Re: readonly installer, (SOLVED)

On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 4:06 AM Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > I have a 128 MB USB flash drive from back in the day that includes a write > > protect switch. There are few products today that offer that feature. > > Side note: AFAIK this "write protect switch" doesn't prevent writing. > It just

Getting my PCMCIA Serial card to work

I like old PCMCIA cards, and would like to get a serial card to work on a Thinkpad X40 running Debian 12.5. The card is just called "Serial I/O PC Card" and should be physically and electrically compatible, 3.3V/5V, 16 bit. I think it is this:

Re: Looking for archive management system for backups burned to optical discs

On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 4:03 PM Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > About timestamps and incremental backup: > > If you only go for mtime, them you miss changes of file attributes > which are indicated by ctime. > Even more, timestamps alone are not a reliable way to determine which > files are new at

Re: Debian 12 System Requirement

On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 10:27 AM CHENG YING KIT KEITH wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > > > Can I install Debian 11 or 12 with “Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2699 v3 @ > 2.30GHz” CPU? > > Do they both support the following application > > Nginx 1.22.1 > > PHP 8.2.7 > > Mariadb 10.11.4 > > > On the other

Re: Xorg fails, no gui: systemd issue?

On Sat, Dec 9, 2023 at 3:01 AM Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 08, 2023 at 06:13:59PM +, John - wrote: > > Since I last (3 December) upgraded the software (sid) on my old Thinkpad, > > my gui fails to come up. The last line of /var/log/Xorg.0.log reads: > > (EE) systemd-login:

Re: debian forgot usr pw

On Fri, Dec 8, 2023 at 9:10 AM wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Dec 2023 12:17:35 +0700 > Max Nikulin wrote: > > > > On 08/12/2023 08:49, gene heskett wrote: > >> I've now set a root pw, about 34 chars, so they'll be a couple eons > >>guessing it AND (horrors) have written it down. > > > > Consider pass

Re: Print flakes off mailing labels, use a fixative?

On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 1:46 PM D MacDougall wrote: > > On 12/4/23 16:52, Tom Browder wrote: > > > > HP printer and toner, Office Depot labels. > > > > I bought so hair spray and will try that. > > > > -Tom > > I just looked at Office Depot website and the only labels I see that are > for both

Re: Found a liar

On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 11:52 AM wrote: > > https://linux-packages.com/debian/package/zsh > > > sudo apt update >===>>> sudo apt install zsh > NEVER, >NEVER > DO > THAT > BECAUSE: > sudo apt remove

Re: Documentation for KVM/QEMU?

On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 11:43 AM Hans wrote: > Maybe the op wqould like to test aqemu, which is a graphical frontend for > qemu > and it might be easier for him to configure. > > In the comparision of aqemu (with using kvm) and VirtualkBox and > Virt-Manager > my feeling was, Virtualbox the

Re: Is this accurate

On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 8:37 AM Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > Or is there more to it than this writer is declaring? > > uses the EXT4 filesystem by default. You can convert the filesystem to BTRFS > to take advantage of the in-built compression features. Using compression can > reduce the disk

Re: Does debian installer use volume names for LVM? (was: Re: trixie update/upgrade strangeness)

On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 10:32 AM Max Nikulin wrote: > > I am curious if debian installer uses volume names in /etc/fstab when > LVM is involved (either guided or manual partitioning). I'm pretty sure it does, I checked a few of my machines that I'm reasonably sure I haven't modified too much,

Re: apt error, fresh install Debian 12/Dell desktop

On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 1:19 PM Bob Crochelt wrote: > > Hi: > Fresh install Debian 12. All seems well. However, when I install a new > package, in this case fvwm, the package installs fine, but there is an error > at the end... > > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of

Same Debian, different hardware = different OpenGL version?

I recently installed Debian stable on my old desktop and my trusty old Thinkpad X200, without messing with any driver settings. Both are running the default gnome desktop with the same kernel. I installed the terminal emulator 'kitty' from the main repository on both machines but it only works on

Re: btrfs snapshots (of root file system)?

On Sun, Oct 1, 2023 at 7:20 AM hw wrote: > > Hi, Hello! I'm not going into much detail but maybe I can guide you to better be able to find what you want. > with btrfs, how do I make a snapshot of the root file system? The > purpose is to update software and being able to go back to a previous

Re: door bell like sound effect

On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 12:50 PM Karl Vogel wrote: > > Out of morbid curiosity (and boredom), I started wondering what types of > audio files I had on my systems. I ran "file --mime-type" on 6.8 million > files, looked for "audio/whatever" and got the file extensions. > > Extension

Re: random number generator missing after upgrade

On Sun, Aug 13, 2023 at 11:09 PM Björn Persson wrote: > > Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > Maybe related to https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Disables-RNG-AMD-fTPMs > > Not likely. That article is about a firmware TPM that comes with newer > Ryzen processors. Older Ryzens supposedly don't have it. The

Re: Gradle version in bookworm

On Sat, Aug 5, 2023 at 6:51 PM Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 05:21:55PM +0100, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > Gradle is not some minority, hardly-used tool, so there is presumably > > a reason why the package hasn't been updated in Debian. Anyone know > > what it is? > > >

Prevent laptop from suspending when a user is logged in through SSH

I just installed a plain debian 12.1 on my good old Thinkpad X200, my first debian 12 install since I'm waiting for things to settle down before I upgrade my other computers. Going smooth so far and my first snag (after bug #1037304) is that it just kicked me out of all my ssh sessions. Example

Re: package managers problem

On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 9:36 AM gene heskett wrote: > On 6/20/23 00:32, Anders Andersson wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 5:38 AM gene heskett wrote: > >> > >> I'm with you Paul, if Anders know how to do it, please PUBLISH the how. > >> For a while on b

Re: package managers problem

On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 5:38 AM gene heskett wrote: > > On 6/19/23 22:41, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 03:58:18 +0200 > > Anders Andersson wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > >> I've been watching this thread from afar for a while

Re: package managers problem

On Sun, Jun 18, 2023 at 10:34 AM DdB wrote: > > Am 17.06.2023 um 14:38 schrieb Greg Wooledge: > > On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 11:03:59PM -0400, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > >> Why isn't there a ONE WAY for packages to be managed? > > > > Because each user has a different preference. Just read

Re: Settings: focus when mouse over window?

On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 6:44 AM wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 12:08:29AM -0400, Nicholas Papadonis wrote: > > > I have the default Gnome WM installed. Does it provide a similar option? > > I did a web search (no, not the google) with the terms > > gnome metacity "focus follows mouse" > >

Re: where are the actual ".deb" packages? all I see are "pkgcache.bin" and "srcpkgcache.bin" . . .

On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 4:09 AM davidson wrote: > > On Sun, 26 Feb 2023 Albretch Mueller wrote: > > Basically, I am trying to download all packages that are part of the > > installation dependencies of a given one into a directory of my > > choosing to then install packages on an unexposed

Re: ping

On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 4:21 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 09:05:03PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 13 Nov 2022 at 14:50:58 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 06:04:51AM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > > > root@joule:/home/root#

Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?

On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 3:04 AM hw wrote: > Hi, > > I discovered that Redhat has VDO[1] to take care of deduplicating file > systems. > Aptitude didn't find any packages towards that. > > Is there no VDO in Debian, and what would be good to use for deduplication > with > Debian? Why isn't VDO in

Re: Will firefox-esr move to version 102 in bullseye?

On Sat, Sep 24, 2022 at 7:53 PM Tixy wrote: > > On Sat, 2022-09-24 at 18:46 +0100, Tixy wrote: > > On Sat, 2022-09-24 at 18:52 +0200, Anders Andersson wrote: > > [...] > > > What's more, I no longer have to continue my research about > > > hardware-accelerated

Re: Will firefox-esr move to version 102 in bullseye?

Sorry for top-posting, but it makes sense for this summary. As indicated by the replies to my initial email, it is now late September and firefox-esr has moved to version 102 in the stable branch. I just upgraded without even noticing any difference, definitely nothing that broke. What's more, I

Will firefox-esr move to version 102 in bullseye?

While investigating my options for hardware acceleration in the browser I found a snippet on the debian wiki that I'm trying to parse: From: https://wiki.debian.org/Firefox#Hardware_Video_Acceleration > This is for Debian 11 / Bullseye > [...] > firefox-esr is projected to be updated to version

Re: A question about alsa(1) and sox(1) internals

On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 8:51 PM John Conover wrote: > The command: > > sox ... sine create 1000 vol -60 dB > > generates a 1 kHz. sine wave at 1 / 1000 full scale. > > Does the low level sine wave still consist of +/- 2^15 steps? > > (i.e., does the volume reduction occur during sine wave

Status of Virtualbox in debian

I remember when Virtualbox was removed from debian, and I remember the reasons. That's why I was surprised when I saw a recent message to the list where a user tried to install it. Searching for "virtualbox" indeed shows me that it is available in stretch-backports and sid:

Re: Odd reproducible problem - but is it a bug?

On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 8:19 PM wrote: > On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 07:58:12PM +0200, Michael Lange wrote: > > On Mon, 2 May 2022 10:17:06 -0500 > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I'm using Debian 10.7 with MATE DE [will be updated later this week] > > > The machine is a Lenovo T510 and is setup to

Re: dpkg --configure -a crashes system

On Sun, Feb 6, 2022 at 7:13 PM Dennis Wicks wrote: > > I can't install/upgrade because I get the message > > > E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' > > to correct the problem. > > When I run the dpkg command I get one message > > Setting up

Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 11:29 AM Marco Möller wrote: > > Does somebody has information about what in the background has happened, > which made Norbert leaving the team? > Considering that Debian is a community project and myself feeling to be > part of the community, although not actively

Re: Unable to minimize Firefox 91.5.0esr at top of frame

On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 8:08 PM John Boxall wrote: > > After upgrading to the latest Debian 10 (Buster) Firefox ESR (91.5.0esr > 64bit), I found that I could not minimize the window by right clicking > on the top of the window frame and selecting "Minimize", whether the > menu bar was present or

Re: Instalacja Debian8 błąd w Release

On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 3:13 PM piorunz wrote: > > Witaj Wojciech, > > On 13/01/2022 11:02, Wojciech wrote: > > > > Kiedy mogę się spodziewać naprawienia ? > > Never. Jessie end of life was in June 2018, and LTS support has ended in > June 2020, one and half years ago. It's a surprise that some

Re: Debian version

On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 1:24 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 09, 2021 at 09:22:25AM +, Koler, Nethanel wrote: > > I am Nati, I am trying to find a variable that is configured in the > > linux-headers that can tell me on which Debian I am > > This sounds like an X-Y problem. What's

Re: How can I force "fsck -y" of a removable usb drive before mounting it?

On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 11:09 AM Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > I have a removable mp3 player that gets auto-magically mounted as: > > $ mount |grep sdb > /dev/sdb1 on /media/oc/PHILIPS type vfat >

Re: OT: Music player with substantial speakers than can play things like mp3, wav files from an SD card or USB pendrive

On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 1:51 AM wrote: > > I'd like to find a fairly large (I mean not a tiny hand held thing that uses > batteries and has tiny controls) music player that can play things like mp3, > wav and other music files from either an SD card or a USB pendrive. > ... This is WAY too off

Re: Compared with debian 10.7, debian 10.8 (with realtime kernel) cyclictest test max latency has increased significantly

On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 4:45 AM Peter Ehlert wrote: > > > On 2/7/21 6:22 PM, Hongbo Li wrote: > > hi！My machine used to run debian 10.7 with realtime kernel > (linux-img-rt-amd64)，everything is ok. A four hours cyclictest test has a > result with max latency 8 microseconds. Yesterday I upgraded

Re: Why is idle not detected?

On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 9:47 PM Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > Hi, > > I am running Debian 10 and sometimes idle is not detected correctly on my > (KDE) system and the desktop is not going to suspend. > > A typical candidate is a not correctly terminating vlc process which does not > have a screen

Re: The .xsession-errors problem

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 5:43 PM Teemu Likonen wrote: > > It seems that ~/.xsession-errors file can still grow to infinity in > size. Sometimes it grows really fast. This is nothing new: we have all > seen it and talked about it. What do you do to maintain this file? > > - Do you just delete it

Re: Get an error when i use new kernel

> stan clay 于2020年8月26日周三 上午10:26写道： >> Yesterday, I upgraded unstable from stable and installed a new kernel, but I >> couldn't get into the system with the new kernel. I got an error By unstable you mean sid? What is the new kernel version? I saw that debian experimental has a new 5.8 kernel.

Re: I can't figure it out

1. Don't top-post. On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 5:39 PM Peter Ehlert wrote: > > 1. use a Subject that indicates your actual Question. > > 2. add comments to that original post > > 3. give some actual details about the Hardware and Software you are using. > > *if I was not really bored this morning I

Re: why foxit hasn't been included in buster?

On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 6:45 AM Long Wind wrote: > > some say it's among best pdf reader for linux > how to install it in buster or stretch? Not sure why you expect it to be included, it looks like commercial software. Is the source even available on their website?

Re: Be careful when editing /etc/fstab

On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 3:51 PM David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 24 Jun 2020 at 09:32:53 (+0200), Anders Andersson wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 1:17 AM David wrote: > > > I just noticed a new bug report [1]: > > > """ > > > Dear Installer

Re: Be careful when editing /etc/fstab

On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 1:17 AM David wrote: > > Hi, > > I just noticed a new bug report [1]: > """ > Dear Installer Team, > > Please consider adding words informing users they should run > "systemctl daemon-reload" after changing /etc/fstab. > > With stale mount units from an older /etc/fstab,

Re: have you seen this inside....

On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 12:51 AM Seeds Notoneofmy wrote: > > a debian buster machine? > > ATI Radeon HD5450 PCI-e > > https://www.amazon.de/Sapphire-Radeon-HD5450-Grafikkarte-Speicher/dp/B0036DD4CO > > If so, how did you get it working, please? 1. Insert into computer. 2. Boot. If this doesn't

Re: Could RAM possibly be just 3-4 times faster than bare hdd writes and reads? or, is the Linux kernel doing its 'magic' in the bg? or, ...

On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 12:15 PM Albretch Mueller wrote: > > HDDs have their internal caching mechanism and I have heard that the > Linux kernel uses RAM very effitiently, but to my understanding RAM > being only 3-4 times faster doesn't make much sense, so I may be doing > or understanding

Re: bash-completion pros/cons

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 9:48 PM David Wright wrote: > Where bash-completion does get in the way for me is, for example, > where you download a file that's, say, a PDF but it arrives via wget > called, say, index_0001.3872359.html, for whatever reason. > So you type xpdf inde [TAB] and

Re: How long will this take?

On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 4:00 PM Nicolas George wrote: > > Anders Andersson (12020-06-10): > > Because the police raiding my house for dealing drugs is not a > > realistic threat. Looking at my drives for running Tor could be. > > I have tried to explain that your threat

Re: How long will this take?

On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 3:33 PM Nicolas George wrote: > > Anders Andersson (12020-06-10): > > Except wiping a disk is trivial. Just start the job and come back > > later to a clean disk. It's not like you have to wipe it by hand. I do > > it routinely before I put a

Re: How long will this take?

On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 1:14 PM Nicolas George wrote: > > Anders Andersson (12020-06-10): > > Too bad if you end up in a routine police investigation and they find > > child pornography when scanning the disks for deleted files. > > > > "Must have been the

Re: How long will this take?

On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 8:28 PM Nicolas George wrote: > > Jude DaShiell (12020-06-09): > > High security operations do this routinely. They properly don't trust > > parts are as labeled from manufacturers especially manufacturers that > > send any of their stuff or get any of their stuff from

Re: Suspicious output during apt update

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 9:31 AM Darac Marjal wrote: > > > On 13/05/2020 07:05, Ihor Antonov wrote: > > Today during apt update I got a very strange error message (below) > > Running apt udpate did not seem to reproduce the issue. > > > > Does anyone know what is this? And why does it tell "get

Re: Suspicious output during apt update

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 8:05 AM Ihor Antonov wrote: > > Today during apt update I got a very strange error message (below) > Running apt udpate did not seem to reproduce the issue. > > Does anyone know what is this? And why does it tell "get haircut" ? > > > $ sudo apt update > [sudo]

Re: Looking for video card recommendation

On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 7:02 PM Alberto Sentieri <2...@tripolho.com> wrote: > > Thanks. Adding contrib solved the problem. > > On 5/5/20 8:24 PM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > > On 05.05.2020 20:29, Alberto Sentieri wrote: > >> Last time I installed it I downloaded the driver from NVIDIA web > >>

Re: Changing timestamps in video files

On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 4:17 PM David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 29 Apr 2020 at 13:16:17 (+0200), Anders Andersson wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 12:54 PM elvis wrote: > > > On 29/4/20 8:29 pm, Anders Andersson wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 5:5

Re: Changing timestamps in video files

On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 12:54 PM elvis wrote: > > > On 29/4/20 8:29 pm, Anders Andersson wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 5:57 PM Steve Keller wrote: > >> Is there any tool in Debian that is able to change the timestamp in > >> video files, e.g. .mov, .avi

Re: Changing timestamps in video files

On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 5:57 PM Steve Keller wrote: > > Is there any tool in Debian that is able to change the timestamp in > video files, e.g. .mov, .avi, .mp4, etc.? > > For image files I use jhead -ta but I haven't found > anything for video. $ ls -gGh faked_evidence.avi -rw-r--r-- 1 700M

Re: multiple desktop environments and performance

On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 11:07 PM Anil F Duggirala wrote: > > I would like to know if having multiple (say 3) different desktop > environments would have an effect in performance of my machine, as > opposed to having a single one. If I have Gnome already installed and > then install Lxqt and Mate.

Re: Hiding apps

On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 6:54 PM Peter Ehlert wrote: > On 10/24/19 8:38 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > I am running Debian Sid with Mate. I would like to run tzclock at > > startup, but it appears in the taskbar as a regular program. > I am not familiar with tzclock ... I don't believe it is

Re: OT: Reason to buy a Raspberry Pi ;-) (was Re: shell wrappers for trig and other mathematical functions)

On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 8:06 PM wrote: > > Somewhat OT, but (maybe) interesting anyway? > > For a long time, I've been aware of the program Mathmatica (by Wolfram > Research) that does a lot of math, including, iirc, things like symbolic > integration and differentiation. (Everybody should have

Re: A followup on github discussion

On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 5:56 PM Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 06:39:51PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 09:12:48AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 03:53:50PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > > > So, dear list, > > > > > > > > this is

Re: Hibernation takes too long

On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 4:50 AM Michael Kesper wrote: > Am 21. Juli 2019 02:45:39 MESZ schrieb Shahryar Afifi > : > >here is my setup: > >X61 with Middleton's bios (SATA 2) > >... > > ... > The X61 will throttle SSD throughput as it has less bandwidth than modern > SATA adapters. So,

Re: BTRFS snapshot space consumption (was: New laptop: need advice on choice...)

On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 7:08 PM Felix Miata wrote: > > Anders Andersson composed on 2019-04-13 17:31 (UTC+0200): > > > Felix Miata wrote: > > >> Because of its snapshotting, BTRFS requires considerably more space than > >> older > >> filesystems, as

Re: New laptop: need advice on choice of file system types

On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 4:51 PM Tom Browder wrote: > > I have used ext4 for many years while I have been watching zfs and > btrfs being developed. I am now considering using one or both on at > least one partion during my upcoming new Debian installation. > > Can anyone recommend either one for a

Re: New laptop: need advice on choice of file system types

On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 11:36 PM Felix Miata wrote: > > Tom Browder composed on 2019-04-12 09:50 (UTC-0500): > > > I have used ext4 for many years while I have been watching zfs and > > btrfs being developed. I am now considering using one or both on at > > least one partion during my upcoming

Re: Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc

On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 5:43 PM David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 17 Mar 2019 at 13:19:29 (+0100), Anders Andersson wrote: > > I got myself a USB 3.5" disk drive and want to format a 3.5" HD disk > > so that it Just Works™ as a standard MS-DOS floppy. > > I'm no

Re: Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc

On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 1:46 PM Curt wrote: > > On 2019-03-17, Anders Andersson wrote: > > I got myself a USB 3.5" disk drive and want to format a 3.5" HD disk > > so that it Just Works™ as a standard MS-DOS floppy. > > Normally I would have us

Re: Disable left-ctrl?

On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 4:42 PM Selim T. Erdoğan wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 06:16:32PM -0500, Boyan Penkov wrote: > > I am now writing my thesis, and have the genesis of some pretty > > significant EMACs pinky. (I use my left pinky for the left ctrl most > > of the time, which is setting

Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc

I got myself a USB 3.5" disk drive and want to format a 3.5" HD disk so that it Just Works™ as a standard MS-DOS floppy. Normally I would have used mformat from the mtools package, but it appears that I can not supply a device name, just "emulated names" like A: which are then translated to

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 7:40 PM wrote: > On Tue, Jan 01, 2019 at 12:34:38PM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > A scanned document from Canon pixma mx870 printer is significantly > > larger compared to the same document scanned on a different scanner. > > When I look at both the images side by

Re: btrfs and deduplication

On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 9:56 AM, Markus Raps wrote: > Hi there, > > currently iam trying to get deduplication working in debian/btrfs > > #so i created a btrfs filesystem > > mkfs.btrfs /dev/vdb1 > mkdir /mnt/btrfs > mount /dev/vdb1 /mnt/btrfs > > # create some random file > dd if=/dev/urandom

Re: calibre ebook project?

On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 7:53 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > I do not even follow this logic because beyond reaching humans in a position > to assist me in joining a forum that I could not join myself because their > particular human verification processes could not be used by me. If you can not

Re: cannot open display: localhost:0.0

On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 4:24 PM, Grzesiek Sójka wrote: > On 9/23/18 10:30 AM, Étienne Mollier wrote: >> >> On 9/23/18 1:48 PM, Grzegorz Sójka wrote: >>> >>> Hi there, >>> >>> I need to allow remote applications to connect to xorg. Since I log in >>> using lxdm i have tcp_listen=1 in

Re: (OT) Top Posting (was Re: Gimp Babl too old)

On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 6:17 AM, Kenneth Parker wrote: > Seriously, how do others of you deal with navigating this Debian List on > Android, while being a "Good Netizen"? Personally I don't. A phone is a horrible tool for composing texts and is nowhere near a replacement for a computer. Using an

Re: Previously Bootable: Stretch using Grub with GPT, LUKS, & BTRFS

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 3:28 AM, Joel Brunetti wrote: > I'm having trouble booting a previously bootable system. > This system has been in use since very shortly before the Stretch release > and has always been Stretch. > I'm using Grub to boot a fully encrypted system. Each drive is partitioned

Re: Wanted - Debian(preferred)/Linux handheld

On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 5:47 PM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 20/08/18 16:16, Glenn English wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 1:35 PM Eric S Fraga wrote: >>> On Thursday, 16 Aug 2018 at 14:28, Glenn English wrote: It's all over Amazon (search: planet gemini pda computer), but, as best

Re: Literal postings, was Re: Wanted - Debian(preferred)/Linux handheld

On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 6:42 PM, David Wright wrote: > > . A lot of OPs provide very little background information. Sometimes > this may be because they don't know what *is* relevant, but often a > thread turns into an episode of "Twenty Questions" because of what > seems like a reluctance to

Re: Wanted - Debian(preferred)/Linux handheld

On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 7:47 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > P.S. I wish my initial posts be taken literally. I wish this for every question on the mailing list but sadly that rarely happens, leading to a lot of pointless traffic to wade through. On every question there's always the "helpful"

Re: does btrfs have a feature?

On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 3:47 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Another correction below: > >> BTRFS also makes it extremely easy to expand an array if you add more >> disks, WITHOUT mucking around with LVM and md-raid. Just a simple >> command (something that ZFS cannot easily do at this time) >> >>

Re: does btrfs have a feature?

On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 12:26 PM, Stefan K wrote: > In the beginning of btrfs, most blogs, websites, magazins said btrfs will be > THE next standard linux filesystem, so now after araound 10years it doesn't > look so good, or? > > Who use btrfs in production? What do you think - does have btrfs

Re: Slow boot

On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 8:45 AM, Johann Spies wrote: > I can push the power on button on my laptop, go and make coffee and > come back and wait a few minutes before I can work. > > The following services each takes longer than 10 seconds to activate: > > systemd-analyze blame > 1min 21.617s

Re: New `no sound' problems

On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 7:25 PM, deloptes wrote: > Dale Forsyth wrote: > >> It seems to be damned recursive, the problem... After yesterday's >> full-upgrade in Sid, my old Acer One without sound once again... >> Everything seems all right: alsamixer, aumix, pulseaudio installed... >> Last time

Re: OT: What time is it, really?

On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 7:35 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 09 August 2018 12:26:24 Martin wrote: >> Am 09.08.2018 um 18:15 schrieb Gene Heskett: >> > On Thursday 09 August 2018 11:16:27 Martin wrote: >> >> Am 09.08.2018 um 17:12 schrieb Nicolas George: >> > >> > Then I suggest you reread

What's the deal with the mpfr versioning? libmpfr4 vs. libmpfr6

I just noticed that there are two packages for libmpfr: https://packages.debian.org/sid/libmpfr4 https://packages.debian.org/sid/libmpfr6 Funny thing is, this is what the versioning says on those pages: Package: libmpfr4 (3.1.6-1) Package: libmpfr6 (4.0.1-1) ...ok, that's strange. Even

Re: Android Debian - Lets start Debian for Android hw phones

On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 5:50 PM, Samuel wrote: > could you add a support for wiko > I have a wiko lenny 4 plus Sure! Probably a small job. I'll submit a patch tomorrow to port debian to android.

Re: Optimized VM setup

On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 5:06 AM, Rusi Mody wrote: > And this time (for the first time?) I saw that majority of the class were > running Linux (usually but not always Ubuntu) on a VM on a Windows — > typically Windows-10 > > This made those machines markedly sluggish. I

Re: HiDPI migration: desktop environment issue

On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 11:24 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello, I am currently migrating to a HiDPI box (akda Retina box). > > Since the arrival of GNOME3, I have used Xfce as an alternative to GNOME[2]: > I have been happy so far with this choice. Right now, I

Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars

On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 10:25 PM, Richard Hector wrote: > On 21/12/17 22:16, Curt wrote: >> On 2017-12-20, Richard Hector wrote: >>> >>> On 21/12/17 02:02, Curt wrote: Also, I'm uncertain whether suppression of the asterisk-echo qualifies

Re: unison compatibility in stretch

On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 5:44 PM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 13/12/17 15:40, Curt wrote: >> Sorry for butting in once again, but you do have unison-all installed, >> the metapackage which allows specifically for the -addversionno "kludge" by >> bringing in versions 2.32

Re: Bug (?) affecting dramatically laptop battery life introduced in the latest debian testing updates

On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 5:19 PM, Pietro Vischia wrote: > I have a Lenovo T460P, and with stretch I enjoyed a reasonable battery > life (~4 hours). At the beginning of November I switched to buster, > and things were still OK. > > Last week I made an upgrade as usual, and

Re: Disappearance of the kernel

On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 2:29 PM, agustín torrijos orenes < agustintorrijosore...@gmail.com> wrote: > I installed version 9.0 "Stretch" looking with the repositories to > testing, I am almost sure that updated to version 10.0 "Buster". > > I performed a cleanup of the system with the instructions

Re: How to gain control over the system?

On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 12:51 AM, Fungi4All wrote: > On Sat, 2017-07-08 at 23:57 +0200, Kaj Persson wrote: > > > But now I discovered an issue, I cannot manage my desktop. I have > > always at the previous installations, and they are quite many now, been > > advised to,

Re: (OT) problem with unknown software

On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 1:33 AM, ghe wrote: > > For several days, I've been getting email from myself, with no date, > title: > > Problem: /dev/sdd is UNKNOWN at 2017-05-18 11:56:30 from sbox > () > > The body: > > /dev/sdd () is Unavailable > > The Received: header: > >

Re: Live Fille System Backup

On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 1:17 AM, Sergei G wrote: > I would like a backup tool that does not bring a million dependencies with > MBs of files. Something that works on server without X Windows and can send > backup to an externally attached USB drive. Nothing fancy. No

Re: Firefox ESR 52 in stretch

On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 2:27 PM, Liam O'Toole <liam.p.oto...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2017-05-03, Anders Andersson <pipat...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I was checking up on different versions of Firefox and noticed that >> there was a new ESR (52) released March 7, 2017. I s

Firefox ESR 52 in stretch

I was checking up on different versions of Firefox and noticed that there was a new ESR (52) released March 7, 2017. I see that stretch is still using ESR 45. It would be really nice to have this newer version before stretch is finalized, but since stretch is now in freeze, I suppose that

Re: Firefox: security vs flexibility or rtfm?

On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 8:35 PM, Mark Copper wrote: >> Would mozilla.support.firefox on news.mozilla.org be more productive as your >> description suggests an OS independent problem? > > I think the issue has been raised and rejected at Firefox. Although OS > independent,

Re: Gnome Desktop w/ icons

On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 8:05 PM, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > How do I get a desktop with normal icons. All I am getting now is a heading > on the left saying "activities" w/ no ability to place Icons on the desktop. Install gnome-tweak-tool (this is a must for

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