Re: [OT] replacement for SystemRescueCD

On Tue, 2019-10-22 at 22:02 -0400, John Covici wrote: > On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 21:30:25 -0400, > Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > [1 ] > > [2 ] > > On Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 6:29 PM Default User < > > hunguponcont...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Guys, it seems like SystemRescueCD could be on the way out.

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

On Sat, 2019-10-19 at 09:46 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > deloptes writes: > > SQL comes everywhere handy... > > SQL is certainly handy, but I don't consider it a programming language > (likewise HTML). About 20 years ago I wrote and tested a match-merge update program with (as I remember) the

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

On Sat, 2019-10-19 at 09:48 +0200, deloptes wrote: > James H. H. Lampert wrote: > > > The OP wanted this treated as a survey, and so . . . > > > > Many dialects and derivatives of BASIC, including (but not limited > > to) > > IBM VS-BASIC (ran on 370 and compatible mainframes), TRS-80 Level 1, >

Re: confused, seems to be my normal state

On Wed, 2019-09-18 at 09:04 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 18 September 2019 07:46:38 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Tuesday 17 September 2019 22:05:28 David wrote: > > > On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 08:17, Gene Heskett > > > > wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 17 September 2019 15:07:30 ghe wrote: >

Re: Installation problem

On Sat, 2019-09-14 at 08:46 +0200, john doe wrote: > On 9/14/2019 7:36 AM, David Christensen wrote: > > On 9/13/19 4:45 PM, Anne wrote: > > > Hi, I am new to debian and I can not seem to get the OS installed > > > properly. > > > > > > What I have done so far is to > > > > > > Make a free space

Re: Is Linux a single-user system ? was: When/how/why to use "sudo", "su" or "su -"

On Fri, 2019-09-13 at 16:56 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > Do you have any problem with my statement: > > > Today Linux is being used by an individual who is the _only_ > > > user of a standalone system (e.g. laptop). > > What about the really big iron ? >

Re: attempted install of buster arm64 net-install on rp4 fails instantly

On Tue, 2019-09-10 at 07:18 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 09 September 2019 23:06:27 Thomas D Dial wrote: > > > On Mon, 2019-09-09 at 12:21 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: (unrelated material omitted) > > > $PITA problem, raspian insists the first,

Re: attempted install of buster arm64 net-install on rp4 fails instantly

On Mon, 2019-09-09 at 12:21 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 09 September 2019 11:50:12 ghe wrote: > > > On 9/9/19 8:26 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Monday 09 September 2019 08:58:10 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > >> On Sun, Sep 08, 2019 at 03:04:40AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > >>> sudo

Re: attempted install of buster arm64 net-install on rp4 fails instantly

On Mon, 2019-09-09 at 14:24 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 09 September 2019 13:58:03 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 01:47:30PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Tell that to pam. Even after editing sudoers, pam won't allow yoou > > > to do squawt as sudo root. BTDT. >

Buster questions

After upgrading several systems from Stretch to Buster during the last few weeks, I have had problems with several of them and seek advice. First, after the upgrade (and in one case of a fresh install), systems mostly intended as servers - long uptime and reboots only as necessary for maintenance

Re: HTML mail

On Thu, 2019-07-11 at 14:46 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 07:26:00AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > Brad Rogers writes: > > > Except that the worst offenders are commercial entities such > > > google, > > > ebay(1), all banks, amazon, etc, etc. ad nauseam. *None* of them

Re: Synaptic error message -- how to respond

On Wed, 2019-04-24 at 10:42 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I have repeatedly received the following error message: > > E: galternatives: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; > > you should reinstall it before attempting configuration > > I don't recall what triggered it last week. Today

Re: Cannot re-install synaptic on Buster.

On Mon, 2019-04-15 at 13:10 -0400, Kieran Smyth wrote: > Thanks everyone for all the responses. The package gnome-packagekit > seems like a good alternative for now, but ultimately I think > reverting to stable rather than testing may be the way forward for me. > > Although i'm going to explore

Re: New dual-boot laptop with two SSD drives: should I use LVM (and I have no experience with it)?

On Sat, 2019-04-13 at 08:18 +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 12/04/2019 à 22:46, Thomas D Dial a écrit : > > In terms of management, it is a major advance over physical > > partitioning > > for the file systems and, depending on particular file system > > characteris

Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for installation?

On Sat, 2019-04-13 at 08:26 +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 12/04/2019 à 22:25, Thomas D Dial a écrit : > > I let the installer partition the USB key that was the install > > target > > and picked LVM, but specified distinct /, /usr/, /var, /home, and > > swap > &

Re: New laptop: need advice on choice of file system types

On Fri, 2019-04-12 at 12:43 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > Tom Browder wrote: > > I have used ext4 for many years while I have been watching zfs and > > btrfs being developed. I am now considering using one or both on at > > least one partion during my upcoming new Debian installation. > > > > Can

Re: New dual-boot laptop with two SSD drives: should I use LVM (and I have no experience with it)?

On Fri, 2019-04-12 at 09:41 -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > I've been using Linux for over 20 years, and Debian for over 10, but > I've always used conventonal partitions and /etc/fstab definitions. > > Now that I'm getting a virgin, up-to-date laptop, I am considering > ising LVM but want to get the

Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for installation?

On Thu, 2019-04-11 at 20:01 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 4/11/19 5:02 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > > I'm preparing to install Win 10 and Deb 9 on a new ZaReason laptop > > which > > has no installed OS on it. > > > > It comes with one 120 Gb SSD as its primary drive and has an empty > > bay >

Re: (Thank you Tom) Re: David --- Re: WRITING to NTFS drives

On Wed, 2019-03-13 at 21:57 +0100, Linux-Fan wrote: > > On 3/13/19 3:43 PM, Thomas D Dial wrote: > > [...] > > > > I contacted a relative who does this routinely. Windows > > > alternately, I > > > contacted a relative who does this routinely about the

Re: David --- Re: WRITING to NTFS drives

On Wed, 2019-03-13 at 11:12 -0400, deb wrote: > On 3/12/19 9:50 PM, David Christensen wrote: > > On 3/11/19 11:13 AM, deb wrote: > > > > > > I saw this question come up > > > > > > and it set off bells. > > > > > > > > > Someone asked what the status of WRITING to NTFS drives was. > > > > > >

Re: WRITING to NTFS drives

On Mon, 2019-03-11 at 14:13 -0400, deb wrote: > I saw this question come up > > and it set off bells. > > > Someone asked what the status of WRITING to NTFS drives was. > > That it was not yet supported (?) . > > > > *MY* Assumptions: > > * MIXED NETWORK, with Win, Mac, Linux (EXT4

Re: Adding/modifying users under MATE DE

On Mon, 2019-02-04 at 10:34 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm creating a Tcl script [to be run as user] which calls dumpe2fs , > requiring root privileges. On comp.lang.tcl I was pointed to > [ > https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-running-sudo-command-without-a-password/ > ] > which

Re: Thunderbird + Enigmail + saving draft with encryption

On Fri, 2019-02-01 at 18:26 +, Paul Sutton wrote: > Hi > > Thunderbird + Enigmail has an option in "account settings" OpenPGP > Security to save a draft of a message with encryption, as expected > this > saves the draft but with a new subject as "Encrypted message" and it > appears in drafts

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

On Wed, 2019-01-30 at 06:42 -0800, David Christensen wrote: > On 1/29/19 9:30 PM, Albretch Mueller wrote: > > use case: > > > > Say, you have a computer preinstalled with Windows, on which you > > would like to install a Debian Linux base. You would: > > > > 1) resize the larger, Windows

Re: i386 version for chrome

On Sat, 2018-10-27 at 13:13 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 27 October 2018 11:09:48 Steve McIntyre wrote: > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > >On Saturday 27 October 2018 09:58:45 Curt wrote: > > > > > >root@coyote:/home/gene/Downloads# dpkg -i > > >vivaldi-stable_2.1.1337.36-1_i386.deb > >

Re: update hell

On Thu, 2018-08-02 at 13:32 +1200, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 02/08/18 13:05, Default User wrote: > > So, if apt-get is for non-trivial upgrades, then why not for daily > > use? In my experience, major upgrades using aptitude sometimes get seriously bogged down resolving dependencies, whereas

Re: Undesired ssh login attempts

On Sun, 2018-06-10 at 11:09 +, Dan Purgert wrote: > deloptes wrote: > > Hi, > > I recently get many of those, which means someone found out that > > ssh > > external is on port 2 and is trying to do some evil work there. > > Should I worry or do something? > > Use key-based auth only >

Re: Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2016 #417

It's been quite a while since I did an install from scratch and either the prior overwrite option is new since, or I forgot it; the random pattern overwrite choice would be better. The US DoD requires (or did some time ago) multiple overwrites with specified patterns, beginning and ending in

Re: Zero filling my HDD before installation

Yes, from my experience it is safe. You may have to add a partition table before formatting it. If I recall correctly, cfdisk will complain mildly and ask you to do that. The Linux installer might take it in stride, or you might have to run fdisk or cfdisk from the USB ISO. Tom Dial On

Re: Sudo

On 03/20/2016 10:30 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: > On 03/20/2016 03:26 AM, Adam Wilson wrote: >> On Sat, 19 Mar 2016 19:30:57 + >> Joe wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 19 Mar 2016 19:57:56 +0100 >>> Sven Arvidsson wrote: >>> On Sat, 2016-03-19 at 18:38 +, Joe

Re: connect Ethernet to WiFi?

A quick way to get a compatible USB WiFi would be to order one for a Raspberry Pi from a store that sells the latter. In the US I would use Newark.com. Tom On 02/18/2016 01:49 AM, Staszek wrote: > Hi > > How do I connect an old laptop without WiFi (but with free USB ports and > working wired