What is the connection between Microsoft and systemd?

2014-08-03 Thread Michael Kjörling
nnection between systemd and Microsoft is? If I just searched for the wrong search terms, a few pointers to some (reasonably authoritative) web pages would do nicely. -- Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.se • mich...@kjorling.se OpenPGP B501AC6429EF4514 https://michael.kjorling.se/public-

Re: Is crypto developed the way it should?

2014-08-03 Thread Michael Kjörling
e rocket science. And of course, even a perfect programming language with all sorts of checks and balances does you no good if the code as written perfectly implements a flawed or potentially flawed _algorithm_. Dual_EC_DRBG, anyone? [1] http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/02/24/anato

Re: date/time of photos

2014-08-04 Thread Michael Kjörling
ly that, in case it's useful for anyone. Consider it to be in the public domain. It needs adjusting for your particular situation, and it certainly isn't optimized for performance, but it does the job just fine at least with my camera. -- Michael Kjörling • https://michael

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-04 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 4 Aug 2014 15:35 +0200, from raffaele.more...@gmail.com (Raffaele Morelli): > http://herpolhode.com/rob/ugly.pd "The requested URL /rob/ugly.pd was not found on this server." -- Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.se • mich...@kjorling.se OpenPGP B501AC642

Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-06 Thread Michael Kjörling
d is the unstable child (that breaks toys). If you don't feel comfortable putting them back together every now and then, consider migrating at least to testing, and possibly even stable. -- Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.se • mich...@kjorling.se OpenPGP B501AC6429EF4514 https://michael.kjo

Re: basic fstab .. pilot idiocy??

2014-08-06 Thread Michael Kjörling
iss? And yes, get it working from the command line first, then worry about /etc/fstab. -- Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.se • mich...@kjorling.se OpenPGP B501AC6429EF4514 https://michael.kjorling.se/public-keys/pgp “People who think they know everything really annoy

Re: using ddrescue on the root partition - boot with / as read-only

2023-09-13 Thread Michael Kjörling
dia offers a rescue environment which can be used for the purpose, or you can use live media for just about any distribution. You may need to install ddrescue into the live environment. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobod

Re: Chromium under Xfce/bookworm anyone?

2023-09-14 Thread Michael Kjörling
the thing repeatedly, I have written a script to start Firefox with a brand new profile, then delete it on exit. It's not a great solution, admittedly, and the script itself is a bit of a hack; but it works. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, o

Re: using ddrescue on the root partition - boot with / as read-only

2023-09-14 Thread Michael Kjörling
for each file visible to figure out which file name(s) map to that location on disk. I couldn't immediately find a convenient way to go from an on-disk offset to a file name directly. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings

2023-09-19 Thread Michael Kjörling
> I guess I could code a Python script to do that but if something already > exists I'd rather use it. Look at pup. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Letting Windows go: scanning

2023-09-20 Thread Michael Kjörling
tried printing docs from LibreOffice and it sees my networked > printer and prints just fine. > > So how can I get my Debuian host to see and use the scanner part? "HP multifunction laser printer" would still encompass a fair number of products. Can you be mo

Re: Letting Windows go: scanning

2023-09-20 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 20 Sep 2023 12:26 -0500, from tom.brow...@gmail.com (Tom Browder): > “Laser Jet Pro 400 MFP m425dn” openprinting.org doesn't seem to have heard of it, unfortunately: https://openprinting.org/printers/manufacturer/HP -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjo

Re: bookworm: xfce4-terminal bug?

2023-09-23 Thread Michael Kjörling
p the dialog asking if I want to quit Midnight Commander. Are you able to reproduce the issue under a brand new user account? -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World"

2023-09-24 Thread Michael Kjörling
tory are executed in lexicographic order right at the end. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World"

2023-09-24 Thread Michael Kjörling
affects the resultant environment; and if you want to make adjustments later, you can do that in _one_ location. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Different database for create a program

2023-09-24 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 24 Sep 2023 14:45 -0600, from willitc9...@gmail.com (William Torrez Corea): > Can I use a different database to create a program? What do you mean by "create a program"? Why do you think a database engine is the correct tool for what you are trying to do? -- Mic

Re: Are people trying to relay mail through my system?

2023-09-25 Thread Michael Kjörling
6U is affected), and whatever is running through Restlet Framework on port 23424 reports a version of server software that hasn't been updated since 2014. And that's just some of what I plausibly found barely looking. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Are people trying to relay mail through my system?

2023-09-25 Thread Michael Kjörling
use your ISP's outgoing SMTP server as a smarthost. And from Rick: >> I note that the destination addresses on these messages are of the form: >> >> <6626-879-8427-40-rickm=timshel...@mail.purecuresol.co> Indeed, good catch. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Trixie upgrade

2023-09-27 Thread Michael Kjörling
upgraded system_ with some parts from the new version of Debian (that which you are upgrading to) and some parts held back at the version from the old version of Debian (that which you are upgrading from). -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: No wifi on debian 12 fresh install (HP laptop 440 14" G10)

2023-10-04 Thread Michael Kjörling
ing the kernel from bookworm-backports which is currently on the 6.4 series, since 6.4 apparently includes that driver. https://packages.debian.org/bookworm-backports/linux-image-amd64 -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody ca

Re: Understanding package dependencies

2023-10-07 Thread Michael Kjörling
-date Bookworm VM, installing ntpsec doesn't pull in lsb-base (the only additional package pulled in by `apt-get install ntpsec` is python3-ntp), nor is lsb-base installed after installation. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Help fixing package dependencies during Debian 11 -> 12 upgrade

2023-10-11 Thread Michael Kjörling
r from Debian or some third-party repository. See https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#system-status Please share the output of: grep -r -v '^#' /etc/apt/sources.list* Please take care to not introduce any line breaks in that output which are

Re: Linux source 6.1.38 with Debian patches

2023-10-12 Thread Michael Kjörling
in the right-hand side bar. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: cli_ how to find_ firefox versions available in all suites

2023-10-21 Thread Michael Kjörling
be made to work reasonably stably with significant use of apt package pinning, but it would almost certainly be better (certainly easier and more predictable) to pick one suite than to pull in everything and the proverbial kitchen sink in terms of package versions. -- Michael Kjörling

Re: Domain name to use on home networks; was: Bookworm: NetworkManager

2023-10-22 Thread Michael Kjörling
n the future. > That is why I picked example.org as It will/can not be used, no > collision with domain names that way. It's fairly recent (RFC 8375, May 2018) but this type of usage is pretty much exactly what home.arpa is meant for. https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc837

Re: example.org and other RFC 2606 domains; was: Bookworm: NetworkManager

2023-10-22 Thread Michael Kjörling
of RFC 2606), and per whois the current registration dates back to August 1995. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Bookworm: NetworkManager

2023-10-22 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 22 Oct 2023 08:22 -0400, from poc...@columbus.rr.com (Pocket): > What version of NetworkManager is installed with bullseye? https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/network-manager https://tracker.debian.org/network-manager -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling

Re: A file synchronization tool that respects hardlinks

2023-10-22 Thread Michael Kjörling
nd a way to do that, which led me to eventually settle on unison for where I need bidirectional sync. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: A file synchronization tool that respects hardlinks

2023-10-22 Thread Michael Kjörling
hardlinks[3]. What do you mean by "respect hardlinks"? To preserve the multiple names as pointing to the same file system object (inode in classic *nix parlace)? -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

2023-10-22 Thread Michael Kjörling
nce to [RFC7788], it is not intended that the use of 'home.arpa.' be restricted solely to networks where HNCP is deployed. Rather, 'home.arpa.' is intended to be the correct domain for uses like the one described for '.home' in [RFC7788]: local name service in residentia

Re: Full disk-encryption question

2023-10-23 Thread Michael Kjörling
ding high-speed NVMe SSDs, with perhaps the exception of striped high-speed storage, the performance loss should be largely negligible. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Full disk-encryption question

2023-10-23 Thread Michael Kjörling
ccess to the booted system. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

2023-10-25 Thread Michael Kjörling
out of one of 192.168.0.0/16, 172.12.0.0/12 or 10.0.0.0/8, you can be _almost certain_ that nothing will break because of those choices, now _or_ in the future. None of the other alternatives I've seen proposed in this thread can offer anything like such guarantees. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

2023-10-26 Thread Michael Kjörling
purpose, which was the problem from RFC 7788 that RFC 8375 aimed to solve. Certainly "local." would have been one possibility, but that is reserved _specifically_ for mDNS (RFC 6762) although is often incorrectly used for non-mDNS names. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

2023-10-26 Thread Michael Kjörling
geographically disparate sites both of which use home.arpa names in a coordinated fashion with non-routable IP addresses, such that hosts in one location are accessible from the other under their *.home.arpa names. But that only requires coordination between the sites involved, not global coordination

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

2023-10-26 Thread Michael Kjörling
setup (such as for example using exclusively /etc/hosts distributed among the computers involved) is entirely manageable. RFC 8375 section 3 specifically prohibits queries for anything under home.arpa leaking "outside the logical boundaries of the homenet". -- Michael Kjörling

Re: EASY way to install packages from trixie/sid to stable?

2023-10-26 Thread Michael Kjörling
M is intended for large server deployments but _can_ be used on workstation virtualization hosts as well. [1] https://michael.kjorling.se/blog/2022/linux-kvm-host-nftables-guest-networking/ -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Which Virtual Manager?

2023-10-26 Thread Michael Kjörling
e a similar KVM VM using the information in the XML file. It looks like there's a tool named virt-v2v which can do the conversion, although I have never had a need to try it. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

2023-10-27 Thread Michael Kjörling
hat in situations where one doesn't see the value of actually paying for a globally unique domain name registration for the purpose. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Changing host name and domain name on Debian; was: Domain name to use on home networks

2023-10-27 Thread Michael Kjörling
` will set the host name of the system persistently to the fully qualified host name you provide on the command line. Or you can edit /etc/hostname directly to contain the fully qualified (or single-label) host name you want to use. Then edit /etc/hosts such that it also reflects the changed hos

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

2023-10-27 Thread Michael Kjörling
t;NIS/YP" is, that should be a strong suggestion already that it is _not_ the same thing as "DNS". (And let's not get into the issue of the term "domain" in terms like _classless inter-domain routing_.) -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

2023-10-27 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 27 Oct 2023 17:02 +, from 2695bd53d...@ewoof.net (Michael Kjörling): >> HOSTNAME(1) Linux Programmer's Manual HOSTNAME(1) >> >> NAME >>hostname - show or set the system's host name >>domainname - sho

Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World"

2023-10-27 Thread Michael Kjörling
saying either is necessarily right or wrong, but the concept of something being "init" is rather deeply entrenched in the *nix world, and probably has been ever since the humble beginnings on that DEC PDP in the late 1960s... -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorl

Re: Which Virtual Manager?

2023-10-28 Thread Michael Kjörling
her front-end, although a command-line one and quite technical. I'm sure there are other freely available alternatives as well. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Performance of my computer

2023-10-30 Thread Michael Kjörling
x27;^cpu MHz' /proc/cpuinfo free -m grep -c '^processor' /proc/cpuinfo That will tell us what CPU and how much memory and swap your computer has. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Performance of my computer

2023-10-30 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 30 Oct 2023 12:04 -0700, from dpchr...@holgerdanske.com (David Christensen): > # cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a The kernel and Firefox version specified in the original question match current Bullseye, so that seems a likely guess. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 ht

Re: Performance of my computer

2023-10-30 Thread Michael Kjörling
but I'm curious what the CPU frequency governor is set to. Please try: for policy in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy*/; do echo $policy ; cat $policy/scaling_governor ; cat $policy/scaling_max_freq ; done (note: all on one line) and show us the output. -- Michael Kjör

Re: Performance of my computer

2023-10-31 Thread Michael Kjörling
casm and assuming that people have no clue what they are talking about or making suggestions to check. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: How to compare one folder to one directory (was: How to compare contents of two folders against third one?)

2023-11-02 Thread Michael Kjörling
ith early betas of Windows 95, which introduced the term in Microsoft's ecosystem (they used the term "folder" in mid-1993[2], and Wikipedia puts a first OS/2 2.0 release at October 1991). [1]: http://toastytech.com/guis/os220.html (bottom screenshot in particular) [2]: http://toast

Re: How to get VMware Player going on Debian 12 bookworm

2023-11-05 Thread Michael Kjörling
tualBox, VMWare and others require adding third-party software, which can easily break with a kernel upgrade. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Documentation for KVM/QEMU?

2023-11-05 Thread Michael Kjörling
de domain/devices/graphics/clipboard in the VM XML definition to set the attribute copypaste="no". That will constrain that guest's OS clipboard functionality to within that guest. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Password managers

2023-11-09 Thread Michael Kjörling
ld have a free-form notes field and I can confirm that KeepassXC 2.7.4 (which is the version currently packaged in Bookworm) searches in the notes field when I type into the search field in the GUI. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the In

Re: it would be nice is Debian live includes the Wazuh unified XDR and SIEM protection framework ...

2023-11-11 Thread Michael Kjörling
m.pages.debian.net/live-manual/html/live-manual/customizing-package-installation.en.html#449 https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Modify/CD https://wiki.debian.org/LiveCD If you need more help with this, I recommend checking out the debian-live mailing list at https://lists.debian.org/debian-l

Re: Password managers

2023-11-12 Thread Michael Kjörling
, 142 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 90.9 MB of archives. > After this operation, 379 MB of additional disk space will be used. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: USB2 not working after upgrading to bookworm

2023-11-12 Thread Michael Kjörling
o you see any difference if you hook up a USB 2 device to a port which is physically USB 2 or USB 3? -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Upgrade my distribution

2023-11-16 Thread Michael Kjörling
ly long. Yes, much of it probably won't apply to your situation. But it will clarify a lot of things that you want to get right before, during and after the upgrade to ensure the smoothest possible upgrade. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: unexplained crash on Ubuntu 20.04 system

2023-11-18 Thread Michael Kjörling
that it didn't in this particular instance. If/when you do find out what happened, do however consider posting a summary here. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Get running time of child process

2023-11-20 Thread Michael Kjörling
0,3507 If that doesn't return anything for the child process, maybe it simply has exited? -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: screen lock shuts down attached HDDs, they don't start up again

2023-11-21 Thread Michael Kjörling
matically; clearly something odd is going on in your case if it doesn't. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Get running time of child process

2023-11-21 Thread Michael Kjörling
ELAPSED >1620 Mon Nov 20 16:12:47 202323:47:16 >1620 Tue Nov 21 15:59:36 2023 00:28 Maybe for that what you want is "tid" not "pid"? -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Isolated Web Co Session crash Firefox-ESR

2023-12-03 Thread Michael Kjörling
slow by comparison) storage, instead of originally just writing out to swap some anonymous pages which haven't been used in comparatively forever, like a tmpfs that someone mentioned, or data for inactive web browser tabs or documents you aren't doing anything active with. -- Michael

Re: Firefox, was: Telnet

2023-12-04 Thread Michael Kjörling
g/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Public-Key-Pins#browser_compatibility https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Public_Key_Pinning#Browser_support_and_deprecation -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Boot Problem

2023-12-05 Thread Michael Kjörling
, might very well tell you more directly what the problem is. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Upgrade to 12.3 fails due to missing nvidia firmware package

2023-12-06 Thread Michael Kjörling
Which ones? That package is in the non-free-firmware component; are you bringing that in? https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/firmware-nvidia-gsp -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: IMPORTANT: do NOT upgrade to new stable point release

2023-12-09 Thread Michael Kjörling
g report thread, #21 lists 6.1.66 as fixed upstream, and #28 indicates that 6.1.66-1 includes the fix from upstream, and that it is being published. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: IMPORTANT: do NOT upgrade to new stable point release

2023-12-09 Thread Michael Kjörling
Linux 6.1 for 64-bit > PCs (signed) Alexis Grigoriou is in UTC+0200 per the email headers; you are in UTC-0500. Thus "this morning" is 7 hour later for you than for Alexis, only because of that. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Need clarifications about how to deal with the installed problematic kernel, linux-image-6.1.0-14-amd64 (6.1.64-1)

2023-12-10 Thread Michael Kjörling
es recipe to block the broken kernel package from installation. I haven't tested it, but it looks reasonable: > create a file: > > /etc/apt/preferences.d/buggy-kernel > > with the contents: > # avoid kernel with ext4 bug > # 1057843 > Package: linux-image-* > Pin:

Re: Unattended Upgrades Ran Anyway.

2023-12-10 Thread Michael Kjörling
-upgrades > anyway. Exactly how did you "shut down" unattended-upgrades? -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Need clarifications about how to deal with the installed problematic kernel, linux-image-6.1.0-14-amd64 (6.1.64-1)

2023-12-11 Thread Michael Kjörling
linux-image-6.1.0-13-amd64 is a package name. (You can check this with apt-cache show.) openvpn_2.6.8-bookworm0_amd64.deb is presumably a file name. "File path" does not necessarily require specifying a directory component of the path; a bare file name is also a (relative) path. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: IMPORTANT: do NOT upgrade to new stable point release

2023-12-11 Thread Michael Kjörling
sts to this list. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: EIO error - I/O error

2023-12-11 Thread Michael Kjörling
ta stored on it. You should see more detailed information in the kernel logs; check /var/log/syslog (exact locations can vary depending on your syslogd configuration) and the output of dmesg (may have been rotated out, especially if the system has been rebooted) for a period around the time

Re: Issues found in linux-image-6.1.0-15-amd64 6.1.66-1; was: From which kernel should I upgrade my installed Debian to linux-image-6.1.0-15-amd64?

2023-12-12 Thread Michael Kjörling
bug=1057967#72 I'll echo the sentiment of Kevin Price in #77: let's hope that a corresponding build can be pushed to Stable soon, indeed. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: The bug

2023-12-13 Thread Michael Kjörling
few more hours I suppose. It was accepted into bookworm-proposed-updates on Dec 13 13:40 UTC, so really _just now_. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/linux-signed-amd64 https://tracker.debian.org/news/1485406/accepted-linux-signed-amd64-61671-source-into-proposed-updates/ Let's hope t

Re: Problem with php after upgrading to Bookworm

2023-12-14 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 14 Dec 2023 19:24 +0200, from ale...@nanoid.net (Alexis Grigoriou): > As the subject states pages using php won't disply in the browser. All > I see is probably the php code. Well, first things first. What web server are you using to try to serve those pages? -- Micha

Re: lists

2023-12-20 Thread Michael Kjörling
P reputation rather than whether some system retries after some indeterminable delay. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: lists

2023-12-20 Thread Michael Kjörling
rs can't even speak proper SMTP, please don't expect that everyone else on the Internet will bend over backwards to cater to a non-standard implementation. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Could we please cease this thread now? [WAS Re: lists]

2023-12-21 Thread Michael Kjörling
efrain from such behavior until you understand why it is inappropriate. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Clarification: public private replies

2023-12-22 Thread Michael Kjörling
st email. _Bringing that back_ to the list required specific action. I think it's a safe bet that the regulars here have mail sorting rules set up in their respective LDAs or MUAs to clearly separate list posts from private emails, in whichever way they feel provides the most clarity to themselves. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: apt upgrade can't find archive for virtualbox-7.0; was: Synaptic Problem

2023-12-23 Thread Michael Kjörling
g in particular which depends on using a specific other hypervisor. You may want to check out AQEMU as a replacement for virt-manager; I haven't tried it myself, but based on screenshots I have seen it looks like a closer match for VirtualBox's GUI tooling, and you will still have ac

Re: Accessing host and Internet from QEMU/KVM guest; was: Synaptic Problem

2023-12-23 Thread Michael Kjörling
using the QEM/KVM virt-manager programs for Windows 10 and an > very happy with them. However, right now I'm hung up on accessing the host > and the internet from the Windows guest. Maybe this will help: https://michael.kjorling.se/blog/2022/linux-kvm-host-nftables-guest-networking/ -

Re: apt upgrade can't find archive for virtualbox-7.0

2023-12-23 Thread Michael Kjörling
e of the package, you might need to >> reinstall it before you can remove it. Please re-read my post in full. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Synaptic Problem

2023-12-23 Thread Michael Kjörling
ote _relevant_ material, but that is almost never the entirety of an email including previously quoted material.) Then you'll also not need to say "please see below" because there won't be a wall of text to scroll past to get to a few lines that actually add something new to the

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2023-12-29 Thread Michael Kjörling
frame)? Maybe GRUB _does_ print something indicating what the actual problem is, but it reboots so quickly after that that you don't have time to see it. A video might capture that fraction-of-a-second display (even if only partially) and help point you in the right direction. -- Michael

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2023-12-30 Thread Michael Kjörling
for details) from there to reinstall the boot loader itself. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Printer weirdness

2023-12-30 Thread Michael Kjörling
n CUPS, and can quite confidently say that I have never seen any behavior in LibreOffice similar to that which you describe. That's with LibreOffice currently at 7.4.7.2 (4:7.4.7-1+deb12u1). -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: URLs in Mutt

2024-01-01 Thread Michael Kjörling
tly interfered with the browser > correctly interpreting the HTML. Install the urlview package, and then pass the mail text/html part to urlview. (I think it'll accept a simple pipe input.) See urlview(1) for details. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2024-01-01 Thread Michael Kjörling
ase review the posts in the thread starting on Dec 21 2023 14:25:26 UTC, https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/254ebb90-9a49-4b5a-b1d6-e41b51d8a...@columbus.rr.com -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Monthly FAQ for Debian-user mailing list (modified 20231216)

2024-01-01 Thread Michael Kjörling
Could we perchance add something to the FAQ about the inappropriateness of reposting private replies to the list without first confirming with the people involved that doing so is acceptable? -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet

Re: 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors How worried should I be?

2024-01-03 Thread Michael Kjörling
, then the drive is _likely_ fine. (You may need to adjust for other file systems also on that drive, such as /boot.) -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors How worried should I be?

2024-01-04 Thread Michael Kjörling
0s. After restoring your most recent backup, consider doing a fstrim to TRIM unused blocks. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Debian in HPC

2024-01-05 Thread Michael Kjörling
ype of questions. Judging from the activity graph that list fields a few dozen posts per month from currently about 70 members. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: reinstallation and restore after catastrophic mistake or failure; was: 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors How worried should I be?

2024-01-06 Thread Michael Kjörling
d to do a bare-metal restore of their most recent backup often enough for _that_ to be worth the effort to create and maintain. Which is not to say that keeping configuration files version-controlled cannot provide benefits anyway; but given a proper, frequent backup regime, the benefits even of th

Re: OT: coloured text?

2024-01-07 Thread Michael Kjörling
of shebang lines which aren't for "shells" in the traditional sense might be: #!/usr/sbin/nft -f #!/usr/bin/env python3 #!/usr/bin/perl or if you are feeling evil... :-) #!/bin/sed -e 1d -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the I

Re: OT: coloured text?

2024-01-07 Thread Michael Kjörling
g. You're only permitted ONE argument after > the interpreter name. You're going to execute /bin/sed '-e 1d' 'filename' > with this. Okay, fair point. In my defense, I tried it and it worked. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: playing CDROM music questions

2024-01-08 Thread Michael Kjörling
won't > the script work? Check the output of: type play Most likely something else named play comes earlier in your $PATH. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: playing CDROM music questions

2024-01-08 Thread Michael Kjörling
those CDs, now that's a slightly different issue. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: SMART Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt rising - should I be worried?

2024-01-09 Thread Michael Kjörling
% of the spare sectors pool. Absolutely do keep an eye on attribute 179. If the spare sectors pool start to fill up, the drive won't be able to reallocate any further sectors, and your RAID array won't do you much good. I would also keep an eye out for I/O errors in the kerne

Re: SMART Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt rising - should I be worried?

2024-01-09 Thread Michael Kjörling
t > this point, but might look a bit deeper; https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/solid-state-drives/870-evo-sata-2-5-ssd-1tb-mz-77e1t0b-am/ indicates that the warranty is five years or 1200 TBW for the 2 TB model. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjor

Re: SMART Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt rising - should I be worried?

2024-01-09 Thread Michael Kjörling
provide a sample of one of those, if desired. As long as the drive is being honest about failures and is reporting failures rapidly, the RAID array can do its work. What you absolutely don't want to see is I/O errors relating to the RAID array device (for example, with mdraid, /dev/md*), becaus

Re: SMART Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt rising - should I be worried?

2024-01-10 Thread Michael Kjörling
aced. Only if the attribute hits the "failure" threshold, whatever that happens to be or mean for that particular attribute. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

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