ASTM Lab equipment protocol

2021-07-09 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Which Debian packages support the ASTM lab equipment (over TCP) protocol? An overview would be nice. Regards, Rob

Re: ASTM Lab equipment protocol

2021-07-09 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there On 09/07/2021 18:23, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: On 2021-07-09 9:21 a.m., Rob van der Putten wrote: Which Debian packages support the ASTM lab equipment (over TCP) protocol? An overview would be nice. Have you tried usign the packages.debian.org search engine for

Re: ASTM Lab equipment protocol

2021-07-09 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there On 09/07/2021 19:11, Brian wrote: On Fri 09 Jul 2021 at 19:04:06 +0200, Rob van der Putten wrote: On 09/07/2021 18:23, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: On 2021-07-09 9:21 a.m., Rob van der Putten wrote: Which Debian packages support the ASTM lab equipment (over TCP

Re: ASTM Lab equipment protocol

2021-07-11 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi On 09/07/2021 20:43, Markos wrote: Em 09-07-2021 10:21, Rob van der Putten escreveu: Which Debian packages support the ASTM lab equipment (over TCP) protocol? An overview would be nice. Please, explain with more detail, and some example, what exactly are you looking for? The sister

Re: Fwd: Re: ASTM Lab equipment protocol

2021-07-20 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there On 12/07/2021 15:40, Markos wrote: OK. Now I understand a little bit more the situation. You are referring to this pattern: https://www.astm.org/Standards/E1381.htm I didn't know this standard. What I have seen in my experience with laboratory automation with some instruments/equ

Re: please do *never* use GitHub for free software, was Re: Salsa vs Github

2019-05-18 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there On 17/05/2019 09:28, Dominik George wrote: please do*never* use GitHub for free software Please explain, in detail, why. If discrimination against parts of the community is not enough for you, here's why: https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html An overview; https://en.wi

Re: IPv4 v IPv6

2019-06-18 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there On 17/06/2019 12:11, Aidan Gauland wrote: On 17/06/19 9:09 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 10:05:11AM +0100, mick crane wrote: hello, I know nothing about IPv6. Can somebody point to a good explanation ? I'd recommend skimming the relevant Wikipedia [1] page. C

Re: technical terms overhaul

2020-06-21 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there On 19/06/2020 21:14, Eike Lantzsch wrote: On the danger of starting a flame war ... thinking about the article by Gunnar Wolf on Planet Debian instead of "whitelist" and "blacklist" I would like to propose the terms: "allowlist" and "rejectlist" instead of (for example on disk drives

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

2018-08-11 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there On 10/08/18 01:03, Rich Kulawiec wrote: No. This is an absolutely terrible idea. Here's why mailing lists are (along with Usenet newsgroups) vastly superior to web-based anything: I prefer Usenet to mailing lists. I read dozens of mailing lists and I don't want all that data on

Bind bug

2018-08-12 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there See; https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01639/0 I don't think not using deny-answer-aliases is really an option. Regards, Rob

Bug#908349: firefox-esr: no sound after upgrading from 52.9 to 60.2

2018-09-09 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Note: A reply in bugs failed. On 09/09/18 10:08, Marco Lucidi wrote: > On Sat, 8 Sep 2018 21:41:11 +0200 Samuel Thibault > wrote: > > Unfortunately AIUI upstream has stopped supporting ALSA, so we are stuck > > with pulseaudio for firefox. > > Is there any particular reason for p

Re: cannot open display: localhost:0.0

2018-09-23 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there On 23/09/2018 13:48, Grzegorz Sójka wrote: I need to allow remote applications to connect to xorg. Since I log in using lxdm i have tcp_listen=1 in /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf. Thus Xorg is running without -nolisten tcp flag. Unfortunately: $ xhost +localhost; DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 xterm l

Re: cannot open display: localhost:0.0 [solved]

2018-09-23 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there On 23/09/2018 20:07, Grzesiek Sójka wrote: On 9/23/18 2:36 PM, Rob van der Putten wrote: On 23/09/2018 13:48, Grzegorz Sójka wrote: I need to allow remote applications to connect to xorg. Since I log in using lxdm i have tcp_listen=1 in /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf. Thus Xorg is running

Re: DNS Key rollover for dnsmasq [SOLVED}

2018-10-07 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there On 07/10/2018 12:36, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On 07-10-2018 07:11, Rick Thomas wrote: On further study, it seems that (in Debian Stretch, at least) the root KSK’s used by dnsmasq are taken from the file /usr/share/dns/root.ds, which is provided by the package dns-root-data; and

Re: DNS Key rollover

2018-10-07 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there On 04/10/2018 20:32, Reco wrote: Please do not top post. On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 02:15:52PM -0400, Default User wrote: Hi, Henning. I am running Unstable, with 4.18.0-2 amd-64 kernel, all updated. I don't know anything about bind. How do I know what bind version I am running, and

Re: Still unable to restart networking on Debian 9 text mode only

2018-11-25 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there On 24/11/2018 18:25, Gary Dale wrote: Reco has already explained why this approach is incorrect. My own two cents on the problem is that Interfaces is meant to define how the network is brought up, not to change a running network. If you want to change a running network, use ifconf

Squid security 2014:3 and 2014:4

2014-10-03 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2014_3.txt http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2014_4.txt SNMP is default off. But how about the pinger? Regards, Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: Squid security 2014:3 and 2014:4

2014-10-03 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Rob van der Putten wrote: http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2014_3.txt http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2014_4.txt SNMP is default off. But how about the pinger? Is switched the pinger off. Regards, Rob -- Trans-Pacific Partnership is evil; http

Outdated flash plugin

2014-10-18 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there update-flashplugin-nonfree downloads old version; https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=765457 For i386 that's; http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/11.2.202.411/install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz Regards, Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-us

Asterisk security

2014-11-22 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there A lot of bugs [1] but no Debian updates. Should I be concerned? [1] For instance; http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2014-012.html Regards, Rob -- Comet: A very large bouncy castle. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: Asterisk security

2014-11-22 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Scott Ferguson wrote: Sorry - I don't have an authoritative answer to that. It 'might' help if you gave some information about which release you are using. Current Debian stable; 1:1.8.13.1~dfsg1-3+deb7u3 Did you scroll down and look at the "Corrected in" section and compare the v

Bind wildcard and DNSsec

2012-10-13 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there My resolver (Bind9 with DNSsec enabled) doesn't resolve 'www.nuonexclusief.nl', but it does resolve 'nuonexclusief.nl'. Apparently this is due to a DNSsec + wildcard problem (*.nuonexclusief.nl), which has been fixed in 9.6-ESV-R6, 9.7.5 and 9.8.2. AFAIK there is no relevant Debian

Re: Bind wildcard and DNSsec

2012-10-16 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Rob van der Putten wrote: My resolver (Bind9 with DNSsec enabled) doesn't resolve 'www.nuonexclusief.nl', but it does resolve 'nuonexclusief.nl'. Apparently this is due to a DNSsec + wildcard problem (*.nuonexclusief.nl), which has been fixed in 9.6-ESV-R

Re: Bind wildcard and DNSsec

2012-10-23 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Rob van der Putten wrote: I filed a bug report; http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=690569 Bind refers to this bug as 'RT #26200' Bind fixed this in January. I don't expect Debian to implement this fix soon. It's probably best to disable DNS

Re: Bind wildcard and DNSsec

2012-10-27 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Mike Viau wrote: Thanks for you updates and efforts on this issue Rob! Unstable may move to 9.8.2 at some point. It might be possible to backport 9.8.2 to stable when this happens. Regards, Rob -- Abolish all anti blasphemy legislation. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-

Re: Bind wildcard and DNSsec

2012-11-03 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Rob van der Putten wrote: Unstable may move to 9.8.2 at some point. It might be possible to backport 9.8.2 to stable when this happens. 9.9.2 is now in Experimental; http://packages.debian.org/experimental/bind9 Regards, Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Bind wildcard and DNSsec

2012-11-12 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Rob van der Putten wrote: 9.9.2 is now in Experimental; http://packages.debian.org/experimental/bind9 1:9.8.4 is now in unstable. Regards, Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

legacy-bootordering in Wheezy?

2012-11-29 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi Does wheezy support /etc/init.d/.legacy-bootordering? When Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze I run into trouble because NFS wanted to mount before Bind was running. legacy-bootordering fixed this for me. I also use legacy-bootordering on my GUI box: I use /etc/rc.local to start inputattach

Re: legacy-bootordering in Wheezy?

2012-12-02 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Tom H wrote: You can use an insserv override to add Should-Start: $named Should-Stop: $named to the nfs-kernel-server LSB headers to ensure that bind starts before nfs. The bind9 script says: Provides: bind9 I assume this is somehow translated into: Provides: named

Re: legacy-bootordering in Wheezy?

2012-12-02 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Rob van der Putten wrote: The bind9 script says: Provides: bind9 I assume this is somehow translated into: Provides: named. Where can I find more on this subject. How do I check that adding 'Should-Start: $named' and 'Should-Stop: $named' won't introd

Re: legacy-bootordering in Wheezy?

2012-12-02 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Tom H wrote: Why a circular dependency? You're adding it to nfs-kernel-server not to bind9. '$remote_fs' confused me. '/etc/insserv.conf' cleared things up. "Provides: bind9" means that the bind9 init script provides the bind9 boot facility. "bind9" is one of the facilities that

Re: legacy-bootordering in Wheezy?

2012-12-03 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Andrei POPESCU wrote: ~/.xsessionrc If I understand correctly this stuff is sourced, not run. Regards, Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debia

Re: legacy-bootordering in Wheezy?

2012-12-03 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Rob van der Putten wrote: Tom H wrote: Why a circular dependency? You're adding it to nfs-kernel-server not to bind9. '$remote_fs' confused me. '/etc/insserv.conf' cleared things up. Actually I'm still confused. From /etc/insserv.conf; # # All

Re: legacy-bootordering in Wheezy?

2012-12-03 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Tom H wrote: Do the logs say why? Nothing. If not, check how the scripts are numbered with and without legacy ordering to figure out what asterisk's "Required-Start" and "Should-Start" might be missing. I'll try. Regards, Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

Re: legacy-bootordering in Wheezy?

2012-12-04 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Rob van der Putten wrote: Tom H wrote: Do the logs say why? Nothing. If not, check how the scripts are numbered with and without legacy ordering to figure out what asterisk's "Required-Start" and "Should-Start" might be missing. I'll try.

Re: legacy-bootordering in Wheezy?

2012-12-04 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Tom H wrote: AFAIUI, "$remote_fs" being "Required-Start" for bind9 means that nfs volumes have to be mounted for bind9 to be started not that nfs-kernel-server's shares have to be exported. This box does both. Regards, Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.de

Re: legacy-bootordering in Wheezy?

2012-12-05 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Rob van der Putten wrote: asterisk is not in /etc/init.d/.depend.* 'insserv /etc/init.d/asterisk' fixed this One would expect this to run on install. Regards, Rob -- Alphabet soup sux. Specify your charset; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake#Example -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: legacy-bootordering in Wheezy?

2012-12-05 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Andrei POPESCU wrote: Yes it is. Why do you expect this to be a problem? More weirdness: I can start inputattach as root, but not as a normal user using a suid script. Regards, Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: legacy-bootordering in Wheezy?

2012-12-08 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Rob van der Putten wrote: More weirdness: I can start inputattach as root, but not as a normal user using a suid script. The thing to do is to write a start script and start the mouse just _after_ XDM. This works both with and without .legacy-bootordering. I'll put more in

Adobe flash security

2014-04-13 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-09.html Does this effect Debian? Regards, Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.

Squid netdb

2014-04-13 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there I'm tinkering a bit with Squid. Build a backport [1]. Does anyone know what the contents of /var/log/squid3/netdb.state means? Some things are obvious, others are not. [1] http://www.sput.nl/software/squid33.html Regards, Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists

Re: Adobe flash security

2014-04-13 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Артур Истомин wrote: Yes, affect. # update-flashplugin-nonfree --status Flash Player version installed on this system : 11.2.202.335 Flash Player version available on upstream site: 11.2.202.350 To update this fucked proprietary software, run: # update-flashplugin-nonfree --install

Re: Adobe flash security

2014-04-13 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Rob van der Putten wrote: Somehow this doesn't update the software. Is just noticed that there is a bug reposrt; https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=744263 Regards, Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: Adobe flash security

2014-04-13 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Артур Истомин wrote: I am on testing and it work for me. Which has the same dependencies. So I installed it on stable. It wants; http://people.debian.org/~bartm/flashplugin-nonfree/fp.11.2.202.350.sha512.i386.pgp.asc Which doesn't exist. Regards, Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Adobe flash security

2014-04-13 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Stephen Allen wrote: +1 Not installed. :( A manual install, as suggested by Arthur, works. For i386, download; http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/11.2.202.350/install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz I renamed /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so to lib

Squid security

2014-04-16 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2014_1.txt AFAIK SSL-Bump is disabled by default. I did not find any Debian reference to this bug. Or did I miss something? Regards, Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: 'no-fixes' in stable

2014-04-19 Thread Rob van der Putten
HI there wobbly-hs wrote: hp1320n laser hplip connection to: HP LaserJet 1320 series Postscript (recommended) postscript driver But shock / amazement!.. hpijs does work - I thought I'd tried it already but maybe I'd copied the ppd or something, this time a clean ppd seems to work (but only

Re: 'no-fixes' in stable

2014-04-19 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Curt wrote: A known limitation, it seems. http://www.openprinting.org/printer/HP/HP-LaserJet_1320 This site is slow and PPDs keep disappearing. If you do find a PPD that works, put it on your website, so people can find it using a web search. (I wanted to view the discussion

Re: 'no-fixes' in stable

2014-04-19 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Brian wrote: What is lacking in the range of PPDs offered by Debian that one has to go searching in corners of the web to find one? AFAIK Debian doesn't provide a PPD for my printer. Debian used to, but that is a long time ago. Vr.Gr, Rob -- Trans-Pacific Partnership is evil; http

Re: 'no-fixes' in stable

2014-04-19 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Brian wrote: And your printer model is? It's in an earlier post in this thread: HP Laserjet P2015DN. There is a ppd in Current Debian stable package hpijs-ppds, but it doesn't support 1200 dpi. See earlier post. More here; http://www.sput.nl/software/hp2015dn.html#cups Regards,

Re: 'no-fixes' in stable

2014-04-20 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Brian wrote: There is a Generic Postscript Printer PPD which I use with a 2200DN. It does 1200x1200. I'm not sure the difference between that and 600x600 is at all obvious. I my experience the difference is vast when dithering grey tones. Anyway, if you can't find a ppd which suppor

Re: In Squeeze replacing python version 2.6.6-13~bpo60+1 with version 2.6.6-3+squeeze7

2014-04-24 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Brian wrote: python-dev isn't required to set up printing. That can be done using http://localhost:631 or with lpinfo plus lpadmin. In general: Some additional info on setting up printers; http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO/ Esp; http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO/spoolers.html#

Re: In Squeeze replacing python version 2.6.6-13~bpo60+1 with version 2.6.6-3+squeeze7

2014-04-24 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Brian wrote: python-dev isn't required to set up printing. That can be done using http://localhost:631 or with lpinfo plus lpadmin. I just look it up. This printer also scans; http://www.shopping.hp.com/shopping/pdf/ce863a.pdf You probably need more then just a ppd. Regards, Rob

Re: System

2014-04-25 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Brian wrote: Please, no! If you've read all of the posts to #727708 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=727708 carefully you'll find there is probably nothing original to say. We know the default init system for Jessie will be systemd. If memebers of this list are

Re: In Squeeze replacing python version 2.6.6-13~bpo60+1 with version 2.6.6-3+squeeze7

2014-04-28 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Brian wrote: (cups-bsd is a purely optional package to use with cups. Printing works without it). You can even combine cups with another lpd. Regards, Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listma

Re: Adobe flash security

2014-04-29 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Stephen Allen wrote: Thanks Rob I think they found another bug; http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-13.html There is a bug report; https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=746370 Regards, Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@list

Re: Bind wildcard and DNSsec

2012-12-13 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Rob van der Putten wrote: 1:9.8.4 is now in unstable. Build my own Squeeze backport. Seems to work. Regards, Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arc

Analog, domain not given and IPv6

2012-12-18 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there In my Analog web server statistics I get a lot of 'domain not given'. According to the docs this is caused by hostnames without a dot. In the case of an IP address without a (matching) reverse lookup, the 'hostname' is an IP address. And in case of IPv6, the IP address doesn't contai

Re: Analog, domain not given and IPv6

2012-12-19 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Jochen Spieker wrote: I don't know about Analog, but I use webalizer which has a similar problem with IPv6 addresses. Looks like a bug to me. AFAICS Analog's latest upstream release is exactly eight years old today (Happy Releaseday!) and Webalizer's is more than two years old. I woul

Re: Analog, domain not given and IPv6

2012-12-19 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Jochen Spieker wrote: Ah, according to BTS #452259, this issue was fixed in upstream version 2.20. Squeeze still has 2.01, but wheezy will ship 2.23. Excellent! So how configurable is Webalizer? I do rather weird stuff with Analog. Convert logfiles into fake webserver log files and

Re: Analog, domain not given and IPv6

2012-12-21 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Jochen Spieker wrote: Nice hack! Unfortunately, the webalizer README indicates that report translation happens at compile time. You would need one webalizer binary for each of your "languages". I can probably fool Analog and make it think IPv6 addresses are hostnames; Reverse the or

Re: Analog, domain not given and IPv6

2012-12-22 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Rob van der Putten wrote: I can probably fool Analog and make it think IPv6 addresses are hostnames; Reverse the order of the quad nibbles, replace ':' with '.', prevent '..' and append a string before feeding the logs to Analog; 2001:888:1533:1::1 =>

Re: 8 port serial PCI card on squeeze

2013-04-25 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there ML mail wrote: I am trying to configure an 8 port serial PCI card and managed to get the 3 first ports working but the 5 others do not work. The ouput of /proc/tty/drivers/serial is the following: 0: uart:TI16750 port:03F8 irq:4 tx:2608 rx:0 RTS|CTS|DTR|DSR 1: uart:16C950/954 m

Re: 8 port serial PCI card on squeeze

2013-04-25 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there ML mail wrote: Thanks for your help. So to answer your question of where I added the 8250 kernel parameters, that would be in /etc/default/grub file in the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX variable. With your hints I was now able to find out that somehow my machine (a Soekris net6501-30 board)

Upgrade, grub errors and release notes

2013-05-06 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there There have been reports about grub errors when upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy. This occurs hen using a 'special' filesystem such as raid or lvm. EG; ~# grub-install /dev/sda /usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Your core.img is unusually large. It won't fit in the embedding area.. /usr/s

Re: Upgrade, grub errors and release notes

2013-05-07 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 06 mai 13, 11:17:11, Rob van der Putten wrote: There have been reports about grub errors when upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy. This occurs hen using a 'special' filesystem such as raid or lvm. EG; ~# grub-install /dev/sda /usr/sbin/grub-s

Re: Upgrade, grub errors and release notes

2013-05-09 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Rob van der Putten wrote: Andrei POPESCU wrote: Otherwise feel free to ask on -doc or even open a bug against the package release-notes. Do provide an accurate (reproducible) description of the problem and if possible also suggested text for inclusion (or even a patch). There

Re: Too many emails

2013-05-15 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Valaki Valahol wrote: Since I have subscribed to Your email list I am getting any kind of emails, not only those concerning my question... Is this normal and how can I stop receiving all emails, only the answers to my question ? Use a mail to news gateway. EG Gmane; http://gmane.org

NTP Problems

2013-06-21 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Setup; == My NTP setup uses 4 remote and 3 local clocks. The local clocks are GPS-NMEA, GPS-PPS and DCF77. I never got the PPS (on DCD) to work with a default Debian kernel and NTPD, so I use David J. Schwartz' shared memory driver. It is loaded just after the first time after bo

VLC Album art display problems

2013-07-22 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there I run into some VLC album art display problems today. Some images that where displayed in Squeeze aren't displayed in Wheezy. The problem seems to be related to having a colon (':') in the album title. EG; 'Foo: the complete works of bar'. Replacing the colon with an other char and c

VLC, proxy and sound

2013-07-23 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Some other VLC problems introduced by Wheezy. A MKV which disables the sound in VLC. I had to restart VLC to get the sound back. Other MKVs works fine. VLC doesn't do http streams when the http_proxy is configured. Instead of http://Some_Host/Some_File it requests http://Some_Host/

Re: VLC, proxy and sound

2013-07-25 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Rob van der Putten wrote: VLC doesn't do http streams when the http_proxy is configured. Instead of http://Some_Host/Some_File it requests http://Some_Host/ When an IPv6 address is used, http://[IPv6_Address]/Some_File, it bypasses the proxy and works fine. Apparently th

Which browsers support zone indices

2013-12-29 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Which browsers support zone indices / IPv6 link-local addresses? I know Lynx works. Regards, Rob -- 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/l9p5cm$p

Re: Which browsers support zone indices

2013-12-29 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Scott Ferguson wrote: On 29/12/13 23:43, Rob van der Putten wrote: Which Debian packages support IPV6 Zone IDs? Sorry, I meant web browsers. Iceweasel Redirects to search page nmap Konqueror (webkit, so anything telnet or ftp using webkit) Complains about improperly

Re: Which browsers support zone indices

2013-12-29 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi Rob van der Putten wrote: Sorry, I meant web browsers. I actually wrote browsers. Anyway, I was trying to avoid this; - Made a list of all FOSS cross platform browsers. - Looked at which ones are available as Debian package. - Installed them. - Tested them. Conclusion; No GUI

Re: Replace systemd

2017-07-09 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there On 05/07/17 17:27, Don Armstrong wrote: It already exists: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/04/msg00097.html « You can just append: preseed/late_command="in-target apt-get install -y sysvinit-core" to the installer command line. Or you can roll your own install media wit

Stretch vim doesnt cut and paste

2017-08-19 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there After a upgrade from jessie to stretch I can't use the mouse to cut and paste in vim. nvi works, nano works. As quick fix I removed xxd and installed the jessie version of vim, vim-common and vim-runtime. This does work. Regards, Rob

Re: Stretch vim doesnt cut and paste

2017-08-19 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there On 19/08/17 14:10, Brian wrote: "set mouse=" in ~/.vimrc. In /etc/vim/vimrc it doesn't work. In ~/.vimrc it does. Thanks! Regards, Rob

Re: stretch and DNS name resolution service for other devices on a LAN

2018-01-19 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi On 19/01/18 15:08, Andy Hawkins wrote: I guess I don't *need* IPv6, but as a technology geek it's just something I wanted to play around with. I've set up a tunnel with Hurricane Electric that gets me a fully routable IPv6 prefix that I can assign an address from to each of the devices on m

Linphone dependencies

2018-02-12 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Package: linphone depends on linphone-nogtk. But I don't see why. It contains no libs, just the binaries linphonec and linphonecsh. Which, as far as I can tell, are never called from linphone. In fact, I can move them to an other dir and still run linphone. What did I miss? Regards

Squid security

2016-05-21 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there This puzzles me a bit: Information on source package squid3; https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/squid3 Do I need a to build a backport to be safe? Regards, Rob

Re: Squid security

2016-05-21 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there heqami...@runbox.com wrote: No need to build a backport. Just use the sid/unstable testing version on apt-get I didn't check the library compatibility. Thanks. It's a bit odd though. Every version patched except stable. Regards, Rob

Re: Squid security

2016-05-22 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Rob van der Putten wrote: heqami...@runbox.com wrote: No need to build a backport. Just use the sid/unstable testing version on apt-get I didn't check the library compatibility. Thanks. The libs are different. It's a bit odd though. Every version patched exc

Re: Squid security

2016-06-04 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Rob van der Putten wrote: The libs are different. So I build a backport. And a libecap3 backport. It wants libecap3. Regards, Rob

Problem with linphone and twinkle

2016-07-25 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Linphone doesn't sort contacts in alphabetical order. Twinkle crashes when I switch virtual desktop during a call. Any ideas? Suggestions for other softphones? Regards, Rob

Is nagle disabled?

2016-09-09 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there I'm experimenting with TCP to see how long it takes to send a small amount of data from A to B. One would expect a latency of a few hundred milliseconds, but it's a few hundred microseconds instead. It is as if Nagle's algorithm has been disabled. Regards, Rob

Re: Is nagle disabled?

2016-09-09 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there On 09/09/16 18:19, Stefan Monnier wrote: I suggest you re-read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagle's_algorithm Nagle only kicks in when there are un-acknowledged packets. So on the first packet, there is no delay. There will be a delay on the *second* packet if it's small and we hav

Re: Is nagle disabled?

2016-09-10 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there On 09/09/16 19:57, Rob van der Putten wrote: I thought I overlooked something. And this is it. Thanks! So the question should have been 'Is delayed ack disabled'. I have a hard finding decent information on the subject, so I did a bit of experimentation; I send tiny bi

Re: Is nagle disabled?

2016-09-10 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there On 10/09/16 13:37, Nicolas George wrote: Le quintidi 25 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Rob van der Putten a écrit : So the question should have been 'Is delayed ack disabled'. I have a hard finding decent information on the subject, so I did a bit of experimentation; I send tiny bi

Re: IPv6 Problems

2016-10-06 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there On 06/10/16 07:29, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: iface etho0 inet static See post by Georgi Naplatanov. address 2620:7:a000::1 netmask 64 gateway :::c0a8:101 :::c0a8:101 is 192.168.1.1; Kernels use ::/96 addresses internally and not on networks.

Re: Debian *not very good

2016-11-26 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there On 25/11/16 22:26, Latincom wrote: Is there a step by step guide or How to on line? I have 1 Wheezy without Systemd, and i would like to upgrade it. Thanks. You can do both an upgrade and an install from scratch without systemd; http://without-systemd.org/ http://without-systemd.org

Re: Debian *not very good

2016-11-26 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there On 26/11/16 18:38, Rob van der Putten wrote: I run XFCE on my desktop. I had to add myself to sudo to make things work properly. And admin. admin is needed to get xconsole syslog to work. sudo to keep xdm logout from complaining. I use lightdm now though. I edited the cups config

Re: potential damage to Debian "stable" when installing packages from "testing"

2016-12-08 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there On 08/12/16 16:27, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: 0) backport it yourself. It is not that hard to dget a dsc file from testing and try to build it for the current release. Often works without additional efforts. That's what I do. I'm rather blunt about it; 1. Does it compile? 2. Does it i

Re: Do have programs have poor documentation? (was ... Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal")

2017-03-11 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there On 29/12/16 14:44, cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: [sorry for the late response.] On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 11:05:48AM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: It is not easy to describe a program with many use cases and even more particular settings and actions. What lacks to my experience as

Re: Do have programs have poor documentation? (was ... Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal")

2017-03-12 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there On 30/12/16 18:25, deloptes wrote: Lisi Reisz wrote: Try reading what I have actually said, whilst making some attempt to understand it, instead of just contradicting it. You do enjoy contradicting people, don't you? Hah, Lisi I just got the same impression from Xen. I am glad

Re: `Filter failed' no print error message

2017-03-13 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there On 13/03/17 17:27, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Brian writes: On Sat 11 Mar 2017 at 21:06:23 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Brian writes: On Tue 07 Mar 2017 at 15:41:54 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Thanks, `cups' alone was enough. Now the printer seems to be configured. But it does

Re: Apology to siduction 17.01 (was Re: why??why?why??)

2017-03-13 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there On 13/03/17 15:54, GiaThnYgeia wrote: Out of my frustration and lack of understanding, or the belief that all systems should run as trouble-free as clean-debian, and possibly due to just getting tired of fighting something too long, I bad-mouthed siduction in public. My source of fru

Re: Sound card question

2015-10-01 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Seeker wrote: If you do actually have an audio out and a line out and the line out doesn't produce audio when something is plugged into the audio out, it may be an indication that it's a hardwired mechanical function built into the audio out jack to break the circuit to the line out

Re: Sound card question

2015-10-01 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Danny wrote: No jumpers on the motherboard ... :( ... Sometimes it's the way the connector is plugged into the motherboard or the front panel. Sometimes it's a BIOS setting. Look for AC 97. See; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_High_Definition_Audio If all of this fails you ne

Flash update

2015-03-14 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Most recent version is 11.2.202.451. For i386 that's; http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/11.2.202.451/install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz Regards, Rob -- Comet: A very large bouncy castle. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

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