Re: Server hardware advice.

2019-08-08 Thread Steven Mainor
It looks like there are some ESPRESSOBIN v7s on Amazon right now. -- Steven Mainor On August 8, 2019 11:16:44 PM EDT, John Hasler wrote: >Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> Disregarding OSHW I agree that above options are good highlights. >> Additionally I suggest Olimex A64-Olinuxino and ESPRESSObin,

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 9/8/19 6:59 am, John Hasler wrote: > Shahryar Afifi wrote: >> Currently I have X61 with Middleton BIOS that claims to be free. >> Is that also not the case? > > We are talking about the microcode that is stored inside the cpu, > not the

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 08 August 2019 21:17:25 Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 09/08/2019 12:05, John Hasler wrote: > > There is a lot wrong with the patent system. Twenty years is too > > long. Fees are too high. Processing is too slow. The language used > > in the disclosures is arcane (the disclosure

Re: Server hardware advice.

2019-08-08 Thread John Hasler
Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Disregarding OSHW I agree that above options are good highlights. > Additionally I suggest Olimex A64-Olinuxino and ESPRESSObin, both > (unlike above options) known to be mainlined and work with Debian > Buster. The ESPRESSObin would fulfill my requirements, but does

Re: .uvc WebCam Data

2019-08-08 Thread Martin McCormick
deloptes writes: > I still don't get it how you want to capture and process video to text to > audio - perhaps deduplicate frame content etc. - how many frames per > second > do you want to process, cause I did not get this with the 4Mhz and how it > is relevant. I was thinking your display is

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-08 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 09/08/2019 12:05, John Hasler wrote: There is a lot wrong with the patent system. Twenty years is too long. Fees are too high. Processing is too slow. The language used in the disclosures is arcane (the disclosure is supposed to teach the invention to someone "skilled in the art", but the

Re: [arch-general] Acceso remoto consola (simil Teamviewer)

2019-08-08 Thread Guido Ignacio
El jue., 8 ago. 2019 17:45, Maykel Franco escribió: > > > El jue., 8 ago. 2019 20:29, sebastian Oldani > escribió: > >> Para hacer el tunel inverso necesitas poder abrir un puerto del lado del >> cliente, o una tercera pc con posibilidad de abrir los puertos >> >> >> El jue., 8 ago. 2019 a las

Re: .uvc WebCam Data

2019-08-08 Thread Dan Ritter
deloptes wrote: > > I still don't get it how you want to capture and process video to text to > audio - perhaps deduplicate frame content etc. - how many frames per second > do you want to process, cause I did not get this with the 4Mhz and how it > is relevant. I was thinking your display is

Re: lenteur maladive

2019-08-08 Thread hamster
Le 07/08/2019 à 13:16, Daniel Caillibaud a écrit : > Le 05/08/19 à 19:59, hamster a écrit : >> De temps en temps, le processeur se bloque a 800 MHz, c'est dans ces >> moments la qu'il est particulièrement lent. Pourtant toutes les >> températures sont en dessous de 60 °C. > Alors tu as peut-être

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-08 Thread John Hasler
deloptes writes: > So you mean after AMD reverse engineered Intel, they make it illegal > for their own, by license agreement? They can't make it illegal. They can make it a breach of contract for anyone who agreed to their terms to reverse engineer it and sue them for damages if they do. I can

Re: Helpful attitude (was: Server hardware advice.)

2019-08-08 Thread deloptes
Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > You might theoretically be helping millions of others reading along who > appreciate your continued inout about a derived subject - but it is more > sensible to me, and more visible to those who want that help, if you > change the subject line to match your derived

Re: qDslrDashboard anyone?

2019-08-08 Thread deloptes
Johann Spies wrote: > Thanks for your reply.  I have install the opencv-stuff but it also needs > libjasper and libjpeg8 which is not available for Debian.   There are > Ubuntu packages available but there are conflicts with Debian > libjpeg-stuff and I do not want to break my Debian. both

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-08 Thread deloptes
John Hasler wrote: >> The irony here is that AMD started by reverse engineering Intel. > > Legally.  Reverse-engineering is not illegal in the USA. > >> And unfortunately the US has been protecting monopoly and fake >> competition for years.  Such things as Microsoft, Apple and Google >>

Re: Server hardware advice.

2019-08-08 Thread David Christensen
On 8/8/19 7:22 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: To summarize: if you're running ZFS, it can protect you from lots of sources of data corruption. It can't protect you from RAM errors without ECC, so you should opt for ECC if integrity is your goal. None of the other filesystems protect you against RAM

Re: What drivers do I need for a Nvidia geforce GTX 1660 Ti to work?

2019-08-08 Thread hobie of RMN
> On 2019-08-08 09:06 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: > >> Yesterday I installed my new graphics card but when I rebooted the >> system stopped just before the lightdm login box, and just stayed with >> a cursor blinking at the top left of the screen. I'm assuming that I >> need new drivers for it, so

Re: .uvc WebCam Data

2019-08-08 Thread deloptes
Martin McCormick wrote: > Thank you very much.  I started using unix-like OS's 30 > years ago in June but the digital video field is new to me so I > still have a lot of learning to do. > > As an electronics and amateur radio enthusiast, I am > astounded at how fast that A/D converter has to

Re: qDslrDashboard anyone?

2019-08-08 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, 7 Aug 2019 at 08:47, deloptes wrote: > > Read https://dslrdashboard.info/introduction/ > Install dependencies. > > The application is written in C++ using the Qt Framework. It uses the > OpenCV > library for image processing, LibRaw library for RAW image processing and > the libusb

Re: Server hardware advice.

2019-08-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 04:49:06PM -0400, Steven Mainor wrote: So is the general consensus that there are no modern SBCs powerful enough to run nextcloud on (apache, mariadb, php) or a mail server (typical postfix, dovecot, opendkim, SpamAssassin etc... ) for a handful of people? That seems hard

Re: Server hardware advice.

2019-08-08 Thread Dan Ritter
Steven Mainor wrote: > So is the general consensus that there are no modern SBCs powerful enough to > run nextcloud on (apache, mariadb, php) or a mail server (typical postfix, > dovecot, opendkim, SpamAssassin etc... ) for a handful of people? That seems > hard to believe. > I would

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-08 Thread John Hasler
Shahryar Afifi wrote: > Currently I have X61 with Middleton BIOS that claims to be free. Is > that also not the case? We are talking about the microcode that is stored inside the cpu, not the BIOS which is x86 code stored in NVRAM on the motherboard. In Intel 64 bit cpus this currently includes

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-08 Thread John Hasler
Brad writes: > A brief internet search resulted in me reading an article stating > that, in the USA at least, the EULA supersedes the user's legal > allowance for reverse engineering (case cited in the article) the > software. > So, when a person agrees to the terms of the EULA, they waive their

Re: Server hardware advice.

2019-08-08 Thread Steven Mainor
So is the general consensus that there are no modern SBCs powerful enough to run nextcloud on (apache, mariadb, php) or a mail server (typical postfix, dovecot, opendkim, SpamAssassin etc... ) for a handful of people? That seems hard to believe. -- Steven Mainor On August 8, 2019 12:14:23 PM

Re: [arch-general] Acceso remoto consola (simil Teamviewer)

2019-08-08 Thread Maykel Franco
El jue., 8 ago. 2019 20:29, sebastian Oldani escribió: > Para hacer el tunel inverso necesitas poder abrir un puerto del lado del > cliente, o una tercera pc con posibilidad de abrir los puertos > > > El jue., 8 ago. 2019 a las 15:21, Guido Ignacio () > escribió: > >> El jue., 8 ago. 2019 a las

Re: .uvc WebCam Data

2019-08-08 Thread Martin McCormick
Dan Ritter writes: > UVC means USB Video Class. The Video For Linux 2 driver system > should recognize it as a V4L2 device. > > fswebcam is a package that captures images from V4L2 devices. > It's command-line driven and has a few useful features like > resizing, averaging multiple frames, and

Re: Helpful attitude (was: Server hardware advice.)

2019-08-08 Thread Curt
On 2019-08-08, Dan Ritter wrote: >> >> I think you are missing the point: When someone asks a question on this >> list, then that someone gets to decide what the question is. > > Sure. But they also bear the burden of communicating precisely > what it is that they are asking for, and

Re: Raspian ntp manual invocation?

2019-08-08 Thread Martin McCormick
Sven Joachim writes: > Or systemd-timesyncd, which is shipped with systemd since version 213 > and enabled by default in Debian since version 219-1. > > Cheers, >Sven > > I have a Raspberry Pi 2 which was running jessie in 2016 and then I upgraded to stretch in 2018. The Pi

Re: Helpful attitude (was: Server hardware advice.)

2019-08-08 Thread Judah Richardson
My experience with Linux forums over the years is that more effort is spent trying to find reasons to call people asking questions lazy and stupid (or dissing Windows/Windows users when the OP never even mentioned either) than actually helping them. So far this mailing list is below average on

Re: Raspian ntp manual invocation?

2019-08-08 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 12:28:32PM -0700, John Conover wrote: > timedatectl(1) yields: > > Local time: Thu 2019-08-08 12:16:51 PDT > Universal time: Thu 2019-08-08 19:16:51 UTC > RTC time: n/a >Time zone: America/Los_Angeles (PDT, -0700) > Network time

Re: Raspian ntp manual invocation?

2019-08-08 Thread John Conover
Thanks Sven. timedatectl(1) yields: Local time: Thu 2019-08-08 12:16:51 PDT Universal time: Thu 2019-08-08 19:16:51 UTC RTC time: n/a Time zone: America/Los_Angeles (PDT, -0700) Network time on: yes NTP synchronized: yes RTC in local TZ: no

Re: .uvc WebCam Data

2019-08-08 Thread Dan Ritter
Martin McCormick wrote: > The video capture device is an Epifan AVIO-HD video > digitizer and one of it's modes is VGA conversion with all video > sent in the .uvc or webcam format. > > The part I don't know yet is what needs to happen to > convert .uvc in to something that looks

Re: Raspian ntp manual invocation?

2019-08-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2019-08-08 14:18 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 08 August 2019 13:46:00 John Conover wrote: > >> Raspbian sets its system clock on power up. >> >> Is it possible to manually make a 24/7 Raspbian set its clock >> periodically? >> >> Thanks, >> >> John > > It can run ntp just

Re: [arch-general] Acceso remoto consola (simil Teamviewer)

2019-08-08 Thread sebastian Oldani
Para hacer el tunel inverso necesitas poder abrir un puerto del lado del cliente, o una tercera pc con posibilidad de abrir los puertos El jue., 8 ago. 2019 a las 15:21, Guido Ignacio () escribió: > El jue., 8 ago. 2019 a las 14:55, sebastian Oldani > () escribió: > > > > eso te emula una

Re: [arch-general] Acceso remoto consola (simil Teamviewer)

2019-08-08 Thread Guido Ignacio
El jue., 8 ago. 2019 a las 14:55, sebastian Oldani () escribió: > > eso te emula una direccion ipv6 conectandote a un proxy (tipo una vpn), y de > ahí podes tener acceso a los puertos directamente > > Busca en internet, te va a funcionar > > saludos! Voy a investigar, porque no termino de

Re: Raspian ntp manual invocation?

2019-08-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 08 August 2019 13:46:00 John Conover wrote: > Raspbian sets its system clock on power up. > > Is it possible to manually make a 24/7 Raspbian set its clock > periodically? > > Thanks, > > John It can run ntp just fine. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be

Re: mount weirdness

2019-08-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 12:09:11PM -0500, David Wright wrote: On Thu 08 Aug 2019 at 10:56:46 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote: On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 09:04:00AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > wren 08:50:11 ~# lsblk -f | grep sda7 > ├─sda7 ext4swan07

Raspian ntp manual invocation?

2019-08-08 Thread John Conover
Raspbian sets its system clock on power up. Is it possible to manually make a 24/7 Raspbian set its clock periodically? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: [arch-general] Acceso remoto consola (simil Teamviewer)

2019-08-08 Thread Guido Ignacio
El jue., 8 ago. 2019 a las 14:52, Matias Mucciolo () escribió: > > > On Thursday, August 8, 2019 2:18:56 PM -03 Guido Ignacio wrote: > > El jue., 8 ago. 2019 a las 13:52, sebastian Oldani > > > > () escribió: > > > podes usar miredo > > > > > > google miredo: 1er opcion > > > > > >

Re: [arch-general] Acceso remoto consola (simil Teamviewer)

2019-08-08 Thread Matias Mucciolo
On Thursday, August 8, 2019 2:18:56 PM -03 Guido Ignacio wrote: > El jue., 8 ago. 2019 a las 13:52, sebastian Oldani > > () escribió: > > podes usar miredo > > > > google miredo: 1er opcion > > > > http://blog.uca.edu.ni/cleal/2013/02/13/ipv6-con-miredo-cliente-teredo-par > > a-linux/ > > >

Re: [arch-general] Acceso remoto consola (simil Teamviewer)

2019-08-08 Thread Guido Ignacio
El jue., 8 ago. 2019 a las 13:52, sebastian Oldani () escribió: > > podes usar miredo > > google miredo: 1er opcion > > http://blog.uca.edu.ni/cleal/2013/02/13/ipv6-con-miredo-cliente-teredo-para-linux/ > > fijate seguro te sirve! > > Saludos! > Gracias por la respuesta, pero no entiendo de que

Re: mount weirdness

2019-08-08 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 12:09:11PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > But the 2-1 vote wasn't whether error messages were emitted, but > whether the system should mount an already-mounted partition onto > another mount point. I get error messages and the mount fails. > Others get no error messages

Re: mount weirdness

2019-08-08 Thread David Wright
On Thu 08 Aug 2019 at 10:56:46 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 09:04:00AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > wren 08:50:11 ~# lsblk -f | grep sda7 > > ├─sda7 ext4swan07 4a4e352f-2180-4083-92b4-f46e4e0104b4 > > /wrenbk > > wren 08:50:26 ~# mkdir /wa1

.uvc WebCam Data

2019-08-08 Thread Martin McCormick
I am trying to fit all the pieces together in a project I need to do which is to capture VGA video text screens and turn them in to ASCII text via OCR. The OCR program is meant for people to feed in video from a camera or flat-bed scanner which will process the images and decode

Re: [arch-general] Acceso remoto consola (simil Teamviewer)

2019-08-08 Thread sebastian Oldani
podes usar miredo google miredo: 1er opcion http://blog.uca.edu.ni/cleal/2013/02/13/ipv6-con-miredo-cliente-teredo-para-linux/ fijate seguro te sirve! Saludos! El jue., 8 ago. 2019 a las 12:33, Guido Ignacio () escribió: > El jue., 8 ago. 2019 a las 11:48, daniel c (<1982.dan...@gmail.com>)

Re: Noyau >= 4.19.0.5 et disque chiffré

2019-08-08 Thread Jean-Marc
Thu, 8 Aug 2019 09:45:27 +0200 David BERCOT écrivait : > Bonjour, salut David, > Depuis que je suis passé au noyau 4.19.0.5, le système n'arrive plus à > accéder "correctement" à mon disque chiffré. > Au démarrage, plutôt que de me demander la phrase de déchiffrement, il tourne > en boucle

Re: Server hardware advice.

2019-08-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Reco (2019-08-08 17:25:02) > Hi. > > On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 04:54:17PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > > > Then Intel stopped making desktop boards and I wanted ZFS. ZFS > > > > > wants ECC memory. It was time to migrate to server hardware. > > > > > > > > My

Re: Helpful attitude (was: Server hardware advice.)

2019-08-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting deloptes (2019-08-08 17:13:03) > Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Reading the whole initial post (not only first half) is good too ;-) > > But please, I tried to make the statement more precise, cause the > first half contradicts the second. Of course you could use any > hardware that runs

Re: [arch-general] Acceso remoto consola (simil Teamviewer)

2019-08-08 Thread Guido Ignacio
El jue., 8 ago. 2019 a las 11:48, daniel c (<1982.dan...@gmail.com>) escribió: > > Necesito por favor darme de baja de esta lista de correos. Que mando y a que > correo. Gracias. > > El jue., 8 de agosto de 2019 10:47, Guido Ignacio > escribió: >> De la misma forma que te diste de alta [1]

Re: Server hardware advice.

2019-08-08 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 04:54:17PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > > Then Intel stopped making desktop boards and I wanted ZFS. ZFS > > > > wants ECC memory. It was time to migrate to server hardware. > > > > > > My understanding is that ZFS's need / desire for ECC is

Re: Helpful attitude (was: Server hardware advice.)

2019-08-08 Thread deloptes
Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Indeed. > > Reading the whole initial post (not only first half) is good too ;-) But please, I tried to make the statement more precise, cause the first half contradicts the second. Of course you could use any hardware that runs linux as a server, but putting those

Re: mount weirdness

2019-08-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 09:04:00AM -0500, David Wright wrote: wren 08:50:11 ~# lsblk -f | grep sda7 ├─sda7 ext4swan07 4a4e352f-2180-4083-92b4-f46e4e0104b4 /wrenbk wren 08:50:26 ~# mkdir /wa1 /somethingelse wren 08:50:49 ~# mount /dev/sda7 /somethingelse mount: /dev/sda7 is

Re: Server hardware advice.

2019-08-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Dan Ritter (2019-08-08 16:22:07) > Celejar wrote: > > On Wed, 7 Aug 2019 23:59:44 -0700 > > David Christensen wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > Get at least four internal SATA 6 Gbps ports -- boot disk, optical > > > disk, two data disks (mirrored). I prefer six. > > > > Do most people

Re: Helpful attitude (was: Server hardware advice.)

2019-08-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Dan Ritter (2019-08-08 16:19:37) > Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Question was not "please advice on buying what you consider a > > server" but "please advice on buying what original poster considers > > a server". > > A bit of elucidation was in order, since to many people "server >

Re: [arch-general] Acceso remoto consola (simil Teamviewer)

2019-08-08 Thread daniel c
Necesito por favor darme de baja de esta lista de correos. Que mando y a que correo. Gracias. El jue., 8 de agosto de 2019 10:47, Guido Ignacio escribió: > El jue., 8 ago. 2019 a las 6:51, Guido Ignacio > () escribió: > > > > El jue., 8 ago. 2019 04:08, m. escribió: > >> > >> Buenas, > >> > >>

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 8/8/19 11:06 pm, Shahryar Afifi wrote: > Thank you for this acknowledgment. Currently I have X61 with > Middleton BIOS that claims to be free. Is that also not the case? You can have a free BIOS, "Core boot, or similar?" ... but the CPU itself

Re: Server hardware advice.

2019-08-08 Thread Dan Ritter
Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 7 Aug 2019 23:59:44 -0700 > David Christensen wrote: > > ... > > > Get at least four internal SATA 6 Gbps ports -- boot disk, optical disk, > > two data disks (mirrored). I prefer six. > > Do most people running servers really want / need an optical disk? As > long

Re: Helpful attitude (was: Server hardware advice.)

2019-08-08 Thread Dan Ritter
Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Kenneth Parker (2019-08-08 12:39:35) > > On Thu, Aug 8, 2019, 4:50 AM Nicolas George wrote: > > > > > deloptes (12019-08-08): > > > > Well strictly speaking two different things are referred as > > > > server: > > > > > > > > > I have observed that

Re: mount weirdness

2019-08-08 Thread David Wright
On Thu 08 Aug 2019 at 08:19:22 (-), Curt wrote: > On 2019-08-05, Dennis Wicks wrote: > > So anyway, I typed in "sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /wa1" and it > > seemed to finish successfully, but "ls /wa1" indicated that > > in fact it had not. Nothing mounted on wa1! Many other tests > > told me the

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-08 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 08 Aug 2019 06:22:41 -0500 John Hasler wrote: > Shahryar Afifi writes: > > Very well said. If debian free is not using amd64 microcode, so what > > kernel module runs my cpu as 64bit? > > That microcode package contains bug fixes and updates for the microcode > that the manufacturer

Re: Server hardware advice.

2019-08-08 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 7 Aug 2019 23:59:44 -0700 David Christensen wrote: ... > Get at least four internal SATA 6 Gbps ports -- boot disk, optical disk, > two data disks (mirrored). I prefer six. Do most people running servers really want / need an optical disk? As long as the machine can boot via USB, is

Re: [arch-general] Acceso remoto consola (simil Teamviewer)

2019-08-08 Thread Guido Ignacio
El jue., 8 ago. 2019 a las 6:51, Guido Ignacio () escribió: > > El jue., 8 ago. 2019 04:08, m. escribió: >> >> Buenas, >> >> >> > >> > El mié., 7 ago. 2019 a las 13:52, Guido Ignacio (< >> > >> guidoigna...@gmail.com>) escribió: >> > >> >> >> > >> >> Estimados buenas tardes >> > >> >> >> > >> >>

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-08 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
John Hasler writes: > Joe Pfeiffer writes: >> The LICENCE.amd-ucode file >> includes the paragraph: > >>You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble this >>Software or any portion thereof. > > Quite unenforceable, of course. When discussing questions like "how free is this

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 09:20:29AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: I'm not familiar with that particular product, but the BIOS isn't the CPU firmware, although it may implicitly contain and apply files which update the CPU firmware; the BIOS is the motherboard firmware, which is a different kettle of

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-08 Thread The Wanderer
On 2019-08-08 at 09:06, Shahryar Afifi wrote: > On Thu, 2019-08-08 at 17:37 +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On 8/8/19 2:27 pm, Shahryar Afifi wrote: >> >>> Very well said. If debian free is not using amd64 microcode, so >>> what kernel module runs my cpu as 64bit? >> >> Here's

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-08 Thread David Wright
On Wed 07 Aug 2019 at 21:27:34 (-0700), Shahryar Afifi wrote: > On Wed, 2019-08-07 at 23:11 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 07 Aug 2019 at 17:33:52 (-0700), Shahryar Afifi wrote: > > > With respect to all the contributors, developers, hobbyist and > > > users, > > > who made GNU/Linux and

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-08 Thread tomas
On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 06:06:24AM -0700, Shahryar Afifi wrote: > On Thu, 2019-08-08 at 17:37 +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On 8/8/19 2:27 pm, Shahryar Afifi wrote: > > > Very well said. If debian free is not using amd64 microcode, so > > > what kernel module runs my cpu as

Re: Server hardware advice.

2019-08-08 Thread John Hasler
Steven Mainor wrote: > I'm looking for advice on how to build a home server with a primary > focus on security. I plan to run nextcloud and a mail server that > will serve 3 to 5 people at most. David Christensen writes: > Have you considered a mail hosting provider? The Internet is a war >

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-08 Thread John Hasler
Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble this > Software or any portion thereof. deloptes writes: > The irony here is that AMD started by reverse engineering Intel. Legally. Reverse-engineering is not illegal in the USA. > And unfortunately the US has been

Re: mount weirdness

2019-08-08 Thread Curt
On 2019-08-08, Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 11:52:41AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: >>The central riddle is how mount(8) can fail to make the filesystem >>available without visibly reporting an error. >>A question about "mount -v" and its exit value is pending. >>Maybe one

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-08 Thread Curt
On 2019-08-08, Brad Rogers wrote: > > So, when a person agrees to the terms of the EULA, they waive their > legal right to reverse engineer. If you wish to NOT waive your rights, > then you don't accept the EULA. Of course you then won't be able to > install, never mind use, the software.

Re: mount weirdness

2019-08-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 11:52:41AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: The central riddle is how mount(8) can fail to make the filesystem available without visibly reporting an error. A question about "mount -v" and its exit value is pending. Maybe one should also look at dmesg output after such a

Re: mount weirdness

2019-08-08 Thread Curt
On 2019-08-08, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > The central riddle is how mount(8) can fail to make the filesystem > available without visibly reporting an error. Nothing to do with these swaps spaces (I took a gander at the /etc/fstab)? /wa1/Swap5 ... /wa2/Swap6 ... "I can

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-08 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 07:51:00 -0400 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Hello rhkra...@gmail.com, > * that statement / requirment is illegal (or not supported by (US?) > law) A brief internet search resulted in me reading an article stating that, in the USA at least, the EULA supersedes the user's legal

Re: Helpful attitude (was: Server hardware advice.)

2019-08-08 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, August 08, 2019 04:50:31 AM Nicolas George wrote: > deloptes (12019-08-08): > > Well strictly speaking two different things are referred as server: > > > I have observed that contributors on this mailing-list have a tendency > to fall in two categories: > > - those who try to

Re: Helpful attitude (was: Server hardware advice.)

2019-08-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Kenneth Parker (2019-08-08 12:39:35) > On Thu, Aug 8, 2019, 4:50 AM Nicolas George wrote: > > > deloptes (12019-08-08): > > > Well strictly speaking two different things are referred as > > > server: > > > > > > I have observed that contributors on this mailing-list have a > >

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-08 Thread John Hasler
tomas writes: > This is one of those cases: if you're using a piece of non-free > software, you should know about it, and you should know which buy > decision led to it (so you can take that into account at your next buy > decision). There is also a practical reason to keep non-free for the

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-08 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, August 07, 2019 11:03:46 PM John Hasler wrote: > Joe Pfeiffer writes: > > The LICENCE.amd-ucode file > > > > includes the paragraph: > >You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble this > >Software or any portion thereof. > > Quite unenforceable, of course. When

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-08 Thread John Hasler
Shahryar Afifi writes: > Very well said. If debian free is not using amd64 microcode, so what > kernel module runs my cpu as 64bit? That microcode package contains bug fixes and updates for the microcode that the manufacturer shipped the cpu with. The cpu will run without it but the spyware

Re: lxc-cgroup -n 11 cpuacct.stat is empty in buster

2019-08-08 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 11:48:03AM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: > Additional questions: should I contact the Debian maintainer of munin > plugins, or the upstream, to contribute my lxc scripts (actually > they are not mine, I modified them, found them on a mailing-list > originally, I

Re: Helpful attitude (was: Server hardware advice.)

2019-08-08 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Thu, Aug 8, 2019, 4:50 AM Nicolas George wrote: > deloptes (12019-08-08): > > Well strictly speaking two different things are referred as server: > > > I have observed that contributors on this mailing-list have a tendency > to fall in two categories: > > - those who try to understand what

Re: mount weirdness

2019-08-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Curt wrote: > Did you show your /etc/fstab file (cut and paste)? If so, I must've missed > it. See https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/08/msg00295.html where the attachments are kindly attached to the body text. Results from "mount" without arguments or the contents of /etc/mtab and

Re: [arch-general] Acceso remoto consola (simil Teamviewer)

2019-08-08 Thread Guido Ignacio
El jue., 8 ago. 2019 04:08, m. escribió: > Buenas, > > > > >> > El mié., 7 ago. 2019 a las 13:52, Guido Ignacio (< > > >> guidoigna...@gmail.com>) escribió: > > >> >> > > >> >> Estimados buenas tardes > > >> >> > > >> >> Les hago una consulta, tengo un servidor casero que por temas de > > >> >>

Re: lxc-cgroup -n 11 cpuacct.stat is empty in buster

2019-08-08 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 12:23:15PM +0300, Reco wrote: > lxc-cgroup -n 11 -o /dev/stdout -l INFO cpuacct.stat > And you'll probably have to apply some amount of sed to the output. > Try it, you'll see what I'm talking about. Oh, yes. Should I have read the manpage more closely (for me a log file

Re: lxc-cgroup -n 11 cpuacct.stat is empty in buster

2019-08-08 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 11:01:15AM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: > I found this reported here: https://github.com/lxc/lxc/issues/2742 > and here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=929926 > however, this is supposedly fixed in 1:3.1.0+really3.0.3-8 which > is what is

Re: What drivers do I need for a Nvidia geforce GTX 1660 Ti to work?

2019-08-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2019-08-08 09:06 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: > Yesterday I installed my new graphics card but when I rebooted the > system stopped just before the lightdm login box, and just stayed with > a cursor blinking at the top left of the screen. I'm assuming that I > need new drivers for it, so my

lxc-cgroup -n 11 cpuacct.stat is empty in buster

2019-08-08 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Hello, I just updated a jessie system to buster. Kudos to the packagers of lxc, the upgrade script worked and the containers work like a charm. However, I have an issue with some lxc munin plugins I use. Namely they don't show anything. It reduces to the following problem: lxc-cgroup -n 11

Re: Exim4 as a smarthost : Unrouteable address

2019-08-08 Thread rudu
Thank you Joe. Le 07/08/2019 à 19:45, Joe a écrit : On Wed, 7 Aug 2019 18:37:05 +0200 rudu wrote: Thank you Dan for your input. Le 07/08/2019 à 17:28, Dan Purgert a écrit : rudu wrote: Hi all, Until recently my machines running debian testing used to send me e-mails as reports from cron

Helpful attitude (was: Server hardware advice.)

2019-08-08 Thread Nicolas George
deloptes (12019-08-08): > Well strictly speaking two different things are referred as server: I have observed that contributors on this mailing-list have a tendency to fall in two categories: - those who try to understand what the original poster says in order to reply in the most helpful

Re: mount weirdness

2019-08-08 Thread Curt
On 2019-08-08, Curt wrote: > On 2019-08-05, Dennis Wicks wrote: >> >> >> So anyway, I typed in "sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /wa1" and it >> seemed to finish successfully, but "ls /wa1" indicated that >> in fact it had not. Nothing mounted on wa1! Many other tests >> told me the same thing. "umount

Re: mount weirdness

2019-08-08 Thread Curt
On 2019-08-05, Dennis Wicks wrote: > > > So anyway, I typed in "sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /wa1" and it > seemed to finish successfully, but "ls /wa1" indicated that > in fact it had not. Nothing mounted on wa1! Many other tests > told me the same thing. "umount /wa1" said "not mounted"! Would this

What drivers do I need for a Nvidia geforce GTX 1660 Ti to work?

2019-08-08 Thread Sharon Kimble
Yesterday I installed my new graphics card but when I rebooted the system stopped just before the lightdm login box, and just stayed with a cursor blinking at the top left of the screen. I'm assuming that I need new drivers for it, so my question is - What do I need to install to get a -

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-08 Thread tomas
On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 08:50:05AM +0200, john doe wrote: [...] > None-free is a repository that you enable if you need to, it is not the > default in Debian if I am not mistaking. This is correct, and I, for one am glad Debian has kept up to pressure to changing it ("but... but... Ubuntu can

Noyau >= 4.19.0.5 et disque chiffré

2019-08-08 Thread David BERCOT
Bonjour, Depuis que je suis passé au noyau 4.19.0.5, le système n'arrive plus à accéder "correctement" à mon disque chiffré. Au démarrage, plutôt que de me demander la phrase de déchiffrement, il tourne en boucle en indiquant qu'il n'arrive pas à lire le disque... Heureusement, le noyau

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 8/8/19 2:27 pm, Shahryar Afifi wrote: > Very well said. If debian free is not using amd64 microcode, so > what kernel module runs my cpu as 64bit? Here's part of the problem. The CPU has it's own microcode, when you buy it; the

Re: Server hardware advice.

2019-08-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 07 aug 19, 10:21:25, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Disregarding OSHW I agree that above options are good highlights. > Additionally I suggest Olimex A64-Olinuxino and ESPRESSObin, both > (unlike above options) known to be mainlined and work with Debian > Buster. The Rock64Pro (possibly

Re: Server hardware advice.

2019-08-08 Thread David Christensen
On 8/6/19 10:29 PM, Steven Mainor wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for advice on how to build a home server with a primary focus on security. Have you considered OpenBSD? Security is their top priority. I plan to run nextcloud and a mail server that will serve 3 to 5 people at most. Have you

Bug#934203: Please make it easier to trust external repositories without trusting their key for everything else

2019-08-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Package: apt Severity: wishlist On Ma, 06 aug 19, 16:22:34, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > I found a simple guide at > > > https://www.linuxbabe.com/debian/install-latest-virtualbox-6-0-10-debian-10-buster > > > In summary: > Create new sources file: > sudo nano

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-08 Thread john doe
On 8/8/2019 6:11 AM, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 07 Aug 2019 at 17:33:52 (-0700), Shahryar Afifi wrote: >> With respect to all the contributors, developers, hobbyist and users, >> who made GNU/Linux and Debian and all other distributions possible, >> here lies a humble, ignorance and yet curious