Re: dynupdater not seeming to do anything

2022-07-31 Thread Curt
On 2022-07-31, wrote: > > The next question(s) would be: is it documented? Does it have a > config? a log file? https://help.dyn.com/linux-update-client-install-guide/ It's a GUI app so why he's trying to start it at the command line is anybody's guess. > Perhaps, if you know which service it

Re: Screenshot with Gnome

2022-07-27 Thread Curt
On 2022-07-27, Nicolas George wrote: > > Curt (12022-07-27): >> I've Imagemagick installed, so >> import image.png > > This is my go-to solution too. Except when I want to capture the mouse > pointer too, in this case I use =E2=80=9Cffmpeg -f x11grab=E2=80=9D. > &g

Re: Screenshot with Gnome

2022-07-27 Thread Curt
On 2022-07-26, Richmond wrote: > Curt writes: > >> On 2022-07-26, Greg Wooledge wrote: >>> On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 05:03:09PM +0300, Antti Talsta wrote: >>>> On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 12:40:53PM +0100, Richmond wrote: >>>> > I am trying to take

Re: Screenshot with Gnome

2022-07-26 Thread Curt
On 2022-07-26, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 05:03:09PM +0300, Antti Talsta wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 12:40:53PM +0100, Richmond wrote: >> > I am trying to take a screenshot of a selected area. >> > I think something is broken. Maybe there is another utility? >> >> scrot

Re: Three unsolvable Problems ffmpeg -i input.mp4

2022-07-25 Thread Curt
On 2022-07-25, Nicolas George wrote: > > I expected as much. FFmpeg does not have the ability to recover MP4 > files without the =E2=80=9CMOOV atom=E2=80=9D. You might find software > capable of > extracting something from a damaged file and possibly a valid file from > the same origin, but I do

Re: [OT] still blue

2022-07-25 Thread Curt
On 2022-07-25, Nicolas George wrote: > > uniform in frequency and reciprocally). The best we can do is know > that our eye evolved for the light of the Sun, and therefore is > optimized for its light, and white is anything that looks like the > Plank spectrum at 5800 K, although 6500 K

Re: odbc_config missing

2022-07-20 Thread Curt
On 2022-07-20, Igor Korot wrote: > > Apparently it IS a known problem > > This - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unixodbc/+bug/551701 - > claims > Ubuntu installs it and wants debian to follow. > But then someone replied that they made pkg-config file and ask others to > follow. I

Re: exiftool

2022-07-19 Thread Curt
On 2022-07-19, mick crane wrote: > I want to add AttributionURL and AttributionName > https://exiftool.org/TagNames/XMP.html#cc > says is to do with "XMP-cc" but not guessed the syntax as yet. exiftool -overwrite_original -XMP-cc:AttributionName="Creator" "file name.extension" exiftool

Re: pavucontrol configuration trouble

2022-07-16 Thread Curt
On 2022-07-16, Thomas George wrote: >  I set the GP107GL High Definition Audio Controller profile to off but > it continually reverts to High Definition HDMI Output which overrides > analog output to my external speakers. > > Today I found it impossible to turn this off. The off option is

Re: SSH resources, specifically on certificates (certificate authentication)

2022-07-15 Thread Curt
On 2022-07-14, Dan Ritter wrote: > > If you've got a very large organization, you may want to support > the infrastructure to generate new SSH certs for people daily, > with expiration dates of 24 hours. Then you need to make sure > that mechanism is working perfectly and has appropriate >

Re: how find name of terminal emulator?

2022-06-30 Thread Curt
On 2022-06-28, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2022-06-28 10:14:48 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 01:53:17PM +, visqa...@yahoo.com wrote: >> > so if i start uxterm or xterm, how do i find name using command? >> >> ps -p "$PPID" > > But note that you won't be able to tell

Re: Digikam busted on bullseye.

2022-06-27 Thread Curt
On 2022-06-26, gene heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I've run out of patience with digikams inability to see existing > albums, or to create a new one. That is disabling its importing > from the camera, making me take the card out and put it in a > reader. > > Questions to this list have not

Re: Proprietary WiFi drivers for live mode

2022-06-26 Thread Curt
On 2022-06-26, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2022-06-25 18:11 +0300, Kristijonas Lukas Bukauskas wrote: > >> I have an old Dell laptop with Broadcom BCM43142 WiFi device >> (https://wiki.debian.org/wl). It doesn't have a hard drive, so I >> sometimes boot Debian from USB Memory Stick in live mode. >>

Re: digikam import fails

2022-06-17 Thread Curt
On 2022-06-17, gene heskett wrote: >> >> When I plug in my camera to a US port, it shows up on the desktop, >> at which point I can mount it. Then I can access it and copy/move >> stuff to wherever, using mc or whatever utility you like. Why is >> some special program needed for this? >

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

2022-06-08 Thread Curt
On 2022-06-08, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wednesday, June 08, 2022 12:18:58 PM Curt wrote: >> On 2022-06-08, Felmon Davis wrote: >> > that's the thing: I don't understand how the parts fit together; what >> > is the connection between: >> > >>

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

2022-06-08 Thread Curt
On 2022-06-08, Felmon Davis wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jun 2022, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > >> On Tuesday, June 07, 2022 09:38:42 PM Felmon Davis wrote: >>> be it a/b testing or b/s testing, the change seems to have gone into >>> effect and I can only use Alpine by acquiring an "app-password". >>> >>>

Re: How to start Preseed installation on UEFI computer?

2022-06-06 Thread Curt
On 2022-06-06, Hans wrote: > Dear Debian Users and Maintainers, > > I want to automate Debian installation using Preseed. I started with baby > steps creating a preseed file installing Debian on VM. All good. > > Then I continued with my actual goal to install Debian on a server / laptop > and

Re: Alan Turing given posthumous royal pardon

2022-06-05 Thread Curt
On 2022-06-05, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 5, 2022, 4:22 AM sp...@caiway.net wrote: > >> Sources >> >> "Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing given posthumous royal pardon" >> Channel 4 News, December 24, 2013 >> > > Turing's pardon was simply Britain's Tories pandering for the gay

Re: Alcatel Linkzone sold by T-Mobile, labeled "4G LTE HotSpot

2022-06-05 Thread Curt
On 2022-06-04, Richard Owlett wrote: > > Yepp *ROFL* > But I'm trying to investigate > a hardware (e.g. Alcatel) >vs. software (e.g.Debian) problem. > *NOT* a carrier problem. > Could you be more vague? Did you the check the settings on the web page and hardcode a

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

2022-06-04 Thread Curt
On 2022-06-04, wrote: > >> > >> Bullshit. > > Famous last word. > I've already determined that your principles go no deeper than your dime-a-dozen opinions.

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

2022-06-04 Thread Curt
On 2022-06-04, Brad Rogers wrote: > >>Bullshit. >> > Well! > > What a witty, erudite, cogent, well reasoned, rational and eloquently > put explanation. > > I'm convinced. > That's what's missing from *your* affirmation and the very reason it is pure bullshit.

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

2022-06-04 Thread Curt
On 2022-06-02, Brad Rogers wrote: > > Expect access from anything other than google's own web interface to go > away at some point in the future. > Bullshit.

Re: SUCESSFUL INSTALL - was [Discovering DHCP hostname during original system installation]

2022-06-02 Thread Curt
On 2022-06-02, David Wright wrote: > >> I still owe David a response to his last post. > > No need. The above clears up the point made in the body of your OP, > and I have nothing more to add on the Subject line, as what I've > already posted pretty much exhausts my knowledge of DHCP. People do

Re: Firewall blocking my new Debian 11 server ports 80 and 443

2022-05-30 Thread Curt
On 2022-05-29, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Second, I cannot ping this IP address, nor can I telnet to port 80 of it. > (Nor port 22.) > That's strange; I can ping it (I'm not in Kansas anymore): curty@einstein:~$ ping 69.30.225.10 PING 69.30.225.10 (69.30.225.10) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes

Re: Which Program does WebKitWebProcess belong to

2022-05-27 Thread Curt
On 2022-05-26, tmcconnell...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi List, > I'm getting high CPU usage from WebKitWebProcess (50% or higher) on my > machine and would like to know how to find what is being a CPU hog, for > one. And how to report it? > Thanks in advance. > Tim This works for me to find the

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

2022-05-16 Thread Curt
On 2022-05-16, wrote: > Just in case, let me stated that I never implied that 2FA doesn't do > any good. It /is/ a mitigation indeed. But for me, the bang it brings > isn't worth the buck it costs. Simply that. > But you did imply it. To the question of data breaches and sites storing your

Re: Permanent email address?

2022-05-16 Thread Curt
On 2022-05-15, John Hasler wrote: > >> I think the only way to avoid this is not to let your incoming email >> sit in anyone else's server i.e. to run an MTA. > > My incoming mail never sits in Pobox's server for more than one minute. A minute seems sufficient. > But it's a store and forward

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

2022-05-16 Thread Curt
On 2022-05-16, David Wright wrote: >> >> Preventing data breaches are outside the scope of the user, providing >> a high entropy password is not. If accessing a site is of importance >> to him, then, in your plausible scenario, an eight character password >> effectively gives little security.

Re: Permanent email address?

2022-05-15 Thread Curt
On 2022-05-15, wrote: > > I have a gmail account as well, and I use either fetchmail or > Claws-Mail to pick up my gmail messages. Unfortunately, some of my This belies and debunks thread # 58.

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

2022-05-14 Thread Curt
On 2022-05-14, wrote: > > On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 08:58:37AM -, Curt wrote: > > [...] > >> What about data breaches, and sites keeping your password >> in plain text (though it seems access to the cryptographically hashed >> passcodes is already a pret

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

2022-05-14 Thread Curt
On 2022-05-14, Ash Joubert wrote: > On 13/05/2022 12:23, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: >> That's the value added in exchange for Ash's "massive pain in the arse". >> Just making the 1st factor be >> a loong password is not equivalent to 2FA in any way. Machine reaching back >> to you is the

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

2022-05-13 Thread Curt
On 2022-05-13, wrote: > >> > It's just the basic antipattern you can see everywhere in surveillance >> You seem to be seeing these antipatterns at the drop of any hat. > > Uh -- whatever you mean to say with that. I meant that you applied (or employed) the term quite recently in a completely

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

2022-05-13 Thread Curt
On 2022-05-13, wrote: > > It's just the basic antipattern you can see everywhere in surveillance You seem to be seeing these antipatterns at the drop of any hat. But I read recently about a brand new password antipattern (whatever those are). The only thing is, I don't really understand what

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

2022-05-12 Thread Curt
On 2022-05-12, Virgo Pärna wrote: > On Wed, 11 May 2022 20:09:14 +0200, Fero Dali wrote: >> Sorry for misunderstanding: it seems that my account will continue to work >> but >> ability to download mail with POP3 without OAUTH2 will be unavailable. >> > > Actually, even without OAUTH2 it

Re: file born 30 seconds after its creation on ext4 - bug?

2022-04-30 Thread Curt
On 2022-04-30, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Indeed. With normal filesystem operations there should be no need to call > something like sync(2) in order to get a consistent representation of the > current filesystem state. > What does the following mean, then, in that light: Because of delayed

Re: email lacks sender address

2022-04-27 Thread Curt
On 2022-04-26, David Wright wrote: > > Well, the simple way, which is why I use it, is to put: > > set envelope_from_address="someuser@somedomain" > set use_envelope_from The OP sent me an email off-list in which he informed me he was doing his best and that he'd changed *both* of the

Re: email lacks sender address

2022-04-26 Thread Curt
On 2022-04-26, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2022-04-24 23:30:34 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: >> I placed these two lines in ~./muttrc/muttrc >> >> set envelope_from_address=hai...@histomat.net >> set use_envelope_from=hai...@histomat.net >> >> but still get 521 5.5.1 Protocol error om outgoing

Re: email lacks sender address

2022-04-25 Thread Curt
On 2022-04-25, Haines Brown wrote: > > I placed these two lines in ~./muttrc/muttrc > > set envelope_from_address=hai...@histomat.net > set use_envelope_from=hai...@histomat.net > > but still get 521 5.5.1 Protocol error om outgoing messages. > > I thought 'set use_envelope_from' took a

Re: slrn broke after power failure

2022-04-19 Thread Curt
On 2022-04-18, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > > Again, my issue is not with the spool, but why slrn seems to > be trying to bypass it and access the server directly. Unless > that "server read failed" message is a red herring... > slrn --debug FILE Then look in FILE for possible edification.

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

2022-04-11 Thread Curt
On 2022-04-11, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sunday, April 10, 2022 11:20:39 AM Curt wrote: >> Les provinciales (1656), XVI de Blaise Pascal >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lettres_provinciales >> >> "I would have written a shorter letter, but I

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

2022-04-10 Thread Curt
On 2022-04-10, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, April 08, 2022 08:17:14 AM gene heskett wrote: >> I think Ben Franklin said it first, First, we get rid of all the lawyers. > > Billy (Shakespeare) said it before Ben. But I would not be surprised to find > that someone said it much earlier

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

2022-04-08 Thread Curt
On 2022-04-08, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: >> >> LO: MS Word does it, so LO does it / because fields in the document may be >> automatically updated prior to printing > > Just poking my nose in to say that syslog might be an example of that. > That's speaking from the annoying firsthand experience

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

2022-04-08 Thread Curt
On 2022-04-08, David Wright wrote: >> >> Apple: Pages documents include a "last printed" property which gets updated >> when the doc is printed - which suggests there's no option in that case. >> >> Not sure of the accuracy of either report... > > … nor of my memory. > > I was never a

Re: Can't create a password successfully.

2022-04-04 Thread Curt
On 2022-04-04, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > Chrome does that. > I never turned on 'Save passwords' or whatever it is so remained unaware of this feature.

Re: Can't create a password successfully.

2022-04-04 Thread Curt
On 2022-04-03, Brian wrote: > >> One of the bits of advice is to use long passwords made up of three >> random words and to use a different password per website / to use >> your web browser to generate an appropriate random password. >> Forcing passwords to change regularly may not be a good

Re: libvirt tools and keyfiles

2022-04-02 Thread Curt
On 2022-04-01, Celejar wrote: > > > What is going on here? Since I'm specifying a keyfile on the command > line, and it's being used - otherwise I wouldn't even get the list of > VMs - why am I being prompted for the password? > > Celejar > > Aren't you required to copy the key over to the

Re: Running Steam Proton Games with primusrun

2022-03-27 Thread Curt
On 2022-03-27, Jonathan Marquardt wrote: > > I don't really know why Steam is complaining about these missing shared > object files since two of them clearly exist on my system: > > $ ls -al /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/nvidia/libGL.so.1 > /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/nvidia/libGL.so.1 >

Re: Under each of these scenarios, what is the neatest and simplest way to manipulate the /etc/network/interfaces file?

2022-03-26 Thread Curt
On 2022-03-26, David Wright wrote: >> >> When the /etc/network/interfaces file has the line >> >> source-directory /etc/network/interfaces.d/* > > An eccentric choice. But no elaboration, opinion, or reasoning. > >> Best wishes. > > To you too. Over and out. I think it was John Hasler who

Re: systemd.resolved problems

2022-03-25 Thread Curt
On 2022-03-25, Henning Follmann wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 09:09:17PM -0500, David Wright wrote: >> On Fri 25 Mar 2022 at 07:59:15 (+0800), Jeremy Ardley wrote: >> > On 25/3/22 7:26 am, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 06:51:55AM +0800, Jeremy Ardley wrote: >> >> >

Re: its been done again. No network

2022-03-24 Thread Curt
On 2022-03-24, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 08:40:49PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: >> Greetings all; >> >> Just installed a arm64 linux on a raspi4, and as near as I can tell early >> in the game, everything seem to be working except the network. I cannot >> get rid of a

Re: TexMaker installation problem

2022-03-20 Thread Curt
On 2022-03-20, Grzesiek wrote: > Hi there, please fix the following: > > # apt install texmaker > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > Reading state information... Done > The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required: >libigdgmm12 >

Re: OT EU-based Cloud Service

2022-03-18 Thread Curt
On 2022-03-18, Nicolas George wrote: > > In France, the three major host providers are: > > https://www.scaleway.com/ > https://www.gandi.net/ > https://www.ovhcloud.com/ > > I have a very cheap dedicated server at OVH, it serves its purpose. They actually lost some of my shit in the Strasbourg

Re: packages built with golang

2022-03-15 Thread Curt
On 2022-03-15, Cousin Stanley wrote: > >> Whether or not you want to see it >> is a different issue. > > I understand this. > >> The data is already on your system, so >> there's no transmission happening. > > I do not understand this. > > I was under the impression that > package

Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0?

2022-03-01 Thread Curt
On 2022-02-28, Brian wrote: >> >> qrencode -s 20 -o wifi.png "WIFI:S:Your Wifi SSID;T:WPA;P:Your Wifi >> Passphrase;;" > > Very nice. Does that work when the code is onscreen and/or printed on > paper? > Yes.

Re: about 10th new install of bullseye

2022-02-19 Thread Curt
On 2022-02-18, Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 07:41:01PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: >> In something of 150 or more installs of bullseye - we do a bunch with >> each release of images with a point release - I don't think I've ever >> seen brltty installed "by accident"

Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is the best course of action?

2022-02-17 Thread Curt
On 2022-02-17, wrote: > > --Isw399PmXxwTK8QE > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 02:37:02PM -0600, David Wright wrote: >> On Wed 16 Feb 2022 at 15:38:22 (-

Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is the best course of action?

2022-02-17 Thread Curt
On 2022-02-16, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 16 Feb 2022 at 15:38:22 (-), Curt wrote: >> On 2022-02-16, wrote: >> > >> >> So why not create libraries for Burmese, Laotian and Cambodian (Khmer) la= >> > nguages? Why don't we have libburmese, liblaotian

Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is the best course of action?

2022-02-16 Thread Curt
On 2022-02-16, wrote: > >> So why not create libraries for Burmese, Laotian and Cambodian (Khmer) la= > nguages? Why don't we have libburmese, liblaotian and libkhmer and make the= > m essential dependencies for libpango? > > So why not do your research yourself? > > ;-) > Of course, it’s an

Re: Misremembered (was: Re: Stupid question)

2022-02-15 Thread Curt
On 2022-02-15, David wrote: > On Tue, 15 Feb 2022 at 10:24, David Wright wrote: > >> Effectively, Grub has two shells, Grub> and Grub rescue>, depending on >> whether the "normal" module has been loaded, and about the only thing >> you can sensibly do without normal is to find it and insmod it.

Re: Request free live CD

2022-02-14 Thread Curt
On 2022-02-14, Celejar wrote: >> >> Because your premise is false, and there is no equivalence between time >> and money. > > I have no premise of an "equivalence" between time and money; the > question of why people distinguish between them is nevertheless a People distinguish between them

Re: Request free live CD

2022-02-13 Thread Curt
On 2022-02-11, Celejar wrote: >> >> https://www.debian.org/CD/free-linux-cd >> >> Since burning a CD and putting into the mail costs money, you can't >> expect someone doing it for you. In the above page it is explained > > I'm genuinely curious about this: time and money are both scarce and

Re: miracle of Firefox in the hotel.

2022-02-12 Thread Curt
On 2022-02-12, Felmon Davis wrote: > > Greets! > > Sitting in a hotel in Hamburg, Germany, thankful for Firefox-esr which > provides > the page necessary for logging into the network. I´m on Debian 10. > > this miracle of connectivity doesn´t seem to happen with Brave browser or > Iron. > >

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-12 Thread Curt
On 2022-02-12, piorunz wrote: > On 11/02/2022 22:16, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: >> Somewhere in their help or documentation they even say that you shouldn't >> leave it running for extended periods of time. > > Never heard such a thing. Do you have source? > See my other post in this thread.

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-12 Thread Curt
On 2022-02-11, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Friday 11 February 2022 11:06:01 am Celejar wrote: >> I seem to have a serious memory leak on my system (Lenovo W550s) - the >> memory usage seems to slowly but more or less steadily keep increasing. >> >> This is a more or less normal (I think)

Re: Printing lots of pages skips a few

2022-02-02 Thread Curt
On 2022-02-02, mick crane wrote: >> >> Also I could identify and print those files separately; using "lp >> ". > > May be an issue with the printer reporting it has printed file when it > hasn't. Perhaps try wait between each print instruction. It would be edifying to examine, at the very

Re: i386 or AMD64 - Which is currently running?

2022-02-01 Thread Curt
On 2022-02-01, Stanislav Vlasov wrote: > 2022-02-01 17:20 GMT+05:00, Curt : >> On 2022-01-31, Stefan Monnier wrote: >>>> Technically correct, but Curt's response was good enough for Richard >>>> Owlett to make progress. Richard Owlett is very unlikely to be using

Re: i386 or AMD64 - Which is currently running?

2022-02-01 Thread Curt
On 2022-01-31, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Technically correct, but Curt's response was good enough for Richard >> Owlett to make progress. Richard Owlett is very unlikely to be using >> a 64-bit kernel with 32-bit userspace. > > BTW, for the twisted-minded it's probably possible to run a 64bit >

Re: i386 or AMD64 - Which is currently running?

2022-01-31 Thread Curt
On 2022-01-31, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 01/31/2022 06:37 AM, Curt wrote: >> On 2022-01-31, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> Due to historical circumstances, I have laptops which multi-boot various >>> Debian releases. There be 32 bit and 64 bit versions of the same release

Re: i386 or AMD64 - Which is currently running?

2022-01-31 Thread Curt
On 2022-01-31, Richard Owlett wrote: > Due to historical circumstances, I have laptops which multi-boot various > Debian releases. There be 32 bit and 64 bit versions of the same release > on a particular machine. > > 1. From current console, how can I determine which is running? > [

Re: Android apps on Debian

2022-01-30 Thread Curt
On 2022-01-29, John Hasler wrote: > I never intend to install any app other than the Starlink one. I'm > willing to trust it as long as what I get is in fact exactly what SpaceX > distributes: if they are going to spy on me they will have better > opportunities than that. I guess I'm asking if

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-22 Thread Curt
On 2022-01-22, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 07:27:11PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: >> On Friday, January 21, 2022 6:45:52 PM EST Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: >> > On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 06:42:38PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: >> > > So how do I officially set the hostname so its

Re: Future of "his" packages in Debian

2022-01-21 Thread Curt
On 2022-01-21, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: >> >> >> Can someone post what Norbert Preining actually wrote without omissions and >> rather frivolous additions by other parties? >> >> Regards, >> > >>From Norbert's blog, aggregated on Planet Debian: > >

Re: Suggestions for tesseract

2022-01-20 Thread Curt
On 2022-01-20, Siard wrote: > Bob Bernstein wrote: >> Executing 'apt-cache search tesseract' brings up a multitude of >> packages. >> >> My need is simple enough, I think: I like to scan (using an >> Epson scanner) pages of printed books -- almost one hundred per >> cent text -- and then use

Re: Firefox PDF download - strange behaviour.

2022-01-19 Thread Curt
On 2022-01-18, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > > The problem is that a user would normally only expect a browser to > save a file to the file-system in two cases: > > (a) when the user has explcicitly chosen to download something, and >then chooses where to put it > > (b) when the browser is cacheing

Re: How to rotate then save a PDF document?

2022-01-11 Thread Curt
On 2022-01-11, Richard Owlett wrote: > I use MATE and thus use Atril as viewer. > Typically I have no need to modify PDF documents. > I received a reading a long reading list which needs to be rotated left > to be read. Atril rotates it but does not save it as rotated. > > What's the simplest

Re: odd question re man pages

2022-01-07 Thread Curt
On 2022-01-07, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > I use the Shift + Right-click trick to get the menu in applications that > seem to block Gnome Terminal's handling of the URL. I've found the > trick useful with Mutt and Midnight Commander. > I see. I only experimented in a man page.

Re: odd question re man pages

2022-01-07 Thread Curt
On 2022-01-07, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > Did you try Shift + Right-click and select "Open Link" or some such in > your terminal? That is what works for me in Gnome Terminal. > This is what works for me in gnome-terminal: URL detection[edit] GNOME Terminal parses the output and automatically

Re: odd question re man pages

2022-01-07 Thread Curt
On 2022-01-07, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 11:41:45AM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 05:01:05AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: >> > I've noted that there can be links to a web page in a man page that are > >> In a terminal: left click might not do

Re: still fixing stuff the upgrade broke...

2022-01-06 Thread Curt
On 2022-01-06, Dan Ritter wrote: > > The change there is that python2 and python3 are ridiculously > incompatible with each other, so programs written in each need > to call the appropriate interpreter. However, most python > programs just assume that "/usr/bin/python" or `env python` will >

Re: Dragging tabs in Google Chrome 97

2022-01-05 Thread Curt
On 2022-01-05, David Wright wrote: >> >> As of this morning's update, dragging and dropping items in this game >> doesn't work either. The dragging part appears to work correctly, as >> far as I can tell -- there is visual feedback that a thing is being >> moved as I drag with the mouse. But

Re: Hyper-typematic and Firefox responsiveness in Weston.

2022-01-02 Thread Curt
On 2022-01-01, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> In weston, keyboard response can be hyper-typematic. The briefest >> keypress can give at least two instances of the key action; sometimes a >> half dozen. That includes backspace. Consequently keyboard input is >> impossible. This happens not in

Re: Looking for reccomendations

2021-12-29 Thread Curt
On 2021-12-29, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tuesday, December 28, 2021 08:31:01 PM Juan R.D. Silva wrote: >> The headphone jack failed on my Dell M4800 laptop. I need to find >> reliable with decent stereo audio output External USB Sound Card/Audio >> Adapter with 3.5mm Stereo Headphone (3 pole

Re: Identity Theft

2021-12-23 Thread Curt
On 2021-12-23, harrywea...@tutanota.com wrote: >>> >> >> Tracking of a cell phone by a mobile FBI van (Wireless Intercept and Tracking >> Team) which seeks to locate a cell phone lacking GPS tracking by scanning >> for >> its emissions. This first became known for its use in tracking hacker

Re: biqu bx 3d printer ??

2021-12-23 Thread Curt
On 2021-12-23, Tixy wrote: > On Thu, 2021-12-23 at 14:20 +0000, Curt wrote: >> On 2021-12-23, Tixy wrote: >> > >> > Still none the wiser of what hardware in the printer you would be >> > setting the baud rate of though, but as I'm ignorant of the inside

Re: biqu bx 3d printer ??

2021-12-23 Thread Curt
On 2021-12-23, Tixy wrote: > > Still none the wiser of what hardware in the printer you would be > setting the baud rate of though, but as I'm ignorant of the insides of > 3D printers perhaps that's not a surprise. > You set the baud rate of the port is how I understand it. stty -F /dev/ACM0

Re: Identity Theft

2021-12-23 Thread Curt
On 2021-12-23, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> I can find no example of this with a cell phone. > > Somebody yesterday posted about Triggerfish -- I can't find that post > immediately. > > Wikipedia says (about Triggerfish): > > "Intercepting a cell phone call by a man in the middle attack,

Re: biqu bx 3d printer ??

2021-12-23 Thread Curt
On 2021-12-22, Tixy wrote: > On Wed, 2021-12-22 at 04:36 -0500, gene heskett wrote: > [...] >> What utility could adjust the baud and endianess of this tty_ACM0? > > I can't see how that is relevant, this is your printer's USB connection > not some old style asynchronous serial interface like

Re: Identity Theft

2021-12-22 Thread Curt
On 2021-12-22, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > >* the other implied / inferred meaning is that of what I described, that > is > calling one number and having it be intercepted by another party who might > masquerade as the called party. (Somebody on the list pointed out > essentially > the

Re: Identity Theft

2021-12-22 Thread Curt
On 2021-12-21, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > That is a known thing (a telephone intercept of a cell phone call), I have > found nothing so far about such a thing happening with a VOIP phone or land > line. > > It's a known thing to dial one number and reach another? Can you provide a link?

Re: Identity Theft

2021-12-21 Thread Curt
On 2021-12-21, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> I called a major international financial institution the other day with >> a telephone number memorized by my cell phone that I've used conceivably >> a hundred times previously over the years (I telephone monthly). I call >> a specific department

Re: Identity Theft

2021-12-21 Thread Curt
On 2021-12-21, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > I used my eyes to read the number off the screen and then dial my separate > phone (not attached to a computer (well, other than the ObiHai VOIP device). > > I called a major international financial institution the other day with a telephone number

Re: BUG: Debian 11 version of bibletime - was [Re: Problems with "Bible Time" and "Xiphos"]

2021-12-21 Thread Curt
On 2021-12-13, Richard Owlett wrote: > > Further investigation of the Debian 11 filesystem shows that > /usr/share/bibletime/docs does not exist. > That's probably because the handbook and howto in bullseye reside in /usr/share/doc/bibletime-data/bibletime/ according to the results of my

Re: Firefox ESR EOL

2021-12-20 Thread Curt
On 2021-12-18, Anssi Saari wrote: > Nicholas Geovanis writes: > >> Maybe I missed something. Why RISC V? > > Just having an alternative is attractive to some. Having an open > alternative even more so. > > I'd happily run ARM or RISC-V, if those were an alternative for a decent > desktop or

Re: GRUB really slow to boot

2021-12-19 Thread Curt
On 2021-12-18, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 11:42:23PM +, James Dutton wrote: >> Disk looks OK to me. >> Next, check no USB devices are connected while it boots. >> Disable "quiet" boot mode, so you can see all the boot up messages. >> This will give you an idea where it is

Re: strange problem with usb wifi adapter

2021-12-15 Thread Curt
On 2021-12-15, Long Wind wrote: > On Sunday, December 12, 2021, 8:31:17 AM EST, Curt wrote: > Does this mean the official Buster netinstall kernel contains a free driver > for your wireless card but the subsequently installed Buster user kernel does > not? > > > Sorry, C

Re: cups problems in bullseye

2021-12-15 Thread Curt
On 2021-12-15, Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 04:31:55PM -0000, Curt wrote: >> On 2021-12-14, David Wright wrote: >> > On Sun 12 Dec 2021 at 11:14:37 (-0800), Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> Andy, plz remove your PM when posting to debi

Re: cups problems in bullseye

2021-12-14 Thread Curt
On 2021-12-14, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 12 Dec 2021 at 11:14:37 (-0800), Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Andy, plz remove your PM when posting to debian-user, firefox makes >> it very difficult to put the list address as the To: without starting a new, >> blank msg. It puts the list in the Cc: box

Re: Printjob produces FW error on HP CP1525nw

2021-12-14 Thread Curt
On 2021-12-13, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Hmm..after rereading the user manual, error 79 show up two times, i.e. the > Number+Text seems to be relevant: > > 79 Error > Turn off then on > > The product has experienced an > internal firmware error. > > Turn the product power off, wait > at least 30

Re: Printjob produces FW error on HP CP1525nw

2021-12-13 Thread Curt
On 2021-12-11, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Hi, > > I have sometimes a document causing an error 79 on my HP CP1525nw. According > to the user manual that means > The product has experienced an internal firmware error. Not according to the manual I'm reading, which tells us error 79 means "an

Re: strange problem with usb wifi adapter

2021-12-12 Thread Curt
On 2021-12-12, Long Wind wrote: > Thanks to all! i take tomás's advice and manage to copy buster installer's > kernel message: > > [   68.255616] usb 1-1.1: reset full-speed USB device number 6 using ehci-pci > [   68.474958] mt7601u 1-1.1:1.0: ASIC revision: 76010001 MAC revision: > 76010500 >

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