On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 02:02:43PM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> On 3/27/23 11:31, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 10:00:48AM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > Would it be practical to put a filter in the path cups put things headed
> > > to
> > > a printer
On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 04:23:34PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2023 21:20:45 +0200
> Siard wrote:
>
> > To type ♠ , for example:
> >
> > - hold Ctrl+Shift
> > - type U2660
> > - release Ctrl+Shift
>
> Nice to know about, but it requires knowing the UTF code for the
>
On Mon, 27 Mar 2023 Jude DaShiell wrote:
[My mail client is] alpine for now. If I can't fix it I'll have to
switch and that's alpine running on panix.com. I'll look through
the configuration and find what I can.
I read most email in a VT (ie, a linux console) with alpine. And I set
emacs as
f...@dnsbed.com wrote:
Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > I ran cpan and did quick configuration and chose sudo to elevate
> > privileges when necessary. Unfortunately I don't have write access on
> > /usr/local/bin so cpan is crippled.
> try cpanminus?
> $ sudo apt install cpanminus
Please note that
On 28/03/2023 03:10, Greg Wooledge wrote:
In all 3 terminals, Ctrl-Shift-U simply acts like Ctrl-U. If there's
already text typed at the bash prompt, it's all erased. If there's no
text typed at the bash prompt, it beeps.
It may depend on X inputMethod setting in xterm, whether ibus or some
If I understand you correctly, you want to set it up so that for every
package pair
linux-image-
linux-headers-
attempting to install the former results in also installing the latter?
And you want this to apply not just for a specific version number, but
for every version number, including ones
On 2023-03-27 at 20:03, Ram Ramesh wrote:
> I have nvdia card that requires binary driver to work in my system.
> Xorg is unable display anything with free driver. Since nvidia-driver
> has to be built for each kernel install, I need to install headers
> also. This seem to work automatically for
I have nvdia card that requires binary driver to work in my system. Xorg
is unable display anything with free driver. Since nvidia-driver has to
be built for each kernel install, I need to install headers also. This
seem to work automatically for any standard kernel release in bullseye.
Greg Wooledge wrote:
...
> I tried this in rxvt(-unicode), xterm, and lxterm (which is apparently
> part of the xterm package -- never heard of it before!).
>
> In all 3 terminals, Ctrl-Shift-U simply acts like Ctrl-U. If there's
> already text typed at the bash prompt, it's all erased. If
Should have included ♠ ♡ ♢ ♣
The unicodes are 2660, 2661, 2662 and 2663
On 3/27/23 12:04, Thomas George wrote:
I am amazed that the playing card symbols spade, heart, diamond and
club don't appear any of the collections in my Debian Buster programs.
I can insert them in the text I type by
Try BridgeBaseOnline
On 3/27/23 17:44, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a TEXT CONSOLE - no GUI running - so
you could play cards.
Even better would be a networked card game. s for shuffle the cards, d
for deal (with prompt for how many people), w for draw cards, I
On 3/27/23 17:44, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a TEXT CONSOLE - no GUI running - so
you could play cards.
Even better would be a networked card game. s for shuffle the cards, d
for deal (with prompt for how many people), w for draw cards, I guess.
David
On Mon,
On Mon, 27 Mar 2023 21:20:45 +0200
Siard wrote:
> To type ♠ , for example:
>
> - hold Ctrl+Shift
> - type U2660
> - release Ctrl+Shift
Nice to know about, but it requires knowing the UTF code for the
characters you want. That's a bit like trying to navigate the Internet
with IP addresses
Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a TEXT CONSOLE - no GUI running - so you
could play cards.
Even better would be a networked card game. s for shuffle the cards, d for
deal (with prompt for how many people), w for draw cards, I guess.
David
On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 2:13 PM Jude DaShiell wrote:
On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 12:07:38AM +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
> Op 26-03-2023 om 23:51 schreef Paul van der Vlis:
> > Hoi Geert en anderen,
> >
> > Op 26-03-2023 om 12:50 schreef Geert Stappers:
> > > Hoi,
> > >
> > > Uit `man 1 ssh`
> > >
> > > -N Do not execute a remote command.
> >
that's alpine for now. If I can't fix it I'll have to switch and that's
alpine running on panix.com. I'll look through the configuration and find
what I can.
-- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in
defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and amo. Please use in that
order." Ed Howdershelt
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2023 02:49:28 -0400
> "hobie of RMN" wrote:
>
> Hello hobie,
>
>>I guess I should be looking for a place to adjust settings of the window
>>manager..?
>
> That tends to adjust settings globally. If other windows haven't
> changed in appearance, then everything else /might/ end
On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 04:10:37PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> I'm using espeak-ng and reading this message with the symbols in it only
> generated silence when trying to read the symbols. I'm using utf-8 here
> and don't have any kind of font chosen or set so far as I know. On my end
> all of
I'm using espeak-ng and reading this message with the symbols in it only
generated silence when trying to read the symbols. I'm using utf-8 here
and don't have any kind of font chosen or set so far as I know. On my end
all of this is happening in the console environment.
-- Jude "There are
On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 08:45:18PM +0100, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
> Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > Just to be clear, are you using some kind of Desktop Environment
> > specific means of entering these Unicode characters? I don't know
> > what CTRL-SHIFT-Uunicode means. If I try it here, it
On Mon 27 Mar 2023 at 21:20:45 (+0200), Siard wrote:
> Charles Curley:
> > Thomas George:
> >
> > > I am amazed that the playing card symbols spade, heart, diamond and
> > > club don't appear any of the collections in my Debian Buster
> > > programs. I can insert them in the text I type by
Michael Stone wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 02:13:35PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> >You know, if all of those symbols were in some font set and had text
> >labels attached to them that could speak when a screen reader was
> >used a whole bunch of playing card applications would suddenly
>
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 12:04:53PM -0400, Thomas George wrote:
> > I am amazed that the playing card symbols spade, heart, diamond and
> > club don't appear any of the collections in my Debian Buster
> > programs. I can insert them in the text I type by entering
> >
Charles Curley:
> Thomas George:
>
> > I am amazed that the playing card symbols spade, heart, diamond and
> > club don't appear any of the collections in my Debian Buster
> > programs. I can insert them in the text I type by entering
> > CTRL-SHIFT-Uunicode but if this text in a Thunderbird
On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 02:13:35PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
You know, if all of those symbols were in some font set and had text
labels attached to them that could speak when a screen reader was used a
whole bunch of playing card applications would suddenly become accessible
for screen reader
On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 12:48:13PM +0100, Richmond wrote:
I have configured an ipv6 tunnel. If I visit this site:
http://ip6.me/
The "normal" test shows my ipv4 address, and the:
http://ip6only.me/
shows the ipv6 address.
However if I switch my DNS from opendns to the one provided by my ISP
You know, if all of those symbols were in some font set and had text
labels attached to them that could speak when a screen reader was used a
whole bunch of playing card applications would suddenly become accessible
for screen reader users.
--
Jude
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of
On 3/27/23 13:51, Charles Curley wrote:
On Mon, 27 Mar 2023 12:04:53 -0400
Thomas George wrote:
I am amazed that the playing card symbols spade, heart, diamond and
club don't appear any of the collections in my Debian Buster
programs. I can insert them in the text I type by entering
On 3/27/23 11:31, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 10:00:48AM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
[...]
Would it be practical to put a filter in the path cups put things headed to
a printer thru, to change just that esc sequence to make those boxes and
their text content into something
On Mon, 27 Mar 2023 12:04:53 -0400
Thomas George wrote:
> I am amazed that the playing card symbols spade, heart, diamond and
> club don't appear any of the collections in my Debian Buster
> programs. I can insert them in the text I type by entering
> CTRL-SHIFT-Uunicode but if this text in a
On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 12:04:53PM -0400, Thomas George wrote:
> I am amazed that the playing card symbols spade, heart, diamond and club
> don't appear any of the collections in my Debian Buster programs. I can
> insert them in the text I type by entering CTRL-SHIFT-Uunicode but if this
> text in
I am amazed that the playing card symbols spade, heart, diamond and club
don't appear any of the collections in my Debian Buster programs. I can
insert them in the text I type by entering CTRL-SHIFT-Uunicode but if
this text in a Thunderbird email to a friend he receives only the unicode.
I
On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 10:00:48AM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
[...]
> Would it be practical to put a filter in the path cups put things headed to
> a printer thru, to change just that esc sequence to make those boxes and
> their text content into something more readable.
If they are actually
On Mon 27 Mar 2023 at 07:49:13 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 01:20:32PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On 2023-03-27 00:21:18 +0200, Jesper Dybdal wrote:
> > > On 2023-03-26 23:12, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 5:16 AM Jesper Dybdal
> > > >
On 2023-03-27 10:59, davidson wrote:
apt list says:
guile-2.2-libs/stable 2.2.7+1-6 amd64 [upgradable from:
2.2.4+1-2+deb10u1]
guile-2.2-libs/now 2.2.4+1-2+deb10u1 amd64 [installed,upgradable
to: 2.2.7+1-6]
w3m/stable 0.5.3+git20210102-6 amd64 [upgradable from: 0.5.3-37]
w3m/now
On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 08:52:10AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > 3) apt uses a horrible yellow color that is nigh-unreadable on a white
> >background. (This is not configurable.)
>
> It appears that it is, just badly documented.
>
> In /etc/apt/apt.conf, you can
On 3/27/23 09:18, Nicolas George wrote:
Dan Ritter (12023-03-27):
changing 33 to 30 will get you black. ANSI color escapes are on
the web in many places.
Also, decent terminal emulators let users tweak the colors, and making
sure all main colors are readable on the default background would
Vincent Lefevre writes:
> On 2023-03-27 12:48:13 +0100, Richmond wrote:
>> I have configured an ipv6 tunnel. If I visit this site:
>>
>> http://ip6.me/
>>
>> The "normal" test shows my ipv4 address, and the:
>>
>> http://ip6only.me/
>>
>> shows the ipv6 address.
>>
>> However if I switch my
Dan Ritter (12023-03-27):
> changing 33 to 30 will get you black. ANSI color escapes are on
> the web in many places.
Also, decent terminal emulators let users tweak the colors, and making
sure all main colors are readable on the default background would
probably be a good use of that ability.
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> >From an end user's point of view, the three main differences between
> "apt-get" and "apt" are:
>
> 3) apt uses a horrible yellow color that is nigh-unreadable on a white
>background. (This is not configurable.)
It appears that it is, just badly documented.
In
On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 02:17:11PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> FYI, I prefer to do the upgrades of my Debian/unstable machines with
> aptitude
aptitude is VERY different from apt/apt-get. It uses an entirely
different pacakge conflict resolution.
Using aptitude for release upgrades (in
On 27/3/23 20:05, Richmond wrote:
Jeremy Ardley writes:
Both DNS return records. I am not sure why this choice of DNS
should make a difference.
host -v ip6.me |grep
IN
9306IN 2001:4838:0:1b::201
host -v ip6.me
On 2023-03-27 07:49:13 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 2) "apt-get upgrade" does not install new packages unless you supply the
>--with-new-pkgs option. "apt upgrade" acts as if you had supplied it.
>(This is configurable.)
FYI, I prefer to do the upgrades of my Debian/unstable machines
Jeremy Ardley writes:
> On 27/3/23 19:48, Richmond wrote:
>>
>> So how is the preference determined? It seems to be determined by the
>> DNS, but why or how do I tell for example with host -v?
>
> When you as a DNS about a hostname it can return an A record and/or an
> record.
>
> The A
On 2023-03-27 12:48:13 +0100, Richmond wrote:
> I have configured an ipv6 tunnel. If I visit this site:
>
> http://ip6.me/
>
> The "normal" test shows my ipv4 address, and the:
>
> http://ip6only.me/
>
> shows the ipv6 address.
>
> However if I switch my DNS from opendns to the one provided
On 27/3/23 19:48, Richmond wrote:
So how is the preference determined? It seems to be determined by the
DNS, but why or how do I tell for example with host -v?
When you as a DNS about a hostname it can return an A record and/or an
record.
The A record is IPv4 and the record is
I have configured an ipv6 tunnel. If I visit this site:
http://ip6.me/
The "normal" test shows my ipv4 address, and the:
http://ip6only.me/
shows the ipv6 address.
However if I switch my DNS from opendns to the one provided by my ISP
and then run the "normal" test it shows the ipv6.
The note
On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 01:20:32PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2023-03-27 00:21:18 +0200, Jesper Dybdal wrote:
> > On 2023-03-26 23:12, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > > On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 5:16 AM Jesper Dybdal
> > > wrote:
> > > > Yesterday, I upgraded Buster => Bullseye.
> > > For
I ran the cpan command as regular user not sudo. I configured cpan to
elevate privileges as necessary with sudo. I ended up wiping the whole
cpan installation and starting over using local lib rather than sudo. For
now it seems more successful.
-- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in
f...@dnsbed.com wrote:
> On 2023-03-27 08:21, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > I ran cpan and did quick configuration and chose sudo to elevate
> > privileges when necessary. Unfortunately I don't have write access
> > on /usr/local/bin so cpan is crippled.
>
> try cpanminus?
> $ sudo apt install
On 2023-03-27 00:21:18 +0200, Jesper Dybdal wrote:
> On 2023-03-26 23:12, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 5:16 AM Jesper Dybdal
> > wrote:
> > > Yesterday, I upgraded Buster => Bullseye.
> > For completeness, here is the Debian procedure for a release upgrade:
> >
On 2023-03-27 10:59, davidson wrote:
By the way, does your sources.list really have no line for security
updates? Nothing like this one?
deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security
main non-free
Yes, it does: https://www.dybdal.dk/bullseye/sources.list
I currently do
On Sun, 26 Mar 2023 Jesper Dybdal wrote:
Thanks a lot for the responses.
It is a confusing mystery!
I'm still in doubt as to what to do.
I notice that according to your posted output from the commands,
apt-get -Vs remove {w3m,guile-2.2-libs}
that both packages now appear to be
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