Re: Preferred video cards for 3D?

2002-06-27 Thread Bijan Soleymani
). Bijan Soleymani www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

procmail rule to filter debian-user

2008-09-23 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Hey everyone, I need a rule to filter debian-user into a seperate maildir. I know there's the header: X-Maling-List: debian-user... so I tried: * ^X-Mailing-List: debian-user.* /home/bijan/Maildir/.lists.debian/ and several variations, but none of them worked. Thank in advance, Bijan --

Re: Debian Installation -- Kernel Link Failure --

2004-07-06 Thread Bijan Soleymani
recommended in the kernel documentation. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NETGEAR MA311 802.11b Wireless PCI Network Adapter Card

2004-07-06 Thread Bijan Soleymani
) is required and simply try out that module with: $ modprobe modulename if that works add modulename to /etc/modules if not, remove it with: $ modprobe -r modulename and try again. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: NETGEAR MA311 802.11b Wireless PCI Network Adapter Card

2004-07-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
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Re: tzconfig for Otario Canada

2004-07-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
S.D.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, it's easy enough to find; http://www.canadainfolink.ca/time.htm Manitoba is the western border for EDT. Anywhere West of 90 degrees longitude in Ontario falls in the Central time zone. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Can't surf with Mozilla

2004-07-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
described in the man page. But you should probably check out windowmaker (wmaker), icewm, etc. For more recent window managers. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: PEAR Download

2004-07-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
{4}/cgi/php.ini and look for the line: memory_limit = 8M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (8MB) and increase the limit. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Samba and Codepages question (smbmount)

2004-07-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
for the codepage you're trying to use? That might be necessary. You can find it under: File Systems - Native Language Support - Codepage XXX Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: new user

2004-07-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
that... If your problem is that you don't want to receive tons of mail, you can use the archives or gmane to access the list. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Copy Paste into vi??

2004-07-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
(highlight it) and then switch to vi and middle click (of course have to be in insert mode). If your mouse doesn't have a middle button you might be able to click both buttons at the same time. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Samba and Codepages question (smbmount)

2004-07-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
, but the use count will be at zero, if you then use the module, the use count will go to one. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian on a laptop....

2004-07-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
windows over it should take care of it. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: postscript-enabled mozilla package anyone?

2004-07-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
it's retarded to drop support for generic-postscript if it's already there. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Recompile source after error

2004-07-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
compilation restarting each time. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: newsgate

2004-07-08 Thread Bijan Soleymani
(this message is being posted from gmane). You can check if they have the lists you are looking for. If not you could ask the guy who runs it (Lars) for some pointers. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: new gnome file selection

2004-07-08 Thread Bijan Soleymani
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Re: Pick up a shell session after ssh timeout

2004-07-09 Thread Bijan Soleymani
). Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bochs v. vmware

2002-09-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Vmware let's you run an operating system compiled for i386 (intel) on i386. It only simulates an interface to the hardware. So that you can run windows for i386 on linux for i386. While bochs actually emulates the i386 so that you can run windows for i386 on something like a sun sparc. Bijan

Re: Recording DAO CD's

2002-09-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
I use cdrecord for that cdrecord -dev=x,x,x speed=x -dao -audio -pad *.wav cdrdao should also have similar options, but I have never used it. Bijan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: jigdo checksum error

2002-09-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 12:04:38PM -0700, Terry Hancock wrote: Hi, I'm trying out jigdo to retrieve a Debian 3.0r0 CD image set, and after quite a long download, I get a checksum error. Is there any way to fix this short of starting the whole process from scratch? (I really hope so).

Re: high load average

2002-09-23 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Is this normal? I don't seem to remember having ide performance issues like this before (this is a new install). This is normal if dma is not enabled. It isn't enabled by default in Debian. To enable it install hdparm and then run hdparm -d1 /dev/hdx as root where x is either a,b,c,d

Re: nvidia screen resolution

2002-09-24 Thread Bijan Soleymani
This might be because you haven't specified refresh rates for your monitor. Something like this should work. HorizSync 31.5 - 57.0 VertRefresh 50-100 That should be in your monitor section in /etc/X11/XF86config Use appropriate values for your monitor. Bijan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: image viewer recommendation

2002-09-24 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Try xzgv it does exactly that and is very light on resources. There is also zgv. Zgv is the original version which is a console based image viewer that uses svga lib (and it also supports thumbnails of directories and slideshows!). Bijan Kevin Coyner wrote: I'm sure there are more than a few

Re: Symlink clarification needed (vi - vim)

2002-09-28 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 03:56:51PM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote: I know that some programs react differently depending on how they are called. When you create a symlink to a program, does the program know that it was started by using a symlink? For instance when I create a vi symlink to

Re: Viewing avi files

2002-10-02 Thread Bijan Soleymani
bob parker wrote: On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 02:13, you wrote: Using Woody. Please advise what program to view avi files Install mplayer :) here : http://mplayer.nmeos.net/ cya Thanks, I downloaded the K6 binary for my k7 box and installed just fine. When I start Mplayer it just

Re: Viewing avi files

2002-10-03 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: My point is that I believe there is a documented Debian way to use source code to build a full .deb file so that the user has the power of dpkg/apt to add/remove it (the package, doc, config etc) later. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a mini how-to

Re: Viewing avi files

2002-10-03 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Sridhar M.A. wrote: On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 09:59:22AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: The mplayer team reminds that any precompiled binaries are 'unsupported' (whatever that means) because most of mplayer's configuration is done at compile time. They suggest that the only way to

Re: Windows Metafiles

2002-10-03 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Tom Cook wrote: I have this nasty NT app called ActiveHDL that I use for VHDL development. Its block diagram editor doesn't export to any reasonable format. I am trying to put block diagrams from it in a Latex document, and am having all sorts of grief. I would prefer it to be a vector

Re: VERY OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-04 Thread bijan soleymani
Edward Guldemond wrote: On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 06:23:01AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: By the way, I like the idea of the duel. That would really be great, if they want to fight, let them do it themselves and stop messing the lives of others (who will not make any money from the oil

Re: The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-10 Thread Bijan Soleymani
David Pastern wrote: If a .jpeg file image is what I want all is fine. If not i'll use a program called xnview (freely available from www.xnview.com) to convert the image. Dave The gimp also saves to many other formats. There are also free software programs available in Debian that do

Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

2004-02-24 Thread Bijan Soleymani
. There is some information along these lines on: http://www.sheldonbrown.org/brakturn.html http://draco.acs.uci.edu/rbfaq/FAQ/9.17.html Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

2004-02-24 Thread Bijan Soleymani
at: http://www.icebike.org Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: jpeg to mpeg or avi

2004-02-24 Thread Bijan Soleymani
doesn't use mpeg audio, you have to add in the lame library. And it doesn't make plain mpg files. It will pack them into avis. And you have to be careful which codec it used for video as well... Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

2004-02-24 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:53:45AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 10:42:44AM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: I believe the proper technique is to brake harder with the front brakes and apply enough pressure to the rear brakes so that you can feel when the rear wheel

Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

2004-02-24 Thread Bijan Soleymani
needed to avoid hitting them. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

2004-02-25 Thread Bijan Soleymani
completely lock my back wheel and my bike will keep going (especially downhill). It's not that the back break is too weak (it's locking the wheel). It's just that there's only so much breaking the back wheel can do. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc

Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

2004-02-25 Thread Bijan Soleymani
wheel you're sure not to flip over, but you're also getting much less deceleration. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Futile screenshot question

2004-03-03 Thread Bijan Soleymani
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Re: Memory leak

2022-02-11 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-02-11 14:52, Celejar wrote: As I mentioned in another post, I do this occasionally, but I'm not sure how to interpret the results. I just killed firefox; I got back about 3.5 GB, but the system is still using about 4.8, and Xorg's usage hasn't changed: ~ 4436M / 3081M / 105M. Closing

Re: Request free live CD

2022-02-11 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-02-10 21:25, Celejar wrote: I do understand and agree with this, but my point was that we (at least the more helpful of us) on this list are perfectly willing to freely give of our time to help others, so why would we (at least those of us fortunate enough to have disposable income to

Re: Misremembered (was: Re: Stupid question)

2022-02-14 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-02-14 10:02, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I think I did mis-remember this, and the behavior I described is more like the behavior of the Debian installer (i.e., it boots an image (with a Linux kernel) into RAM to use temporarily for the installation. I just wanted to try to correct this

Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is the best course of action?

2022-02-12 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-02-12 11:03, Stella Ashburne wrote: What should I do? What is the best course of action? It seems that basic X windows or GUI apps are compiled with libthai support. This is probably done in a way that they won't run without it being installed (failed to load due to missing library).

Re: One user system.

2022-02-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-02-01 13:29, john doe wrote: If my understanding is correct, you will need to use 'sudo'. Yes. sudo passwd Should allow you so set a password for root. It will ask for your password first (if you haven't run sudo recently), and then new password for root and confirmation of that

Re: One user system.

2022-02-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-02-01 14:47, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: Thanks. Still a multi-user system. Whereas puppy linux has one user, root. To make debian one-user I think of ... Then proceed as root rather than me. Oh! Is your goal to only have root? I assumed you wanted to login as root, but didn't

Re: Android apps on Debian

2022-01-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-29 17:25, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On 2022-01-29 15:38, John Hasler wrote: Apkpure has the Starlink app but as I had never heard of them (No reason to, not having an Android phone) I didn't download it immediately.  Are they reliable? I don't know if they modify the apks they host

Re: Android apps on Debian

2022-01-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-29 15:38, John Hasler wrote: local10 writes: First, identify the app you want to install, then download it from apkpure ( https://apkpure.com/ ) or similar sites. Apkpure has the Starlink app but as I had never heard of them (No reason to, not having an Android phone) I didn't

Re: Android apps on Debian

2022-01-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-29 17:38, John Hasler wrote: Bijan writes: I don't know if they modify the apks they host but as far as I know the original apk (from the play store) will be signed by the app publisher/writer. So if they haven't removed that you can just verify the signature is from the

Re: Android apps on Debian

2022-01-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-29 17:57, Bijan Soleymani wrote:     Now, find the .obb file (usually named as “com.x.obb”) within the file and copy it into the location: /sdcard/storage/emulated/0/Android/obb/.     Lastly, install the .apk file. Within a few minutes, you would be able to run

Re: Android apps on Debian

2022-01-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-29 13:29, John Hasler wrote: Is there a simple way to run Android apps under Debian such as an emulator? My Starlink terminal is arriving next week and it would be convenient to be able to run the Starlink app. However, I do not have either an IOS or an Android device. Just to go

Re: One user system.

2022-02-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-02-01 20:01, Nate Bargmann wrote: I must be the odd one out as I interpreted the OP as having set a root password but now wanting to remove it so as to have just the main user set to do root's work and that root can no longer log in directly. I hope the OP can clarify! I guess that

Re: OpenSSH: cause of random kex_exchange_identification errors?

2022-02-02 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-02-02 09:44, Vincent Lefevre wrote: In the source, this corresponds to function kex_exchange_identification in kex.c: len = atomicio(read, ssh_packet_get_connection_in(ssh), , 1); if (len != 1 && errno == EPIPE) { error_f("Connection closed by remote

Re: folder compression issue

2022-02-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-02-01 12:04, Peter Ehlert wrote: Ideas? If you want to debug, do a binary search. Move out half the files and try to compress again until it works. And then add back half the files until it fails. should I file a bug report? Sure. Since there's not too many files you can

Re: folder compression issue

2022-02-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-02-01 12:17, Bijan Soleymani wrote: find | xargs stat Oops that might not work if there are spaces in the filenames/directories. You can do: find -print0 | xargs -0 stat In that case. Bijan

Re: Screen goes blank for 1-2 seconds

2022-01-28 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-28 08:40, hdv@gmail wrote: I am reasonably sure the problem lies in some form or combination of software. Sadly, my expertise in that area is insufficient to find out what it is exactly. What kernel/OS/driver are you using if it is software I can try to reproduce since I have a

Re: Screen goes blank for 1-2 seconds

2022-01-28 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-28 10:16, hdv@gmail wrote: About the fan: I seem to remember I had to install amdgpu-fan (needed to look that up, forgot the name) when I got this setup. Not sure if it still is needed or that the driver can control the fan reliably nowadays. I need to check that out too when I get

Re: SSD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-27 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-26 10:07 p.m., Martin McCormick wrote: The SSD passed a fsck test earlier in the day before I blew it up so the chip should be salvageable. I don't care for recovering either of the two partitions which will be overwritten anyway if the SSD can be made writable again. Can

Re: SSD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-27 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-27 8:54 p.m., Martin McCormick wrote: Great suggestions but I can't. Part of the typescript output I included was me doing just that and I was root when I did it but the squawk is that I don't have permission as if I wasn't root. Oops! Sorry I missed the operation not permitted

Re: Package name to report bug with KDE file open dialog

2022-01-28 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-28 11:36, Patrick Dunford wrote: It is not relevant whether the issue occurs in other applications because they all use the file open dialogs in ways that are specific to their application which the end user has no control over and therefore it cannot be tested for If it doesn't

Re: Package name to report bug with KDE file open dialog

2022-01-28 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-28 11:10, Patrick Dunford wrote: Which is the name of the package relating to the file open dialog to use in a bug report? I think it depends on the application :) Do you see it in other applications? If so, you can figure out what GUI toolkit/environment it is gtk, qt, gnome,

Re: Screen goes blank for 1-2 seconds

2022-01-26 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-26 11:35 p.m., Pankaj Jangid wrote> I don’t want to file any bug report till I have some concrete data. So my question is - how do I diagnose such an issue and produce some data for debugging. So that I can hand it over to maintainers. This one line script will sleep for 0.01

Re: Screen goes blank for 1-2 seconds

2022-01-27 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-27 4:06 a.m., hdv@gmail wrote: You are not the only one. I see the exact same here. The system this happens on has an RX560 graphics card. I have been seeing these blackouts from the start on this configuration (more than 2 years now). Interesting, I just checked and it turns out I

Re: Screen goes blank for 1-2 seconds

2022-01-27 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-27 4:23 a.m., Bijan Soleymani wrote: Are you also connected via HDMI? I think I am using DVI to mini display port. Seems the issues happens on windows and on HDMI but not DP: https://www.reddit.com/r/AMDHelp/comments/ez2c4i/rx_570_screen_randomly_goes_black_during/ Two other

Re: Screen goes blank for 1-2 seconds

2022-01-27 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-27 5:00 a.m., hdv@gmail wrote: My guess is about once every week. The display is on for roughly 16 hours each day. There seems to be no discernable relation to "load". At least not that I could confirm. I haven't found a link to a specific application either. This system is a

Re: Android apps on Debian

2022-01-30 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-30 21:54, John Hasler wrote: I have a copy of the app. I'm not going to open a Google Play account. Keep in mind the xapk/apk I saw online only had the arm64 shared libraries. So you'll either need to get an apk with the x86/x86_64/amd64 shared libraries or add arm64 support to

Re: Android apps on Debian

2022-01-30 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-29 13:29, John Hasler wrote: Is there a simple way to run Android apps under Debian such as an emulator? My Starlink terminal is arriving next week and it would be convenient to be able to run the Starlink app. However, I do not have either an IOS or an Android device. Hi, don't

Re: Android apps on Debian

2022-01-30 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-30 21:54, John Hasler wrote: I have a copy of the app. I'm not going to open a Google Play account. Oh ok, you can run the emulator without app store or without signing in and use adb install the apk to the emulator, in case anbox doesn't work. Bijan

Re: Query

2022-02-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-02-07 10:50, William Lee Valentine wrote: I am wondering whether a current Debian distribution can be installed and run on an older Pentium III computer. (I have Debian 11.2 on a DVD.) The computer is    Dell Dimension XPS T500: Intel Pentium III processor (Katnai)    memory: 756

Re: Request free live CD

2022-02-10 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-02-10 20:05, Celejar wrote: I'm genuinely curious about this: time and money are both scarce and precious resources. Why is there an assumption that people will gladly donate of their time to help others, but not their money? Is it because the assumption is that the person asking for

Re: Screen goes blank for 1-2 seconds

2022-01-27 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-27 5:30 a.m., hdv@gmail wrote: Sadly I do not have access to this machine remotely. I do have my own VPN server, but that does not help when the machine in question is turned off. ;-) I'll check the temperature when I am back, and when it happens again. I played around a tiny

Re: gnu screen and resizing terminal window

2022-01-26 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-26 1:45 p.m., Tim Woodall wrote: I have to use PuTTY to connect to a debian server. For reasons that are outwith my control the ssh session disconnects every 24 hrs. Therefore I run screen so after reconnecting I can recover to whereever I was at. However, the PuTTY window does

Re: gnu screen and resizing terminal window

2022-01-26 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-26 5:42 p.m., Bijan Soleymani wrote: As far as I know this is not a screen feature. Putty controls the window size, it is determined by the default or whatever is saved for that session. You can change what happens when you resize the putty window on the machine running putty

Re: gnu screen and resizing terminal window

2022-01-26 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-26 5:55 p.m., Bijan Soleymani wrote: Actually apparently putty does support remote resizing. It just seems that our systems lack the right termcap entries. I managed to resize the putty window by running the command: resize -s height width so: resize -s 24 80 Also adding

Re: Weird printing issue...

2022-04-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-04-07 18:20, nimrod wrote: Hi, I'm getting very strange, and ugly, prints with LibreOffice, Evince and Atril. You can see what I mean in the linked screenshot below. The "screen " image shows what I see when I open a PDF file, with Evince, Atril,

Re: Weird printing issue...

2022-04-09 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-04-09 03:52, nimrod wrote: Thanks for your advice. Unfortunately I couldn't find any setting about Postscript, PCL or such in CUPS, HPLIP and the usual Gnome utilities to manage printers. The only spot where I see something like what you say is from Libreoffice printer's details,

Re: Weird printing issue...

2022-04-09 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-04-09 03:52, nimrod wrote: Thanks for your advice. Unfortunately I couldn't find any setting about Postscript, PCL or such in CUPS, HPLIP and the usual Gnome utilities to manage printers. The only spot where I see something like what you say is from Libreoffice printer's details,

Re: Feature request: install package by passing URL to apt-get

2022-06-24 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Hi Didier, On 6/24/2022 4:36 AM, didier gaumet wrote: Le jeudi 23 juin 2022 à 16:27 -0400, Bijan Soleymani a écrit : rm wrongfile how do I undelete? better put deleted files in the "recycling box" and prompt users on every deletion by default rm -rf / oops! sigh... Bijan Hell

Re: Feature request: install package by passing URL to apt-get

2022-06-24 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 6/24/2022 10:03 AM, Bijan Soleymani wrote: To me anytime you need to use su or sudo to do something, you should not think it is harmless, no matter how simple or easy. Although all that being said, I remember a long time ago getting into a situation with apt or dpkg (removing libc

Re: Feature request: install package by passing URL to apt-get

2022-06-24 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 6/24/2022 2:24 PM, David Wright wrote: This strikes me as a nightmare waiting to happen. There was probably a similar feeling when .deb and dpkg and apt rolled out. I think you made this up. I'm sure there were some people who were happy enough with Slackware when dpkg was evolving, but I

Re: Proprietary WiFi drivers for live mode

2022-06-25 Thread Bijan Soleymani
 6/25/2022 11:48 AM, Bijan Soleymani wrote: You can install packages on the live CD. (sudo apt update, sudo apt install, etc.) Obviously if that wifi adapter is your only networking option on that machine, you won't be able to download packages and will have to make sure

Re: Proprietary WiFi drivers for live mode

2022-06-25 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 6/25/2022 11:11 AM, Kristijonas Lukas Bukauskas wrote: How do I get Wifi working right in live mode? I would prefer Debian, but any Linux ready-to-use image would work for me. Thanks for any help! You can install packages on the live CD. (sudo apt update, sudo apt install, etc.)

Re: Feature request: install package by passing URL to apt-get

2022-06-23 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 6/23/2022 12:03 PM, Person the human wrote: The easier something is to do, the more harmless people will think it is, so you're right. Thanks. rm wrongfile how do I undelete? better put deleted files in the "recycling box" and prompt users on every deletion by default rm -rf / oops!

Re: Proprietary WiFi drivers for live mode

2022-06-25 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 6/25/2022 12:12 PM, Kristijonas Lukas Bukauskas wrote: apt-get install linux-image-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') broadcom-sta-dkms modprobe -r b44 b43 b43legacy ssb brcmsmac bcma modprobe wl Would these packages be in 11.3.0-live+nonfree

Re: Proprietary WiFi drivers for live mode

2022-06-25 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 6/25/2022 2:40 PM, Bijan Soleymani wrote: And after that I see: /lib/modules/5.15.0-25-generic/updates/dkms/wk.ko That should be wl.ko Also once you boot the live cd you can choose: try ubuntu then at the ubuntu desktop instead of the sudo apt install bcmwl-kernel-source you can

Re: Proprietary WiFi drivers for live mode

2022-06-25 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 6/25/2022 4:07 PM, piorunz wrote: Don't walk in the dark. Instead, do the following: sudo dmesg (in live mode without internet) Error in red about network adapter will tell you exact name of the file you need to download on machine with internet. You do it as follows: sudo apt update sudo

Re: Proprietary WiFi drivers for live mode

2022-06-25 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 6/25/2022 5:05 PM, piorunz wrote: On 25/06/2022 22:01, Bijan Soleymani wrote: Unfortunately in this case that might not work. The file that is needed is wl.ko That's what dmesg says? Can you copy entire line here? I think the dmesg output is of the form [time] wl: ... I guess

Re: Monitoring which of a list of machines is up

2022-07-02 Thread Bijan Soleymani
managed to run bash in the docker as root, and install vim, and edit the EditMonitor page and change the minimum from 20 to 1, but either that's the wrong file or I can't figure out how to restart or rebuild the server). Bijan On 2 July 2022 07:44:30 CEST, Bijan Soleymani wrote: Hi, I want

Re: Problem with csh

2022-07-02 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-07-02 14:24, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Jul 02, 2022 at 01:18:08PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I have one application that I compile which requires the csh shell. comp@AbNormal:~$ csh Bad : modifier in $ '/'. AbNormal:~% I've never seen this before but the compilation process

Monitoring which of a list of machines is up

2022-07-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Hi, I want to monitor a half dozen machines and have a screen with a green dot for those that are up and a red dot for those that are down. For this it's enough that they're responding to pings. Half the machines are Linux half are not. Any suggestions? Bijan

Re: Feature request: install package by passing URL to apt-get

2022-06-24 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 6/24/2022 4:48 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 03:22:30PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: How do you handle dependencies where there is a version of the dependency on the server, and another version on a repo in the user's sources.list? Multiple nested dependencies? You

Re: Feature request: install package by passing URL to apt-get

2022-06-24 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 6/24/2022 4:01 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: On 22/06/2022 18:04, Person the human wrote: I just want to get everyone's opinion on this before I request it from the developers or possibly try to add it myself. Would it be nice if it was possible to pass a URL to 'apt install' so that a package

Re: Feature request: install package by passing URL to apt-get

2022-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 6/22/2022 1:04 PM, Person the human wrote: I just want to get everyone's opinion on this before I request it from the developers or possibly try to add it myself. Would it be nice if it was possible to pass a URL to 'apt install' so that a package could be installed without first

Re: Feature request: install package by passing URL to apt-get

2022-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 6/22/2022 5:22 PM, Charles Curley wrote: On Wed, 22 Jun 2022 16:25:02 -0400 Bijan Soleymani wrote: Anyways it would be nice to do: apt install http://domain/filename.deb too. Wonder if there's some optimal/convenient way to handle dependencies if they're on the same server too. How do

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Does DEBIAN BullsEye has FIPS package available

2022-06-16 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-06-15 18:08, Dan Ritter wrote: Tapas Das wrote: Dan, On Redhat Linux, to enable FIPS, FIPS package is available https://access.redhat.com/discussions/3293631 ==> Explains how to validate if FIPS is enabled on Redhat Linux I am looking for something like that, whereby I can

Re: debian-user message size limit

2022-06-17 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-06-17 11:24, Gareth Evans wrote: Is there a limit for message size on debian-user? I checked the data. I have been subscribed since 2003, though I haven't been active for a lot of that period. In 2003 there were a handful of larger messages (largest 154KB). But since then there

Re: debian-user message size limit

2022-06-17 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-06-17 18:20, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On 2022-06-17 11:24, Gareth Evans wrote: Is there a limit for message size on debian-user? I checked the data. I have been subscribed since 2003, though I haven't been active for a lot of that period. Actually I didn't store the emails from some

Re: debian-user message size limit

2022-06-17 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-06-17 19:01, Gareth Evans wrote: On 17 Jun 2022, at 23:25, Bijan Soleymani wrote: Actually I didn't store the emails from some point in 2004 through part of 2008. So I can't say when the limit was lowered but at least from 2009 until now there hasn't been anything over 101KB (103,424

Re: How should learning to program in c++ be approached, if learning objectives are sought to be customised?

2022-06-13 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-06-13 01:57, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On 2022-05-30 13:01, Susmita/Rajib wrote: I was trying to find out if c++ could be used to build device drivers. You said, "... Linux drivers are written in C, but technically you can mix languages: use C++ and link it against C ...". B

Re: Printing the old way

2022-06-14 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 6/14/2022 4:59 PM, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: Folks: Back in the dark days of early Linux, before CUPS, we printed with printers all the time. There was an infrastructure for doing this. Does anyone remember how that worked? As in, what packages were needed, etc.? If you want to do

Re: 64 bit not 64

2022-06-12 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-06-04 18:54, bruce banter wrote: So on my computer when I am trying to install Debian 64 it keeps on telling me it cant do it and its because it’s a 32 bit program! Any reasoning why that might be? What's the exact message? Is it in the installer or the bios boot up or in another OS

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