Re: no sound

2003-10-20 Thread David Christensen
Sharon: > can you help me get the sound back on my computer it use to have sound > i took it to someone to fix it they fixed it but then i notice i have > no sound and the person that fixed it is no longer in bussiness > imagine that Of course we can help! :-) Can you please provide us with so

Re: CVS /var/lib/cvs filesystem standard

2003-10-21 Thread David Christensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Frank A. Uepping wrote: > Debian creates a CVS reposetory in /var/lib by default. 1. Both Cederqvist and Fogel refer to /usr/local/cvsroot. 2. I put my CVS repository under /cvs so I don't have to type a long path name. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

httpd user and user directory permissions dilemna

2003-11-02 Thread David Christensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] & [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am running Apache 1.3.26 on Debian 3.0r1 (Woody). I would like to enable user ~/public_html directories, but have two security goals which I cannot solve simultaneously: 1. Apache should run as the user when reading user pages and running user CGI sc

Debian 3.0r1 Apache 1.3.26 cgi-bin behavior depends on script name and browser (?)

2003-09-29 Thread David Christensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am getting ready to study "MySQL and Perl for the Web" [Paul DuBois, 2002] and I have come across some baffling behavior with CGI scripts on Apache 1.3.26 on Debian 3.0r1 -- sometimes Apache executes the scripts as expected, other times it tries to download them or generates a

Re: Nat & startup

2003-10-01 Thread David Christensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Adrian wrote: > I configure NATing... I use an old P166 box as a dedicated firewall/ NAT router with a purpose-built GNU/Linux distribution: http://smoothwall.org/ Features: - The install is very easy (curses, with hardware detection). - WAN, LAN, and/or DMZ interfaces

Re: 19 and 22 september - did anything unusual happened?

2003-10-01 Thread David Christensen
Grzesiek Sedek wrote: > Just wanted to know if anyone of you experienced any unusual traffic ( > worms, viruses, scanning, exploits?) around 19 and 22 September? > Many thanks. I started receiving the latest Microsoft spam/ virus (Swen?) on September 19. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Cygwin, ssh, and top

2005-06-10 Thread David Christensen
debian users: When I ssh into one of my Debian 3.0 boxes from WinXP Pro/ Cygwin, top works as expected. When I ssh into my Debian 3.1 box from WinXP Pro/Cygwin, top seems to be inserting multiple line feeds at the end of each line: 4 root 5 -10 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kh

RE: Cygwin, ssh, and top

2005-06-10 Thread David Christensen
Bill Marcum wrote: ... > echo $TERM [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo $TERM cygwin Thanks -- I looked at $TERM and tried setting it to ansi; top was the same, and the PageUp and PageDown keys stopped working for less. I agree that it likely has something to do with the terminal type, and seem to

RE: Cygwin, ssh, and top

2005-06-12 Thread David Christensen
Robert Wolfe wrote: > What are you using as an SSH client? I was using: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cygcheck -c | grep openssh openssh 3.9p1-3 OK Upgrade. Try again: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cygcheck -c openssh Cygwin Package Information Package

RE: mouse and kvm switch

2005-06-27 Thread David Christensen
Adam Hardy wrote: > My mouse is created problems when I switch back to xfree86 on my > debian box using my kvm. I test drove half a dozen KVM switches a few years backing trying to find one that could do AT/COM1 (AT motherboards) and PS/2 (ATX motherboards) plus DOS, Windows, Linux, BSD O/S's. As

Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye

2021-08-17 Thread David Christensen
On 8/17/21 4:24 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; I just installed another sata controller and 4 1 T-byte Samsung SSD's. The controller claims to be a 15 port port expander, but only 6 are bonded out, and collectively show up at ata7 in dmesg. They show up as /dev/sde/f/g/h but have not o

Re: nvme SSD and poor performance

2021-08-17 Thread David Christensen
On 8/17/21 2:54 AM, Pierre Willaime wrote: > Hi, > > I have a nvme SSD (CAZ-82512-Q11 NVMe LITEON 512GB) on debian stable > (bulleye now). > > For a long time, I suffer poor I/O performances which slow down a lot of > tasks (apt upgrade when unpacking for example). > > I am now trying to fix this

Re: nvme SSD and poor performance

2021-08-20 Thread David Christensen
On 8/17/21 2:54 AM, Pierre Willaime wrote: > I have a nvme SSD (CAZ-82512-Q11 NVMe LITEON 512GB) on debian stable > (bulleye now). > > For a long time, I suffer poor I/O performances which slow down a lot of > tasks (apt upgrade when unpacking for example). On 8/20/21 1:50 AM, Pierre Willaime wr

Re: smart fans

2021-08-22 Thread David Christensen
On 8/21/21 4:53 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: o/ Is there a way to have "smart fans" that only go as fast as needed? Or, lacking that, is there a way to manually switch them off when one isn't using the computer? I do $ sudo hibernate -v 0 but that seems to kill the Internet connection as well

Re: smart fans

2021-08-22 Thread David Christensen
On 8/22/21 12:56 AM, Emanuel Berg wrote: David Christensen wrote: If you throttle your CPU, it will not generate as much heat: https://wiki.debian.org/CpuFrequencyScaling You mean permanently or when I'm not using the computer? Install the Debian package 'cpufrequti

Re: smart fans

2021-08-22 Thread David Christensen
On 8/22/21 1:39 AM, Emanuel Berg wrote: 4-pin fans wouldn't be possible because of the motherboard sockets, I think, which are also 3-pin. The motherboard user's manual says all of the fan connectors are 4-pin. On 8/22/21 6:03 AM, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Like I already wrote

Re: smart fans

2021-08-22 Thread David Christensen
On 8/22/21 6:41 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 09:03:51AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: [...] Like I already wrote, modifying voltage doesn't change speed of a motor (fan). I disagree. The thing poses [1] as a DC motor (2 pins power, one tacho). [1] I'

Re: smart fans

2021-08-22 Thread David Christensen
On 8/22/21 1:15 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: fanfront low be quiet! Shadow Wings 2 140 mm 3-pin[1] front high be quiet! Shadow Wings 2 140 mm 4-pin CPU cooling tower be quiet! Pure Wings 2120 mm 4-pin (2)[2] rear Corsair

Re: smart fans

2021-08-22 Thread David Christensen
On 8/22/21 2:26 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: didier gaumet wrote: I would think that pwmconfig complains that it finds 3-pins fans set up to PWM mode (4-pins required) Your UEFI propose either to setup your fans globally or individually and I think that by default the setup is global. This would pr

Re: smart fans

2021-08-22 Thread David Christensen
On 8/22/21 2:40 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: David Christensen wrote: Some of my other machines offer additional governors -- "powersave" and "userspace". Run "cpufreq-info -g" to see what Debian offers on your motherboard. I did install and did set it to different

Re: smart fans

2021-08-22 Thread David Christensen
On 8/22/21 4:57 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: David Christensen wrote: I would figure out what Setup can do with the fans before messing with the Linux CPU governor. Install software to display temperatures, to display fan speeds, and to put the CPU under load. Temperatures of the CPU and GPU I

Re: smart fans

2021-08-22 Thread David Christensen
On 8/22/21 5:51 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: OK, I did check out the BIOS/UEFI/Setup and all five fans can be configured individually. There are five options. I spoke to soon, there seems to be only one set of options for the CPU fan, so I guess the CPU_OPT and CPU_FAN are the same in terms of optio

Re: smart fans

2021-08-23 Thread David Christensen
On 8/23/21 1:03 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 02:02:45PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: [...] What is "BLDC"? Brushless (electric) DC motor [1]. Back Then (TM ;-), to turn an electric motor around you had to switch around the magnetic field in the coils at (

Re: smart fans

2021-08-23 Thread David Christensen
On 8/23/21 11:41 AM, Emanuel Berg wrote: David Christensen wrote: - Set the Linux CPU governor to "powersave". Nothing happens when I do that. Try the QFan "Silent" profile Same. What about GPU fan(s)? Power supply fan(s)? What about HDD's? Yeah, I thought

Re: smart fans

2021-08-23 Thread David Christensen
On 8/23/21 12:36 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 12:20:34PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: [...] Thank you. Do you know where there is information that explains how a BLDC computer fan motor responds to variable supply voltage? Not specifically for computer fans, and

Re: smart fans

2021-08-23 Thread David Christensen
On 8/23/21 1:44 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Emanuel Berg wrote: [...] maybe it isn't the case fans or the CPU cooling tower fans that make the sound anyway! If nothing else helps to find the culprit, then consider to unplug all case fans to prove that it's not them. A bit more adventurous i

Re: smart fans

2021-08-23 Thread David Christensen
On 8/23/21 2:25 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Emanuel Berg photographed: https://dataswamp.org/~incal/ebchw/fan-top.jpg The case fans look like they would produce a lot of wind if really running at full speed. Whatever, i'd make a closer photo, unplug them, listen how much noise is missing, a

Re: smart fans

2021-08-23 Thread David Christensen
On 8/23/21 3:42 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 8/23/21 2:25 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Emanuel Berg photographed: https://dataswamp.org/~incal/ebchw/fan-top.jpg Conspicuously absent are drive cages; but I do see drive case mounting screw holes.  If drives are not needed, the mounting

Re: smart fans

2021-08-23 Thread David Christensen
On 8/23/21 5:05 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: David Christensen wrote: But changing the profile (governor) doesn't produce any (noticable?) sound level change and also the temperature of the CPU and the GPU seem unaffected. You will not notice a change in CPU fan temperature or speed profiles

Re: smart fans

2021-08-23 Thread David Christensen
On 8/23/21 5:26 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: David Christensen wrote: Nice case. :-) Yeah, I guess :) The purpose of the plate at the bottom is to form a thermally isolated chamber for the the power supply. The unperforated portions of the top surface could be covered with sound absorbing

Re: smart fans

2021-08-23 Thread David Christensen
On 8/23/21 8:09 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: David Christensen wrote: Doubling the sound energy adds 3 db. So, the two loudest fans are around 19 dB. The HDD is 2.9 Bel = 29 dB. So the total worse-case is 35.4 dB? (With the GPU, PSU and one fan still unaccounted for.) ;;; -*- lexical-binding

Re: smart fans

2021-08-24 Thread David Christensen
On 8/23/21 10:25 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: David Christensen wrote: For a CPU with N cores (N=4 for an AMD Ryzen 3 3200G?) and an otherwise unloaded system, your test procedure should be something like: loop over governor choices set governor loop 3 times sleep 60

Re: smart fans

2021-08-24 Thread David Christensen
On 8/23/21 3:17 PM, David Christensen wrote: Here is a Perl one-liner that should peg one core: $ perl -e "1 while 1" Here is a Perl one-liner that can do between 0 and 100 percent loading of one core: 2021-08-24 02:13:06 dpchrist@dipsy ~ $ perl -MTime::HiRes=time,sleep -e &

Re: smart fans

2021-08-24 Thread David Christensen
On 8/24/21 3:17 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: I'll run it next time I go for a walk... You want to watch the test run, so that you can monitor progress, make adjustments, and/or stop it if things go badly. Have you identified the sound source(s) that are most annoying? David

Re: New SSD card for old dell 850

2021-08-25 Thread David Christensen
On 8/25/21 4:59 AM, juh wrote: Dear all, there is a LITEONIT LMT-32L3M (LWDA) in my dell xps 850 desktop computer. I use it for the boot and system partitions, home is on a hard disk. The SSD only has 32GB and I am pondering whether I can just attach a bigger one and reinstall debian mounting

Re: LUKS encryption help

2021-08-26 Thread David Christensen
On 8/25/21 6:37 PM, detr...@tuta.io wrote: Good evening, I'm having some worrying problems with LUKS my Debian 10 installation on an external hard drive. As I'm not very technical, I'll try to explain what I did and what is happening now in chronological order. Around May I installed Debian 1

Re: smart fans

2021-08-29 Thread David Christensen
On 8/28/21 3:55 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: David Christensen wrote: You want to watch the test run, so that you can monitor progress, make adjustments, and/or stop it if things go badly. Don't worry about it... Here are the 20 first lines of the output: time, governor, processes

Re: LUKS encryption help

2021-08-29 Thread David Christensen
On 8/28/21 10:09 PM, detr...@tuta.io wrote: ... I have updated the BIOS. 1.  What is the make and model of the external hard drive? It is a 1Tb WD Elements WDBUZG0010BBK 2. What ISO image did you use to install Debian onto the external hard drive? What media did you put the Debian insta

Re: Soft link confusion

2021-08-29 Thread David Christensen
On 8/29/21 4:59 PM, Gary L. Roach wrote: Hi all, I don't have occasion to use links very often and tend to get confused as to which direction the link is pointing. Specifically, I am trying to redirect backuppc files from the normal /var/lib/backuppc directory to another disk mounted at /medi

Install Debian 10 amd64 onto USB flash drive with and for Macintosh

2021-08-31 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: I have an Apple MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) with an Intel Core i7-4770HQ processor, 16 GB memory, and 256 GB SSD: https://support.apple.com/kb/SP719?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Pro The laptop has two USB 3.0 ports. I

Re: Install Debian 10 amd64 onto USB flash drive with and for Macintosh

2021-08-31 Thread David Christensen
On 8/31/21 3:53 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: David Christensen wrote: debian-user: I have an Apple MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) with an Intel Core i7-4770HQ processor, 16 GB memory, and 256 GB SSD: If I now power up the machine with the buster-mac USB flash drive installed, Debian starts

Re: Install Debian 10 amd64 onto USB flash drive with and for Macintosh

2021-09-01 Thread David Christensen
On 9/1/21 1:15 AM, didier gaumet wrote: Hello, Hello. :-) Le mardi 31 août 2021 à 15:31 -0700, David Christensen a écrit : [...] I would like to install Debian 10 onto a USB flash drive as a self-contained, bootable, full, live installation that I use with this and other Intel-based

Re: Install Debian 10 amd64 onto USB flash drive with and for Macintosh

2021-09-02 Thread David Christensen
On 9/2/21 5:37 PM, David Wright wrote: On Wed 01 Sep 2021 at 16:00:13 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: [three long posts] That was very useful. I've condensed it into a file (attached) for my own use. The footnotes are notes, guesses and queries. I tried to file a bug report agains

Re: smart fans

2021-09-03 Thread David Christensen
On 9/3/21 3:05 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: David Christensen wrote: Feeding the raw data into LibreOffice Calc was problematic OK, changed. Your data format still has issues. This is what LibreOffice Calc wants: time,governor,processes,CPU_temperature,system_load,CPU_fan_speed,core1_freq

Re: smart fans

2021-09-04 Thread David Christensen
On 9/3/21 7:42 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: David Christensen wrote: OK, changed. Your data format still has issues. You seem to have got the old file again, check it out again, because some of those issues have already been mentioned/fixed: https://dataswamp.org/~incal/ebchw/cpu.txt

Re: smart fans

2021-09-07 Thread David Christensen
On 9/6/21 6:03 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: David Christensen wrote: You seem to have got the old file again, check it out again, because some of those issues have already been mentioned/fixed: https://dataswamp.org/~incal/ebchw/cpu.txt Much better: http://www.holgerdanske.com/pub/dpchrist

Re: How to format with stride/stripe_width options during install

2021-09-09 Thread David Christensen
On 9/8/21 11:07 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: Installing Debian 11 with netinst CD on a server with hardware raid. Installer has no custom format parameters option for ext4, like stride and stripe_width. How does one format the raid partitions with these options during OS installation? What is

Re: How to format with stride/stripe_width options during install

2021-09-10 Thread David Christensen
On 9/9/21 11:52 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 11:14 AM David Christensen wrote: On 9/8/21 11:07 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: Installing Debian 11 with netinst CD on a server with hardware raid. Installer has no custom format parameters option for ext4, like stride and

Re: debian-installer RAID question

2021-09-12 Thread David Christensen
On 9/11/21 9:55 AM, Felix Natter wrote: hello fellow Debian users, I have an SSD for the root filesystem, and two HDDs using RAID1 for /storage running Debian10. Now I need a plan B in case the upgrade fails. So I made an experiment with a VM and rougly the same setup (disk-wise), and found out

Re: Can surf the internet, but not my home network...

2021-09-15 Thread David Christensen
On 9/15/21 7:41 AM, nimrod wrote: Hi, my devices (pc, laptops, smartphone) all can surf the internet without problems. So one would say that the router is working properly. But computer A cannot access computer B via SSH as it's alwais being doing for years, and viceversa. They cannot even ping

Re: Can surf the internet, but not my home network...

2021-09-16 Thread David Christensen
On 9/16/21 12:40 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 15 sep 21, 17:48:39, Hans wrote: Am Mittwoch, 15. September 2021, 16:41:21 CEST schrieb nimrod: Hi, got the same problem, when the ethernet interface is up, too and I am on wifi. This a problem with the gateway settings. Unless my understandin

Re: (unable to start a new discussion) Re: Can surf the internet, but not my home network...

2021-09-17 Thread David Christensen
On 9/17/21 1:46 AM, Brian wrote: However, a new discussion should be started in a*new* thread, not plonked willy-nilly into an existing thread. This is the second time recently that someone has done that. The first time it involved an experienced user! Guilty as charged. :-( Using Thunder

Re: Lock tab on SD card?

2021-09-18 Thread David Christensen
On 9/18/21 10:28 AM, John Conover wrote: Mounting an SD card with the lock tab enabled mounts as read only. But can Linux still write to the SD card, under any circumstances? My assumption is that the lock tab on SD cards is read by the controller inside the SD card, which then provides rea

Re: How do I clone a Debian Distro from a 32Gb Class 10 MicroSD card to a 16Gb Class 10 A1 MicroSD card?

2021-09-18 Thread David Christensen
On 9/18/21 4:35 AM, Myron wrote: Never done this one with Linux before. I know that there is less than 16Gb of data written to the Class 10 32Gb MicroSD card which is used as the primary system storage on a single board system-on-a-chip computer. What I'm after is getting a 16 Gb Class 10 A1 Mi

Re: foolish problem with installer: can't load firmware

2021-09-20 Thread David Christensen
On 9/19/21 11:14 PM, loushanguan2...@sina.com wrote: i start bullseye installer from usb stick it tells me to insert usb stick containing firmwarei fail in this step many times after many failures, i learn that firmware shall be in vfat partition, not ext4and i have to remove installer stick so

Re: Message display settings by character encoding (was Re: foolish problem with installer: can't load firmware)

2021-09-20 Thread David Christensen
On 9/20/21 4:16 AM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2021-09-20 at 03:21, David Christensen wrote: Your message displays strangely on Thunderbird (oversized Courier font?). In my case, it displays with unusually-small characters and what looks like a different font, not unusually large ones. Please

Re: write only storage.

2021-09-21 Thread David Christensen
On 9/21/21 8:53 AM, Tim Woodall wrote: I would like to have some WORM memory for my backups. At the moment they're copied to an archive machine using a chrooted unprivileged user and then moved via a cron job so that that user cannot delete them (other than during a short window). My though was

Re: Development permissions

2021-09-21 Thread David Christensen
On 9/21/21 9:10 PM, Paul M. Foster wrote: Yeah, I use git in other contexts. In this particular instance, when these projects were created, git didn't exist. While I could implement it here, the other user is on a Mac. I've had experience trying to install "normal" software (like git) on a Mac

Re: write only storage.

2021-09-22 Thread David Christensen
On 9/22/21 1:04 AM, Tim Woodall wrote: On Tue, 21 Sep 2021, David Christensen wrote: On 9/21/21 8:53 AM, Tim Woodall wrote: I would like to have some WORM memory for my backups. Have you considered snapshots -- e.g. btrfs, LVM, or ZFS? I don't see how they help me - I am already

Re: `aptitude update' won't update

2021-09-25 Thread David Christensen
On 9/25/21 2:08 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Please help with this: # aptitude update Hit http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease Get: 1 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stable InRelease [113 kB] Get: 2 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable InRelease [113 kB] E: Repository 'http://ftp.d

Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive

2021-09-29 Thread David Christensen
On 9/29/21 05:59, Nate Bargmann wrote: Earlier this year I purchased a nice Lenovo Carbon X1 with an NVME SSD with Win 10 Pro installed. Ordinarily I would reformat the drive without a second thought but in this case I really do have occasional need to use Win 10 (Kenwood radio programming mostl

Re: About user and password on Debian 10 (Solved)

2021-09-30 Thread David Christensen
On 9/30/21 22:32, fran...@libero.it wrote: I wanted to let everyone know that I was able to fix the problem even though I will have to open another thread to fix the cause of the problem. The cause of not being able to enter the Debian user desktop was that the / partition was too full! I had i

Re: Clone Debian 10 partitions to another HD

2021-09-30 Thread David Christensen
On 9/30/21 22:40, fran...@libero.it wrote: Taking a cue from the Thread "About user and password on Debian 10" I would like to transfer the partitions related to Debian 10 to a larger HD, but with the possibility of having the / partition larger than the current one. It's possible? I was think

Re: Clone Debian 10 partitions to another HD

2021-10-01 Thread David Christensen
On 10/1/21 05:40, fran...@libero.it wrote: About the questions sent: Thank you for the information. Fujitsu Esprimo P2560 MI4W-D2041 https://support.ts.fujitsu.com/IndexDownload.asp?lng=en&OpenTab= FTS_ESPRIMOP15xxP2440P2540P2550P2560P2760__1079164.PDF FTS_MainboardD3041ShortDescription_

Re: unhappy upgrade

2021-10-02 Thread David Christensen
On 10/2/21 08:57, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: In recent messaging here I touched on how I'd determined that my workstation was way behind being current. Apparently I needed to go 8->9->10->11. I tried the first of those steps, and things did not go well in a number of ways... For some reaso

Re: unhappy upgrade

2021-10-03 Thread David Christensen
On 10/3/21 09:21, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: On Saturday 02 October 2021 02:33:24 pm David Christensen wrote: On 10/2/21 08:57, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: In recent messaging here I touched on how I'd determined that my workstation was way behind being current. Apparently I needed to

Re: slower Debian 11 after upgrade from 10

2021-10-04 Thread David Christensen
On 10/4/21 20:10, L Dimov wrote: I am having slower performance on Debian 11 with software only from the "main" repositories after upgrade from 10.It is on a decently powerful Dell laptop with 16 GB memory, 1 TB SSD, 7 processors Intel Core i5-8350U CPU @ 1.70GHz The Intel Core i5-8550U proc

Re: slower Debian 11 after upgrade from 10

2021-10-04 Thread David Christensen
On 10/4/21 22:58, David Christensen wrote: The Intel Core i5-8550U correction: i5-8350u David

Re: slower Debian 11 after upgrade from 10

2021-10-05 Thread David Christensen
On 10/5/21 06:21, L Dimov wrote: On Tuesday, October 5, 2021, 1:59:21 AM EDT, David Christensen wrote: If your laptop has hardware that requires proprietary firmware, I very much doubt that the firmware in question will ever be open-sourced. Without the proprietary firmware, the best

Re: New debian installation disk partition

2021-10-11 Thread David Christensen
On 10/11/21 04:18, Josef Strýček wrote: Hi, I have a question how to partition new debain installation.I have 64GB ssd and 500GB hdd. Can I have / on ssd with ext4 and hdd with btrfs /hame /var /tmp /opt. You should be able to achieve that layout with the Debian installer (d-i) by choosin

Re: LUKS encryption help

2021-10-11 Thread David Christensen
On 10/11/21 05:50, detr...@tuta.io wrote: Hello friends, I'm sending this last email to inform you that I have given up on trying to recover the contents of my external hard drive and that I formatted it. I hope you have implemented backups procedures, to prevent losing data in the future.

Re: New debian installation disk partition

2021-10-11 Thread David Christensen
On 10/11/21 13:39, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 11 oct 21, 12:29:48, David Christensen wrote: Once Debian is running, I suggest that you connect the HDD, partition the HDD using GPT, create one partition using 95% of available space, initialize a LUKS container inside the partition, and create

Re: New debian installation disk partition

2021-10-11 Thread David Christensen
On 10/11/21 13:13, Joe wrote: On Mon, 11 Oct 2021 12:29:48 -0700 David Christensen wrote: I must detach e-mail attachments and save them on the server You could run an IMAP server on your server, set up an account in your email client with a suitable directory structure and drag and drop

Re: New debian installation disk partition

2021-10-12 Thread David Christensen
On 10/11/21 23:58, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 11 oct 21, 13:56:28, David Christensen wrote: On 10/11/21 13:39, Andrei POPESCU wrote: ZFS has native encryption now, any particular reason to prefer using a LUKS container instead? I use LUKS because ZFS native encryption was not available

Re: New debian installation disk partition

2021-10-13 Thread David Christensen
On 10/12/21 21:47, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 12 oct 21, 00:02:50, David Christensen wrote: On 10/11/21 23:58, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 11 oct 21, 13:56:28, David Christensen wrote: On 10/11/21 13:39, Andrei POPESCU wrote: ZFS has native encryption now, any particular reason to

Re: general broad question for help in setting up linux server and suggestions

2021-10-15 Thread David Christensen
On 10/14/21 23:33, Semih Ozlem wrote: Hello everyone I am a mathematics PhD student completing my dissertation at Yeditepe University Istanbul working under Prof Ilhan Ikeda who is at Bosphorus University Istanbul. I am involved in setting up some seminars, keeping correspondence with other math

Re: question from total newbie. a little help please

2021-10-17 Thread David Christensen
On 10/17/21 6:00 AM, JAMES BOSWELL wrote: if i divide my hard drive and install debian lynx on it. will i be able to effectively run debian on this laptop? Device name LAPTOP-R4DB7V5U Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-10110U CPU @ 2.10GHz 2.59 GHz Installed RAM 4.00 GB (3.81 GB usable) Device ID

Re: A .profile puzzle

2021-10-17 Thread David Christensen
On 10/17/21 2:12 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: normally when a storm comes through i turn off the PC anyways because I really don't want to have things fried (even if i do have the UPS and surge protection). Hmmm does turning them off make any difference w.r.t a surge large enough to pass through t

Re: Sata Hard drive testing

2021-10-18 Thread David Christensen
On 10/18/21 9:25 AM, Thomas Anderson wrote: Hello Gurus, I have been having problems with a drive (non-SSD) for a while now, but I would like to "identify" the problem specifically, so that I may perhaps be able to get the drive replaced. Essentially, I have been experienced data loss, where

Re: Sata Hard drive testing

2021-10-20 Thread David Christensen
> On 10/18/21 6:52 PM, Reco wrote: >>Hi. >> >> On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 06:25:19PM +0200, Thomas Anderson wrote: >>> I have been having problems with a drive (non-SSD) for a while now, >>> but I would like to "identify" the problem specifically, so that I may >>> perhaps be able to get the

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

2021-10-24 Thread David Christensen
On 10/24/21 12:40 PM, Ricardo C. Lopez wrote: Use case: At work (a school) they use Windows 10 and IT is kind of fundamentalist about it. So I am thinking of "just" using the RAM and the processor in their machine. I am thinking of: * running Debian Live from an external USB attached DVD play

Re: Trouble using SDXC 128GB card

2021-10-26 Thread David Christensen
On 10/26/21 8:41 AM, Musbur wrote: Hello, I'm using a Lenovo Thinkpad T480s. Recently I bought a SanDisk Extreme Pro 128GB SDXC card for my digital camera, but I quickly found out that the system can't work with that card. It show up as /dev/sdb, I can use fdisk and everything without error, but

Re: how to avoid the terminal overlap

2021-10-26 Thread David Christensen
On 10/26/21 7:08 AM, lina wrote: Hi, Once upgraded to the new system, I found that they would gather the same app in one tab. Such as Xfce terminal all in one, I want them to be listed one by one, not to be degenerated into one. Thanks for your suggestions, and sorry for the description, I don

Re: Samba Won't Mount, Buster to Bullseye migration

2021-10-26 Thread David Christensen
On 10/26/21 9:11 PM, Charles Curley wrote: I just re-installed my Samba server, formerly on Buster, now on Bullseye. This has worked in the past, including Bullseye clients mounting a share on a Buster server. I have one share defined, for my user: [samba] path = /crc/samba valid users = charles

Re: Looking for a way to cache .deb files downloaded by apt inside sbuild schroot

2021-10-27 Thread David Christensen
On 10/27/21 7:32 AM, Uladzimir Bely wrote: When sbuild is used to compile a package from sources, some packages (package dependencies) are internally downloaded and installed in schroot. I'm looking for a way to cache the dependencies in form of .deb files outside the schroot. So that I could la

Re: why Debian?

2021-11-14 Thread David Christensen
On 11/14/21 4:56 AM, Thanos Katsiolis wrote: Hello, I am new to the Debian distribution and I would like to hear opinions from experienced users on why someone should choose them as OS. The reasons I chose them is that Debian is considered a stable and reliable OS (the policy of the OS is not to

Re: Update Debian 9 to Debian 11

2021-11-16 Thread David Christensen
On 11/16/21 9:39 AM, Thanos Katsiolis wrote: Hello, Hello. :-) I am a new user of Debian, Welcome! and I have access to a PC What make and model of PC? What processor? What memory? What disk drives? Are you free to wipe the disk drives and throw away the operating systems,

Re: Impossible to give "write" permission on a sub folder

2021-11-26 Thread David Christensen
On 11/26/21 12:29 AM, lists.deb...@netc.eu wrote: Hello to all, I have a dual boot PC with Windows 10 and Debian 11 This PC has 2 drives, one SSD that has both operating systems and a HDD where I store all other files (documents, music, images, ...) The goal is to share this HDD between Windows

Re: using intel i5 freqency governors

2021-12-01 Thread David Christensen
On 12/1/21 8:58 AM, Lee wrote: The short story is that I have an Intel i3 windows 10 desktop with cygwin installed and an Intel i5 debian desktop. One of my scripts takes about 10 minutes to run on the windows/i3 and 15 minutes on the debian/i5! ick if i do $ sudo cpupower frequency-set -g per

Re: stability level of testing

2021-12-01 Thread David Christensen
On 11/30/21 11:28 PM, daggs wrote: Greetings, I'm thinking of migrating my main server to Debian, I need stability and recent version of small number of pkgs. in addition I need to recompile with a out of tree patch. I had Debian stable before but replaced it because upgrade broke the system an

Re: using intel i5 freqency governors

2021-12-01 Thread David Christensen
On 12/1/21 9:08 PM, Lee wrote: Hi, On 12/1/21, David Christensen wrote: On 12/1/21 8:58 AM, Lee wrote: The short story is that I have an Intel i3 windows 10 desktop with cygwin installed and an Intel i5 debian desktop. One of my scripts takes about 10 minutes to run on the windows/i3 and 15

Re: stability level of testing

2021-12-02 Thread David Christensen
On 12/2/21 12:53 AM, daggs wrote: Greetings David, Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2021 at 4:21 AM From: "David Christensen" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: stability level of testing On 11/30/21 11:28 PM, daggs wrote: Greetings, I'm thinking of migrating my

Debian 11.1 Firefox ESR 78.15.0esr add-on icons

2021-12-04 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: I installed debian-live-11.1.0-amd64-xfce+nonfree.iso on a Dell Latitude E6520 today: 2021-12-04 19:28:18 dpchrist@laalaa ~ $ cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a ; dpkg-query -W firefox-esr 11.1 Linux laalaa 5.10.0-9-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.70-1 (2021-09-30) x86_64 GNU/Linux fir

Debian 11.1, xfce4-terminal, select entire line, middle-click, newline not pasted

2021-12-05 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: I installed debian-live-11.1.0-amd64-xfce+nonfree.iso on a Dell Latitude E6520 yesterday: 2021-12-05 11:46:51 root@laalaa ~ # cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a ; dpkg-query -W xfce4-terminal 11.1 Linux laalaa 5.10.0-9-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.70-1 (2021-09-30) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Re: Debian 11.1 Firefox ESR 78.15.0esr add-on icons

2021-12-05 Thread David Christensen
On 12/5/21 2:46 AM, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: On 12/5/21 05:47, David Christensen wrote: debian-user: I installed debian-live-11.1.0-amd64-xfce+nonfree.iso on a Dell Latitude E6520 today: 2021-12-04 19:28:18 dpchrist@laalaa ~ $ cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a ; dpkg-query -W firefox-esr

Re: Debian 11.1 Firefox ESR 78.15.0esr add-on icons

2021-12-05 Thread David Christensen
On 12/5/21 4:16 AM, Peter Ehlert wrote: On 12/4/21 7:47 PM, David Christensen wrote: debian-user: I installed debian-live-11.1.0-amd64-xfce+nonfree.iso on a Dell Latitude E6520 today: 2021-12-04 19:28:18 dpchrist@laalaa ~ $ cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a ; dpkg-query -W firefox-esr

Re: Debian 11.1, xfce4-terminal, select entire line, middle-click, newline not pasted

2021-12-05 Thread David Christensen
On 12/5/21 6:15 PM, Keith Bainbridge wrote: On 6/12/21 06:56, David Christensen wrote: On Debian 9 (and 10, and earlier?) with Xfce Terminal, when I select an entire line of text in one terminal and then middle click paste in another terminal window, the entire line is pasted; including the

Re: Debian 11.1, xfce4-terminal, select entire line, middle-click, newline not pasted

2021-12-06 Thread David Christensen
On 12/5/21 7:46 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote: David Christensen wrote: On Debian 9 (and 10, and earlier?) with Xfce Terminal, when I select an entire line of text in one terminal and then middle click paste in another terminal window, the entire line is pasted; including the newline. [...] On

SD card, exfat, file mtime wrong

2021-12-06 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: I recently installed debian-live-11.1.0-amd64-xfce+nonfree.iso on a Dell Latitude E6520: 2021-12-06 17:52:45 dpchrist@laalaa ~ $ cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a 11.1 Linux laalaa 5.10.0-9-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.70-1 (2021-09-30) x86_64 GNU/Linux I am in California, USA.

Re: SD card, exfat, file mtime wrong

2021-12-07 Thread David Christensen
On 12/6/21 6:37 PM, David Christensen wrote: debian-user: I recently installed debian-live-11.1.0-amd64-xfce+nonfree.iso on a Dell Latitude E6520: 2021-12-06 17:52:45 dpchrist@laalaa ~ $ cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a 11.1 Linux laalaa 5.10.0-9-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.70-1 (2021-09-30

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