pdftk

hi folks! is there a simple commandline command to get pdftk so kind to merge a couple of pdf-files? the explanation in the man and --help-files is for me in somewhat cryptic english. kind regards, Now it complains with 'input-errors'. steef

Re: pdftk

Le 26 Aug 2019, steef a écrit : hi folks! is there a simple commandline command to get pdftk so kind to merge a couple of pdf-files? the explanation in the man and --help-files is for me in somewhat cryptic english. kind regards, Now it complains with 'input-errors'. steef What did yo

Re: pdftk

Hi, >is there a simple commandline command to get pdftk so kind to merge a >couple of pdf-files? look at pdfjoin. -nik

Re: pdftk

Quoting Dominik George (2019-08-26 10:09:24) > >is there a simple commandline command to get pdftk so kind to merge a > >couple of pdf-files? > > look at pdfjoin. Or (not exactly what you asked for but perhaps interesting anyway) the graphical tool pdfshuffler, which in my experience is by far

Re: pdftk

On 2019-08-26, steef wrote: > hi folks! > > is there a simple commandline command to get pdftk so kind to merge a > couple of pdf-files? the explanation in the man and --help-files is > for me in somewhat cryptic english. kind regards, Now it complains > with 'input-errors'. Join pdfs: pdftk foo

Re: pdftk

Victor A. Stoichita wrote: > Le 26 Aug 2019, steef a écrit : > > > hi folks! > > > > is there a simple commandline command to get pdftk so kind to merge > > a couple of pdf-files? the explanation in the man and --help-files is > > for me in somewhat cryptic english. kind regards, Now it complains

Re: OT: AI

On 2019-08-25 13:36, John Hasler wrote: You are all AI's. I'm the only human here. I spent 2 days question and answer with what turned out to be a yahoo bot. mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: pdftk

On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 09:41:39AM +0200, steef wrote: is there a simple commandline command to get pdftk so kind to merge a couple of pdf-files? the explanation in the man and --help-files is for me in somewhat cryptic english. kind regards, Now it complains with 'input-errors'. An example f

Re: Re: where are the vte2.91 packages of version 0.57.90-1 (experimental)?

Hi, Sure the reason is clearly there: https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=vte2.91&suite=experimental I don't know why I was so confused between the apt output (and also using synaptic) regarding this? But probably be it was too late for me at that time :-) Thanks!

Re: OT: AI

On Monday, August 26, 2019 04:55:59 AM mick crane wrote: > On 2019-08-25 13:36, John Hasler wrote: > > You are all AI's. I'm the only human here. > > I spent 2 days question and answer with what turned out to be a yahoo > bot. > mick You bots are very clever, Mick, but you can't fool me -- obvio

Re: OT: AI

Oh, wait, never mind, it turns out we're all just a simulation, so it really doesn't matter. On Monday, August 26, 2019 07:10:38 AM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > You bots are very clever, Mick, but you can't fool me -- obviously, because > John is the only human here, you (mick) must be a bot. > >

Re: Buster Installation - Partition phase - Inode option to choose - SSD or Mechanical HD

> How do I search for answer to my inadequately phrased question below. > 1. I assume that sector size is a _TERM_ reserved for something fixed >when the disk is manufactured. > 2. What is the proper search term to use for something whose dimensions >would be "megabytes/inode"? {I'll use "b

Re: Buster Installation - Partition phase - Inode option to choose - SSD or Mechanical HD

On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 07:36:13AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > - When you only store large files (e.g. videos) on the file system, you > may end up wasting more space on the unused inodes than you'd like. > IIRC with the default setting, about 5% of the disk space is used for > inodes, so

Re: Buster Installation - Partition phase - Inode option to choose - SSD or Mechanical HD

> you described. The man page doesn't tell us what the default value is, > but the Arch wiki says it's one inode per 16384 bytes. > > Since the default inode size is 256 bytes, that tells us the inodes > take about 1.5% of the space

Re: OT: AI

How would I even know? I'm not three laws safe, I know that, but how would I know? I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 7:27 AM wrote: > Oh, wait, never mind, it turns out we're all just a simulation, so it > really > doesn't matter. > > On Monday, August 26,

Re: pdftk

Le 26 Aug 2019, Siard a écrit : AFAIK that should be: $ pdftk file1.pdf file2.pdf cat output result.pdf It also works without "cat". The OP seemed to be looking for the simplest possible form. Regards, Victor

Re: OT: AI

On Monday, August 26, 2019 09:46:40 AM Dan Clery wrote: > I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... I'm interested. (We may have to move the discussion off list, but I'd prefer not to.)

Re: OT: AI

On 2019-08-26 15:35, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, August 26, 2019 09:46:40 AM Dan Clery wrote: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... I'm interested. (We may have to move the discussion off list, but I'd prefer not to.) He means starships on fire off the belt of Orion --

Re: OT: AI

On 08/26/2019 10:42 AM, mick crane wrote: On 2019-08-26 15:35, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, August 26, 2019 09:46:40 AM Dan Clery wrote: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... I'm interested. (We may have to move the discussion off list, but I'd prefer not to.) He mea

Re: Buster Installation - Partition phase - Inode option to choose - SSD or Mechanical HD

On Monday, August 26, 2019 09:20:13 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > The "bytes-per-inode" value ("-i" option) is the closest match to what > you described. The man page doesn't tell us what the default value is, > but the Arch wiki says it's one inode per 16384 bytes. >

Re: OT: AI

On 2019-08-26 17:43, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: On 08/26/2019 10:42 AM, mick crane wrote: On 2019-08-26 15:35, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, August 26, 2019 09:46:40 AM Dan Clery wrote: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... I'm interested. (We may have to move the discussion

Re: mplayer won't play m4a

On Sb, 24 aug 19, 13:26:00, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > What missing, what should I install...? If my two-minutes-ago full-upgrade > ok, > I should be running Stable: Debian 10. Instead of guessing you could show the output of 'apt policy' ;) The output of this command might also help to find th

Re: why won't ff look at this url?

On Sb, 24 aug 19, 10:21:59, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings folks; > > https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/w-va-ambulance-ems-director-arrested-accused-of-missing-and-tampering-with-narcotics > > All I get for clicking on it is a blank screen. Two things you could try: 1. firefox --safe-

Re: Buster Installation - Partition phase - Inode option to choose - SSD or Mechanical HD

On Mon 26 Aug 2019 at 14:23:39 (-0400), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, August 26, 2019 09:20:13 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > The "bytes-per-inode" value ("-i" option) is the closest match to what > > you described. The man page doesn't tell us what the default value is, > > but the Arch wik

Re: pdftk

..thank you all for your comments: i got it going. thanks again steef On 26-08-19 10:33, Curt wrote: On 2019-08-26, steef wrote: hi folks! is there a simple commandline command to get pdftk so kind to merge a couple of pdf-files? the explanation in the man and --help-files is for me in s

Re: Buster Installation - Partition phase - Inode option to choose - SSD or Mechanical HD

Le 26/08/2019 à 20:23, rhkra...@gmail.com a écrit : On Monday, August 26, 2019 09:20:13 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: The "bytes-per-inode" value ("-i" option) is the closest match to what you described. The man page doesn't tell us what the default value is, but the Arch wiki says it's one inode per

Re: why won't ff look at this url?

On 08/26/2019 03:22 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 24 aug 19, 10:21:59, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings folks; https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/w-va-ambulance-ems-director-arrested-accused-of-missing-and-tampering-with-narcotics All I get for clicking on it is a blank screen. Two th

Re: How good is AI?

On 2019-08-25 11:55, John Hasler wrote: It can be plausibly argued that ELIZA passed the Turing test. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test#ELIZA_and_PARRY Followed a link there to read about the Chinese Room thought experiment by John Searle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room Fas

who is verifying proposed-updates ?

Hi folks, how good is test coverage of proposed-updates? Its pretty unknown (IMHO), so I wonder if there are numbers from the popularity contest? Regards Harri

Heads-up for bullseye users: systemd 242-4 migrated to testing

On Jo, 22 aug 19, 09:55:07, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > systemd 242-1 contains also this change: > >* Drop Revert-udev-network-device-renaming-immediately-give.patch. > This patch needs ongoing maintenance work to be adapted to new > releases and fails to apply with v242. Instead of inv