Re: standard way of installing audacity documentation on debian stretch, is there a package?

2017-05-28 Thread David
On 28 May 2017 at 14:19, Dan Hitt wrote: > I installed audacity on my debian 9 (stretch) system. [...] > There are remote links offered, of course, but i would like the > software to function as designed, so i assume there must be some > package that has the audacity docs? https://bugs.debian.o

Re: unable to repartition SD card from Android phone

2017-05-28 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 27/05/2017 à 22:58, David Christensen a écrit : I bought a SanDisk 32GB Micro SDHC card for my Android phone a while back. It came with a Micro SDHC to SD adapter, and the adapter has an unmarked switch in the same style and location of the write-protect switches on my other SD cards. It i

Re: Kingston Thumb Drive Comatose.

2017-05-28 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 26/05/2017 à 23:06, Martin McCormick a écrit : I have a 128 GB thumb drive which has been sitting in a drawer for 2 or 3 years because it is not completely dead but had a traumatic event. (...) The drive is dead. The controller is still responding but the storage part is gone. Don't

Trying to understand man page for dd

2017-05-28 Thread Richard Owlett
It says in part: Sending a USR1 signal to a running 'dd' process makes it print I/O statistics to standard error and then resume copying. $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null& pid=$! $ kill -USR1 $pid; sleep 1; kill $pid I think it is trying to tell me what I need to know. But there is too

Re: Trying to understand man page for dd

2017-05-28 Thread The Wanderer
On 2017-05-28 at 07:58, Richard Owlett wrote: > It says in part: > >> Sending a USR1 signal to a running 'dd' process makes it print I/O >> statistics to standard error and then resume copying. >> >> $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null& pid=$! >> >> $ kill -USR1 $pid; sleep 1; kill $pid > > I

Re: Trying to understand man page for dd

2017-05-28 Thread JPlews
On 28/05/17 12:58, Richard Owlett wrote: It says in part: Sending a USR1 signal to a running 'dd' process makes it print I/O statistics to standard error and then resume copying. $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null& pid=$! $ kill -USR1 $pid; sleep 1; kill $pid I think it is trying to tell

Re: Trying to understand man page for dd

2017-05-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/28/2017 07:04 AM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2017-05-28 at 07:58, Richard Owlett wrote: It says in part: Sending a USR1 signal to a running 'dd' process makes it print I/O statistics to standard error and then resume copying. $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null& pid=$! $ kill -USR1 $pi

Re: Trying to understand man page for dd

2017-05-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/28/2017 07:05 AM, JPlews wrote: On 28/05/17 12:58, Richard Owlett wrote: It says in part: Sending a USR1 signal to a running 'dd' process makes it print I/O statistics to standard error and then resume copying. $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null& pid=$! $ kill -USR1 $pid; sleep 1; k

Re: buying ssl certificate

2017-05-28 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 5:04 PM, kc atgb wrote: > > There are a certain number of certificates providers. The question I have > is which one do I have to consider ? > Recently came to the market some lowcoast ssl certificate providers. Or > free ssl providers. What do you think about them ? > My

Re: Trying to understand man page for dd

2017-05-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > It says in part: > > $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null& pid=$! > > $ kill -USR1 $pid; sleep 1; kill $pid > I think it is trying to tell me what I need to know. dd is started as background process, busily copying bytes from nowhere to nowhere: dd if=/dev/zero of

Re: Trying to understand man page for dd

2017-05-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/28/2017 07:40 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: It says in part: $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null& pid=$! $ kill -USR1 $pid; sleep 1; kill $pid I think it is trying to tell me what I need to know. dd is started as background process, busily copying bytes from n

Re: Kingston Thumb Drive Comatose.

2017-05-28 Thread Jamie White
I would suspect you need a specialist application to sort this, thing is, when you plug in a disk drive, the system uses information from the first sector to identify the drive and its size. You get a similar problem when you zero out an entire hard disk, and there the solution is to manually enter

Re: Kingston Thumb Drive Comatose.

2017-05-28 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 28/05/2017 à 16:08, Jamie White a écrit : I would suspect you need a specialist application to sort this, thing is, when you plug in a disk drive, the system uses information from the first sector to identify the drive and its size. No, this information is not stored in the first sector nor

Re: buying ssl certificate

2017-05-28 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 10:04:42PM +, kc atgb wrote: > I will have to buy/renew some certificates we have at my job. > > There are a certain number of certificates providers. The question I have is > which one do I have to consider ? Domain-validated (i.e. they just check you can r

Re: Unable to install custom package using defined dependency version

2017-05-28 Thread Sijis Aviles
On May 27, 2017 3:48 PM, "David Wright" wrote: On Sat 27 May 2017 at 13:51:01 (-0500), Sijis Aviles wrote: > On May 26, 2017 7:09 PM, I wrote: > >> cpp-4.8 and gcc-4.8, >> python2.7-minimal and python2.7, >> python3-minimal and python3, >> etc. >> > Ahh, I didn't realize you suggested to make th

Re: buying ssl certificate

2017-05-28 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
> >> Recently came to the market some lowcoast ssl certificate providers. Or free >> ssl providers. What do you think about them ? > > I think the best of the free ones is letsencrypt. > > Cheers, > Andy > > -- > https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting > I'm using letsencrypt with certbot

Re: unable to repartition SD card from Android phone

2017-05-28 Thread David Christensen
On 05/28/2017 02:35 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 27/05/2017 à 22:58, David Christensen a écrit : I bought a SanDisk 32GB Micro SDHC card for my Android phone a while back. It came with a Micro SDHC to SD adapter, and the adapter has an unmarked switch in the same style and location of the wri

Re: standard way of installing audacity documentation on debian stretch, is there a package?

2017-05-28 Thread Dan Hitt
:) Thanks David!! In the ubuntu bug tracking system, at least iirc, there's a place you can click to indicate 'This affects me too'. Is there any way of doing this for debian? Anyhow, thanks again for informing me of the situation. dan On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 12:23 AM, David wrote: > On 28 M

Re: standard way of installing audacity documentation on debian stretch, is there a package?

2017-05-28 Thread Brian
On Sun 28 May 2017 at 11:48:35 -0700, Dan Hitt wrote: The primary reference here is https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=313038 > :) > > Thanks David!! > > In the ubuntu bug tracking system, at least iirc, there's a place you > can click to indicate 'This affects me too'. > > Is

Re: Firefox ESR 52 in stretch

2017-05-28 Thread pjw
On Wed, May 3, 2017, at 06:57 AM, Felix Miata wrote: > Be careful what you wish for: > https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/52.0/releasenotes/ > ... > On Linux, Firefox now requires PulseAudio to play sound and no longer plays > sound directly with ALSA... ALSA sound does work in Firefox ESR 52

Re: Trying to understand man page for dd

2017-05-28 Thread David
On 28 May 2017 at 21:58, Richard Owlett wrote: > It says in part: >> >> Sending a USR1 signal to a running 'dd' process makes it print I/O >> statistics to standard error and then resume copying. >> >> $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null& pid=$! >> >> $ kill -USR1 $pid; sleep 1; kill $pid > > >

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Re: Trying to understand man page for dd

2017-05-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, David wrote: > https://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=dd+if%3D%2Fdev%2Fzero+of%3D%2Fdev%2Fnul l%26+pid%3D%24! For a machine this is not a bad answer. > https://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=kill+-USR1+%24pid%3B+sleep+1%3B+kill+%2 4pid But this one missed the point quite clearly. (It gets no cl