MX Linux

2019-10-27 Thread Àlex
Bon dia, treballo amb Debian estable i Debian testing als meus equips, però quan ensenyo a algú no informàtic a instal.lar-se un Linux al seu equip acostumo a escollir un Linux Mint. Van ser distribucions faciletes com Ubuntu les que em van ajudar a passar-me a Linux i ser productiu abans de fer

MX Linux

2019-10-27 Thread Àlex
Bon dia, treballo amb Debian estable i Debian testing als meus equips, però quan ensenyo a algú no informàtic a instal.lar-se un Linux al seu equip acostumo a escollir un Linux Mint. Van ser distribucions faciletes com Ubuntu les que em van ajudar a passar-me a Linux i ser productiu abans de fer

Re: Needed: functionality of mkisofs command

2019-10-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Sun, 27 Oct 2019, Richard Owlett wrote: > Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2019 15:39:50 > From: Richard Owlett > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Needed: functionality of mkisofs command > Resent-Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2019 19:40:15 + (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > On

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-27 Thread deloptes
Brian wrote: >> Cause I may not have the time to do so, but of course it can be me. > > Time (and the fun in taking on a task) is what keeps Debian alive. > I would write a wiki on debian only if it is approved by the community. I think it is fair, so if we agree, but also someone else can do

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-27 Thread Brian
On Sun 27 Oct 2019 at 21:22:41 +0100, deloptes wrote: > Brian wrote: > > > Why "someone"? Why not you? > > Cause I may not have the time to do so, but of course it can be me. Time (and the fun in taking on a task) is what keeps Debian alive. > >> This is a step by step how to to install

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-27 Thread deloptes
Brian wrote: > Why "someone"? Why not you? > Cause I may not have the time to do so, but of course it can be me. >> >> regards >> >> This is a step by step how to to install debian on a USB stick and >> make this stick bootable.  The stick in the example is found under >> /dev/sdb. Change to

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-27 Thread Richard Owlett
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Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-27 Thread Brian
On Sun 27 Oct 2019 at 19:41:12 +0100, deloptes wrote: > Peter Ehlert wrote: > > > I have tried it, several times, but was unable to get Grub properly > > installed... not able to boot. > > I too would like such a tool > > Let me know how it works - perhaps someone could put it on the Debian

Re: GNOME Logs 3.30.0-2 segfault on Debian 10

2019-10-27 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 12:17:37PM -0700, Berkhan Berkdemir wrote: > Hello, > A few days ago, I wanted to use GNOME Logs on a fresh Debian 10 installed > machine. The package comes with the GNOME environment, so I didn't do > apt install. However, what I got is just an error: > >

Re: Needed: functionality of mkisofs command

2019-10-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 10/27/2019 09:13 AM, Stefan Krusche wrote: Am Sonntag, 27. Oktober 2019 schrieb Richard Owlett: I wish to use ISO files as archives. Multiple references suggest command of form: $ mkisofs –o backup.iso /home/tin/Documents/backup Debian does not have "mkisofs". The manpages for xorriso

GNOME Logs 3.30.0-2 segfault on Debian 10

2019-10-27 Thread Berkhan Berkdemir
Hello, A few days ago, I wanted to use GNOME Logs on a fresh Debian 10 installed machine. The package comes with the GNOME environment, so I didn't do apt install. However, what I got is just an error: root@my-hostname:~# cat /var/log/messages ... Oct 27 11:56:55 my-hostname gnome-logs[6048]:

Re: Needed: functionality of mkisofs command

2019-10-27 Thread bcciv
I have used Debian for 16 + years, and I only have a couple of bones to pick. One is I use a BSD distro that has cdrtools already installed when I burn dual layer dvd's to avoid creating as many coasters as possible. This effects all aspects of the tools available. There is too much to say so

Re: What has fowled sshfs in buster

2019-10-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 27 October 2019 11:49:30 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 27 October 2019 11:29:31 Gene Heskett wrote: > > It has worked flawlessly since at least wheezy, but suddenly user > > 1000 has no write perms to the sshnet subdir named as argument 2 in > > the command line. this, executed as me,

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-27 Thread deloptes
Peter Ehlert wrote: > I have tried it, several times, but was unable to get Grub properly > installed... not able to boot. > I too would like such a tool Let me know how it works - perhaps someone could put it on the Debian Wiki after refinement. regards This is a step by step how to to

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 10/27/2019 09:31 AM, deloptes wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: Would what you do explicitly depend on EFI? I have a collection of elderly machines, some with only legacy BIOS. [snip] Regarding older hardware, it might be that the kernel does not support this or that. You know Debian does not

Re: Good advice on Linux (debian) compatible microscope

2019-10-27 Thread Gary L. Roach
On 10/26/19 2:55 PM, deloptes wrote: Doug McGarrett wrote: You haven't said what you're going to look at, but in my humble opinion, if you only want to LOOK, not record, a binocular optical microscope with a ring light and under slide illumination option is the way to go. I don't know if a

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-27 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 10/26/19 5:41 PM, songbird wrote: Peter Ehlert wrote: I have tried it, several times, but was unable to get Grub properly installed... not able to boot. I too would like such a tool hmm, i have a booting USB stick of stable (before recent release so i'm actually one stable back now :)

Re: How to download email messages from Yahoo Groups in Debian?

2019-10-27 Thread Curt
On 2019-10-26, Gerardo Ballabio wrote: > Thank you, but I need some more help. > > I've downloaded the script, but the README says that I need to supply > "the T and Y cookie" and that I should be able to extract them from my > browser. > > My browser is Firefox. I've checked and it doesn't seem

Re: How to download email messages from Yahoo Groups in Debian?

2019-10-27 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Sun, 27 Oct 2019, at 00:35, Gerardo Ballabio wrote: > Thank you, but I need some more help. > > I've downloaded the script, but the README says that I need to supply > "the T and Y cookie" and that I should be able to extract them from my > browser. > > My browser is Firefox. I've checked and

Re: What every programmer should know about memory, in 2019?

2019-10-27 Thread tomas
On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 12:13:57AM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Hi, > > On 25/10/19 1:22 am, Boyan Penkov wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Ulrich Drepper's piece on on-chip memory architectures is a > > fantastic read, and I recently had the

Re: What every programmer should know about memory, in 2019?

2019-10-27 Thread tomas
On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 08:40:33AM -0400, Boyan Penkov wrote: > Thanks, Tomas — any pointers to where I might find such an revised, amended > version? I'd have told you if I knew... Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: What has fowled sshfs in buster

2019-10-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 27 October 2019 11:29:31 Gene Heskett wrote: > It has worked flawlessly since at least wheezy, but suddenly user 1000 > has no write perms to the sshnet subdir named as argument 2 in the > command line. this, executed as me, user 1000 on this system > > sshfs pi@rpi4:/ /sshnet/rpi4 > >

What has fowled sshfs in buster

2019-10-27 Thread Gene Heskett
It has worked flawlessly since at least wheezy, but suddenly user 1000 has no write perms to the sshnet subdir named as argument 2 in the command line. this, executed as me, user 1000 on this system sshfs pi@rpi4:/ /sshnet/rpi4 How can I fix this? Some background gene@coyote:/etc/ssh$ ls

Re: What every programmer should know about memory, in 2019?

2019-10-27 Thread deloptes
Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Well, I don't have any great insights here, but row hammer, spectre, > meltdown and the like weren't a thing back then were it?  There are > more "modern" day exploits against memory, especially with shared > servers ... you know, those cloud servers that too many people

Re: Good advice on Linux (debian) compatible microscope

2019-10-27 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: > Agreed, its essentially useless for what I want to do. Way too wide a > field of view. I need an endoscope sized camera with a long lens and a > very narrow F.O.V. for mounting on a milling machine head for a video > edge finder. For this app, it needs focusing, or at least

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-27 Thread deloptes
Richard Owlett wrote: > Would what you do explicitly depend on EFI? > I don't have a clear idea of what Kenneth described in his original post. > HOWEVER, having such a system might be worthwhile to explore some of my > ideas. I have a collection of elderly machines, some with only legacy > BIOS.

Re: Needed: functionality of mkisofs command

2019-10-27 Thread Stefan Krusche
Am Sonntag, 27. Oktober 2019 schrieb Richard Owlett: > I wish to use ISO files as archives. > > Multiple references suggest command of form: > > $ mkisofs –o backup.iso /home/tin/Documents/backup > > Debian does not have "mkisofs". > > The manpages for xorriso and xorrisofs say they are suitable.

Re: Script does not do what it is told to do

2019-10-27 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2019-10-26 9:55 p.m., The Wanderer wrote: > On 2019-10-26 at 21:33, Ken Heard wrote: > >> The tar scripts now look like this. >> --- >> #!/bin/bash # Script to back up all browser files in

Re: Needed: functionality of mkisofs command

2019-10-27 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > I wish to use ISO files as archives. > Multiple references suggest command of form: > $ mkisofs –o backup.iso /home/tin/Documents/backup This is the very minimum of an ISO production command. > Debian does not have "mkisofs". In 2006, Debian forked genisoimage

Re: What every programmer should know about memory, in 2019?

2019-10-27 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 25/10/19 1:22 am, Boyan Penkov wrote: > Hello, > > Ulrich Drepper's piece on on-chip memory architectures is a > fantastic read, and I recently had the chance to revisit it -- > https://people.freebsd.org/~lstewart/articles/cpumemory.pdf >

Re: What every programmer should know about memory, in 2019?

2019-10-27 Thread Boyan Penkov
Thanks, Tomas — any pointers to where I might find such an revised, amended version? Cheers! -- Boyan Penkov www.boyanpenkov.com > On Oct 25, 2019, at 03:22, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 02:11:58AM +0200, deloptes wrote: >> Boyan Penkov wrote: >> >>> Ulrich Drepper's

Needed: functionality of mkisofs command

2019-10-27 Thread Richard Owlett
I wish to use ISO files as archives. Multiple references suggest command of form: $ mkisofs –o backup.iso /home/tin/Documents/backup Debian does not have "mkisofs". The manpages for xorriso and xorrisofs say they are suitable. BUT give no example. I got lost attempting to follow the

Re: Good advice on Linux (debian) compatible microscope

2019-10-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 27 October 2019 05:32:09 deloptes wrote: > Bob Weber wrote: > > If you aren't concerned about high quality then this might be of > > interest. > > > > Jiusion 40 to 1000x Magnification Endoscope on amazon for about > > $22.  Best of all it works on linux!  No drivers needed on Debian. >

Problème de compilation avec gcc 9.2 (debian/testing)

2019-10-27 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Bonjour à tous, Depuis la mise à jour de mon poste de travail (debian/testing), j'ai un problème de compilation assez surprenant que je n'arrive à résoudre. Sources : http://www.rpl2.fr/download/rpl-4.1.31-daily-20191027.tar.bz2 Procédure de compilation

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 10/27/2019 04:27 AM, deloptes wrote: Tom Browder wrote: That would be great! As usual, the Devil is in the details! well, it is not a rocket science as shown above - I'll post here this evening or tomorrow. I need to redo this on the debian system and see if there are some differences

erreur kde5 et bullseye

2019-10-27 Thread Kohler Gerard
bonjour, depuis ma dernière mise à jour de bullseye KDE est passé en langue anglaise. lorsque je lance systemsettings5 j'ai un certain nombre d'erreurs et la page [Language] de l'onglet [Regional Setting] est vide voici ce que le terminal me dit : :~$ systemsettings5

Re: Good advice on Linux (debian) compatible microscope

2019-10-27 Thread deloptes
Bob Weber wrote: > If you aren't concerned about high quality then this might be of interest. > > Jiusion 40 to 1000x Magnification Endoscope on amazon for about $22.  Best > of all it works on linux!  No drivers needed on Debian. No, please, I am interested in quality. I prefer paying a bit

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-27 Thread deloptes
Tom Browder wrote: > That would be great! As usual, the Devil is in the details! well, it is not a rocket science as shown above - I'll post here this evening or tomorrow. I need to redo this on the debian system and see if there are some differences

Re: /boot et lvm

2019-10-27 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 25/10/2019 à 09:21, Patg a écrit : Les problématiques, il s'agit de celles qui existaient déjà avec GRUB 1 au sujet de lvm, et que je pensais à tord résolu dans la version 2, que tu énonces "ses inconvénients et notamment une complexité supplémentaire. Je ne comprends pas trop ce que tu