Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-29 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 30/6/24 06:43, mick.crane wrote: On 2024-06-29 17:46, Lee wrote: My gripes and difficulties are the same thing.  No universal image viewer like Ifranview, geeqie is quick, something equivalent to notepad++, Geany +5 for geany -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com kei

Re: How to get an email notification every time a package is updated upstream?

2024-06-29 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 30/6/24 15:45, B wrote: On 6/29/24 9:30 PM, John Crawley wrote: rmadison will fetch data about package versions available in the Debian repositories. Its output might be usefully parsed by a script. Thank you! I totally forgot about madison. https://qa.debian.org/madison.php What

Re: Browser traffic interception/inspection

2024-06-29 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 9:37 PM Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 30/06/2024 03:45, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 4:13 PM Lee wrote: > >> > >> [...] Debian firefox does NOT allow one to do > >> TLS intercept - ie. this does not work: > >> C:\UTIL>cat firefox-tlsdecode.bat > >> set SSLK

Re: How to get an email notification every time a package is updated upstream?

2024-06-29 Thread B
On 6/29/24 7:48 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: Your Subject header includes the word "upstream". This word appears *nowhere* else in the entire email, and it completely moves the goalposts. Are you looking for notifications that a new Debian*package* has become available, or are you looking for noti

Re: How to get an email notification every time a package is updated upstream?

2024-06-29 Thread B
On 6/29/24 9:30 PM, John Crawley wrote: rmadison will fetch data about package versions available in the Debian repositories. Its output might be usefully parsed by a script. Thank you! I totally forgot about madison. https://qa.debian.org/madison.php

Re: How to use /etc/adjtime

2024-06-29 Thread David Wright
On Fri 28 Jun 2024 at 15:05:34 (-0500), John Hasler wrote: > David writes: > > With chrony, you can monitor the RTC over time and adjust the system > > clock in accordance with its drift rate at boot time, without > > correcting the RTC itself, or you can actually set the RTC from the > > system cl

Re: How to use /etc/adjtime

2024-06-29 Thread David Wright
On Sat 29 Jun 2024 at 06:53:48 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 02:05:48PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 28 Jun 2024 at 11:14:34 (-0500), John Hasler wrote: > > > David writes: > > > > It's not clear to me which NTP (protocol) packages are set up to use > > > > the

Re: How to get the *.deb file?

2024-06-29 Thread David Wright
On Sun 30 Jun 2024 at 06:10:17 (+0200), DdB wrote: > Hi, > > sometimes, i did fetch the deb file from https://packages.debian.org > even for another OS than the one, i am running, just to inspect its details. > > This time, i was unable to find/download the deb file for > https://packages.debian.

Re: How to get an email notification every time a package is updated upstream?

2024-06-29 Thread John Crawley
On 30/06/2024 12:19, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 20:12:36 -0700, Will Mengarini wrote: All we still need to know is whether the OP cares about packages that aren't installed, or whether some other aspect of Greg's solution isn't sufficient. If there's interest in new versions

How to get the *.deb file?

2024-06-29 Thread DdB
Hi, sometimes, i did fetch the deb file from https://packages.debian.org even for another OS than the one, i am running, just to inspect its details. This time, i was unable to find/download the deb file for https://packages.debian.org/de/sid/parallel Could someone more knowledgeable explain, wh

Re: How to get an email notification every time a package is updated upstream?

2024-06-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 20:12:36 -0700, Will Mengarini wrote: > All we still need to know is whether the OP cares > about packages that aren't installed, or whether some > other aspect of Greg's solution isn't sufficient. If there's interest in new versions of uninstalled packages, then we have an

Re: How to get an email notification every time a package is updated upstream?

2024-06-29 Thread Will Mengarini
* Greg Wooledge [24-06/29=Sa 22:48 -0400]: > Your Subject header includes the word "upstream". This word appears > *nowhere* else in the entire email, and it completely moves the goalposts. "Upstream" was a misleading misnomer intended to refer to anything ... well, "upstream" of the OP's system

balenaEtcher

2024-06-29 Thread Aleix Piulachs
I had problems with parrot4.4_i386.iso and balenaEtcher 1.19.21, but I uninstalled version 1.19.21 and installed balena1.18.11 and fixed it and it worked

Re: How to get an email notification every time a package is updated upstream?

2024-06-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 19:15:55 -0700, B wrote: > My objective is to get an email notification when an update is available for > a specific Debian package. I already have questions. Your Subject header includes the word "upstream". This word appears *nowhere* else in the entire email, and it co

How to get an email notification every time a package is updated upstream?

2024-06-29 Thread B
My objective is to get an email notification when an update is available for a specific Debian package. It sounds simple. Something like this should already exist, right? The requirements are trivial. Yet after doing a lot of research I can't find an existing solution that doesn't have prob

Re: Browser traffic interception/inspection

2024-06-29 Thread Max Nikulin
On 30/06/2024 03:45, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 4:13 PM Lee wrote: [...] Debian firefox does NOT allow one to do TLS intercept - ie. this does not work: C:\UTIL>cat firefox-tlsdecode.bat set SSLKEYLOGFILE=C:\Users\Lee\AppData\Local\Temp\FF-SSLkeys.txt start C:\"Program Files\

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-29 Thread John Crawley
On 28/06/2024 18:42, Keith Bainbridge wrote: On 28/6/24 16:13, John Crawley wrote: Except that midnight is also 0:00, so you still have the am/pm confusion. They should have kept 0:00 just for midnight really. That's the first time I've seen anything to justify calling midnight AM. Thankyou

How to use Wine, How to get Gecko to install and work

2024-06-29 Thread George at Clug
Hi, Does anyone know of really simple but comprehensive instructions on how to use and configure Wine, that you can send me links to? Does anyone know how to solve the below issue: $ wine iexplore Could not find Wine Gecko. HTML rendering will be disabled. 010c:err:mshtml:create_document_o

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-29 Thread George at Clug
On Sunday, 30-06-2024 at 02:46 Lee wrote: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 7:26 PM George wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, 26-06-2024 at 05:43 Lee wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 11:47 AM Joe  wrote: > > > > > > > > On Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:53:41 -0400 > > > > Lee wrote: > > > > > > > > > My old laptop die

Re: Curt having his fits [was: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs]

2024-06-29 Thread Will Mengarini
* Richard [24-06/30=Su 00:57 +0200]: > That's how you warrant your ban, idiot. Don't get yourself banned, Richard. Anybody else remember Erik Naggum?

Re: Curt having his fits [was: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs]

2024-06-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 00:57:07 +0200, Richard wrote: > That's how you warrant your ban, idiot. Let it go. Don't keep pouring more fuel on the fire. Add Curt to your killfile (or whatever your MUA calls your ban list). He's already been banned by the list admins anyway, so your local ban is jus

Re: Curt having his fits [was: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs]

2024-06-29 Thread Richard
That's how you warrant your ban, idiot. On 29.06.24 20:40, Curt wrote: On 2024-06-29, wrote: Defamatory. What are you, a fucking lawyer? Sue me then, you little snit. Bad day today? As usual, you cut all that was pertinent to your meretricious commentary and left only what suited your brai

Re: Strange Problem

2024-06-29 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
Thank you for the guidance, I really appreciate it. On 06/29/2024 03:34 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 6/29/24 10:01, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: On 06/29/2024 12:28 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: On 29/06/2024 15:13, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I have just restated by Xfce4 user on my Bookworm system

Browser traffic interception/inspection (was: how2 format a flash drive)

2024-06-29 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 4:13 PM Lee wrote: > > [...] Debian firefox does NOT allow one to do > TLS intercept - ie. this does not work: > C:\UTIL>cat firefox-tlsdecode.bat > set SSLKEYLOGFILE=C:\Users\Lee\AppData\Local\Temp\FF-SSLkeys.txt > start C:\"Program Files\Firefox\Firefox.exe" > > @rem wire

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-29 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-06-29 17:46, Lee wrote: My gripes and difficulties are the same thing. No universal image viewer like Ifranview, geeqie is quick, something equivalent to notepad++, Geany

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-06-29 20:29, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 20:18:02 +0100, mick.crane wrote: Oh, I see what the question was. There is "use regular expressions", "use multi line matching" in Geany I'm not very good at regular expressions. I'd probably do it 3 times "search for" "search f

Re: Strange Problem

2024-06-29 Thread David Christensen
On 6/29/24 10:01, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: On 06/29/2024 12:28 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: On 29/06/2024 15:13, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I have just restated by Xfce4 user on my Bookworm system and find that I can no longer resize some of the apps on the desktop and the icons in the upper right

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 20:18:02 +0100, mick.crane wrote: > Oh, I see what the question was. > There is "use regular expressions", "use multi line matching" in Geany > I'm not very good at regular expressions. > I'd probably do it 3 times > "search for" > "search for" > "search for" There's mor

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-06-29 16:09, Max Nikulin wrote: On 29/06/2024 20:07, mick.crane wrote: On 2024-06-29 12:34, Max Nikulin wrote: To manipulate with HTML it is better to write a script in some programming language, e.g. for python there are lxml etree and BeautifulSoup packages. This way it is easier to m

Reminder of Code of Conduct - and ban imposed.

2024-06-29 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Just a reminder that this list is subject to the Debian Code of Conduct and the Debian mailing lists Code of Conduct. The FAQ will be republished in a day or so to remind regular readers. In the interim, Curt has been banned from all Debian lists. As ever, it is expected that people will continu

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread David Wright
On Sat 29 Jun 2024 at 17:08:04 (+0200), Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2024-06-28 20:53:50 +, Michael Kjörling wrote: > > Yes, it almost certainly can be done with a single sed (or other > > similar tool) invocation where the regular expression matches > > precisely what you want it to match. But

Re: Curt having his fits [was: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs]

2024-06-29 Thread Curt
On 2024-06-29, wrote: > > >> Defamatory. What are you, a fucking lawyer? Sue me then, you little snit. > > Bad day today? As usual, you cut all that was pertinent to your meretricious commentary and left only what suited your brain-damaged hypocrisy. BTW, eliding a succinct paragraph to leave o

Curt having his fits [was: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs]

2024-06-29 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 05:43:15PM -, Curt wrote: [...] > Defamatory. What are you, a fucking lawyer? Sue me then, you little snit. Bad day today? I can't help you. I'm out of this thread. -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread Curt
On 2024-06-29, wrote: > >> Owlett is a notorious troll who never listens to reason. > > This is wrong, borderline defamatory. Richard Owlett is not a Andy Smith: It's not an authentic Owlett thread unless it contains an enormous XY problem, a monomaniacal obsession with a solution already pa

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-29 Thread Dan Ritter
Lee wrote: > My gripes and difficulties are the same thing. No universal image > viewer like Ifranview, `apt search image viewer` suggests: eog, eom, ephoto, photoqt.. among dozens of others. But start with one of those. > an html editor would be nice -- something along > the lines of the sea

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 06:37:23AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] > When searching for information on regular expressions I came across one that > did it by searching for >{"1 thru 9" OR "10 thru 99" OR "100 thru 999"} . > I lost the reference ;< That would be something like ([0-9]|[1-9]

Re: Strange Problem

2024-06-29 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 06/29/2024 12:28 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: On 29/06/2024 15:13, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I have just restated by Xfce4 user on my Bookworm system and find that I can no longer resize some of the apps on the desktop and the icons in the upper right corner of the tool bar are missing. Ofte

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 04:02:56PM -, Curt wrote: > On 2024-06-29, Michael Kjörling wrote: > >> > >> HUH ?? > > > > ..._focus on the goal_. > > > > > Owlett is a notorious troll who never listens to reason. This is wrong, borderline defamatory. Richard Owlett is not a troll [1]. He

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-29 Thread Lee
On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 7:26 PM George wrote: > > On Wednesday, 26-06-2024 at 05:43 Lee wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 11:47 AM Joe wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:53:41 -0400 > > > Lee wrote: > > > > > > > My old laptop died; I just got a new one and it has _no_ optical > > > > driv

Re: How to use /etc/adjtime

2024-06-29 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 29 Jun 2024 16:39:14 +0100 "mick.crane" wrote: > > * Invest in a decent GPS receiver, and install chrony and gpsd on > > the machine. Doing so may get the system clock in synch faster; it > > may not. Doing that sort of thing is well documented on the gpsd > > home page. > > Wouldn't y

Re: Strange Problem

2024-06-29 Thread Darac Marjal
On 29/06/2024 15:13, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I have just restated by Xfce4 user on my Bookworm system and find that I can no longer resize some of the apps on the desktop and the icons in the upper right corner of the tool bar are missing. Often, this is an indication that the window manager

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread Lee
Hi, > > So you may prefer to use regexes as > > Murphy intended, handling both the opening and closing tags at the same > > time, leaving the intervening text intact. > > In this particular case I suspect it would become overly complex. > I've already discovered that the order of edits is importan

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread Curt
On 2024-06-29, Michael Kjörling wrote: >> >> HUH ?? > > ..._focus on the goal_. > Owlett is a notorious troll who never listens to reason. But you people adore this kind of troll, inexplicably, perhaps because he allows you to expand endlessly on your reams of essentially useless knowl

Re: How to use /etc/adjtime

2024-06-29 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-06-29 04:52, Charles Curley wrote: On Thu, 27 Jun 2024 12:48:03 -0400 Stefan Monnier wrote: I have a machine whose RTC clock is drifting significantly and it is often suspended for several days. I run NTP so the drift I see when I wake the machine up gets fixed by "stepping" the clock

Re: Strange Problem

2024-06-29 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 06/29/2024 10:13 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I have just restated by Xfce4 user on my Bookworm system and find that I can no longer resize some of the apps on the desktop and the icons in the upper right corner of the tool bar are missing. This is only om my user directory, the root dire

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread Max Nikulin
On 29/06/2024 20:07, mick.crane wrote: On 2024-06-29 12:34, Max Nikulin wrote: To manipulate with HTML it is better to write a script in some programming language, e.g. for python there are lxml etree and BeautifulSoup packages. This way it is easier to maintain valid document structure with pai

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2024-06-28 20:53:50 +, Michael Kjörling wrote: > Yes, it almost certainly can be done with a single sed (or other > similar tool) invocation where the regular expression matches > precisely what you want it to match. But unless this is something you > will do very often, I tend to prefer rea

Strange Problem

2024-06-29 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
I have just restated by Xfce4 user on my Bookworm system and find that I can no longer resize some of the apps on the desktop and the icons in the upper right corner of the tool bar are missing. This is only om my user directory, the root directory is still normal. I have not the faintest idea

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 01:46:27PM +, Michael Kjörling wrote: > On 29 Jun 2024 06:12 -0500, from rowl...@access.net (Richard Owlett): > >> there may be other closing tags you don't want to > >> change because they close other tags we haven't seen. > > > > Chuckle ;} The appropriate "

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 29 Jun 2024 05:51 -0500, from rowl...@access.net (Richard Owlett): >> Ignoring the question about Emacs > > Emacs *CAN NOT* be ignored. I did not say to ignore _Emacs_. I said that I was ignoring the _question_ about Emacs, to instead... >> and focusing on the goal (your ^^

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 29 Jun 2024 06:12 -0500, from rowl...@access.net (Richard Owlett): >>> $ for v in $(seq 1 119); do sed -i 's,>> id="V'$v'">,,g' ./*.html; done >> >> Having done that (or similar), don't forget to change the relevant >> closing tags to closing tags. However, there may be >> other closing tags

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-06-29 12:34, Max Nikulin wrote: On 29/06/2024 11:48, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Do M-x (hold Meta, most of the time your Alt key, then "x"). You get a command for a prompt. Enter "query-replace-regexp" And to get help for this function C-h f query-replace-regexp RET To open user m

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/29/2024 06:51 AM, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: On 06/28/2024 03:53 PM, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 28 Jun 2024 14:04 -0500, from rowl...@access.net (Richard Owlett): I need to replace ANY occurrence of thru [at most] by I'm reforma

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 07:43:47 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > The option "g" means that said should do this multiple times if > it occurs in the same file (globally, like grep) instead of the > default behavior which is to find the first match and just > change that. The g option in sed's s command

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 21:23:03 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 20:53:50 + > Michael Kjörling wrote: > > > $ for v in $(seq 1 119); do sed -i 's, > id="V'$v'">,,g' ./*.html; done > > > > Be sure to have a copy in case something goes wrong; and diff(1) a few > > files afte

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread Dan Ritter
Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/28/2024 03:53 PM, Michael Kjörling wrote: > > On 28 Jun 2024 14:04 -0500, from rowl...@access.net (Richard Owlett): > > > I need to replace ANY occurrence of > > > > > >thru [at most] > > > > > > by > > > > > > > > > I'm reformatting a Bible

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread debian-user
Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/28/2024 03:53 PM, Michael Kjörling wrote: > > On 28 Jun 2024 14:04 -0500, from rowl...@access.net (Richard > > Owlett): > >> I need to replace ANY occurrence of > >> > >>thru [at most] > >> > >> by > >> > >> > >> I'm reformatting a Bible st

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/28/2024 11:48 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 02:04:37PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Pluma is my editor of choice. *BUT* it can NOT handle Search and Replace operations involving regular expressions. I would be *very* surprised if an editor, these days and age can't

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread Max Nikulin
On 29/06/2024 11:48, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Do M-x (hold Meta, most of the time your Alt key, then "x"). You get a command for a prompt. Enter "query-replace-regexp" And to get help for this function C-h f query-replace-regexp RET To open user manual switch to the help buffer and press

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/28/2024 10:23 PM, Charles Curley wrote: On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 20:53:50 + Michael Kjörling wrote: $ for v in $(seq 1 119); do sed -i 's,,,g' ./*.html; done Be sure to have a copy in case something goes wrong; and diff(1) a few files afterwards to make sure that the result is as you int

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/28/2024 03:53 PM, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 28 Jun 2024 14:04 -0500, from rowl...@access.net (Richard Owlett): I need to replace ANY occurrence of thru [at most] by I'm reformatting a Bible stored in HTML format for a particular set of vision impaired seniors (my

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/28/2024 02:33 PM, Van Snyder wrote: On Fri, 2024-06-28 at 14:04 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Pluma is my editor of choice. *BUT* it can NOT handle Search and Replace operations involving regular expressions. Emacs can. It has much verbose documentation. But examples seem rather scarce.

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/28/2024 02:17 PM, didier gaumet wrote: Le 28/06/2024 à 21:04, Richard Owlett a écrit : Pluma is my editor of choice. *BUT* it can NOT handle Search and Replace operations involving regular expressions. [...] Hello Richard, According to the Mate wiki, Pluma handles regular expressions t