Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing]

experiences are with vanilla filesystems only. LUKS obviously has specific requirements. Perhaps you could try having a root partition that is unencrypted? -- Joel Roth

Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing]

> > > > former is so that Grub includes it in any new grub.cfg that you > > > > create. > > > Good to know. > > Edit:, never mind. Tried that, it still booted straight to the UEFI BIOS > > menu after entering my password. At this point, I'm seriously > > considering slapping rEFInd on it and pray that it picks up on > > everything automatically and fix the situation. But so should Grub have, > > besides the fact that I can't even be entirely sure Grub is to blame and > > not something else. -- Joel Roth

Re: Alpine/Gmail/Imap expert needed.

rse out what she wants/needs from her description. I don't blame her; certainly she writes as clearly as she knows how. Usually someone (in this case Gareth) gets what she wants. At least it's never dull ;-) > > Cheers > > -- Joel Roth

Re: connect two hosts over wifi without router?

ble people here than myself, but a naive search for "wifi adapter client host mode linux" brings up this page. https://woshub.com/create-wi-fi-access-point-hotspot-linux/ Most wifi adapters can operate as an access point, which is indicated by AP and AP/VLAN appearing in the output of `iw list`. Hope this helps -- Joel Roth

Re: FOSS tool to do general stats from text indata

facts and stuff that you never think >about until the stats tell you! > > What do we have on that area? A basic search finds this web tool: https://www.usingenglish.com/resources/text-statistics/ Otherwise, I think you'll have to write your own -- or hire someone (like me :^) to write one for you. -- Joel Roth

Re: fetchamil / procmail as non root : unable to call script

ail: Match on "^Message-ID: \/.*" > procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER= echo "whoami" > test.txt" > Subject: test > Folder: echo "whoami" > test.txt > 1824 > procmail: Executing " echo "whoami" > test.txt" > > but nothung happens. > Am I missing something ? > Regards > Cédric Are you sure that procmail is running the command in a shell? Could it be trying to execute a program named 'echo'. You might try creating a shell script you can call. -- Joel Roth

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

rl releases, the entire of CPAN is checked to make sure new features do not break existing code. > - error handling (exceptions?) Of course this can be improved. The basic behaviors are sufficient, tho. > - sometimes too rigid ways of method calling Perl is rarely accused of this. Using i

Re: cpan oddity

l cpanminus Please note that when installing via cpanminus to a unprivileged directory, such as $HOME/perl5, you must also include it in your environment. see 'man local::lib'. -- Joel Roth

Re: Issues with audio after updating

ice 1. https://askubuntu.com/questions/8425/how-to-temporarily-disable-pulseaudio-while-running-a-game-under-wine I've not tested this myself. cheers, -- Joel Roth

Re: No HDMI Audio

option to target various alsa devices. Once you've found the HDMI device that works, you can set it as the default device. -- Joel Roth

Re: Converting an old Chromebook to pure Debian, was: OT, Recommendation for low cost laptop

; > -- > Ottavio Caruso > > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? > -- Joel Roth

Re: Suggestions for rm [WAS: Re: Feature request: install package by passing URL to apt-get]

On Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 09:45:58AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 07:42:25PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > I list the files first: > > > > ls some-pattern > > > > then add a pipe to rm: > > > > ls some-pattern | rm > >

Re: Suggestions for rm [WAS: Re: Feature request: install package by passing URL to apt-get]

ls some-pattern | rm -rf I know the OP said they weren't asking advice, but I can't help putting in my two bits :-) cheers, > With every good wish, as ever, > -- Joel Roth

Re: Printing the old way

ges were needed, etc.? Using magicfilter with lprng lets you print a variety of file types. -- Joel Roth

Re: Recommendations for a home server running Debian Bullseye (11)?

natures any more? > > https://charlescurley.com > https://charlescurley.com/blog/ > -- Joel Roth

Review of Refind boot manager (was Re: USB UEFI recovery stick)

e, Support opensource development -- Joel Roth

Re: Debian-friendly laptop

laptops years ago, found that they didn't offer me much over community supported Thinkpads. -- Joel Roth

Re: Putting small web site online

ou can use PHP, python or perl with a mysql database if you like. And the admin answers emails. Speaking as a satisfied (mostly dormant) user. -- Joel Roth

Re: Multichannel audio playback

On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 06:21:27PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Joel Roth writes: > > > I don't think there is a problem with ecasound. > > For comparison, you can try > > > > aplay -D test.wav > > > > You get the device name from aplay -L. > &g

Re: Multichannel audio playback

le, > ... channels 3, srate 48000, interleaved (locked params). > ERROR: Connecting chainsetup failed: "Enabling chainsetup: AUDIOIO-ALSA: > ... Channel count 2 is out of range!" > Hi Rodolfo, I don't think there is a problem with ecasound. For comparison, you can try aplay -D test.wav You get the device name from aplay -L. Please also show the output from cat /proc/asound/cards With your ecasound examples, the -a argument is not necessary, and selecting channels is not its purpose. cheers > Please help... > > Rodolfo > -- Joel Roth

Re: Multichannel audio playback

-- --- Begin Message --- On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 07:37:27AM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Joel Roth writes: > > > On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 10:22:11AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > >> > >> ecasound -i:libsndfile,audiofile -o alsa > > > > that should be -i:

Re: Multichannel audio playback (was: Multichannel audio listening)

On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 10:22:11AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > ecasound -i:libsndfile,audiofile -o alsa that should be -i:sndfile -- Joel Roth

Re: Multichannel audio playback (was: Multichannel audio listening)

n doesn't match the file format, you can specify the file type, e.g. ecasound -i:libsndfile,audiofile,aiff -o alsa cheers -- Joel Roth

Re: Cannot mount DFS shares after upgrade to 10.9

o take me quite a while to test. Joel

Cannot mount DFS shares after upgrade to 10.9

s happened about one in five mount attempts both before and after the kernel update, regardless of whether or not the share mounted. Since it did appear before the update when mounting always worked, I am assuming it is not relevant.) Thanks, Joel Davies

Re: Blind and Low-Vision UNIX Users Group

tarted. > > -dsr- Another list for this purpose: Blinux-list mailing list blinux-l...@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Joel Roth

Re: ALSA bug? Laptop headphone output depending on speaker channel setting

he bug might just get fixed... > > Any suggestions? I looked at the hdajackretask app, but no idea where I > would > even start there. Do you have pulseaudio running on your system? It is a layer above ALSA, and could be related to your issue. > Thanks in advance, > Brendon > > > -- Joel Roth

Re: Most maintainable way to install perl modules on Debian sysetms

rl versions. have fun, > I suppose this could even be a general question when you consider other > things like python, php, nodejs and others, all of which have their own > module systems. Feels like there’s a need for a sort of meta-module system > that works with apt, but I’m

Re: Plus de son sur la sortie casque (son reste sur les HP)

Solution : options snd-hda-intel model=inv-dmic J'avoue, ce n'était pas trivial ;-) En espérant que ça serve. JKB

Re: Plus de son sur la sortie casque (son reste sur les HP)

Désolé pour la redite, le wifi des Intercités de la SNCF est... erratique.

Plus de son sur la sortie casque (son reste sur les HP)

Bonjour à tous, Depuis quelque temps, je m'aperçois que je n'ai plus aucun son dans la sortie casque sur un Toshiba Pxxx qui n'est pas très récent. Le casque n'est pas en cause et fonctionne très bien sur une autre machine. Ce casque est pourtant reconnu puisque pavucontrol voit le

Plus de son sur la sortie casque (son reste sur les HP)

Bonjour à tous, Depuis quelque temps, je m'aperçois que je n'ai plus aucun son dans la sortie casque sur un Toshiba Pxxx qui n'est pas très récent. Le casque n'est pas en cause et fonctionne très bien sur une autre machine. Ce casque est pourtant reconnu puisque pavucontrol voit le

Zoom conferencing

(I hope no one gets upset about double posting debian and ubuntu users lists.) Questions about zoom -- www.zoom.us Anyone using it? Issues? Known reasons they don't put it in the general repositories?

Re: systemd et swap sur iscsi

didier gaumet a écrit : Justement. Il me semble que le mieux, là-dedans, c'est Requires... (Google Groups a l'air toujours dans la panade alors je te réponds directement à partir de l'archive mail trouvée sur le net) Je peux avoir mal compris la page man de systemd.unit(5) mais ce que j'en

systemd et swap sur iscsi

Bonsoir à tous, Petite question du soir. J'essaie toujours de mettre en place un swap sur iSCSI. Au démarrage, forcément, l'ignoble systemd ne monte pas les choses correctement. Dans l'ordre, il faut d'abord que iscsi (initiator) soit lancé, puis le swap activé. J'ai donc rajouté

[iSCSI] NetBSD 9.0 target, Linux Debian initiator

Bonjour à tous, Je bute sur un problème surprenant avec un swap sur iSCSI (workstation disless). Les logs de la target sont les suivants : Feb 21 19:00:48 legendre iscsi-target: > iSCSI Normal login successful from iqn.1993-08.org.debian:01:f44d59dfc4a1 on

Re: [HS] Loi Avia : le contrôle tous azimuts, un danger réel de censures

Yoann LE BARS a écrit : Salut à tous ! Le 18/02/2020 à 18:56, BERTRAND Joel a écrit : Certes. Mais juste en dessous de la juridiction pénale se trouve la juridiction administrative en terme de respect du droit. Dans les TJ, c'est beaucoup, mais lors beaucoup plus aléatoire. J'ai

Re: [HS] Loi Avia : le contrôle tous azimuts, un danger réel de censures

Yoann LE BARS a écrit : Salut à tous ! Le 18/02/2020 à 14:07, Philippe a écrit : C'est l'objet de la loi Avia, quand bien même elle repose sur des considérants biaisés : difficile pour le juge français d'agir sur l'éditeur dont le modèle économique repose sur la permissivité

Re: hplip

Bonjour à tous, Ce matin, je décide de creuser le problème. hp-setup -i termine correctement et le plugin s'installer tout seul (!) Naturellement, je n'ai _jamais_ redémarré la machine en question. Je n'ai pas installé ou réinstallé d'autres paquets. Je suppose que les

Re: Backup Times on a Linux desktop

On Mon, Nov 04, 2019, Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 06:01:54 -1000 > Joel Roth wrote: > > > These days I use rsync with the --link-dest option to make > > complete Time-Machine(tm) style backups using hardlinks to > > avoid file duplication in the common

Re: Backup Times on a Linux desktop

considered kosher. It takes around 10% of CPU on my i5 system. > Whoever read till the end Im thankful and ready to hear your opinion. > Cheers > Konstantin -- Joel Roth

Re: Programming pointer? -- options to run Python3 from web page (not via Flask/cgi/Django)

D to post to .aspx. > > > > While I would prefer the answer to be python-ish, > it does to Have to be python. > > > Thank you! > > > -- Joel Roth "Welcome to the World Heat Bank, where we store your waste energy and return it with interest."

Re: [OT] send all email from certain From: addresses into a spam

re friendly with perl, Email::Filter or Email::Filter::Rules provides a less cryptic alternative to procmail. I use Email::Filter with Net::IMAP::Client so that I run one filter process per mail check, rather than one process per mail when triggering the filter from a .forward file. -- Joel Roth &q

Re: batch process jpegs

ess=100, the result is totally white. Similarly, when contrast=0 and brightness=-100, the result is totally black. As the range of values for the arguments are -100 to +100, adding the '%' symbol is no different than leaving it off. > > mick > -- > Key ID4BFEBB31 > -- Joel Roth

Re: Setting a USB for multi usages

having uefi seems to go better these days (at least if installing onto recent hardware). Due to varying levels of vendor write as around CSM (compatibility BIOS/system mode) breaking dual BIOS/eufi media installers. -Joel On Sat., 12 Jan. 2019, 09:48 MENGUAL Jean-Philippe Hi, > > My p

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 08:39:55PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 30 Nov 2018 at 11:23:57 (-1000), Joel Roth wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > > Cliff's Notes Version Part I: Flaky USB connections are an important > > > factor! An ac

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

intended partition) was when the partition was not mounted. Once an I/O error occurs, at least in my system, no further read or write operations to the mount point will succeed. with regards -- Joel Roth

Re: swrast alors !

> Le 10/11/2018 à 18:48, ajh-valmer a écrit : > > Mais avec quel driver choisi ? On Saturday 10 November 2018 19:43:37 Txo wrote: > Le propriétaire de debian via dkms. Humm, plutôt le Libre de Debian ? Le proprio, c'est Nvidia.

Re: 100Base-FX (SC) card PCI/PCIe

Am not sure recommending 100FX ; the 1000 Base optics are around the same price and likely a better bet; your application isn't looking at throughput, but you do want some of the newer resiliency features on 1000 Base (EAM etc). On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 at 00:06, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Good day

Re: Previously Bootable: Stretch using Grub with GPT, LUKS, & BTRFS

On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 at 17:22, Igor Cicimov wrote: > > > On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 11:45 am Joel Brunetti wrote: > >> Hey Team, >> >> I'm having trouble booting a previously bootable system. >> This system has been in use since very shortly before the Stretch re

Previously Bootable: Stretch using Grub with GPT, LUKS, & BTRFS

fault/grub containing "GRUB_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK=y". I tried restoring /boot/grub/grub.cfg from a snapshot that does include those modules and then grub-install to both drives again but to no avail. I'm really at a loss and could really use some help in restoring my system. Thanks, Joel

Re: hammerfall help request

On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 12:12:22AM +, Glenn English wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 11:09 PM, Joel Roth wrote: > > > Unmute and adjust signal levels > > > > alsamixer -c 2 > > Comes up in curses with the RME selected and a single slider: DDS > S

Re: hammerfall help request

On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 06:50:10PM +, Glenn English wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 2:42 AM, Joel Roth wrote: > > > cat /proc/asound/cards > > root@sbox:~# cat /proc/asound/cards > 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel > HDA Intel at 0xfb

Re: hammerfall help request

ink I remember hearing small clicks when I plugged them in > before. All quiet now. Even if I'm remembering correctly, the lack of > clicks could be due to having something set wrong. > > I really think there's something I haven't done, but I can't figure > out what. Anybody have any ideas? > > -- > Glenn English cat /proc/asound/cards -- Joel Roth

Re: USB2 or 3 WiFi dual band adapters

Huh? Intel cards are numerous and cheap - they come in PCIe / NGFF form factors (like the easily available ath) - get a PCIe/USB to MiniPCIe converter card for a few pennies off Aliexpress and you are in business. On 14 August 2018 at 08:33, Michael Stone wrote: > On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at

Re: USB2 or 3 WiFi dual band adapters

Basically find one that uses the ath9k Chipset. They are easily the best supported Wifi Interface. If you need Wireless AC then ath10k based products are useable too. The Intel ranges are OK as clients, but are not really very Opensource. Ath9k has the best Fully Opensource impementation out of

x2go reverse proxy

Bonjour à tous, Je cherche à prendre la main sur des machines distantes à l'autre bout du monde. Pour ce faire, je pense à quelque chose qui pourrait être un reverse proxy pour x2go (ou tout autre chose du même genre). Pour l'instant, j'utilise x11vnc, mais c'est très plantogène. Sur

[résolu] Installation sur Asus Prime B250M-K was Re: Installation sur CPU kaby lake

BERTRAND Joel a écrit : BERTRAND Joel a écrit :  Bonjour à tous,  J'essaie vainement d'installer Debian sur deux machines pour un client. Les cartes-mères sont des Asus Prime 250M-K avec un CPU Pentium G4560.  J'ai essayé de booter sur le réseau (mon installation tftp

Re: Installation sur CPU kaby lake

BERTRAND Joel a écrit : Bonjour à tous, J'essaie vainement d'installer Debian sur deux machines pour un client. Les cartes-mères sont des Asus Prime 250M-K avec un CPU Pentium G4560. J'ai essayé de booter sur le réseau (mon installation tftp fonctionne puisque toutes les

Installation sur CPU kaby lake

Bonjour à tous, J'essaie vainement d'installer Debian sur deux machines pour un client. Les cartes-mères sont des Asus Prime 250M-K avec un CPU Pentium G4560. J'ai essayé de booter sur le réseau (mon installation tftp fonctionne puisque toutes les machines de mon réseau bootent

Re: Get the external IP address from a Linux box

s for connectivity, and if none were found, to issue a reboot > command. What Joe says here. I had ten or twenty lines of moderately careful code in a two hundred-line perl script I used to update my dyndns.com domain name back before dyn.com decided they had to kick all the freeloaders like me off. Resolution to *some* domain name really ought to be part of an ISP's basic package, but the Internet got taken over by the poachers. -- Joel Rees http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/p/novels-i-am-writing.html

Re: utf

g/wiki/Mbox I converted to Maildir for better compatibility with the mu indexing programs (package maildir-utils). cheers, -- Joel Roth

Re: Simple spreadsheet program.

ment > then try and unfathom LibreOffice methods. I'm a dinosaur, too, but the bar to using LibreOffice calc seems pretty low, basically one 5 minute youtube tutorial. cheers -- Joel Roth

Re: Multichannel audio listening

I'm the biased author ;-) For hardware or software questions you cannot answer by reading the docs or doing a web search, I'll refer you to the many experts on the Linux Audio Users mailing list (LAU). cheers, -- Joel Roth

Re: Multichannel audio listening (was: Live recording)

Hope this helps, > I hope I was clear enough... > Thanks for any help. > > Rodolfo > -- Joel Roth

Re: DTrace GPLed?

eBPF makes dtrace less interesting. On 21 February 2018 at 08:27, Weaver wrote: > Of interest to some? > > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/19/oracle_open_ > sources_dtrace_changes_licence_to_gpl/ > > Cheers! > > -- > `The difference between friendship and love is how

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

Works fine for txt, although as it rasterizes things it's not going to be optimized for size. On 18 January 2018 at 10:33, Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> wrote: > On 18/01/18 10:15, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: > >> **cough** $convert >> imagemagick >&

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

**cough** $convert imagemagick $convert somefile.whatever somefile.pdf --- On 18 January 2018 at 09:04, wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 06:21:31PM +, Brian wrote: > > On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 21:01:13 +0100,

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

The reason Redhat dropped btrfs support is because it currently has no native cryptographic function. And from the various threads I've read on the topic there is no easy answer to the problem. On 1 January 2018 at 06:44, Sven Hartge wrote: > David Christensen

Re: Pidgin et webcam

Michel Memeteau - EKIMIA a écrit : Salut , avec protocol ? Xmpp ? Oui, j'ai oublié de préciser (et prosody comme serveur, ejabber me faisait des misères). JKB -- BERTRAND Joël SYSTELLA S.A.S. http://www.systella.fr

Pidgin et webcam

Bonjour à tous, J'essaie sans succès d'installer une webcam sous testing et pidgin. Sur deux machines différentes, j'ai exactement le même souci : (10:54:51) mediamanager: gst pipeline error: Internal data stream error. (10:54:51) mediamanager: Debug details: gstbasesrc.c(2939):

Re: [HS] Choix registrar, conseils

andre_deb...@numericable.fr a écrit : On Monday 04 December 2017 10:19:58 fab wrote: ... Enfin, concernant OVH et c'est mon petit coup de gueule, cette façon (très récente) d'obliger les clients à lier un compte ou une carte bancaire à leurs services a fini de me convaincre que ce n'était plus

Re: tesing et teamviewer

Bernard Schoenacker a écrit : - Mail original - De: "Gaëtan Perrier" À: "Liste Debian" Envoyé: Mercredi 15 Novembre 2017 22:02:56 Objet: tesing et teamviewer Bonjour, Arrivez-vous à faire fonctionner teamviewer 12 sur

Re: No Sound - Puzzle

sound from the speakers. The system works with the onboard Nvidia > >sound, no problems. > > > >I assume the problem is a missing linux driver for the Xonar but I have > >seen claims that Xonar works out of the box on linux systems. > > > >Does anyone have this working? > > > >I am using Debian Stretch. > > > > > > > -- Joel Roth

Re: Rsync

to include packages relevant for utility use and I think it's fair that the net installer focus on minimizing its own requirements. Equally, rsync is small, useful, and comprehensible, IMO a good target for teaching the command line literacy. cheers -- Joel Roth

Re: Codec Xvid

Dominique Dumont a écrit : On Thursday, 5 October 2017 13:53:27 CEST BERTRAND Joël wrote: ffmpeg -i te donne quelles infos? Pour vérifier si ffmpeg arrive à décoder le flux vidéo, est-ce que tu peux essayer ffplay et nous montrer la sortie sur le terminal ? Je ne peux pas faire

Re: [POSTFIX] On est trolldi, j'en ai une bien bonne :

Ph. Gras a écrit : Hello les gens ! Saviez-vous ce que signifie SMTP ? Simple Mail Transfert Protocol MDR -D Ph. Gras Ehoh ! Il y a longtemps qu'on est passé à ESMTP.Et sais-tu ce que signifie le E ? ;-) JKB

Re: Performance RAID instable

Pascal Hambourg a écrit : Le 05/10/2017 à 13:34, BERTRAND Joël a écrit : Je pense (mais je n'ai pas regardé, il y a longtemps que je ne bidouille plus le noyau Linux) qu'avec moins de 4 Go de mémoire, même avec PAE, le système ne va pas essayer de mapper la mémoire sur plus de 32 bits

Re: Performance RAID instable

Frédéric MASSOT a écrit : Le 05/10/2017 à 11:12, BERTRAND Joël a écrit : Seb a écrit : Bonjour Pascal, Je n'ai pas le courage de relire le fil pour voir si tu l'as déjà fait : utiliser le noyau 3.16 de Debian 8 sur Debian 9 ? Ah oui, c'est une bonne idée. Si j'appelle sur une machine en

Re: Recommended editor for novice programmers?

I'm dropping in late to say that running 'vimtutor' in a terminal is an easy way to interactively get to know how vim works. -- Joel Roth

Re: no /etc/inittab

ook at where it is linked from and what has to be done to make all > the parts form a coherent whole. I wonder if you will now begin to recognize why the forced universal upgrade to systemd was a thoroughly ill-conceived bit of social engineering. -- Joel Rees http://reiisi.blogspot.com

Re: Yes you have standing to sue GRSecurity.

educate ourselves, we end up being able to do less. Getting depressed at the real world is also not going to help us do what we can. And that's the way the world has been for as long as I've been alive, and, near as I can tell, for as far back as we have history. > best > - -- t And I'll ec

Re: Yes you have standing to sue GRSecurity.

f the patches. And if the patches are useful, they should be willing to help their customers keep their firewalls and other infrastructure equipment up-to-date. We may not support GRSecurity's questionable methods, but we may well decide we should boycott the companies who induced GRSecurity's stan

Re: From dual- to single-boot

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 2:40 PM, solitone <solit...@mail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday, 25 July 2017 14:25:59 CEST Joel Rees wrote: >> Can you boot without the Mac OS partition? > > I'm using grub to boot debian. > > To boot MacOS, I need to press the option key (⌥) to st

Re: From dual- to single-boot

, and /etc. But in case I need to > reinstall from scratch I think I need more. > > What's the best approach? > -- > ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ > ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁Sent from my brain using neurons fueled by glucose. > ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ > ⠈⠳⣄ > -- Joel Rees One of these days I'll get someone to pay me to

Re: Can "PulseAudio Volume Control" devs be redeemed?

team member produce crap > like that.) > I think there are two things going on here. One is that many devs get huge displays to make it easier to code, and then forget what the ordinary-sized displays are like. So they get careless about the constraints imposed by ordinary-sized screens.

Re: funding & viability questions of GPL enforcement.

veto. That's sure indication that everything is getting too big -- the companies, of course, but also the projects, the software, ... ... and the egos. -- Joel Rees One of these days I'll get someone to pay me to design a language that combines the best of Forth and C. Then I'll be able to leap wide

Re: Free software

;> > You can look it up on the Internet. Just put Sam's Photofact into > your browser! > > (I remember it as Photofacts, just like rhkramer, but the 'net > has it as singular.) Well, a couple of filing cabinets full would be plural, wouldn't it? -- Joel Rees One of these days I

Re: Free software

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 8:04 AM, Doug <dmcgarr...@optonline.net> wrote: > > On 07/19/2017 05:44 PM, Joel Rees wrote: >> >> >> This is another aspect of "closed source" gratis technology that is >> often swept under the rug. >> >> It used t

Re: Free software

nd demagogues of the media and other > "institutions". A society must be able to survive having > alternatives past capitalism. > > [...] Again, just for the record, politics itself may be off topic, but we have to give each other a little leeway where politics intersects with

Re: so much for your ascii only emails and 80 char lines :)

or reference, this thread just misses paralleling a thread on misc@openbsd: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc=149984510728808=2 -- Joel Rees One of these days I'll get someone to pay me to design a language that combines the best of Forth and C. Then I'll be able to leap wide instruction sets wi

Re: perl system integrity?

system perl, it's a bug. If reported, the Debian perl team will investigate it thoroughly. Problems are most likely with an unintended mix of system perl, perl installed by root in /usr/local, or unprivileged perl installed in $HOME. Which perl is picked up by a shebang line #!/u

Re: funding & viability questions of GPL enforcement.

read has erupted on >> a Debian Mailing List -- to let everyone know that Conservancy also >> organizes a GPL copyright aggregation project for Debian contributors as >> well, see: https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/#debian and >> https://sfconservancy.org/

Re: Why does no one care that Brad Spengler of GRSecurity is blatantly violating the intention of the rightsholders to the Linux Kernel?

If our civilization survives the next two decades, our children will remember Intel's processors with the same phrase that Ralph Nader made popular relative to the auto industry. Who can compete when Intel refuses to pay the price of making CPUs that are unsafe at progressively higher speeds?) -- Joel

Re: FYI: systemd session logging - no solution

On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 11:52 PM, Václav Ovsík <vaclav.ov...@gmail.com> wrote: > Lately I found this: > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/1291 > so no nice solution unfortunately :(. > -- > Zito > I want to show that to Poettering's manager. -- Joel Rees On

Re: N’hésites pas de commencer une conversation avec moi Jade

J attend ton appel Envoyé de mon iPhone > Le 4 juil. 2017 à 12:15, Jade Sovansi a écrit : > > Je ne mords pas tu sais. Bon, sauf si t le demande… > http://bit.ly/2sHRIiy

Re: How to gain control over the system?

u keep a backup of your /home partition? I usually find myself using cp -p or tar to copy the files from the old /home to the new one, instead of keeping an old /home around.) -- Joel Rees One of these days I'll get someone to pay me to design a language that combines the best of Forth

Re: Installing Debian on an android device

th any standard bit of circuit, package it in a standard-looking package, and label it with the name and package numbering of any company of choice. This has been easy for a long time. > So keep your eyes open and think twice before you buy something and use it - > this is my advise -- J

Re: shadow spam (was Re: stop your mail)

On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 7:53 PM, Thomas Schmitt <scdbac...@gmx.net> wrote: > Hi, > [...] > > Joel Rees wrote: >> (1) These messages may be a sort of generator for phishing targets. > > You mean that those who hit the "Smack Sender" button of their ma

shadow spam (was Re: stop your mail)

something like the second possibility. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography -- Joel Rees One of these days I'll get someone to pay me to design a language that combines the best of Forth and C. Then I'll be able to leap wide instruction sets with a single #ifdef, run faster than

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