Re: [DNG] FSF, RMS and a danger to almost all GPL code

2021-04-01 Thread Steve Litt
age citizen. It's a trope. The preceding paragraph says nothing about my opinion on Stallman or the issues discussed in this thread. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniq

Re: [DNG] Discovery #fail

2021-03-28 Thread Steve Litt
the hardware you have, by driver combination substitution, or with Ubuntu. By the way, my nVidia also rebooted and hung with Ubuntu, but Ubuntu right away got it to show (artifact laced) video. HTH, SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshoot

Re: [DNG] Discovery #fail

2021-03-28 Thread Steve Litt
t;internet. Ubuntu likely uses a more recent version of Xorg than debian, >or any other library that enable discovery of your display. > >All in all, a display doesn't seem to have to do anything with init >freedom. Would it? Can't rule out systemd, because it's A LOT more than jus

Re: [DNG] FSF and human rights

2021-03-27 Thread Steve Litt
John Morris said on Fri, 26 Mar 2021 22:55:57 -0500 >On Fri, 2021-03-26 at 15:46 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: >> >> I'd suggest nobody sign anything, and nobody respond to this email. >> >> If you believe that Stallman was removed, shunned and criticized >>

Re: [DNG] FSF and human rights

2021-03-27 Thread Steve Litt
nt because you were fired for cause. But don't get the Devuan distro involved. Devuan is the work of many, many people, for many, many years, around the once very unpopular stance of init-choice. Don't put that at risk. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the S

Re: [DNG] FSF and human rights

2021-03-26 Thread Steve Litt
goli...@devuan.org said on Fri, 26 Mar 2021 13:47:59 -0500 >Steve Litt and I were threatened with a ban on the debian-user mail >list for our anti-systemd opinions in 2014! Actually, he may have >gotten hammered. Can't quite remember . . . > >golinux Yeah, I was banned from po

Re: [DNG] FSF and human rights

2021-03-26 Thread Steve Litt
iate or delayed for years, getting involved "for the principle of the thing" may cause you later regret. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques

Re: [DNG] Chimaera upgrade

2021-03-26 Thread Steve Litt
O O L / \ _ / \/ / - You guys do good work! SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/m

Re: [DNG] Trouble booting Beowulf on an Intel NUC8i5BEK

2021-03-25 Thread Steve Litt
ost booted off it, the thumb drive's bootability is still up in the air, and when combined with uefi/legacy, boot order, and all sorts of other stuff, the last thing you need is a boot media you can't trust. I'd purchase a $35.00 USB DVD burner drive, burn a bootable CD or DVD, then boot off o

Re: [DNG] No future?

2021-03-20 Thread Steve Litt
Florian Zieboll via Dng said on Fri, 19 Mar 2021 13:18:04 +0100 >On March 19, 2021 12:18:17 PM GMT+01:00, Florian Zieboll via Dng > wrote: > >> a sphere > >Or, lol, should I say: a curved plane? Don't you mean alternative facts? SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured

Re: [DNG] rm not freeing space

2021-03-15 Thread Steve Litt
Wait!!! Make sure you run only a non-destructive fsck. If the non-destructive fsck shows no problem, do the following... First run the sync command. The sync command forces all caches to be written to their respective files. If they're on a removeable drive, my next step after sync would be to

Re: [DNG] OT"? Wanted a simple 2d plan drafting/sketching/plotting program

2021-03-12 Thread Steve Litt
Steve Litt wrote... >As you can see from viewing this file in Inkscape, more work has to be >done because the newly scaled group has to be moved to once again fit >inside the A4 drawing. For a simple drawing like this, that's also >easy. See this web page: > >https://developer

Re: [DNG] OT"? Wanted a simple 2d plan drafting/sketching/plotting program

2021-03-12 Thread Steve Litt
the newly scaled group has to be moved to once again fit inside the A4 drawing. For a simple drawing like this, that's also easy. See this web page: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Tutorial/Basic_Transformations Like I say, I didn't exactly understand what you need, but just in

Re: [DNG] I kinda sorta got opennic DNS working

2021-03-11 Thread Steve Litt
>> On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 19:38:35 -0800 >> Rick Moen wrote: >D00d. > >My friend Steve Litt is an intelligent guy, but he is relatively new to >DNS administration, and IMO ought to learn the basics of that field of >knowledge better before jumping into advanced, e

Re: [DNG] web conferencing software (was Re: Any interest in a Devuan Meetup in Colorado Springs or Denver?)

2021-03-09 Thread Steve Litt
Wirelessduck wrote: >What’s the consensus on Quad9? Didn't The Temptations do that in 1969? SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques ___

[DNG] I kinda sorta got opennic DNS working

2021-03-08 Thread Steve Litt
as well as a bunch of .com and .org domains. I'd really like to have both icann and opennic root servers in my root.hints. Does anybody know a way to do that without the opennic root servers being sabotaged? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques

Re: [DNG] web conferencing software (was Re: Any interest in a Devuan Meetup in Colorado Springs or Denver?)

2021-03-08 Thread Steve Litt
the >way. Wait a minute. This could be cool. Do iopennic TLDs conflict with icann's, or are they different? If they are different, couldn't I just add some of opennic's root servers to my Unbound root server file, so I can get the TLDs from either? How cool would that be? SteveT Steve Litt

[DNG] Motel wifi: was web conferencing software

2021-03-08 Thread Steve Litt
ravelling notebook, I wouldn't be all that offended with a mutable resolv.conf. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques ___ Dng mailing list Dng@li

Re: [DNG] Any interest in a Devuan Meetup in Colorado Springs or Denver? (was "GNUPGP Web of trust")

2021-03-07 Thread Steve Litt
>On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 11:36:57AM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: >> Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com): >> >> > The benefit of this list is if meet.jit.si ever dies during a >> > meeting or classroom, there can be a predefined list of alternate >

[DNG] What does this remind you of?

2021-03-07 Thread Steve Litt
See this web page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-pattern I'd say at least half of the listed anti-patterns are used by systemd. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques

Re: [DNG] web conferencing software (was Re: Any interest in a Devuan Meetup in Colorado Springs or Denver?)

2021-03-07 Thread Steve Litt
>>Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com): >If I had demanded of myself to change the root cause instead of >coathangering the symptom, I'd have needed to go to the Void Linux >developers and ask them to find a way to accommodate DNS, in a >travelling situation, wit

Re: [DNG] web conferencing software (was Re: Any interest in a Devuan Meetup in Colorado Springs or Denver?)

2021-03-07 Thread Steve Litt
>Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com): > >> My philosophy: One big hammer prevents a 100 step packaging system >> raindance. > >The Big Hammer always seems a great idea for a temporary solution. >And I assume you know what the catch is with those. >

Re: [DNG] My Qemu LAN-peer documentation is now in its first draft

2021-03-07 Thread Steve Litt
>Le 02/03/2021 à 12:48, Steve Litt a écrit : >> Hi all, >> >> As you know, I was asking many Qemu LAN-peer questions on this list a >> week ago. My documentation on the subject has finally achieved >> first-draft status. If you'd like to see it, go to: >> &

Re: [DNG] web conferencing software (was Re: Any interest in a Devuan Meetup in Colorado Springs or Denver?)

2021-03-06 Thread Steve Litt
>Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com): >> >On Fri, 5 Mar 2021 22:01:33 +0100 (CET) k...@aspodata.se wrote: >> >> >I /had/ Jitsi Meet running (w/o local turn server and jigasi) on a >> >Odroid XU-4 with 2GB RAM. Tested with up to four par

[DNG] Playlist software

2021-03-06 Thread Steve Litt
Suckless Tools! SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Very offtopic: 70's music

2021-03-06 Thread Steve Litt
>Steve Litt : > >> He has recommended http://towardtheunknownregion.com > >Very strange Website, "radioseagull" makes me think about free local >radios of Brittany(where are my roots). LOL, right now, at 8:21am New York time on 3/6/2021, I'm listening to Cas

Re: [DNG] web conferencing software (was Re: Any interest in a Devuan Meetup in Colorado Springs or Denver?)

2021-03-06 Thread Steve Litt
up to four participants and >running quite well. Downside: The reserved memory of the videobridge is >configured under /usr/share/ and thus is not update-proof. chattr +i whatever_file SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough T

Re: [DNG] My Qemu LAN-peer documentation is now in its first draft

2021-03-06 Thread Steve Litt
dmit that Y is actually more broken and here's the complicated ways >> to get sane behaviour" >> >> Simon >> > >I wonder why instead of predictable names they didn't choose >prefix+mac_address at least for initial setup of names and leave it >to user to name the i

Re: [DNG] Jitsi advice please

2021-03-06 Thread Steve Litt
;> I use vivaldi for jitsi (but nothing else). It just works. >> > >> golinux >> > > >Thanks golinux, > >Gave vivaldi a go, exactly the same results. >I am now certain the non-working microphone issue is due to a >peculiarity with my workstat

Re: [DNG] Any interest in a Devuan Meetup in Colorado Springs or Denver? (was "GNUPGP Web of trust")

2021-03-05 Thread Steve Litt
>Στις 5/3/21 2:05 μ.μ., ο/η Steve Litt έγραψε: >> meet.jit.si works pretty darn well > >no it doesn't. at least not for everyone.. What specific claims do people have about meet.jit.si? >a list of jitsi instances : >https://framatalk.org/accueil/en/info The precedin

Re: [DNG] Very offtopic: 70's music

2021-03-05 Thread Steve Litt
>En 5 de marzo de 2021 1:27:25 Steve Litt >escribió: >> >> Guilty pleasure: I liked Kiss. And Abba too. And (yeah, I'm a >> hypocrite) KC and the Sunshine Band. And Heart and Fleetwood Mac. > >There is no mention to The Police in this thread. I *love* King of P

[DNG] Fw: Very offtopic: 70's music

2021-03-05 Thread Steve Litt
! === Begin forwarded message: Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2021 13:18:00 +0100 From: Friedhelm Mehnert To: Steve Litt Subject: Re: Very offtopic: 70's music On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 06:54:49AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > > >In article <20210304

Re: [DNG] Any interest in a Devuan Meetup in Colorado Springs or Denver? (was "GNUPGP Web of trust")

2021-03-05 Thread Steve Litt
>On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 6:05 AM Steve Litt >wrote: >> >> Hi Gabe, >> >> I'm also going to try to get a Jitsi-centric VM running. But you >> needn't wait to install Jitsi on your own computer to enjoy Jitsi. >> For over a year, GoLUG (my local LU

Re: [DNG] Jitsi advice please

2021-03-05 Thread Steve Litt
t;talk to yourself. I never thought of that, but when I was young and a Jitsi newbie, before every GoLUG meeting, I used to have my wife Jitsi in one room while I Jitsi'ed in my office. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times h

Re: [DNG] Jitsi advice please

2021-03-05 Thread Steve Litt
t;talk to yourself. My psychiatrist told me to stop doing that. At least, in public. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglis

Re: [DNG] Any interest in a Devuan Meetup in Colorado Springs or Denver? (was "GNUPGP Web of trust")

2021-03-05 Thread Steve Litt
>Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com): > >> From my point of view, meetup.com has inserted itself into LUG >> operations as an unneeded middle man for LUGs without an effective >> publicity officer. > >In case anyone's interested in an extende

Re: [DNG] Any interest in a Devuan Meetup in Colorado Springs or Denver? (was "GNUPGP Web of trust")

2021-03-05 Thread Steve Litt
ed great, and all the students liked the course. So while a home-grown installation is all of our goal, until then, anything on meet.jit.si works pretty darn well, as long as your browser is Chromium if you're on Linux. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2020 featured book: Thriving

Re: [DNG] My Qemu LAN-peer documentation is now in its first draft

2021-03-04 Thread Steve Litt
vented, I could have created software to create devices with mknod. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/m

[DNG] Does Devuan normally feature eth0 as the NIC?

2021-03-04 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, My Devuan VM guest has the one and only "Ethernet card", which of course is virtual, as eth0. Is eth0 standard operating procedure for Devuan installations with only one wired NIC? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough

Re: [DNG] Very offtopic: 70's music

2021-03-04 Thread Steve Litt
has closed down. To see this content, please select another instance, or visit directly on YouTube." SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https

Re: [DNG] Very offtopic: 70's music

2021-03-04 Thread Steve Litt
the playlist plays each top 20 song once, specifically, the week it first reached its highest position on the charts. It's a job tailor made for Python dicts. It's true: The 1970's had some great music. But disco. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times htt

Re: [DNG] Any interest in a Devuan Meetup in Colorado Springs or Denver? (was "GNUPGP Web of trust")

2021-03-04 Thread Steve Litt
meetup", I'd like to attend via Jitsi. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Netiquette

2021-03-03 Thread Steve Litt
seen a complete hijack on DNG. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] My Qemu LAN-peer documentation is now in its first draft

2021-03-02 Thread Steve Litt
hink you two are saying I can make multiple network devices have determinate names (even if I don't select those names) by doing something with their MAC addresses? If so, how do I do it? SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

[DNG] My Qemu LAN-peer documentation is now in its first draft

2021-03-02 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, As you know, I was asking many Qemu LAN-peer questions on this list a week ago. My documentation on the subject has finally achieved first-draft status. If you'd like to see it, go to: http://troubleshooters.com/linux/qemu/nobs.htm SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving

Re: [DNG] EFI Installation of Beowulf?

2021-02-24 Thread Steve Litt
his got the system > booting normally again, I just had not had a chance to dig in any > deeper and post a possible bug report. Why not create a hard link between EFI/debian and EFI/devuan ? SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving

[DNG] How to firewall on Devuan?

2021-02-24 Thread Steve Litt
? I'm used to iptables being a daemon, and that seems not to be the case in Devuan. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https

Re: [DNG] How to turn off the firewall

2021-02-22 Thread Steve Litt
that come up. Thanks, and I'm sorry for the false alarm. SteveT On Mon, 22 Feb 2021 10:29:50 -0500 Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I could probably web search this, but there's s much contradictory > stuff on the web, and I've been doing nothing but web searching for

Re: [DNG] Assigning a specific subnet and address to a Devuan Beowulf Qemu guest

2021-02-22 Thread Steve Litt
The hands-on for the client side is just normal network configuration. > which parimarily depends on whether to use DHCP (in part or full) or > static configuration. > > With the "user" type attachment, the client is not a full networking > entity from the host (or outside) point of

[DNG] How to turn off the firewall

2021-02-22 Thread Steve Litt
are accessible? I need to do this for experimentation, not as a permanent thing. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https

Re: [DNG] Assigning a specific subnet and address to a Devuan Beowulf Qemu guest

2021-02-21 Thread Steve Litt
t@mydesk qemu]$ ssh slitt@192.168.0.15 ssh: connect to host 192.168.0.15 port 22: No route to host [slitt@mydesk qemu]$ = I'm pretty sure "no route to host" means this isn't caused by a firewall problem, although once I fix the routing thing, that

Re: [DNG] Assigning a specific subnet and address to a Devuan Beowulf Qemu guest

2021-02-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 16:28:16 -0700 Gabe Stanton via Dng wrote: > On Wed, 2021-02-17 at 16:28 -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi Gabe, > > On your guest VM, what does it say your default route is when > > youperform the ip route command? > > results of ip route: >

Re: [DNG] Assigning a specific subnet and address to a Devuan Beowulf Qemu guest

2021-02-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 11:43:56 -0700 Gabe Stanton via Dng wrote: > On Wed, 2021-02-17 at 11:26 -0700, Gabe Stanton via Dng wrote: > > On Tue, 2021-02-16 at 07:55 -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > > > Thanks Ralph, > > > I had left them both out, but putting them in didn't

[DNG] I'm going to need to make a block diagram of bridge/tap/qemu networking

2021-02-17 Thread Steve Litt
have a complete understanding of qemu/bridge/tap/tun networking. Any knowledge anyone can give me is greatly appreciated. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive ___ Dng mailing

Re: [DNG] Assigning a specific subnet and address to a Devuan Beowulf Qemu guest

2021-02-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 18:39:50 + g4sra via Dng wrote: > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Tuesday, February 16, 2021 12:55 PM, Steve Litt > wrote: > > > On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 20:29:46 +1100 > > Ralph Ronnquist via Dng dng@lists.dyne.org wrote: > > > >

Re: [DNG] Assigning a specific subnet and address to a Devuan Beowulf Qemu guest

2021-02-16 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 20:29:46 +1100 Ralph Ronnquist via Dng wrote: > On 16/02 03:24, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > My ultimate goal is to have a Devuan VM guest on my Void Linux Daily > > Driver Desktop (DDD) that acts like just another metal computer on >

[DNG] Assigning a specific subnet and address to a Devuan Beowulf Qemu guest

2021-02-16 Thread Steve Litt
vuan VM guest to 192.168.0.66, with proper gateway, etc, so it can be just another computer on my 192.168.0.0/24 LAN? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive ___ Dng mailing list Dng@l

Re: [DNG] Touchpad on Thinkpad T580 stops working sometimes

2021-02-16 Thread Steve Litt
the past month I've posted a shellscript to toggle the synaptics touchpad on and off. Connect that to a convenient hotkey via your window manager, and every time it turns itself off, toggle it back on. This lets you continue working while you seek out the root cause. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featu

[DNG] Very offtopic: 70's music: was Synaptics Touchpad Fn+F9

2021-02-08 Thread Steve Litt
. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] /etc/debian_version

2021-02-07 Thread Steve Litt
due to space limitations (keeps > 10% free). These json-logs are a mess, except for illiterates. Has anybody else experienced such rapidly growing log files in systemd? I'd like to bring that up in discussions with dwobes who claim systemd is wonderful. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured

Re: [DNG] Synaptics Touchpad Fn+F9

2021-02-07 Thread Steve Litt
t. > libre Grüße, And don't bring me down Bruce! If you don't get the reference, that's OK, you need to be over 60 to get it. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive ___ Dng maili

Re: [DNG] How to adjust mouse characteristics? SOLVED

2021-02-07 Thread Steve Litt
esolution > mouse... Could you please tell me the make and model of the mouse? I love super-sensitive mice. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive ___ Dng mailing

Re: [DNG] How to adjust mouse characteristics? SOLVED

2021-02-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 5 Feb 2021 18:33:12 -0700 Fred wrote: > Hello, > > The problem was that the mouse was way too sensitive, meaning the > pointer would go too far for a small mouse movement. Could you please tell me the make and model of the mouse? I love super-sensitive mice. Thanks, S

[DNG] Fw: Synaptics Touchpad Fn+F9

2021-02-05 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, g4sra asked me to forward this to the DNG list. Begin forwarded message: Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2021 13:50:52 + From: g4sra To: Steve Litt Subject: Re: [DNG] Synaptics Touchpad Fn+F9 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday

Re: [DNG] Synaptics Touchpad Fn+F9

2021-02-05 Thread Steve Litt
what you need. == #!/bin/sh # touchtoggle.sh Copyright (C) 2019 by Steve Litt # All rights reserved. # Licensed via the # Expat license: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:Expat # FIRST GET DEVICE'S DEVICE ID CONTAINING CASE INSENSITIVE

Re: [DNG] How to adjust mouse characteristics?

2021-02-04 Thread Steve Litt
have to physically click on and off on the little fingernail switch on the bottom to use it if you spent that last 10 minutes reading a page instead of mousing. It's disconcerting. But when you mouse, it works well, and I've found you don't need any further sensitivity enhancement. SteveT Steve

Re: [DNG] Need install Devuan Beowolf but got "initramfs" prompt

2021-02-02 Thread Steve Litt
familiar, and I'm wondering where I heard his name before. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Need install Devuan Beowolf but got "initramfs" prompt

2021-02-01 Thread Steve Litt
job to tell me what I want to accomplish. When I don't get answers, I send a whiny reminder every two hours. When all this doesn't work, I use a web search. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive __

Re: [DNG] Finding installed packages, but from a backup

2021-01-02 Thread Steve Litt
rebuild.html . The preceding shellscript is what Linux, UNIX, BSD, and POSIX are all about. There's a reason Thompson and Ritchie gave us simple, tested and flawless commands to do one thing and do it right: So we could string them together to do something valuable and seemingly complex. SteveT

Re: [DNG] Why X does keyboard and mouse.

2020-12-31 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 12:21:47 -0500 Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 11:53:51AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > > > It didn't have to be this way. In 2020, better alternatives could > > have been made. If I were the project manager, the first thing I'd

Re: [DNG] vdev (was: Re: if2mac init.d service for persistent network interface names)

2020-12-31 Thread Steve Litt
or Perl, AWK, sed, C and shellscripting can usually produce the exact behavior you're seeking, which is exactly what Thompson and Richie were trying to accomplish. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive __

Re: [DNG] vdev (was: Re: if2mac init.d service for persistent network interface names)

2020-12-31 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 08:18:02 -0600 o1bigtenor wrote: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 4:34 PM Steve Litt > wrote: > > > > On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 09:51:33 -1000 > > Joel Roth via Dng wrote: > snip > > One question: How does your above statement hold up when Waylan

Re: [DNG] vdev (was: Re: if2mac init.d service for persistent network interface names)

2020-12-30 Thread Steve Litt
gt; > neither the mouse nor the keyboard didn't respond. > > While I don't understand your post completely, I agree with > your point that udev-compat need not be a high priority as > libeudev meets this need. I understand that without > udev-compat, vdev wouldn'

Re: [DNG] Disabling touchpad

2020-12-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 28 Dec 2020 16:30:55 +0100 Didier Kryn wrote: > Le 28/12/2020 à 16:00, Steve Litt a écrit : > > On Mon, 28 Dec 2020 09:39:04 +0100 > > Didier Kryn wrote: > > > > > >>     Note you might as well open your laptop and unplug the > >> touchpad

[DNG] Another document listing systemd deficiencies

2020-12-28 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, This is a fun document: https://suckless.org/sucks/systemd/ SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi

Re: [DNG] Disabling touchpad

2020-12-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 28 Dec 2020 16:30:55 +0100 Didier Kryn wrote: >     Or you might replace it with a working one. This has happened on every laptop I've owned (at least eight). I have big hands and they invariably hit the mousepad. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in To

Re: [DNG] Disabling touchpad

2020-12-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 28 Dec 2020 09:39:04 +0100 Didier Kryn wrote: > >     Note you might as well open your laptop and unplug the touchpad. > Just search for a tutorial on how to change it. > > --         Didier Huh? How did you draw that conclusion? SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 202

Re: [DNG] Disabling touchpad

2020-12-27 Thread Steve Litt
nts do to the characters in the file: == #!/bin/sh # touchtoggle.sh Copyright (C) 2019 by Steve Litt # All rights reserved. # Licensed via the # Expat license: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:Expat # FIRST GET DEVICE'S DEVICE ID CONTAINING CASE

Re: [DNG] Vdev [ was Re: if2mac init.d service for persistent network interface names]

2020-12-25 Thread Steve Litt
ate a device for it, thereby eliminating a substantial part of the necessity for udev. Other people could have created other shellscripts or simple C programs to do the rest of udev's work. Of course, that's 15 years water under the dam, settled law, so I'm not going to do it. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2

Re: [DNG] double negative

2020-12-25 Thread Steve Litt
ve means negative: C++ > > > >"Yeah, yeah." > > > > (The gag may not travel well, so: At least in some USA regions, > > the phrase "Yeah, yeah" is something of a dismissive phrase with > > meaning at least bordering on denial.) > > &g

Re: [DNG] if2mac init.d service for persistent network interface names

2020-12-25 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 25 Dec 2020 09:57:43 +0100 tito via Dng wrote: > On Thu, 24 Dec 2020 21:11:49 -0500 > Steve Litt wrote: > > > On Thu, 24 Dec 2020 16:32:18 +0100 > > tito via Dng wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 24 Dec 2020 10:10:07 -0500 > > > Steve Litt wrot

Re: [DNG] double negative

2020-12-25 Thread Steve Litt
t; > (The gag may not travel well, so: At least in some USA regions, > the phrase "Yeah, yeah" is something of a dismissive phrase with > meaning at least bordering on denial.) Here's what I want to know... Why is the first word of any answer to any question asked of self define

Re: [DNG] savings from parallelism (Was: if2mac init.d service for persistent network interface names)

2020-12-24 Thread Steve Litt
se runit instead of Epoch are: * Epoch has no respawn capability * I don't think Epoch is maintained anymore. My experiments with Epoch indicate its boot time was in the same ballpark as runit and systemd. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshoo

Re: [DNG] if2mac init.d service for persistent network interface names

2020-12-24 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 24 Dec 2020 16:32:18 +0100 tito via Dng wrote: > On Thu, 24 Dec 2020 10:10:07 -0500 > Steve Litt wrote: > > > On Wed, 23 Dec 2020 23:41:58 +0100 > > Didier Kryn wrote: > > > > > Le 23/12/2020 à 22:03, Antony Stone a écrit : > > > &

Re: [DNG] if2mac init.d service for persistent network interface names

2020-12-24 Thread Steve Litt
ard became eth0 would be indeterminate. I had eth0 magically switch to eth1, and then back again, several times. Earlier in this thread I submitted a shellscript that fixes this whole problem, without all sorts of udev raindances. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in

Re: [DNG] Ethernet names revisited

2020-12-14 Thread Steve Litt
this option just changes ("spoofs") the MAC address of the > > NIC for which it is defined. Although the log confirms that finally > > eth0 is the tg3 NIC, this seems unusual (and very counterintuitive) > > to me. > > > Thanks, > > > Antony. Stop the m

Re: [DNG] Ethernet names revisited

2020-12-12 Thread Steve Litt
as the device isn't moved around, which ports on a pci card wouldn't be. Another Devuaner and I wrote the basics of such a script and posted it on this mailing list, several years ago. Sorry, but I'm on a tight deadline and can't research anything more than this memory. Perhaps somebody else kno

Re: [DNG] What I learned at Distrowatch

2020-12-12 Thread Steve Litt
y have no logged in shell to make mischief with. I should have thought of that myself. 15 years ago :-). SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

Re: [DNG] What I learned at Distrowatch

2020-12-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 10 Dec 2020 23:02:30 +0100 Adrian Zaugg wrote: > On 10.12.20 20:42, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Dec 2020 01:40:39 +0100 > > Adrian Zaugg wrote: > > > > Wait a minute. When you say "without GUI", do you mean no X > > installed, > &g

Re: [DNG] What I learned at Distrowatch

2020-12-10 Thread Steve Litt
e my computer every day, because startx and .xinitrc are my friends. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] What I learned at Distrowatch

2020-12-09 Thread Steve Litt
user... [slitt@mydesk asml]$ ==== SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailin

Re: [DNG] Let's Encrypt (was: snapd in Devuan? Dependency on systemd...)

2020-12-03 Thread Steve Litt
ave a cert signed by a certification company like Let's Encrypt? This makes a big difference for business websites. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive ___ Dng mailing list D

Re: [DNG] Anybody successfully worked with an Nvidia GeForce gt 710 with Devuan?

2020-12-02 Thread Steve Litt
34 +0100 > > > Riccardo Mottola via Dng wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > Steve Litt wrote: > > > > > Has anyone successfully worked with an Nvidia GeForce gt 710 > > > > > with Devuan? As a bonus, has anyone gotten

Re: [DNG] What I learned at Distrowatch

2020-11-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 20:16:48 +0900 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Hi Steve, > > Steve Litt writes: > > > Hi all, > > > > Devuan's #34 on Distrowatch. Not too shabby! > > > > Runit using Void is #40. Redhat, the clowns who started this whole > > sys

[DNG] What I learned at Distrowatch

2020-11-30 Thread Steve Litt
that most distros use systemd, but, ummm, what about the #1 distro? SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman

Re: [DNG] no sound on the brasswell acer chromebook. not from headphone or speakers

2020-11-30 Thread Steve Litt
he land of a thousand mutes, most of them very hard to find even with Pavucontrol. Also, I've found Pulseaudio to be very stateful: Whether and how it works depends on the sequence of programs you've run. I'm still existing without it. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thrivin

Re: [DNG] Anybody successfully worked with an Nvidia GeForce gt 710 with Devuan?

2020-11-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 29 Nov 2020 19:48:34 +0100 Riccardo Mottola via Dng wrote: > Hi, > > Steve Litt wrote: > > Has anyone successfully worked with an Nvidia GeForce gt 710 with > > Devuan? As a bonus, has anyone gotten it to work without > > Pulseaudio? > > did you try n

[DNG] Anybody successfully worked with an Nvidia GeForce gt 710 with Devuan?

2020-11-29 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Has anyone successfully worked with an Nvidia GeForce gt 710 with Devuan? As a bonus, has anyone gotten it to work without Pulseaudio? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive

Re: [DNG] Jessie to Ascii upgrade

2020-11-21 Thread Steve Litt
I just did some experiments with xfe, pcmanfm and thunar. Thunar is by far the most reliable for dragging a file into an existing window and having the file become open in that window. That's one of the few things I use a file manager for. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving

Re: [DNG] LFE: was: Jessie to Ascii upgrade

2020-11-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 21 Nov 2020 11:56:14 -0500 Steve Litt wrote: > On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 07:55:17 -0800 > Patrick Bartek via Dng wrote: > > > > I do run a little file manager -- xfe. Lightweight. Make things so > > much easier. I'd dread having to use the commandline instead

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