or Bad Things May
Happen.
You will have many Mesa libraries installed as dependencies:
dpkg -l "*mesa*"
On my system (sid), this removes 100 packages (note "-s" to simulate),
including xserver-xorg!:
apt-get purge -s -V libglapi-mesa
There are likely other direct depend
rvices. They use the same
.kdbx file format.
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On 10/09/2020 13:53, Carl Fink wrote:
Can anyone suggest a Debian repo-installable program to create 3D text?
Blender.
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es for the three fonts above without --0-0 in their
names
$ xlsfonts | grep hanzigb
hanzigb16fs
hanzigb16st
hanzigb24st
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n the "System Tray" (Xfce
Notification Area is an implementation of this concept). As a last
resort, you can exit the application or stop it starting in Sessions /
Settings and Startup.
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On 10/01/2021 11:33, gru...@mailfence.com wrote:
and can i do that in stretch or do i need buster
Thanks you so much. This is by far the best contribution to this thread.
:-D
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nters. Restricting the WPA2 passphrase
to digits and lowercase letters reduces entropy but makes input more
bearable. Seeing the reaction of guests when they are handed a piece of
paper with a long random WPA2 passphrase: priceless. It never gets old. :-D
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; it).
New Zealand banned pure software patents in 2013:
How New Zealand banned software patents without violating international law
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On 19/08/2019 08:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
This is actually for me a filter criterion: if a site doesn't work
with javascript, chances are high that I avoid it. I do make some
exceptions, but very few.
I use NoScript to enable JavaScript only where I want it.
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setting is ignored
for some elements), everything else works for me as well as in 4.12 and
performance is satisfactory.
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lock, so I
consider it too vulnerable for use. There is a bug report.
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e term "master" has a long history. In addition to its racial
connotations, it is also gendered.
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of the Workers' Revolutionary Committee" was once popular,
but has not yet, as far as I know, been applied to technology. Some
high-availablity clusters vote to elect their leaders so that a
defective primary can be deposed.
"Associate" is a popular weasel word for lowly-pai
derstand it, Chinese stock market colour coding is
opposite to Western.
Red/green is also the most common form of colour-blindness.
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"Beware the censor, for in his heart, he deems himself your master."
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n3 -i -c \"from math import *\""
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ject_Jupyter> provides
a rich set of tools and supports Python.
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so disable mount count and interval checking:
mkfs.ext4 -J size=4 -m 0 -T largefile4 -O "^resize_inode" /dev/sdb1
tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 -L Backup /dev/sdb1
I have this line in /etc/fstab:
LABEL=Backup /media/backup ext4 noatime,noauto,user,errors=remount-ro 0 0
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ermissions and
timestamps) on foreign filesystems.
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quot;;> in recently-used.xbel just means that
they define the meaning of the enclosed tags.
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On 21/08/2020 12:31, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
On 21/08/2020 14:01, Mike McClain wrote:
I took a look at ~/.local/share/.recently-used.xbel and see that
not only is it tracking what I do but claims to be the property of
freedesktop.org.
This file records your most recently used local files
aster/
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lctl -f" as root and then plug in the device, is
anything logged?
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-colour terminal emulators.
What desktop are you using? What version of Debian?
What had colours before? ls? You can see if ls is aliased in bash by
typing "alias ls".
What is the output of "echo $TERM"?
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>&1
These commands redirect both standard output and standard error to
logfile. It is also possible to redirect them separately. See a shell
guide for details.
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your Preferences.
If you start an "xterm", does the output have colour? (That is, are
other terminal emulators affected?) Have any other applications lost colour?
You could also try booting with apparmor=0.
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On 03/07/18 09:53, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
A hot key should not cause a persistent change. The main culprit, as
noted by davidson, is that you were cleaning up your files. Did you
remove anything in ~/.config?
[...]
What is the output of "ls -l ~/.bashrc"?
I saw in davidson&
-4.9.0-6-amd64
To check the installed version:
dpkg -l linux-image-4.9.0-6-amd64
It should be 4.9.88-1+deb9u1.
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s with:
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
This will upgrade all packages on your system. If you have installed
linux-image-amd64, this should automatically install
linux-image-3.16.0-6-amd64 3.16.56-1+deb8u1.
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ving your
~/.config/GIMP/2.10 out of the way in case it has fallen down and cannot
get up.
Do you get any error messages if you start gimp at the command line?
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ltrace and likely the debug packages for
wherever it is hanging.
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font sample looks very much like the HTML previews on this page:
https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/caladea
I expect that it could be recreated or customised with a small amount of
HTML and CSS and an HTML rendering engine such as a web browser,
interactive or headless.
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ip=192.168.1.11
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er (likely the router itself). You will
likely need two connections: one for your main connection and one for
your VPN. I suggest adding custom DNS servers under your VPN connection
settings.
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mess with
the configuration files in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections, but I
recommend instead using nm-connection-editor.
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great CUPS/foomatic generic driver support. PostScript is lovely,
but can sometimes be afflicted by crazy font substitution problems that
do not seem to affect PCL6.
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e addition is done to verify that all
the numbers were entered correctly.
Regards, Ken
I use a Python interpreter in a terminal or libreoffice-calc.
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? What is the minimum security procedure to follow
when installing third party provided .deb packages?
Also consider using the open-source megatools package. 1.10.0 has just
been released and is expected in Debian soon.
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On 25/07/18 09:51, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
On 25/07/18 03:45, Anil Duggirala wrote:
I am thinking about installing the Mega.nz app on my Debian Stretch
installation. They provide a .deb package. Is there anything I can do
to ensure this is a safe package? To know that this package will not
against libcurl4, which is
not present on stretch, so you may need a package built for stretch.
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they are strong
enough. Maybe I'm wrong though?
You may be proven right, but, because it is impossible to prove a
negative, you will never be proven wrong.
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On 27/07/18 16:44, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
On 27/07/18 16:09, Default User wrote:
Debian Unstable, x86-64
[...]
$ sudo aptitude -Pvv full-upgrade
[...]
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libkf5xmlgui5 : Depends: qtbase-abi-5-10-0 which is a virtual package,
provided by
nux/commit/19e47d7049c6ca94b98cf8c00bbeb2384a9c43b9
When I had identified the application, I used ltrace to identify the
library causing the problem.
What is your kernel version?
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On 27/07/18 16:44, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
On 27/07/18 16:09, Default User wrote:
Debian Unstable, x86-64
[...]
$ sudo aptitude -Pvv full-upgrade
[...]
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libkf5xmlgui5 : Depends: qtbase-abi-5-10-0 which is a virtual package,
provided by
On 30/07/18 15:43, 慕 冬亮 wrote:
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
What packages are held? You can list them with "apt-mark showhold".
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rade -V -s
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tomic reverts) and the ability to
install multiple concurrent kernel packages without the API versioning
silliness of Debian (which cannot co-install both 4.17.6-2 and 4.17.8-1,
for example, only one linux-image-4.17.0-1-amd64).
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.15.4-1, linux/4.15.11-1, linux/4.14.17-1
Fixed in versions linux/4.16.5-1, linux/4.15.17-1
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confirmation.
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On 12/08/18 15:12, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
I am using a TP-Link TL-WN722N (ath9k_htc). I have two. Inexpensive,
high-gain antenna, quite reliable despite regular hard work.
Since my broadband upgrade from ADSL to gigabit fibre three days ago, I
can put greater load on my WiFi, and my TL
On 14/08/18 12:14, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
On 12/08/18 15:12, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
I am using a TP-Link TL-WN722N (ath9k_htc). I have two. Inexpensive,
high-gain antenna, quite reliable despite regular hard work.
Since my broadband upgrade from ADSL to gigabit fibre three days ago, I
On 16/08/18 05:52, Miguel A. Vallejo wrote:
So, I'm also looking for a Linux friendly 802.11ac USB dongle.
And I should have mentioned that the TL-WN722N is a single band (2.4
GHz) b/g/n dongle, *not* dual band.
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On 23/08/2018 20:26, Long Wind wrote:
to Ben Caradoc-Davies:
my PC is HP dx5150, i use it with that memory for more than 2 years, it's OK,
no overheating. maybe memory checking cause overheating? i've installed
memtester, i'll try it.
Any dx5150 Front Panel LEDs lit?
https:/
On 24/08/2018 05:48, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
All,
Is there any plans to move Debian to Bugzilla and abrt?
Tim
Try the debian-devel list.
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51bd762b5b>gnulinux-4.16.0-1-amd64-advanced-ed4def00-71bb-4521-a16e-9551bd762b5b"
You can try adding kernel command line parameters to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX
to fix your latest kernel. You will need to run update-grub after each
change.
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The new format to specify a different default kernel is horrific; it
contains menu items separated with ">". You need to get the full label
from your generated grub.conf because it likely contains device UUIDs:
GRUB_DEFAULT="
On 24/08/2018 10:41, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
On 24/08/2018 10:37, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
The new format to specify a different default kernel is horrific; it
contains menu items separated with ">". You need to get the full label
from your generated grub.conf because it li
: ok
Walking Zeroes : ok
8-bit Writes: ok
16-bit Writes : ok
Done.
This test takes 3 minutes on my i7 7700 with dual-channel DDR4 RAM. Peak
package temperature was 72 C. Ambient temperature is 19 C. I have a
passively cooled Streacom mini-ITX case.
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f the dark
(negative) side.
For example, for signed 32-bit integers using two's complement (C/C++
int on most current architectures and JVM int).
INT_MAX = 2**31 - 1 = 2147483647
INT_MIN = -2**31 = -2147483648
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_(computer_science)
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Note the quotes. I then run "update-grub" and I am done.
I also like "apt-mark manual" to protect kernels from "apt-get autoremove".
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now, unstable)]
2) libsane1 [Not Installed]
3) sane-utils [1.0.25-4.1 (now)]
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
I always choose "Y". I keep waiting for the situation to resolve itself,
but it never does.
Insight?
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=905913
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On 30/08/2018 03:46, Default User wrote:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libsane1 : Breaks: libsane (< 1.0.27-1) but 1.0.25-4.1 is installed
libsane : Depends: libsane-common (= 1.0.25-4.1) but
1.0.27-1~experimental6 is to
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On Fri, Aug 31, 2018, 21:00 Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
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On 30/08/2018 03:46, Default User wrote:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libsane1 : Breaks: libsane (< 1.0.27-1) but 1.0.25-4.1
saw the same message and took it as a harmless warning.
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data.
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On 12/09/2018 14:56, Default User wrote:
Arch?
[...]
But the wiki is good . . .
(And much of it is applicable to other distributions, including Debian.)
+1 for the Arch wiki. I haver never used Arch, but the Arch wiki has
helped me many times.
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n argyll
Only affects building this package, not end users.
Summary:
apt(1 bug), colord(1 bug), libtracker-sparql-2.0-0(1 bug)
Are you sure you want to install/upgrade the above packages? [Y/n/?/...] n
At this point, instead of "n", just press "Enter".
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ance tasks.
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root root9 Apr 15 2017 apt-daily.service -> /dev/null
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root9 Apr 15 2017 apt-daily.timer -> /dev/null
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or filtering on file type), I use
find.
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even in this case because it is what I mean (counting
entries one per line).
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layed.
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/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/
I see that there is a webext-ublock-origin for sid but I have never used it:
https://packages.debian.org/sid/web/webext-ublock-origin
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On 11/10/2018 11:36, bw wrote:
On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
On 11/10/2018 11:15, bw wrote:
How exactly do you think stretch users should run an adblocker when all
the xul-ext-* extensions are now broken?
I see that there is a webext-ublock-origin for sid but I have never
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ges cannot automatically regain them. Postgres and Tomcat do the
same thing with their own dedicated users.
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nt.
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ion.
The specific case of webmail likely requires read-write access to user
mailboxes. I do not know how privilege separation is handled in this case.
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in a virtual machine and have the best of
both worlds.
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edia.org/wiki/Mozilla_software_rebranded_by_Debian#Iceweasel>.
In June 2016, the iceweasel package was replaced with the firefox-esr
package.
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ipt Single Page Applications (SPA) are a plague on
the internet. I prefer RESTful architectures.
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speed device, unless the mouse adapter just will not work with a hub at
using a particular specification. The hub is internal and typically on
the motherboard. The front USB ports I have seen are connected to the
same hub so I would expect both to work or neither.
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or batch symmetric encryption, if
you do not mind your passphrase being in plain text on your filesystem.
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l and use
use "sudo -i".
For installed Debian, login and password are set at install time.
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physically about 82 dpi (27" 1080p)), the old
interpreter might be worth a try.
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server? Is there a firewall on the server? Try:
ssh -vvv zhou@192.168.1.3
to see the full connection attempt. You can also check whether the port
is open with (on the client):
nmap -p 22 192.168.1.3
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e, offsite backup is
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Setting about:config / xpinstall.signatures.required to false fixed
extensions for me for firefox 66.0.1-1 amd64 on Debian sid and for
Firefox 66.0.2 on Android. I needed to restart Firefox on Debian.
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On 05/05/2019 21:30, Dave Sherohman wrote:
On Sun, May 05, 2019 at 10:52:56AM +1200, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
Setting about:config / xpinstall.signatures.required to false fixed
extensions for me for firefox 66.0.1-1 amd64 on Debian sid and for Firefox
66.0.2 on Android. I needed to restart
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Setting about:config / xpinstall.signatures.required to false fixed
extensions for me for firefox 66.0.1-1 amd64 on Debian sid and for
Firefox 66.0.2 on Android. I needed to restart Firefox on Debian.
Seems fixed in firefox 66.0.4-1 on Debian sid
. What is your background?
A great way to learn is to choose an open source project that uses a
language of interest to you and contribute bug fixes to it. Proven
ability on open source projects is a great way of building your resume.
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prime (Prime95) is useful for stress testing a CPU.
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