Re: Debian version

2021-11-11 Thread Anders Andersson
On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 1:24 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 09, 2021 at 09:22:25AM +, Koler, Nethanel wrote: > > I am Nati, I am trying to find a variable that is configured in the > > linux-headers that can tell me on which Debian I am > > This sounds like an X-Y problem. What's you

Re: Instalacja Debian8 błąd w Release

2022-01-14 Thread Anders Andersson
On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 3:13 PM piorunz wrote: > > Witaj Wojciech, > > On 13/01/2022 11:02, Wojciech wrote: > > > > Kiedy mogę się spodziewać naprawienia ? > > Never. Jessie end of life was in June 2018, and LTS support has ended in > June 2020, one and half years ago. It's a surprise that some Je

Re: Unable to minimize Firefox 91.5.0esr at top of frame

2022-01-16 Thread Anders Andersson
On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 8:08 PM John Boxall wrote: > > After upgrading to the latest Debian 10 (Buster) Firefox ESR (91.5.0esr > 64bit), I found that I could not minimize the window by right clicking > on the top of the window frame and selecting "Minimize", whether the > menu bar was present or n

Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-16 Thread Anders Andersson
On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 11:29 AM Marco Möller wrote: > > Does somebody has information about what in the background has happened, > which made Norbert leaving the team? > Considering that Debian is a community project and myself feeling to be > part of the community, although not actively involved

Re: OT: Music player with substantial speakers than can play things like mp3, wav files from an SD card or USB pendrive

2021-06-18 Thread Anders Andersson
On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 1:51 AM wrote: > > I'd like to find a fairly large (I mean not a tiny hand held thing that uses > batteries and has tiny controls) music player that can play things like mp3, > wav and other music files from either an SD card or a USB pendrive. > ... This is WAY too off to

Re: How can I force "fsck -y" of a removable usb drive before mounting it?

2021-06-20 Thread Anders Andersson
On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 11:09 AM Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > I have a removable mp3 player that gets auto-magically mounted as: > > $ mount |grep sdb > /dev/sdb1 on /media/oc/PHILIPS type vfat > (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=

Re: dpkg --configure -a crashes system

2022-02-08 Thread Anders Andersson
On Sun, Feb 6, 2022 at 7:13 PM Dennis Wicks wrote: > > I can't install/upgrade because I get the message > > > E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' > > to correct the problem. > > When I run the dpkg command I get one message > > Setting up linux-image-4.19.0-

Re: Odd reproducible problem - but is it a bug?

2022-05-03 Thread Anders Andersson
On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 8:19 PM wrote: > On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 07:58:12PM +0200, Michael Lange wrote: > > On Mon, 2 May 2022 10:17:06 -0500 > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I'm using Debian 10.7 with MATE DE [will be updated later this week] > > > The machine is a Lenovo T510 and is setup to logi

Status of Virtualbox in debian

2022-06-20 Thread Anders Andersson
I remember when Virtualbox was removed from debian, and I remember the reasons. That's why I was surprised when I saw a recent message to the list where a user tried to install it. Searching for "virtualbox" indeed shows me that it is available in stretch-backports and sid: https://packages.debian.

Re: A question about alsa(1) and sox(1) internals

2022-07-25 Thread Anders Andersson
On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 8:51 PM John Conover wrote: > The command: > > sox ... sine create 1000 vol -60 dB > > generates a 1 kHz. sine wave at 1 / 1000 full scale. > > Does the low level sine wave still consist of +/- 2^15 steps? > > (i.e., does the volume reduction occur during sine wave gene

Re: Get an error when i use new kernel

2020-08-28 Thread Anders Andersson
> stan clay 于2020年8月26日周三 上午10:26写道: >> Yesterday, I upgraded unstable from stable and installed a new kernel, but I >> couldn't get into the system with the new kernel. I got an error By unstable you mean sid? What is the new kernel version? I saw that debian experimental has a new 5.8 kernel.

Re: The .xsession-errors problem

2020-11-01 Thread Anders Andersson
On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 5:43 PM Teemu Likonen wrote: > > It seems that ~/.xsession-errors file can still grow to infinity in > size. Sometimes it grows really fast. This is nothing new: we have all > seen it and talked about it. What do you do to maintain this file? > > - Do you just delete it w

Re: Why is idle not detected?

2021-01-08 Thread Anders Andersson
On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 9:47 PM Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > Hi, > > I am running Debian 10 and sometimes idle is not detected correctly on my > (KDE) system and the desktop is not going to suspend. > > A typical candidate is a not correctly terminating vlc process which does not > have a screen anymor

Re: Compared with debian 10.7, debian 10.8 (with realtime kernel) cyclictest test max latency has increased significantly

2021-02-10 Thread Anders Andersson
On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 4:45 AM Peter Ehlert wrote: > > > On 2/7/21 6:22 PM, Hongbo Li wrote: > > hi!My machine used to run debian 10.7 with realtime kernel > (linux-img-rt-amd64),everything is ok. A four hours cyclictest test has a > result with max latency 8 microseconds. Yesterday I upgraded

Re: Hibernation takes too long

2019-07-21 Thread Anders Andersson
On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 4:50 AM Michael Kesper wrote: > Am 21. Juli 2019 02:45:39 MESZ schrieb Shahryar Afifi > : > >here is my setup: > >X61 with Middleton's bios (SATA 2) > >... > > ... > The X61 will throttle SSD throughput as it has less bandwidth than modern > SATA adapters. So, transferrin

Re: A followup on github discussion

2019-07-26 Thread Anders Andersson
On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 5:56 PM Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 06:39:51PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 09:12:48AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 03:53:50PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > > > So, dear list, > > > > > > > > this is j

Re: multiple desktop environments and performance

2020-04-14 Thread Anders Andersson
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 11:07 PM Anil F Duggirala wrote: > > I would like to know if having multiple (say 3) different desktop > environments would have an effect in performance of my machine, as > opposed to having a single one. If I have Gnome already installed and > then install Lxqt and Mate.

Re: Changing timestamps in video files

2020-04-29 Thread Anders Andersson
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 5:57 PM Steve Keller wrote: > > Is there any tool in Debian that is able to change the timestamp in > video files, e.g. .mov, .avi, .mp4, etc.? > > For image files I use jhead -ta but I haven't found > anything for video. $ ls -gGh faked_evidence.avi -rw-r--r-- 1 700M Apr

Re: Changing timestamps in video files

2020-04-29 Thread Anders Andersson
On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 12:54 PM elvis wrote: > > > On 29/4/20 8:29 pm, Anders Andersson wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 5:57 PM Steve Keller wrote: > >> Is there any tool in Debian that is able to change the timestamp in > >> video files, e.g. .mov, .avi

Re: Changing timestamps in video files

2020-04-30 Thread Anders Andersson
On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 4:17 PM David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 29 Apr 2020 at 13:16:17 (+0200), Anders Andersson wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 12:54 PM elvis wrote: > > > On 29/4/20 8:29 pm, Anders Andersson wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 5:5

Re: Looking for video card recommendation

2020-05-06 Thread Anders Andersson
On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 7:02 PM Alberto Sentieri <2...@tripolho.com> wrote: > > Thanks. Adding contrib solved the problem. > > On 5/5/20 8:24 PM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > > On 05.05.2020 20:29, Alberto Sentieri wrote: > >> Last time I installed it I downloaded the driver from NVIDIA web > >>

Re: Suspicious output during apt update

2020-05-12 Thread Anders Andersson
On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 8:05 AM Ihor Antonov wrote: > > Today during apt update I got a very strange error message (below) > Running apt udpate did not seem to reproduce the issue. > > Does anyone know what is this? And why does it tell "get haircut" ? > > > $ sudo apt update > [sudo] pas

Re: Suspicious output during apt update

2020-05-13 Thread Anders Andersson
On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 9:31 AM Darac Marjal wrote: > > > On 13/05/2020 07:05, Ihor Antonov wrote: > > Today during apt update I got a very strange error message (below) > > Running apt udpate did not seem to reproduce the issue. > > > > Does anyone know what is this? And why does it tell "get hai

Re: How long will this take?

2020-06-10 Thread Anders Andersson
On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 8:28 PM Nicolas George wrote: > > 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 Chin

Re: How long will this take?

2020-06-10 Thread Anders Andersson
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 1:14 PM Nicolas George wrote: > > Anders Andersson (12020-06-10): > > Too bad if you end up in a routine police investigation and they find > > child pornography when scanning the disks for deleted files. > > > > "Must have been the prev

Re: How long will this take?

2020-06-10 Thread Anders Andersson
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 3:33 PM Nicolas George wrote: > > Anders Andersson (12020-06-10): > > Except wiping a disk is trivial. Just start the job and come back > > later to a clean disk. It's not like you have to wipe it by hand. I do > > it routinely before I put a d

Re: How long will this take?

2020-06-10 Thread Anders Andersson
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 4:00 PM Nicolas George wrote: > > Anders Andersson (12020-06-10): > > Because the police raiding my house for dealing drugs is not a > > realistic threat. Looking at my drives for running Tor could be. > > I have tried to explain that your threat

Re: bash-completion pros/cons

2020-06-17 Thread Anders Andersson
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 9:48 PM David Wright wrote: > Where bash-completion does get in the way for me is, for example, > where you download a file that's, say, a PDF but it arrives via wget > called, say, index_0001.3872359.html, for whatever reason. > So you type xpdf inde [TAB] and bash-com

Re: Could RAM possibly be just 3-4 times faster than bare hdd writes and reads? or, is the Linux kernel doing its 'magic' in the bg? or, ...

2020-06-17 Thread Anders Andersson
On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 12:15 PM Albretch Mueller wrote: > > HDDs have their internal caching mechanism and I have heard that the > Linux kernel uses RAM very effitiently, but to my understanding RAM > being only 3-4 times faster doesn't make much sense, so I may be doing > or understanding somet

Re: have you seen this inside....

2020-06-19 Thread Anders Andersson
On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 12:51 AM Seeds Notoneofmy wrote: > > a debian buster machine? > > ATI Radeon HD5450 PCI-e > > https://www.amazon.de/Sapphire-Radeon-HD5450-Grafikkarte-Speicher/dp/B0036DD4CO > > If so, how did you get it working, please? 1. Insert into computer. 2. Boot. If this doesn't w

Re: Be careful when editing /etc/fstab

2020-06-24 Thread Anders Andersson
On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 1:17 AM David wrote: > > Hi, > > I just noticed a new bug report [1]: > """ > Dear Installer Team, > > Please consider adding words informing users they should run > "systemctl daemon-reload" after changing /etc/fstab. > > With stale mount units from an older /etc/fstab, us

Re: Be careful when editing /etc/fstab

2020-06-24 Thread Anders Andersson
one has to go online. On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 3:51 PM David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 24 Jun 2020 at 09:32:53 (+0200), Anders Andersson wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 1:17 AM David wrote: > > > I just noticed a new bug report [1]: > > > """ >

Re: why foxit hasn't been included in buster?

2020-06-24 Thread Anders Andersson
On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 6:45 AM Long Wind wrote: > > some say it's among best pdf reader for linux > how to install it in buster or stretch? Not sure why you expect it to be included, it looks like commercial software. Is the source even available on their website?

Re: I can't figure it out

2020-06-26 Thread Anders Andersson
1. Don't top-post. On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 5:39 PM Peter Ehlert wrote: > > 1. use a Subject that indicates your actual Question. > > 2. add comments to that original post > > 3. give some actual details about the Hardware and Software you are using. > > *if I was not really bored this morning I w

What's the deal with the mpfr versioning? libmpfr4 vs. libmpfr6

2018-07-30 Thread Anders Andersson
I just noticed that there are two packages for libmpfr: https://packages.debian.org/sid/libmpfr4 https://packages.debian.org/sid/libmpfr6 Funny thing is, this is what the versioning says on those pages: Package: libmpfr4 (3.1.6-1) Package: libmpfr6 (4.0.1-1) ...ok, that's strange. Even weirder

Re: OT: What time is it, really?

2018-08-10 Thread Anders Andersson
On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 7:35 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 09 August 2018 12:26:24 Martin wrote: >> Am 09.08.2018 um 18:15 schrieb Gene Heskett: >> > On Thursday 09 August 2018 11:16:27 Martin wrote: >> >> Am 09.08.2018 um 17:12 schrieb Nicolas George: >> > >> > Then I suggest you reread ma

Re: New `no sound' problems

2018-08-12 Thread Anders Andersson
On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 7:25 PM, deloptes wrote: > Dale Forsyth wrote: > >> It seems to be damned recursive, the problem... After yesterday's >> full-upgrade in Sid, my old Acer One without sound once again... >> Everything seems all right: alsamixer, aumix, pulseaudio installed... >> Last time t

Re: Slow boot

2018-08-14 Thread Anders Andersson
On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 8:45 AM, Johann Spies wrote: > I can push the power on button on my laptop, go and make coffee and > come back and wait a few minutes before I can work. > > The following services each takes longer than 10 seconds to activate: > > systemd-analyze blame > 1min 21.617s a

Re: does btrfs have a feature?

2018-08-14 Thread Anders Andersson
On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 12:26 PM, Stefan K wrote: > In the beginning of btrfs, most blogs, websites, magazins said btrfs will be > THE next standard linux filesystem, so now after araound 10years it doesn't > look so good, or? > > Who use btrfs in production? What do you think - does have btrfs

Re: does btrfs have a feature?

2018-08-15 Thread Anders Andersson
On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 3:47 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Another correction below: > >> BTRFS also makes it extremely easy to expand an array if you add more >> disks, WITHOUT mucking around with LVM and md-raid. Just a simple >> command (something that ZFS cannot easily do at this time) >> >> bt

Re: Wanted - Debian(preferred)/Linux handheld

2018-08-18 Thread Anders Andersson
On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 7:47 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > P.S. I wish my initial posts be taken literally. I wish this for every question on the mailing list but sadly that rarely happens, leading to a lot of pointless traffic to wade through. On every question there's always the "helpful" peop

Re: Literal postings, was Re: Wanted - Debian(preferred)/Linux handheld

2018-08-18 Thread Anders Andersson
On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 6:42 PM, David Wright wrote: > > . A lot of OPs provide very little background information. Sometimes > this may be because they don't know what *is* relevant, but often a > thread turns into an episode of "Twenty Questions" because of what > seems like a reluctance to reve

Re: Wanted - Debian(preferred)/Linux handheld

2018-08-20 Thread Anders Andersson
On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 5:47 PM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 20/08/18 16:16, Glenn English wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 1:35 PM Eric S Fraga wrote: >>> On Thursday, 16 Aug 2018 at 14:28, Glenn English wrote: It's all over Amazon (search: planet gemini pda computer), but, as best

Re: Previously Bootable: Stretch using Grub with GPT, LUKS, & BTRFS

2018-09-11 Thread Anders Andersson
On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 3:28 AM, Joel Brunetti wrote: > I'm having trouble booting a previously bootable system. > This system has been in use since very shortly before the Stretch release > and has always been Stretch. > I'm using Grub to boot a fully encrypted system. Each drive is partitioned >

Re: (OT) Top Posting (was Re: Gimp Babl too old)

2018-09-14 Thread Anders Andersson
On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 6:17 AM, Kenneth Parker wrote: > Seriously, how do others of you deal with navigating this Debian List on > Android, while being a "Good Netizen"? Personally I don't. A phone is a horrible tool for composing texts and is nowhere near a replacement for a computer. Using an

Re: cannot open display: localhost:0.0

2018-09-23 Thread Anders Andersson
On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 4:24 PM, Grzesiek Sójka wrote: > On 9/23/18 10:30 AM, Étienne Mollier wrote: >> >> On 9/23/18 1:48 PM, Grzegorz Sójka wrote: >>> >>> Hi there, >>> >>> I need to allow remote applications to connect to xorg. Since I log in >>> using lxdm i have tcp_listen=1 in /etc/lxdm/lxdm

Re: calibre ebook project?

2018-09-24 Thread Anders Andersson
On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 7:53 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > I do not even follow this logic because beyond reaching humans in a position > to assist me in joining a forum that I could not join myself because their > particular human verification processes could not be used by me. If you can not pas

Re: btrfs and deduplication

2018-09-25 Thread Anders Andersson
On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 9:56 AM, Markus Raps wrote: > Hi there, > > currently iam trying to get deduplication working in debian/btrfs > > #so i created a btrfs filesystem > > mkfs.btrfs /dev/vdb1 > mkdir /mnt/btrfs > mount /dev/vdb1 /mnt/btrfs > > # create some random file > dd if=/dev/urandom of=

Will firefox-esr move to version 102 in bullseye?

2022-08-24 Thread Anders Andersson
While investigating my options for hardware acceleration in the browser I found a snippet on the debian wiki that I'm trying to parse: From: https://wiki.debian.org/Firefox#Hardware_Video_Acceleration > This is for Debian 11 / Bullseye > [...] > firefox-esr is projected to be updated to version 10

Re: Will firefox-esr move to version 102 in bullseye?

2022-09-24 Thread Anders Andersson
Sorry for top-posting, but it makes sense for this summary. As indicated by the replies to my initial email, it is now late September and firefox-esr has moved to version 102 in the stable branch. I just upgraded without even noticing any difference, definitely nothing that broke. What's more, I

Re: Will firefox-esr move to version 102 in bullseye?

2022-09-24 Thread Anders Andersson
On Sat, Sep 24, 2022 at 7:53 PM Tixy wrote: > > On Sat, 2022-09-24 at 18:46 +0100, Tixy wrote: > > On Sat, 2022-09-24 at 18:52 +0200, Anders Andersson wrote: > > [...] > > > What's more, I no longer have to continue my research about > > > hardware-accele

Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?

2022-11-07 Thread Anders Andersson
On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 3:04 AM hw wrote: > Hi, > > I discovered that Redhat has VDO[1] to take care of deduplicating file > systems. > Aptitude didn't find any packages towards that. > > Is there no VDO in Debian, and what would be good to use for deduplication > with > Debian? Why isn't VDO in

Re: ping

2022-11-14 Thread Anders Andersson
On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 4:21 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 09:05:03PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 13 Nov 2022 at 14:50:58 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 06:04:51AM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > > > root@joule:/home/root# /bin/pi

Re: where are the actual ".deb" packages? all I see are "pkgcache.bin" and "srcpkgcache.bin" . . .

2023-02-28 Thread Anders Andersson
On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 4:09 AM davidson wrote: > > On Sun, 26 Feb 2023 Albretch Mueller wrote: > > Basically, I am trying to download all packages that are part of the > > installation dependencies of a given one into a directory of my > > choosing to then install packages on an unexposed machine

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

2019-01-01 Thread Anders Andersson
On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 7:40 PM wrote: > On Tue, Jan 01, 2019 at 12:34:38PM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > A scanned document from Canon pixma mx870 printer is significantly > > larger compared to the same document scanned on a different scanner. > > When I look at both the images side by s

Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc

2019-03-17 Thread Anders Andersson
I got myself a USB 3.5" disk drive and want to format a 3.5" HD disk so that it Just Works™ as a standard MS-DOS floppy. Normally I would have used mformat from the mtools package, but it appears that I can not supply a device name, just "emulated names" like A: which are then translated to /de

Re: Disable left-ctrl?

2019-03-20 Thread Anders Andersson
On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 4:42 PM Selim T. Erdoğan wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 06:16:32PM -0500, Boyan Penkov wrote: > > I am now writing my thesis, and have the genesis of some pretty > > significant EMACs pinky. (I use my left pinky for the left ctrl most > > of the time, which is setting me

Re: Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc

2019-03-20 Thread Anders Andersson
On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 1:46 PM Curt wrote: > > On 2019-03-17, Anders Andersson wrote: > > I got myself a USB 3.5" disk drive and want to format a 3.5" HD disk > > so that it Just Works™ as a standard MS-DOS floppy. > > Normally I would have used mform

Re: Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc

2019-03-20 Thread Anders Andersson
On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 5:43 PM David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 17 Mar 2019 at 13:19:29 (+0100), Anders Andersson wrote: > > I got myself a USB 3.5" disk drive and want to format a 3.5" HD disk > > so that it Just Works™ as a standard MS-DOS floppy. > > I'

Re: New laptop: need advice on choice of file system types

2019-04-13 Thread Anders Andersson
On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 11:36 PM Felix Miata wrote: > > Tom Browder composed on 2019-04-12 09:50 (UTC-0500): > > > I have used ext4 for many years while I have been watching zfs and > > btrfs being developed. I am now considering using one or both on at > > least one partion during my upcoming new

Re: New laptop: need advice on choice of file system types

2019-04-13 Thread Anders Andersson
On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 4:51 PM Tom Browder wrote: > > I have used ext4 for many years while I have been watching zfs and > btrfs being developed. I am now considering using one or both on at > least one partion during my upcoming new Debian installation. > > Can anyone recommend either one for a

Re: BTRFS snapshot space consumption (was: New laptop: need advice on choice...)

2019-04-14 Thread Anders Andersson
On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 7:08 PM Felix Miata wrote: > > Anders Andersson composed on 2019-04-13 17:31 (UTC+0200): > > > Felix Miata wrote: > > >> Because of its snapshotting, BTRFS requires considerably more space than > >> older > >> filesystems, as

Re: OT: Reason to buy a Raspberry Pi ;-) (was Re: shell wrappers for trig and other mathematical functions)

2019-10-02 Thread Anders Andersson
On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 8:06 PM wrote: > > Somewhat OT, but (maybe) interesting anyway? > > For a long time, I've been aware of the program Mathmatica (by Wolfram > Research) that does a lot of math, including, iirc, things like symbolic > integration and differentiation. (Everybody should have th

Re: Hiding apps

2019-10-24 Thread Anders Andersson
On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 6:54 PM Peter Ehlert wrote: > On 10/24/19 8:38 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > I am running Debian Sid with Mate. I would like to run tzclock at > > startup, but it appears in the taskbar as a regular program. > I am not familiar with tzclock ... I don't believe it is th

Re: Firefox: security vs flexibility or rtfm?

2017-04-28 Thread Anders Andersson
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 8:35 PM, Mark Copper wrote: >> Would mozilla.support.firefox on news.mozilla.org be more productive as your >> description suggests an OS independent problem? > > I think the issue has been raised and rejected at Firefox. Although OS > independent, I was thinking a work-aro

Firefox ESR 52 in stretch

2017-05-03 Thread Anders Andersson
I was checking up on different versions of Firefox and noticed that there was a new ESR (52) released March 7, 2017. I see that stretch is still using ESR 45. It would be really nice to have this newer version before stretch is finalized, but since stretch is now in freeze, I suppose that requires

Re: Firefox ESR 52 in stretch

2017-05-03 Thread Anders Andersson
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 2:27 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2017-05-03, Anders Andersson wrote: >> I was checking up on different versions of Firefox and noticed that >> there was a new ESR (52) released March 7, 2017. I see that stretch is >> still using ESR 45. >&g

Re: Live Fille System Backup

2017-05-04 Thread Anders Andersson
On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 1:17 AM, Sergei G wrote: > I would like a backup tool that does not bring a million dependencies with > MBs of files. Something that works on server without X Windows and can send > backup to an externally attached USB drive. Nothing fancy. No network > infrastructure.

Re: (OT) problem with unknown software

2017-05-18 Thread Anders Andersson
On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 1:33 AM, ghe wrote: > > For several days, I've been getting email from myself, with no date, > title: > > Problem: /dev/sdd is UNKNOWN at 2017-05-18 11:56:30 from sbox > () > > The body: > > /dev/sdd () is Unavailable > > The Received: header: > > Received: from localhost (

Re: How to gain control over the system?

2017-07-09 Thread Anders Andersson
On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 12:51 AM, Fungi4All wrote: > On Sat, 2017-07-08 at 23:57 +0200, Kaj Persson wrote: > > > But now I discovered an issue, I cannot manage my desktop. I have > > always at the previous installations, and they are quite many now, been > > advised to, for security reason, leave

Re: Disappearance of the kernel

2017-07-29 Thread Anders Andersson
On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 2:29 PM, agustín torrijos orenes < agustintorrijosore...@gmail.com> wrote: > I installed version 9.0 "Stretch" looking with the repositories to > testing, I am almost sure that updated to version 10.0 "Buster". > > I performed a cleanup of the system with the instructions "

Problem with systemd and cryptsetup - how to solve it the systemd way?

2015-12-10 Thread Anders Andersson
I am trying to set up an encrypted btrfs system on a Debian Jessie system but I am running into a lot of issues, and now I need some help debugging the basics. It seems like I'm running in to a new bug for everything I do. To get to the bottom of this I set up a virtual Debian Jessie with two driv

Incorrect group on /dev/fd0? "disk" vs "floppy"

2015-12-16 Thread Anders Andersson
Believe it or not, but I still have a floppy disk drive in my workstation, and I have to use it occasionally! I just noticed that my user was not allowed to write to /dev/fd0 even though it belongs to the group "floppy". I found that /dev/fd0 belongs to the group "disk", and I don't think it should

Re: Incorrect group on /dev/fd0? "disk" vs "floppy"

2015-12-16 Thread Anders Andersson
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 11:08 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Wed, 2015-12-16 at 22:09 +0100, Anders Andersson wrote: >> Believe it or not, but I still have a floppy disk drive in my >> workstation, and I have to use it occasionally! I just noticed that >> my >> user

Re: Problem with systemd and cryptsetup - how to solve it the systemd way?

2015-12-17 Thread Anders Andersson
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 02:38:02PM +0100, Anders Andersson wrote: >> My question is thus: How am I supposed to solve this the "systemd >> way"? I want to be able to start an encrypted block device using a >>

Re: Attempt to Move Root

2015-12-20 Thread Anders Andersson
>> David Baron wrote: >> > Edited newroot/etc/fstab and newroot/etc/lilo.conf to point root to >> > newrootpartition (by uuid) >> >> Have you tried getting rid of the UUID crap in both newroot/etc/fstab and >> newroot/etc/lilo.conf, and mount them the old way, as /dev/something ? >> > > Could do t

Re: grub2 security problem

2015-12-20 Thread Anders Andersson
On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 5:00 AM, David Christensen wrote: > > Another, additional, option is self-encrypting drives (SED), which are > operating system agnostic and protect the entire contents of drive with zero > CPU overhead. Emphasis on the word "additional" here. Unless you have access to the

Re: random reboots of my Lenovo ThinkPad (3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u1) (kernel stack trace)

2015-12-22 Thread Anders Andersson
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 9:27 PM, Staszek wrote: > Hi! > > My old Lenovo ThinkPad T61 laptop reboots by itself from time to time. > Usually without a clue, but this time I was able to capture the stack > trace: > http://people.eisenbits.com/~stf/load/20151222-kernel-stack-trace.png . > > How to deb

Re: Attempt to Move Root (SOLVED!!)

2015-12-23 Thread Anders Andersson
On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 9:52 AM, David Baron wrote: > On reboot (to old system or otherwise), the UUID of the target partition was > CHANGED! Unlikely, how do you know? What would change them during a reboot? > If the problem was not hidden behind a screenfull of lvm errors, I > would/should ha

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread Anders Andersson
http://electronics.stackexchange.com/ Hope this helps.

Re: random reboots of my Lenovo ThinkPad (3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u1) (kernel stack trace)

2015-12-24 Thread Anders Andersson
On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Thu, 2015-12-24 at 14:00 +0100, Staszek wrote: >> Perhaps that is a graphics card... > > Try disabling nouveau, both in the kernel and the xorg driver, and see > if the crashes stop. > > You might also want to try a later kernel/xorg driv

Re: after sudo aptitude dist-upgrade lost Unicode in ttys and xterm

2016-01-01 Thread Anders Andersson
On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 8:04 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: > After I did > > sudo aptitude dist-upgrade > > I lost support for Unicode chars in the ttys as well > as xterm. > > Instead I get '?'. > > Ideas? One idea would be to post a list of packages which were upgraded. :)

Re: after sudo aptitude dist-upgrade lost Unicode in ttys and xterm

2016-01-02 Thread Anders Andersson
On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 7:41 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Anders Andersson writes: > >>> After I did sudo aptitude dist-upgrade I lost >>> support for Unicode chars in the ttys as well as >>> xterm. Instead I get '?'. Ideas? >> >> One idea wou

Re: nfs problem

2016-01-02 Thread Anders Andersson
On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 10:30 PM, Glenn English wrote: > Come on folks! > > Consider a modified Drake equation: (number on this list) * (date) * (% not > hungover) * (% who understand NFS) * (% willing to help out a bewildered > computer geek) == (surely > 0), no? > > OK. Leave out (date) and (%

Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png

2016-01-05 Thread Anders Andersson
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 2:21 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > Others? You and I seem to have different ideas about what we want > children to find when they reach up on the family/school bookshelf. Please leave your children's upbringing out of our operating system. I'm not sure why you would have Debian's

Re: eagle-lin64-7.5.0.run, won't

2016-01-14 Thread Anders Andersson
On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 12:37 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Since the gEDA kit in the repo's seems to be rather broken, I thought I'd > give eagle another chance While I had no problems using Eagle on 64-bit Debian, I did not like running closed software. A couple of months ago I switched to KiCad, a

Re: Libre graphics could become the standard if we push right now

2016-01-19 Thread Anders Andersson
>> Just for the record, if microcode can play with the CPU internal >> system state, say, the bits that specify whether the CPU is in >> supervisor or user state, there's not much to stop, for instance, a >> microcode update from providing an undocumented trap to a hidden >> routine in the BIOS tha

Re: www.lists.debian.org

2016-01-19 Thread Anders Andersson
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 9:24 AM, SHARON | WEBEX-E NetWork Pty Ltd wrote: > > Hi, > > The version of your website and SEO-Algorithm is outdated and affecting your > outcome on prominent search-engines. > We can make the necessary changes to improve your rankings in the organic > search result and

Re: Debian user mailing list in Spam folder

2016-01-22 Thread Anders Andersson
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 4:25 PM, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > Today, I found too many mails from this mailing list in my Gmail spam > folder. > Just wanted to confirm whether I am the only one to have this issue or > others are also facing the same issue. This is why you can tell google not to send

Re: setting up systemd units for dm-crypt devices

2016-01-22 Thread Anders Andersson
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 5:09 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > I have several LUKS-encrypted volumes, upon which I have placed LVM PVs. > Prior to systemd, I would define them in /etc/crypttab. Right now, due > to systemd-cryptsetup-generator, this gets interpreted and translated > into systemd units

Re: Debian user mailing list in Spam folder

2016-01-22 Thread Anders Andersson
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 7:01 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 22 January 2016 17:43:04 Anders Andersson wrote: >> This is why you can tell google not to send debian list emails to the >> spam folder. Use the feature. > > D'oh! I just keep telling Google that that

Re: setting up systemd units for dm-crypt devices

2016-01-25 Thread Anders Andersson
On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 5:59 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Less important for me but still to figure out, where to put the magic so > that 'systemctl stop /mountpoint' also disables the relevant VG and closes > the luks device. (I would like to do this with a removable drive in the > near future s

Re: BTRFS failed

2016-02-14 Thread Anders Andersson
On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 7:10 PM, Adam Wilson wrote: > On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 17:05:51 +0100 Bhasker C V wrote: > >> I have a home dir btrfs on top of luks > > Surely you mean LUKS on top of btrfs? You can't have LUKS on top of btrfs, because btrfs does not export any block devices for LUKS to enc

Re: bash-completion, tab and ambiguous globs

2016-02-17 Thread Anders Andersson
On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Jean-Baptiste Thomas wrote: > In bash, typing, say, "ls x*y" then tab lists all the possible > expansions of "x*y" on the next line, then prints the command > line anew with "x*y" replaced by longest common stem. > > With bash-completion installed, "x*y" is summar

Re: Setting up HDRI in ImageMagick

2016-02-19 Thread Anders Andersson
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 11:40 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > OOPS. I didn't notice that the instructions were assuming a tarball > installation. I just used the debian aptitude install application. That > answers one question but I still have a problem. The instructions say that > after the installation

Re: Setting up HDRI in ImageMagick

2016-02-19 Thread Anders Andersson
On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 8:33 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Fri, 2016-02-19 at 10:31 -0800, Gary Roach wrote: >> That said, the identify >> function should still work but doesn't show any indication that HDRI >> exists. I still need help. How do you switch HDRI on with a standard >> debian install

Re: Components non-free and contrib are not enabled after installing to virtualbox virtual machine.

2016-02-20 Thread Anders Andersson
On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 11:18 AM, wrote: > I downloaded and installed the latest Debian CD image > (http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.3.0/amd64/iso-cd/debian-8.3.0-amd64-CD-1.iso) > > Installing to bare metal enables the components main contrib and non-free. > > Installing to a virtualbox vi

lxc-create: Network does not start automatically in debian jessie+stretch LXC containers, but works in wheezy.

2016-04-08 Thread Anders Andersson
I'm running LXC on a debian stretch (testing) server, and trying to create debian containers ("guests") using the lxc-create command. I have been running a wheezy container successfully for a long time, so I know for sure that my networking bridge is correctly configured for use with LXC. The prob

Re: XM1541 with Debian

2016-04-09 Thread Anders Andersson
On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Hársfalvi Gábor wrote: > If anyone did use the XM1541 cable with Debian - to copy files between > Commodore 64 floppy and PC - please help me! Technically I did, but I don't think I can help you because it must have been over 12 years ago. It helps if you actually

Re: XM1541 with Debian

2016-04-09 Thread Anders Andersson
On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Glenn Holmer wrote: > On 04/09/2016 08:42 AM, Hársfalvi Gábor wrote: >> If anyone did use the XM1541 cable with Debian - to copy files between >> Commodore 64 floppy and PC - please help me! > > Those are considered obsolete because they require a parallel port. > N

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