Re: "Repeaters", etc.

2024-05-27 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Monday, May 27th, 2024 at 5:08 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I'd like to shop for such a device, but I don't know what it's called. > > > I think it's called a "wireless bridge". Yeah. A Raspberry Pi'll do that. Mine worked great. It

Re: messages on my phone

2024-03-06 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Vast apologies for mis-posting to the list. Please try to forget you ever saw that :-) -- Glenn English -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: ProtonMail wsBzBAEBCAAnBYJl6MW4CZCf14YxgqyMMhYhBCyicw9CUnAlY0ANl5/XhjGC

messages on my phone

2024-03-06 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I'm getting a lot of txt lately on my iPhone. I suspect the spam from Niki Haley will drop off now, but there's a lot of stuff that I think might be from some of you guys. This morning there was talk from area code 713 talking about something

Re: a couple rpi problems

2024-03-04 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Monday, March 4th, 2024 at 9:26 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Here's what one looks like for a host named 'raptor' after the Intel ISA: Yeah, I put it in there when I understood what it was looking for. When I went to computer school, there

Re: a couple rpi problems

2024-03-04 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Monday, March 4th, 2024 at 5:01 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 11:41:07PM +0000, ghe2001 wrote: > > > 1) The 5, pi5.slsware.lan, keeps sending me email saying, > > > > "***

a couple rpi problems

2024-03-04 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 rpi5 and 4, standard Debian clone OS 1) The 5, pi5.slsware.lan, keeps sending me email saying, "*** SECURITY information for pi5 ***" and "pi5 : Mar 4 15:40:14 : root : unable to resolve host pi5: Name or service not known" I have no idea

Re: I've an editable .pdf form I need to fill out

2024-02-05 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 > On Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:35:13 -0500 > gene heskett ghesk...@shentel.net wrote: > > > I'm trying to get our states Attorney General to exert some influence > > over a cell phone bill I don't owe. The AG has sent me a form letter > > PDF with fill

Re: what keyboard do you use?

2024-02-02 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Friday, February 2nd, 2024 at 6:25 PM, Lee wrote: > I bought a Dell desktop in 2019 and the keyboard just died >

Re: Home UPS recommendations

2024-01-26 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Take a look at Tripp Lite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripp_Lite I used them for years to back up a small domain -- they make sine-wave electricity. -- Glenn English -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: ProtonMail

Re: Domain name to use on home networks; was: Bookworm:NetworkManager

2023-10-24 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 --- Original Message --- On Tuesday, October 24th, 2023 at 7:47 PM, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 23 Oct 2023 at 12:06:05 (+0200), Christian Groessler wrote: > > > On 10/23/23 07:29, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > Just register a

Re: Domain name to use on home networks; was: Bookworm:NetworkManager

2023-10-23 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 --- Original Message --- On Sunday, October 22nd, 2023 at 11:29 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Whatever you come up with for , ICANN can add to the > > gTLD namespace; see https://icannwiki.org/Brand_TLD. > > > The DNS queries for

Re: Domain name to use on home networks; was: Bookworm:NetworkManager

2023-10-22 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 How about a /29 or so, named "here.", hosts named 2 or 3 letter abbreviations of what you call the computers, with unroutable IPs, DNS'ed in /etc/hosts (with shortcuts). Works here... -- Glenn English -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

Re: Sunrise and Sunset from terminal

2023-09-23 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 --- Original Message --- On Saturday, September 23rd, 2023 at 3:51 PM, s...@gmx.com wrote: > Is there a way to get sunrise and sunset time from command interpreter? Looks like several: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa=linux+sunrise=web

Re: Letting Windows go: scanning

2023-09-20 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 --- Original Message --- On Wednesday, September 20th, 2023 at 11:06 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > One major thing I use my windows host for is using my HP multifunction > laser printer to scan to pdf to save locally. I have just installed >

Re: door bell like sound effect

2023-08-28 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 --- Original Message --- On Monday, August 28th, 2023 at 1:47 AM, jeremy ardley wrote: > On 28/8/23 15:29, gene heskett wrote: > > > what extension might that file be carrying to indicate its a .snd fle > > > Try > > > .wav I

Re: Recommendations for a UPS?

2023-07-31 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Take a look at: https://tripplite.eaton.com/products/ups-battery-backup-on-line-single-phase~11-56 I ran a domain for years on older Tripp Lite UPSs like these. They take wall electricity, rectify it and charge the batteries (lead-acid in mine)

Re: Why does Debian have code names for releases?

2023-06-26 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I've been using Debian for some 20 years, and I've had the impression that Ian started with the major characters in Toy Story and the names have moved toward the minor ones (no proof, just an impression). I'm sure it seemed to be a good idea at

Re: A Campaign Aide Didn’t Write That Email. A.I. Did. -- NYT

2023-04-02 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Very sorry. email error. -- Glenn English -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: ProtonMail wsBzBAEBCAAnBQJkKil5CRCf14YxgqyMMhYhBCyicw9CUnAlY0ANl5/XhjGC rIwyAADlBgf/RkUCFtiELiRGD8ZgCfwFPq/Lo3pNC4pB38JdVpO2id8P4j2p

A Campaign Aide Didn’t Write That Email. A.I. Did. -- NYT

2023-04-02 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 This is from a few days ago -- all of them are doing it. I'm assuming this story wasn't written by some AI software. This email wasn't. Which is exactly what it'd say if it was... By Shane Goldmacher The Democratic Party has begun testing

Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

2023-04-02 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Amazon, if you ask for books on raku, you get stuff about clay and kilns. If you ask for python, you get TV programs and snakes. If you ask for perl, you get Perl. That's one thing good old Perl has over the new stuff :-) -- Glenn English

XFCE updates

2023-02-22 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I use XFCE4 for my GUI desktop, and I subscribe to XFCE's discussion list. I see lots of posts on the list about XFCE things being updated, but I run stable, and I've been told to stick to only Debian updates. What, if anything, happens to the

needrestart question

2023-02-15 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Debian: Bullseye, Box: SuperMicro, CPU: 2.4G 8 core Intel Xeon I run needrestart when there's a little updating available, and it always says it can't update the CPU microcode. Add -v and it says: [main] needrestart v3.5 ... [ucode] using

Re: request a replacement for Thunderbird + Enigmail

2023-01-03 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 --- Original Message --- On Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023 at 12:46 AM, DdB wrote: > How are YOU dealing with encryption, with multiple providers, with > addresses created on-the-fly, with a huge email history, and so on? Protonmail with

Re: which gui text editor support correct rendering of multiple languages

2022-11-01 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 --- Original Message --- On Tuesday, November 1st, 2022 at 8:54 AM, jindam, vani wrote: > i copy paste a lot from wikipedia articles. > for example, if i paste "é", it shows garbage. I just tried that paste in LibreOffice, and it

Re: shellworld.net (for visually impaired users), (was: Re: question for seasoned links users?)

2022-09-18 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ofSomePossibleUse... Back in 2008 or so, I wrote some software for a friend who was teaching at a B/VI school for kids in Austin, Texas. There's still parts missing, and it's not been tidied up for max speed. And it was written in objective-c:

Re: question about sound

2022-08-17 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Anybody have anything to say about editing sound files? I started to answer the poster's question and found that, in their infinite wisdom, the Debian designers seem to have removed Audacity from the upcoming release, Bookworm. Bad idea, IMHO.

Re: where does `hostname -f` derive the domainname from?

2022-06-26 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 --- Original Message --- On Sunday, June 26th, 2022 at 2:32 PM, Jim Popovitch wrote: > where does `hostname -f` derive the domainname from? /etc/hosts, I think. -- Glenn English -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: ProtonMail

Re: disk mount problem [solved]

2022-06-09 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 --- Original Message --- On Thursday, June 9th, 2022 at 1:38 PM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > > You have a typo in options. Should be: > > UUID=21dcbfda-3884-404f-855f-693d1efa2f06 /blackHole ext4 > defaults 0 0 Alexander is

disk mount problem

2022-06-09 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Supermicro desktop, Debian bullseye There are failures when I try to mount a disk. Fstab: # # / was on /dev/md0p1 (sda1 & sdc1) during installation UUID=d1749d90-0fce-44a6-93db-5fbadc32911c /

Re: Permanent email address?

2022-05-15 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 --- Original Message --- On Sunday, May 15th, 2022 at 8:08 AM, wrote: > I would like to have an email address that will be permanent, in that, for > example, I can move it from provider to provider as I desire or need (if, for >

Re: smartctl puzzlement new disk

2022-05-14 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 --- Original Message --- On Friday, May 13th, 2022 at 10:08 PM, David wrote: > See also here: > https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/#index3h2 > "All backports are deactivated by default " ... Got 7.2. Now 22 is helium level,

Re: smartctl puzzlement new disk

2022-05-13 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, May 13, 2022 8:37 PM, David wrote: > Hi, you could try the more recent version of smartmontools > (7.2-1~bpo10+1) that is available in the buster-backports > repository. > > Version 6.6 was released

Re: fstab problem [FIXED]

2022-05-08 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 --- Original Message --- On Sunday, May 8th, 2022 at 4:57 PM, David Wright wrote: > My proof reading of the options was obviously worse than your > pasting of the UUID (I thought you might have accidentally > chosen to use the

Re: fstab problem [FIXED]

2022-05-08 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 --- Original Message --- On Sunday, May 8th, 2022 at 3:51 PM, David Christensen wrote: > My bad -- default options is spelled 'defaults'. > > UUID=301d6d6d-6782-4be3-b979-0cb595ef1a48 /backupDisk ext4 defaults 0 0 Well, damned if it

Re: fstab problem

2022-05-08 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 --- Original Message --- On Sunday, May 8th, 2022 at 3:31 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Is it possible that ext4 is the wrong file system type for that partition? Nope, unless gparted is bent -- just looked. -- Glenn English -BEGIN

Re: fstab problem

2022-05-08 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 --- Original Message --- On Sunday, May 8th, 2022 at 3:11 PM, David Christensen wrote: > What happens if you put the following into /etc/fstab? > > UUID=301d6d6d-6782-4be3-b979-0cb595ef1a48 /backupDisk ext4 default 0 0 "wrong fs

Re: fstab problem

2022-05-08 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 --- Original Message --- On Sunday, May 8th, 2022 at 2:09 PM, Kamil Jońca wrote: > > UUID=301d6d6d-6782-4be3-b979-0cb595ef1a48 /backupDisk ext4 default 1 1 > > > Are you sure you have good uuid here? Yes. Read it a few times. > I

Re: fstab problem

2022-05-08 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 --- Original Message --- On Sunday, May 8th, 2022 at 2:35 PM, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 08 May 2022 at 15:46:39 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > > > ghe2001 composed on 2022-05-08 19:13 (UTC): > > > > >

fstab problem

2022-05-08 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Supermicro workstation, Debian Buster Mounting disks isn't working with UUIDs. At boot or manually mounting: UUID=301d6d6d-6782-4be3-b979-0cb595ef1a48 /backupDisk ext4default 1 1 says: mount: /backupDisk:

Re: Can't create a password successfully.

2022-04-03 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, April 3, 2022 7:37 PM, David Christensen wrote: > Mozart is famous enough that I expect transcripts of all of his works > exist. Yes, but they don't know it's Mozart. And he wrote lots of pieces

Re: Can't create a password successfully.

2022-04-03 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 --- Original Message --- On Sunday, April 3rd, 2022 at 1:45 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > One of the bits of advice is to use long passwords made up of three > random words and to use a different password per website / to use > your

Re: 11.2 sometimes wrong /etc/resolv.conf

2022-03-10 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, March 10, 2022 9:22 AM, Christian Groessler wrote: > Hi, > > when I boot my laptop with Debian 11.2 and LAN cable connected, I'm > sometimes getting a wrong /etc/resolv.conf. > > The resolv.conf is

Re: unknown error message [Solved]

2022-02-18 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, February 18, 2022 1:29 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > I believe I've also heard > of this problem being triggered by gparted. Have you used gparted in > the last few days? Bingo. I'd left gparted running

unknown error message

2022-02-18 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Does anybody know what: Error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.systemd1.UnitMasked: Unit -.mount is masked means? What is '.mount' and what does 'masked' mean? I looked on the web and found a discussion involving something called "zynthian." My

Re: systemd[1]: Starting Daily apt upgrade and clean activities...

2022-02-08 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 > My personal preference is to have upgrade packages downloaded > automatically but not installed, I think apticron does that for me. And it tells me that everything's up to date if it is. I do an 'apt update' to be sure I have the latest

Re: why copying big file fails?

2022-01-30 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, January 30, 2022 1:11 PM, a wrote: > BTW which package in bullseye can play mp4? mplayer has failed, and some > player require gnome , but i haven't installed gnome I'm still on Buster (XFCD4), but

Re: strange file query

2022-01-21 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, January 21, 2022 10:46 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 17 ian 22, 17:00:48, ghe2001 wrote: > > > (I grew up, computer-wise, in the days of the 7" floppy disk -- a > > me

Re: strange file query

2022-01-17 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, January 17, 2022 5:06 AM, piorunz wrote: > Indeed it is. Mesa is a hero of Linux world. Thanks to it, we have > effortless GPU acceleration available everywhere, thousands of games are > working

Re: strange file query

2022-01-16 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, January 16, 2022 2:13 PM, piorunz wrote: > If you delete this directory, probably it will get recreated. > Check what mesa packages you have installed: > dpkg -l | grep mesa | awk {'print $2'} OK.

Re: strange file query

2022-01-16 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, January 16, 2022 1:51 PM, wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 08:25:25PM +0000, ghe2001 wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA256 > > In my home dir, the

strange file query

2022-01-16 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 In my home dir, there's a dir called .cache/mesa_shader_cache. It contains a file called 'index.' man knows nothing about the dir. The web seems to say it has something to do with AppArmor; in another place it says "the distro is dead." The

Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal?

2022-01-07 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I *am* an xfce4 user. I use the terminal emulator most of the time. I asked for a terminal emulator at installation, and I got lxterminal. Works good. The scroll bar is over on the right, where it's supposed to be. Real thin, but it's there.

Re: network problem

2021-10-05 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, October 5, 2021 2:00 PM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > hi, > I have the following problem on my laptop. > my /etc/network/interfaces file contains: > auto enp0s1 > iface enp0s1 inet static > address

Re: About User and password on Debian 10

2021-09-30 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, September 30, 2021 10:30 AM, wrote: > I have installed Debian 10 (XFCE) on an old computer and now after a year of > use although I put right user and password it reappear the window that asks >

Re: usb audio interface recommendation

2021-09-29 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, September 29, 2021 1:20 AM, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 03:12:06AM +0000, ghe2001 wrote: > > > I started to by a Scarlett, my dealer insisted on > selli

Re: usb audio interface recommendation

2021-09-28 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, September 29th, 2021 at 1:44 AM, Russell L. Harris wrote: > Needed: a USB audio interface which "just works" with Debian 9, 10, > 11 on i386 and amd64 desktop machines. > I would be happy to

Re: Persistent names for audio devices.

2021-09-28 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, September 28, 2021 9:19 AM, wrote: > From:pe...@easthope.ca > Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2021 09:52:21 -0700 > > > In spite of the warning, sound is produced. Good! Might have a > > reliable way to hear voice

Re: Always run apt update before clicking on synaptic ?

2021-08-15 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, August 15, 2021 12:13 PM, Roger Price wrote: > Does this mean that synaptic does not call apt update, and that I should > always run apt update manually before clicking on synaptic? Not sure, but I

Re: Disk for a small server

2021-08-10 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, August 10, 2021 12:06 PM, Leandro Noferini wrote: > Ok, but I need to divide some directories to avoid the fullfilling of the > disk. > > Do you have only one filesystem in your disk? 3

Re: Disk for a small server

2021-08-10 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, August 10, 2021 9:04 AM, Leandro Noferini wrote: > I have a little server (debian stable on raspberry) used by my family and a > little set of people (~10) with services like nextcloud (~100GB

Re: Debian 11 Xfce - Applications -> Settings -> Network Connections missing

2021-08-09 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, August 9, 2021 9:46 AM, Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 9 Aug 2021 17:10:52 +0200 (CEST) > Roger Price deb...@rogerprice.org wrote: > > > I can't find the Netwok Connections GUI > > in Debian 11. Is

keyboard bent in bullseye install?

2021-07-28 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Bullseye netinstall, Dell Latitude 5414 laptop. The keyboard shows the wrong characters in Netinstall. Some of them. Download the iso, burn to CD, boot CD, run advanced install, start answering questions, American English keyboard (no difference

Re: Offensive variable names [was: Cool down ...]

2021-07-11 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Master/slave my be less than optimal when describing humans, but they're very useful when working with DNS. And blacklist is useful in SMTP, among others. IIRC, the word refers to voting in classical Athens, not humans. Offensive terms

Re: Wiping an unencrypted SSD in preparation for encryption

2021-06-11 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, June 10th, 2021 at 10:31 PM, David Wright wrote: > I'm intending to clean (zero or > randomise) the entire drive with dd before I start Have you considered dban? Takes a while, but works real

Re: firefox problem (OT?) [Solved]

2021-06-03 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Thank you all. Copying .mozilla/firefox/ from the backup to ~/.mozilla/ made it all better. Lots of funny file names and one called 'profile.' -- looked like a reasonable possibility. Seems pretty obvious in retrospect :-) -- Glenn English

firefox problem (OT?)

2021-06-03 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Buster, Firefox-esr, apt says there's nothing to update. Where does Firefox store the bookmarks? I had to re-install yesterday, and everything seems to be working. Except my years of web bookmarks are gone. And I can't tell where they are in the

Re: thunderbird

2021-05-30 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, May 30, 2021 2:24 PM, Bret Busby wrote: >... (snip) Look into ProtonMail. Web based, slow sometimes (they're in Switzerland), but PGP encryption if possible, and free. Works, too. -- Glenn English

Re: apt error not understood

2021-05-22 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Saturday, May 22, 2021 11:29 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > *.mount files are systemd representations of mount points. Sometimes they're > autogenerated from /etc/fstab (that is, fstab is still a first-class

Re: apt error not understood

2021-05-22 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Saturday, May 22, 2021 12:29 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 03:48:38PM +0000, ghe2001 wrote: > > > Error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.systemd1.UnitMasked: Unit -.mount is

Re: Printing addresses on a #10 envelope (US)?

2021-05-10 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, May 10, 2021 9:36 AM, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Hi All. > > I've successfully used the current version of Libre Office in Testing to > print mailing addresses on a #6 3/4 (US) envelope and so wanted to

Re: xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner

2021-03-31 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, March 31, 2021 8:24 AM, Hans wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 31. März 2021, 14:23:31 CEST schrieb Eduardo M KALINOWSKI: > > Hi, > > please check in /lib/udev/rules.d/*-libsane1.rules if there is an entry

Re: how to record sound to mp3

2021-03-25 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, March 25, 2021 10:40 AM, Nicolas George wrote: > David Wright (12021-03-25): > > > > now i modify my requirement to how to use arecord to record sound being > > > played to wav file > > > To record,

routing problem

2021-03-21 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Debian GNU/Linux (Buster) There are 2 computers on my LAN. I'll call one Fast and the other Slow. When I, for example, type ping www.cbs.com, Fast pings right away, Slow pauses for about 5 seconds ('time' says that). When I ping something in

Re: Google vs. DDG (was: Social-media antipathy)

2021-03-16 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, March 16, 2021 2:42 PM, deloptes wrote: > This was in the beginning. Then it became business and now it is political > and I am not sure anymore if this is exactly what I want, but as said > technical

Re: non-existing interface problem [SOLVED, kinda]

2021-03-15 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I don't know what to say. I rebooted the box, yet again, last evening. This morning, I tried yesterday's last suggestion (a big grep of dmesg), and there was no mention of wwan0 or eth1. I ran the others too (dmesg (with several greps),

Re: non-existing interface problem

2021-03-14 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Saturday, March 13, 2021 2:25 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Well, you could try grepping for 'eth' and 'wwan' ;) > > Some context might help as well (as in '-C 5' or so). Bingo: root@gobook3:~# dmesg | egrep

Re: non-existing interface problem

2021-03-13 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Saturday, March 13, 2021 12:58 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > These look like real hardware to me. They do to me too. Sometimes. But they're a bit suspect in places. > > Anything interesting in the output of

Re: non-existing interface problem

2021-03-13 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, March 12, 2021 8:42 PM, David wrote: > Another possibility to check/eliminate: are there any additional > configuration files in the /etc/network/interfaces.d directory? Nope. Empty. Thanks for the

Re: non-existing interface problem

2021-03-12 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, March 12, 2021 5:41 PM, David wrote: > Hi, other people here know far more about networks than I do, but here's some > starting suggestions: > > 1. Look or grep to see if there's anything relevant

non-existing interface problem

2021-03-12 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Buster, Dell laptop I've got what might be two ghost interfaces, and I think I'd like to get rid of them. I use /etc/network/interfaces to configure interfaces. I have eth0 and eth0:1 static, and wlan0 DHCP interfaces in the interfaces file.

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Saturday, March 6, 2021 9:59 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: > I think that i will need to get new desktop hardware, so i'm trying to figure > out what to do. > > When i got my last hardware, one challenge was UEFI

Re: Looking for ~Dartmouth BASIC

2021-02-25 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 There's a Java program claiming to be a Dartmouth BASIC: https://github.com/emesx/jBasic -- Glenn English -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: ProtonMail wsBzBAEBCAAGBQJgODO+ACEJEJ/XhjGCrIwyFiEELKJzD0JScCVjQA2Xn9eG

Re: simple-scan fails with Canon LiDE 300--except as root

2021-01-08 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, January 8, 2021 10:28 PM, Jen Nussbaum wrote: > I don't know why I tried this, but I then ran simple-scan as root, and...it > worked perfectly. I had a similar problem with vim -- I have no idea what

Re: who is tracking me?

2021-01-01 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, January 1, 2021 8:58 AM, Mike McClain wrote: > My old PIII died and I replaced it with a Raspberry PI running > the Raspbian derivative of Debian. > It's clear just from the cookies that PaleMoon

Re: Debian 10 doing WEIRD THINGS

2020-12-29 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, December 30, 2020 12:40 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > Kanito 73 wrote: > > > Hello > > I've been using Debian 10 for almost a year on my old computer (bought it > > on december 2019), but it is doing

Re: Instructions for command line usage of WiFi.

2020-11-29 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Here's a script that turns WiFi on and off on my Dell laptop. (It works on my 2-hole desktop as well -- so the complexity. 'slsware' is my domain.) # Makes sure the primary Ethernet port (ETH0) is up and # sets a route to rrc through ETH0 (so

Re: OT: amanda/tape drive problem

2020-11-13 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, November 13, 2020 8:52 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > Right, that routine is to establish whether you have a tape > problem or a hardware problem. OK. I'm almost positive I have a hardware problem. But the

Re: OT: amanda/tape drive problem

2020-11-13 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, November 13, 2020 7:51 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > It doesn't ring a bell, but did you do the diagnostic steps of: > > - get a dump of what's on the problem tape now, confirm which > part is good > >

Re: working with mp3 files

2020-10-29 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, October 29, 2020 9:54 AM, Nicolas George wrote: > ghe2001 (12020-10-29): > > > I had a very similar problem a few years ago. SoX will convert those > > mp3s to files you can edit

Re: working with mp3 files

2020-10-29 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, October 29, 2020 9:14 AM, David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-10-29 04:42, mick crane wrote: > > > hello, > > I am totally clueless about audio files. > > Have for example librivox recordings of

Re: General-Purpose Server for Debian Stable

2020-10-01 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, October 1, 2020 9:37 PM, Linux-Fan wrote: > - Dell PowerEdge R7515 I've had very good luck with Dell for a very long time. I've needed nothing close to what you're looking for, but the boxes

Re: xfce4 widget problem

2020-09-13 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, September 14, 2020 1:43 AM, Ralph Katz wrote: > Hi neighbor! Hi, Ralph! > I've been in Denver now for 3 yrs. As you well know, the > weather here can vary greatly by neighborhood. I like weather >

Re: xfce4 widget problem -- oops

2020-09-13 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, September 13, 2020 6:49 PM, ghe2001 wrote: I'm in ZIP 80303, not 30303. Weather-util works fine with the correction. Sorry... -- Glenn English -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: ProtonMail

Re: xfce4 widget problem

2020-09-13 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 > To get the party started after installation, you type in "weather > --info" plus city name or zip code. There may be other ways, too. I've > only used city name until JUST NOW. That sounds like a reasonable solution -- tried it. Nice -- it

Re: xfce4 widget problem

2020-09-12 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Sorry not to have sent to the list. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Saturday, September 12, 2020 10:39 PM, Charles Curley charlescur...@charlescurley.com wrote: > According tohttps://docs.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-weather-plugin, > the

xfce4 widget problem

2020-09-12 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Debian Buster, apt says everything's up to date Did xfce4's Weather Report go away? I have 2 computers running Debian/xfce4, and the WR widget says "? No Data" on both of them. I've set it to several locations, and WR finds the locations just

Re: Recommendation for filesystem for USB external drive for backups

2020-08-13 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, August 13, 2020 2:50 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > D. R. Evans wrote: > > > Greg Wooledge wrote on 8/13/20 2:29 PM: > > > > > The simplest answer would be to use ext4. > > > > I concur, given the OP's use

Re: workstation buying advice

2020-07-15 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, July 15, 2020 4:10 AM, lina wrote: > That would be great to get your guys' advice as I worried I may not be > able to install Debian on it due to my past experience that my SSD was > invisible

Re: Installation Problem

2020-07-14 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, July 14, 2020 2:48 PM, David Christensen wrote: > If I needed to install Debian on a laptop without Ethernet, I would buy > a USB Ethernet adapter. The key is finding one that is supported by > FOSS

Re: what calculator do you use?

2020-07-13 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 HP-16C Small, RPN, does base 2/8/10/16, floats, mildly programmable, bit shifts, etc. There are, I'm told, clones available for Android and iOS. -- Glenn English -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: ProtonMail

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