Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Nicolas George
Van Snyder (12024-12-12): > > There is nothing more careless in adding an element to a hash table > > and > > forgetting to remove it than in malloc()ing a memory area and > > forgetting > > to free()it. > In languages that inherently do not leak (unless you are intentionally > careless) Saying it

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-12 Thread gene heskett
On 12/13/24 01:42, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 01:37:46AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: On 12/12/24 22:21, Max Nikulin wrote: On 13/12/2024 01:15, gene heskett wrote: Bus 003 Device 004: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver[...]>    bInterfaceClass 3 Hum

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-12 Thread gene heskett
On 12/13/24 01:36, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 05:38:13PM -0600, David Wright wrote: On Thu 12 Dec 2024 at 12:26:11 (-0700), Charles Curley wrote: On Thu, 12 Dec 2024 13:15:54 -0500 gene heskett wrote: Bus 003 Device 004: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver W

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-12 Thread tomas
On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 01:37:46AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > On 12/12/24 22:21, Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 13/12/2024 01:15, gene heskett wrote: > > > Bus 003 Device 004: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying > > > Receiver[...]>    bInterfaceClass 3 Human Interface > > > Device > >

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-12 Thread gene heskett
On 12/12/24 22:21, Max Nikulin wrote: On 13/12/2024 01:15, gene heskett wrote: Bus 003 Device 004: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver[...]>    bInterfaceClass 3 Human Interface Device    bInterfaceSubClass  1 Boot Interface Subclass    bInterfaceProtocol

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-12 Thread tomas
On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 05:38:13PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 12 Dec 2024 at 12:26:11 (-0700), Charles Curley wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Dec 2024 13:15:54 -0500 > > gene heskett wrote: > > > > > Bus 003 Device 004: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver > > > > Well, that's interestin

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-12 Thread gene heskett
On 12/12/24 22:15, Max Nikulin wrote: On 12/12/2024 15:44, gene heskett wrote: So I wound up finding and rm'ing the executables. Having orca yelling every keystroke at around 130 db, during which time other keystrokes are missed makes using a computer VERY frustrating. Warping your system w

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-12 Thread Max Nikulin
On 13/12/2024 01:15, gene heskett wrote: Bus 003 Device 004: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver[...]>   bInterfaceClass 3 Human Interface Device   bInterfaceSubClass  1 Boot Interface Subclass   bInterfaceProtocol  2 Mouse So it is a HID and should not

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-12 Thread Max Nikulin
On 12/12/2024 15:44, gene heskett wrote: So I wound up finding and rm'ing the executables. Having orca yelling every keystroke at around 130 db, during which time other keystrokes are missed makes using a computer VERY frustrating. Warping your system with a sledgehammer certainly may cause ha

Re: Seeking Resources for Advanced Linux Server Administration

2024-12-12 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 11:39 AM Muhammad Nadeem Anjum wrote: > Dear Timothy, > > Thank you for sharing your experience and mentioning the Linux > Professional Institute (LPI). I’ve heard of LPI before, and it’s great to > know that you’ve already earned their Linux Essentials and Security > Esse

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread George at Clug
On Friday, 13-12-2024 at 11:03 jeremy ardley wrote: > > > On 13/12/24 05:56, Van Snyder wrote: > >> > >> Because finding and fixing memory leaks is *really difficult*.  And not > >> much fun.  And doesn't let you put fancy new blurbs on your "what's new" > >> page. > > > > Some languages have

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Lee
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 7:37 PM Van Snyder wrote: > > On Wed, 2024-12-11 at 23:01 +0200, Henrik Ahlgren wrote: > > On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 04:33 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > On 12/12/24 04:08, Van Snyder wrote: > > What alternatives that aren't such pigs do you recommend? > > You conspicuously omit y

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread jeremy ardley
On 13/12/24 05:56, Van Snyder wrote: Because finding and fixing memory leaks is *really difficult*.  And not much fun.  And doesn't let you put fancy new blurbs on your "what's new" page. Some languages have dynamic-memory facilities that inherently do not leak, unless you are intentionall

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Van Snyder
On Fri, 2024-12-13 at 06:11 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > I am wondering whether the two RAM cards are compatible. I believe they are identical. But I'll check. lshw and dmidecode say only one slot has a working RAM strip installed.

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Van Snyder
On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 23:15 +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Van Snyder (12024-12-12): > > Some languages have dynamic-memory facilities that inherently do > > not > > leak, unless you are intentionally careless. > > There is nothing more careless in adding an element to a hash table > and > forgett

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Van Snyder
On Fri, 2024-12-13 at 06:02 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On 13/12/24 05:41, Bret Busby wrote: > > On 13/12/24 05:36, Van Snyder wrote: > > > On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 12:26 +, > > > debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > > > Van Snyder > > > > wrote: > > > > > After F

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-12 Thread David Wright
On Thu 12 Dec 2024 at 12:26:11 (-0700), Charles Curley wrote: > On Thu, 12 Dec 2024 13:15:54 -0500 > gene heskett wrote: > > > Bus 003 Device 004: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver > > Well, that's interesting. I have one of those; I'm using it right now. > I vaguely recall buying it

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Nicolas George
Van Snyder (12024-12-12): > Some languages have dynamic-memory facilities that inherently do not > leak, unless you are intentionally careless. There is nothing more careless in adding an element to a hash table and forgetting to remove it than in malloc()ing a memory area and forgetting to free()

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Bret Busby
On 13/12/24 06:08, Van Snyder wrote: On Fri, 2024-12-13 at 05:41 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: On 13/12/24 05:36, Van Snyder wrote: On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 12:26 +, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk  wrote: Van Snyder mailto:van.sny...@sbcglobal.net>

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Van Snyder
On Fri, 2024-12-13 at 05:41 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On 13/12/24 05:36, Van Snyder wrote: > > On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 12:26 +, > > debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > > Van Snyder > > > wrote: > > > > After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Bret Busby
On 13/12/24 05:41, Bret Busby wrote: On 13/12/24 05:36, Van Snyder wrote: On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 12:26 +, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: Van Snyder > wrote: After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12.5 gets really slow. The mouse jerks when

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Van Snyder
On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 13:23 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 13:20:28 -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > On Wednesday 11 December 2024 06:00:37 pm Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > This makes memory leaks less common, but when they *do* occur, > > > they're > > > quite difficult t

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Bret Busby
On 13/12/24 05:36, Van Snyder wrote: On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 12:26 +, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: Van Snyder > wrote: After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12.5 gets really slow. The mouse jerks when it works at all. It takes a minute or

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Van Snyder
On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 12:26 +, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Van Snyder wrote: > > After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12.5 gets > > really slow. The mouse jerks when it works at all. It takes a > > minute > > or two for wndows to close or top. At the moment, Firefox

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Karl Vogel
On Wed 11 Dec 2024 at 15:09:28 (-0500), Van Snyder wrote: > After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12.5 gets > really slow. The mouse jerks when it works at all. It takes a minute or > two for wndows to close or top. At the moment, Firefox has 19 processes > running. Memory is half

Re: From SSD to NVME

2024-12-12 Thread Anssi Saari
Michael Stone writes: > As a general matter PCIe devices can/will downgrade... Thanks for the comprehensive reply. Indeed, those single drive adapters are dirt cheap so that's a "why not" buy. It turns out I actually have a free x4 slot and dual SSD adapters using ASM2812 bridges seem pretty ch

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Van Snyder
On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 12:00 +, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > Does your version of Firefox have the task manager feature - here, > (using > FF 115.18.0esr on Windows) that's offered via the application > hamburger > menu (at extreme rhs of toolbar in my FF) - More tools - Task Manager > ... and it runs

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-12 Thread gene heskett
On 12/12/24 13:28, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 01:15:54PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: Bus 003 Device 004: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver Device Descriptor: [...] Thanks, Gene. Unfortunately, I don't see anything supporting my hypothesis. The mystery remain

Re: 1401, was Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Van Snyder
On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 16:53 +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > > > On 12/12/24 16:18, Bret Busby wrote: > > > > > > The first computer I was paid to write software for, in 1966, had > > > 1,400 6-bit characters, not bytes, > > > > Wasn't that data type named EBCDIC, or something like that? > > Tha

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-12 Thread eben
On 12/12/24 14:25, David Christensen wrote: > On 12/12/24 10:15, gene heskett wrote: >> Bus 003 Device 004: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver >> Device Descriptor: > > I would remove the USB receiver, the wireless keyboard, and the wireless > mouse.  Connect a known good wired USB keybo

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 12 Dec 2024 13:15:54 -0500 gene heskett wrote: > Bus 003 Device 004: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver Well, that's interesting. I have one of those; I'm using it right now. I vaguely recall buying it about ten years ago. It works fine for me. However, it is possible that Ge

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-12 Thread David Christensen
On 12/12/24 10:15, gene heskett wrote: Bus 003 Device 004: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver Device Descriptor: I would remove the USB receiver, the wireless keyboard, and the wireless mouse. Connect a known good wired USB keyboard and a known good wired USB mouse. Then try the

Re: From SSD to NVME

2024-12-12 Thread Anssi Saari
Dan Ritter writes: > One of the tests that servethehome.com does in reviewing SSDs is the > write speed after cache saturation: that is, once you have sent enough > gigabytes in a row, what is the ongoing write speed? Thanks, excellent info, I had no idea servethehome does that kind of benchmark

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Dan Ritter
Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > In Firefox, amongst the other add-ons, I have Bluhell Firewall, uBlock > > Origin (I recommend those two , together, as a minimum) , AdBlocker > > Ultimate, AdGuard AdBlocker, AdBlock Plus, and, I think that is all f > > the ab blocking and anti-tracking and gene

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Thursday 12 December 2024 03:18:49 am Bret Busby wrote: > > The first computer I was paid to write software for, in 1966, had 1,400 > > 6-bit characters, not bytes, > > Wasn't that data type named EBCDIC, or something like that? No, that was an 8-bit code... -- Member of the toughest, m

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-12 Thread tomas
On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 01:15:54PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > Bus 003 Device 004: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver > Device Descriptor: [...] Thanks, Gene. Unfortunately, I don't see anything supporting my hypothesis. The mystery remains. Cheers -- t signature.asc Description

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 13:20:28 -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Wednesday 11 December 2024 06:00:37 pm Greg Wooledge wrote: > > This makes memory leaks less common, but when they *do* occur, they're > > quite difficult to find. Usually it means you've accidentally retained > > a reference

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Wednesday 11 December 2024 06:00:37 pm Greg Wooledge wrote: > > and, some software, including > > some web browsers (and, the vile javascript) seem to disregard that > > instruction and its importance, which is kind of like running an internal > > combustion engine without a governor, or, parkin

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-12 Thread gene heskett
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver Device Descriptor:   bLength    18   bDescriptorType 1   bcdUSB   2.00   bDeviceClass    0   bDeviceSubClass 0   bDeviceProtocol 0   bMaxPacketSize0 8   idVendor   

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Wednesday 11 December 2024 05:42:41 pm Bret Busby wrote: > On 12/12/24 06:14, Eric S Fraga wrote: > > > > > However, what depresses me is the number of responses suggesting > > increasing memory etc. It's a sad state of affairs we have reached > > where simple web browsing (and it *should* b

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Wednesday 11 December 2024 05:35:20 pm Bret Busby wrote: > On 12/12/24 06:01, Van Snyder wrote: > > On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 05:32 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > >>> The symptom remains that if I kill firefox and restart it, things run a > >>> lot faster for a few hours, and then bog down again. Been

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-12 Thread David Christensen
On 12/12/24 09:47, gene heskett wrote: On 12/12/24 12:30, David Christensen wrote: So, that mouse is incompatible with d-i.  Use a mouse that is compatible.  I prefer Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical USB and PS/2 Compatible.  They work with every computer and KVM switch I use. They are all logit

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-12 Thread gene heskett
On 12/12/24 12:30, David Christensen wrote: On 12/12/24 00:44, gene heskett wrote: On 12/11/24 23:52, David Christensen wrote: On 12/11/24 17:42, gene heskett wrote: First, I don't own a wired mouse except the serial interfaced one on my now dead from nearly 40 yo caps trs-80 color computer

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread David Christensen
On 12/11/24 21:44, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 12/12/24 00:28, David Christensen wrote: I have installed the NoScript extension in Firefox.  I typically enable only enough JavaScript to get a site working.  YouTube recently changed their site such that videos stall after about a minute if google.com

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-12 Thread tomas
On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 09:29:23AM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > On 12/12/24 00:44, gene heskett wrote: > > > > On 12/11/24 23:52, David Christensen wrote: > > > On 12/11/24 17:42, gene heskett wrote: > > > > First, I don't own a wired mouse except the serial interfaced > > > > one on my now d

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread tomas
On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 02:52:30AM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Hi, > > On 12/12/24 10:16 am, Van Snyder wrote: > > On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 06:42 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > >> I believe that the problem, and, the reason that the Internet (on top of > >> which, runs, or, hobbles along, the World

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-12 Thread David Christensen
On 12/12/24 00:44, gene heskett wrote: On 12/11/24 23:52, David Christensen wrote: On 12/11/24 17:42, gene heskett wrote: First, I don't own a wired mouse except the serial interfaced one on my now dead from nearly 40 yo caps trs-80 color computer I thought you ran a graphical desktop envi

Re: Seeking Resources for Advanced Linux Server Administration

2024-12-12 Thread Muhammad Nadeem Anjum
Dear Timothy, Thank you for sharing your experience and mentioning the Linux Professional Institute (LPI). I’ve heard of LPI before, and it’s great to know that you’ve already earned their Linux Essentials and Security Essentials certifications—congratulations on those achievements! I comple

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 12/12/24 10:16 am, Van Snyder wrote: > On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 06:42 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: >> I believe that the problem, and, the reason that the Internet (on top of >> which, runs, or, hobbles along, the World Wide Web, hobbled by the web >> applications), is the malignant use of javascr

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 6:17 PM Van Snyder wrote: > > After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12.5 gets really > slow. The mouse jerks when it works at all. It takes a minute or two for > wndows to close or top. At the moment, Firefox has 19 processes running. > Memory is half f

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread eben
On 12/12/24 07:11, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > I normally watch Youtube videos in Google Chrome. My experience is > that everything works well except certain live streams -- these will > consume more and more memory until the tab "crashes" with a "something > went wrong" message, and a Reload button.

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-12 Thread gene heskett
On 12/12/24 07:22, Max Nikulin wrote: On 12/12/2024 11:51, David Christensen wrote: Please configure your gateway and/or access points: - Enable WPA2/WPA3 security and set a secure password. - Enable MAC filtering, enter the MAC addresses of your devices, and block all other MAC addresses.

Re: How to enable the fonts in xfonts-terminus?

2024-12-12 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 09:31:16AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > Chris Green wrote: > > I have a program that uses 'real' X bit-mapped fonts. I'm running > > Debian 12. The default installation provides basic bit-mapped X fonts > > but on previous systems I was using the 'terminus' bit-mapped fonts

Re: How to enable the fonts in xfonts-terminus?

2024-12-12 Thread eben
On 12/12/24 04:32, Chris Green wrote: > I have a program that uses 'real' X bit-mapped fonts. I'm running > Debian 12. The default installation provides basic bit-mapped X fonts > but on previous systems I was using the 'terminus' bit-mapped fonts. > > So, I have installed the xfonts-terminus pac

Re: How to enable the fonts in xfonts-terminus?

2024-12-12 Thread Nicolas George
Dan Ritter (12024-12-12): > Everything else involves fun with fontconfig and/or the X font > server and/or `xset fp` For real X11 fonts, if the package is properly done, the fun with xset is just `xset fp rehash`. The `xlsfonts` to see if the fonts are there without relying on the extra layer of

NFS over-NFS

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Re: How to enable the fonts in xfonts-terminus?

2024-12-12 Thread Dan Ritter
Chris Green wrote: > I have a program that uses 'real' X bit-mapped fonts. I'm running > Debian 12. The default installation provides basic bit-mapped X fonts > but on previous systems I was using the 'terminus' bit-mapped fonts. > > So, I have installed the xfonts-terminus package but the extr

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread John Hasler
Greg Wooledge writes: > I normally watch Youtube videos in Google Chrome. My experience is > that everything works well except certain live streams -- these will > consume more and more memory until the tab "crashes" with a "something > went wrong" message, and a Reload button. Pressing the Reloa

Media newbie meets VLC was [Re: Audacious media player - help using GUI]

2024-12-12 Thread Richard Owlett
On 12/10/24 7:01 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 12/10/24 11:30 AM, ghe2001 wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I'm using Debian 12.8 with MATE 1.26.0 I date back to days of Z80 systems using CPM. Never had need for audio. Now have lectures I want to listen to and was referred

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Thu, 12 Dec 2024, at 12:18, Bret Busby wrote: > On 12/12/24 20:00, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: >> Does your version of Firefox have the task manager feature... > > Thank you for that. I have not previously been aware of that. Each time Firefox updates itself (when I allow it to, that is) I use: Hel

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread debian-user
Van Snyder wrote: > After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12.5 gets > really slow. The mouse jerks when it works at all. It takes a minute > or two for wndows to close or top. At the moment, Firefox has 19 > processes running. Memory is half full, and swap is about 10% used. > Wh

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-12 Thread Max Nikulin
On 12/12/2024 11:51, David Christensen wrote: Please configure your gateway and/or access points: - Enable WPA2/WPA3 security and set a secure password. - Enable MAC filtering, enter the MAC addresses of your devices, and block all other MAC addresses. MAC filtering adds almost nothing to pr

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Bret Busby
On 12/12/24 20:00, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: Does your version of Firefox have the task manager feature - here, (using FF 115.18.0esr on Windows) that's offered via the application hamburger menu (at extreme rhs of toolbar in my FF) - More tools - Task Manager ... and it runs in one tab a monitor

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 00:44:06 -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote: > On 12/12/24 00:28, David Christensen wrote: > > > > I have installed the NoScript extension in Firefox.  I typically enable only > > enough JavaScript to get a site working.  YouTube recently changed their > > site such that videos stall

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Thu, 12 Dec 2024, at 01:20, Van Snyder wrote: > On Wed, 2024-12-11 at 18:42 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: >> > You have four times the RAM of the OP. 4G is incredibly marginal >> spec >> > for a desktop 2024. > > The first computer I was paid to write software for, in 1966, had 1,400 > 6-bit chara

Re: PC monitor is freezing, but I can ssh into it and operate okay

2024-12-12 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 18:42 wrote: ..l If you think something is actually running and the monitor's in some > power-saving state, you can use "ddccontrol" to change the power-saving > state. Here's how I turn each monitor off and on in turn (in sh): ... Looks pretty hairy ;-D Thanks, ebe, I

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 1:17 AM Greg Marks wrote: > > After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12.5 gets > > really slow. The mouse jerks when it works at all. It takes a minute or > > two for wndows to close or top. At the moment, Firefox has 19 processes > > running. Memory is ha

How to enable the fonts in xfonts-terminus?

2024-12-12 Thread Chris Green
I have a program that uses 'real' X bit-mapped fonts. I'm running Debian 12. The default installation provides basic bit-mapped X fonts but on previous systems I was using the 'terminus' bit-mapped fonts. So, I have installed the xfonts-terminus package but the extra terminus fonts haven't becom

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Yassine Chaouche
Le 12/11/24 à 21:08, Van Snyder a écrit : After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12.5 gets really slow. The mouse jerks when it works at all. It takes a minute or two for wndows to close or top. At the moment, Firefox has 19 processes running. Memory is half full, and swap is

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Eric S Fraga
Response below/inline for email Greg Wooledge wrote: > (original email sent 11 Dec 2024 at 18:04) > > Sure, but there's nothing we can do about that. Thus, we can only > recommend workarounds that are within our power. Oh, indeed. I wasn't attempting to shoot the messengers, just the state of a

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread jeremy ardley
On 12/12/24 16:18, Bret Busby wrote: The first computer I was paid to write software for, in 1966, had 1,400 6-bit characters, not bytes, Wasn't that data type named EBCDIC, or something like that? That would be 6 bit BCD - a precursor to EBCDIC which was an IBM 8 bit encoding most com

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Bret Busby
On 12/12/24 13:44, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 12/12/24 00:28, David Christensen wrote: I have installed the NoScript extension in Firefox.  I typically enable only enough JavaScript to get a site working.  YouTube recently changed their site such that videos stall after about a minute if google.com

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-12 Thread gene heskett
On 12/11/24 23:52, David Christensen wrote: On 12/11/24 17:42, gene heskett wrote: First, I don't own a wired mouse except the serial interfaced one on my now dead from nearly 40 yo caps trs-80 color computer I thought you ran a graphical desktop environment (?).  Doing so without a point

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Bret Busby
On 12/12/24 09:20, Van Snyder wrote: On Wed, 2024-12-11 at 18:42 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > You have four times the RAM of the OP. 4G is incredibly marginal spec > for a desktop 2024. The first computer I was paid to write software for, in 1966, had 1,400 6-bit characters, not bytes, Wa