Re: jigdo error

2020-02-15 Thread John Kaufmann
! John

Re: jigdo error

2020-02-15 Thread john doe
On 2/15/2020 9:32 AM, John Kaufmann wrote: > When my last Thinkpad died, I lost my Mint/Xfce. My new Thinkpad, of > course, comes with Windows 10, and I want to move on to Debian. As a > Debian newbie, I'm also new to jigdo, but want to use it because it > seems the preferred way

jigdo error

2020-02-15 Thread John Kaufmann
ation with status code 0xC142" Could someone help me interpret and fix that? - or should I just drop jigdo and look for a regular download of a live CD? Thanks, John

Re: help with gitlab on buster

2020-02-14 Thread john doe
web side working again. > First off, backup your data! :) Basically, my idea would be to find a way to follow the correct upgrade procedure. -- John Doe

Re: Viewer for html files

2020-02-11 Thread john doe
8000 Also, you could make firefox open the file when you click on it. -- John Doe

Minor problems with PPPoE

2020-02-11 Thread John
/var/log/messages for pppd but that seems over complex. ==John ffitch

Re: Using a Debian Live image to Invoke a Rescue Shell

2020-02-11 Thread john doe
-10.2.0-amd64-mate.iso and debian-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso > > The netinst image is only 350 MB while the dvd-1 image is > about 4 GB. The mate image is around 2.5 GB. > > Thanks for any and all constructive suggestions as to how > to go from Setup to recovery shell. > > Martin McCormick > Some hints: https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility#Debian_installer_accessibility https://grml.org/faq/#toc HTH. -- John Doe

Re: local network capability scanner?

2020-02-06 Thread john doe
e switch to see what it is reporting. Also the unmanage ESW should indicate what speed it is connected with. How is the link between the two switches (trunk link)? -- John Doe

Re: systemd logging stopped

2020-02-04 Thread john doe
ning Debian Sid fully updated. > > Can anyone help? > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/02/msg00002.html HTH. -- John Doe

Re: apache2 virtual host

2020-02-03 Thread john doe
; for >    details. >    root@penelope:/usr/sbin# >    Give us the output of the mention commands. -- John Doe

Re: apache2 virtual host

2020-02-02 Thread john doe
On 2/3/2020 8:40 AM, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 08:29:30AM +0100, john doe wrote: >> What is the content of your 'PATH' env? >> >> $ printf "%s\n" "$PATH" > > root@penelope:/usr/sbin# printf "%s\n" "$PA

Re: apache2 virtual host

2020-02-02 Thread john doe
is an hour past midnight > here (central Texas), and I am about ready to pull the plug for the > night, but I would sleep better with this hurdle out of the way. > > No response to the first command. > What is the content of your 'PATH' env? $ printf "%s\n" "$PATH" -- John Doe

Re: How to configure e-net port again -- SOLVED (sort of)

2020-01-31 Thread john doe
On 1/31/2020 9:57 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Michael Stone wrote on 1/31/20 2:00 PM: >> On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 11:27:06AM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: >>> john doe wrote on 1/31/20 1:00 AM: >>>> On 1/31/2020 2:48 AM, Dennis Wicks wrote: >>>>> I am runn

Re: Can't find a way to preseed keyboard layout for all d-i questions

2020-01-31 Thread john doe
On 1/31/2020 9:38 PM, Yvan Masson wrote: > > > Le 31/01/2020 à 20:54, john doe a écrit : >> On 1/31/2020 8:37 PM, Yvan Masson wrote: >>> Le 31/01/2020 à 16:50, john doe a écrit : >>>> On 1/31/2020 10:36 AM, Yvan Masson wrote: >>>>> Le 29/01/202

Re: Can't find a way to preseed keyboard layout for all d-i questions

2020-01-31 Thread john doe
On 1/31/2020 8:37 PM, Yvan Masson wrote: > Le 31/01/2020 à 16:50, john doe a écrit : >> On 1/31/2020 10:36 AM, Yvan Masson wrote: >>> Le 29/01/2020 à 18:16, MAS Jean-Louis a écrit : >>>> Le 29/01/2020 à 14:50, Yvan Masson a écrit : >>>> >>>>

Re: How to configure e-net port again

2020-01-31 Thread john doe
e following: > > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > That's fine given that you are using a frontend to manage your interfaces. From one of your other e-mail in this thread, I would strongly suggest to only use one network manager unless you want to play! :) So 'purging' 'NetworkManager' or 'wicd' is your first step, if you don't have the time reinstalling from scratch might be cleaner. -- John Doe

Re: Can't find a way to preseed keyboard layout for all d-i questions

2020-01-31 Thread john doe
install once preseed.cfg is loaded > - after reboot Yes, because this is delayed after the preseed file is fetched! :) But if I'm not mistaking, you want to be able to specify the hostname manually because you have no control over the dhcp server? I'm kind of lost on what you realy want to have. -- John Doe

KDE failed to start and CPU lockups when openvswitch enabled

2020-01-31 Thread John Mok
. John Mok p52-xen-dmesg.txt <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byxk6nFB5GimTnF3S0k0QWVxVG9sM2Z5NXpvOF9ubF9Lekxz/view?usp=drivesdk> p52-xen-cpuinfo.txt <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byxk6nFB5GimS3N4Q0w5YmxJMkQ2ZnpsekF3bmhkUEgzbkJJ/view?usp=drivesdk>

Re: How to configure e-net port again

2020-01-30 Thread john doe
specifically the IP > addr. Now it doesn't work at all. How can I run through the setup/init > process that it went through at install to get back at least a working > communications port. > I would say, revert the change(s)that you have done. -- John Doe

Re: Can't find a way to preseed keyboard layout for all d-i questions

2020-01-29 Thread john doe
On 1/29/2020 6:25 PM, Yvan Masson wrote: > Le 29/01/2020 à 16:41, john doe a écrit : >> On 1/29/2020 2:50 PM, Yvan Masson wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am automating Buster installations with a preseed file. To do this, I >>> boot the installer success

Re: ifupdown, NetworkManager and resolvconf (was: NetworkManager and systemd-networkd/systemd-resolved

2020-01-29 Thread john doe
age and OpenVPN if you want. Other then NM, you don't need to tinker with ifup/down and so on... Note that Buster is not Stretch, so I would look at getting things working in an other way! :) If you need support for NM, you might better seek that support on the NM channels. -- John Doe

Re: Can't find a way to preseed keyboard layout for all d-i questions

2020-01-29 Thread john doe
2) because they were instrumental in getting me set up with preseeding. 1) https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/amd64/ch05s03.html.en 2) https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed -- John Doe

Re: Sudo

2020-01-28 Thread John Hasler
Patrick Bartek writes: > Except the smart ones. They read the manual. They are the most dangerous ones. The fools make mere foolish mistakes. The smart users make clever ones. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: NetworkManager and systemd-networkd/systemd-resolved

2020-01-28 Thread john doe
y. > My two cents, given that you have NM installed would be to disable systemd-networkd and systemd-resolved and let NetworkManager handel your interfaces and DNS. $ systemctl disable systemd-networkd systemd-resolved If you do the above command, you will probably loose remote connection to the host after a reboot. You can also use the 'nmcli' to control NM from the command line. -- John Doe

Re: using git

2020-01-28 Thread john doe
es in readonly state. So "everyone" who can use the git protocol to access your repositories will be able to clone from them. -- John Doe

Re: NetworkManager and systemd-networkd/systemd-resolved

2020-01-28 Thread john doe
he cable-bound connection disappear from the active > systemd-resolved configuration when the cable is disconnected. > > Is it possible to realize such a combination of NetworkManager and > systemd-networkd/systemd-resolved? > > Regards Why are you using systemd-networkd/resolved if you have NM installed? -- John Doe

Re: Kernel Panic

2020-01-26 Thread john doe
iled - realpath (2: No such file or > directory) > E: Could not open file - open (2: No such file or directory) > E: Problem opening > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 6:59 AM john doe wrote: > >> On 1/27/20

Re: Kernel Panic

2020-01-26 Thread john doe
gt; You can only use 'apt-get' or 'apt' but not both at the same time. $ sudo apt-get update $sudo apt update However, it looks like your GPG installation is broken. -- John Doe

Re: windstream and linux

2020-01-26 Thread john doe
On 1/26/2020 5:27 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > On Sun, 26 Jan 2020, john doe wrote: > >> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 11:16:29 >> From: john doe >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Subject: Re: windstream and linux >> Resent-Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 16:16:47 +00

Re: windstream and linux

2020-01-26 Thread john doe
those steps > handled. > If you are talking about (1), This looks to me like it is an ISP, so I would say that the OS used to registere sign up is irrelevant. 1) https://www.windstream.com/support/my-account-and-payments -- John Doe

Re: Sudo

2020-01-25 Thread john doe
On 1/25/2020 7:28 PM, Harold Hartley wrote: > It says I’m not in file or something to that. > > On Sat, Jan 25, 2020, at 11:20, john doe wrote: >> On 1/25/2020 5:39 PM, Harold Hartley wrote: >>> I did a net-install and installed with no problems. >>> The only

Re: Sudo

2020-01-25 Thread john doe
in as root. Did you install any package which has sudo as dependency? I would reinstall from scratch and try to log in as root using su. What error do you get if you do: $ su --login -- John Doe

Re: identity confusion

2020-01-24 Thread John Hasler
buggy. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Clarification Re: Displaying an arbitrary file in _both_ HEX and ASCII

2020-01-24 Thread John Hasler
Stefan writes: > I'm pretty sure this time it *really* doesn't do what you asked; but > OTOH, there's a good chance it might be useful for what you're doing. hexl-mode would do what he wants but there's no reason to learn Emacs just for that (there lots of other good reasons, though). --

Pedantic Comment (Was Re: Clarification Re: Displaying an arbitrary file in _both_ HEX and ASCII)

2020-01-24 Thread John Hasler
ds its output (if any) to the standard output and its error message (if any) to the standard error. The shell prompt then returns. Grep is a command line program. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Off-topic email usage note (Was: Debian on server)

2020-01-21 Thread John Hasler
When quoting someone don't include the "-- " signature marker. Some people have their email software configured to not show signatures. Including that will make your response invisible to them. It's also conventional to precede quoted lines with ">". -- John Hasl

Re: freecad

2020-01-21 Thread John Hasler
ackage installed. Leftover libraries in /usr/local can cause some *very* subtle problems. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: freecad

2020-01-21 Thread John Hasler
it run with root. Not having been installed from a Debian package does not prevent it from requiring root. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Use system drive, in another system

2020-01-20 Thread john doe
r clone your working drive onto a new drive and start from there. -- John Doe

Re: Apache2/PHP7 fails in Buster

2020-01-16 Thread john doe
t;> >> That should leave your terminal output right near the point in the >> script where it is erroring out.  If you still have questions at that >> point then post the output of the dpkg command. >> > > OK, fine, thanks. I'm afraid my bash-fu is a little rusty, so I'd

Re: Protecting no longer supported Windows7

2020-01-15 Thread John Hasler
won't bother to make > sure that future changes to such packages remain compatible with > Windows 7. Which could be much worse than making sure they won't run on 7. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Protecting no longer supported Windows7

2020-01-15 Thread john doe
d one > might infect others. > How would I go about that, I don't see how I can restrict inter host connections that are on the same subnet? Thanks to all for suggestingfirewall restriction. -- John Doe

Protecting no longer supported Windows7

2020-01-14 Thread john doe
is not an option. -- John Doe

Re: how to disable gdm3 via systemctl?

2020-01-13 Thread john doe
On 1/13/2020 10:52 AM, john doe wrote: > On 1/13/2020 10:22 AM, Harald Dunkel wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> what is the recommended procedure to disable gmd3 using >> systemctl in Buster? >> >> "systemctl mask gdm" does not work as advertised. The &

Re: how to disable gdm3 via systemctl?

2020-01-13 Thread john doe
On 1/13/2020 10:22 AM, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi folks, > > what is the recommended procedure to disable gmd3 using > systemctl in Buster? > > "systemctl mask gdm" does not work as advertised. The "masked" > seems to be ignored. > What about 'systemctl disable gdm'? -- John Doe

Re: web server for development

2020-01-10 Thread john doe
ommand remotely/connect to the host and sftp is to manage files remotely. Here the ports are differents but the protocol is the same. Don't complicate things with ftps/ftp! -- John Doe

Re: MUA CLI IMAP and SMTP without ncurses interface

2020-01-10 Thread john doe
On 1/7/2020 12:58 AM, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > Den 04.01.2020 15:54, skrev john doe: >> [mail] without ncurses? > ... >>   I also need to configure IMAP and SMTP access, >> is there a MUA which does IMAP SMTP that does not rely on ncurses? > > nmh (and its various

Re: apple mini

2020-01-09 Thread John Hasler
Jonathan writes: > Yes. `dd` is a funny tool, since it's very "un-UNIXy" in some ways > (weird command line foo=bar syntax). That's because it is older than Unix. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: web server for development

2020-01-08 Thread john doe
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_userdir.html More as an alternative to apache on an hother host: - using the built-in webserver in 'hugo' - Python http.server -- John Doe

Re: MUA CLI IMAP and SMTP without ncurses interface

2020-01-07 Thread john doe
On 1/6/2020 4:26 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting john doe (2020-01-06 15:55:12) >> On 1/6/2020 8:14 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >>> I appreciate this thread - for me Steve's lumail was new info worth >>> a closer look! >>> >>> I currently use &q

Re: MUA CLI IMAP and SMTP without ncurses interface

2020-01-07 Thread john doe
On 1/6/2020 6:50 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 09:43:40AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: >> On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 07:54:44 +0100 >> john doe wrote: >> >>> Yes there is, I connect to a VM using SSH and my Windows screenreader >>> does not

Re: MUA CLI IMAP and SMTP without ncurses interface

2020-01-06 Thread john doe
On 1/6/2020 8:14 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting john doe (2020-01-06 07:54:44) >> On 1/4/2020 6:12 PM, Steve Kemp wrote: >>>> As far as I can tell, Mutt uses the ncurses interface >>> >>> Yes. >>> >>>> Can I use Mutt without n

Re: MUA CLI IMAP and SMTP without ncurses interface

2020-01-05 Thread john doe
s Sendmail/msmtp could do what I want, I'll look into that. Thanks to Jonathan Dowland for Mutt and 'slang'. Thanks to Reco for his input. Thanks to anyone else for their input. -- John Doe

MUA CLI IMAP and SMTP without ncurses interface

2020-01-04 Thread john doe
Hi, As far as I can tell, Mutt uses the ncurses interface Can I use Mutt without ncurses? If no, is my only alternative Sup/Notmuch? If I use Sup or Notmuch I also need to configure IMAP and SMTP access, is there a MUA which does IMAP SMTP that does not rely on ncurses? -- John Doe

Re: how to create debian live usb

2020-01-03 Thread john doe
On 1/4/2020 8:22 AM, kaye n wrote: > On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 2:57 PM john doe wrote: > >> On 1/4/2020 4:44 AM, kaye n wrote: >>> Hello Friends, >>> >>> I don't know if my flash drives are corrupted or not, but I haven't been >>> successful creating l

Re: how to create debian live usb

2020-01-03 Thread john doe
d that you should use is the cp command from above. This assumes that before executing the command you have verified and checksummed the downloaded file. -- John Doe

Re: just a general question really

2020-01-03 Thread John Hasler
mick writes: > are things getting more complicated because there is something wrong ? A bit too general. What are you talking about? -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Giveaway-Laptop: sending system mails

2020-01-01 Thread John Covici
gt; > > Why do you need a password? Aren't just sending mail to your > local smtp server from another smtp instance? > > -- > Message from God: Universe rebooting in 5 sec. Please log out. > -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: OT: Question about 10/100 switch on a LAN with a faster router

2019-12-31 Thread john doe
he cameras and the network could benefit from Gigabit even though internet speed is slower. You should also take into consideration if the "router"/network can handle that load! -- John Doe

Re: New list for Raspbian?

2019-12-30 Thread John Hasler
and did some debugging) but I've not looked there for years. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: INQUIRY

2019-12-28 Thread John Hasler
> Place was built in 74, before the NEC became the law in most > municipalities. Where do you live? I doubt that the NEC had not been incorporated into law in most municipalities in the USA in 1974. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

after upgrading to buster, logwatch no longer logging proftpd messages

2019-12-28 Thread John Covici
. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: Digtal microscope

2019-12-22 Thread John Conover
w.levenhuk.com/catalogue/microscopes/levenhuk-d2l/#more > does anybody had experiences with this? > KJ Most of the inexpensive USB microscopes, (~ 100 X, US $20 from the Internet stores,) will work with vlc(1), which does snap pictures of your work, etc. John BTW, make sure you buy one wi

Re: Broken PMTUD / ICMP blackhole?

2019-12-19 Thread John Hasler
the problem only occurs when cellular is involved. >From here the requirements of cellular encapsulation look a lot like the requirements for DSL encapsulation and so the solutions may be similar. Worst case, they may even be the same. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Broken PMTUD / ICMP blackhole?

2019-12-18 Thread John Hasler
Celejar writes: > ...the problem only occurs when tethering. Which is the only time the cellular encapsulation is being done. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Broken PMTUD / ICMP blackhole?

2019-12-18 Thread John Hasler
s network > connections. I thought you said it only happened when using tethering. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Broken PMTUD / ICMP blackhole?

2019-12-18 Thread John Hasler
ing it the *right* way. It's a kludge that should not be necessary but is. Automatic adjustment would be interesting but I don't see an obvious method. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Invisible IPv6 addresses

2019-12-18 Thread John Hasler
This may be what you have: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#IPv4-mapped_IPv6_addresses -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Broken PMTUD / ICMP blackhole?

2019-12-18 Thread John Hasler
ding headers. The packets are being encapsulated for the WiFi too, of course. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Broken PMTUD / ICMP blackhole?

2019-12-17 Thread John Hasler
poe overhead and fixed packet size but I see no reason a similar problem couldn't crop up elsewhere. How does the tethering work? -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Broken PMTUD / ICMP blackhole?

2019-12-17 Thread John Hasler
ad to reduce my MTU to 1300. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: apparent change in hostnames on LAN without admin intervention

2019-12-16 Thread John Hasler
David writes: > "… … home network, it's recommended that you use the domain name > home.arpa on all your computers". Use .UUCP . That'll fix 'em. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: apparent change in hostnames on LAN without admin intervention

2019-12-16 Thread John Hasler
John Doe writes: > In the above example 'try' is the hostname while 'example.com' is the > domainname. From other e-mail, it looks like your DHCP server was > sending as 'local' as domainname. Your MTA should be rewriting headers to use your external email domain. -- John Has

Re: apparent change in hostnames on LAN without admin intervention

2019-12-16 Thread john doe
On 12/14/2019 7:49 PM, Jape Person wrote: > On 12/14/19 1:24 AM, john doe wrote: >> >> Assuming that you are using the router from your ISP, it is possible >> that the firmware has been upgraded without your nolage. >> >> One way to prevent this could be (1), that

Re: apparent change in hostnames on LAN without admin intervention

2019-12-14 Thread John Hasler
Jape writes: > I live in a condo where I can see at least three dozen (no kidding) > printers advertising their services. Take them up on their offer and print something on each of them. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: apparent change in hostnames on LAN without admin intervention

2019-12-14 Thread john doe
On 12/14/2019 4:23 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting john doe (2019-12-14 15:54:20) >> On 12/14/2019 2:36 PM, Curt wrote: >>> On 2019-12-14, David Wright wrote: >>>> On Fri 13 Dec 2019 at 19:33:51 (-0500), Jape Person wrote: >>>>> Hi folks. Did

Re: apparent change in hostnames on LAN without admin intervention

2019-12-14 Thread john doe
t; Or does RFC 8378 only apply to toasters and the like (what will they > think of next)? > It only applies to devices useing the HNCP protocol. -- John Doe

Re: apparent change in hostnames on LAN without admin intervention

2019-12-13 Thread john doe
' should let you know what TLD is sent from the DHCP server. Debian shouldn't modify your configuration files '/etc' without your nolage. Note that the TLD '.lan' is sometime used. 1) https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/list-of-approved-cable-modems -- John Doe

Re: [OT] Google security

2019-12-10 Thread John Hasler
bjects) that a government has decided to punish people for. Often they coincide. Often they don't (see Andrei's example of it being a "crime" to listen to certain radio stations). -- John "When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean" Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: [OT] Google security

2019-12-10 Thread John Hasler
my web of trust and doing all my Web surfing via trusted Tor nodes does not imply that I approve of government data trawling. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: dropbox security situation

2019-12-10 Thread John Hasler
passwords doesn't mean you have to read them aloud while sitting at a hotel bar. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: iptables firewall and web sites not loading

2019-12-09 Thread john doe
do: $ /etc/init.d/firewall stop WARNING: You will not have any firewall protection if you do that Is the issue still manifesting itself if the configuration is reset to factory default? This is a Debian mailing list, you might be better off on the OpenWrt forum. -- John Doe

Re: [OT] Google security

2019-12-09 Thread John Hasler
ot;. This is not true of criminals who attempt similar efforts, so I concentrate my technical efforts on them. If the goverment's efforts are blocked as a side-effect, fine. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: [OT] Google security

2019-12-09 Thread John Hasler
process (limit their budget). However, they do not pose an immediate threat of injury. Criminals do. Concentrate technical efforts on the latter threat, where they have some hope of working. Concentrate political efforts on the former. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: dropbox security situation

2019-12-09 Thread John Hasler
they would give her a new one. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: dropbox security situation

2019-12-09 Thread John Hasler
Considering the comments in the package description pwgen might be a better choice. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: [OT] Google security

2019-12-09 Thread John Hasler
but when I think about it objectively I realize that it does me no actual harm: I'm simply not someone they care about. [1] Injury in a legal sense, ranging from death to loss of property to embarrassment. [2] If you believe that your government doesn't do it too you are extremely naive. -- J

Re: Trying to uninstall xfce4

2019-12-09 Thread john doe
epedencies xfce4 have. I >> cant understand the logic of the message presented to me. > > apt cannot help you if you're using it wrong. In your case it's: > > sudo apt-get autoremove xfce4 > > Also, apt-get(8). > If you want to purge along with autoremoving: $ apt-get --autoremove purge xfce4 -- John Doe

Re: [OT] Google security

2019-12-08 Thread John Hasler
Curt writes: > Yet the confirmation bias of certain ideologues will get them to > believing... Confirmation bias of *all* ideologues and ideologies. Including yours. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: dropbox security situation

2019-12-08 Thread John Hasler
and many people use poor passwords. They may even have guessed the username. First intial-lastname is a common pattern. You have produced no evidence of an actual break-in: merely an attempt. Break-in attempts are very common. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: buster: not reaching login screen on console

2019-12-06 Thread john doe
sddm, but at least it allows the machine to reach a login screen, > so I'll forget about trying to use tdm on that machine, and assume that the > problem won't recur. > Given that you have access to the logs, that's your best clue to understand what's going on. -- John Doe

Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-04 Thread John Hasler
Gene writes: > That means two accounts at your isp... Why? > ...and two active fetchmail/procmail sessions... Fetchmail can scan any number of different servers with a single session. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-04 Thread John Hasler
Andrei writes: > The free account is quite restricted (500 MB, 150 messages per day). > This is more than enough for me for the stuff I don't want on GMail. If it's free (as in beer) it's no different than Gmail. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-04 Thread John Hasler
entification (a slippery thing) rather than authentication. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-04 Thread John Hasler
as charities. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-04 Thread John Hasler
tomás writes: > So what I do is... sign my messages. I'll soon add something to my > signature recommending encryption (and offering help in setting that > up). Good idea. I did that years ago and should start again. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-03 Thread John Hasler
ple using IMAP or Webmail and leaving all their mail on the server forever. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-03 Thread John Hasler
https://www.wired.com/2015/10/mr-robot-uses-protonmail-still-isnt-fully-secure/ Besides, most users will continue to use Gmail and the like. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Installation of OpenFoam

2019-12-02 Thread John Hasler
be able to run applications from the command line. Look in /usr/share/doc/openfoam-examples. The documentation is abysmal. You have to puzzle it out from clues on the Web site. There is a tutorial somewhere: perhaps you can find it. The version of OpenFOAM in Sid (which I use) is broken. -- John

Re: external drive

2019-12-02 Thread John Hasler
rhkramer writes: > Well, plus some specialty electronic component houses -- I think James > is gone... Jameco is still going strong. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

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