Re: [OFFTOPIC] Plonk (wss: Meta: behavior on list)

2021-08-14 Thread Michael Howard
On 14/08/2021 20:51, Curt wrote: On 2021-08-14, Michael Howard wrote: On 14/08/2021 16:08, Charles Curley wrote: Don't forget IP over drums, and of course IP over lanterns in church steeples ("Two if by sea", etc.) Please take this shit off list! IP o

Fwd: [OFFTOPIC] Plonk (wss: Meta: behavior on list)

2021-08-14 Thread Michael Howard
and her is an off list reply reply from the less than honourable Polyna Forwarded Message Subject:Re: [OFFTOPIC] Plonk (wss: Meta: behavior on list) Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2021 15:41:22 -0400 From: Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside To: Michael Howard

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Plonk (wss: Meta: behavior on list)

2021-08-14 Thread Michael Howard
On 14/08/2021 20:25, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: Hi, On 2021-08-14 2:53 p.m., Michael Howard wrote: On 14/08/2021 16:08, Charles Curley wrote: On Sat, 14 Aug 2021 07:37:00 -0500 John Hasler wrote: tomas writes: But... Usenet was /before/ 'phone, wasn't it? Yup.  Back

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Plonk (wss: Meta: behavior on list)

2021-08-14 Thread Michael Howard
, but worked. And, of course, pigeons. Don't forget IP over drums, and of course IP over lanterns in church steeples ("Two if by sea", etc.) Please take this shit off list! -- Michael Howard.

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

2021-02-25 Thread Michael Howard
.. https://www.brow.sh/ Maybe later. It isn't in repository and depends on Firefox. I'm strongly pro-SeaMonkey ;} Err, where do think SeaMonkey evolved from? -- Michael Howard.

Re: 'ddgr' cli for duckduckgo snafu?

2021-02-23 Thread Michael Howard
ment is at 1415, there will be a fifteen minute waiting period before the doctor sees you"? Nothing measurable. You need to be there 15 minutes early so you get a good dose of whatever is hanging about! WHAT I REALLY WANT TO KNOW is why anybody is making appointments at every doctor's office in the c

Re: Accessing raid from multiple hosts

2021-02-07 Thread Michael Howard
On 07/02/2021 15:44, Sven Hartge wrote: Michael Howard wrote: On 07/02/2021 14:35, john doe wrote: I have a multiboot system (Buster and Stretch),, the raid was configured on Buster and works well. now, I need to access that same raid from Stretch. Has anyone been able to access a raid from

Re: Accessing raid from multiple hosts

2021-02-07 Thread Michael Howard
? -- Michael Howard.

Re: sharing a network connection from debian to non-debian

2021-01-16 Thread Michael Howard
On 16/01/2021 05:02, Dan Hitt wrote: In 2016, i had a computer with mint on it (which is a form of ubuntu), and it was connected to an internet modem.  There was a super simple gui on it that i could use to share that connection with some older hardware that were not directly connected to the

Re: Disk errors ...

2021-01-13 Thread Michael Howard
On 13/01/2021 22:53, David Christensen wrote: On 2021-01-13 14:34, Michael Stone wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 01:55:37PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: If you have any red SATA cables, replace them with new black SATA 6 Make sure you wear a beaded neckless while doing that under a full

Re: simple-scan fails with Canon LiDE 300--except as root

2021-01-08 Thread Michael Howard
er a member of the correct groups etc? -- Michael Howard

Re: restarting pppd automatically

2020-12-28 Thread Michael Howard
on it) and  run the command 'pon dsl-provider' if it wasn't up. -- Michael Howard

Re: TFTPD-HPA permissions

2020-11-18 Thread Michael Howard
: drwsrwsrwx 2 root root4096 Nov 18 19:37 tftp Any ideas? Thanks Andrew A vague memory but does the file not need to already exist on the server with some older cisco kit? Try touching the file on the server first. Mike. -- Michael Howard

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

2020-05-31 Thread Michael Howard
On 31/05/2020 20:52, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, May 31, 2020 01:43:46 PM Michael Howard wrote: On 31/05/2020 15:59, Thomas Schmitt wrote: If a backup shall have a chance to be absolutely safe it must be done while the backuped filesystems are unmounted or mounted read-only

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

2020-05-31 Thread Michael Howard
On 31/05/2020 15:59, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Michael Howard wrote: With linux (debian) you could just create an image (using dd for example) of the drive in order to restore it at a later date. If a backup shall have a chance to be absolutely safe it must be done while the backuped

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

2020-05-31 Thread Michael Howard
is easier or quicker than doing a re-install? Just retain (or obtain) a copy of the original install media. It doesnt get much quicker than a barebones netinst of debian. -- Michael Howard

Re: armhf: buster: TLS / HTTPS partly broken

2020-05-05 Thread Michael Howard
nteraction. Apologies if I missed something, haven't read the whole thread. -- Michael Howard

Re: apt-mark hold issue (apt Installed: 1.8.2 armhf)

2020-04-19 Thread Michael Howard
lly exclusive packages should be suitable for 'marking'. -- Michael Howard

Re: apt-mark hold issue (apt Installed: 1.8.2 armhf)

2020-04-19 Thread Michael Howard
On 19/04/2020 17:34, Michael Lange wrote: Hi, On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 09:25:18 +0200 Sven Hartge wrote: Michael Howard wrote: root@bamford:/etc# apt-mark hold sudo sudo-ldap sudo set on hold. sudo-ldap set on hold. root@bamford:/etc# apt-mark showhold bash dash sudo sudo-ldap Still good

Re: Kind reminder: please don't reply to and/or quote spam, ever

2020-04-19 Thread Michael Howard
On 19/04/2020 12:01, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 11:56:32AM +0100, Michael Howard wrote: On 19/04/2020 11:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 11:45:49AM +0100, Michael Howard wrote: [...] Never used it myself though as I control my own mail server. Just

Re: Bouncing a message from Thunderbird [was: Kind reminder: please don't reply to and/or quote spam, ever]

2020-04-19 Thread Michael Howard
On 19/04/2020 11:56, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 11:50:01AM +0100, Michael Howard wrote: [...] Don't do boasting, but I have installed TB thousands of times, just like I've installed linux and windows thousands of times. No big deal is it? Sorry if I came across a bit

Re: Kind reminder: please don't reply to and/or quote spam, ever

2020-04-19 Thread Michael Howard
On 19/04/2020 11:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 11:45:49AM +0100, Michael Howard wrote: [...] If there's any thunderbird expert here: hey, tell us how that works, and I promise to edit the Debian wiki :-) There is a mail redirect plugin for TB here, https

Re: Bouncing a message from Thunderbird [was: Kind reminder: please don't reply to and/or quote spam, ever]

2020-04-19 Thread Michael Howard
On 19/04/2020 11:42, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 11:16:50AM +0100, Michael Howard wrote: [...] No way. Thing wanted to set up an account and refused to play with me without one. You mean an email client wanted you to setup an email account? Wow, how absurd :) Indeed. I

Re: Kind reminder: please don't reply to and/or quote spam, ever

2020-04-19 Thread Michael Howard
ceforge.io/installation.html. Never used it myself though as I control my own mail server. -- Michael Howard

Re: Bouncing a message from Thunderbird [was: Kind reminder: please don't reply to and/or quote spam, ever]

2020-04-19 Thread Michael Howard
ever be your friend. Furrfu. Seriously, what account? Never, ever, been asked to do anything untoward when installing Thunderbird and I've done it thousands of times, quite literally. -- Michael Howard

Re: apt-mark hold issue (apt Installed: 1.8.2 armhf)

2020-04-18 Thread Michael Howard
On 18/04/2020 21:34, Michael Howard wrote: On 18/04/2020 21:02, Sven Hartge wrote: Michael Howard wrote: I've not used apt-mark much (or it's previous methods) so I'm a bit confused by what I'm seeing. If I use 'apt-mark hold ' and then 'apt-mark showhold' I get ' ' listed. If I then do

Re: apt-mark hold issue (apt Installed: 1.8.2 armhf)

2020-04-18 Thread Michael Howard
On 18/04/2020 21:02, Sven Hartge wrote: Michael Howard wrote: I've not used apt-mark much (or it's previous methods) so I'm a bit confused by what I'm seeing. If I use 'apt-mark hold ' and then 'apt-mark showhold' I get ' ' listed. If I then do 'apt-mark hold ' followed by 'apt-mark showhold

apt-mark hold issue (apt Installed: 1.8.2 armhf)

2020-04-18 Thread Michael Howard
missing something? -- Michael Howard

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-13 Thread Michael Howard
On 13/04/2020 19:18, Sven Hartge wrote: Michael Howard wrote: On 13/04/2020 17:49, John Hasler wrote: Michael Howard writes: In your opinion. Total rubbish in my opinion. Far better to have more channels open than just one where possible. Not when the channels connect to different pools

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-13 Thread Michael Howard
Javascript. I have read what there is of Discourse using Lynx. Am I missing out an anything? Can you provide some of the links you used? -- Michael Howard

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-13 Thread Michael Howard
On 13/04/2020 17:49, John Hasler wrote: Michael Howard writes: In your opinion. Total rubbish in my opinion. Far better to have more channels open than just one where possible. Not when the channels connect to different pools. Sorry, which different pools are you refering to? -- Michael

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-13 Thread Michael Howard
d commit to *one* communications channel and only one, as to not create parallel "societies". In your opinion. Total rubbish in my opinion. Far better to have more channels open than just one where possible. -- Michael Howard

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-13 Thread Michael Howard
engine, which brings up the spot in their Maps app). I found this surprising (in my vast ignorance). Both maxmind and geoip.com put me about three miles from my actual location (both at the same point). Celejar maxmind put's me 134.7 miles away from my location. -- Michael Howard

Re: DOH

2020-04-12 Thread Michael Howard
sysadmin has set up for DNS. I don't have polite words for that. Cheers -- t Security has a lot to answer for. It's amazing how much is done in this day and age, in _all_ walks of life, in the name of so called security. -- Michael Howard

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread Michael Howard
-user regulars will give it a try with an open mind. Cheers, Andy Just another cog in the Debian control wheel. Pass me that woolly cardigan and those sandals please ... I still remember when Debian was for the community. -- Michael Howard

Re: question

2020-03-26 Thread Michael Howard
' give it a name, select 'After Sending' (and de-select any others as appropriate), select 'Match all messages' then add the actiion 'Copy Message to' and 'Choose Folder...' -- Michael Howard

Re: Buster without systemd?

2020-03-23 Thread Michael Howard
On 23/03/2020 23:20, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 15:15:14 + Michael Howard wrote: On 23/03/2020 14:28, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 08:37:47 -0400 Jude DaShiell wrote: There is devuan-ascii 2.x but I don't know its equivalent to buster. That system

Re: Buster without systemd?

2020-03-23 Thread Michael Howard
On 23/03/2020 16:31, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 23/03/2020 15:15, Michael Howard wrote: On 23/03/2020 14:28, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 08:37:47 -0400 Jude DaShiell wrote: I know it's a sensitive subject, and I really don't want to upset the list, there's been enough

Re: Buster without systemd?

2020-03-23 Thread Michael Howard
hasn't release its "Buster" version yet. B It can be upgraded to 'beowulf' using apt of course. -- Michael Howard

Re: “No application currently records sound.”

2020-03-07 Thread Michael Howard
, but no! “Currently, no application is recording sound.” Why? Asus laptop for about 13 years. Tell me what should I do? Thanks all. I'm sure there are a number of applications that record sound out there. You don't say what you have installed but I've always found Audacity to be pretty good. -- Michael

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Michael Howard
rs to setup accounts on their devices. -- Michael Howard

Re: Using ISO images as a repository

2020-01-03 Thread Michael Howard
. HOWEVER, all I've ever seen is the kludge of individually loop mounting all the ISO files. Is that my only option? TIA No, not your only option. You could copy all the files locally and use dpkg-scanpackages. You could use reprepro. There are many ways to skin a cat. -- Michael Howard

Re: Debian 8

2020-01-02 Thread Michael Howard
On 02/01/2020 16:53, Hector Leon wrote: Good Morning; Is there a way to get a copy of Debian 8? Thank you ! Very Respectfully; Hector M Leon http://archive.debian.org/ ? -- Michael Howard

Re: KISS gpg

2019-10-31 Thread Michael Howard
On 31/10/2019 15:22, The Wanderer wrote: On 2019-10-31 at 11:18, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 02:12:54AM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: If you kill all agents to stop them interfering, then use the - --homedir option of gpg with a copy of your files, I think you will have

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

2019-10-25 Thread Michael Howard
On 25/10/2019 16:37, David Wright wrote: On Fri 25 Oct 2019 at 14:28:02 (+0100), Michael Howard wrote: On 25/10/2019 14:11, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 08:33:09AM +0100, Michael Howard wrote: On 24/10/2019 23:37, Ken Heard wrote: #!/bin/bash # Script to back up all browser

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

2019-10-25 Thread Michael Howard
On 25/10/2019 14:11, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 08:33:09AM +0100, Michael Howard wrote: On 24/10/2019 23:37, Ken Heard wrote: #!/bin/bash # Script to back up all browser files in directory /home/ken/mozilla. STARTDIR=$PWD cd /home/ken tar -czf /media/fde/backups/kbrowsers.tgz

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

2019-10-25 Thread Michael Howard
On 24/10/2019 23:37, Ken Heard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Whenever I run this script -- or several others like it #!/bin/bash # Script to back up all browser files in directory /home/ken/mozilla. STARTDIR=$PWD cd /home/ken tar -czf /media/fde/backups/kbrowsers.tgz

Re: [OT] replacement for SystemRescueCD

2019-10-24 Thread Michael Howard
On 24/10/2019 07:51, David wrote: On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 at 15:44, Default User wrote: Guys, [...] Guys, thanks for the feedback. I'm not sure what I will do yet. Hi, I'm sure you don't intend to offend, but in future please try to choose words that cannot accidentally be understood as

MP30-AR0 arm64 sdcard slot not detected

2019-10-18 Thread Michael Howard
I've just re-installed debian (stretch) on the Gigabyte MP30-AR0 board using the installer netinst iso (any later install images fail) and the sdcard slot is not showing up. The kernel is vmlinuz-4.9.0-11-arm64 and I have also rebuilt it ensuring all the MMC options I should need are selected.

Re: attempted install of buster arm64 net-install on rp4 fails instantly

2019-09-08 Thread Michael Howard
On 08/09/2019 12:39, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 08 September 2019 03:59:01 Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Gene Heskett wrote: debian-10.0.0-armhf-netinst.iso debian-10.0.0-arm64-netinst.iso SD card seems to be the intended target for netboot images. E.g.

Re: Delete all after a pattern

2019-08-31 Thread Michael Howard
On 31/08/2019 17:02, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting The Wanderer (2019-08-31 14:39:56) In practice, I'd either use this with 'sed -i [the above expression] filename' or (more likely) with 'cat filename | sed [the above expression] > newfilename'. While wandering(!) off of the original topic,

Re: Solution to "pathetic email complaints"

2019-08-19 Thread Michael Howard
On 19/08/2019 19:35, Richard Owlett wrote: TANSTAAFL, TINSTAAFL, TNSTAAFL    etc ;/ I have a *PAID* email provider. I have a *PAID* Usenet provider. IOW   *CHEAPSKATES LOSE*    u get what you paid for Er, glad you got that off your chest! -- Mike Howard

Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone

2019-08-14 Thread Michael Howard
On 14/08/2019 03:18, Keith Steensma wrote: On 8/13/2019 5:29 PM, Keith Steensma wrote: On 8/13/2019 1:16 PM, Michael Howard wrote: On 13/08/2019 18:40, Keith Steensma wrote: On 8/13/2019 11:35 AM, Michael Howard wrote: On 13/08/2019 16:31, Joe wrote: On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 15:28:04 +0200

Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone

2019-08-13 Thread Michael Howard
On 13/08/2019 18:40, Keith Steensma wrote: On 8/13/2019 11:35 AM, Michael Howard wrote: On 13/08/2019 16:31, Joe wrote: On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 15:28:04 +0200 wrote: On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 08:23:35AM -0500, Keith Steensma wrote: On 8/12/2019 4:00 PM, elvis wrote: On 12/8/19 11:23 pm

Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone

2019-08-13 Thread Michael Howard
On 13/08/2019 16:31, Joe wrote: On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 15:28:04 +0200 wrote: On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 08:23:35AM -0500, Keith Steensma wrote: On 8/12/2019 4:00 PM, elvis wrote: On 12/8/19 11:23 pm, Keith Steensma wrote: The same thing happens if I fill in 'root' as the login even though a

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread Michael Howard
On 04/06/2019 20:24, Kaj Persson wrote: I am running Debian 9 Stretch. After the OS install the Pulseaudio is by default the standard audio system with Alsa as the executor. Which is the best strategy to remove Pulseaudio and instead letting Alsa be the one and only audio system? Are there any

Re: build vs install

2019-04-09 Thread Michael Howard
On 09/04/2019 19:03, Lee wrote: On 4/9/19, Michael Howard wrote: On 09/04/2019 16:35, Lee wrote: What are the downsides to getting the source code and doing the build/install myself vs. using a pre-built package other than I'm responsible for noticing the software needs to be updated

Re: build vs install

2019-04-09 Thread Michael Howard
On 09/04/2019 16:35, Lee wrote: What are the downsides to getting the source code and doing the build/install myself vs. using a pre-built package other than I'm responsible for noticing the software needs to be updated? The latest example is ttcp http://nuttcp.net/nuttcp/latest/ has 8.1.4

Re: ssh

2018-11-18 Thread Michael Howard
On 19/11/2018 02:46, Alan Taylor wrote: Thanks Mike, I was slowly coming to that conclusion ! What would be best practice regarding a password for that account (i.e. system account such as backuppc that needs ssh access but no shell access). If I create the user with bash as the shell, I

Re: ssh

2018-11-18 Thread Michael Howard
On 17/11/2018 04:28, Alan Taylor wrote: Thanks Everyone. I am getting that together to show you. A question though - are you sure this is not normal behavior ? Most of my research on the net (with caution I know) seems to suggest that ssh disconnection after authentication because of

Re: ssh

2018-11-12 Thread Michael Howard
On 12/11/2018 13:49, Alan Taylor wrote: Greetings, I have an ssh problem - one user can use it successfully, another cannot. I have checked and rechecked permissions until I am blue in the face … At the moment just trying to ssh into the same machine I am on for the problem user (the other