> Do shells suffer UB? I always thought that was a C thing.
UB is a standard concept when defining programming languages.
Most if not all programming languages have some form of UB or another in
some part of the spec. C is special w.r.t to UB in two ways:
- UB is not relegated to corner cases th
On Tue 23 Apr 2024 at 23:19:48 (-0400), Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > The site https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html
> > is blocked?
>
> Now that you got answers, a question: what made you post this here?
> AFAICT this has nothing to do with Debian (if you use Debian, you'd
> more natura
> The site https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html
> is blocked?
Now that you got answers, a question: what made you post this here?
AFAICT this has nothing to do with Debian (if you use Debian, you'd
more naturally install that tool from `apt` which won't fetch it from
Github).
On Tue 09 Jan 2024 at 15:30:49 (-0500), Stefan Monnier wrote:
> David Wright [2024-01-09 10:07:26] wrote:
> > but what seems most likely is that the root directory filled up.
> > The size of that is fixed when formatted, at least up to FAT16.
> > Long filenames will eat it up more quickly still.
>
David Wright [2024-01-09 10:07:26] wrote:
> but what seems most likely is that the root directory filled up.
> The size of that is fixed when formatted, at least up to FAT16.
> Long filenames will eat it up more quickly still.
Long file names are actually kept in a (hidden) files, so they don't ea
On Tue, Jan 09, 2024 at 10:57:29AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >>What are you talking about? FAT does not get “overloaded” by long
> >>filenames.
> > Seen it happen;
>
> I have serious doubts about the "it".
>
> > Long filenames, mixed case, and files saved at the beginning of
> > a session of
On Tue, 9 Jan 2024 10:07:26 -0600
David Wright wrote:
Hello David,
>The size of that is fixed when formatted, at least up to FAT16.
>Long filenames will eat it up more quickly still. Create
>subdirectories and the problem goes away.
Yes, this is exactly what I experienced. So not the FAT at fa
On Tue 09 Jan 2024 at 10:57:29 (-0500), Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >>What are you talking about? FAT does not get “overloaded” by long
> >>filenames.
> > Seen it happen;
>
> I have serious doubts about the "it".
>
> > Long filenames, mixed case, and files saved at the beginning of
> > a session of c
>>What are you talking about? FAT does not get “overloaded” by long
>>filenames.
> Seen it happen;
I have serious doubts about the "it".
> Long filenames, mixed case, and files saved at the beginning of
> a session of copying multiple files would be lost because the FAT was
> filled, and overwrit
On Fri, Nov 03, 2023 at 12:57:39PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> tomas writes:
> > See my other reply. My whole point is about making lives of curious
> > users easier by sticking to the terminology they'll find should they
> > dare (yes,please!) to open that door to the cellar.
>
> The people at Xe
tomas writes:
> See my other reply. My whole point is about making lives of curious
> users easier by sticking to the terminology they'll find should they
> dare (yes,please!) to open that door to the cellar.
The people at Xerox PARC and SRI who came up with the desktop metaphor
in the early years
On Fri, Nov 03, 2023 at 11:33:55AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > Regarding Tomas' assertion, I'm not sure I buy into the argument
> > regarding dumbing-down [...]
> I guess in a sense what's going on here is that these words act as kinds
> of "dog whistle". I don't think the argument that "dir
> Regarding Tomas' assertion, I'm not sure I buy into the argument
> regarding dumbing-down. I am presume it does go on, but I don't really
> think that one is stepping on to Big Tech's slippery slope to stupidity
> by calling a 'directory' a 'folder' any more one would be by calling a
> pointing
On 9/4/23 00:56, Stefan Monnier wrote:
I recommend to go fanless whenever possible.
Computers should be silent.
I have a fanless ARM router that even in high summer has no thermal
problems (I am in Australia and I have no aircon). It does have a
massive case bonded to the CPU
I also have
Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>> What would happen, if we started a political movement based
>> on nationalism and Unix?
>>
>> What would be the first thing we would do when we get
>> installed as government?
>
> Annex the Netherlands, and take control of ASML.
> Annex Taiwan, and take control of TSMC.
I
On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 1:29 PM Emanuel Berg wrote:
>
> >> I recommend to go fanless whenever possible.
> >> Computers should be silent.
> >
> > Yeah, optimally ...
>
> What would happen, if we started a political movement based on
> nationalism and Unix?
>
> What would be the first thing we would
>> I recommend to go fanless whenever possible.
>> Computers should be silent.
>
> Yeah, optimally ...
What would happen, if we started a political movement based on
nationalism and Unix?
What would be the first thing we would do when we get
installed as government?
Maybe close the border or som
Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I recommend to go fanless whenever possible.
> Computers should be silent.
Yeah, optimally ...
--
underground experts united
https://dataswamp.org/~incal
> i have a very tiny fan and heatsink that is right on
> the processor. the rest of the system is fanless (no
> fan for the PSU - no fancy GPU needed for what i do).
> i almost bought a bigger heatsink so that the entire
> thing could run without the fan, but the small fan
> provided with the CP
I spoke with a friend about this yesterday who was in the area and has
done quite a bit using SDR as a radio amateur. He passed along these
links:
https://etd.ohiolink.edu/apexprod/rws_etd/send_file/send?accession=wright1608139109925131&disposition=inline
https://www.rtl-sdr.com/using-an-rtl-sdr-
On 11/22/21 00:47, Hans wrote:
> Hi Georgi,
>
> yes, that sounds interesting. And fingerprinting of a transceiver is the main
> thing. Thus, for example, you can identify people's radio transceivers, they
> use to radio interfere. I am a licensed radio amateur, and those people are
> often doin
On Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 12:23 PM Nate Bargmann wrote:
> Interestingly, it appears that the original author was threatened with
> patent infringement of US Patent 5,005,210[1]. It seems as though the
> patent may have expired in 2008[2].
>
> .
>
Thanks for that, the usual shady story.
> Just
As I know, there are also bibg applications ported from DOS to linux
(like
doom), I thoughtm that would be easy - just start a cross compiler,
then fix
some issues, ready. But I believe, it is not that easy, I suppose, this
is a
lot lot lot work. And as far as I understood, code from DOS C is fa
Hans, Georgi makes a good point about existing software. This seems
like it would be a perfect addition to a Software Defined Radio (SDR)
package. I've not investigated whether any of the existing packages
available in Debian have this capability. As these programs capture an
arbitrary slice of
Hi Georgi,
yes, that sounds interesting. And fingerprinting of a transceiver is the main
thing. Thus, for example, you can identify people's radio transceivers, they
use to radio interfere. I am a licensed radio amateur, and those people are
often doing this on repeaters.
They want to be anony
On 11/21/21 13:54, Hans wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I know, there are lots of coders here and I have a question. There is an old
> DOS application I found, which is open source and GPL.
>
> As far as I know, this application is written in C, it is running in textmode
> ("ncurses-mode").
>
> Since
Interestingly, it appears that the original author was threatened with
patent infringement of US Patent 5,005,210[1]. It seems as though the
patent may have expired in 2008[2].
It appears no patent infringement suit was ever brought against the
author. The noted rights holder, Motron, apparently
Den 21.11.2021 15:24, skrev Håkon Alstadheim:
Den 21.11.2021 14:55, skrev Nicholas Geovanis:
On Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 7:51 AM Nicholas Geovanis
wrote:
On Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 6:46 AM Thomas Schmitt
wrote:
Hi,
Hans wrote:
> As far as I know, this application
Den 21.11.2021 14:55, skrev Nicholas Geovanis:
On Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 7:51 AM Nicholas Geovanis
wrote:
On Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 6:46 AM Thomas Schmitt
wrote:
Hi,
Hans wrote:
> As far as I know, this application is written in C, it is
running in
On Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 7:51 AM Nicholas Geovanis
wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 6:46 AM Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Hans wrote:
>> > As far as I know, this application is written in C, it is running in
>> > textmode ("ncurses-mode").
>> > [...] I wondered, ho
>> > difficult for an experi
On Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 6:46 AM Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Hans wrote:
> > As far as I know, this application is written in C, it is running in
> > textmode ("ncurses-mode").
> > [...] I wondered, ho
> > difficult for an experienced coder it will be, to get a DOS application
> > natively runni
Of course, and this working, yes. But I thought, native linux might be better,
and maybe someone may be happy for such a projekt.
Just an idea.
Best
Hans
> tried DOSEMU?
> https://dosemu2.github.io/dosemu2/
>
> --
> Fabio
Am Sonntag, 21. November 2021, 14:03:36 CET schrieb Richard Owlett:
if-module, this is intermediate frequence (as usual 455khz for example).
Did not know the correct English word for it, sorry.
Best
Hans
> On 11/21/2021 06:45 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> > [snip]
> >
> > (What is an "if-module",
On 11/21/2021 06:45 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
[snip]
(What is an "if-module", btw ?
Google does not give me proposals which look like radio enthusiasm.)
I read that as "Intermediate frequency".
q.v. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate_frequency
On 2021-11-21 08:54, Hans wrote:
Hello list,
I know, there are lots of coders here and I have a question. There is
an old
DOS application I found, which is open source and GPL.
As far as I know, this application is written in C, it is running in
textmode
("ncurses-mode").
Since there is no
Hi,
Hans wrote:
> As far as I know, this application is written in C, it is running in
> textmode ("ncurses-mode").
> [...] I wondered, ho
> difficult for an experienced coder it will be, to get a DOS application
> natively running in linux.
Hard to say without seeing code and build system.
Did
Hi Nate (and everything else),
if you want to take a look at the app, it is called "XMIT261". You can find it
here:
https://www.qsl.net/n9zia/xmit_id/down.html[1]
It is the only source I found, for myself I made several backups, as I am not
sure how
long this is available at all. Although, t
* On 2021 21 Nov 05:54 -0600, Hans wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I know, there are lots of coders here and I have a question. There is an old
> DOS application I found, which is open source and GPL.
>
> As far as I know, this application is written in C, it is running in textmode
> ("ncurses-mode").
On 11/21/2021 05:54 AM, Hans wrote:
[snip]
I can send the app wherever you want to (attaching it here, does not allow to
send the mail strangely), so everyone can take a look. This app is available
in the web, but a little bit hidden, if you do not know its exactly name.
And the name of this
Hello list,
I know, there are lots of coders here and I have a question. There is an old
DOS application I found, which is open source and GPL.
As far as I know, this application is written in C, it is running in textmode
("ncurses-mode").
Since there is no similar linux based application like
On Du, 10 oct 21, 10:31:58, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > In general, the circumstances which would require one to use a tool like
> > protonmail are not commonly observed in connection with a list like
> > debian-user.
>
> While protonmail might be used for such situations, in my experience
> most pr
On Du, 10 oct 21, 17:18:13, fxkl47BF wrote:
> just one more thing
>
> posteo was mentioned as an alternative
> i have a posteo account i will drop in a few months
> their spam policy is to bounce it back to the sender
> the account own has no say
>
> i also have a mailfence account i will drop
>
On Sun 10 Oct 2021 at 19:46:39 +, fxkl47BF wrote:
[Mangled quoted text deleted]
> > You have a link to a statement of this policy?
> >
> > -
> >
> > Brian.
>
> i do not
> only a personal email from supp...@posteo.de
I tend to take such mails f
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐
On Sunday, October 10th, 2021 at 1:46 PM, Brian wrote:
> On Sun 10 Oct 2021 at 17:18:13 +, fxkl47BF wrote:
>
> > just one more thing
> >
> > posteo was mentioned as an alternative
> >
> > i have a posteo account i will drop in a few months
> >
> > their spam
On Sun 10 Oct 2021 at 17:18:13 +, fxkl47BF wrote:
> just one more thing
>
> posteo was mentioned as an alternative
> i have a posteo account i will drop in a few months
> their spam policy is to bounce it back to the sender
> the account own has no say
You have a link to a statement of this
> In general, the circumstances which would require one to use a tool like
> protonmail are not commonly observed in connection with a list like
> debian-user.
While protonmail might be used for such situations, in my experience
most protonmail users I've seen are just people that are sufficiently
just one more thing
posteo was mentioned as an alternative
i have a posteo account i will drop in a few months
their spam policy is to bounce it back to the sender
the account own has no say
i also have a mailfence account i will drop
a while back i stopped getting mail from my bank
i investigate
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐
On Sunday, October 10th, 2021 at 9:31 AM, Stefan Monnier
wrote:
> > In general, the circumstances which would require one to use a tool like
> >
> > protonmail are not commonly observed in connection with a list like
> >
> > debian-user.
>
> While protonmail mig
On 2021-08-15 10:26 p.m., Jeremy Ardley wrote:
>
> On 16/8/21 10:17 am, Weaver wrote:
>>
>> Any idiot can edit a page there.
>> Cheers!
>>
>> Harry.
>>
> And they frequently do!
>
> Yesterday I looked up 'harmonic analysis' of which I am a subject
> expert. The article was virtually incomprehen
On Sat, 2021-08-14 at 20:44 +0100, Michael Howard wrote:
> and her is an off list reply reply from the less than honourable Polyna
I killfiled them weeks ago, I don't know why people do just do similar
and move on...
On 2021-08-14 3:51 p.m., Curt wrote:
> On 2021-08-14, Michael Howard wrote:
>> On 14/08/2021 16:08, Charles Curley wrote:
>
>>> Don't forget IP over drums, and of course IP over lanterns in church
>>> steeples ("Two if by sea", etc.)
>>>
>>
>> Please take this shit off list!
>>
>
>
On 14/08/2021 20:51, Curt wrote:
On 2021-08-14, Michael Howard wrote:
On 14/08/2021 16:08, Charles Curley wrote:
Don't forget IP over drums, and of course IP over lanterns in church
steeples ("Two if by sea", etc.)
Please take this shit off list!
IP overwrought, is that it?
On 2021-08-14, Michael Howard wrote:
> On 14/08/2021 16:08, Charles Curley wrote:
>> Don't forget IP over drums, and of course IP over lanterns in church
>> steeples ("Two if by sea", etc.)
>>
>
> Please take this shit off list!
>
IP overwrought, is that it?
On 2021-08-14 2:35 p.m., Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 01:27:43PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
>> Charlie Gibbs writes:
>>> Some people will respond by switching to a different e-mail address in
>>> order to work around the killfiles they know they're now in.
>>
>> Fortunately Gnus
and her is an off list reply reply from the less than honourable Polyna
Forwarded Message
Subject:Re: [OFFTOPIC] Plonk (wss: Meta: behavior on list)
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2021 15:41:22 -0400
From: Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
To: Michael Howard
On
On 14.08.21 21:35, Michael Howard wrote:
Give the normal amongst us a break. This stuff is NOT debian, it is
social ineptitude and it has to stop.
Form yourselves a chat group somewhere, just NOT here. Please?
--
Michael Howard.
+1
---
Marco
On 14/08/2021 20:25, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote:
Hi,
On 2021-08-14 2:53 p.m., Michael Howard wrote:
On 14/08/2021 16:08, Charles Curley wrote:
On Sat, 14 Aug 2021 07:37:00 -0500
John Hasler wrote:
tomas writes:
But... Usenet was /before/ 'phone, wasn't it?
Yup. Back in the 186
Hi,
On 2021-08-14 2:53 p.m., Michael Howard wrote:
> On 14/08/2021 16:08, Charles Curley wrote:
>> On Sat, 14 Aug 2021 07:37:00 -0500
>> John Hasler wrote:
>>
>>> tomas writes:
But... Usenet was /before/ 'phone, wasn't it?
>>> Yup. Back in the 1860s we did UUCP over manual telegraph. Earli
On 14/08/2021 16:08, Charles Curley wrote:
On Sat, 14 Aug 2021 07:37:00 -0500
John Hasler wrote:
tomas writes:
But... Usenet was /before/ 'phone, wasn't it?
Yup. Back in the 1860s we did UUCP over manual telegraph. Earlier
yet we used heliograph. Signal fires on hilltops were slow, but
wo
On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 01:27:43PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Charlie Gibbs writes:
> > Some people will respond by switching to a different e-mail address in
> > order to work around the killfiles they know they're now in.
>
> Fortunately Gnus can filter on things such as substrings of message
Charlie Gibbs writes:
> Some people will respond by switching to a different e-mail address in
> order to work around the killfiles they know they're now in.
Fortunately Gnus can filter on things such as substrings of message IDs
and other identifying header features that the trolls are unaware o
On Sat Aug 14 10:23:31 2021 Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
wrote:
> On 2021-08-13 4:59 p.m., John Hasler wrote:
>
>> Stefan writes:
>>
>>> How odd. I always assumed that it was the comic-strip style
>>> representation of the sound of hanging up the phone abruptly.
>>
>> No. I was there when i
On Sat, 14 Aug 2021 07:37:00 -0500
John Hasler wrote:
> tomas writes:
> > But... Usenet was /before/ 'phone, wasn't it?
>
> Yup. Back in the 1860s we did UUCP over manual telegraph. Earlier
> yet we used heliograph. Signal fires on hilltops were slow, but
> worked. And, of course, pigeons.
On 2021-08-14 9:16 a.m., Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 14 August 2021 08:44:44 to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 07:37:00AM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
>>> tomas writes:
But... Usenet was /before/ 'phone, wasn't it?
>>>
>>> Yup. Back in the 1860s we did UUCP over manua
On Saturday 14 August 2021 08:44:44 to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 07:37:00AM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> > tomas writes:
> > > But... Usenet was /before/ 'phone, wasn't it?
> >
> > Yup. Back in the 1860s we did UUCP over manual telegraph. Earlier
> > yet we used heliograph.
Le 14/08/2021 à 14:37, John Hasler a écrit :
> tomas writes:
>> But... Usenet was /before/ 'phone, wasn't it?
> Yup. Back in the 1860s we did UUCP over manual telegraph. Earlier yet
> we used heliograph. Signal fires on hilltops were slow, but worked.
> And, of course, pigeons.
I have a seconda
On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 07:37:00AM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> tomas writes:
> > But... Usenet was /before/ 'phone, wasn't it?
>
> Yup. Back in the 1860s we did UUCP over manual telegraph. Earlier yet
> we used heliograph. Signal fires on hilltops were slow, but worked.
> And, of course, pigeon
tomas writes:
> But... Usenet was /before/ 'phone, wasn't it?
Yup. Back in the 1860s we did UUCP over manual telegraph. Earlier yet
we used heliograph. Signal fires on hilltops were slow, but worked.
And, of course, pigeons.
--
John Hasler
j...@sugarbit.com
Elmwood, WI USA
On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 04:12:10PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> to...@tuxteam.de [2021-08-13 19:11:43] wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 12:49:34PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
> > wrote:
> > [...]
> >> Plonk ?
[...]
> > [1] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/P/plonk.html
>
> How odd
On Fri 13 Aug 2021 at 20:21:27 (-0400), Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote:
> On 2021-08-13 6:55 p.m., songbird wrote:
> > John Hasler wrote:
> > ...
> >> No. I was there when it came into use. It definitely represents the
> >> sound of a small object dropping into a large tank with liquid at
On 2021-08-13 6:55 p.m., songbird wrote:
> John Hasler wrote:
> ...
>> No. I was there when it came into use. It definitely represents the
>> sound of a small object dropping into a large tank with liquid at the
>> bottom. A septic tank, for example. It was common to respond to a
>> particula
to...@tuxteam.de [2021-08-13 19:11:43] wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 12:49:34PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
> wrote:
> [...]
>> Plonk ?
> Greg and The Wanderer already provided a definition. Just adding
> one standard reference, the Jargon File [1] in such things. Old
> Usenet lore.
songbird writes:
> i found out years ago that i just don't have the energy any more to
> get that mad about something on-line. the n key is many fewer
> keystrokes than *plonk*. :)
When I find that I'm hitting n every time I see a certain user I
killfile them. Saves keystrokes, reduces clutter.
John Hasler wrote:
...
> No. I was there when it came into use. It definitely represents the
> sound of a small object dropping into a large tank with liquid at the
> bottom. A septic tank, for example. It was common to respond to a
> particularly asinine article with the one-word followup "plo
On 8/14/21 12:17 AM, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote:
they won't stop and will just continue to argue against themselves
Quite, quite : this is happening : now
.
On 14-08-2021 07:37, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote:
> On 2021-08-13 5:31 p.m., Weaver wrote:
>> On 14-08-2021 07:17, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 2021-08-13 4:59 p.m., John Hasler wrote:
Stefan writes:
> How odd. I always assumed that it was the comic-
On 2021-08-13 5:31 p.m., Dan Ritter wrote:
> John Hasler wrote:
>> Stefan writes:
>>> How odd. I always assumed that it was the comic-strip style
>>> representation of the sound of hanging up the phone abruptly.
>>
>> No. I was there when it came into use. It definitely represents the
>> soun
On 2021-08-13 5:31 p.m., Weaver wrote:
> On 14-08-2021 07:17, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 2021-08-13 4:59 p.m., John Hasler wrote:
>>> Stefan writes:
How odd. I always assumed that it was the comic-strip style
representation of the sound of hanging up the pho
John Hasler wrote:
> Stefan writes:
> > How odd. I always assumed that it was the comic-strip style
> > representation of the sound of hanging up the phone abruptly.
>
> No. I was there when it came into use. It definitely represents the
> sound of a small object dropping into a large tank wit
On 14-08-2021 07:17, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2021-08-13 4:59 p.m., John Hasler wrote:
>> Stefan writes:
>>> How odd. I always assumed that it was the comic-strip style
>>> representation of the sound of hanging up the phone abruptly.
>>
>> No. I was there when it came
Hi,
On 2021-08-13 4:59 p.m., John Hasler wrote:
> Stefan writes:
>> How odd. I always assumed that it was the comic-strip style
>> representation of the sound of hanging up the phone abruptly.
>
> No. I was there when it came into use. It definitely represents the
> sound of a small object dro
Stefan writes:
> How odd. I always assumed that it was the comic-strip style
> representation of the sound of hanging up the phone abruptly.
No. I was there when it came into use. It definitely represents the
sound of a small object dropping into a large tank with liquid at the
bottom. A septi
On 8/13/21 2:48 PM, deloptes wrote:
For me it is not a problem, I simply ignore her posts
- Quite, quite :)
.
On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 07:43:35AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
> I don't think tomas felt he was under personal attack, but that he perceived
> a
> personal attack on Polyna.
Good catch, thanks :-)
Cheers
- t
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rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
>> I do not insult anyone and do not attack people, please stop with this BS
>> of excuse by political correctness.
>
> I don't think tomas felt he was under personal attack, but that he
> perceived a personal attack on Polyna
And I understood completely well.
So I hope
On Friday, August 13, 2021 02:42:55 AM deloptes wrote:
> to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > Can we please avoid personal insults?
> >
> > Each of us has his/her difficult points. If you have issues with
> > those points, by all means, speak up. But **attacking people
> > personally** does not belong in t
to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> I strongly disagree.
>
me too
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On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 08:42:55AM +0200, deloptes wrote:
> to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
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> > Can we please avoid personal insults?
> I do not insult anyone and do not attack people [...]
I strongly disagree.
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to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> Can we please avoid personal insults?
>
> Each of us has his/her difficult points. If you have issues with
> those points, by all means, speak up. But **attacking people
> personally** does not belong in this list.
I do not insult anyone and do not attack people, please
On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 08:16:04AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> The package visudo not being installed on this system, [...]
visudo is not a separate package. It's a program included in the
sudo package.
unicorn:~$ type visudo
visudo is /usr/sbin/visudo
unicorn:~$ dpkg -S /usr/sbin/visudo
sudo:
On Tue, 10 Aug 2021, Roger Price wrote:
Young Stefan had fingers so fast
No filename was safe from the blast
When emacs was "e"
It was easy to see
sud(o)ers was not meant to last
This is fabulous. With two you get egg-roll, but with
debian-user you get a...LIMERICK!
Who knew?
THANKS
Roger Price [2021-08-10 11:11:24] wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Aug 2021, Bob Bernstein wrote:
>> Full disclosure: In a typical Bob fit of impulsivity I, yes, edited this
>> file using 'sudo nsno /etc/sudoers'.
> My impulse would be to use VISUAL=/usr/bin/emacs visudo -f /etc/sudoers
You guys have amazing
On Tue, 10 Aug 2021, Stefan Monnier wrote:
Roger Price [2021-08-10 11:11:24] wrote:
On Tue, 10 Aug 2021, Bob Bernstein wrote:
Full disclosure: In a typical Bob fit of impulsivity I, yes, edited this
file using 'sudo nsno /etc/sudoers'.
My impulse would be to use VISUAL=/usr/bin/emacs visudo
Stefan Monnier [2021-08-02 15:09:38] wrote:
> E.g. the average has moved up to ~80kB/s since my last message).
For your entertainment: I managed to bring the average rate up to about
1MB/s by running `lvs` in a loop at the same time (and that let me see
occasionally a transfer rate around 10MB/s).
> One cloud storage provider, Backblaze, regularly publishes reports on
> harddisk reliability (they obviously have a lot of data on that :-)
All of them seem to be 3½" as well.
Interesting.
It actually looks like the 2½" HDD market has been abandoned: 5 years
ago, the largest HDD were 5TB for 2½
On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 01:11:16PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
[...]
Nice line up.
> I wonder what kind of drives are used nowadays in big datacenters (and
> whether the prices they pay for them looks anything like the ones
> above).
One cloud storage provider, Backblaze, regularly publishes r
Stefan Monnier writes:
Peter Ehlert [2021-08-03 08:27:26] wrote:
> On August 3, 2021 8:17:58 AM Stefan Monnier
wrote:
>>> Second, the price of spinning disks is such that it makes no
>>> sense to buy anything smaller than 4TB, which will fit all this,
>>> and 6-8 TB are often a reasonable id
Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
> That makes 3½" form factor even more dead than I thought (two 4TB 2½"
> drives should offer better performance than one 8GB 3½" drive and use
> less space, not sure about power consumption).
Erm. You just doubled your failure rate. There are times when
that's worthwhile
Peter Ehlert [2021-08-03 08:27:26] wrote:
> On August 3, 2021 8:17:58 AM Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> Second, the price of spinning disks is such that it makes no
>>> sense to buy anything smaller than 4TB, which will fit all this,
>>> and 6-8 TB are often a reasonable idea even for single users.
>>
On Tuesday 08 June 2021 18:09:34 Martin McCormick wrote:
> I did it! It works!
>
> Okay. Here's the short story. I read some more stuff
> about building a boot drive for another system than the one being
> used for the rescue. In this thread were the usual tales of woe
> which I have als
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