Re: *nix

2020-02-17 Thread deloptes
Charlie Gibbs wrote: > Not withdrawn, no.  But newer software tends to neglect the keyboard > in favour of pointy-clicky stuff.  Note that I'm not just talking > about Linux, which really isn't that bad.  On other OSes, however, > the situation is much worse. The smartphone generation do not know

Re: *nix

2020-02-17 Thread 0...@caiway.net
> I also tend to use programs that allow me to use the keyboard. > mplayer - and its successor, mpv - work great with the keyboard. > xv works great for displaying GIFs and JPEGs. (At least older > ones - some newer JPEGs contain codes that xv can't handle. At > that point I reluctantly fall ba

Re: *nix

2020-02-17 Thread Charlie Gibbs
References: On 2020-02-17 at 06:00:01, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 16 Feb 2020 at 13:03:05 (-0800), Charlie Gibbs wrote: > >> On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 21:10:01 +0100 >> Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> >>> On Du, 16 feb 20, 09:36:16, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >>> On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 14:20:01 +0100

Re: *nix

2020-02-17 Thread David Wright
On Mon 17 Feb 2020 at 22:10:48 (+), mick crane wrote: > On 2020-02-17 20:18, Doug McGarrett wrote: > > > > In the 50s I heard that you could tap out the number on the > > > cradle in the public phone boxes and connect without inserting > > > coins. In the mid- to late-60s, there were codes th

Re: help with gitlab on buster

2020-02-17 Thread David Wright
On Mon 17 Feb 2020 at 15:27:06 (+), Graham Seaman wrote: > On 17/02/2020 06:30, john doe wrote: > > On 2/16/2020 11:45 PM, Graham Seaman wrote: > > > > > Of course, though this would be easier if I was more sure where > > > everything was. But the data's no use without the software to read it.

Re: *nix

2020-02-17 Thread mick crane
On 2020-02-17 20:18, Doug McGarrett wrote: In the 50s I heard that you could tap out the number on the cradle in the public phone boxes and connect without inserting coins. mick Now you tell me! --doug thinking back it was 60's. after that I heard a whistle you got in cornflake packets

Re: *nix

2020-02-17 Thread Martin Smith
On 17/02/2020 18:52, mick crane wrote: On 2020-02-17 16:29, Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 22:07:59 -0500 Doug McGarrett wrote: (I fell off the stoop after tripping over my dog's tether in the dark on the 4th of July, 1915, and spent most of the summer in various stages of recovery

Re: *nix

2020-02-17 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 2/17/20 1:52 PM, mick crane wrote: On 2020-02-17 16:29, Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 22:07:59 -0500 Doug McGarrett wrote: (I fell off the stoop after tripping over my dog's tether in the dark on the 4th of July, 1915, and spent most of the summer in various stages of recove

Re: *nix

2020-02-17 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 2/17/20 10:03 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: On Feb 17, 2020, Curt wrote: On 2020-02-17, Doug McGarrett wrote: [...] I hope I never have to do so again. (I fell off the stoop after tripping over my dog's tether in the dark on the 4th of July, 1915, and spent most of the summer in various st

Installing Debian on an HP Pavilion p2-1140 64bit computer

2020-02-17 Thread David Anthony
I have installed Debian on my laptop (lenovo 120S) without any problem. I am trying to install it on my desktop, a HP Paavilion p2-1140 64bit. Everything goes very well until it starts to install "Grub." At that point, the machine locks up and I have to reboot. I have tried multiple times to ins

Re: *nix

2020-02-17 Thread mick crane
On 2020-02-17 16:29, Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 22:07:59 -0500 Doug McGarrett wrote: (I fell off the stoop after tripping over my dog's tether in the dark on the 4th of July, 1915, and spent most of the summer in various stages of recovery.) Maybe some day I'll figure out how to

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) was broken after upgraded from stretch-backports.

2020-02-17 Thread didier . gaumet
> Στις 2020-02-17 13:17, Anastasios Lisgaras έγραψε: [...] > > 1. I created this file : /etc/apt/sources.list.d/stretch-backports.list > > (https://pastebin.com/raw/YM11TDer) > > 2. I also created this file : > > /etc/apt/preferences.d/89_stretch-backports_default > > (https://pastebin.com/raw/F6

Re: *nix

2020-02-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 22:07:59 -0500 Doug McGarrett wrote: > (I fell off the stoop > after tripping over my dog's tether in the dark on the 4th of July, > 1915, and spent most of the summer in various stages of recovery.) > Maybe some day I'll figure out how to dial a number on the phone. I suspe

Re: need syntax for /etc/fstab to mount space on an ssd over /tmp

2020-02-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 17 February 2020 06:57:56 Carl Fink wrote: > On 2/17/20 5:00 AM, Klaus Singvogel wrote: > > elvis wrote: > >> On 17/2/20 3:10 pm, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> Greetings all; > >>> > >>> I am trying to remove as much write activity as possible from the > >>> u-sd that a raspi boots from. To

Re: need syntax for /etc/fstab to mount space on an ssd over /tmp

2020-02-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 17 February 2020 05:00:14 Klaus Singvogel wrote: > elvis wrote: > > On 17/2/20 3:10 pm, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Greetings all; > > > > > > I am trying to remove as much write activity as possible from the > > > u-sd that a raspi boots from. To that end I'll create a partition > > > on

Re: need syntax for /etc/fstab to mount space on an ssd over /tmp

2020-02-17 Thread Klaus Singvogel
Carl Fink wrote: > On 2/17/20 5:00 AM, Klaus Singvogel wrote: > > elvis wrote: > > > On 17/2/20 3:10 pm, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Greetings all; > > > > > > > > I am trying to remove as much write activity as possible from the u-sd > > > > that a raspi boots from. To that end I'll create a par

Re: need syntax for /etc/fstab to mount space on an ssd over /tmp

2020-02-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 17 February 2020 01:34:02 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 17 feb 20, 00:10:52, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I am trying to remove as much write activity as possible from the > > u-sd that a raspi boots from. To that end I'll create a partition > > on an ssd, of 5000 meg

Re: help with gitlab on buster

2020-02-17 Thread Graham Seaman
On 17/02/2020 06:30, john doe wrote: On 2/16/2020 11:45 PM, Graham Seaman wrote: Of course, though this would be easier if I was more sure where everything was. But the data's no use without the software to read it. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/raketasks/backup_restore.html Thanks - bit embaras

Re: FOSS friendly PDA?

2020-02-17 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/17/2020 09:01 AM, Kenneth Parker wrote: There were two "pure Linux" PDAs that I fully enjoyed using.  [1] Agenda VR3.  It was a joy to use, but had a few downsides:  Batteries went down fast.  Even though the PDA was pure Linux, it didn't support Linux on your PC.  Screen was "iffy". And

Re: *nix

2020-02-17 Thread Dan Purgert
On Feb 17, 2020, Curt wrote: > On 2020-02-17, Doug McGarrett wrote: >> >> >>> >> [...] I hope I never have to do so again. (I fell off the stoop >> after tripping over my dog's tether in the dark on the 4th of July, >> 1915, and spent most of the summer in various stages of recovery.) >> Maybe s

Re: FOSS friendly PDA?

2020-02-17 Thread Kenneth Parker
There were two "pure Linux" PDAs that I fully enjoyed using. [1] Agenda VR3. It was a joy to use, but had a few downsides: Batteries went down fast. Even though the PDA was pure Linux, it didn't support Linux on your PC. Screen was "iffy". And their Marketing wasn't good enough, for them to st

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) was broken after upgraded from stretch-backports.

2020-02-17 Thread Nektarios Katakis
Στις 2020-02-17 13:17, Anastasios Lisgaras έγραψε: Hello Debian community, Recently I needed to (to be honest, I had the *desire*) to have newer software release. In particular I wanted to install the nautilus-nextcloud` package which is exist in my laptop with Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) (htt

Re: Wifi USB dongle

2020-02-17 Thread Nicolas George
Nicolas George (12020-02-17): > didier.gau...@gmail.com (12020-02-14): > > The Netgear A6210 (mt76 driver) would do. > > Readily available in France at Darty. > > Thank you, it works quite well indeed. > > Now, I have to find out why I cannot get more than 2.4 Mo/s from my > phone, despite its in

Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) was broken after upgraded from stretch-backports.

2020-02-17 Thread Anastasios Lisgaras
Hello Debian community, Recently I needed to (to be honest, I had the *desire*) to have newer software release. In particular I wanted to install the nautilus-nextcloud` package which is exist in my laptop with Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) (https://packages.debian.org/buster/gnome/nautilus-nextcl

Re: need syntax for /etc/fstab to mount space on an ssd over /tmp

2020-02-17 Thread Carl Fink
On 2/17/20 5:00 AM, Klaus Singvogel wrote: elvis wrote: On 17/2/20 3:10 pm, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; I am trying to remove as much write activity as possible from the u-sd that a raspi boots from. To that end I'll create a partition on an ssd, of 5000 megs, then copy the existing /t

Re: need syntax for /etc/fstab to mount space on an ssd over /tmp

2020-02-17 Thread Klaus Singvogel
elvis wrote: > > On 17/2/20 3:10 pm, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I am trying to remove as much write activity as possible from the u-sd > > that a raspi boots from. To that end I'll create a partition on an ssd, > > of 5000 megs, then copy the existing /tmp's contents to it it

Re: FOSS friendly PDA?

2020-02-17 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Tuesday, 11 Feb 2020 at 23:23, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > My impression is that a lot of these machines although theoretically > able to run linux don't have sufficient developers able to work on > them for all the wrinkles to be fixed. That is, other OSes may be > bootable but it's strictly "ent

Re: *nix

2020-02-17 Thread Curt
On 2020-02-17, Doug McGarrett wrote: > > >> > Finally some common sense. I HATE touchscreen "technology" as they like > to call it. I want to use my keyboard and my trackball, and I do not > even try to communicate by touch-screen phone. A phone is a voice > communications device, as far as I'm

Re: *nix

2020-02-17 Thread tomas
On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 05:37:57PM -0500, Felmon Davis wrote: > On Sun, 16 Feb 2020, Curt wrote: > > >On 2020-02-15, John Kaufmann wrote: [...] > plus I suppose a lot of generalists are specialists in something or > other. ...in generality, at least. > also from the balcony. Now I fell down

Re: need syntax for /etc/fstab to mount space on an ssd over /tmp

2020-02-17 Thread elvis
On 17/2/20 3:10 pm, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; I am trying to remove as much write activity as possible from the u-sd that a raspi boots from. To that end I'll create a partition on an ssd, of 5000 megs, then copy the existing /tmp's contents to it it, then mount the ssd partition of