Re: no space left on device

2025-01-20 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jan 20, 2025, Adam Weremczuk wrote: > Hi all, > > An update on my struggle. > > I followed the extfat path but I likely somehow make a noobish mistake > and a partition was not created... > > Despite that, I was able to mount it an copy all the data across to it! > > Now when I try to mount

Re: nvidia driver not loaded after install

2025-01-15 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jan 15, 2025, Anil F Duggirala wrote: > I am trying to install the Nvidia driver on my Dell XPS 9550 fresh > Debian 12 machine. > > [ 16.905450] Loading of module with unavailable key is rejected > ... > > Can anyone please help me out. Getting Debian to work in this laptop > has been a big

Re: Mass storage sizes (was: /dev/serial/by-id)

2025-01-10 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jan 09, 2025, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM Michael Stone wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 09:47:11PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > > >For the people who need exact figures, on the other hand, binary units > > >are much more convenient, not just to measure

Re: Mass storage sizes

2025-01-09 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jan 09, 2025, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > For example...let's take the 18B drive discussed earlier. That's > > 18TB or 16TiB. Annoying, but ok. Now that's also 18000MB but 16763MiB. And > > it's 1800MB or 17166137MiB. So if you have a display in MB and you want > > to know the valu

Re: Mass storage sizes (was: /dev/serial/by-id)

2025-01-07 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jan 07, 2025, Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 10:44:00AM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Jan 07, 2025, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > > 8 TB is not that big. I have a external 18 TB drive. It is 18 TB in name > > > > only though! After fromating

Re: Mass storage sizes (was: /dev/serial/by-id)

2025-01-07 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jan 07, 2025, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > 8 TB is not that big. I have a external 18 TB drive. It is 18 TB in name > > only though! After fromating it with ext4 it only had 15TB of usuable > > space. > > 18TB "on paper" is usually 18 * 1000^4 bytes, so if you convert this > into "computer units"

Re: Hardware Error Messages

2025-01-06 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jan 06, 2025, Michael wrote: >- I have a Debian Bullseye desktop PC. From time to time I receive >several Hardware Error Messages which begin with a Hardware Error Message >of the form :- > > Message from syslogd@piglit at Jan 5 02:49:03 ... > kernel:[1064021.151590] [Hardware Err

Re: seeking new laser printer [solved, mostly]

2024-12-31 Thread Dan Purgert
On Dec 31, 2024, e...@gmx.us wrote: > On 12/31/24 07:44, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Dec 30, 2024, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > >> 2. I have a virtualbox Windows XP machine. With the HP printer, it > >> worked through CUPS and needed to find /dev/lp0. So I just mad

Re: seeking new laser printer [solved, mostly]

2024-12-31 Thread Dan Purgert
On Dec 30, 2024, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > On December 7, 2024 4:21 PM, I wrote: > > > If you are able, please recommend a black-and-white Postscript laser > > printer that will work well with Debian (Bookworm). ... > > With advice from the group, I bought a Brother DCP-L2640DW driverles

Re: sudo fails to save IPTables rules

2024-12-23 Thread Dan Purgert
On Dec 23, 2024, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > sudo fails with a permission denied error. > tmb@hp-debian:~$ sudo /usr/sbin/iptables-save > /etc/iptables/rules.v4 > bash: /etc/iptables/rules.v4: Permission denied "sudo" only modifies "iptables-save", and not the redirect (it happens as your user,

Re: Where is my Brave executable

2024-12-23 Thread Dan Purgert
On Dec 23, 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Dec 23, 2024 at 06:24:56 -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Dec 22, 2024, Arbol One wrote: > > > In my Debian 12, I used snap to install Brave. > > > > Does anyone know the directory for the Brave executable? > >

Re: Where is my Brave executable

2024-12-23 Thread Dan Purgert
On Dec 22, 2024, Arbol One wrote: > Hello. > > In my Debian 12, I used snap to install Brave. To select it as browser in > Netbeans I need to know the location of the executable. > Does anyone know the directory for the Brave executable? Assuming you installed it from *deb package, I'd imagine "/

Re: Multi seat. Was Debian versions

2024-11-11 Thread Dan Purgert
On Nov 11, 2024, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 13:33:08 +0100, Roger Price wrote: > > > I'm guessing "version". How about Debian 12 (bookworm). Have you > > > read https://wiki.debian.org/Multi_Seat_Debian_HOWTO ? > > > > Oh. I've learne

Re: [solved, more] Re: Grub menu entry for a system on a second drive.

2024-11-04 Thread Dan Purgert
On Nov 02, 2024, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: pe...@easthope.ca > Date: 27 Oct 2024 11:26:12 -0700 > > Rather than spend more time investigating, will put the HDD in the > > target machine and work there. Remove some of the complications. > > Happened to connect a USB hub before deal

Re: STRANGENESS (typographical error???) at http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/README

2024-10-17 Thread Dan Purgert
On Oct 17, 2024, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 10/17/2024 08:39 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Oct 17, 2024, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > While trying to follow a discussion involving a deeply nested debian.org > > > sub-directory, I attempted to find the purpo

Re: STRANGENESS (typographical error???) at http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/README

2024-10-17 Thread Dan Purgert
On Oct 17, 2024, Richard Owlett wrote: > While trying to follow a discussion involving a deeply nested debian.org > sub-directory, I attempted to find the purpose of that sub-directory by > following a chain of links titled "Parent Directory". > > That led to http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ whose

Re: Updating from Debian 9.13 to 12.7

2024-10-14 Thread Dan Purgert
On Oct 13, 2024, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 10/13/2024 04:57 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 12, 2024 at 08:27:55AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > It has been my habit since days of Squeeze to install the new Debian to a > > > fresh fresh partition and then use Grub to chose which

Re: Debian and open source scroungers

2024-10-11 Thread Dan Purgert
On Oct 11, 2024, Andre Rodier wrote: > [...] > Please, tell me what are your thoughts on this. Am I too pessimistic ? Are > you, like me, thinking these companies as open source "scroungers" ? I think it's more that "companies" tend to need assurances (i.e. someone to call and blame when [insert s

Re: password manager

2024-10-08 Thread Dan Purgert
On Oct 08, 2024, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > what are y'alls recommendations for a password manager keepassxc here. -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: DDAB 23FB 19FA 7D85 1CC1 E067 6D65 70E5 4CE7 2860 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Synaptic Problem

2024-10-03 Thread Dan Purgert
On Oct 03, 2024, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > 1. (sudo) dpkg -i brscan4-0.4.11-1.amd64.deb > > 2. (sudo) apt-get update && apt-get -f install > > Of course, such manual install of `.deb` files means that you won't > automatically get future updates, e.g. to fix security bugs. Given our friends a

Re: Synaptic Problem

2024-10-03 Thread Dan Purgert
On Oct 03, 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Oct 03, 2024 at 10:53:30 -0400, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Oct 03, 2024, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > > When I ran linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.4-1 it downloaded: > > > > > > > [...] $

Re: Synaptic Problem

2024-10-03 Thread Dan Purgert
On Oct 03, 2024, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > > On 10/03/2024 09:17 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Oct 03, 2024, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > > I am running Bookworm and have just updated the Brother MFC-L2710DW Laser > > > Printer Drivers. > > > [...]

Re: Synaptic Problem

2024-10-03 Thread Dan Purgert
On Oct 03, 2024, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I am running Bookworm and have just updated the Brother MFC-L2710DW Laser > Printer Drivers. > [...] > > E: The package brscan4 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an > > archive for it. > > E: Internal error opening cache (1). Please report. brs

Re: backup of backup or alternating backups?

2024-10-02 Thread Dan Purgert
On Sep 30, 2024, Default User wrote: > (...) > So, is there a consensus on which would be better:  > 1) continue to "mirror" drive A to drive B? > or, > 2) alternate backups daily between drives A and B? Primarily, I do (1); though every so often I do a variation of (2). Backups from all the PCs

Re: Is "How-To use MATE" documented?

2024-09-05 Thread Dan Purgert
On Sep 05, 2024, Richard Owlett wrote: > I found: > I need to know how icons are placed on the default screen which > displays the contents of "/home/richard/.config/Desktop". > > Placement is where ever cursor happens to to be. > How can I get them into nice even rows and columns. Isn't that bas

Re: DEBIAN documentation: which 64 bit processors run current release?

2024-08-27 Thread Dan Purgert
On Aug 27, 2024, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm looking for for where *Debian* documents which processors support > current Debian release. > > I have three machines whose processors are 64 bit capable. > Processors identified by running lscpu: > > Machine 1: > Architecture: i686 > Model name: Int

Re: domain status in registry and registrar

2024-08-19 Thread Dan Purgert
On Aug 19, 2024, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 03:49:11PM +0800, Wesley wrote: > > First of all, I apologize for my lack of knowledge about the domain name > > registration industry. > > No need. We all stumble in the dark :-) > > > I checked a domain name, datafarm.net, and i

Re: stop using APT!

2024-08-14 Thread Dan Purgert
On Aug 14, 2024, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Stop using apt, apt support for mysql is so poor! > > What does that mean? I think it means the person doesn't understand that mysql is dead. -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: DDAB 23FB 19FA 7D85 1CC1 E067 6D65 70E5

Re: Internet facing Firewalls mDNS UPnP SMB

2024-08-05 Thread Dan Purgert
On Aug 04, 2024, George at Clug wrote: > > > On Sunday, 04-08-2024 at 16:15 john doe wrote: > > On 8/4/24 06:48, jeremy ardley wrote: > > > > > > On 4/08/2024 12:26 pm, George at Clug wrote: > > >> > > >> If I go to the local coffee shop and connect my laptop to their WiFi, > > >> which incoming

Re: umask - default user settings?

2024-07-16 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 16, 2024, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > Somehow I'm glad I stayed away from DEs and systemd up to now. Perhaps I > > just retire before the alternatives aren't viable anymore. Or perhaps, as > > with PulseAudio, I can leapfrog that "tech". > > Retirement is no

Re: General questions

2024-07-11 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 11, 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 17:23:43 +0500, 타토카 wrote: > > But, what do you mean: "Because you haven't established a chain of trust > > from yourself to any of the signatures." > > Imagine someone walks up to you on the street and hands you a contract, > which i

Re: Results of Testmail_1-3

2024-07-04 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 04, 2024, Hans wrote: > So, these are th eresults: > > 1. A new created maiil does not have a spam tag. > > 2. Reply to my own mail does also not have a spam tag. > > 3. Reply to any user mail DOES have a spam tag. > > So it looks like there is something , which some mailservers do not l

Re: inconsistency in the symlinks under /etc/systemd

2024-04-10 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 10, 2024, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Hi, > > On one machine, I have > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 2023-10-07 13:43:24 > /etc/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/dm-event.socket -> > /lib/systemd/system/dm-event.socket > > and on another one, I have > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 2024-01-0

Re: ata6.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x100)

2024-01-12 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jan 12, 2024, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > In one of my new machines, I have a DVD+/-RW drive. There were > no issues on January 8 and 9. But today, I'm getting > > ata6.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x100) > > errors at boot time. > [...] > > Any idea? It's an I/O error between

Re: 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors How worried should I be?

2024-01-02 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jan 02, 2024, Charles Curley wrote: > I have a brand new NVME device, details below, in a brand new computer. > smartd just started returning pending sector errors. Means you've got "N" bad sector(s) on the drive. It happens, even on new drives. > > A recent extended (long) test run since th

Re: Help: network abuse

2023-12-21 Thread Dan Purgert
On Dec 21, 2023, Alain D D Williams wrote: > My home PC is receiving, for hours at a time, 12-30 kB/s input > traffic. This is unsolicited. I do not know what it is trying to > achieve but suspect no good. It is also eating my broadband > allowance. > > Questions: > > • What is going on ? Looks

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-20 Thread Dan Purgert
On Dec 19, 2023, Felix Miata wrote: > Alexander V. Makartsev composed on 2023-12-19 11:37 (UTC-0500): > > > local10 wrote: > > >> I have several mice that went bad with the same defect: they > >> sometimes generate two single clicks very quickly (say, within > >> 10-20ms) instead of a single clic

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-19 Thread Dan Purgert
On Dec 19, 2023, local10 wrote: > I have several mice that went bad with the same defect: they sometimes > generate two single clicks very quickly (say, within 10-20ms) instead > of a single click. > > With reference to the above, is there a way or setting to force > several mouse clicks within a

Re: Could not find interfaces configuration file /etc/network/interfaces in Debian Linux 11 (bullseye)

2023-12-07 Thread Dan Purgert
On Dec 07, 2023, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2023 at 03:52:20PM +, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming > wrote: > > [...] > > > Problem > > = > > > > On 6 Dec 2023, our client discovered that their UDM Pro could not perform > > firmware updates automatically. Their UDM Pr

Re: ntpsec as server questions

2023-12-04 Thread Dan Purgert
On Dec 04, 2023, gene heskett wrote: > [...] > So here on coyote: date -u: > Mon Dec 4 15:47:44 UTC 2023 > but on mkspi: date -u: > Mon 04 Dec 2023 03:47:16 PM UTC > [...] > > WTH? Where is that false 12 hour offset coming from? Coyote seems to use the standard output of 'date' (in 24-hour cloc

Re: time question, as in ntp?

2023-12-01 Thread Dan Purgert
On Dec 01, 2023, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Dec 01, 2023 at 08:20:57AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > You claim I don't have to do anything to that printer machine, so I > > installed the ICC server here. I have done zip to the dhcpd.conf which looks > > as it it is fully disabled. Assuming I w

Re: time question, as in ntp?

2023-12-01 Thread Dan Purgert
On Dec 01, 2023, gene heskett wrote: > [lotsa snipping ... ] > > You claim I don't have to do anything to that printer machine, so I > installed the ICC server here. I have done zip to the dhcpd.conf which > looks as it it is fully disabled. Assuming I want a pool of 16 > addresses, say from 192.1

Re: time question, as in ntp?

2023-12-01 Thread Dan Purgert
On Dec 01, 2023, gene heskett wrote: > On 11/30/23 23:18, Max Nikulin wrote: > > [...] > > What I see in your messages are false claims, e.g. that DHCP addresses > > are unstable. DHCP servers *may* be configured to assign fixed addresses > > to particular clients. > > > My ISP does that, so my ex

Re: time question, as in ntp?

2023-12-01 Thread Dan Purgert
On Dec 01, 2023, gene heskett wrote: > On 12/1/23 05:41, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Nov 30, 2023, gene heskett wrote: > > > On 11/30/23 22:07, John Hasler wrote: > > > > Gene writes: > > > > > let me clarify: This buster machine acting like a 3d printer

Re: time question, as in ntp?

2023-12-01 Thread Dan Purgert
On Nov 30, 2023, gene heskett wrote: > On 11/30/23 22:07, John Hasler wrote: > > Gene writes: > > > let me clarify: This buster machine acting like a 3d printer does NOT > > > have dhcpcd installed. No trace of it in /etc Only dhcp. > > > > I'm sure it's running dhclient. do > > > > ls /etc

Re: time question, as in ntp?

2023-11-30 Thread Dan Purgert
On Nov 29, 2023, gene heskett wrote: > On 11/29/23 21:40, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Nov 2023 20:53:19 -0500 > > gene heskett wrote: > > > > > > A changing network is exactly what dhcp is for. With it you will > > > > not need to do anything when you add a machine. > > > > > > Does it

Re: time question, as in ntp?

2023-11-30 Thread Dan Purgert
On Nov 29, 2023, gene heskett wrote: > On 11/29/23 20:20, John Hasler wrote: > > Gene writes: > > > I've been told that /etc/network/interfaces is not the "today way" to > > > do it. > > > > It works fine. > > > > > Then [dhcp is] something else I'll have to maintain as my network > > > grows, >

Re: time question, as in ntp?

2023-11-30 Thread Dan Purgert
On Nov 30, 2023, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 30/11/2023 05:53, Dan Purgert wrote: > > Avahi BS? APIPA ("A"utomatic "P"rivate "IP" "A"ddressing) is not > > avahi/mDNS (aka Bonjour / Zeroconf). > > > > Your DHCP client giving you an AP

Re: time question, as in ntp?

2023-11-30 Thread Dan Purgert
On Nov 29, 2023, gene heskett wrote: > On 11/29/23 17:52, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Nov 29, 2023, gene heskett wrote: > > > On 11/29/23 14:03, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 01:17:18PM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: > > > > > '

Re: time question, as in ntp?

2023-11-29 Thread Dan Purgert
On Nov 29, 2023, gene heskett wrote: > On 11/29/23 14:03, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 01:17:18PM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: > > > 'ntpd' I think (or is it systemd-timed or something like that nowadays?) > > > > Gene's system is

Re: time question, as in ntp?

2023-11-29 Thread Dan Purgert
On Nov 29, 2023, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 01:17:18PM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: > > 'ntpd' I think (or is it systemd-timed or something like that nowadays?) > > Gene's system is running some derivative of buster (Debian 10). > If I remember

Re: time question, as in ntp?

2023-11-29 Thread Dan Purgert
On Nov 29, 2023, gene heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I have a 3d printer, an arm64 controller running ambian buster > it has an address of 169.254.xx.xx/16 > it can ping this machine but something is killing full net access, so it > can't set its time. The address range 169.254.0.0/16 is API

Re: unexpected behavior

2023-11-28 Thread Dan Purgert
On Nov 27, 2023, Daniel Rodriguez wrote: > > Context: I have Debian 11 in a HDD and Windows 11 in a SSD. Initially, the > first running disk was my SSD. > Event: when I switched to HDD and Debian booted, this applied an > update and restarted as usual. Later it entered the BIOS setting on > its own

Re: dedicated IP

2023-11-28 Thread Dan Purgert
On Nov 28, 2023, Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 06:42:53PM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Nov 27, 2023, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > > > NORPVPN is software that installs a VPN.  Not really trying to solve a > > > problem just securing

Re: dedicated IP

2023-11-27 Thread Dan Purgert
On Nov 27, 2023, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > NORPVPN is software that installs a VPN.  Not really trying to solve a > problem just securing my machine against intruders.  My understanding of a > dedicated IP means I will always have the same IP. Well, a VPN doesn't "secure your machine against intru

Re: Performance of my computer

2023-10-30 Thread Dan Purgert
On Oct 30, 2023, Van Snyder wrote: > On Mon, 2023-10-30 at 19:40 +, piorunz wrote: > > On 30/10/2023 18:56, Van Snyder wrote: > > > Firefox, in every version I've used so far, appears to have > > > memoryleaks. If I kill it, not by clicking its little "X" or Alt- > > > F4, but with"kill -9", so

Re: Domain name to use on home networks; was: Bookworm:NetworkManager

2023-10-25 Thread Dan Purgert
On Oct 26, 2023, jeremy ardley wrote: > > On 26/10/23 07:24, David Wright wrote: > > > Or if you already have a domain, you can use a subdomain. eg. I have > > > rail.eu.org, and at home it is depot.rail.eu.org > > I'm not sure how that would work when my home network > > is on a different contine

Re: Which Network Controller Card handling Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, etc., connectivities, is GNU/Linux Approved/certified, and would be (1) compatible with my HP laptop's motherboard, and (2) could replace t

2023-10-24 Thread Dan Purgert
On Oct 24, 2023, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > [...] > -Product- > Name : HP Notebook (Hewlett-Packard, www.hp.com) > Family: 103C_5335KV G=N L=CON B=HP (Hewlett-Packard, > www.hp.com) > Vendor: Hewlett-Packard (Hewlett-Packard, www.hp.com) > HP are generally ve

Re: cli_ how to find_ firefox versions available in all suites

2023-10-21 Thread Dan Purgert
On Oct 21, 2023, జిందం వాఐి wrote: > * i want to check package versions > available in various suites [ stable, testing, > experimental, etc.. ] using cli > * for example_ firefox As far as I'm aware, the only real option here would be a web-browser (e.g. lynx or elinks) to check https://packages.

Re: Need help with PGP signature verification

2023-10-08 Thread Dan Purgert
On Oct 08, 2023, Tom Browder wrote: > On Sun, Oct 8, 2023 at 3:29 AM DdB > wrote: > > Am 08.10.2023 um 01:16 schrieb Tom Browder: > > > I'm willing to trust published PGP key fingerprints for signers of > > > Rakudo downloadable files. > > > Question: How can I get the fingerprint from the downlo

Re: Debian on Ubiquiti Edgerouter Lite?

2023-09-12 Thread Dan Purgert
On Sep 12, 2023, Christian Groessler wrote: > Hello Group, > > is there a Debian version which could be installed on mentioned > Edgerouter? Yes, sort of -- their firmware is (was) a custom Debian (iirc, stretch). Quick check of their site https://ui.com/download/software/erlite3 shows that they

Re: bug report question

2023-09-07 Thread Dan Purgert
On Sep 07, 2023, duh_gently...@simplelogin.com wrote: > Thank you for your advice! No problem. > > lspci says: > 00:01.3 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models > 00h-0fh) PCIe GPP Bridge Okay so it's the root PCI bridge on the motherboard. Are there any BIOS/UEFI upd

Re: bug report question

2023-09-07 Thread Dan Purgert
On Sep 07, 2023, duh_gently...@simplelogin.com wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to submit a bug, but I'm not quite sure which package it > should be. > I could not find anything similar in the bugtracker. > > The problem occurs every 10-20 times. After the system has been suspended > and then resumed

Re: file server

2023-07-12 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 12, 2023, gene heskett wrote: > On 7/12/23 06:01, Stanislav Vlasov wrote: > > ср, 12 июл. 2023 г. в 14:45, lina : > > [...] > > 2 (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAIDhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID) > Unfortunately, I'm getting wikipedia's fancy 403 at that link? Seems it was doubled-

Re: Fwd: Problem verifying iso file

2023-06-23 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jun 23, 2023, Thomas George wrote: > I thought I had posted this to the debianlist but somehow it seems to have > been posted to myself [...] > > What am i doing wrong? > [...] > I tried md5sum SHA512SUMS.txt SHA512SUMS.sign.txt If you're trying to verify the signature on the checksum file, yo

Re: Replacing a Motherboard and CPU

2023-06-06 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jun 06, 2023, Mick Ab wrote: > If I replace a motherboard in a desktop PC with a motherboard of the same > model and manufacturer, do I need to do anything apart from reconnecting > everything and possibly updating the BIOS ? Might need to update / reinstall GRUB, thanks to secureboot / MOK key

Re: netmask question

2023-05-23 Thread Dan Purgert
On May 23, 2023, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Dan Purgert wrote: > > On May 22, 2023, gene heskett wrote: > > > I don't see it, 255 is all 8 bits set, 256 is all 8 bits cleared > > > and carry set. > > > > In "natural counting", 2^8

Re: netmask question

2023-05-22 Thread Dan Purgert
On May 22, 2023, gene heskett wrote: > On 5/22/23 15:04, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 12:16:09PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > On 5/22/23 03:32, Tim Woodall wrote: > > > > On Mon, 22 May 2023, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > > > > >  number; for (human) display it is su

Re: User is not in the sudoers file

2023-05-08 Thread Dan Purgert
On May 08, 2023, Igor Korot wrote: > Hi, ALL, > Is there a reason for the default install > I immediately get the error in the subj? You likely created a root account during the initial setup. Doing that skips over adding the first user (created during install) to sudoers (i.e. "the operator crea

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-11 Thread Dan Purgert
On Aug 10, 2022, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wednesday, August 10, 2022 04:12:11 AM Curt wrote: > > I never realized that local addresses were fundamentally identical in all > > local networks because there weren't enough addresses in the first > > place, and that NAT was essentially designed to

Re: Need working repo for Deb7 - wheezy

2022-08-05 Thread Dan Purgert
On Aug 05, 2022, Karthik Jeyabalan wrote: > Team Debian, > > We have few machines running EOL Debian 7- Wheezy and tried to connect > deb repo by using below in sources.list, but they are not working. Can > you please help to provide the working repo. As far as I am aware, the repos are pulled do

Re: SSH resources, specifically on certificates (certificate authentication)

2022-07-13 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 13, 2022, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 13 Jul 2022 at 18:40:18 (-0400), Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Jul 13, 2022, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > I seem to have gone down a rabbit hole. > > > > > > I want(ed?) to set up ssh on my LAN using certi

Re: SSH resources, specifically on certificates (certificate authentication)

2022-07-13 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 13, 2022, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I seem to have gone down a rabbit hole. > > I want(ed?) to set up ssh on my LAN using certificate authentication, and am > having a lot of trouble finding the information I need / would like to have. Which is what, exactly? Other than the "active mai

Re: Dependency bug demonstrated???? - was [Re: Problems with custom install of MATE]

2022-03-08 Thread Dan Purgert
On Mar 08, 2022, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Before I retired I spent decades in customer and engineering support. > > Became familiar clashing desires and corner cases. > > I wasn't looking at X needing a DM, but rather that if the DE {MATE in my > > case} was going to be useful it had to start [pre

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

2020-08-01 Thread Dan Purgert
On Aug 01, 2020, deloptes wrote: > David Christensen wrote: > > > I have residential VDSL service from AT&T.  Fortunately, AT&T does not > > block port 22, AT&T assigned an IPv4 address for my WAN connection, and > > the address has never changed. > > The OP is asking about dynamic IP, no? Techn

Re: Remote terminal: xterm -e ssh vs. ssh xterm

2020-04-28 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 28, 2020, Steve Keller wrote: > What are best practices to create a remote terminal? I see to ways: > Create a local terminal emulator and run ssh to the remote host in > that or call ssh to run the terminal emulator on the remote host, > i.e. > > xterm -e ssh -X or ssh -X

Re: Jitsi (was Re: Please help me find a good Debian compatible video card).

2020-04-27 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 27, 2020, Dan Ritter wrote: > [...] > If I recall correctly, all that's needed is a SIP account with a > PSTN bridge company, so you might find that voip.ms or 8x8 or > any number of other companies might fill that need for a > reasonable price. That might be exactly what I was looking for

Re: Jitsi (was Re: Please help me find a good Debian compatible video card).

2020-04-27 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 27, 2020, Nicolas George wrote: > Dan Purgert (12020-04-27): > > I tried it locally (with a LOCAL instance running) and it worked quite > > nicely for half a dozen PCs / laptops around the house. > > Oh, interesting. > > Have you found a good set of instructio

Re: Jitsi (was Re: Please help me find a good Debian compatible video card).

2020-04-27 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 25, 2020, Kenneth Parker wrote: > I couldn't help noticing your .sig reference to Jitsi. There were threads > about it, as a good replacement for Zoom. Also, there is a strong need in > another online community that I belong to. > > How is your experience with a "room" with, say about 10

Re: Kind reminder: please don't reply to and/or quote spam, ever

2020-04-21 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 20, 2020, Russell L. Harris wrote: > [...] > Neo-mutt documentation led me to believe that there is a "b" command > (or something of the sort) for BOUNCE; but I did not find it, perhaps > because I use the "Classic Dvorak" keymap. I then discovered that > commands not tied to a key can be

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-14 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 14, 2020, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 08:21:14 -0400 > Dan Purgert wrote: > > Hello Dan, > > >Mine actually says "tested only in Lynx, if it doesn't look right in > >your preferred CLI browser, let me know" :) > > Which is fi

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-14 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 14, 2020, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 05:52:48 -0400 > Dan Purgert wrote: > > Hello Dan, > > >"Works best with Internet Explorer" :D > > That sort of statement on a web site is coming back. :-( Mine actually says "tested only

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-14 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 14, 2020, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 14 apr 20, 08:19:50, Curt wrote: > > On 2020-04-14, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > > It doesn't matter much as nobody is proposing to replace debian-user > > > with Discourse. > > > > Nobody but Neil McGovern himself. > > > > https://lists.debian.

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-14 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 13, 2020, John Hasler wrote: > Kenneth Parker writes: > > On a Laptop of mine, I have an old version of Firefox, with the > > "NoScript" add-on. I wonder how it would work there. > > Works ok for a casual test. I have no acount so I have no idea how it > would work for posting, though. >

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-13 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 13, 2020, Sven Hartge wrote: > Dan Purgert wrote: >> [...] > > TS was basically *required* while in a big engagement though. If you > > weren't on TS, you weren't in the raid / fleet / whatever the game at > > hand called it. > > I think the TS

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-13 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 13, 2020, Sven Hartge wrote: > Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Apr 13, 2020, Sven Hartge wrote: > > >> And I've also witnissed this in other contexts, be it in an > >> Enterprise setup (where one group flocks to Confluence and the other > >> stay i

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-13 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 13, 2020, Michael Howard wrote: > On 13/04/2020 19:18, Sven Hartge wrote: > > Michael Howard wrote: > > > On 13/04/2020 17:49, John Hasler wrote: > > > > Michael Howard writes: > > > > > In your opinion. Total rubbish in my opinion. Far better to have > > > > > more channels open than just

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-13 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 13, 2020, Curt wrote: > On 2020-04-13, Sven Hartge wrote: > >> Sorry, which different pools are you refering to? > > > > Different pools of people. > > There could be a channel to connect the pools. Then people could row > from one to the other. Unfortunately, that rarely seems to happen.

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-13 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 13, 2020, Sven Hartge wrote: > Nate Bargmann wrote: > > [...] > And I've also witnissed this in other contexts, be it in an Enterprise > setup (where one group flocks to Confluence and the other stay in the > mailinglist) or a MMO guild, where one group prefers to converse in > Teamspeak a

Re: Moderation (not!) [was: Debian is testing Discourse]

2020-04-13 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 13, 2020, John Hasler wrote: > Brad writes: > > Most web forums don't have email capability though. Only discourse > > and groups.io that I know of have it. > > Though described as a mailing list manager Sympa has a full Web > interface that might satisfy email-phobic millennials. Thank C

Re: Moderation (not!) [was: Debian is testing Discourse]

2020-04-13 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 13, 2020, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 08:23:40AM -, Curt wrote: > > On 2020-04-13, wrote: > > > > > > It is as easy to moderate a mailing list as it is a platform la > > > discourse. So this isn't a criterion to decide between both. > > > > It is, on the contrary

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-13 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 13, 2020, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > [...] > If the interface is as good as google mail in browser, I won't last long; > maybe 2 minutes. It makes gmail look good. -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281 sig

Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation?

2020-04-12 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 12, 2020, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > [...] > No, I think the only (small) edge free operating systems have over > the rest of the pack is that, on average, their users tend to be > more curious (and, as a result, educated). Don't forget "distrustful of the 'this is way better for you tha

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 12, 2020, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > On Sunday, 12 April 2020 09:21:42 -04 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Du, 12 apr 20, 11:10:22, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > I know I will be out here. > > > > I seriously doubt this (or any) mailing list will be shut down as long > > as there is significant act

Re: Small Open Source Digital Classroom

2020-04-05 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 05, 2020, Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 07:18:04 -0400 > Dan Purgert wrote: >> On Apr 05, 2020, Celejar wrote: >>> Well, you don't name your ISPs, but I'm pretty sure the big ones >>> generally forbid running servers (for anything beyond "

Re: Small Open Source Digital Classroom

2020-04-05 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 05, 2020, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 3 Apr 2020 21:11:33 -0400 > Dan Purgert wrote: > > > On Apr 03, 2020, Celejar wrote: > > > On Fri, 3 Apr 2020 12:46:00 -0400 > > > Dan Purgert wrote: > > > > > > > On Apr 03, 2020, Celejar wrote: &

Re: Small Open Source Digital Classroom

2020-04-03 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 03, 2020, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 3 Apr 2020 12:46:00 -0400 > Dan Purgert wrote: > > > On Apr 03, 2020, Celejar wrote: > > > [...] > > > Fair enough - but has anyone looked into, say, Jitsi Meet's default > > > settings? Do they block non-h

Re: Small Open Source Digital Classroom

2020-04-03 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 03, 2020, Celejar wrote: > [...] > Fair enough - but has anyone looked into, say, Jitsi Meet's default > settings? Do they block non-hosts from screen sharing? IIRC, jit.si (their web-client) defaults to needing a passphrase to even get in. But I only ever took a cursory glance before "ev

Re: I Miss ckermit in Buster.

2020-04-03 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 03, 2020, Martin McCormick wrote: > John Hasler writes: > > look at screen. > > I use screen all the time and maybe I am missing > something but what you get with screen is a new shell in each > window, very useful but nothing to do with RS-232 ports. Maybe something like Minicom t

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-27 Thread Dan Purgert
On Mar 27, 2020, Dan Purgert wrote: > On Mar 27, 2020, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Jo, 26 mar 20, 18:41:10, Reco wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 08:53:35AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > > > > > > I understand. But some of the stuff I receiv

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