Re: permissions on /dev/tty

Joe Pfeiffer writes: > I have a laptop with a recent Debian install, which seems to have > incorrect permissions on /dev/tty > > crw--w 1 root tty 5, 0 Feb 16 08:51 /dev/tty Ah, found it. I somehow had a /etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@tty.service file. Foun

permissions on /dev/tty

I have a laptop with a recent Debian install, which seems to have incorrect permissions on /dev/tty crw--w 1 root tty 5, 0 Feb 16 08:51 /dev/tty /lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules contains the usual SUBSYSTEM=="tty", KERNEL=="tty", GROUP="tty", MODE="0666" More strangely, udevadm info

Re: what keyboard do you use?

Lee writes: > I bought a Dell desktop in 2019 and the keyboard just died :( > > ssh in from another machine & do a 'sudo reboot now' and get an alert > about 'Keyboard not found.' on power up. The keyboard also doesn't > work in another machine so it's really & truly dead. > > I figure there's

Re: Problem with /var/cache/apt/archives/

Charles Curley writes: > Does anybody read signatures any more? I certainly don't.

Re: Problem with /var/cache/apt/archives/

"Stephen P. Molnar" writes: > I am running Bookworm on my Debian computer. When I installed the OS I > selected the option for separate /var etc, and selected the default > sizes of the partitions. > > When I ran sudo apt update this morning I received the error message: > > E: You don't have

Re: Failure in fuse3 hook prevents initramfs update

Further follow-up: the problem appears to be that something else has already put mount.fuse3 in the initramfs. Replacing the failing line with copy_exec /sbin/mount.fuse3 /sbin || true allows me to create the initramfs, and the system boots, but I doubt it's an optimal solution.

Re: Failure in fuse3 hook prevents initramfs update

didier gaumet writes: > Le 27/10/2022 à 00:52, Joe Pfeiffer a écrit : >> I'm trying to do an update to my Debian 11 system, and keep getting the >> following failure: >> E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/fuse failed with return 1. >> Trying to get a little more i

Failure in fuse3 hook prevents initramfs update

I'm trying to do an update to my Debian 11 system, and keep getting the following failure: E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/fuse failed with return 1. Trying to get a little more information, I ran update-initramfs -u -v -k all and after many lines of output, got: Adding binary

Re: Why are some Debian bugs ignored for a long time?

Chuck Zmudzinski writes: > On 8/19/2022 6:59 PM, Andy Smith wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 05:06:38PM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: >> > On 8/19/2022 4:44 PM, piorunz wrote: >> > > On 19/08/2022 18:57, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: >> > > > I have noticed that some Debian bugs are

Re: Can I install Debian operating systems for money?

Roger Price writes: > On Wed, 10 Aug 2022, Andy Smith wrote: >> I had a negative experience with LPI about 15 years ago where I >> signed up for one of their tests at a conference (FOSDEM) just out >> of interest and then in the weeks afterwards I was bombarded with >> marketing emails. > > My

Re: gnome2/keyrings/login.keyring.temp-nnnnnnnnn

Charles Curley writes: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 17:50:42 -0600 > Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > >> I just noticed I have over a million files lurking in >> $HOME/.gnome2/keyrings/ with names of the form >> login.keyring.temp-n > >> Is there an accepted way to

gnome2/keyrings/login.keyring.temp-nnnnnnnnn

I just noticed I have over a million files lurking in $HOME/.gnome2/keyrings/ with names of the form login.keyring.temp-n where n is a nine digit number. Literally over a million: ls ~/.gnome2/keyrings/ | wc 1695549 1695549 50118672 >From the names, I assume these are temporary

Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

Nicholas Geovanis writes: > On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 12:27 PM Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > > It's software written by folks who sometimes know what they're doing. > There are only so many Kevin Mitnick's and Phyber Optik's in the world at > time > :-) For which we're all gratefu

Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

Nicholas Geovanis writes: > On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 9:06 AM Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > > This isn't really debian-specific, but I don't know a better place to > ask... recently, I've been having servers make a large number of > attempts to access my mail host using what appe

random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

This isn't really debian-specific, but I don't know a better place to ask... recently, I've been having servers make a large number of attempts to access my mail host using what appear to be random strings as usernames -- it looks like this: Apr 4 03:04:30 snowball saslauthd[1179]:

Re: movemail fails to get lock

Joe Pfeiffer writes: > After some upgrades, when I try to use VM to read my mail from within > emacs, movemail has been unable to get my mail. I've added some > switches to it to try to get a better picture of what it's doing; > currently I've got > '(vm-movemail-program-s

Re: movemail fails to get lock

Dan Ritter writes: > > You should confirm that /home/joseph/INBOX.crash exists and has > the right ownership and permissions. After that, make sure that > it's not mounted via NFS or some other odd filesystem that has > locking issues. It creates the destination file if it doesn't exist. But

movemail fails to get lock

After some upgrades, when I try to use VM to read my mail from within emacs, movemail has been unable to get my mail. I've added some switches to it to try to get a better picture of what it's doing; currently I've got '(vm-movemail-program-switches '("-vvv" "--debug-level=99"

Re: Usenet access.

songbird writes: > pe...@easthope.ca wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Can anyone suggest an alternative to Google Groups for access to >> sci.electronics.repair. I'd be happy to pay a small subscription for >> access without tedious complications. > > i really liked individual.net and gladly paid them

Re: Usenet access.

I've been using eternal-september.org for well over a decade.

Re: Don't try this at home kids

Paul Johnson writes: > On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 11:57 PM Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > > David Wright writes: > > > On Mon 29 Nov 2021 at 17:47:24 (-0500), Jude DaShiell wrote: > >> sudo doesn't ask me for my password and I didn't even touch /etc/sudoers > >&

Re: Don't try this at home kids

David Wright writes: > On Mon 29 Nov 2021 at 17:47:24 (-0500), Jude DaShiell wrote: >> sudo doesn't ask me for my password and I didn't even touch /etc/sudoers >> to do it. A file placed in /etc/sudoers.d with permissions of 0440 having >> any name you choose and contents like: >> user

Re: New mdadm RAID1 gets renamed from md3 to md127 after each reboot

Reiner Buehl writes: > On 02.10.2021 01:32, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >> Is it possible you need to update your init ramdisk? Maybe your changes >> to your mdadm.conf aren't being seen? > > I do run update-initramfs -u after each change. Shouldn't that be > enough to

Re: New mdadm RAID1 gets renamed from md3 to md127 after each reboot

Tim Woodall writes: > On Fri, 1 Oct 2021, Reiner Buehl wrote: > >> On 01.10.2021 16:11, Felix Miata wrote: >>> Mine (old) is like so: >>> # head -n3 /etc/mdadm.conf >>> HOMEHOST >>> DEVICE containers partitions >>> ARRAY /dev/md0 metadata=1.0 name=msi85:0tmp UUID=... >> I tried changing the

Re: Privacy and defamation of character on Debian public forums

The Wanderer writes: > On 2021-09-24 at 14:00, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > >> Chuck Zmudzinski writes: >> >>> I was accused in public of wrongdoing on the Debian bug tracking >>> system which is hosted on a public, Debian website in response to >>> a bu

Re: Privacy and defamation of character on Debian public forums

Chuck Zmudzinski writes: > I was accused in public of wrongdoing on the > Debian bug tracking system which is hosted > on a public, Debian website in response to a > bug report I made. Bug number?

Re: Development permissions

"Paul M. Foster" writes: > Folks: > > This is probably a stupid question for many of you, but I've been > struggling with it since I started using Linux in 1996. > > Say you have a directory in which there are development files. A > number of users will be creating, deleting and modifying the

Re: Write *once* storage (was Re: write only storage)

Steve McIntyre writes: > In article > you write: >>I would like to have some WORM memory for my backups. At the moment >>they're copied to an archive machine using a chrooted unprivileged user >>and then moved via a cron job so that that user cannot delete them >>(other than during a short

z-wave?

I'm interested in trying out z-wave, and I'd like to start with a simple command line utility so I can experiment with a switch, and control it through cron. I'm aware of Home Assistant, which is likely to be the direction I go in the long term. I'd prefer not to try to set it up just to try out

Re: "ls -d" OK, but not "ls"

Vincent Lefevre writes: > On a Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) machine: > > $ ls -ld /etc/systemd > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2021-04-19 09:40:41 /etc/systemd > $ ls /etc/systemd > ls: cannot open directory '/etc/systemd': No such file or directory > > Any explanation??? snowball:776$ ls -ld

Re: Is there any way to snoop on a USB port?

"Martin McCormick" writes: > I have a Windows box that has software on it which programs > two-way radios and it would be nice to know what the radio and > computer are saying to each other. > > After trying a Windows application that reportedly can > capture serial port traffic, I find

Re: Firefox HTTPS-only mode breaks sites that return 404 for HTTPS connections

Kenneth Parker writes: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 10:16 PM Celejar wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 22:57:01 +0100 > piorunz wrote: > > > On 14/04/2021 17:19, Celejar wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I recently switched to Firefox's native HTTPS-Only mode from the > > > HTTPS Everywhere

Re: Subject: Mr. Dan Ritter, why is it that you appear to be posting your POV on my posts? Are you a covert agent of the anti-FSF cabal, trying to subvert something "positive for FSF, but detrimenta

Dan Ritter writes: > Laura Smith wrote: >> On Wednesday, March 31st, 2021 at 18:28, Dan Ritter >> wrote: >> >> > That was the subject line of a message I just received from a >> > - I am not a covert agent of an anti-FSF cabal [...] >> >> Unless you were a very bad covert agent, you would

Re: Label printer Debian compatible

Tom Browder writes: > On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 12:57 PM Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >> I have had good success with a Dymo LabelWriter 450. > > USB connection? Yes.

Re: Label printer Debian compatible

Tom Browder writes: > Has anyone had any success driving a mailing label printer for mailing labels > from either a LAN or direct connection with a Linux box? > > I can print sheets of mailing labels from my main printer, but I would love > to be able to print single labels from my adress db

Re: Can't print to CUPS printer on my server

Gary Dale writes: > I'm running Debian/Bullseye on my workstation and Debian/Buster on my server. > I have an old HP CP-1215 color laserjet attached to the server by a USB > cable. I can print a CUPS test > page from the server but not from my workstation. When I try to print > anything from

Re: How to run AppImage file

Fred writes: > On 11/26/20 9:04 AM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >> Fred writes: >> >>> On 11/25/20 12:30 PM, Reco wrote: >>>>Hi. >>>> >>>> On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 12:13:03PM -0700, Fred wrote: >>>>> fred@ragnok:~$ ./ClipGra

Re: How to run AppImage file

Fred writes: > On 11/25/20 12:30 PM, Reco wrote: >> Hi. >> >> On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 12:13:03PM -0700, Fred wrote: >>> fred@ragnok:~$ ./ClipGrab-3.9.2-x86_64.AppImage --help >>> bash: ./ClipGrab-3.9.2-x86_64.AppImage: cannot execute binary file: Exec >>> format error >> >> uname -m >> >>

Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple of 4096 bytes ...

David Wright writes: > On Wed 09 Sep 2020 at 08:53:20 (-0600), Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >> rhkra...@gmail.com writes: >> > On Tuesday, September 08, 2020 04:39:05 PM David Christensen wrote: >> >> Neither the string "2 MiB" nor the string &

Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple of 4096 bytes ...

rhkra...@gmail.com writes: > On Tuesday, September 08, 2020 04:39:05 PM David Christensen wrote: >> Neither the string "2 MiB" nor the string "2 M" appear on page you have >> cited. > > That is correct, that's is what I have not found on that page. > >> Please provide a URL that advocates

Re: what calculator do you use?

kaye n writes: > Hello Friends, > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see any calculator app in my Debian os. > What do you guys use? I'm having trouble with Galculator. > Thank you! M-x calc, from inside emacs.

Re: any gui for lm-sensors?

Long Wind writes: > i want a small app that show cpu temperature > which package shall i install? > Thanks! I've been using gkrellm to show quite a bit of system information (including temperatures) for years and years now.

Re: Fwd: lists.debian.org has received bounces from you

I assume the list is using mailman? I haven't found a setting to tell a subscriber their email is bouncing -- where is it?

Re: Issue with disabling Intel turbo boost via systemd

l0f...@tuta.io writes: > Hi, > > I have frequent warning/4 entries in my journalctl like this one (dozens/day): > kernel: mce: CPU[X]: Package temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled Lucky you! My laptop just went ahead and went into thermal shutdown before the system noticed it was

Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic)

Richard Owlett writes: > I the recent thread about returning a Debian installation to its > original state "popularity-contest" was mentioned. > > I wished to compare it to other tools mentioned in that thread. > Obvious stating point -- read the man page. > As I never installed its package I

Re: python3 modules -- apt vs pip?

Alex Mestiashvili writes: > On 4/3/20 11:54 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >> I've been using apt (and friends) to maintain my systems, including >> python. Today I discovered the Debian version of the more-itertools >> module is on version 4.2.0 and is three years old. Mean

python3 modules -- apt vs pip?

I've been using apt (and friends) to maintain my systems, including python. Today I discovered the Debian version of the more-itertools module is on version 4.2.0 and is three years old. Meanwhile, the version documented on pypi.org is at version 8.2.0, and has at least one recipe whose

Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

Tony van der Hoff writes: > Hi, > I'm currently running Buster on a 5 year old GigaByte motherboard with > a 10-year old Raid-1 array on 2 500GB disks. Although it is running > fine, I'm becoming a bit concerned about the longevity of this > storage, so I'm planning to upgrade it to a 500GB or

Re: USB Examiner Package? Special USB Kernel Modules?

Kenneth Parker writes: > Here's an interesting one: A Windows friend handed me a USB Dongle, knowing > that I'm a Linux user. He says he got it 3rd hand, with > info that it might be "Very Dangerous". He would be interested, if I find > out something about it. (And, indeed, Google has many

Re: pkg-config does not see a package that i installed via apt-get (libmypaint)

The Wanderer writes: > $ apt-file search libmypaint.pc > libmypaint-dev: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/libmypaint.pc > > The .pc file for libmypaint is in libmypaint-dev, not in libmypaint-1.3-0. > > Try installing the -dev package. To elaborate on this a little -- In general, a package

Re: Looking for suggestions of a "modern" desktop that runs Debian

Rogério Brito writes: > Dear people, > > As all my computers are quite old so far (including the ones that I > use to develop my packages and contribute to Debian), I would like to > get a "modern" desktop that is able to keep up with compiling stuff > and doing basic web surfing/web and typing

Re: webmail and email from command line

loredana writes: > On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 3:00 PM wrote: > >> [...] > >> Note that what Google calls there "less secure applications" is just >> marketing mumbo-jumbo to nudge users off their non-browser clients. > > I know. But knowing it, and perhaps blaiming it, is not a solution. > >> Is

Re: How free is Debian

John Hasler writes: > Joe Pfeiffer writes: >> The LICENCE.amd-ucode file >> includes the paragraph: > >>You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble this >>Software or any portion thereof. > > Quite unenforceable, of course. When

Re: How free is Debian

Shahryar Afifi writes: > With respect to all the contributors, developers, hobbyist and users, > who made GNU/Linux and Debian and all other distributions possible, > here lies a humble, ignorance and yet curious question. > > Are all binaries in the kernel code were writing from scratch? Are >

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

deloptes writes: > Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > >> I used tesseract-ocr, mentioned previously, a couple of years ago with >> very good success.  Also, the problem he's trying to solve is much > > what means very good success? You had to proof read it at the end - time > spe

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

deloptes writes: > Martin McCormick wrote: > >> I have 4 older PC's that generally work well running >> debian but Right now, 3 of them need varying degrees of attention >> to their BIOS setups as Dell motherboards and possibly other >> brands will occasionally modify their boot sequences for

Re: useless languages

David Christensen writes: > On 7/12/19 4:03 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: >> hi, >> when installing some packages (chromiun for example), I get a lot of >> useless languages (task-marathi-desktop task-nepali-desktop ...) >> Is there a way to get rid of them? >> >> best regards, > > I added the

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

humbert.olivie...@free.fr writes: >> If you don't use PulseAudio then only one application can use >> an ALSA device at the same time on your computer. > > This is untrue. ALSA provides dmix for mixing different audio flows. > > Olivier What's more, the default device uses dmix. And I find it a

Re: That time IPv6 farted in Gene's church (Was Re: forcedeth?)

Curt writes: > On 2019-05-28, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > >> experimental: 1.18.0-1 >> Please try to verify if the bug you are about to report is already >> addressed by these releases. Do you still want to file a report >> [y|N|q|?]? > > Think I might'v

Re: That time IPv6 farted in Gene's church (Was Re: forcedeth?)

case, and for better or worse the package management software is case-sensitive. snowball:532$ reportbug Please enter the name of the package in which you have found a problem, or type 'other' to report a more general problem. If you don't know what package the bug is in, please contact debian

Re: [OT] IP address collisions

Dan Purgert writes: > Nicholas Geovanis wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 7:57 AM Michael Stone wrote: >> >>> >>> No, the ULA is the IPv6 equivalent of RFC1918 space--you can use it >>> internally without central registration by choosing a subnet from >>> fd00::/8. The space is so much larger

Re: systemd mdadm spamming my syslog

Bob Weber writes: > On 3/10/19 5:20 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > > Since a recent update, my /var/log/syslog is getting spammed with huge > numbers of messages of the form > > Mar 10 14:02:25 snowball systemd-udevd[18681]: Process '/sbin/mdadm > --incremental --export /dev/s

systemd mdadm spamming my syslog

Since a recent update, my /var/log/syslog is getting spammed with huge numbers of messages of the form Mar 10 14:02:25 snowball systemd-udevd[18681]: Process '/sbin/mdadm --incremental --export /dev/sda3 --offroot /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3000DM001-1ER166_Z501MTQ3-part3

Re: Question on dpkg -l output.

Dan Ritter writes: > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >> On 21 de dezembro de 2018 20:24, aprekates wrote: >> > In a new installed system with Debian 9.6 >> > >> > $ dpkg -l >> > >> > will list only packages with 'ii' state and a couple of 'rc'. >> > >> > But if i  run: >> > >> > $ dpkg -l w* >>

Re: librecad

Gene Heskett writes: > On Friday 07 December 2018 19:54:56 John Hasler wrote: > >> Joe writes: >> > ...he's still on wheezy. >> >> I wrote: >> > That is easily fixed. >> >> Gene writes: >> > Not until an rtai patched kernel is available for the newer stuffs. >> >> Why would you run your CAD

Re: librecad

John Hasler writes: > Gene writes: >> Solvespace, googling now, downloaded, will take a look. > > No need to download. It's in Debian. Note that he isn't likely to find anything remotely up to date in a repository, as he's still on wheezy.

Re: librecad

John Hasler writes: > Have you looked at Freecad and Solvespace? Note freecad is 3D, and his needs are apparently 2D. Though I will relate that my (brief) acquaintance with freecad led me to decide to just write Python scripts using python-occ to generate my models.

Re: Migrating Debian installation to a new motherboard

mick crane writes: > On 2018-11-01 17:57, Michael Stone wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 05:43:56PM +0100, local10 wrote: >>> Under enp3so I see only BROADCAST and MULTICAST, no UP or DOWN. Thanks >> >> That means it's down. Note that you said enp3so above, that should be >> enp3s0 (zero);

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Migrating Debian installation to a new motherboard

David Wright writes: > On Thu 01 Nov 2018 at 20:03:05 (-0600), Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >> local10 writes: >> > Nov 1, 2018, 1:57 PM by mst...@debian.org: >> >> On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 05:43:56PM +0100, local10 wrote: >> >> >> >> That means i

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Migrating Debian installation to a new motherboard

local10 writes: > Nov 1, 2018, 1:57 PM by mst...@debian.org: > >> On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 05:43:56PM +0100, local10 wrote: >> >> That means it's down. Note that you said enp3so above, that should >> be enp3s0 (zero); which did you put in interfaces? Also, there >> should be either "auto enp3s0"

Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete

Pétùr writes: > Le 11/09/2018 à 19:34, Martin a écrit : >> >> don't get crazy about FS corruption. There is no sign this is the >> case so far. Date and UID's are odd, but valid within ext4. Remove >> the immutable flag (chattr -i), you will be able to alter the files >> as you like. >> >> One

Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete

"Thomas Schmitt" writes: > > Something trampled the parent directory or its attached data structures. It appears to be the two inodes, not the parent directory, that got trampled.

Re: sometimes i go huh (grep result)

What's tripping you up is that some processing is being done by the shell before grep ever sees your pattern. Taking that into account, what grep is seeing is: songbird writes: > me@ant(25)$ env | grep -F "-g" grep -F -g > grep: invalid option -- 'g' > Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...

Re: question about memtest86+

Long Wind writes: > i install memtest86+ of stretch to test memory > i don't see any error msg, but after a few minutes, it shutdown my PC > > does that mean my memory is bad? > i read manual of memtest86+, can't find explaination I see other people have mentioned possible temperature issues,

Re: Request for information

Gene Heskett writes: > On Thursday 16 August 2018 18:46:26 Brian wrote: > >> On Thu 16 Aug 2018 at 18:36:52 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> [Almost everything snipped - for obvious reasons.] >> >> > Someone who is an actual member of the organization will probably >> > clarify it further, but I

Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo

Martin writes: > [...] >>> >>> is new to me, I never knew! And I think it is good approach. >>> Does one actually get pointed to this during install? >> >> ┌───┤ [?] Set up users and passwords >> ├┐ >> │

Re: Calculator with "tapes"

Ken Heard writes: > Does Debian have a calculator package which has the equivalent of the > tape produced by mechanical machines to show the entire calculation. > I find such "tapes" essential when for example I am adding a long list > of numbers and need to check after the addition is done to

Re: VPN suggestions?

Doug writes: > On 07/10/2018 10:59 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >> Dennis Wicks writes: >> >>> Greetings; >>> >>> I want to set up a VPN for several computers in my house >>> that are all on a local network. >>> >>> And suggestion

Re: VPN suggestions?

Dennis Wicks writes: > Greetings; > > I want to set up a VPN for several computers in my house > that are all on a local network. > > And suggestions, hints, warnings? Your question as stated doesn't really explain why you want a VPN, and what you're planning to do with it. All you've

Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions

Richard Owlett writes: > On 06/01/2018 08:21 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 08:23:42AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: The one choice you have is that one of both sides takes a step back and plays "gadget"

Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions

Richard Owlett writes: > I have two computers with USB ports. > I wish them to communicate as simply as mid-20th-century computers did. > Then we used RS232-C with a null modem &/or appropriate software > software at both ends. > > The underlying problem is that both ends egotistically expect

Re: which program do you recommend to read pdf file

Still an xpdf user after all these years. But... since I now have a laptop that has a touchscreen, is there one that supports a swipe interface (as in, I swipe left on the page I'm currently looking at and it goes to the next page)?

Re: which blend caters to TaL computer programming? . . .

Albretch Mueller writes: > I have a group of kids that are very good in Math and they want to > learn some actual programming > > My approach is to introduce them to the basics of coding using ANSI > C, C++ and java (so they learn what pointers are about, how patterns > are

Re: PAE or not PAE?

Gene Heskett writes: > On Monday 12 March 2018 15:27:23 Hans wrote: > >> > Note that the non PAE kernel in older Debian versions up to Jessie >> > lacked multi-processor (including multi-core and hyper-threading) >> > support. >> >> Yes, I read this, too. The N280 is a

Re: need help on cracking wireless password

Really? They're paying for it and you want to use it for free? This strikes you as neighborly behavior? Long Wind writes: > Thank Reco and deloptes! > what i suspect turn out to be true: for ethical reason users here refuse to > help > > if reaver is used mainly by bad

Re: squirrelmail or other webmail?

Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> writes: > On Tue 30 Jan 2018 at 10:34:21 -0700, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > >> I noticed today that squirrelmail is only in Debian oldstable and >> oldoldstable. So, I'm curious as to its status -- is it now deprecated >> (as one would sus

squirrelmail or other webmail?

I noticed today that squirrelmail is only in Debian oldstable and oldoldstable. So, I'm curious as to its status -- is it now deprecated (as one would suspect from it not being kept up in more recent Debian versions)? Is there some other webmail interface that's being used now? Note that due to

Re: looking for drawing program to inscribe a square in a circle and label items

Dan Hitt writes: > I'm looking for a gui drawing program that will let me, for example, > draw a circle, inscribe a square in the circle, connect the opposite > edges of the square with line segments, draw the diagonals of the > square, and label the vertices, edges, and

Re: Weired package policy

Hans writes: > I searched the manuals for this point, but this was nowhere mentioned. Of > course, you may say, that this is self-evident, but people might want to have > the repo small and may think, "hey, if I get testing, then all packages of > stable will be

Re: Out of root partition space

Sarah Johnson writes: > Hi, > I ran out of root partition disk space and can't install or remove any more > packages or even login gui window manager anymore > > i spent few good hours researching for solutions and found that i can resize > root and home partitions

Re: Talking about RAID - disks with same id

deloptes <delop...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi Joe, > > thank you for the mesage > > Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > >> This is normal.  It's the identical UUIDs that tell the system that the >> partitions go into the same RAID array. >> >> Here's what I se

Re: Talking about RAID - disks with same id

deloptes writes: > Hi, > I noticed recently by accident that when I read/write from the oldest raid > disks I have - only one of the tray leds blinks. Of course the led could be > damaged, but rather not, so looking into it I found that both disks in > question return same

Re: Rsync

deloptes writes: > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > >> I can see how someone going for a minimal >> system would consider it bloat. > > +1 > > used 2 times rsync in past 10y private and professional daily use of linux > (desktop and server) Whereas I have a cron script firing

Re: The new normal of logging

Gene Heskett writes: > On Thursday 26 October 2017 15:22:35 Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 1:46 PM, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard < >> >> j.deboynepollard-newsgro...@ntlworld.com> wrote: >> > Roberto C. Sánchez: >> > >> > Is this the new normal, for

Re: The mess of package names

Gary Roach writes: > Hi all, > While this may seem to be a bit off topic, I feel that I may get > answers faster here than any where else. This problem applies to > Debian, Ubuntu and, to some extent, Mac OS. > > I have spent the last month and a half ( or longer)

Re: Laptop recommendation

I'm very happy with a Dell Inspiron 13 7000 series I picked up at Best Buy a month or so ago. It appears to meet your requirements, and is also a convertible (I can fold the screen back over to put it in "tent" mode), has a touch-screen, supports an active pen, and has a backlit keyboard. The

Re: xsane & tesseract

Doug writes: > On 08/25/2017 08:31 PM, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: > > Hi All, > How do I setup xsane to use the tesseract OCR engine? > I see gocr under preferences->setup->ocr. > Yours Sincerely > Stephen Grant Brown. > > Unless it has been vastly improved, you

Re: (none)

arshad mahmood writes: > Hi do you know how I can down load debian 6 server is free to download > load or will I need to buy it through a vendor regards Is there a particular reason you want to install a version that was released six years ago? If not, I suggest

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

David Wright writes: > On Wed 19 Jul 2017 at 14:57:50 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: >> Patrick Bartek composed on 2017-07-19 10:29 (UTC-0700): >> >> > Getting no results from apt-get upgrade after a week. Can install apps, >> > etc., but get no security or

Re: stop your mail

Andy Smith writes: > Hello, > > On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 05:18:54PM +0200, Sébastien Gautrin wrote: >> The "stop your mail" and "PLEASE STOP YOUR MAILS" messages are definitely >> not created by the owners of the email, though it might be done by a mobile >> app as suggested.

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