Re: Kali, Redux

2015-11-05 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 04 November 2015 16:35:57 David Wright wrote: > On Wed 04 Nov 2015 at 22:56:42 (+0200), David Baron wrote: > > So, I easily edited the text in /etc/issue to something more to my liking. > > This is just text, no meaning. > > > > Watching a cmake session, I noticed the distribution bei

Re: SDXC, exFAT and all that stuff...

2015-11-05 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday 04 November 2015 07:43:34 Erwan David wrote: > As root I can mount through mount.exfat, but not as user. Please make sure that you are part of "fuse" group. All the best -- https://github.com/dod38fr/ -o- http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/ http://ddumont.wordpress.com/ -o- irc:

Re: Kali, Redux

2015-11-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, David Baron wrote: > what should it be for Debian Sid? On my Sid VM i get: $ cat /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux stretch/sid" NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" ID=debian HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"; SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support/"; BUG_REPORT_URL="http

Re: Strong Copyleft licenses other than the GNU GPL family.

2015-11-05 Thread Nicolas George
Le quartidi 14 brumaire, an CCXXIV, Mario Castelán Castro a écrit : > By strong Copyleft I mean a free software license that requires "derivate > works" (as determined by Copyright law) to be free software (as in freedom), > including works that are derivatives by making use of the Copylefted work

Re: Strong Copyleft licenses other than the GNU GPL family.

2015-11-05 Thread Ron
On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 10:27:01 +0100 Nicolas George wrote: > Le quartidi 14 brumaire, an CCXXIV, Mario Castelán Castro a écrit : Would a kind soul be good enough to explain to me how to get the header date to come out as it does here, in the French Republican calendar ? Cheers, Ron. --

Re: Kali, Redux

2015-11-05 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 05 November 2015 09:41:40 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > David Baron wrote: > > what should it be for Debian Sid? > > On my Sid VM i get: > > $ cat /etc/os-release > PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux stretch/sid" > NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" > ID=debian > HOME_URL="https://www.de

Re: Strong Copyleft licenses other than the GNU GPL family.

2015-11-05 Thread Nicolas George
Le quintidi 15 brumaire, an CCXXIV, Renaud OLGIATI a écrit : > Would a kind soul be good enough to explain to me how to get the header > date to come out as it does here, in the French Republican calendar ? I use the combination of a specific parser-friendly date format configured in Mutt with an

Re: Kali, Redux

2015-11-05 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-11-05 at 03:22, David Baron wrote: > On Wednesday 04 November 2015 16:35:57 David Wright wrote: > >> On Wed 04 Nov 2015 at 22:56:42 (+0200), David Baron wrote: >> >>> So, I easily edited the text in /etc/issue to something more to >>> my liking. This is just text, no meaning. >>> >>> Wa

VPN connection no longer available for me as user

2015-11-05 Thread Joerg Desch
I run into a bug where nm-connection-editor doesn't read the password out of the settings. And without password it doesn't save changes. I hadn't recognized this first, so that I tested editing the setup as root. The console outputs leads me to a solution. After saving my changes as root, I no

Re: can't boot Jessie since power drop-out (virtualbox on MacBook with SSD)

2015-11-05 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Qua, 04 Nov 2015, Brendan Simon (eTRIX) wrote: I was going to do a reinstall but I couldn't find a way of doing that without repartitioning the disk (which I didn't want to do as I don't want to lose any of my data). It's certainly possible to resintall without repartitioning or formating.

Re: Kali, Redux

2015-11-05 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 05 November 2015 08:47:48 The Wanderer wrote: > On 2015-11-05 at 03:22, David Baron wrote: > > On Wednesday 04 November 2015 16:35:57 David Wright wrote: > >> On Wed 04 Nov 2015 at 22:56:42 (+0200), David Baron wrote: > >>> So, I easily edited the text in /etc/issue to something more to

Re: Debian Squeeze mounting problem

2015-11-05 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/1/2015 1:47 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: David Christensen wrote: On 10/31/2015 08:28 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm having problems understanding http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mount&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=Debian+6.0.10+squeeze&format=html&locale=en I have 3 partition

Re: Kali, Redux

2015-11-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 05 November 2015 14:26:07 David Baron wrote: [snip] > Attempt to apt-get --reinstall install base-files will produce error > "cannot be downloaded." In Synaptic, the Debian symbol does not appear with > the package. Maybe it is only on stable? https://packages.debian.org/search?keyword

Re: Kali, Redux

2015-11-05 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-11-05 at 09:41, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 05 November 2015 14:26:07 David Baron wrote: > >> Attempt to apt-get --reinstall install base-files will produce >> error "cannot be downloaded." In Synaptic, the Debian symbol does >> not appear with the package. Maybe it is only on stable?

Re: Kali, Redux

2015-11-05 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 05 November 2015 09:47:12 The Wanderer wrote: > On 2015-11-05 at 09:41, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Thursday 05 November 2015 14:26:07 David Baron wrote: > >> Attempt to apt-get --reinstall install base-files will produce > >> error "cannot be downloaded." In Synaptic, the Debian symbol do

Re: Kali, Redux

2015-11-05 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-11-05 at 09:59, David Baron wrote: > On Thursday 05 November 2015 09:47:12 The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2015-11-05 at 09:41, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> >>> On Thursday 05 November 2015 14:26:07 David Baron wrote: >>> Attempt to apt-get --reinstall install base-files will produce erro

Lightdm problems

2015-11-05 Thread Frank McCormick
I updated my Sid system (under Systemd) a few days ago after I hadn't updated for a week or more. Naturally there were a lot of new packages. I noticed almost immediately that all of the options to hibernate sleep and reboot are greyed out. I use lightdm along with several window managers includin

Lightdm problems

2015-11-05 Thread Frank McCormick
I updated my Sid system (under Systemd) a few days ago after I hadn't updated for a week or more. Naturally there were a lot of new packages. I noticed almost immediately that all of the options to hibernate sleep and reboot are greyed out. I use lightdm along with several window managers includin

Re: networking stopped after upgrade

2015-11-05 Thread Graham Seaman
This turned out to be a hardware problem after all - short in an ethernet cable. Though I don't understand how I got quite the symptoms I did, it has now all been working for a couple of days so I guess that was it. Graham On 03/11/15 15:33, Graham Seaman wrote: > On 03/11/15 15:15, Renaud (Ron)

Re: Kali, Redux

2015-11-05 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 05 November 2015 10:13:34 The Wanderer wrote: > On 2015-11-05 at 09:59, David Baron wrote: > > On Thursday 05 November 2015 09:47:12 The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2015-11-05 at 09:41, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >>> On Thursday 05 November 2015 14:26:07 David Baron wrote: > Attempt to apt-ge

geen beheerrechten voor mijzelf

2015-11-05 Thread J.M. van Ham
Dag Debian Helper, Ik gebruik Debian 8.2 zeer recentelijk. Ook in de versie Debian GNU/Linux7.6 Official i386 Binary-DVD bestond het probleem al. Ik had gehoopt dat met de nieuwere versie het probleem zou zijn verholpen. Niet dus. Als enige reguliere gebruiker van Debian heb ik geen beheersrechten.

Re: geen beheerrechten voor mijzelf

2015-11-05 Thread Siard
On Thu, 05 Nov 2015 17:16:26 +0100, J.M. van Ham wrote: > Dag Debian Helper, > Ik gebruik Debian 8.2 zeer recentelijk. Dit is de Engelstalige lijst. Probeer het opnieuw op de Nederlandse Debian-lijst: debian-user-du...@lists.debian.org

Re: ngspice

2015-11-05 Thread Jose Martinez
On Wed, 2015-11-04 at 21:42 +0100, Siard wrote: > Jose Martinez writes: > > Does anyone know why this package was dropped from the Debian > > distribution??? What would it take to get this package brought back > > to Debian?? > > Apparently it has moved to non-free, as you can see here: > https:/

How to write optimized code for an instruction set not supported by my computer?

2015-11-05 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
Hello. What is the usual workflow to write code that takes advantage of an instruction set that is not present in my computer (either in assembly or using intrinsic functions that represent those instructions in an higher level language)?. For example, if I want to write code for decoding and

Re: Strong Copyleft licenses other than the GNU GPL family.

2015-11-05 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
El 05/11/15 a las 03:27, Nicolas George escribió: Le quartidi 14 brumaire, an CCXXIV, Mario Castelán Castro a écrit : By strong Copyleft I mean a free software license that requires "derivate works" (as determined by Copyright law) to be free software (as in freedom), including works that are de

Re: How to write optimized code for an instruction set not supported by my computer?

2015-11-05 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
I forgot to mention that I am only looking for free as in freedom tools. I refuse to use proprietary tools, including proprietary CPU emulators.

system crash

2015-11-05 Thread Dev Guy
Hello while using my system with the KDE desktop manager, my system became unresponsive for about 30 seconds, after I was able to only move the mouse around but nothing else was accessible. I could still see all the windows, then both my monitor went black. I had to do a cold boot to get everything