Zoom conferencing

2020-02-29 Thread Joel Rees
(I hope no one gets upset about double posting debian and ubuntu users lists.) Questions about zoom -- www.zoom.us Anyone using it? Issues? Known reasons they don't put it in the general repositories?

Re: Get the external IP address from a Linux box

2018-05-30 Thread Joel Rees
s for connectivity, and if none were found, to issue a reboot > command. What Joe says here. I had ten or twenty lines of moderately careful code in a two hundred-line perl script I used to update my dyndns.com domain name back before dyn.com decided they had to kick all the freeloaders like me off. Resolution to *some* domain name really ought to be part of an ISP's basic package, but the Internet got taken over by the poachers. -- Joel Rees http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/p/novels-i-am-writing.html

Re: no /etc/inittab

2017-08-14 Thread Joel Rees
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: Yes you have standing to sue GRSecurity.

2017-07-31 Thread Joel Rees
educate ourselves, we end up being able to do less. Getting depressed at the real world is also not going to help us do what we can. And that's the way the world has been for as long as I've been alive, and, near as I can tell, for as far back as we have history. > best > - -- t And I'll ec

Re: Yes you have standing to sue GRSecurity.

2017-07-30 Thread Joel Rees
f the patches. And if the patches are useful, they should be willing to help their customers keep their firewalls and other infrastructure equipment up-to-date. We may not support GRSecurity's questionable methods, but we may well decide we should boycott the companies who induced GRSecurity's stan

Re: From dual- to single-boot

2017-07-25 Thread Joel Rees
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

2017-07-24 Thread Joel Rees
, 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: Can "PulseAudio Volume Control" devs be redeemed?

2017-07-21 Thread Joel Rees
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: funding & viability questions of GPL enforcement.

2017-07-21 Thread Joel Rees
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: Free software

2017-07-20 Thread Joel Rees
;> > 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: Free software

2017-07-19 Thread Joel Rees
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

2017-07-19 Thread Joel Rees
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: so much for your ascii only emails and 80 char lines :)

2017-07-18 Thread Joel Rees
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: funding & viability questions of GPL enforcement.

2017-07-16 Thread Joel Rees
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: Why does no one care that Brad Spengler of GRSecurity is blatantly violating the intention of the rightsholders to the Linux Kernel?

2017-07-14 Thread Joel Rees
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: FYI: systemd session logging - no solution

2017-07-11 Thread Joel Rees
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: How to gain control over the system?

2017-07-09 Thread Joel Rees
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

2017-07-09 Thread Joel Rees
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)

2017-07-09 Thread Joel Rees
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)

2017-07-09 Thread Joel Rees
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: Installing Debian on an android device

2017-07-07 Thread Joel Rees
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: Replace systemd

2017-07-06 Thread Joel Rees
why the debate fizzled. Check the date again, check who owns doas, check the last change to the source tree. What is missing? -- 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

Re: Installing Debian on an android device

2017-07-04 Thread Joel Rees
ot no logins > no user. Exactly. Installing a real debian will require first jailbreaking the device, then getting access to the drivers that the manufacturer provides and customizing them for Debian, then cross-compiling a lot of stuff ... It isn't easy, and that's why we don't find a debain archite

Re: Clarifying what 'systemd' actually means

2017-07-02 Thread Joel Rees
b doesn't tell me one way or the other, but it seems to be one of those NIH additions to the project. Here's the opendesktop manpage: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-resolved.service.html My memory of the history of the thing is that a member of the cabal decided that th

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

2017-07-02 Thread Joel Rees
t; >/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic ;; >> *) echo -e "\n\t\"$@\" Unknown\n\tUsage: $0 <e|d|s> \n\t\tWhere: e >> = Enable\n\t\t\td = Disable\n\t\t\ts = Status" >&2 && exit 1 >> esac >> >> ==

Re: Wired and Wireless with Etables

2017-07-02 Thread Joel Rees
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

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

2017-06-30 Thread Joel Rees
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: OT: SQL database - some questions

2017-06-29 Thread Joel Rees
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: slow connections to non-bridged hostapd/dnsmasq wireless access point (was pointers to material...)

2017-06-21 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 9:39 AM, Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 07:40:49AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: >> (Now that I'm awake...) >> >> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 2:18 AM, Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On T

Re: slow connections to non-bridged hostapd/dnsmasq wireless access point (was pointers to material...)

2017-06-13 Thread Joel Rees
(Now that I'm awake...) On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 2:18 AM, Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 9:26 PM, Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 11:55:11AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: >>> On Tue, Jun 13,

Re: slow connections to non-bridged hostapd/dnsmasq wireless access point (was pointers to material...)

2017-06-13 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 9:26 PM, Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 11:55:11AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 9:30 AM, Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: >> > On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 11:50:00AM +0900, Joel

Re: slow connections to non-bridged hostapd/dnsmasq wireless access point (was pointers to material...)

2017-06-12 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 9:30 AM, Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 11:50:00AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: >> (famous last words) >> >> On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 3:53 PM, Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I

slow connections to non-bridged hostapd/dnsmasq wireless access point (was pointers to material...)

2017-06-11 Thread Joel Rees
(famous last words) On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 3:53 PM, Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > I now have connection for both the wireless and the netbook that is acting > as the AP. I took out the bridge entirely, quit trying to play with > port forwarding, > just used dead sim

Re: ifconfig network resolution (Re: pointers to material for using netbook's wireless as access point)

2017-06-11 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 4:57 PM, Joe <j...@jretrading.com> wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jun 2017 10:57:47 +0900 > Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Experimenting from the command line, I find myself puzzled about the >> arguments for ifconfig. >>

Re: ifconfig network resolution

2017-06-11 Thread Joel Rees
. > Now, I have debugged network problems on a UNIX computer that spoke Japanese, > knowing none myself and reading even less. AND I succeeded. I felt very > proud not just of myself but of UNIX. (Japanese Macbook withMac-OSX) > > Lisi > I like Macs, too. -- Joel Rees One o

Re: ifconfig network resolution

2017-06-11 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 11:09 AM, Andy Smith <a...@strugglers.net> wrote: > Hi Joel, > > On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 07:55:50AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: >> # If the address to be assigned is given first, which I think everyone >> # pretty much does: >> >> my

Re: ifconfig network resolution

2017-06-10 Thread Joel Rees
erk On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 7:55 AM, Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > [...] > Which is confusing to my middle-aged brain. So I could suggest editing > the man page, something along the lines of the following > > - >

Re: ifconfig network resolution

2017-06-10 Thread Joel Rees
, with unintended results which affect the security state of the host. {...} - -- Joel Rees randomly ranting: http://reiisi.blogspot.com

Re: ifconfig network resolution

2017-06-10 Thread Joel Rees
Sorry, again, On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 11:36 PM, Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 8:16 PM, Pascal Hambourg <pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org> > wrote: >> Le 10/06/2017 à 12:13, Joel Rees a écrit : >>> >>> On Sat, Jun

Re: ifconfig network resolution

2017-06-10 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 8:16 PM, Pascal Hambourg <pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote: > Le 10/06/2017 à 12:13, Joel Rees a écrit : >> >> On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 3:52 PM, Pascal Hambourg <pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org> >> wrote: >>> >>> Le 10/06/2017 à 03:

Re: Reply-to-all or reply-to-list again

2017-06-10 Thread Joel Rees
driver was outside was not progress. Model A was progress at > a cost. > > Progress is not made by following rulers and those in power, it comes > from the dialectic of resisting and reacting to power and oligarchy. > > Joel Rees > > > (AK) Yeah. Progress is progress. ahem.

Re: ifconfig network resolution

2017-06-10 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 3:52 PM, Pascal Hambourg <pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote: > Le 10/06/2017 à 03:57, Joel Rees a écrit : >> >> Experimenting from the command line, I find myself puzzled about the >> arguments for ifconfig. >> >> Reading the man

Re: pointers to material for using netbook's wireless as access point

2017-06-10 Thread Joel Rees
for the other direction. But the wireless is pretty slow, so I'm not sure I'm finished. I have to go take care of some family business, when I'm done I'll post the details. But it's really pretty simply. I was just working too hard. -- Joel Rees Randomly ranting: http://reiisi.blogspot.com

Re: ifconfig network resolution (Re: pointers to material for using netbook's wireless as access point)

2017-06-10 Thread Joel Rees
Sorry my typing is so lame. On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 10:57 AM, Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > Experimenting from the command line, I find myself puzzled about the > arguments for ifconfig. > > Reading the manual, it would appear that the arguments for ifconfig > sho

Re: pointers to material for using netbook's wireless as access point

2017-06-09 Thread Joel Rees
I posted the following to Randy, yesterday, intending it to go to the list. I'll post it back to the list (with Randy's permission), with a bit of further comment: > On Friday, June 09, 2017 02:14:17 AM Joel Rees wrote: >> (With aplogies for html mail) >> >> 2017/06/08 23:4

Re: Reply-to-all or reply-to-list again

2017-06-09 Thread Joel Rees
olas George There was a time when mailing lists were e-mail, and newsgroups were newsgroups. Newsgroups have unfortunately mostly gone the way of the dodo, and mailing list participants want the mailing lists to behave like newsgroups. And Now Google Doesn't Think Users Should Ever Set Headers. Prog

ifconfig network resolution (Re: pointers to material for using netbook's wireless as access point)

2017-06-09 Thread Joel Rees
? -- 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 a speeding infinite loop with a #define, and stop all integer size bugs with a bare cast. More

Re: pointers to material for using netbook's wireless as access point

2017-06-08 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 5:03 PM, didier gaumet <didier.gau...@gmail.com> wrote: > Le 08/06/2017 à 02:29, Joel Rees a écrit : > > [...] >> # Setup bridge >> iface br0 inet manual >> bridge_ports wlan0 eth0:0 > [...] > > I am sorry, network wise, I am a t

Re: pointers to material for using netbook's wireless as access point

2017-06-08 Thread Joel Rees
a better solution.) Those messages, by the way, were not recorded in any file under /var/log. The only way to capture them was by taking a picture. On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 9:29 AM, Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > [...] > > -hostapd.conf

Re: pointers to material for using netbook's wireless as access point

2017-06-07 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 2:08 PM, Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 4:10 PM, didier gaumet <didier.gau...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Le 06/06/2017 à 03:58, Joel Rees a écrit : >> [...] >> can anyone point me to a good how-to? >> [...] &g

Re: pointers to material for using netbook's wireless as access point

2017-06-06 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 4:10 PM, didier gaumet <didier.gau...@gmail.com> wrote: > Le 06/06/2017 à 03:58, Joel Rees a écrit : > [...] > can anyone point me to a good how-to? > [...] > > these should do the trick: > https://agentoss.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/creat

Re: pointers to material for using netbook's wireless as access point

2017-06-06 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 7:30 PM, Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 10:58:09AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: >> I've seen a lot of answers that say "NOT POSSIBLE!!", as if the device >> manufacturers really want us to believe that it c

pointers to material for using netbook's wireless as access point

2017-06-05 Thread Joel Rees
, before I dump all my configuration files and error messages on the list, can anyone point me to a good how-to? I want to make sure I'm not missing something obvious before I start asking questions. -- Joel Rees One of these days I'll get someone to pay me to design a language that combine

Re: drive names and UUIDs, was Re: Intresting dd fsck grub uuid fstab action

2017-06-03 Thread Joel Rees
; > > dd runs on any type of device, including partitions. > But it copies the raw data. In the context of this discussion, it makes absolutely no sense to have it twiddling any of the data it copies, much less any of the data that refers to what is being copied. (Sorry about the misfire, Pasc

Re: drive names and UUIDs, was Re: Intresting dd fsck grub uuid fstab action

2017-06-03 Thread Joel Rees
gt; The kernel I assume as soon as dd is done picks up the new set of uuids and > updates the table. So if dd does not do it it leaves the system in a mesh. Not that I am aware. Not unless you tell the kernel to do so. >[...] -- Joel Rees One of these days I'll get someone to pa

drive names and UUIDs, was Re: Intresting dd fsck grub uuid fstab action

2017-05-31 Thread Joel Rees
tell us what you did in a way that we can tell you understand this, we can continue to try to help. -- Joel Rees delusions of being a novelist: http://joel-rees-economics.blogspot.com/2017/01/soc500-00-00-toc.html

Re: spammers go personal

2017-05-24 Thread Joel Rees
>> <fungil...@protonmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> xdgc >>> >>> Free Windo-- >> >> Sent from Christian's Official iPad Mini Device >> >> > -- > Sent from Christian's Official iPad Mini Device -- Joel Rees One of thes

Re: Debian Developers Have Been Listening!

2017-05-24 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 6:19 AM, Patrick Bartek <nemomm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 22 May 2017 08:30:15 +0900 Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 1:48 AM, Patrick Bartek <nemomm...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >

Re: Spammers go personal

2017-05-23 Thread Joel Rees
st spammer got it of the list. > > But you're happy to quote it. > > -- > Regards _ > / ) "The blindingly obvious is > / _)rad never immediately apparent" > It's cool to know nothin' > Never Miss A Beat - Kaiser Chiefs > > -- Joel Rees One of these days I'll get s

Re: Debian Developers Have Been Listening!

2017-05-21 Thread Joel Rees
d the other > with just Openbox and lxpanel as the GUI, and sysvinit and runit for > supervison. No problems at all with either. > > > B > > [1] AntiX, MX Linux, SalixOS and Void Linux. > > [2] With either above options, you can't go from an init other than > systemd to anothe

Re: Debian Developers Have Been Listening!

2017-05-21 Thread Joel Rees
> >> > People complain about all sorts of things. Changing something. Not >> > changing something. Sometimes, it's even the same people. >> > >> >> Now I see why the developers have their own mailing list... > > A misconception. They don't.

Re: (OT) problem with unknown software

2017-05-18 Thread Joel Rees
nstalled package. > Does anyone know what piece of bent software can find /dev/sda, b, and > c, but not sdd? Or what I did to break it? > > -- > Glenn English > Boot up process. /dev/sdd is taking a long time to come on line for some reason. -- Joel Rees One of these day

Re: libreboot? Doc to follow? -- Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation

2017-04-21 Thread Joel Rees
s. :-( > > For more information about UEFI and Debian, I wrote a long wiki page > at > > https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI Thanks. Looks useful. > Please check that out, and please ask if anything's not clear. > > -- > Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

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

2017-04-21 Thread Joel Rees
> >> {systemctl,journalctl,etc.} --user beg to differ. >> >> >> -- >> ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ >> ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland >> ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net >> ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. > > -- Joel Rees I'm imagining I'm a novelist:

Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation

2017-04-20 Thread Joel Rees
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: Spam on Debian lists (was: Actually)

2017-04-20 Thread Joel Rees
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

2017-04-19 Thread Joel Rees
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 ...

2017-04-19 Thread Joel Rees
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: Systemd services (was Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...)

2017-04-14 Thread Joel Rees
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: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-04-14 Thread Joel Rees
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: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-04-13 Thread Joel Rees
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 ...

2017-04-12 Thread Joel Rees
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: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-04-10 Thread Joel Rees
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 ...

2017-04-10 Thread Joel Rees
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 ...

2017-04-10 Thread Joel Rees
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 ...

2017-04-10 Thread Joel Rees
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 ...

2017-04-09 Thread Joel Rees
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 ...

2017-04-08 Thread Joel Rees
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: Stretch stable and jessie testing - repositories listed

2017-02-09 Thread Joel Rees
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: Stretch stable and jessie testing - repositories listed

2017-02-09 Thread Joel Rees
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: Monitor switched off after resume from hibernation

2017-01-09 Thread Joel Rees
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: Monitor switched off after resume from hibernation

2017-01-09 Thread Joel Rees
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: cannot register @forum

2017-01-08 Thread Joel Rees
. 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: brother printer/scanners

2017-01-02 Thread Joel Rees
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: brother printer/scanners

2017-01-02 Thread Joel Rees
(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,

brother printer/scanners

2017-01-01 Thread Joel Rees
? -- Joel Rees I'm imagining I'm a novelist: http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/p/novels-i-am-writing.html

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

2017-01-01 Thread Joel Rees
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

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

2017-01-01 Thread Joel Rees
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: [OT] Antikythera mechanism [was Re: Do have programs have poor documentation?]

2017-01-01 Thread Joel Rees
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: [Gimp-user] Next gotcha

2016-07-24 Thread Joel Rees
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: [Gimp-user] Next gotcha

2016-07-22 Thread Joel Rees
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: Libre graphics could become the standard if we push right now

2016-01-28 Thread Joel Rees
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

2016-01-28 Thread Joel Rees
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

2016-01-22 Thread Joel Rees
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

2016-01-22 Thread Joel Rees
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: Libre graphics could become the standard if we push right now

2016-01-21 Thread Joel Rees
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

2016-01-20 Thread Joel Rees
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

2016-01-20 Thread Joel Rees
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

2016-01-19 Thread Joel Rees
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: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png

2016-01-06 Thread Joel Rees
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

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