Re: Which resolv.conf file?

2019-07-30 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Wed, 31 Jul 2019, Andrei POPESCU wrote: It depends a lot on what combination of packages you have installed and are using. Starting with the obvious ones, please show the output of: Ok. One dotted-four required obfuscation in my humble judgement. I hope I got your list correctly: $ apt

Re: Which resolv.conf file?

2019-07-30 Thread Bob Bernstein
Sorry! Switched machines and lost track of who I was! -- Forwarded message -- From: Bob Bernstein To: Debian User List Subject: Re: Which resolv.conf file? Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 02:37:40 User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (DEB 202 2017-01-01) On Wed, 31 Jul 2019, Andrei POPESCU wrote: I

Re: Which resolv.conf file?

2019-07-30 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 09:16:03AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 31 iul 19, 09:06:36, Reco wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 01:46:45AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > > > I want to make a change or two to resolv.conf, but every time I come > > > across it I flee in terror, warn

Re: Which resolv.conf file?

2019-07-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 31 iul 19, 09:06:36, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 01:46:45AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > > I want to make a change or two to resolv.conf, but every time I come > > across it I flee in terror, warned that my changes will be destroyed > > and the linux gods angered. >

Re: Which resolv.conf file?

2019-07-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 31 iul 19, 01:46:45, Bob Bernstein wrote: > I want to make a change or two to resolv.conf, but every time I come across > it I flee in terror, warned that my changes will be destroyed and the linux > gods angered. > > What is the approved method for changing the list of DNS servers called u

Re: Which resolv.conf file?

2019-07-30 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 01:46:45AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > I want to make a change or two to resolv.conf, but every time I come > across it I flee in terror, warned that my changes will be destroyed > and the linux gods angered. Have you meant this resolv.conf line? # Dynamic r

Which resolv.conf file?

2019-07-30 Thread Bob Bernstein
I want to make a change or two to resolv.conf, but every time I come across it I flee in terror, warned that my changes will be destroyed and the linux gods angered. What is the approved method for changing the list of DNS servers called upon by, in my case, Stretch on amd-64? (Is there some

Re: How can I force a particular startup hdmi mode on Raspian/Buster?

2019-07-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 2019-07-30 6:51 p.m., Cousin Stanley wrote: Gary Dale wrote: Unfortunately none of those options are 1080i. I've tried all of the 1920x1080 and they all end up being progressive scan. Running raspbian here on a rpi3b+ currently using a 22in LG hdmi monitor. screen resolution is

Re: How can I force a particular startup hdmi mode on Raspian/Buster?

2019-07-30 Thread Cousin Stanley
Gary Dale wrote: > Unfortunately none of those options are 1080i. > > I've tried all of the 1920x1080 > and they all end up being progressive scan. > Running raspbian here on a rpi3b+ currently using a 22in LG hdmi monitor. screen resolution is 1920x1080 @ 96dpi The raspi-config re

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-30 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 13:57:25 +0300 Reco wrote: ... > WPA2's (that's your conventional WiFi standard) secure configuration is > fiendishly difficult. I take your point, but "fiendishly difficult"? I think you're exaggerating. > You have beacon frames that are broadcasted without any encryption

Re: xsane: incoherent behaviours

2019-07-30 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Tue, 30 Jul 2019, Brian wrote: The outputs of 'scanimage -L' from each machine were asked for. They provide information you have not given. -- Brian. hi brian, I thought that they don't provide more information than what I wrote previously, (on my desktop(buster) and my laptop (amd64/

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-30 Thread David Wright
On Tue 30 Jul 2019 at 20:25:11 (+0100), Joe wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 14:15:44 -0500 David Wright > wrote: > > > > ¹ Ignorance of the law is no defence, but it can be expensive > > to obtain something like the building regs in the UK. > > Whereas your local library should have a current copy

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-30 Thread David Wright
On Tue 30 Jul 2019 at 15:41:50 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote: [snip] > Why would having different phases on different circuits be a problem? > It's pretty common IMO, because you want the load balanced between > them. (Unless the concern is that the crazy UK circuit loops will get > crosswired?) I

Re: updmap-user: command not found

2019-07-30 Thread Rodolfo Medina
David Wright writes: > On Mon 29 Jul 2019 at 19:56:32 (-), Curt wrote: >> On 2019-07-29, wrote: >> > >> > (this is an oldstable Debian). >> > >> > Perhaps the thing you're looking for is simply spelt "updmap"? >> >> >> curty@einstein:~$ apt-cache show texlive-base | grep -i updmap >> up

Re: xsane: incoherent behaviours

2019-07-30 Thread Brian
On Tue 30 Jul 2019 at 18:54:46 +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > Brian wrote: > what does scanimage -L ... > > hi Brian, > (sorry for the delay) > on my desktop(buster) and my laptop (amd64/stretch), both devices are listed. > on my wife's laptop(amd64/stretch), only the laserjet, and as I sa

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-07-30 Thread David Christensen
On 7/30/19 10:01 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: I've been trying to do the impossible, more like the impractical, for some time now so I need a knowledge infusion. I want to be able to read the VGA output of a computer, do OCR on it and have ASCII text. As a computer user w

Re: How can I force a particular startup hdmi mode on Raspian/Buster?

2019-07-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 2019-07-30 4:44 p.m., Cousin Stanley wrote: Gary Dale wrote: Raspian uses a /boot/config.txt file to control video modes but this is failing in my case. It refuses to output 1080i unless I set that mode from the command line. However, when I do that, I lose the ability to adjust the o

Re: How can I force a particular startup hdmi mode on Raspian/Buster?

2019-07-30 Thread Cousin Stanley
Gary Dale wrote: > > Raspian uses a /boot/config.txt file to control video modes > but this is failing in my case. > > It refuses to output 1080i unless I set that mode > from the command line. > > However, when I do that, I lose the ability to adjust the overscan > that the config.txt

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-30 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 02:15:44PM -0500, David Wright wrote: On Tue 30 Jul 2019 at 08:49:43 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote: On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 08:46:36PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 29 Jul 2019 at 18:00:25 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 29 July 2019 17:26:17 ghe wrote: >

Estas en Riesgo por Ciberataques

2019-07-30 Thread Abigail Medina
México es el tercer país con más ciberataques a nivel mundial, siete de cada 10 empresas mexicanas han experimentado un incidente relacionado con seguridad informática. Ejemplo de lo anterior es el caso registrado en abril de 2018, cuando cinco entidades bancarias mexicanas fueron hackeadas a tr

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-07-30 Thread john doe
On 7/30/2019 7:01 PM, Martin McCormick wrote: > > I have 4 older PC's that generally work well running > debian but Right now, 3 of them need varying degrees of attention > to their BIOS setups as Dell motherboards and possibly other > brands will occasionally modify their boot sequences for

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-30 Thread Joe
On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 14:15:44 -0500 David Wright wrote: > > ¹ Ignorance of the law is no defence, but it can be expensive > to obtain something like the building regs in the UK. Whereas your local library should have a current copy of the Wiring Regulations. I rewired my first house at sixteen,

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-07-30 Thread deloptes
Martin McCormick wrote: > I have 4 older PC's that generally work well running > debian but Right now, 3 of them need varying degrees of attention > to their BIOS setups as Dell motherboards and possibly other > brands will occasionally modify their boot sequences for some > reason and the only wa

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-30 Thread David Wright
On Tue 30 Jul 2019 at 08:49:43 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 08:46:36PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 29 Jul 2019 at 18:00:25 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Monday 29 July 2019 17:26:17 ghe wrote: > > > > On 7/29/19 1:57 PM, David Wright wrote: > > > > > Irr

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-07-30 Thread john doe
On 7/30/2019 8:12 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> As a computer user who happens to be blind, one of the >> most frustrating issues is the fact that except for expensive >> servers, none of these boxes output any machine readable text >> when booting up or in setup mode such as when the coin cell

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-07-30 Thread Stefan Monnier
> As a computer user who happens to be blind, one of the > most frustrating issues is the fact that except for expensive > servers, none of these boxes output any machine readable text > when booting up or in setup mode such as when the coin cell that > powers the CMOS BIOS gives up the ghost

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-07-30 Thread Dan Ritter
Martin McCormick wrote: > I've been trying to do the impossible, more like the > impractical, for some time now so I need a knowledge infusion. > > I want to be able to read the VGA output of a computer, > do OCR on it and have ASCII text. > > As a computer user who happens to

Re: How can I force a particular startup hdmi mode on Raspian/Buster?

2019-07-30 Thread Judah Richardson
I've never gotten that to work reliably either. Good luck. On Tue, Jul 30, 2019, 11:43 Gary Dale wrote: > I'm posting a Pi question to this list because I believe I need a Debian > answer. The Raspian answers have been failing me - see > > https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/101144/h

Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-07-30 Thread Martin McCormick
I've been trying to do the impossible, more like the impractical, for some time now so I need a knowledge infusion. I want to be able to read the VGA output of a computer, do OCR on it and have ASCII text. As a computer user who happens to be blind, one of the most frustra

xsane: incoherent behaviours

2019-07-30 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
Brian wrote: what does scanimage -L ... hi Brian, (sorry for the delay) on my desktop(buster) and my laptop (amd64/stretch), both devices are listed. on my wife's laptop(amd64/stretch), only the laserjet, and as I said scanning works... Then, the problem is not with the device, but with t

How can I force a particular startup hdmi mode on Raspian/Buster?

2019-07-30 Thread Gary Dale
I'm posting a Pi question to this list because I believe I need a Debian answer. The Raspian answers have been failing me - see https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/101144/how-can-i-get-my-new-raspberry-pi-4b-to-output-1080i-video?noredirect=1#comment167120_101144 for the details. R

3 phase power (was Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-30 Thread rhkramer
I was trained as an electrical engineer, and I'd love to be able to clarify the situation, I'm not sure I can without using far too many words. 3 phase power (around the world as far as I know) consists of (usually) 3 wires carrying electrical power at a given frequency (in the US, 60 Hz., in s

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-30 Thread David Wright
On Tue 30 Jul 2019 at 14:30:50 (+0200), Matthew Crews wrote: > On 7/29/19 12:57 PM, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 29 Jul 2019 at 20:43:04 (+0100), Joe wrote: > >> On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 10:26:14 -0500 John Hasler wrote: > >> > >>> They don't have to be on the same branch circuit: just on the same >

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 30 July 2019 08:30:50 Matthew Crews wrote: > On 7/29/19 12:57 PM, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 29 Jul 2019 at 20:43:04 (+0100), Joe wrote: > >> On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 10:26:14 -0500 John Hasler wrote: > >>> They don't have to be on the same branch circuit: just on the same > >>> "phase

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-30 Thread John Hasler
Matthew writes: > In the US most 240V outlets are 3 phase... They are 240 V center-tap grounded. That is what is provisioned to most residences in the USA, usually from a single-phase transformer on a pole (or on a pad if distribution is underground). 120 V branch circuits are distributed equal

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-30 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 08:46:36PM -0500, David Wright wrote: On Mon 29 Jul 2019 at 18:00:25 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 29 July 2019 17:26:17 ghe wrote: > On 7/29/19 1:57 PM, David Wright wrote: > > Irrelevant in a domestic setting: it's illegal to have more than one > > phase in an

Re: Fwd: nemo crashes with no error [in Stretch]

2019-07-30 Thread deb
On 7/28/19 11:21 AM, Curt wrote: On 2019-07-28, deb wrote: (Just trying this one again. No one else has seen this?) on Debian Stretch 9.8 to 9.9 --has anyone else run into nemo just flat out crashing? Martin ran into it. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=869165 Than

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-30 Thread John Hasler
Erik writes: > Here in Australia we also have only "240v", generally closer to 230v > nowadays, and domestic 3 phase is no big deal, just a couple of > thousand dollars more, as it's just a 3 phase cable, 3 fuses on the > pole instead of 1... In low density areas in the USA there isn't always thre

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-30 Thread Matthew Crews
On 7/29/19 12:57 PM, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 29 Jul 2019 at 20:43:04 (+0100), Joe wrote: >> On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 10:26:14 -0500 John Hasler wrote: >> >>> They don't have to be on the same branch circuit: just on the same >>> "phase"[1]. There is probably a gadget available that bridges the >>

Re: Stream m3u8 not supported by network music player

2019-07-30 Thread Kevin DAGNEAUX
Le 30/07/2019 à 13:04, john doe a écrit : Hi, I listen to a webradio for which I have a direct URL but my network music players do not support the 'm3u8' format. I'm thinking to convert in realtime this m3u8 stream to a supported stream (mp3), is it the best way forward or is there a better appr

Re: Stream m3u8 not supported by network music player

2019-07-30 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 13:04:10 +0200 john doe wrote: > Hi, > > I listen to a webradio for which I have a direct URL but my network > music players do not support the 'm3u8' format. Which network players? VLC and mpv, for example, apparently do support m3u8 playlists: https://www.lifewire.com/m3u

Re: Stream m3u8 not supported by network music player

2019-07-30 Thread Henning Follmann
On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 01:04:10PM +0200, john doe wrote: > Hi, > > I listen to a webradio for which I have a direct URL but my network > music players do not support the 'm3u8' format. > I'm thinking to convert in realtime this m3u8 stream to a supported > stream (mp3), is it the best way forward

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-30 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 29.07.19 20:46, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 29 Jul 2019 at 18:00:25 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 29 July 2019 17:26:17 ghe wrote: > > > > > On 7/29/19 1:57 PM, David Wright wrote: > > > > Irrelevant in a domestic setting: it's illegal to have more than one > > > > phase in an ord

Stream m3u8 not supported by network music player

2019-07-30 Thread john doe
Hi, I listen to a webradio for which I have a direct URL but my network music players do not support the 'm3u8' format. I'm thinking to convert in realtime this m3u8 stream to a supported stream (mp3), is it the best way forward or is there a better approach? If it is the best way forward, how wou

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-30 Thread deloptes
Dan Ritter wrote: > These operate at extremely low speed and are generally a > terrible choice. > > However, you have a history of trying to avoid the good > decisions that people steer you towards, so I encourage you to > give Bluetooth a miss entirely and go for an infrared LAN with > a ceiling

ffmpeg in buster: encoding on hardware

2019-07-30 Thread Reco
Dear list, Buster changed some things, and one of those is the version of ffmpeg and its features. Note that I'm talking about ffmpeg binary here, not libraries. In stretch, ffmpeg provided "nvenc" hardware acceleration (NVIDIA proprietary cards only), that really shortened encoding times