Re: Remove package source from apt(-get)

2022-05-22 Thread Bret Busby
table InRelease: The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG 1F3045A5DF7587C3 Skype Linux Client Repository " -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Raising volume past 100%

2022-08-18 Thread Bret Busby
his is on a UbuntuMATE system, I expect that you should, if you are using the MATE desktop environment, have access the same way, to the same functionalities. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

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

2022-08-22 Thread Bret Busby
On 22/8/22 16:34, Bret Busby wrote: On 22/8/22 16:03, Victor Sudakov wrote: Dear Colleagues, Sorry for asking a Ubuntu-specific question. Please redirect me to a better mailing list if you feel it right. I was using ubuntu-mate 20.04.4 with MATE 1.24.0. Now I have switched to 22.04.1

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

2022-08-22 Thread Bret Busby
and it is the most like MS Windows 95, and, gives my the interface that I prefer. In the applications that I run, the title bar of the active window, is dark(ish) blue, and, for the inactive windows, it is grey. Try this theme, and advise whether it eliminates the problem. .. Bret Busby Armad

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

2022-08-22 Thread Bret Busby
On 22/8/22 16:43, Bret Busby wrote: On 22/8/22 16:34, Bret Busby wrote: On 22/8/22 16:03, Victor Sudakov wrote: Dear Colleagues, Sorry for asking a Ubuntu-specific question. Please redirect me to a better mailing list if you feel it right. I was using ubuntu-mate 20.04.4 with MATE 1.24.0

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

2022-08-22 Thread Bret Busby
On 22/8/22 18:46, Victor Sudakov wrote: Bret Busby wrote: [dd] I use the Theme named "TraditionalOk", with the panel at the bottom of the screen, and it is the most like MS Windows 95, and, gives my the interface that I prefer. I don't have any "TraditionalOk" theme t

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

2022-08-22 Thread Bret Busby
On 22/8/22 18:02, Victor Sudakov wrote: Bret Busby wrote: On 22/8/22 16:03, Victor Sudakov wrote: The titlebar colors of active and inactive windows are the same which is very inconvenient. In the previous version of Ubuntu/Mate, the color of the active window's titlebar was distinct. Hello

Re: Raising volume past 100%

2022-08-18 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/8/22 01:32, David Griffith wrote: My reply is at the bottom.  Please put your reply there too. On Thu, 18 Aug 2022, Bret Busby wrote: On 18/8/22 16:15, David Griffith wrote: There is the continuing problem of built-in speakers on laptops being too quiet when running Linux.  I managed

Re: Raising volume past 100%

2022-08-18 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/8/22 03:04, David Griffith wrote: On Fri, 19 Aug 2022, Bret Busby wrote: On 19/8/22 01:32, David Griffith wrote: My reply is at the bottom.  Please put your reply there too. On Thu, 18 Aug 2022, Bret Busby wrote: On 18/8/22 16:15, David Griffith wrote: There is the continuing

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

2022-10-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 20/10/22 07:58, Bret Busby wrote: On 20/10/22 06:57, William Torrez Corea wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 4:32 PM Bret Busby <mailto:b...@busby.net>> wrote:     On 20/10/22 06:19, Bret Busby wrote: > On 20/10/22 05:51, William Torrez Corea wrote: >> >

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

2022-10-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 20/10/22 06:57, William Torrez Corea wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 4:32 PM Bret Busby <mailto:b...@busby.net>> wrote: On 20/10/22 06:19, Bret Busby wrote: > On 20/10/22 05:51, William Torrez Corea wrote: >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 19,

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

2022-10-19 Thread Bret Busby
believe) a 32GB swap partition. Is the HDD, MBR or GPT? .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

2022-10-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 20/10/22 06:19, Bret Busby wrote: On 20/10/22 05:51, William Torrez Corea wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 3:34 PM Jude DaShiell <mailto:jdash...@panix.com>> wrote:     This is likely inaccurate information.     What output returns when you run:     lsblk /dev/sda?     First re

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

2022-10-20 Thread Bret Busby
On 20/10/22 22:58, David Wright wrote: Perhaps Bret will be back to explain. "Le jeu n'en vaut pas la chandelle" No, I am not french. Due to the hostile response to what I have posted in this thread, I have abandoned the discussion. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: question for seasoned links users?

2022-09-17 Thread Bret Busby
d, reply, stating whether that produces the result that you want. If you are not using a standard 101 key USA format keyboard, examine the keys on your keyboard, and look for a key that has the label "PrtScr" or "Print Screen", and, try that. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: linux headers and upgrading nvidia driver

2022-09-15 Thread Bret Busby
with your hardware. I am no expert, and, after about 20-25 years of using Linux, I still regard myself as a learner - this opinion is based solely on my personal experience. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Cheap NAS

2022-10-13 Thread Bret Busby
available in another country. And, what may be not "hugely expensive" in one country, may be otherwise, in another country. Like the friendly little robot (Number four?), is known for saying, "More input!" .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Debian Certifications

2022-07-31 Thread Bret Busby
ffers its Red Hat Certifications, Oracle Linux certifications are available, and, otherwise, apparently, Linux systems administration certifications are all-encompassing; covering (supposedly) all distributions of Linux. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Boxed Distributions

2022-11-01 Thread Bret Busby
On 1/11/22 23:40, Bret Busby wrote: On 1/11/22 23:28, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 10:57:17AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: Ahhh... these are the boxed distributions? Cheers Someone did say that the

Re: Boxed Distributions

2022-11-01 Thread Bret Busby
On 2/11/22 01:40, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Bret Busby wrote: Someone did say that the full distribution comprises of many disks, so, maybe it needs four boxes? The four jewel case edition is here: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/jigdo-bd/ for 25 GB Blu-ray discs

Re: Synaptic on Debian 11.3 fails to install "kate"

2022-12-07 Thread Bret Busby
attempting to either upgrade the system, or, to install any additional packages, as a standard operating procedure. Could someone please confirm or correct this perception? Thank you in anticipation. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Getting PC with Ubuntu; change to Debian?

2022-12-05 Thread Bret Busby
the user the options of which of the two OS's to boot? .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Debian failed

2022-12-05 Thread Bret Busby
as possible to use one of these with Red Hat Enterprise Linux ootb in the beginning of this year before RHEL 9 was released. ;-) hede Perhaps, the original poster should install and use, Debian Experimental? It seems fitting... :) .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: dep hell NOT with Trinity (was: TBird mail)

2022-12-07 Thread Bret Busby
, and stable, email application that I have encountered. I think that I have been using it for about thirty years. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: latest testing update broke my laptop

2022-12-21 Thread Bret Busby
r about 9 years, now. And, I am now running different computers, with different nVIDIA configurations - some with Optimus, some without Optimus, with no problems relating to nVIDIA. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Synaptic on Debian 11.3 fails to install "kate"

2022-12-07 Thread Bret Busby
org/debian/pool/main/v/vlc/libvlc-bin_3.0.16-1_amd64.deb   404  Not Found [IP: 199.232.98.132 80] Is this bug or operator error? TIA Have you tried apt install ? I recently installed a package using apt install,m that synaptic did not find by searching. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: MacOS VM on Debian: is it reasonably possible?

2022-11-22 Thread Bret Busby
searched on the three word combination - open source macos - I found, in the results, the above URL. So, as an observer, I wonder whether licencing restrictions apply, to running MacOS on Linux, as a virtual machine. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: MacOS VM on Debian: is it reasonably possible?

2022-11-22 Thread Bret Busby
orm either macOS or iOS from it. Both - macOS and iOS - are proprietary OSes where you have strict license terms to fulfill to use it. One of them is  - AFAIK - buying Apple Hardware and running the OS only on Apples Hardware. hede All the more reason to run only Linux. :) .. Bret Busby Arm

Re: FIREFOX is killing the whole PC PART II

2022-11-21 Thread Bret Busby
ve content Block dangerous downloads Warn you about unwanted and uncommon software, is selected and 2. In Tools -> Add-ons and Themes, search for, and install Bluhell Firewall. If I find a URL to be blocked by that, if, and, only if, I sufficiently trust the URL, I then open the URL in

Re: Dell Precision 3570 - Debian instead of Ubuntu

2022-11-28 Thread Bret Busby
/10/friday_foss_fest/). I hope that this is a helpful, and useful, start, to consider. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: FIREFOX is killing the whole PC

2022-11-19 Thread Bret Busby
is the person using a bad PC? If the PC is bad, surely, the simple solution is to get rid of the PC, and use a decent PC. If the PC is bad, that may be the source of the problem. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Problem with my USB port and CD/DVD interface

2022-11-27 Thread Bret Busby
. -- With kindest regards, William. Suggestion/question: which version? Inclusion of this information, can be helpful. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Boxed Distributions

2022-11-01 Thread Bret Busby
s, so, maybe it needs four boxes? .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using the wrong driver

2023-04-14 Thread Bret Busby
and full date. Why not just everyone attack each other? This looks like an uncontrolled pillow fight. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using the wrong driver

2023-04-15 Thread Bret Busby
who have also seen the sandpit fight. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: youtube-dl → yt-dlp, was Re: OT: Detecting ISP throttling (was: Re: Potentially OT. Videos lagging & buffering in any browser but Google Chrome.)

2023-04-15 Thread Bret Busby
yt-dlp, through the web site at manifest.prod.boltdns.net . But, I have no idea as to how to get to the path, for each of the videos that I want, within or through that web site. Thank you in anticipation. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using the wrong driver

2023-04-15 Thread Bret Busby
On 16/4/23 03:57, Bret Busby wrote: On 15/4/23 19:41, Brian wrote: Why not just everyone attack each other? There have not been any attacks whatsoever on any users. This looks like an uncontrolled pillow fight. It only looks that way. In fact, everything is under control. Perhaps

Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using the wrong driver

2023-04-15 Thread Bret Busby
On 16/4/23 06:14, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 4:26 PM Bret Busby wrote: On 16/4/23 03:57, Bret Busby wrote: On 15/4/23 19:41, Brian wrote: Why not just everyone attack each other? There have not been any attacks whatsoever on any users. This looks like

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-01 Thread Bret Busby
alled according to apt autoremove. Have you tried running also apt autoclean and apt purge ? -- .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-02 Thread Bret Busby
On 2/5/23 16:58, Bret Busby wrote: On 2/5/23 11:42, David Wright wrote: Have you tried running also apt autoclean I thought that just cleared /var/cache/apt/archives/. and apt purge I've never tried that without a package name. What does it do? RTFM ? man apt ... .. Bret

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-02 Thread Bret Busby
On 2/5/23 11:42, David Wright wrote: On Mon 01 May 2023 at 23:24:56 (-0400), Timothy M Butterworth wrote: On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 10:45 PM Rick Thomas wrote: On Mon, May 1, 2023, at 11:14 AM, Bret Busby wrote: On 2/5/23 02:06, David Christensen wrote: On 5/1/23 06:51, Bonno Bloksma wrote

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-02 Thread Bret Busby
On 2/5/23 18:20, Bret Busby wrote: On 2/5/23 18:18, Bret Busby wrote: On 2/5/23 17:18, Tixy wrote: On Tue, 2023-05-02 at 17:03 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: On 2/5/23 16:58, Bret Busby wrote: On 2/5/23 11:42, David Wright wrote: Have you tried running also apt autoclean I thought

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-02 Thread Bret Busby
On 2/5/23 17:18, Tixy wrote: On Tue, 2023-05-02 at 17:03 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: On 2/5/23 16:58, Bret Busby wrote: On 2/5/23 11:42, David Wright wrote: Have you tried running also apt autoclean I thought that just cleared /var/cache/apt/archives/. and apt purge I've never tried

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-02 Thread Bret Busby
On 2/5/23 18:18, Bret Busby wrote: On 2/5/23 17:18, Tixy wrote: On Tue, 2023-05-02 at 17:03 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: On 2/5/23 16:58, Bret Busby wrote: On 2/5/23 11:42, David Wright wrote: Have you tried running also apt autoclean I thought that just cleared /var/cache/apt/archives

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-02 Thread Bret Busby
On 2/5/23 20:23, Michel Verdier wrote: Le 2 mai 2023 Bret Busby a écrit : I expect that, by context, running apt purge without the restriction specifying particular package, will apply apt purge to all installed packages, according to what purge does, in relation to packages. But as &quo

Re: Gnome desktop environment

2023-04-23 Thread Bret Busby
know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 " .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Gnome desktop environment

2023-04-23 Thread Bret Busby
On 24/4/23 05:10, Bret Busby wrote: On 4/22/23 14:52, William Torrez Corea wrote: I want to delete the Gnome desktop environment. *What command is used for an elimination complete?* format c: as the superuser. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Gnome desktop environment

2023-04-23 Thread Bret Busby
On 4/22/23 14:52, William Torrez Corea wrote: I want to delete the Gnome desktop environment. *What command is used for an elimination complete?* format c: .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: OT: Detecting ISP throttling (was: Re: Potentially OT. Videos lagging & buffering in any browser but Google Chrome.)

2023-03-30 Thread Bret Busby
poken) can better hear what is being said, which is important for educational videos, such as at Rootstech 2023, where I cannot download significant videos. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: youtube-dl → yt-dlp, was Re: OT: Detecting ISP throttling (was: Re: Potentially OT. Videos lagging & buffering in any browser but Google Chrome.)

2023-03-30 Thread Bret Busby
On 31/3/23 00:40, David Wright wrote: On Thu 30 Mar 2023 at 19:31:21 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote: I had previously been able to use youtube-dl, to download videos from youtube, but, it no longer works with youtube. AIUI youtube-dl is now obsolete, and its new spelling is yt-dlp. You can

Re: youtube-dl → yt-dlp, was Re: OT: Detecting ISP throttling (was: Re: Potentially OT. Videos lagging & buffering in any browser but Google Chrome.)

2023-03-30 Thread Bret Busby
On 31/3/23 02:08, David Wright wrote: On Fri 31 Mar 2023 at 01:41:04 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote: On 31/3/23 00:40, David Wright wrote: On Thu 30 Mar 2023 at 19:31:21 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote: I had previously been able to use youtube-dl, to download videos from youtube, but, it no longer

Re: |Inquiry regarding fixing the error light display manager

2023-04-04 Thread Bret Busby
u for your stupidity. That is another lesson worth being taught, rather than learning from experience. There are so many more, that are too many to include here. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: |Inquiry regarding fixing the error light display manager

2023-04-06 Thread Bret Busby
On 7/4/23 05:29, davidson wrote: On Wed, 5 Apr 2023 Bret Busby wrote: On 5/4/23 03:43, davidson wrote: It is said that if you wash a cat it will never again wash itself. This may or may not be true: what is certain is that if you teach a man anything he will never learn it. -- George Bernard

Re: debian 11 vs ubuntu 22

2023-03-29 Thread Bret Busby
ree software; you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Wed Mar 29 18:52:11 bret@bret-Precision-Tower-5810:~$ " .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: debian 11 vs ubuntu 22

2023-03-29 Thread Bret Busby
d subsequently switch to Linux Mint. And, I hope that the List Administrators of this list, do not mind the content of my message; recommending Linux Mint, on a Debian Users mailing list - if so, then, I apologise. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

2023-06-09 Thread Bret Busby
I asked before, and have not seen an answer. Have you gone into the UEFI/BIOS, and turned off secure booting? .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: RAM

2023-06-12 Thread Bret Busby
On 13/6/23 04:52, The Wanderer wrote: On 2023-06-12 at 16:45, Bret Busby wrote: On 13/6/23 04:30, The Wanderer wrote: On 2023-06-12 at 16:06, Mick Ab wrote: I wish to obtain information about the RAM installed on my PC using the command line. The information needed is :- Total RAM stored

Re: RAM

2023-06-12 Thread Bret Busby
EVICE_7_TYPE=DDR4 E: MEMORY_DEVICE_7_TYPE_DETAIL=Synchronous E: MEMORY_DEVICE_7_SPEED_MTS=2133 E: MEMORY_DEVICE_7_MANUFACTURER=Samsung E: MEMORY_DEVICE_7_SERIAL_NUMBER=39FDD7C9 E: MEMORY_DEVICE_7_ASSET_TAG=020515B1 E: MEMORY_DEVICE_7_PART_NUMBER=M393A2G40DB0-CPB E: MEMORY_DEVICE_7_RANK=2

Re: RTL8812au support for wifi adapters

2023-06-13 Thread Bret Busby
ing your desktop environment and your cellphone) has the same functionality, you should be able to install the driver for your wifi adaptor, similarly easily. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

2023-07-06 Thread Bret Busby
On 7/7/23 08:22, hlyg wrote: On 7/7/23 08:14, Bret Busby wrote: You do not include in each of your messages, your name and your location (at least, the country), and that English is not your primary language, and therefore, we have no reason to expect that English is not your primary

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

2023-07-06 Thread Bret Busby
uld always be mentioned as Debian, and, not Deb. I expect that his ex-wife, Debra, from whose name, is the Deb of Debian, would agree with that. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

2023-07-06 Thread Bret Busby
On 7/7/23 06:02, Bret Busby wrote: On 7/7/23 05:40, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 07.07.2023 01:23, hlyg wrote: it seems natural to me to use deb12 for debian 12 deb for debian as in file name extension of package it follows Windows naming style: win7, win8 ... but others don't think so

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

2023-07-06 Thread Bret Busby
On 7/7/23 06:42, Bret Busby wrote: On 7/7/23 04:23, hlyg wrote: it seems natural to me to use deb12 for debian 12 deb for debian as in file name extension of package I believe that using the abbreviation "deb" as the file name extension for packages, is due to, at the time of th

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

2023-07-06 Thread Bret Busby
On 7/7/23 08:31, Bret Busby wrote: On 7/7/23 08:22, hlyg wrote: On 7/7/23 08:14, Bret Busby wrote: You do not include in each of your messages, your name and your location (at least, the country), and that English is not your primary language, and therefore, we have no reason to expect

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

2023-07-06 Thread Bret Busby
ly, Debian, might not be appropriate for you... but others don't think so, i google with deb12, few means debian in past 20 years few call it debN (N=1,2,3...) why few are interested in saving 4 characters (ian )? .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

2023-07-06 Thread Bret Busby
On 7/7/23 06:02, Bret Busby wrote: On 7/7/23 05:40, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 07.07.2023 01:23, hlyg wrote: it seems natural to me to use deb12 for debian 12 deb for debian as in file name extension of package it follows Windows naming style: win7, win8 ... but others don't think so

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

2023-07-06 Thread Bret Busby
On 7/7/23 07:39, hlyg wrote: On 7/7/23 06:42, Bret Busby wrote: On 7/7/23 04:23, hlyg wrote: it follows Windows naming style: win7, win8 ... Of course,if you want compliance with MS Windows, then, perhaps, Linux, and, especially, Debian, might not be appropriate for you... i have used

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

2023-07-07 Thread Bret Busby
of system security, invented by Microsoft... :) .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

2023-07-07 Thread Bret Busby
On 7/7/23 16:51, jeremy ardley wrote: On 7/7/23 16:30, Bret Busby wrote: Microsoft didn't invent anything. I did not post that statement as the original poster of that statement. In responding to messages, please properly quote the message, or excerpt of the message, to which

Re: Lost HDMI monitor connection

2023-07-17 Thread Bret Busby
, gave excellent service. The only diagnostic I have is that, from the failing m/c, the monitor reports that there is no HDMI signal from that computer. Any thoughts will be welcomed. Peter HB What is the hardware involved? What graphics adaptors, what HDMI switch, what monitor? .. Bret Busby

Re: Freezing mouse and other suff

2023-07-09 Thread Bret Busby
to the amount of the RAM, and the reference to the HDD is the type, without the capacity? .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Freezing mouse and other suff

2023-07-09 Thread Bret Busby
On 9/7/23 15:03, Bret Busby wrote: On 9/7/23 12:37, David Christensen wrote: On 7/8/23 20:13, Maureen L Thomas wrote: So I have the latest stable Debian installed on my Lenova all in one computer.  I have an 8gb seagate ATA  harddrive, 8 GB seems small.  Do you mean 8 TB? I am

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

2023-07-07 Thread Bret Busby
sor with 8 bit buses. It was a Motorola 68008 CPU, and, I could not understand why a company would produce a 32 bit CPU wit 8 bit buses. The computer was named the Telecom Computerphone, and, it was an oddity in itself. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

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

2023-06-02 Thread Bret Busby
toxic waste, than from burning things. So, human powered treadmills, that involve an upward grade, should not be abandoned, the abandonment of which treadmills, threatens life, for the sake of ever-increasing laziness. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

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

2023-06-02 Thread Bret Busby
On 3/6/23 06:33, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: On Fri, Jun 2, 2023, 4:49 PM Bret Busby <mailto:b...@busby.net>> wrote: On 2/6/23 23:55, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > Luddites of the World Unite! You have nothing to lose but your upgrade > treadmills

Re: 10 year old machines are slow (was: A hypervisor for a headless server?)

2023-06-02 Thread Bret Busby
ith 2GB of RAM, will probably not be as "fast" as in i3 with 32GB of RAM. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Firefox resource utilization (was Re: A case for supporting antiquated hardware, was Re: A hypervisor for a headless server?)

2023-06-04 Thread Bret Busby
) offload the processing that should be done on the business web application hosting server, to the victim users' personal computers. It is a malignant exploitation, like the "gig economy". .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

2023-06-08 Thread Bret Busby
On 9/6/23 05:02, Bret Busby wrote: On 9/6/23 04:52, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Bret Busby writes: My understanding is that Windows 11 computers have malware that is designed to prevent booting into anything other than the malicious Windows 11. A procedure to get around the Windows 11 malware

Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

2023-06-08 Thread Bret Busby
On 9/6/23 04:52, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Bret Busby writes: My understanding is that Windows 11 computers have malware that is designed to prevent booting into anything other than the malicious Windows 11. A procedure to get around the Windows 11 malware, and to be able to boot into Linux, has

Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

2023-06-08 Thread Bret Busby
On 9/6/23 05:26, Bret Busby wrote: On 9/6/23 05:18, Bret Busby wrote: On 9/6/23 05:02, Bret Busby wrote: On 9/6/23 04:52, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Bret Busby writes: My understanding is that Windows 11 computers have malware that is designed to prevent booting into anything other than

Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

2023-06-08 Thread Bret Busby
On 9/6/23 05:18, Bret Busby wrote: On 9/6/23 05:02, Bret Busby wrote: On 9/6/23 04:52, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Bret Busby writes: My understanding is that Windows 11 computers have malware that is designed to prevent booting into anything other than the malicious Windows 11. A procedure

Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

2023-06-08 Thread Bret Busby
for a Windows 11 computer, is to use it as a projectile. Such computers are not even substantial enough to use as boat anchors. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

2023-06-09 Thread Bret Busby
On 10/6/23 00:05, Bret Busby wrote: On 9/6/23 23:34, Bret Busby wrote: On 9/6/23 18:43, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Rodolfo Medina writes: I want to install Debian on a new machine but don't manage to boot from USB stick.  (I can do so regularly with another machine, so the USB stick is ok

Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

2023-06-09 Thread Bret Busby
On 9/6/23 23:34, Bret Busby wrote: On 9/6/23 18:43, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Rodolfo Medina writes: I want to install Debian on a new machine but don't manage to boot from USB stick.  (I can do so regularly with another machine, so the USB stick is ok and so is the Debian netinst I burned onto

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

2023-06-03 Thread Bret Busby
On 3/6/23 13:41, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: On Fri, Jun 2, 2023, 6:10 PM Bret Busby <mailto:b...@busby.net>> wrote: On 3/6/23 06:33, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 2, 2023, 4:49 PM Bret Busby mailto:b...@busby.net> > <mail

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

2023-06-03 Thread Bret Busby
On 3/6/23 20:26, Dan Ritter wrote: Bret Busby wrote: I don't see how they can be both cheap and cost far too much. -dsr- Cheap and nasty construction, selling for excessive prices. "Here is this thing that cost me a dollar to make. I will sell it to you for a hundred do

Re: Recommendations for a UPS?

2023-07-31 Thread Bret Busby
influence the solution. " "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by P

Re: Recommendations for a UPS?

2023-07-31 Thread Bret Busby
power outages, of several hours long, each, with no loss of electricity supply to the house. The whole of the household, is on the protected circuit (apart from a bore pump, and a solar HWS booster element, which has not been turned on for a few years). .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC

Re: Recommendations for a UPS?

2023-07-31 Thread Bret Busby
On 1/8/23 02:53, Bret Busby wrote: On 1/8/23 02:41, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 2:13 PM Tom Browder wrote: I used to use UPS units from APC back when you could replace the battery. I haven't had an UPS (but always on a surge protecter) for awhile, but electricity (now FPL

Re: chrome web browser worthless

2023-08-01 Thread Bret Busby
Pale Moon, although, I think that, with their protections, they are a bit more resource demanding. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: chrome web browser worthless

2023-08-01 Thread Bret Busby
On 1/8/23 20:54, gene heskett wrote: On 8/1/23 06:26, Bret Busby wrote: On 1/8/23 17:33, gene heskett wrote: Google seems to have high jacked port 80, I cannot use it as a browser to run klipper as a google search intercepts port 80, so localhost:80 cannot be used for troubleshooting

Re: Are there Nvidia drivers on Trixie repositories right now ?

2023-07-27 Thread Bret Busby
r not asking the question.". If you did not ask, you would not have learned, and, your having asked, can mean that others can also learn what you have learned, from your having asked the question. People should never have to apologise for asking to learn what they do not know. .. Bret Busb

Re: UNUBSCRIBE

2023-08-11 Thread Bret Busby
heir permission. " .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: UNUBSCRIBE

2023-08-11 Thread Bret Busby
would not learn how to unsubscribe correctly, and someone would have to keep doing it for them every time this comes up in the future. UNUBSCRIBE Eh wot? Am you wont to unubscribe tu? .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: UNUBSCRIBE

2023-08-11 Thread Bret Busby
On 11/8/23 21:52, davidson wrote: On Fri, 11 Aug 2023 Bret Busby wrote: On 11/8/23 14:49, Luna Jernberg wrote: Or one could unsubscribe using the web interface here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ "If all else fails, follow the instructions" https://www.debian.org/Ma

Re: Mailing list unsubscription requests and identificatio

2023-08-11 Thread Bret Busby
as instructed; " To subscribe to or unsubscribe from a mailing list, please send mail to -requ...@lists.debian.org with the word subscribe or unsubscribe as subject. " I say again - "If all else fails, follow the instructions.". Simple. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

List administrators - request for intervention - was - Re: Mailing list unsubscription requests and identificatio

2023-08-11 Thread Bret Busby
quot;stuff", that has arisen, like a living, growing, cesspool. Thank you in anticipation .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Alpine was: UNUBSCRIBE

2023-08-12 Thread Bret Busby
On 12/8/23 10:13, fjd wrote: On Sat, 12 Aug 2023, Bret Busby wrote: I am an alpine user (and pine before alpine), and I did not know of this functionality. me too; me neither. Do you or anyone else know of a list or online forum where one can discuss Alpine? Felmon http://mailman12

Re: UNUBSCRIBE

2023-08-12 Thread Bret Busby
On 12/8/23 16:06, Ottavio Caruso wrote: Am 11/08/2023 um 18:03 schrieb Bret Busby: On 11/8/23 23:46, Ottavio Caruso wrote: Am 11/08/2023 um 14:26 schrieb Greg Wooledge: On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 01:52:53PM +, davidson wrote: I guess this means that any of us could have bounced^[1] the OP's

Re: Alpine was: UNUBSCRIBE

2023-08-12 Thread Bret Busby
On 12/8/23 23:06, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Aug 12, 2023 at 10:49:19AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 11:08 PM fjd wrote: On Sat, 12 Aug 2023, Bret Busby wrote: I am an alpine user (and pine before alpine), and I did not know of this functionality. me too; me

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