Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-31 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 01 aug 19, 09:32:32, Reco wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 10:30:05PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > > Well, that is what I do (guest network, network for devices that don't > > support 802.11ac), and it does add some complexity, but I wouldn't > > call it "fiendishly difficult" - I don't have

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-31 Thread Reco
On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 10:30:05PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > > > > You have authentication frames that can be intercepted (so WPA > > > > > > passphrase can be bruteforced). > > > > > > > > > > Lots of things (such as TLS, ssh) can theoretically be brute forced - > > > > > the question is whethe

Re: xsane: incoherent behaviours

2019-07-31 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Wed, 31 Jul 2019, Brad Rogers wrote: You should be aware that, come next update of hplip, your changes may be lost, unless you are careful. thank you for tour warning, but it's not too difficult to make a backup. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-31 Thread Reco
On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 10:35:03PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 16:44:23 +0300 > Reco wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 02:32:25PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > On Wed 31 Jul 2019 at 16:07:33 +0300, Reco wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 07:58:54AM -0400, Celejar wrote:

Re: Preseed installation: definition of host/domain names

2019-07-31 Thread Polar Bear
Hello, progress report on the issue resolution... I have found that there are a several cases related to the issue with installation run from netboot (DHCP-PXE): Case A Requirements: New installed system should obtain hostname and domain from DHCP/DNS server during installation process without p

Re: 3 phase power (was Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-31 Thread John Hasler
rhkramer writes: > Oh, wow, how quickly I forget -- I did encounter systems like that, > often for lighting in industrial applications, And, further, iirc, we > could (and did) buy and install florescent light (and maybe HID?) > fixtures designed to work on 208 volts, which we connected phase to >

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-31 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 16:44:23 +0300 Reco wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 02:32:25PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Wed 31 Jul 2019 at 16:07:33 +0300, Reco wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 07:58:54AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > > mathematical analysis of how much hardware would be necessary t

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-31 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 1 Aug 2019 11:23:40 +1200 Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 01/08/2019 01:44, Reco wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 02:32:25PM +0100, Brian wrote: > >> On Wed 31 Jul 2019 at 16:07:33 +0300, Reco wrote: > >>> On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 07:58:54AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > mathematical analy

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-31 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 16:07:33 +0300 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 07:58:54AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 10:43:48 +0300 > > Reco wrote: > > > > > Hi. > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 07:06:08PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > > On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 13:57

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-31 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 01/08/2019 01:44, Reco wrote: On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 02:32:25PM +0100, Brian wrote: On Wed 31 Jul 2019 at 16:07:33 +0300, Reco wrote: On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 07:58:54AM -0400, Celejar wrote: mathematical analysis of how much hardware would be necessary to crack a good WPA2 password. I've s

Re: 3 phase power (was Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-31 Thread rhkramer
An update | correction | recollection ;-) On Tuesday, July 30, 2019 11:34:43 AM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I have seen diagrams in NEC code books for a different arrangement to get > 120 volt 3 phase power, but I don't recall ever actually encountering that > in real life. Oh, wow, how quickly

Re: Changing nameservers - WAS "Which resolv.conf file?"

2019-07-31 Thread Bob Bernstein
I _think_ my upgrade from Jessie to Stretch -- which entailed installing systemd for the first time on this box -- introduced that 8.8.8.8. into my config. I've never been at a loss to select my own nameservers, and that never has been one of them. I was not even aware of that other file 'inte

Re: Preseed installation: definition of host/domain names

2019-07-31 Thread Polar Bear
Hi, modifying required block of preseed file to following, Debian intaller still asks to confirm hostname and domain # Any hostname and domain names assigned from dhcp take precedence over # values set here. However, setting the values still prevents the questions # from being shown, even if valu

Re: Preseed installation: definition of host/domain names

2019-07-31 Thread Polar Bear
Hello, please find bellow an examples for "Buster" (Stretch, Jessie) https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/example-preseed.txt https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/example-preseed.txt https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/example-preseed.txt Andy Andy On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 2:39 PM Polar

Preseed installation: definition of host/domain names

2019-07-31 Thread Polar Bear
Hello, can somebody explain how to configure preseed file so that auto installation picks up the host and domain name from DHCP server (DNS server). This question was 'rised' earlier on StackExchange https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/106614/preseed-cfg-ignoring-hostname-setting Situation:

Re: Changing nameservers - WAS "Which resolv.conf file?"

2019-07-31 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 31/07/2019 à 23:30, ghe a écrit : On 7/31/19 2:52 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Without resolvconf, the DHCP client would have completely overwritten resolv.conf instead of just adding one line. With resolvconf, at least you can have some control over resolv.conf. OK. vi gives me all the cont

Re: Changing nameservers - WAS "Which resolv.conf file?"

2019-07-31 Thread ghe
On 7/31/19 2:52 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Without resolvconf, the DHCP client would have completely overwritten > resolv.conf instead of just adding one line. With resolvconf, at least > you can have some control over resolv.conf. OK. vi gives me all the control I need over resolv.conf. I unde

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-07-31 Thread deloptes
Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > I wasn't keeping track of statistics (I wasn't conducting an experiment, > I had a pamphlet that needed to be recreated and then edited), but the > results were very very close to 100%  I certainly spent a lot more time > on reformatting and editing than I did proofreading.

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-07-31 Thread deloptes
Doug McGarrett wrote: > Does your repo have cuneiform? I found that cuneiform works LOTS better > than tesseract. > (You can find cuneiform in the rpmfind app, and convert it with alien if > you can't find a deb version.) Looks like it is 10y old already - as I said - all the investments in resea

Re: Changing nameservers - WAS "Which resolv.conf file?"

2019-07-31 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 31/07/2019 à 21:44, ghe a écrit : On 7/31/19 1:20 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: I still feel like you're missing the big picture here. resolvconf isn't the thing that's modifying your /etc/resolv.conf file. It's the thing (that was) modifying my resolv.conf. Resolvconf does not modify resolv

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-07-31 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
deloptes writes: > Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > >> I used tesseract-ocr, mentioned previously, a couple of years ago with >> very good success.  Also, the problem he's trying to solve is much > > what means very good success? You had to proof read it at the end - time > spent. For me either something wo

Re: Changing nameservers - WAS "Which resolv.conf file?"

2019-07-31 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 31 iul 19, 13:44:51, ghe wrote: > On 7/31/19 1:20 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > I still feel like you're missing the big picture here. resolvconf isn't > > the thing that's modifying your /etc/resolv.conf file. > > It's the thing (that was) modifying my resolv.conf. [...] > At first

Re: Which resolv.conf file?

2019-07-31 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 31 iul 19, 02:37:40, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jul 2019, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > It depends a lot on what combination of packages you have installed and > > are using. > > > > Starting with the obvious ones, please show the output of: > > Ok. One dotted-four required obfuscati

Re: Which resolv.conf file?

2019-07-31 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 31 iul 19, 08:59:11, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 31 Jul 2019 at 08:50:34 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 09:21:32AM +0300, Reco wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 09:16:03AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > On Mi, 31 iul 19, 09:06:36, Reco wrote: > > > > > As

Re: xsane: incoherent behaviours

2019-07-31 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 21:53:43 +0200 (CEST) Pierre Frenkiel wrote: Hello Pierre, > grep "envy_photo_7100" /usr/share/hplip/data/models/models.dat > I added it to models.dat You should be aware that, come next update of hplip, your changes may be lost, unless you are careful. -- Regards

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-31 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 31 iul 19, 04:43:31, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > > >> You have several encryption algorithms, but: > >> a) They are not equally good. > > Of course not - they never are ;) The trick is to pick a good one, and for > > wifi, that's WPA2 using AES. > > Indeed, if one uses AES instead of PSK then

Re: xsane: incoherent behaviours

2019-07-31 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Wed, 31 Jul 2019, Brian wrote: But you said your was laptop amd64/stretch; it wasn't. models.dat had been altered at some time by you. You failed to mention that. I never modified models.dat before. until last week, I used "scanimage -d hpaio:/net/envy_photo_7100..." after your questi

Re: Changing nameservers - WAS "Which resolv.conf file?"

2019-07-31 Thread ghe
On 7/31/19 1:20 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > I still feel like you're missing the big picture here. resolvconf isn't > the thing that's modifying your /etc/resolv.conf file. It's the thing (that was) modifying my resolv.conf. I have 2 Enet connections: a reliable T1 and a reasonably fast WiFi.

After upgraded to Buster the Energy Settings is problematic: get blank scree on laptop and the power off is only applicable

2019-07-31 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hello, I just upgraded to Debian Buster from Stretch. I am running it on an Acer Aspire V3-571 laptop. I am using XFCE Desktop Environment ( in Stretch I used it also ). In the Energy ... Settings I did set up in Stretch that that after 3 minutes of inactivity the screen comes blank and it wo

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-07-31 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 07/31/2019 02:22 PM, deloptes wrote: Joe Pfeiffer wrote: I used tesseract-ocr, mentioned previously, a couple of years ago with very good success. Also, the problem he's trying to solve is much what means very good success? You had to proof read it at the end - time spent. For me eithe

Re: Changing nameservers - WAS "Which resolv.conf file?"

2019-07-31 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 01:13:27PM -0600, ghe wrote: > On 7/31/19 12:52 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > Removing /etc/resolvconf sounds like terrible> advice. > > If you want to remove resolvconf, remove the> package with dpkg or apt. > > Don't just start removing random > configuration> files

Re: Changing nameservers - WAS "Which resolv.conf file?"

2019-07-31 Thread ghe
On 7/31/19 12:52 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Removing /etc/resolvconf sounds like terrible> advice. > If you want to remove resolvconf, remove the> package with dpkg or apt. > Don't just start removing random configuration> files and directories Good point, well taken. I've always just deleted

Re: Changing nameservers - WAS "Which resolv.conf file?"

2019-07-31 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 12:44:50PM -0600, ghe wrote: > On 7/31/19 12:17 PM, Bob Bernstein wrote: > > > Sure enough, there it was, for eth0. I commented it out and added a line > > for the nameserver I wanted, and bingo, we have lift off. > > That works, but if you want to specify the DNS server,

Re: Changing nameservers - WAS "Which resolv.conf file?"

2019-07-31 Thread ghe
On 7/31/19 12:17 PM, Bob Bernstein wrote: > Sure enough, there it was, for eth0. I commented it out and added a line > for the nameserver I wanted, and bingo, we have lift off. That works, but if you want to specify the DNS server, delete those 2 DNS lines in /etc...interfaces, and edit /etc/reso

Re: xsane: incoherent behaviours

2019-07-31 Thread Brian
On Wed 31 Jul 2019 at 20:18:09 +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jul 2019, Brian wrote: > > > You are misunderstanding. When I said "Neither should have an envy photo > > 7100 entry in models.dat.", I meant that the *stretch* models.dat does > > not have it as an entry. If it is there, i

Re: Changing nameservers - WAS "Which resolv.conf file?"

2019-07-31 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 31/07/2019 à 19:56, Greg Wooledge a écrit : On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 07:51:45PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 31/07/2019 à 17:10, Bob Bernstein a écrit : What I want to do is get rid of the google 8.8.8.8 and replace it with a static nameserver suggested by my vpn. Edit /etc/network/int

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-07-31 Thread deloptes
Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > I used tesseract-ocr, mentioned previously, a couple of years ago with > very good success.  Also, the problem he's trying to solve is much what means very good success? You had to proof read it at the end - time spent. For me either something works or it doesn't none of the

Re: xsane: incoherent behaviours

2019-07-31 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Wed, 31 Jul 2019, Brian wrote: You are misunderstanding. When I said "Neither should have an envy photo 7100 entry in models.dat.", I meant that the *stretch* models.dat does not have it as an entry. If it is there, it has been put there - and not by anything which a stretch inastallation wou

Re: Changing nameservers - WAS "Which resolv.conf file?"

2019-07-31 Thread Bob Bernstein
SOLVED, I think. After all the reading you guys gave me I sat pondering this morning, and it dawned on me that if I looked at 'interfaces' and found that darn 8.8.8.8 ip in there, that I might have the clue I needed. Sure enough, there it was, for eth0. I commented it out and added a line f

Re: xsane: incoherent behaviours

2019-07-31 Thread Brian
On Wed 31 Jul 2019 at 19:43:24 +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jul 2019, Brian wrote: > > > Which laptop? Both have stretch. Neither should have an envy photo 7100 > > entry in models.dat. > > this time, facts prove that your are wrong (we say in french > "les faits sont têtus" i.

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-07-31 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
deloptes writes: > Martin McCormick wrote: > >> I have 4 older PC's that generally work well running >> debian but Right now, 3 of them need varying degrees of attention >> to their BIOS setups as Dell motherboards and possibly other >> brands will occasionally modify their boot sequences for som

Re: Changing nameservers - WAS "Which resolv.conf file?"

2019-07-31 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 07:51:45PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 31/07/2019 à 17:10, Bob Bernstein a écrit : > > > > What I want to do is get rid of the google 8.8.8.8 and replace it with a > > static nameserver suggested by my vpn. > > Edit /etc/network/interfaces. That isn't a full answer

Re: Changing nameservers - WAS "Which resolv.conf file?"

2019-07-31 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 31/07/2019 à 17:10, Bob Bernstein a écrit : What I want to do is get rid of the google 8.8.8.8 and replace it with a static nameserver suggested by my vpn. Edit /etc/network/interfaces.

Re: xsane: incoherent behaviours

2019-07-31 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Wed, 31 Jul 2019, Brian wrote: Which laptop? Both have stretch. Neither should have an envy photo 7100 entry in models.dat. this time, facts prove that your are wrong (we say in french "les faits sont têtus" i.e. "facts are stubborn" and here are the facts: - without the envy entry

Re: Changing nameservers - WAS "Which resolv.conf file?"

2019-07-31 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 11:10:32AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > # Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by r$ This simplifies things greatly > What I want to do is get rid of the google 8.8.8.8 and replace it with a > static nameserver suggested by my vpn. ls

Re: Which resolv.conf file?

2019-07-31 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 12:09:38PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 05:55:17PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 10:27:01AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > wooledg:~$ dpkg -S resolvconf.1 > > > systemd: /usr/share/man/man1/resolvconf.1.gz > > > > tom

Re: Chromium 76

2019-07-31 Thread Michael Fothergill
On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 at 13:01, Paul Sutton wrote: > Hi > > Looks like chromium 76 is out soon, hopefully will make its way in to > Buster. As Chromium + Scratch website is still very sluggish on Buster. > > I have compiled and installed chromium 76 using gentoo prefix which I have running on deb

Re: Which resolv.conf file?

2019-07-31 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 05:55:17PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 10:27:01AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > wooledg:~$ dpkg -S resolvconf.1 > > systemd: /usr/share/man/man1/resolvconf.1.gz > > tomas@trotzki:~$ dpkg -S resolv.conf > manpages: /usr/share/man/man5/resolv.co

Re: Which resolv.conf file?

2019-07-31 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 10:27:01AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 08:59:11AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > It might be the documentation that's confused. Here's an extract from > > man resolvconf > > > > > > > >ifup > >The ifup program can be used to c

Re: xsane: incoherent behaviours

2019-07-31 Thread Brian
On Wed 31 Jul 2019 at 17:18:16 +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jul 2019, Brian wrote: > > > On Wed 31 Jul 2019 at 13:52:29 +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > > > > Here are the outputs of scanimage on my desktop: > > > > > >scanimage: open of device > > > hpaio:/net/HP_LaserJet

Re: xsane: incoherent behaviours

2019-07-31 Thread Brian
On Wed 31 Jul 2019 at 17:31:38 +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jul 2019, Brian wrote: > > > Another check: > > > > grep "envy_photo_7100" /usr/share/hplip/data/models/models.dat > > > > you are right: the envy entry was missing on this laptop. > thanks a lot for your help Which

Re: xsane: incoherent behaviours

2019-07-31 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Wed, 31 Jul 2019, Brian wrote: Another check: grep "envy_photo_7100" /usr/share/hplip/data/models/models.dat you are right: the envy entry was missing on this laptop. thanks a lot for your help best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

RE: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-31 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Helllo Celejar, >> WPA2's (that's your conventional WiFi standard) secure configuration >> is fiendishly difficult. > I take your point, but "fiendishly difficult"? I think you're exaggerating. I think so too, WPA2 has been around for a rather long time and all software knows about it. >> You

Re: xsane: incoherent behaviours

2019-07-31 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Wed, 31 Jul 2019, Brian wrote: On Wed 31 Jul 2019 at 13:52:29 +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: Here are the outputs of scanimage on my desktop: scanimage: open of device hpaio:/net/HP_LaserJet_MFP_M227-M231?ip=192.168.1.41 failed: Error during device I/O scanimage: open of device h

Changing nameservers - WAS "Which resolv.conf file?"

2019-07-31 Thread Bob Bernstein
I've begun a new thread to add some back-story to my "Which resolv.conf file?" inquiry. *Thanks* to all who have chimed in. nb. Judah: If "DE" means "desktop environment" then I don't think I have one. I run the minimalist icewm, and I do not have network manager installed. I do not want to

Re: xsane: incoherent behaviours

2019-07-31 Thread Brian
On Wed 31 Jul 2019 at 16:28:55 +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jul 2019, Brian wrote: > > > What is given by 'dpkg -l libsane-hpaio' from both stretch machines? > > exactly same output: > > ii libsane-hpaio:amd64 3.16.11+repack0-3 amd64 HP > SANE backend

Re: Which resolv.conf file?

2019-07-31 Thread Reco
On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 10:27:01AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 08:59:11AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > It might be the documentation that's confused. Here's an extract from > > man resolvconf > > > > > > > >ifup > >The ifup program can be used to c

Re: xsane: incoherent behaviours

2019-07-31 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Wed, 31 Jul 2019, Brian wrote: What is given by 'dpkg -l libsane-hpaio' from both stretch machines? exactly same output: ii libsane-hpaio:amd64 3.16.11+repack0-3 amd64 HP SANE backend for multi-function peripherals best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: Which resolv.conf file?

2019-07-31 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 08:59:11AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > It might be the documentation that's confused. Here's an extract from > man resolvconf > > > >ifup >The ifup program can be used to configure network interfaces [...] Mine doesn't... wait, what... wooledg:~$ d

Re: Debian Buster: Is it safe to use on autodefrag on a Btrfs filesystem that is used for (Restic) backup only with no Btrfs snapshots or subvolumes?

2019-07-31 Thread Judah Richardson
This. From the Btfrs Gotchas page: Files with a lot of random writes can become heavily fragmented (1+ > extents) causing thrashing on HDDs and excessive multi-second spikes of CPU > load on systems with an SSD or large amount a RAM. > >- On servers and workstations this affects databases

Re: Which resolv.conf file?

2019-07-31 Thread David Wright
On Wed 31 Jul 2019 at 08:50:34 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 09:21:32AM +0300, Reco wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 09:16:03AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Mi, 31 iul 19, 09:06:36, Reco wrote: > > > > Assuming it is, and you're using ifupdown, you need to chang

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-31 Thread Reco
On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 02:32:25PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Wed 31 Jul 2019 at 16:07:33 +0300, Reco wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 07:58:54AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > mathematical analysis of how much hardware would be necessary to crack > > > a good WPA2 password. I've seen lots of sites

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-31 Thread Brian
On Wed 31 Jul 2019 at 16:07:33 +0300, Reco wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 07:58:54AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > mathematical analysis of how much hardware would be necessary to crack > > a good WPA2 password. I've seen lots of sites explaining how to use > > hashcat with a GPU, and various real-w

Re: xsane: incoherent behaviours

2019-07-31 Thread Brian
On Wed 31 Jul 2019 at 13:52:29 +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > Here are the outputs of scanimage on my desktop: > >scanimage: open of device > hpaio:/net/HP_LaserJet_MFP_M227-M231?ip=192.168.1.41 failed: Error during > device I/O >scanimage: open of device > hpaio:/net/laserjet_mfp_m

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-31 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 07:58:54AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 10:43:48 +0300 > Reco wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 07:06:08PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 13:57:25 +0300 > > > Reco wrote: > > > > > > ... > > > > > > > WPA2

Re: xsane: incoherent behaviours

2019-07-31 Thread Brian
On Wed 31 Jul 2019 at 13:52:29 +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jul 2019, Brian wrote: > > > On Wed 31 Jul 2019 at 11:16:34 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > > The URIs with "queue=false" indicate that your desktop and laptop have > > > discovered the MFDs from their DNS-SD (Bonjour) broadca

Re: Which resolv.conf file?

2019-07-31 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 09:21:32AM +0300, Reco wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 09:16:03AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Mi, 31 iul 19, 09:06:36, Reco wrote: > > > Assuming it is, and you're using ifupdown, you need to change > > > "dns-nameserver" stanza in the interface definition. > > > >

Re: Which resolv.conf file?

2019-07-31 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 01:46:45AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > I want to make a change or two to resolv.conf, but every time I come across > it I flee in terror, warned that my changes will be destroyed and the linux > gods angered. > > What is the approved method for changing the list of DNS se

Chromium 76

2019-07-31 Thread Paul Sutton
Hi Looks like chromium 76 is out soon, hopefully will make its way in to Buster.  As Chromium + Scratch website is still very sluggish on Buster. http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/126454 Paul -- Paul Sutton http://www.zleap.net gnupg : 7D6D B682 F351 8D08 1893 1E16 F086 5537 D066 302D https://

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-31 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 10:43:48 +0300 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 07:06:08PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 13:57:25 +0300 > > Reco wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > WPA2's (that's your conventional WiFi standard) secure configuration is > > > fiendishly difficu

Re: Which resolv.conf file?

2019-07-31 Thread Curt
On 2019-07-31, Bob Bernstein wrote: > I want to make a change or two to resolv.conf, but every time I > come across it I flee in terror, warned that my changes will be > destroyed and the linux gods angered. > > What is the approved method for changing the list of DNS servers > called upon by,

Re: xsane: incoherent behaviours

2019-07-31 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Wed, 31 Jul 2019, Brian wrote: On Wed 31 Jul 2019 at 11:16:34 +0100, Brian wrote: The URIs with "queue=false" indicate that your desktop and laptop have discovered the MFDs from their DNS-SD (Bonjour) broadcasts. Your wife's laptop does not do such a discovery. This implies that there is so

Re: Which resolv.conf file?

2019-07-31 Thread Maxim Svobonas
I use USB tethering and NetworkManager just creates a new wired connection whenever I make changes to existing one and reconnect a phone. Also I may use random WiFi spots from time to time and do not want to set up each of them. The solution for me is: [main] dns=none in /etc/NetworkManager/Ne

Re: Which resolv.conf file?

2019-07-31 Thread Judah Richardson
Assuming you're using a DE, make your desired changes in the GUI network/connection settings and they'll get written to resolv.conf. On Wed, Jul 31, 2019, 01:03 Bob Bernstein wrote: > I want to make a change or two to resolv.conf, but every time I > come across it I flee in terror, warned that m

Re: Which resolv.conf file?

2019-07-31 Thread Nate Bargmann
Rather than try to control this on each machine, I have set up my router, running OpenWRT, to serve the nameservers as part of the DHCP configuration. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us

Re: xsane: incoherent behaviours

2019-07-31 Thread Brian
On Wed 31 Jul 2019 at 11:16:34 +0100, Brian wrote: > The URIs with "queue=false" indicate that your desktop and laptop have > discovered the MFDs from their DNS-SD (Bonjour) broadcasts. Your wife's > laptop does not do such a discovery. This implies that there is some > issue with avahi-daemon on

Re: Stream m3u8 not supported by network music player

2019-07-31 Thread john doe
Answering from this e-mail to all of the answers. On 7/30/2019 1:50 PM, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 13:04:10 +0200 > john doe wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I listen to a webradio for which I have a direct URL but my network >> music players do not support the 'm3u8' format. > > Which network pla

Re: Debian Buster: Is it safe to use on autodefrag on a Btrfs filesystem that is used for (Restic) backup only with no Btrfs snapshots or subvolumes?

2019-07-31 Thread Mart van de Wege
Stefan Monnier writes: >> Is it safe to use autodefrag for my use case? > > It sounds like it might be "safe" (the text doesn't actually say it's > unsafe, but just that it has downsides). > > I do wonder why you'd want to do that, tho. Fragmentation is typically > something that clueless Window

Re: xsane: incoherent behaviours

2019-07-31 Thread Brian
On Wed 31 Jul 2019 at 00:35:51 +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jul 2019, Brian wrote: > > > The outputs of 'scanimage -L' from each machine were asked for. They > > provide information you have not given. > > > > -- > > Brian. > > > hi brian, > I thought that they don't provide mo

Re: updmap-user: command not found

2019-07-31 Thread Curt
On 2019-07-30, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >>> >>> >>> curty@einstein:~$ apt-cache show texlive-base | grep -i updmap >>> updmap-map -- >>> >>> So simply spelt 'updmap-map', I guess. >> >> On stretch, it seems it's just updmap > > > Thanks all, that seems to be the case... Yes, I managed to get th

Re: 3 phase power (was Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-31 Thread Joe
On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 17:47:13 +1000 Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 30.07.19 11:34, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > Most residential power in the US is created using a single phase > > transformer (so called because (1) it only takes power from one of > > the 3 phases mentioned above and (2) darn -- i

Re: 3 phase power (was Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-31 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 30.07.19 11:34, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Most residential power in the US is created using a single phase transformer > (so called because (1) it only takes power from one of the 3 phases mentioned > above and (2) darn -- it's a bitch getting old. Tell me about it. ;-) I'd offer that (2) i

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-31 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 07:06:08PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 13:57:25 +0300 > Reco wrote: > > ... > > > WPA2's (that's your conventional WiFi standard) secure configuration is > > fiendishly difficult. > > I take your point, but "fiendishly difficult"? I think yo

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-31 Thread Joe
On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 19:06:08 -0400 Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 13:57:25 +0300 > Reco wrote: > > ... > > > WPA2's (that's your conventional WiFi standard) secure > > configuration is fiendishly difficult. > > I take your point, but "fiendishly difficult"? I think you're > exaggerat