Re: question about sound

2022-08-19 Thread tomas
On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 06:28:47AM +0100, mick.crane wrote: > On 2022-08-18 08:39, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > TBH you packed two questions into your original mail. Complaining that > > most people concentrate on one is kinda... well ;-) > > I don't mean to appear am complaining. No sweat

Re: Cheat but no cheatsheets

2022-08-19 Thread l0f4r0
Hi, 18 août 2022, 22:42 de li...@tomgeorge.info: > I installed cheat was describe as a quick way to check a command's options > instead of referring  to its man page. > > A great convenience but cheat list responds no cheatsheet found for list > instead listing available cheatsheets > > Is ther

Re: Cheat but no cheatsheets

2022-08-19 Thread Curt
On 2022-08-19, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > Hi, > > 18 août 2022, 22:42 de li...@tomgeorge.info: > >> I installed cheat was describe as a quick way to check a command's options >> instead of referring  to its man page. >> >> A great convenience but cheat list responds no cheatsheet found for list >>

Re: question about sound

2022-08-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 11:13:11PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > The attraction of a one-liner is partly because of screens > being around four times wider than high (characterwise). > Wouldn't it be nice if bash had Perl's die …. Some people put a die() function in their scripts, and then use it.

Re: question about sound

2022-08-19 Thread David
On Fri, 19 Aug 2022 at 14:13, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 18 Aug 2022 at 06:58:20 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 10:58:17PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > $ type soxy > > > soxy is a function > > > soxy () > > > { > > > [ -z "$1" ] && printf '%s\n' "Usage:${FU

Re: Cheat but no cheatsheets

2022-08-19 Thread l0f4r0
Hi, 19 août 2022, 14:08 de cu...@free.fr: > curl cheat.sh/:list > > Or am I missing something once again, I wonder vaguely. > `curl cht.sh/...` is quicker to type ;) l0f4r0

Why are some Debian bugs ignored for a long time?

2022-08-19 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
Hello, I have noticed that some Debian bugs are ignored for a long time, sometimes even when the person who submitted the bug offered a patch. The Debian developers/maintainers sometimes don't even reply and therefore never explain why the proposed patch cannot be applied. Why is that the case

Re: Raising volume past 100%

2022-08-19 Thread David Griffith
On Fri, 19 Aug 2022, Bret Busby wrote: On 19/8/22 03:04, David Griffith wrote: On Fri, 19 Aug 2022, Bret Busby wrote: On 19/8/22 01:32, David Griffith wrote: My reply is at the bottom.  Please put your reply there too. On Thu, 18 Aug 2022, Bret Busby wrote: On 18/8/22 16:15, David Griffith

Re: Why are some Debian bugs ignored for a long time?

2022-08-19 Thread piorunz
On 19/08/2022 18:57, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: I have noticed that some Debian bugs are ignored for a long time, sometimes even when the person who submitted the bug offered a patch. The Debian developers/maintainers sometimes don't even reply and therefore never explain why the proposed patch

Re: Raising volume past 100%

2022-08-19 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 8/19/22, David Griffith wrote: > > I don't want to go through multiple clicks and the open/close of a dialog > box. Sometimes I get files/streams that are so quiet that even the max > provided by that method of 153% is not enough. I don't want a dialog > popping over what I'm doing. I was pr

Re: Why are some Debian bugs ignored for a long time?

2022-08-19 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 8/19/2022 4:44 PM, piorunz wrote: > On 19/08/2022 18:57, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > > > I have noticed that some Debian bugs are ignored for a long time, sometimes > > even when the person who submitted the bug offered a patch. The Debian > > developers/maintainers sometimes don't even reply an

Re: Why are some Debian bugs ignored for a long time?

2022-08-19 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 8/19/2022 6:43 PM, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 6:40 PM Chuck Zmudzinski > wrote: > > On 8/19/2022 6:20 PM, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 5:07 PM Chuck Zmudzinski > wrote: > > > >     On 8/19/2022 4:44 P

Re: Why are some Debian bugs ignored for a long time?

2022-08-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 05:06:38PM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > On 8/19/2022 4:44 PM, piorunz wrote: > > On 19/08/2022 18:57, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > > > I have noticed that some Debian bugs are ignored for a long time, > > > sometimes even when the person who submitted the bug offer

must i consider zfs or lvm for smr large drive?

2022-08-19 Thread Samuel Wales
apologies for the subject header being kind of an opinion poll rather than a question. but it is meant as a question. until now, i have avoided lvm and zfs determinedly. i have always been completely satisfied to copy some big partition rather than deal with the complexity of those. i don't wa

Re: Why are some Debian bugs ignored for a long time?

2022-08-19 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 8/19/2022 6:59 PM, Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 05:06:38PM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > > On 8/19/2022 4:44 PM, piorunz wrote: > > > On 19/08/2022 18:57, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > > > > I have noticed that some Debian bugs are ignored for a long time, > > > > somet

Re: must i consider zfs or lvm for smr large drive?

2022-08-19 Thread DdB
hello, idk if i got your question(1) right, but i am a zfs user since about 10 years and built my infrastructure around it. But i would not use that for a single drive, as that would right from the start have zfs not being able to do, what it is excellent at: redundancy. Furthermore, zfs needs huge

Re: must i consider zfs or lvm for smr large drive?

2022-08-19 Thread David Christensen
On 8/19/22 16:13, Samuel Wales wrote: apologies for the subject header being kind of an opinion poll rather than a question. but it is meant as a question. Please post: # cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a What is the make and model of your computer? BIOS or UEFI? What is the make and

Re: must i consider zfs or lvm for smr large drive?

2022-08-19 Thread David Christensen
On 8/19/22 17:28, DdB wrote: If i use [ZFS] for a single drive, i would at the very least consider setting "copies=2" to have at least some redundancy for data, i value. My SOHO file and backup servers are FreeBSD with encrypted ZFS root. I use single 2.5" SSD's for the OS drive. I hacked

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2022 #675

2022-08-19 Thread STUART LENTON
f o On Sat, 20 Aug 2022, 8:28 am , wrote: > Content-Type: text/plain > > debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2022 : > Issue 675 > > Today's Topics: > Re: Raising volume past 100% [ David Griffith ] > Re: Why are some Debian bugs ignored [ piorunz ] >

Re: Why are some Debian bugs ignored for a long time?

2022-08-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Chuck, On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 08:20:21PM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > On 8/19/2022 6:59 PM, Andy Smith wrote: > > Volunteers cannot be forced to do work, else they are not > > volunteers. > > The fact that Debian is created by volunteers and therefore the chances are > high that users mig

Re: Why are some Debian bugs ignored for a long time?

2022-08-19 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Chuck Zmudzinski writes: > On 8/19/2022 6:59 PM, Andy Smith wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 05:06:38PM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: >> > On 8/19/2022 4:44 PM, piorunz wrote: >> > > On 19/08/2022 18:57, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: >> > > > I have noticed that some Debian bugs are igno

Re: Why are some Debian bugs ignored for a long time?

2022-08-19 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 8/19/2022 9:18 PM, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Chuck, > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 08:20:21PM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > > On 8/19/2022 6:59 PM, Andy Smith wrote: > > > Volunteers cannot be forced to do work, else they are not > > > volunteers. > > > > The fact that Debian is created by volunte

Re: Raising volume past 100%

2022-08-19 Thread David Griffith
On Fri, 19 Aug 2022, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: On 8/19/22, David Griffith wrote: I don't want to go through multiple clicks and the open/close of a dialog box. Sometimes I get files/streams that are so quiet that even the max provided by that method of 153% is not enough. I don't want a dial

Re: question about sound

2022-08-19 Thread David Wright
On Fri 19 Aug 2022 at 08:46:29 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 11:13:11PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > The attraction of a one-liner is partly because of screens > > being around four times wider than high (characterwise). > > Wouldn't it be nice if bash had Perl's die ….

Re: Why are some Debian bugs ignored for a long time?

2022-08-19 Thread tomas
On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 05:06:38PM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > On 8/19/2022 4:44 PM, piorunz wrote: > > On 19/08/2022 18:57, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > > > > > I have noticed that some Debian bugs are ignored for a long time [...] > > > > Hi Chuck, > > > > Maybe because developers/maintainers a

Re: question about sound

2022-08-19 Thread tomas
On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 11:55:33PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 19 Aug 2022 at 08:46:29 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 11:13:11PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > The attraction of a one-liner is partly because of screens > > > being around four times wider than hi