Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

2019-10-19 Thread deloptes
Joe wrote: > And it's not so much fundamental languages as the buzzwords, the > frameworks, 'agile' programming, AJAX, and things like proprietary CMS > (C for both content and customer) systems. Nobody ever asks for basic > programming skills. You are sooo right, but one must understand the

Re: Persistent names for audio devices.

2019-10-20 Thread deloptes
Peter Easthope wrote: > Can an audio device be named similarly?  Eg. given two USB audio > adapters how would they be assigned the names "USBheadset" and > "USBspeakers"? > I think it is important to do the proper indexing /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf options snd_hda_intel index=0 options

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

2019-10-20 Thread deloptes
Dan Ritter wrote: > deloptes wrote: >> SQL, Python, PERL, C/C++, JAVA. I wonder why I did not see PHP ... but >> well. > > For about a decade, PHP was the province of people who copied > scripts from Matt's Script Archive and didn't know what security > holes they w

Re: Good advice on Linux (debian) compatible microscope

2019-10-27 Thread deloptes
Bob Weber wrote: > If you aren't concerned about high quality then this might be of interest. > > Jiusion 40 to 1000x Magnification Endoscope on amazon for about $22.  Best > of all it works on linux!  No drivers needed on Debian. No, please, I am interested in quality. I prefer paying a bit

Re: What every programmer should know about memory, in 2019?

2019-10-27 Thread deloptes
Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Well, I don't have any great insights here, but row hammer, spectre, > meltdown and the like weren't a thing back then were it?  There are > more "modern" day exploits against memory, especially with shared > servers ... you know, those cloud servers that too many people

Re: Good advice on Linux (debian) compatible microscope

2019-10-27 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: > Agreed, its essentially useless for what I want to do. Way too wide a > field of view. I need an endoscope sized camera with a long lens and a > very narrow F.O.V. for mounting on a milling machine head for a video > edge finder. For this app, it needs focusing, or at least

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-27 Thread deloptes
Richard Owlett wrote: > Would what you do explicitly depend on EFI? > I don't have a clear idea of what Kenneth described in his original post. > HOWEVER, having such a system might be worthwhile to explore some of my > ideas. I have a collection of elderly machines, some with only legacy > BIOS.

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-27 Thread deloptes
Tom Browder wrote: > That would be great! As usual, the Devil is in the details! well, it is not a rocket science as shown above - I'll post here this evening or tomorrow. I need to redo this on the debian system and see if there are some differences

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-27 Thread deloptes
Brian wrote: > Why "someone"? Why not you? > Cause I may not have the time to do so, but of course it can be me. >> >> regards >> >> This is a step by step how to to install debian on a USB stick and >> make this stick bootable.  The stick in the example is found under >> /dev/sdb. Change to

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-27 Thread deloptes
Peter Ehlert wrote: > I have tried it, several times, but was unable to get Grub properly > installed... not able to boot. > I too would like such a tool Let me know how it works - perhaps someone could put it on the Debian Wiki after refinement. regards This is a step by step how to to

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-27 Thread deloptes
Brian wrote: >> Cause I may not have the time to do so, but of course it can be me. > > Time (and the fun in taking on a task) is what keeps Debian alive. > I would write a wiki on debian only if it is approved by the community. I think it is fair, so if we agree, but also someone else can do

Re: OT Linux on Android mailing / discussion lists

2019-10-16 Thread deloptes
Paul Sutton wrote: > As I am aware this is off topic, (unless we can install Debian)are > there any recommended mailing lists / forums for installing Linux on > Android tablets please?  Asking here as I may get a useful answer to > signpost me to somewhere useful. > > We have an old Storage

[SOLVED] Re: Problems with Buster and Bluetooth

2019-10-15 Thread deloptes
David Parker wrote: > It turns out this may have been a hardware issue all along.  When I got > the new PC a few weeks ago, I just plugged the USB Bluetooth adapter into > a port on the front and went from there.  It turns out that I had chosen a > USB 3.1 port, which can cause interference and

Re: Script does not do what it is told to do

2019-10-24 Thread deloptes
Ken Heard wrote: > Whenever I run this script -- or several others like it > > #!/bin/bash > # Script to back up all browser files in directory /home/ken/mozilla. > STARTDIR=$PWD > cd /home/ken > tar -czf /media/fde/backups/kbrowsers.tgz  --exclude-caches \ > --wildcards -T

Re: What every programmer should know about memory, in 2019?

2019-10-24 Thread deloptes
Boyan Penkov wrote: > Ulrich Drepper's piece on on-chip memory architectures is a fantastic > read, and I recently had the chance to revisit it -- > https://people.freebsd.org/~lstewart/articles/cpumemory.pdf > > I am writing to ask more knowledgeable folks if the last 13 years have > seen

Re: Script does not do what it is told to do

2019-10-24 Thread deloptes
Ken Heard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2019-10-24 7:12 p.m., Anuradha Weeraman wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 06:37:08PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: >>> tar -czf /media/fde/backups/kbrowsers.tgz --exclude-caches \ - >>> --wildcards -T

Re: Script does not do what it is told to do

2019-10-25 Thread deloptes
Ken Heard wrote: > the archive.  It is properly mounted, and I can write files to it and > read those files.  As I said in my original post I am able to write > the archive successfully to /media/fde/backups/ by copying the tar > command line to a console and read the contents of the tarball. >

Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types

2019-10-25 Thread deloptes
Celejar wrote: > We had a long thread about this back in April [0], but no good solution > was presented, so I decided to design a framework to address this > problem. It's probably overkill, but it was a good opportunity to > practice my Perl in general, and learn how to write a web application

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-29 Thread deloptes
Kenneth Parker wrote: > Background:  One of my "volunteer activities" is to "Rehabilitate" really > old Hardware, to keep it off our Landfills, and to have it available to > people with Extremely Low finances.  I was part of an organization in > Seattle, doing this, but I am not finding others,

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-29 Thread deloptes
Kenneth Parker wrote: > Here I am.  And yes, I have run installs on USB Drives, on one system, and > then tried to boot it on another.  Things that go wrong include different > naming conventions for Ethernet, sound woes, and even (at least once) only > getting into Text Mode, due to wildly

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-29 Thread deloptes
Jimmy Johnson wrote: > My acer aspire one is not having a problem and another acer with 17 inch > screen, hdmi and ddr3 is not having a problem, I can't get at the model > right now. You may have to fiddle with your bios, on a samsung I have to > go to bios at boot, to boot device where I find

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-29 Thread deloptes
Joe wrote: > That's OK, so will I when an OS version of Access exists. I'm not > holding my breath. The business enforces is, we can not do anything against. I don't mind using the crap if they pay the license and they pay me for using it. I used to have one linux pc before, but now I have to

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

2019-10-19 Thread deloptes
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Never did much Perl, but I think anything (well, not sure about obfuscated > C) is more readable than APL. I am not sure if it makes sense to compare a modern car engine with one constructed 150y ago.

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

2019-10-19 Thread deloptes
James H. H. Lampert wrote: > The OP wanted this treated as a survey, and so . . . > > Many dialects and derivatives of BASIC, including (but not limited to) > IBM VS-BASIC (ran on 370 and compatible mainframes), TRS-80 Level 1, > Level 2, and Mod I Disk BASIC, GWBASIC, and the various QBASICs >

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

2019-10-19 Thread deloptes
Brian wrote: > You, and everybody else, may as well have skipped the whole post and > saved the List from wasting bandwidth. I ask you > > > This is just a quick survey. > > Really? > > > I am considering being a programmer > > Wowee. > > > Turritopsis Dohrnii > > Jellyfish. Hard to

Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types

2019-10-25 Thread deloptes
deloptes wrote: > push  "route 10.1.1.0  255.255.255.0" > push  "route 192.168.1.0  255.255.255.0" as it seems the level is basic these both lines are here (AFAIR) to make it possible that different PCs in the VPN see each other and that the PC on th

Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types

2019-10-25 Thread deloptes
Celejar wrote: > I'm not sure exactly what networking scheme you're describing, but I > explained why there's no easy, good solution in the original thread. > Basically, the home network uses 192.168.0.0/24, as do other LANS I > connect to. My VPN uses 10.0.0.0/24. When the laptop is connected >

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-26 Thread deloptes
Kenneth Parker wrote: > What is different this time, is that I'd like to be able to Boot this from > different Systems, probing their Network, Sound, Video, Keyboard and Mouse > systems on Bootup, but leaving any Local Hard Drives alone.  Existing > systems do this, for example, Knoppix, but it's

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-26 Thread deloptes
deloptes wrote: > Just did this yesterday on a RHEL server - it actually doesn't matter what > linux is there. It all works the  same way. > > I used EFI so I setup GPT and created the 3 partitions marking the first > (EFI) as bootable. > Format all as required and mount for ex

Good advice on Linux (debian) compatible microscope

2019-10-26 Thread deloptes
Hi, I read some time ago a discussion here about microscope and I am thinking for long time to buy one. I have no idea what I have to look at, so I hope someone would help make the right choice. Here are some of the requirements and questions I have Req. 400x zoom is OK, but I saw also

Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types

2019-10-25 Thread deloptes
Dan Ritter wrote: > I use a much better supported system called Debian. It did > require me to spend a bit more on the firewall hardware, but on > the other hand it is tremendously speedy and configurable. > > -dsr- +1 here spent 250,- 12y ago for a industrial board pc with 3 network devices.

Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types

2019-10-25 Thread deloptes
Celejar wrote: > I don't get it - IIUC, this sort of thing will work if a given system > is always available via a remote connection. In such a case, we can set > up the routes so that clients on the local network know to route > packets to the given system through the VPN server. But in my case,

Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types

2019-10-25 Thread deloptes
Celejar wrote: > Furthermore, changing the addressing scheme is insufficient to solve > the problem: say the home network uses 10.0.0.0/16, and the VPN is > configured to assign the same address to the laptop that it gets when > it's connected locally. How do hosts on the local network that want

Re: Firefox Seems to Have a Mind of It's Own

2019-10-26 Thread deloptes
Kenneth Parker wrote: > And note that people use Debian all over the world, with all sorts of > Primary Languages.   Ken Heard is pointing out, exactly why English is one > of the hardest Languages to learn especially from Asian Countries.   But > this sort of issue (its verses it's) hits people

Re: Good advice on Linux (debian) compatible microscope

2019-10-26 Thread deloptes
Doug McGarrett wrote: > You haven't said what you're going to look at, but in my humble opinion, > if you only want to LOOK, not record, a binocular optical microscope > with a ring light and under slide illumination option is the way to go. > I don't know if a high magnification microscope like

Re: Latest KDE packages update removed KDE

2019-10-22 Thread deloptes
Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > When you use Debian Sid, you are expected to understand how to hold back > updates during library migrations. > > I recommend to either a) use Debian testing or Debian stable, or b) be > more cautious when updating packages - e.g. look at the warnings emitted > from the

Re: Configuring hotplugged input devices

2019-11-30 Thread deloptes
Nicolas George wrote: >> The logical consequence is a contradiction caused by your statement. > > Your reasoning is flawed. > It makes no sense to argue with true believers >> So you do not edit xorg.conf at the end. > > Congratulations, you got it the third time. > I got it also from the

Re: Configuring hotplugged input devices

2019-11-30 Thread deloptes
Nicolas George wrote: > Ok, you win: obviously you knew all along how to edit xorg.conf without > editing it. I stand corrected. I did not say I knew how to do it. I said I understood what you are doing. I am also not English native speaker, but you could put some more effort to make precise

Re: Configuring hotplugged input devices

2019-11-30 Thread deloptes
Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> I want a solution for simple users, without root permissions to edit >> xorg.conf. >> >> If there is no standard solution, would you like one? I have a small >> program that can serve as the basis for one, I can publish it if that >> would be useful. > > This looks like

Re: Configuring hotplugged input devices

2019-11-30 Thread deloptes
The Wanderer wrote: > I understand this to mean: "there is a known way to achieve what I want > by editing xorg.conf, but I want a solution which can be configured and > adjusted by an ordinary user, and thus a solution which requires that > the user have permissions to edit xorg.conf is not

Re: Configuring hotplugged input devices

2019-11-30 Thread deloptes
Nicolas George wrote: > Indeed, you cannot edit a file without the permissions. The logical > consequence is that the result can be achieved without editing the file > at all. The power of X11 and the power of logical reasoning are > wonderful, aren't they? > The logical consequence is a

Re: Serial port software

2019-11-28 Thread deloptes
John Hasler wrote: > How close you can get to "proper RS232 serial port operation" > will probably be limited by the USB <-> serial chip in that cable. Haha indeed there is too much junk out there. I did some research years ago and bought one with prolofic chip (made in Taiwan). It is definitely

Re: Extracting tabular text from a pdf

2019-11-28 Thread deloptes
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Emacs is always overkill. OTOH, "Emacs is overkill" is always > a lame excuse. It is parallel universe

Re: Upgrading point release from 10 to 10.1

2019-09-20 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: > I have to play Sam Elliot here, John, reminding us that it took a special > kind of stupid to elect what we did elect in the last poll. But Gene, it was not hard given the alternative. I still think it is the less evil what you and we got :| In fact I can't remember when

Re: rpi4 vs mouse

2019-09-20 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: > Finally Found it, on their forum. add usbhid.mousepoll=0 (space > separated) to /boot/cmdline.txt. > > So now its available in the list archives too. Don't know about you Gene - with the raspbian image I did not have issue with the mouse. TDE - you know. Mouse goes via

Re: Problems with Buster and Bluetooth

2019-09-24 Thread deloptes
Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 01:21:03PM -0400, David Parker wrote: >> Ok, I think I may have solved the connectivity issue. Some additional >> Googling revealed that GDM starts an instance of PulseAudio, and that >> conflicts with the PulseAudio server used by the Bluetooth

Re: Default Debian install harassed me

2019-10-06 Thread deloptes
goleo . wrote: > You are a bunch of hypocrites and assholes, you are not > fighting for freedom, you just provide separate contrib and > non-free repositories just to make up illusion of fighting fighting > for freedom. by saying this you are describing your self at the same moment. Feel free

Re: Root account is locked

2019-10-06 Thread deloptes
Arturo K wrote: > good day Debian team, > Hi, we are not debian team, but the user list. > I can access to initial login screen and enter my access password but the > enter key (hit( doesn't respond, neither ctrl+F5,..,ctrl+F8, nor any > other. > Did you check your keyboard? > I uninstalled

Re: cannot bring up phpmyadmin in browser, cannot link to mysql

2019-10-05 Thread deloptes
Miles Fidelman wrote: > Other piece of advice:  I've found that complex software works better > when installed from a source tarball, with ./config; make install. Sorry, but this is a complete BS. Also reffering to some notes from may be 15y ago does not answer the question. The one which

Re: fstrim and Luks / dm-raid

2019-10-05 Thread deloptes
Reco wrote: > Curious. I avoid RAID5/6 due to the old habit, but it's something that's > good to go. But what do you use? RAID5 is most efficient for building large arrays - what is the alternative?

Re: Problems with Buster and Bluetooth

2019-10-07 Thread deloptes
David Parker wrote: > # hciconfig -a > hci0: Type: Primary  Bus: USB > BD Address: 5C:F3:70:8C:B7:98  ACL MTU: 1021:8  SCO MTU: 64:1 > UP RUNNING PSCAN > RX bytes:62062 acl:40 sco:0 events:3178 errors:0 > TX bytes:499936 acl:776 sco:0 commands:1088 errors:38 > Features: 0xbf 0xfe 0xcf 0xfe 0xdb

Re: Problems with Buster and Bluetooth

2019-10-10 Thread deloptes
David Parker wrote: > # dbus-send --print-reply --system --dest=org.bluez > /org/bluez/hci0/dev_9B_1F_48_B8_55_F6 org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get > string:org.bluez.Device1 string:TxPower This is a property of the device. I am not sure if it is visible onlywhen connected. I am sure I have

Re: lenovo t410 - i915 - black screen

2019-10-08 Thread deloptes
Frederic Robert wrote: > [Oct 8 14:10] [drm:ironlake_irq_handler [i915]] *ERROR* CPU pipe A FIFO > underrun > [ +0.83] [drm:ironlake_irq_handler [i915]] *ERROR* PCH transcoder A > FIFO underrun > > Sorry if my english is not good. What's the problem? Have you done upgrades and what is your

Re: lenovo t410 - i915 - black screen

2019-10-09 Thread deloptes
Frederic Robert wrote: > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor > Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) > Subsystem: Lenovo Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller > Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 28 > Memory at

Re: Problems with Buster and Bluetooth

2019-10-03 Thread deloptes
David Parker wrote: > Thanks for the additional information.  Unfortunately, the connection > problems have returned and I haven't made any progress in solving them. > When I kill the pulseaudio process, it simply restarts itself and I'm > unable to stop this behavior, so I therefore can't run it

Re: Problems with Buster and Bluetooth

2019-10-03 Thread deloptes
David Parker wrote: > I'm starting to suspect that this is mostly a bluetooth issue and not > really a PA one.  I struggle to get these earbuds connected whether > PulseAudio is involved or not.  I can trust them and pair them just fine, > but the actual connection generally fails, and when it

Re: kernel unsigned

2019-10-03 Thread deloptes
Gerard ROBIN wrote: >> What exactly bugs you about the signed kernel?  The kernel is so big >> that the extra signatures hardly make a difference. > I read somewhere that the signed kernel was for the "secure boot" of > microsoft and I have nothing of microsoft on my machine, so that's why > I

Re: iptables why rejects this output?

2019-10-05 Thread deloptes
BAGI Ákos wrote: > How can I enable it with iptables? (I have lot of iptables rules). > Is it ok, to enable  it? without the iptables rules it is hard to tell - post the rules (iptables-save)

Re: kernel unsigned

2019-10-05 Thread deloptes
Étienne Mollier wrote: > I don't know if someone else hit some other corner base, but > signed kernels, bootloaders, drivers, and the like are only > required if one wishes to, or has to, boot with UEFI Secure Boot > enabled.  That's the only configuration I can think of where it > would be

Re: Middle click functionality as paste in KDE

2019-10-12 Thread deloptes
aprekates wrote: > Middle click indeed open links in new tabs in firefox.' > > So that means that middle button i guess are identified > at some level. But if you are correct i must search in > X config level to make it work? better check your mouse settings - for example 3 button mouse etc

Re: Digtal microscope

2019-12-22 Thread deloptes
Kamil Jońca wrote: > I want to buy microscope, but I do not know if any would work under > linux. > I suspect that most of them are visible as a camera (with PTP/MTP > protocol) but I  cannot found many descriptions. I also had this questionsome time ago. Advises I got were to by relative cheap

Re: Build Kernel 5.5 RC1 for Raspberry4

2019-12-20 Thread deloptes
Nigel Sollars wrote: > You might want to run make menuconfig after copying the config .. > perhaps do the same with the 4.19 kernel also and do a compare of > 'what is' and 'what is not' there in the 5.5 perhaps things have been > moved around a bit in the kconfig stuff. > Not sure if this is

Re: Build Kernel 5.5 RC1 for Raspberry4

2019-12-20 Thread deloptes
basti wrote: > i have done make menuconfig and / or make dist-clean and so on. > build the kernel does not seem the problem. it looks like rpi4 cant boot > this. but i have no rpi3 at the moment to test if it runs on it. > > some days ago i read on a place i cant remember that the boot process

Re: problems with skype

2019-12-17 Thread deloptes
Emanuele Latini wrote: > My problem is the following During and after skype video call it's like > the keyboad gets crazy, if you push a key once it's like you never > stopped pushing it and every app get stuck. There s only one solution, > reboot In my opnion skype uses your usb camera correct?

Re: RFC Debian and Xfce daily desktop on Dell Latitude 54XX

2019-12-03 Thread deloptes
David Christensen wrote: > Thanks for the reply.  :-) > > > Do you use X?  If so, which display manager or desktop?  What are the > hardware specs and how does it hold up with heavy desktop usage? Yes X and TDE former KDE3 as display manager (might be exotic to some, but it is so stable and

Re: Looking for FOSS supported PCIe x4 SATA 6 Gb/s HBA with 4 or 8 ports

2020-02-10 Thread deloptes
> My research thus far: > > 1. LSI products are popular, but: > > a. Most seem to be PCIe x8. > > b. STFW I see more than a few posts complaining about changing > firmware from RAID to non-RAID, buggy firmware releases, and/or > motherboard BIOS/UEFI incompatibilities with the

Re: FOSS friendly PDA?

2020-02-13 Thread deloptes
Richard Owlett wrote: > It's unclear on > https://store.planetcom.co.uk/collections/popular-items/products/gemini-pda-1 > > If it currently ships to US (although another page lists price in US > dollars). > I raise the question as https://shop.jolla.com/ explicitly states: > >> Sailfish X is

Re: The nightmare of Intel Integrated GPUs under Linux in general and Debian in particular

2020-02-13 Thread deloptes
Miguel A. Vallejo wrote: >> I've never had an Intel GPU but always had the impression they >> were pretty solid, but my opinion is changing. > > As a user of Intel GPUs for the last 5 years I can tell you Intel GPUs > and Linux are just a nightmare. A truly pain in the ass. > May be in yours

Re: Best file system to use?

2020-02-13 Thread deloptes
Dennis Wicks wrote: > I have been using xfs but that is based on info > from many years ago. If you have had no issues with xfs, why not use it in the future too?

Re: Anyone with experience scanning with Epson

2020-02-09 Thread deloptes
Renato Gallo wrote: > try iscan or simple-scan +1 using iscan works perfectly fine, but I am not sure how recent and working is the latest version you can find. I had to patch 2.30.1 when moved to stretch mainly because libpng16 replaced libpng12. I am using E 330 for couple of years already.

Re: FOSS friendly PDA?

2020-02-12 Thread deloptes
Richard Owlett wrote: > It must use a standard Linux (Debian preferred). > The manufacturer should ship with the Linux installed. > Android is *UNACCEPTABLE*! > It should NOT have cell connectivity. > If it has WiFi, I must be able to disable it. Look at Sailfish OS and community ports. Recently

Re: Best file system to use?

2020-02-13 Thread deloptes
Didar Hossain wrote: > I have been using XFS for data on dual HDD (RAID1->LVM->LUKS->XFS) on > Debian Stretch for more than a year, haven't experienced issues yet. OS is > on Ext4 on SDD. I use Urbackup (www.urbackup.org) to backup multiple > Windows machines to this box as well as Samba for

Re: ifup && iptables error

2020-02-25 Thread deloptes
William Torrez Corea wrote: > [] Loading netfilter rules...run-parts: executing > /usr/share/netfilter-persistent/plugins.d/15-ip4tables start > Bad argument `COMMIT' > Error occurred at line: 4 > Try `iptables-restore -h' or 'iptables-restore --help' for more > information. run-parts: >

Re: Connection closed by [IP] port [port] [preauth]

2020-02-25 Thread deloptes
Tixy wrote: >> Since February 11th at 00:25:09, I am getting the following every 12 >> secondes: >> >> Feb 11 00:25:09 box sshd[17733]: Connection closed by 118.126.105.120 >> port 54422 [preauth] > > I'm getting that too. +1 :( and I am not using standard port 22, so they scanned all 3

Re: new, not nice web bots disposal

2020-02-26 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: > over the last 90 days or so, we seem to have been plauged with a new > breed of bots scanning our web pages, and they are not just indexing our > web pages I don't mind that, but they are ignoring our robots.txt and > are  mirroring anything apache2 can reach, including

Re: multilingual setup ...

2020-02-26 Thread deloptes
john doe wrote: > I install Debian with the 'C' local and build extra locales that are > needed. Then in the CLI I use the desired local using 'LANG' and LANGUAGE' > in the files mentioned in this thread. If you have a desktop environment > (gnome mate ...) you also need to install language

Re: Can I run dnsmasq as boot server in my environment

2020-02-29 Thread deloptes
john doe wrote: > I would rather look there to get it working with your current setup. > looks like dnsmasq is more cooperative - I don't know how to do it with the current setup :/ >> It seems however dnsmasq does the job >> with just few lines in the configuration. >> So I am wondering if I

Can I run dnsmasq as boot server in my environment

2020-02-29 Thread deloptes
Hi, I am running isc-dhcp-server, bind9 and tftp-hpa. All machines can do diskless boot (i386, amd64 and rpi3) except rpi4. I couldn't bring the dhcp and tftp server to work together. It seems however dnsmasq does the job with just few lines in the configuration. So I am wondering if I can

Re: High DPI (4K), laptop screen, mode settings, fonts and initramfs-tools

2020-03-01 Thread deloptes
Darac Marjal wrote: >> Is there an "official" way to accomplish this via hooks in >> initramfs-tool? Are there user/system hooks that would be preserved >> across initramfs-tool updates and a correct/conventional way of >> implementing them? >> >> This is initramfs-tools 0.13deb10u1 I don't have

Re: ASUSTek Computer, Inc. USB-N13 802.11n Network Adapter (rev. B1) [Realtek RTL8192CU]

2020-03-04 Thread deloptes
Charles Curley wrote: > On Tue, 03 Mar 2020 22:29:09 +0100 > deloptes wrote: > >> Charles Curley wrote: >> >> > However, the adapter does not show up in the results of "ifconfig >> > -a" or "iwconfig". >> >> just wonder

Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

2020-03-02 Thread deloptes
basti wrote: > Why you do not simply prepare the SSD (partition/align) and after that > add the SSD as 3rd drive to the raid? > > When all is synced you can kick off the HDD's or that them to "Write > mostly". +1 However partitioning is still required, but the best way to copy the data is to

Re: [SOLVED] Can I run dnsmasq as boot server in my environment

2020-03-03 Thread deloptes
David wrote: > [...] > >> But the codes, alas, are not interpretable according to the >> ref given. An exercise for the reader :) >> >> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DHCP#Options > > My guess (untested) would be per Section 8.4 in > https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2132 > with the leading

Re: ASUSTek Computer, Inc. USB-N13 802.11n Network Adapter (rev. B1) [Realtek RTL8192CU]

2020-03-03 Thread deloptes
Charles Curley wrote: > However, the adapter does not show up in the results of "ifconfig -a" or > "iwconfig". just wondering what "rfkill list" says

[SOLVED] Can I run dnsmasq as boot server in my environment

2020-03-02 Thread deloptes
john doe wrote: > On 2/29/2020 6:20 PM, deloptes wrote: >> john doe wrote: >> >>> I would rather look there to get it working with your current setup. >>> >> >> looks like dnsmasq is more cooperative - I don't know how to do it with >> the cur

Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

2020-03-02 Thread deloptes
Michael Stone wrote: > -1, unecessary busy work +(-1) configurations grown during the years broken - hard to restore

Re: now gmail rant

2020-03-05 Thread deloptes
ghe wrote: > Free (lower tier -- $4 a month next step up). Open sourcing their code. > Significant security features -- end to end encryption, etc.). Great user > support. In Switzerland, far away from crackers and the NSA... This is a joke as recently was publish that a swiss based company was

Re: Is there a way to load/unload a firmware manually?

2020-03-05 Thread deloptes
Mikhail Morfikov wrote: > Basically there's an option to load/unload a kernel module via modprobe > and modprobe -r . Is there a way to do this with, for instance, WiFi > firmware? Also, what happens to the loaded firmware when you unload the > corresponding module? And another question: when I

Re: now gmail rant

2020-03-06 Thread deloptes
Curt wrote: > Oh yeah. > > https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51467536 > > I think that's the German *BND* Federal Intelligence Service (at least > according to the BBC). yes this is it. so people (governments, etc.) were believing they do encrypted stuff w/o being spied and the deliverying

Re: Is there a way to load/unload a firmware manually?

2020-03-06 Thread deloptes
Mikhail Morfikov wrote: > I'm just asking because I had a BCM WiFi card in my previous laptop and > that card needed firmware-brcm80211 . Now I have a new laptop, and it > has an Intel WiFi, which needs firmware-iwlwifi . I have the same setup > (LUKSv2+LVM), and the exact same system (it was

Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation?

2020-02-23 Thread deloptes
Philippe LeCavalier wrote: >> > Sophos has ai learning and threat analysis mitigation tactics built in. >> >> In which way does it make my statement false? >> >> And more importantly, are there known cases where it detected an attack >> before the corresponding security hole had been found?  How

Re: [SOLVED] Can I run dnsmasq as boot server in my environment

2020-03-03 Thread deloptes
> > > The trick was to add following line to the dhcpd.conf > >option vendor-encapsulated-options > 6:1:3:a:4:0:50:58:45:9:14:0:0:11:52:61:73:70:62:65:72:72:79:20:50:69:20:42:6f:6f:74:ff; > > This could be added to a class, but I have only one rpi4, so added > directly to the client

Re: identity confusion

2020-01-24 Thread deloptes
Wayne Sallee wrote: > This is interesting. I'm not sure what to think about this. > > on terminal, as user1 > su - > # Enter root password. so now you are root > su - user2 > # No password is needed. so now you are user2 > mysql > Access denied for user 'user1'@'localhost' (using password:

Re: Issue with headset on debian testing

2020-01-26 Thread deloptes
Anton Vorobyov wrote: > > Hi. > > I want to file a bug report, but I am not familiar with sound system in > linux enough to determine which package is to blame. > > So, my issue started only recently. I have a laptop with Debian Testing. > Previously, when I plug in my headset (2x 3.5mm jacks

Re: Kernel Panic

2020-01-27 Thread deloptes
deloptes wrote: > And gcrypt is libcrypt-2.28.so not .so.20 sorry I was wrong about that /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.20 is linked to /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgpg-error.so.0 check where the link is pointing to ldd /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.20 linux-vdso.s

Re: Kernel Panic

2020-01-26 Thread deloptes
john doe wrote: > On 1/27/2020 7:24 AM, William Torrez Corea wrote: >> I get the following error, when i send this command >> sudo apt get update >> >> sudo: unable to resolve host debian: Temporary failure in name resolution >> apt: relocation error: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.20: symbol

Re: Planning a Debian NAS

2020-01-27 Thread deloptes
Aidan Gauland wrote: > Can a r-pi be set up with RAID easily? perhaps yes as it is more or less normal linux, but where do you attach the disks - do you think of using a SATA extention? I do not know what is the throughput of such extentions, but should be considered.

Re: Planning a Debian NAS

2020-01-27 Thread deloptes
basti wrote: > Yes a rpi can run software raid with mdadm. In this case I would use a > rpi4b with USB3 and USB to SATA adapter but be aware that the rpi is at > the moment not fully supportet by debian > (https://github.com/lategoodbye/rpi-zero/issues/43). If raspian is good > enough for your

Re: Dell BIOS Changes

2020-01-27 Thread deloptes
J. D. Leach wrote: > Have a Dell Inspiron 3668 desktop with the latest Dell firmware > (1.12.2). This update, and numerous of the preceding ones, do not allow > ANY type of loading of Debian (or any othe Linux flavor) onto the PC. In > the BIOS configuration menu, no option is available to boot

Re: guys

2020-02-01 Thread deloptes
Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2020 01 Feb 13:48 -0600, Joe wrote: >> Whether you read or not, Debian is getting more complicated, and >> therefore more problems are occurring. > > True to a point but then we have more complicated systems to deal with, > including but not limited to, EUFI and

Re: apt-get build-dep emacs-gtk: unmet dependencies

2020-02-02 Thread deloptes
İ. Göktuğ Kayaalp wrote: > I follow Emacs' master branch for my day-to-day use, so I need to build > it manually for my daily workflow.  Yesterday I did a fresh reinstall of > Debian 10, after which I haven't been able to install build dependencies > for emacs25 or emacs-gtk.  The error is as

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