eep trying, use that address more.
When I started posting here, most of my early posts disappeared, but
eventually they were all getting through. I suspect an undocumented
anti-spam feature.
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On Thu, 24 May 2018 08:13:54 +0100
André Rodier wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-05-24 at 09:07 +0200, Alberto Luaces wrote:
> > Joe writes:
> >
> > > On the assumption that you are using a router of some kind, your
> > > public
> > > IP address will be tha
dministrator. That method will depend entirely on the router.
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e risk. Snapshots are a much
safer way of doing this, and the performance hit while the shadow copy
is active can be kept to a fairly short time. It does require a
significant chunk of unallocated space, though in an emergency, an
external drive can be temporarily added.
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On Mon, 21 May 2018 00:49:41 +0300
Abdullah Ramazanoğlu wrote:
> On Sun, 20 May 2018 12:31:28 +0100 Joe said:
> > On Sat, 19 May 2018 22:10:04 +0300
> > Abdullah Ramazanoğlu wrote:
>
> > > But beware of k3b's KDE dependencies.
> >
> > I
k3b's KDE dependencies.
>
I was going to mention that, though it varies according to what you
have already. I like k3b, and also like konqueror as a backup browser,
so on my desktop machine I'm willing to tolerate the KDE stuff that
comes with them that I never use.
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e-certificate-authentication-with-nginx/
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To the OP: how are you making updates? I use upgrade-system, which
works most of the time. When it wants to pull stupid amounts of stuff
out, I move to Synaptic and see how much I can make work.
In your case, you might want to try upgrading using apt-get or
aptitude, and report the messages from the two machines. If you are
using an upgrade method which is part of the desktop environment, there
might well be different behaviour.
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is not found. I believe 'nofail'
instead would also prevent a boot hang, but I also don't want a dozen
possibly delayed mount processes holding up boot, I'm prepared to wait
until I need them. Note that most of the parameters are relevant to
cifs/samba mounts.
With no /etc/fstab entry, a removable drive when plugged in will by
default automount on first use. I don't recall that any manual
configuration was necessary for that to happen.
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hat way, once you know what file launches it.
It is how you begin debugging a faulty GUI app, the stuff left behind
when it closes may be useful. Or it may just be GTK garbage...
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ecause like the vast majority of
computers, all mine are usually connected to a network with Internet
access. If you want to use your computers in a different way from
almost everybody else, you must expect to do a certain amount of your
own trailblazing.
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On Fri, 11 May 2018 07:39:34 + (UTC)
Curt wrote:
> On 2018-05-11, Joe wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 May 2018 11:37:24 +1200
> > Richard Hector wrote:
> >
> >> On 11/05/18 03:17, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
> >> > Those times it happened, I remember kic
prior to the hardware loss. :)
>
> Hmm. I wonder how hard it would be to design/build a dust bunny
> sensor ...
>
Easier to fit temperature sensors and use good fan filters. On the
other hand, it takes more effort to wash fan filters than suck out a
bit of loose dust, and has to be done more frequently.
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e I reported the bug
and attached a small example file. A quick glance at half a dozen
random old drawing PDFs with Evince doesn't show any obvious problem
(and they were) so maybe the fault has been fixed by now.
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Still an xpdf user after all these years. But... since I now have a
laptop that has a touchscreen, is there one that supports a swipe
interface (as in, I swipe left on the page I'm currently looking at and
it goes to the next page)?
is, networks which have unconditional relaying permission and domains
which have relaying permission. Postfix must have some similar
equivalent. Does the Debian page not help sufficiently?
https://wiki.debian.org/Postfix
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y independent boot environment available
for disaster recovery, with fstab already set up to mount the main
installation partitions, scripts for chroot, configuration
documentation, etc.
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e state of USB3 video over here.
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On Sat, 31 Mar 2018 10:15:48 -0500
David Wright wrote:
> On Sat 31 Mar 2018 at 12:35:08 (+0100), Joe wrote:
>
> > If you lease a public domain name, there is no real
> > difficulty about using it also in a private network, just a matter
> > of making sure that external
only one of which I use locally.
If a DNS server is in use in even a small network, again this will need
a domain name.
It is a matter of practicality, therefore, to give a private network a
domain name. If you lease a public domain name, there is no real
difficulty about using it also in a private network, just a matter of
making sure that external resources using the name can also be found in
local DNS or hosts files.
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or panel sizes, and whether they are fixed
or dynamic. If you have more than one panel, start from any of them and
select using the list box at the top of the dialog.
OK, it shouldn't change by itself...
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end to
store password data (sometimes in plain text!) insecurely enough as it
is.
Also, many websites where security is a big issue do try to ensure that
logins can't be made by computer.
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>
Something I haven't seen mentioned: KeePassX does a kind of poor man's
two-factor authentication, allowing the use of both a password and an
arbitrary file in its encryption. So it's possible to store the file on
your computer(s) and carry the database itself on a USB key, meaning
that if either is lost or stolen, there is a bit less urgency in
changing all of your passwords. A couple of offline backups of both, of
course, should also be kept.
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On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 12:01:42 -0500
David Wright wrote:
>
> I venture to suggest that many (most?) .home users will be using their
> ISP's smarthost,
I'll see your smarthost and raise you a webmail... how many home users
are using an email client at all?
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Small Business Server
newsgroup/forum, it was often claimed that it was practical to run a
mail server on DDNS.
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any connection with the
sender. To minimise typing, I used to use a six-character domain name
(there are several) to which I had no rights whatever.
I've seen one of my clients' Exchange servers reject a connection from
BT, the UK telecoms provider, because one of its Exchange servers was
misconfigured to send its own private domain name, with a .local TLD,
as its HELO.
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sses running their own private SMTP servers but
downloading their mail from a single shared external POP3 account,
which used to be a very common practice.
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.
The fix is that *all* incoming SMTP servers for the domain, primary and
backup, have a list of valid users (spammers often target
lower-priority MX records, as a backup server often doesn't have a user
account list). They must reject all other recipients at SMTP handshake
time, completely ignoring whatever has been forged in the headers. Spam
filtering doesn't do the job at all, the mail has already been accepted
by the time that sees it.
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2nd
> router is? Why not instead of a router put a switch there, and then
> (assuming you need another WiFi access point at that position), plug
> the 2 PCs and a wireless access point (not sure of the right name)
> into the switch.
The network between the routers is a low-security DMZ, with access to
the main network only through the port-forwarding of the second router.
I have an Internet router, which provides occasional wireless for
visitors, and a server acting as a firewall leading to the rest of the
network, so there's no wireless access to the main network, though I do
have an old wireless router that I can plug in if I need it temporarily.
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On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 20:29:38 +
Joe wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 10:04:14 -0400
> Albretch Mueller wrote:
>
> > I have a group of kids that are very good in Math and they want to
> > learn some actual programming
> >
> > My approach is to introduce them t
On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 08:12:51 -0400
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 09:15:58AM +0000, Joe wrote:
> > You could literally install any numbered version and upgrade in
> > steps to the current one, though that would be a lot of wasted
> > work. Any version 9.x
ersion.
The older the 9.x version to be upgraded, the more new software has to
be downloaded, but that's still vastly less than downloading a new
installation disc, the majority of the software won't change during
the life of the 9.x release.
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Albretch Mueller writes:
> I have a group of kids that are very good in Math and they want to
> learn some actual programming
>
> My approach is to introduce them to the basics of coding using ANSI
> C, C++ and java (so they learn what pointers are about, how patterns
> are coded in different l
un-time) and I couldn't justify the price of the
'professional' version just to play with. As it happens, I only ever
sold one program, but I liked to think that I could if I was able to
find a buyer for anything.
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On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 15:56:00 -0400
The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2018-03-13 at 15:39, Joe wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 14:49:56 +0100 wrote:
>
> >> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 10:33:43PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
>
> >>> Unless I've
On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 10:22:23 -0500
David Wright wrote:
> On Tue 13 Mar 2018 at 08:59:00 (+), Joe wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 14:13:33 +1100
> > terryc wrote:
> >
> > > What is a simple spreadsheet program that can be installed under
> > >
Arduino hardware which is cheap and
very much real-world, and is supported well on Debian. Python is the
preferred language there, which can be OO if you like. In my youth we
were pretty impressed with being able to draw ASCII penguins on fanfold
paper (you guessed, my first Fortran program), but I think today's
children want to see more in the way of results than a few lines of
text.
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wonder if the OP feels that your comments
> have been helpful.
>
Hey, if he's paying, we answer the question he asked. If he's not, we
answer the question we want to answer. This is how the Internet works.
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ence of a known lower directory in this
case, which tests not only for mounting but for a successful read.
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On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 20:42:08 +1100
Erik Christiansen wrote:
> On 13.03.18 08:59, Joe wrote:
> > I'm not aware of a 'simple' spreadsheet, as it is the kind of
> > application that begs for feature-creep. Synaptic turns up sc,
> > which I know nothing abo
tic turns up sc, which I
know nothing about, but the description doesn't look compatible with
'simple', unless the user interface is similar to something you already
know.
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Gene Heskett writes:
> On Monday 12 March 2018 15:27:23 Hans wrote:
>
>> > Note that the non PAE kernel in older Debian versions up to Jessie
>> > lacked multi-processor (including multi-core and hyper-threading)
>> > support.
>>
>> Yes, I read this, too. The N280 is a single core, but mith
>> hy
b, and you
may be able to see why they don't.
I tried a few firewall tools long ago, and gave up because they weren't
very transparent. If you write iptables commands directly, you can be
reasonably sure of what's going on.
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larm which
defaulted to midnight, which I didn't know the thing could even do...
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sible.
>
> I've yet to come across a site that won't work in PM.
Now that's something I hadn't thought of. I'll have to give it a try.
Thanks for the idea.
Regards,
Joe
needs but I got a good working setup in the end. YMMV.
Regards,
Joe
Really? They're paying for it and you want to use it for free? This
strikes you as neighborly behavior?
Long Wind writes:
> Thank Reco and deloptes!
> what i suspect turn out to be true: for ethical reason users here refuse to
> help
>
> if reaver is used mainly by bad guy, why debian includ
ounts
seem to have them and so many small outsourcing email providers don't. I
require a sending domain and HELO that are resolvable in public DNS,
and I request an ident on a thirty-second timeout, which many spammers
give up on. Every little helps...
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>
> The best thing is to leave the domain name field blank unless
> you *know* you need one. I do not think either the installer
> or the documentation put it like this.
>
It is somewhat safer to use a non-existent top level domain, though
less so that it used to be. I would think '.invalid' ought to remain
safe, but you never can tell what fools will do.
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e-set fixed
IP wired schemes, and until recently with a 3G dongle, and it has
behaved well.
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Brian writes:
> On Tue 30 Jan 2018 at 10:34:21 -0700, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>
>> I noticed today that squirrelmail is only in Debian oldstable and
>> oldoldstable. So, I'm curious as to its status -- is it now deprecated
>> (as one would suspect from it not being
I noticed today that squirrelmail is only in Debian oldstable and
oldoldstable. So, I'm curious as to its status -- is it now deprecated
(as one would suspect from it not being kept up in more recent Debian
versions)? Is there some other webmail interface that's being used now?
Note that due to
r is only necessary after a change of kernel.
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ely zero chance of communicating with
any network machine which hasn't been rebooted. The idea that the
previous working address (even within the lease period), or the
[Windows] manually entered 'alternate' address should be tried does not
arise.
I would hope that the Linux network management utilities take a more
intelligent view of the situation, I haven't yet had cause to find out.
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ave a
script to make your firewall, put in initialisation commands first, to
remove any existing rules, and set overall DROP defaults in case your
main iptables logic takes a wrong turn. You'll want at least the -F and
-X iptables options for filter, nat and mangle tables. If you haven't
disabled IPv6 altogether, you'll also need corresponding ip6tables
commands, as IPv6 is wide open by default.
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I tried:
apt remove ca-certificates
and then:
apt install ca-certificates
But the problem persists..
I'd follow your suggest.
I've backed up, some scripts and openbox configurations.
Now I'm ready to do a reinstall from scratch.
Anyway, before that, I'd like to try to remove all "non-jessie"
Dan Hitt writes:
> I'm looking for a gui drawing program that will let me, for example,
> draw a circle, inscribe a square in the circle, connect the opposite
> edges of the square with line segments, draw the diagonals of the
> square, and label the vertices, edges, and regions of the figure.
>
Hi all,
I'm helping a friend with his netbook, an old acer aspire one, on
which I had installed
Debian Jessie about two years ago.
He was receiving a message at boot: "run fsck manually" for some
filesystem inconsistency.
He ask me for help, so after having run fsck the system boot properly.
Th
looking for a variable that isn't
initialised, or something like that. It might conceivably be a typo in
a user configuration file which gets built into this autogenerated one.
I doubt that the exim4 configuration is standard enough that someone
else can find the answer from their own line 576. The version of exim4
I'm running is older and does its configuration differently, so I
can't help directly.
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#x27;s loads of
information about that on the Net, if you allow anyone who connects
from outside to your mail server to relay (send email to someone your
server doesn't store email for) then you will be found by spammers and
your IP address blacklisted almost instantly. There are numerous
websites which will test your mail server, and one of the tests is
invariably for relaying.
Best of luck.
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Hans writes:
> I searched the manuals for this point, but this was nowhere mentioned. Of
> course, you may say, that this is self-evident, but people might want to have
> the repo small and may think, "hey, if I get testing, then all packages of
> stable will be available as well."
As I under
Sarah Johnson writes:
> Hi,
> I ran out of root partition disk space and can't install or remove any more
> packages or even login gui window manager anymore
>
> i spent few good hours researching for solutions and found that i can resize
> root and home partitions using resize2fs and lvresize
t
there is a more elegant solution.
If the HDMI output is being used, try this anyway to see if it helps,
if so at least you know where the problem is and may be able to search
better.
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s for courses. You might well use two or
even three different text editors for different purposes, with none of
them being the best for all purposes. I have at least three different
web browsers installed, as while I normally use Firefox, sometimes it
can't deal with an odd website. There's no real shortcut to finding out
what works for you.
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Mini, an issue that
was definitely copy protection.
It's all a bit stupid, because if I hadn't been able to play the disc I
had paid for, the first thing I would have done would be to find a
hacked copy on the Net...
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one that has
> a "Tools > Account Settings" menu. Debian 8 has access to Thunderbird
> 52.5.0 (64-bit) which has no such menu.
>
You should have said that was the problem: it's under Edit, not Tools,
and so is Preferences, which replaces Tools, Options.
I don't go back far enough with either Debian or Thunderbird to know
why...
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;, showing that he knew what dice were and
what they were used for.
He also presumably had never had to fix an intermittent fault...
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ried FF-ESR on my bank site and
it worked, and has done for at least a month.
I haven't the slightest idea what has gone on, but I'm fairly sure
JavaScript is involved. There's no way a web page validator is going to
be able to test twenty or thirty bits of JS for correctness, and nobody
knows how to make web pages without it. More accurately, the various
web page design applications all use heaps of JS.
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Tablets? Those
> are the big thing right now, and their architecture is ARM, not
> Intel.
>
What is entertaining is that about 25 years ago, I did some ARM
assembler work, and the instruction set reminded me very strongly of
that of the DG Nova, from 1969...
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gnificent 2.5MB, or at least the
version I used did. It was used in a system with an embedded DG Nova,
and a competitive product of the time used the modern 8 inch floppy
discs...
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on my
server on samba shares, where it is also accessible from my Windows
laptop with FreeFileSync (yes, I do know there's a Unison for Windows).
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On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 11:02:45 +0100
Dejan Jocic wrote:
> On 10-12-17, Joe wrote:
> > On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 00:13:59 +0100
> > Dejan Jocic wrote:
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Man page for pklocalauthority is bit more helpful, but far from
> > > se
is if those are the only
> options available? Or there is some man page, or additional
> documentation in Debian that can explain that?
>
More examples, and in fact, all the Debian policies, are *.policy
files and under /usr/share/polkit-1, as Brian pointed out.
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On Fri, 8 Dec 2017 23:56:44 +
Brian wrote:
> On Fri 08 Dec 2017 at 23:06:00 +0000, Joe wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 8 Dec 2017 17:12:18 -0500
> > Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I do remember having to give a password, but I don't remem
the 'accidentally'.
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her (?) hackable routes... :)
I think there's a case for asking which way to set it during an expert
install or during the upgrade that reversed the default setting. We are
asked about root/non-root permission for the man pages.
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be different now, but it's a
long time since I accidentally issued a shutdown command without root
privileges, and I'm not going to do it at the moment.
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, and I think the most that could
be done would be to transfer PCB outlines and mounting points. There is
some provision for component height in PCB, but no easy way to
manipulate values, and I don't believe LibreCAD can do anything in the
way of 3D anyway.
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One, which I
bought second-hand and which must be on borrowed time. It has Ethernet
and three real USB ports, and runs straight Debian unstable without a
trace of a problem. I've been looking to replace it for a few years,
but have seen nothing promising. It's all 'runs Debian flawlessly,
although the sound, Bluetooth and wifi don't work yet...' and even that
in a chroot with the host kernel running.
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t; --root-directory=/x $drive" but grub-install is not found.
>
/usr/sbin/grub-install is part of grub2-common, which is of optional
priority, but really ought to be part of a live CD distribution.
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n unaided boot.
Note that grub2 is still a work in progress, and many of the boot
problem tutorials you find on the Net are no longer completely
accurate. This one should be OK, I think. It's usually worth adding
'debian' to your search keywords, if you turn up something on the
debian.org site there's a good chance it's up to date.
--
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On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 18:19:13 +
Joe wrote:
Wrong button. Let's try again:
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:07:01 -0500
> Dan Norton wrote:
>
> >
> > After POST, the following appears:
> >
> > [...]
> > PXE-E53: No boot filename received
> > PX
On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:07:01 -0500
Dan Norton wrote:
> On 11/16/2017 03:13 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
> > Joe composed on 2017-11-16 19:27 (UTC):
> >
> >> I see the date of the page is 2015,
> > IIRC, that 2015 update was all about updating and/or replacing
> &g
On Tue, 28 Nov 2017 22:15:22 -0500
Dan Norton wrote:
> On 11/13/2017 01:55 PM, Joe wrote:
> > On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:01:27 -0500
> > Dan Norton wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Although I didn't say so, each install would have its own set of
> >> directo
On Tue, 28 Nov 2017 21:28:55 +0900
Mark Fletcher wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 04:18:12PM +0000, Joe wrote:
> >
> > Note that most (maybe all) free wifi systems will want you to
> > provide some authentication before you are connected to the Net,
> > generally
which is
used by the init scripts to stop the server and perform logrotation.
This used to be the debian-sys-maint user which is no longer used as
root can run directly.
If you have start/stop problems make sure that
the /etc/mysql/debian.cnf file specifies the root user and no password."
Have you previously changed the password of mysql root?
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ptions include
--defaults-file.
It does on my old mysql-client 5.5.58 installation and my shiny new
mariadb-client 10.0.28 but does not on a mysql 5.5 man page found on
the Net, and may not be in an early mariadb client, I don't know.
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On Mon, 27 Nov 2017 00:33:02 +0900
Mark Fletcher wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 05:46:23PM +0000, Joe wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 22:35:24 +0900
> >
> > Look at the --redirect-gateway startup option or (without leading
> > --) in the config file. The chances a
On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 21:26:12 +0100
Emanuel Berg wrote:
> Cousin Stanley wrote:
>
> > You might find useful information at the
> > LibreCAD site [...]
>
> OK, thanks Cousin Stanley and Farmer Joe, so
> the short answers to my question "how do I draw
> an app
On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 10:07:54 -0600
David Wright wrote:
> On Thu 23 Nov 2017 at 09:05:51 (+), Joe wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 02:05:14 +0100
> > Emanuel Berg wrote:
> >
> > > Librecad seems good and I got it working
> > > instantly on a Debian box
icult to pick up, familiarity comes with time. I find this useful:
http://wiki.librecad.org/index.php/Main_Page
There's plenty of this kind of thing about:
https://flurry.dg.fmph.uniba.sk/webog/SuboryOG/bohdal/Librecad-%20by%20Jasleen_Kaur.pdf
Mr Google will answer many questions, and there's the odd YouTube
tutorial.
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was for Windows.
If you really need 3d, then you might try openSCAD, where you basically
write subroutines and the graphic bit renders them, not terribly
photorealistically. But there are lots of libraries for it, which may
include some useful garden stuff. You can probably also find garden
objects in 2d form in DXF files, which LibreCAD can deal with.
--
Joe
t firewall
rules would prevent this. If your existing firewall rules allow in only
related and established connections, that should prevent attack
attempts from the wifi network.
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FI boot and disc
encryption complicate things, so probably best to avoid them on your
first attempt(s) if the hardware allows. If you're starting with a bare
drive and your BIOS allows old-style IBM partitioning, that's the way
to go to get the hang of this.
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ust the /etc/fstab to the new values it
needed. I managed to edit the wrong fstab, and neither system would
boot... fortunately, that was an easy one to fix.
So yes, it is safer only to mount the data of the other installation,
at least once you have the new one working properly and have duplicated
what you want from the old one.
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letters on the end of the
model name, or even an SKU designation if provided, to be sure that a
particular laptop exactly complies with a published specification.
For example, an HP laptop bought by a colleague of mine about six
months after I had bought the 'same' model has a separate numeric keypad
and mine doesn't.
--
Joe
deloptes writes:
> Hi Joe,
>
> thank you for the mesage
>
> Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>
>> This is normal. It's the identical UUIDs that tell the system that the
>> partitions go into the same RAID array.
>>
>> Here's what I see when I look at
deloptes writes:
> Hi,
> I noticed recently by accident that when I read/write from the oldest raid
> disks I have - only one of the tray leds blinks. Of course the led could be
> damaged, but rather not, so looking into it I found that both disks in
> question return same UUID. So I am concerned
ning what commands you want
to run, and creating /etc/sudoers (better, new files in /etc/sudoers.d)
entries to suit using the visudo program as root. This is harder, and
requires you to know in advance what you want to do as root, but the
correct way with multiple users with varying duties, and/or a business
environment.
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is its size and sluggishness. Would a lighter weight
browser suit most of your needs? I keep Midori around (and Konqueror,
but that has plenty of baggage) and that will deal with most sites.
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