Re: maintained web-browser (

2013-10-23 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 24/10/13 02:02, Carson Chittom wrote: > Linux-Fan writes: > >> I am also still looking for a "smaller" browser. Iceweasel is the most >> memory-intensive application apart from VirtualBox, 7-Zip and games I am >> usually running. However, I also like (and need) the extensibility of >> Iceweasel

Re: maintained web-browser (

2013-10-23 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 24/10/13 11:09, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 19:58 -0400, Doug wrote: >> I looked at Qupzilla's website, and tried to download the Mandriva >> version, that being closest to pclos. But I could just move between >> "Download" and "Mandriva" but nothing else happens--no download, no

Re: audacity export wma format[1 more question]

2013-10-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 24/10/13 18:13, Δημήτρης Παπαδάκης wrote: > > Is ffmpeg stil; debeloped? > Yes. http://www.ffmpeg.org/ > Στις 24 Οκτ 2013 1:04 π.μ., ο χρήστης "François Patte" > > έγραψε: > > Le 23/10/2013 11:00, François Patte a écrit : > > Bonjour, >

Re: audacity export wma format[1 more question]

2013-10-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
Resending to list On 24/10/13 20:21, François Patte wrote: > Le 24/10/2013 09:53, Scott Ferguson a écrit : >> On 24/10/13 18:13, Δημήτρης Παπαδάκης wrote: >> >> > >> >> It seems that debian version of audacity is compiled without FFmepg >>

Re: audacity export wma format[1 more question]

2013-10-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 24/10/13 20:24, François Patte wrote: > Le 24/10/2013 00:15, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : >> On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 00:03 +0200, François Patte wrote: >>> It seems that debian version of audacity is compiled without FFmepg >>> supports, is that true? and why? >> >> Perhaps because Debian prefers libav

Re: audacity export wma format[1 more question]

2013-10-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
Hi Ralf On 24/10/13 22:42, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 20:43 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> su -c "apt-get -st deb-multimedia install audacity" > > Reading the list for a while, I was under the impression that Debian by > default now comes with sudo

Re: qupzilla webbrowser

2013-10-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 24/10/13 23:24, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > Le 24.10.2013 14:16, mess-mate a écrit : >> Hi, >> i tried to install the *.deb version of debian but apt-get or aptitude >> didn't find that file. You probably don't have the Testing repository installed - though you don't need Testi

Re: audacity export wma format[1 more question]

2013-10-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 24/10/13 23:19, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi Scott, > > On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 23:04 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> "su -c" isn't too difficult for many, and if the extra keystrokes are a >> problem:- >> $ echo "alias s='su -c"

Re: qupzilla webbrowser

2013-10-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 24/10/13 23:40, mess-mate wrote: > On 24/10/2013 14:35, mess-mate wrote: >> On 24/10/2013 14:24, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: >>> >>> >>> Le 24.10.2013 14:16, mess-mate a écrit : Hi, i tried to install the *.deb version of debian but apt-get or aptitude didn't find that fi

Re: audacity export wma format[1 more question]

2013-10-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/10/13 00:00, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Scott Ferguson > wrote: >> >> I don't do default[*1] installs. Certainly "expert" install mode gives a >> choice (choices are good) - regardless of whether people use sudo or not >> r

Re: OT: audacity export wma format[1 more question]

2013-10-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/10/13 00:08, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 23:56 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> alias s='su -c "' > > You still need a wrapper to handle quotation marks. > > command_foo --option_bar "string abc" > > by your alias > &g

Re: qupzilla webbrowser

2013-10-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/10/13 00:09, mess-mate wrote: > On 24/10/2013 15:00, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 14:40 +0200, mess-mate wrote: >>> Ok, first error: >>> qupzilla: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libQupZilla.so.1: undefined >>> symbol: _ZN13QWebInspector10closeEventEP11QCloseEvent >> https://sta

Re: audacity export wma format[1 more question]

2013-10-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/10/13 00:27, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:56:01PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> should have been:- >> $ echo "alias s='su -c"'" >> ~/.bash_aliases;. .bashrc > > This works better as: > > function

Re: out to get out of an apt-get problem...

2013-10-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/10/13 04:42, François Patte wrote: > Bonsoir, > > I try to install alien, but I get these messages: > > apt-get install alien > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these: > The f

Re: out to get out of an apt-get problem...

2013-10-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/10/13 09:12, François Patte wrote: > Le 24/10/2013 23:42, Scott Ferguson a écrit : >> On 25/10/13 04:42, François Patte wrote: >>> Bonsoir, > >> >> It looks like you 'might' have mixed conflicting repositories >> perhaps deb-multimedia?

Re: audacity export wma format[1 more question]

2013-10-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/10/13 13:03, Doug wrote: > On 10/24/2013 09:26 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: >> Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>> Reading the list for a while, I won the impression that Debian by >>> default now comes with sudo enabled. >> >> It is one of the two possible choices that can be made during the >> installation.

Re: Hosting advice

2013-10-31 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 01/11/13 09:53, Craig L. wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a good friend that is in a sticky situation and has turned to > me for help. I'm not 100% sure of how to advise him so I figured I > would pose our question here. > > He lives in Texas, in the USA. He is starting his own business, and a >

Re: Question: Windows size in KDE

2013-11-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 11/11/13 04:23, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > just two questions about windows in KDE, maybe someone knows more. > > First question: > Is there a way or a trick, how I a windows size will be stored, if I close a > window and want to reopen it again with the same size when it was closed? 'Wind

Re: Questions about new hardware & Debian (or Linux in general)

2013-11-11 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 12/11/13 09:03, Jon N wrote: > Hi, > > I have been a Debian user for I'd guess 7 or 8 years now. I would > like to thank all of you that helped create a system that is so > useful. Despite using it for so long I am far from a power users, I > basically rely on the fact that it works well (or

Re: disks differ after cloning with dd

2013-11-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/11/13 01:40, Andre Majorel wrote: > On 2013-11-11 15:06 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > >> I do not remember having seen so much unused space on first disk. >> Could dd have written stuff there, when I only asked it to read >> there? > > dd writing to the argument of if= would

Re: who uses dual boot? [was: How to start using a free OS]

2013-11-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/11/13 09:10, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 21:36 +0100, Alois Mahdal wrote: >> 1.8GHz dual core and 4G RAM >> attempting Win XP in VBox for even the most simple >> tasks was a royal PITA. > > Then something is fishy. > >> (Also one reason to keep the Win in the dual-boot manne

Re: Questions about new hardware & Debian (or Linux in general)

2013-11-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/11/13 10:37, Jon N wrote: > I did a search for Debian and Haswell (plus a couple of related > searches) and found several helpful things. One was several posts on > Phoronx (including > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTM5MzU) that > suggest support is pretty good. I have

Re: Questions about new hardware & Debian (or Linux in general)

2013-11-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/11/13 01:57, Jon N wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 1:23 AM, Scott Ferguson > wrote: >> On 12/11/13 09:03, Jon N wrote: >>> Hi, >> >>> >>> I guess one of the 1st issues I might have to deal with is UEFI, since >>> if there ar

Re: who uses dual boot? [was: How to start using a free OS]

2013-11-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/11/13 11:59, José Silva wrote: > On 13/11/13 00:26, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 13/11/13 09:10, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>> On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 21:36 +0100, Alois Mahdal wrote: >>>> 1.8GHz dual core and 4G RAM >>>> attempting Win XP in VBox for even t

Re: After installing systemd, slim fails to load desktop.

2013-11-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/11/13 13:15, Just_Me wrote: > Slim freezes doing nothing. I had to use startx to start desktop. > slim.service is enabled btw. > > $ systemctl status slim > - > > slim.service - LSB: Start/stop the SLiM daemon. >Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/sli

Re: Questions about new hardware & Debian (or Linux in general)

2013-11-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/11/13 15:21, Jon N wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Scott Ferguson > wrote: > > -- >> >> Sorry, but UEFI isn't always implemented identically (it's dependant on >> firmware). There are also some issues with installing Debian64 and UEF

Re: software for (reminder) recommendation

2013-11-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/11/13 15:09, lina wrote: > Hi, > > Which package I can be installed which may serve as calender, > > Just remind me when, where and what I need attend or prepare? > > Thanks with best regards, > > What DE are you using (cli tools are available too)? There are lots of great calendars, o

Re: After installing systemd, slim fails to load desktop.

2013-11-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/11/13 15:27, Just_Me wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Scott Ferguson [via Debian] <[hidden > email] > wrote: > > On 13/11/13 13:15, Just_Me wrote: > > > Slim freezes doing nothing. I had to use startx to start desktop. &g

Re: disks differ after cloning with dd

2013-11-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/11/13 18:09, Tixy wrote: > On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 10:37 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 13/11/13 01:40, Andre Majorel wrote: > [...] >>> Unfortunately, GNU dd does not have a --progress option but last >>> time I looked, it responded to signal USR1 by wr

Re: After installing systemd, slim fails to load desktop.

2013-11-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/11/13 18:27, Just_Me wrote: > sudo grep 'WW\|EE\|NI\|??' /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > [15.705] Current Operating System: Linux debian 3.11.4-pf-debian > #2 SMP PREEMPT Sat Nov 2 11:41:38 MYT 2013 x86_64 > (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. > [15.

Re: After installing systemd, slim fails to load desktop.

2013-11-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/11/13 18:27, Just_Me wrote: > sudo grep 'WW\|EE\|NI\|??' /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > [15.705] Current Operating System: Linux debian 3.11.4-pf-debian > #2 SMP PREEMPT Sat Nov 2 11:41:38 MYT 2013 x86_64 > (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. > [15.

Re: After installing systemd, slim fails to load desktop.

2013-11-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/11/13 20:56, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 13 nov 13, 14:20:49, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> >> NOTE: slim is not a DM so *if* you are using xdm/gdm/kdm (but not >> Openbox) try:- >> $ DM=$(ls /etc/init.d/ | grep dm);su -c "service $DM start" (or "s

Re: who uses dual boot? [was: How to start using a free OS]

2013-11-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/11/13 21:44, José Silva wrote: > On 13/11/13 01:46, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 13/11/13 11:59, José Silva wrote: >>> On 13/11/13 00:26, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>>> On 13/11/13 09:10, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>>>> On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 21:36 +0100, Al

Re: After installing systemd, slim fails to load desktop.

2013-11-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/11/13 20:57, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 12 nov 13, 18:15:50, Just_Me wrote: >> Slim freezes doing nothing. I had to use startx to start desktop. >> slim.service is enabled btw. >> >> $ systemctl status slim >> - >> >> slim.service - LSB: Start/s

Re: After installing systemd, slim fails to load desktop.

2013-11-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/11/13 21:54, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 21:30 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> Let me know if there are any other conf files or information that >> might be useful. > > Perhaps you're using KDE and the OP does use GNOME. It's a minimal LX

Re: Apper password: sudo or root?

2013-11-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/11/13 06:52, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 17:08 -0200, Beco wrote: >> On 13 November 2013 15:52, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>> What DE do you use? >>> What application to update do you use? >>> Do you have both enabled, su and sudo? >>> >>> Assumed you're using Synaptic on a GTK bas

Re: who uses dual boot? [was: How to start using a free OS]

2013-11-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/11/13 09:42, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 09:31:48AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 00:59 +, José Silva wrote: >>> I think there are ways of overcoming this, inserting the "key" in the >>> VM bios, but I doubt it's legal. >> >> Is it legal to have

Re: Install Google Chrome

2013-11-18 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 18/11/13 15:40, erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com wrote: > Dear List - > > I have done the following - > > Downloaded chrome from site into /opt > > root@meow:/opt# ls > google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb > > install - > > root@meow:/opt# dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb > >

Re: Install Google Chrome

2013-11-18 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 19/11/13 16:06, erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com wrote: > > > - Original Message - > > From: > Scott Ferguson > > To: > > Cc: > > Sent: > Tue, 19 Nov 2013 10:53:48 +1100 > Subject: > Re: Install

Re: Why Debian

2013-11-18 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 19/11/13 18:03, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 03:04:12AM +0100, Tamer Higazi wrote: >> Serious answer "Why Debian and Not Ubuntu" ?! >> >> >> If ever insalling ubuntu again, I'll choose "xubuntu", but that won't >> happen. Why? At the first Debian Installer screen:-

Re: Finding pertinent inforation on WEB

2013-11-19 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 20/11/13 04:45, Richard Owlett wrote: > Linux-Fan wrote: >> On 11/19/2013 03:20 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> If needing to read a "man page", >>> http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi exists. >>> Is there an equivalent site to retrieve what would be displayed by the >>> info command. >>> {

Re: testing wants to install systemd

2013-11-19 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 20/11/13 11:19, Rob Owens wrote: > I run a testing system that I depend on to get work done on a daily > basis. I noticed today that a dist-upgrade wanted to install > systemd. I've never used systemd -- is there anything to fear? Not usually. It might pay to --purge any "to be uninstalled" a

Re: testing wants to install systemd

2013-11-19 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 20/11/13 11:19, Rob Owens wrote: > I run a testing system that I depend on to get work done on a daily > basis. H. Testing *and* depend. Depend and stable makes sense, but "depend" and "constant state of flux" - not so much. :/ I'd clone your "work" machine in VirtualBox (P2V) and test th

Re: CIFS mount hangs

2013-11-19 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 19/11/13 23:33, assm...@skygate.de wrote: > Dear list, > > since my upgrade to wheezy I have a problem with a cifs mount. It is a > share of my windows host. The setup worked fine in debian squeeze. > > I mount this in a virtualbox guest via /etc/fstab like this: > > //myipadress/data /data c

Re: Wheezy: Changing date format in LibreOffice Calc

2013-11-20 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 20/11/13 21:35, Ldten K wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to change a date format in LibreOffice Calc (LOC). I thought it > would be a simple thing to do but for some reason it doesn't work for me. > What I did: > > 1. Open LOC, start a new spreadsheet > 2. Enter 6 new rows in column A as follows

Re: does grub support wireless keyboard?

2013-11-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/11/13 16:01, Long Wind wrote: > another question: how to find out if my PC support USB keyboard? > does grub support USB keyboard? > if it support USB KB, does that mean it support wireless keyboard? No. That happens in user space (after GRUB). GRUB uses BIOS for keyboard support and I suspe

Re: CIFS mount hangs

2013-11-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 21/11/13 22:39, assm...@skygate.de wrote: > Hi, > > I tried your tricks, removing auto, adding _netdev but the problem > still exists. I seems to happen when I am not working on the share for > a certain amount of time. The share seems to be lost thenthis did > not happen under wheezy. So I

Re: Extending fluxbox menu with a script.

2013-11-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/11/13 08:50, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 22/11/13 06:39, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > Try #2 :/ Try #3 (no sleep last night - trees and power lines down across the property in last nights storms) Sorry. This time I remembered to escape those brackets. Please test this - I can only

Re: Extending fluxbox menu with a script.

2013-11-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/11/13 06:39, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Try:- > echo " > #!/bin/bash > # .fmenu > mv ~/.fluxbox/menu{,-$(/bin/date +%Y%m%d-%R)} > mmaker fluxbox -f > echo" > [submenu] (My Menu) > [include] (~/.fluxbox/usermenu) > [end] > [separator]" >> ~

Re: Extending fluxbox menu with a script.

2013-11-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/11/13 05:15, Sharon Kimble wrote: > I am trying to write a bash script which has this line in it - > > mv ~/.fluxbox/menu ~/.fluxbox/menu-$(/bin/date +%Y%m%d-%R); mmaker > fluxbox -f;; > > This line is creating a fluxbox menu which ends with these lines - > ' [restart] (Restart

Re: Extending fluxbox menu with a script.

2013-11-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/11/13 23:15, Sharon Kimble wrote: > On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:09:23 +1100 > Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> On 22/11/13 08:50, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> On 22/11/13 06:39, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> >>> >>> Try #2 :/ >> >> Try #3

Re: Extending fluxbox menu with a script.

2013-11-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 23/11/13 01:13, Sharon Kimble wrote: > On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 12:15:21 + > Sharon Kimble wrote: > >> On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:09:23 +1100 >> Scott Ferguson wrote: >> >>> On 22/11/13 08:50, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>>> On 22/11/13 06:39, Scott Ferg

Re: CIFS mount hangs

2013-11-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
This is why some (me) people dislike top posters and prefer to ignore them over posters who make the effort to interleave their replies. Not only does it require extra work to read the post and put it into context - it 'seems' to also encourages posters to *not* read what they are replying to. I c

Re: Extending fluxbox menu with a script.

2013-11-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 23/11/13 06:14, Sharon Kimble wrote: > On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 12:15:21 + > Sharon Kimble wrote: > >> On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:09:23 +1100 >> Scott Ferguson wrote: >> >>> On 22/11/13 08:50, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>>> On 22/11/13 06:39, Scott Ferg

Re: Installing Debian inside Windows 7 utilizing VirtualBox

2013-11-23 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 24/11/13 01:52, Wally Lepore wrote: > Hi Members, > > I would like to run Debian and test new software packages utilizing > Debian as a virtual environment. inside my Windows 7 OS. I would like to > be able to install Debian in this fashion and have the ability to > utilize a Debian GUI desktop

Re: Installing Debian inside Windows 7 utilizing VirtualBox

2013-11-23 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 24/11/13 01:52, Wally Lepore wrote: > Hi Members, > > I would like to run Debian and test new software packages utilizing > Debian as a virtual environment. inside my Windows 7 OS. I would like to > be able to install Debian in this fashion and have the ability to > utilize a Debian GUI desktop

Re: Install Google Chrome

2013-11-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
Hope this is readable your end - barely readable this end and the thread is broken. Don't think I ever used a worse MUA than ATMail On 25/11/13 08:46, erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com wrote: > > > > > Kind regards > > > root@meow:/# apt-get -t squeeze-backports install google-ch

Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

2013-11-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/11/13 10:13, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Rick Thomas wrote: >> Can someone point me at step-by-step instructions for going from >> sudo aptitude install wordpress >> on a freshly scrubbed, newly installed Wheezy system to a working >> wordpress website on the same machine? >> >> I've read th

Re: Installing Debian inside Windows 7 utilizing VirtualBox

2013-11-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/11/13 05:25, Wally Lepore wrote: > On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Scott Ferguson > wrote: >> On 24/11/13 01:52, Wally Lepore wrote: > > [snip] > >> choose sound and network card types, select phsyical or virtual optical >> drive (virtual uses I

Re: Install Google Chrome

2013-11-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/11/13 16:07, erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com wrote: > > > > > - Original Message - > From: > Scott Ferguson > > To: > "Debian-User" > Cc: > > > 4. Finally, as root copy and paste the fo

Re: Installing Debian inside Windows 7 utilizing VirtualBox

2013-11-25 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/11/13 07:27, Alois Mahdal wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 19:30:16 +0200 > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> On Du, 24 nov 13, 11:45:11, Wally Lepore wrote: >>> >>> Has anyone successfully mounted a Debian .iso file directly >>> to VirtualBox? > > It's probably clear, bout just to be co

Re: upgrade on comp without internet connection

2013-11-25 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 26/11/13 00:06, andrey.ry...@bilkent.edu.tr wrote: > hi everybody! > i have installed debian version 6.0.2 on computer without internet > connection. Also i have full set of DVD with 7.2.0 version. So - i want to > upgrade the system. Im going to perform next steps: > 1) remove all contents of /

Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

2013-11-26 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/11/13 12:10, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 25/11/13 10:13, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> Rick Thomas wrote: >>> Can someone point me at step-by-step instructions for going from >>> sudo aptitude install wordpress >>> on a freshly scrubbed, newly

Re: CIFS mount hangs

2013-11-26 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 26/11/13 21:38, assm...@skygate.de wrote: > Hi, > >> That mouse thing moves the cursor ;) >> > > I am sorry...I am not really used to this kind of mailing list > conversation No worries. > > >>> How does "$ testparm -v" on the new box compare with the same from the box that did

Re: Stable Package: PostgreSQL 9.1 to 9.3 ?

2013-11-26 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 27/11/13 12:45, Jonathan Fortin wrote: > Hi, > > The latest stable release of Debian contains PostgreSQL 9.1. But, on the > PostgreSQL web-site the version 9.3 is available for Debian. > > So, I would like to know if is a good practice or not to install a new > version which doesn't come fro

Re: MIT discovered issue with gcc

2013-11-26 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 27/11/13 13:49, David L. Craig wrote: > On 13Nov26:1545-0500, David L. Craig wrote: > >> On 13Nov26:1437-0500, Mark Haase wrote: >> >>> Therefore, a Linux distribution has 2 choices: (1) wait for upstream >>> patches for bugs/vulnerabilities as they are found, or (2) recompile all >>> packages

Re: Can't install any packages, "APT_HOOK_INFO_FD is not correctly defined"

2013-11-26 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 27/11/13 17:46, John Magolske wrote: > Hi, > > I'm finding I can't install any packages with `aptitude dist-upgrade` > `aptitude install ...` etc, keep getting this: > > % sudo aptitude dist-upgrade > [...] > E: APT_HOOK_INFO_FD is not correctly defined. > E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/apt-

Re: Can't install any packages, "APT_HOOK_INFO_FD is not correctly defined"

2013-11-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 27/11/13 19:14, John Magolske wrote: > * Scott Ferguson [131126 23:43]: >> On 27/11/13 17:46, John Magolske wrote: >>> I'm finding I can't install any packages with `aptitude dist-upgrade` >>> `aptitude install ...` etc, keep getting this: &

Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

2013-11-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 27/11/13 19:21, Kailash wrote: > On Sunday 24 November 2013 07:09 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> >> Can someone point me at step-by-step instructions for going from >> sudo aptitude install wordpress >> on a freshly scrubbed, newly installed Wheezy system to a working wordpress >> website on th

Re: Toshiba Satellite U940

2013-11-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 27/11/13 20:19, ha wrote: > Anybody tried installing Debian on Toshiba Satellite U940? > Any know issues? > I cannot find much information on the net. > I can see that some Toshiba laptops are not very Deban-frendly > (https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Toshiba), so I wonder... > > Than

Re: MIT discovered issue with gcc

2013-11-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 27/11/13 23:37, David L. Craig wrote: > On 13Nov27:1423+1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> On 27/11/13 13:49, David L. Craig wrote: > >>> On 13Nov26:1545-0500, David L. Craig wrote: >>> >>>> On 13Nov26:1437-0500, Mark Haase wrote: >>>>

Re: wordpress, again

2013-11-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 27/11/13 23:16, Chris Davies wrote: > Rick Thomas wrote: >> Would you be willing to help me get a wordpress installation up and running? > >> I've done "aptitude install wordpress" which dragged in all the >> necessary other packages, like apache2, mysql, php… etc. So I *think* >> I've got al

Re: wordpress, again

2013-11-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/11/13 03:28, Miles Fidelman wrote: > John Hasler wrote: >> Chris Davies writes: >>> Last time I looked, the wordpress package was a point or two behind >>> the current version. Many of these point releases seem to be to fix >>> security issues, so I have to question the wisdom of using an "ol

Re: wordpress, again

2013-11-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/11/13 01:29, John Hasler wrote: > Chris Davies writes: >> Last time I looked, the wordpress package was a point or two behind >> the current version. Many of these point releases seem to be to fix >> security issues, so I have to question the wisdom of using an "older" >> version for a potent

Re: check reboot or black-out

2013-11-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/11/13 08:51, Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 07:42:40PM +0100, Pol Hallen wrote: >> I've a remote server, sometime I see a early uptime (2 days) while I >> didn't rebooted it. How check if the server has been rebooted or >> there was a problem like blackout? > > Every time a m

Re: wordpress, again

2013-11-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/11/13 09:36, John Hasler wrote: > Scott Ferguson >> It would have been helpful to preface your post with "I'm guessing..." Let me rephrase that... It would have been helpful to preface your post with "Nothing to do with the OPs question, this is on a

Re: wordpress, again

2013-11-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
. It installs WordPress, WordPress keeps itself up-to-date - i.e. it's version has nothing to do with the version number of the debian installer. On 28/11/13 09:48, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > On 28/11/13 09:36, John Hasler wrote: >> Scott Ferguson >>> It wou

Re: Nuke-php error on Debian 7

2013-11-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/11/13 10:29, Fred White wrote: > Hello list, today, had my server upgraded to Debian 7 and the 3 sites > with phpnuke giving 500 Internal Server Error. > > Thanks > > I suspect the problem is easily fixed, just the result of upgrading PHP which will require a simple sed of some php files.

Re: Linux time not redirecting output to log file ...

2013-11-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/11/13 12:32, Albretch Mueller wrote: > ~ > I find useful while coding/debugging separating the errors from the > output + errors, even if the programming language doesn't allow for > that: > ~ > > http://coding.derkeiler.com/Archive/Java/comp.lang.java.programmer/2012-08/msg01347.html > ~

Re: Fallback icons in thunar

2013-11-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/11/13 13:58, Diep Pham Van wrote: > I'm using debian wheezy xfce. > I notice that some icons like Documents, Downloads... in thunar always > fallback to the default gnome icon theme. See: http://imgur.com/Ukf69zV > > That looks ugly, how can I prevent that? > "Sounds" (meaning "I'm guess

Re: wordpress, again

2013-11-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/11/13 15:12, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Scott Ferguson wrote: >> The OP (in this thread) is asking about the Debian WordPress package. >> It installs WordPress, WordPress keeps itself up-to-date - i.e. it's >> version has nothing to do with the version number of the

Re: Fallback icons in thunar

2013-11-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/11/13 18:03, Diep Pham Van wrote: > On Thu, 28 Nov 2013 14:01:00 +1100 Scott Ferguson > wrote: > >> The solution might be to install another, more complete, icon set. > The problem is, I really like the novula icon set. Understandable. David Vignoni's work is just

Re: wordpress, again

2013-11-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/11/13 18:31, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Nov 27, 2013, at 8:12 PM, Miles Fidelman > wrote: > >> Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> The OP (in this thread) is asking about the Debian WordPress >>> package. It installs WordPress, WordPress keeps itself up-to-date &g

Re: Fallback icons in thunar

2013-11-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/11/13 18:40, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2013-11-28 at 14:03 +0700, Diep Pham Van wrote: >> The problem is, I really like the novula icon set. Maybe there is a way >> to make those icons look like other icons? > > You seemingly don't like the icon _s e t_! > > Replace the "Fallback icons"

Re: Fallback icons in thunar

2013-11-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/11/13 19:26, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2013-11-28 at 19:01 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 28/11/13 18:40, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>> On Thu, 2013-11-28 at 14:03 +0700, Diep Pham Van wrote: >>>> The problem is, I really like the novula icon set. Maybe the

Re: MIT discovered issue with gcc [OT]

2013-11-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/11/13 22:33, Joel Rees wrote: >> [...] > > Uninitialized pointers in my thought processes. > Made perfect sense to me. I use ld.so.preload for everything. It's great. Kind regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Linux time not redirecting output to log file ...

2013-11-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 29/11/13 02:48, Albretch Mueller wrote: > (time rsync --archive --verbose $_SRC $_DEST 2>&1 >&3 | tee $_ERR >&3) >>> in this case however I can't get (Linux) time to log into the >>> output+errors log file. It just spits its output on standard err (not >>> the err + out I am trying to redi

Re: split(): syntax error near unexpected token `(' ...

2013-11-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 29/11/13 12:38, Albretch Mueller wrote: > n = split($_az,array," ") What is "array" supposed to do? [??] What did you want the script to do? Kind regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lis

Re: split(): syntax error near unexpected token `(' ... [OT]

2013-11-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
Please note - this has *nothing* to do with Debian, I've marked it OT accordingly. Unless you are asking about Debian peculiarities or whether to raise bug report please consider posting these sorts of queries to somewhere appropriate like stackoverflow, gawk lists or such like. Thanks. On 29/11

Re: split(): syntax error near unexpected token `(' ... [OT]

2013-11-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
Off-off topic for Debian User lists. On 29/11/13 14:42, Albretch Mueller wrote: > #!/bin/bash > > _DT=$(date +%Y:%m:%d:%H:%M:%S) OK... > echo "// __ \$_DT: $_DT" Huh? Is there a point to that exercise (print gibberish to screen)? $_DT remains $(date +%Y:%m:%d:%H:%M:%S) [wave of diziness] >

Re: split(): syntax error near unexpected token `(' ... [OT]

2013-11-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 29/11/13 14:51, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Please note - this has *nothing* to do with Debian, I've marked it OT > accordingly. > > Unless you are asking about Debian peculiarities or whether to raise bug > report please consider posting these sorts of queries to somewher

Re: split(): syntax error near unexpected token `(' ... [OT]

2013-11-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 29/11/13 15:13, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Off-off topic for Debian User lists. > > On 29/11/13 14:42, Albretch Mueller wrote: > >> SavedIFS="$IFS" > > Hu-uh? [slaps head] My bad. You're storing the value of built-in variable, not as I foolishly &#

Re: split(): syntax error near unexpected token `(' ... [OT]

2013-11-29 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 30/11/13 03:39, Tom H wrote: > > This is your opinion (just as it was your opinion to say the same > thing to the person asking about bogofilter recently). WTF? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/09/14 04:49, lee wrote: > Scott Ferguson writes: > >> On 26/09/14 07:34, lee wrote: >>> Darac Marjal writes: >>> >>>>> On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 03:04:24PM +0200, lee wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Systemd can hand

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/09/14 06:13, lee wrote: > Martin Steigerwald writes: > >> Am Freitag, 26. September 2014, 10:43:14 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: >>> On Vi, 26 sep 14, 01:58:44, lee wrote: Again, I consider it to be totally futile to try to convince the makers of systemd to fix the issues it brings abou

Re: security camera software/RPi

2014-10-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 01/10/14 17:42, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 30 sep 14, 21:01:52, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >> On 9/30/2014 7:11 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >>> On Sb, 27 sep 14, 05:23:29, ken wrote: What other cheap devices devices were you referring to that would better handle the load? >>> >>> ht

Re: Error: failed to fetch from registry: kanso

2014-10-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 01/10/14 17:45, Thushara Ranawaka wrote: > Hi, > > While Im in the process of configuring Kleks > i wanted to install kanso > according to this github article > . That article is over a year old to

Re: Fwd: Error: failed to fetch from registry: kanso

2014-10-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
Re-posting to the list where this belongs. Please don't post to me, I subscribe to the list. Did you think I'd secretly assist you?? :/ On 01/10/14 21:26, Thushara Ranawaka wrote: > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: *Thushara Ranawaka* mailto:thusha...@wso2.com>> > Date: Wed, Oct

Re: PHP memory limit upper bound?

2014-10-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 01/10/14 20:56, gri...@gatchev.info wrote: > Hi all, > > I need to set the PHP memory limit to more than 512 MB and found that I > can't. Is this caused by the Suhosin patch (my guess), and how to get > around it? > > (I tried to set suhosin.memory_limit to 1024M: no change. Was told that > ph

Re: PHP memory limit upper bound

2014-10-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/10/14 02:57, Grigor Kolev wrote: >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> I need to set the PHP memory limit to more than 512 MB and found that I > >>> can't. Is this caused by the Suhosin patch (my guess), and how to get > >>> around it? > >>> > >>> (I tried to set suhosin.memory_limit to 1024M: no c

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