Re: How long will this take?

2020-06-09 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-06-08 13:22, Matthew Campbell wrote: I bought a new 4 terrabyte hard drive that is connected with a USB cable using USB2. It took about 32 hours to read every sector on the drive to look for bad sectors. I started blanking the sectors using /dev/zero last Friday night. It still isn't d

Re: Trouble with 2011 iMac Sound Card On Debian

2020-06-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 08 iun 20, 16:11:02, Keifer Bly wrote: > Hi all, > > So I installed Debian on a 2011 iMac and it is working ok, except for the > sound. There is no sound from either the speaker or the headphone jack. > > When I go to the system settings, the volum option is completely greyed out. > > Run

Re: How long will this take?

2020-06-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 08 iun 20, 20:09:54, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > From: Dan Ritter > People are suing Western Digital for sneaking those SMR disks into their > supply chain. They're supposed to be red in color if what I read in the > news is correct. > > > > https://www.ixsystems.com/community/resources/list-

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-09 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 02:59:13PM -0600, Tom Dial wrote: > > > On 6/7/20 14:14, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 03:56:17PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> Yeah, but that's not building Jitsi; that's installing a prebuilt Jitsi, > >> as shipped in those packages. > >> > >> Pr

Re: How long will this take?

2020-06-09 Thread Nicolas George
Christopher David Howie (12020-06-08): > I'd suggest simply adding "status=progress" which gives you a summary every > second including bytes written, elapsed time, and average transfer rate. How do you add "status=progress" to a process that has already been running for three days? Regards, --

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-09 Thread Nicolas George
to...@tuxteam.de (12020-06-09): > Can we stop that already? Nobody proved you can't build Jitsi or > BBB from source. Everyone here is just too friggin' lazy to even > try. > > Can we give 'em the benefit of the doubt until someone really makes > his hands ditry on that? You can be naïve and give

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-09 Thread The Wanderer
(Please stop CCing me on replies - especially to messages which I did not actually send - unless you're specifically trying to draw my attention to a particular message and think I may not notice it without the CC. Not only am I subscribed, I am in fact reading this thread on a multiple-times-a-day

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-09 Thread Nicolas George
The Wanderer (12020-06-09): > (Please stop CCing me on replies - especially to messages which I did > not actually send - unless you're specifically trying to draw my > attention to a particular message and think I may not notice it without > the CC. Not only am I subscribed, I am in fact reading t

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-09 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-06-09 at 06:51, Nicolas George wrote: > The Wanderer (12020-06-09): > >> (Please stop CCing me on replies - especially to messages which I >> did not actually send - unless you're specifically trying to draw >> my attention to a particular message and think I may not notice it >> without

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-09 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 06:41:33AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > (Please stop CCing me on replies [...] Sorry. [...] > FWIW, I have tried, at least in part. Thanks for taking the time to do, and thanks for reporting back. [...] > Even a successful build from a repository like that would not >

how to use high resolution display with radeon

2020-06-09 Thread Cheng Yutong
hello everyone, I'm using an old graphic card on my debian PC, which is HD 6770, and these days i've got a new display that support 2k resolution (2560x1440), but on the Display Setting dialog, btw, my DE is XFCE4, the highest resolution is 1920x1200. i've tried to generate a Modeline with

Re: how to use high resolution display with radeon

2020-06-09 Thread Dan Ritter
Cheng Yutong wrote: > I'm using an old graphic card on my debian PC, which is HD 6770, > > and these days i've got a new display that support 2k resolution > (2560x1440), > > but on the Display Setting dialog, btw, my DE is XFCE4, the highest > resolution is 1920x1200. This suggests that the mo

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-09 Thread rhkramer
On Tuesday, June 09, 2020 05:45:24 AM Nicolas George wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de (12020-06-09): > > Can we stop that already? Nobody proved you can't build Jitsi or > > BBB from source. Everyone here is just too friggin' lazy to even > > try. > > > > Can we give 'em the benefit of the doubt until so

Fw: How long will this take?

2020-06-09 Thread Matthew Campbell
I have started the process over from the beginning. It seems to respond well to obs=4M as the write speed has gone from 3.7 MB/s to 28.2 MB/s, which is about the same as where it was with obs=1M. It should take a couple of days to complete this write process. The WD drive that I have, which is

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-09 Thread Alberto Sentieri
This is a long thread. I did not read it all. Did anyone suggest http://meet.google.com?

Re: Trouble with 2011 iMac Sound Card On Debian

2020-06-09 Thread Keifer Bly
Will try, thx. --Keifer On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 12:26 AM Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 08 iun 20, 16:11:02, Keifer Bly wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > So I installed Debian on a 2011 iMac and it is working ok, except for the > > sound. There is no sound from either the speaker or the headphone jack.

Re: How long will this take?

2020-06-09 Thread l0f4r0
Hi, 8 juin 2020 à 22:22 de treni...@pm.me: > I bought a new 4 terrabyte hard drive that is connected with a USB cable > using USB2. It took about 32 hours to read every sector on the drive to look > for bad sectors. I started blanking the sectors using /dev/zero last Friday > night. > Out of

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-09 Thread Peter Ehlert
Original post: family is using Zoom. No alternative for me to participate... Zoom or nothing. Thanks for the suggestion. Peter Ehlert On June 9, 2020 10:56:10 AM Alberto Sentieri <2...@tripolho.com> wrote: This is a long thread. I did not read it all. Did anyone suggest http://meet.google.com?

Re: How long will this take?

2020-06-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
High security operations do this routinely. They properly don't trust parts are as labeled from manufacturers especially manufacturers that send any of their stuff or get any of their stuff from China. I'm thinking of the binary search method and am wondering if disk operations of all sorts could

Re: How long will this take?

2020-06-09 Thread Nicolas George
Jude DaShiell (12020-06-09): > High security operations do this routinely. They properly don't trust > parts are as labeled from manufacturers especially manufacturers that > send any of their stuff or get any of their stuff from China. There is no trust to have. The previous contents would be ov

Re: How long will this take?

2020-06-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
To search disk drives. On Tue, 9 Jun 2020, Nicolas George wrote: > Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2020 14:27:46 > From: Nicolas George > Reply-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > To: Jude DaShiell > Cc: l0f...@tuta.io, Debian User > Subject: Re: How long will this take? > > Jude DaShiell (12020-06-09): > > Hi

Re: How long will this take?

2020-06-09 Thread Nicolas George
Jude DaShiell (12020-06-09): > To search disk drives. Are you still talking about binary search? To search disk drives for what? Binary search is for sorted data. There is nothing sorted on a hard drive. And binary search is when random access is fast; on mechanical hard drives, random access is m

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-09 Thread Default User
On Sunday, Jun 7, 2020, at 12:11, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > >Running > > sudo sh -c 'unset SUDO_USER; KDE_FULL_SESSION=true > dolphin' > > from a shell gets a dolphin window. Thanks, Kushal. That does work. For Dolphin, anyway. > There is some advice at > https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=223

Re: how to use high resolution display with radeon

2020-06-09 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 9 Jun 2020 18:43:34 +0800 Cheng Yutong wrote: > i've tried to generate a Modeline with `cvt 2560 1440`, Try installing arandr. It will let you set it up graphically, and then export a shell script which will duplicate the setup. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charle

Re: How long will this take?

2020-06-09 Thread Christopher David Howie
On 6/9/2020 5:39 AM, Nicolas George wrote: How do you add "status=progress" to a process that has already been running for three days? You can't, of course. I was merely suggesting using this in future invocations. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:C

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 09 iun 20, 17:55:07, Default User wrote: > > Well, when I did an alternate Buster Stable install on a spare drive, > I was surprised (not happily) that when running from that setup, > various programs demand the root password, and will not accept the > user password. So, now I have to reme