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2024-07-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
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Re: How to use Wine, How to get Gecko to install and work

2024-07-01 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, Absolutely no idea if it will help you solve your problem but the Archwiki has an potentially interesting tip for reverting the Debian default behavior: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wine#Prevent_installing_Mono/Gecko so, perhaps setting the WINEDLLOVERRIDES environment variable to

Re: sendmail and starttls failing

2024-07-01 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sun, 30 Jun 2024 at 23:21, Tim Woodall wrote: > > > The thing I'm seeing is in the body of the email - I had no idea > this was illegal - and I'm surprised that tools like cron don't do > something to avoid sending "illegal" emails. Indeed, even mail will do > so happily. > > cron isn’t a mai

Re: How to use Wine, How to get Gecko to install and work

2024-07-01 Thread Richard
This has nothing to do with maturity. Only with the existence of someone willing to maintain it - and its dependencies if needed. They don't publish it as anything else than a Flatpak as that's by far the easiest way to make sure it works for everyone, and thus they don't officially support any oth

Re: How to use Wine, How to get Gecko to install and work

2024-07-01 Thread George at Clug
On Monday, 01-07-2024 at 18:37 Richard wrote: > This has nothing to do with maturity. Thanks for picking that point up. I was not sure how to explain my reasoning. I will try to give a better explanation. As a general rule I am willing to accept RPMs, pacman ?? packages, and .debs, when the

Re: sendmail and starttls failing

2024-07-01 Thread Tim Woodall
On Mon, 1 Jul 2024, Mark Fletcher wrote: On Sun, 30 Jun 2024 at 23:21, Tim Woodall wrote: The thing I'm seeing is in the body of the email - I had no idea this was illegal - and I'm surprised that tools like cron don't do something to avoid sending "illegal" emails. Indeed, even mail will

Re: sendmail and starttls failing

2024-07-01 Thread Tim Woodall
On Sun, 30 Jun 2024, Tim Woodall wrote: On Sun, 30 Jun 2024, Michael Grant wrote: Yeah I'm seeing this too! Identical in fact. This is what I did to fix this: I added this to my /etc/mail/access file for my local server that sends this messages to me: SRV_Features:127.0.0.1 L U G Spec

Re: sendmail and starttls failing

2024-07-01 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jul 01, 2024 at 09:34:39 +0100, Mark Fletcher wrote: > cron isn’t a mail sending tool — not the right place to police something > like this. Seems to me that sendmail is. There are two possible layers here. First, a cron job (typically a shell command, or a shell script) might invoke mail

Re: How to use Wine, How to get Gecko to install and work

2024-07-01 Thread Richard
On 01.07.24 11:13, George at Clug wrote: As a general rule I am willing to accept RPMs, pacman ?? packages, and .debs, when they are from the Distribution's own package libraries, or hardware vendor supported, Hardware vendor distributed installation files usually should not be used, espec

6.1.0: NVME drive goes offline randomly even with: nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=0 pcie_aspm=off

2024-07-01 Thread Justin Piszcz
le up to capture the crash. The full kernel netconsole before during and after the crash: https://installkernel.tripod.com/20240701-6.1.0-crash.txt The model & firmware version of both drives are identical: Model Number: Samsung SSD 990 PRO with Heatsink 4TB Firmwar

Re: 6.1.0: NVME drive goes offline randomly even with: nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=0 pcie_aspm=off

2024-07-01 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 1 Jul 2024 08:23 -0400, from jpis...@lucidpixels.com (Justin Piszcz): > Kernel: 6.1.0-17-amd64 > Distribution: Debian stable > Arch: x86_64 Your system is about half a year out of date. For Bookworm, 6.1.0-17 (6.1.69) is from early January; 6.1.0-18 (6.1.76) is from about a week into February;

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-07-01 Thread Lee
On Mon, Jul 1, 2024 at 4:53 AM jeremy ardley wrote: > > > On 1/7/24 10:32, Lee wrote: > > Bluefish looks like a possible replacement for notepad++ but it > > doesn't [seem to?] support WYSIWYG editing of html files. > > > Visual Studio Code allows you to edit HTML and preview it using Live > Serv

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-07-01 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jul 01, 2024 at 09:05:51AM -0400, Lee wrote: > On Mon, Jul 1, 2024 at 4:53 AM jeremy ardley wrote: [...] > > https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ritwickdey.LiveServer > > Thanks, but no thanks. That seems to include the Microsoft spyware > licensing: https://code.visua

Re: How to use Wine, How to get Gecko to install and work

2024-07-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
> As a general rule I am willing to accept RPMs, pacman ?? packages, and > .debs, when they are from the Distribution's own package libraries, or > hardware vendor supported, as otherwise I don't know the people providing > the package. I have this strange belief that when a developer supplies > a

Re: Browser traffic interception/inspection

2024-07-01 Thread Max Nikulin
On 01/07/2024 13:57, Lee wrote: On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 11:30 AM Max Nikulin wrote: On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 4:13 PM Lee wrote: set SSLKEYLOGFILE=C:\Users\Lee\AppData\Local\Temp\FF-SSLkeys.txt start C:\"Program Files\Firefox\Firefox.exe" This looks like the Debian bug report https://bugs.de

Re: 6.1.0: NVME drive goes offline randomly even with: nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=0 pcie_aspm=off

2024-07-01 Thread Justin Piszcz
Hello, Thanks, I've upgraded to the latest kernel version and will see if the issue recurs. $ uname -a Linux int 6.1.0-22-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.94-1 (2024-06-21) x86_64 GNU/Linux Regards, Justin On Mon, Jul 1, 2024 at 8:39 AM Michael Kjörling wrote: > > On 1 Jul 2024 08:23 -

Re: 6.1.0: NVME drive goes offline randomly even with: nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=0 pcie_aspm=off

2024-07-01 Thread Dmitrii Odintcov
Hey all, Recently started experiencing the exact same issue. Context: 6.6.13+bpo-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.6.13-1~bpo12+1 (2024-02-15) x86_64 GNU/Linux Samsung SSD 970 Evo Plus 2TB Happened a few times during heightened use (eg Steam installing a game on the drive). Now I've a

Re: How to use Wine, How to get Gecko to install and work

2024-07-01 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jul 01, 2024 at 10:45:39AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > As a general rule I am willing to accept RPMs, pacman ?? packages, and > > .debs, when they are from the Distribution's own package libraries, or > > hardware vendor supported, as otherwise I don't know the people providing > > the

Re: sendmail and starttls failing

2024-07-01 Thread Tim Woodall
On Mon, 1 Jul 2024, Tim Woodall wrote: On Sun, 30 Jun 2024, Tim Woodall wrote: On Sun, 30 Jun 2024, Michael Grant wrote: Yeah I'm seeing this too! Identical in fact. This is what I did to fix this: I added this to my /etc/mail/access file for my local server that sends this messages to me

Re: 6.1.0: NVME drive goes offline randomly even with: nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=0 pcie_aspm=off

2024-07-01 Thread Justin Piszcz
Hello, With the latest stable kernel (6.1.0-22), it crashed (below) shortly after boot (1-2hr), with the prior version (6.1.0-17) it had been stable other than the NVME dropping out. Will try/test with a newer bpo kernel or similar.. 7/1/2024 12:47 notice user machine-name.int [ 14.565265] net

Re: 6.1.0: NVME drive goes offline randomly even with: nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=0 pcie_aspm=off

2024-07-01 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 1 Jul 2024 12:52 -0400, from jpis...@lucidpixels.com (Justin Piszcz): > With the latest stable kernel (6.1.0-22), it crashed (below) shortly > after boot (1-2hr), with the prior version (6.1.0-17) it had been > stable other than the NVME dropping out. Will try/test with a newer > bpo kernel or

Shell UA

2024-07-01 Thread Jeff Peng
Do u know if there is a shell UserAgent that can be used to log in gmail? That might have to support JS and cookie. Thanks.

Re: Shell UA

2024-07-01 Thread Darac Marjal
On 01/07/2024 19:33, Jeff Peng wrote: Do u know if there is a shell UserAgent that can be used to log in gmail? It's not a shell, but assuming you mean "has a Text User Interface (TUI)", then mutt supports Gmail out of the box. You can either define an "application password" (i.e. a unique pas

Re: Shell UA

2024-07-01 Thread Darac Marjal
On 01/07/2024 19:33, Jeff Peng wrote: Do u know if there is a shell UserAgent that can be used to log in gmail? It's not a shell, but assuming you mean "has a Text User Interface (TUI)", then mutt supports Gmail out of the box. You can either define an "application password" (i.e. a unique pas

Re: Shell UA

2024-07-01 Thread Darac Marjal
Apologies for the double-post. I installed a new Extension in Thunderbird and it changed my From address when I didn't want it to. On 01/07/2024 19:41, Darac Marjal wrote: On 01/07/2024 19:33, Jeff Peng wrote: Do u know if there is a shell UserAgent that can be used to log in gmail? It's not

Re: How to use Wine, How to get Gecko to install and work

2024-07-01 Thread George at Clug
To all who replied, Thanks. Sadly after further testing I still have very little success with Wine. When I installed WineHQ's Wine Installation, Gecko and Mono were able to be installed. I noticed a rpcss.exe (from memory) in Taskmgr. This at least allowed me to display the initial web page in

Re: Shell UA

2024-07-01 Thread Dan Ritter
Jeff Peng wrote: > Do u know if there is a shell UserAgent that can be used to log in gmail? > mutt can support OAUTH or an app-specific password; if you can set up the latter, most other mail agents can also use it. -dsr-

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-07-01 Thread jeremy ardley
On 1/7/24 21:05, Lee wrote: Visual Studio Code allows you to edit HTML and preview it using Live Server plugin https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ritwickdey.LiveServer Thanks, but no thanks. That seems to include the Microsoft spyware licensing: https://code.visualstudio.co

Re: How to use Wine, How to get Gecko to install and work

2024-07-01 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Jul 1, 2024 at 6:33 PM George at Clug wrote: > > To all who replied, Thanks. > > Sadly after further testing I still have very little success with Wine. > > When I installed WineHQ's Wine Installation, Gecko and Mono were able to be > installed. I noticed a rpcss.exe (from memory) in Task

Re: How to use Wine, How to get Gecko to install and work

2024-07-01 Thread George at Clug
Thanks for your reply Jeff, On Tuesday, 02-07-2024 at 10:16 Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Mon, Jul 1, 2024 at 6:33 PM George at Clug wrote: > > > > To all who replied, Thanks. > > > > Sadly after further testing I still have very little success with Wine. > > > > When I installed WineHQ's Wine Insta

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-07-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
> In the more general case, telemetry is not in itself > considered 'evil'. I consider it evil if it's opt-out rather than opt-in. Stefan

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-07-01 Thread gene heskett
On 7/1/24 23:41, Stefan Monnier wrote: In the more general case, telemetry is not in itself considered 'evil'. I consider it evil if it's opt-out rather than opt-in. Stefan I think that highly depends on what that telemetry is sending. Crash reports, yes, contents of a list of phon

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-07-01 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jul 01, 2024 at 11:40:56PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > In the more general case, telemetry is not in itself > > considered 'evil'. > > I consider it evil if it's opt-out rather than opt-in. Absolutely. Plus (a) I don't trust most vendors to be telling the truth whenever their bottom

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-07-01 Thread George at Clug
Is telemetry evil?  Are guns evil?  Philosophical questions? I find it objectionable when people gather "telemetry" about "me" and not just the causes of the "blue screens of death". I find it objectionable when people gather personal "telemetry" and then on sell that information to others for