Re: emacs menu line disappeared

2016-05-14 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
I've filed a bug already (#822944) without remedy so far. It's due to changes in gtk-3. That's also the reason why the firefox package got back to link against gtk2. I downgraded gtk-3 to 3.18 on my system. Regards, jvp.

Debian Stretch package conflicts... libnettle4 libarchive13 libgnutls-deb0-28 libgnutls30

2016-05-14 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi, When I try to do aptitude full-upgrade on my Stretch Apple G4 PowerMac, I get conflicts. These do not seem to be transient — they have been there for several days. Anybody know what’s going on? Thanks! Rick > The following NEW packages will be installed: > libnettle4{a} > The following p

Guidelines for allocating system resources for VMs?

2016-05-14 Thread Albin Otterhäll
I want to use virtual machines for my everyday work on my laptop (with a Intel Core i5-3320M @ 2.60 GHz * 4 and 16GB RAM), using KVM on Debian as my hypervisor. But I can't find any general guidelines for how much system resources to "give" to a VM. How many logical cores? How much RAM? Note that

Re: Anytime I touch a print function, get error but it works

2016-05-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 14 May 2016 02:15:30 cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 04:23:16PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Fixed it right up, thank you very much, Curt. Since it had to > > create that path in /etc from scratch, is there a way to ask dpkg > > what provides this file so

Re: Guidelines for allocating system resources for VMs?

2016-05-14 Thread Martin Read
On 14/05/16 10:05, Albin Otterhäll wrote: I want to use virtual machines for my everyday work on my laptop (with a Intel Core i5-3320M @ 2.60 GHz * 4 and 16GB RAM), using KVM on Debian as my hypervisor. But I can't find any general guidelines for how much system resources to "give" to a VM. How

Re: Debian Stretch package conflicts... libnettle4 libarchive13 libgnutls-deb0-28 libgnutls30

2016-05-14 Thread Dutch Ingraham
On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 06:43:11PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > Hi, > > When I try to do aptitude full-upgrade on my Stretch Apple G4 PowerMac, I get > conflicts. > > These do not seem to be transient — they have been there for several days. > > Anybody know what’s going on? > > Thanks! > Rick

Re: Debian Stretch package conflicts... libnettle4 libarchive13 libgnutls-deb0-28 libgnutls30

2016-05-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2016-05-13 18:43 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > When I try to do aptitude full-upgrade on my Stretch Apple G4 PowerMac, I get > conflicts. > > These do not seem to be transient — they have been there for several days. > > Anybody know what’s going on? > >> The following NEW packages will be inst

Re: Guidelines for allocating system resources for VMs?

2016-05-14 Thread Albin Otterhäll
Martin Read: > On 14/05/16 10:05, Albin Otterhäll wrote: >> I want to use virtual machines for my everyday work on my laptop (with a >> Intel Core i5-3320M @ 2.60 GHz * 4 and 16GB RAM), using KVM on Debian as >> my hypervisor. >> >> But I can't find any general guidelines for how much system resour

Re: Multiple live iso's on a single bootable flash drive?

2016-05-14 Thread Richard Owlett
On 5/3/2016 8:37 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 03 May 2016 11:11:45 Richard Owlett wrote: I hope the result will be a document aimed at the beginner but not the picture book style that seems prevalent at that level. Much Linux documentation is written by experts for experts. Or by "experts"

Re: Creating a home network

2016-05-14 Thread Richard Owlett
On 5/12/2016 6:23 PM, メット wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2016年5月13日 3:03:06 JST, Richard Owlett wrote: On 5/12/2016 9:20 AM, mett wrote: [snip] did u see debian wiki about creating a router with a pc? No. I did a "title" search for "router" got 3 hits (all rele

festival -- text to speech software

2016-05-14 Thread Alan McConnell
Assembled Wisdom! 'festival' is speech-synthesized software that has been around for over 15 years, and I have installed it from my Debian jessie DVDs. It worked splendidly for a while, but I have tried to install new 'voices' and I have run into the following error; I get {FND} Feature To

Can Debian do multi-core "MY WAY"?

2016-05-14 Thread Richard Owlett
I date from era when when "memory banks" were switched via contents of a I/O port ;/ Anyone remember era when 8085 was "state of the art" ;/ I envision core A using memory range X core B using memory range Z My individual tasks could be handled by a 2MHz Z80 Can Debian do it on GHz machine

Re: Can Debian do multi-core "MY WAY"?

2016-05-14 Thread John Hasler
Richard Owlett writes: > Anyone remember era when 8085 was "state of the art" ;/ I remember when the 8080 was "state of the art". > I envision > core A using memory range X > core B using memory range Z > My individual tasks could be handled by a 2MHz Z80 > Can Debian do it on GHz machine? T

Re: Can Debian do multi-core "MY WAY"?

2016-05-14 Thread Martin Read
On 14/05/16 18:31, Richard Owlett wrote: I envision core A using memory range X core B using memory range Z My individual tasks could be handled by a 2MHz Z80 Can Debian do it on GHz machine? Maybe. Debian (and the Linux kernel) has a bewildering array of tools and options that *might

Re: Can Debian do multi-core "MY WAY"?

2016-05-14 Thread Joe
On Sat, 14 May 2016 12:31:28 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: > I date from era when when "memory banks" were switched via > contents of a I/O port ;/ > Anyone remember era when 8085 was "state of the art" ;/ > > I envision >core A using memory range X >core B using memory range Z > > My in

Re: Can Debian do multi-core "MY WAY"?

2016-05-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 14 May 2016 13:31:28 Richard Owlett wrote: > I date from era when when "memory banks" were switched via > contents of a I/O port ;/ > Anyone remember era when 8085 was "state of the art" ;/ How about building a tv production tool out of an RCA 1802? There was a time when that puppy

Re: Can Debian do multi-core "MY WAY"?

2016-05-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 14 May 2016 13:42:51 John Hasler wrote: > Richard Owlett writes: > > Anyone remember era when 8085 was "state of the art" ;/ > > I remember when the 8080 was "state of the art". > > > I envision > > core A using memory range X > > core B using memory range Z > > > > My individual tas

Re: -Re: configuring softwarecollections.org repository on debian jessie

2016-05-14 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 01:13:02AM +0200, Rodary Jacques wrote: > Le jeudi 12 mai 2016, 21:55:24 Liam O'Toole a écrit : > > On 2016-05-12, soko.tica wrote: > > > --001a1146456672df2d0532a72b01 > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > > > > > Hello list, > > > > > > I need to install a p

Re: Can Debian do multi-core "MY WAY"?

2016-05-14 Thread John Hasler
Gene Heskett writes: > How about building a tv production tool out of an RCA 1802? There was > a time when that puppy was state of the art. Yes. I wrote applications for it in hex, helped design a single board computer using it, and helped write an 8 bit version of FORTH for it (it was eminently

Re: Can Debian do multi-core "MY WAY"?

2016-05-14 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 12:31:28PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I date from era when when "memory banks" were switched via contents > of a I/O port ;/ > Anyone remember era when 8085 was "state of the art" ;/ > > I envision > core A using memory r

Re: Debian Stretch package conflicts... libnettle4 libarchive13 libgnutls-deb0-28 libgnutls30

2016-05-14 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 14, 2016, at 3:52 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2016-05-13 18:43 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > > >> When I try to do aptitude full-upgrade on my Stretch Apple G4 PowerMac, I >> get conflicts. >> >> These do not seem to be transient — they have been there for several days. >> >> Anybody

Re: Debian Stretch package conflicts... libnettle4 libarchive13 libgnutls-deb0-28 libgnutls30

2016-05-14 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 14, 2016, at 3:45 AM, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 06:43:11PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: >> Hi, >> >> When I try to do aptitude full-upgrade on my Stretch Apple G4 PowerMac, I >> get conflicts. >> >> These do not seem to be transient — they have been there for several

Re: Network manager (again)

2016-05-14 Thread David Wright
On Sat 14 May 2016 at 05:27:06 (+0200), Bhasker C V wrote: > I am finding it difficult to settle on a good network manager which > can work for my case > > 1. My home dir is luks/ext4 and mounted manually after logging in for > the first time > 2. My GUI is started after mounting my home dir and

Google Authenticator

2016-05-14 Thread Laurens Blankers
Hi all, Two days ago an article was posted on Linux.com about setting up 2-factor authentication using the libpam-google-authenticator package [1]. Looking at the Debian package [2] I noticed it was last updated August 2013, however the source at GitHub has been updated as recently as 2 days ago.