Linux Mint substitute: I need help

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Re: [Israel.pm] Last Meeting (Programming Red Flags) Summary + What's Next for TelFOSS?

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Re: Linux / Computer Books in Israel

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Re: debian lenny sudden restart

, but intermittently close without pushing. None of the preceding is diagnostic in nature, but given the rarity of the symptom, if the log files don't have something telling, the preceding are probably the best use of your time. HTH SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession

Re: Looking for advice about selecting hardware for graphics and data visualization

On Thursday 23 July 2009 23:57:19 Omer Zak wrote: I am looking for advice about selecting motherboard and graphic card/s for a new PC which I plan to acquire; and about suppliers available to Israelis (whereas in Israel or abroad). I don't know about their availability in Israel, but here in

Re: Web sites that display ONLY the client IP.

. google has a long list of sites that add much more information. If you absolutely can't find anything else, this does just what you want: $ myip=$(lynx --dump http://checkip.dyndns.org | sed -e s/.*:\s*//) $ echo $myip 197.10.280.219 $ SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http

Desktop Linux that Just Works

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Re: Attaching a camera via USB

after plugging it into the computer you press some kind of button on the camera or from the camera perform some kind of menu option, and THEN Ubuntu pops up asking whether you want to run a program or just mount it. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US

Re: New Essay - FOSS Licences Wars

. That's an excellent encapsulation method not only for variables, but for licenses too. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il

Re: New Essay - FOSS Licences Wars

On Saturday 22 August 2009 03:21:13 you wrote: On Friday 21 August 2009 22:07:17 Steve Litt wrote: I disagree with some of your conclusions, but obviously your facts are spot on. Thanks. I would be happy to hear any arguments you have against my conclusions. Maybe I'll change my opinions

Re: New Essay - FOSS Licences Wars

On Sunday 23 August 2009 05:43:55 you wrote: Hi Steve, and everybody! On Saturday 22 August 2009 21:54:35 Steve Litt wrote: I think a lot of people (including me) like GPL's guarantee that they're not doing unpaid work for Microsoft (or Apple). My experience with VimOutliner, which

Re: New Essay - FOSS Licences Wars

to was when you have your GPL software and find other software you'd love to combine with it, but you can't because they have incompatible licenses. That's much less likely to happen with MIT software. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http

Re: Feedback on Acer laptop w. Linux

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Re: New Essay - FOSS Licences Wars

/s/article/9137291/Mac_clone_maker_sues_Apple_over_Snow_Leopard I think the preceding article is one of the strongest arguments for copyleft I've ever seen. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: [SOLVED?] Re: Feedback on Acer laptop w. Linux

it for themselves, don't consider others trying to walk the same path. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http

Re: touchpad can't be re-enabled after disabled

On Friday 04 September 2009 13:06:05 Boaz Rymland wrote: Hi, I have a new laptop (Acer 5738 mentioned in a different thread) which I have a nagging problem with: I have this nice and useful button right next to the touchpad, for disabling it (when working with mouse and using the keyboard

Re: GPGPU talk for today postponed to next week

Do you guys have Linux meetings every week? SteveT On Monday, December 19, 2011 09:21:46 AM Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote: Dear GPGPU-ers Due to the problem in the train lines from Tel-Aviv, the GPGPU talk intended for today (#3) will not take place today. Talk #3 will take place next week,

Re: looking for a wireless pci card

, I've heard that if you use a Radius server with WPA encryption, the various clients don't need the WPA password written in plain text. Can someone confirm this? Has anyone set up a Radius server on Linux? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence http

Re: HTML Mail (was: Re: Which technology should I learn to do this?)

will support HTML email or not. Thanks SteveT * My new 99 cent Kindle book : http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006QTBLA2 * * Steve Litt : http://www.troubleshooters.com * . ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http

Re: Somewhat OT: MythTV / DVB in Israel

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Re: Getting rid of proprietary fonts

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Re: Announcing New Israeli Tech User Groups

false hoodies. We will soon announce the upcoming meetings of these user-groups on our calendar. Best regards, — Shlomi Fish I'm sorry Shlomi, but I already have trademarks on all four of those groups. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com

Re: How many times can an internet connection interruption occur and still be considered acceptable?

complete firewall, he'd better reformat it after that test. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman

Re: Cloud Backup

On Thu, 16 May 2013 07:50:36 +0300 Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il wrote: On Sat, Feb 23, 2013, Nadav Har'El wrote about Cloud Backup: Hi, I'm looking for a cloud backup solution for Linux, where I'll be able to use rsync, sftp (and similar utilities) to a remote server to back up by

Re: Blu-Ray and Linux

shaking. Earthquakes don't destroy backups, but the looting that often follows does. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il

Re: when linux was linux

of a program, I'd sure hate that program to be Nautilus :-) Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http

Re: Booting HD without grub

. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 13:56:05 +0300 Eli Marmor e...@netmask.it wrote: Thank you Shlomi. No success, so far. I'll give more details, so if anybody can help, I'll be grateful

Re: OT: Hybrid cars

Ford Country Squire station wagon with an old, malfunctioning 460 cubic inch (7.5 liters) engine, that got 7 miles to the gallon. Luckily, gas was cheaper back then. So, I didn't answer your question, but had a lot of fun not answering it :) Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http

Re: Request-for-Comments: The How to Get Help Online (2013) Document

you did. Another thing: Eric and Rick refused to include the Steve Litt Patented Guaranteed Method for Getting Answers. You may or may not want to put it in your document. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance

Re: Is there a reason to use `top` over `perf top`?

x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux slitt@mydesk:~$ perf top perf_3.5.0-42 not found You may need to install linux-tools-3.5.0-42 slitt@mydesk:~$ == Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance

Re: Does anyone use MATE (Gnome 2 fork)?

immediately, So I again will probably move to KDE. Rami, Would you consider Xfce, LXDE, OpenBox or IceWM? I've had *a lot* of trouble with KDE in the past. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance

Re: Does anyone use MATE (Gnome 2 fork)?

as well. YMMV Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: time report tool

to your own needs * Survives reboots Cons: * Command interface, difficult for some users * Reports must be written in software, no specific reporting facility * Cannot track concurrent tasks (but for one person, wouldn't that be cheating anyway?) HTH, SteveT Steve Litt* http

New document on troubleshooting IMAP

Hi all, I just finished my latest document, Email Troubleshooting, Including IMAP, Dovecot, and Linux: http://www.troubleshooters.com/emailtech/imap_troubleshooting.htm Hope you enjoy it. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human

Light weight, fast performance desktop computing

Hi all, The latest Linux Productivity Magazine deals with light weight, fast performance desktop computing: http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/201406/201406.htm Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance

Backing up to encrypted Blu-rays

it. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Daemontools intro

Hi all, I wrote this introduction to daemontools: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/djbdns/daemontools_intro.htm Enjoy! SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance ___ Linux

Re: good free dynamic dns server ?

of a good free dyndns server ? Afraid.org has been maintaining my dynamic dns for years. One thing I like about it is it's client is an easy to understand shellscript. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance

Re: good free dynamic dns server ?

It's similar. On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 12:19:40 +0200 vordoo vor...@yahoo.com wrote: Can it beat this: echo url=https://www.duckdns.org/update?domains=XYZtoken=NJKip=; | curl -k -o ~/duckdns/duck.log -K - ;-) On 11/09/2014 07:48 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Sun, 9 Nov 2014 11:29:36 +0300 Erez

Experiments with alternative init systems

Hi all, I've written a document detailing my experiments with alternative init systems. http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/init/manjaro_experiments.htm Hope you like it. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance

Epoch Init System Howto

Hi all, Here's a new Epoch Init System howto, with which any reasonably knowledgeable Linux user can replace his or her current init system with Epoch: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/init/manjaro_experiments.htm#12232014_pure_runit_init_proof_of_concept Hope you like it. SteveT Steve

Re: Epoch Init System Howto

On Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:20:42 -0500 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Hi all, Here's a new Epoch Init System howto, with which any reasonably knowledgeable Linux user can replace his or her current init system with Epoch: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/init

Re: OT: Biometric ID

overpower, I could get injured. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Is Beersheva really becoming a high-tech powerhouse?

they say in the article? Are any of you working in Beersheva? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http

Linux boot documentation

Hi all, I just documented the boot process, from Grub through init. See http://troubleshooters.com/linux/diy/howboot.htm Hope you like it. SteveT Steve Litt May 2015 featured book: Quit Joblessness: Start Your Own Business http://www.troubleshooters.com/startbiz

Pacman Basic Essentials Cheatsheet

Hi all, For any of you who are new users of Arch or Manjaro, check out my new Pacman Basic Essentials Cheatsheet at http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/pacman_cheatsheet.htm . It gives quick lookups on a few of the commands you use constantly. Enjoy! SteveT Steve Litt May 2015 featured book

Bringing up Linux with Suckless Init plus daemontools-encore

Hi all, Here's a description of how I brought up a Linux VM with Suckless Init plus daemontools-encore. http://troubleshooters.com/linux/diy/suckless_init_on_plop.htm Enjoy! SteveT Steve Litt June 2015 featured book: The Key to Everyday Excellence http://www.troubleshooters.com/key

New Qemu and VirtualBox docs for Linux

experiments. Here are the articles: * http://troubleshooters.com/linux/diy/virtualbox.htm * http://troubleshooters.com/linux/diy/qemu.htm I hope you enjoy them. SteveT Steve Litt May 2015 featured book: Quit Joblessness: Start Your Own Business http://www.troubleshooters.com/startbiz

Re: New Page on My Site about Computer Graphics Applications

. The licence is CC-by. Suggestions are welcome. I'd suggest adding dia. Dia is a poor man's Visio, and very handy for diagrams. You might need to add a new category for it. http://dia-installer.de/ Thanks for the great page. SteveT Steve Litt August 2015 featured book: Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Re: [OT] Deleting Thousends of Messages in Gmail

On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 23:07:02 +0300 Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.il wrote: I know it's kinda off-topic, but I am really at a loss... I m trying to free spcace on my Google free storage, so i am sifting through very old messages to delete in my Gmail box (as far as 2005 and beyond!) I

xargs guide

://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/xargs.htm Hope you like it. SteveT Steve Litt July 2015 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21 ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il

Re: New Page on My Site about Computer Graphics Applications

as a real diagramming tool. SteveT Steve Litt August 2015 featured book: Troubleshooting: Just the Facts http://www.troubleshooters.com/tjust ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Void Linux tips

an easier time than I did: http://troubleshooters.com/linux/void/voidtips.htm Hope you like it. SteveT Steve Litt October 2015 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il

4GB: was Up-to-date hardware (laptop) recommendations?

vices" and "reconfigurables". With desktops it's no big deal: It's cheap and easy to slam together a 16GB box. With laptops, I wonder if we'll ever get better than what's happening now. Moore's law is dying. SteveT Steve Litt November 2015 featured book: Troubleshooting Technique

Re: Summary: Which Linux distribution is stable yet up-to-date

t; used it. I had that happen to me once on Void. A quick posting to Void's IRC channel got me the magic incantation I needed to overcome a buried shovel problem. SteveT Steve Litt November 2015 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshoot

Re: Summary: Which Linux distribution is stable yet up-to-date

e the entire upgrade, perhaps a half hour, and then tell you there's one bad package and upgrade nothing. Fortunately, in the time I spent with Manjaro, I saw only two or three cases in which a package refused to install and took the whole pacman -Syu with it. SteveT Steve Litt November 2015

Re: Which Linux distribution is stable yet up-to-date?

From what I hear second hand, Void is the one of these rolling releases *least* likely to bork your system on an update. HTH, SteveT Steve Litt November 2015 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques __

Re: [OT] Password regex change on mybills.co.il

ERROR, letters and digits don\'t add ' msg+='up to password length: Contact developer!' print(msg) sys.exit(1) print('Password passes with flying colors.') sys.exit(0) if __name__ == "__main__": main() =======

Re: Up-to-date hardware recommendation (this time, USB DVB-T dongle)?

nsive dongles in the $25 range but aren't neccesary > unless you care about performance charecteristics. > > [1] - http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr All the boards on that list have frequency ranges that start at 24Mhz or higher. I'd like one that goes from 0.5-30Mhz. SteveT Ste

Re: Questions for network/hardware engineer candidates?

e I'd invent a slight variation, and see how the candidate > handles it. Do you mean something like "that sounds great! What would you have done if _," where __ is a change of one factor? SteveT Steve Litt July 2016 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful

Re: single threaded web servers

nything else. After programming for a few days in Node.js, I felt like I was turning a 10 meter garden hose inside out. SteveT Steve Litt June 2016 featured book: Troubleshooting: Why Bother? http://www.troubleshooters.com/twb ___ Linux-il mailing l

Re: single threaded web servers

orking a new process for every HTTP connection. Certainly those processes would be apportioned among the many processors or cores. SteveT Steve Litt June 2016 featured book: Troubleshooting: Why Bother? http://www.troubleshooters.com/twb ___ Linux-il

Re: Gnome3 windows list bar usability issue

r lack of any software). For even faster user interface, I suggest you add Suckless Tools' dmenu to the mix. If Fedora lacks LXDE (or its Qt version, LXQt), then I'd suggest you get a better distro. Ubuntu, Manjaro, Void, whatever. If you're looking for a no-systemd distro, let me know and I'll rec

Re: sendmail or ssmtp or ??

ver been able to have Nullmailer deliver messages to my local machine, probably because I just don't know how. SteveT Steve Litt December 2016 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21 ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Article: How we Benchmark Freecell Solver

at your web page says I might find some solvable deal that freecell Solver reports as unsolveable. That indicates to me that you're not using a brute force backtracking algorithm. Is that true? How slow would it have been if you used a brute force backtracking algorithm? SteveT Steve Litt October 2017

Re: Distro recommendation

ever distro you get, you should install dmenu, make a wrapper script to change it to a vertical menu, and set an easy hotkey to it. Fastest way to run programs. HTH, SteveT Steve Litt November 2017 featured book: Troubleshooting: Just the Facts http://www.troubleshooters.com/tjust __

Re: "antisemitic" Linux Mint [was: Re: Distro recommendation]

nally don't use or recommend Mint. Kind of like I don't buy Volkswagens. Or Mel Gibson movies. I wouldn't enjoy driving the former or watching the latter. SteveT Steve Litt November 2017 featured book: Troubleshooting: Just the Facts http://www.troublesho

Re: Distro recommendation

oubleshooters.com/lpm/200908/200908.htm#_The_Politics_of_Free_Software:_Pet_predjudices SteveT Steve Litt November 2017 featured book: Troubleshooting: Just the Facts http://www.troubleshooters.com/tjust ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.

Re: Moving away from cron jobs to some workflow manager

arallellization so that if two processes' input is each complete, those two processes can be run in tandem. It's brilliant. SteveT Steve Litt June 2018 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting http://www.troubleshooters.com/28 ___ Lin

Re: Moving away from cron jobs to some workflow manager

ted by unfinished prerequisites. Some more complexity would need to be added in order that appA and appB don't start again before the entire bucket brigade finishes. SteveT Steve Litt June 2018 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting http://www.troubleshooters.com

Re: Moving away from cron jobs to some workflow manager

ing progressed upon, and alarms to warn if a step takes too long. SteveT Steve Litt June 2018 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting http://www.troubleshooters.com/28 ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il h

Re: Python - getch() and kbhit()

eem as efficient, but the bottleneck is the typist and going raw then cooked on each keystroke makes your code simpler, eliminates state, and probably decreases the need for set_norm_term(). SteveT Steve Litt December 2017 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive

EFI dualboot play by play

Hi all, A couple days ago I installed Void Linux on a Dell Inspiron 15-5570 laptop, using all EFI and no MBR/legacy. After several missteps, I got it to work perfectly. Here's the play-by-play description: http://troubleshooters.com/linux/void/void_dual_dell.htm SteveT Steve Litt Author

Downloadable CIDR network calculator

Hi all, I've created a downloadable CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) network calculator, whose sole dependency is Python3. It runs in any terminal or terminal emulator on any Linux or presumably BSD machine. http://troubleshooters.com/linux/cidr_calc.htm SteveT Steve Litt September 2018

Re: [ANN] Freecell Solver will be rewritten in Rust-lang

t/ ) from Python > to Rust due to the superior dynamic nature of Rust and its > succinctness (see: http://www.paulgraham.com/power.html ). > > Regards, > > — Shlomi Fish, CTO, Freecell Solver Enterprises™ Hi Shlomi, There's a boatload of new computer languages on the scene today. Which lang

Re: [ANN] Freecell Solver will be rewritten in Rust-lang

On Sun, 1 Apr 2018 20:14:58 +0300 Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Hi Shlomi, > > > > There's a boatload of new computer languages on the scene today. > > Which languages did you consider before picking Rust? > > > > > I only considered Rust because it does not have any conceivable >

New document on Unbound caching DNS server

DNS server. Hope you like it. SteveT Steve Litt September 2018 featured book: Quit Joblessness: Start Your Own Business http://www.troubleshooters.com/startbiz ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman

New VPN instructions using tinc

this resource to your friends who aren't yet familiar with how VPNs work. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt June 2019 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http

New Nginx documentation for beginners

Hi all, I just put up several nginx documents helpful to those who don't yet have a complete knowledge of nginx. You can access them all from the following URL: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/nginx/ Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt June 2019 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http

Re: New Nginx documentation for beginners

On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 12:03:34 +0300 Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi Steve, > > On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 5:41 AM Steve Litt > wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I just put up several nginx documents helpful to those who don't yet > > have a complete knowledge

Re: dependency hell OR it should not be this hard

On Sun, 11 Aug 2019 09:05:24 +0300 Shlomo Solomon wrote: > Let me start by saying that I'm not looking for a solution - I solved > my problem. I'm just angry and letting off some steam. [snip successful attempts using a ~10 step apt/dpkg witch's brew] I feel your pain. Probably we all do.

Re: Gmail and Claws

but it still sucks. I try to move as much computation as possible out of the email client. Dovecot works perfectly, month after month, year after year. Via IMAP, I use Claws Mail as a window into my Dovecot folders. SteveT Steve Litt March 2020 featured book: Troubleshooting: Why Bo

Re: Gmail and Claws

warnings 3200 expunge 60 mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T" fetchlimit 50 ssl; SteveT Steve Litt March 2020 featured book: Troubleshooting: Why Bother? http://www.troubleshooters.com/twb ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux

Re: Gmail and Claws

op messages into MH folders: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/mh-e/Procmail.html https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/336420/how-do-you-use-procmail-mda-to-deliver-files-to-be-read-by-mh https://linux.die.net/man/5/procmailex http://www.cs.utah.edu/~clake/soc_mh.h

Re: Where to buy a Linux based desktop in Israel?

I don’t want any money or help coming from Israel or people who support the action of their current government." SteveT Steve Litt May 2020 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques _

Re: Where to buy a Linux based desktop in Israel?

On Wed, 13 May 2020 11:05:10 +0300 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On 13/05/2020 6:17, Steve Litt wrote: > > The following is a > > contemporaneous description of why: > > > > http://troubleshooters.com/lpm/200908/200908.htm#_The_Politics_of_Free_Software:_Pet_predjudice

Re: Where to buy a Linux based desktop in Israel?

On Thu, 14 May 2020 14:39:02 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > That's perfectly reasonable, although I'll personally never use or > recommend Mint again. I'm going to bow out of this debate now. I should have bowed out of it long ago. First of all, I'm presumably on the same side as most of yo

Re: Where to buy a Linux based desktop in Israel?

On Thu, 14 May 2020 10:24:53 +0300 Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi Tzafrir and all! > > On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 11:05 AM Tzafrir Cohen > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On 13/05/2020 6:17, Steve Litt wrote: > > > Just in case somebody here doesn't know w

Re: Ubuntu - apache is not working

look at the logs created when systemd tries (or doesn't try) to start Apache. HTH, SteveT Steve Litt May 2020 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques ___ Linux-il maili

Re: Riddle me this: unsolicited orderly shutdown

NE. > >Thank you, everyone. Nice troubleshooting Shachar! Something like that could be extremely elusive. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques ___

Re: How user space applications can take advantage of CPU features

switch hardware, you can simply replace the object, module or data structure with associated functions. I think life would be hell if you had to search your whole codebase for CPU specific code. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist

Latest DNG software guide (20210807) now available

be respected. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo

Re: Floppy disks at 2021?!

ve that little twist, for some of the conductors, between two connectors. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs

Re: Floppy disks at 2021?!

be obsolete in the next 50 years or so. And this is one of the greatest challenges to long term backup and archiving. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques __

Re: Floppy disks at 2021?!

rammer (remember, bad economy, I took what I could), on PDP-11/23 with 5MB Winchester removeable drive and about 50 serial ports to drive serial terminals. I never saw an 8 inch floppy again. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http

Re: Floppy disks at 2021?!

cloud backup. See http://troubleshooters.com/lpm/201408/201408.htm#cloud_backup for details. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques ___ Linux-il m

How to read CPM 5.25 floppy disks?

thinking if I can ddrescue these things to a file, and loop-mount them using some sort of CPM format (didn't the mount command used to be able to do that?), maybe I could get the info into a file representation instead of a drive representation. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book

Beginning and Intermediate Inkscape Presentation at GoLUG

to see you there. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

QOwnNotes Authoring Software presentation at November GoLUG meeting

Hi all, The November GoLUG meeting is Wednesday, 11/3/2021, at 7PM Orlando time. I'll be presenting on the QOwnNotes authoring software. See http://golug.info for details. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http

SSH Tunnelling and more at Wednesday GoLUG meeting

. This is the monthly GoLUG meeting, on ultra-Linux-compatible Jitsi, at https://meet.jit.si/golug . See http://golug.info for details. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques

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