Re: Recommendation for filesystem for USB external drive for backups

2020-08-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 12 Aug 2020 20:14:03 -0400 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I'm getting closer to setting up a consistent backup plan, backing up > to an external USB drive. I'm wondering about a reasonable > filesystem to use, I think I want to stay in the ext2/3/4 family, and > I'm wondering if there is any

Re: Kate: how widen vertical scrollbar

2020-08-12 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, July 29, 2020 07:37:20 AM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Thanks for the reply! I haven't tried this yet, but that would be the > plan, > > On Tuesday, July 28, 2020 07:50:19 AM Simon Walter wrote: > > You probably need to change your theme/window manager settings. Some > > window Just

Re: Kate: how widen vertical scrollbar

2020-08-12 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, July 29, 2020 07:37:20 AM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Thanks for the reply! I haven't tried this yet, but that would be the > plan, > > On Tuesday, July 28, 2020 07:50:19 AM Simon Walter wrote: > > You probably need to change your theme/window manager settings. Some > > window Just

Re: Recommendation for filesystem for USB external drive for backups

2020-08-12 Thread Mark Allums
On 8/12/2020 7:14 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting closer to setting up a consistent backup plan, backing up to an external USB drive. I'm wondering about a reasonable filesystem to use, I think I want to stay in the ext2/3/4 family, and I'm wondering if there is any good reason to use

Re: Recommendation for filesystem for USB external drive for backups

2020-08-12 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 13/08/2020 12:14, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting closer to setting up a consistent backup plan, backing up to an external USB drive. I'm wondering about a reasonable filesystem to use, I think I want to stay in the ext2/3/4 family, and I'm wondering if there is any good reason to use a

Re: Recommendation for filesystem for USB external drive for backups

2020-08-12 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 13/8/20 10:14 am, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting closer to setting up a consistent backup plan, backing up to an external USB drive. I'm wondering about a reasonable filesystem to use, I think I want to stay in the ext2/3/4 family, and I'm wondering if there is any good reason to use a

Recommendation for filesystem for USB external drive for backups

2020-08-12 Thread rhkramer
I'm getting closer to setting up a consistent backup plan, backing up to an external USB drive. I'm wondering about a reasonable filesystem to use, I think I want to stay in the ext2/3/4 family, and I'm wondering if there is any good reason to use anything beyond ext2? (Some day I'll try ZFS o

Re: tape drives

2020-08-12 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 11:44:54AM +0100, mick crane wrote: > Do people use tape drives for backup ? Only in places that need vast amounts of data stored for a very long time with restores being rare. Restoration is slow with tapes. Even a low end LTO drive will set you back thousands of £

Re: Some keys on the keyboard do not work

2020-08-12 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 8/12/20 5:24 AM, songbird wrote: Dan Ritter wrote: Doug McGarrett wrote: Someone along this thread mentioned key-pullers. I have a couple of IBM model M keyboards that haven't been cleaned in years. They work well anyway, but I'd like to clean the keys. Where could I get one of those key-

timeout in initramfs

2020-08-12 Thread grumpy
i set up a machine with wifi with an encrypted root fs i have this "ip=:wlan0:on" in my boot command line during boot it talks to my dhcp to set up a connection so i can remotely unlock the root fs i know that this is not really secure but lets ignore my stupidity for the moment anyway it wo

Re: dns cache for localdomain via djbdns

2020-08-12 Thread tomas
On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 03:51:11PM +0200, Patrick Frank wrote: > > On 12.08.20 15:28, Dan Ritter wrote: > >Greg Wooledge wrote: > >>On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 02:59:23PM +0200, Patrick Frank wrote: > > > Greg writes: You can execute the "./run" script by hand for testing > purposes [...] > > When

Re: is there a way to corrupt the BIOS and/or the keybord on you laptop from the Internet? ...

2020-08-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
> The only thing that I have "discovered" is that for whatever reason > that keyboard doesn't plug directly to one and only one of the USB > ports (which I had used before just fine), but if connected through a > USB hub it works just fine. So I wonder what could be going on, or > "they" are just

Re: RFE: The installation DVD use LVM2 and crytsetup, why can't you use them with the live DVD?

2020-08-12 Thread Albretch Mueller
Sorry, I just meant to send the one liner on the subject. lbrtchx

RFE: a "testcd" (a la knoppix) option for the debian DVD?

2020-08-12 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 8/12/20, Albretch Mueller wrote: > >

RFE: The installation DVD use LVM2 and crytsetup, why can't you use them with the live DVD?

2020-08-12 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 8/12/20, Albretch Mueller wrote: >> I recommend to thoroughly test your hardware using different OS (possibly >> non-Linux) and if you manage to reproduce the problems, it would mean a >> hardware failure. > > The only thing that I have "discovered" is that for whatever reason > that keyboard

Re: is there a way to corrupt the BIOS and/or the keybord on you laptop from the Internet? ...

2020-08-12 Thread Albretch Mueller
> I recommend to thoroughly test your hardware using different OS (possibly > non-Linux) and if you manage to reproduce the problems, it would mean a > hardware failure. The only thing that I have "discovered" is that for whatever reason that keyboard doesn't plug directly to one and only one o

ALERTAN SUBESTIMACION DE CASOS: 1 de cada 100 mexicanos se hace la prueba

2020-08-12 Thread Ing . Victor Manuel Zurita Garcia
En México, menos de 1 de cada 100 mexicanos se ha hecho la prueba de COVID-19, convirtiéndonos en uno de los paises con menos pruebas en todo el mundo... Pruebas Serológicas COVID-19 (Kit individual) para Empresas e Instituciones -APROBADAS POR COFEPRIS- Pide justo lo que necesites, NO NECESITA

Re: dns cache for localdomain via djbdns

2020-08-12 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 03:51:11PM +0200, Patrick Frank wrote: > Greg writes: You can execute the "./run" script by hand for testing > purposes [...] > > When I tried "exec envuidgid Gnscache ..." it logged me out. So don't do that. Test it with ./run instead, like I said. > Greg writes: unicor

Re: dns cache for localdomain via djbdns

2020-08-12 Thread Patrick Frank
On 12.08.20 15:28, Dan Ritter wrote: Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 02:59:23PM +0200, Patrick Frank wrote: Greg writes: You can execute the "./run" script by hand for testing purposes [...] When I tried "exec envuidgid Gnscache ..." it logged me out. Greg writes: unicorn:~$

Re: dns cache for localdomain via djbdns

2020-08-12 Thread Dan Ritter
Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 02:59:23PM +0200, Patrick Frank wrote: > > Hello, > > > > on a Debian 10 host I created a virtual machine with very basic features > > to build a dns cache for my home network with djbdns. I fail to understand > > how Daemontools are used properly. >

Re: dns cache for localdomain via djbdns

2020-08-12 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 02:59:23PM +0200, Patrick Frank wrote: > Hello, > > on a Debian 10 host I created a virtual machine with very basic features > to build a dns cache for my home network with djbdns. I fail to understand > how Daemontools are used properly. > > Following the instructions on

dns cache for localdomain via djbdns

2020-08-12 Thread Patrick Frank
Hello, on a Debian 10 host I created a virtual machine with very basic features to build a dns cache for my home network with djbdns. I fail to understand how Daemontools are used properly. Following the instructions on http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/install.html went okay. http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/run-ca

Re: tape drives

2020-08-12 Thread mick crane
On 2020-08-12 11:58, Dan Ritter wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open should be helpful to you. cheers mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

2020-08-12 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 10:26:45PM -0500, David Wright wrote: Registering a domain name with a dynamic DNS service is more complex than registering an email service It really isn't, but whatever. I really don't care if you want to come up with some workaround for DNS so feel free to stop argui

Re: tape drives

2020-08-12 Thread Dan Ritter
The Wanderer wrote: > However, while I've considered using tapes for backup in my own private > environment, last time I looked the cheapest tape drive with support for > tapes large enough to be reasonable for my hard-drive capacities was > $3000 - and that's just the drive, not the tapes. That

Re: tape drives

2020-08-12 Thread Dan Ritter
mick crane wrote: > Do people use tape drives for backup ? > I saved data to tape before but I think they were DAT and not very big but > see that these LTO-2 tapes are 600Gb and not expensive. > Do people use those ? Yes. However, my company has switched over to using disk storage for backups.

Re: tape drives

2020-08-12 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-08-12 at 06:44, mick crane wrote: > Do people use tape drives for backup ? > I saved data to tape before but I think they were DAT and not very big > but see that these LTO-2 tapes are 600Gb and not expensive. > Do people use those ? Depends on the context you're talking about. I am giv

tape drives

2020-08-12 Thread mick crane
Do people use tape drives for backup ? I saved data to tape before but I think they were DAT and not very big but see that these LTO-2 tapes are 600Gb and not expensive. Do people use those ? mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: Some keys on the keyboard do not work

2020-08-12 Thread songbird
Dan Ritter wrote: > Doug McGarrett wrote: >> >> Someone along this thread mentioned key-pullers. I have a couple of IBM >> model M >> keyboards that haven't been cleaned in years. They work well anyway, but I'd >> like to clean >> the keys. Where could I get one of those key-puller tools? >> (If

Re: Some keys on the keyboard do not work

2020-08-12 Thread songbird
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Oh, one other thing I should mention -- on most keyboards (at least the ones > I've cleaned) there are some metal pieces (essentially springs) under many of > the larger (wider) keys. I am pretty sure they are intended to allow > pressing > either end (or the center