Re: What's the easiest and/or simplest part of Linux Kernel?

2013-08-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 02:02:11 +0200, wrote: Le 29.08.2013 01:13, Cousin Stanley a écrit : Ralf Mardorf wrote: Assembler always is optimized code. Not always :-) One can also write stinky code in assembler. Like any programming language, some programmers are better at

Re: What's the easiest and/or simplest part of Linux Kernel?

2013-08-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 07:06 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 02:02:11 +0200, wrote: > > > > > > > Le 29.08.2013 01:13, Cousin Stanley a écrit : > >> Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> Assembler always is o

Re: oh no something is definitely wrong adieu debian.

2013-08-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 17:55 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > You've either changed your tune or are being sarcastic? It even wasn't sarcastic, it's meant ironically ;). On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 18:12 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > All software has bugs No, very small programs likely could be absolu

Re: What's the easiest and/or simplest part of Linux Kernel?

2013-08-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 09:08 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 07:06 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 02:02:11 +0200, wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Le 29.08.2013 01:13, Cousin Stanley a écrit : > > >> Ral

Re: Mouse middle button and Enlightenment(E17)

2013-08-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 12:14 +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > E17 You like what you see, but you don't like what you experience, right? Over the years I tested E16.99/E17 again and again and it always was one of the most worse DEs I ever experienced. Tested on different distros, also o

TEST

2013-08-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
My MUA replied unwanted several times to "Re: apt-get upgrade problem with libenchant1c2a". I got several times an error, but seemingly it was sent several times to the list, but didn't came through. Something is fishy, I was able to reply to several other threads to several people and lists. --

Re: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 12:09 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 21 August 2013 22:37:25 Bob Proulx wrote: > > All worked perfectly as described. Accented characters are easily > > input. But then the follow-up came back that they wanted to input the > > bar characters āēīōū. And I don't see

Re: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 13:27 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 12:09 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Wednesday 21 August 2013 22:37:25 Bob Proulx wrote: > > > All worked perfectly as described. Accented characters are easily > > > input. But then the fo

Re: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PPS: From "Inherit the Wind" with Spencer Tracy, analogously, "use all the words you know and don't care for well-elaborated language", if not everybody is able to understand somebody, than not the people who don't understand are the idiots, but the one who chose words that are not common is an idi

Re: oh no something is definitely wrong adieu debian.

2013-08-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 12:09 +, Curt wrote: > On 2013-08-29, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > On another note, would you go to your local beerfest and ramble on about > > the dangers of alcohol? or go round to peoples' houses and ramble on > > about some dead guy ... oops hang on. > > He's at a

Re: difference Debian, solaris, freebsd

2013-08-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 16:30 +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: > On 29.08.2013 16:15, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > what are the major differences btw the three OS. > > Debian, Solaris, Freebsd > [snip] > > Well the most obvious difference is package management. Aside from that > you can always add GNU

Re: oh no something is definitely wrong adieu debian.

2013-08-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 13:54 +, Curt wrote: > Well, I knew you'd get religious about something if we pressed you > hard enough. You got me. Are you a questioning expert from the NSA? Beer in Germany is something very holy. We've got the "Rheinheitsgebot", the translation "German purity law" is

Re: difference Debian, solaris, freebsd

2013-08-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 17:26 +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: > On 29.08.2013 17:20, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > >> > >> Well the most obvious difference is package management. Aside from that > >> you can always add GNU utilities to Solaris and FreeBSD so that the > >> differences from a user perspecti

Re: difference Debian, solaris, freebsd

2013-08-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: I wouldn't install Debian's FreeBSD, test the "real" FreeBSD first. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1377795643.3536.67.camel@archlinux

Re: difference Debian, solaris, freebsd

2013-08-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 19:00 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > PS: I wouldn't install Debian's FreeBSD, test the "real" FreeBSD first. PPS: The reason for this is, that there's a FreeBSD community and I guess there is not a huge Debian GNU/kFreeBSD community, bu

Re: A notification tray?

2013-08-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 18:09 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: > On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 18:21:29 +0200 > Jochen Spieker wrote: > > > Sharon Kimble: > > > Cinnamon and Gnome 3 both have a tray that holds all notification > > > messages until their read and deleted. These messages are ones like > > > saying

Re: A notification tray?

2013-08-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 19:19 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I hate this notification thingy, that btw. doesn't inform you about all > incoming mails, but just of the once for your main account. However, > while I didn't installed the original GNOME thingy, during testing &g

Re: A notification tray?

2013-08-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 18:31 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: > But what/where is the tray that holds the messages from the > "notification-daemon", because that’s what I’m looking for. I guess no tray is needed. For Xfce "notification area" is added to my panel. Perhaps the daemon only works for gtk ba

Re: oh no something is definitely wrong adieu debian.

2013-08-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 18:58 +0100, Joe wrote: > Some of the English also like beer, and while German lagers are well > respected, so are Belgian and Danish ones, and some of us prefer > unpasteurised bitters. Some even prefer fermented apple juice... Yes, some Danish beer and even some English/Iri

Re: oh no something is definitely wrong adieu debian.

2013-08-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 20:09 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 18:58 +0100, Joe wrote: > > Some of the English also like beer, and while German lagers are well > > respected, so are Belgian and Danish ones, and some of us prefer > > unpasteurised bitters. Some

Re: oh no something is definitely wrong adieu debian.

2013-08-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 20:14 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 20:09 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 18:58 +0100, Joe wrote: > > > Some of the English also like beer, and while German lagers are well > > > respected, so are Belgian a

Re: xfce workspace switcher question

2013-08-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-08-30 at 10:42 +0200, François Patte wrote: > How can I stop this, ie. when I am on the last workspace I don't want to > go to the 1st one... etc. I don't see a way to change this, in /usr/share/xfce4/panel/plugins/ and /usr/share/xfwm4/ I can't see settings for this, so there seem to

Re: difference Debian, solaris, freebsd

2013-08-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-08-30 at 08:01 -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: > FreeBSD has, arguably, a better package system in the ports tree. > Ports is/can be configured to do source-based installs of > applications. > > Personally, I would either stick with Linux or try FreeBSD. For Linux, the distro Arch Linu

Re: xfce workspace switcher question

2013-08-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-08-30 at 22:15 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Start -> Settings -> Window Manager Tweaks > -> Workspaces -> Wrap workspaces when ... > > /usr/bin/xfwm4-tweaks-settings Yes, it's possible to stop it, but there seems to be no way to make it continue, when at the forth workspace (last

Re: xfce workspace switcher question

2013-08-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-08-30 at 23:07 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > "Use the mouse wheel" seems to work just fine; but no keyboard option. > Time to hack code I guess :) The mouse wheel sometimes can't replace the short cuts, but I can live with cursor up and down key. Most of the times I anyway use only

Re: oh no something is definitly wrong adieu debian.

2013-08-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> git pull/make/make install There's a better way of building packages, but I'm short in time now, so at least checkinstall usually does build a "primitive" package, IOW I would run git pull (perhaps ./configure) make checkinstall assumed it needs to be compiled by make. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: How to get rid of an entry in grub?

2013-08-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-08-30 at 21:49 +0100, Klaus wrote: > On 30/08/13 19:11, David Guntner wrote: > > David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > >> > >> Not only that, but given the comments around all the sections that point > >> at /etc/grub.d/{whatever}, does this mean that /boot/grub/grub.cfg is > >

Re: How to get rid of an entry in grub?

2013-08-31 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2013-08-31 at 19:30 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 07:58:39PM -0700, David Guntner wrote: > > > > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1 bs=512 count=1 > > > 1+0 records in > > > 1+0 records out > > > 512 bytes (512 B) copied, 0.000983331 s, 521 kB/s > > > # update-grub

Re: Thanks

2013-08-31 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2013-08-31 at 07:01 -0400, Thod Motte wrote: > Thanks to debian and Gnome 3 for making my desktop as buggy and > unstable as Windows 95 was in 1997 and less customizable. > > I'm just going to revert to squeeze, that desktop actually worked. Don't! Install Xfce, IMO the best DE that can b

Re: XFCE4 - gedit - was Re: Thanks

2013-08-31 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 12:54 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > But gnome apps aren't configuring properly; in particular, in the menu > bar of gedit (and I've seen it elsewhere I think), all the menus are > jammed up against each other - no nice spacing between them. Anyone > know what I ought to inst

Re: Thanks

2013-08-31 Thread Ralf Mardorf
There are a lot of other good (and also lots of bad) DEs, but Xfce4 is the DE that is most similar to GNOME2 + stable + in official repositories of Debian and many other distros. I suspect the OP wants GNOME2, so recommending KDE (a good DE) or recommending Fluxbox and LXDE (good DEs too) isn't goo

Re: Setting up apt when have mixture of testing, sid and experimental

2013-09-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 08:59 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running Debian GNU/Linux SID. > > My sources.list is: > deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free > > deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testi

Re: Setting up apt when have mixture of testing, sid and experimental

2013-09-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: Are you aware that you do a mix? On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 08:59 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > My sources.list is: > deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free unstable, aka sid > deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian

Re: Setting up apt when have mixture of testing, sid and experimental

2013-09-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PPS: The subject "Setting up apt when have mixture of testing, sid and experimental" isn't an evidence that you're really aware that you understand that you mix and what it does mean to mix. Regarding to your question you completely don't know what you're doing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: Thanks

2013-09-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 02:15 -0700, Weaver wrote: > On Sat, August 31, 2013 11:19 pm, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > There are a lot of other good (and also lots of bad) DEs, but Xfce4 is > > the DE that is most similar to GNOME2 + stable + in official > > repositories of Debian and

Re: XFCE4 - gedit - was Re: Thanks

2013-09-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-09-02 at 02:02 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > http://upmart.org/gedit-menus-example.jpg That's really odd :(. When using gedit on Xfce (different distros, including Ubuntu/Debian) it's ok on my machine. I agree there seems to be some lib(s) missing. Xfce was and for some installs sti

Re: Thanks

2013-09-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 13:32 -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: > On 08/31/2013 10:21 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > > "Thod Motte" writes: > > > >> Thanks to debian and Gnome 3 for making my desktop as buggy and unstable > >> as Windows 95 was in 1997 and less > >> customizable. > >> > >> I'm just going to rev

Re: What has happened to proof reading? (was ... Re: root user)

2013-09-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 21:27 +0200, Tony Baldwin wrote: > On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 05:40:22AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 11:05:12PM +0700, st wrote: > > > > > > Edit /etc/aliases to add a line saying, > > > > > > root: youraddr...@of.choi.ce > > > > > > and run t

Re: XFCE4 - gedit - was Re: Thanks

2013-09-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-09-02 at 11:43 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > Hmm. I think I have seen that kind of thing once, some years ago, but > not recently. I think it was with a less stable version of LXDE > (running a Fedora security tools live USB). I've seen it before too, but don't remember the reason for thi

Re: Thanks

2013-09-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-09-02 at 11:24 -0500, Conrad Nelson wrote: > What's wrong with MATE? It could cause conflicts with packages from official repositories. > Xfce hasn't done anything interesting in years, and I've seen > big bugs in Xfce that still need fixing that are even more glaring than > most o

Re: Reg: Error in apt-get install in libstdc++ package

2013-09-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 18:15:46 +0200, Balamurugan wrote: I installed Debian 7.0 (64-bit) - Wheezy (stable release) in one of my system. Installation went smooth without any issues. After installing, I was about to install g++. Before installing g++, I tried installing libstdc++ and I got the

Re: itunes under debian

2013-09-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 19:00:56 +0200, Mike McGinn wrote: Has anyone in this group had any luck getting iTunes to work under Linux? Yes, I'm sharing a VBox vdi with Ubuntu and Arch Linux. VBox guest is Windows XP. I don't know the iTunes version, since I'm booted to Suse at the moment, but I

Re: itunes under debian

2013-09-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 19:23:20 +0200, Pascal Obry wrote: I understand it will not help but I couldn't resist. Free your son and buy him a device offering standard MTP interface (like Android). Being locked by iWhatever is beyond me :) No, to cause computer waste is less good, or should he sell A

Re: Thanks

2013-09-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 19:47:54 +0200, Conrad Nelson wrote: On 09/03/2013 03:08 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2013-09-02 at 11:24 -0500, Conrad Nelson wrote: What's wrong with MATE? It could cause conflicts with packages from official repositories. Could, could, could. So what? I&#x

Re: itunes under debian

2013-09-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-09-03 at 20:10 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 19:00:56 +0200, Mike McGinn > wrote: > > Has anyone in this group had any luck getting iTunes to work under Linux? > > Yes, I'm sharing a VBox vdi with Ubuntu and Arch Linux. VBox guest is >

Re: itunes under debian

2013-09-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-09-04 at 14:03 +0530, Kailash wrote: > We patched it to SP2 I also patched it with SP2 and not with SP3. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/

Re: How many packages in Sid

2013-09-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 22:16 +0200, sp113438 wrote: > How do I find out the number of packages currently in Sid? This doesn't give any information about the quantity of software available from upstream, since Debian does split the software from upstream to several packages. some distros don't do th

Re: How many packages in Sid

2013-09-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2013-09-07 at 18:49 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 10:52:48PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 22:16 +0200, sp113438 wrote: > > > How do I find out the number of packages currently in Sid? > > > > This doesn&#x

Re: How many packages in Sid

2013-09-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2013-09-07 at 09:37 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sat 07 Sep 2013 at 19:02:00 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 10:06:46PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > > > gunzip Packages.gz > > > > > > grep ^Package: Packages | wc -l > > > > Hey! What's wrong with zgrep? :) >

Re: Security?

2013-09-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
rimarily by cheating, not by mathematics." There's no god and there's no super mighty NSA/USA. Forwarded Message From: Ralf Mardorf To: wl...@ml.gentei.org Subject: Re: wl-fcc vs encrypted mails Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 02:44:53 +0200 On Sun, 2013-09-08 at

Re: Security?

2013-09-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-09-09 at 20:07 +0200, Slavko wrote: > Ahoj, [snip] While everything you've written is true, I anyway don't care about it, since it's absolutely obvious that all nations do it and in addition "normal" criminals do it too. We know it and we don't need to use social networks, store priva

Re: Security?

2013-09-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-09-09 at 20:20 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Obama is as evil as a human being can be, it's impossible to be more > evil. He is in one league with [...] idiots. Nobody was hooked :), that's good, because it's nonsense, resp. a provocation. But indeed, peopl

Re: building from source for different arch

2013-09-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Did you google for "debian cross compiling"? Seemingly there are pre build toolchains available. https://wiki.debian.org/BuildingCrossCompilers https://www.google.de/search?q=debian+cross+platform+compiling&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=np&source=hp&gw

Re: Security?

2013-09-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-09-10 at 17:13 +0530, Kailash wrote: > On Tuesday 10 September 2013 12:27 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Mon, 2013-09-09 at 20:20 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> Obama is as evil as a human being can be, it's impossible to be more > >> evil. He is

Re: Security?

2013-09-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-09-10 at 18:22 +0200, Slavko wrote: > But i am surprised by the small amount of responses too. Nobody takes > care about this? Or people afraid already? If I would have secret data on my computer that is connected to the Internet, I wouldn't make much noise in the Internet. Here it's

Re: Security?

2013-09-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
iphone 5s fingerprint The people don't care, they are willing to give them everything. This is democracy. I don't own a mobile phone, btw. not regarding to the fear that they could track me, I simply don't need it. However, now the idiots will give them their fingerprints. This discussion is abou

Re: Security?

2013-09-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 17:54 +0200, Slavko wrote: > Who is tolerating evil behavior, is participating on it... I do not tolerate it, but crime is "normal", it's naive to believe in a world without crime. I wouldn't read a postcard that wasn't sent to me, for two reasons, it would be unethical to do

Re: Security?

2013-09-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 09:57 -0700, David Guntner wrote: > Maybe this discussion would best be taken to the Off Topic list? ;) Or we simply finish the discussion. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

Re: Re: Security?

2013-09-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 09:45 -0700, consultor wrote: > The situation that i can see, is that every US, commercial entity, can > not be trusted anymore around the world; and specially by US citizens. > > If it had happened, that more than 99 % of them were able to go against > their clients; it mean

Re: Re: Security?

2013-09-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 17:25 -0400, Shawn Wilson wrote: > > david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: > >On Wed, 11 Sep 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > >> I dislike Google, but if I search something I very often end up with > >> using Google. Duck Duck Go and ixquick

Re: Security?

2013-09-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 15:53 -0400, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: > On Wed, 11 Sep 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > I dislike Google, but if I search something I very often end up with > > using Google. Duck Duck Go and ixquick very often fail. > > according to my und

Re: Re: Security?

2013-09-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 18:35 -0400, Shawn Wilson wrote: > *shrug* google auto-uncorrecting my searches and bringing up results > without words I put in a search in a 2 word query might be worse. Not > sure which I prefer - I find ddg gives some obscure stuff google > failed to return but I still sta

Re: Security?

2013-09-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-09-12 at 14:23 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Edward Snowden In the first placed he joint a job for a company that is working for the USA government. This company and he are members of the black hat community. They do not join the white hat community instead. Lamenting about the evi

Re: Security?

2013-09-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-09-12 at 14:36 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > But seriously, in country areas (not mine, but when I was a child) > nobody locked their doors And the world changed, we've got overpopulation, rich and poor people, but nearly no middle class. While we've got already overpopulation we st

Re: Security?

2013-09-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Somebody mentioned https://startpage.com/ off-list, as somebody already does in a reply to the list. For testing purpose I made it the startpage for all browsers I use and I guess I'll keep it. Until now I had no issues with using it, good hits, in some cases the missing auto complete recommendati

OT: Security?

2013-09-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 18:35 -0400, Shawn Wilson wrote: > google auto-uncorrecting my searches and bringing up results without > words I put in a search in a 2 word query might be worse There's a wanted difference between searching for term_1 term2 and "term_1 term_2" perhaps you missed the quo

Re: Security?

2013-09-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-09-13 at 01:48 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > I wrote: > > The Internet is new for the human race, we need to educate our children > > and our children need to educate their children and so on, this will > > change our societies and make crap, such as the NSA useless and then > > spyi

Re: Security?

2013-09-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-09-12 at 12:08 -0300, Beco wrote: > Nice this startpage. I'm recommending to my students. I'm satisfied with it too :). We now have to trust https://startpage.com/ by ixquick, that their claims are true. But I never heard anything bad about ixquick. IMO startpage is better than ixquic

Re: Security?

2013-09-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-09-12 at 23:20 +0400, recovery...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi. > > On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 18:44:42 +0200 > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Thu, 2013-09-12 at 12:08 -0300, Beco wrote: > > > Nice this startpage. I'm recommending to my students. > > >

Re: Security?

2013-09-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Indeed https://startpage.com/do/search https://www.google.de/#q=pussy+riot "pussy riot" with and without the quotes is filtered by starpage.com, while Google does show hits regarding to the "Russian feminists". IMO they are not really important, serious feminists. Just for fun I tried "moby's

Re: One-Stop Debian Box Config Tool: Call for Collaborators!

2013-09-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Such a thingy likely would be more complicated to use, than editing configuration files the old KISS way and in addition it likely will add extra bugs and would make Debian less configurable or it would become a bloated monster with tons of modules, so it would become much more complicated and woul

Re: One-Stop Debian Box Config Tool: Call for Collaborators!

2013-09-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
An example for my argumentation. On Fri, 2013-09-13 at 01:36 -0700, Jarrod O'Flaherty wrote: >PATTERN) "I want to: VERB + OBJECT [ + to + VALUE ]" >EXAMPLE) "I want to: change the default GTK font size to 18pt" I want to: make the desktop icon fonts bigger For what WM, DE?

Re: Security?

2013-09-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-09-13 at 20:04 +0400, recovery...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:05:35 +0200 > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > However, when > > searching for Linux related content I'm satisfied. > > It's ok for Linux IMO (and Solaris, a

Re: Security?

2013-09-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-09-13 at 12:51 -0400, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: > https://startpage.com/do/preferences.pl?language_ui=english_uk It doesn't work. I chose "Do not filter my results" and disabled "Video family filter - Try not to display adult video results" and I saved the settings. When

Re: Security?

2013-09-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2013-09-14 at 18:06 +0200, Slavko wrote: > Can, please someone confirm this behavior? Unfortunately yes, I confirm this misbehaviour. I didn't move ~/.opera, but deleted Google in the list of search engines. After a restart Google appears as the default search engine again. This is on Arc

Re: Security?

2013-09-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2013-09-14 at 11:57 +, Curt wrote: > I think there's something whacky with the UK English setting. > Try plain old English without the qualifier. > > sex > About 290,999,667 results (0.07 seconds) English About293,999,435 results(0.22 seconds) German Ungefähr 291.999.046 Ergeb

Re: problem installing win 7 on debian machine

2013-09-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-09-15 at 09:44 +0530, Balamurugan wrote: > I am not very sure whether you can install windows after any GNU/Linux > installation. You can do this at least for XP, in some cases you even don't need to restore the bootloader, but I only was able to install a Windows to a primary partiti

Re: Re: Security?

2013-09-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Opera and Start Page as default search engine http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/09/msg00679.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/09/msg00680.html spinymouse11.2@suse11-2:~> opera -version Opera 10.11 Internal. Build 4791 for Linux. Qt library 4.5.3. While this outdated version of

Re: Thank you - was [Re: Choosing among "Desktop Enviroments" and/or "Windows Managers"]

2013-09-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I recommend to stay with Debian and to stay for Debian with the Linux kernel and what ever boot loader you're using now. Test WMs and DEs, win experiences and in the future you still can decide to use FreeBSD, another Linux distro and/or other bootloaders. I prefer Linux over FreeBSD, but have bot

Re: mutt in gnome-terminal goes gray!

2013-09-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-09-19 at 00:18 -0400, Eric d'Halibut wrote: > I really like the tabbed windows setup. Are there any other terms out > there that provide that feature? xfce4-terminal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: What is location for building/ installing system-wide software?

2013-09-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-09-19 at 20:32 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Gregory Nowak wrote: > > David Christensen wrote: > > > But, this implies working as root. I prefer building in my home > > > directory as a normal user, and finishing with "sudo make install", > > > "sudo vi /etc/", etc.. > > > > > > Does an

Re: Security?

2013-09-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2013-09-21 at 12:14 -0400, Albretch Mueller wrote: > https://lavabit.com/ I always claimed that the issue is the most hard for nationals from the USA, then for any other people. They spy all people, but they only can force people from their own nation to offend privacy. "Levison said that

Re: Security?

2013-09-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2013-09-21 at 18:45 +, Albretch Mueller wrote: > here is an interesting discussion branch: > ~ > > http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/09/06/0148201/schneier-the-us-government-has-betrayed-the-internet-we-need-to-take-it-back > ~ I agree with this: "Life isn't nearly as easy for NSA as

Re: Can not format USB drive

2013-09-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2013-09-21 at 23:11 +0200, twpim-...@yahoo.com.au wrote: > - on Windows box original folders are not visiable only newly created > executable files are showed with icon as folders and without .exe extension It's normal for default settings, that Windows doesn't show extensions. > Maybe

Re: Can not format USB drive

2013-09-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: > As root run > > hdparm -r0 /dev/sd? > > where ? is for a, b, c ... z, IOW the number of your USB stick. ^^ ^^^ :D > [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ hdparm --help > -r Get/set device readonly flag (DANGEROUS to set) I suspect that the USB stick can't

Re: [OT]Re: any utility to change ip

2013-09-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-09-22 at 09:27 +0200, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > -- > Marko Ranđelović, B.Sc. > Software Developer > Niš, Serbia > marko...@eunet.rs > http://mr.flossdaily.org > > Note: If you see a nonsense enclosed between lines > > BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE > END PGP SIGNATURE > > then this message i

Re: Security?

2013-09-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 00:16 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Wow (what hubris by NSA/USA)! Did any arrest take place for shutting > down Lavabit (sorry, no time to read just now)? Either way, nice to > see integrity/principle prevail in a human. The Wiki doesn't give more information. I suspect tha

Re: Broken threads and missing quotations

2013-09-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-09-22 at 19:01 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: I recently got back from holiday. I have found catching up on the list really > difficult because so many people now break threads and don't trim quotes, or, > even worse, do not quote at all. hyposensibilization might help > > What on eart

Re: Broken threads and missing quotations

2013-09-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-09-22 at 12:55 -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > don't trim quotes Some days ago I trimmed quotes on Linux audio users/developers and was ask to quote everything, because out of context the quotes would be manipulating the content. But it anyway was an insane discussion, since somebody fo

Re: Broken threads and missing quotations

2013-09-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-09-22 at 22:50 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2013-09-22 at 12:55 -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > don't trim quotes PS: As you can see, in this case the really bad trimmed quote indeed could be misinterpreted as a call. I guess we have to live with some odd m

Re: Broken threads and missing quotations

2013-09-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 09:46 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Please avoid breaking threads To add this line won't help, because _most_ users aren't aware what breaking a thread does mean. It's much easier to sort by something else, instead of the thread. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: Security?

2013-09-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-09-22 at 15:26 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > Wow (what hubris by NSA/USA)! Did any arrest take place for shutting > > > down Lavabit (sorry, no time to read just now)? Either way, nice to > > >

Re: Broken threads and missing quotations

2013-09-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 09:48 +0400, recovery...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 10:37:00PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> ... Really bad quoting ... > > X-Mailer: Evolution 3.8.5 > > Wow. Is evolution they give you in Arch Linux really that bad? > Did you consi

Re: Code Of Conduct (was ... Re: Security?)

2013-09-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 18:56 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 09:33:26PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Btw. "fxg a sheep" in Germany is allowed, so claiming asylum should > > http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct > > * Do

Re: Code Of Conduct (was ... Re: Security?)

2013-09-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: FWIW it's a quote from the link below. The used word has got a German equivalent. It's not sophisticated to use this word in Germany, but it's also not the worst kind of language of the gutter. It's common that nearly everybody does use it. It's very uncommon to use a sophisticated word instead

Re: Code Of Conduct (was ... Re: Security?)

2013-09-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 06:33 -0400, Darko Gavrilovic wrote: > No one on here cares about your rant or definition of what foul > language is in the little village you happen to reside in on this > planet. Just keep your posts about Debian, useful to the user > community, and keep it professional. It

Re: Code Of Conduct (was ... Re: Security?)

2013-09-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 06:33 -0400, Darko Gavrilovic wrote something that offended netiquette ;), no hard feelings. Btw. as far as I can see you send 4 mails to the list and 3 mails were send to the list and to the person you replied to, no rant, just an information: Reply to the list only! And con

Re: Code Of Conduct (was ... Re: Security?)

2013-09-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 06:33 -0400, Darko Gavrilovic wrote: [snip] My apologies, I forgot to mention that 4 from your 4 mails are sent HTML formatted and 2 from your 4 mails used top-posting. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMailingLists Please post only in plain text. Do not submit HTML, h4x0r or sp

Re: Code Of Conduct (was ... Re: Security?)

2013-09-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 07:03 -0400, Jeff Bauer wrote: > On 09/23/2013 06:47 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > A quick archive search does show that I helped others on this list > > much more than you did. > > List participation is not a competitive sport. That's cor

Re: Code Of Conduct (was ... Re: Security?)

2013-09-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 23:31 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > If you don't want to abide by the CoC [snip] I never claimed that. I only explained that it was a mistake, because this word isn't a hard word here. I was thinking about not to use the word, because I wasn't sure if it is considered as ev

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