Re: Sudo

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 10:32:57AM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > On 21/03/16 21:35, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > depending on your preferences. It's all in the manpage :) > > It is indeed - thanks :-) I try and remember such things, but it's >

Re: Multi-display - one monitor active but blank

On Mon, 2016-03-21 at 20:55 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Oliver Elphick composed on 2016-03-21 22:56 (UTC): > > > What gfxchip powers your displays? > > > > Card: Nvidia > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [NVS > > 300] > > (rev a2) > > > > (I hope that is an answer!) >

Re: Multi-display - one monitor active but blank

On Monday 21 March 2016 23:13:22 Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Mon, 2016-03-21 at 23:07 +, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > It couldn't be a dodgy cable, could it? > > > > Mark > > I don't think so. If that were the case it would flash on and off as > the cable moved. It is resolutely blank, except just s

Re: Throughput riddle

On Tue, 2016-03-22 at 00:45 -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 12:15:56 - (UTC) > Dan Purgert wrote: > > > On 2016-03-18, Celejar wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm trying to understand the throughput across the different links of > > > my little home network, and am perplexed by the

Re: Upgrade Deb 7 to 8, GNOME Flashback, terminal windows not saved: any way to save?

On Monday 21 March 2016 16:21:52 Tom Browder wrote: > I remember that now.  So is there any way to drop back to using GNOME > Classic as in Deb 7? > > If not, are there any other reasonable, debian-packaged, desktop > environments that provide auto-saved terminals? How about MATE? As a non-GNOME-

Re: Upgrade Deb 7 to 8, GNOME Flashback, terminal windows not saved: any way to save?

On Monday 21 March 2016 16:26:59 Tom Browder wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > >> On Mon, 2016-03-21 at 11:26 -0400, Tom Browder wrote: > >>> I just upgraded and am disappointed that, even though browser > >

repositories frozen since Mar 20th?

Any clue to why the debian repositories, especially testing and sid, seem to be unchanged since Mar 20th? Regards, jvp.

Re: repositories frozen since Mar 20th?

Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Any clue to why the debian repositories, especially testing and sid, > seem to be unchanged since Mar 20th? Maybe this has something to do with the removal of the SHA1 checksums in the Release file and the removal of gzipped Packages files? Perhaps something internally

Re: Upgrade Deb 7 to 8, GNOME Flashback, terminal windows not saved: any way to save?

On Tuesday, March 22, 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote: ... > Sorry, I should get to the end before I respond! That's okay, Lisi, I do that, too, especially when trying to work e-mail with a tablet. And this gives me a chance to elucidate on my situation. I have liked and used Debian for at least 10 years

Re: repositories frozen since Mar 20th?

Sven Hartge wrote on 03/22/16 12:45: > Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > >> Any clue to why the debian repositories, especially testing and sid, >> seem to be unchanged since Mar 20th? > > Maybe this has something to do with the removal of the SHA1 checksums in > the Release file and the removal of gzi

Re: Upgrade Deb 7 to 8, GNOME Flashback, terminal windows not saved: any way to save?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 07:51:16AM -0400, Tom Browder wrote: > On Tuesday, March 22, 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote: > ... > > Sorry, I should get to the end before I respond! > > That's okay, Lisi, I do that, too, especially when trying to work > e-mail wit

RE: Throughput riddle

Hi, [...] >>> It might be a good idea to upgrade to a dual-band access point, so >>> that you can use 5 GHz, which is typically has much cleaner channels. >> >> Thanks. See my other response in the thread regarding channel selection. >> >> Celejar >> > Also remember you can have too much RF pow

can you boot a dvd iso file from a tv dvd player?

Dear Folks, I own a Samsung BD-C5900 Blu ray/DVD player. It's meant to be used for viewing movies etc recorded on blu ray discs etc. Out of interest, would it possible to insert e.g. a debian minimal install DVD into it, connect to my PC via e.g. a usb cable and use it to boot up and install deb

Re: can you boot a dvd iso file from a tv dvd player?

Hi, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Out of interest, would it possible to insert e.g. a debian minimal install > DVD into it, connect to my PC via e.g. a usb cable and use it to boot up and > install debian on it? It seems that the option to attach USB devices is rather for the player acting as compu

Re: can you boot a dvd iso file from a tv dvd player?

On 2016-03-22, Michael Fothergill wrote: > --001a11c3193add3a72052ea30a72 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Dear Folks, > > I own a Samsung BD-C5900 Blu ray/DVD player. > > It's meant to be used for viewing movies etc recorded on blu ray discs etc. > > Out of interest, would it possibl

Re: elinks and links2 don't verify ssl certificates at all on debian 8

On 2016-03-21 16:30:46 +0200, Georgi Guninski wrote: > Slightly paraphrased from the cypherpunks mailing list: > > https://cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2016-March/012574.html > [OT] Would someone please check if links2 and elinks verify > certificates on clean install of Debian 8? Under Debia

Re: can you boot a dvd iso file from a tv dvd player?

Hi, On 23/03/2016 12:18 AM, Michael Fothergill wrote: > I own a Samsung BD-C5900 Blu ray/DVD player. I think you will find that the USB port on a DVD player is only for playing content and/or updating the firmware of the player itself. There would be very little chance that it will act as a DVD

Re: can you boot a dvd iso file from a tv dvd player?

On 22 March 2016 at 16:24, Andrew McGlashan < andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au> wrote: > Hi, > > On 23/03/2016 12:18 AM, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > I own a Samsung BD-C5900 Blu ray/DVD player. > > I think you will find that the USB port on a DVD player is only for > playing content and/or

Re: x86_64 vs i386

On Tuesday 22 March 2016 01:04:44 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 21 March 2016 19:27:11 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Monday 21 March 2016 15:54:33 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > You haven't noticed there have been no updates to the 32 bit stuff > > > in quite a while? > > > > Quote at the end of last week

Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script

On 22/03/16 02:40, David Christensen wrote: ... Did you remember the 'export' in .profile? export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin It might help to add echo's in the various scripts to check the order in which they run -- e.g. verify that .bash_profile runs before your bash login script, so that PAT

Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script

On 2016-03-22 at 14:20, Russell Gadd wrote: > On 22/03/16 02:40, David Christensen wrote: >> Did you remember the 'export' in .profile? >> >> export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin >> >> >> It might help to add echo's in the various scripts to check the >> order in which they run -- e.g. verify that .b

Re: x86_64 vs i386

On Tuesday 22 March 2016 13:17:26 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 22 March 2016 01:04:44 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 21 March 2016 19:27:11 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Monday 21 March 2016 15:54:33 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > You haven't noticed there have been no updates to the 32 bit > > > >

Re: can you boot a dvd iso file from a tv dvd player?

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 05:13:43PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > On 22 March 2016 at 16:24, Andrew McGlashan < > andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On 23/03/2016 12:18 AM, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > I own a Samsung BD-C5900 Blu ray/DVD player. > > > > I thin

Re: can you boot a dvd iso file from a tv dvd player?

On 22 March 2016 at 19:59, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 05:13:43PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > On 22 March 2016 at 16:24, Andrew McGlashan < > > andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > On 23/03/2016 12:18 AM, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > >

Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script

On 3/22/2016 11:20 AM, Russell Gadd wrote: Thanks for the export point which I have now used. However it doesn't solve the problem. I experimented by adding the following line into ~/.bash_profile, ~/.profile and ~/.bashrc: echo "This is " &>>/tmp/out.txt Neither of the profile files tri

Re: Multi-display - one monitor active but blank

On 03/22/2016 06:14 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 21 March 2016 23:13:22 Oliver Elphick wrote: On Mon, 2016-03-21 at 23:07 +, Mark Fletcher wrote: It couldn't be a dodgy cable, could it? Mark I don't think so. If that were the case it would flash on and off as the cable moved. It is re

Re: can you boot a dvd iso file from a tv dvd player?

On 3/22/2016 1:11 PM, Michael Fothergill wrote: On 22 March 2016 at 19:59, Dan Ritter > wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 05:13:43PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > On 22 March 2016 at 16:24, Andrew McGlashan < > andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.

Re: can you boot a dvd iso file from a tv dvd player?

On 3/22/2016 1:11 PM, Michael Fothergill wrote: On 22 March 2016 at 19:59, Dan Ritter > wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 05:13:43PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > On 22 March 2016 at 16:24, Andrew McGlashan < > andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.

Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script

On 3/22/2016 11:20 AM, Russell Gadd wrote: Thanks for the export point which I have now used. However it doesn't solve the problem. I experimented by adding the following line into ~/.bash_profile, ~/.profile and ~/.bashrc: echo "This is " &>>/tmp/out.txt Neither of the profile files trigger

Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script

On 3/22/2016 1:11 PM, Michael Fothergill wrote: On 22 March 2016 at 19:59, Dan Ritter > wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 05:13:43PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > On 22 March 2016 at 16:24, Andrew McGlashan < > andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.a

Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script

See if this gets through, my WiFi got flaky, which seems like it cause some issue with imap between Thunderbird and Comcast. Thunderbird claims the message was sent twice, but I never got a copy in my inbox. Here we go again, from the webmail this time. ;) On 3/22/2016 11:20 AM, Russell Gad

Re: Multi-display - one monitor active but blank

On Tue, 2016-03-22 at 16:36 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: >  > I didn't see a response to the question if this was a laptop? > It isn't.  It's a tower PC. The on-board Intel video is not used; there is a dual-head Nvidia card with both monitors.

Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script

On 22/03/16 19:00, The Wanderer wrote: ... How did you test? By launching a new terminal (with bash set as your default shell), by running the command 'bash' in an existing terminal, by logging all of the way out (to the main login prompt, if not to a full reboot) and then logging back in, or b

Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script

On 22/03/16 20:20, Seeker wrote: ... Create '~/.xprofile' and put your export commands and extra non-desktop specific stuff you always want to run there. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xprofile Later, Seeker Thanks. I might try this later.

Re: x86_64 vs i386

On Tuesday 22 March 2016 18:54:30 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 22 March 2016 13:17:26 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Tuesday 22 March 2016 01:04:44 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Monday 21 March 2016 19:27:11 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > On Monday 21 March 2016 15:54:33 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > > You h

Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script

On Tuesday 22 March 2016 21:42:11 seeker5...@comcast.net wrote: > See if this gets through, my WiFi got flaky, which seems like it cause some > issue with imap between Thunderbird and Comcast. Thunderbird claims the > message was sent twice, but I never got a copy in my inbox. I got two earlier co

Re: x86_64 vs i386 now firefoxish

On Tuesday 22 March 2016 18:43:54 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > What do I put in /etc/apt/sources.list to gain access to the newer > > one? > > So far as I can see, you can't, not in Wheezy. The one you have is > the most recent available via the repo. > http://mozilla.debian.net/ > > You could always us

Re: x86_64 vs i386 now firefoxish

On Tuesday 22 March 2016 19:38:00 Lisi Reisz wrote: > (Private copy sent as well in case attachment doesn't get through on > list.) > > On Tuesday 22 March 2016 23:14:00 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 22 March 2016 18:43:54 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > What do I put in /etc/apt/sources.list to ga

Re: x86_64 vs i386 now firefoxish

On 03/22/2016 04:14 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 22 March 2016 18:43:54 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > What do I put in /etc/apt/sources.list to gain access to the newer > > one? > > So far as I can see, you can't, not in Wheezy. The one you have is > the most recent available via the repo. >

Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script

On 2016-03-22 at 18:35, Russell Gadd wrote: > On 22/03/16 19:00, The Wanderer wrote: >> How did you test? By launching a new terminal (with bash set as >> your default shell), by running the command 'bash' in an existing >> terminal, by logging all of the way out (to the main login prompt, >> if

Issues running VLC on Xserver

I have been using VLC for playing videos, as it scales up the video to fit the screen even if the size of video doesn't match the screen size. This was done using "Always fit windows" settings. However, after some recent update (no idea which one), videos with smaller resolution doesn't scale up. T