Re: Foolproof disk device name in fstab

andmalc andm...@gmail.com writes: I have a Jessie VPS with external disks attached. The disks are specified in /etc/fstab with traditional /dev/sdXX naming. I recently made changes to the disks that made a device name invalid but didn't notice. When I rebooted, the disk couldn't be found

Re: remove me from this list

Talitha Thalya ravencoun...@gmail.com writes: My name was never meant to show up on a google search like this linked to Debian. and dated back in 2001 Not Ok it was meant to go to the cause. this is a misuse of trust. please remove me. name stated in this email address. Thanks Taliban

pulseaudio module to mute other sources?

I'm reasonably confident there must be a better place to post this than this newsgroup, so answers telling me where to look will be just as welcome as any that address the question! I'm a Debian user, so this is where I'm trying first Is there a pulseaudio module that will detect when an

Re: pulseaudio module to mute other sources?

rlhar...@oplink.net writes: On Wed, August 12, 2015 9:46 pm, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Is there a pulseaudio module that will detect when an audio source isn't silent, and mute other sources in that cases? It does not directly address your need, but I think that pulseaudiovolumecontrol

Re: pulseaudio module to mute other sources?

rlhar...@oplink.net writes: On Wed, August 12, 2015 10:22 pm, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On Wed, August 12, 2015 9:46 pm, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: ... Is there a pulseaudio module that will detect when an audio source isn't silent, and mute other sources in that cases? ... In the realm

Re: pulseaudio module to mute other sources?

doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net writes: On 08/12/2015 10:46 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: I'm reasonably confident there must be a better place to post this than this newsgroup, so answers telling me where to look will be just as welcome as any that address the question! I'm a Debian user, so

Re: pulseaudio module to mute other sources?

Ralph Katz ralph.k...@rcn.com writes: On 08/12/2015 10:46 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: I'm reasonably confident there must be a better place to post this than this newsgroup, so answers telling me where to look will be just as welcome as any that address the question! I'm a Debian user, so

Re: CPU overheating then shutting down while encoding video with ffmpeg

Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz writes: On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 10:17:31AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: In addition, you could put your laptop up on some blocks, so the airflow is better, or use an external fan or vaccuum cleaner to help. I'd be a bit hesitant to recommend to use a

Re: IP address

John J. Boyer john.bo...@abilitiessoft.org writes: None of these solutions work. ifconfig is not available on Jessie. ip seems to be inapropriate. dig produces nothing. I have used ifconfig on other distros. John On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 05:41:27PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: * John

Re: IP address

John J. Boyer john.bo...@abilitiessoft.org writes: Why isn't ifconfig available on Jessie? There id no package. The command produces an error message that it has not been found. John On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 01:44:35PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: John J. Boyer wrote: I have Jessie set up

Re: IP address

Patrick Wiseman pwise...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 2:25 PM, John J. Boyer john.bo...@abilitiessoft.org wrote: I have net-tools. ifconfig works only for root. WHY? On other distros ordinary users can use it. You haven't been listening to what others have been telling you.

Re: CPU overheating then shutting down while encoding video with ffmpeg

I'll echo the advice on cleaning the fan(s), air vents, and any ducts. I've seen laptops which have been used in enviroments like sitting on a blanket which whose vents have become completely blocked. Also, of course, make sure the fans are actually turning, and haven't failed! I'll also echo

Re: YAGF is a seriously screwed package

Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI ren...@olgiati-in-paraguay.org writes: On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 11:15:17 -0400 The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: If you substitute in madams for mesdames (since, AFAIK, mesdames is just the French equivalent of the same word), it makes more sense. remember that madam

Deleting i386 packages

For historical reasons, my x86-64 architecture computers have a large number of i386 packages on them that I'd just as soon be rid of. is there a good way to simply tell a package manager that I want everything involving that architecture deleted? The best answer I've found on my own has been to

Re: Coder friendly font Anonymous Pro (ttf-anonymous-pro)

David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes: > Quoting Joe Pfeiffer (pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu): >> Looks interesting -- I've been using Terminus for quite a while -- it's >> another fixed-width programmer-friendly font, Comparing it with >> Anonymous Pro, it seems a b

Re: Coder friendly font Anonymous Pro (ttf-anonymous-pro)

Cindy-Sue Causey writes: > One more then I hear my bird feeders calling. Couple days ago I was > trying to find a pirate friendly font via an "apt-cache search" > inquiry. No pirates (that weren't part of a *2GB* package, yar!), > but stumbled on a font called

Re: Coder friendly font

rlhar...@oplink.net writes: > On Mon, September 21, 2015 11:33 am, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: >> a font called "Anonymous Pro" that is billed as a "fixed width sans serif >> font designed for coders". >> Further description is: "Anonymous Pro (2009) is a family of four >> fixed-width fonts designed

Re: command not found

Bob Holtzman writes: > Running Wheezy (7.9) on a reinstall after launching Jessie thru a wall. > Reinstalled all my s/w including msmtp and fetchmail. I brought > .fetchmailrc over from my backup as well as .msmtprc. Both had been > working flawlessly on the previous install. Now

Re: RIP and Thank You.

Martinx - ジェームズ writes: > Rest in Peace Ian! > > I wanna know exactly what happened with him. > > On 30 December 2015 at 20:44, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/30/ian_murdock_debian_founder/ Yes. The story as

Re: grub2 security problem

Michael Fothergill writes: > Dear Folks, > > I noticed some articles suggesting that there is a security problem in > grub2. > > E.g. > > http://thehackernews.com/2015/12/hack-linux-grub-password.html > > ​Is there any substance to this? Yes, for the

Re: Slow Display of Graphics in Chrome

moxalt writes: > On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 19:32:25 +, Alan Chandler > wrote: > >> Just recently, I notice a sudden slowing down of the display of areas of >> the screen in Chrome when it fully maximised ( but still with toolbar >> etc on display)

Re: Big dummy at work again

cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz writes: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 10:04:27PM -0500, David Wright wrote: >> On Sat 11 Jun 2016 at 20:49:27 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: >> > On Saturday 11 June 2016 17:35:11 Lisi Reisz wrote: >> >> > > No, Gene. All created because you didn't trust the package

Re: ThinkPad fan

Francesco Montanari writes: > Hi, > > I recently installed Jessie on a Lenovo ThinkPad T420. The fan usage > looks reasonable. However, high temperatures (96 C) are reached when > CPUs are running intensively for more than one minute or so. The fan > speed at those

Re: Meta key for 'emacs -nw'

Bob Bernstein writes: > On Tue, 2 Feb 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> :-) "There are no dumb questions. Only dumb answers." > > Okay. Here's one -- I was going to post it in gnu.emacs.help, but you > changed my mind! Emacs running in X honors Alt as its Meta key. But if

pam_smbpass.so

I'm seeing a large number of entries in my /var/log/syslog that look like this: Feb 16 09:07:31 snowball auth: PAM unable to dlopen(pam_smbpass.so): /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Feb 16 09:07:31 snowball auth: PAM adding faulty module:

Re: pam_smbpass.so

Christian Seiler <christ...@iwakd.de> writes: > Hi, > > On 02/17/2016 05:11 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >> Christian Seiler writes: >>> [Suggesting journalctl -o verbose to debug this] >> I'm running a current Debian testing installation, and journal is >&

Re: pam_smbpass.so

Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> writes: > Joe Pfeiffer <pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote: > >> I'm seeing a large number of entries in my /var/log/syslog that look >> like this: > >> Feb 16 09:07:31 snowball auth: PAM unable to dlopen(pam_smbpass.so): >&

Re: Terminal

Темир Урокбаев writes: > Hello. Tell me, is there a > comprehensive list of terminal > commands, and where to find it > or download. Others have given good information; I'll just add that there can't be a comprehensive list: in addition to the built-in shell commands and the

Re: How to fix I/O errors?

David Christensen writes: > On 02/04/17 07:18, Ric Moore wrote: >> I'm looking at a Seagate 750 gig drive that went south on me with a pile >> of errors. Good luck getting Seagate to give a good gosh darn. In the >> past I have had mixed results replacing the drive

Re: epub files and debian?

Ben Finney writes: > Dan Ritter writes: > >> evince cannot handle epub at all. Your statement about "many epub >> files don't open correctly in evince" should read "no epub files are >> opened by evince". > > Bah, you're right. This is a

Re: Resolved: mount MTP phone

Anthony Baldwin writes: > Sorry for top-posting. > Iḿ no t even sure what it was that DID solve this but the phone is now > mounting at mtp://[usb:005,012]/ > Must have something to do with installing the jmtpfs pkg, > because that's the only thing I can think of that I

Re: mount MTP phone

Curt Howland writes: > I've never been able to mount any MTP phone to Linux. Different > phones, different Android versions, different Linux installations, > nada. I've only been able to do it using jmtpfs (I don't have it set up to automount using that). -- "Erwin, have

Re: mount MTP phone

Tony Baldwin writes: > On 09/04/2016 09:22 PM, Carl Fink wrote: >> On 09/04/2016 09:13 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: >>> I'm at a loss, friends: >>> I have a phone (Motorola Droid Turbo), which functions as an MTP >>> device, and auto-mounts on Win7, but not on Debian 8. >>>

Re: Network issue........

Charlie writes: > Hello Debian Users, > > I have a network issue that I find perplexing: > > When I do: # netstat -r -n > > or > > # route > > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface > 0.0.0.0 10.80.2.85 0.0.0.0

Re: laptop power management

Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> writes: > Le quintidi 25 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Joe Pfeiffer a écrit : >> I'm using an old 32 bit laptop (Samsung N120) running Debian testing; up >> until recently I've been able to configure it so when I close the lid it >> turns

laptop power management

I'm using an old 32 bit laptop (Samsung N120) running Debian testing; up until recently I've been able to configure it so when I close the lid it turns off the screen, but leaves the laptop running. With a recent update (possibly this morning, but I couldn't swear to it) I'm not able to do this

Re: A psgmlx that plays nice with emacs24?

Johann Spies writes: > On 27 September 2016 at 23:34, Tony Baldwin > wrote: > > > > > Emacs?! People still use the crusty old thing? > Perhaps he consider dumping that monstrosity and joining the rest > of us in the 21st

Re: url redirected in chrome/chromium, but working fine, according to ping/traceroute, lynx, w3m, iceweasel.

Richard Hector writes: > > It appears that Montenegro only came into existence (most recently) in > 2006 - it was part of Yugoslavia, then 'Serbia and Montenegro'. So all > the 'good' codes were presumably taken. I'd imagine .me would, like .tv (Tuvalo) be one that a small

Re: mount MTP phone

Ivan Petrov <ip...@yandex.ru> writes: > 06.09.2016 22:19, Joe Pfeiffer пишет: >> Curt Howland <howl...@priss.com> writes: >> >>> I've never been able to mount any MTP phone to Linux. Different >>> phones, different Android versions, different Linux

Re: Any idea when CVE-2016-5696 is going to get fixed?

"John T. Haggerty" writes: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 9:11 PM, Perry E. Metzger > wrote: > >On Fri, 26 Aug 2016 21:06:15 +0200 Frederic Marchal > wrote: > > > The download must be long > > enough (more

Re: Advice on downloading software please

Brian writes: > On Sat 27 Aug 2016 at 09:15:50 -0500, limpia wrote: > >> On 2016-08-27 08:55, Steve Greig wrote: >> >I would like to download a programme (opencpn) onto my laptop which is >> >running debian. It is so long since I have done this I can not >> >remember how to

Re: kernel header for 4.6.0-1-686

Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> writes: > Joe Pfeiffer <pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu> writes: >> >> Any particular reason you need that particular version? Could you >> upgrade your virtualbox VM to a different kernel and use the headers >> for that kernel

Re: kernel header for 4.6.0-1-686

Harry Putnam writes: > Juanjo Benages writes: > >> El 25/10/16 a las 19:48, Harry Putnam escribió: >>> Where can I get the kernel headers for my kernel 4.6.0-1-686? >>> >>> apt-get does not show that version. >>> >>> Googling for awhile here and not

Re: w3m stack smashing?

Reco <recovery...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi. > > On Sat, 05 Nov 2016 19:22:02 -0600 > Joe Pfeiffer <pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote: > >> Recently, I've been getting email messages that look like this: >> >> *** stack smashing detected ***: /usr/bin/

Re: parted is ALMOST suitable

Brian writes: > On Wed 09 Nov 2016 at 11:27:11 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 10:12:13AM +, Brian wrote: >> > >> > That gives "-bash: /dev/sda2: Permission denied" for me with a fixed >> > disk. It's the same for a removable disk. The

Re: parted is ALMOST suitable

Felipe Salvador writes: > On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 06:37:53AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: >> On 11/7/2016 6:20 AM, Felipe Salvador wrote: >> > On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 06:11:50AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: >> > > *HOWEVER* parted requires root privileges. That is not

w3m stack smashing?

Recently, I've been getting email messages that look like this: *** stack smashing detected ***: /usr/bin/w3m terminated === Backtrace: = /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x70bcb)[0x7f03ee523bcb] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x37)[0x7f03ee5ac0e7]

Re: Python Alternatives?

Ben Finney writes: > Michael Milliman writes: > >> I currently have both Python 2.7 and Python 3.4 installed on my debain >> 8.5 (jessie) system. The default Python interpreter on the system is >> Python 2.7 (as linked by /usr/bin/python). > >

python time module

I'm starting to try to learn pythonOCC (a wrapper on the OpenCascade 3d modeling library) as an excuse to learn python itself, and am running into some problems right off the bat. (1) pythonOCC wants to be installed using a package manager called conda (see http://www.pythonocc.org/download/

Re: Why I can not install software on debian easily?

john cusey writes: > Why I can not download a .deb file, click it and it installs? > > I tried to install opera on Debian. Did you look at https://wiki.debian.org/Opera ?

debugging TLS alert

I'm trying to use exim4 to send email to another site. My host connects, negotiates a TLS connection and sends what seems to be a reasonable amount of application data. I then get an encrypted alert from the other host, the connection shuts down, and the email doesn't get delivered. I don't get

Re: aptitude is dangerous - any replacement?

Vincent Lefevre writes: > On 2017-03-21 21:39:40 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2017-03-21 21:19 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> > aptitude ignores the apt preferences. >> >> Huh? At least on my systems, it obeys them. > > Perhaps with your configuration. And this is

Re: Spam on Debian lists

Joel Rees writes: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 6:52 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 22:40:56 +0200 Jochen Spieker >> wrote: >> >>> fc: >>> > >>> > Actually -- does anyone monitor this list for this type of stuff?

Re: Spam on Debian lists

Patrick Bartek writes: > On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 22:40:56 +0200 Jochen Spieker > wrote: > >> fc: >> > >> > Actually -- does anyone monitor this list for this type of stuff? >> >> You have no idea *how much* spam is blocked by the work of the list >>

Re: A minimal relational database in Debian

Curt writes: > On 2017-03-03, GiaThnYgeia wrote: > >> I will top-post as it is meaningless to comment specifically. >> I do have 5 and have not used base since I don't know when, on this >> installation it was firsts. I am made fun of having large

Re: aptitude is dangerous - any replacement?

Vincent Lefevre writes: > I've just noticed that aptitude upgraded packages from unstable to > experimental versions (just with 'U' from the UI) without any warning!!! > Again. > > Is there any replacement? Or a way to make aptitude ignore > experimental packages? > > Note: I

Re: stop your mail

Andy Smith writes: > Hello, > > On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 05:18:54PM +0200, Sébastien Gautrin wrote: >> The "stop your mail" and "PLEASE STOP YOUR MAILS" messages are definitely >> not created by the owners of the email, though it might be done by a mobile >> app as suggested.

Re: (none)

arshad mahmood writes: > Hi do you know how I can down load debian 6 server is free to download > load or will I need to buy it through a vendor regards Is there a particular reason you want to install a version that was released six years ago? If not, I suggest

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

David Wright writes: > On Wed 19 Jul 2017 at 14:57:50 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: >> Patrick Bartek composed on 2017-07-19 10:29 (UTC-0700): >> >> > Getting no results from apt-get upgrade after a week. Can install apps, >> > etc., but get no security or

Re: Relative stability of Testing vs Unstable

My experience, solely as a user, has been that sometimes the unstable distribution breaks and you're hosed. I can't remember when I was last burned by running testing.

Re: The mess of package names

Gary Roach writes: > Hi all, > While this may seem to be a bit off topic, I feel that I may get > answers faster here than any where else. This problem applies to > Debian, Ubuntu and, to some extent, Mac OS. > > I have spent the last month and a half ( or longer)

Re: xsane & tesseract

Doug writes: > On 08/25/2017 08:31 PM, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: > > Hi All, > How do I setup xsane to use the tesseract OCR engine? > I see gocr under preferences->setup->ocr. > Yours Sincerely > Stephen Grant Brown. > > Unless it has been vastly improved, you

Re: Laptop recommendation

I'm very happy with a Dell Inspiron 13 7000 series I picked up at Best Buy a month or so ago. It appears to meet your requirements, and is also a convertible (I can fold the screen back over to put it in "tent" mode), has a touch-screen, supports an active pen, and has a backlit keyboard. The

Re: Talking about RAID - disks with same id

deloptes <delop...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi Joe, > > thank you for the mesage > > Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > >> This is normal.  It's the identical UUIDs that tell the system that the >> partitions go into the same RAID array. >> >> Here's what I se

Re: Rsync

deloptes writes: > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > >> I can see how someone going for a minimal >> system would consider it bloat. > > +1 > > used 2 times rsync in past 10y private and professional daily use of linux > (desktop and server) Whereas I have a cron script firing

Re: Talking about RAID - disks with same id

deloptes writes: > Hi, > I noticed recently by accident that when I read/write from the oldest raid > disks I have - only one of the tray leds blinks. Of course the led could be > damaged, but rather not, so looking into it I found that both disks in > question return same

Re: which program do you recommend to read pdf file

Still an xpdf user after all these years. But... since I now have a laptop that has a touchscreen, is there one that supports a swipe interface (as in, I swipe left on the page I'm currently looking at and it goes to the next page)?

Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions

Richard Owlett writes: > On 06/01/2018 08:21 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 08:23:42AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: The one choice you have is that one of both sides takes a step back and plays "gadget"

Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions

Richard Owlett writes: > I have two computers with USB ports. > I wish them to communicate as simply as mid-20th-century computers did. > Then we used RS232-C with a null modem &/or appropriate software > software at both ends. > > The underlying problem is that both ends egotistically expect

Re: The new normal of logging

Gene Heskett writes: > On Thursday 26 October 2017 15:22:35 Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 1:46 PM, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard < >> >> j.deboynepollard-newsgro...@ntlworld.com> wrote: >> > Roberto C. Sánchez: >> > >> > Is this the new normal, for

Re: Weired package policy

Hans writes: > I searched the manuals for this point, but this was nowhere mentioned. Of > course, you may say, that this is self-evident, but people might want to have > the repo small and may think, "hey, if I get testing, then all packages of > stable will be

squirrelmail or other webmail?

I noticed today that squirrelmail is only in Debian oldstable and oldoldstable. So, I'm curious as to its status -- is it now deprecated (as one would suspect from it not being kept up in more recent Debian versions)? Is there some other webmail interface that's being used now? Note that due to

Re: squirrelmail or other webmail?

Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> writes: > On Tue 30 Jan 2018 at 10:34:21 -0700, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > >> I noticed today that squirrelmail is only in Debian oldstable and >> oldoldstable. So, I'm curious as to its status -- is it now deprecated >> (as one would sus

Re: need help on cracking wireless password

Really? They're paying for it and you want to use it for free? This strikes you as neighborly behavior? Long Wind writes: > Thank Reco and deloptes! > what i suspect turn out to be true: for ethical reason users here refuse to > help > > if reaver is used mainly by bad

Re: Out of root partition space

Sarah Johnson writes: > Hi, > I ran out of root partition disk space and can't install or remove any more > packages or even login gui window manager anymore > > i spent few good hours researching for solutions and found that i can resize > root and home partitions

Re: Request for information

Gene Heskett writes: > On Thursday 16 August 2018 18:46:26 Brian wrote: > >> On Thu 16 Aug 2018 at 18:36:52 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> [Almost everything snipped - for obvious reasons.] >> >> > Someone who is an actual member of the organization will probably >> > clarify it further, but I

Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo

Martin writes: > [...] >>> >>> is new to me, I never knew! And I think it is good approach. >>> Does one actually get pointed to this during install? >> >> ┌───┤ [?] Set up users and passwords >> ├┐ >> │

Re: question about memtest86+

Long Wind writes: > i install memtest86+ of stretch to test memory > i don't see any error msg, but after a few minutes, it shutdown my PC > > does that mean my memory is bad? > i read manual of memtest86+, can't find explaination I see other people have mentioned possible temperature issues,

Re: sometimes i go huh (grep result)

What's tripping you up is that some processing is being done by the shell before grep ever sees your pattern. Taking that into account, what grep is seeing is: songbird writes: > me@ant(25)$ env | grep -F "-g" grep -F -g > grep: invalid option -- 'g' > Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...

Re: Calculator with "tapes"

Ken Heard writes: > Does Debian have a calculator package which has the equivalent of the > tape produced by mechanical machines to show the entire calculation. > I find such "tapes" essential when for example I am adding a long list > of numbers and need to check after the addition is done to

Re: VPN suggestions?

Dennis Wicks writes: > Greetings; > > I want to set up a VPN for several computers in my house > that are all on a local network. > > And suggestions, hints, warnings? Your question as stated doesn't really explain why you want a VPN, and what you're planning to do with it. All you've

Re: VPN suggestions?

Doug writes: > On 07/10/2018 10:59 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >> Dennis Wicks writes: >> >>> Greetings; >>> >>> I want to set up a VPN for several computers in my house >>> that are all on a local network. >>> >>> And suggestion

Re: looking for drawing program to inscribe a square in a circle and label items

Dan Hitt writes: > I'm looking for a gui drawing program that will let me, for example, > draw a circle, inscribe a square in the circle, connect the opposite > edges of the square with line segments, draw the diagonals of the > square, and label the vertices, edges, and

Re: PAE or not PAE?

Gene Heskett writes: > On Monday 12 March 2018 15:27:23 Hans wrote: > >> > Note that the non PAE kernel in older Debian versions up to Jessie >> > lacked multi-processor (including multi-core and hyper-threading) >> > support. >> >> Yes, I read this, too. The N280 is a

Re: which blend caters to TaL computer programming? . . .

Albretch Mueller writes: > I have a group of kids that are very good in Math and they want to > learn some actual programming > > My approach is to introduce them to the basics of coding using ANSI > C, C++ and java (so they learn what pointers are about, how patterns > are

Re: Migrating Debian installation to a new motherboard

mick crane writes: > On 2018-11-01 17:57, Michael Stone wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 05:43:56PM +0100, local10 wrote: >>> Under enp3so I see only BROADCAST and MULTICAST, no UP or DOWN. Thanks >> >> That means it's down. Note that you said enp3so above, that should be >> enp3s0 (zero);

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Migrating Debian installation to a new motherboard

David Wright writes: > On Thu 01 Nov 2018 at 20:03:05 (-0600), Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >> local10 writes: >> > Nov 1, 2018, 1:57 PM by mst...@debian.org: >> >> On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 05:43:56PM +0100, local10 wrote: >> >> >> >> That means i

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Migrating Debian installation to a new motherboard

local10 writes: > Nov 1, 2018, 1:57 PM by mst...@debian.org: > >> On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 05:43:56PM +0100, local10 wrote: >> >> That means it's down. Note that you said enp3so above, that should >> be enp3s0 (zero); which did you put in interfaces? Also, there >> should be either "auto enp3s0"

Re: Question on dpkg -l output.

Dan Ritter writes: > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >> On 21 de dezembro de 2018 20:24, aprekates wrote: >> > In a new installed system with Debian 9.6 >> > >> > $ dpkg -l >> > >> > will list only packages with 'ii' state and a couple of 'rc'. >> > >> > But if i  run: >> > >> > $ dpkg -l w* >>

Re: librecad

John Hasler writes: > Gene writes: >> Solvespace, googling now, downloaded, will take a look. > > No need to download. It's in Debian. Note that he isn't likely to find anything remotely up to date in a repository, as he's still on wheezy.

Re: librecad

Gene Heskett writes: > On Friday 07 December 2018 19:54:56 John Hasler wrote: > >> Joe writes: >> > ...he's still on wheezy. >> >> I wrote: >> > That is easily fixed. >> >> Gene writes: >> > Not until an rtai patched kernel is available for the newer stuffs. >> >> Why would you run your CAD

Re: librecad

John Hasler writes: > Have you looked at Freecad and Solvespace? Note freecad is 3D, and his needs are apparently 2D. Though I will relate that my (brief) acquaintance with freecad led me to decide to just write Python scripts using python-occ to generate my models.

Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete

"Thomas Schmitt" writes: > > Something trampled the parent directory or its attached data structures. It appears to be the two inodes, not the parent directory, that got trampled.

Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete

Pétùr writes: > Le 11/09/2018 à 19:34, Martin a écrit : >> >> don't get crazy about FS corruption. There is no sign this is the >> case so far. Date and UID's are odd, but valid within ext4. Remove >> the immutable flag (chattr -i), you will be able to alter the files >> as you like. >> >> One

systemd mdadm spamming my syslog

Since a recent update, my /var/log/syslog is getting spammed with huge numbers of messages of the form Mar 10 14:02:25 snowball systemd-udevd[18681]: Process '/sbin/mdadm --incremental --export /dev/sda3 --offroot /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3000DM001-1ER166_Z501MTQ3-part3

Re: systemd mdadm spamming my syslog

Bob Weber writes: > On 3/10/19 5:20 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > > Since a recent update, my /var/log/syslog is getting spammed with huge > numbers of messages of the form > > Mar 10 14:02:25 snowball systemd-udevd[18681]: Process '/sbin/mdadm > --incremental --export /dev/s

Re: That time IPv6 farted in Gene's church (Was Re: forcedeth?)

case, and for better or worse the package management software is case-sensitive. snowball:532$ reportbug Please enter the name of the package in which you have found a problem, or type 'other' to report a more general problem. If you don't know what package the bug is in, please contact debian

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

humbert.olivie...@free.fr writes: >> If you don't use PulseAudio then only one application can use >> an ALSA device at the same time on your computer. > > This is untrue. ALSA provides dmix for mixing different audio flows. > > Olivier What's more, the default device uses dmix. And I find it a

Re: That time IPv6 farted in Gene's church (Was Re: forcedeth?)

Curt writes: > On 2019-05-28, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > >> experimental: 1.18.0-1 >> Please try to verify if the bug you are about to report is already >> addressed by these releases. Do you still want to file a report >> [y|N|q|?]? > > Think I might'v

Re: [OT] IP address collisions

Dan Purgert writes: > Nicholas Geovanis wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 7:57 AM Michael Stone wrote: >> >>> >>> No, the ULA is the IPv6 equivalent of RFC1918 space--you can use it >>> internally without central registration by choosing a subnet from >>> fd00::/8. The space is so much larger

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