Re: Working for free [was: Offensive variable names]

2021-07-13 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 14/7/21 12:09 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 13 iul 21, 20:54:22, Brian wrote: On Tue 13 Jul 2021 at 15:38:26 -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, July 13, 2021 11:27:03 AM Stefan Monnier wrote: BTW, for those who don't want to run their own server, there are still other

Re: Working for free [was: Offensive variable names]

2021-07-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 13 iul 21, 20:54:22, Brian wrote: > On Tue 13 Jul 2021 at 15:38:26 -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Tuesday, July 13, 2021 11:27:03 AM Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > BTW, for those who don't want to run their own server, there are still > > > other reasons to avoid Github: my rule is

Re: Repair partition after dd

2021-07-13 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 14.07.2021 03:12, Andrea Neroni wrote: Hi all, While preparing a bootable USB a wild dd command was executed on the wrong partition, namely on /dev/sda5 instead of the intended /dev/sdb. The consequences are easy to imagine. However, as the start of the disk has not been touched (the

Re: Repair partition after dd

2021-07-13 Thread songbird
Andrea Neroni wrote: ... > Question: having those information, is it possible to repair the partition = > to a state where I can copy away as much data I can and how can I do it? > Thanks to everybody! testdisk songbird

Re: Boot usb

2021-07-13 Thread Gunnar Gervin
Hm. Tried press option key But usb does not show in screen And when in grub wrote boot=/dev/sdb a ? mark came on screen, which only came up black with blinker up in left corner... & nothing else. Nope Youtube did not solve it.. Debian live again, soon, or else how reset back to start... Gunnar PS

Re: Boot usb

2021-07-13 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 11:37:47AM +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > The boot command requires a mount point, ... huh? This makes no sense. There is no "boot command", and there is no need to mount a USB device to which you have written a Debian installer ISO image. In fact, mounting at any

Re: Boot usb

2021-07-13 Thread Keith Bainbridge
Good Morning Gunnar The boot command requires a mount point, but I'm never sure how to do this well outside of file manager In any case, if you're confident that the USB was correctly written, just try booting to it All the best Keith Bainbridge keithrbaugro...@gmail.com On 7/14/21

Re: Boot usb

2021-07-13 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 04:14:41 +0300 Gunnar Gervin wrote: > Hi. > I have burned iso image to usb but it is unmounted. > Thus can probably not be booted(?) No - whether or not it is currently mounted (or mountable at all, in /etc/fstab, etc.) makes no difference as to whether it will successfully

Re: GRUB command-line with timeout

2021-07-13 Thread rhkramer
On Tuesday, July 13, 2021 06:24:27 PM David Wright wrote: > On Tue 13 Jul 2021 at 15:43:55 (-0400), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > I'm not the OP, and I don't boot very often at all -- my machines run > > 24/7 for months on end, so I don't know / remember what has to be done > > in GRUB to get to

Boot usb

2021-07-13 Thread Gunnar Gervin
Hi. I have burned iso image to usb but it is unmounted. Thus can probably not be booted(?) Tried mount sdb; sudo mount /dev/sdb & also sudo mount /dev/sdb1 But Terminal said "Cannot find in /etc/fstab" in both tries. Gunnar

Re: Working for free [was: Offensive variable names]

2021-07-13 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 21:31:33 +0200 Alexandre Garreau wrote: > Le mardi 13 juillet 2021, 16:09:50 CEST Celejar a écrit : > > On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 16:08:53 +0300 > > > > Reco wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 08:01:58AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > > > Github (Gitlab, Sourceforge, etc) were and

Re: Working for free [was: Offensive variable names]

2021-07-13 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 21:09:32 +0200 Alexandre Garreau wrote: > Le mardi 13 juillet 2021, 20:00:44 CEST Celejar a écrit : > > On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 19:28:39 +0200 > > Alexandre Garreau wrote: > > > Le mardi 13 juillet 2021, 14:01:58 CEST Celejar a écrit : > > > > On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 11:54:43 +0300

Re: Offensive variable names [was: Cool down ...]

2021-07-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
Brian T wrote: > >^ This. I concur 100%. Politically correct language, or politics in >general, have no place in software. >-- >Best regards, > >Brian T > >Coronavirus is a scam. >9/11 was an inside job. Please tell me that you're being ironic here, considering the garbage in your signature...

Repair partition after dd

2021-07-13 Thread Andrea Neroni
Hi all, While preparing a bootable USB a wild dd command was executed on the wrong partition, namely on /dev/sda5 instead of the intended /dev/sdb.The consequences are easy to imagine. However, as the start of the disk has not been touched (the command run on sda5) I still have some hope to be

Re: Working for free [was: Offensive variable names]

2021-07-13 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 14:59:27 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: > Also apparently > any time I say anything, I'm perceived as a jerk. be asssured, that is not the case. Best regards Michael .-.. .. ...- . .-.. --- -. --. .- -. -.. .--. .-. --- ... .--. . .-. Vulcans never bluff.

[OT] Selling beer (was: Re: Working for free [was: Offensive variable names])

2021-07-13 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 21:25:17 +0100 Joe wrote: (...) > Back when we had TV advertisements > for beer, it was always the rubbish beers that got the publicity. here (Germany) we still have those TV ads for beer, and I can assure you that the advertised brands (its not up to me to decide

Re: GRUB command-line with timeout

2021-07-13 Thread David Wright
On Tue 13 Jul 2021 at 15:43:55 (-0400), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tuesday, July 13, 2021 11:34:48 AM David Wright wrote: > > So on the odd occasion, you turn on the machine and, at a mininum, are > > about to type in some commands to boot the machine manually. And then > > you might even log

Re: Working for free [was: Offensive variable names]

2021-07-13 Thread rhkramer
On Tuesday, July 13, 2021 03:54:22 PM Brian wrote: > On Tue 13 Jul 2021 at 15:38:26 -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Tuesday, July 13, 2021 11:27:03 AM Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > BTW, for those who don't want to run their own server, there are still > > > other reasons to avoid Github: my

Re: OT: LibreOffice Calc - Fusión de hojas

2021-07-13 Thread JavierDebian
El 13/7/21 a las 16:28, Parodper escribió: O 13/07/21 ás 17:51, Debian escribiu: En writer puedes hacer "Insertar" "Texto desde archivo...", y seleccionas otro documento de writer, y te inserta el texto de ese documento donde lo señalas. Puedes tener dos archivos de 100 páginas, y los

Re: Working for free [was: Offensive variable names]

2021-07-13 Thread mick crane
On 2021-07-13 20:47, Brian wrote: On Tue 13 Jul 2021 at 14:59:27 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 07:32:19PM +0100, Brian wrote: > May I suggest we get back on-topic. There's a topic? I think we're so far from the topic that we can't even get back to it with a compass.

Re: Working for free [was: Offensive variable names]

2021-07-13 Thread Joe
On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 21:31:33 +0200 Alexandre Garreau wrote: > > The mail you answer to sadly didn’t explain concretely what is the > payement, and how you can make money from it. The answer is: selling > personal data. Both what you output, what comes from you, and what > is inputted to

Re: Working for free [was: Offensive variable names]

2021-07-13 Thread Brian
On Tue 13 Jul 2021 at 15:38:26 -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tuesday, July 13, 2021 11:27:03 AM Stefan Monnier wrote: > > BTW, for those who don't want to run their own server, there are still > > other reasons to avoid Github: my rule is to try and opt for the > > underdog so as to

Re: Working for free [was: Offensive variable names]

2021-07-13 Thread Brian
On Tue 13 Jul 2021 at 14:59:27 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 07:32:19PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > May I suggest we get back on-topic. > > There's a topic? I think we're so far from the topic that we can't > even get back to it with a compass. Your OP was important and

Re: GRUB command-line with timeout

2021-07-13 Thread rhkramer
On Tuesday, July 13, 2021 11:34:48 AM David Wright wrote: > So on the odd occasion, you turn on the machine and, at a mininum, are > about to type in some commands to boot the machine manually. And then > you might even log in. Having to type /one/ keystroke at the start is > just too much. > >

Re: Working for free [was: Offensive variable names]

2021-07-13 Thread rhkramer
On Tuesday, July 13, 2021 11:27:03 AM Stefan Monnier wrote: > BTW, for those who don't want to run their own server, there are still > other reasons to avoid Github: my rule is to try and opt for the > underdog so as to foster competition. +1

Re: Working for free [was: Offensive variable names]

2021-07-13 Thread Alexandre Garreau
Le mardi 13 juillet 2021, 16:09:50 CEST Celejar a écrit : > On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 16:08:53 +0300 > > Reco wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 08:01:58AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > > Github (Gitlab, Sourceforge, etc) were and are non-free (as in - > > > > non-gratis) services, so it's only

Re: OT: LibreOffice Calc - Fusión de hojas

2021-07-13 Thread Parodper
O 13/07/21 ás 17:51, Debian escribiu: En writer puedes hacer "Insertar" "Texto desde archivo...", y seleccionas otro documento de writer, y te inserta el texto de ese documento donde lo señalas. Puedes tener dos archivos de 100 páginas, y los combinas en uno solo de 200, sin tener que "copiar

Re: Working for free [was: Offensive variable names]

2021-07-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
> We are in basic agreement. I'm not really a "developer" - I just host > some relatively simple projects on Github. I agree that a deeper use of > something like Github is something I'd have to carefully consider. BTW, for those who don't want to run their own server, there are still other

Re: Working for free [was: Offensive variable names]

2021-07-13 Thread Alexandre Garreau
Le mardi 13 juillet 2021, 20:00:44 CEST Celejar a écrit : > On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 19:28:39 +0200 > Alexandre Garreau wrote: > > Le mardi 13 juillet 2021, 14:01:58 CEST Celejar a écrit : > > > On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 11:54:43 +0300 > > > Reco wrote: > > > > Github (Gitlab, Sourceforge, etc) were and

Re: Docker

2021-07-13 Thread Andrés Benevento
Me pasó lo mismo. Hay que eliminar unos espacios que se copian al final de la URL. La URL correcta es: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu_htiBDhr8EpdB_xYvWGceFVpWGK8DkR Saludos! Andrés. El 13/7/2021 a

Re: Working for free [was: Offensive variable names]

2021-07-13 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 07:32:19PM +0100, Brian wrote: > May I suggest we get back on-topic. There's a topic? I think we're so far from the topic that we can't even get back to it with a compass. > Greg Wooledge (he who has > disappeared) could just sensitively edit the wiki page he has > an

Re: Docker

2021-07-13 Thread Eriel Perez Orihuela
estoy intentando abrirlo, pero no me abre :( On 7/13/2021 2:01 PM, Romero, Fernando wrote: Hola gente para los que estén interesados les dejo un curso completo de docker con contendores y practicas en debian. El curso va de novato hasta experto en 54 capítulos. Saludos

Re: Working for free [was: Offensive variable names]

2021-07-13 Thread Brian
On Tue 13 Jul 2021 at 14:00:44 -0400, Celejar wrote: [...] > Hey, for that matter, Debian is not gratis, since by using it, we grant > considerable power to the DDs, their committees, and the DPL! That's stirring it even more! May I suggest we get back on-topic. Greg Wooledge (he who has

Re: APT Sources.list Line Format for Security Updates

2021-07-13 Thread Gregory McPherran
Hi Andy, I've already been using 11 (Bullseye) for months. My question was specific and related to documentation discrepancy regarding sources.list . I have been provided satisfactory answers regarding that and am all set. Greg McPherran From: Andrew M.A. Cater

Docker

2021-07-13 Thread Romero, Fernando
Hola gente para los que estén interesados les dejo un curso completo de docker con contendores y practicas en debian. El curso va de novato hasta experto en 54 capítulos. Saludos https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu_htiBDhr8EpdB_xYvWGceFVpWGK8DkR? "El contenido del presente mensaje (y sus

Re: OT. Instalar la última versión de Gimp en Debian Buster

2021-07-13 Thread Camaleón
El 2021-07-13 a las 16:31 +0100, José Manuel (Abogado) escribió: > El 13/7/21 a las 6:53, Camaleón escribió: > > El 2021-07-13 a las 06:16 +0100, José Manuel (Abogado) escribió: > > > > > Quisiera instalar la última versión de Gimp 2.10.24 ya que en los > > > repositorios de Debian esta la

Re: Working for free [was: Offensive variable names]

2021-07-13 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 19:28:39 +0200 Alexandre Garreau wrote: > Le mardi 13 juillet 2021, 14:01:58 CEST Celejar a écrit : > > On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 11:54:43 +0300 > > > > Reco wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 09:20:12AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > > > Working for

Re: GPS, logiciels libres et Debian

2021-07-13 Thread Alexandre Garreau
Le mardi 13 juillet 2021, 01:11:49 CEST k6dedi...@free.fr a écrit : > Bonjour, > Je suis surpris de cette réponse car il y a 1 billion d'utilisateurs. Ça n’a jamais existé un billon d’humains simultanément en vie, actuellement on est que 8,5 milliards ou un truc du genre, pas 1000 fois plus.

Re: Working for free [was: Offensive variable names]

2021-07-13 Thread Alexandre Garreau
Le mardi 13 juillet 2021, 14:01:58 CEST Celejar a écrit : > On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 11:54:43 +0300 > > Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 09:20:12AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > > Working for free. > > > > > > > > Yes. This aspect was always annoying to Microsoft and

Discussion ph*ical

2021-07-13 Thread Gunnar Gervin
*all* : "Insults" lose most of their edge putting them inside of dots or even code, added to the fact that we are just names, at least most of us are anonymous; kind of cute at least f*nny. BR, G*in

Re: Working for free [was: Offensive variable names]

2021-07-13 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 11:27:03 -0400 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > We are in basic agreement. I'm not really a "developer" - I just host > > some relatively simple projects on Github. I agree that a deeper use of > > something like Github is something I'd have to carefully consider. > > BTW, for

Re: OT: LibreOffice Calc - Fusión de hojas

2021-07-13 Thread Debian
El 7/7/21 a las 18:03, Felix Perez escribió: El mié, 30 de jun. de 2021 a la(s) 12:34, Debian (javier.debian.bb...@gmail.com) escribió: Buenos días. Si bien no es tema Debian puro, tiene que ver con un paquete de Debian. Mi pregunta es la siguiente: Tengo dos libros de Calc, llamémosle

Re: linux-image-3.16.0-10-amd64 missing on security.debian.org

2021-07-13 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 10:34:24AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > Some Debian releases can run two completely different kernel versions, > like buster with 4.19 and 5.10. IIRC jessie could run 4.9 kernels from > backports. The possible range of kernels is quite large. You can actually run a kernel

RE: OT. Instalar la última versión de Gimp en Debian Buster

2021-07-13 Thread ricardoeureka
Pues aprende como hacerlo! https://essentecla.com/xampp-8-0-2-crear-lanzador-en-debian-10-resuelto/ -Mensaje original- De: José Manuel (Abogado) Enviado el: martes, 13 de julio de 2021 11:32 Para: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Asunto: Re: OT. Instalar la última versión de Gimp en

Re: GRUB command-line with timeout

2021-07-13 Thread David Wright
On Tue 13 Jul 2021 at 10:54:07 (+0200), Steve Keller wrote: > Brian writes: > > > > I'd prefer to be dropped into the GRUB command line instead of that > > > menu. But still I'd like to have the timeout after which a default > > > entry is boot if no command is entered at the prompt. > > > >

Re: linux-image-3.16.0-10-amd64 missing on security.debian.org

2021-07-13 Thread David Wright
On Tue 13 Jul 2021 at 12:09:13 (+0200), Michael Lange wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 09:27:35 + mabi wrote: > > (...) > > So I can simply skip upgrading to 3.16.0-10 and upgrading directly to > > 3.16.0-11 by downloading the .deb package as you suggest? "Skipping" isn't a useful concept with

Re: why pdf file at archive.org is so slow to open

2021-07-13 Thread David Wright
On Tue 13 Jul 2021 at 20:13:30 (+0800), loushanguan2...@sina.com wrote: > riveravaldez wrote: > Another excellent option (specially for old machines) is zathura,available in > the official repositories, IIRC. > i've just installed zathura, it doesn't have Continuous mode as opposed to > Single

Re: OT. Instalar la última versión de Gimp en Debian Buster

2021-07-13 Thread Abogado
El 13/7/21 a las 6:53, Camaleón escribió: El 2021-07-13 a las 06:16 +0100, José Manuel (Abogado) escribió: Quisiera instalar la última versión de Gimp 2.10.24 ya que en los repositorios de Debian esta la 2.10.8.2. He estado buscando por Google. Lo poco que he encontrado en español (no me

Re: Working for free [was: Offensive variable names]

2021-07-13 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 16:08:53 +0300 Reco wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 08:01:58AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > Github (Gitlab, Sourceforge, etc) were and are non-free (as in - > > > non-gratis) services, so it's only reasonable to stay away from them > > > regardless of whom is controlling

Code Hosts with sights on the inevitable [Was: Working for free....]

2021-07-13 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 7/13/21, Brian Thompson wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 08:01:58AM -0400, Celejar wrote: >>If you maintain a local copy of your code and just push it to Github >>for serving it publicly (which is what I do, and what I assume most >>developers do), you haven't lost control of your code - if /

Re: APT Sources.list Line Format for Security Updates

2021-07-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 08:52:18AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 10:22:17AM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > Take the opportunity to at least upgrade to Debian 9 and, ideally, 10. > > Debian 11 should be here inside a month - if you can get to 10, you'll > > have at

Re: Working for free [was: Offensive variable names]

2021-07-13 Thread Reco
On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 08:01:58AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > Github (Gitlab, Sourceforge, etc) were and are non-free (as in - > > non-gratis) services, so it's only reasonable to stay away from them > > regardless of whom is controlling them. > > What do you mean by calling them non-gratis

Re: APT Sources.list Line Format for Security Updates

2021-07-13 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 10:22:17AM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Take the opportunity to at least upgrade to Debian 9 and, ideally, 10. Debian 11 should be here inside a month - if you can get to 10, you'll have at least a further year of security support for 10. Worth noting that skipping

Re: why pdf file at archive.org is so slow to open

2021-07-13 Thread loushanguan2015
riveravaldez wrote: Another excellent option (specially for old machines) is zathura,available in the official repositories, IIRC. Best regards! i've just installed zathura, it doesn't have Continuous mode as opposed to Single Page modeand it lacks gui components, you have to read manual to

Re: Working for free [was: Offensive variable names]

2021-07-13 Thread Brian Thompson
On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 08:01:58AM -0400, Celejar wrote: >If you maintain a local copy of your code and just push it to Github >for serving it publicly (which is what I do, and what I assume most >developers do), you haven't lost control of your code - if / when the >host does anything you don't

Re: Working for free [was: Offensive variable names]

2021-07-13 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 11:54:43 +0300 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 09:20:12AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > Working for free. > > > > > > Yes. This aspect was always annoying to Microsoft and alike. > > > > Times have changed. Now Microsoft *loves* free work...

Re: Offensive variable names [was: Cool down ...]

2021-07-13 Thread Brian Thompson
On 0713, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: >and I feel annoyed by the size of your belly >button, you seem pretty much thinking life is centered around yourself. That's a funny statement coming from you. >Don't want to be a dream breaker but it's not the case, same as the way >America's

Re: Offensive variable names [was: Cool down ...]

2021-07-13 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-07-13 6:55 a.m., Brian Thompson wrote: > On 0713, Borden wrote: >> "I don't care what anybody else's experience is," which is the >> reasoning of antisocial personality disorders (per the DSM). > > Didn't know you were a doctor. Good one there. > Don't need to be a doctor to know

Re: Offensive variable names [was: Cool down ...]

2021-07-13 Thread Brian Thompson
On 0713, Borden wrote: > "I don't care what anybody else's experience is," which is the > reasoning of antisocial personality disorders (per the DSM). Didn't know you were a doctor. Good one there. -- Best regards, Brian T Coronavirus is a scam. 9/11 was an inside job. signature.asc

Re: dns failover a record

2021-07-13 Thread didar
On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 08:32:55AM -0400, Jeremy Hendricks wrote: > The feature you need to look for is GSLB. I’d Google opensource and GSLB. I > saw a few projects that should give you the functionality you need. > > On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 8:23 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Gokan Atmaca wrote: >

Re: APT Sources.list Line Format for Security Updates

2021-07-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 06:55:30PM +, Gregory McPherran wrote: > Hi, > > This shows the new security line form as: > DebianBullseye - Debian > Wiki > deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security

Re: linux-image-3.16.0-10-amd64 missing on security.debian.org

2021-07-13 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 09:27:35 + mabi wrote: (...) > So I can simply skip upgrading to 3.16.0-10 and upgrading directly to > 3.16.0-11 by downloading the .deb package as you suggest? > > Then is it simply a matter of running "dpkg -i > linux-image-3.16.0-11-amd64_3.16.84-1_amd64.deb" and

Re: Working for free

2021-07-13 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 12:00:34PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, [...] > (Nevertheless, one doesn't need a worldwide git repo service to train > an AI by examples of free software. Read on GPT3. Even if you throw away the marketing-foo (of which there is copious abundance), it's... scary.

Re: Working for free

2021-07-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Times have changed. Now Microsoft *loves* free work... That's the problem with living after the future has already passed. Even my enemies aren't what they used to be. > done for them [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub_Copilot] Ahhh. Some things don't change,

Re: Working for free [was: Offensive variable names]

2021-07-13 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 11:22:48AM +0200, john doe wrote: > On 7/13/2021 10:54 AM, Reco wrote: > > Github (Gitlab, Sourceforge, etc) were and are non-free (as in - > > non-gratis) services, so it's only reasonable to stay away from them > > regardless of whom is controlling them. > >

Re: Working for free [was: Offensive variable names]

2021-07-13 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 11:22:48AM +0200, john doe wrote: > On 7/13/2021 10:54 AM, Reco wrote: > > > >Github (Gitlab, Sourceforge, etc) were and are non-free (as in - > >non-gratis) services, so it's only reasonable to stay away from them > >regardless of whom is controlling them. > > > >You need

Re: linux-image-3.16.0-10-amd64 missing on security.debian.org

2021-07-13 Thread mabi
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, July 13th, 2021 at 10:26 AM, Michael Lange wrote: > I know this does not answer your question about the sources.list, but if > > it is only about the linux-image package and for some reason you cannot > > use a kernel newer than 3.16, maybe instead

Re: Working for free [was: Offensive variable names]

2021-07-13 Thread john doe
On 7/13/2021 10:54 AM, Reco wrote: Github (Gitlab, Sourceforge, etc) were and are non-free (as in - non-gratis) services, so it's only reasonable to stay away from them regardless of whom is controlling them. You need to be in control of your code - *you* host it. Always was, always is. It's

Re: GRUB command-line with timeout

2021-07-13 Thread Steve Keller
Brian writes: > > I'd prefer to be dropped into the GRUB command line instead of that > > menu. But still I'd like to have the timeout after which a default > > entry is boot if no command is entered at the prompt. > > You want GRUB's normal operation but, at the same time, you want GRUB > to

Re: Working for free [was: Offensive variable names]

2021-07-13 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 09:20:12AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > Working for free. > > > > Yes. This aspect was always annoying to Microsoft and alike. > > Times have changed. Now Microsoft *loves* free work... done for > them [1]. Nothing had changed in this regard. Every

Re: why pdf file at archive.org is so slow to open

2021-07-13 Thread riveravaldez
On 7/4/21, loushanguan2...@sina.com wrote: > Thanks! i've installed atril, evince and okular for buster for i386 at your > recommendationevince for buster seems better than for stretch > i use xosview to monitor performance4G memory is always enough, but cpu > usage is high, meaning slow Another

Re: linux-image-3.16.0-10-amd64 missing on security.debian.org

2021-07-13 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 04:29:59 + mabi wrote: > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > > On Tuesday, July 13th, 2021 at 3:29 AM, David Wright > wrote: > > > Your sources.list generated the URL: > > > >

Re: APT Sources.list Line Format for Security Updates

2021-07-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 12 iul 21, 18:55:30, Gregory McPherran wrote: > Hi, > > This shows the new security line form as: > DebianBullseye - Debian > Wiki > deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security

Working for free [was: Offensive variable names]

2021-07-13 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 09:01:20AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Gregory Smith wrote to me: > > You're a bunch of fa*gots. > > I think this asterisk is an insufficient surrogate for a classical "bleep". > But thank you for the plural. This enhances my self-esteem. > > > > Working for

Re: Offensive variable names [was: Cool down ...]

2021-07-13 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 06:32:37AM +0200, Borden wrote: > > It's only offensive to the people who are offended [...] > This is poor reasoning. Or... actually no reasoning at all. > "Foolish at best" and "waste of everyone's time" are personal > opinions, not arguments. "Isn't possible" is a

Re: Offensive variable names

2021-07-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Gregory Smith wrote to me: > You're a bunch of fa*gots. I think this asterisk is an insufficient surrogate for a classical "bleep". But thank you for the plural. This enhances my self-esteem. > Working for free. Yes. This aspect was always annoying to Microsoft and alike. >