Trimming boundary of image in GIMP.

2020-10-07 Thread peter
ly one boundary? The top for example. I've tried unlinking Width and Height in Layer > Layer to Boundary Size. No dice. I've tried holding , or while dragging a boundary. No dice. How is the new feature overridden? Thx, ... P. -- Tel: +1 604 670 0140Bcc: peter at

Re: No updates in Debian 10 for last 5 days

2020-10-05 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 10/5/20 10:48 AM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: Hi folks, I'm not having any updates for my Debian Buster for last 5 days. Looks suspicious to me... Anybody has same experience? similar: Commit Log for Tue Sep 29 13:04:22 2020 Upgraded the following packages: firefox-esr

Re: Offline systems

2020-09-20 Thread Peter
all bash script for the onsite tech to change IP. Better ideas ? :-) Peter On 20/09/2020 19:23, Andrew Cater wrote: Myself - I might use the 16G stick as install medium - see conversations elsewhere in this list on how to use jigod. That gives you the contents of more than DVD 1 to DVD 3 in

Re: Linphone contacts.

2020-09-20 Thread peter
d all I need from linphone contacts. Thanks, ... P. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Medical_Machines https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon Tel: +1 604 670 0140Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

Re: Offline systems

2020-09-20 Thread Peter
machine initially, mount them and use them if I want to to install something e.g nano at some point ? Thanks, Peter On 20/09/2020 18:01, Hans wrote: Am Sonntag, 20. September 2020, 16:46:04 CEST schrieb Peter: Hi, I would install with the full-install dvd, not netinst. Then you could

Offline systems

2020-09-20 Thread Peter
to update the repo ? What is your advice ? Thank you, Peter

Linphone contacts.

2020-09-19 Thread peter
Hi, In Debian 10, linphone contacts are likely stored in ~/.linphone-friends.db. Documentation that I've found doesn't explain. Can some other application extract the contacts as plain text? SQlite? What packages are required? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- https://en.wikibooks.org

Re: Create 3D text?

2020-09-10 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 10/09/2020 02:53, Carl Fink wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone suggest a Debian repo-installable program to create 3D text? > I'll do CAD if I must, but I haven't touched the stuff for years (and I > was never very knowledgeable or skilled). > > Thanks. > GIMP ? A quick search for "3D text + Linux"

Re: Does Debian have a "nag" tool?

2020-08-15 Thread Peter Ehlert
try Thunderbird Calendar (Lightning): there are probably better tools, but I have been using it for ages. For reminders you can use various categories to show graphically, popups if you like, and it is searchable for Historical uses. I also have oldtimers disease, this helps. On 8/15/20 4:30

Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

2020-07-30 Thread Peter Ehlert
This whole conversation is a bit over my head. I suggest you look into Syncthing. It's not in the Debian repos, but it is open source and it just works. https://syncthing.net/ It works for me, 750 GB, 7 machines. On 7/29/20 12:40 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: Hi! all, Thought putting an old,

Re: Final CDs being written for Stretch - 9.13 release - prior to LTS

2020-07-20 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 7/20/20 8:32 AM, Andrew Cater wrote: Streaming production of .iso files _is_ technically possible. Jigdo effectively builds the iso file from chunks of ten or so files until the disk is complete and checksummed. As mentioned, this query was about stopping production of the .iso files

Re: Final CDs being written for Stretch - 9.13 release - prior to LTS

2020-07-19 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 7/19/20 9:59 AM, Tixy wrote: On Sat, 2020-07-18 at 18:48 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: At this point in 2020, I think it would be reasonable to only produce netinst images and jigdo (and live, but that's a different-ish project). Drop the DVD images. [...] Though this doesn't apply to me, I

Re: Question about nvidea-driver

2020-07-18 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 7/18/20 4:29 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 16 iul 20, 09:20:00, Peter Ehlert wrote: don't know much, but from my notes: I installed, for Buster, with Synaptic: nvidia-detect nvidia-driver Now on another machine, setting up Bullseye, I get  not found! Did you enable 'non-free

Re: Question about nvidea-driver

2020-07-16 Thread Peter Ehlert
don't know much, but from my notes: I installed, for Buster, with Synaptic: nvidia-detect nvidia-driver Now on another machine, setting up Bullseye, I get  not found! inxi says- Graphics:   Device-1: AMD Cedar [Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 Series] driver: N/A   Device-2: NVIDIA GF106GL

Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed

2020-07-07 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 7/7/20 9:02 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 07 July 2020 11:32:04 David Wright wrote: On Tue 07 Jul 2020 at 10:06:08 (-0400), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, July 07, 2020 09:57:54 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: If you are the kind of person who MUST HAVE THE LATEST THING, then Debian

HP z820 workstation Soundcard?

2020-07-06 Thread Peter Ehlert
running a HP z820 workstation, Buster Mate. onboard sound does not cut it. I need more volume, and 5.1 stereo would be great I have a couple free PCIe slots What sage advice can I get here? Internal vs USB Brand? budget is modest, I tell myself under $100 thanks, Peter == I did not do my

Re: Remove undesired entries in MATE "Applications" sub-menus

2020-07-04 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 7/4/20 4:53 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm using Debian10 with the MATE desktop. The Debian installer defaults to installing a mess of applications I rarely want. They end up with entries on MATE's Applications sub-menus. Without deleting the offending applications from the system, how

Re: Installing Buster (improvements)

2020-06-30 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 6/30/20 1:36 PM, Klaus Jantzen wrote: Hello, today I installed Buster on my laptop. It would be very helpful to know which of the many install ISOs you used. As usual it ran very well (at the end). But I would like to suggest the follwing improvements to the Graphical install: a) At

Re: I can't figure it out

2020-06-26 Thread Peter Ehlert
please Read and absorb this: https://www.debian.org/code_of_conduct On 6/26/20 8:20 AM, Peter Ehlert wrote: 1. use a Subject that indicates your actual Question. 2. add comments to that original post 3. give some actual details about the Hardware and Software you are using. *if I

Re: I can't figure it out

2020-06-26 Thread Peter Ehlert
uggest you start over with a Fresh post (this is my only effort I will make to drag it out of you, that kind of statement tells me you are being a PRICK) Peter On 6/25/20 4:58 PM, bw wrote: I've posted 5,000 messages on this list about how to hook up my refrigerator to my ancient 386sx computer

Re: technical terms overhaul

2020-06-21 Thread Peter Ehlert
such a change considerably more harm than good" in my own words... Please just drop it. It Ain't Broke Peter

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-09 Thread Peter Ehlert
Original post: family is using Zoom. No alternative for me to participate... Zoom or nothing. Thanks for the suggestion. Peter Ehlert On June 9, 2020 10:56:10 AM Alberto Sentieri <2...@tripolho.com> wrote: This is a long thread. I did not read it all. Did anyone suggest http://meet.google.com?

Re: why !oh why Debian and application list

2020-06-08 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 6/7/20 11:20 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 07 iun 20, 19:23:24, Seeds Notoneofmy wrote: Well, as the subject suggests, I'm a bit fed up with the logic behind how installed programs are sorted out in the Applications menu. The need to go hunt down an installed application seems yester

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-07 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 6/7/20 11:53 AM, Brian wrote: On Sun 07 Jun 2020 at 20:37:55 +0200, Nicolas George wrote: to...@tuxteam.de (12020-06-07): Yes, the server is free software. As is Jitsi's. So you can get the source, build yourself or download pre-built thingies. Do you have evidence of somebody other

Re: why !oh why Debian and application list

2020-06-07 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 6/7/20 10:23 AM, Seeds Notoneofmy wrote: Well, as the subject suggests, I'm a bit fed up with the logic behind how installed programs are sorted out in the Applications menu. The need to go hunt down an installed application seems yester century. I just installed Picard, and it does not

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-07 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 6/6/20 10:00 PM, Keith bainbridge wrote: On 6/6/20 3:32 am, john doe wrote: On 6/5/2020 6:28 PM, Peter Ehlert wrote: Family is using Zoom, International. They will use Zoom, and I need to participate. I use Debian Mate Stable, and Firefox ESR I am concerned about security, duh! Looking

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-05 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 6/5/20 9:56 AM, der.hans wrote: Am 05. Jun, 2020 schwätzte Peter Ehlert so: Family is using Zoom, International. They will use Zoom, and I need to participate. I use Debian Mate Stable, and Firefox ESR I am concerned about security, duh! Looking for ideas. my current thoughts, in order

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-05 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 6/5/20 9:47 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 11:45 AM Peter Ehlert <mailto:pe...@sdi-baja.com>> wrote: Family is using Zoom, International. They will use Zoom, and I need to participate. I use Debian Mate Stable, and Firefox ESR I am concer

Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-05 Thread Peter Ehlert
for the Zoom meetings 2. Sandbox? (but how can I do that?) 3. Use a different browser 4. What Me Worry? ... just update and flow with it Thanks, Peter

Re: OT: Spam level on Debian Users list.

2020-06-05 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 6/5/20 9:02 AM, Tixy wrote: On Fri, 2020-06-05 at 11:54 -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote: Do we need to beef up Filters on this List? I don't think so. There's about 3 or 4 get through a week. agreed. Stronger filters = more false positives Unfortunately there's probably a dozen more

Re: Target Audience & Geography?

2020-06-04 Thread Peter Ehlert
SPAM On 6/4/20 11:29 AM, Rachel Mora wrote: Hi, Did you see this? Please advise. *Thanks, Rachel Mora * Hi, Due to COVID-19, we are providing *any industry *list at *very less cost*. Would you like to connect digitally with Owners of *Online e-commerce Stores*,**Groceries Chain,

Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic)

2020-05-30 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 30/05/2020 10:52, Richard Owlett wrote: > I the recent thread about returning a Debian installation to its > original state "popularity-contest" was mentioned. > > I wished to compare it to other tools mentioned in that thread. > Obvious stating point -- read the man page. > As I never

Re: Can't get started

2020-05-28 Thread Peter Ehlert
Use the non-free netinstall ISO On May 28, 2020 6:58:54 AM Dan Ritter wrote: Matthew Campbell wrote: Thank you for your polite response. The wifi access point is open so it does not use a password. I don't know if the netinst CD includes the wpasupplicant package. ip addr is saying that

Re: Can't get started

2020-05-27 Thread Peter Ehlert
paragraphs, try them. sorry but I can't follow you, you ave a number of issues and complaints mixed together On 5/27/20 5:15 PM, Matthew Campbell wrote: The netinst CD leaves a lot to be desired. I had to download a nonfree wifi firmware package with my tablet and install it just to get the

Re: Switching from Kubuntu to Debian(latest version)

2020-05-16 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 5/16/20 4:17 AM, Cletus Kingdom wrote: Good Afternoon, I'm Cletus(a Web Developer using Kubuntu Linux Destro), and I want to switch to Debian (that was my first choice of Destro, just that I wasn't able to install and configure it) So I want to know wether it's possible to switch to

Re: Should I enable "testing"

2020-05-09 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 5/9/20 4:30 AM, Brian wrote: On Sat 09 May 2020 at 12:12:08 +0200, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: Le 09/05/2020 à 09:44, J.Arun Mani a écrit : No, would be impossible and catastrophic. Either re-install, or try testing now, could be good for you. Reverting a such big upgrade is

Linphone x Zoom.

2020-05-03 Thread peter
A Zoom invitation includes sip:12345678...@zoomcrc.com. When the session is open and Linphone is given the URL it reports "Temporarily Unavailable". Does anyone have success with a similar connection? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- https://en.wikibook

Re: Boot so slow it never completes, while Windows boots fine

2020-04-28 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 4/28/20 5:33 AM, Marcin Owsiany wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 04:57:03PM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: TL;DR: My laptop starts ~20x slower than normal. Booting Debian hangs before the kernel starts. Windows 10 boots slow, but then works fine. Many thanks to everyone who responded! As

Re: best Debian available package to sync files

2020-04-26 Thread Peter Ehlert
syncthing On April 26, 2020 4:30:21 PM Anil F Duggirala wrote: I know I may be misusing the word "sync". I would like to ask if anyone can recommend the easy, yet "free" way of getting some kind of file synchronization with a remote (like dropbox, or onedrive). What would be the best way to

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-14 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 4/14/20 6:38 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Brad Rogers wrote: On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 08:58:12 - (UTC) Curt wrote: My current Trust Level: Totally Untrustworthy. Until you've posted, and your initial post(s) have been proved to be acceptable (IOW, not offensive, off topic, spam.), yep.

Re: how to keep 2 PCs partially in sync

2020-04-08 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 4/7/20 6:48 PM, Charles Curley wrote: On Tue, 7 Apr 2020 13:14:54 -0700 Peter Ehlert wrote: now I clearly recall after visiting and reviewing the nextcloud documentation, that need for a designated server was the deal killer. Some sort of server is a good idea. It need not be the latest

Re: how to keep 2 PCs partially in sync

2020-04-07 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 4/7/20 9:50 AM, Anastasios Lisgaras wrote: On 4/6/20 9:43 PM, Peter Ehlert wrote: independent software. He uses encryption on some files and folders and I don't. I don't know what software he uses. Perhaps syncthing has such a tool, I never looked for one. Ok, thanks! It would be very

Re: how to keep 2 PCs partially in sync

2020-04-06 Thread Peter Ehlert
I am sorry I was not more clear. Been under the weather. On 4/5/20 1:18 PM, Anastasios Lisgaras wrote: On 4/5/20 4:53 PM, Peter Ehlert wrote: I have not tried Nextcloud or ownCloud for a couple years. I only remember both being either too complex or missing the options I wanted. What options

Re: how to keep 2 PCs partially in sync

2020-04-05 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 4/5/20 5:43 AM, Anastasios Lisgaras wrote: On 4/4/20 5:56 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: To add one data point for that: the most cases (by far) I've needed a backup is when I have deleted stuff by mistake. Close second is some buggy software having deleted or mangled files I've needed. Last

Re: what do you guys think of this method of installing virtualbox

2020-03-31 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 31/03/2020 00:13, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 12:02:05AM +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: >> On 30/03/2020 19:59, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: >>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 08:38:29PM +0200, Michael wrote: >>>> On Monday, March 30, 2020

Re: Ancilliary server accesses by browser.

2020-03-30 Thread peter
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon Tel: +1 604 670 0140Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

Re: what do you guys think of this method of installing virtualbox

2020-03-30 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
s running Debian Buster and virtualbox is not available in Buster. > Hence the need to obtain it from a 3rd party repository (one provided by > Oracle/VirtualBox in this case). Your suggestion, which would work for > someone running Debian Sid, will not work in this case. Virtualbox 6.1.4 *is* in the Buster repositories - I'm using it. Peter HB

Re: suspend when laptoplid is closed

2020-03-29 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 3/29/20 12:33 PM, err...@free.fr wrote: WHY THE DEFAULT IS SUSPEND WHEN LAPTOP LID IS CLOSED??? WHY??? systemd is for booting and managing services, not for managing power directly yes, I know I have to change a line in /etc/systemd/logind.conf but I also use mate desktop, and mate

Re: how to keep 2 PCs partially in sync

2020-03-24 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 3/24/20 3:14 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 24 mar 20, 22:05:40, Patrick Scribus wrote: Hello, two of my computers have a similar role as desktop. The installed packages are nearly the same, the configuration is nearly the same and the stored data in /home also. Especially the texts,

Re: Ancilliary server accesses by browser.

2020-03-20 Thread peter
Syntax of the HAR file is JSON. How is a HAR normally used? Thanks! ... Peter E. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Medical_Machines https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon Tel: +1 604 670 0140Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

Mate Notification Area - Qlipper not starting on boot

2020-03-11 Thread Peter Ehlert
Background: https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-notification-daemon/issues/169 I am moving from Sid to Stable. I like Clipit but I like Qlipper No idea what is missing in Stable that I need. any ideas?

Re: Dolphin as root

2020-03-02 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 3/1/20 11:41 PM, Keith Bainbridge wrote: On 2/3/20 10:44 am, Peter Ehlert wrote: If it was me I would just install Pluma and be done with it. oops, I intended to say caja I used be a KDE devotee, changed a few years ago. I use caja as my gui file manager of choice. It has the option

Re: Dolphin as root

2020-03-01 Thread Peter Ehlert
If it was me I would just install Pluma and be done with it. anyway, dedoimedo is kinda smart and a newfound KDE fanboi https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/kde-dolphin-as-root.html On 3/1/20 10:56 AM, Gary L. Roach wrote: Hi all, Some time ago somebody decided that Dolphin was too dangerous

Re: Net Install: Installation halts for disk change

2020-02-27 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 2/27/20 12:46 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 27 feb 20, 02:03:56, John Kaufmann wrote: On 2020-02-26 22:49, Peter Ehlert wrote: On 2/26/20 7:20 PM, Lee wrote: On 2/26/20, John Kaufmann wrote: For my Thinkpad, I burned CDs with: (1) debian-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso (2

Re: Net Install: Installation halts for disk change

2020-02-26 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 2/26/20 7:20 PM, Lee wrote: On 2/26/20, John Kaufmann wrote: For my Thinkpad, I burned CDs with: (1) debian-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso (2) firmware-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso and (3) firmware-edu-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso [just in case] A. Disk (1) begins without problem,

Re: Installing ppa

2020-02-25 Thread Peter Ehlert
have a look here: https://wiki.debian.org/CreatePackageFromPPA On 2/25/20 4:26 PM, Gary L. Roach wrote: Hi All, Debian Buster, AMD64, KDE Desktop. I installed a ppa using the following code: ***sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elmer-csc-ubuntu/elmer-csc-ppa* This installed

Re: Understanding the two-year release cycle as a desktop user (and a Debian newcomer)

2020-02-25 Thread Peter Ehlert
I think Debian Testing would fit you very well It is like a rock, honestly. == I demand stability. My machines Must work 24/7 without intervention. for this reason I do have Debian Stable installed and operational on all machines (Mate desktop). However, on the other hand I love Mate,

Re: Reply to a message in the Web presentation.

2020-02-12 Thread peter
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Medical_Machines https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon Tel: +1 604 670 0140 Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

Re: Reply to a message in the Web presentation.

2020-02-11 Thread peter
... P. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Medical_Machines https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon Tel: +1 604 670 0140 Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

Re: Reply to a message in the Web presentation.

2020-02-11 Thread peter
erly, it will thread both cases the same. =8~) If the software requires In-Reply-To, the thread will be broken in the variant. >8~( Regards, ... P. [*] Except that the mailing list has "In-reply-to" whereas the RFC sticks to "In-Reply-T

Re: Reply to a message in the Web presentation.

2020-02-11 Thread peter
ead will be broken in the variant. >8~( Regards, ... P. [*] Except that the mailing list has "In-reply-to" whereas the RFC sticks to "In-Reply-To". Not too harmful. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Medical_Machines https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon Tel: +1 604 670 0140Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

Reply to a message in the Web presentation.

2020-02-10 Thread peter
://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon Tel: +1 604 670 0140Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

Re: Swaks usage.

2020-02-09 Thread peter
mail.east.ca IMAP Port: 993 POP3 Port: 995 Outgoing Server:mail.east.ca SMTP Port: 465 IMAP, POP3, and SMTP require authentication. The -au parameter in the earlier swaks command was wrong. This succeeds. peter@dal

Re: systemd logging stopped

2020-02-04 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 2/4/20 7:56 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: Noticed this morning that systemd is no longer logging boots on my machine. There is a  log in /var/log/journal, but it's from yesterday. I seem to recall a message here about a change in logging but I can't find it. I am running Debian Sid fully

Re: Fresh install UEFI debian-10.2.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1 will not boot

2020-01-29 Thread Peter Ehlert
maybe this will help http://cosmolinux.no-ip.org/raconetlinux2/persistence.html On 1/29/20 10:51 AM, David Christensen wrote: debian-users: I would like to create a USB flash drive with Debian that I can boot in new Windows 10 machines with UEFI Secure Boot, so that I can examine things,

Re: Sudo

2020-01-28 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
password: if you enter one you *don't* get sudo, but if you don't enter one - i.e. leave it blank - you get sudo. Peter HB [cut]

Re: Sudo

2020-01-25 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 1/25/20 8:39 AM, Harold Hartley wrote: I did a net-install and installed with no problems. The only problem I’m having is when I want to check for updates or install a file, it tells me that I’m not in the sudoers file. I’m not sure what’s going on, but I’m the only one on the system and

Swaks usage.

2020-01-24 Thread peter
other than authentication protocol? Any particular swaks parameters worth trying? Thanks, ... P. swaks -a PLAIN,LOGIN -au peter -ap -tlsc --port 465 -s mail.easthope.ca -t a...@mail.ubc.ca === Trying mail.easthope.ca:465... === Connected to mail.easthope.ca

Swaks usage.

2020-01-24 Thread Peter Easthope
other than authentication protocol? Any particular swaks parameters suggested? Thanks, ... P. swaks -a PLAIN,LOGIN -au peter -ap -tlsc --port 465 -s mail.easthope.ca -t a...@mail.ubc.ca === Trying mail.easthope.ca:465... === Connected to mail.easthope.ca. === TLS

Wiki software.

2020-01-23 Thread Peter Easthope
possibility. Too complex? MoinMoin as used for wiki.debian.org isn't so visually appealing; just a configuration choice? Many others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_software Advice? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Tel.: +1 604 670 0140 Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

Re (2): Jittery desktop mode.

2020-01-22 Thread peter
l: +1 604 670 0140Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

Jittery desktop mode.

2020-01-19 Thread Peter Easthope
604 670 0140 Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

MathML in HTML5 in Firefox.

2020-01-11 Thread peter
Hi, peter@joule:~$ dpkg -l | grep firefox ii firefox-esr 68.3.0esr-1~deb10u1 i386 Mozilla Firefox web browser - Extended Support Release (ESR) Should MathML work with firefox as installed? This should display a 3x3 matrix. test D = 0ab a0a ba0 Also installed

Re: Debian Graphical Installer: why does it format swap?

2020-01-08 Thread Peter Ehlert
I do understand your frustration, the Manual option for the Debian Installer is complex. It took me a while to absorb, and understand... see further comment below On 1/8/20 9:04 AM, ct wrote: Hello all It is good to see a few comments and help following my original post. I had set aside a

Re: Debian Graphical Installer: why does it format swap?

2020-01-05 Thread Peter Ehlert
that reformat "feature" is hateful. I fail to see any advantage. It does break the other systems, but they can be recovered by editing you fstab file with the New UUID as you know. I use the Manual mode... _auto installers never seem to get it right_ (my way). *Using Manual, select existing

Re: Newcomer Problem: Synaptic

2020-01-03 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 1/3/20 2:42 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello Das, On 03/01/2020 13:09, das wrote: You are mixing Ubuntu with Debian here: we cannot install Ubuntu packages on Debian (and vice versa). You have to choose either Debian or Ubuntu. If you want to play with ppa stuff, you must choose Ubuntu.

Re: help with installation?

2019-12-24 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 12/24/19 9:10 AM, kaye n wrote: On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 6:37 PM Richard Owlett > wrote: Exactly which ISO file did you download? That paragraph describes what you would see if you ran the netinst.iso WITHOUT an active network connection.

Re: help with installation?

2019-12-23 Thread Peter Ehlert
I think that you may have better luck with this ISO firmware-10.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso download from https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/current/amd64/iso-cd/ I am not familiar with that USB creation method. Lately I have been using gnome-multi-writer

Re: looking for a replacement for debian since systemd

2019-12-13 Thread Peter Ehlert
drama queen much? On 12/13/19 1:55 PM, Britton Kerin wrote: I see from below vote that we're working on dumping other init systems now as expected. Luckily I've given up on debian since systemd in the first place and am in long process of finding a replacement. Britton - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't

Bullying; was: Re: Authentication for telnet.

2019-12-09 Thread peter
ber Alexander Wirt member Cord Beermann member David Moreno Garza member Don Armstrong member Joey Schulze member Martin Zobel-Helas member Pascal Hakim" With any luck, at least one of these noticed the message cited at the top and took appropriate

Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-05 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 05/12/2019 18:18, Joe wrote: I can't take any more of this thread. It's "ADVICE" ! :-) > On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 09:14:31 - (UTC) > Curt wrote: > >> On 2019-12-05, ghe wrote: >>> >>> I found out about it in an article on Internet security/privacy on >>> the New York Times -- it's safe for

Re: UVC device.

2019-11-17 Thread peter
a nominal charge, Inogeni can adjust firmware to match the top resolution emitted by these cameras. Also, expense appears to be acceptable. By the new year, I might be able to report a nice success. Regards, ... Peter E. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Medical_Machines Te

Re: UVC device.

2019-11-11 Thread peter
course. 3.0 is more numerous than 3.1 which is > 3.2. > Step 2: is your USB3 chipset from Etron or ASMedia? It won't > work with those. See following. > Step 3: Does lsusb show the device? peter@dalton:~$ lsusb -vs 005 | head Couldn't open device, some information will be missi

Re: UVC device.

2019-11-11 Thread peter
an 3.1 which is > 3.2. > Step 2: is your USB3 chipset from Etron or ASMedia? It won't > work with those. See following. > Step 3: Does lsusb show the device? peter@dalton:~$ lsusb -vs 005 | head Couldn't open device, some information will be missing Bus 003 Device 005: ID 1164:f

Re: Debian Installer Bug -Wifi driver not installed

2019-11-09 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 11/9/19 8:18 AM, Peter Ehlert wrote: I have a desktop computer running Debian Buster Mate that I want to move to a different location and use Wifi. Using a cheap USB dongle NetworkManager Applet detects the device, lets me select from available networks, accepts password

Re: Debian Installer Bug -Wifi driver not installed

2019-11-09 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 11/9/19 9:25 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Sat, 9 Nov 2019 06:16:17 -0800 Peter Ehlert wrote: I have a desktop computer running Debian Buster Mate that I want to move to a different location and use Wifi. Using a cheap USB dongle NetworkManager Applet detects the device, lets me select

Debian Installer Bug -Wifi driver not installed

2019-11-09 Thread Peter Ehlert
I have a desktop computer running Debian Buster Mate that I want to move to a different location and use Wifi. Using a cheap USB dongle NetworkManager Applet detects the device, lets me select from available networks, accepts password, but will not connect..and after a few moments it closes..

Debian Installer Bug -Wifi driver not installed

2019-11-09 Thread Peter Ehlert
I have a desktop computer running Debian Buster Mate that I want to move to a different location and use Wifi. Using a cheap USB dongle NetworkManager Applet detects the device, lets me select from available networks, accepts password, but will not connect..and after a few moments it closes..

UVC device.

2019-11-08 Thread peter
Any ideas beyond "file a bug report"? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Medical_Machines Tel: +1 604 670 0140 Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-27 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 10/26/19 5:41 PM, songbird wrote: Peter Ehlert wrote: I have tried it, several times, but was unable to get Grub properly installed... not able to boot. I too would like such a tool hmm, i have a booting USB stick of stable (before recent release so i'm actually one stable back now

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-26 Thread Peter Ehlert
I have tried it, several times, but was unable to get Grub properly installed... not able to boot. I too would like such a tool On 10/26/19 9:33 AM, Kenneth Parker wrote: Hello, What I want,  is almost there (put a Live Buster DVD on a USB Drive), but I'm hoping for more. I'd like to

Wine usage; was Re: TWAIN in Debian 10.

2019-10-25 Thread peter
ys" Driver Modules: "advansys", "advansys" Device File: /dev/sg2 Device Number: char 21:2 Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #10 (SCSI storage controller) In Debian, created directory /home/peter/JVC, copied the contents of the installer di

Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke

2019-10-25 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 10/25/19 7:44 AM, Wayne Sallee wrote:  Original Message  *Subject: *  Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke *From: * Wayne Sallee *To: * Debian-user *CC: * *Date: *  2019-10-23  10:37 AM  Original Message  *Subject: *  Re:

Re: Hiding apps

2019-10-24 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 10/24/19 8:38 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: I am running Debian Sid with Mate. I would like to run tzclock at startup, but it appears in the taskbar as a regular program. I am not familiar with tzclock ... I don't believe it is the same as the clock in the Mate panel. Is there a way to

Re: buster, ekiga.

2019-10-24 Thread peter
mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo . Conclusion: no VoIP application is working in Debian 10 here. New information is welcome of course. Regards, ... Peter E. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Medical_Machines Tel: +1 604 670 0140Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

Re: Debian 8 how to install and run init.d scripts?

2019-10-21 Thread Peter Wiersig
ice file will be automatically be created: systemd: /etc/systemd/system/gitlab-runner.service upstart: /etc/init/gitlab-runner" Annoying that those are generated and not packaged. Try to share them with us also, so we may to look for errors in there Peter

Re: Persistent names for audio devices.

2019-10-20 Thread peter
md.link? I guess it's just a matter of time. > sox -t pulseaudio > > And, since you're talking WAV - paplay . Will try those also. With any luck, later this week. Thanks!... P. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Medical_Machines Tel: +1 604 670 0140Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

Re: Debian 8 how to install and run init.d scripts?

2019-10-20 Thread Peter Wiersig
:( Peter

Re: Persistent names for audio devices.

2019-10-20 Thread peter
From: Reco , Sun, 20 Oct 2019 18:23:08 +0300 > Mail headers are mangled, Yah, sorry. > User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Textual MUAs aren't outside possibility. > AUDIODEV=dmix:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 play MY/m85.WAV Good. Meanwhile, peter@joule:/home/peter$ aplay -L | grep dm

Unidentified subject!

2019-10-20 Thread peter
85.WAV # Sound. =8~/ After power cycling again, AUDIODEV=hw:2,0 play MY/m85.WAV # No sound. >8~( AUDIODEV=hw:0,0 play MY/m85.WAV # Sound. >8~/ Etc. ... Regards, ... Peter E. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Medical_Machines Tel: +1 604 670 0140Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

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