Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-15 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Monday 15 April 2024 10:13:06 am Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 15 Apr 2024 08:28:24 -0400 > gene heskett wrote: > > > I am supposedly running xfc4 as a desktop, but htop says I have a > > heck of a lot of kde5 running. How do I get rid of the kde stuff? > > Dependencies seem to be

Re: What use can i give to linux?

2024-04-06 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Saturday 06 April 2024 11:05:52 am 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 their rockets and spacecraft. Over 90% of the top 1

Re: Bookworm Fasttrack and Virtualbox

2024-03-17 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Sunday 17 March 2024 08:48:29 am Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 12:35:33PM +0100, Miguel A. Vallejo wrote: > > Well... it seems my brain can't distinguish Bookworm from Bullseye. > > It's not just you. The use of three "b" names in a row (buster, > bullseye, bookworm) was in

Re: strange time problem with bullseye

2024-03-08 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Thursday 07 March 2024 02:44:42 pm Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 02:33:05PM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > On Thursday 07 March 2024 09:02:44 am Teemu Likonen wrote: > > > systemctl status systemd-timesyncd.service > > > > This g

Re: strange time problem with bullseye

2024-03-07 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Thursday 07 March 2024 09:02:44 am Teemu Likonen wrote: > systemctl status systemd-timesyncd.service This got me some interesting results: ● systemd-timesyncd.service - Network Time Synchronization Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service; enabled; vendor preset:

Re: strange time problem with bullseye

2024-03-07 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Wednesday 06 March 2024 12:42:12 pm Greg Wooledge wrote: > > How do I get the RTC to agree with the right time? > > "hwclock -w" to copy the system clock to the hardware clock (RTC).  This > should also be done during shutdown, but it doesn't hurt to do it now. That seemed to do what I

Re: strange time problem with bullseye

2024-03-06 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Wednesday 06 March 2024 12:37:09 am Teemu Likonen wrote: > * 2024-03-06 02:47:06+0800, hlyg wrote: > > > my newly-installed deb11 for amd64 shows wrong time,  it lags behind > > correct time by 8 hours though difference between universal and local > > is ok. > > It seems that you have solved

Re: medically smart watches

2024-02-26 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Sunday 25 February 2024 06:33:26 pm gene heskett wrote: > On 2/25/24 14:19, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > On Sunday 25 February 2024 05:16:21 am gene heskett wrote: > >> I have no idea how many EE's there are here in the states, > >> 10,000+ probably. Ther

Re: medically smart watches

2024-02-25 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Sunday 25 February 2024 05:16:21 am gene heskett wrote: > I have no idea how many EE's there are here in the states, > 10,000+ probably. There are only around 130 CET's. More than that. My certificate number is PA-230... -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting --

Re: SMART Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt rising - should I be worried?

2024-02-17 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Friday 16 February 2024 04:42:12 pm Gremlin wrote: > On 2/16/24 13:56, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > On Friday 16 February 2024 04:52:22 am David Christensen wrote: > >> I think the Raspberry Pi, etc., users on this list live with USB storage > >> and have fou

Re: SMART Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt rising - should I be worried?

2024-02-16 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Friday 16 February 2024 04:52:22 am David Christensen wrote: > I think the Raspberry Pi, etc., users on this list live with USB storage > and have found it to be reliable enough for personal and SOHO network use. I have one, haven't done much with it. Are there any alternative ways to

Re: Home UPS recommendations (Was Re: rsync --delete vs rsync --delete-after)

2024-02-11 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Friday 09 February 2024 04:41:37 pm hw wrote: > On Fri, 2024-02-09 at 11:34 -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > On Friday 09 February 2024 06:07:16 am hw wrote: > > > What other manufacturers could we buy UPSs from? > > > > I have a Tripp-Lite sitting next t

Re: Home UPS recommendations (Was Re: rsync --delete vs rsync --delete-after)

2024-02-09 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Friday 09 February 2024 06:07:16 am hw wrote: > What other manufacturers could we buy UPSs from? I have a Tripp-Lite sitting next to me here that replaced an APC and has 2-1/2 times the capabiliity. Been in service several weeks and so far I'm pretty happy with it... -- Member of the

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

2024-01-25 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Thursday 25 January 2024 09:03:36 am Anssi Saari wrote: > Western Digital at least claims to have solved the leaking > problem with helium and since they've been making those drives for over > a decade, I think it's solved. Your source for this? -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest,

Re: Seeking a Terminal Emulator on Debian for "Passthrough"Printing

2024-01-21 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Saturday 20 January 2024 07:56:16 pm gene heskett wrote: > We may even already > have a POS system you could use. I know for a fact one of the local > grocery stores here in this village of around 6000 is running something > on linux in the checkout lanes, I saw it boot up after a power

Re: counting commas

2024-01-20 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Friday 19 January 2024 09:48:01 pm Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Fri, Jan 19, 2024, 2:07 PM Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > > . > > (Ok, C causes scars on the programmer's self esteem. But what does not > > kill me makes me just stronger. I'm a vim user.) > > > > OK I'll mention that to my

Re: playing CDROM music questions

2024-01-08 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Monday 08 January 2024 03:49:17 pm Haines Brown wrote: > where can find an inexpensive drive to hold about 1000 cds and find > the time do all the converting? ㋡ The 4TB drive in my server has about 77GB roughly holding a similar amount of stuff. The time was over a rather lengthy period

Re: how to clone apt repository to newest only?

2023-12-26 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Tuesday 26 December 2023 09:34:00 am Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Living offline is not really feasible anymore - there are too many security > updates needed. (snip) > Linux distributions do update and you should ideally be running the latest > most up to date security patches. I must be

Re: GRUB -- Debian overrides? Or maybe I just don't understand it well...

2023-12-20 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Tuesday 19 December 2023 09:40:19 pm Felix Miata wrote: > I suspect few if any regulars here spend much time with Slackware. I, for one, have been running Slackware since 1999. It's what's running in this virtualbox where I do my email, and it's also what's running on my file server...

Re: IMAP vs POP was Thunderbird vs Claws Mail

2023-11-20 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Monday 20 November 2023 11:15:56 am Mike McClain wrote: > Seeing several messages complaining about fetching messages from > gmail.com I'd like to point out that gmail can be set to forward all > messages to a gmail account to another account on a different server. That's exactly what I'm

Re: locate question

2023-11-08 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Tuesday 07 November 2023 11:32:21 am gene heskett wrote: > so locate isn't working as I think it should. > try find but it finds the whole my whole local net: > gene@coyote:~$ find .scad .  |wc -l > find: ‘.scad’: No such file or directory Try putting a * before the period in that find

Re: [Bookworm] collecting sensors data

2023-10-28 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Saturday 28 October 2023 07:25:39 am gene heskett wrote: > On 10/28/23 00:14, Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 28/10/2023 01:39, Greg wrote: > >> I just noticed that there is no rrdcollect in Bookworm. What is the > >> "proper" way of collecting sensors readings? > > > >

Re: chrome web browser worthless

2023-08-01 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Tuesday 01 August 2023 05:33:55 am gene heskett wrote: > Google seems to have high jacked port 80, I cannot use it as a browser > to run klipper as a google search intercepts port 80, so localhost:80 > cannot be used for troubleshooting or for running a 3d printer with > klipper.. > > FF

Re: Recommendations for a UPS?

2023-08-01 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Monday 31 July 2023 07:47:14 pm Charles Curley wrote: > Replacement batteries from APC are expensive compared to buying > elsewhere, but they come with return shipping for the exhausted battery > so they can recycle it. OTOH local recycling places give me cash for exhausted lead-acid

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Wednesday 21 June 2023 08:54:46 am Maurice Heskett wrote: > mc for a file manager since my original > install from floppies of redhat 5.0 in the late '90's. I am well aware > of what it CAN do. There is no gui file manager that can touch it for > utility, and it pisses me off that F10 has

Re: Cable colors and urban legends (was: Error Messages)

2023-06-03 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Friday 02 June 2023 04:03:48 pm gene heskett wrote: > And I'll repeat, I am a CET, something that probably less than 5% of the > working EE's could pass that test. CET's are a bit rare, I've yet to > meet another on the net. Uh, yes you have... (Certificate PA-230 issued in 1981.) --

Re: "Bug" in Debian Installer?

2023-04-18 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Tuesday 18 April 2023 12:47:44 am David Wright wrote: > > I have never seen a document that completely and accurately explains, > > in computer engineering and science terms, the design and > > implementation of the boot processes for Debian (or FreeBSD, or > > Windows, or macOS) for all the

Re: Virtual machine affects client screen resolution

2023-02-25 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Friday 24 February 2023 10:03:31 pm Max Nikulin wrote: > On 25/02/2023 00:55, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 February 2023 09:24:17 pm Max Nikulin wrote: > >> On 19/02/2023 01:01, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > >>> So this got me curious, and I

Re: Virtual machine affects client screen resolution

2023-02-24 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Wednesday 22 February 2023 09:24:17 pm Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 19/02/2023 01:01, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > On Saturday 18 February 2023 12:17:20 am Max Nikulin wrote: > >> echo "$DISPLAY" > > > > So this got me curious, and I tried it out.

Re: Virtual machine affects client screen resolution

2023-02-18 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Saturday 18 February 2023 12:17:20 am Max Nikulin wrote: > echo "$DISPLAY" So this got me curious, and I tried it out. In the terminal that's running inside of the virtualbox instance where I'm doing emails, it comes back with: :0 But in a terminal which is running on the host Debian

Re: OT: repair/replace cell in Li-ion battery?

2023-02-06 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Sunday 05 February 2023 06:29:12 pm local10 wrote: > 5 Feb 2023, 20:28 by y...@masson-informatique.fr: > > Does anybody knows trusted manufacturers / brands I could find on the > > Internet? I am really disappointed by this battery (brand "vhbw") partially > > broken after only two years… > >

Re: How to use bridge-utils to enable connection sharing?

2023-02-05 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Sunday 05 February 2023 12:30:42 pm Dan Ritter wrote: > RJ45 is a physical connector with 8 pairs of twisted wires. Eight wires, _four_ twisted pairs. -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space,  a critter that can

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windowsprogram?

2023-01-08 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Saturday 07 January 2023 03:27:31 pm gene heskett wrote: > That DOS was not the least bit > entertaining. :(> That was the best reason to skip it, I went from > amigados 3.9 to rh5.0, never regretted missing the DOS experience, I got > my fill of it as the CE at a tv station back in the day.

Re: t-bird vs filters to sort msgs

2022-12-12 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Sunday 11 December 2022 09:51:05 am gene heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > Nov 22 is the last time that about half my filters stopped working. I > have recreated 3 or 4, putting them at the top of filter list displayed, > but they don't work either. > > Is it time to learn a new to me but

Re: MUD

2022-10-15 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Thursday 13 October 2022 11:13:49 am Maude Summerside wrote: > I've found out that WWIV got ported to POSIX compatible OS and now runs > completely under Linux, same goes for Synchronet BBS. > > There's Mystic BBS but didn't find source code. > And there's the closed source BBBS (made in

Re: digikam import fails

2022-06-17 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
herever,  using mc or whatever utility you like.  Why is some special > > program needed for this? > Probably the desktop Roy, I'm using xfce4. > So am I... -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space,  a cri

Re: digikam import fails

2022-06-16 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Thursday 16 June 2022 03:19:38 pm gene heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I just took a pix of one of my projects to send to a friend, but > when I had installed digikam to download the pix from my camera, > going thru the usual steps to access the camera, which it did as > usual, but when I

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Saturday 11 June 2022 08:17:26 pm gene heskett wrote: > I tried to do that in gimp before I sent it, but all the menu's are > changed from what I am used to, I could select and save what I wanted, > clear the frame and paste what I'd outlined and saved, but I got the > whole thing back when

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Sunday 12 June 2022 12:54:19 pm mick crane wrote: > As mentioned before, if it was me, I'd remove everything except the disk > thing you want to boot with that has the OS on it and add and get things > working one at a time afterwards. Were I running into these kinds of hassles, that would

Re: updatedb.mlocate

2022-04-10 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Saturday 09 April 2022 05:11:39 pm Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 04:59:04PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > On Saturday, 9 April 2022 16:35:26 EDT Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > grep daily /etc/crontab > > > > Matches mine too Greg, so I expect thats default, but why is Roy's going

Re: updatedb.mlocate

2022-04-10 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Saturday 09 April 2022 01:22:08 pm Charles Curley wrote: > On Sat, 9 Apr 2022 11:04:18 -0500 > "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." wrote: > > > How do I find out where this is invoked, so I can get rid of it? > > You may not want to get rid of it. That's the proc

Re: updatedb.mlocate

2022-04-10 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Saturday 09 April 2022 12:39:45 pm Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 11:04:18AM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > So around midnight I am seeing a burst of activity, which sometimes > > interferes with whatever else I happen to be doing at the

updatedb.mlocate

2022-04-09 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
So around midnight I am seeing a burst of activity, which sometimes interferes with whatever else I happen to be doing at the time. Looking at the process list, I see the above-referenced come and go. I didn't want this, and it's not apparent to me how to deal with it. How do I find out

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-13 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Saturday 12 February 2022 09:21:00 am rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > The version of Firefox used in Jessie (and presumably later versions) creates > (typically mutlitple) files named "Web Content".  I don't know how Firefox > decides what to put in each of those (e.g., content from how many

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-11 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Friday 11 February 2022 11:06:01 am Celejar wrote: > I seem to have a serious memory leak on my system (Lenovo W550s) - the > memory usage seems to slowly but more or less steadily keep increasing. > > This is a more or less normal (I think) desktop installation of Sid, > running Xfce4.

Re: Usenet access.

2022-01-17 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Monday 17 January 2022 03:09:27 pm pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone suggest an alternative to Google Groups for access to > sci.electronics.repair. I'd be happy to pay a small subscription for > access without tedious complications. > > Thx, ... P. > They're on

Re: OT: Recommendation for a new Debian laptop

2022-01-15 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Saturday 15 January 2022 11:13:49 am Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 12 ian 22, 08:54:50, john doe wrote: > > Debians, > > > > i've been using a laptop for a fiew years now and before this laptop > > dies on me I would like to buy a new laptop. > > > > I'm thinking about two options: > > -

Re: freeing up some space

2022-01-12 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Wednesday 12 January 2022 12:48:38 am David Wright wrote: > And now you want to aimlessly zap a few more directories for no better > reason than the fact that they look unused. Well, take a look at > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/10/msg00308.html > where I measured how much disk

Re: freeing up some space

2022-01-12 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Tuesday 11 January 2022 11:02:56 pm David Christensen wrote: > On 1/11/22 10:25 AM, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > So I'm poking around with mc, and happened across /var/cache/apt/archives > > which has a LOT of *.deb files in it, and which seems to include many > >

Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things

2022-01-11 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Tuesday 11 January 2022 02:52:10 pm Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > What version of Debian? > > > > According to /etc/debian_version 9.3... > > > > I hope that's 9.13 - so updated as at 2020-07-18. You're correct. I have a pair of glasses here that are "for the computer" and in general I

Re: freeing up some space

2022-01-11 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Tuesday 11 January 2022 02:25:47 pm Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 1/11/22, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > So I'm poking around with mc, and happened across /var/cache/apt/archives > > which has a LOT of *.deb files in it, and which seems to include many > > versions of th

freeing up some space

2022-01-11 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
So I'm poking around with mc, and happened across /var/cache/apt/archives which has a LOT of *.deb files in it, and which seems to include many versions of the same package, some of them many years old, going all the way back to 2013. I guess I've been running debian a little longer than

Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things

2022-01-11 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Tuesday 11 January 2022 12:27:39 pm Dan Ritter wrote: > Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 January 2022 11:20:22 am Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > > I still would like to know why the one instance of pulseaudio works and > > > > the other one d

Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things

2022-01-11 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Tuesday 11 January 2022 11:24:27 am Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 11:03:55AM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > What I'm not clear on at this point is why the instance of it that's > > started by the system doesn't seem to work, while the one that I star

Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things

2022-01-11 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Tuesday 11 January 2022 11:20:22 am Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > I've run nothing but linux since 1999, starting with Slackware 4.0, and > > upgrading to newer versions from time to time. Early on I had no sound > > card in the machine that I was using, and did not implement a GUI to

Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things

2022-01-11 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Tuesday 11 January 2022 08:18:27 am Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 01:15:05PM +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Lu, 03 ian 22, 14:02:05, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > > In the one that was running to start with, the command line shown to > > > me

Re: still fixing stuff the upgrade broke...

2022-01-08 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Friday 07 January 2022 03:03:25 pm Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Friday 07 January 2022 12:30:55 pm Dan Ritter wrote: > > Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > > On Thursday 06 January 2022 11:46:33 am Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: >

Re: still fixing stuff the upgrade broke...

2022-01-07 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Friday 07 January 2022 12:30:55 pm Dan Ritter wrote: > Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > On Thursday 06 January 2022 11:46:33 am Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > > > Not sure what I'm looking at here... > > >

Re: still fixing stuff the upgrade broke...

2022-01-07 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Thursday 06 January 2022 12:05:38 pm David wrote: > > I did an upgrade from 8 -> 9, and that's where things are sitting at the > > moment. > > I've been encouraged to get with current stable, which is what, 11 at > > this point? > > > I'll get there, but slowly, so I can see what's

Re: still fixing stuff the upgrade broke...

2022-01-07 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Thursday 06 January 2022 11:46:33 am Dan Ritter wrote: > Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > On Thursday 06 January 2022 07:24:47 am Dan Ritter wrote: > > > ps -auwx|grep -e screen -e lock > > > > That gets me this: > > > > Warning: bad ps

Re: still fixing stuff the upgrade broke...

2022-01-06 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Thursday 06 January 2022 07:24:47 am Dan Ritter wrote: > ps -auwx|grep -e screen -e lock That gets me this: Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html root 110 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S<2021 0:15 [kblockd/0] root 295 0.0 0.0

Re: still fixing stuff the upgrade broke...

2022-01-06 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Thursday 06 January 2022 07:20:43 am Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2022 at 01:01:07AM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > So I downloaded the current version of the program. This gets incremental > > upgrades all the time, and the latest one is chirp202

still fixing stuff the upgrade broke...

2022-01-05 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
So in my Xfce applications menu I have a top-level entry "Ham radio", and there was exactly _one_ program to invoke under that, called "chirp". (I use this to program radios.) I don't run this too often, but having recently acquired a new radio I went to fire it up, and got a "file not

Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things

2022-01-03 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Sunday 02 January 2022 09:56:14 pm David Wright wrote: > On Sat 18 Dec 2021 at 11:24:34 (-0500), Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > On Friday 17 December 2021 11:53:20 am David Wright wrote: > > Yeah, except that I don't run KDE. I do have it installed, to be able to >

Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things

2021-12-24 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Wednesday 22 December 2021 11:21:47 am Dan Ritter wrote: > Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > On Monday 20 December 2021 10:09:56 am Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > > > > Suggestions as to where I might look for the problem? > > > > > > &g

Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things

2021-12-22 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Monday 20 December 2021 10:09:56 am Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > > Well, sound on the Debian side of things works, as in playing youtube > > > videos and such. It doesn't work in the Slackware virtualbox, which is > > > apparently trying to connect to

Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things

2021-12-20 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Sunday 19 December 2021 05:48:12 pm Dan Ritter wrote: > Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > On Sunday 19 December 2021 03:18:46 am Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Sb, 18 dec 21, 11:24:34, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > > > > > > > There remains

Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things

2021-12-19 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Sunday 19 December 2021 03:18:46 am Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 18 dec 21, 11:24:34, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > > > There remains the sound issue in the virtualbox. Could it be that > > Debian isn't running PulseAudio but something else? That would > &g

Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things

2021-12-18 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Friday 17 December 2021 11:53:20 am David Wright wrote: > > > > Some of the things I'm dealing with are: > > > > > > > > 1. An annoying blue dot showed up in my taskbar. > > > > Right-clicking on this gave me an option to "quit", which I would do, > > > > and then within a few seconds it

Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things

2021-12-16 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Thursday 16 December 2021 06:00:19 pm Dan Ritter wrote: > Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > On Thursday 16 December 2021 02:49:17 pm Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > > > > I would seriously suggest upgrading from 9 to at least 10. You might sort > > &

Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things

2021-12-16 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Thursday 16 December 2021 02:49:17 pm Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 02:35:43PM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > I'd posted about my update a while back, and while some folks were > > encouraging me to go all the way to 11 since it's the current ve

8 -> 9 update changing things

2021-12-16 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
I'd posted about my update a while back, and while some folks were encouraging me to go all the way to 11 since it's the current version, my thinking has been to see how things are working, what's changed, what broke, etc. and deal with all of that before I continue on in the update

Re: changed file while editing

2021-12-12 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Saturday 11 December 2021 06:20:16 pm Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Dec 11, 2021 at 05:18:32PM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > On Saturday 11 December 2021 02:39:06 pm David Wright wrote: > > > Another facility that I don't use is "click-to-focus", bec

Re: changed file while editing

2021-12-11 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Saturday 11 December 2021 02:39:06 pm David Wright wrote: > Another facility that I don't use is "click-to-focus", because > I prefer to focus a window just by shoving the mouse inside it > (no precision required). I prefer this as well. Where is this set? -- Member of the toughest,

Re: choice of web browsers

2021-10-29 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Friday 29 October 2021 09:10:29 am Dan Ritter wrote: > You can substantially improve the memory usage and speed of > firefox by installing the extension ublock Origin. Thanks for posting this, I've installed it and reviewed a fair amount of the docs. It looks to be truly useful... --

Re: How exactly do I create a Debian live USB?

2021-10-12 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Tuesday 12 October 2021 08:07:58 am Махно wrote: > Hello. Your PC doesn't have a floppy drive, but you have /dev/fd0, and many > things will try to use it. You can disable this message > (blk_update_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 op). > As root > > # rmmod floppy > # echo "blacklist

More issues

2021-10-05 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
So when I tell synaptic package manager to reload, to get current information, I see "failed" for two of the things that it's trying to download. Then I get a box with error messages in it as follows: "GPG error: https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian stretch InRelease: The

an annoying blue dot

2021-10-05 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
So I'm currently looking at an annoying blue dot up there in my taskbar, adjacent to the speaker and network icons over there on the right hand side. When I click on it I get a small popup window saying "KDE Accessible", and when I right-click on it I get a smallish menu, one option of

Re: unhappy upgrade

2021-10-05 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Tuesday 05 October 2021 09:04:03 am David Wright wrote: > > > So the main things to confirm as working are the specific points > > > mentioned in the respective Release Notes. In stretch that would > > > be, for example, the 4.9 kernel is finding everything, > > > > About the only issue that

Re: unhappy upgrade

2021-10-04 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Monday 04 October 2021 07:55:25 pm David Wright wrote: > On Mon 04 Oct 2021 at 15:25:23 (-0400), Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > On Sunday 03 October 2021 07:53:39 pm Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 03, 2021 at 04:48:38PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > &g

Re: unhappy upgrade

2021-10-04 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Sunday 03 October 2021 07:53:39 pm Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Oct 03, 2021 at 04:48:38PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 12:49:12 -0400 > > "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." wrote: > > > I did do a download from their site. But it's not cle

Re: unhappy upgrade

2021-10-04 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Sunday 03 October 2021 07:48:38 pm Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 12:49:12 -0400 > "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." wrote: > > > Also, read and follow the Release Notes of dist-upgrade for each > > > version. > > > > Where are these to be foun

Re: unhappy upgrade

2021-10-03 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Sunday 03 October 2021 01:13:19 pm Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Sunday 03 October 2021 11:02:46 am Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > (snip) > > > What amount of output does an apt-get update give you? > > > > Nine lines starting with "Get:", "Ign:"

Re: unhappy upgrade

2021-10-03 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Sunday 03 October 2021 11:02:46 am Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: (snip) > > What amount of output does an apt-get update give you? > > Nine lines starting with "Get:", "Ign:", "Hit:" etc. > > "The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/https co

Re: unhappy upgrade

2021-10-03 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Sunday 03 October 2021 12:11:13 am Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Sat, 2 Oct 2021 11:57:51 -0400 > "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." wrote: > > > In recent messaging here I touched on how I'd determined that my > > workstation was way behind being current. Apparently I ne

Re: unhappy upgrade

2021-10-03 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Saturday 02 October 2021 02:17:43 pm Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, Oct 02, 2021 at 12:34:50PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 02, 2021 at 11:57:51AM -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > > In recent messaging here I touched on how I'd determined that my

Re: unhappy upgrade

2021-10-03 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Saturday 02 October 2021 02:33:24 pm David Christensen wrote: > On 10/2/21 08:57, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > In recent messaging here I touched on how I'd determined that my > > workstation was way behind being current. Apparently I needed to go > > 8->9->

Re: unhappy upgrade

2021-10-03 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Saturday 02 October 2021 12:34:50 pm Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Oct 02, 2021 at 11:57:51AM -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > In recent messaging here I touched on how I'd determined that my > > workstation was way behind being current. Apparently I needed to go >

Re: unhappy upgrade

2021-10-03 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Saturday 02 October 2021 12:27:26 pm Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, Oct 02, 2021 at 11:57:51AM -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > In recent messaging here I touched on how I'd determined that my > > workstation was way behind being current. Apparently I needed to go &

unhappy upgrade

2021-10-02 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
In recent messaging here I touched on how I'd determined that my workstation was way behind being current. Apparently I needed to go 8->9->10->11. I tried the first of those steps, and things did not go well in a number of ways... For some reason, the software decided to remove virtualbox.

Re: upgrading and stuff

2021-09-27 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Sunday 26 September 2021 01:59:05 pm Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Follow the clues form the blog below: > > https://economictheoryblog.com/2015/11/08/how-to-enable-gui-root-login-in-debian-8/ > > Edit /etc/gdm3/daemon.conf and add > > AllowRoot=true under [security] > > Then edit

Re: upgrading and stuff

2021-09-26 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Saturday 25 September 2021 06:36:34 pm Dan Ritter wrote: > If the system will not let you login as root from the graphical > display manager, it's the GDM's fault. It may be a configurable > option in its /etc/whateverdm. If not, you can always replace a > recalcitrant GDM with original xdm,

Re: upgrading and stuff

2021-09-26 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Saturday 25 September 2021 06:08:23 pm Andy Smith wrote: > The release of the three newer stable versions of Debian seems to have > happened without you noticing. Life has handed me a whole mess of things to deal with over the past year or two... > If you remain subscribed to this mailing

upgrading and stuff

2021-09-25 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
I've been running Slackware since 1999 or so, Debian somewhat less than that. I figured I'd give it a try because I was interested in handling dependencies easier (which it surely does well) and because in looking at so many distros I see a great many of them are "debian-based"... Lots of

update debian file

2019-05-07 Thread arko roy
dear sir ! to day i am talk about you .. i am a iphone user . my iphone is running ios version 12.1.2 . so, that is problem i am download a debian file and instail via ifile with cydia . my debian file properly instail ios device but application not open ...there is a prbolem "SB GAME HACKER" need

Re: GarminExpress possible on Debian with WINE?

2018-07-25 Thread Roy
On 07/25/2018 06:32 PM, Doug wrote: On 07/25/2018 04:43 PM, Pascal Obry wrote: Le mercredi 25 juillet 2018 à 15:27 -0500, Roy a écrit : /snip/ Finally for Garmin you don't need Garmin Express with all recent hardware has they are supporting Bluetooth and so you can use the Garmin Express

Re: GarminExpress possible on Debian with WINE?

2018-07-25 Thread Roy
On 07/25/2018 04:22 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 25 July 2018 16:27:41 Roy wrote: Thanks Floris and Doug for your replies.  Now I know that my question made it to the list and at least one other person has a similar concern with Garmin Express. By Googling this, I have read many

Re: GarminExpress possible on Debian with WINE?

2018-07-25 Thread Roy
onds that they have been able to make it work. Best regards, Roy On 07/25/2018 01:13 PM, Doug wrote: On 07/25/2018 06:18 AM, floris wrote: Roy schreef op 2018-07-25 01:37: (G-Express needs dotNetframework.  That is where I get stuck when trying to install it using WINE.) With

GarminExpress possible on Debian with WINE?

2018-07-24 Thread Roy
Garmin Express is their proprietary software for updating the maps on Garmin NUVI (and other models) of GPS units.  It is available only for Windows and Mac. I currently have it installed on a Win-7 guest in Vbox on Deian- Sid.  This works OK but uses a lot of disk space (over 13 Gb). My

Re: Disable/skip/ignore !! Configure the package manager dialog in preseed

2018-06-16 Thread Ravi Roy
On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 12:02 PM, Ravi Roy wrote: > Hi, > > [!!] Configure the package manager > >Cannot access repository > The repository on xx.xx.xx.xx could not be accessed, so its updates will > not be made available to you at this time. You should investigate

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