Re: CD/DVD is obsolete or deprecate at 2025?

2024-06-18 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 6/18/24 10:01 AM, John Hasler wrote: JHHL writes: Some of us still prefer physical media Do you mean read-only media? All media are physical. No, I mean physical media as opposed to downloads. Application software, I've resigned myself to downloads, although as I said, I am not happy

Re: CD/DVD is obsolete or deprecate at 2025?

2024-06-18 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 6/17/24 7:44 PM, Thomas Dineen wrote: No! Some of us want to keep using DVD and not be pushed away What he said. Might I humbly suggest that this whole thread title is provocative, alarming, and maybe even a little inflamatory? Some of us still prefer physical media, whether in the form

Re: configuração de teclado

2024-06-03 Thread Galileu H. Oliveira
On Sun, 2 Jun 2024 23:30:46 -0300 Carlos Henrique Lima Melara wrote: > Oi, G.Paulo. > > On Sat, Apr 27, 2024 at 03:51:09PM GMT, Galileu H. Oliveira wrote: > > Tenho Trixie instalado num notebook HP, mas estou com problemas no > > teclado, tanto no do laptop quanto num

Re: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-03 Thread James H. H. Lampert
I will say that one should probably not expect perfection from an email reader that's named after a cheap wine. In my experience, T-Bird is the worst email reader I've ever used . . . except for *every other* email reader (without a single exception) I've tried. I'm particularly irritated

Re: configuração de teclado

2024-06-02 Thread Galileu H. Oliveira
adequadamente compreendido? Obviamente, estou escrevendo isso de outro computador. sds. G.Paulo. On Sun, 28 Apr 2024 09:59:15 -0300 "Galileu H. Oliveira" wrote: > Vou tentar responder suas perguntas, mas não estou absolutamente certo > sobre todas as respostas, que entreme

Re: OT: Top Posting

2024-05-15 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 5/15/24 6:46 AM, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: . . . No its not, its your refusal to use the down arrow in your reply editor to put your reply after the question. It really is that simple. If your choice of email agents cannot do that, its time to switch to an agent that can. There are dozens of

Re: OT: Top Posting

2024-05-14 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 5/14/24 10:41 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: We have a clash of two cultures here. More than just *nix vs. M$. In business communications by email, the norm is to quote the *entire* thread, every time, without paring anything down, purely for the sake of CYA. As such, top-posting is the only

Re: configuração de teclado

2024-04-28 Thread Galileu H. Oliveira
:51, Galileu H. Oliveira a écrit : > > Tenho Trixie instalado num notebook HP, mas estou com problemas no > > teclado > > E o teclado seria o quê, ABNT? ABNT2. Mas no menu do dpkg-reconfigure não tem esta opção. Então, a escolha mais ou menos óbvia é um Generic 10?-key PC. > &

configuração de teclado

2024-04-27 Thread Galileu H. Oliveira
Olá, pessoal. Tenho Trixie instalado num notebook HP, mas estou com problemas no teclado, tanto no do laptop quanto num Logitec wifi externo. Quando uso a interface gráfica, tudo vai bem e a configuração no Gnome é "Portuguese (Brazil)". O problema está fora da interface gráfica, por exemplo,

Re: NextGov: Linux XZ Utils Backdoor Was Long Con, Possibly With Support

2024-04-05 Thread James H. H. Lampert
I will note that open source software has, by definition, a lot more eyes looking at the source. Which is probably why (as Tomas said) "proprietary software tends to fare significantly worse." -- JHHL

Re: What use can i give to linux?

2024-04-05 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 4/5/24 12:12 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: . . . Most of the time the platform is dictated by the application(s) a user wants to run. . . . Indeed. Which is why I still have DOS boxes (running IBM PC-DOS 2000, with DOSShell, and no WinDoze whatsoever: Xerox Ventura Publisher (DOS/GEM Edition)

Re: What use can i give to linux?

2024-04-05 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 4/5/24 11:35 AM, John Hasler wrote: Desktop Linux is widely used in physics and mathematics. NASA uses Linux extensively, including on Mars and on the ISS. SpaceX uses Linux on their rockets and spacecraft. Over 90% of the top 1 million Web servers run Linux, including Yahoo, X, and Ebay.

Freecad in Trixie

2024-03-11 Thread Galileu H. Oliveira
Caros, Decidi instalar o Freecad num computador com Debian Trixie e, para minha surpresa, o pacote não esta disponível. Ao menos não consegui encontrá-lo. Alguém sabe por quê? Por ser a versão testing, é possível que o pacote ainda esteja sendo trabalhado, suponho. []'s, G.Paulo.

Re: what keyboard do you use?

2024-02-05 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 2/4/24 9:56 AM, Michael Kjörling wrote: If you contact them and ask, they can probably tell you whether the key caps . . . can be flipped physically. Unicomp can and will make custom keycaps. -- JHHL

Re: what keyboard do you use?

2024-02-05 Thread James H. H. Lampert
I also wouldn't mind one bit if somebody came up with a computer keyboard that exactly duplicates the key arrangement and feel of a Linotype keyboard. Not for practical daily use, mind you (I'll stick with my Unicomps); rather, as a practice instrument for those who occasionally run Linotype

Re: what keyboard do you use?

2024-02-05 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 2/2/24 5:25 PM, Lee wrote: I figure there's a high percentage of keyboard jockeys here so .. which keyboard do you like and why? Unicomp. They acquired the rights and the tooling for the IBM buckling spring technology. If only they also offered mice that were as rugged as their

Re: Home UPS recommendations

2024-01-26 Thread James H. H. Lampert
I, too, have always used APC. I've heard people swear by APC, and I've heard people swear *at* APC. I've had reason to do both, myself (and I won't elaborate on either). -- James H. H. Lampert

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-20 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 12/20/23 1:06 PM, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: I finally switched tactics last year and tried gaming mice. I thought about the way they're used. It's comparable to how much I click for emails and research related to ongoing Life.. shtuff. The main reason why I avoid gaming mice is because they

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-20 Thread James H. H. Lampert
But I can definitely confirm that Logitech is NOT making mice like they used to. If only Unicomp made a mouse as good as their keyboards . . . . -- James H. H. Lampert

Re: public key is not available

2023-11-27 Thread Galileu H. Oliveira
Isso aqui resolve? https://www.kevinhooke.com/2020/01/17/raspbian-error-the-following-signatures-couldnt-be-verified-because-the-public-key-is-not-available/ sds. G.Paulo. On Sat, 25 Nov 2023 01:46:24 -0300 Caio Ferreira wrote: > Lista > > Depois de procurar muito na net e não encontrar a

Re: dedicated IP

2023-11-27 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 11/27/23 1:59 PM, Maureen L Thomas wrote: I would like some advice.  I have been offered a dedicated IP through NORD.  Is it worth it or is it not needed?  Pros and cons would be very helpful.  Thank you. Assuming you mean a static IP address: Useful if you need to self-host something

Re: Acer Monitors

2023-10-18 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 10/18/23 5:09 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: . . . I'd be interested in hearing any comments from users of Acer products. I have a pair of their VL270U monitors hooked up to my work Mac Mini. The biggest challenge I had was building a "portrait mode" stand for one of them. They've been

Re: REeLooking for a good "default" font (small 'L' vs. capital 'i' problem)

2023-08-20 Thread James H. H. Lampert
Hmm. IBM Plex. Not bad-looking, and it does solve the stated problem. I will note that like Bistream Swiss Monospaced, it's only *nominally* sans-serif, in that it has slab-serifs (Stymie-style, rather than Clarendon-style) on the capital I, and one small slab-serif on the lowercase l. --

Re: Looking for a good "default" font (small 'L' vs. capital 'i' problem)

2023-08-20 Thread James H. H. Lampert
are readily distinguishable are about as scarce as the proverbial hen's teeth, whether you're talking digital, photo, hot metal, foundry, or wood. -- James H. H. Lampert (And for the record, my "go-to fonts" are all versions of Garamond.)

Re: [OT] connect to Amazon AWS service

2023-07-28 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 7/28/23 8:46 AM, Haines Brown wrote: I've used an on line validation servce to which I submit code. It terminated with the note that it has now become a web service on the Amazon EC2 Web Service. I registered for this cloud sercice, but have no idea how to access an instance created by

Re: Convert PostScript .pfa to .pfb?

2023-07-13 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 7/13/23 2:28 PM, Tom Browder wrote: I know the binary version of the PS fonts can be converted to TrueType by FontForge. However, is there a way to convert from the PS ASCII version .pfa file to the binary .pfb file? I have a very old font editor, that I used briefly (on a neighbor's

Re: Cable colors and urban legends (was: Error Messages)

2023-06-02 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 6/2/23 11:33 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: This is very hard to believe. I'm willing to believe that there have been insulation dyes that have proved problematic, but if you've encountered those problems in the 70s I find it *really* odd that it would still affect cables from this century (e.g.

A case for supporting antiquated hardware, was Re: A hypervisor for a headless server?

2023-06-02 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 6/2/23 8:34 AM, Mario Marietto wrote: You may argue that developing for a small number of old computers isn't worth trying. But,first of all,I think that there are a LOT of old PCs in the world,since poor people aren't only a niche. Nor are they the only ones using antiquated hardware, or

Re: OT: Charities (a rant)

2023-01-31 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 1/31/23 11:38 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: . . . Because SPI is a US registered charity, it is covered by charitynavigator.org: . . . And its numbers are impressive. Although it appears to have been rather lavishly overfunded in 2018. -- JHHL

Choosing neovim over vim as default

2022-11-04 Thread Bharatvaj P H
vimscript9 feels like a bad decision, it is incompatible with vimscript2 and does not match performance with lua. We definitely don't need another language. Until vim9 I thought vim as a slimmer version of neovim but it's the opposite. Currently there is confusion among developers when writing

signing up to fourms

2022-10-18 Thread Bruce H.
Why do you have to make it so hard to sign up to the user forums? Auto gen passwords do not work, and the requirements are excessive! Antispam question #1 makes no sense. No (show text) for passwords. Confirmation item (shield for window) makes no sense. I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING SO STUPID. (67yr

Re: running outdated software

2022-10-13 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 10/13/22 11:05 AM, DdB wrote: But i am very used to running outdated software, as i am living the old recipe to "never change a working system". I've got you beat: I still have a DOS box. And I'm in the process of configuring and loading a replacement for a worn-out DOSbook. And I still

Re: firmware

2022-09-30 Thread PEDRO H SANTORO
Bom dia! Oki muito obrigado pela ajuda! Em qui., 29 de set. de 2022 às 21:27, Yuri Musachio escreveu: > Pedro, boa noite! > > Vê se essa informação te ajuda: > https://www.debian.org/MailingLists/unsubscribe > > > > > Best, > > On Sep 29 2022, at 9:19 pm, PE

Re: firmware

2022-09-29 Thread PEDRO H SANTORO
Gente boa noite! Como faço para sair desta lista de transmissaão, tentei aqui mas não consegui, podem me ajudar? Vlw Em qui., 29 de set. de 2022 às 21:07, maikon leao escreveu: > Boa noite Yuri, concordo com sua mensagem em todos os sentidos, vamos aos > detalhes peguei certinho: > > -

Re: Color of the active window title bar in ubuntu-mate?

2022-08-22 Thread James H. H. Lampert
esEdit on a Mac Plus, more than half a lifetime ago). Do I shove this down anybody else's throat? No. But neither do I care to have somebody else's look-and-feel elements shoved down my throat. -- James H. H. Lampert (I also like a garbage can icon to look like a garbage can. With a WinDoze logo on it.)

Re: [Fora do Tópico] Recomendação de NAS doméstico

2022-07-25 Thread PEDRO H SANTORO
Como faz para sair desta lista?? Em seg., 25 de jul. de 2022 17:51, Mauricio Neto escreveu: > Marcelo boa tarde. > > Eu uso um Synology e gosto muito do que ele oferece. Tem diversos > serviços já embutidos e configuração simplificada. Existem modelos de > dois discos ate mais robustos de oito

Re: OT, Recommendation for low cost laptop

2022-07-18 Thread James H. H. Lampert
Another place to look is your local laptop store. My current laptop, as well as its predecessor, are refurbished ThinkPads I bought there for about $300. They run Linux just fine. "Local laptop store?" Not quite sure I've heard of such a thing, at least not recently. My Chromebook came from

Re: [SOLVED] Re: One-user system.

2022-05-06 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 5/6/22 1:11 PM, Charles Curley wrote: Maybe, maybe not. I got started with a KIM-I: 6502 running at 1 MHz, just over 1 kilobyte of RAM. Six seven segment displays and a hex keyboard for data entry. I still have one. I remember *reading about* the KIM-I (and the Altair, and a few others)

Re: system76

2022-01-16 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 1/15/22 7:38 PM, Yamadaえりな wrote: hello list I have thought about buying a laptop from system76 with linux pre-installed. What do you think of this manufacturer? Glad to hear from you. I've had a Meerkat for several months, and except for an occasional OS crash within 2 minutes of

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com

2022-01-04 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 1/4/22 11:33 AM, David Wright wrote: In fact, I was quite shocked when I just tried DNS over HTTPS for a couple of minutes. The 10-day weather profile that I screenshoot every day was plastered in popups. Anyone know how to combine DoH with resolving 14,000 addresses to 127.0.0.1? Also,

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com

2022-01-04 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 1/4/22 10:19 AM, Michael Stone wrote: And this is why putting stuff into /etc/hosts is basically never the right answer. :) Au contraire! Among other things, the host table is the best possible place to block access to certain unwanted domains. For example, if you add these entries: >

debian security for personal box

2021-12-12 Thread Piper H
Hello members, After installation debian. shall I change the default SSH port (22) to a random port? Shall I disable the root login? and what other policy should be applied generally for security? Thanks Piper

Re: question about different software versions on Debian 10 and 11

2021-12-08 Thread Piper H
That's all right. thank you. On Thu, Dec 9, 2021 at 1:25 AM Stanislav Vlasov wrote: > 2021-12-08 15:51 GMT+05:00, Piper H : > > On Debian 10, can I force install the software which is released on > Debian > > 11? > > For example, a given software has default

question about different software versions on Debian 10 and 11

2021-12-08 Thread Piper H
On Debian 10, can I force install the software which is released on Debian 11? For example, a given software has default installation version 1.0 for debian 10, but has version 2.0 for debian 11. I want to use the version 2.0 on debian 10, how will I do it? Thank you. Piper

Re: question about a .deb file

2021-12-08 Thread Piper H
me which must be put in Spark's library dir. So I was looking where the file is located in the system. best regards, Piper On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 6:27 PM David wrote: > On Wed, 8 Dec 2021 at 19:21, Piper H wrote: > >> Hello again, >> >> Sorry for this silly question. >> I d

Re: question about a .deb file

2021-12-08 Thread Piper H
Thanks, I'll check them out. :) On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 4:35 PM Stanislav Vlasov wrote: > 2021-12-08 13:21 GMT+05:00, Piper H : > > I downloaded the JDBC drive from mysql website: > > https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/ > > > > And got a file name: >

question about a .deb file

2021-12-08 Thread Piper H
Hello again, Sorry for this silly question. I downloaded the JDBC drive from mysql website: https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/ And got a file name: (mysql-connector-java_8.0.27-1debian10_all.deb) Then I run: sudo dpkg -i mysql-connector-java_8.0.27-1debian10_all.deb And what's the

NVME disk drive

2021-12-07 Thread Piper H
dear community I bought a new NVME disk and plan to replace the old SSD disk on my home box. Does this NVME require a special drive for the Debian system? Thank you Piper

Re: why Debian?

2021-12-02 Thread Piper H
No, I didn't take the kernel development. I am just a data scientist, using python, R, spark, hadoop to do the application jobs. Thanks. On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 1:33 PM SAIFI wrote: > On Thu, 2 Dec 2021, Piper H wrote: > > > For debian and ubuntu, which one should I choose as

Re: why Debian?

2021-12-02 Thread Piper H
Thanks for the info you provided @Karthik . That would be very helpful Regards Piper On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 7:03 AM Karthik wrote: > On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 1:37 AM Piper H wrote: > > > > @Karthik glad to see the info you providesd. > > You're welcome,feel free to a

Re: why Debian?

2021-12-02 Thread Piper H
@Karthik glad to see the info you providesd. Especially for cudnn running on ubuntu 18.04 and above. Does debian have good support for DNN stuff? Thanks. Piper On Thursday, December 2, 2021, Karthik wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Dec 2, 2021, 5:27 PM Piper H wrote: > >> For

Re: why Debian?

2021-12-02 Thread Piper H
I am a data engineer. Most time works around Hadoop, Spark, Streaming, MQ, R and Python stuff. I have my personal Mac, but want to learn more on Linux dev and ops. Thanks. Piper On Friday, December 3, 2021, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Thu, Dec 02, 2021 at 07:56:31PM +0800, Piper H wr

Re: why Debian?

2021-12-02 Thread Piper H
For debian and ubuntu, which one should I choose as my personal development system? Thanks. On Thu, Dec 2, 2021 at 7:02 PM Anssi Saari wrote: > Thanos Katsiolis writes: > > > The reasons I chose them is that Debian is considered a stable and > reliable OS (the policy of the OS is not to > >

Re: Don't try this at home kids

2021-11-29 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 11/29/21 2:41 PM, Jeremy Ardley wrote: P.S. I am totally unconvinced about the arguments for using sudo rather than running as root. You can do exactly the same damage with sudo as being root user. P.P.S The conventional instruction is to use visudo to do the edits. Which means using Vi,

Re: Leibniz' "best of all possible worlds" ...

2021-10-25 Thread James H. H. Lampert
>>> I also wonder how Leibniz is relevant to this scenario ... When I think of Leibniz, I think of calculus (and rejoice in the fact that the only calculus I still have to deal with is what the dentist has to jackhammer off my teeth [before it turns into partial differential equations]).

Re: Write *once* storage (was Re: write only storage)

2021-09-21 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 9/21/21 10:21 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: . . . WORM is Write *Once* , not Write *Only* "Write only" storage is easy and fast - just throw things at /dev/null and they can never be altered (or read back). Quite. Or to paraphrase something I said, that actually got published in some

Re: Your Thoughts on Printer Replacement

2021-09-18 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 9/18/21 2:19 AM, Jeremy Ardley wrote: My experience is that toner does degrade over a period of years. To get full life you need to use your advertised pages within a year or so. Agreed. I've seen toner cartridges go bad. Of course, they had been sitting on a shelf for *many* years. --

Re: Your Thoughts on Printer Replacement

2021-09-18 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 9/18/21 2:00 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: The direction of travel for printing is entirely driverless, so this is less important than it used to be. Really? If true, that is exceptionally good news. The last time I looked at new printers, the "direction of travel" was entirely

Re: Your Thoughts on Printer Replacement

2021-09-17 Thread James H. H. Lampert
negotiable requirement for me: it's either that, or I have to dump the data stream to a file, distill it into a PDF, and print that. -- James H. H. Lampert Professional Dilettante

Re: Hardware life expectancy

2021-07-26 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 7/25/21 6:38 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: . . . Nowadays, I'm still planning to use that same Thinkpad X30 to display PDFs in the classroom (when I get to meet students physically again), and more than half of my machine are older than 10 years old. Better yet, they don't seem significantly

Re: MDs & Dentists

2021-07-21 Thread James H. H. Lampert
Amiga. Aggressively multitasking within itself, on a platform where there was no memory protection, and nothing but "good intentions" to keep one task from stomping all over another task's memory. It nearly killed me. -- James H. H. Lampert

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

2021-07-12 Thread James H. H. Lampert
I know people who associate the time-honored metasyntactic "foobar" with the military slang acronym FUBAR. -- JHHL

Re: Hi there, test only, please ignore

2021-06-17 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 6/17/21 1:25 AM, Grzesiek wrote: test I got your test message. As it happens, we just went live with DMARC, and have reason to do some testing ourselves. -- JHHL

Slightly off-topic: anybody know of a way to keep one's Debian User List posts from failing DMARC?

2021-06-09 Thread James H. H. Lampert
dle DMARC-enabled senders. -- James H. H. Lampert Touchtone Corporation

Re:  Sponsored post on https://debian.org

2021-05-26 Thread James H. H. Lampert
The price is our souls, and we all agree that's too high. Hmm. Isn't that also the price of anything sold at Wal-Mart? * * * At least the OP was polite enough to *ask* about posting ads, rather than just *doing* it. -- JHHL

Re: How to capture composite video

2021-05-17 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 5/17/21 9:39 AM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: I have a number of VHS tapes which I'd like to digitize, and I'm trying to figure out where to start, hardware- and software-wise. Do you have a DVD-R video recorder? Simplest way I know is to dub the VHS to DVD, at which point accessing the video from

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-18 Thread James H. H. Lampert
Suffice it to say that the only Social Media outfit I trust less than I trust Facebook or Twitter (neither of which I trust any further than I can throw the U.S.S. Hornet) is LinkedIn. Which I have loathed since *before* they became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Microsloth. -- JHHL (I'd use a

Re: Social-media antipathy

2021-03-14 Thread James H. H. Lampert
my email. And I like it that way. But I tried DDG last week, and it appeared incapable of helping Boy Scout find a candy store. -- James H. H. Lampert Professional Dilettante

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-12 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 3/12/21 8:09 AM, Larry Martell wrote: I did the same thing - I resisted being on FB for a very long time, but eventually I had to get on because it was how my family was communicating and I was being left out of the loop. I joined as my dog only my family knew how to find me. Even to this day

Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian systems and install programs to the secondary disk

2021-02-23 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 2/23/21 8:13 AM, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: You can always add more filesystem space later. It's easier if you're using LVM but that isn't required. You just build another filesystem on the new drive after it's installed and mount it into your filesystems, at the appropriate mount point.

Re: Serifed, variable-pitch font.

2021-02-18 Thread James H. H. Lampert
FWIW, "proportional" or "typographic" would be more conventional terms than "variable pitch." -- JHHL (Feel free to visit me some Saturday at the International Printing Museum. After COVID-19 is no longer an existential threat, but merely a minor nuisance.)

Re: SanDisk USB stick problem

2020-12-08 Thread James H. H. Lampert
Hmm. When I put a new flash device into service, at the very least, I wipe all bundled content from it, and may completely reformat it, depending on my needs, just as a matter of course. -- JHHL (I vaguely recall that at one time, if you bought a new wallet, the card-and-picture section would

Re: Very old hardware...

2020-07-05 Thread James H. H. Lampert
David Wright wrote: Why do I keep mine? 1) Sentimentality, as it was the one on my work desk when I retired. 2) Being a tower, it has room for up to 4 PATA drives. The loaned Optiplex only holds one—after that, I'm down to an old PATA caddy. 3) There's no WEEE here, so I'm not sure exactly how

Re: Very old hardware...

2020-07-05 Thread James H. H. Lampert
exhibit. -- James H. H. Lampert

Re: new camera

2020-06-26 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 6/26/20 1:20 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: But this stretch machine can't find it amongst all the other usb stuff. It doesn't have cheese, and vlc doesn't recognize it. . . . Anybody have an idea of what driver this camera needs? Would transferring images on memory cards be a workable solution?

Re: technical terms overhaul

2020-06-21 Thread James H. H. Lampert
Personally, if I were a moderator on this List, I would order this thread terminated with extreme prejudice. -- JHHL

Re: waaay offtopic

2020-05-28 Thread James H. H. Lampert
Personally, I have a clamshell. It's my second clamshell, an LG VN220. It replaced my previous clamshell, after my first vacation to Canada: the previous clamshell was a paperweight from the moment my bus from Seattle to Vancouver crossed the Canadian border, up to the moment my flight from

NVIDIA Prime Offload

2020-03-13 Thread subhan h
hey. i love debian and that's the only reason i'm composing this mail right now. due to poor performance of "Bumblebee" method which is the wiki's official way of handling NVIDIA Optimus on my new laptop, sadly i had to switch to another distribution recently. could you please make these two,

Re: This is weird: I can ssh into a box, but I can't access it directly

2020-02-27 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 2/26/20 8:52 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: Are you ssh'ing in as root? If not, is your user's $HOME on the machine's failing disk, or another (remote?) drive? and I replied (off-List, and *not* intentionally so): Yes. As root. Oh, and one other thing, the thing that brought this to my attention

This is weird: I can ssh into a box, but I can't access it directly

2020-02-26 Thread James H. H. Lampert
One of our Linux boxes is behaving oddly. If I ssh into it, I can connect easily, and I get: The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software; the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright. Debian

Re: "Ethernet trouble" thread

2020-02-04 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 2:54 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Feb 01, 2020 at 05:45:26PM +0100, Tom H wrote: >> >> You state that it's no longer udev that renames NICs. The following's >> from a sid VM using svsinit+sysvrc. > [...] >> udev is renaming "eth0&q

AMD 10.2 netinstall

2020-01-18 Thread tom h
Hello, Recently I have installed stable on a few old optiplex workstations that have an AMD graphics card. On first boot I always get a black screen and have to: 1. Enable non-free 2. Install firmware-linux-nonfree. Even though the netinstall media is firmware-10.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso

package install: pinning and warnings

2020-01-07 Thread tom h
So I've got a test box that I have sid installed on and the following in my /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 1000 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 100 I also have these two packages installed: sapt-listbugs apt-listchanges I went to install

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

2019-10-18 Thread James H. H. Lampert
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, Level 2, and Mod I Disk BASIC, GWBASIC, and the various QBASICs (QuickBASIC and QBX). (I took one

Re: Bug?

2019-09-18 Thread Thomas H. George
Yes, I was originally using another desktop, lxde, and switched to gnome. Now I can't switch back On 09/18/2019 08:01 AM, songbird wrote: Thomas H. George wrote: ... Two problems after a distribution upgrade to Buster 1. At login window after boot up the desktop selection is locked a Gnome

Bug?

2019-09-17 Thread Thomas H. George
Two problems after a distribution upgrade to Buster 1. At login window after boot up the desktop selection is locked a Gnome. That is, if the symbol to change the desktop selection is selected a list of available desktops is displayed with a dot indicating Gnome is the current selections.

distribution model, in search of vision

2019-09-09 Thread H . E . Çitak
Well accepted 3 variations of Debian is the norm. live CD version is there. When I made the transition to old laptops the wireless adapter was consistently a problem, so I moved to derivatives because I could install them as OS. They have their own strengths and weaknesses. I want Debian back on

Re: 3 phase power (was Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-08-01 Thread James H. H. Lampert
dmill: you run those backwards more than 1 or 2 degrees, and they shred themselves. -- James H. H. Lampert

Re: Debian Programming languages

2019-05-24 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 5/24/19, 11:00 AM, ghe wrote: I forgot about LISP too. LISP was the first high level language I learned. Thought I was going to die... (CLUTTER CLUTTER (CDR CLUTTER)) is probably the only s-expression I still remember from over half a lifetime ago. (It's a line of code from the "Blocks

Re: Debian Programming languages

2019-05-24 Thread James H. H. Lampert
Just out of morbid curiosity: what about a full ANSI PL/I? -- JHHL (And the mere fact that I'm asking ages me.)

Re: Your Password Reset Link from CorrLinks

2019-02-21 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 2/21/19, 8:27 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Never received bounce spam aka backscatter spam? Remember that time (perhaps 1-2 years ago) where this very list was plagued by an especially evil form of backscatter involving the useful idiot at the other end of some smartphone? No question, I've

Re: Your Password Reset Link from CorrLinks

2019-02-21 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 2/21/19, 12:38 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: You shouldn't /bounce/ spam anyway: where are you going to bounce it to? To a most probably spoofed address, i.e. to a totally innocent victim? Thus generating reflected spam, aka Joe Jobs? That depends. Some spammers don't see themselves as

Re: USB hard drives -- recommendations?

2019-02-03 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 2/3/19, 2:22 AM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: The only problem with external disk drive enclosures from well known brands like WD or Seagate is they don't offer a way to open them e.g. to switch the disk drive inside. That and the fact that, judging by the price tags (and this also seems

Re: Disable left-ctrl?

2019-01-28 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 1/28/19, 3:16 PM, Boyan Penkov wrote: > To this end, I’d like to disable the left ctrl key only, and force my > brain to use the right one. Better yet, I’d like the screen to flash > or something then I inadvertently hit left-ctrl. Just two thoughts occur to me: 1) On a 5250 data stream

USB hard drives -- recommendations?

2019-01-25 Thread James H. H. Lampert
Fellow List members: Would anybody care to voice an opinion on USB external hard drives in the 2 terabyte size range, for automated backup purposes? We've been looking at the Seagate "Expansion" and the WD "Elements"; I've noticed that on Amazon, both have a fair number of negative reviews

We've got a problem. Debian "Jessie" box won't launch X or Tomcat, and USB drive won't mount

2019-01-14 Thread James H. H. Lampert
nt the USB drive. I also can't seem to get that drive to mount on anything else, which suggests that it has been corrupted. Can somebody suggest where to start looking for the problem? -- James H. H. Lampert

Installing Java 8 on a Google Compute Debian (Jessie) instance

2018-12-18 Thread James H. H. Lampert
Depends: openjdk-8-jdk-headless (= 8u171-b11-1~bpo8+1) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. which is what I was getting before. -- James H. H. Lampert

Apache Segmentation Fault

2018-11-23 Thread H.
Hi, I have a web server running Testing with apache 2.4.37 and php 7.3. The purpose of the server is to run owncloud. However, after the nightly restart the server stops working. The logs show the following: /var/log/apache2/error.log.1 [Fri Nov 23 00:00:01.526101 2018] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid

Re: that other OS

2018-11-16 Thread James H. H. Lampert
mick crane wrote: "Windows is a service..." Actually, I'd call WinDoze a DISservice. (I don't allow WinDoze in my house.) -- JHHL (Currently using PCDOS-2000, OS/400, MacOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Android, and occasionally, at work, CentOS and WinDoze XP.)

[SOLUCIONADO] Fail2ban y expresión regular

2018-10-02 Thread Diego H. Cancelo
Hola Julher. Me funcionó perfecto, muchas gracias por tu ayuda !!! Había que ir a lo más sencillo vergüenza me da :P Muchas gracias nuevamente. Saludos. Diego. El mar., 2 oct. 2018 a las 10:28, escribió: > > El lun, 01-10-2018 a las 22:12 -0300, Diego H. Cancelo escribió: >

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