Re: [DNG] strange characters when using 'examine' in aptitude

2015-08-28 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
I do not know a solution for this behavior but you do not need aptitude in this situation you can do apt-get dist-upgrade to fix those upgrades that get held back for various reasons. Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 08:45:51 +0100 From: Dave Turner To:dng@lists.dyne.org Subject: [DNG] strange character

Re: [DNG] What can I do after netman?

2015-09-26 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
Edward, Although i will stay with wicd i am glad that with netman i do have a choice. And most important of all you actually did something whereas others still are sitting on their hands. So if someone friendly point out some improvements make us of it. And if some dick is just criticizing wi

Re: [DNG] mailing list software

2015-10-03 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
Claws mail is indeed a minimal mail client. I prefer Thunderbird for this: works well with gmail imap and has a special button 'Reply list' when accessing this mailinglist item. I select the item where i want to respond to, push that button and voila i have a quoted message where i only have to

[DNG] Printing -- now a permissions problem

2015-10-19 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
On 19-10-15 16:38, dng-requ...@lists.dyne.org wrote: Message: 3 Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 09:24:44 -0400 From: Hendrik Boom To:dng@lists.dyne.org Subject: Re: [DNG] Printing -- now a permissions problem Message-ID:<20151019132444.ga21...@topoi.pooq.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Ha

[DNG] alternative to raspbian without systemd

2015-11-27 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
Hi Greg, There is a quite informative howto from Adafruit for using a console cable on https://learn.adafruit.com/downloads/pdf/adafruits-raspberry-pi-lesson-5-using-a-console-cable.pdf which is agnostic to which distribution you use. But the other end is usb not a 9 pins serial cable if you

[DNG] alternative to raspbian without systemd

2015-11-28 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
On 28-11-15 07:23, dng-requ...@lists.dyne.org wrote: Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 12:29:12 -0700 From: Gregory Nowak To: dng@lists.dyne.org Subject: Re: [DNG] alternative to raspbian without systemd Message-ID: <20151127192912.ga19...@gregn.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Fri, No

[DNG] Which email client can I use to properly quote emails?

2015-12-14 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
On 14-12-15 20:51, dng-requ...@lists.dyne.org wrote: Hi All, What email client do you suggest me to use so that I can properly quote previous replies? I use gmail's classic webmail interface as my computer lags with the newer webmail interfaces. I tried claws-mail without success: the gmail serv

Re: [DNG] Don't feed the troll

2015-12-22 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
On 22-12-15 13:00, dng-requ...@lists.dyne.org wrote: I just read this article on bsdmag.org from October about systemd. It gives a refreshingly objective view from the distance on the whole discussion about the sense and nonsense of systemd: Problems with Systemd and Why I like BSD Init, by Rand

Re: [DNG] Ian Murdock

2015-12-31 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
I support to dedicate the first stable Devuan to Ian. Not a beta which will hopefully have a shorter lifetime then stable. grtz Nick ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Vote for/against netman name change

2016-02-06 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
On 2016-02-04 07:03, Edward Bartolo wrote: > >Do you agree to renaming netman? YES and netbarx is a sound name for such usefull peace of software. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Dng Digest, Vol 17, Issue 39

2016-02-07 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
Message: 6 Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2016 19:26:27 + From: KatolaZ To:dng@lists.dyne.org Subject: [DNG] Migration to devuan Jessie failed on rpi-zero Message-ID:<20160207192627.gg23...@katolaz.homeunix.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi folks, I recently got one of those new raspber

Re: [DNG] Migration to devuan Jessie failed on rpi-zero

2016-02-08 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
On 08-02-16 07:35, dng-requ...@lists.dyne.org wrote: Message: 3 Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 14:26:43 +1100 From: Ozi Traveller To: Gregory Nowak Cc: dng Subject: Re: [DNG] Migration to devuan Jessie failed on rpi-zero Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" I have 3 raspberry pi's

Re: [DNG] Migration to devuan Jessie failed on rpi-zero

2016-02-09 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
On 09-02-16 06:21, dng-requ...@lists.dyne.org wrote: Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 14:24:39 +0100 From: Arnt Karlsen To: dng@lists.dyne.org Subject: Re: [DNG] Migration to devuan Jessie failed on rpi-zero Message-ID: <20160208142439.6bd0e...@nb6.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII On Mon,

Re: [DNG] The repository has old OpenSCAD package.

2016-03-12 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
On 11-03-16 22:03, dng-requ...@lists.dyne.org wrote: Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 02:11:45 +0900 From: Hughe Chung To:dng@lists.dyne.org Subject: [DNG] The repository has old OpenSCAD package. Message-ID:<5989ed20949751ca1015ad0763815...@riseup.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=fl

[DNG] Torrents for every single install image

2016-05-13 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
Hi All, I have created a single torrent file for every installation image inside the 10 Gb and are actively seeding. Is there a way to add them to a website or wiki for easy access for everyone? HND Nick ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org http

Re: [DNG] Torrents for every single install image

2016-05-14 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
On 14-05-16 21:21, dng-requ...@lists.dyne.org wrote: Date: Sat, 14 May 2016 18:50:59 + From: hellekin To:dng@lists.dyne.org Subject: Re: [DNG] Torrents for every single install image Message-ID:<57377393.7080...@dyne.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Hello, This is not helpful.

[DNG] Devuan on RPi2

2016-05-16 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
I spended today some time to setup a Devuan version from my webradio on a RPi2 and have 3 remarks. - had to add module snd_bcm2835 manually - had to add alsa manually - icecast2 asks for configuration parameters but does not save them (is most likely not Devuan related but ask here

Re: [DNG] Devuan on RPi2

2016-05-16 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
On 16-05-16 15:59, parazyd wrote: On Mon, 16 May 2016, info at smallinnovations.nl wrote: I spended today some time to setup a Devuan version from my webradio on a RPi2 and have 3 remarks. - had to add module snd_bcm2835 manually - had to add alsa manually - icecast2 asks for

[DNG] Pi hole

2016-05-21 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
I installed Pi Hole (https://pi-hole.net/) with the default install script on a Pi 2 with Devuan Beta and it works fine. Due to the minimal base install it is quite fast and I can recommend it's ads killing feature. I have not the slightest idea about packaging but it would be certainly a usefu

Re: [DNG] SoylentNews discussion

2016-06-03 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
[cut] >non-invasive init of*their* choice. Yes. The user should have an easy choice of inits. What I meant was that SOME init must be default, and if that default init is ever not sysvinit, it should be something very different from sysvinit. SteveT If that default init is ever not sysvinit,

Re: [DNG] adblocking using /etc/hosts

2016-06-05 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2016 09:01:49 +0200 From: To:dng@lists.dyne.org Subject: [DNG] adblocking using /etc/hosts I don't know, if it is the right place here to ask such trivial questions, if not please tell me, no problem at all. I wanted to suggest, for the future, may be for a better user experie

Re: [DNG] Caching binary .deb packages

2016-06-06 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 14:32:14 +0300 From: Lars Noodén To:dng@lists.dyne.org On 06/06/2016 02:16 PM, Adam Borowski wrote: >On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 02:08:27PM +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: >>I've been messing around with building a live image and notice that it >>looks like there are a lot of diff

Re: [DNG] Firefox-ESR and XUL

2016-07-02 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
On 02-07-16 07:44, dng-requ...@lists.dyne.org wrote: Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 13:58:08 -1000 From: Joel Roth To:dng@lists.dyne.org Subject: Re: [DNG] Firefox-ESR and XUL Didier Kryn wrote: I recently tried palemoon, found that like Firefox, it soon enters a high-CPU-consuming state, at least under

Re: [DNG] Dng Digest, Vol 22, Issue 80

2016-07-22 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
On 22-07-16 07:24, dng-requ...@lists.dyne.org wrote: Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 06:56:35 +0200 From: Didier Kryn To:dng@lists.dyne.org Subject: Re: [DNG] F1 and special usernames on the login screen [..] BTW my laptop has an English keyboard because it is impossible in Europe to buy one

[DNG] keyboard layouts

2016-07-23 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
On 23-07-16 10:52, dng-requ...@lists.dyne.org wrote: Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 10:34:34 +0200 From: Didier Kryn To:dng@lists.dyne.org > >You must be living in the "wrong" part of Europe, here in the >Netherlands you must search for a not US-Keyboard. > I mean in France. When buying HP you

[DNG] keyboard layouts

2016-07-23 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
On 23-07-16 02:44, dng-requ...@lists.dyne.org wrote: Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 20:50:35 -0400 From: Steve Litt To:dng@lists.dyne.org Subject: Re: [DNG] Dng Digest, Vol 22, Issue 80 > >You must be living in the "wrong" part of Europe, here in the >Netherlands you must search for a not US-Keyboard.

Re: [DNG] Cannot install Samba on Jessie

2016-07-24 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
On 20-07-16 13:51, dng-requ...@lists.dyne.org wrote: Message: 2 Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 22:48:20 +1200 From: Daniel Reurich To: Rowland Penny, Dng Subject: Re: [DNG] Cannot install Samba on Jessie Message-ID:<578f56f4.6060...@centurion.net.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi Rowland,

Re: [DNG] Why Debian 8 Pinning is (or isn't) pointless

2016-07-25 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
On 25-07-16 15:22, Hendrik Boom wrote: It is a matter of trust, not of what is technically feasible. Does one trust the libc developers more than the libsystemd developers? -- hendrik ___ That question is not very hard to answer. Grtz. Nick __

Re: [DNG] Ugly, ugly news

2016-07-25 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
On 25-07-16 20:07, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, This is a screenshot of my buddy's kernel menuconfig: https://sanitarium.net/x.png SteveT Steve Litt July 2016 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques

[DNG] Raspberry Pi 2 and other ARM based credit card computers

2016-07-26 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
One of the fronts we can promote Devuan is on ARM based credit card computers like Raspberry Pi 2 and 3. Most users of these computers are new linux users and will have no opinion about systemd but if they can get a fast booting small system they surely will appreciate that. And especially the

Re: [DNG] Why Debian 8 Pinning is (or isn't) pointless

2016-07-28 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
On 28-07-16 11:33, Rick Moen wrote: 'Building custom packages' is a rather inventively melodramatic exaggeration of auto-rebuilding a .deb with one spurious lib dependency disabled, and the 'live grenade' imagery in that specific context is patently ridiculous. But hey, if you'd rather sit on y

Re: [DNG] Why Debian 8 Pinning is (or isn't) pointless

2016-07-28 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
On 29-07-16 01:43, Rick Moen wrote: Quoting info at smallinnovations.nl (i...@smallinnovations.nl): I am a sysadmin myself and why in hell would i like to rebuild local packages? One of my worst and most annoying habits is to give reasoned and useful answers to rhetorical questions. Hardly

Re: [DNG] Why Debian 8 Pinning is (or isn't) pointless

2016-07-30 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
On 29-07-16 21:39, Jaromil wrote: I think most people clashing with Rick here may want to stop for a moment and realise Devuan does not need fan-boys, converted people or preachers as much as critical and constructive minds that go across all what we are doing and, besides encouraging it, also e

Re: [DNG] Help with ALSA, Pulseaudio and Mumble on Devuan

2016-08-03 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
On 03-08-16 12:56, hal wrote: Hi all, I've been trying to get Mumble working on my Devuan system for months. I'm a little confused as I seem to have 3 sound cards in my computer (1.png at link below). I'm not sure where alsamixer is getting all these because I'm only runinng off the on-board au

Re: [DNG] pepperflashplugin-nonfree

2016-08-04 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
On 04-08-16 16:22, richard lucassen wrote: # apt-get install pepperflashplugin-nonfree Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package pepperflashplugin-nonfree is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package

Re: [DNG] Would you guys hate me if...

2016-08-06 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
On 06-08-16 10:39, Edward Bartolo wrote: In the case of simple parsing requirements, I prefer to have the program itself do the parsing instead of relying on an external parser. This remove the extra dependency on the parser. I would also like to comment on the text file format in which menus an

Re: [DNG] OT: true read-only disk

2016-08-18 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
On 18-08-16 16:59, Simon Hobson wrote: OT, but there seem to be a few people who understand such in-depth stuff here ;-) I'm in the process of recovering (with ddrescue) files of a failing drive - no backups as "it's only TV" recordings and I can't afford the disk space anyway. It's going bet

Re: [DNG] vdev - scanner

2016-08-31 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
On 31-08-16 16:38, fsmithred wrote: On 08/31/2016 07:17 AM, fsmithred wrote: On 08/31/2016 05:03 AM, Ralph Ronnquist wrote: Our discussion in irc was productive. The following works with the stock permissions.sh (without the lines for setfacl). The acl does not get set, but the scanner works. A

Re: [DNG] Raspberry Pi 2 and other ARM based credit card computers

2016-09-01 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
On 01-09-16 16:21, Thomas Besser wrote: Am 01.09.2016 um 16:18 schrieb Thomas Besser: Started generating my own image with arm-sdk. In which git source I should post issues? git.devuan.org or github.com? Why are existing both sources? BTW I started a wiki entry for "Devuan on Raspberry Pi" for

[DNG] Upgrading Debian Wheezy to Devuan Jessie

2016-12-05 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
As preparation for the coming Beta2 and RC I did a dry run on a virtual machine from Debian Wheezy to Devuan Jessie (beta) with the instructions from dev1fanboy. It worked flawlessy with one minor point: apt-get purge systemd-shim libsystemd0 gave an error message from dpkg for systemd. But aft

Re: [DNG] aptitude gone mad with installation requests

2016-12-17 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
On 18-12-16 00:59, Hendrik Boom wrote: well, the suse complaint is gone now. aptitude still tries to install a huge set of unwanted packages. apt works just fine. Is there some aptitude-only status file that I could just delete so that aptitude has to recostruct it from apt-get's data? |aptit

Re: [DNG] Mount ACM device

2017-01-14 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
On 09-01-17 21:22, Olav Selseng Vestreim wrote: Hello everyone! I have trouble entering a GPS tracker (work), which is recognised as a device at /dev/ttyACM0; trying to mount it, I get an error: 'ttyACM0 is not a block device'. Any suggestions on this issue? Cheers, Olav __

Re: [DNG] Hibernation after Installation on System76 Gazelle

2017-01-23 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
On 23-01-17 17:04, Lars Noodén wrote: Thanks. The button on this machine works, it is that the hibernate and suspend functions themselves do not. Running 'pm-suspend' appears to suspend the machine, but then when waking it shuts off twice in short order before doing a cold boot. I've been look

Re: [DNG] corrupted aptitude state. (WAS: python-sipsimple dependencies

2017-01-25 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
On 25-01-17 16:58, Hendrik Boom wrote: So uninstalling and purging aptitude's configuration looks viable. As long as it doesn't do nasties like uninstalling grub and wicd, which it was threatening to do a while ago. But I might first create myself an up-to-date bootable USB installation stic