Re: The mess of package names

On 19/09/17 13:57, Gary Roach wrote: > What I need is a cross reference between Mumps, MPI, OpenMP and FETI4I > and the library names in the Debian and Ubuntu repositories. OpenMP is not a library. It is an extension of C to allow convenient parallel programming. It is enabled in GCC with

Re: Request of recommendations for public Mercurial repository hosting

On 17/09/17 12:04, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > My only candidate so far is Bitbucket. I want to know if there are other > options. I have already discarded SourceForge because it has Google JS. > All other providers that I know either are paid or do not offer > Mercurial. Unfortu

Re: Request of recommendations for public Mercurial repository hosting

On 17/09/17 13:52, Phil Dobbin wrote: > GitHub meets all your requirements plus you can host a web site there > with their GitHub Pages option. > > All free to use in your case :-) Please note that I am asking for *Mercurial* hosting. Also, I watch disapprovingly as “source code hosting”

Request of recommendations for public Mercurial repository hosting

(Note: cross posted to Mercurial mailing list and debian-user mailing list) Hello. I am looking for a place to host a small free software (as in freedom) project. I write to ask for your recommendations. There are a few requirements: (1) A public Mercurial repository is required. Features like

Re: Macbook Air - Stretch - getting rather hot

On 05/09/17 20:24, James Montgomery wrote: > On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 7:42 AM, kelsang sherab wrote: >> The last few days my machine seems to be getting hot more than usual - >> any suggestion of what can i do? > > I didn't see any replies to this message. Are you still having

Security updates (Was: (solved) how to roll back to jessie)

On 04/09/17 02:58, Long Wind wrote: > i do not install security update > and it not cause trouble for me Hello. I am wondering: Why do you choose to not to install security updates? There seems to be nothing to gain and much to lose with that choice. -- Do not eat animals; respect them as you

Re: UI inconsistency: unlocking LUKS-encrypted drives

On 03/09/17 21:15, Sam Kuper wrote: > On 03/09/2017, Sam Kuper wrote: >> 1. is this inconsistency intended, and if so, why? > > The cause of the inconsistency seems to have been that the > "HintSystem" property[1] was set differently between the various > devices

Re: Laptop recommendation

On 03/09/17 08:38, Jonas Hedman wrote: > Basically I'm on the hunt for a newish laptop on which I naturally want > to run Debian. [...] > > Any suggestions? Yes. Think Penguin sells computers compatible with GNU/Linux that do not need proprietary drivers. They

Re: Recommended editor for novice programmers?

On 02/09/17 17:46, david...@freevolt.org wrote: > I somehow doubt that you yourself find Emacs or Vim "difficult to > use", or believe their design is "arcane". (Of course, I might well be > mistaken. I'm only guessing.) I use GNU Emacs. I am being honest when I say that it is difficult to use

Re: Recommended editor for novice programmers?

On 02/09/17 15:37, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, September 02, 2017 03:03:23 PM Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > This is OT to the subject of this thread,but at first I was going to comment > and say that there is also, for example, KDE/Linux, as, indeed, I rarely > touch

Re: Recommended editor for novice programmers?

> My Linux user group is setting up one desktop computer and one laptop > computer for lending to our local library as an educational resource for > folks who want to explore what Linux is all about. We are using Debian 9 > for now. The first think is to realize that Linux is a kernel, not an

Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98%

On 02/09/17 12:23, Luis Speciale wrote: > Installing GRUB boot loader > > 66% > Running "update grub"… > > I'm going to wait a little and see if it ends the install When I installed Debian 9, the installer wanted to install grub on a wrong path. I had to specify the path manually. Try to

Re: One-line password generator

On 01/09/17 22:33, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 09:38:14PM -0500, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: >> No. Entropy is the appropriate word. Please recall that “entropy” is >> just a different scale > > Use of the word "scale" is one example of things

Re: One-line password generator

On 01/09/17 18:43, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > (Probably obvious, but as long as you're reading from urandom, > "entropy" is the wrong word, in this context, better to say "128 bits > of crytographically secure numbers" as that which has been said e.g. > by the Linux kernel urandom developers as

Re: One-line password generator

On 22/08/17 10:04, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > I have the following line in my Bash init file: > > “alias gen-password="head -c 16 /dev/urandom | base64 | head -c 22 && echo"” > > This generates a password with just above 128 bits of entropy. You may > find

Re: Configure_GnuPG 2

On 31/08/17 16:40, miz...@elude.in wrote: > unregistered user > > hello, > > i configured s2k but i would like use 25519 , i would like harden .conf > do i need add some special options ? s2k means “string to key” (the 2 is a play on words for “to” since it sounds similar). It refers to

Re: lilypond workaround against lilypond-removal

When a package is not in Debian there is also the option of compiling from source. Sometimes this is not practical, though (because it has too many dependencies which are in turn hard to build). -- Do not eat animals; respect them as you respect people.

Re: How to install extra TeX fonts without crud?

On 31/08/17 02:48, Curt wrote: > One way is to download the deb file and install it via 'dpkg -i > texlive-fonts-extra_2016.20170123-5_all.deb'. Thanks you for your reply. Won't dpkg refuse to install because of missing “dependencies”? -- Do not eat animals; respect them as you respect

Re: Selecting text

On 30/08/17 22:12, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > I now have a strange situation that on one system running Stretch + Sid > the piece of text does not turn color when selecting it. Mixing releases is one quick way to break your system. -- Do not eat animals; respect them as you respect people.

Re: Atril configuration saving

On 30/08/17 06:27, Haines Brown wrote: > I find the atril pdf viewer to be the most satisfactory choice for my > needs. However, a problem is that it does not save my configuration. Hello. What do you find good about Atril as compared to Evince (if you have used the later)? It is not a

How to install extra TeX fonts without crud?

Hello. I want to install some fonts to use in LaTeX that seem to be available only in the “texive-fonts-extra” package. The problem, is that “texive-fonts-extra” depends on a lot of fonts packages that I do not want. Is there a way to install only the TeX fonts contained in “texive-fonts-extra”

Re: On another (but related) note: Zip files

On 30/08/17 05:14, Darac Marjal wrote: > So, because gzip has such a market share in the Linux world, it makes > sense for it to be included in the debian base install (in fact, apt and > various utilities rely on it, so it needs to be there). Zip files, > though, are much less common in the Linux

Re: Unable to change mouse acceleration and threshold in Stretch

On 29/08/17 09:36, Илья Валеев wrote: > 28.08.2017 01:29, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: >> Apparently, libinput uses its own parameters and ignores the parameters >> that “xset” alters. > > The main issue is that I cannot change mouse acceleration and threshold > thr

Re: Future of linux-image-grsec-* packages

On 29/08/17 02:22, Adrien CLERC wrote: > Hi, > > Since the announce of grsecurity to go to a complete non-free (as in > beer) model (see https://grsecurity.net/passing_the_baton.php), I was > wondering if there is any future for those packages. I suggest you write to the maintainer of that Debian

Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting

On 28/08/17 18:07, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > The above lines give me fixed mount points based on filesystem labels > (LABEL), but UUID will also work. Device names are no good as they are > by default dynamically assigned for USB storage devices. To complement the information given by Ben

Re: Resign me from your lists

On 28/08/17 09:18, Fungi4All wrote: > Are you suggesting someone should read 4856 pages of manuals > before they install Debian, let alone ask a "dumb question"? No, you can learn as you need it. I know that manuals are long and tedious. I do not expect you to read it all before asking, but I

Re: Resign me from your lists

On 27/08/17 18:15, Ben Finney wrote: > Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc...@yandex.com> writes: > >> I assumed originally that this was a person who subscribed then >> realized he did not want to be subscribed and decided to complain to >> the list about that

Re: Resign me from your lists

On 28/08/17 01:09, Reco wrote: > Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc...@yandex.com> wrote: >> I have to admit that I do not know what specific header you are talking >> about. >> >> I was not aware that this mailing list was used in “From:” spoofing. > > X-Spa

Re: Unable to change mouse acceleration and threshold in Stretch

On 27/08/17 13:57, Илья Валеев wrote: > 21.08.2017 01:00, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: >> I use LXDE and I can adjust the acceleration and speed through the program >> accessible in LXDE menu. It is called “mouse and keyboard preferences“ or >> something like that. However, e

Re: Resign me from your lists

On 27/08/17 14:03, Reco wrote: > On Sun, 27 Aug 2017 11:17:09 -0500 > Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc...@yandex.com> wrote: >> Then why did you subscribe to this mailing list in the first place? > > He did not (e-mail headers show that clearly). He's probably yet anothe

Re: Resign me from your lists

On 27/08/17 10:56, Paul Farou wrote: > I am receiving unwanted mail from you please get me off these lists! Then why did you subscribe to this mailing list in the first place? Are you stupid? To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with subject “unsubscribe”. --

Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System

On 25/08/17 22:14, ray wrote: > I would like to find a way to keep track of changes I make to my system. It > seem that I may learn from others on how they keep track of changes they make > to their systems. I have a plain-text file of notes, which I keep under Mercurial version control. I

Re: Ask the isosceles triangle people. This is the TRIANGLE-user mailing list

On 26/08/17 13:06, david...@freevolt.org wrote: > On Sat, 26 Aug 2017, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: >> Whatever you find in Tails, is there because of a Tails developer >> put it there. > > I am perpelexed by this last statement, since the uri in the error > message repo

Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System

On 26/08/17 16:10, Joe wrote: >> Thank you for the list of solutions. It is interesting that SVN can >> be used with etckeeper. It looks like I should learn git. I have >> used SVN for other things, but I am easily pulled from my comfort >> zone for value. > > Git is very widely used, and on

Re: One-line password generator

On 27/08/17 08:55, Brian wrote: > Thank you for the detailed explanation. I had already come to some of > the conclusions in your account but it is good to have them firmly and > succinctly laid out. You are welcome. -- Do not eat animals, respect them as you respect people.

Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch

On 26/08/17 20:36, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2017-08-25, Borden Rhodes wrote: >> I encourage everyone to check out "How to Irritate People salesmen" on >> your favourite community video streaming site. That's how I've found >> FOSS support: "Best software in the world. No

Re: One-line password generator

On 26/08/17 13:25, Brian wrote: > How does this > > echo 'secretpassword' | sha256sum - | base64 | cut -c -30 | head -1 > > compare with your recommendation? I do not see the point in this post-processing. It seems that you have a very wrong impression of what makes a password generation

Re: How does one create virtual ethernet devices with modern tools on Debian 8 (jessie)?

On 25/08/17 10:03, Tom Browder wrote: > Thanks, Sven, very helpful. Can you recommend a good modern book on > networking? I learned the fundamentals of networking (which is very different from learning how to use the networking tools in GNU/Linux) from this book:

Re: Ask the isosceles triangle people. This is the TRIANGLE-user mailing list

On 25/08/17 23:39, david...@freevolt.org wrote: > On Fri, 25 Aug 2017, Mario Castelán Castro wrote to debian-user[1]: >> Ask the tails people. This is the DEBIAN-user mailing list. > > If this was intended to discourage such questions here, I think it is > not a fair object

Re: How to change date and time format for quoting in Thunderbird?

On 25/08/17 15:41, Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희, 黃炳熙) wrote: > "lambda.alex.chromebook" is my chromebook's system-name. The others is > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/soyeomul/Gnus/MaGnus/thanks-mid.rb.message-id I do not understand. -- Do not eat animals, respect them as you respect people.

Re: Codecs and such? Like ubuntu restricted extras package?

On 25/08/17 19:20, Anonymous wrote: > Does something like this exist in Debian? A package which > brings in restricted extras? A repository for all these > extras? (without trusting some vague "unofficial" maintainer) For that matter, bear in mind that officially any package outside the “main”

Re: One-line password generator

On 25/08/17 13:44, Thomas Schmitt wrote: >> I will justify my claim of incompetence. > > So that it does not look like an intentional insult ? This is plain and simply my reason is to avoid further discussion about cryptography with you. I did not write this with the purpose of making an

Re: One-line password generator

On 25/08/17 12:15, Thomas Schmitt wrote: >> Also, the theoretical vulnerability described in that man page is far >> fetched. > It is a mathematical fact. If you take a few theoretically unpredictable > bits and inflate them to 128 bits, then the added size is no entropy, > although it might be

Re: One-line password generator

On 25/08/17 12:11, Brian wrote: >> Unless you have a good reason to think otherwise (e.g. *you* manage the >> web site and you know you are doing a good job), you should assume that >> the data-base with hashes passwords will leak without the system >> administrators noticing, and then an attack

Re: One-line password generator

On 25/08/17 11:51, Brian wrote: > However, users use passwords to log into accounts *online* and those > passwords are devised to withstand an *online* attack (of 100 tests per > second maximimum(?)). This is the only aspect a user can completely > control and many make a good job of it. Passwords

Re: One-line password generator

On 25/08/17 09:46, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Mario Castelán Castro wrote: >> In principle, yes, but in practice, not at all. File compressors [...] > > I wrote "estimate", "approximation", and "best possible compression". > Of course gzip is not

Re: One-line password generator

On 25/08/17 04:21, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > One can estimate entropy by an approximation of the best possible > compression in the context of the knowledge of the reader. > The compression result will generally be longer if the compressor has > fewer knowledge about the message. In principle, yes,

Re: How to change date and time format for quoting in Thunderbird?

On 25/08/17 07:36, Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희, 黃炳熙) wrote: > In Article <3af44f03-ebc9-473c-2d77-36961f66d...@yandex.com>, >> When replying to a message in Thunderbird as packaged in Debian 9, the >> date and time is automatically placed before the quote, like this: “On >> 22/08/17 17:31, $NAME wrote:”.

Re: Tails: Failed InRelease - tor+http://vwakviie2ienjx6t.onion/

On 24/08/17 20:51, Anonymous wrote: > I'm seeing this in Tails [...] Ask the tails people. This is the DEBIAN-user mailing list. -- Do not eat animals, respect them as you respect people. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how+to+(become+OR+eat)+vegan signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

How to change date and time format for quoting in Thunderbird?

When replying to a message in Thunderbird as packaged in Debian 9, the date and time is automatically placed before the quote, like this: “On 22/08/17 17:31, $NAME wrote:”. How can I change the format used for the date and time? In addition, I want to change the format of $NAME to include his

Re: Public Key

On 24/08/17 10:21, Dan Norton wrote: > Oops - forgot to try GNU Stow. Another time maybe. In this case, you used the package manager, so there is no need for stow. GNU Stow is useful when installing manually, for example, when one compiles from source. > Thank you, Mario, for your help. Great

Re: Public Key

On 23/08/17 20:52, Dan Norton wrote: > Debian 8 is what I use. You must have snipped off that part of my post. Right. You mentioned it in your very first post in this thread, but I skipped over it. My bad. > $ sudo gpg --keyserver 'hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net' --fingerprint '6D5B > EF9A DD20

Re: Public Key

On 23/08/17 19:34, Dan Norton wrote: > I'm all for that, but unfortunately... > $ apt-cache show borgbackup | grep ^Homepage > E: No packages found > > Before posting I searched for borg and because nothing turned up I tried > to install it another way. It's supposed to be a self-contained

Re: Public Key

On 23/08/17 15:11, Dan Norton wrote: > #1 SMP Debian 3.16.43-2+deb8u2 (2017-06-26) > is on my desktop. In the process of installing borg from: > > https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/releases You can install it easily in Debian. The package is called “borgbackup”. However, in Debian 9 it is an

Re: One-line password generator

On 23/08/17 14:11, Brian wrote: >> As for the scenario where the password is compromised and that leads to >> somebody posting slander in one behalf, that can happen without any need >> for password cracking. Anybody can create a profile in a social network >> pretending to be you with the

Re: One-line password generator

On 23/08/17 11:57, Brian wrote: >> If you do not care about security, you could generate a single 4 >> character bit block with my method and save typing. > > One online password checker (not that I understand how it works or even > trust it) gives > >

Re: One-line password generator

On 22/08/17 17:31, Brian wrote: > You will now explain why the first one will be broken in the next > 100 years. I'm past caring after that. If you do not care about security, you could generate a single 4 character bit block with my method and save typing. >> If the password is not important

Re: Wireless devices and cryptography in practice (Was: USB wireless keyboard in stretch)

On 22/08/17 15:11, Jape Person wrote: > You have been *very* helpful. You educated / reminded me on why even > testing for exploits isn't necessarily useful when the firmware is not > Open Source, and you told me about the existence of magnetic quick > release USB cables. Time to shop! > > And

Re: One-line password generator

On 22/08/17 15:14, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > Generate a 3-bit long password, for example: > > mario@svetlana [0] [/home/mario] > $ head -c 3 /dev/urandom | base64 > w5eJ Apologies. This is of course, a 3 BYTE long password (24 bits), not 3 BIT long!! I also want to point

Re: One-line password generator

On 22/08/17 15:14, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > Generate a 3-bit long password, for example: > > mario@svetlana [0] [/home/mario] > $ head -c 3 /dev/urandom | base64 > w5eJ Apologies. This is of course, a 3 BYTE long password (24 bits), not 3 BIT long. Hehe. -- Do not eat a

Re: One-line password generator

On 22/08/17 14:46, Brian wrote: > Wow! Can you suggest something which gives one teensy-weensy bit of > memorability? I do not recommend “memorable passwords” at all. The reasons are as explained next. If the password is not important (for example, account of web forums) then you can use store

Re: Wireless devices and cryptography in practice (Was: USB wireless keyboard in stretch)

On 22/08/17 13:01, Jape Person wrote: > There's no fix for my wife and the presence of cables. In this case, the > cables for keyboard and mouse run from the Intel NUC computer nestled in > a table beside her recliner to the keyboard on her lap and the mouse on > her arm rest. She has yanked the

Re: Wireless devices and cryptography in practice (Was: USB wireless keyboard in stretch)

On 22/08/17 12:38, Nicolas George wrote: > Wrong, "pay a loan" and "pay a loan" are the same problem. "Pay a loan" > and "escape the police after robbing a bank" are two different problems, > for example. Wrong. Your ambiguous choice of words has hidden the difference. First it is “pay THE loan

Re: Wireless devices and cryptography in practice (Was: USB wireless keyboard in stretch)

On 22/08/17 12:33, Nicolas George wrote: > Le quintidi 5 fructidor, an CCXXV, Mario Castelán Castro a écrit : >> Wireless things do not solve the problem of having to cope with wires. >> They just replace this with the bigger problem of unauduitable firmware >> directly ex

Wireless devices and cryptography in practice (Was: USB wireless keyboard in stretch)

On 22/08/17 10:22, Jape Person wrote: > Hence, why I suspect that they are vulnerable. I bought these things > because my wife trips over her cables 3 or 4 times a day, and wireless > ones are just easier to deal with from a workstation logistics standpoint. Wireless things do not solve the

Re: One-line password generator

On 22/08/17 10:09, Greg Wooledge wrote: > https://packages.debian.org/stretch/pwgen > https://packages.debian.org/stretch/makepasswd > https://packages.debian.org/stretch/apg > https://packages.debian.org/stretch/otp > https://packages.debian.org/stretch/gpw > ... There is no point in installing

One-line password generator

I have the following line in my Bash init file: “alias gen-password="head -c 16 /dev/urandom | base64 | head -c 22 && echo"” This generates a password with just above 128 bits of entropy. You may find it useful. -- Do not eat animals, respect them as you respect people.

Re: Relocated Header Directories

On 22/08/17 09:57, Christian Seiler wrote: > Not programs, but packages, yes. Not all library packages in Debian > have been updated to use the Multi-Arch scheme yet (in some cases > other aspects of the package may make this difficult, even if it > is easy to put the .so file into the new

Re: Relocated Header Directories

Thanks everybody for the explanation (note that I did not make the original question). I had been wondering about why some of my “.so” were in “/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu” instead of just “/usr/lib”. What about the ELF shared objects that *are* under “/usr/lib”? Are these programs that do not have

Re: Remove contents

On 22/08/17 07:44, Sherwin Kamperveen wrote: > Is it possible to remove the following contents. It is content that is very old. No. All information sent to these mailing lists is made public by the author. It is NOT possible to remove, and the Debian project will ignore any such request. See the

Re: USB wireless keyboard in stretch

On 22/08/17 04:11, Darac Marjal wrote: > Don't forget your TEMPEST-approved faraday cage (I mean, what's the wire > between the keyboard and the computer if not a nice aerial?) No. USB uses twisted pair, which is designed specifically to be a bad antenna. Also, the relatively low frequency of USB

Re: USB wireless keyboard in stretch

On 21/08/17 23:02, Jape Person wrote: > The keyboard communications are encrypted, and both mouse and keyboard > are rechargeable. But I at least have to check with Cherry support to > learn whether or not my new toys are vulnerable. I suspect that they are. The problem is that even if the

Re: USB wireless keyboard in stretch

On 21/08/17 17:09, Alle Meije Wink wrote: > Does anyone understand the cause of this problem *The USB wireless keyboard IS itself a problem*. You are unnecessarily contaminating the environment consuming Voltaic cells where none is needed (obviously wired keyboards feed through the cable) and

Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch

On 2017-08-21 09:08 -0700 tony mollica wrote: >I don't usually complain about free stuff but, for me, stretch has >become a distant back-runner to previous releases. Jessie was fast and >everything worked. Stretch has become a day to day challenge for even >minor issues.

Re: What tool can I use to make efficient incremental backups?

On 2017-08-19 23:07 -0400 Celejar wrote: >There's Borg, which apparently has good deduplication. I've just >started using it, but it's a very sophisticated and quite popular piece >of software, judging by chatter in various internet threads. This seems like an excellent tool

Re: What tool can I use to make efficient incremental backups?

On 2017-08-20 19:37 + Glenn English wrote: >For me, the big drawback to Amanda was the initial configuration. It's >huge and complex (at least it was a couple decades ago). But after >it's all done, a cron job will run your backup(s) every night, while >you sleep, with no

Re: Debian live installer problems

On 2017-08-20 14:58 -0600 Arjun Krishnan wrote: >On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Pascal Hambourg >wrote: >> Also, IIRC, the ISO file must be on a FAT filesystem, because at that >> stage the installer can only mount FAT or ISO9660. > >Oh! This does

Re: Unable to change mouse acceleration and threshold in Stretch

On 2017-08-21 00:26 +0500 Илья Валеев wrote: >It seems to work, thank you! > >Is there any way to configure it via GUI or another way without restart? >The way described in Arch Wiki does not do anything. >If not, will it be added in future Debian (or DE?) releases? Hello.

Re: DVD won't eject after playing DVD

On 2017-08-20 19:30 +0200 "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: >It is futile to start research as long as intellectual dumplings like > http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi=135705061804384=2 >or > http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi=14592729714=2 >are ignored. appears to be

Re: Debian live installer problems

On 2017-08-20 13:36 -0400 Arjun Krishnan wrote: >Now grub.cfg has entries that look like this, where debian-squeeze.iso is >on the root directory of the usb drive. Also (again I forgot in the previous message): I was assuming that you were trying to install Debian 9 “stretch”,

Re: Debian live installer problems

On 2017-08-20 13:36 -0400 Arjun Krishnan wrote: >So thinking I had the wrong initrd like you suggested, I copied the initrd >and vmlinuz to the root partition of the usb *Which* “initrd”? There are many of them. The ones *inside* the ISO image does not work for loading the ISO

Re: Debian live installer problems

On 2017-08-20 09:59 -0600 Arjun Krishnan wrote: >> The installer needs to find its own ISO image. The non-live installer >> will only search by default in the root directories of your >> file-systems, but not in the subdirectories. Maybe this is the case >> with the live

Re: Debian live installer problems

On 2017-08-19 21:49 -0600 Arjun Krishnan wrote: >Once I get to the boot screen and try to run the graphical installer, it >fails after loading the kernel. But the live cd does boot. However, the >live cd that I booted above (cinnamon+nonfree) does not have a way to run >the

Re: i386 executables on amd64?

On 2017-08-19 18:01 -0700 cono...@rahul.net (John Conover) wrote: >Astonishingly, most of the Wheezy i386 executables run on the Jessie >amd64 machine, (which came with the project.) > >Is this to be expected? x86-64 CPU can run IA32 programs, even when using a OS (having explicit support for

Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos

On 2017-08-19 20:47 +0200 Gilles Mocellin wrote: >Unless you really don't wnt libvirt, you should look at virt-manager. Thanks for the suggestion. I will take a look into libvirt in the unlikely case that my current approach becomes insufficient in the future. So

Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos

On 2017-08-19 17:02 +1000 Zenaan Harkness wrote: >Which TUI/GUI do you use? I do not know what is TUI. I don't use any GUI. I write Bash scripts that call QEMU with the required options and I use “qemu-img” from the command line when needed. >I've been struggling to create

Re: What tool can I use to make efficient incremental backups?

On 2017-08-18 23:53 +0100 Liam O'Toole wrote: >I use duplicity for exactly this scenario. See the wiki page[1] to get >started. > >1: https://wiki.debian.org/Duplicity Judging from a quick glance at that project's homepage in GNU Savannah, this seem indeed to be the

Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos

On 2017-08-18 17:56 -0700 Patrick Bartek wrote: >There's always VMWare or XEN neither of which I have any real experience >with, just read the manuals. Never cared much for QEMU or kvm, but >that was years ago. Maybe, they're easier to set up and use now.. QEMU has been

Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos

On 2017-08-18 18:19 -0400 RavenLX wrote: >On 08/18/2017 10:44 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> Virtualbox has shared folders (directory) as well as shared Clipboard. >> You just need to install Guest Additions in the Guest OS to enable it. >> I use both all the time. >

Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos

On 2017-08-18 09:31 -0500 Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc...@yandex.com> wrote: >I recommend QEMU. I must note that it features hardware acceleration (KVM >used to be a fork of QEMU to implement this feature but it was merged >back). Moreover, you can use SPICE <https://w

Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos

On 2017-08-18 16:25 +0200 Dejan Jocic wrote: >On 18-08-17, RavenLX wrote: >> On 08/18/2017 09:14 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: >> I wonder if there's a replacement for VirtualBox? I need something that >> will allow me to share a directory between host and virtual machine, >> and to

Re: What tool can I use to make efficient incremental backups?

On 17/08/17 15:51, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 03:24:35PM -0500, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > [...] > > But in general, folks here tend to be tolerant. And yes, there's a > wiki entry encouraging "in-line" quoting [1]. Ah, I see. I rarely chec

Re: debian-user is only for English text

On 17/08/17 12:58, Brad Rogers wrote: > It's frustrating, I know, seeing all that stuff. The regex I use to > delete it is getting ever larger. :-( Maybe you can use a learning e-mail spam filter (e.g.: bogofilter, sylfilter, or the one built into your MUA – if any). I do not know how

Re: What tool can I use to make efficient incremental backups?

On 17/08/17 13:31, Nicolas George wrote: > [[elided]] > > No, it is the other way around: we rsync the data to a directory stored > on a btrfs filesystem, and then we make a snapshot of that directory. > With btrfs's CoW, only the parts of the files that have changed use > space. Thanks for the

Re: What tool can I use to make efficient incremental backups?

Thanks for your answer. Let me know if I understood your approach correctly. You have a directory in a btrfs filesystem that is the target of your backups. When you make a backup, you take a brtfs snapshot of this directory and *then* use rsync. Is this correct? Regards. On 17/08/17 12:50,

Re: debian-user is only for English text

On 17/08/17 12:25, Brad Rogers wrote: > [[elided]] > > The people you're addressing don't even read this list. They're > spammers or, even worse, (stupidly) responding to spam. Thanks for your reply. Given that I do not understand that language, I assumed it was an actual user. signature.asc

Re: What tool can I use to make efficient incremental backups?

On 17/08/17 12:10, Fungi4All wrote: > [[elided]] > Stay with rsync Why? Isn't there a more efficient alternative? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

Have you passed the appropriate options to QEMU? You *must* use “-drive file=...”. For example “-drive file=/dev/sda”. Read the QEMU manual for details. QEMU does not gives the the guest is access to host devices by default; that would be a very high security risk. On 17/08/17 12:06, Gary Roach

debian-user is only for English text

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What tool can I use to make efficient incremental backups?

Hello. Currently I use rsync to make the backups of my personal data, including some manually selected important files of system configuration. I keep old backups to be more safe from the scenario where I have deleted something important, I make a backup, and I only notice the deletion

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