on what works cleanly with Debian. I'm in a medium size city in SW Missouri (multiple carrie

Re: Connecting laptop to internet via cell network

2015-06-25 Thread Brian
On Thu 25 Jun 2015 at 15:08:04 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > >You mean this kind of thing, don't you? > >https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=usb+wifi+dongle&oq=usb+wifi+dongle&aqs=chrome..69i57.5603j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8#q=usb+4g+dongle > > Quoting myself: >

Re: Flash update

2015-06-25 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 25 June 2015 20:54:55 Brian wrote: > On Thu 25 Jun 2015 at 20:06:47 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Thursday 25 June 2015 19:21:07 Brian wrote: > > > I have (or claimed > > > to have) some competence with using iplayer without flash. > > > > Could you let the rest of us into the secret?

Re: Connecting laptop to internet via cell network

2015-06-25 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 25 June 2015 21:08:04 Richard Owlett wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Thursday 25 June 2015 15:47:00 Richard Owlett wrote: > >> Fabrizio Carrai wrote: > >>> Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm looking for a USB modem for cell network (preferred) or a > WiFi hot spot (minima

Re: Flash update

2015-06-25 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/25/2015 05:35 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 25 June 2015 20:54:55 Brian wrote: On Thu 25 Jun 2015 at 20:06:47 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 25 June 2015 19:21:07 Brian wrote: I have (or claimed to have) some competence with using iplayer without flash. Could you let the rest

Re: Flash update

2015-06-25 Thread Brian
On Thu 25 Jun 2015 at 22:35:08 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 25 June 2015 20:54:55 Brian wrote: > > On Thu 25 Jun 2015 at 20:06:47 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > > > Could you let the rest of us into the secret?? > > > > What secret? (He says disingenously). > > Sorry, thick of me. Ho

samba print shares

2015-06-25 Thread Roger Howard
I have a problem printing from Windows 7 to a Linux machine which has only occurred since the upgrade to Debian Jessie. I have reported the bug to bugzilla.samba.org (as bug #11271) and there has been essentially no response so far. The Jessie upgrade moved samba from version 3.6 to version 4

Re: Recurring disk activity

2015-06-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Mayuresh wrote: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 01:27:10PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > # hdparm -B255 /dev/sda > > I had disabled this when I wrote the OP, but had not set it in > /etc/hdparm.conf. Today I did that and the Load_Cycle_Count seems steadied > at 3781, though it is still under observatio

Re: troubling ppa's

2015-06-25 Thread mudongliang
On 06/25/2015 09:26 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 25 June 2015 14:13:45 notoneofmyseeds wrote: On 06/23/2015 02:24 PM, mudongliang wrote: I have met it before ! The list file generated by ppa is not right! And it mixed debian with ubuntu! You should change the source file generated by ppa

Re: network configuration

2015-06-25 Thread Bob Proulx
notoneofmyseeds wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > I must say you have written a book here on this topic, Rob. I've learned a > lot. I printed it out. To your questions now. Sometimes people say I write too much. But the details are important. :-) And this is a large book again with this message.

Re: troubling ppa's

2015-06-25 Thread mudongliang
On 06/25/2015 09:02 PM, notoneofmyseeds wrote: On 06/23/2015 02:24 PM, mudongliang wrote: You should change the source file generated by ppa ! And this too, I've tried to do, but don't know how, or can't. Any ideas you can help. Here are my latest ppa issues: W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.l

Re: troubling ppa's

2015-06-25 Thread mudongliang
On 06/25/2015 11:02 PM, Brian wrote: On Thu 25 Jun 2015 at 15:02:12 +0200, notoneofmyseeds wrote: On 06/23/2015 02:24 PM, mudongliang wrote: You should change the source file generated by ppa ! And this too, I've tried to do, but don't know how, or can't. Any ideas you can help. Here are my

Suspending and lid-switch

2015-06-25 Thread Celejar
Hi, Running wheezy. I've been suspending to ram (hibernate-ram --force) my ThinkPad T61 for several years with no problems. Recently, I installed acpi-support to enable suspending via lid closure (by enabling LID_SLEEP=true in /etc/default/acpi-support). I still tend to enter the hibernate command

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-25 Thread Bob Proulx
The Wanderer wrote: > In which case I return to my original comment on that point: although > there might be situations where this setup could make sense, they would > _not_ be for the casual user. As a setup for a sole computer intended to > be administered by its sole user, this is simply a crazy

Re: Suspending and lid-switch

2015-06-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Celejar wrote: > Running wheezy. I've been suspending to ram (hibernate-ram --force) my > ThinkPad T61 for several years with no problems. Recently, I installed > acpi-support to enable suspending via lid closure (by enabling > LID_SLEEP=true in /etc/default/acpi-support). I still tend to enter the

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-25 Thread Dave Thayer
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 01:54:56PM +0200, Matthijs Wensveen wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running unstable / sid. Yesterday, I suddenly started booting into > emergency mode and I'm unsure why. I had a hang the day before, right after > a apt-get dist-upgrade, so it might be either one of those, or somethi

Re: CUPS set-up for the 0.01%

2015-06-25 Thread briand
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 18:18:40 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Mon 22 Jun 2015 at 21:55:40 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > > * it's possible that there's still a problem with the printer being on > > ethernet, as of right now it's on USB (thank again Brian for that > > suggestion). > > > > Thanks ve

CUPS error message, device already exists

2015-06-25 Thread briand
I'm not sure if this is meaningful, but it would be nice to fix it. failed to CreateDevice: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:device id 'cups-DCP8110DN' already exists Googling turns up lots of hits, not a one of which has been helpful so far. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai