Re: Migrating Debian installation to a new motherboard

2018-11-02 Thread mick crane
On 2018-11-02 11:15, Michael Stone wrote: On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 07:58:23AM +, mick crane wrote: The 0 with a line through it helps but l still looks like 1. That's still a font selection issue--in the font I'm using it's hard to confuse the two. (l has an arc of stem to the bottom right

Re: Migrating Debian installation to a new motherboard

2018-11-02 Thread mick crane
On 2018-11-02 07:37, Felix Miata wrote: mick crane composed on 2018-11-02 07:22 (UTC): I have to do a double check with "l" and "1" and "0" and "O", there ought to be some way to avoid that. Font selection can make a big difference:

Re: Migrating Debian installation to a new motherboard

2018-11-02 Thread mick crane
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); which did you put in interfaces? Also,

Re: firefox palemoon waterfox baselisk problem, not on chromium

2018-10-20 Thread mick crane
On 2018-10-20 07:22, Reco wrote: Hi. On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 02:16:57AM +0200, arne wrote: By-passed my proxies, did not help. Those sites all load OK in Chromium, but I do not like this browser. Strange thing, when I retry 2-80 times the pages get loaded. I use Tab Mix Plus Mozilla add-on

Re: basilisk-browser

2018-10-19 Thread mick crane
On 2018-10-19 11:23, Reco wrote: Hi. On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 08:26:20AM +0100, mick crane wrote: On 2018-10-19 07:58, Dominik George wrote: > > > > [1] https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86 > > Seriously? They forbid linking against libraries if their cod

Re: portable CD players

2018-11-09 Thread mick crane
On 2018-11-10 06:52, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sat, 10 Nov 2018 06:11:34 + mick crane wrote: Hello mick, If I put them on a CD will Discman play them, with a menu selection ? Portable CD players of that type are usually audio CD players, they won't play .mp3, .ogg, or any other file type

portable CD players

2018-11-09 Thread mick crane
Does anybody know about these portable CD players like Sony Discman ? On the PC I "play stories.m3u" where "stories.m3u" is just a list of mp3 files from librivox.org If I put them on a CD will Discman play them, with a menu selection ? Are they ATRAC or something ? Any particular format needed

Re: portable CD players

2018-11-10 Thread mick crane
On 2018-11-10 08:16, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, mick crane wrote: > Does anybody know about these portable CD players like Sony Discman ? Only from times when music CDs were to be bought in real shops. > "stories.m3u" is just a list of mp3 files from librivox.org > If

Re: portable CD players

2018-11-10 Thread mick crane
On 2018-11-10 12:11, songbird wrote: mick crane wrote: Does anybody know about these portable CD players like Sony Discman ? On the PC I "play stories.m3u" where "stories.m3u" is just a list of mp3 files from librivox.org If I put them on a CD will Discman play them, w

Re: How to Fix ACPI Error : Namespace lookup failure

2018-11-11 Thread mick crane
On 2018-11-10 19:31, finn wrote: Greetings, Whenever I boot up my PC I'm getting this error `sudo dmesg` [ 12.432182] ACPI Error: [\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.H_EC.ECAV] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160831/psargs-359) [ 12.432241] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution

Re: buster upgraded postgresql

2018-11-11 Thread mick crane
On 2018-11-11 13:40, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: On 11/11/18 1:00 PM, mick crane wrote: but how to find out what is this "cluster-name" for pg_ctlcluster, pg_dropcluster and pg_upgradecluster ? "pg_dropcluster [--stop] cluster-version cluster-name" "pg_upgra

buster upgraded postgresql

2018-11-11 Thread mick crane
hello this last upgrade buster upgraded postgresql-10 to 11 I'm not sure what uses postgresql. during upgrade think there was a message about pg_upgradecluster or I may have read that in manpage. :~# ps -ef | grep postgre postgres 599 1 0 09:36 ?00:00:00

Re: buster upgraded postgresql

2018-11-11 Thread mick crane
On 2018-11-11 10:00, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: On 11/11/18 11:52 AM, mick crane wrote: hello this last upgrade buster upgraded postgresql-10 to 11 I'm not sure what uses postgresql. during upgrade think there was a message about pg_upgradecluster or I may have read that in manpage. :~# ps -ef

Re: buster upgraded postgresql

2018-11-11 Thread mick crane
but how to find out what is this "cluster-name" for pg_ctlcluster, pg_dropcluster and pg_upgradecluster ? "pg_dropcluster [--stop] cluster-version cluster-name" "pg_upgradecluster oldversion name [newdatadir]" ? OK from the conf files assume cluster-name is '10/main' and '11/main'

Re: dovecot/RPi problem

2018-11-11 Thread mick crane
On 2018-11-06 16:53, Glenn English wrote: there: RaspianStretch, Dovecot v 2.2.27, RPi3 here: Buster, Thunderbird, Supermicro box Dovecot, from here to there, answers as expected, then immediately closes the connection. I'm trying to replace a low-end Dell server running Wheezy with an RPi3

Re: buster upgraded postgresql

2018-11-12 Thread mick crane
On 2018-11-12 13:44, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > but how to find out what is this "cluster-name" for pg_ctlcluster, > > > pg_dropcluster and pg_upgradecluster ? > > > > OK from the conf files assume cluster-name is '10/main' and '11/main' > > respectively ? > > default cluster name for both

Re: debian-9.5.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso missing files for install without mirror

2018-11-06 Thread mick crane
On 2018-11-06 09:03, Curt wrote: On 2018-11-05, Michael Stone wrote: On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 09:11:46PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: PS : aren't you confusing "netinst" with "netboot", which requires a network connection to a mirror ? There used to be bootable business card netinst images

Re: More info - was [Re: Synaptic fails to fix broken packages]

2018-10-04 Thread mick crane
On 2018-10-04 18:27, Glenn English wrote: On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 2:06 PM Richard Owlett wrote: Just did a fresh install to another partition of the machine on which I observed the current problem. Installation was from DVD 1 of Debian 9.1.0 Again LibreOffice Writer would not launch.

Re: Scribus has stopped importing PDF files - repost - original thread was hijacked

2018-10-01 Thread mick crane
On 2018-09-26 19:45, Gary Dale wrote: For the last few days, some Scribus documents I work with have stopped accepting PDF files within image frames. Prior to this, they would display a preview. Now new image frames that I create show just the file name, but some older frames within the document

twitter videos not playing

2018-10-11 Thread mick crane
hello basically default Buster install firefox-esr pepperflash is there and youtube videos play twitter videos do not play "can't play video please use another browser" or something. probably is well known issue but not immediately finding it tried html5 plugin but it doesn't seem to be that.

Re: twitter videos not playing

2018-10-11 Thread mick crane
On 2018-10-11 11:03, Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 10:42:23 +0100 mick crane wrote: Hello mick, anything obvious I should do apart from not go on twitter ? It's nothing to do with twitter, per se. The problem is that Ff-esr in Buster has no H.264 support (thanks to Sven Joachim

Re: Syncing GnuPG between 2 system

2018-10-03 Thread mick crane
On 2018-10-02 17:09, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: You have the revocation key, don't you? somewhere safe hopefully -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: Syncing GnuPG between 2 system

2018-10-02 Thread mick crane
On 2018-09-30 18:39, deloptes wrote: Here is something I do not get - to encrypt I am asked for password - I guess it is for my secret key, no? with the mail GPG plugin I never use but tested between 2 email identities. you can choose to generate a passphrase when you first make key pair to

Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA

2018-10-07 Thread mick crane
On 2018-10-07 19:23, Brian wrote: On Sun 07 Oct 2018 at 15:33:09 +0100, Brian wrote: On Sun 07 Oct 2018 at 08:14:05 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Does gparted run from a terminal? It does? A missing menu entry is hardly a show-stopper. I never made a menu entry, it looks a bit

Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA

2018-10-07 Thread mick crane
On 2018-10-07 20:12, Linux-Fan wrote: mick crane writes: On 2018-10-07 19:23, Brian wrote: On Sun 07 Oct 2018 at 15:33:09 +0100, Brian wrote: On Sun 07 Oct 2018 at 08:14:05 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Does gparted run from a terminal? It does? A missing menu entry is hardly a show

Re: Are these instructions meant to be executed on Debian 9.5.0?

2018-10-08 Thread mick crane
On 2018-10-08 13:47, Dan Ritter wrote: On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 10:27:17AM +, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: Good afternoon from Singapore, I came across this Linux Journal article titled "DIY: Build a Custom Minimal Linux Distribution from Source", written by Petros Koutoupis.

Re: Strange Network Problem

2018-09-02 Thread mick crane
On 2018-09-02 19:39, David Christensen wrote: On 09/02/2018 05:48 AM, mick crane wrote: On 2018-09-02 13:16, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: The Firewall Passthrough is set to Allocation Mode set to 'Passthrough with the Passthrough Mode set to 'DHCPS-dynamic '. It's my intention to change

Re: Why does Debian allow all incoming traffic by default

2018-09-22 Thread mick crane
On 2018-09-21 18:29, Subhadip Ghosh wrote: Debian is a Universal OS. I wouldn't say whatever you said, doesn't make sense. I wish there were an easier way to know about it when I started using the OS, something to warn me that I need to configure the firewall to suit my needs. Maybe because I

Re: Distinguish instances of GUI file manager by color

2018-09-26 Thread mick crane
On 2018-09-26 10:52, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm setting up a new machine and copying files from the old machine's home directory. At the same time I'm creating a new directory structure to better match how I work. I found it expedient to have at least three instances of the file manager open -

Re: Distinguish instances of GUI file manager by color

2018-09-26 Thread mick crane
On 2018-09-26 12:58, mick crane wrote: On 2018-09-26 10:52, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm setting up a new machine and copying files from the old machine's home directory. At the same time I'm creating a new directory structure to better match how I work. I found it expedient to have at least

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread mick crane
On 2018-09-25 10:08, Thakur Mahashaya wrote: Hi! Please tell me what is the list of standard utilities in Debian?wget, apt, curl, transport-https, sources.list, man, dd, sha256sum,..what else? have a look in /usr/bin ? mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

that other OS

2018-11-16 Thread mick crane
I use windows I'm not ashamed to say that. I noticed tho that there is a new message "Windows is a service..." This is that thing where they want people to pay a monthly fee to use the OS, like adobe apparently did with their photo suite. Just saying, prepare for stampede of ex windows users.

Re: that other OS

2018-11-16 Thread mick crane
On 2018-11-16 17:29, Brian wrote: On Fri 16 Nov 2018 at 12:01:39 -0500, Doug wrote: On 11/16/2018 11:32 AM, mick crane wrote: > > I use windows I'm not ashamed to say that. > I noticed tho that there is a new message > "Windows is a service..." > This is that thi

Re: that other OS

2018-11-16 Thread mick crane
On 2018-11-16 17:29, Brian wrote: On Fri 16 Nov 2018 at 12:01:39 -0500, Doug wrote: On 11/16/2018 11:32 AM, mick crane wrote: > > I use windows I'm not ashamed to say that. > I noticed tho that there is a new message > "Windows is a service..." > This is that thi

Re: that other OS

2018-11-16 Thread mick crane
On 2018-11-16 17:01, Doug wrote: On 11/16/2018 11:32 AM, mick crane wrote: I use windows I'm not ashamed to say that. I noticed tho that there is a new message "Windows is a service..." This is that thing where they want people to pay a monthly fee to use the OS, like adobe appa

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

2019-01-02 Thread mick crane
On 2019-01-02 10:24, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 09:40:33AM +, Joe wrote: On Wed, 2 Jan 2019 09:59:48 +0100 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > And next time, try to find a scanner which provides you with a raw > image. Wrapping images in PDFs is... not elegant. They do this

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-04 Thread mick crane
On 2019-01-04 21:03, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 04 January 2019 14:34:59 Brian wrote: On Fri 04 Jan 2019 at 13:49:52 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 04 January 2019 13:31:05 Nicolas George wrote: > > deloptes (12019-01-04): > > >We just

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-05 Thread mick crane
On 2019-01-04 21:11, Gene Heskett wrote: f course it is printable. Whatever you are doing is unknown. 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. Cheers, Gene Heskett

Re: printers

2018-12-13 Thread mick crane
On 2018-12-13 20:42, Michael Stone wrote: On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 07:44:29PM +, mick crane wrote: I have a debian buster PC that works as a print server. I can send files to it from windows How? Do you have samba and the windows machines print via smb, or are they printing via ipp? I

printers

2018-12-13 Thread mick crane
I think I must be getting elderly I have a debian buster PC that works as a print server. I can send files to it from windows and I can print from it by typing "lpr filename" I think I set it up with the cups web interface. I have another debian buster PC that I sometimes fiddle about on and

Re: printers

2018-12-13 Thread mick crane
On 2018-12-13 20:43, basti wrote: On 13.12.18 20:44, mick crane wrote: I think I must be getting elderly I have a debian buster PC that works as a print server. I can send files to it from windows and I can print from it by typing "lpr filename" I think I set it up with the cups web

Re: Resolution -- Re: Asserting local repository is trusted (man page problem?)

2018-12-18 Thread mick crane
On 2018-12-18 15:07, Richard Owlett wrote: On 12/16/2018 01:03 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: My sources.list has lines of the form deb trusted=yes file:/media/richard/debian9/dvd1 stable main contrib When using Synaptic's "Edit->Reload Package Information" the error message is: E: Malformed

Re: handling lists in perl

2018-12-18 Thread mick crane
On 2018-12-18 13:34, mick crane wrote: sorry I put 15 twice there just to confuse the issue should be not really on the topic but... I'm not very good at perl (or anything else ) and could maybe sort it but perhaps there is an extension that does it. I have an list of pairs (1=>8,2=&g

handling lists in perl

2018-12-18 Thread mick crane
not really on the topic but... I'm not very good at perl (or anything else ) and could maybe sort it but perhaps there is an extension that does it. I have an list of pairs (1=>8,2=>20,6=>100,15=>100) and an array of unique numbers (1 21 100 8 15 22 6 12 15 ) I want to see what pairs

Re: un ban me

2018-12-25 Thread mick crane
On 2018-12-25 21:33, Trep wrote: channel #debian is where i got banned... of course... Boza Policy on IRC might be to do a port scan and you can get banned if you've not got a firewall, probably nothing personal. mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: File ownership problem using removeable media

2018-12-23 Thread mick crane
On 2018-12-23 12:51, Richard Owlett wrote: I use USB drives to transfer files between systems (sneakernet). All systems have only one user(richard). It was created during installation. The drives are either ext2 or ext4 formatted. All files were in /user/richard on source machine They

Re: File ownership problem using removeable media

2018-12-23 Thread mick crane
On 2018-12-23 14:38, mick crane wrote: On 2018-12-23 12:51, Richard Owlett wrote: I use USB drives to transfer files between systems (sneakernet). All systems have only one user(richard). It was created during installation. The drives are either ext2 or ext4 formatted. All files were

Re: About /dev/sr impatience with automatic tray loading

2018-12-11 Thread mick crane
On 2018-12-10 20:02, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Gene Heskett wrote: Perhaps that patch could be reverted, It had its legitimate intentions, 10 years ago. See https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/210ba1d1724f5c4ed87a2ab1a21ca861a915f734 and a glimpse of the following woes

Re: printers

2018-12-14 Thread mick crane
On 2018-12-13 22:51, Brian wrote: On Thu 13 Dec 2018 at 20:32:14 +, Brian wrote: On Thu 13 Dec 2018 at 19:44:29 +, mick crane wrote: [...] > I typed > "lpadmin -U mick -h http://10.0.0.107:631 -d HP_LaserJet_4000_series" > hoping it might do something but says &

Re: File ownership problem using removeable media

2018-12-23 Thread mick crane
On 2018-12-23 17:10, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 04:41:24PM +, mick crane wrote: [...] >find /home/richard -type d -exec chmod 750 {} \; >find /home/richard -type f -exec chmod 640 {} \; >chown -R richard /home/richard*; >chgrp -R richard /home/richard*; [

Re: printers

2018-12-14 Thread mick crane
On 2018-12-13 20:42, Michael Stone wrote: On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 07:44:29PM +, mick crane wrote: I have a debian buster PC that works as a print server. I can send files to it from windows How? Do you have samba and the windows machines print via smb, or are they printing via ipp? I

sending display to other monitor

2018-12-08 Thread mick crane
I can ssh into a debian PC from windows PC with putty and start a program to be displayed on monitor plugged into windows PC with Xming. Is possible ssh to debian PC and start program displayed on monitor plugged into debian PC ? mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: sending display to other monitor

2018-12-08 Thread mick crane
On 2018-12-08 16:10, Jason wrote: On Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 01:38:21PM +, mick crane wrote: I can ssh into a debian PC from windows PC with putty and start a program to be displayed on monitor plugged into windows PC with Xming. Is possible ssh to debian PC and start program displayed

Re: fetchmail

2018-11-19 Thread mick crane
On 2018-11-19 00:33, Nate Bargmann wrote: I installed the Sid version on this Buster installation and it works just fine. I simply downloaded it and installed it manually. Aptitude puts it in the Obsolete and Locally Created Packages section. Shrug. - Nate fetchmail for me had a problem

Re: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-08 Thread mick crane
On 2019-01-07 02:56, John Crawley wrote: On 06/01/2019 00.26, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, January 04, 2019 08:21:30 PM David Wright wrote: On Fri 04 Jan 2019 at 14:02:27 (-0500), Stephen P. Molnar wrote: Having babbled for the last two paragraphs, I'll close buy saying that I will

dumb question about SSL

2019-01-11 Thread mick crane
I'm having a bit of bother with my home server thingy. does apache, roundcube, dovecot, cups. is buster. Is problem with roundcube communicating with dovecot or something. sending mail times out and the settings webpage isn't working whereas it was fine a week ago. It occurs to me I don't

Re: Taming the "lsblk" command

2019-01-09 Thread mick crane
On 2019-01-09 14:14, David Wright wrote: On Wed 09 Jan 2019 at 13:54:45 (+), Curt wrote: On 2019-01-09, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wednesday, January 09, 2019 03:01:42 AM Richard Hector wrote: >> On 9/01/19 6:04 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: >> > lsblk -l -o name,label | sort | script >> >>

Re: USB media install has wrong partition

2018-09-16 Thread mick crane
On 2018-09-15 19:33, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Can't you talk its firmware into BIOS emulating legacy mode ? You could even use program fdisk to delete partition entry 2 in the ISO in order to take away the USB boot lure for EFI. Some firmwares are said to fall back to BIOS emulation automatically.

Re: USB media install has wrong partition

2018-09-16 Thread mick crane
On 2018-09-16 08:38, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, i wrote: > You could even use program fdisk to delete partition entry 2 in the ISO mick crane wrote: never really understanding this. If mount iso as loopback does it show up in fdisk ? No loopback is needed. fdisk will operate direc

Re: booting

2018-09-16 Thread mick crane
On 2018-09-16 12:05, Thakur Mahashaya wrote: Hello dears! Tell me, please, when the system is booted over the network, is it enough to simply Internet via modem? Do I need to install an additional program on a flash drive? Where is the checksum for the image that is in the upper right corner of

Re: booting

2018-09-16 Thread mick crane
On 2018-09-16 12:52, mick crane wrote: On 2018-09-16 12:05, Thakur Mahashaya wrote: Hello dears! Tell me, please, when the system is booted over the network, is it enough to simply Internet via modem? Do I need to install an additional program on a flash drive? Where is the checksum

Re: Installing from live, was Re: booting

2018-09-17 Thread mick crane
On 2018-09-17 16:01, Thakur Mahashaya wrote: Dear David, if you do not complicate, then tell me why the network is better? https://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ If unfamiliar perhaps you want to run live to see what software you want -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete

2018-09-11 Thread mick crane
On 2018-09-11 18:45, Pétùr wrote: 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.

Re: handling lists in perl

2018-12-18 Thread mick crane
On 2018-12-19 00:43, deloptes wrote: 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, 15, 22, 6, 12,

Re: handling lists in perl

2018-12-18 Thread mick crane
On 2018-12-19 00:43, deloptes wrote: 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, 15, 22, 6, 12,

Re: handling lists in perl

2018-12-19 Thread mick crane
On 2018-12-19 07:17, deloptes wrote: 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 yes but there is only one 100, only one key can have it. I still try to figure out what

Re: handling lists in perl

2018-12-19 Thread mick crane
On 2018-12-19 08:34, deloptes wrote: 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

Re: handling lists in perl

2018-12-19 Thread mick crane
On 2018-12-19 09:12, mick crane wrote: On 2018-12-19 08:34, deloptes wrote: 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

Re: Enet names

2019-01-26 Thread mick crane
On 2019-01-25 18:19, ghe wrote: Buster, computer with MAC identified Ethernet ports Is there a way to relabel Ethernet ports? Without changing things in a number of config files? I see on the web that changing udev used to do that, but now there are at least 2 files to modify. I'm gently

Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked?

2019-01-28 Thread mick crane
On 2019-01-28 12:27, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 10:55:39AM +, mick crane wrote: [...] I did try to comprehend all of the GPL at one time and found it very tricky to navigate. I've been following this thread, and I think the GPL is much simpler than that: (1) use

Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked?

2019-01-28 Thread mick crane
On 2019-01-28 15:14, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 12:55:15PM +, mick crane wrote: [...] What I intended to mean was if somebody wants to try to alter (rescind) the license You'd have to explain what you mean by "rescind" here: the license to the curre

Re: old never used memorex cd media

2019-04-02 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-02 23:14, Felix Miata wrote: 99% of users write netinstall images to a a USB stick. Cite please? If there are 100 users on this list, Gene plus Greg plus me would make 3%. :-D If this is a poll I use DVDs, there is more space to write on. mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: text editors

2019-03-27 Thread mick crane
On 2019-03-26 19:27, Wayne Sallee wrote: I use vim. Log in as user that will use vim, and run the following command: cat > .vimrc << "EOF" set nosi noai set number I have line numbers as the default but copy/paste with the mouse also copies the numbers so I have to turn it on and off. --

Re: text editors

2019-03-27 Thread mick crane
On 2019-03-26 15:48, Teemu Likonen wrote: mick crane [2019-03-26 07:35:11Z] wrote: there it is then, although I've so far managed to avoid Emacs since heard it is more of an operating system than an editor. There are those who know Emacs, and there are those who know decades old jokes

Re: text editors

2019-03-26 Thread mick crane
On 2019-03-25 12:29, Teemu Likonen wrote: mick crane [2019-03-25 04:38:31Z] wrote: Is there any text editor, preferably in a terminal that has the facility to protect lines in the document, not the document itself ? I've got 2 blocks of "code" that look similar and I keep editing

text editors

2019-03-24 Thread mick crane
Is there any text editor, preferably in a terminal that has the facility to protect lines in the document, not the document itself ? I've got 2 blocks of "code" that look similar and I keep editing the wrong one and then it doesn't work. mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: text editors

2019-03-25 Thread mick crane
On 2019-03-25 05:29, Erik Christiansen wrote: On 25.03.19 04:38, mick crane wrote: Is there any text editor, preferably in a terminal that has the facility to protect lines in the document, not the document itself ? I've got 2 blocks of "code" that look similar and I keep editing

Re: text editors

2019-03-25 Thread mick crane
On 2019-03-25 10:12, Erik Christiansen wrote: On 25.03.19 07:53, mick crane wrote: not heard about folding. It can be very handy. I have around 420 pages of notes in one file. They present as a one-page contents table with section page counts. While cursoring down and then across opens

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-05 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-05 07:46, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 07:37:05AM +0100, mick crane wrote: [...] Making you be root to download stuff off the internet never seemed like a good idea. And letting "you" (not root) install things in system directories (/usr/bin et

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-05 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-04 20:57, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 03:46:52PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: The solution seems simple enough, fix wayland. This is after all a multiuser and multitasking OS, why go out of the way, way out of the way to make it work like win-3.0? The notion of

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-05 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-05 10:51, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 08:43:32AM +0100, mick crane wrote: On 2019-04-05 07:46, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 07:37:05AM +0100, mick crane wrote: > >[...] > >>Making you be root to download stuff off the int

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-05 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-05 12:37, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 12:28:18PM +0100, mick crane wrote: [...] probably I don't understand. What I'm mooting is who knows what skillful cracker can get hold of your account credentials when online. If user can't do root stuff on strength

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-05 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-05 11:27, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 11:07:42AM +0100, mick crane wrote: [...] well normal user isn't supposed to do system things. Sudo makes me nervous. You don't seem to understand sudo. It lets you control finely under which conditions a normal user

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-05 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-05 10:06, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 05 April 2019 02:37:05 mick crane wrote: On 2019-04-04 20:57, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 03:46:52PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> The solution seems simple enough, fix wayland. This is after all a >

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-05 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-05 21:13, David Wright wrote: From this and other posts of yours, you seem to feel very vulnerable when connected to anywhere outside your system, as if you're under a man-in-the-middle attack all the time. Do I come across like that ? It is probably correct. I think it is because

Re: text editors

2019-03-30 Thread mick crane
On 2019-03-29 08:22, Erik Christiansen wrote: On 29.03.19 17:26, Erik Christiansen wrote: " Toggle relative line numbering. function! NList_toggle() if == 1 set nornu" For absolute, elide the 'r'. else set rnu " For absolute, elide the 'r'.

Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check

2019-02-23 Thread mick crane
On 2019-02-23 17:03, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 11:21:39AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: [...] * and somewhat similarly (but in a very different context) in a 3 pin power plug for an ordinary household outlet (in the US), the ground pin is longer than the power

font size printing from terminal

2019-02-28 Thread mick crane
hello is buster I can print from command line with "lp filename" but not with "lpr filename" when printing from terminal the font is a bit big and uses too much paper. apparently "enscript -FCourier10 filename" for example is supposed to work but that sends it to lpr which doesn't. Can try to

Re: font size printing from terminal

2019-03-01 Thread mick crane
$ enscript -d filename lpr: test: unknown printer sorry that is a typing error, the actual file was called "test". tried the printer name after "-d" but put this here because shows enscript is using lpr -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: font size printing from terminal

2019-03-01 Thread mick crane
On 2019-03-01 11:42, Brian wrote: On Fri 01 Mar 2019 at 11:35:18 +, mick crane wrote: On 2019-03-01 11:15, Curt wrote: > I believe the lpr that works with cups is the one provided by cups-bsd. > success ! ta ever so much If installing the cups-bsd package was the solution, why

Re: font size printing from terminal

2019-03-01 Thread mick crane
On 2019-02-28 18:59, mick crane wrote: hello is buster I can print from command line with "lp filename" but not with "lpr filename" when printing from terminal the font is a bit big and uses too much paper. apparently "enscript -FCourier10 filename" f

Re: font size printing from terminal

2019-03-01 Thread mick crane
On 2019-03-01 11:15, Curt wrote: I believe the lpr that works with cups is the one provided by cups-bsd. success ! ta ever so much -- Key ID4BFEBB31

roundcube installer web helper problem

2019-03-02 Thread mick crane
Hello, I'm having a bit of bother configuring roundcube on buster I've installed roundcube before from sources and has been ok for a few years but now is something a bit wrong so I install with apt. on the installer web page step 2 there is the message "Warning: A non-numeric value encountered

Re: roundcube installer web helper problem

2019-03-02 Thread mick crane
well OK I found another copy of the file and those lines are the same so I guess it is something it refers to. -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: Help with video editing with ffmpeg

2019-03-06 Thread mick crane
On 2019-03-06 10:48, Gerardo Ballabio wrote: I guess my question was too specific. I'll try asking directly on ffmpeg mailing list. Thanks Gerardo probably best. I've only used ffmpeg to extract frames. The syntax can be a bit daunting. What I'd probably do is extract a frame of concern and

Re: roundcube installer web helper problem

2019-03-05 Thread mick crane
this was solved by user on roundcube list "In apache, having Header always set X-Frame-Options DENY Prevents roundcube from loading preview and settings." well it solves settings tabs in roundcube not working so I guess it is the same with the installer help page which I've not bothered to

Re: font size printing from terminal

2019-03-01 Thread mick crane
On 2019-03-01 11:49, Brian wrote: on client PC $ lpstat -t scheduler is running system default destination: HP_LaserJet_4000_Series device for HP_LaserJet_4000_Series: socket://10.0.0.108 This is not a connection to the server. socket://... indicates a direct connection to the printer. with

Re: font size printing from terminal

2019-03-01 Thread mick crane
On 2019-03-01 12:24, Brian wrote: On Fri 01 Mar 2019 at 12:21:05 +, Brian wrote: On Fri 01 Mar 2019 at 12:09:16 +, mick crane wrote: > On 2019-03-01 11:49, Brian wrote: > > > > on client PC > > > $ lpstat -t > > > scheduler is running

Re: font size printing from terminal

2019-03-01 Thread mick crane
On 2019-03-01 12:16, Brian wrote: On Fri 01 Mar 2019 at 12:09:16 +, mick crane wrote: On 2019-03-01 11:49, Brian wrote: > > "systemctl start lpd.service" > > Eh? You would have to explain. For a start, the service file does not > seem to exist in Debian. cl

advice sought for program with GUI

2019-02-28 Thread mick crane
hello, I'm not very good at this stuff, have remembered bits here and there. Memory seems no so good these days. I've done pieces of simple calculations on 2D images in the past but when I go back and look at them think " now what does that do and what did I type to make it work". I'm thinking

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