Re: Advice on encrypted filesystem

On 2020-06-26 21:00, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-06-26 18:25, David Wright wrote: There's still the problem of what one does about sensitive data if one has been rash enough to write it unencrypted onto an SSD. Would shred -n 1   be preferable? Not really, because that doesn't hit the ex-f

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

Your English is excellent. I think Debian is a very good choice for a small enterprise server. With a very limited set of servers as you mention here, I would not expect many issues, and stability is a hallmark of Debian. Personally, I would go with a quality HBA from Areca or LSI in JBOD m

Re: Advice on encrypted filesystem

1) backup your data to external usb drive 2) reinstall with encrypted enabled 3) restore data = a lot of unencrypted data get's overwritten (if user does not have a lot of data, generate some X-D) On 6/27/20 6:00 AM, David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-06-26 18:25, David Wright wrote: > >> There

Re: How long will this take?

On Sb, 27 iun 20, 01:37:57, Seeds Notoneofmy wrote: > > Recently I posted here with the subject line: "have you seen this inside..." > > And I was lectured by no fewer than three people. > > The subject line in this thread is: "How long will this take?" > > I struggle to understand the differen

Re: Advice on encrypted filesystem

On Vi, 26 iun 20, 20:25:32, David Wright wrote: > > Ironically, 2048 is neither cargo cult nor magic, but *is* the default > used by LUKS when the kernel does not supply one, as documented two > paragraphs earlier. Are you suggesting a 1MB alignment might be > insufficient? If one were to specify

On Subject drift [was: How long will this take?]

On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 01:37:57AM +0200, Seeds Notoneofmy wrote: [...] > Recently I posted here with the subject line: "have you seen this inside..." > > And I was lectured by no fewer than three people. As someone of those who did the "lecturing", I somehow feel urged to respond ;-) > The sub

WINE vs Virtual Machine for Windows app on Buster

Can someone advise if a VM is a better option than using WINE, to run a application built on Windows OS on Debian/Buster. Open to other suggestions as well. Thanks Trips

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

On Vi, 26 iun 20, 20:34:07, echo test wrote: > Hello, > > First of all, please don't ask me why I simply don't want to use aws or gcp. > > Then, I want to build a small data center for my company for hosting a web > app and a mail server. It's the first time I'm going to buy some hardware > for t

mails tagged as spam with alpine

all mails I send using alpine are tagged as spam. As you can see, this doesn't occur with thunderbird Is there a  way to get rid of this tagging? Pierre Frenkiel

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

On Sb, 27 iun 20, 12:00:58, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 26 iun 20, 20:34:07, echo test wrote: > > Hello, > > > > First of all, please don't ask me why I simply don't want to use aws or gcp. > > > > Then, I want to build a small data center for my company for hosting a web > > app and a mail se

Re: WINE vs Virtual Machine for Windows app on Buster

* On 2020 27 Jun 03:59 -0500, manish tripathi wrote: > Can someone advise if a VM is a better option than using WINE, to run a > application built on Windows OS on Debian/Buster. Open to other suggestions > as well. My experience is that it depends on the application and what Windows calls it make

Re: On Subject drift [was: How long will this take?]

Hi, 27 juin 2020 à 10:51 de to...@tuxteam.de: > I'll take your question face value. While there are big similarities > between both, I still see at least two (small!) differences. > > 1) The subject "how long will this take" at least gives a hint > at something performance-related. The subject "

Re: mails tagged as spam with alpine

Hi. On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 10:49:50AM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > all mails I send using alpine are tagged as spam. Any recent examples? Headers would be enough. Reco

Re: WINE vs Virtual Machine for Windows app on Buster

Hi, 27 juin 2020 à 10:58 de manishtr...@gmail.com: > Can someone advise if a VM is a better option than using WINE, to run a > application built on Windows OS on Debian/Buster. Open to other suggestions > as well.  > Nate's already given the gist but I think you should clarify whether your que

Re: WINE vs Virtual Machine for Windows app on Buster

27 juin 2020 à 11:55 de l0f...@tuta.io: > You won't have any guarantee of success because it depends on a lot of > factors and on your expectations/tolerance about your experience. > Of course I was speaking about Wine here ;) I don't think you could possibly have any issue on a VM as most (all

Re: WINE vs Virtual Machine for Windows app on Buster

Thank you for the responses. I was looking for a general purpose solution...I can safely assume that VM soln may mostly work, while the same may not be guaranteed with use of WINE. Can one also explain about the malware that may impact my Linux/Buster, in case I use a VM for running my Windows app

Re: WINE vs Virtual Machine for Windows app on Buster

* On 2020 27 Jun 05:48 -0500, manish tripathi wrote: > Thank you for the responses. I was looking for a general purpose > solution...I can safely assume that VM soln may mostly work, while the same > may not be guaranteed with use of WINE. IME, Qemu has various issues with Windows guests, such thi

Support for AMD Ryzen 3 3200U

Hi. I need to buy a new computer. I am considering one based on the AMD Ryzen 3 3200U, more precisely the ZOTAC ZBOX CA621 Nano. From what I read on the web, it seems I would be able to get it working with Debian Testing. Can somebody confirm firsthand, for this processor or even better for this

Re: On Subject drift [was: How long will this take?]

On 6/27/20 10:51 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: I'll take your question face value. While there are big similarities between both, I still see at least two (small!) differences. 1) The subject "how long will this take" at least gives a hint at something performance-related. The subject "have yo

Re: Echo on Realtek ALC662 soundcard

On 6/27/20 3:44 AM, Seeds Notoneofmy wrote: Thanks for your help. I've looked into alsamixer and nothing I do there has fixed the echo I get on Debian buster with this card.  0 [Intel  ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel   HDA Intel at 0xfdefc000 irq 28 I got the  Realtek ALC6

Re: Echo on Realtek ALC662 soundcard

Seeds Notoneofmy (12020-06-27): > I'm only trying to bump this! For a message like that, bumping once after 5-7 days would have been reasonable, I think. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: dpms control?

On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 26 June 2020 15:46:15 davidson wrote: On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 20 June 2020 20:57:38 David Wright wrote: On Sat 20 Jun 2020 at 20:37:09 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 20 June 2020 20:13:08 davidson wrote:

Re: dpms control?

On Saturday 27 June 2020 11:26:32 davidson wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 26 June 2020 15:46:15 davidson wrote: > >> On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> On Saturday 20 June 2020 20:57:38 David Wright wrote: > On Sat 20 Jun 2020 at 20:37:09 (-0400), Ge

Re: WINE vs Virtual Machine for Windows app on Buster

Thank you Nate. That is quite informative. In my case there is no need to share files over a network, though some data may be required to be stored in the local machine. Trips On Sat, Jun 27, 2020, 6:27 PM Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2020 27 Jun 05:48 -0500, manish tripathi wrote: > > Thank y

Re: On Subject drift [was: How long will this take?]

On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 04:36:03PM +0200, Seeds Notoneofmy wrote: [...] Thanks for your kind words. > To learn is a personal effort. I've learnt from this and you have too. I > hope others have as well. The community will be better of it. Let's hope so, yes :-) Cheers -- t signature.asc Desc

Re: Support for AMD Ryzen 3 3200U

Nicolas George wrote: > Hi. > > I need to buy a new computer. I am considering one based on the > AMD Ryzen 3 3200U, more precisely the ZOTAC ZBOX CA621 Nano. > > From what I read on the web, it seems I would be able to get it working > with Debian Testing. > > Can somebody confirm firsthand, f

Re: How long will this take?

On Friday, June 26, 2020 09:41:26 PM Seeds Notoneofmy wrote: > On 6/27/20 3:20 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > This (the above) subject line is not very good, but at least it gives a > > hint that it probably is, or at least could be, computer related. > > Would you please explain the computer

Re: new camera

Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > Just got a new camera, fawcny endoscope, I intend to use for machine. > > Moderately high priced, 5 Megapixel, autofocus. > > But this stretch machine can't find it amongst all the other usb stuff. > It doesn't have cheese, and vlc doesn't recognize it. u

Re: Support for AMD Ryzen 3 3200U

Dan Ritter (12020-06-27): > No problems with this, or the 3400G (4-core sibling) or the > 2700x, or the 3600, or any of the EPYC series (Ryzen for > servers). Thank you. Just to be sure: GPU too? > At this point, people should stop asking "Is this Ryzen going to > work with Debian" unless it has

Re: new camera

Hi. On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 04:20:03PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > [598962.015764] uvcvideo 1-12.4.4.4:1.0: Entity type for entity Camera 1 was > not initialized! This, combined with [1], gives us the probable answer. Another possible answer is that "quirks" parameter of uvcvideo. > An

Re: Support for AMD Ryzen 3 3200U

On 6/27/20 9:37 PM, Nicolas George wrote: > Dan Ritter (12020-06-27): >> No problems with this, or the 3400G (4-core sibling) or the >> 2700x, or the 3600, or any of the EPYC series (Ryzen for >> servers). > > Thank you. Just to be sure: GPU too? Hi Nicolas, to be sure that you won't have proble

Re: Advice on encrypted filesystem

On 6/27/20 6:00 AM, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-06-26 18:25, David Wright wrote: There's still the problem of what one does about sensitive data if one has been rash enough to write it unencrypted onto an SSD. Would shred -n 1   be preferable? Not really, because that doesn't hit the ex-fi

Re: Support for AMD Ryzen 3 3200U

Hi. Georgi Naplatanov (12020-06-27): > to be sure that you won't have problems with the mainboard and different > controllers on it I would recommend you to test with live distribution > on USB flash drive if this is possible. I kind of hoped to make sure before getting my hands on the computer,

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

I've had good luck with Supermicro 1U servers - run two or more of them and it's easy to turn them into a high-available cluster. https://www.rackmountsetc.com/ has been pretty good to me when it comes to configuring & assembling Supermicro components (and suggesting specific configurations). 

Re: Advice on encrypted filesystem

On 2020-06-27 12:47, David Christensen wrote: The ATA secure erase command is designed to erase all blocks, both host-accessible and hidden. STFW, "secure erase" (aka "security erase") is an older feature and may not erase all NAND blocks, just the "mapping table". (When I have done this on

Re: Advice on encrypted filesystem

On 2020-06-27 01:46, Andrei POPESCU wrote: The latest recommendation I saw for "cheap flash based" storage is 4MiB in order to align with erase block sizes, so now I'm starting all my partitions at 4MiB instead of 1MiB. Interesting subject -- thanks for bringing it up. :-) STFW there does

Re: new camera

On Saturday 27 June 2020 14:28:20 songbird wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > Just got a new camera, fawcny endoscope, I intend to use for > > machine. > > > > Moderately high priced, 5 Megapixel, autofocus. > > > > But this stretch machine can't find it amongst all the other

Re: mails tagged as spam with alpine

I imagine others have asked this. still, your edition of Alpine is the most up to date? It was just changed earlier this week. Karen On Sat, 27 Jun 2020, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: all mails I send using alpine are tagged as spam. As you can see, this doesn't occur with thunderbird Is there a 

Re: new camera

On Saturday 27 June 2020 14:50:09 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 04:20:03PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > [598962.015764] uvcvideo 1-12.4.4.4:1.0: Entity type for entity > > Camera 1 was not initialized! > > This, combined with [1], gives us the probable answer. > Another pos

Re: Support for AMD Ryzen 3 3200U

Nicolas George wrote: > Dan Ritter (12020-06-27): > > No problems with this, or the 3400G (4-core sibling) or the > > 2700x, or the 3600, or any of the EPYC series (Ryzen for > > servers). > > Thank you. Just to be sure: GPU too? Yes. You'll need the amd firmware package and the amdgpu Xorg serv

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

Miles Fidelman wrote: > One other alternative: A lot of people seem to swear by Mac Minis as > servers.?? They're already BSD under the hood, and I've run all kinds of > Linux distros on Macs, under virtualization.?? You should be able to run > Debian directly, though I've never tried it. I d

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

On 6/27/20 1:04 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: I've had good luck with Supermicro 1U servers - run two or more of them and it's easy to turn them into a high-available cluster. https://www.rackmountsetc.com/ has been pretty good to me when it comes to configuring & assembling Supermicro components (

Re: new camera

Gene Heskett wrote: ... > Thanks songbird. Stay well and safe now. thanks to you too. i'm doing ok but life here just got stirred up a bit and so i'll have to do twice the work i had to do before. luckily, we are planted and into a more reasonable time where the really hard work is just getti

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

On Sat, Jun 27, 2020, 8:08 PM Fred wrote: > On 6/27/20 1:04 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > I've had good luck with Supermicro 1U servers - run two or more of them > > and it's easy to turn them into a high-available cluster. > > https://www.rackmountsetc.com/ has been pretty good to me when it com

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

On 6/27/20 11:56 PM, Kenneth Parker wrote: On Sat, Jun 27, 2020, 8:08 PM Fred > wrote: On 6/27/20 1:04 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > I've had good luck with Supermicro 1U servers - run two or more of them > and it's easy to turn them into a high-avail

Re: new camera

On Saturday 27 June 2020 20:26:33 songbird wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > ... > > > Thanks songbird. Stay well and safe now. > > thanks to you too. i'm doing ok but life here just > got stirred up a bit and so i'll have to do twice the > work i had to do before. luckily, we are planted and >

[?]Last Mile problem enabling Bluetooth Device on Lenovo Laptop

To, The Team Debian-User, debian-user@lists.debian.org, Debian.org My dear illustrious Team Leaders, Good morning. Model (India): Lenovo IdeaPad 320-15ISK 80XH01FKIN 15.6-inch Laptop (6th Gen Core i3-6006U/4GB/2TB/Integrated Graphics), Platinum Grey The OSes are Debian (Stretch) 9.11.0 Lxde and

Re: [?]Last Mile problem enabling Bluetooth Device on Lenovo Laptop

Susmita/Rajib wrote: > Model (India): Lenovo IdeaPad 320-15ISK 80XH01FKIN 15.6-inch Laptop > (6th Gen Core i3-6006U/4GB/2TB/Integrated Graphics), Platinum Grey > The OSes are Debian (Stretch) 9.11.0 Lxde and Knoppix 8.6.0, in 64-bit > operation. > > All details/specifications of my used Lenovo la