Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-04-18 Thread David Wright
On Thu 17 Apr 2025 at 16:32:26 (+0200), Bernard wrote: > vlc 3.0.21 (Vetinari) – Debian 11 > > ⇒ vlc no longer reckognises nor plays mp4 files ; it now only plays > their audio part : > > « Codec non pris en charge:VLC ne peut pas décoder le format « h264 » > (H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10)) » > >

Re: Limiting attack surface for Debian sshd

2025-04-18 Thread gene heskett
On 4/16/25 03:14, Erwan David wrote: On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 03:16:29AM CEST, Lee said: On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 10:27 AM Dan Purgert wrote: On Apr 14, 2025, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: I wrote: If you sudo systemctl disable cups # and maybe others Actually, if you follow the discussion, the C

Re: Broadcom BCM43228

2025-04-18 Thread Van Snyder
On Fri, 2025-04-18 at 23:29 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 03:50:41PM -0700, Van Snyder wrote: > > I found many pages about how to get the BCM43228 wireless card to > > work > > in Bookworm, but the recommended packages > > > > b43-fwcutter > > broadcom-wl > > broadcom-s

Re: Broadcom BCM43228

2025-04-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 03:50:41PM -0700, Van Snyder wrote: > I found many pages about how to get the BCM43228 wireless card to work > in Bookworm, but the recommended packages > > b43-fwcutter > broadcom-wl > broadcom-sta > combo-wifi-driver-pack > firmware-b43-installer > > are not found. > >

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-04-18 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> The ispy software is something well known, which is available for >> Windows, Mac and Linux. It drives several well known "spy cameras", >> that is, cameras that spy anything unusual in your garden when there >> is no-one at home. If you google search "ispy", you get several pages >> of answers

Broadcom BCM43228

2025-04-18 Thread Van Snyder
I found many pages about how to get the BCM43228 wireless card to work in Bookworm, but the recommended packages b43-fwcutter broadcom-wl broadcom-sta combo-wifi-driver-pack firmware-b43-installer are not found. I have the recommended deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-

Re: Potential bug report for Realtek MicroSD Card Reader

2025-04-18 Thread Anssi Saari
Brandan Ballantyne writes: > Hey Team! This is a list for Debian users. > I'm new to Debian and running the latest Debian 12.10 with > updates. I'm having an issue with my MicroSD card reader and I'm not > sure how to proceed. Looks like you didn't actually specify what the problem is? Your li

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-04-18 Thread debian-user
Bernard wrote: > On 18/04/2025 15:37, songbird wrote: > > wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 04:32:26PM +0200, Bernard wrote: > >>> Hi to Everyone ! > >>> > >>> vlc 3.0.21 (Vetinari) – Debian 11 > >>> > >>> ⇒ vlc no longer reckognises nor plays mp4 files ; it now only > >>> plays their audio

Re: Potential bug report for Realtek MicroSD Card Reader

2025-04-18 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM Marco Moock wrote: > On 18.04.2025 18:50 Uhr Brandan Ballantyne wrote: > > > I'd appreciate any advice handling this or assistance in filing the > > appropriate report with the appropriate team. > > Try a current kernel first. > Enable backports in sources.list, th

Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-04-18 Thread Bernard
Hi to Everyone ! vlc 3.0.21 (Vetinari) – Debian 11 ⇒ vlc no longer reckognises nor plays mp4 files ; it now only plays their audio part : « Codec non pris en charge:VLC ne peut pas décoder le format « h264 » (H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10)) » needless to say that it did work before ! If call

Re: Colored e-mail without using \e[3;91m HTML \e[0m

2025-04-18 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 16:06:07 +0200 (CEST) Roger Price wrote: Hello Roger, >On Thu, 17 Apr 2025, Alain D D Williams wrote: > >> ... when he tries to tell you how to do it > >Very easy for him - he's a manager - he will say "Use software!". >Problem solved. Roger This thread reminds why I le

Re: Colored e-mail without using \e[3;91m HTML \e[0m

2025-04-18 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 4/17/25 5:37 AM, Roger Price wrote: I have been told by the elderly president of a club I belong to that when I write on the club's mailing list, it must be in blue. Have you ever considered the possibility that you are being hazed? -- JHHL

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-04-18 Thread Bernard
On 18/04/2025 15:37, songbird wrote: wrote: On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 04:32:26PM +0200, Bernard wrote: Hi to Everyone ! vlc 3.0.21 (Vetinari) – Debian 11 ⇒ vlc no longer reckognises nor plays mp4 files ; it now only plays their audio part : « Codec non pris en charge:VLC ne peut pas décoder

Potential bug report for Realtek MicroSD Card Reader

2025-04-18 Thread Brandan Ballantyne
Hey Team! I'm new to Debian and running the latest Debian 12.10 with updates. I'm having an issue with my MicroSD card reader and I'm not sure how to proceed. My hardware is identified in lspci as :31:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS525A PCI Express Card

xdf IS solution to "How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?"

2025-04-18 Thread Richard Owlett
On 4/18/25 5:30 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 4/17/25 9:45 PM, David Wright wrote: On Thu 17 Apr 2025 at 14:24:35 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: On 4/16/25 8:35 AM, David Wright wrote: Ironically, a copy/paste from xpdf seems to do a better job than -layout at preserving the columns widths over

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-18 Thread jeremy ardley
On 15/4/25 22:19, Richard Owlett wrote: I don't know how to approach the problem. What I would like to end up with is a CSV formatted file containing the two left columns of Table A4.14 (pages 106&107) of [ https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-files/TFP2021.pdf ]. Sug

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-04-18 Thread songbird
wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 04:32:26PM +0200, Bernard wrote: >> Hi to Everyone ! >> >> vlc 3.0.21 (Vetinari) – Debian 11 >> >> ⇒ vlc no longer reckognises nor plays mp4 files ; it now only plays their >> audio part : >> >> « Codec non pris en charge:VLC ne peut pas décoder le format « h264

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-18 Thread Richard Owlett
On 4/17/25 10:09 PM, jeremy ardley wrote: On 15/4/25 22:19, Richard Owlett wrote: I don't know how to approach the problem. What I would like to end up with is a CSV formatted file containing the two left columns of Table A4.14 (pages 106&107) of [ https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-18 Thread Richard Owlett
On 4/17/25 9:45 PM, David Wright wrote: On Thu 17 Apr 2025 at 14:24:35 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: On 4/16/25 8:35 AM, David Wright wrote: Ironically, a copy/paste from xpdf seems to do a better job than -layout at preserving the columns widths over the page break. (Perhaps the text at the b

Re: replacement for apt-xapian-index?

2025-04-18 Thread Max Nikulin
On 16/04/2025 08:36, Mike Kupfer wrote: I see that apt-xapian-index has been removed from Debian (and it looks like Ubuntu, too). I can't say I entirely understand the reasons for the removal. Perhaps the package has no maintainer. Moreover debtags have been abandoned. After reading your mess

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-18 Thread jeremy ardley
On 18/4/25 15:43, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: I see my colleagues now writing programs with LLMs. I don't look forward to the day I'll have to debug a larger corpus of this mess. Obviously you've never had to herd junior developers. I have had to. It sucks and productivity is woeful due to all

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-18 Thread tomas
On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 01:35:19PM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > > On 18/4/25 13:10, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > I'm not sure if it is mentioned but just take a picture of each page and > > > ask > > > a good Large Language Model to give you a table. > > After this, I'd double-check each indivi