Re: Strong Copyleft licenses other than the GNU GPL family.

I) are not more authoritative, just a different point of view. And two points of view are still not really enough, here. Not because RMS is wrong but because it takes all sorts of people to keep this world functioning.) And that list of true copyleft licenses on gnu.org, do they still have it? I

Re: Strong Copyleft licenses other than the GNU GPL family.

ent. The more restrictive you make your license, the stronger the > incentive to circumvent it. I'm not really seeing your reasoning here, either. > Regards, > > -- > Nicolas George I would disagree (rather strongly) with at least some of what you seem to be saying, but I'm not r

Re: systemd alternative for Jessie?

; > Yes, you failed to google on month's worth of hundreds of old posts concerning this or you just happen to enjoy trolling. :/ Ric > So what did you mean, when you said, no? That something about the old arrangement would not be available in Jessie? Joel Rees Computer memory is just fancy

Re: systemd alternative for Jessie?

escaping from the influence of the cabal at this point, but is that what the OP was asking? Joel Rees Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens. All is a stream of text flowing from the past into the future.

Re: systemd alternative for Jessie?

comfortable with using more mnemonic names for my one-offs (perl, python, gforth, whatever I've been playing with recently when the shell itself isn't enough.) Puh-taw-toe, puh-tay-toe. > Mart > > -- > "We will need a longer wall when the revolution comes." > --- AJS, qu

Re: make system boot straight to browser connection

il Android 5, made up an ephemeral user, so-to-speak, but it wasn't really ephemeral, and it basically put all control over logging in into the hands of the manufacturer (and carrier). It's a seemingly simple question with big implications in the marketplace. I know Android 5 changed, but I haven't b

Re: Starting systemd user services on boot on a Debian server [SOLVED]

this package if in doubt. > How about, When in doubt, definitely install this package. or, to guide the reader more carefully, This package is installed by default. Unless you have a very good reason and know what you are doing, leave it that way. -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Arm yourself with knowledge of yourself, as well: http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/2011/10/conspiracy-theories.html

Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers?

sion I do need to use iceweasel. > > > > > > I even use it for youtube to get the link then use cclive to download > > > the video, of course I have to change to the GUI to watch it though. :) > > > > Please don't go all pedantic on us! > > It's not pedantic. It makes the thread readable instead of incomprehensible. > > Lisi > I suspect Chris appreciated the humour in that. Joel Rees Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens. All is a stream of text flowing from the past into the future.

Re: Free GNU/Linux intro class for teens advice? Purchase box? Squeak/Smalltalk programming

much for all the great feedback. It is really helpful I think. Regards, marc -- Marc Ronell, PhD CSE, PE EE gpg pub key 42E39C86 on http://pgp.mit.edu/ http://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x304A2DED42E39C86 -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Look first in your

Re: Iceweasel + NoScript: Google search results href anomaly

chinery to do the css processing, and may end up shutting down some of the parts of css that require more processing when you completely disable scripting. -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Arm yourself with knowledge of yourself, as well: http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/2011/10/conspiracy-theories.html

Re: How to write optimized code for an instruction set not supported by my computer?

On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 12:22 AM, Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc...@yandex.com> wrote: > El 13/11/15 a las 19:32, Joel Rees escribió: >> >> Do you use the -S option to get assembly language output to look at? > > > Yes. > >> Yeah, SIMD instructions

Re: Anyone else having password failures at pop.gmail.com?

I lost track of this thread somehow. Sorry. On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 11:39 PM, Frédéric Marchal frederic.marc...@wowtechnology.com wrote: On Thursday 20 August 2015 07:53:33 Joel Rees wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 7:22 AM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: They apparently did something

Re: Anyone else having password failures at pop.gmail.com?

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Wednesday 19 August 2015 18:53:33 Joel Rees wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 7:22 AM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: They apparently did something just before 15:00 local time (GMT-4=EDT today, as both

Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

, and have _everything_ incorporated into systemd ? Troll mode: ON What he explains in the blogpost you link make sense. So let's give it a try ;) So, do you mean to say that, when you say the blog post linked to makes sense, you are intending to be trolling? -- Joel Rees Be careful when you

Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

of that re-inventing the wheel thing over there. Since debian has decided to bring systemd in, it will affect us, but probably not this year. Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Arm yourself with knowledge of yourself, as well: http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/2011/10/conspiracy-theories.html

Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

userland -- that it would be indicated only on embedded stuff where flash RAM and other persistent storage is extremely limited for some reason or other. Curt seems to be using it in other ways -- which might be interesting to hear more about? -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy

Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 8:23 PM, claude juif claude.j...@gmail.com wrote: 2015-08-29 13:35 GMT+02:00 Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com: On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 12:25 AM, claude juif claude.j...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, 2015-08-28 17:16 GMT+02:00 Renaud OLGIATI ren...@olgiati-in-paraguay.org

Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

here is a reason that people get together to make distributions, you know.) -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Arm yourself with knowledge of yourself, as well: http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/2011/10/conspiracy-theories.html

Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

equivalent to every other there must be no evil? Or did you have something else in mind? -- Joel Rees

Re: No-one working on 'su' has stated that they will stop.

but using Freedesktop.org's own PolicyKit) nor FreeBSD's "/etc/rc.d/jail console myjail1" have made such headlines. (-: > I think it was Poettering's criticism of su that makes this more interesting to the press. Or maybe it's a slow news week. Whether they took the criticism out of context or not is another question. -- Joel Rees

Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 4:54 AM, T. J. Duchene <t.j.duch...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry had an issue that caused a premature post before I could > finish it. Happens to all of us every now and then, I think. > On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 23:11:51 +0900 > Joel Rees <joel.

Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 5:03 AM, T.J. Duchene <t.j.duch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 08/31/2015 05:14 AM, Joel Rees wrote: >> >> Actually, there's a couple or three questions going begging here, that >> I'd like to ask: > > Sure, ask away! =) > >> >&g

Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:38 PM, Ric Moore <wayward4...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 09/01/2015 10:27 PM, Joel Rees wrote: >> >> 2015/09/02 1:04 "Ric Moore" <wayward4...@gmail.com >> <mailto:wayward4...@gmail.com>>: >> > >> > On 08/31/

Re: Acer c720 OS replacement

2015/09/17 4:27 "Jake Lar" : > > Hello, I'm replacing the Chrome operating system on my Acer c720 That is an Intel processor. > and I'm not sure which netinst CD image is appropriate for the Exynos 5250 GAIA ARM processor That is not the processor in the c720. >

Re: [OT] Free software vs non-free, here we go again

to look at that blog: http://free-is-not-free.blogspot.jp/ Joel Rees Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens. All is a stream of text flowing from the past into the future.

Re: [OT] Free software vs non-free, here we go again

will use and abuse the common temptation to ignore the responsibilities that are part-and-parcel of freedom. That fact is not tantamount to legitamizing a false modal as a standard definition. If you don't like what I'm telling you, read this http://free-is-not-free.blogspot.jp/2015/07/shut-up-and-code-or-make-donation-and.html carefully before you reply. Joel Rees Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens. All is a stream of text flowing from the past into the future.

Re: Terminal Madness?

nge in what way, is an important question, as is whether someone in the same physical location as you is prone to pranks. Joel Rees

Re: Minimal configuration for a laptop

; > I think he's talking about laying on the floor. Of interest only after a > hard night's partying. or, perhaps, to some who are under doctor's orders not to spend long periods of time sitting, etc. -- Joel Rees Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens. All is a stream of text flowing from the past into the future.

Re: vivaldi?

's a symptom of the features wars that the big companies wage to try to control the market, and, since we want to use the web with everyone else, we get dragged into the wake whether we wanted to ski or not. Firefox has does not have especially more than anyone else. -- Joel Rees Ranting is free. http://free-is-not-free.blogspot.jp/

Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png

r#Gallery > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandro_Botticelli > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egon_Schiele#Figurative_works > > > Have a nice day :) > > Thomas > -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Arm yourself with knowledge of yourself, as well: http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/2011/10/conspiracy-theories.html

Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png

On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 1:20 AM, Ric Moore <wayward4...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 01/01/2016 04:47 AM, Joel Rees wrote: >> The comment on facebook aside, I looked at the first twenty or so >> images in the list, and I agree that the general point of view is very >>

Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png

your comments and keeping it sort-of on-topic to the lists will take some time I don't have, and some off-topic thinking that would belong more in my blog, so I'll refrain for now. -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Arm yourself with knowledge of yourself, as well: http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/2011/10/conspiracy-theories.html

Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png

the actual contents? (4) Aside from the copyright issues, would you be game for including vectorized playboy centerfolds at full resolution in general clipart packages for family and work? -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Arm yourself with knowledge of yourself, as well: http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/2011/10/conspiracy-theories.html

Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png

easily accidentally stumble across far more > provocative content on Facebook. > The comment on facebook aside, I looked at the first twenty or so images in the list, and I agree that the general point of view is very much one that treats people as objects. I would not want my children finding those when looking for clipart. In my opinion, a complaint is justified here. Those should be sorted out into a separate package, at minimum. -- Joel Rees Ranting is free. http://free-is-not-free.blogspot.jp/

Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 9:24 PM, Brad Rogers <b...@fineby.me.uk> wrote: > On Tue, 5 Jan 2016 10:21:02 +0900 > Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello Joel, Hello, Brad, >>of the clipart out into a separate package so that a child looking for >>a

Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 9:53 PM, Anders Andersson <pipat...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 2:21 AM, Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Others? You and I seem to have different ideas about what we want >> children to find when they reach up on

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

erk. On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 9:15 PM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: >> On Monday 28 December 2015 01:59:44 Gener Badenas wrote: >> >> Back on the list where this belongs. >&

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

r = 10; c = .1; for ( t=0.0; t<5.0; t += 0.1 ) { vr = vs - vc; a = vr / r; p = vr * a; print"t: ", t, " vc:", vc(vs,t,r,c ), " a: ", a, " p: ", p, "\n" } -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Arm yourself with knowledge of yourself, as well: http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/2011/10/conspiracy-theories.html

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

I don't believe I did this. On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: >> >> A paste of what I entered: >> >> define vc(vs,t,r,c) { >> return vs

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

software. My impression is that the incompatible software usually tells you somewhere it's not compatible. > No information on dual boot. That's fairly straightforward. > Suggestions? man -k lvm ? Joel Rees Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens. All is a stream of text flowing from the past into the future.

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 09:46:34AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: >> LVM is much more flexible and less prone to do things to your data >> than, say, the tools that re-size your partitions th

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

the OSS fork of Solaris. Not all at once, but three or four at a time. And I'm pretty sure I've dual-booted MSWindows 7 and Fedora with LVM. Haven't tried LVM in a GPT mapped disk yet. -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Arm yourself with knowledge of yourself, as well: http://re

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote: > On 11/18/2015 4:07 AM, Joel Rees wrote: >> >> 2015/11/18 9:09 "Richard Owlett": >>> >>> >>> In some of my reading I came across a page recommending LVM for

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Martin Str|mberg <a...@ludd.luth.se> wrote: > In article <qwids-8p...@gated-at.bofh.it> Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Martin Str|mberg <a...@ludd.luth.se> wrote: >> >

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Pascal Hambourg <pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote: > Joel Rees a écrit : >> >> Thinking in terms of partitions as the things you mount in /etc/fstab. > > Err, no. Sometimes you think of things in ways that don't match the common conve

Re: Libre graphics could become the standard if we push right now

For those who might be interested ... 2016/01/23 9:27 "Joel Rees" <joel.r...@gmail.com>: > > On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 7:15 AM, jdd <j...@dodin.org> wrote: > > Le 22/01/2016 17:34, Alberto Salvia Novella a écrit : > >> > >> libre

lightdm/xfce4, lost my window manager and my panels and some session state

interested in any suggestions about why that might have happened (ergo, about what my fingers might have typed/moused while I was not at home upstairs). -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Arm yourself with knowledge of yourself, as well: http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/2011/10/conspiracy-theories.html

Re: Libre graphics could become the standard if we push right now

2016/01/21 2:33 "Alberto Salvia Novella" <es204904...@gmail.com>: > > Joel Rees: > >> It supports neither your peculiar assertion that microcode is not >> executable nor your equally peculiar assertion that microcode is not >> and has not been

Re: Libre graphics could become the standard if we push right now

udes examples of a Forth processor being used as a graphics processor (8 bit). This stuff really isn't rocket science, guys, no matter how much Intel wants us to believe it's ever too hard for ordinary people like us to even bother trying to understand.) Thanks for the link. -- Joel Rees Be care

Re: Libre graphics could become the standard if we push right now

ng an undocumented trap to a hidden routine in the BIOS that does deep packet inspection and arbitrary forwarding. As just one way to take advantage of microcode. -- Joel Rees Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens. All is a stream of text flowing from the past into the future.

Re: Libre graphics could become the standard if we push right now

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:55 AM, Alberto Salvia Novella <es204904...@gmail.com> wrote: > Joel Rees: >> >> Just for the record, if microcode can play with the CPU internal >> system state, say, the bits that specify whether the CPU is in >> supervisor or use

Re: Libre graphics could become the standard if we push right now

heater. Convenient in winter, in some ways, but you'd have trouble opening up a web page with it. E-mail, maybe, if you add DMA harware. Programmable logic is theoretically susceptible to rigging by the manufacturer, but anything less is not going to be very useful. -- Joel Rees Be careful when

Re: Libre graphics could become the standard if we push right now

Just to clarify my participation in this thread -- On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 1:34 AM, Alberto Salvia Novella <es204904...@gmail.com> wrote: > Joel Rees: >> >> "Modern" CPUs have plenty of spare register space, most of it >> undocumented. Register space can

Re: [Gimp-user] Next gotcha

ayers. Otherwise, you have to kind of intuit which layer you are currently in and use the layer menu stuff to shift between them. > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." >

Re: [Gimp-user] Next gotcha

mmittee effects take their toll. Systemd was just the worst visible evidence of the committee effect to date. And I doubt anyone reading this except Gene understands my mumbling, so I really should restrain myself. :-< ) -- Joel Rees I'm imagining I'm a novelist: http://joel-rees-economics.blogspot.com/2016/06/econ101-novel-toc.html

Re: Stretch stable and jessie testing - repositories listed

e list have to go handle flammable liquids in the early morning cold between reading messages, and you might cause an hour's worth of fuel oil to be spilled all over someone's veranda. :-( Sure, it's that someone's fault for thinking about the list and watching the fuel instead of the gauge for a secon

Re: Stretch stable and jessie testing - repositories listed

d to have Synaptic issue a warning to that effect when certain (repository) targets are changed, but that would be something to take up on a developers' list, maybe. -- Joel Rees I'm imagining I'm a novelist: http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/p/novels-i-am-writing.html

Re: brother printer/scanners

Woops. Corrections below: On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 2:29 PM, Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > (Ben saw this, anyway. 8-p > > Sorry. Wandering back and forth between Ubuntu and Debian, I sometimes > forget that debian treats e-mail as e-mail, where Ubuntu does the

Re: [OT] on education [was]: Do have programs have poor documentation? (was ... Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal")

mes with it in ways that teach those who play the games that the real universe is not fun. First, I have to write the business plan, I suppose, ...) -- Joel Rees I'm imagining I'm a novelist: http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/p/novels-i-am-writing.html

brother printer/scanners

? -- Joel Rees I'm imagining I'm a novelist: http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/p/novels-i-am-writing.html

Re: [OT] Antikythera mechanism [was Re: Do have programs have poor documentation?]

On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 1:10 AM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sunday 01 January 2017 14:54:09 Joel Rees wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Miles Fidelman >> >> <mfidel...@meetinghouse.net> wrote: > >> > On 12/30/16 7:07 PM,

Re: Monitor switched off after resume from hibernation

nning to watch for magic WoL > packets, and things like that), Cheap power supply designs. I think he indicated. Without load, some power supply designs draw more energy, either in not-fully-defined operating modes or in modes where the P/S loads itself down dynamically. > but a machine in h

Re: Monitor switched off after resume from hibernation

uck thinking the screen is off? > > [...] > Davide -- Joel Rees I'm imagining I'm a novelist: http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/p/novels-i-am-writing.html

Re: [OT] Antikythera mechanism [was Re: Do have programs have poor documentation?]

n -k), with the in-page search function, still get me a lot farther into something new, quicker, than info files. Much less keyboard dancing. My personal vote for the original topic is man 7, as someone else mentioned. (Yes, the man pages did, from back in the system 6 days, even, include a _little_ bit of tutorial.) -- Joel Rees I'm imagining I'm a novelist: http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/p/novels-i-am-writing.html

Re: brother printer/scanners

(Ben saw this, anyway. 8-p Sorry. Wandering back and forth between Ubuntu and Debian, I sometimes forget that debian treats e-mail as e-mail, where Ubuntu does the convenient thing.) On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> wrote: > On 02/01/17 13:38,

Re: cannot register @forum

. And we can probably answer some of your questions or point you to places you can get the answers. -- Joel Rees I'm imagining I'm a novelist: http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/p/novels-i-am-writing.html

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

m for PID 1. >> >> Runit works. Think about how :-) > > No need to think how: runit takes PID 1. You prove my point. > > (runit can also be integrated with the rudimentary monitoring of SysV > init: hacks upon hacks) Hacks upon hacks, refactored, is another way to look at st

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

ded was probably for a group like Canonical to have funded development of several alternative services management systems earlier on. What we need now is for Redhat to back off just a little more than they already have. -- Joel Rees I'm imagining I'm a novelist: http://joel-rees-economics.blogspot.com/2017/01/soc500-00-00-toc.html More of my delusions: http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/p/novels-i-am-writing.html

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

id 1 because pid 1 has to be kept small. > Regards, > > -- > Nicolas George -- Joel Rees I'm imagining I'm a novelist: http://joel-rees-economics.blogspot.com/2017/01/soc500-00-00-toc.html More of my delusions: http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/p/novels-i-am-writing.html

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 7:20 PM, <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, Apr 09, 2017 at 08:20:16AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > > [...] > >> There is no plus to a restricted declaration syntax except the walls &

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

s. We can't say words like "democratic" or "committee" and be sure that the person we are talking to understands them they way we intend them. I should have been more careful about that then, and I will try to be more careful now, if we can do this conversation this time.) -- Joel

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 10:48 AM, somebody wrote, off list: (I'm not sure why you sent it off-list, but I want to respond on-list. > On 04/10/2017 08:08 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > >> What we needed was probably for a group like Canonical to have funded >> development of several al

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

because you can't get "inside" far enough without X, Y, or Z, and they all make it very difficult to change things once you are inside. So write a novel. That's what I'm doing. I don't know whether I'll convince very many people, but it's helping my ability to express myself. -- Joel

Re: Systemd services (was Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...)

gs Simply Do Not Work? Well, that demonstrates that the concept of tagging a "d" on the end of a name to indicate the daemon part well predates systemd, and probably should be reconsidered in a world where short names are no longer required. Not sure how that relates to the rest of the issues you are

Re: Spam on Debian lists (was: Actually)

way most of the lists I've been involved with have > been set up. Works quite well controlling spurious posting by 'bots. > One list I used required annual renewal.. How do you limit posts to subscribers? Login? Subscriber list? What happens when you need an answer, but you don't have ac

Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation

e that letting your OS manufacturer remotely admin your box is secure. Just say, "No." Turn off secure boot. And set the BIOS to allow MBR booting. (That's two BIOS settings for most BIOSes, IIRC. At least, the last time I did this, I had to do those separately in the BIOS I was workin

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

ech lists, it will be distracting to them, so I back-seat drive over here. And try not to get into too much of a panic, since that doesn't seem to help. (If I could find someone to fund my efforts, I would sure like to try to develop an alternative. Sometimes life is not fair. :-/ ) -- Joel Re

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

lot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > -- Joel Rees I'm imagining I'm a novelist: http://joel-rees-economics.blogspot.com/2017/01/soc500-00-00-toc.html More of my delusions: http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/p/novels-i-am-writing.html

Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation

ourg" <pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org>: >> >> Le 18/04/2017 à 01:21, Mark Fletcher a écrit : >>> >>> >>> I believe the live images only use MBR boot >> >> >> BIOS boot. -- Joel Rees I'm imagining I'm a novelist: http://joel-rees-econo

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 6:46 PM, Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote: > Le quintidi 25 germinal, an CCXXV, Joel Rees a écrit : >> > Summary: Linux has a new system call to allow process to register as >> > adopters for orphan processes. >> Ick. I hope they

Re: no /etc/inittab

ook at where it is linked from and what has to be done to make all > the parts form a coherent whole. I wonder if you will now begin to recognize why the forced universal upgrade to systemd was a thoroughly ill-conceived bit of social engineering. -- Joel Rees http://reiisi.blogspot.com

Re: FYI: systemd session logging - no solution

On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 11:52 PM, Václav Ovsík <vaclav.ov...@gmail.com> wrote: > Lately I found this: > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/1291 > so no nice solution unfortunately :(. > -- > Zito > I want to show that to Poettering's manager. -- Joel Rees On

Re: Installing Debian on an android device

th any standard bit of circuit, package it in a standard-looking package, and label it with the name and package numbering of any company of choice. This has been easy for a long time. > So keep your eyes open and think twice before you buy something and use it - > this is my advise -- J

Re: shadow spam (was Re: stop your mail)

On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 7:53 PM, Thomas Schmitt <scdbac...@gmx.net> wrote: > Hi, > [...] > > Joel Rees wrote: >> (1) These messages may be a sort of generator for phishing targets. > > You mean that those who hit the "Smack Sender" button of their ma

shadow spam (was Re: stop your mail)

something like the second possibility. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography -- Joel Rees One of these days I'll get someone to pay me to design a language that combines the best of Forth and C. Then I'll be able to leap wide instruction sets with a single #ifdef, run faster than

Re: How to gain control over the system?

u keep a backup of your /home partition? I usually find myself using cp -p or tar to copy the files from the old /home to the new one, instead of keeping an old /home around.) -- Joel Rees One of these days I'll get someone to pay me to design a language that combines the best of Forth

Re: Installing Debian on an android device

probably require learning how to set up an Android build environment first. I've been looking at this page for a while, https://www.linux.com/learn/how-get-open-source-android But the information there is old and getting older. -- Joel Rees One of these days I'll get someone to pay me t

Re: Why does no one care that Brad Spengler of GRSecurity is blatantly violating the intention of the rightsholders to the Linux Kernel?

If our civilization survives the next two decades, our children will remember Intel's processors with the same phrase that Ralph Nader made popular relative to the auto industry. Who can compete when Intel refuses to pay the price of making CPUs that are unsafe at progressively higher speeds?) -- Joel

Re: funding & viability questions of GPL enforcement.

read has erupted on >> a Debian Mailing List -- to let everyone know that Conservancy also >> organizes a GPL copyright aggregation project for Debian contributors as >> well, see: https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/#debian and >> https://sfconservancy.org/

Re: so much for your ascii only emails and 80 char lines :)

or reference, this thread just misses paralleling a thread on misc@openbsd: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc=149984510728808=2 -- Joel Rees One of these days I'll get someone to pay me to design a language that combines the best of Forth and C. Then I'll be able to leap wide instruction sets wi

Re: Free software

;> > You can look it up on the Internet. Just put Sam's Photofact into > your browser! > > (I remember it as Photofacts, just like rhkramer, but the 'net > has it as singular.) Well, a couple of filing cabinets full would be plural, wouldn't it? -- Joel Rees One of these days I

Re: funding & viability questions of GPL enforcement.

veto. That's sure indication that everything is getting too big -- the companies, of course, but also the projects, the software, ... ... and the egos. -- Joel Rees One of these days I'll get someone to pay me to design a language that combines the best of Forth and C. Then I'll be able to leap wide

Re: Can "PulseAudio Volume Control" devs be redeemed?

team member produce crap > like that.) > I think there are two things going on here. One is that many devs get huge displays to make it easier to code, and then forget what the ordinary-sized displays are like. So they get careless about the constraints imposed by ordinary-sized screens.

Re: From dual- to single-boot

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 2:40 PM, solitone <solit...@mail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday, 25 July 2017 14:25:59 CEST Joel Rees wrote: >> Can you boot without the Mac OS partition? > > I'm using grub to boot debian. > > To boot MacOS, I need to press the option key (⌥) to st

Re: From dual- to single-boot

, and /etc. But in case I need to > reinstall from scratch I think I need more. > > What's the best approach? > -- > ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ > ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁Sent from my brain using neurons fueled by glucose. > ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ > ⠈⠳⣄ > -- Joel Rees One of these days I'll get someone to pay me to

Re: Free software

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 8:04 AM, Doug <dmcgarr...@optonline.net> wrote: > > On 07/19/2017 05:44 PM, Joel Rees wrote: >> >> >> This is another aspect of "closed source" gratis technology that is >> often swept under the rug. >> >> It used t

Re: Free software

nd demagogues of the media and other > "institutions". A society must be able to survive having > alternatives past capitalism. > > [...] Again, just for the record, politics itself may be off topic, but we have to give each other a little leeway where politics intersects with

Re: OT: SQL database - some questions

you can set up wordpress to not conflict, with help from the people on the wordpress list. And if you have questions they can't answer, we may be able to help you here. Or we may send you to the mysql list. (I personally have found that shying away from signing onto new mailing lists has caused me more tr

Re: [Stretch] apt-get has no updates?

ed-upgrades. [end-mark] > Personally would leave it on, because I like to have it in case that I > become lazy with my daily routine and because I like to look at various > things and understand how they work. But if OP does not need it, it is > safe to remove/purge it. > &

Re: Wired and Wireless with Etables

e log messages were confusing. Even now, the bootup messages say eth0 is not configured and isn't coming up, but the bridge is functioning. -- Joel Rees One of these days I'll get someone to pay me to design a language that combines the best of Forth and C. Then I'll be able to leap wide instructio

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