On 2024-04-18, wrote:
>
>
> Actually I'm thankful for having got the chance to learn a couple of
> languages. It has been a lot of fun. And also to you folks who put up
> with my mediocre English.
>
I'm thankful to have learned enough French to have read the Proust book
(la Recherche...).
On 2024-04-16, gene heskett wrote:
> On 4/16/24 10:22, Curt wrote:
>> On 2024-04-15, gene heskett wrote:
>>> For the last 2 or 3 reboots, when launching t-bird, I get 2 copies of
>>> the gui stacked on top of each other. I can move them separately to 2
>>>
On 2024-04-16, The Wanderer wrote:
>
> What needs to happen, according to that analysis, is to close one of the
> windows not by File -> Exit or File -> Quit, but by File -> Close. (In
> my - severely obsolete - Thunderbird version, it's near the top of the
> File menu, and has the associated
On 2024-04-16, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 02:21:27PM -0000, Curt wrote:
>> Have you tried *closing* one of the two windows, *quitting* the
>> remaining one, and then restarting your bird?
>
> In his original message, he claimed that closing one window
On 2024-04-15, gene heskett wrote:
> For the last 2 or 3 reboots, when launching t-bird, I get 2 copies of
> the gui stacked on top of each other. I can move them separately to 2
> separate workspaces, and both appear to work for some definition of
> working, but quitting one actually quits
On 2024-04-16, John Crawley wrote:
>
> If you do not trust Gmail as a web application, use a mail application
> that supports IMAP.
>
Gmail supports IMAP since more or less forever.
>>>
>>> AIUI the OP's problem was not when reading mail, but with mail
>>> submission of
On 2024-04-16, Max Nikulin wrote:
>
> If you do not trust Gmail as a web application, use a mail application
> that supports IMAP.
Gmail supports IMAP since more or less forever.
>>>
>>> AIUI the OP's problem was not when reading mail, but with mail
>>> submission of
On 2024-04-15, David Wright wrote:
> On Sun 14 Apr 2024 at 14:24:29 (-), Curt wrote:
>> On 2024-04-04, Max Nikulin wrote:
>> >
>> > If you do not trust Gmail as a web application, use a mail application
>> > that supports IMAP.
>> >
>>
On 2024-04-04, Max Nikulin wrote:
>
> If you do not trust Gmail as a web application, use a mail application
> that supports IMAP.
>
Gmail supports IMAP since more or less forever.
On 2024-04-10, David Christensen wrote:
>>
>> I use Btrfs, on all my systems, including some servers, with soft Raid1
>> and Raid10 modes (because these modes are considered stable and
>> production ready). I decided on Btrfs not ZFS, because Btrfs allows to
>> migrate drives on the fly while
On 2024-04-06, gene heskett wrote:
> On 4/6/24 11:07, Curt wrote:
>> On 2024-04-05, John Hasler wrote:
>>> Desktop Linux is widely used in physics and mathematics. NASA uses
>>> Linux extensively, including on Mars and on the ISS. SpaceX uses Linux
>>> on th
On 2024-04-05, John Hasler wrote:
> Desktop Linux is widely used in physics and mathematics. NASA uses
> Linux extensively, including on Mars and on the ISS. SpaceX uses Linux
> on their rockets and spacecraft. Over 90% of the top 1 million Web
> servers run Linux, including Yahoo, X, and
On 2024-04-01, Michel Verdier wrote:
> On 2024-04-01, DdB wrote:
>
>>> A computer with a 6-core processor, 64 GB memory, and 9 drive bays/
>>> ports that cannot boot USB? That does not make sense.
>>
>> Why not?
>
> Perhaps because usb boot is available since a very long time
>
The OP informed
On 2024-03-29, Andy Smith wrote:
> I wasn't trying to bait you in any way. The above was what I thought
> was a light-hearted way to say that I genuinely think you need to
> relax a little about things that are outside of your control. I'm
> sorry it wasn't taken that way and I get that you
On 2024-03-29, Joe wrote:
>
> He's actually referring to credentials stored externally being
Jesus, what a genius.
On 2024-03-29, Andy Smith wrote:
>>
>> It makes no fucking difference, because your important data is elsewhere
>> and completely out of your control.
>
> I WAS going to gently suggest that you have a lie down in a cool,
> shaded room, but which of us had this on our 2024 bingo card?
>
This is
On 2024-03-28, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
>
> Security, as Bruce Schneier [1] says, is a process. Not a product.
>
A process that is essentially out of your control.
This is the elephant in the room that you do not wish to address.
Anyway, dream on.
On 2024-03-28, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> A more proactive endeavor would be to document known best practices
It makes no fucking difference, because your important data is elsewhere
and completely out of your control.
On 2024-03-28, wrote:
>
> Security means first and foremost understanding the threat. Randomly
The threat here is that some pharmacist in the provinces falls for a
phishing email, gives black hats access to the system, and reveals my
sensitive data to these people who devised the alluringly
>
> You don't need a threat model to understand why writing a password on a
> paper is generally a bad practice.
>
> But since you invest this much energy on defending a bad practice, I'll
> let you keep the trend alone.
>
I have written down key passwords which I keep in my wallet. To get my
On 2024-03-16, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>
> Meanwhile the future is past and the pundits of the 70s are dead and
> ridiculed.
Yes, as I believe Paul Valéry once noted, even the past isn't what it used to
be.
> Predictions are difficult - especially when it's about the future.
>
>
> Have a nice
On 2024-03-14, Charles Curley wrote:
> I'm trying to set fail2ban up on bookworm. It refuses to run with the
> default configuration (sshd only), reporting:
I guess it's this old bug:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=770171
> Failed during configuration: Have not found any log
On 2024-02-11, wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 09:54:24AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>>If FILE is -, shred standard output.
>>=20
>> In every sentence, the word FILE appears. There's nothing in there
>> which says "you can operate on a non-file".
>
> Point taken, yes.
On 2024-02-08, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Feb 2024 15:29:21 +
> Andy Smith wrote:
>
>> I do not overly want to buy a Windows licence, run it
>> in a VM and pass USB through to that VM just to try this.
>
> You could try wine. You might need the more recent crossover-office,
> which is
On 2024-01-26, Nicolas George wrote:
> Curt (12024-01-26):
>> A play-sound.timer unit file in /usr/lib/systemd/system-generators/initrd
>> directory.
>
> I see no mention of this directory on the web. Where did yo find the
> idea of using it, I want to check the doc.
I g
On 2024-01-26, Nicolas George wrote:
> Curt (12024-01-26):
>> I guess a systemd timer unit constitutes a hack.
>
> A systemd timer in the initrd? Can you elaborate?
>
A play-sound.timer unit file in /usr/lib/systemd/system-generators/initrd
directory.
A play-sound.servic
On 2024-01-26, Nicolas George wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Yet another strange question. Is there a supported¹ way to have
> cryptsetup play a specific sound when it asks the password for the root
> partition from the initrd?
>
> I think brttty (braille) is already running at this point (no occasion
> to
On 2024-01-21, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 01:30:41PM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
>> > > > chroming is dangerous.
>>
>> I haven't touched it since they hijacked port 80 so you cannot use it
>> locally.
>
> Gene, this is NOT true. Chrome does not "hijack port 80". You can
> go
On 2024-01-20, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> Regardless of which grammar rules are right, wrong, or optional, the point
> of this is that parsing natural language text is *stupidly difficult*.
> A person who has to ask why "grep -c" doesn't count the number of commas
> in a single line of text
On 2024-01-19, David Wright wrote:
> On Fri 19 Jan 2024 at 17:25:10 (+), debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
>> Greg Wooledge wrote:
>>
>> > I won, and you lost
>>
>> There shouldn't be a comma in that sentence, in English. There is in
>> the closely related expression "I won, you lost."
>
>
On 2024-01-17, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Curt wrote:
>> I discovered a couple of discussions of the phenomenon, the upshot of which
>> were:
>> 1) That's what you get when you purchase cheap SSDs.
>> https://www.red
On 2024-01-17, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>
> This is just weird.
> I still have difficulties to believe that any disk manufacturer would
> hand out disks with colliding serial numbers. I googled for this
> phenomenon, but except two mails of Gene nothing similar popped up.
I discovered a couple of
On 2024-01-12, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
> Curt wrote:
>> On 2024-01-11, Max Nikulin wrote:
>> >
>> > There was a thread that "home" as the top level domain might not be
>> > really safe (somebody might register it). A reserved domain
On 2024-01-11, Max Nikulin wrote:
>
> There was a thread that "home" as the top level domain might not be
> really safe (somebody might register it). A reserved domain is
> "home.arpa" so e.g. to have "thinkpad", the /etc/hosts entry should be
>
> 127.0.1.1 thinkpad.home.arpa thinkpad
>
On 2024-01-10, David Christensen wrote:
>
>
> Given the OP's situation -- 8 consumer SSD's, same make and model,
> possibly from a defective manufacturing batch, all purchased at the same
> time, all deployed in the same RAID-6, all run 2.5 years 24x7, and all
> suddenly showing lots of SMART
On 2024-01-09, The Wanderer wrote:
>
> My default plan is to identify an appropriate model and buy a pair of
> replacement drives, but not install them yet; buy another two drives
> every six months, until I have a full replacement set; and start failing
> drives out of the RAID array and
On 2024-01-07, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
>
>> Take care, stay warm, well, and unvaxed.
>> ^^^
>
> Gene - no partisan opinions, please, as per Code of Conduct?
Nothing sucks like a VAX!
> All best, as ever,
>
> Andy
On 2024-01-08, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
>
>
>>>
>>> Failed to execute command "@@BINARY@@"
>>> failed to execute child process "@@BINARY@@" (no such file or directory
>> When you run *what*? What command, exactly?
>>
>> In any case, this is very clearly a failed installation. The @@BINARY@@
>>
On 2024-01-01, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> unicorn:~$ locate kbrequest.target
> unicorn:~$ locate kbrequest
> unicorn:~$ man -k kbrequest
> kbrequest: nothing appropriate.
> unicorn:~$ apt-cache search kbrequest
> unicorn:~$
>
> I can't find this in Debian 12. Do you have more details about it?
>
On 2023-12-19, wrote:
>
>
> But at the end, that's how most (reaonably complex) hardware works :)
>
Surely there must be superior and inferior mice. Maybe the OP should try
another brand. Or has she?
Up on the ISS, I would suppose they use touch screens, as floating mice
would be a novelty.
On 2023-12-17, Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 16/12/2023 22:46, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
>>
>> I'll add 'sudo apt-get autoclean to' my update bat file.
>
> I have
>
> APT::Keep-Downloaded-Packages "false";
I thought that was the default now for apt. But then he said "sudo apt" in the
OP and
On 2023-12-10, Gary Dale wrote:
>
> On 2023-12-10 12:24, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 05:09:15PM -, Curt wrote:
>>> On 2023-12-10, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
>>>> "Now" is almost exactly Sun 10 Dec 16:55:43 UTC 2023
>>>
On 2023-12-10, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
>
> "Now" is almost exactly Sun 10 Dec 16:55:43 UTC 2023
You mean in the Zulu Time Zone (as I am all at sea)?
> Andy
> (amaca...@debian.org)
>
>
On 2023-12-10, wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 06:04:05PM +0200, y...@vienna.at wrote:
>>
>> ! Missing number, treated as zero.
>>
>> \protect
>> l.59 ...reMathSymbol\mho {\mathord}{lasy}{"30}
>> "
>> uppsi
>> what does thar mean?
>
> That TeX was expecting a number at some place and
On 2023-12-09, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> On Friday, 8 Dec 2023 at 17:06, Pocket wrote:
>> In Unix and Linux there isn't a file extension, that is a microsoft
>> invention.
>
> Predates MS by years. Systems like RSTS/E on PDP-11s, just to name one.
They certainly are convenient.
I must be stupid
On 2023-12-06, Max Nikulin wrote:
>
> My reading of this document is that EST5EDT file in tzdata is a POSIX
> extension, not "true" POSIX.
>
POSIX format specification
The POSIX time zone format is the traditionally used format for AIX systems and
provides a slight performance advantage
On 2023-12-06, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> Honestly, I don't see the appeal of using legacy time zone names. Is
> it just for the sake of contrariness?
>
No lack of contrariness around here. There exists such a thing as putting too
fine a point on a thing, a notion which appears to escape some
On 2023-12-04, Nicolas George wrote:
> Curt (12023-12-04):
>> Telnet doesn't alter the actual data being transmitted
>
> Yes it does, read the doc before posting wrong information here.
>
I think you're buggering yet another fly here.
On 2023-12-04, Marco Moock wrote:
> Am 04.12.2023 um 09:23:16 Uhr schrieb Nicolas George:
>
>> If you want to test a network protocol, you should use a really
>> transparent client. Traditionally people use netcat (nc), but it
>> handles EOF approximatively.
>
> ncat also uses ^C to kill the
On 2023-12-01, John Hasler wrote:
>
> BTW my network experience goes back to bang paths. I'm currently using
> both hosts files and DHCP.
In addition to legacy use, in 2021 new and innovative UUCP uses are
growing, especially for telecommunications in the HF band, for example,
for
On 2023-11-28, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 06:42:53PM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote:
>> On Nov 27, 2023, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
>> > NORPVPN is software that installs a VPN. Not really trying to solve a
>> > problem just securing my machine against intruders. My
On 2023-11-22, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Karen Lewellen wrote:
>> ..ah, typo indeed.
>> it should be rsh.
>
> Quite a while ago rsh has been put in the pillory for not encrypting the
> connection. The town crier urged everybody to use ssh instead.
>
I explicitely nuke any rsh attempts in
On 2023-11-21, Greg wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm using following command to backup:
>
> rdiff-backup backup /home/ 'orfeusz::/mnt/backup/home'
>
> and get the following:
>
> WARNING: this command line interface is deprecated and will disappear,
> start using the new one as described with '--new
On 2023-11-14, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>
> The base number is the same, but I would have thought that this other
> kernel might have additional patches.
>
>> That's why I suggested ignoring the message.
>
> Then why does reportbug mention the bullseye-backports kernel?
>
Because it kind of looks
On 2023-11-13, Andreas Ronnquist wrote:
>
> I believe gmail _requires_ OAUTH2 authorisation for "non-secure apps"
> nowadays - which is pretty much all apps except gmails own.
AFAIK, gmail still supports application-specific passwords.
On 2023-11-06, Nicolas George wrote:
> Loris Bennett (12023-11-06):
>> I beg to differ. I think you are confusing the precise definition of
>> something with the label used to refer to it. When the transistor was
>> invented, so was a new word to describe it. When this particular
>> concept of
On 2023-11-03, Nicolas George wrote:
> to...@tuxteam.de (12023-11-03):
>> The other is related: folder has become the culture of those
>> who want to "sell you knowledge", i.e. of those whose business
>> model is based on keeping you dumb.
>
> Ear, ear!
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hear,_hear
On 2023-10-03, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>
> File "calibre/customize/__init__.py", line 662, in load_actual_plugin
> File "importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
> File "", line 1050, in _gcd_import
> File "", line 1027, in _find_and_load
> File "", line 1006, in
>
On 2023-09-30, Hans wrote:
>
> Second: The setting of AHCI has disappeared, so I can not change the settings
> in BIOS. And: the BIOS can not be reflashed!
>
I've read that on some Acer machines the procedure is:
'Main' BIOS tab/ctrl+s (as suggested by Steve and Jeffrey)/toggle VMD
Controller
On 2023-10-01, gene heskett wrote:
>>
> Andy, with good luck, you may make to your 89th birthday, which with
> good luck I'll celebrate next Wednesday. I certainly hope you do. By
> then you will not see any humor in trying to remember what, if anything,
> you had for breakfast this morning.
On 2023-09-29, wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 10:50:37AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> Stefan wrote:
>> >> With outdated keys secure boot does not protect you.
>> >
>> >Just to clarify: in 99.99% of the cases, SecureBoot does not protect you
>> >(and is not designed to protect you
On 2023-09-28, Haines Brown wrote:
>
>
> This is extract from Xorfg.0.log after user fails to start X
>
> ...
> [ 49400.912] (II) UnloadModule: "libinput"
> [ 49400.912] (II) seatd_libseat try close /dev/input/event18 (36:36)
> [ 49400.912] (EE) [libseat/backend/logind.c:184] Could not stat fd 36
On 2023-09-27, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> sudo apt install python3-ephem
>
I think hdate could also work for this.
On 2023-09-25, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> The preferred policy nowadays is to perform all possible checks *during*
> the initial SMTP conversation. If a message fails to meet acceptance
> criteria for any reason, it should be rejected during that initial
> conversation. Generating a bounce
On 2023-09-22, Tom Browder wrote:
>
> However, I so far have not been able to scan both sides of a document in my
> two-side document feeder the way I could could on Windows--bummer, but this
> is a huge win so far.
>
How and what have you tried?
--
On 2023-09-21, Tom Browder wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 08:30 Erwan David wrote:
> ...
>
>> I have a HP LaserJet Pro MFP m125nw, installing it through hplip, It is
>> seen on network by xsane and I can scan. Just have to install a binary
>> blob each time hplip is upgraded, but it is
On 2023-09-17, Greg Marks wrote:
>
> I am trying to use Ghostscript to resize PDF files to letter page size,
> but on certain files the output is not the correct size. As an example:
>
>$wget https://gmarks.org/abrams_anh_pardo.pdf
>
>$pdfinfo abrams_anh_pardo.pdf=20
>...
>Page
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA256
On Friday 15 September 2023, Curt Howland was heard to say:
> I'm not interested in having directories like "Public" and
> "Videos", but every time I delete them something recreates those
> directories.
Found /et
I can't find where these are set to be created, and re-re-re created.
Is there a way to turn this off?
Curt-
- --
You may my glories and my state dispose,
But not my griefs; still am I king of those.
--- William Shakespeare, "Richard II&q
On 2023-09-12, wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> it seems I can't start chromium. Pretty straight net install,
> Xfce desktop environment (no specialties, just the "normal"
> install), then "apt-get install chromium".
>
> Issuing "chromium" in a terminal seems to hang, top shows
> four processes running (and
On 2023-09-02, Brian wrote:
> On Sat 02 Sep 2023 at 19:37:22 +0100, Brian wrote:
>
>> On Sat 02 Sep 2023 at 08:19:56 -0600, D. R. Evans wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> > I will file a bug report.
>>
>> You have filed the report against general. This is a non-optimal
>> package. Someone may or may not
On 2023-08-29, Larry Martell wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 12:59 PM Greg Wooledge wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 09:29:35AM -0700, Larry Martell wrote:
>> > find . -regex '.*\.snd$' -print
>>
>> That is an incredibly silly way to write
>>
>> find . -name '*.snd' -print
>
> Gene said
On 2023-08-29, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> There's still going to be a whole lotta searching through the haystack
> to find the needle. Obviously, knowing the approximate date and time
> the file was last read would be of tremendous help, as you can zoom in
> on that part of the results.
>
>
You'd
On 2023-08-12, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>
> In the US, the banks are laxed. Banks claim they don't want to lose
> customers with inconveniences. I understand things are different from
> Europe.
It's a two-edged sword, though: I had to purchase a new smart phone in
order to continue banking with one
On 2023-08-12, Larry Martell wrote:
>
>
> Who is a random person to you? You're new to this list, so you have
> no clue
> who is who here.
>
Gene may be many things, but he's not random. He's *old*, though, so I
think certain breaks are to be given on that account.
But what I want to know is:
On 2023-07-11, Brian wrote:
>>
>> https://github.com/rrthomas/pdfjam
>>
>> https://github.com/rrthomas/pdfjam/blob/master/pdfjam-help.txt
>
> I do not use anything for scaling, but pdfarranger offers the facility.
> GUI only.
>
--scale 0.7 (to scale all input pages to 70% size)
On 2023-07-03, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
> Nicolas George wrote:
>> Roger Price (12023-07-03):
>> > Exactly my point that inanimate objects of which there are many
>> > examples are best known by numbers. Numbers so well known that
>> > songs are written about the number: historic US 66
On 2023-06-26, Kent West wrote:
>
> I don't *really* understand how Akonadi fits into Kmail/Yahoo, but, meh; my
> real question is: Does anyone here know if KMail *requires* a Gmail account
> to access a non-Gmail email account (and if so, that seems really stupid)?
> If not, how do I get around
On 2023-06-02, Bret Busby wrote:
>
> Whoever posted the message to which the above message is a reply, is
An enduring mystery to know why Monnier refuses the convention of
attributions. Then again, one of the smaller mysteries.
On 2023-05-14, wrote:
>
> So Redhat. But hey, look at packages.debian.org (I know, looking at
https://wiki.debian.org/NetToolsDeprecation
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/03/msg00780.html
2009!!
Luk Claes and me, as the current maintainers of net-tools, we've been
thinking about
On 2023-05-12, Tom Reed wrote:
>> Tom Reed (12023-05-12):
>>> otherwise every time i have to input password for sudo.
>>
>> Yes, that is the point.
>>
>> If “every time” is a lot for you, maybe your use habits need to be
>> reviewed.
>>
>
> that's normal. for example, I have to check every kind
On 2023-05-08, Will Mengarini wrote:
>
> However, when I removed that space by hand, I still got "not found":
>
> debian/pts/3 bash3 ~ 17:03 0$HEAD
>
On 2023-05-02, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> unicorn:~$ apt purge
> E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13:
> Permission denied)
> E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend),
> are you root?
>
> Rats! No luck here. Either "apt purge" is
On 2023-04-24, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 1:44 PM Curt wrote:
>> [ ...]
>>
>> I bought a HL-L2350DW not too long ago after my HL-2030 experienced a paper
>> jam
>> that wouldn't go away even though there was no longer any visible paper
>
On 2023-04-24, gene heskett wrote:
> On 4/24/23 09:36, Schwibinger Michael wrote:
>>
>>
>> Good afternoon
>>
>> Thank You
>> Was it a good idea to buy EPSON?
>>
>> Regards
>> Sophie
>>
>
> In a short answer no. Epson worked very well but that way back, 20 years
> ago.
>
> For high quality
On 2023-04-23, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Apr 2023 16:34:03 - (UTC)
> Curt wrote:
>
>> Install grml-rescueboot
>
> I just tried it. It may work with a grml CD ISO; I didn't try it. The
> code builds the grub.cfg entry correctly, and that works. But grub
>
On 2023-04-22, mick.crane wrote:
>> DdB
> This sounds encouraging.
> Any idea what the correct manifestation would be to get the PC to boot
> the debian installer CD?
> What as wrong with boot from CD, disk 1, disk 2, some convoluted network
> connection?
>
>
Install grml-rescueboot
sudo
On 2023-04-15, Brian wrote:
>> >
>> > It is the OP who needs help, not me. She couls at least provide correct
>> > and full date.
>> >
>> Why not just everyone attack each other?
>
> There have not been any attacks whatsoever on any users.
>
>> This looks like an uncontrolled pillow fight.
>
>
On 2023-04-16, Jesper Dybdal wrote:
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> On 2023-04-16 15:08, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 02:19:34PM +0200, Jesper Dybdal wrote:
>>> And there in the bash history were 4 lines that I had not written :-(
>> I would initially ask "who else lives with you"
>
> So would I - if
On 2023-03-30, Bret Busby wrote:
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> I had previously been able to use youtube-dl, to download videos from
> youtube, but, it no longer works with youtube.
>
If you're not using the latest version, this is it:
https://youtube-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl-2021.12.17.tar.gz
I used this
On 2023-03-19, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 06:38:41PM +0800, cor...@free.fr wrote:
>> So,
>>
>> * 188.66.63.1/24 is a range, not a single host in SPF
>> * why it's not written as 188.66.63.0/24 which is more clear?
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> Because it was written by a human being who made a tiny
On 2023-03-19, wrote:
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> Yes, it is just a simulation of knowledge (it can be pretty
> convincing at that,though).
>
> In other words: if you want an answer from it, you have to
> know the answer beforehand.
So the specific answer it gave cited above is wrong? Or did you already know
the
On 2023-03-12, Dan Ritter wrote:
>> >
>> > Many (most?) printers do not understand PostScript. The
>> > printing system itself is based on processing PDFs.
>> >
>>
>> Oh.
>> Times have changed!
>> I thought it was the other way around.
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> You are correct, Yassine.
>
> PostScript is an
2023-03-04, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 4, 2023 at 12:12 PM David Wright wrote:
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>> On Sat 04 Mar 2023 at 01:02:54 (-0500), Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>> > On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 6:10 PM Greg Wooledge wrote:
>> > > On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 05:45:54PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>> > > >
On 2023-03-02, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 02, 2023 at 07:25:58AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>>I don't understand why you used sort -r, but then reversed it again with
>>tac at the end. You could drop both of the reversals, and just change
>>head to tail.
>
> The short answer is
On 2023-03-02, David wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 at 00:19, Greg Wooledge wrote:
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>> Man, I really wish the aptitude(8) man page would explain how to read
>> the output of "why". What does the "p" mean? Purged? There's nothing
>> in the man page that explains the symbols in the first 3
On 2023-02-04, Haines Brown wrote:
> - Forwarded message from Greg Wooledge -
>
> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2023 08:57:30 -0500
> From: Greg Wooledge
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Fw: locating blocked port
>
> I finally managed to get jabref to run.
>
Your first post's
On 2023-02-05, stand...@gmx.net wrote:
> Curt schrieb am Donnerstag, 2. Februar 2023 um 18:20:06 UTC+1:
>> On 2023-01-31, stand...@gmx.net wrote:
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>> Look for file "AppleMobileDevice.kext".
>
> Sorry for the delay.
>
> "Apple no long
On 2023-02-05, TRS-80 wrote:
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>> 2- a simple way to align some text to the right (that is to say to
>> automatically calculate how many spaces are needed to fill the gap
>> between the text on the left an the text on the right for 72 characters
>> line.
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> (defun
On 2023-01-31, stand...@gmx.net wrote:
> Hi from Germany. Sorry, I found no other way/group to ask.
>
> I want to use macOS to maintain some iPads for my school. I have not
> found a way to address them via USB in the VM. Even a simple stick
> does not appear.
>
It seems you have to install the
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