Re: Archival of Jessie: where did jessie-updates went ?

2019-03-26 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-26, Pierre Fourès wrote: > Hi, > > I just stumbled upon the fact that Jessie and Wheezy was removed from > the mirrors, except for the LTS. (cf. > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/03/msg6.html). > I still currently use Jessie and my automated install build just br

Re: iotop - or, checking what is accessing a drive

2019-03-22 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-22, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > For my instances, the drive was mounted but very idle... except for > those times the light would start beaconing when I landed on that one > consumer website. AFAIK unmounted hard drives are inaccessible to the operating system by definition. Wrong

Re: (Paul) Re: Other lists? Fire support for new users

2019-03-22 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-22, Jim Popovitch wrote: >> >> Like that ^ > > I have no way to know what ^ is pointing to from your perspective. > >> It's pointing at Paul from my perspective.

Re: Michael - Re: iotop - or, checking what is accessing a drive

2019-03-22 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-22, deb wrote: > >> >> Depending on what's on the disk, it might be more useful to just use >> lsof to see what files are open and try to understand what those might >> be doing. >> > > Thank you Michael. > > I'll build up a list of these recommendations for here. > > I believe you s

Re: why key repeating fails?

2019-03-22 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-21, Long Wind wrote: > > it fails after i use stretch for more than a few hours > > (i'm not aware of any keyboard/mouse input that might cause key > repeating f ailure) i try "xset r on", it doesn't helpkey repeating is > still ok in tty (text mo de)but i use X window most of time > >

Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting

2019-03-21 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-21, wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 10:32:06AM -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote: >> Have you tried the Command Line: "sync"? > > That won't help in the OP's case, I think: sync is about writing out > the operating system's buffers to the file system. In the OP's case > it's about the

Re: Printer pull half of a second blank page after the first printed page and stops

2019-03-19 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-19, deloptes wrote: > Brian wrote: > >> Experimental packages (by their very nature) are not backported. >> >> In any case, what good is it supposed to do for this ancient printer? > > For me it was hard decision to give up the old HP 5L, but comparing to newer > models everything was

Re: systemd: how to start a service (kea DHCP4) after all network interfaces are up?

2019-03-18 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-18, Markus Schönhaber wrote: > Greg Wooledge, 18.3.2019 13:30 +0100: > >> On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 12:31:50PM +0100, Markus Schönhaber wrote: >>> It seems that the DHCP server is started while the interface it is >>> configured to listen on is not yet up and therefore refuses to work. >>

Re: Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc

2019-03-17 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-17, Anders Andersson wrote: > I got myself a USB 3.5" disk drive and want to format a 3.5" HD disk > so that it Just Works™ as a standard MS-DOS floppy. > Normally I would have used mformat from the mtools package, but it > appears that I can not supply a device name, just "emulated

Re: Have you used Duplicati 2.0.4.5 to backup Debian 9.8.0 Server?

2019-03-15 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-15, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Borg integrates nicely as a method for ninjabackup. I recommend > them. curty@einstein:~$ apt-cache search ninja backupninja - lightweight, extensible meta-backup system curty@einstein:~$ apt-cache show backupninja Backupninja is a silent flower blossom de

Re: plasma5 - howto reload keyboard module?

2019-03-13 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-13, Hans wrote: > > The solution I am looking for, is: How to reload the responsible keyboard > module in plasma? I don't have that "solution" for you, Hans. I was looking here (perhaps related to your woes) https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kubuntu-settings/+bug/1633721 a

Re: And now, from the Nice people? Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools

2019-03-12 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-11, deloptes wrote: > Curt wrote: > >> I don't believe he did, actually. I believe that's what Reco wrote. > > but there is no secure OS, as soon as you get connected to the network, and > if you have a server with multiple users ... well. We used to

Re: And now, from the Nice people? Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools

2019-03-11 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-11, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Not that I'm aware of. The thing is - instead of taking an insecure OS >> and building assorted kludges (in the form of anti-virus) around it, >> it's considered wise here to use a secure OS from the beginning. > > This is misleading: all OSes are somewhat

Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools

2019-03-11 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-11, Paul Sutton wrote: > > On 10/03/2019 15:04, Sven Hartge wrote: >> deb wrote: >> >>> a. What does the group suggest running on debian beyond >>>     - chkrootkit >> Useless. >> >>>     - rkhunter >> Crap, unmaintained. >> >> Both tools produce more false positives than finding anyth

Re: And now, from the Nice people? Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools

2019-03-11 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-11, deloptes wrote: > deb wrote: I don't believe he did, actually. I believe that's what Reco wrote. >> Not that I'm aware of. The thing is - instead of taking an insecure OS >> and building assorted kludges (in the form of anti-virus) around it, >> it's considered wise here to use a

Re: systemd error

2019-03-10 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-10, Reco wrote: >> >> I have >> >> After=network-online.target >> Wants=network-online.target >> >> as per this bug report: >> >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=861231 > > That's good for listening INADDR_ANY, but it's not sufficient in this > particular case. >

Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools

2019-03-10 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-10, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 03/10/2019 10:20 AM, Reco wrote: >> Hi. >> >> On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 10:58:12AM -0400, deb wrote: >>> Starting assumption: I do want to run A/V. >>> [*SNIP*] >> >>> b. Does the list keep a ~ "pinned" answer for these kinds of questions? >> >> Not

Re: systemd error

2019-03-10 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-10, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >> >> # directory name is crucial >> mkdir /etc/systemd/system/minissdpd.service.d >> # file name is not important >> cat > /etc/systemd/system/minissdpd.service.d/override.conf << EOF >> [Unit] >> After=sys-subsystem-net-devices-enp7s0.device >> sys-su

Re: systemd error

2019-03-10 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-10, Default User wrote: > > Curt, I often use sudo [command] even when not needed, because the sudo > elevated privileges state "times out" after several minutes, reverting to > unprivileged user state. So if I need to enter another command with > elev

Re: systemd error

2019-03-09 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-08, Default User wrote: > > doofus@doofus:~$ sudo systemctl status > [sudo] password for doofus: > doofus > State: degraded > Jobs: 0 queued >Failed: 1 units I believe sudo (or root) isn't required for this command (nor is it needed for some of the other, interrogative sys

Re: Atril documentation problems

2019-03-03 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-03, Curt wrote: > On 2019-02-28, Richard Owlett wrote: >> >> I don't know how to approach my problem. >> >> My desktop is MATE. I believe the display manager is lightdm. >> >> I used Synaptic to look for "adapta-gtk-theme" witho

Re: Atril documentation problems

2019-03-03 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-28, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I don't know how to approach my problem. > > My desktop is MATE. I believe the display manager is lightdm. > > I used Synaptic to look for "adapta-gtk-theme" without success > [my sources.list contains > "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ stretch main con

Re: Screen resolution during Stretch installation

2019-03-01 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-01, Fabiano Ferronato wrote: > > Hi all! > > I don't know if this is the wright place to ask, but I'm searching a lot > trying to find a way to this problem. > I'm installing Debian in my Asus ROG GL552VW laptop (Intel and Nvidia video > cards) and the resolution (probably 3840x2160)is

Re: I need to help

2019-03-01 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-01, Dan Ritter wrote: > Ultra Foundation wrote: >> Hello، I am Aymen from Algeria and I would like to create a my new >> operating system and I want to build it using Debian How to get a version >> of debian adjustable and thanks. > > > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installman

Re: font size printing from terminal

2019-03-01 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-01, mick crane wrote: > On 2019-02-28 18:59, mick crane wrote: >> hello >> is buster >> I can print from command line with >> "lp filename" >> but not with "lpr filename" >> when printing from terminal the font is a bit big and uses too much >> paper. >> apparently "enscript -FCourier1

Re: Atril documentation problems

2019-02-28 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-28, Brian wrote: > > Pressing 'o' brings up the file browser here, but navigating away from the >> > current directory requires modifying the 'Filter', which ain't exactly >> > convenient in the modern sense. >> >> That's for o, which just gives you the current directory. Try pressing

Re: Atril documentation problems

2019-02-28 Thread Curt
r', which ain't exactly convenient in the modern sense. > Highlighting search string works fine. Menus and controls are much too > small to be acceptable. > > As Curt and Alexander agree that my highlight problem with Evince is > desktop &/or theme related, I will pursue

Re: Atril documentation problems

2019-02-28 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-28, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> >> I like to use "evince". > > It has the same pale green highlight. > Instead of starting search on a specific page, it brings up a clickable > list of all pages on which a match occurs. That satisfies the "end goal" > and may have advantages. > > Thank

Re: dirmngr, can't live with it, can't live without it

2019-02-28 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-28, Jim Popovitch wrote: >> >> I don't have the protocol (hkp) - but the point was to remove the keyserver >> from dirmngr.conf - not sure if it is right for your DE though. > > Thanks for that, testing that now! Perhaps unrelated to your plight, but have you tried another pool? ping

Re: advice sought for program with GUI

2019-02-28 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-28, Brian wrote: >> There's 'dialog'. Not sure it can do self-explanatory buttons, though >> (jocular remark). > > A default label used for a button can be overridden. I'm just going to flat out admit I don't understand what this means and let myself be the object of any forthcoming d

Re: advice sought for program with GUI

2019-02-28 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-28, mick crane wrote: > hello, > I'm not very good at this stuff, have remembered bits here and there. > Memory seems no so good these days. > I've done pieces of simple calculations on 2D images in the past but > when I go back and look at them think " now what does that do and what

Re: openvpn fails to run a learn-address script

2019-02-27 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-27, Dominik wrote: > > I'm looking for help related to three questions: > > 1) How do I get additional information about what is causing the error? > Why is systemd blocking sudo despite the modifications in the override.conf > > 2) More generally: How can I run openvpn in a daemon as u

Re: OT : Windows 10 managed desktop

2019-02-25 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-25, Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 24 Feb 2019 08:42:13 -0600 > John Hasler wrote: > >> Celejar quotes: >> > Essentially desktop as a service (DaaS,) so MS are going to try and >> > grab more control over our desktops  If this is a good reason to >> > really push Linux, free software, choice

Re: Can't scan new disk

2019-02-25 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-25, Mark Allums wrote: >> > > This is not satisfactory. Surely there is a way to neutralize a running > gvfsd/fuse mount on a device without reinstalling to whole OS. > > Mark > man gvfsd says: ENVIRONMENT GVFS_DISABLE_FUSE If this environment variable is set, gv

Re: depmod kernel error

2019-02-24 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-24, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 24/02/2019 à 12:39, Fabrizio Mazzoni a écrit : >> I have run an apt-dist upgrade on my dedicated server that uses a kernel >> from the provider (OVH) and I am getting the following error: > > AFAIK, OVH kernels do not install modules so this error is nor

Re: Why /usr/sbin is not in my root $PATH ?

2019-02-24 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-24, Mart van de Wege wrote: > > Really, not using a clean, known environment as root is plain good > practice, and has been for years, if not actually decades. Have you expressed the opposite of your intention here? A clean, known environment sounds like something in one of those Morm

Re: What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset Link from CorrLinks]

2019-02-22 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-22, Reco wrote: >> >> What Linux mail user agents lack this feature, if it is uncommon? > > Let's see. > kmail, balsa, evolution - basically anything that's either shipped with > DE, or written with "Modern App" approach in mind. Kmail has it: https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/pim/kmai

Re: What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset Link from CorrLinks]

2019-02-22 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-22, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 02:08:40PM -0000, Curt wrote: >>What Linux mail user agents lack this feature, if it is uncommon? > > I thought it was uncommon, but perhaps it isn't. I'm not going to spend > my time exhaustively survey

Re: What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset Link from CorrLinks]

2019-02-22 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-22, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 09:37:06AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> (2) Mutt has a feature that lets you send an EXACT copy of a message >>> to a different address, preserving all of the headers and content >>> verbatim. Mutt calls this "bouncing". >> >>If t

Re: What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset Link from CorrLinks]

2019-02-22 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-21, Celejar wrote: >> >> And as far as I know, fetchmail has no ability/facility to bounce a >> message. Fetchmail-6.3.26 IIRC. Locally built from tarball. > > 'Bouncing' a message is typically done by a MUA (Kmail, in your case), > not the MDA (fetchmail, in your case). Other MUAs be

Re: What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset Link from CorrLinks]

2019-02-21 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-21, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> (2) Mutt has a feature that lets you send an EXACT copy of a message >> to a different address, preserving all of the headers and content >> verbatim. Mutt calls this "bouncing". > > If this is such a good feature, why is mutt the only agent doing it? >> A

Re: Yubikey and LUKS on testing (Buster)

2019-02-20 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-20, Georgios Pediaditis wrote: > >> As far as it accepting the non-yubikey password, remember that a LUKS >> container has multiple key slots (8 or 24, I do not recall precisely at >> the moment). Accessing a LUKS container only requires that a single key >> be unlocked, so any availab

Re: Can't scan new disk

2019-02-20 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-20, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: >> > There you have it. "lsof" command should not output anything if examined > object is not in use. I believe you're wrong, at least according my experimentations below. curty@einstein:~$ mount | grep /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1 on /media/76b40b65-5871-4e11

Re: Can't scan new disk

2019-02-20 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-20, Mark Allums wrote: > On 2/20/19 3:19 AM, Curt wrote: >> On 2019-02-20, Mark Allums wrote: >>>>> >>>> Maybe something simple like "lsof" command can shed some light on this >>>> problem? >>>>     $ sudo lsof

Re: Can't scan new disk

2019-02-20 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-20, Mark Allums wrote: >>> >> Maybe something simple like "lsof" command can shed some light on this >> problem? >>     $ sudo lsof /dev/sdb >>     $ sudo lsof /dev/sdb1 > > root@martha:~# lsof /dev/sdb > lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfsd-fuse file system /run/user/1001/gvfs >

Re: Please Recommend Affordable and Reliable Cloud Storage for 50 TB of Data

2019-02-18 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-18, Celejar wrote: > > Agreed. > >> BTW, what about these Canadians (histoire de couper la poire en deux, so >> to speak)? >> >> https://www.sync.com/pricing/ >> >> Business Advanced >> >> For multiple users >> $15per user, per month >> billed annually >> 2-user minimum >> >> A

Re: Please Recommend Affordable and Reliable Cloud Storage for 50 TB of Data

2019-02-17 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-17, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 09:52:55 - (UTC) > Curt wrote: > >> On 2019-02-15, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: >> > >> > Basically personal data. I don't intend to access the data in the >> > Cloud often. Just wa

Re: Can't scan new disk

2019-02-16 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-15, Mark Allums wrote: > I just bought a new backup disk, and I want to check it. It's mounted in > a USB dock. > > Running the following gives an error: > > root@martha:~# umount /dev/sdb1 > root@martha:~# e2fsck -c -c -C 0 -f -F -k -p /dev/sdb1 > /dev/sdb1 is in use. > e2fsck: Cannot

Re: Permanent Use of IPv4

2019-02-15 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-15, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > On 02/15/2019 12:11 PM, Felix Miata wrote: >> Reco composed on 2019-02-15 19:48 (UTC+0300): >> >>> On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 11:17:06AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: I made ipv6.disable=1 a standard option here at least as far back as 2011. If it ev

Re: powernow-k8 module missing in kernel 4.9.0-8-rt-amd64

2019-02-15 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-15, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > Never got past the subject line at that point. That would be the same > subject line that still sits in the active inbox, too. I'm thinking... > surely fodder for a cognitive/comprehension study somewhere. I now note the 'rt' in the subject line, which i

Re: powernow-k8 module missing in kernel 4.9.0-8-rt-amd64

2019-02-15 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-15, didier gaumet wrote: > Le 15/02/2019 à 09:26, Curt a écrit : > >> It's included as a module in *my* kernel 4.9.0-8-amd64: >> >> curty@einstein:~$ grep -i powernow /boot/con* >> /boot/config-4.9.0-7-amd64:CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW

Re: Please Recommend Affordable and Reliable Cloud Storage for 50 TB of Data

2019-02-15 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-15, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > > Basically personal data. I don't intend to access the data in the > Cloud often. Just want to park it permanently in the Cloud. Maybe I > can access the Cloud from anywhere in the world? > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Glacier G

Re: powernow-k8 module missing in kernel 4.9.0-8-rt-amd64

2019-02-15 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-15, didier gaumet wrote: > Le 14/02/2019 à 14:16, Suso Comesaña a écrit : >> Hello, I was trying to activate the module powernow-k8 to put the system >> in "performance" and I realized that it is not there. In the kernel >> 4.9.0-8-amd64 if it appears and is fully functional. It has bee

Re: Swap space choice on a SSD <- Current best practice on?

2019-02-13 Thread Curt Howland
are also a bunch of networking defaults for IPv4 and v6 for security and simplicity, but this is about SSD wear and swap space. A swap partition that is simply never written to never wears out. I also put in ramdisk options for /tmp in /etc/fstab in order to reduce disk writes. Curt- - --

Re: File association for all and new users in the KDE?

2019-02-12 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-12, Serkan KURT wrote: > > How can I get the file association for all and new users in the KDE system? Maybe kcmshell5 filetypes https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/kde-workspace/kcontrol5/filetypes/index.html I guess the defaults are somewhat dependant upon what software is installed.

Re: Setting default $PATH for all users

2019-02-11 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-11, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 05:26:34PM -0000, Curt wrote: >> I follow your logic. Give me everything in /etc/skel/ beginning with a dot. >> Which works. But apparently a dot is also something else. Like a directory. >> >> cur

Re: Setting default $PATH for all users

2019-02-11 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-11, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, February 11, 2019 08:07:24 AM Curt wrote: >> On 2019-02-11, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: >> > There is a directory /etc/sket (with all hidden files thus you need >> > something like ls /etc/skel/.* to get a listing)

Re: Setting default $PATH for all users

2019-02-11 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-11, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, February 11, 2019 03:57:14 AM to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 09:07:13PM -0600, David Wright wrote: >> > On Fri 08 Feb 2019 at 10:08:49 (-0500), Dan Ritter wrote: >> > > Richard Owlett wrote: >> > > > By my problem definition

Re: Install Report: Buster Weekly Build on Intel NUC (NUC8I5BEK1)

2019-02-08 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-07, Kenneth Parker wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 11:13 PM Carl Fink wrote: > >> My Intel NUC (Next Unit of Computing) mini-PC arrived today. Installing the >> RAM and M.2 card was super-simple. Then I tried to install Debian. >> > > Okay folks, it looks like Microsoft and Intel are

Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?

2019-02-08 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-07, deloptes wrote: > Curt wrote: > >> I thought the $10,000 rule had to do with *cash*. >> >> Cash does not include: >> >> • Personal checks drawn on the account of the writer. >> • A cashier’s check, bank draft, traveler’s check or mon

Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?

2019-02-07 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-07, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I think we've about worn this off topic thread out. The $10,000 rule is > what it is wherever you are doing business. > Cheers, Gene Heskett For me the rule is defined by the IRS and the FinCEN. The very heading of IRS form 8300--"Report of Cash Payments Ov

Re: how to select part of old mp3 and create new one

2019-02-07 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-07, songbird wrote: > Long Wind wrote: > ... >> i want to copy part of old mp3 file and create a new oneat first, i install >> lame, but it doesn't seem to have such abilityi try mencoder, it doesn't >> eitherthen i try qmp3cut, it says "no valid header found"though i can play >> the

Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?

2019-02-07 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-07, deloptes wrote: > > Same here, same here - limit is €1,-, so we do the same split all into > work packages below 1,- > Le plafond concerne des paiements *en liquide* uniquement. He's writing *checks*. https://droit-finances.commentcamarche.com/faq/7183-paiement-en-especes

Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?

2019-02-07 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-07, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 06 February 2019 20:15:48 John Hasler wrote: > >> Gene writes: >> > I have had to write 2 checks for the last 2 vehicles I've >> > bought. Writing a single check for close to $20k for a good used >> > car/truck doesn't fly, some sort of a rule that

Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?

2019-02-05 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-05, Elmo wrote: > On Tue, 5 Feb 2019, Brad Rogers wrote: > >> On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 16:34:49 +0100 >> wrote: >> >> Hello to...@tuxteam.de, >> >>> But it would be so easy to comply with GDPR: rotate logs regularly >> >> I'm in the UK and can connect to the site in question. Therefore, >>

Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?

2019-02-05 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-05, Gene Heskett wrote: > The address wasn’t understood > > Firefox doesn’t know how to open this address, because one of the > following protocols (javascript) isn’t associated with any program or is > not allowed in this context. > > You might need to install other software to o

Re: Trashcan Icon Naming

2019-02-04 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-04, wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 01:09:33PM -0000, Curt wrote: >> To obviate all ambiguity I'm for calling this rubbish. > > Isn't that something for locali[sz]ation? Depends what you're calling rubbish.

Re: Trashcan Icon Naming

2019-02-04 Thread Curt
To obviate all ambiguity I'm for calling this rubbish. On 2019-02-04, Paul Sutton wrote: > Hi > > This is probably for the UX team, but just thought I would mention it.   > > Debian 9.7 Stretch. > > Applies to: > > Desktop icon for Wastebasket. > > If you right click, you get the option to Empt

Re: USB hard drives -- recommendations?

2019-02-03 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-03, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 03/02/2019 à 10:10, Curt a écrit : >> On 2019-02-03, local10 wrote: >>> >>> You may want to consider buying an USB HDD enclosure/cradle, like this >>> one[1] for example, they are cheap and would allow you to use

Re: USB hard drives -- recommendations?

2019-02-03 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-03, local10 wrote: >>> >>> Would anybody care to voice an opinion on USB external hard drives in the 2 >>> terabyte size range, for automated backup purposes? >>> > > > You may want to consider buying an USB HDD enclosure/cradle, like this > one[1] for example, they are cheap and would

Re: Fwd: error 500 when clicking bug link

2019-02-02 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-02, Andrea Borgia wrote: > Il 02/02/19 16:44, David Wright ha scritto: > > >> Maybe it's been fixed. When I click on that link, I arrive at >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=linux >> which looks like: > > Now, that's quite some timing! I retested right before sending

Re: Networking Completely Failed

2019-02-01 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-01, Kenneth Parker wrote: > --1724fb0580ce49f7 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 4:21 AM Joe wrote: > > >> ... NM is a Gnome application. ... >> > > > That's funny: Last year, I installed Kubuntu (not Debian, but same Package > Manager

Re: logout kills X

2019-02-01 Thread Curt
On 2019-01-31, Brian wrote: > > Thank you for looking at this. I tried 'clear && reset' on unstable and > have no complaints. Back to tty2 on after logging in and out and mouse > and keyboard normal operation on X in tty1. > > So - is bash the culprit, or are the interactions between it and other

Re: cups "Filter failed" | filter rastertopdf stops with status 1 | local printing works; remote printing not

2019-01-28 Thread Curt
On 2019-01-28, wrote: > > > I don't know, but my assoc memory suggests it might be a Raspbian > for a Banana Pi. > A bananian could also be someone who lives in a banana.

Re: cups "Filter failed" | filter rastertopdf stops with status 1 | local printing works; remote printing not

2019-01-28 Thread Curt
On 2019-01-28, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, January 28, 2019 08:14:24 AM Brian wrote: >> bananian > > Maybe I am morphing into a cat, but what does bananian mean. Googling didn't > help, showed me Banyan (a fruit) and talked about a website and whether it is > safe for children. > I

Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked?#

2019-01-28 Thread Curt
On 2019-01-28, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 07:24:17PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: >>Resending to the list -- I didn't notice that Ivan had sent this to me only, >>and my reply, of course, then went to him only. > > How strange; both that Ivan would mail you privately, an

Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked?

2019-01-28 Thread Curt
On 2019-01-28, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> Just another aside: One of my takes on lawyers is that they interpret laws >> and take legal positions for various reasons, often to further their own >> or their client's interests, and then are willing to fight the legal >> battle that may ensue.

Re: About me App

2019-01-25 Thread Curt
On 2019-01-25, Paul Sutton wrote: > > Hi > > Just thought I would post a question with regard the About me > application in Debian. Are you referring to the 'mate-about-me' control center applet? Imprecision is the mother of annoyance. Don't ask me who the father is--he's probably left town alre

Re: Apt bug & redirects

2019-01-23 Thread Curt
On 2019-01-23, Richard Hector wrote: > > Ok, it seems if I go through the list on the dsa page above, I can then > download the packages from their respective pages on > packages.debian.org, where they're listed along with checksums. Tedious, > but should work :-) > > Richard > > Not certain why

Re: how to select sound card in mixer

2019-01-19 Thread Curt
On 2019-01-19, Long Wind wrote: > > Thanks! > isn't there some gui program that let user choose card?such program surely = > can make life easy for useri think mixer in Windows XP can do > command line interface of aumix can also doi need to read its manual carefu= > llyi just can't believe such g

Re: (solved)Re: why wodim is in section other os

2019-01-17 Thread Curt
On 2019-01-17, David wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 at 20:22, Long Wind wrote: >> >> i've got growisofs working, i'm unwilling to test more app. >> IMHO cd/dvd has been replaced by Internet and usb boot >> i'm afraid cd/dvd technology is becoming obsolete >> >> Thank Dominique Dumont, Thomas Schmit

Re: Interpreting package version number

2019-01-16 Thread Curt
On 2019-01-16, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > On 1/16/19 1:22 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: >> I'm running Stretch and have just installed Tcl from repository. >> Synaptic reports the installed version is 8.6.6+dfsg-1+b1 . >> The current upstream version is 8.6.9 . >> >> I don't understand what "+dfsg-1+

Re: php7.3-fpm segfaults

2019-01-15 Thread Curt
On 2019-01-13, Roberto C Sánchez wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 09:13:24AM -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 01:31:07PM +0100, Lucio wrote: >> > Il 13/01/19 01:36, Roberto C. Sánchez ha scritto: >> > > Are there corresponding entries in the Apache log? >> > >> > Not m

Re: iotop not working

2019-01-13 Thread Curt
On 2019-01-13, Rob McCathie wrote: > Hi List, > > I run Stretch, I've just installed iotop and when I try to run it I get > this: > parse_proc_pid_status >     key, value = line.split(':\t', 1) > ValueError: not enough values to unpack (expected 2, got 1) > > > Any help appreciated. > > Look

Re: Slow boot

2019-01-11 Thread Curt
On 2019-01-11, Richard Hector wrote: > > Hints on where to look for the boot sequence in the kernel source, perhap= > s? > If you're using systemd the output of systemd-analyze blame systemd-analyze critical-chain might be informative.

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-10 Thread Curt
On 2019-01-06, Brian wrote: > > Thank you for your persistence. I was beginning to think your Firefox > was not from Debian. It appears the feature you describe has disappeared > from it in more recent versions: > > https://www.ghacks.net/2018/05/21/firefox-62-developer-toolbar-removal/ > It woul

Re: Taming the "lsblk" command

2019-01-09 Thread Curt
On 2019-01-09, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 01/09/2019 08:14 AM, David Wright wrote: >> On Wed 09 Jan 2019 at 13:54:45 (+0000), Curt wrote: >>> On 2019-01-09, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: >>>> On Wednesday, January 09, 2019 03:01:42 AM Richard Hector wrote: >>&

Re: Taming the "lsblk" command

2019-01-09 Thread Curt
On 2019-01-09, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wednesday, January 09, 2019 03:01:42 AM Richard Hector wrote: >> On 9/01/19 6:04 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: >> > lsblk -l -o name,label | sort | script >> >> lsblk -ln -o name,label |sort |

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-08 Thread Curt
On 2019-01-05, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I think the question about is it on purpose on the part of stackexchange In researching this bug, I recently discovered bugzilla.mozilla.org itself triggers the bug. Just drumming up business, as it were, I guess. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-07 Thread Curt
On 2019-01-06, deloptes wrote: > Curt wrote: > >> I have no different opinion (I don't think). I know nothing about >> stackexchange. I am indifferent to stackexchange. However, if you want >> to print that full thread on stackexchange, like *Gene wanted to print &

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-06 Thread Curt
On 2019-01-06, Brian wrote: > On Sun 06 Jan 2019 at 17:47:16 +0000, Curt wrote: > >> On 2019-01-06, Brian wrote: >> >> > >> >> > Very awkward, I would say. Which is why it wasn't recommended. >> >> > >> >> >> >&

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-06 Thread Curt
On 2019-01-06, Brian wrote: > On Sun 06 Jan 2019 at 17:47:16 +0000, Curt wrote: > >> On 2019-01-06, Brian wrote: >> >> > >> >> > Very awkward, I would say. Which is why it wasn't recommended. >> >> > >> >> >> >&

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-06 Thread Curt
On 2019-01-06, Brian wrote: >> > >> > Very awkward, I would say. Which is why it wasn't recommended. >> > >> >> Oops. >> >> Still, Tools --> Web Devloper --> (but there ain't no Developer Toolbar >> item). > > There is here (60.4.0esr). Inbetween "Storage Inspector" and "webIDE". > In any case,

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-06 Thread Curt
On 2019-01-06, Brian wrote: > On Sun 06 Jan 2019 at 17:05:19 +0000, Curt wrote: > >> On 2019-01-06, Brian wrote: >> >> >> >> I was under the impression that taking screenshots was under the >> >> control of the window manager, so the key combi

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-06 Thread Curt
On 2019-01-06, Brian wrote: >> >> I was under the impression that taking screenshots was under the >> control of the window manager, so the key combinations might be quite >> different for other users. > > No. FF uses SHIFT+F2. > It doesn't seem to here (on latest stable Quantum). Left-click th

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-06 Thread Curt
On 2019-01-06, Brian wrote: > > Whether the issue is tackled by Firefox or at the stackexchange end > is immaterial; this will take time. Meanwhile, there is an elderly > user who had hoped to read and absorb the material today while eating > his free lunch. > My moral and informatical standards

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-06 Thread Curt
On 2019-01-06, deloptes wrote: > Curt wrote: > >> I suppose you could argue that the percentage of Firefox users too lazy >> or bewildered to try another browser is good enough for stackexchange, >> because, goddammit, you take what you can get. > > Please be

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-06 Thread Curt
On 2019-01-06, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > > >> > > I can confirm the 1 page Firefox printing snafu for the >> > > stackexchange thread on the most recent stable Quantum. I can also >> > > confirm that it is a *very* longstanding bug and that snafu is >> > > indeed the proper acronymic term. >> > > >

Re: Multitasking, through Multiple Text Windows

2019-01-06 Thread Curt
On 2019-01-05, Kenneth Parker wrote: > > The reason I am bringing this up now, is that I tried this on Stretch, with > no Graphical Environment, only to have the Music (playing, through the play > command /dev/tty3) *STOP* *COLD* when I used alt-F4 to switch > perspective (say, to /dev/tty4!)

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-05 Thread Curt
On 2019-01-05, mick crane wrote: > On 2019-01-04 21:11, Gene Heskett wrote: > f course it is printable. Whatever you are doing is unknown. >> >> My copy of FF only prints 1 page, which is the top 3" of the site's >> front page, never getting down to any of the text past the headline. >> >> And

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