Re: The nightmare of Intel Integrated GPUs under Linux in general and Debian in particular

2020-02-13 Thread deloptes
Miguel A. Vallejo wrote: >> I've never had an Intel GPU but always had the impression they >> were pretty solid, but my opinion is changing. > > As a user of Intel GPUs for the last 5 years I can tell you Intel GPUs > and Linux are just a nightmare. A truly pain in the ass. > May be in yours bu

Re: FOSS friendly PDA?

2020-02-13 Thread deloptes
Richard Owlett wrote: > It's unclear on > https://store.planetcom.co.uk/collections/popular-items/products/gemini-pda-1 > > If it currently ships to US (although another page lists price in US > dollars). > I raise the question as https://shop.jolla.com/ explicitly states: > >> Sailfish X is cur

Re: Best file system to use?

2020-02-13 Thread deloptes
Dennis Wicks wrote: > I have been using xfs but that is based on info > from many years ago. If you have had no issues with xfs, why not use it in the future too?

Re: Looking for FOSS supported PCIe x4 SATA 6 Gb/s HBA with 4 or 8 ports

2020-02-12 Thread deloptes
David Christensen wrote: > Lately, I have been buying 3 TB Seagate Constellation ES.2.  One pair > has close to 1 year of 24x7 use.  No problems thus far. 1y is not a measure. What counts is 4+ at least.

Re: Looking for FOSS supported PCIe x4 SATA 6 Gb/s HBA with 4 or 8 ports

2020-02-12 Thread deloptes
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Could you please elaborate or provide a reference for this? > > While my 3TB WD Red doesn't appear to have problems with my current > usage, I'd like to be prepared. Google "western digital wd red 4tb issues" or "western digital wd red 3tb issues" As drives were getting

Re: The nightmare of Intel Integrated GPUs under Linux in general and Debian in particular

2020-02-12 Thread deloptes
Miguel A. Vallejo wrote: >> I think it is important to find the appropriate kernel version for your >> system - the one that has all the bits and bolts for your hardware. I >> doubt I will move to newer kernel. This one seems to have all the fixes >> at least for the hardware I am using now and es

Re: FOSS friendly PDA?

2020-02-12 Thread deloptes
Richard Owlett wrote: > It must use a standard Linux (Debian preferred). > The manufacturer should ship with the Linux installed. > Android is *UNACCEPTABLE*! > It should NOT have cell connectivity. > If it has WiFi, I must be able to disable it. Look at Sailfish OS and community ports. Recently

Re: The nightmare of Intel Integrated GPUs under Linux in general and Debian in particular

2020-02-11 Thread deloptes
Miguel A. Vallejo wrote: > For every problem I had / have with Intel GPU I can find other users > on any distribution's bug tracker with exactly the very same errors in > the kernel log, so I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one suffering from > Intel GPUs. In fact I am surprised by the small number

Re: The nightmare of Intel Integrated GPUs under Linux in general and Debian in particular

2020-02-11 Thread deloptes
Miguel A. Vallejo wrote: > I always ran the intel microcode package, tried every bios update, and > I even changed the whole computer, so this is not the solution. Using 4.9.25 since it came out - no issue on any of the PCs I have and they all are with intel integrated GPU. Are you sure this is

Re: Looking for FOSS supported PCIe x4 SATA 6 Gb/s HBA with 4 or 8 ports

2020-02-11 Thread deloptes
Steve McIntyre wrote: >>I have this one for may be 7y already. >> >>08:00.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS1068E >>PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS (rev 08) >> >>https://wiki.pdl.cmu.edu/pub/OpenCloud/CloudManuals/SCG_LSISAS1068E_PB_040407.pdf >> >>It is 3Gb/s - don't know about t

Re: Looking for FOSS supported PCIe x4 SATA 6 Gb/s HBA with 4 or 8 ports

2020-02-10 Thread deloptes
David Christensen wrote: > Thanks for the data point. > > > Did you have to do anything with firmware? not at all - driver in the kernel is mature - but again it is 3Gb/s per port. Honestly I must look inside the server as I do not remember how it is connected. I have 12 disk bay. It could be

Re: Looking for FOSS supported PCIe x4 SATA 6 Gb/s HBA with 4 or 8 ports

2020-02-10 Thread deloptes
> My research thus far: > > 1. LSI products are popular, but: > > a. Most seem to be PCIe x8. > > b. STFW I see more than a few posts complaining about changing > firmware from RAID to non-RAID, buggy firmware releases, and/or > motherboard BIOS/UEFI incompatibilities with the fla

Re: Anyone with experience scanning with Epson

2020-02-09 Thread deloptes
Renato Gallo wrote: > try iscan or simple-scan +1 using iscan works perfectly fine, but I am not sure how recent and working is the latest version you can find. I had to patch 2.30.1 when moved to stretch mainly because libpng16 replaced libpng12. I am using E 330 for couple of years already.

Re: Erzeugung von Device-Knoten erzwingen

2020-02-08 Thread deloptes
Charles Curley wrote: > Instead, try querying the partition itself: > > root@hawk:~# dumpe2fs -h /dev/sda1 | grep UUID What is the advantage of this over blkid?

Re: can't mount sdf1 in stretch, gparted claims its fat32

2020-02-03 Thread deloptes
Dan Ritter wrote: > There's no FAT filesystem there. It might be corrupted, it might > actually be on /dev/sdf with a bogus partition table. I bet some of his RT patches caused a mess

Re: apt-get build-dep emacs-gtk: unmet dependencies

2020-02-02 Thread deloptes
İ. Göktuğ Kayaalp wrote: >> But libgnutls28-dev is in buster > > They all are, the problem is that build-dep:emacs requires packages > which seem to require some downgrades. These are not major downgrades, > but minor version or debian package version: > > libtiff-dev : Depends: libtiff5 (= 4.0

Re: apt-get build-dep emacs-gtk: unmet dependencies

2020-02-02 Thread deloptes
İ. Göktuğ Kayaalp wrote: > I follow Emacs' master branch for my day-to-day use, so I need to build > it manually for my daily workflow.  Yesterday I did a fresh reinstall of > Debian 10, after which I haven't been able to install build dependencies > for emacs25 or emacs-gtk.  The error is as foll

Re: guys

2020-02-01 Thread deloptes
Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2020 01 Feb 13:48 -0600, Joe wrote: >> Whether you read or not, Debian is getting more complicated, and >> therefore more problems are occurring. > > True to a point but then we have more complicated systems to deal with, > including but not limited to, EUFI and Secure

Re: Planning a Debian NAS

2020-01-28 Thread deloptes
Aidan Gauland wrote: >> On 27/01/20 12:59 am, ghe wrote: >>> If you don't already have all the router(s) and WiFi access points >>> and such, may I suggest a pile of Raspberry Pis. >> Can a r-pi be set up with RAID easily? > Going by all the replies on this subthread, even the latest model r-pi >

Re: Planning a Debian NAS

2020-01-28 Thread deloptes
Aidan Gauland wrote: > No, I was serious, but I do have limits.  I've looked at FreeNAS, but I > would much rather use Debian, partially for familiarity, and party > because this will be a multi-purpose server, not just a NAS. but you originally mentioned explicitly it was for NAS - this is misle

Re: Dell BIOS Changes

2020-01-27 Thread deloptes
J. D. Leach wrote: > Have a Dell Inspiron 3668 desktop with the latest Dell firmware > (1.12.2). This update, and numerous of the preceding ones, do not allow > ANY type of loading of Debian (or any othe Linux flavor) onto the PC. In > the BIOS configuration menu, no option is available to boot fr

Re: Planning a Debian NAS

2020-01-27 Thread deloptes
basti wrote: > Yes a rpi can run software raid with mdadm. In this case I would use a > rpi4b with USB3 and USB to SATA adapter but be aware that the rpi is at > the moment not fully supportet by debian > (https://github.com/lategoodbye/rpi-zero/issues/43). If raspian is good > enough for your nee

Re: Planning a Debian NAS

2020-01-27 Thread deloptes
Aidan Gauland wrote: > Can a r-pi be set up with RAID easily? perhaps yes as it is more or less normal linux, but where do you attach the disks - do you think of using a SATA extention? I do not know what is the throughput of such extentions, but should be considered.

Re: Kernel Panic

2020-01-27 Thread deloptes
deloptes wrote: > And gcrypt is libcrypt-2.28.so not .so.20 sorry I was wrong about that /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.20 is linked to /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgpg-error.so.0 check where the link is pointing to ldd /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.20 linux-vdso.s

Re: Kernel Panic

2020-01-26 Thread deloptes
john doe wrote: > On 1/27/2020 7:24 AM, William Torrez Corea wrote: >> I get the following error, when i send this command >> sudo apt get update >> >> sudo: unable to resolve host debian: Temporary failure in name resolution >> apt: relocation error: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.20: symbol

Re: Issue with headset on debian testing

2020-01-26 Thread deloptes
Anton Vorobyov wrote: > > Hi. > > I want to file a bug report, but I am not familiar with sound system in > linux enough to determine which package is to blame. > > So, my issue started only recently. I have a laptop with Debian Testing. > Previously, when I plug in my headset (2x 3.5mm jacks -

Re: identity confusion

2020-01-24 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: > As sent.. User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 KMail 1.9.10 KNode 0.10.9 all from trinity. I use Kontact 1.2.9 and indeed the second post by Wayne Sallee was in HTML, but I click view HTML and it is nicely readable. Anyway - wanted to double check what exactly Gene was using as news

Re: identity confusion

2020-01-24 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: > I'll second that, its ugly stuff to try and read as text. In fact I tend > to just skip over messages that have no text content. I was thinking you are using knode-trinity

Re: identity confusion

2020-01-24 Thread deloptes
Wayne Sallee wrote: > This is interesting. I'm not sure what to think about this. > > on terminal, as user1 > su - > # Enter root password. so now you are root > su - user2 > # No password is needed. so now you are user2 > mysql > Access denied for user 'user1'@'localhost' (using password: NO

Re: Use system drive, in another system

2020-01-20 Thread deloptes
Charles Curley wrote: > As others have attested, it does work. However back it up first. > Paranoids live longer. backup is good idea, but not a precondition in this case. it could be that OP needs to use rescue disc to recreate initrd if the drivers needed are not loaded and the transition path

Re: No sound with Pulseaudio

2020-01-19 Thread deloptes
Yoann LE BARS wrote: > As a root: > > # fuser -v /dev/snd/* > UTIL.       PID ACCÈS  COMMANDE > /dev/snd/controlC0:  root        591 f alsactl > timidity    856 F timidity > /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p:   timidity    856 F...m timidity > /dev/snd/seq:        timidity    856 F timidity > /dev/sn

Re: web server for development

2020-01-18 Thread deloptes
mick crane wrote: > It's a bit convoluted. > I scp the files to a temp directory in my home directory on the server > then ssh into the server, su to root, change the permissions and > ownerships of the files then move them to /var/www/html/ for testing I usually configure something meaningful in

Re: Protecting no longer supported Windows7

2020-01-15 Thread deloptes
David Christensen wrote: > Configure your firewall to block traffic in both directions between the > Windows 7 hosts and the Internet. +1 isolate from outside you can use them in the local network.

Re: MathML in HTML5 in Firefox.

2020-01-11 Thread deloptes
pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > D > = > > > 0ab > a0a > ba0 > > > you should tag the code properly http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML";> D = 0ab a0a ba0 https://www.tutorialspoint.com/html5/html5_mathml.htm regards

Re: Any Bluetooth 5 adapter Debian compatible

2020-01-07 Thread deloptes
Bob McGowan wrote: > It looks like the majority of the pure Bluetooth devices are only 4.0. > There is one combination WIFI/Bluetooth I saw that is 5.0. The version here does not mean anything relevant to the support by the OS. BT4.0 in terms of hardware is compatible with bluez5 in terms of soft

Re: Root is in RO after boot

2020-01-07 Thread deloptes
Kenneth Parker wrote: > I've been wrong before.  So are you saying that initrd is called without / > being mounted at all! > there is init script inside the initrd (which is an archive that gets extracted into memory) the init script there is a complex set of scripts that do various tasks, befo

Re: No sound with Pulseaudio

2020-01-06 Thread deloptes
Dan Ritter wrote: > I have found, in troubleshooting complex systems, that blaming > all the working things for the failure of the non-working thing > doesn't lead to good results. I am not sure what you mean exactly, but everyone is allowed to have his or her point of view.

Re: No sound with Pulseaudio

2020-01-06 Thread deloptes
Jude DaShiell wrote: > Can you have pulseaudio on your system to make desktop environments happy > and disable pulseaudio and run using alsa and jack?  I got information > uninstalling pulseaudio is not an option with gnome but disabling > pulseaudio may work. I think all modern applications shou

Re: Any Bluetooth 5 adapter Debian compatible

2020-01-05 Thread deloptes
André Rodier wrote: > For a while, I thought your instructions would work, but no: > > -- > root@lovelace:~# hciconfig > hci1:   Type: Primary  Bus: USB > BD Address: 00:1A:7D:DA:71:11  ACL MTU: 679:9  SCO MTU: 48:16 > DOWN > RX

Re: Any Bluetooth 5 adapter Debian compatible

2020-01-05 Thread deloptes
André Rodier wrote: > Thanks for your answer. I have this one, but I could not manage to have > it working. The usual hciconfig command fails, with an error message > "not supported". The interface is marked as down. > > The device appears on Windows, but neither works. > > I don't mind (too muc

Re: Any Bluetooth 5 adapter Debian compatible

2020-01-05 Thread deloptes
André Rodier wrote: > Hello, > > I am looking for a USB / Bluetooth 5 adapter, natively compatible with > Debian. > > Thanks, > André most of them are I use ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) Double check if adapter (newer once) are LE - there were issues wi

Re: Where is the problem: Tape Drive? Cartridge(s)? Cable? SAS Controller?

2020-01-02 Thread deloptes
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > >> Nov 13 08:02:29 BigMutt kernel: [34669.493879] st 0:0:0:0: [st0] Error >> e (driver bt 0x0, host bt 0xe). >> Nov 13 08:02:31 BigMutt kernel: [34671.743714] st 0:0:0:0: [st0] Error >> 1 (driver bt 0x0, host bt 0x1). > > This looks electrical, not mechanica

Re: Digtal microscope

2019-12-22 Thread deloptes
Kamil Jońca wrote: > I want to buy microscope, but I do not know if any would work under > linux. > I suspect that most of them are visible as a camera (with PTP/MTP > protocol) but I  cannot found many descriptions. I also had this questionsome time ago. Advises I got were to by relative cheap

Re: Build Kernel 5.5 RC1 for Raspberry4

2019-12-20 Thread deloptes
basti wrote: > i have done make menuconfig and / or make dist-clean and so on. > build the kernel does not seem the problem. it looks like rpi4 cant boot > this. but i have no rpi3 at the moment to test if it runs on it. > > some days ago i read on a place i cant remember that the boot process on

Re: Build Kernel 5.5 RC1 for Raspberry4

2019-12-20 Thread deloptes
Nigel Sollars wrote: > You might want to run make menuconfig after copying the config .. > perhaps do the same with the 4.19 kernel also and do a compare of > 'what is' and 'what is not' there in the 5.5 perhaps things have been > moved around a bit in the kconfig stuff. > Not sure if this is st

Re: problems with skype

2019-12-17 Thread deloptes
Emanuele Latini wrote: > My problem is the following During and after skype video call it's like > the keyboad gets crazy, if you push a key once it's like you never > stopped pushing it and every app get stuck. There s only one solution, > reboot In my opnion skype uses your usb camera correct?

Re: Impossible to type "ù"

2019-12-17 Thread deloptes
Curt wrote: > None, really, sorry. I see you have a ù in your name, so this must be > pretty important. Me, I have little occasion to employ the character. Why sorry - one using Sid must be ready to pay the price.

Re: Trouble booting a fresh built kernel--stuck on `loading initial ramdisk`

2019-12-12 Thread deloptes
Tony Fischetti wrote: So what you are saying is that you run debian with 4.19. and want to build this same 4.19. and can not boot cause not loading initrd. Correct? If true is strange because I would not expect to overwrite the current image. You sure the build/installed new version is different

Re: buster: not reaching login screen on console

2019-12-07 Thread deloptes
D. R. Evans wrote: > Nope, all just black. > > But I could log in via ssh, and started backing out recent changes (I'm > not sure how long the problem had existed, as I don't normally look at the > console screen once X has started). > > One of the changes was to switch to the Trinity desktop ma

Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-04 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: >> [1] (neo)mutt, Sylpheed, Claws Mail, Evolution, KMail, etc. >> > My kmail is TDE's, might not be new enough. Not new enough, but good enough ;-) I use it on a daily bases with GPG - works just fine

Re: RFC Debian and Xfce daily desktop on Dell Latitude 54XX

2019-12-03 Thread deloptes
David Christensen wrote: > Thanks for the reply.  :-) > > > Do you use X?  If so, which display manager or desktop?  What are the > hardware specs and how does it hold up with heavy desktop usage? Yes X and TDE former KDE3 as display manager (might be exotic to some, but it is so stable and has

Re: RFC Debian and Xfce daily desktop on Dell Latitude 54XX

2019-12-02 Thread deloptes
David Christensen wrote: > debian-user: > > Is anyone running Debian and Xfce as a daily desktop on a Dell Latitude > 54XX laptop? If so, please comment. > > > David > > https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Dell/Latitude5480 > > https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Dell/Latitude5

Re: Configuring hotplugged input devices

2019-11-30 Thread deloptes
Nicolas George wrote: > Ok, you win: obviously you knew all along how to edit xorg.conf without > editing it. I stand corrected. I did not say I knew how to do it. I said I understood what you are doing. I am also not English native speaker, but you could put some more effort to make precise sta

Re: Configuring hotplugged input devices

2019-11-30 Thread deloptes
Nicolas George wrote: >> The logical consequence is a contradiction caused by your statement. > > Your reasoning is flawed. > It makes no sense to argue with true believers >> So you do not edit xorg.conf at the end. > > Congratulations, you got it the third time. > I got it also from the f

Re: Configuring hotplugged input devices

2019-11-30 Thread deloptes
Nicolas George wrote: > Indeed, you cannot edit a file without the permissions. The logical > consequence is that the result can be achieved without editing the file > at all. The power of X11 and the power of logical reasoning are > wonderful, aren't they? > The logical consequence is a contrad

Re: Configuring hotplugged input devices

2019-11-30 Thread deloptes
The Wanderer wrote: > I understand this to mean: "there is a known way to achieve what I want > by editing xorg.conf, but I want a solution which can be configured and > adjusted by an ordinary user, and thus a solution which requires that > the user have permissions to edit xorg.conf is not viabl

Re: Configuring hotplugged input devices

2019-11-30 Thread deloptes
Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> I want a solution for simple users, without root permissions to edit >> xorg.conf. >> >> If there is no standard solution, would you like one? I have a small >> program that can serve as the basis for one, I can publish it if that >> would be useful. > > This looks like

Re: Extracting tabular text from a pdf

2019-11-28 Thread deloptes
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Emacs is always overkill. OTOH, "Emacs is overkill" is always > a lame excuse. It is parallel universe

Re: Serial port software

2019-11-28 Thread deloptes
John Hasler wrote: > How close you can get to "proper RS232 serial port operation" > will probably be limited by the USB <-> serial chip in that cable. Haha indeed there is too much junk out there. I did some research years ago and bought one with prolofic chip (made in Taiwan). It is definitely

Re: convert english+greek emacs file to pdf - SOLVED

2019-11-16 Thread deloptes
Russell L. Harris wrote: > On StackExchange I found two solutions. The first, which was the > recommended, did not work. The second did work, and is simple: > > \documentclass{article} > > \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} > \usepackage[greek,english]{babel} > \usepackage{alphabeta} > > \begin{docu

Re: postgresql-12 - crash. Any hints.

2019-11-13 Thread deloptes
Kamil Jońca wrote: > Today was another crash. > Another piece of a puzzle: There is (unlogged) table with 70M+ > rows. After crash this table is empty (but table itself exists.) read documentation fine tune postgres be happy also perhaps consider contacting application maintenance why do you wr

Re: loading shared objects

2019-11-11 Thread deloptes
Lev wrote: > Dear list, > > > Maybe it is a bit off topic, but I encountered a dynamic linking problem > on my Debian stable system. > > A program (KiCad) tries (and fails) to load a library > (libngspice.so.0.0.0). > > I set LD_DEBUG=libs, and I get this: > > [...] > 7390: find libra

Re: Difference between ipp, ipps, http, https CUPS protocols?

2019-11-11 Thread deloptes
Brian wrote: >> When adding a printer via the CUPS web interface (localhost:631) on my >> Debian box, Administration / Add Printer / Other Network Printers, there >> are four Internet Printing Protocol options: >> >> https >> >> ipp >> >> http >> >> ipps >> >> Which one do I want to select? W

Re: Truth in Software: Alexandre François Garreau: Will you try my free-software before condemning it. -- Threats of being "banned from conferences"

2019-11-10 Thread deloptes
nipponm...@firemail.cc wrote: > Oh great, threats and power-plays. > > Alexandre François Garreau: Got curious who is lexandre François Garreau https://hackernoon.com/avatars/2G4JnXIXjRVO9GPsF8rTiRgmEUm1.png :D :D :D :D Brother, I don't know you, but please, relax! There are 1000s of that ki

Re: UVC device.

2019-11-09 Thread deloptes
Dan Ritter wrote: > It's typical for standards-compliant hardware to work well on > Linux, Windows and Mac OS without issue. When it doesn't, it's > probably not standards-compliant. I recall I read back then that this is imposed by Apple - you have to do something with them - license or verify o

Re: UVC device.

2019-11-09 Thread deloptes
Dan Ritter wrote: > Step 4: Why do you think it's UVC compliant? I didn't see it in > the manual, and discussion on the web mostly seems to be about > how mediocre the thing is when it works, always on Windows > systems. StarTech doesn't even mention Mac OS, and I think that > they would do that i

Re: Backup Times on a Linux desktop

2019-11-04 Thread deloptes
Alessandro Baggi wrote: > If I'm not wrong deduplication "is a technique for eliminating duplicate > copies of repeating data". > > I'm not a borg expert and it performs deduplication on data chunk. > > Suppose that you backup 2000 files in a day and inside this backup a > chunk is deduped and r

Re: Backup Times on a Linux desktop

2019-11-04 Thread deloptes
Alessandro Baggi wrote: > Borg seems very promising but I performs only push request at the moment > and I need pull request. It offers deduplication, encryption and much > more. > > One word on deduplication: it is a great feature to save space, with > deduplication compression ops (that could r

Re: KDE madness again

2019-11-03 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: > +100 deloptes, but we are the choir you are preaching to.  So many of us > who liked the original kde, and have been using it since about 1.2 are > now running TDE which is a fork of kde at about the 3.5 level, with > hundreds of bugs fixed, but few new features

Re: KDE madness again

2019-11-03 Thread deloptes
Kumar Appaiah wrote: > I am currently running most packages on testing. On my system, > qdbusviewer seems to be: > > # ls -l /usr/bin/qdbusviewer > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 May  3  2019 /usr/bin/qdbusviewer -> qtchooser > > qdbusviewer itself seems to be in qttools5-dev-tools, and I seem to be >

Re: KDE madness again

2019-11-03 Thread deloptes
Reco wrote: > On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 09:47:50AM +0100, deloptes wrote: >> Reco wrote: >> >> > # apt install qttools5-dev-tools -y >> >> tried several times without success - perhaps because qt4 was installed >> before. > > QT4 has no

Re: KDE madness again

2019-11-03 Thread deloptes
Reco wrote: > # apt install qttools5-dev-tools -y tried several times without success - perhaps because qt4 was installed before. > $ /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/bin/qdbusviewer > > Works for me. you should try starting qdbusviewer not from the full path. Does it work? $ which qdbusviewer /

KDE madness again

2019-11-03 Thread deloptes
Long time ago I stopped using KDE, because they started going insane. Two days ago upgraded to Buster and now wanted to check if all works fine. One of the things I need to use is qdbusviewer - unfortunately there is no acceptable alternative. Now I spend already one hour because of the stupidi

Re: Backup Times on a Linux desktop

2019-11-02 Thread deloptes
Konstantin Nebel wrote: >> Anyway from my experience borg is the best and I can recommend it wormly. > > I appreciate you answering in the fullest how you do backups and I used > borg in the past which I can recommend as well. But I really want to focus > on how to trigger the backup in an automa

Re: Backup Times on a Linux desktop

2019-11-02 Thread deloptes
Konstantin Nebel wrote: > Whoever read till the end Im thankful and ready to hear your opinion. There are many good solutions out there. I can not say anything about your specific use case. Usually you would do a snapshot of the partition and backup, but I am not so far here. I do classical file

Re: geany cannot use printers shared by cups

2019-11-02 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: > A month ago printer sharing worked, now the only option showing in the > print requester for geany is cups-file or cups-pdf. > > yet I can run firefox and send it to localhost:631/printers on any of the > client machines and see all 5 of the shared profiles I have setup. >

Re: about `out of memory`

2019-11-01 Thread deloptes
Nagisa Weaton wrote: > My work (I’m a Java developer) is the same as when I worked on Windows > installed on my laptop, both of the PC and laptop have 16G memory. > but you don't say what is allocated to the java/jvm process causing the error. Look there first > But the laptop never reports the

Re: KISS gpg

2019-10-31 Thread deloptes
Stefan Monnier wrote: > AFAICT the sockets are not created in GNUPGHOME, so your "gpg with other > GNUPGHOME" will still talk to the same agent and confusion will ensue. yes seems the only way is true a different user, as it seems to be per design one user - one agent, which also makes sense as t

Re: KISS gpg

2019-10-31 Thread deloptes
Nicolas George wrote: > The problem is to run instances of gpg simultaneously: one to access the > key without any risk of modifying it, one to do the work. > Looks like the only risk is you :) How would you modify a key without wanting it?! As I mentioned before - to me it looks like your use

Re: KISS gpg

2019-10-31 Thread deloptes
Stefan Monnier wrote: > so even changing $HOME won't help and I don't see any envvar which > influences it.  I suggest you contact the GPG development folks (maybe > open an issue for it). Not sure - cause if you close gpg and agent etc. and set the GNUPGHOME and start again all the work will be

Re: KISS gpg

2019-10-31 Thread deloptes
Nicolas George wrote: > deloptes (12019-10-31): >> again the homedir option is for the agent and not for gpg - and you >> should setup your environment properly > > Again, without perfect control and feedback, this is not acceptable. > What do you mean by control and feed

Re: KISS gpg

2019-10-31 Thread deloptes
Nicolas George wrote: > That would have worked with gpg < 2.1. With >= 2.1, it will ignore the > homedir option and connect to an agent. Or re-start an agent, with or > without the homedir option. I do not know what gpg does exactly, it does > not tell me. For handling something as precious as a p

Re: KISS gpg

2019-10-31 Thread deloptes
Greg Wooledge wrote: > Huh.  There's that "dash space dash dash" pattern again, from a completely > different person this time. > > Is the mailing list software mangling people's posts (lines that begin > with dash dash get an extra dash space prepended), or is there some > common mail user agent

Re: KISS gpg

2019-10-31 Thread deloptes
Erwan David wrote: > The question was *which* product can be used. I am not aware of such that runs under linux and I do not remember the time I used pgp - but it was on company windows pc between 2002 - 2007. So this topic is pointless - IMO there is no such tool for linux. I also do not under

Re: KISS gpg

2019-10-31 Thread deloptes
Nicolas George wrote: > I can stop replying to you. But I can also hope that somebody will have > a relevant answer. > > Sorry to not have been awed by gratefulness at your irrelevant answer. I already said you can use another product.

Re: KISS gpg

2019-10-31 Thread deloptes
Nicolas George wrote: > Which is exactly the question I asked. Again: if you do not understand > the question and cannot give a relevant answer… Look, there is no answer for your dreams. Better wake up! You can not access the private keys without agent. The agent is _part_ of gnupg. This is for

Re: KISS gpg

2019-10-31 Thread deloptes
Nicolas George wrote: > That would be the idea. And for that, I need a KISS gpg, because current > gpg does not honor the homedir setting for private keys, because it uses > the agent instead. This is exactly the problem. There is a reason for the agent. If you want gpg without an agent use anoth

Re: KISS gpg

2019-10-30 Thread deloptes
Nicolas George wrote: > If you do not understand the question, you can let somebody else answer. > That saves your time and mine. if you do not understand the answer read twice ;-) will save you time in future and mine too

Re: KISS gpg

2019-10-30 Thread deloptes
Nicolas George wrote: > Is there somewhere in Debian a KISS version of GnuPG or something > compatible? > > The current default version of GnuPG, since 2015, necessarily uses a > client-server agent to access the private keys. While it is convenient > and secure for everyday use, but for some tas

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-29 Thread deloptes
Joe wrote: > That's OK, so will I when an OS version of Access exists. I'm not > holding my breath. The business enforces is, we can not do anything against. I don't mind using the crap if they pay the license and they pay me for using it. I used to have one linux pc before, but now I have to us

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-29 Thread deloptes
Jimmy Johnson wrote: > My acer aspire one is not having a problem and another acer with 17 inch > screen, hdmi and ddr3 is not having a problem, I can't get at the model > right now. You may have to fiddle with your bios, on a samsung I have to > go to bios at boot, to boot device where I find wha

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-29 Thread deloptes
Kenneth Parker wrote: > Background:  One of my "volunteer activities" is to "Rehabilitate" really > old Hardware, to keep it off our Landfills, and to have it available to > people with Extremely Low finances.  I was part of an organization in > Seattle, doing this, but I am not finding others, at

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-29 Thread deloptes
Kenneth Parker wrote: > Here I am.  And yes, I have run installs on USB Drives, on one system, and > then tried to boot it on another.  Things that go wrong include different > naming conventions for Ethernet, sound woes, and even (at least once) only > getting into Text Mode, due to wildly differ

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-27 Thread deloptes
Brian wrote: >> Cause I may not have the time to do so, but of course it can be me. > > Time (and the fun in taking on a task) is what keeps Debian alive. > I would write a wiki on debian only if it is approved by the community. I think it is fair, so if we agree, but also someone else can do t

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-27 Thread deloptes
Brian wrote: > Why "someone"? Why not you? > Cause I may not have the time to do so, but of course it can be me. >> >> regards >> >> This is a step by step how to to install debian on a USB stick and >> make this stick bootable.  The stick in the example is found under >> /dev/sdb. Change to

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-27 Thread deloptes
Peter Ehlert wrote: > I have tried it, several times, but was unable to get Grub properly > installed... not able to boot. > I too would like such a tool Let me know how it works - perhaps someone could put it on the Debian Wiki after refinement. regards This is a step by step how to to instal

Re: What every programmer should know about memory, in 2019?

2019-10-27 Thread deloptes
Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Well, I don't have any great insights here, but row hammer, spectre, > meltdown and the like weren't a thing back then were it?  There are > more "modern" day exploits against memory, especially with shared > servers ... you know, those cloud servers that too many people

Re: Good advice on Linux (debian) compatible microscope

2019-10-27 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: > Agreed, its essentially useless for what I want to do. Way too wide a > field of view. I need an endoscope sized camera with a long lens and a > very narrow F.O.V. for mounting on a milling machine head for a video > edge finder. For this app, it needs focusing, or at least m

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-27 Thread deloptes
Richard Owlett wrote: > Would what you do explicitly depend on EFI? > I don't have a clear idea of what Kenneth described in his original post. > HOWEVER, having such a system might be worthwhile to explore some of my > ideas. I have a collection of elderly machines, some with only legacy > BIOS.

Re: Good advice on Linux (debian) compatible microscope

2019-10-27 Thread deloptes
Bob Weber wrote: > If you aren't concerned about high quality then this might be of interest. > > Jiusion 40 to 1000x Magnification Endoscope on amazon for about $22.  Best > of all it works on linux!  No drivers needed on Debian. No, please, I am interested in quality. I prefer paying a bit mor

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