On Sb, 15 feb 20, 20:17:07, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Feb 2020 14:03:02 -0700
> ghe wrote:
>
> > Until recently, the *nix communities have stuck pretty well to these
> > recommendations -- they're just descriptions of competent programming,
> > after all. There may be some discussion ove
On 16/02/2020 05:52, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Sb, 15 feb 20, 20:17:07, Charles Curley wrote:
>> On Sat, 15 Feb 2020 14:03:02 -0700
>> ghe wrote:
>>
>>> Until recently, the *nix communities have stuck pretty well to these
>>> recommendations -- they're just descriptions of competent programming,
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On Sunday, February 16, 2020 1:52 AM, Andrei POPESCU
wrote:
> On Sb, 15 feb 20, 20:17:07, Charles Curley wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 15 Feb 2020 14:03:02 -0700
> > ghe g...@slsware.net wrote:
> >
> > > Until recently, the *nix communities have stuck pretty well to
On 2020-02-15, John Kaufmann wrote:
>
> Just so. At what point does a small and natural generalization of "one
> thing" become more complex than a new thing? Simplicity is the friend,
> complexity the enemy; order the friend, entropy the enemy. It takes a
> lifetime of design to see where to draw
Hi.
On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 10:57:36PM -0700, Tom Dial wrote:
> Neither the host nor the guest VM is rebooted often, and it is not a
> particularly serious problem now that it's known, but it would be better
> gone. I'm not averse to doing work to sort this out, but would be
> grateful for
On Du, 16 feb 20, 03:36:44, ghe wrote:
>
> Complexity of the software is for us programmers to deal with. Making
> the programs useful for a user can be one of the problems in our
> writing and design. That, I think, is what they meant by "One program
> doing the job well" -- users have a colle
> That members of the most generalist species on earth should extol the
> merits of the most extreme form of specialisation is something of an
> ironic puzzlement here in the balcony seats.
If you want to stay on top, you have to impose on others different rules
than those you impose on yourself.
> Boot faults to an (initrd) prompt with a complaint that the /usr LV,
> correctly identified by its UUID, does not exist. It does, but is not
> activated. In fact, lvscan shows that only the root and swap LVs
> are active, and the others are not.
Why does the initrd want to check activation of so
On 2/15/2020 10:37 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> kaufm...@nb.net wrote:
>> When my last Thinkpad died, I lost my Mint/Xfce. My new Thinkpad, of course,
>> comes with
>> Windows 10, and I want to move on to Debian. As a Debian newbie, I'm also
>> new to jigdo,
>> but want to use it beca
On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 12:31:30 - (UTC)
Curt wrote:
> That members of the most generalist species on earth should extol the
> merits of the most extreme form of specialisation is something of an
> ironic puzzlement here in the balcony seats.
"Specialization is for insects." -- Robert Heinlein
On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 14:20:01 +0100 Andrei POPESCU
wrote:
> On Du, 16 feb 20, 03:36:44, ghe wrote:
>
>> Complexity of the software is for us programmers to deal with.
>> Making the programs useful for a user can be one of the problems
>> in our writing and design. That, I think, is what they mea
On 2/16/20 05:36, Reco wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 10:57:36PM -0700, Tom Dial wrote:
>> Neither the host nor the guest VM is rebooted often, and it is not a
>> particularly serious problem now that it's known, but it would be better
>> gone. I'm not averse to doing work to so
On Du, 16 feb 20, 09:36:16, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 14:20:01 +0100 Andrei POPESCU
> wrote:
> >
> > Just use whatever works for you.
>
> If you can. I really resent the increasing amount of coercion
> toward using GUIs (no keyboard equivalents for menus, etc.) that
> I'm seeing
Hi,
john doe wrote:
> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/jigdo-cd/debian-10.3.0-amd
64-netinst.jigdo
> "OK: MD5 Checksums match, image is good!
> WARNING: MD5 is not considered a secure hash!
> WARNING: It is recommended to verify your image in other ways too!"
> What are those othe
On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 21:10:01 +0100 Andrei POPESCU
wrote:
> On Du, 16 feb 20, 09:36:16, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 14:20:01 +0100 Andrei POPESCU
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Just use whatever works for you.
>>
>> If you can. I really resent the increasing amount of coercion
>> toward us
On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 13:03:05 -0800
Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> > With touchscreen technology becoming the standard even for laptops
> > and desktop monitors the demand for keyboard oriented interaction
> > decreases so the developers must create interfaces that are better
> > suited for tap / swip
On Sun, 16 Feb 2020, Curt wrote:
On 2020-02-15, John Kaufmann wrote:
Just so. At what point does a small and natural generalization of "one
thing" become more complex than a new thing? Simplicity is the friend,
complexity the enemy; order the friend, entropy the enemy. It takes a
lifetime of
On 14/02/2020 17:39, john doe wrote:
On 2/14/2020 5:42 PM, Graham Seaman wrote:
I run a debian house server for firewall, routing etc. The last few
years I've also run gitlab on it, which I use to manage text files I
work on from an assortment of laptops/PCs; I have a lot of these files
(curre
On 2/16/20 4:30 PM, Charles Curley wrote:
On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 13:03:05 -0800
Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> With touchscreen technology becoming the standard even for laptops
> and desktop monitors the demand for keyboard oriented interaction
> decreases so the developers must create interfac
On Sun 16 Feb 2020 at 13:03:05 (-0800), Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 21:10:01 +0100 Andrei POPESCU
> wrote:
> > On Du, 16 feb 20, 09:36:16, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> >> On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 14:20:01 +0100 Andrei POPESCU
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Just use whatever works for you.
> >>
> >>
Greetings all;
I am trying to remove as much write activity as possible from the u-sd
that a raspi boots from. To that end I'll create a partition on an ssd,
of 5000 megs, then copy the existing /tmp's contents to it it, then
mount the ssd partition of that name on top of it where it is in the
On Lu, 17 feb 20, 00:10:52, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
>
> I am trying to remove as much write activity as possible from the u-sd
> that a raspi boots from. To that end I'll create a partition on an ssd,
> of 5000 megs, then copy the existing /tmp's contents to it it, then
> mount th
On 2/16/2020 11:45 PM, Graham Seaman wrote:
>
> On 14/02/2020 17:39, john doe wrote:
>> On 2/14/2020 5:42 PM, Graham Seaman wrote:
>>> I run a debian house server for firewall, routing etc. The last few
>>> years I've also run gitlab on it, which I use to manage text files I
>>> work on from an ass
On 2/16/2020 5:37 PM, john doe wrote:
> On 2/15/2020 10:37 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> Hi John,
>>
>> kaufm...@nb.net wrote:
>>> When my last Thinkpad died, I lost my Mint/Xfce. My new Thinkpad, of
>>> course, comes with
>>> Windows 10, and I want to move on to Debian. As a Debian newbie, I'm als
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