blacklist module? Selective disable USB?

I have just installed Debian onto an older HP touchpad. The machine has a touchscreen and a touchpad. The touchscreen is faulty and continually triggers. I have plugged in a USB mouse as well. Configuration dmesg | grep hid [    7.765628] hidraw: raw HID events driver (C) Jiri Kosina [   

Re: running microsoft team on debian 10.3

On 9/12/20 12:51 pm, Doug McGarrett wrote: Try this: The camera is called Fogéek and Amazon sold it to me for $49.95. Specs from the box it came in are as follows: Image sensor :              CMOS Pixel :                             5 Million Maximum Resolution :    2592*1944 Frame

Re: cherrytree is available again, now in testing !THANK YOU!

The only problem so far is that printing doesn't work. It can't see any of the system printers -- Jeremy Ardley OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: transfer speed data

On 23/12/20 11:03 pm, Michael Stone wrote: On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 09:56:01AM +0800, Jeremy Ardley wrote: Having said that, scp and ssh are affected by the encryption algorithm. The fastest one at the moment is blowfish and it's possible to get up to 50 MB/s on a gig lan. That's pretty

Re: transfer speed data

On 23/12/20 11:51 pm, Michael Stone wrote: On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 11:37:07PM +0800, Jeremy Ardley wrote: I did some tests and found there was around a 10-20% difference in speed between runs. Yes, if you want more consistent numbers you'd need much larger test file sizes; if the transfer

Re: transfer speed data

On 23/12/20 8:55 am, mick crane wrote: hello, I have a buster PC and a bullseye PC which are both supposed to have gigabyte network cards connected via a little Gigabyte switch box. Transferring files between them, I forget which shows the transfer speed per file, either scp or rsync the

Re: transfer speed data

On 23/12/20 9:40 am, Jeremy Ardley wrote: rsync is never particularly fast as there is a lot of handshaking and file examination at each end prior to a transfer. I wouldn't be surprised at 50 Mbps. scp should be a lot faster as there is no handshaking other than establishing the session

Re: color border in image, drop everything outside of it

On 15/11/20 6:27 pm, The Wanderer wrote: On 2020-11-15 at 04:38, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 12:31:22AM +0100, Emanuel Berg wrote: Hello, is there a tool/command/script anywhere that can overwrite with a single color (or make transparent) every pixel to the left, above,

Re: Label printer Debian compatible

On 1/1/21 7:20 pm, Tom Browder wrote: On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 16:40 Jeremy Ardley <mailto:jer...@ardley.org>> wrote: On 1/1/21 6:12 am, Tom Browder wrote: Has anyone had any success driving a mailing label printer for mailing labels from either a LAN or direct c

Re: Photos on corrupted SD card

On 5/1/21 5:38 pm, James Allsopp wrote: Hi, Does anyone know if there are any good tools in Linux for fixing corruption on FAT32 SD cards. It was in my phone, but I dropped it and broke the phone. Couldn't turn it off as the screen was broken and thoughtlessly removed it whilst on. The files

Radeon opengl driver problem - buster

The problem occurs under all desktop options, gnome, mate, wayland etc I run normal graphics except when the application wants to use opengl glxinfo name of display: :0 X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)   Major opcode of failed request:  152

Re: Radeon opengl driver problem - buster

On 10/1/21 10:58 am, Jeremy Ardley wrote: The problem occurs under all desktop options, gnome, mate, wayland etc I run normal graphics except when the application wants to use opengl glxinfo name of display: :0 X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range

Re: Radeon opengl driver problem - buster

On 10/1/21 12:52 pm, Jeremy Ardley wrote: inxi -Fxz (...) Graphics:   Device-1: AMD Caicos PRO [Radeon HD 7450] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: radeon   v: kernel bus ID: 09:00.0   Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa   resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz   OpenGL

Re: Radeon opengl driver problem - buster

On 10/1/21 12:03 pm, Felix Miata wrote: You might be better off removing that file. A newer technology DDX driver than the Radeon is actually the upstream default: # inxi GISy

Re: Radeon opengl driver problem - buster

On 11/1/21 8:36 am, Jeremy Ardley wrote: On 10/1/21 12:52 pm, Jeremy Ardley wrote: inxi -Fxz (...) Graphics:   Device-1: AMD Caicos PRO [Radeon HD 7450] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: radeon   v: kernel bus ID: 09:00.0   Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa

Re: Label printer Debian compatible

On 1/1/21 6:12 am, Tom Browder wrote: Has anyone had any success driving a mailing label printer for mailing labels from either a LAN or direct connection with a Linux box? I can print sheets of mailing labels from my main printer, but I would love to be able to print single labels from my

Re: website permissions and ownership

On 2/2/21 4:55 pm, Richard Hector wrote: What you are doing sounds pretty O.K. Though I personally also use SELinux for web facing services. Thanks. I haven't looked in to SELinux. I looked at AppArmor, but it appears that it won't work as expected in an LXC container, which is where I

Re: website permissions and ownership

On 2/2/21 3:09 pm, Richard Hector wrote: Hi all, I'm reviewing how I set up websites (mostly Wordpress at the moment), and would like other opinions on what I'm planning is sane. My plan is to have a user eg "mysite" that owns all/most of the standard files and directories. The webserver

Re: website permissions and ownership

On 2/2/21 5:32 pm, Jeremy Ardley wrote: On 2/2/21 4:55 pm, Richard Hector wrote: What you are doing sounds pretty O.K. Though I personally also use SELinux for web facing services. Thanks. I haven't looked in to SELinux. I looked at AppArmor, but it appears that it won't work

Re: Installing Debian Buster on Cubox-i4 with eSATA drive.

On 28/1/21 12:03 pm, Rick Thomas wrote: I'm trying to install Debian Buster [1] on my Cubox-i4P with an eSATA drive. Everything seems to be fine, but when it comes time to reboot, it boots into the installer again, rather than the installed system. Here's what I did, and what I observed: *)

Re: Wiping an unencrypted SSD in preparation for encryption

On 11/6/21 12:31 pm, David Wright wrote: I'm about to install buster or bullseye on a newly acquired laptop with an SSD (a first for me). I'm intending to clean (zero or randomise) the entire drive with dd before I start, and am interested in any pitfalls with that. I will also encrypt the new

Useful clipboard inspection tools?

I have a problem with a linux gtk application when I copy some text from a window. I can paste the text into pluma and openoffice documents on the same machine without problem, but when I use remote desktop to a windows machine the paste doesn't work. If I paste into pluma and then copy

Re: How do I permanently disable unattended downloads of software/security updates?

On 26/5/21 9:38 am, Stella Ashburne wrote: Thanks for your reply, Keith. I'm sorry if my original question is ambiguous. Here's what I wish to happen: 1. My OS stops downloading software and security updates silently in the background. It's called automatic downloads, am I right? I wish it

Re: Best remote client+server setup for ~10 users?

On 3/6/21 5:58 am, Jeremy Ardley wrote: On 3/6/21 5:34 am, Jim Popovitch wrote: I need a FOSS remote desktop solution for around 10 users, back to a central server.  The client connections will be broadband over OpenVPN with an avg latency of 45ms (WFH). tia, -Jim P. You should have

Re: Best remote client+server setup for ~10 users?

On 3/6/21 5:34 am, Jim Popovitch wrote: I need a FOSS remote desktop solution for around 10 users, back to a central server. The client connections will be broadband over OpenVPN with an avg latency of 45ms (WFH). tia, -Jim P. You should have a look at nomachine. I'm not sure if it's open

Re: Offensive variable names [was: Cool down ...]

On 12/07/2021 4:32 am, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 08:25:22PM +, ghe2001 wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Master/slave my be less than optimal when describing humans, but they're very useful when working with DNS. And blacklist is useful in

Re: 2 NIC's

On 5/7/21 6:44 pm, David wrote: Dear All, I am trying to get a thin client running with 2 NIC's and failing. Due to the age of the thin client I am running Debian 8 i386. I am trying to get the thin client to run as a proxy server with one NIC having a local (192.168.xx.xx) address, the

Re: 2 NIC's

On 5/7/21 7:53 pm, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 07:38:42PM +0800, Jeremy Ardley wrote: On 5/7/21 6:44 pm, David wrote: Dear All, I am trying to get a thin client running with 2 NIC's and failing. [...] If eth0 & eth1 are both connected to the local network I can

Re: Is there any way to snoop on a USB port?

On 30/4/21 10:12 am, Martin McCormick wrote: I have a Windows box that has software on it which programs two-way radios and it would be nice to know what the radio and computer are saying to each other. After trying a Windows application that reportedly can capture serial port traffic,

Re: bluetooth problems Cambridge Silicon Radio

On 25/3/21 3:18 pm, deloptes wrote: Jeremy Ardley wrote: sudo rfkill ID TYPE  DEVICE  SOFT  HARD 2 bluetooth hci0   unblocked unblocked what says dmesg -T when you plugin the dongle? what says syslog (journalctl)? sudo dmesg -T [Thu Mar 25 15:30:43 2021] usb 1-3.2: USB

Re: bluetooth problems Cambridge Silicon Radio

On 25/3/21 2:45 pm, deloptes wrote: Jeremy Ardley wrote: Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) these are widely spread I have the same (at least from the usb id) Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth

Re: bluetooth problems Cambridge Silicon Radio

On 26/3/21 8:33 am, deloptes wrote: Jeremy Ardley wrote: Mar 25 15:30:46 client.bronzemail.com kernel: usb 1-3.2: new full-speed USB device number 7 using xhci_hcd Mar 25 15:30:47 client.bronzemail.com kernel: usb 1-3.2: New USB device found, idVendor=0a12, idProduct=0001, bcdDevice=88.91 Mar

bluetooth problems Cambridge Silicon Radio

I've just got a new bluetooth dongle that says V5.0 on the case. I think it uses Cambridge Silicon Radio lsusb Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0c45:6340 Microdia Camera Bus 003 Device 002: ID 1a86:7523 QinHeng Electronics HL-340 USB-Serial

Re: Is there an alternative filesystem hierarchy that could be adapted to Debian.

On 11/3/21 6:13 am, Stefan Monnier wrote: [ I think even back in the early days of time-sharing, connections were faster than 50bit/s. ] Common teletype Baud rates were 45.5 and 110. 45.5 was used primarily for radio transmission and 110 for landline - both using a modem. When I

Re: routing problem

On 22/3/21 5:17 am, Dan Ritter wrote: ghe2001 wrote: There are 2 computers on my LAN. I'll call one Fast and the other Slow. When I, for example, type ping www.cbs.com, Fast pings right away, Slow pauses for about 5 seconds ('time' says that). When I ping something in /etc/hosts, both

Re: Google vs. DDG

On 14/3/21 6:59 am, ellanios82 wrote: On 3/14/21 12:20 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Still, the quality of the results isn't an absolute measure depending only on the search engine  - sometimes, find russian search-engine  helpful I find that Google has bias and censorhip in some topics,

Google earth pro only works as root

I've installed google-earth-pro-stable_current_amd64.deb on my debian system cat /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)" NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" VERSION_ID="10" VERSION="10 (buster)" VERSION_CODENAME=buster ID=debian HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/;

Re: chromium: ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

On 13/2/21 4:44 am, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: On 2/12/21 10:39 PM, Jeremy Ardley wrote: For problematic sites I use GNU Web instead. It will be perfectly adequate to access your switch web page. What is GNU Web, does Debian have package for it? Kind regards Georgi My error Gnome Web

Re: chromium: ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

On 13/2/21 4:15 am, Rainer Dorsch wrote: Hi, I suddenly cannot access my local managed switch anymore from chromium: Chromium tries to swtich to the HTTPS protocol but the switch only supports HTTP protocol The error message I get is ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED Chromium 83 still worked. Is

Re: how would you do this?

On 19/8/21 8:55 am, songbird wrote: let's suppose you have a directory where there are various scripts, libraries, programs, data, etc. you want to know exactly which other scripts, libraries, etc. use them and to log each caller to know the name so it can be tracked down (location would

Re: moderators, I would appreciate if you could interfere

On 16/8/21 9:45 am, Weaver wrote: By reputation, the list is unmoderated, and that's the way it used to be. It still bears the token title of an unmoderated list but, in reality, a small collective of the politically correct have placed it under their auspices to moderate it. They have all the

Re: moderators, I would appreciate if you could interfere

On 16/8/21 10:17 am, Weaver wrote: Any idiot can edit a page there. Cheers! Harry. And they frequently do! Yesterday I looked up 'harmonic analysis' of which I am a subject expert. The article was virtually incomprehensible to me. But worse, it almost completely missed what it is about -

Re: debian11 early - apt-get update - At least one invalid signature [OK NOW] was encountered

On 16/08/2021 7:19 am, raf wrote: It's working now on the original VM. Someone else reported that keys have finally made it to a German mirror, solving a similar problem for them. I guess I was having the same A problem with the Australian mirror. But maybe that's just a guess. The keys

Re: how to to start X Window in debian-live-11.0.0-i386-standard.iso

On 15/8/21 11:22 am, lou wrote: and what is password for root? You should be able to do sudo passwd root and set your own password -- Jeremy OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: is it possible to send e-mail via Yahoo's smtp servers using Thunderbird (78.13.0)?

On 11/09/2021 6:26 am, Jeremy Ardley wrote: On 11/9/21 5:39 am, Gary Dale wrote: Does anyone have Thunderbird and Yahoo working together? I have it running on thunderbird. Both imap and smtp use ssl/tls and oauth2 smtp uses port 465 while imap uses port 993 I have some memory

Re: is it possible to send e-mail via Yahoo's smtp servers using Thunderbird (78.13.0)?

On 11/9/21 5:39 am, Gary Dale wrote: I've got a Yahoo mail account (among others) that I use for a particular purpose. However it's been a while since I've been able to send e-mail from it using Yahoo's smtp servers. Instead I've been sending e-mail via another smtp server so the "From"

Re: is it possible to send e-mail via Yahoo's smtp servers using Thunderbird (78.13.0)?

On 11/9/21 8:51 am, Gary Dale wrote: On 2021-09-10 18:32, jeremy ardley wrote: On 11/09/2021 6:26 am, Jeremy Ardley wrote: On 11/9/21 5:39 am, Gary Dale wrote: Does anyone have Thunderbird and Yahoo working together? I have it running on thunderbird. Both imap and smtp use ssl/tls

Re: OT: Re: is it possible to send e-mail via Yahoo's smtp servers using Thunderbird (78.13.0)?

On 11/9/21 9:48 am, piorunz wrote: Offtopic: You sure you want to use Yahoo knowing what are they capable of, or, what they are not capable of doing, where they should? https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/yahoo-admits-staff-knew-state-sponsored-hack-2014-1590924

Re: Your Thoughts on Printer Replacement

On 18/09/2021 7:05 am, Dan Ritter wrote: Charles Curley wrote: Requirements: * I print rarely, and I do use color. The carts on the L7700 tend to go bad before they empty, Inkjet or laser? Or other? * Buster and Bullseye should both support any recommendations. I don't use Windows.

Re: Your Thoughts on Printer Replacement

On 18/9/21 5:00 pm, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 10:38:03AM +0200, Klaus Singvogel wrote: Charles Curley wrote: I print rarely. Inkjet or laser? Or other? The carts on the L7700 tend to go bad before they empty, Rarely printing? I would suggest a laser I agree. Toner

Re: Make wider selectable edge in Mate windows

On 19/9/21 9:55 am, Dedeco Balaco wrote: Em 18/09/2021 22:42, Jeremy Ardley escreveu: I'm running Mate on Debian 10. The problem is that the width of the window edge that you pull to change the size of a window seems to be only 1 pixel wide. I've heard of this problem in gnome along

Make wider selectable edge in Mate windows

I'm running Mate on Debian 10. The problem is that the width of the window edge that you pull to change the size of a window seems to be only 1 pixel wide. I've heard of this problem in gnome along with some fixes, but I've not found any solution for Mate. Suggestions? -- Jeremy

Re: MDs & Dentists

On 15/07/2021 6:26 am, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: Also can you find me one Linux distribution that is certified as medical equipment for reliability ? You can't be seriously suggesting Windows is certified for any risk of life application!? It has a huge spectrum of

Re: MDs & Dentists

On 15/07/2021 7:40 am, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: On 15/07/2021 6:26 am, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: Also can you find me one Linux distribution that is certified as medical equipment for reliability ? You can't be seriously suggesting Windows is certified for any

Re: MDs & Dentists

On 15/7/21 4:00 pm, Weaver wrote: On 15-07-2021 17:48, ellanios82 wrote: On 7/15/21 2:03 AM, jeremy ardley wrote: suggesting Windows is certified for any risk of life application!? It has a huge spectrum of vulnerabilities  - believe wikipedia had mention : 100% of world's super

Re: Working for free [was: Offensive variable names]

On 14/7/21 12:09 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 13 iul 21, 20:54:22, Brian wrote: On Tue 13 Jul 2021 at 15:38:26 -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, July 13, 2021 11:27:03 AM Stefan Monnier wrote: BTW, for those who don't want to run their own server, there are still other

Re: general broad question for help in setting up linux server and suggestions

On 15/10/21 2:33 pm, Semih Ozlem wrote: Hello everyone I am a mathematics PhD student completing my dissertation at Yeditepe University Istanbul working under Prof Ilhan Ikeda who is at Bosphorus University Istanbul. I am involved in setting up some seminars, keeping correspondence with

Re: general broad question for help in setting up linux server and suggestions

i 2021 Cum, 10:40 tarihinde şunu yazdı: On 10/15/2021 8:47 AM, Jeremy Ardley wrote: > > On 15/10/21 2:33 pm, Semih Ozlem wrote: >> Hello everyone >> >> I am a mathematics PhD student completing my dissertation at Yeditepe >> Universi

Re: What happened to cal?

On 26/9/21 1:46 pm, Jeremy Ardley wrote: On 26/9/21 1:24 pm, Paul M. Foster wrote: Folks: I'm wondering if I'm mis-remembering here. As I recall, there used to be a command called "cal" which would simply print this month's calendar to the screen. It would do other calendars,

Re: What happened to cal?

On 26/9/21 1:24 pm, Paul M. Foster wrote: Folks: I'm wondering if I'm mis-remembering here. As I recall, there used to be a command called "cal" which would simply print this month's calendar to the screen. It would do other calendars, depending on command line parameters. Now that I've

Re: Firefox ESR EOL

On 20/12/21 5:52 pm, Curt wrote: On 2021-12-18, Anssi Saari wrote: Nicholas Geovanis writes: Maybe I missed something. Why RISC V? Just having an alternative is attractive to some. Having an open alternative even more so. I'd happily run ARM or RISC-V, if those were an alternative for a

Re: Identity Theft

On 21/12/21 9:59 am, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, December 20, 2021 02:28:13 PM Brian wrote: On Mon 20 Dec 2021 at 10:32:31 -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: My identity has been stolen, and although it has nothing to do with [...] May we know the URL of the financial website you

Re: Identity Theft

On 21/12/21 10:09 am, Jeremy Ardley wrote:s. There is a type of attack called cross-site scripting (XSS). It's mostly been eliminated by latest version browsers, but there are always zero-day vulnerabilities. The effect is that if you are vulnerable and have two tabs open, one

Re: vulnerability classifications (was: Re: Identity Theft)

On 21/12/21 10:18 am, Nicole wrote: More at https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/xss/ just out of curiousity: I understand XSS are like code injections into the HTML through user controlled input or attacker controlled input, e.g. the password field or the message you send someone. what

Re: Identity Theft

On 22/12/21 6:23 am, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: One possiblity is that the target (recipient of the call) company internal communication network was compromised. That happens quite often, not as much as mail servers but it is still not unknown. This is completely hypothetical, but

Re: cpan

Pipe the output of the cpan command to less? | less On 3/1/22 1:14 pm, Jude DaShiell wrote: when displaying results from a cpan search, is it possible to limit the number of displayed results to the screen size then page to the next or previous set of results? Something like what less does

Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com

On 4/1/22 6:36 am, Charles Curley wrote: On Mon, 3 Jan 2022 23:01:34 +0100 (CET) local10 wrote: Am I the only one who's getting this error? I am not. Vivaldi (vivaldi-stable, 5.0.2497.32-1, amd64) on bullseye. The cert looks like: Common Name (CN)*.usps.com Organization (O)

Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com

On 4/1/22 7:27 am, local10 wrote: I have no problems accessing the www.usps.com , it's when I go to tools.usps.com that's when I have the issue: # host usps.com usps.com has address 56.0.134.100 usps.com mail is handled by 10 usps-com.mail.protection.outlook.com. #

Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com

On 4/1/22 7:37 am, Jeremy Ardley wrote: On 4/1/22 7:27 am, local10 wrote: I have no problems accessing the www.usps.com <http://www.usps.com>, it's when I go to tools.usps.com that's when I have the issue: # host usps.com usps.com has address 56.0.134.100 usps.com mail is handled

Re: Identity Theft

On 24/12/21 5:03 am, Curt wrote: It wasn't really that "rhetorical" a van because it was precisely the very concrete "mobile FBI van" described on the Wikipedia page the OP referenced. As for the accurate representation of reality, I'm afraid we can only hope, however vainly, that people are

Re: unkown root password and mkdir problem.

On 6/11/21 7:17 am, Thomas George wrote: when installing debian I entered eight digits as the root password. The instillation completed successfully. Later I tried to become root but the eight digits didn't work and many permutations also didn't work. I have used sudo successfully with many

Re: Don't try this at home kids

On 30/11/21 6:25 am, Bob Bernstein wrote: How do I tell sudo not to ask me for my password? It's me. I'm on my computer. I already logged in with my password. No one else is logged on. I know all you purists out there are rending your garments if not your flesh. but c'mon sudo! Can't a

Re: Don't try this at home kids

On 30/11/21 7:14 am, James H. H. Lampert wrote: I have access to a number of Amazon Linux virtual boxes, that don't like password authentication in general (preferring certificate authentication . . . which authenticates the BOX that is ssh-ing in, but not the WARM BODY between the chair

Re: NVME disk drive

Almost certainly no. Recent versions of debian can run SATA and PCIe variants without anything special. The only thing you may want is specialised software tools to monitor the device, but they aren't essential. On 8/12/21 3:29 pm, Piper H wrote: dear community I bought a new NVME disk

Re: Can you help me?

On 10/12/21 10:38 am, TheReal MrBitcoin wrote: I have been using Debian 11 bullseye since September 2021. At first everything was great. Than a week ago my screen after start up turning very dark & the back light screen is very dim. I would like to know how to make the screen bright again. I

Re: Can you help me?

On 10/12/21 10:46 pm, deloptes wrote: Jeremy Ardley wrote: Plug in a different monitor. If it's dim as well then it is a computer software/hardware problem. If not it's a monitor problem which can usually be fixed by swapping out the monitor power supply capacitors. Yes sure, I have a PC

Re: Problems with videos playback for my user

On 6/1/22 6:58 am, Lucio Crusca wrote: I'm on Debian sid, using pipewire (just in case that makes any difference). Since a few hours my user is not able to playback videos anymore. All browsers and mplayer in general behave like this: they do not play just the "video" part, but they

Re: OT: Recommendation for a new Debian laptop

On 12/1/22 3:54 pm, 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: - Buying something of the shelph and installing Debian on it - Buying a pine64 or alike - Any other

Re: OT: Recommendation for a new Debian laptop

On 12/1/22 4:12 pm, Jeremy Ardley wrote: The only requirement is to have virtualisation available. My advice is if you are going to be doing any virtual work is get a laptop with - decent processor ( I use Ryzen mid range ) - Expandable memory to 32G - NVME PCIe system drive (256G

Re: OT: Recommendation for a new Debian laptop

On 15/1/22 2:30 pm, john doe wrote: I've looked a bit online and laptops with a Ryzen CPU (5 .../7 ...) are between 550 and 1000 box or more. is this price range what you were suggesting? IN other words, if you were to buy a new laptop which one would you pick. Thanks all for the model

Re: OT: Recommendation for a new Debian laptop

On 15/1/22 5:17 pm, Jeremy Ardley wrote: On 15/1/22 2:30 pm, john doe wrote: I've looked a bit online and laptops with a Ryzen CPU (5 .../7 ...) are between 550 and 1000 box or more. is this price range what you were suggesting? IN other words, if you were to buy a new laptop which one

Re: miracle of Firefox in the hotel.

On 14/2/22 9:21 am, Felmon Davis wrote: On Sat, 12 Feb 2022, Dan Ritter wrote: The portal works by intercepting any web page request at all and answering with its own sign-up page. So, go to a page which you know will be served via plain HTTP. If you can't think of one, try

Thunderbird / Dovecot TLS Problem

I've been using Thunderbird for years now but made some minor tweaks as I'm setting up an imap proxy for remote access to my debian/dovecot/postfix server. The issue is I changed the account settings in thunderbird to use STARTTLS and port 993. It now doesn't work. I see a connection in

Re: Thunderbird / Dovecot TLS Problem

On Thu, 17 Mar 2022 15:05:42 +0800 Jeremy Ardley wrote: > I've been using Thunderbird for years now but made some minor tweaks > as I'm setting up an imap proxy for remote access to my > debian/dovecot/postfix server. > > The issue is I changed the account settings in thu

https authorisation server?

I'm working on providing an imap proxy on my LAN gateway and it seems nginx module ngx_mail will do the job nicely. The problem is the module mandates an http authorisation server. Ideally I would run the authorisation server on my internal mail machine and it would use PAM or suchlike to

Re: Sharing photos from Linux to Apple devices

On 9/3/22 8:48 am, Tom Browder wrote: Can anyone suggest a good way to get my Linux (or Windows) pictures onto some site that Apple devices can use? Thanks, -Tom Put the photos into several large zip files (simply to minimise the number of downloads). Then upload to google drive in

force IPv6 dynamic address?

I have a debian workstation with a static IPv6 address mapped in DNS as well as dynamic addresses which change with time. The problem I have is that when my thunderbird mail client connects to gmail it always uses the static IPv6 address as originator and this shows up in the headers of the

postscreen spamassassin haproxy multi-homed server

Does anybody have a working example of postfix with postscreen and spamassassin all working together? * In the first instance on a single homed machine. * Then on a multi-homed machine so stanzas are individual to each IP address. * And finally a version that also works with haproxy.

Re: force IPv6 dynamic address?

On 24/3/22 5:53 pm, Tim Woodall wrote: But I'm as paranoid about unknown outbound connections as I am about inbound ones - and, unfortunately, outbound is much harder to secure, especially if you don't trust google! Perhaps a specialised proxy for gmail etc connections that can strip out

Re: force IPv6 dynamic address?

On 24/3/22 1:11 am, Tim Woodall wrote: On Wed, 23 Mar 2022, Jeremy Ardley wrote: I have a debian workstation with a static IPv6 address mapped in DNS as well as dynamic addresses which change with time. The problem I have is that when my thunderbird mail client connects to gmail it always

ifup failed but interface works anyway

cat /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)" grep Mar 26 05:30:05 firewall ifup[448]: ifup: failed to bring up lan0 Mar 26 05:30:05 firewall kernel: [    8.552955] r8152 5-1:1.0 lan0: renamed from eth1 Mar 26 05:30:05 firewall kernel: [   15.141993] IPv6:

debug systemd restart networking problem

I have been doing various changes to my network but have now got to the stage where I have errors running systemd restart networking systemctl status networking ● networking.service - Raise network interfaces Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/networking.service; enabled; vendor preset:

Re: networking.service fails

On 4/4/22 8:38 am, Dmitry Katsubo wrote: Dear Debian community, I've exercised several directions to solve the issue, however I've failed. Would be great if somebody can share his idea. After upgrading from Debian buster to bullseye I still have the same issue: # systemctl status

Re: networking.service fails

On 4/4/22 10:15 am, Charles Curley wrote: On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 09:50:19 +0800 Jeremy Ardley wrote: * systemd-networkd.service * networking.service * NetworkManager.service Possibly because they do different things. I have no experience what the first one does

Re: networking.service fails

On 4/4/22 10:31 am, Jeremy Ardley wrote: In my case I am delegating ipv6 prefixes that I obtain from my ISP and also advertising them, making radvd redundant. I have kept my ISC dhcp servers as I am doing DDNS with my bind instance. Possibly systemd-networkd.service does DDNS as well but I

Re: postscreen spamassassin haproxy multi-homed server

On 20/3/22 6:41 am, Jeremy Ardley wrote: Does anybody have a working example of postfix with postscreen and spamassassin all working together? I have now found that 'pass' stanzas for each SMTP IP on a multi-homed machine are ignored. The only pass stanza that is used is the generic SMTP

Re: systemd.resolved problems

On 25/3/22 7:26 am, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 06:51:55AM +0800, Jeremy Ardley wrote: Is there any compelling reason to use systemd.resolved over ordinary DNS ? If not, why was it inflicted on debian? It's disabled by default. It's there if you wish to try it, but out

systemd.resolved problems

I've been having continual problems with postfix and errors in the mail log about unresolved  MX and A records. Not all the time but often enough to be annoying. I discovered postfix was using the systemd.resolved server for DNS. I did some experiments with resolvectl and there were serious

Re: its been done again. No network

On 24/3/22 8:40 am, gene heskett wrote: Greetings all; Just installed a arm64 linux on a raspi4, and as near as I can tell early in the game, everything seem to be working except the network. I cannot get rid of a default 169.254.xx.yy route in ip a or ip r. I have even renamed the

bind9 slave sending notifies

I'm using BIND 9.16.22-Debian (Extended Support Version) The problem is when I restart I see "sending notifies" in the log. I have checked the configuration named.conf.local and named.conf.options and there is no 'allow-transfer' in the configuration. example named.conf.local entry: zone

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