people
the layout you like vv the one you get immediately after a reinstall.
And, of course, write notes to yourself for EVERY change like this, so
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cture.
Back in the 1990s when I last used these there could be
up to 255 or so files in each GDG. That limit might have
increased since then.
Ref:
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.2.0?topic=files-processing-generation-data-groups
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many such lights come with poor
quality clips &/ cables that are too short to reach the
USB socket of choice (or indeed any USB socket).
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ich damages it less than traditionally shaped rodents).
As a side issue, the vertical form-factor - once I got used to it -
has proved more comfortable for use when sitting up in bed,
using the mouse approx half-way between my bum & knee,
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xpected, then you
can infer that it does do; you wouldn't find plain text notes, sample
data etc alongside the executables (because other characteristics
of those file sets allow them only to hold executables).
You cannot tell from a file's name whether it's held on disk or
(virtual) tape or real ta
that's not
recognised, you could use something else - curl or wget
perhaps - to check whether each new file got there ok.
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less than now)
up to that lower max temperature.
Wouldn't it be better to limit the amount of cputime that
the hogging application is using?
Google suggests that "nice" or "cpulimit" might do that.
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st is certainly becoming a
lot more important to me. But I already plan to store future
backups on both types of disk.
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bad.)
I'm not sure that that was clear. What I mean is that if I intended to keep
a backup of a driveful of data, I might choose to have, say, this week's
copy, last week's, and the week before. So apart from the original disk
I'd have 3 other backup drives.
Then for each of those there'd be two other drives in use, so 9 in all...
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eed (say) to read every file on the drive once, so that the
SSD controller can assess whether any data needs to be moved?
Or does one need to read every byte, allocated or not?
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;Enterprise" versions of the OS.
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fairly
sure I've seen this on Windows machine, not sure about Linux.
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pen that specific page in a text editor. The simplest page (which
doesn't tell you much about me & my interests) contains links to bits
of the BBC's websites. See:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/p8x9c7hkp6180lf/2022-01-22%20BBC_Bookmarks.jpg?dl=0
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ies as well.
>
> Yes, that appears to be correct.
And that opens up the scourge of malware that correctly identifies what
software one has installed, and/or aspects of its configuration, just based
on what files/folders exist.
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On Tue, 18 Jan 2022, at 04:51, songbird wrote:
> Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
>> On Mon, 17 Jan 2022, at 05:19, songbird wrote:
>>
>>> you are right, but i just wanted to say that for some sites
>>> the behavior is to generate a unique file name if they find
>>
n my system.
I think I also read that once the code has a handle to a directory
it can scan sub-directories as well.
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he ins, is that CM is ok with google
but other servers that use OAuth2 - notably Microsoft ones - regularly
revoke users' access tokens and the users currently have to set those
up again manually.
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On Wed, 5 Jan 2022, at 19:52, Dan Ritter wrote:
> Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
>> On Wed, 5 Jan 2022, at 13:35, Paul M. Foster wrote:
>> > Folks:
>> >
>> > I just restarted my machine, and am using Thunderbird 91.4.1 (the
>> > latest) 64 bit on Debian
ll the ins
of another one, and would - in the short term anyway - prefer
to find some way of making TB still see the mails concerned.
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On Mon, 20 Dec 2021, at 18:30, John Hasler wrote:
> Jeremy Nicoll writes:
>> How would Google intercept a financial institution's valid
>> phone number?
>
> He was using Google Voice.
When the OP "found" a number on screen, to ring, does that
mean he eg cli
On Mon, 20 Dec 2021, at 16:12, John Hasler wrote:
> Did you notify Google? Seems likely that's where the hole is.
How would Google intercept a financial institution's valid phone
number?
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r
help. No SQUEAK! Just a thud.
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nce BIOS options normally have very
terse names and the "help" text is only marginally more useful. But
you should be able to google on the option name and the BIOS
supplier's name and the BIOS version to find out more.
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longer, but much more educational read, try
https://everything.curl.dev/
which was written by curl's author.
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e.
Stereo (or multi-channel) mics in a single body may also offer control
over the "width" of the stereo image, or even (eg for Soundfield mics)
the ability to adjust the array of capsules so they appear to tilt/point
in different directions.
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done by mixing software on a PC.
That makes the buttons that refer to stereo/mono more confusing, as
the box itself has no concept of stereo.
Does it follow that the box sends 4 inputs to a PC, and the PC might
send back either/both copies of those 4 inputs and a mixed stereo
image?
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nslate seems to work fine.
(That's with FF 86.0.1.)
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s well.
I would not expect most of these people ever to ring me, and by the
same token I am not going to ring 120 people, who're now spread all
across the world.
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sk questions there?
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name" so typing just ML in the TO
field gives me a picking list of valid values.
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t of paper perhaps) off to the
edge?
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attachments in an email and assign sensible names and
content types to them. Then when that was saved the client's normal
export/detach options could be used to process the files.
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al one with just once set of
contents).
Some email clients also don't assign separate names to the
attachments, so when they get written out the MUA has to
invent a name sequence (and of course modify the html
accordingly).
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o a php file which is
part of the website concerned.
But the point that Greg is making (I assume) is that if you view an html file
that was part of an email, in a browser, that "/action_page" will not point
anywhere sensible unless it contains a full URL.
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ve worked inside an email client, so that they browser
can pick up the images in the folder.
By "logging-in", I guess the OP is referring to using a webmail system
where the webmail server presents an integrated view of the html page
and the unpacked embedded attached images.
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1.5 giga BITS pr second... so about 150 megabytes/sec.
> does this mean,
> that the sata controller is not capable to higher transferrates or does it
> possibly mean, that my configuration is wrong?
You need to find out what your hardware is capable of.
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ctions, to allow for protocol
overhead.
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SSDs compress data before sending it across the
SATA channel?
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sf.org/forum/index.php?showforum=194
Also see:
https://support.planetcom.co.uk/index.php/Linux_Flashing_Guide
https://support.planetcom.co.uk/index.php/Debian_Notes
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ritory.
> It must use a standard Linux (Debian preferred).
Why? Surely all you need is a decent text editor, and a file manager.
> The manufacturer should ship with the Linux installed.
> Android is *UNACCEPTABLE*!
Why? If you only use the machine to write data to an SD
card, why is t
uot;slow" data rate you mentioned in
your original question.
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On Mon, 13 Jan 2020, at 16:01, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 01/13/2020 07:57 AM, Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
> > [ *MASSIVE* snip ]
Fuck off.
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On Mon, 13 Jan 2020, at 13:03, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 01/13/2020 06:13 AM, Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
> > On Mon, 13 Jan 2020, at 11:52, Richard Owlett wrote:
> >
> >> I was looking for a description of what Pluma was trying to accomplish
> >> by their highlighting
posted a screenshot of what
you're seeing, and some explanation of why you think the colouring is
wrong.
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stead of
this = "first string"
that = "new value"
"c /"this"/"that"/"
I've had
thishex = c2x(this) ie: "666972737420737472696E67"
thathex = c2x(that)ie: "6E65772076616C7565"
"c /'"thishex"'/'"thathex"'/"
which is to say
"c /'666972737420737472696E67'/'6E65772076616C7565'/"
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> them among other cookies.
Maybe their names are "T" and "Y"?
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saw in the text editor.
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e than one way to do it". That's part of
> the reason Perl's considered (by some) a write only language -- you
> can't understand what you wrote last week.
Perl is a whole lot more readable than APL.
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sity deems appropriate for
their PCs?
Or... do all their staff use a mish-mash of personal devices, and those don't
have to have any
anti-malware apps on them?
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you don't know beforehand whether you're aiming for two-digit or
three- or four-digit numbers an alternative is to number your files from
eg 1 so they get names
10001 10002 10003 .. 10021
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ssing, I suppose, but
it isn't seek time.
Also, I wonder how you can say that that delay is a microsecond long?
Which manuafacturer, which product, what level of firmware?
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nt of data you might lose is reduced.
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o.
And I didn't ned to be a sophisticated Googler; I provided just one word (I
think
you can guess what it was) as the search argument.
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On Sun, 9 Dec 2018, at 01:47, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 08 December 2018 17:53:01 Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
> [...]
> > The pid was there so that when writing and testing the script
> > I could tell which was which in taskmanager, which saw them
> > all as the
, I might have looked for a better method,
but the overhead of doing it the way I did was negligible.
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same thing - an instance of the script language's
interpreter being run.
The script is written in ooREXX; anyone who wants it can have
a copy. I expect somethig similar could be written in loads of
other langages, but it's the one I know best.
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r is, or what
the spacing between regular items should be.
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t regular.
How much variation?
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riber on several mail lists hosted by them, for years, and the
service does seem solid. As far as I know they do not offer any sort of web-
based interface for subscribers (the login option on their website is - last
time
I looked, anyway - for the administrator(s) of specific lists.
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could add
at any time a new format so even if lossy compression wasn't allowed now
(though it is, you can have mp3 data in .wav files) that doesn't mean it can't
happen in future.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV
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things that I received
came with only very basic instructions that did not mention the way to
do this - it was Virgin's own technical support people who told me how
to do it.Subsequent improved models have come with instructions
that mentioned the possibility.
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rec.audio.pro", though asking there would be more
an appeal to people who might know of such machines
rather than a pro-audio question.
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hat some sounds have to be sent to, apart from
an overall stereo recording.
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io/hifi equipment you'd
use the RCA phono jacks (the white and red ones) and if you were connecting it
to studio equipment
that could handle/expected balanced connections you'd use the TLS jacks (black
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d suggest you read all the reviews on Amazon and
other
sellers - it's when people mention the things they don't like about some unit
that
you'll learn more than when they talk about things that just work.
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You'll need to adapt the definition of the output device to whatever
your hardware requires. That is, I expect that setting AUDIODEV will
be the answer, but I can't say HOW you would set it.You'd need to
look at the manual for your specific hardware, I think.
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ge to fill the fields. When I clicked the button
at the foot of the page there was a "revolving cursor" for maybe a couple of
seconds, then the next page showed up with a template letter .
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ll need to tell whatever software controls that
hardware where to take audio-data from.
Maybe 'sox' can direct audio to multiple channels, but I think you
will need to tell sox which hardware devices to use. The section
of the sox manual, page 3, "Playing & Recording Audio" might help.
ght be better-off asking at:
mozilla-support-fire...@lists.mozilla.org
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On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, at 19:42, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 07:36:49PM +0000, Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
> > Do you mean when someone outside the LAN is trying to connect to my
> > machine?
>
> No. It's for when you try to look up a hostname without a dom
Thanks to everyone who replied, not just Dan...
So...
On Mon, 19 Feb 2018, at 13:30, Dan Purgert wrote:
> Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
> > What, on a home LAN, is that used for?
>
> In general terms, supplying domain information at setup time adds a
> "helper" record to /
LAN, is that used for?
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ars.
On the other hand, there's a tiny amount of activity shown at its
git repo.
(I'm not a Debian - or any form of linux - user yet, just lurking and
trying to get a better feel for it.)
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secure imho, and especially with the package
> xul-ext-pwdhash.
But haven't Mozilla, just phased-out xul support in Firefox, requiring
extensions to be written using the 'web-extensions' API?
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions
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estore this functionality?
I've no idea, but the obvious question is: is this because 'Jessie lite'
clearly doesn't have all the features of a full OS?
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On Thu, 17 Aug 2017, at 08:57, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Jeremy Nicoll <jn.ml.dbn...@letterboxes.org> writes:
> > You do realise that merging files, adjusting balance etc are all possible
> > with sox?
> >
> > One reason I do that sort of thing with sox is that by k
as
in Audacity is a great deal more difficult.
It's worth documenting what you do so that if necessary you can exactly
repeat the process at a later date.
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ent
version of that these days... A box like that is aimed at people used
to using
professional audio equipment.
There will be lower-spec interfaces around too, but you obviously need
to find
one that's known to work with linux. You also probably don't want one
with
eg XLR sockets for mics.
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things more professionally. Now, they're just home made records...
The single best reason for using a multi-channel (ie not just a stereo)
audio
interface is simplicity. All the channels will be in-sync with each
other and
all the audio signals can be captured on a single computer.
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On Sun, 6 Aug 2017, at 21:09, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> M... Otherwise I'll have to buy a mixer.
>
> Rodolfo
If you can capture multiple channels' audio and have them in separate
files
on your computer then you can mix them using sox. You don't have to
have
a physical mixer.
-
On Mon, 7 Aug 2017, at 13:15, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I just bought an external USB audio card.
Which one? Where can we see a description of its capabilities?
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needing several people to do that and walkie-talkies to
communicate).
These are the sorts of mics you often see high up in the space in a
concert hall
auditorium.
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eg this:
http://www.soundfield.com/
(four capsules; this mic gets plugged into a controller box and - if you
buy the most expensive
version you can adjust the width, depth & even height (for surround
sound) of stereo image
produced from it. It is VERY expensive - many thousands of pounds.)
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?
On 'professional' equipment it gets a bit more complicated when three
connections are
used for a single audio channel, being the +ve half of a waveform, the
-ve half, and ground.
(These are known as 'balanced' connections, and typically use either XLR
plugs & sockets
or 3-contact 6.25mm a
ord more than one
channel at once. Their labelling or artwork on them normally makes it
clear that they have L and R (or more than that) inputs.
What makes and models are your mics?
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On Wed, 2 Aug 2017, at 08:07, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Jeremy Nicoll <jn.ml.dbn...@letterboxes.org> writes:
> > If you do that you'll be recording at most 2 channels,
>
>
> Mmmhhh... this is not clear to me. Why only two...? Suppose the mixer
> has 3
> cha
plugging it into a socket on a mixer
while the
phantom power is on; you need to make sure that phantom is only turned
on
after all the cables are connected. And turn phantom off again before
unplugging
any powered mics.
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e) basically a stereo pair slung over the first few rows
of the
downstairs audience. Sometimes I think they may have used a M mic.
It could be that use of a slung pair is partly so that a standard way of
micing
the hall works for all the concerts given there over several weeks.
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to the left
or right of centre) part of the stereo image.
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an 'X-Y' or 'crossed-pair' configuration. You can google these
terms.
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ication). In the U.S. and G.B. an X was used for multiplication
> symbol so they continued on using a dot for decimal (as it should be).
But mathematics also used dot and x to refer to concepts named
dot-product
and cross-product.
In other words, what's acceptable/normal depends entirely on
ents. See what's written in this bug
report, but
beware that the discussion at the start is about something else (or at
least about
behaviour that seemed to be something else):
http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3824
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On Fri, 19 May 2017, at 14:24, Philip Ashmore wrote:
> I got a new hard disk.
> I still get the same clicking
Could it be the laptop's fan?
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gt; firmware should that ever be necessary in the
> future? [Or have I got it wrong again??]
I doubt it's persistent. The error message you saw seemed to be from a
post-boot command, presumably executed every time you reboot, that
loads the optional firmware into the chipset.
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problems in the whole process - and
they also
contain eg redirection instructions, if the server wants you to make
another request
for a different page. if you don't have the headers file for your
script to read and check
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there's
code to run for form submit, even if validation has been ok.
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bugreports is described.
When you get this delay, what's in the scrolling messages in the last
few lines
before the delay itself?
Are they (on your various machines) always the same sorts of lines?
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On Sun, 17 Apr 2016, at 14:28, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Let's assume a subordinate script ...
Thank-you! That's devious.
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On Sun, 17 Apr 2016, at 12:46, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
> > Why is the "2>&1" part needed? Wouldn't stderr go to the terminal by
> > default.
>
> Goal is to redirect both to /dev/null.
>
> So these would do:
>
> b
ted to
> /dev/null -- leaving the error output still going to the original
> standard output (terminal).
Why is the "2>&1" part needed? Wouldn't stderr go to the terminal by
default?
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