ake
> to Debian. Good advice!
I did the same, then to Devuan, but now am considering PCLinuxOS; I do miss all
the Drake* tools ;-3)
Cheers,
Ron.
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There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract,
which may not some day be applied to phenomena
On Sun, 2 Sep 2018 03:59:47 +0200
Alessandro Selli wrote:
> >> Thou shalt be flogged for uttering this blasphemy!
> > De gustibus non est disputanum.
> Thou shalt have no other theme than DarkPurpy!
And me thinking Linux was all about user's freedom of choice.
d from Mandrake / Mandriva / Mageia.
Cheers,
Ron.
--
The magic of our first love
is our ignorance that it can ever end.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
--
On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 23:07:46 +0200
Antony Stone wrote:
> 1. If you have alsamixer installed, see if anything is muted.
Or in pavucontrol
Cheers,
Ron.
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The magic of our first love
is our ignorance that it can ever
On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 23:06:59 -0700
Rick Moen wrote:
> 'The failure mode of clever is "asshole."'
This is a family list; so:
'The failure mode of clever is "orifice".'
Cheers,
Ron.
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science,
t
pened, etc.
Is the normal ?
How can I format it so it is no longer "seen" as /dev/sdi ?
Cheers,
Ron.
--
The business of the law was not the discovery of the truth,
but the imposition of the power of the state upon its citizens.
--
ty, and note carefully what cipher gets negotiated and
> any problems observed. https://www.madboa.com/geek/openssl/ has a basic
> guide.
Thank you for the advice.
Cheers,
Ron.
--
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
ete blockage ?
And is there a way around it ?
Cheers,
Ron.
--
True friends stab you in the front.
-- Oscar Wilde
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On Tue, 10 Jul 2018 09:34:35 -0400
Hendrik Boom wrote:
> So the only inequivocally remaining received gospel is that Emacs is the
> Only True and Holy Editor.
Heretic ! True Believers worship at the Shrine of VI...
Cheers,
Ron.
--
La marine est un art, une science,
On Mon, 9 Jul 2018 13:19:40 +0200
Antony Stone wrote:
> Thank $deity for that.
Whoever He or She is, should not we accord Him or Her the civility of an
upper-wase variable name as $DEITY ? ;-3)
Cheers,
Ron.
--
A good question is never answe
gested would help.
A warning message at boot time, that the computer is 64-capable and the user
might want to change his choice of iso ?
Cheers,
Ron.
--
Il faut se garder de donner un nom aux choses:
Tant qu'elles n'en ont pas, elles n'existent pas, ou elles exis
On Mon, 28 Aug 2017 22:16:10 +0200
"J. Fahrner" wrote:
> Bunsenlab has also a GUI program for adjusting fonts for Gtk.
Where can one find it ?
Cheers,
Ron.
--
Gli nomini si debbano o vezzeggiate o peguere;
perche' si vendiciano delle le
On Sun, 10 Jun 2018 12:45:36 -0500
goli...@dyne.org wrote:
> > Just have to keep a post-it on the monitor, to remind you which HD has
> > what ;-3)
> I actually keep a small sticky label on the drive itself. ;)
Might not be very useful at boot time ;-3)
a post-it on the monitor, to remind you which HD has what ;-3)
Cheers,
Ron.
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Dieu créa l'homme, et ne le trouvant pas assez seul,
il lui donna une compagne pour lui faire mieux sentir sa solitude.
.
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On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 10:09:02 +
KatolaZ <kato...@freaknet.org> wrote:
> Just to say: no problems over here with either zathura, xpdf, or mupdf
> on ASCII. But my pdf files are not that fancy, TBH :)
Here under Jessie, mupdf displays correctly, but xpdf does not.
C
Printing the PDF has same result as its display.
I have noticed the same behaviour in recent days, but while the .pdf files do
not display properly in evince or pdfshuffler, they do in gv.
Cheers,
Ron.
--
The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who
ma
, was trying with a
Debian iso.
And the Debian logo did not register, as I see it under Devuan every time I log
in...
Cheers,
Ron.
--
Here is to the Council of Trent
who put fasting on the meat, and not
no wireless network, with the indication
"device not ready (firmware missing)".
And of course, I cannot get the firmware without a network connection.
An oversight ?
Cheers,
Ron.
--
Toddlers are the stormtroopers
of the Lord
ou: it did hold a gpt, which I got rid of with the g
option in gdisk (expert mode).
Is there a way to banish gpt from my box, to avoid future annoyance ?
Cheers,
Ron.
--
Eschew Eschaton Immanentization.
-- htt
On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 13:17:43 -0300
"Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI" <ren...@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> wrote:
> Since upgrading from Debian Wheezy to Devuan Jessie, I have been having
> problems with USB drives, unable to mount them unless as root, and seeing
> strange thi
with
gparted, I get two entries in the places list of Pcmanfm, one as sdi which,
when clicked on, shows me the former content of the drive, and when I choose
sdi1 shows me the new content.
Lates madness is as follows:
root@ron:/home/ron # df
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted
best way to get ASCII beta images as soon as
> possible is to back off for a few hours, let the (many) mirrors use
> the availale bandwidth to sync as fast as they can, and then download
> the images from one of the mirrors listed at http://www.devuan.org
Why not offer a Bitt
Would it be possible to configure the system so that after a set time of
inactivity, it logs-out the user instead of activating a screen saver ?
Cheers,
Ron.
--
Nobody ever went broke underestimating
the intelligence of the American public
when ASCII will be declared stable ?
Is it a question of weeks ? months ?
Cheers,
Ron.
--
To our sweethearts and wives:
May they never meet.
-- 19th century toast
rocessors are
> also affected by Meltdown."
> and AMD wrote:
> https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/speculative-execution
> "Zero AMD vulnerability due to AMD architecture differences."
ISTR that AMDs are not affected by Meltdown, but affected by Spectre
Cheers,
Ron.
--
t for a
young (female) Devuana...
Cheers,
Ron.
--
Hearts will never be practical
until they can be made unbreakable.
-- The Wizard of Oz
-- http://www.o
On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 19:50:56 +0100
Antony Stone <antony.st...@devuan.open.source.it> wrote:
> > Oh, come on. Have some sense of humour! Didn't you see the sarcasm in
> > my comment?
>
> Email is a notoriously bad medium for conveying tone of voice.
so next time use
On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 04:43:30 -0300
"Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI" <ren...@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> wrote:
> Thank you; sadly this is not offered in Devuan Jessie ;-3(
Please ignore: Synaptic could not find it, but apt-get did.
Cheers,
Ron.
--
The meas
On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 08:04:34 +0100
"J. Fahrner" <j...@fahrner.name> wrote:
> > Thanks, I should have been more precise: one with a GUI.
>
> My favourite GUI text editor is Geany.
Thank you; sadly this is not offered in Devuan Jessie ;-3(
Cheers,
Ron.
--
a GUI.
Cheers,
Ron.
--
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government,
they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it
or their revolutionary right to dismemb
Is there in Devuan a text editor that will do find/replace on a regexp ?
Cheers,
Ron.
--
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government,
they can exercise their constitutional right
nacrontab.
I dont want to remove the jobs presently done by Anacron, but have them done by
Cron at a suitable time.
Will that happen if I disable Anacron ?
Cheers,
Ron.
--
Distrust all those who love you extremely
upon a very slight acquaintance
anacron package.
Thanks.
Cheers,
Ron.
--
We are drowning in information
but starved for knowledge.
-- John Naisbitt
-- http://www
hours of the night for instance ?
Cheers,
Ron.
--
Auntie Em:
Hate you.
Hate Kansas.
Taking the dog.
Dorothy
m looking for one with a decent gui, ideas? Thanks
Have you tried gFTP ?
Cheers,
Ron.
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Kilroe hic erat!
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w, I just couldn't wait any longer. Regarding technicalities we are
> > speaking about he is fully aware.
>
> Fix your own mail reader before you complain about how others quote. It
> still doesn't generate RFC 3676-compliant quotations.
How about taking that discussion to the Hair-s
uld cause the compil to abend with a 0C7, 0CA or 0CC Exception
code...
Cheers,
Ron.
--
If you can tell the difference
between good advice and bad advice,
you really don't ne
possibility of having somewhere a config option:
"Do you want fixed NIC names or do you want them renamed whenever changed/moved
?"
Cheers,
Ron.
--
Do not trust atoms:
They make up everything !
not write; Gparted will
create a partition table, when trying to create a partition gives me first an
error "Daemon is inhibited", then fails to create the new FAT32 ffile system.
Is there a way to move from Devuan Jessie to Debian Jessie without catching the
systemd p
and
in tty
Cheers,
Ron.
--
Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist
ought to have his head examined.
-- Samuel Goldwyn
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sktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount;org.freedesktop.udisks2.encrypted-unlock;org.freedesktop.udisks2.eject-media;org.freedesktop.udisks2.power-off-drive
ResultAny=yes
in it, and added the user to the plugdev group.
Sadly, no change after a reboot...
Cheers,
Ron.
--
If God didn't wa
On Sat, 23 Sep 2017 13:50:31 +
Miroslav Rovis <miro.ro...@croatiafidelis.hr> wrote:
> Useful. But in which file do you stick it, you didn't say? ~/.bashrc ?
I stick the root ones in the relevant /root/.bashrc, and in ~/.bashrc for the
user.
Cheers,
Ron.
--
a warning when you log in as root in an X session,
and also when you log in in a tty.
Cheers,
Ron.
--
When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
-- Mark Twain
S1='\n\[\033[1;34m\]\u@\h:\w \$ \[\033[0m\]' in
the various .ashrc to the colour you want/need.
Been using that for years, never had a problem.
Cheers,
Ron.
--
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket
On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 16:09:21 -0500
goli...@dyne.org wrote:
> Did you log out and back in after making the change?
I did, no change.
Cheers,
Ron.
--
Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits
of the social group without being willing to
On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 16:52:56 -0400
"Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI" <ren...@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> wrote:
> > groups did not help; alas
>
> Thanks, butt adding my user to the plugdev
Read: Thanks, but adding my user to the plugdev group did not help
. Lucky I learned this morning how to launch
> > a prog as root from the CLI..
> > Why did the configuration change ?
> > How can I restore it ?
> I think it might just be associations of your user to groups, e.g.,
> groups did not help; alas....
cal home directory.
OTOH, having done nothing to configure ssh, I have ssh -X working perfectly,
allowing me to run on my desktop a pcmanfm to manage files on the remote box.
Cheers,
Ron.
--
One way to make your old car run better
after a Debian==>Devuan upgrade ?
> So far it does work in one of my VM's when I connect a pendrive to the
> VM it is automounted. What is your exact configuration? May be i can
> find the reason by building a VM for it.
No in a VM, just a recent upgrade from Debian W
access them.
> I had similar issues some time ago and switched to spacefm with udevil.
> That solved it for me.
This is a serious problem: how can I sell Devuan to users if they cannot access
their pendrives after a Debian==>Devuan upgrade ?
Cheers,
Ron.
--
launch it from the GUI, maybe, but not when launched from the CLI.
Cheers,
Ron.
--
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
-- Edward R. Murrow
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I know it _did_ work. For many years..
Cheers,
Ron.
--
You must realize that the computer has it in for you.
The irrefutable proof of this is that the computer
always does what you tell it to do.
ion change ?
How can I restore it ?
Cheers,
Ron.
--
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals;
let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
-- He
On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 19:43:54 +0100
Dave Turner <dave_t_tur...@barradas.free-online.co.uk> wrote:
> Also, 'su' is just wrong, don't use it, always use sudo,
If I wanted to always use sudo I would be running *ubuntu...
Cheers,
Ron.
--
No one can make you feel inferior wit
t an exception.
Anything against having `xhost +` in ~/.bashrc ?
Cheers,
Ron.
--
Any stigma, as the old saying is,
will serve to beat a dogma.
-- Philip Guedalla
aged.
OK ta, I'll look for a different one.
Cheers,
Ron.
--
Any stigma, as the old saying is,
will serve to beat a dogma.
-- Philip Guedalla
-- http:/
Under Debian, I could su to root in a console, and launch gparted from the CLI.
Now, I get:
ron@ron:~/Desktop $ su
Password:
No protocol specified
xmodmap: unable to open display ':0.0'
No protocol specified
xmodmap: unable to open display ':0.0'
No protocol specified
xmodmap: unable to open
those prog fonts great again ?
Cheers,
Ron.
--
Nothing is impossible for the man
who doesn't have to do it himself.
-- A.H. Weiler
-- http://www.olgiati
On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 13:35:42 +0200
Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote:
> And yeah, an analogy that makes systemd a disease is fitting...
I know, been refering to it for ages as a pox...
Cheers,
Ron.
--
Withholding information is the essence of tyranny.
a priori that the snake is toothless ?
Cheers,
Ron.
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Sodd's Second Law:
Sooner or later, the worst possible set of circumstances is bound to occur.
-- http://www
On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 12:50:55 +0200
Narcis Garcia <informat...@actiu.net> wrote:
> I prefer the best (for me) of all worlds: No Systemd, but Yes Gnome.
Which is like wanting unprotected sex, but without sexually transmitted
diseases...
Cheers,
Ron.
--
Sodd's S
On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 10:29:08 +0100
KatolaZ <kato...@freaknet.org> wrote:
> Have you tried to install any of them?
No, I did not; I do not either try to poke rattlesnakes with a stick
Cheers,
Ron.
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In order to rally people, governments need enemies.
The
hich have
Gnome in their name.
So go ahead, install Gnome, and go in peace...
Cheers,
Ron.
--
In order to rally people, governments need enemies.
They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them.
And if they do not h
]
libsystemd0/stable 215-17+deb8u7 amd64
live-config-systemd/stable 4.0.4-1 all
python3-systemd/stable 215-17+deb8u7 amd64
systemd-cron/stable 1.3.1+ds1-2 all
systemd-dbg/stable 215-17+deb8u7 amd64
systemd-gui/stable 1:3-2 all
systemd-shim/stable 9-1 amd64
systemd-ui/stable 3-2 amd64
Cheers,
Ron
What does Gnome offer, that XFCE lacks ?
Cheers,
Ron.
--
Democracy is also a form of worship.
It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
-- H. L. Mencken
On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 15:00:22 +0200
Narcis Garcia <informat...@actiu.net> wrote:
> 3. Why not?
Because all recent versions of Gnome are infected with the systemd pox.
Cheers,
Ron.
--
A society that puts equality over freedom
will not get any
Two niggles:
Is there a way to get rid of, or disable, keyring ? could not find the package
that provides it.
When I launch EasyABC, which worked under Wheezy this morning, I now get:
ron@ron:~/Desktop $ easyabc
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/easyabc/easy_abc.py&q
Finally taking the plunge, and upgrading following Dev1fanboy's howto on
https://git.devuan.org/dev1fanboy/Upgrade-Install-Devuan/wikis/Upgrade-to-Devuan
Cheers,
Ron.
--
My karma just ran over your dogma.
-- http
...I upgrade my Debian Wheezy LTS to Devuan Jessie ?
What happens then to those packages I need/use which are not in the Devuan
repositories ?
Will the older versions still run ? Or will the upgrade remove them ?
Or, if they have no systemd dependencies, can I install the Debian Jessie
On Mon, 18 Sep 2017 09:02:37 +0200
Narcis Garcia <informat...@actiu.net> wrote:
> Is there some published procedure to install Gnome in Devuan 8/9 ?
>
> I need this to migrate desktop users from Debian & Ubuntu.
For a recent version of Gnome:
1- Install systemd
...
what to run from the CLI ?
Cheers,
Ron.
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America may be unique in being a country which has leapt
from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.
-- John O'Hara
> Oh dear, were they really *short*? Jeez, how happy I am not to have lived
> in those awful times!
All those adjectives, which come from a quote of Thomas Hobbes (1588 – 1679)
refer not to people, but to their lives in preceding ages...
Cheers,
Ron.
--
Gli nomini si de
ven before the steam engine was invented.
'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short' come to mind
Cheers,
Ron.
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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals;
let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
t; replied that happily he could do anything for his daughter he wished on
> his _own_ systems, but that his daughter wouldn't be plugging USB
> devices into my servers, so I wasn't especially interested in helping
> her there.
I forgot to precise that the three USBtoRJ4
al times a week.
In around ten years of use I have never had the problem of USB/NIC assignment
changing at reboot, except when I had to replace a burnt-out USBtoRJ45 ;-3(
Cheers,
Ron.
--
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient.
One must im
re
buggered...
Cheers,
Ron.
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All that is necessary for the forces of evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
-- http:/
On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 01:38:00 +1200
Daniel Reurich <dan...@centurion.net.nz> wrote:
> It implies
> having "net.ifnames=1" in the kernel cmdline to get the "enp0s3"-like
> scheme and not touching anything to get the "eth0" scheme.
+1
Cheers,
Ron.
On Fri, 11 Aug 2017 19:35:55 +0200
Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote:
> And they had no souls even late in Gnome2 days,
> before systemd was even a glimmer in Lennart's eye.
which probably made it easier for the Evil One to take them under his thrall...
C
On Fri, 11 Aug 2017 18:24:31 +0200
Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote:
> It really makes me wonder why any distribution still even ships Gnome, much
> less has it as the default.
Could it be because Gnome have sold their immortal souls to Systemd ?
Cheers,
Ron.
--
he not take a hint ?
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
-- Wm. Shakespeare
Cheers,
Ron.
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Linux: want to know why my computer works.
Macs: don't want to know why my computer works.
DO
ideal world, software would have *no* bugs ;-)
>
> > - easy maintainability
> > - fast development
> > - what else?
>
> Software would be Free as in freedom.
Documentation ?
Cheers,
Ron.
--
The difference between science and the fuzz
On Sun, 23 Jul 2017 16:44:40 +0200
Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote:
> Current parts you get from electronish rubbish are some i5 models, or Core
> Duo if your rubbish pool is that old.
Remember, I live in Darkest Paraguay, our technorubbish is not all that
advanced...
C
ost: my time...
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Ron.
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but you can't make it unpopular.
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intage EeePC, an
the firewall for the house LAN is a Pentium II running IPCop.
Is it a coincidence that my three cars are a 1997 Citroën Berlingo, a 1979
Mercedes W123 300D, and a 1971 Cotroën 2CV, not to mention a 1981 250ES MZ m/c ?
Cheers,
Ron.
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When I am working on a problem, I never
People,
Please stop replying, just apply the Del key.
Because unless the list gnomes apply the cluestick (or worse), nothing will
stop those who want to continue with their OT rants, self-righteously claiming
they can do so because someone else also did.
Cheers,
Ron
to use a delete button.
My experience on other highly technical lists (Model Engineering, Steam
railways, etc is that we get those OT threads from time to time, mainly when a
list is slow-moving, and they resolve themselves very quickly when on-topic
posts come back in higher numbers.
Cheers,
he
accuracy.
Sad to say, but why would you read a translation into Latin when you can read
one int French or English ?
Cheers,
Ron.
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opinion the cause of mass-delusion,
delusion the s
ely,
> the same sentiment in _good_ Latin is opaque to my countrymen who aren't
> Latin-proficient, which would impair the joke.)
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... ;-3)
Ave atque vale,
Ron.
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-- http://www.ol
On Sat, 1 Jul 2017 18:36:40 -0500
Nate Bargmann <n...@n0nb.us> wrote:
> > > fate accompli
> > "Fate"
> > is very apposite in the circumstance
> One misspell and a person's reputation is shot forever!
> :-)
And me thinking it
On Sat, 1 Jul 2017 10:25:20 -0500
Nate Bargmann <n...@n0nb.us> wrote:
> fate accompli
"Fate"
is very apposite in the circumstance
Cheers,
Ron.
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It is a typically Hohenzollern idea to believe that it is a crime
for a country to defend itself after its army
ted-sun-tzu-art-of-war-quotes/
Cheers,
Ron.
--
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know
what you have just found out.
-- Will Rogers
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On Wed, 21 Jun 2017 09:32:52 -0400
Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI <ren...@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> wrote:
> > 08/15 is a common german expression for "plain vanilla".
> Reference to the 08/15 rifle still in use during the second world war;
> re-read Hans Hellmut Kirst.
S
On Wed, 21 Jun 2017 13:21:17 +
rain...@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de wrote:
> 08/15 is a common german expression for "plain vanilla".
Reference to the 08/15 rifle still in use during the second world war; re-read
Hans Hellmut Kirst.
Cheers,
Ron.
--
purity. Debuan is
> built to protect your choices, not to rule some of them out for political
> rather than technical causes.
The only interesting information would be: "Is it possible to install and run
Gnome without having installed systemd ?"
Cheers,
Ron.
--
On Sat, 27 May 2017 23:04:13 +0200
info at smallinnovations dot nl <i...@smallinnovations.nl> wrote:
> Nice if you missed it otherwise annoying. Thunar puts deleted files
> there, at least on my system with XFCE4 it does.
One more reason to drop Thunar and use Pcmanfm ;-3)
C
On Sun, 28 May 2017 09:17:05 -0400
Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
> The only one I have an idea what it's for is sane-utils. Presumably
> access to scanners.
I believe that one is for accessing the scanner over a network.
Cheers,
Ron.
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you have obviously overlooked something.
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> decides to move a file there when you say to delete it):
>
> $ chmod 000 ~/.local/share/Trash
>
> (If that doesn't work, get a bigger hammer and set it immutable. ;-> )
Or ln to /dev/null
Cheers,
Ron.
--
What really flatters a man
tandard deviations away from the mean, this gives us 5.6 idiots born
every minute ;-3)
Cheers,
Ron.
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