Re: Debian 9 /boot && /boot/efi partition

2019-01-10 Thread deloptes
Pieter Lems wrote: > What is the reason this was automaticly done? > Does this have any negative influence on the security of my /boot > partition? How can I counter this? > And if it's possible to counter this, would it be profitable (in case of > security) to counter it? Not sure but I think

Re: Slow boot

2019-01-11 Thread deloptes
David wrote: > Hi, I have no expertise in this, except to suggest that if I was > seeing your symptoms then I would investigate if the discussion > here might be relevant: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/12/msg00184.html Good story - thanks and no comments!

Re: Migrate Stretch to New UEFI Build?

2019-01-11 Thread deloptes
Patrick Bartek wrote: > Actually, if I've understood what I've read over the past two weeks, > that's not correct.  You need a dedicated partition formatted in FAT32, > marked ef00 partition-type with the "boot" flag enabled on it. Mounting > that partition on /boot/efi (or somewhere else,

Re: Migrate Stretch to New UEFI Build?

2019-01-13 Thread deloptes
Patrick Bartek wrote: > I never could understand that type of "reasoning." With me, if there's > no NEED, it's not done. I'm very much the pragmatist. Always have > been even as a child, and never likely to change. you need it but you don't know yet For example I leave some percentage of the

Re: Software RAID blocks

2019-01-13 Thread deloptes
Tom Bachreier wrote: > So it is most likely that I have a problem with the software raid or the > harddisks, isn't it? SMART is activated on all disks and does not show > any error. don't know exactly but I replaced all Seagate drives with WD - especially WD Red 2TB NAS (WD20EFRX). Now just

Re: Mediatek 802.11ac USB devices in kernel 4.19

2019-01-09 Thread deloptes
Miguel A. Vallejo wrote: > Some time ago I read the kernel 4.19 include support for some Mediatek > 802.11ac USB devices. When I saw the kernel 4.19 arrived into > unstable/testing I ordered one of these devices. > > The device arrived but it does not work at all. A quick look at the > kernel

Re: Debian booting into initramfs shell

2019-01-09 Thread deloptes
Thomas Schweikle wrote: > Did you read my post? /dev/sd* are missing, but modules are loaded! > you mean modules for the disks? > Looks like /dev/sd* entries are not created. is udev OK?

Re: /dev/disk/by-id/ in testing

2019-01-08 Thread deloptes
Johan en Katrien Dewaele wrote: > Thinking of switching to grub2 to avoid these problems. > good thinking

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread deloptes
Nicolas George wrote: > You do realize that in most countries, a license is required to operate > motor vehicles and obtaining it requires acquiring a certain amount of > knowledge, right? Come on, the argument of Roberto C. Sánchez holds. Operator != Mechanic. To operate a PC means you know how

Re: Scanner not working

2019-01-03 Thread deloptes
Andrew Wood wrote: > I have a long standing problem with using my scanner (HP ScanJet 5300) > under Debian using either Simple Scan or gscantopdf. Both generate I/O > error messages. It used to work fine but have never been able to get it > to work since upgrading to Jessie and now in Stretch it

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

2019-01-02 Thread deloptes
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > I used to believe that, too. But nowadays I think users can be (and get!) > nudged into asking for whatever vendors want them to want. > Lets not talk about the users, because what I am seeing in the minds of the millenia is fearing. So I do not expect it to get better

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-02 Thread deloptes
Joe wrote: > Poor support for new hardware is a general problem for Linux, as > hardware is always designed for Windows, and drivers often have to be > reverse engineered for Linux. Red Hat is in a somewhat better position > than Debian, but no manufacturer is going to optimise their hardware >

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

2019-01-02 Thread deloptes
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Some scanners mail things around, these days. I don't want to even think > about how many security holes lurk in there. > > There's no limit to the amount of stupid^H^H^H^H^H^Hnonsense vendors are > capable of when enough computing power is put in their hands. When

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-03 Thread deloptes
On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 10:02 PM Ivan Ivanov wrote: > "Debian just plain works" - that's until someone discovers a yet > another one 0-day SystemD vuln and your server is Pwned. > I am telling it to you as a true Russian hacker, mwahahahaha! > Cheers, > Ivan Ivanov, > hacking SystemD while you

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-03 Thread deloptes
On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 10:42 PM Ivan Ivanov wrote: > Well, the topic title is "Why choose Debian on server" and I thought > of it as a perfect opportunity to compare Debian with another very > similar OS, Devuan. + To be honest, it is not the removal of a package > that worried me (of course

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread deloptes
Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > root@AbNormal:/home/comp# touch /etc/ld.so.cache > root@AbNormal:/home/comp# /sbin/ldconfig > /sbin/ldconfig: Writing of cache data failed: No such file or directory Tell us which version you have $ cat /etc/debian_version 9.6 check and post here if

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-04 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: > Disk /dev/mmcblk0p1: 41 MiB, 42991616 bytes, 83968 sectors > Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > Disklabel type: dos > Disk identifier: 0x > > No

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-04 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: > And becoming a bigger problem by each kernel release.  Just the bigger > stack image a context switch involves takes the 64 bit stuff into the > very close to unusable state. Even the hit of enabling pae on the 32 bit > stuff is a quite noticeable hit on the rt performance.

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-04 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: > My copy of FF only prints 1 page, which is the top  3" of the site's > front page, never getting down to any of the text past the headline. > > And it works on other sites. Same here

Re: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-04 Thread deloptes
Joe wrote: > Reinstalling looks good until you've done it, the old installation is > history, and over the next few weeks you realise how much time you had > spent over the last few years tweaking your computer to get it the way > you like it. > > And no, you cannot at the same time a) clear out

Re: Sound in Stretch

2018-09-12 Thread deloptes
Joe wrote: > That's not on any compatibility list anywhere, but it has worked OK for > years on Wheezy on the same computer hardware. Anyway, USB is USB, and > there really shouldn't be compatibility issues for at least basic > playback. I'm not trying to record or use SPDIF. could be that

Re: Sound in Stretch

2018-09-13 Thread deloptes
Joe wrote: > On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 08:23:58 +0200 > deloptes wrote: I also found this http://karuppuswamy.com/wordpress/2010/10/04/how-to-get-usb-sound-adapter-0d8c000c-working-as-primary-sound-card-in-debian-linux/ When I googled, I was adviced to try without USB hub. So I directly con

Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-12 Thread deloptes
Felix Miata wrote: > If the filesystem is being written to less than 5 minutes per year, what > do you suppose the odds are that power could be lost during any portion of > that less than 5 minutes of writing? Given my PCs are all running on > backup power, the odds are virtual zero. I want my

Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-14 Thread deloptes
Matthew Crews wrote: > Not an option if you want / root on LUKS. +1

Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-15 Thread deloptes
Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Interesting, when does grub get dropbear ssh equivalent, so that it > can be headless and have the crypted volume unlocked at boot using ssh? I also wish I knew how to get ssh into initrd and the whole networking, so that I could do it remotely when needed.

Re: Decrypting LUKS from initramfs; was: Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-17 Thread deloptes
Pascal Hambourg wrote: > How dos this address the above concern ? IMO this is not applicable when my server has to use encrypted root, which I would be able to decrypt via SSH at boot. The question is what do I gain when boot is not encrypted and I have there my SSH key and password and so on.

Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-14 Thread deloptes
Stefan Monnier wrote: > BTW, am I the only one here bothered that his 250MB /boot partition > tends to fill up, even though a 500MB HDD was plenty to hold the whole > OS plus lots and lots of free space, on a 64bit workstation like the > original DEC Alphas? you may consider removing old images

Re: Sound in Stretch [SOLVED]

2018-09-13 Thread deloptes
Jude DaShiell wrote: > For screen reader users with only usb sound available, this is a show > stopper. I see it as a temporary resolution. I think this should be reported and developers should come it a fix. Do we know that other usb audio devices suffer the same? regards

Re: blu-ray recommendations?

2018-12-02 Thread deloptes
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Brands or model names change frequently. I am happy with an ASUS BW-16D1HT > which seems still to be available. (My others are older.) > There are no brands with a specially bad reputation. Individual bloopers > happen. So the seller's warranty and replacement reputation

Re: do you find old firefox is better than new one?

2018-12-19 Thread deloptes
Michelle Konzack wrote: > I have no .mozilla file. > But the Diskspace is realy 26 GByte. it is not a file - it is directory and how do you know it is 26GB - where do you look at? Strange what you are saying regards

Re: handling lists in perl

2018-12-18 Thread deloptes
deloptes wrote: > if ( @array =~ /$hash[$key]/) { > print "key $key with value " . $hash{$key} . > " is in the array of values\n"; > } I checked and it seems the right answer is my %hash = ( 1=>8,2=>20,6=>100,15=>100 ); my @array = (1, 21, 100, 8

Re: handling lists in perl

2018-12-18 Thread deloptes
mick crane wrote: > except there is only one 100 in @array it gets me along. > thanks and David too. but this one 100 satisfies both 6 and 15 so 6 and 15 match. regards

Re: handling lists in perl

2018-12-19 Thread deloptes
mick crane wrote: > yes but there is only one 100, only one key can have it. > I still try to figure out what goes on with the hash pairs > with a longer list of numbers your example seems to pick up on the > values somehow. > I dunno, unless there is something about using $_ in a loop being >

Re: missing avidemux Debian package

2019-01-26 Thread deloptes
Andrea Borgia wrote: > Noted, as this tip would have been very useful a few weeks ago :P > Anyhow, I moved to "testing" so this is probably an issue solved for good. Well, I hope it will not be the last one for you :) Read the upgrade notes from Debian - saved me many troubles and I know people

Re: Enet names

2019-01-26 Thread deloptes
ghe wrote: > Futzing with systemd makes one wonder what MS has on some of the Linux > system programmers. :D

Re: Has NFS changed recently?

2019-01-27 Thread deloptes
John wrote: > nice idea but the uids are the same across the network; the gid differ > but that should not matter as the access is 600.  I can create and > delete files read them etc as expected. > > The files are mounted with nfs3 > > snout  

Re: Has NFS changed recently?

2019-01-27 Thread deloptes
John wrote: > I run a mixed Debian/openSuSE /android LAN an after an upgrade of one > component from jessie to stretch I have hit a big problem. > > Mail is delivered into a mbox on the Debian server, and the disk is > mounted on the user machine via NFS so the mail can be read into emacs > from

Re: Pulseaudio setup question

2019-01-28 Thread deloptes
Michael Earl Milliman wrote: > I regularly use at least one loopback module in my pulseaudio setup, > looping incoming USB audio stream back to the computer speakers and/or > bluetooth headphones.  This means that I almost always run 'pactl > load-module module-loopback' as one of the first

Re: systemd-journald failed to open runtime journal

2019-01-28 Thread deloptes
Charlie S wrote: > I think there is a bug in systemd that is shown at upgrade of buster, so > it should be held back before any upgrade is attempted. Sorry for irony but I just thought - I think it is bug by itself :D

Re: Bluetooth audio problem

2019-03-22 Thread deloptes
Mark Fletcher wrote: > So this turned out to be a weirdie -- if I dropped the "sudo" my > original command worked. > > So now, suddenly from that update that started this thread, if I run the > pactl command as an unprivileged user, it works fine. I have no idea why > it changed but I'm just

Re: blank time in console too short

2019-03-22 Thread deloptes
Hans wrote: > As I said, not in X, but the console in the terminal you reach by ALT-F1, > ALT-F2 and so on. And sa I also said: Both systems got an identical > configuration but behave different. > > Best > > Hans > > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ >

Re: xorg opengl / intel integrated graphics problem

2019-03-25 Thread deloptes
t...@t8w.de wrote: > due to a graphics card change in a few days, which will allow me to > properly use virtualization, I wanted to check a few things. First check, > starting the pc without the current dedicated graphics card, failed really > unexpectedly, because the integrated graphics card of

Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting

2019-03-25 Thread deloptes
Martin McCormick wrote: > deloptes writes: >> I just wonder why one would do that, but it is again your business. > > In all but a very small handful of countries around the > world, the hobby of amateur radio exists and it's justification > for existence is to allow

Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting

2019-03-24 Thread deloptes
Martin McCormick wrote: > Apparently, the flush after each new cycle of data isn't > taxing the system too much as the output looks correct.  This is > a 600 MHZ Pentium which would have gone in to the recycle bin > years ago if not for Linux.  Older systems like this tend to > accentuate the

Re: Debian bridge with one VLAN iface - after upgrade from Deb 8 to 9 tc filters are bypassed for VLAN traffic?

2019-04-03 Thread deloptes
kask...@email.cz wrote: > This setup worked smoothly for years until I upgraded Debian 8 do Debian 9 > (which I didn`t like to do but I had to, lets say). And now, in Debian 9 > only customer traffic which is not TAGged can reach tc filters and than is > properly send to appropriate tc class and

Re: text editors

2019-03-29 Thread deloptes
Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > EC> It's not. They are written in vimscript, analogous to elisp. > > Sorry not. While Elisp is a Lisp dialect, therefore is a language that > has been formally proved to be equivalent to turing-machine, that is > not certain for vimscript. > > And the elegance of the

Re: text editors

2019-03-29 Thread deloptes
John Hasler wrote: > deloptes writes: >> I've been listening at this BS at the university as well. Until now I >> have not seen any practical or pragmatic use of this. > > The results of ignoring it are evident all over the Web. this is true, unfortunately. It was 2009 w

Re: text editors

2019-03-29 Thread deloptes
John Hasler wrote: > I'm not trying to persuade anyone to use Emacs.  I am trying to convince > people not to be deterred from trying it because of myths such as "You > can't use Emacs if you can't program in Lisp". Sorry John, but all of this is obsolete, if you are pragmatic enough, you would

Re: text editors

2019-03-30 Thread deloptes
David Wright wrote: > Emacs has a huge repertoire of functionality accessible through its > commands, without any requirement to know or use *lisp. You sometimes > see some lisp-ish stuff on the screen when, say, using its help > system, but it can be ignored if you don't understand it. Just keep

Re: Liveusb w/ persistent data

2019-03-31 Thread deloptes
Joe B wrote: > I want to make a bootable buster with persistent data so it saves my > settings whenever I reboot. Which settings - the user settings from the desktop? If so, which desktop?

Re: text editors

2019-03-28 Thread deloptes
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Eating roquefort is impractical because you gotta drink wine anyway :-) > hahaha, true! > Look -- you can do both (I do). If you're looking for excuses to stay > away from Emacs: no need to, just do. But as little need to spread FUD > about Emacs. Yes, Emacs is a

Re: text editors

2019-03-28 Thread deloptes
John Hasler wrote: > In fact, much of what we now know as Emacs *is* extensions written in > Elisp and many more extensions are available.  You no more need to know > Elisp to use them or to install additional ones than you need to know C > to use Vim. I prefer learning C ;-)

Re: text editors

2019-03-28 Thread deloptes
Pierre Fourès wrote: >> So there are many nifty things in Emacs. But the real killer >> is the integration of all those nifty things. >> > > Wow, this gave me the desire to give a real serious try to Emacs ! Don't sell your soul to the devil (jokingly) :D

Re: text editors

2019-03-28 Thread deloptes
Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > d> really, I did not know that you could be me and you knew my > d> experience.  Anyway emacs is not bad for those who know it, but it > d> is impractical because you have mostly vim installed, so learning > d> vim is a must indeed. > > Your words would be very

Re: text editors

2019-03-28 Thread deloptes
Matyáš Bobek wrote: > I reckon writing vim extensions in C must be quite obscure... How is it > done? I just started with C and never needed to write extension so far, but I did use C to solve some kernel bugs :D

Re: text editors

2019-03-29 Thread deloptes
Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > If your work comprises repetitive tasks that can be automated, then > Emacs can help you a lot. > > If you have several, unrelated, small tasks, theni firing up vim and > then closing it may be a good choice. > > The trick with Emacs is doing as much things you can

Re: text editors

2019-03-29 Thread deloptes
Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > " It seems to me that there have been two really clean, consistent > models of programming so far: the C model and the Lisp model. These > two seem points of high ground, with swampy lowlands between them. As > computers have grown more powerful, the new languages being

Re: text editors

2019-03-28 Thread deloptes
John Hasler wrote: > Not true. really, I did not know that you could be me and you knew my experience. Anyway emacs is not bad for those who know it, but it is impractical because you have mostly vim installed, so learning vim is a must indeed. If you use debian I recommend learning ne - a

Re: text editors

2019-03-27 Thread deloptes
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > That would be a fatal mistake, indeed. But there's another hurdle, > which is not to be subestimated. Emacs, as an old program, comes > along with an old culture, with its own lispeltongue (i.e. "point" > instead of "cursor", "window" for "sub-frame", etc.). It takes a >

Re: text editors

2019-04-01 Thread deloptes
Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > d> I've been listening at this BS at the university as well. Until now > d> I have not seen any practical or pragmatic use of this. I have > d> worked with PL and prolog for a while ... unfortunately I think in > d> coming years or decades it all will be declared dead

Re: text editors

2019-04-01 Thread deloptes
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Do your reading before spewing nonsense: > > https://leanpub.com/lisphackers/read > > (and this is /only/ Common Lisp. There's Racket, Guile and the new > kid on the block, Clojure, each one with its own, quite interesting > projects -- check out Guix for Guile's

Re: text editors

2019-04-01 Thread deloptes
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > This view is outdated since nearly 90 years. The attempt to create a > language where semantical correctness results from syntactical correctness > was killed by Goedel's incompleteness theorem. > > The insight was not new then. Paul the Apostle wrote about Epimenides: >

Re: text editors

2019-03-25 Thread deloptes
Étienne Mollier wrote: > If I need some configuration, or a sort of shell functions > library, this is something I would consider. +1

Re: Discussion? New names of betwork devices

2019-03-23 Thread deloptes
Felix Miata wrote: > IME, using net.ifnames=0, the motherboard NIC closer to an ATX power > supply is always eth0. With BTX I've never had two NICs, but have to > suppose it would be the opposite. I think PCI(e) resources flow the same > direction, from CPU & PS/2 port end to last slot end.

Re: Discussion? New names of betwork devices

2019-03-24 Thread deloptes
Felix Miata wrote: > Time can't change motherboard components' relative physical positions. this is true, but to conclude that the numbering of the ethernet devices depends on the position of the ATX or whatever is a bit too much. Naturally it is left to right when you look at the back. regards

Re: OT : Windows 10 managed desktop

2019-02-23 Thread deloptes
Celejar wrote: >> Hi >> >> Sorry if this this is off topic, but this is something that as a free >> software we can perhaps take advantage of. >> >> Just had this posted to my local Linux user group irc channel >> >>

Re: What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset Link from CorrLinks]

2019-02-23 Thread deloptes
Celejar wrote: > It will often be somewhat more complicated. Many smarthosts will refuse > to accept mail if the envelope 'From' and / or the email 'From:' header > do not match the user's account name with the smarthost, so address > rewriting will be necessary. >From what I know is that sooner

Re: ntp-client does not sync with server

2019-03-01 Thread deloptes
Stefan K wrote: > Hi John, > > yes there are synced, if I run 'ntpdate timeserv.domain.ag' they syncd > everything fine, if I start ntp-server after 2-3Days I've an delay of few > seconds. Maybe I schould ask on the ntp-mailing list?! > > best regards > Stefan I have a similar problem. In a

Re: systemctl reboot fails (doesn't reboot)

2019-03-01 Thread deloptes
riveravaldez wrote: > Hi, I'm on debian-testing (updated), and found this issue: > > $ systemctl reboot At this point it is advisable to read some linux basics ... I think there are also videos in youtube - just like taking driving course or any kind of course for operating a device. I mean you

Re: dirmngr, can't live with it, can't live without it

2019-02-26 Thread deloptes
Jim Popovitch wrote: > On Wed, 2019-02-27 at 00:45 +0100, deloptes wrote: >> Jim Popovitch wrote: >> >> > On Tue, 2019-02-26 at 20:31 +0100, deloptes wrote: >> > > Jim Popovitch wrote: >> > > >> > > > What's up with dirmngr?  If d

Re: Fdw Fstab Questions

2019-03-05 Thread deloptes
Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > Finally, if the answer(s), to either or both, is/are 'no' - what should > the fstab entries be in order to allow users to Read/Write? Read/Write depends more or less on what permissions you grant to the directories, where those users are allowed to read and write. The

Re: Laptop still extremely slow after replacing msata ssd and putting old one back

2019-03-04 Thread deloptes
hdv@gmail wrote: > Could have been the case. But I have rebooted the laptop before replacing > the SSD to look at the BIOS settings. So in this case this was not so. double check - I had similar observation when trying to setup USB stick boot for a notebook - it's a company property, so not

Re: Bluetooth audio problem

2019-03-03 Thread deloptes
Mark Fletcher wrote: > Hello > > Since upgrading to Stretch shortly after it became stable, I have had to > execute the following after a reboot before being able to connect to > bluetooth devices using the Gnome bluetooth applet: > > $ sudo pactl load-module module-bluetooth-discover > >

Re: dirmngr, can't live with it, can't live without it

2019-02-26 Thread deloptes
Jim Popovitch wrote: > What's up with dirmngr?  If dirmngr is installed Evolution often takes > ages to open signed emails.  If dirmngr is not installed then (according > to p.d.o/buster/dirmngr) "the parts of the GnuPG suite that try to > interact with the network will fail" > > How can dirmngr

Re: Wireless Connectivity - Hot Spot vs Corp

2019-02-27 Thread deloptes
ray wrote: > I would appreciate any suggestions to help move past this. Have you tried network manager or wicd (I am not sure it was in gnome)? I gave up on manual work, removed all entries from the network files and let network manager do the work. In some hotels with funny hotspots it might be

Re: dirmngr, can't live with it, can't live without it

2019-02-26 Thread deloptes
Jim Popovitch wrote: > On Tue, 2019-02-26 at 20:31 +0100, deloptes wrote: >> Jim Popovitch wrote: >> >> > What's up with dirmngr?  If dirmngr is installed Evolution often >> > takes >> > ages to open signed emails.  If dirmngr is not installed then &g

Re: plasma5 - howto reload keyboard module?

2019-03-13 Thread deloptes
Hans wrote: > Oh, this behaviour is happening since years, and somewhere there is even a > bugreport of this, but no one ever cared. So I am looking for another > solution. the very reason to stay with KDE3 aka TDE. Did you look for error messages - post here and also the reference to the bug.

Re: congratulations to grub-pc and other debian maintainers

2019-03-13 Thread deloptes
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I hope you are not driving anywhere near me or mine! +1 its criminal

Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools

2019-03-11 Thread deloptes
deb wrote: > ClamAV I recall 15y ago we integrated kasperky into ClamAV. Easy to integrate and easy to use. Worked great. I left this company couple of years later, but it will not surprise me if they are still using the same setup.

Re: And now, from the Nice people? Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools

2019-03-11 Thread deloptes
deb wrote: > Not that I'm aware of. The thing is - instead of taking an insecure OS > and building assorted kludges (in the form of anti-virus) around it, > it's considered wise here to use a secure OS from the beginning. If you have windows users in your network, the best is to pay for a server

Re: systemd error

2019-03-13 Thread deloptes
Dan Ritter wrote: > Default User wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 12, 2019, 04:49 Ivan Ivanov wrote: >> >> > Well, I know a good solution that will work 100%: switch from Debian >> > to Devuan to avoid this SystemD. sadly Debian does not provide the >> > init system freedom, but if you'd switch to its'

Re: Strange VLC upgrade

2019-03-19 Thread deloptes
Michelle Konzack wrote: > the list continues endless! Hi Michelle, I gave it up on VLC long time ago. ported kplayer to TDE and this is it. I hope someone else will help, but I was in the same situation >10y ago. regards

Re: blank time in console too short

2019-03-19 Thread deloptes
Hans wrote: > I had the hope, there might be someone pointing me to something else, I > missed somewhere. :) by blank you mean the screen goes dark or the time it waits for password? For me blank is the screen goes dark and this is setting the blanking of the screen - nothing to do with the

Re: Printer pull half of a second blank page after the first printed page and stops

2019-03-19 Thread deloptes
Brian wrote: > Experimental packages (by their very nature) are not backported. > > In any case, what good is it supposed to do for this ancient printer? For me it was hard decision to give up the old HP 5L, but comparing to newer models everything was outstanding - power consumption, speed,

Re: And now, from the Nice people? Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools

2019-03-12 Thread deloptes
Curt wrote: > I don't follow how this follows from your erroneous attribution. try harder ;-)

Re: Have you used Duplicati 2.0.4.5 to backup Debian 9.8.0 Server?

2019-03-15 Thread deloptes
Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > Good morning from Singapore, > > Have you used Duplicati 2.0.4.5 to backup Debian 9.8.0 Server? > > Is it good? > > Thank you for your review. I was looking recently for a backup solution and did review few of them. I choose borg. I then asked a friend

Re: ssh policy change in new stretch??

2019-03-07 Thread deloptes
Long Wind wrote: > i run command below and it work in early debian: > > ssh zhou@192.168.1.3 > but new stretch says: > > ssh: connect to host 192.168.1.3 port 22: Connection refused > what should i do? Thanks! Run ssh -v zhou@192.168.1.3 or ssh -vv zhou@192.168.1.3 or ssh -vvv

Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting

2019-03-21 Thread deloptes
Martin McCormick wrote: > Before reading this posting, I added code in my perl > script to open, append and close the file but the suggestion to > add a signal handler is a much better idea so thanks for the > suggestion. I always use # Execute anytime before the . # Causes the currently

Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?

2019-02-06 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: > Not that I know about ATM. But the woofs family has a few small pieces of > gas well royalties, and they always mail the checks so they get here > late Friday's, too late to hit the bank with such a piddly deposit.  And > by Monday its buried in this midden heap and

Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?

2019-02-06 Thread deloptes
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Attempt at an explanation: as IPV4 gets more and more exhausted, > we're bound to see small slivers of IPV4 space "recycled" and > allocated to random places -- IP address to geolocation "mapping" > becoming more and more fractal and (time-) dynamic. Admins: > enjoy

Re: Stretch to buster

2019-02-09 Thread deloptes
Patrick Bartek wrote: > As for me, I'm the patient, very practical type.  Debian is my distro > of choice after almost 20 years of using other Linuxes because of its > philosophy of stability and bug-freeness above all else. I'll wait > until Buster is in Release Candidate status before testing

Re: Sound stoped unecpected

2019-02-12 Thread deloptes
Michelle Konzack wrote: > Why does the ThinkPad crash or freeze, > if I have a power failure on the DockingStation... I assume you have the battery in the notebook - so it is perhaps something related to the power management - what dows your log say?

Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?

2019-02-05 Thread deloptes
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > I'd guess the same. But... now it gets interesting: blocked by whom? > China? North Korea? Yes just tried whois wvsto.com and accessible from here Europe. I don't think one would block this site

Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?

2019-02-07 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: > You are just playing in a bigger rodeo.  I have had to write 2 checks for > the last 2 vehicles I've bought. Writing a single check for close to > $20k for a good used car/truck doesn't fly, some sort of a rule that 10k > and over has to be reported so the irs can watch for

Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?

2019-02-07 Thread deloptes
Curt wrote: > I thought the $10,000 rule had to do with *cash*. > > Cash does not include: > > • Personal checks drawn on the account of the writer. > • A cashier’s check, bank draft, traveler’s check or money order with a > face value of more than $10,000. > >

Re: missing avidemux Debian package

2019-01-25 Thread deloptes
bapt x wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a reason for avidemux video editor is not being in the official > Debian package repository? > I see multimedia packages like VLC video player are present in the > official repository so it should not be a legal problem. > It would be nice to have this package

Re: I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7

2019-01-25 Thread deloptes
Pete Geenhuizen wrote: > I am mainly a Centos user and am quite a novice when it comes to Debian > and I have a computer which is currently running Stretch 9.6 and I > recently install apt 1.4.9. > > With the release of Stretch 9.7 and because of the recent vulnerability > discovered in apt I'm

Re: missing avidemux Debian package

2019-01-25 Thread deloptes
David Wright wrote: > And to be fair, that has been spelled out in the Release Notes ever > since etch was released in 2007. Before that, the warning was less > explicit. No idea what you are talking about, perhaps I am the only lucky one, or I am not using the apps that caused your problems

Re: USB hard drives -- recommendations?

2019-01-25 Thread deloptes
James H. H. Lampert wrote: > Would anybody care to voice an opinion on USB external hard drives in > the 2 terabyte size range, for automated backup purposes? > > We've been looking at the Seagate "Expansion" and the WD "Elements"; > I've noticed that on Amazon, both have a fair number of

Re: Need help getting Cinelerra to run

2019-01-25 Thread deloptes
Jiangsu Kumquat wrote: > Please email me directly with your reply as I probably will not see your > reply in the mailing list. > > Cinelerra is a fantastic non-linear video editor for Linux. Unfortunately > I am unable to get it running under Debian. I'm using stable with latest > updates. (This

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