Re: OT: coloured text?

2024-01-07 Thread Kent West
hell is to use ANSI Terminal Escape Sequences. Not 100% portable, but probably suitable for what you want. Something like: #!/bin/env sh printf "\033[31m" printf "Now we're printing in Red\n" printf "\033[0m" printf "Now we're printing in the system default color.\n" -- Kent West<")))>< IT Support / Client Support Abilene Christian University Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: Zoom on Bookworm?

2023-12-19 Thread Kent West
On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 3:30 PM Kent West wrote: > > > On 12/19/23 10:53, John Conover wrote: >> > Does the Zoom client work on Bookworm with pipewire? >> > >> > Thanks, >> > >> > John >> > > Yes. > >

Re: Zoom on Bookworm?

2023-12-19 Thread Kent West
On 12/19/23 10:53, John Conover wrote: > > Does the Zoom client work on Bookworm with pipewire? > > > > Thanks, > > > > John > Yes. I have version 5.17.0 of the desktop client running on my sid/trixie box at this very moment. -- Kent West

Re: Hardware Misses on MacBook Air M1 2020

2023-11-10 Thread Kent West
On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 10:39 PM Timothy M Butterworth < timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 11:31 PM Kent West wrote: > >> I have an M1-chip 2020 MacBook Air on which I have dual-booted with >> Debian 12 initially, then "up

Re: Hardware Misses on MacBook Air M1 2020

2023-11-10 Thread Kent West
[Sorry; sent to Jeremy only the first time; meant to send it to the list.] Sorry, no clue. Don't even know how I'd ascertain that, but if you can give me a simple test, I'd be happy to try it for you. On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 7:22 PM jeremy ardley wrote: > > On 10/11/23 04:44, Kent West

Hardware Misses on MacBook Air M1 2020

2023-11-09 Thread Kent West
light, I'm all ears. Thanks! Linux debian kernel 6.1.0-rc8-asahi #1 SMP Tue Dec 6 21:41:25 CET 2022 aarch64 GNU/Linux trixie/sid -- Kent West<")))>< IT Support / Client Support Abilene Christian University Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Adjustment of left/right fields on Trackpad?

2023-07-29 Thread Kent West
Maybe not, but maybe it's soft-coded in a compilable piece of Plasma's mouse-driver that I could modify? Thanks! -- Kent West<")))>< IT Support / Client Support Abilene Christian University Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

2023-07-07 Thread Kent West
evel of system security - the Blue Screen Of > Death > Although tomas originally wrote "Microsoft didn't invent anything", when you quoted him, you lost the quotation markers, so it *looks* like you said it. jeremy did actually quote what you said, ev

Re: Why does Debian have code names for releases?

2023-06-26 Thread Kent West
to be something like "First" or "Secundo" or "Twelve" -- Kent West<")))>< IT Support / Client Support Abilene Christian University Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

OT: Kmail/Akonadi insists on using Gmail account even on non-Gmail email account

2023-06-26 Thread Kent West
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 this failing new-account wizard issue? Thanks! -- Kent West

Re: Is DocumentRoot in Apache2 Hard-coded?

2023-05-26 Thread Kent West
On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 11:35 AM Geert Stappers wrote: > On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 11:18:27AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > I'm just tinkering, trying to wrap my brain around Apache2. I've done a > > clean-install, and when I look through /etc/apache2/apache2.conf, I see >

Is DocumentRoot in Apache2 Hard-coded?

2023-05-26 Thread Kent West
he2 server is not broken if I don't have any sites in the sites-available directory and the main conf file does not specify the DocumentRoot? Thanks! -- Kent West<")))>< IT Support / Client Support Abilene Christian University Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Where is "LADSPA Noise Suppressor for Voice" for Kdenlive?

2023-05-25 Thread Kent West
-by-step for building/installing it on Debian, in case anyone else searches the archives for this info. LADSPA Noise Suppressor for Voice on Debian, for Kdenlive as of 24 May 2023 Kent West - kent.west@(that .com that swore to not be evil) 1. The "librnnoise_ladspa.so" shar

Re: Mouse trouble on sid

2023-05-16 Thread Kent West
Just for kicks, unplug the keyboard and see if the mouse starts behaving. > > -- Kent West<")))>< IT Support / Client Support Abilene Christian University Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: Mouse trouble on sid

2023-05-15 Thread Kent West
On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 2:16 PM Joe wrote: > On Mon, 15 May 2023 13:26:06 -0500 > Kent West wrote: > > > On 5/15/23 11:57, Joe wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Upgraded sid two days ago for the first time for a week or so. Today > > > have ser

Re: Mouse trouble on sid

2023-05-15 Thread Kent West
On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 2:16 PM Joe wrote: > On Mon, 15 May 2023 13:26:06 -0500 > Kent West wrote: > > > On 5/15/23 11:57, Joe wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Upgraded sid two days ago for the first time for a week or so. Today > > > have ser

Re: Mouse trouble on sid

2023-05-15 Thread Kent West
On 5/15/23 11:57, Joe wrote: Hi, Upgraded sid two days ago for the first time for a week or so. Today have serious mouse problems. Xfce on AMD. First thing tried of course was another mouse, just the same. The computer is barely usable in this state. There were too many packages upgraded,

Re: Gnome desktop environment

2023-04-23 Thread Kent West
On 4/22/23 14:52, William Torrez Corea wrote: I want to delete the Gnome desktop environment. *What command is used for an elimination complete?* I use this command but don't get the effect desired. # apt-get install task-gnome-desktop "install" won't remove. You want "remove" or "purge".

Re: what's $_ in bash

2023-04-08 Thread Kent West
On 4/7/23 23:40, davidson wrote: On Sat, 8 Apr 2023 t...@myposts.ovh wrote: Hello in bash shell, what's "$_" variable? kent@westk-9463:~$ ls *html morsekeyer.html  morse.html  myGameEasier.html  myGame.html The 'ls *html' "expands" to "ls morsekeyer.html morse.html myGameEasier.html

Re: laptop frozen when opening apps, debian testing with gnome

2023-01-23 Thread Kent West
have the same freezing issues? -- Kent West<")))>< IT Support::Client Support Abilene Christian University Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: Q. re "Software" on new 11.6 Install

2022-12-28 Thread Kent West
On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 8:58 AM Kent West wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 8:33 AM Kent West wrote: > >> I just installed 11.6 (Bullseye) on a VM. Before I start using it for its >> intended purpose, I thought I'd take the opportunity to experience a new >> install

Re: Q. re "Software" on new 11.6 Install

2022-12-28 Thread Kent West
On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 8:33 AM Kent West wrote: > I just installed 11.6 (Bullseye) on a VM. Before I start using it for its > intended purpose, I thought I'd take the opportunity to experience a new > install as a new user, just to see what they might experience. > > When g

Q. re "Software" on new 11.6 Install

2022-12-28 Thread Kent West
"non-free" (didn't think that'd make a difference, but thought I'd try). Are these GUI front-ends for "apt" that broken? Or just this one? Or am I doing something wrong? Just curious; I can always use "aptitude" to do what I want, but if

Re: Networking pb

2022-05-09 Thread Kent West
suspecting that you need to go into the Mac's System Preferences / Sharing, and turn on File Sharing. -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: extract values from a string

2022-04-16 Thread Kent West
one <$file -- $./test.sh -- The price of 'black berry ' is $12. We will retail it for $24. The price of 'blue berry ' is $14. We will retail it for $28. The price of 'raspberry ' is $9. We will retail it for $18. The price of 'huckle berry hound ' is $3. We will retail it for $6. The pri

Re: konqueror - no browsermode

2022-02-03 Thread Kent West
On Thu, Feb 3, 2022, 9:55 AM Hans wrote: > Dear list, > > I just reinstalled konqueror, but somehow it is not opening any url. > > As konqueror is a file-browser and also a web browser, it looks like it is > behaving just as a file browser. > > How and where can I change this? > > I found no

Re: freeing up some space

2022-01-11 Thread Kent West
ave a working network connection at that time. If I'm not worried about dwindling drive space, this is the one I use every few "aptitude full-upgrade"s. I believe apt-get and apt have the same options. -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: Update Debian 9 to 10

2021-12-13 Thread Kent West
On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 10:14 AM Thanos Katsiolis wrote: > The Display Manager was missing (gdm3), I installed it and the login works > fine. > > Now when I log in there is a blue screen and the cursor, nothing else is > displayed. > Is there a problem with GNOME? > Probably. You might try

Re: Problems with "Bible Time" and "Xiphos"

2021-12-13 Thread Kent West
r local user. You can probably find and delete those files, but it might be "cleaner" just to create a new local user and log in as that new user for testing, maybe even logging into a different windowing/desktop environment as part of the testing process. -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: installation catch 22

2021-11-22 Thread Kent West
On Sat, Nov 20, 2021, 7:47 AM wrote: > I am able ro login in safe mode which has few commands and I am a new user > so I don't know enough. > See reply below (so messages are read in order). > -Original Message----- > From: Kent West > To: debian-user@lists.debian

Re: installation catch 22

2021-11-19 Thread Kent West
but that you are getting to a login prompt? If so, after logging in, what happens if you run "startx"? -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: VMWare Horizon Client has glitchy graphics after update to Bullseye

2021-11-11 Thread Kent West
there. > > Any idea why this might be happening? > > I don't know the history of your issue, but the first two thoughts that come to my mind: 1) Try a different Desktop Environment (e.g xfce4 instead of Gnome, etc) 2) Try the HTML interface (assuming it's available)

Re: Google sites don't work

2021-08-02 Thread Kent West
te resource at https://ssl.gstatic.com/dynamite/images/cleardot.gif?zx=aojuhxxm7pdi. (Reason: CORS request did not succeed). -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: Google sites don't work

2021-08-02 Thread Kent West
far as I can discern, FF works fine on every other site/product. -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Not Sure Which Package to Submit Bug Against

2021-04-12 Thread Kent West
n't unmute it, and when I handed the laptop to the hardware tech, logged in as user X, bingo! He umuted it. I don't know if this would be a kernel package bug, or an X package bug, or a keyboard-input package bug, or an audio-package bug, or Any ideas? Thanks! -- Kent West<&

Re: Could KDE work adequately on a PC with 4 GB of RAM and an Intel Core 2 Duo processor @ 2.33 GHz?

2021-03-10 Thread Kent West
ting has less churn than unstable, that also means that when a bug does creep through, it may take a week or two to see the next release of the software, whereas unstable might see the fix come in later that same day. It's a trade-off. -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: Could KDE work adequately on a PC with 4 GB of RAM and an Intel Core 2 Duo processor @ 2.33 GHz?

2021-03-10 Thread Kent West
your alternative, and log back in. If KDE proves to be too sluggish, log out/in, switching to a leaner alternative. You can install and try dozens of alternatives. -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????)

2021-02-25 Thread Kent West
of them. > Man pages can be less than "useful: to 1st time user. > > Or links2, which is my usual go-to text-based browser. -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: Help Understanding Samba/ssh/LDAP/sssd/Kerberos/File Sharing?

2021-02-23 Thread Kent West
On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 8:10 PM Kent West wrote: > Ultimate goal: > 1. Allow Windows/Mac users to map drives to Debian fileshares. > 2. Allow Windows/Mac users to ssh into same Debian box. > > Near as I've been able to figure out (the web documentation seems to be >

Re: AD user can't ssh in

2021-02-22 Thread Kent West
On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 1:37 PM Kent West wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 7:52 AM Nicholas Geovanis > wrote: > >> On Sun, Feb 21, 2021, 5:09 PM Kent West wrote: >> >> Brand new Debian box (tried Buster, then when that didn;' work, upgraded >> tp

Re: AD user can't ssh in

2021-02-22 Thread Kent West
On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 7:52 AM Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Sun, Feb 21, 2021, 5:09 PM Kent West wrote: > > Brand new Debian box (tried Buster, then when that didn;' work, upgraded > tp unstable - meh, it's a test box to get things sorted out before > production use). &g

Re: AD user can't ssh in

2021-02-21 Thread Kent West
On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 8:42 PM Kent West wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 6:10 PM Tibz Loufok wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I suppose realmd configured sssd. >> > > Yes. > > You may need to authorize your users to login. (By using AD gpo

Re: AD user can't ssh in

2021-02-21 Thread Kent West
ly since the specifics don't match Debian setups Also, about every other hit is behind a paywall, though. For example, just now I searched for "access_provider", and the first hit I tried was a Redhat link, and ran into a paywall. Arg. Again, thanks for the response! -- Kent Regards > &

AD user can't ssh in

2021-02-21 Thread Kent West
from here. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Help Understanding Samba/ssh/LDAP/sssd/Kerberos/File Sharing?

2021-02-18 Thread Kent West
ssh logins, and mapping drives shared from the Debian box, close to correct? Thanks! -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: Any hams here? Is there a program that lets me use a mouse as a CW paddle?

2021-02-09 Thread Kent West
http://goshen.acu.edu/westk/KCARC/MorseKeyer.html On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 3:17 PM Kent West wrote: > Years ago I wrote a *very* rudimentary html document that allows you to > use the left and right arrows for dits and dahs. It doesn't work well, but > it might give you an idea for rol

Re: Any hams here? Is there a program that lets me use a mouse as a CW paddle?

2021-02-09 Thread Kent West
raining purposes; > > > > 2) (optional) could also be used to pilot a transceiver. > > > > Thanks. > > > > -- > > Ottavio Caruso > > > > Have a look at things like cwcp and the general programs in the ham radio > category? > > Andy C. >

Re: can't boot to a graphical interface.

2020-10-03 Thread Kent West
On Sat, Oct 3, 2020 at 8:01 AM songbird wrote: > Frank McCormick wrote: > > While compiling an application today my Debian bullseye system somehow > > got messed up. It will boot to a CLI but no X, apparently because for > > some reason the system is unable to access some files in > >

Re: where is the download page?

2020-08-17 Thread Kent West
thingy embedded in the huge banner. > > (I've told people before that putting important things in web banners is > a bad idea, because decades of the web have trained us not to look at > web banners.) > > Ha! I got to debian.org every so often (usually to download an .iso), and 'v

Re: Can't start Gimp in Bullseye

2020-08-10 Thread Kent West
On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 1:49 PM Joachim Fahnenmüller wrote: > Am 10.08.20 um 17:39 schrieb Kent West: > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 10:20 AM Joachim Fahnenmüller < > jfahnenmuel...@web.de> > > wrote: > > > >> Hi everybody, > >> > >> since I

Re: Can't start Gimp in Bullseye

2020-08-10 Thread Kent West
On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 10:39 AM Kent West wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 10:20 AM Joachim Fahnenmüller < > jfahnenmuel...@web.de> wrote: > >> Hi everybody, >> >> since I upgraded to Bullseye, Gimp does not start any more. I get the >> followi

Re: Can't start Gimp in Bullseye

2020-08-10 Thread Kent West
0) > gimp: symbol lookup error: gimp: undefined symbol: gegl_rectangle_subtract > > Any idea? > > What happens with: ~$ ls -lah /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbabl-0.1.so.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jun 13 10:36 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbabl-0.1.so.0 -> libbabl-0.1.so.0.17

Re: Switching from Kubuntu to Debian(latest version)

2020-05-16 Thread Kent West
to fix the issue (such as running whatever Windows's boot-repair option is available on whatever version of Windows you have). If you enjoy tinkering, you can have a lot of fun and learn a lot. If you just want things "to work", you may just want to stick with what you have. &q

Re: Boot so slow it never completes, while Windows boots fine

2020-04-23 Thread Kent West
y removing the drive and see if the BIOS is still slow. -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: Netbeans/Java Tutorial - Hangs

2020-04-20 Thread Kent West
the box" on Debian just adds to that sentiment. I think I'll stick with tinkering in Python, Bash, C, and Julia, at least for now. -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Netbeans/Java Tutorial - Hangs

2020-04-17 Thread Kent West
? Suggestions? (I'm pretty green/new with both IDEs and Java.) -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: javascript

2020-04-16 Thread Kent West
le: libfreshwrapper-flashplayer.soPath: /usr/lib/browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash/libfreshwrapper-flashplayer.so Version: 32.0.0.344State: EnabledShockwave Flash 32.0 r0 A new window opened, with a blocky flash icon, which I clicked on, and then had to give permission to run Flash on this site, and the

Re: Partition unreadable [was: Re: Debian Stretch broken !]

2020-04-09 Thread Kent West
On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 9:32 AM Bernard wrote: > > > Le 09/04/2020 15:45, Kent West a écrit : > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 8:29 AM Bernard > <mailto:bdebr...@free.fr>> wrote: > > > > > > > > I just realized that in

Re: Partition unreadable [was: Re: Debian Stretch broken !]

2020-04-09 Thread Kent West
On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 8:29 AM Bernard wrote: > > > I just realized that in that Debian Stretch system, > > I HAVE NO /home//.gconf directory ! > > [ While I have one my laptop using Ubuntu 14.04, also on my old desktop > running Debian Lenny] > > but it didn't rebuild itself so far ! > > What

Re: Debian Stretch broken !

2020-04-05 Thread Kent West
On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 4:36 PM Bernard wrote: > > > Le 05/04/2020 08:24, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : > > On Vi, 03 apr 20, 20:41:06, Bernard wrote: > > >> But : "Oh no, something has gone wrong..." > >> > > > > > and then boot "normally" (this time in text mode). > > > > Log

Re: Debian Stretch broken !

2020-04-05 Thread Kent West
On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 9:28 AM Kent West wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 9:23 AM Kent West wrote: > >> >> Next I typed 'journalctl -xb' to view system logs : a dozen of pages >>> which I will shoot later, one thing I have noticed in it all, printed in >

Re: Debian Stretch broken !

2020-04-05 Thread Kent West
On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 9:23 AM Kent West wrote: > > Next I typed 'journalctl -xb' to view system logs : a dozen of pages >> which I will shoot later, one thing I have noticed in it all, printed in >> red characters : >> >> EXT4-fs (sda2): unable to read superblock &

Re: Debian Stretch broken !

2020-04-05 Thread Kent West
Things are looking a bit more promising now... On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 6:14 PM Bernard wrote: > > > Le 03/04/2020 21:05, Kent West a écrit : > > > > > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 1:41 PM Bernard > <mailto:bdebr...@free.fr>> wrote: > > > > >

Re: Debian Stretch broken !

2020-04-03 Thread Kent West
On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 1:41 PM Bernard wrote: > > Having done some minor resettings on alsamixer with no results, I > thought I had to reboot. > > But : "Oh no, something has gone wrong..." > > So, I am writing this message from my other laptop running Ubuntu 14.04 > > I tried to reboot in

Re: Debian 10 Installation Question

2020-03-22 Thread Kent West
ian. Can you ping anything (like "ping 8.8.8.8"? Ctrl-C to stop the ping attempts.)? If so, we can probably pick up the pieces from here (try "tasksel", and installing the X11 windowing system/Gnome/KDE/etc). If you can't ping anything, your networking is

Re: libreoffice crash

2020-02-09 Thread Kent West
hat LO was no longer open. I looked into it a bit, but not a lot, figuring, "Meh, I run sid; expect brokenness." Then after a week or two, another full-upgrade seems to have solved the problem. Sorry I don't have better info to help, but maybe there's a clue here that means somethin

Re: help with installation?

2019-12-24 Thread Kent West
uipment) Of course, for this to work, you'll need access to the Debian repository, which means one of the three solutions already suggested: 1) different (non-free) installer, 2) a wired connection, or 3) a fuller CD/DVD/local repository. -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: New Install Boots to Grub

2019-12-16 Thread Kent West
> Thank you, > > Jason > Grub should have given you a menu with (probably) two options; something like: Debian GNU/Linux Advanced Options If you did not get such a menu, something went wrong during the install. -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: Macbook Post-Installation Issue

2019-12-16 Thread Kent West
- > (and give the root password) > or > sudo -s > (and give your own password) > > Now you have root privileges. > > type > apt install kde-full > to install KDE. > > > > Unless things have changed recently (and I don't believe they have), you could also run "sudo tasksel" and pick the Desktop Environment[s] you prefer. -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: Difference between ipp, ipps, http, https CUPS protocols?

2019-11-18 Thread Kent West
On 11/17/19 3:02 AM, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: Quick search of https://sources.debian.org/src/cups/2.3.0-7/backend/ipp.c/ shows there is no different between ipp and http, and no difference between ipps and https. ipps and https force encryption, using SSL/TLS (just like you'd expect from

Re: Difference between ipp, ipps, http, https CUPS protocols?

2019-11-12 Thread Kent West
On 11/12/19 9:02 AM, Brian wrote: On Mon 11 Nov 2019 at 10:18:26 -0600, Kent West wrote: When adding a printer via the CUPS web interface (localhost:631) on my Debian box, Administration / Add Printer / Other Network Printers, there are four Internet Printing Protocol options: https ipp

Re: Difference between ipp, ipps, http, https CUPS protocols?

2019-11-11 Thread Kent West
On 11/11/19 1:44 PM, Kent West wrote: On 11/11/19 1:38 PM, Kent West wrote: On 11/11/19 10:40 AM, Brian wrote: On Mon 11 Nov 2019 at 10:18:26 -0600, Kent West wrote: When adding a printer via the CUPS web interface (localhost:631) on my Debian box, Administration / Add Printer / Other

Re: Semi-OT: IPP doesn't auto-configure CUPS?

2019-11-11 Thread Kent West
On 11/11/19 2:02 PM, Kent West wrote: What I mean more specifically is, when I go into the CUPS web interface to set up a new printer, and go through the Add Printer stuff, and select "Other Network Printers" / "Internet Printing Protocol (ipps)" (because the printer is o

Semi-OT: IPP doesn't auto-configure CUPS?

2019-11-11 Thread Kent West
I've been trying to wrap my head around printing today, and I have come to understand that IPP is the up-and-coming standard for printing (replacing the older LPD / AppSocket / HP Jet Direct / etc), and more specifically, that IPPEverywhere is the new and up-and-coming standard (of which

Re: Difference between ipp, ipps, http, https CUPS protocols?

2019-11-11 Thread Kent West
On 11/11/19 1:38 PM, Kent West wrote: On 11/11/19 10:40 AM, Brian wrote: On Mon 11 Nov 2019 at 10:18:26 -0600, Kent West wrote: When adding a printer via the CUPS web interface (localhost:631) on my Debian box, Administration / Add Printer / Other Network Printers, there are four Internet

Re: Difference between ipp, ipps, http, https CUPS protocols?

2019-11-11 Thread Kent West
On 11/11/19 10:40 AM, Brian wrote: On Mon 11 Nov 2019 at 10:18:26 -0600, Kent West wrote: Probably answered somewhere, but I've been DuckDuckGo-ing for the past two hours and can't find the answer. When adding a printer via the CUPS web interface (localhost:631) on my Debian box

Difference between ipp, ipps, http, https CUPS protocols?

2019-11-11 Thread Kent West
Probably answered somewhere, but I've been DuckDuckGo-ing for the past two hours and can't find the answer. When adding a printer via the CUPS web interface (localhost:631) on my Debian box, Administration / Add Printer / Other Network Printers, there are four Internet Printing Protocol

Re: Security Issue with sssd / AD authentication?

2019-11-08 Thread Kent West
On 11/8/19 11:53 AM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 11:36:34AM -0600, Kent West wrote: Probably not the best place to put this information, but I figure here is better than no where... I'm tinkering with authentication a Debian (10.1) box via Active Directory, so

Security Issue with sssd / AD authentication?

2019-11-08 Thread Kent West
Probably not the best place to put this information, but I figure here is better than no where... I'm tinkering with authentication a Debian (10.1) box via Active Directory, so that an AD user can log into the Debian box. The relevant /etc/sssd/sssd.conf file has the following modification:

OT: Brainstorming in Favor of FOSS

2019-09-20 Thread Kent West
Totally off-topic, but today I had a thought. It would be nice if Mozilla and LibreOffice Foundation got together and used the online account stuff of Firefox to allow users to access a hosted online version of LibreOffice. Could give both MS Office365 and Google Docs a run for their money,

Re: Installation problem

2019-09-13 Thread Kent West
On Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 6:55 PM Anne wrote: Hi, I am new to debian and I can not seem to get the OS installed properly. What I have done so far is to Make a free space partition of 100GB on drive D and then 1. download the first DVD of 10.1.0 2. used rufus to put it on a thumb drive 3. Booted

Re: Where'd lsb-compat go?

2019-07-15 Thread Kent West
On 7/15/19 3:54 PM, Nicolas George wrote: Kent West (12019-07-15): - They plainly state that they support Ubuntu 18.04, but not Debian. So, did I get this right: this is a software, if you install it on Ubuntu 18.04, it can tell you on what OS and version it runs, REMOTELY

Re: Where'd lsb-compat go?

2019-07-15 Thread Kent West
On 7/15/19 3:15 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 03:09:28PM -0500, Kent West wrote: Well, in this particular case, the Quest SMA is a Systems Management Appliance, which provides management and data-collection capabilities of devices on a network. When a sysadmin wants to use

Re: Where'd lsb-compat go?

2019-07-15 Thread Kent West
On 7/15/19 2:48 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: 3) It spurs me to ask: So, if not via LSB, what is the canonical way to programatically determine the version of an installed Debian setup? Why would a program want to know? That won't give it very much information, since the system may very well

Re: Where'd lsb-compat go?

2019-07-15 Thread Kent West
On 7/15/19 9:25 AM, Michael Stone wrote: On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 09:15:19AM -0500, Kent West wrote: However, that didn't solve the issue; apparently the SMA release on the "Description:" line of output from "lsb_release -a" instead of the "Release:" line.

Re: Where'd lsb-compat go?

2019-07-15 Thread Kent West
NOT REQUIRED READING; this is just a follow-up for documentation purposes in case anyone else needs this info from the list archives. (TL;DR at bottom) On 7/11/19 1:48 PM, Kent West wrote: 1) I have several Debian boxes running as kiosks, and reporting to a centralized Quest-branded

Re: Where'd lsb-compat go?

2019-07-12 Thread Kent West
On 7/11/19 10:04 PM, Dominic Knight wrote: On Thu, 2019-07-11 at 13:48 -0500, Kent West wrote: Two issues: 1) I have several Debian boxes running as kiosks, and reporting to a centralized Quest-branded "Systems Management Appliance" (SMA). With a recent update to the SMA, the De

Where'd lsb-compat go?

2019-07-11 Thread Kent West
Two issues: 1) I have several Debian boxes running as kiosks, and reporting to a centralized Quest-branded "Systems Management Appliance" (SMA). With a recent update to the SMA, the Debian boxes stopped reporting in. After several weeks, I finally discovered that the installation of

Can't Connect to Secure Wireless Network

2019-05-21 Thread Kent West
I'm on a university campus; we have a secure network ("ACUsecure") to which I'm trying to connect. Mac laptops and Windows laptops have no problem. You connect to the network, and a pop-up appears asking for the user's "campus" username/password, and connection is made. On my Debian sid

Re: A Ghost in the Computer

2019-05-11 Thread Kent West
that's open. > > - sticking keys on keyboard generating some sort of keyboard shortcut to show all windows? - hotspot on your screen to show all windows? - glitch in your DE? Try a different Desktop Environment (Icewm instead of Gnome, etc). -- Kent West<")))&g

Re: Debian Stretch freezes often

2019-04-23 Thread Kent West
gh gear? Which window manager / desktop environment? Can you switch to a different DE for a couple of days and get different results? I'm not sure which logs to look into, but my starting place would be /var/log. -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: Lspci

2019-03-26 Thread Kent West
ave pc-utils which has lspci but I have no internet. > > What should I do? > > It should be "lspci", not"lscpi". -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: Q. about Tinkering with Debian Source Code

2019-03-26 Thread Kent West
On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 8:17 AM Kent West wrote: > Oops; when to Thomas instead of list; sorry. (Gmail, ugh!) > "went", not 'when". (Kent's typing skills, ugh!) -- Forwarded message - > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 3:23 AM Thomas Schmitt wrote: >

Fwd: Q. about Tinkering with Debian Source Code

2019-03-26 Thread Kent West
t one or two steps ahead of you. > > > Kent West wrote: > > Should I consider the Debian download as the official source, of the Git > > version? > > s/of/or/ ? > > Oops, my bad. Yes, "or". It depends on where you plan to submit your changes. > >

Fwd: Q. about Tinkering with Debian Source Code

2019-03-26 Thread Kent West
his information, but it got me past a conceptual bump; it helps me to make sense of the bigger picture, and I should now be able to plod a bit further. -- Kent West <")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Q. about Tinkering with Debian Source Code

2019-03-25 Thread Kent West
make sense; I'm just trying to wrap my brain around the basic process. Thanks! -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: What means "<<" in dependencies at packages.debian.org?

2019-03-10 Thread Kent West
On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 2:24 PM Andreas Ronnquist wrote: > On Sun, 10 Mar 2019 14:14:52 -0500, > Kent West wrote: > > >Example: https://packages.debian.org/sid/python3-kivy > > > >- > >> > >> dep: python3 <https://packages.debian.or

What means "<<" in dependencies at packages.debian.org?

2019-03-10 Thread Kent West
Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.7.2-1 is installed > and in the description of the package in the aptitude console: Depends: python3-gst-1.0, python3 (< 3.7), python3 (>= 3.5~), ... > It's not a typo, unless other pages have similar typos (sometimes being ">>" - &quo

Re: python3.7 disfunctional (was: argparse missing from libpython3.7-stdlib ?)

2019-02-22 Thread Kent West
o get a list of available modules, keywords, symbols, or topics, type "modules", "keywords", "symbols", or "topics". Each module also comes with a one-line summary of what it does; to list the modules whose name or summary contain a given string such as "spam", type "modules spam". help> -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

eric Python IDE minor warnings

2019-02-16 Thread Kent West
nter lower pane says: "Warning: translation file 'git_en_US' could not be loaded. Using default." Not show-stoppers, but I'd like to clear out these warnings and don't know how to do so. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

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