Re: Helium [was: t-bird screwing up]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 12:06:16AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 01 Nov 2022 at 06:49:09 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > This is only a half-truth. You know what goes out faster than helium? > > Vacuum. And there was a whole glorious epoch in electronics which did > > rely on

Re: System Font

On Tue 01 Nov 2022 at 15:53:56 (-0400), pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > Folks: > > Typically, I use i3wm, but I just got through sampling Plasma. Somehow > it has reduced/changed what I guess I'd call my "system font". This > shows up in Firefox menus, Claws-Mail menus and others. I don't really

Re: Helium [was: t-bird screwing up]

On Tue 01 Nov 2022 at 06:49:09 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 06:32:17PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > [...] > > > I think, but don't know for sure, that they were also helium filled drives, > > a guaranteed disaster. > > > > They used the helium to make the heads

Re: installing & upgrading backport package & upgrading system

On Wed 02 Nov 2022 at 04:52:51 (+), Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 04:20:22AM +, jindam, vani wrote: > > * i want to install lo package from bullseye-backports. > > There is no such package name "lo" in bullseye-backports or any other > version of Debian. What are

Re: installing & upgrading backport package & upgrading system

Hi, On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 04:20:22AM +, jindam, vani wrote: > * i want to install lo package from bullseye-backports. There is no such package name "lo" in bullseye-backports or any other version of Debian. What are you actually trying to do? > * correct method for before installation >

installing & upgrading backport package & upgrading system

* i want to install lo package from bullseye-backports. * correct method for before installation of backport lo package? : (1) sudo apt -t bullseye-backports update && sudo apt -t bullseye-backports full-upgrade sudo apt -t bullseye-backports install lo (2) sudo apt update && sudo apt

Interpreting debsecan output

Hello, Today I was looking at "debsecan" for the first time. It has sent me a very long daily report containing entries such as: CVE-2021-3695 A crafted 16-bit grayscale PNG image may lead to a... - grub-common, grub-pc,

Re: loss of mbmon function

On 11/1/22 19:57, David Christensen wrote: On 11/1/22 06:20, gene heskett wrote: Greetings all; I am now suffering from a hang on reboot. And in looking for info, I find that gkrellm can only see temps. I don't push this so they stay in the 29 to 30C range. gkrellm is, and has been part of

Re: Helium [was: t-bird screwing up]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 06:32:17PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: I think, but don't know for sure, that they were also helium filled drives, a guaranteed disaster. https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-user@lists.debian.org/msg780296.html gene heskett Sun, 13 Mar 2022 14:49:25 -0700 The first to

Re: loss of mbmon function

On 11/1/22 16:52, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 01.11.2022 18:20, gene heskett wrote: Greetings all; I am now suffering from a hang on reboot. And in looking for info, I find that gkrellm can only see temps. I don't push this so they stay in the 29 to 30C range. gkrellm is, and has been

Re: loss of mbmon function

On 11/1/22 06:20, gene heskett wrote: Greetings all; I am now suffering from a hang on reboot. And in looking for info, I find that gkrellm can only see temps. I don't push this so they stay in the 29 to 30C range. gkrellm is, and has been part of my housekeeping for 20 years. But mbmon was

Fwd: [SECURITY] [DLA 3173-1] linux-5.10 security update

Did I miss something in the last three years? When did buster go to a 5.10 kernel? My buster system is still on kernel 4.19. Forwarded Message Subject: [SECURITY] [DLA 3173-1] linux-5.10 security update Resent-Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2022 20:58:06 + (UTC) Resent-From:

Re: loss of mbmon function

On 01.11.2022 18:20, gene heskett wrote: Greetings all; I am now suffering from a hang on reboot. And in looking for info, I find that gkrellm can only see temps. I don't push this so they stay in the 29 to 30C range. gkrellm is, and has been part of my housekeeping for 20 years. But mbmon

System Font

Folks: Typically, I use i3wm, but I just got through sampling Plasma. Somehow it has reduced/changed what I guess I'd call my "system font". This shows up in Firefox menus, Claws-Mail menus and others. I don't really care about the font, but the size must be increased. The following is the

Re: Boxed Distributions

On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 08:22:07PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Bret Busby wrote: > > Are Blu-ray drives available for computers? > > Sure. > > My oldest one is a LG BD-RE GGW-H20L of 2008. > My youngest is a ASUS BW-16D1HT which i bought recently after my > Optiarc BD-5300S died

Re: Boxed Distributions

Hi, Bret Busby wrote: > Are Blu-ray drives available for computers? Sure. My oldest one is a LG BD-RE GGW-H20L of 2008. My youngest is a ASUS BW-16D1HT which i bought recently after my Optiarc BD-5300S died mechanically. > I do not know of the storage capacity for a Blu-ray disc, Single

Re: Boxed Distributions

Yes they are On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 7:20 PM Bret Busby wrote: > > On 2/11/22 01:40, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Bret Busby wrote: > >> Someone did say that the full distribution comprises of many disks, so, > >> maybe it needs four boxes? > > > > The four jewel case edition is here: >

Re: Boxed Distributions

On 2/11/22 01:40, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Bret Busby wrote: Someone did say that the full distribution comprises of many disks, so, maybe it needs four boxes? The four jewel case edition is here: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/jigdo-bd/ for 25 GB Blu-ray discs.

Re: Boxed Distributions

Hi, Bret Busby wrote: > Someone did say that the full distribution comprises of many disks, so, > maybe it needs four boxes? The four jewel case edition is here: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/jigdo-bd/ for 25 GB Blu-ray discs. (There is also a twin pack for 50 GB BDDL:

Re: Boxed Distributions

On 1/11/22 23:40, Bret Busby wrote: On 1/11/22 23:28, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 10:57:17AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: Ahhh... these are the boxed distributions? Cheers Someone did say that the full

Re: which gui text editor support correct rendering of multiple languages

On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 04:48:19PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Teemu Likonen (12022-11-01): > > > To the OP: what does entering "locale -a" in a terminal say on your > > > machine? > > And "locale charmap" command too. Hopefully it will print "UTF-8" but if > > it prints "ANSI_X3.4-1968" it

Re: Boxed Distributions

On 1/11/22 23:28, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 10:57:17AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: Ahhh... these are the boxed distributions? Cheers Someone did say that the full distribution comprises of many disks, so,

Re: which gui text editor support correct rendering of multiple languages

Teemu Likonen (12022-11-01): > > To the OP: what does entering "locale -a" in a terminal say on your > > machine? > And "locale charmap" command too. Hopefully it will print "UTF-8" but if > it prints "ANSI_X3.4-1968" it means ASCII and 7-bit character set. I checked that mousepad and jedit, the

Re: which gui text editor support correct rendering of multiple languages

* 2022-11-01 16:27:25+0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > To the OP: what does entering "locale -a" in a terminal say on your > machine? And "locale charmap" command too. Hopefully it will print "UTF-8" but if it prints "ANSI_X3.4-1968" it means ASCII and 7-bit character set. -- /// Teemu Likonen

Re: Boxed Distributions

On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 10:57:17AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > > Jude > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: Ahhh... these are the boxed distributions? Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: which gui text editor support correct rendering of multiple languages

On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 03:19:41PM +, Eric S Fraga wrote: > emacs? It shows the é perfectly well, yes (besides, Emacs is the best editor out there, anyway). But, TBH, even vim can do. To the OP: what does entering "locale -a" in a terminal say on your machine? Cheers -- t signature.asc

Re: which gui text editor support correct rendering of multiple languages

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 --- Original Message --- On Tuesday, November 1st, 2022 at 8:54 AM, jindam, vani wrote: > i copy paste a lot from wikipedia articles. > for example, if i paste "é", it shows garbage. I just tried that paste in LibreOffice, and it

Re: which gui text editor support correct rendering of multiple languages

emacs? -- Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 29.0.50 2022-11-01) on Debian 11.4

Re: which gui text editor support correct rendering of multiple languages

jindam, vani (12022-11-01): > i copy paste a lot from wikipedia articles. > for example, if i paste "é", it shows garbage. > i am using mousepad & jedit. is there any gui > text editor which displays correctly pasted text > with different languages? i am on debian bullseye. I just tested,

which gui text editor support correct rendering of multiple languages

i copy paste a lot from wikipedia articles. for example, if i paste "é", it shows garbage. i am using mousepad & jedit. is there any gui text editor which displays correctly pasted text with different languages? i am on debian bullseye. regards, jindam, vani toots: @jindam_v...@c.im others:

Re: debian/rules @variable@ syntax

On 11/1/22 22:59, The Wanderer wrote: > Can anyone advise me as to at least where I need to look to find out > about this syntax and how to understand it? Advice about how to actually > handle this dense and complicated control file (and its input > control.in) properly, rather than in whatever

Re: Boxed Distributions

Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Tue, 1 Nov 2022, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 02:24:25AM -0400, Joe Roberts II wrote: > > Dear Debian Friends, >

Re: debian/rules @variable@ syntax

On 2022-11-01 at 10:42, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 03:32:05PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > >> jeremy ardley (12022-11-01): >> >> > cmake has inbuilt support for deb packaging >> >> cmake can have all the features it wants, if Debian does not >> use it, then talking about

Re: debian/rules @variable@ syntax

On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 03:32:05PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > jeremy ardley (12022-11-01): > > cmake has inbuilt support for deb packaging > > cmake can have all the features it wants, if Debian does not > use it, then talking about it is a waste of time. > > Do you have a source that shows

Re: debian/rules @variable@ syntax

jeremy ardley (12022-11-01): > cmake has inbuilt support for deb packaging cmake can have all the features it wants, if Debian does not use it, then talking about it is a waste of time. Do you have a source that shows Debian uses cmake for its packaging? -- Nicolas George signature.asc

Re: debian/rules @variable@ syntax

On 1/11/22 22:20, The Wanderer wrote: This definitely isn't cmake. It's part of the Debian build system, and if that depended on cmake, I'm all but absolutely certain that I'd know it by now. Also, this has nothing to do with the build system for the software being packaged; it's entirely to

Re: debian/rules @variable@ syntax

On 2022-11-01 at 10:11, jeremy ardley wrote: > On 1/11/22 21:59, The Wanderer wrote: > >> However, in doing so I have run into a snag which I previously >> skipped over and ignored: I don't actually know what the @variable@ >> syntax means/does, or what parses it. It's not Makefile syntax, as >>

Re: debian/rules @variable@ syntax

jeremy ardley (12022-11-01): > If it's not Makefile, it's quite possibly cmake I strongly doubt that Debian uses cmake for its packaging. Source? -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: debian/rules @variable@ syntax

On 1/11/22 22:11, jeremy ardley wrote: Search for some CMakeFiles.txt files to check if you need to explore cmake further. Wrong. My typing error. Look for CMakeLists.txt files. -- Jeremy

Re: debian/rules @variable@ syntax

On 1/11/22 21:59, The Wanderer wrote: However, in doing so I have run into a snag which I previously skipped over and ignored: I don't actually know what the @variable@ syntax means/does, or what parses it. It's not Makefile syntax, as far as I've been able to determine. I haven't thus far

debian/rules @variable@ syntax

As background: for reasons which I could explain but would probably take a lot of going into and/or go off on a lot of tangents that wouldn't help me reach my actual goal, I'm trying to build an older version of the firefox-esr package in such a way that the resulting binary packages have a

loss of mbmon function

Greetings all; I am now suffering from a hang on reboot. And in looking for info, I find that gkrellm can only see temps. I don't push this so they stay in the 29 to 30C range. gkrellm is, and has been part of my housekeeping for 20 years. But mbmon was not installed, but it and all its

Re: version de Bullseye

Gracias. me funcionó perfecto El 31/10/22 a las 22:04, Gerardo Braica escribió: Hola. cat /etc/debian_version El 31/10/22 a las 19:28, Marcelo Eduardo Giordano escribió: Hola amigos. Quiero saber mi versión de Bullseye, o sea 11.x Que comando puedo ejecutar? Probé lsb_release -a pero me

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Re: Boxed Distributions

On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 02:24:25AM -0400, Joe Roberts II wrote: > Dear Debian Friends, > > I was hopeful that you guys can point me in the right direction on where to > recieve boxes distributions of Debian. > > Is there any way you guys can put me on a distribution list for the > beautiful

Re: Helium [was: t-bird screwing up]

On 11/1/22 01:50, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 06:32:17PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: [...] I think, but don't know for sure, that they were also helium filled drives, a guaranteed disaster. They used the helium to make the heads fly lower, and when the helium leaked out,

Boxed Distributions

Dear Debian Friends, I was hopeful that you guys can point me in the right direction on where to recieve boxes distributions of Debian. Is there any way you guys can put me on a distribution list for the beautiful boxed distributions for Debian?  I respect the fact Debian stands for excellence