Re: Impossible to give "write" permission on a sub folder

2021-11-26 Thread Brian
'Unified Remote' > > Most of the folders are OK, but I ave User2 and San that doesn't have the > write ("w") permission... Do you have any idea on whats going on? Thanks in > advance for all the help, Berst regards, Marc lists.deb...@netc.eu - how do you manage to produce something as completely undecipherable as what is is above? Please up your game. -- Brian.

Re: tofu - was -Re: Emoji fonts in Debian [WAS:] Re: How to NOT automatically mount a specific partition of an external device?

2021-11-26 Thread Brian
s opposed to webmail via a browser) have such a font > > > installed, or do they see tofu? > > > > I see the rectangle which is used for missing glyphs, I'm guess that's > > what you mean by tofu (had to google the term). > > > > I understood that tofu is rotten soy beans. > > Is it something else? No. You are spot on. Thank you for your thouhtful and enligtening contribution, -- Brian.

Re: Clarification Re: Customizing Grub menus

2021-12-10 Thread Brian
n GNU/Linux 10 (bullseye) (minimal-11) > > Possible? > If so, how? Devise a script to replace "root=..." in grub.cfg. Run the script from /usr/sbin/update-grub. -- Brian.

Re: Printjob produces FW error on HP CP1525nw

2021-12-12 Thread Brian
1520 series has an AirPrint facility: https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/ish_2843711-2427128-16 This means you should be able to use the everywhere model with a network connection. Give avahi-browse -rt _ipp._tcp avahi-browse is in the avahi-utils package. -- Brian.

Re: strange problem with usb wifi adapter

2021-12-12 Thread Brian
has been like this since at least sarge. These days an exception to this is when the installation is done over a wireless link and a DE is not selected. See the bug reports for netcfg. -- Brian.

Re: Unable to print with HP Envy 5030 under Debian 11

2021-12-12 Thread Brian
set :). -- Brian.

Re: bullseye fusses

2021-12-12 Thread Brian
hasn't a clue what to do. > On my printer, its majorly broken even with brothers brand new for bullseye > > drivers installed. Its 15 times slower than it was on stretch, and refuses to Brother has brand new drivers for your (unknown) printer on bullseye? One of us is deluded. -- Brian.

Re: Printjob produces FW error on HP CP1525nw

2021-12-12 Thread Brian
On Sun 12 Dec 2021 at 21:04:51 +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Am Sonntag, 12. Dezember 2021, 12:47:00 CET schrieb Brian: > > On Sun 12 Dec 2021 at 11:03:27 +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I changed the model for printer from > >

Re: brave browser cannot print.

2021-12-13 Thread Brian
dy got any ideas? I'm using xfce on buster for this at the moment. Please give 'lpstat -t' and 'lpinfo -v' on the client machine. Does the Brave print dialog have a "Print using system dialogue..." entry in its settings? -- Brian.

Re: cups problems in bullseye

2021-12-13 Thread Brian
iverless network solution. OK with you? Please give the output of 'driverleess'. -- Brian.

Re: cups problems in bullseye

2021-12-13 Thread Brian
On Mon 13 Dec 2021 at 08:44:44 -0800, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Mon, 13 Dec, 2021 at 9:35 AM, Brian wrote: > >> Let's try a driverless network solution. OK with you? Please give the >> output of 'driverleess'. > > ipp://Brother%20MFC-J6920DW._ipp._tcp.loca

Re: brave browser cannot print.

2021-12-14 Thread Brian
ver, I've replied inline below to the questions. > (printing works in vivaldi too) Probably a good change in direction. Thanks for the info. I'll pursue it for interest's sake. > On Mon, 13 Dec 2021, Brian wrote: > > > On Sun 12 Dec 2021 at 18:11:55 +, Tim

Re: cups problems in bullseye

2021-12-14 Thread Brian
On Mon 13 Dec 2021 at 18:41:15 -0800, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Mon, 13 Dec, 2021 at 2:45 PM, Brian wrote: > > > Incidentally, your prejudiced remarks about Apple were (at best) on the > > misleading side. Debian CUPS does not use Apple's repositories. > > So I shou

Re: brave browser cannot print.

2021-12-14 Thread Brian
On Tue 14 Dec 2021 at 19:29:46 +, Tim Woodall wrote: > On Tue, 14 Dec 2021, Brian wrote: > > > On Tue 14 Dec 2021 at 06:35:20 +, Tim Woodall wrote: > > > > > Someone off-list suggested vivaldi which looks closer to what I want a > > > browser to be -

Re: Ensuring network connectivity no Ethernet [WAS Re: Drivers to Debian installer]

2021-12-15 Thread Brian
On Mon 13 Dec 2021 at 22:39:24 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 21 Nov 2021 at 17:53:57 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 05:46:13PM +0000, Brian wrote: > > > On Sun 21 Nov 2021 at 16:30:06 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > [ … ] > >

Re: cups problems in bullseye

2021-12-15 Thread Brian
On Wed 15 Dec 2021 at 07:35:16 -0500, gene heskett wrote: [...] > And I got my sig fixed. Excellent! Your sig. is generally the most reliable, informative and helpful item in postings :). It also upholds the inalienable rights of some people to conduct massacres on school premises. -- Brian.

Re: GRUB really slow to boot

2021-12-19 Thread Brian
ux /vmlinuz root=LABEL=5740 ro quiet initrd /initrd.img } Perhaps you could try with this; maybe "root=/dev/sdaX" is more convenient. Also test with /vmlinuz.old and /initrd.img.old. Remove the first line to simplify the file. -- Brian.

Re: Identity Theft

2021-12-20 Thread Brian
..] May we know the URL of the financial website you contacted and the help number you phoned. -- Brian.

Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal?

2022-01-07 Thread Brian
itlab.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-terminal/-/commit/970905924ad685827cee2b2406a3b8a6b6990187 > so what are the downsides, if any, to replacing > /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal with the one I build from the xfce4-terminal > 0.9.1 source tarball? None whatsoever. You have achieved your objective. Be happy! -- Brian.

Re: freeing up some space

2022-01-11 Thread Brian
r/cache/dictionaries-common, which appears to be tied > to a spelling checker, which I don't use here. And /var/cache/samba, > which I also don't use -- there isn't a windoze machine around here at > all. I wouldn't purge dictionaries-common. Try apt purge dictionaries-common and make a judgement. You can probably get rid of samba. -- Brian.

Re: freeing up some space

2022-01-11 Thread Brian
l command. Indeed it it is. But what useful function does it perform on a default installation? Some users appear to think that downloaded and installed packages are preserved in /vat/cache/apt/archives until they are cleared out. They are not. -- Brian.

Re: Please take this as constructive

2022-01-18 Thread Brian
've been hit several time with this same problem, or variants thereof, > and my solution has always been to have a separate computer with > network access and use sneakernet between the two computers. > I've always wondered how to do it better. Wonder no longer :). Acquaint yourself with netcat. -- Brian.

Re: Please take this as constructive

2022-01-18 Thread Brian
On Tue 18 Jan 2022 at 11:50:14 -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jan 2022 13:47:09 + > Brian wrote: > > > On Tue 18 Jan 2022 at 14:30:45 +0100, Loïc Grenié wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Tue 18 Jan 2022 at 07:48, R. Toby Richard

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-23 Thread Brian
e had an amiga as one > of its clients. What advice would you give to a user regarding the benefits of a hosts file as opposed to more modern techniques? -- Brian.

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-23 Thread Brian
On Sun 23 Jan 2022 at 12:52:27 -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jan 2022 19:09:27 + > Brian wrote: > > > What advice would you give to a user regarding the benefits of a hosts > > file as opposed to more modern techniques? > > By "more modern te

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-23 Thread Brian
ir names, there > >won't be any DNS in which you can look up their addresses. > > This can be an advantage. I don't need or want visitors' cell phones > accessing my > machines willy nilly. You obviously do not trust your network setup sufficiently to allow access to it from other devices. Something to be attemded to. -- Brian.

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-24 Thread Brian
On Mon 24 Jan 2022 at 10:39:01 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 23 Jan 2022 at 15:01:09 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 07:09:27PM +0000, Brian wrote: > > > On Sun 23 Jan 2022 at 13:53:01 -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > > > On Sunday, J

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-25 Thread Brian
On Tue 25 Jan 2022 at 09:31:57 +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 24 ian 22, 23:54:41, Brian wrote: > > > > Resolving hostnames on the local network is simple and reliable when > > avahi-daemon and linnss-mdns are available. > > > > brian@deskt

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-25 Thread Brian
On Tue 25 Jan 2022 at 13:06:49 +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 25 ian 22, 11:18:21, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 25 Jan 2022 at 09:31:57 +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > > Could you point to any (reasonably up-to-date) documentation or is it > > > suf

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-25 Thread Brian
On Tue 25 Jan 2022 at 16:20:49 +, Brian wrote: > on the same or another machine. _mpd._tcp is a service name and is Correction. _mpd._tcp is a service type. -- Brian.

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-26 Thread Brian
On Tue 25 Jan 2022 at 18:35:54 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 25 Jan 2022 at 09:31:57 (+0100), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Lu, 24 ian 22, 23:54:41, Brian wrote: > > > > > > Resolving hostnames on the local network is simple and reliable when > > > avahi-

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-26 Thread Brian
On Wed 26 Jan 2022 at 10:39:42 -0500, gene heskett wrote: > On Wednesday, January 26, 2022 10:31:46 AM EST Brian wrote: > > On Tue 25 Jan 2022 at 18:35:54 -0600, David Wright wrote: > > > On Tue 25 Jan 2022 at 09:31:57 (+0100), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > On Lu, 24

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-26 Thread Brian
On Wed 26 Jan 2022 at 15:54:38 +, mick crane wrote: > On 2022-01-26 15:31, Brian wrote: > > > Having said that, 'ssh desktop.local' does not require much guidance. > > Is .local mDNS specific ? Yes. > I thought we are supposed to not use .local for a ho

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-26 Thread Brian
ly directed at all users, particularly those who do not appreciate the existance or basic function of Avahi. I am not dead set aginst /etc/hosts and the explantion of your successful mode of working should give pause for thought. -- Brian.

Re: Using Gmail on Debian mailing lists

2021-03-11 Thread Brian
give some context. > > Thanks for the hint, though. Gmail does hide > the quotes, no matter how long they are. Please would you not remove the attribution when you quote a mail? -- Brian.

Re: Using Gmail on Debian mailing lists

2021-03-11 Thread Brian
On Thu 11 Mar 2021 at 07:59:27 -0400, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > Brian () wrote: > > Please would you not remove the attribution when you quote a mail? > > Sure. Like this? Or should I leave the date and hour too? Thanks; much better. Personally, I would add the date and

Re: Using Gmail on Debian mailing lists

2021-03-11 Thread Brian
> I'd certainly prefer attribution lines like that than a complete lack of > attribution, or ones with less information, in any case. Anothe agrement, It's a pity that Gnus appears incapable of providing an attribution. Evidence is here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/03/msg00535.html -- Brian.

Re: How to manually install WiFi firmware on Debian Live?

2021-03-12 Thread Brian
rect kernel module. > Then, Wicd didn't show anything. I ran udevadm, I don't remember how, > to see if the USB WiFi adapter was detected; it was and also > the module r8712u was loaded for it. > > I need some help here, please. I don't want to use a non-free firmware > live image. Thanks. 'ip a' should show all available interfaces. -- Brian.

Re: How to manually install WiFi firmware on Debian Live?

2021-03-12 Thread Brian
On Fri 12 Mar 2021 at 14:04:14 +, Brian wrote: > On Thu 11 Mar 2021 at 20:38:04 -0400, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > > > 4-. Executed: sudo apt install firmware-realtek > > I think that is incorrect. If you are in the same directory as > firmware-realtek, I'd do &#

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-12 Thread Brian
hoice, just like mine. Different midsets. To imply it is not quite the best and there is something that should be done about such a choice is simply vi vs emacs talk :). -- Brian.

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-12 Thread Brian
eople, who're now spread all > across the world. As a non-Facebook user - well said. -- Brian.

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-12 Thread Brian
ent out > > is in the low double (or maybe even high single) digits. > > > > -- > >The Wanderer > > > > The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one > > persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all > > progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw > > > > the borg > people who can not function without being part of a collective Human beings are sociable. As are other animals. > they refuse to think for themselves Really? Do you mean they refuse to think the same way as you do? -- Brian.

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-12 Thread Brian
On Fri 12 Mar 2021 at 22:45:55 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 06:44:54PM +0000, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 12 Mar 2021 at 18:27:58 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 08:27:23AM -0800, J

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-18 Thread Brian
n. Perhaps you and all the others could use -debian-offtopic to air opinions about life and big-tech? I'll crowdfund the move there :). Just a suggestion from someone who hasn't derived a single benefit from this long-running conversation on privacy. -- Brian. > >

Re: WiFi Hardware not detected, during Debian NetInst Install

2021-03-21 Thread Brian
ng for it. > > Any Insights? Try an official unofficial image linked at https://www.debian.org/distrib/ -- Brian.

Re: WiFi Hardware not detected, during Debian NetInst Install

2021-03-22 Thread Brian
ccessfully, but they just didn't make the wifi work, which would be > a completely different bug. > > If you've time to spare, you could of course retry the installer > *without* the firmware on a stick, deliberately provoking the module > (if it gets loaded) to complain. These "forensic" observations would > narrow the scope of potential bugs. All good advice. I think the modules that should be loaded are rtw88_8723de, rtw88_8723d, rtw88_core and rtw88_pci. After doing the "Detect Network Hardware" step the OP could use 'lsmod' in a console. The buster d-i kernel does not have these modules. -- Brian.

Re: System hacks more than one year.

2021-03-22 Thread Brian
sional just a physician. > leandro > > https://photos.app.goo.gl/fovKnEnNXTkqAFkd7 > > Enviado via UOL Mail Leandro neto, you are off-topic for this thread. It has now moved to global politics and putting the world to rights. You have also posted in html only. That will not endear you to some of the present participants! -- Brian.

Re: System hacks more than one year.

2021-03-22 Thread Brian
On Mon 22 Mar 2021 at 19:42:54 +, Brian wrote: > On Mon 22 Mar 2021 at 19:09:57 +, Leandro neto wrote: > > > > > Hi devs. And users. I am brig jacks since October of 2019 by the same > > person. > > By the way the uses Debian system to do it. I am not a

Re: WiFi Hardware not detected, during Debian NetInst Install

2021-03-22 Thread Brian
n. > > > > That's next on my list. You have a prima facie case for that (I checked with the Debian Bullseye Netinst CD). Have you checkd the relevant nodules have been loaded? Have you tried loading firmware as David Wright outlines? -- Brian.

Re: WiFi Hardware not detected, during Debian NetInst Install

2021-03-22 Thread Brian
. My netinst (bullseye) knows about rtw88_8723de. modinfo tells me. > My issue now, is that the results of netinst doesn't have all the pieces, > needed for WiFi. For example, I can't find wpasupplicant. Tangential. -- Brian.

Re: WiFi Hardware not detected, during Debian NetInst Install

2021-03-22 Thread Brian
On Mon 22 Mar 2021 at 16:33:03 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 20:59:33 + > Brian wrote: > > > > My issue now, is that the results of netinst doesn't have all the > > > pieces, needed for WiFi. For example, I can't find wpasupplicant

Re: WiFi Hardware not detected, during Debian NetInst Install

2021-03-22 Thread Brian
ilar issue and may be > > able to provide more data. > > > > Submitted. Bug#985755. > > As reportbug figured out, this was submitted in Novice Mode. Pretty useless as it stands. It basically says - something doesn't work. No mention of this thread; no mention of whether a kernel module was loaded; no mention of firmware. But maybe someone will put the time in to investigate. -- Brian.

Re: WiFi Hardware not detected, during Debian NetInst Install

2021-03-23 Thread Brian
On Mon 22 Mar 2021 at 20:26:47 -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote: > I think my best, followup is to state "how to recreate the problem" Indeed. I should not have offered the advice in that manner and tone. Aplologies. -- Brian.

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-23 Thread Brian
> > complex, baroque and inconsistent. > >  - wonder if someone has observations on learning Modern Greek ? Gerunds are somewhat more difficult than in Ancient Greek. Apart from that, most modern Greeks seem to cope with them. -- Brian.

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-24 Thread Brian
rrier. The problem was solved by increasing the number of participants on their network by at least one, a translator. I strongly suggest you do the same and revise your action plan. Using a wireless router as part of your minimalist LAN would be so much easier to get the laptops talking to each other. -- Brian.

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-24 Thread Brian
the box, and they > all do that, there's no need to mess about with IP addresses and > cabling at all. [...] I am pleased you are supporting the advice I gave. Setting up one computer is an AP with DHCP is interesting but not exactly a walk in the park. The OP might be persuaded. -- Brian.

Re: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

2021-03-26 Thread Brian
g an official unofficial image solve a video problem *by itself* when booting into the new system? -- Brian.

Re: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

2021-03-26 Thread Brian
On Fri 26 Mar 2021 at 17:01:16 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 08:47:38PM +0000, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 26 Mar 2021 at 15:22:01 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > Issues with video chipset drivers/firmware are extremely common, > > > especially

Re: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

2021-03-27 Thread Brian
On Sat 27 Mar 2021 at 09:04:14 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 11:40:53PM +0000, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 26 Mar 2021 at 17:01:16 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 08:47:38PM +, Brian wrote: > > > >

Re: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

2021-03-27 Thread Brian
same way. I would contend that the contents of the official unofficial offering have zero influence on this outcome in the normal course of events. It is not all things for all people and consideration should be given to not seeing it as such. -- Brian.

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-30 Thread Brian
On Tue 30 Mar 2021 at 11:19:48 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] > What well meaning members of this list have not picked up on is that I am > very literal minded and careful in phrasing my questions. I've said > somewhere in this thread that my "universe of discourse" is explicitly > limited to

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-30 Thread Brian
On Tue 30 Mar 2021 at 19:29:49 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Tue 30 Mar 2021 at 11:19:48 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > [...] > > > What well meaning members of this list have not picked up on is that I am > > very literal minded and careful in phrasing my questions. I&

Re: xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner

2021-03-31 Thread Brian
bian version is in use. avahi-brows is in the avahi-utils package. -- Brian.

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-04-01 Thread Brian
On Tue 30 Mar 2021 at 19:29:49 +0100, Brian wrote: > Personally, I see the idea of an ad-hoc network as interesting, but > haven't the incentive to set one up. Not yet anyway! I successfully and eadily implemented the ifupdown method at https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/AdHoc Put

Re: xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner

2021-04-02 Thread Brian
On Fri 02 Apr 2021 at 15:27:48 +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > On 02.04.2021 06:11, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > > On 2021-04-01 3:51 a.m., Brian Potkin wrote: > > > > > Hello Charlie, > > > > > > It would appear that you are not subscribed to debian

Re: How I scan, was Re: xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner

2021-04-02 Thread Brian
et :-( There appear to be three aspects to solving this problem: 1. SANE detecting when a scanner button is pressed. 2. A button press being captured and known to the system. 3. Activation of a script. I can see 3 being solvable but how about 1 and 2? -- Brian.

Re: xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner

2021-04-03 Thread Brian
> It would be useful to know the output of > avahi-browse -rt _uscan._tcp > and > which Debian version is in use. > avahi-browse is in the avahi-utils package. Add 'scanimage -L' to the request. -- Brian.

Re: Request: A Debian public Wiki repository/bank for complex code lines with examples, scripts, self-explanatory with terminal, otherwise Minimal explanatory texts

2021-04-03 Thread Brian
wn" basis. I can also see the need > for some similar metadata that is "orthogonal" to that -- for example, things > like which desktop they apply to (KDE, GNOME, ...) or whether it applies to X > windows or Wayland, but then that information also needs to designate which > Debian distributions it applies to. These things you see a great need for? It's a wiki. Guess what? -- Brian.

Re: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

2021-04-05 Thread Brian
On Mon 05 Apr 2021 at 22:54:37 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 27 mar 21, 10:48:43, Brian wrote: > > > > I did previously note the reiteration and acknowledge that video > > hardware could require non-free firmware. However, does a d-i carrying > > such firmwa

Re: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

2021-04-06 Thread Brian
On Mon 05 Apr 2021 at 23:17:09 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Mon 05 Apr 2021 at 22:54:37 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Sb, 27 mar 21, 10:48:43, Brian wrote: > > > > > > I did previously note the reiteration and acknowledge that video > > > hardware c

Re: ubuntu/snap future

2021-04-06 Thread Brian
ps or flatpacks are something very > useful, which improve user experience even for power users. The problem > with Ubuntu is it uses way too much snaps and I do not think it is a > matter of laziness. I had occasion to install Zoom a few weeks ago;'snap install zoom-client'. Everything went smoothly and I quite like having this proprietary package strictly confined. -- Brian.

Re: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

2021-04-06 Thread Brian
On Tue 06 Apr 2021 at 15:53:43 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 06 apr 21, 12:00:53, Brian wrote: > > On Mon 05 Apr 2021 at 23:17:09 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > > On Mon 05 Apr 2021 at 22:54:37 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > >

Re: ubuntu/snap future

2021-04-09 Thread Brian
it has the higher version, and that is easy > enough to manipulate (e.g. with an epoch). A trusted repository could > then easily substitute *any* package on your system (kernel, init, > shell, etc.) via package upgrades. > > The repository doesn't even have to be evil, as it could always be > hijacked by a bad actor. In response to this well-argued post: which is less risky when not installing a package from the archives? * Install the vendor .deb. * Install from the snap store. -- Brian.

Re: scanner recommendation

2021-04-19 Thread Brian
elease Notes), but it will have to be obtained from the above link on buster and have "interface = all" put in /etc/ipp-usb/ipp-usb.conf. Xsane and simple-scan now become usable. sane-airscan is much better than anything provided ny Canon. -- Brian.

Re: scanner recommendation

2021-04-19 Thread Brian
you to submit your preferred choice here for scrutiny. -- Brian.

Re: Installing Debian from a hard disk with Windows to a USB stick

2021-04-27 Thread Brian
of course, which license does > that need. If done, please include a little reference to the tutorial > at https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Loader , if you can, > of course. Your effort. Your creative activity. Your wiki. Your decision. -- Brian.

Re: how to use fetchmail with MS Office 365 / davmail?

2021-04-29 Thread Brian
gt; income. I inagine you might feel the same way about tvs and washing machines. -- Brian.

Re: how to use fetchmail with MS Office 365 / davmail?

2021-04-29 Thread Brian
On Thu 29 Apr 2021 at 21:48:29 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 08:42:17PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Thu 29 Apr 2021 at 14:21:22 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > BTW I'm not really a luddite [1]. I&

Re: how to use fetchmail with MS Office 365 / davmail?

2021-04-30 Thread Brian
ypothetical, imagined or presumed capabilties of physical objects around us is very sad. -- Brian.

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: how to use fetchmail with MS Office 365 / davmail?

2021-05-03 Thread Brian
On Mon 03 May 2021 at 15:47:07 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > It doesn't seem sensible to put a cell-connection into each TV > > when they're all immobile. OTOH cars and pets go places. > > > > And is 20GB of data per day a "reasonable usage" on a mobile data plan? > > Whereas 1TB per month on a

Re: Downloading from lists.debian.org/debian-user in mbox format

2021-05-17 Thread Brian
On Mon 17 May 2021 at 04:58:42 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Some mailing list save posts in mbox format. > Is there any way to download specific threads from > lists.debian.org/debian-user in mbox format? No. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/02/msg02997.html Bug #161440. -- Brian.

Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?

2021-05-17 Thread Brian
it's missing dd's equivalent of status=progress. As an aside: cat /dev/sdb was originally recommended in the Installation Guide but was replaced with cp foo.iso /dev/sdb because the cat command gives problems when used with sudo. -- Brian.

Re: info pages WHERE? -- was [Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?]

2021-05-17 Thread Brian
page is just a menu of links to other pages. As a longtime user of pinfo I appreciate your exposing it to a wider audience. Regarding seaching: does the s key do anything to cause you to modify your observation? -- Brian.

Re: info pages WHERE? -- was [Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?]

2021-05-17 Thread Brian
On Mon 17 May 2021 at 14:39:47 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 07:25:38PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Mon 17 May 2021 at 11:01:33 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > Done! Now, let's try that with pinfo date. I

Re: xv (was Re: Changing background automatically, Mint 20.)

2021-05-23 Thread Brian
> that you find so notably simple, especially if in fact the qiv > command-line interface does not turn out to share that quality. When I wanted a quick, lightweight image viewer I setted on sxiv. I also wanted to print from the viewer and sxiv gives me that facilty. My recollection is neither qiv nor feh gave me that. Maybe I didn't look hard enough. -- Brian.

Re: Debian vs. Arch wikis [WAS:] Re: how to use mtp command line?

2021-05-23 Thread Brian
, I suppose). > > Yes, I know it's a Wiki. I have edited a number of pages on the Debian > Wiki, and I intend to fix up this one, too, when I get the chance, > unless someone else gets to it first. You know what you are talking about. Just do it. It isn't a race between you and others. -- Brian.

Re: Preserving locally modified configuration files - Dpkg::Options --force-confdef & --force-confold not working on command line

2021-06-15 Thread Brian
; > } > > but behaviour is the same in both cases. > > Does somebody know what may be wrong here? or i'm doing it wrong? I wonder whether using dpkg-divert(1) would help in preserving your modified file? -- Brian.

Re: upgrade to testing

2021-06-15 Thread Brian
you. But fingers are not crossed. -- Brian.

Re: A feasible method to add examples to man pages?

2021-06-21 Thread Brian
chmod +x ~/bin/cht.sh > > cht.sh --standalone-install > > > > I don't understand what those 3 lines are attempting to do. > What should I be reading? curl(1) bash(1) (Redirection) chmod(1) less ~/bin/cht.sh -- Brian.

Re: A feasible method to add examples to man pages?

2021-06-22 Thread Brian
On Tue 22 Jun 2021 at 05:54:19 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/22/2021 02:21 AM, Curt wrote: > > On 2021-06-22, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 11:50:22PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > On Mon 21 Jun 2021 at 15:25:53 -0500, Richard Owlett wrot

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-22 Thread Brian
On Tue 22 Jun 2021 at 10:44:55 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > In addition to everything everybody else has said, and just to make it > absolutely clear; > > gmail != email Nonsense. > or, in words; > > gmail IS NOT email More nonsense. > There may be vast swathes of overlap, but don't expect

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-22 Thread Brian
On Tue 22 Jun 2021 at 19:44:30 +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Tue, 2021-06-22 at 19:36 +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 22 Jun 2021 at 10:44:55 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > [...] > > All that google offer is for THEIR benefit, not yours. > > > > Continuing nonsense. >

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-22 Thread Brian
On Tue 22 Jun 2021 at 20:03:29 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jun 2021 19:36:33 +0100 > Brian wrote: > > Hello Brian, > > >It cannot handle email in a way *you* approve of? > > The way google handle electronic communication differs from the way the >

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-23 Thread Brian
On Wed 23 Jun 2021 at 07:52:02 -0400, Michael Grant wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 07:36:33PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 22 Jun 2021 at 10:44:55 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > > > > > In addition to everything everybody else has said, and just to make i

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-24 Thread Brian
ds based." Michael was desperately trying to sustain his argument that > email is NOT gmail and let's not forget this. Gmail is standards-based. I expext Signal is too; otherwise it would not work. standrds-bsaed != free. -- Brian.

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-25 Thread Brian
On Thu 24 Jun 2021 at 18:41:56 -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 21:03:28 +0100 > Brian wrote: > > > On Thu 24 Jun 2021 at 14:04:13 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 01:25:37 +0300 > > > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > &

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-26 Thread Brian
On Fri 25 Jun 2021 at 19:29:31 +0100, mick crane wrote: > On 2021-06-25 19:04, Brian wrote: > > > It is perfectly possible to send and receive mail via gmail without > > ever encountering its web interface. That's no different from any > > other ISP. > > It

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-26 Thread Brian
ter reference for Moxie's opinion: > > https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/ An interesting read. Countered at https://matrix.org/blog/2020/01/02/on-privacy-versus-freedom -- Brian.

Re: Synaptic error message

2021-06-26 Thread Brian
"digital". My expertise was analog! Old-enough > timers might recognize ML5-5 as a significant mail stop. A choice between analogue and digital? You really were well off. We had to train carrier pigeons to peck out a message with their beaks and we needed to be adept at semaphore. Drum skills were a must. -- Brian.

Re: Wanted: a special purpose Debian installer

2021-06-27 Thread Brian
ding startx (which is in the > > xinit package, which is a direct dependency of xorg). > Thanks, that works > I do still need to run startx but that's not a problem For veteran Debian users the special purpose Debian installer to install MATE is accessed after first boot with apt install task-mate-desktop --no-install-recommends Also available from the installer itself with the correct degree of tickling. -- Brian.

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