Following an update from a working "stable" Debian installation,
to "unstable" (from an Australian mirror), running startx elicited:
X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory)
Trying: strings /usr/bin/X11/X | grep X | more
shows "/etc/X11/X" appears in the exe
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 08:40:31PM +0100, stephen parkinson wrote:
> my applix was purchased approx 4-5 yrs ago
Last time I looked for an upgrade, it appeared to be no longer
supported. (I'd be happy to be proven wrong)
> i tgz'd the applix dir and now uncompressed on a libranet 2.8.1 box,
After an "apt-get install newsgate" (woody), there doesn't seem
to be any form of doco. Both man and info draw a blank, and:
o apt-cache search showed no separate newsgate manpage package.
o The only hits, on googling www.debian.org for "newsgate", were two
long package lists!
A
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 11:32:42AM +0100, Randy Orrison wrote:
> Did you check /usr/share/doc/newsgate? That's the standard place for
> debian packages to install documentation files.
Thank you, Randy!
Seems that the little that I have previously installed had executables,
and manpages, matchin
On 27.05.19 17:06, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Thats fine, shows the loop local stuff, but how does one determine the
> ipv6 address for picnc.coyote.den for instance. I think it somehow
> related to picnc's mac address, but thats just a WAG.
On coyote, it'll look something like line 3:
$ ifconfig -a
On 27.05.19 23:32, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> No, seriously I would like to get some user feedback to the question.
> And also why is net-tools being deprecated?
It's not. You and I fully approve of it, so it's fine for the use cases
in which it gives the desired results. (See ifconfig use on this thr
On 28.05.19 08:02, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 27 May 2019 11:18:49 pm Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>
> > Gene Heskett writes:
> > Your version (1.14.6-2) of network-manager appears to be out of date.
> > The following newer release(s) are available in the Debian archive:
> > experimental: 1.18.0-1
On 28.05.19 14:59, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 08:51:41AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > But who or what is the gatekeeper to make sure the address you choose,
> > supposedly at random, isn't in use someplace next door or half the
> > planet away? There may be
On 28.05.19 08:59, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 May 2019 08:34:37 am Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > That said, one could upgrade just that one package, and try it out. If
> > it is fixed, you're on a winner then and there. "Fixed" beats
> > "reporte
On 06.06.19 07:14, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > # Example how to put a getty on a serial line (for a terminal)
> > #
> > #T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100
> > #T1:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS1 9600 vt100
> >
> Yes, I recall those days. But until now ttyS0 and S1 if it existed, wer
On 08.06.19 11:28, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 08 June 2019 10:20:09 am deloptes wrote:
> > Did you try running this without systemd? I recall you mentioned
> > somewhere you removed it
> >
> > regards
>
> No. And I doubt there would even be a running system left. I don't think
> I wrote th
On 09.06.19 06:59, Gene Heskett wrote:
> And what do we call that Erik, thats much bigger than a normal foop, a
> megafoop maybe? Good grief, Charley Brown. And we're stuck with it. :(
Well now, there are folks who have observed that not all progress is
forward, and not all code bloat and per
On 09.06.19 19:11, Brian wrote:
> On Mon 10 Jun 2019 at 00:52:21 +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote:
>
> >
> > On 09.06.19 06:59, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > And what do we call that Erik, thats much bigger than a normal foop, a
> > > megafoop maybe? Good grief,
On 13.06.19 16:29, k. jantzen wrote:
>
> in general I do not have a problem reading a pdf file with either xpdf or
> documentviewer.
Yup, documentviewer will sometimes show faint lines better, I find, but
it's easy to set the background colour in xpdf.
> But once in a while I get a pdf file that
On 14.06.19 06:10, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the association
> between a directory (i.e. \home) and which physical partition it is on. The
> file I'm looking for also identifies which partition is used for swap.
Easier than looking in /etc/fstab
On 14.06.19 10:51, Celejar wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 18:50:22 +1000
> Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > I only use mupdf for problem pdf files, but it's very nifty to have on
> > hand.
>
> I actually love mupdf, and I use it as my main pdf reader. It's just so
On 15.06.19 07:51, Curt wrote:
> curty@einstein:~$ mupdf
> usage: mupdf [options] file.pdf [page]
> -p -password
> -r -resolution
> -A -set anti-aliasing quality in bits (0=off, 8=best)
> -C -RRGGBB (tint color in hexadecimal syntax)
> -W -
On 22.06.19 12:23, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> deloptes wrote:
> > Please stop!
>
> You know what happens if you try to issue commands here, do you ?
>
>
> > BTW you are also a carbon dioxide producer ;-)
>
> Voluntarily i'm only part of the athmospheric carbon cycle, not of the
> unearthi
On 29.07.19 14:44, Joe wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 09:34:25 -0400
> Dan Ritter wrote:
> >
> > In a single-family house, Powerline is about as secure as wired
> > ethernet: you need to come in and plug something in to spy on
> > it.
>
> Most people won't have RF blocking filters at their house e
On 29.07.19 20:46, David Wright wrote:
> On Mon 29 Jul 2019 at 18:00:25 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Monday 29 July 2019 17:26:17 ghe wrote:
> >
> > > On 7/29/19 1:57 PM, David Wright wrote:
> > > > Irrelevant in a domestic setting: it's illegal to have more than one
> > > > phase in an ord
On 30.07.19 11:34, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> Most residential power in the US is created using a single phase transformer
> (so called because (1) it only takes power from one of the 3 phases mentioned
> above and (2) darn -- it's a bitch getting old.
Tell me about it. ;-) I'd offer that (2) i
On 13.08.19 00:38, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Its good that we can fix it, BUT IF you are going to restrict where we
> keep logfiles like this then FIX the /var/log perms so that fetchmail,
> procmail, spamassassin, clamav and its ilk, running as the user can
> access /var/log to keep its logs. Debi
On 13.08.19 07:47, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Monday, August 12, 2019 10:56:22 PM riveravaldez wrote:
> > >> btw which option should i add to mplayer command line
> > >> so that it play only audio part (not video part) of a file?
> >
> > $ mplayer -novideo file
>
> I'm in a strange mood toda
After a fresh update of CUPS, and a fresh "Add Printer", selecting the first
(gutenberg) model option, printing a pdf page from xpdf caused display
of GUI message boxes indicating "printing started" and "printing
completed", but no printer output.
At localhost:631 -> Job Management, "Show all jobs
Aargh! Apologies for committing a subthread hijack. That wasn't intended.
The new CUPS & HP-LaserJet-3050 addition prints the printer self-test
page immediately, the CUPS test page after several minutes, but other
print jobs not at all. Again, printing from xpdf, the job is queued:
$ lpq
HP-Laser
On 24.06.18 10:04, mick crane wrote:
> On 2018-06-23 13:12, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > The new CUPS & HP-LaserJet-3050 addition prints the printer self-test
> > page immediately, the CUPS test page after several minutes, but other
> > print jobs not at all. Again, print
On 10.07.18 12:53, David Wright wrote:
> On Mon 09 Jul 2018 at 19:05:52 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 06:53:44PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 06:39:29PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > > > You're both missing the main point, which is that a Brother
On 21.07.18 10:42, Richard Owlett wrote:
> P.S. I've saved ~6 years of useful posts from this group. I've been trying
> to figure out how to organize it in order to create a QWSBFA rather than a
> FAQ. QWSBFA=="Questions Which Should Be Frequently Asked" ;/
There are so many paths that people have
On 22.07.18 10:29, cyaiplexys wrote:
> I think my mindset also came from my days of trying to program the WowWee
> RoboSapien RS Media (ARM/Linux with Java). That was like a fully
> programmable computer and robot all in one.
Then the full arduino environment will be more comfortable than raw C on
On 23.07.18 10:28, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> On Sunday, 22 Jul 2018 at 05:39, Tom Browder wrote:
> > Sounds like there are a lot of fellow travelers here. If you lean
> > more towards loving programming as I do (started in FORTRAN IV in
> > 1961), you might check out the new world of Perl 6 (https://p
On 26.07.18 08:29, cyaiplexys wrote:
> I'd like to try a native compiler but also I would like to have something I
> could compile for Arduino (here we go again) and ARM and other CPUs as well.
$ apt-cache search avr | more
arduino - AVR development board IDE and built-in libraries
libavresample-d
On 30.07.18 08:11, cyaiplexys wrote:
> On 07/27/2018 12:31 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > On 26.07.18 08:29, cyaiplexys wrote:
> > > I'd like to try a native compiler but also I would like to have something
> > > I
> > > could compile for Arduino (he
On 05.08.18 18:59, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> If you make it as far as tweaking linker scripts, then the info page is
> infinitely more informative than the manpage.
s/the info page/the info page for ld
On 07.08.18 09:05, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> dpkg: warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executable
> dpkg: warning: 'start-stop-daemon' not found in PATH or not executable
> dpkg: error: 2 expected programs not found in PATH or not executable
> Note: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/lo
On 10.08.18 11:46, Dan Purgert wrote:
> Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> To expand on that with my own personal prejudice -- the people using
> these "sub-par" tools are also the ones who're the cause of some of the
> existent (modern?) problems with mailing lists.
>
> Namely:
>
> - HTML Messages
> - Not
On 13.08.18 06:47, Richard Owlett wrote:
> PREAMBLE:
> I've downloaded a .deb file.
> I've recently done such an install but don't remember how.
> Looking at the man pages for apt, apt-get, aptitude didn't help.
> Couldn't come up with useful search term for wiki.
> Eventually recalled "dpkg -i" wh
On 14.08.18 06:44, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 08/14/2018 01:43 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > The whole thing is just a plain text file, edited and read with Vim,
> > using multi-level folding, so it all presents as a one-page TOC. My
> > version is probably of limited use
On 26.08.18 12:25, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> A regular itchy annoyance for years now:
>
> df shows bytes, df -h shows only one decimal place, so e.g. on a
> 1.8TiB drive "1.6T" is the free space, but that resolution/ precision
> is insufficient.
For more than 3 decades I've just used "df -k". OK,
On 29.08.18 11:57, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> However both sendmail and update-inetd are orphaned at the moment (no
> regular maintainers, although Andreas Beckmann has done a lot of work
> via the QA team)
After favouring sendmail for a decade and a half, I thought I was slow
to switch to postfix
On 11.09.18 13:52, Pétùr wrote:
> I have some files, with weird permissions:
>
> # ls -la
> d-wS--S--T 2 1061270772 2605320832 4096 oct. 7 2412 index.html
OK, you have the suid, sgid, and sticky bits set, and it's a directory.
Execute (directory navigate) permission is off.
> Cannot delete,
On 14.09.18 16:10, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 01:23:31PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > I just find it amazing that the kernel has grown to be so big as to be
> > comparable to a complete unix distribution on a workstation of some
> > years ago (with GUI, compilers, ...).
>
>
On 25.09.18 20:19, Brian wrote:
> On Tue 25 Sep 2018 at 14:08:23 -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
>
> > Brian wrote: Note to non-English speakersnatural English politeness
> > will get you a nod of the head but there will be incomprehension
> > in the mind
> >
> > That also works with America
On 14.10.18 22:06, Long Wind wrote:
> given two directories, the program can print files that are in both
> directories
>
> to make it easy, if file name and size are same, then they are same
>
> i've to admit my memory is poor, if good, who need such program?
>
> i'm about to write it in java,
On 14.10.18 12:36, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> FYI: Testing Devuan ascii now for future consideration. No problems so
> far. Still like runit though. And it's easy to convert the
> default sysvinit to it.
+1 (Running pre-systemd debian on laptop and one old desktop, devuan
ascii on the new one
On 26.10.18 13:05, David Christensen wrote:
> When programming, I tend to do check-in's when I make some kind of progress
> (ideally, the code builds and the test suite passes).
Yup, the smaller edits of bugfixes aren't going to threaten code stability.
>
> The trap is when I work for a while, m
On 26.10.18 13:20, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 26 October 2018 10:41:54 Richard Owlett wrote:
> > 1. I don't want to install unneeded packages just to find out whether
> > or not the package might be useful.
> > 2. The info output has an annoying format. A browser acceptable format
> > {pla
On 26.10.18 19:17, Brian wrote:
> On Fri 26 Oct 2018 at 13:20:36 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Agreed, a good man page is the best. I've no clue why there seems to be
> > an aversion to a man page that has to be scrolled to read it all. All of
> > us have up/down arrows on our keyboards, and 99%
On 26.10.18 22:39, Brian wrote:
> On Fri 26 Oct 2018 at 15:13:20 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote:
> > I agree, and I have found a lot of info "complete manual"s
> > to be exactly like the man page!
>
> Please give an example.
Anyone who has tried info a number of times, in the hope of finding a
bit mor
On 31.10.18 11:49, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
> On 30/10/2018 21:17, P M wrote:
> > Although right now I am using Windows but still I feel very enthusiastic
> > and energetic with Linux; even I don't know what the reason is.
>
> You are feeling the potential of open source: a community open to all
On 29.10.18 10:58, David Wright wrote:
> On Sat 27 Oct 2018 at 09:19:15 (+0100), mick crane wrote:
> > I made the mistake of printing out man bash once. It's really, really long
>
> Some of the longer man pages (eg bash, fvwm, video programs) are
> rather unmanageable when just presented as flat t
On 26.11.18 17:13, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Get on the horn and ask your isp if they run a mailserver. Mine does, and
> I use it, but when I first started, I had to call their network guy and
> have him whitelist all the mailing lists I an on.
Here, down under, that's the norm - I've never heard of
On 26.11.18 21:12, Celejar wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 09:37:21 -0500
> Mark Neidorff wrote:
> > Now, I don't like the webmail interfaces and the limited storage for old
>
> Limited storage? Who - big or small player - offers unlimited storage
> for old emails?
There are various values for old
On 07.12.18 09:17, John Hasler wrote:
> Gene writes:
> > Thats a huge part of the problem, but theres another fence to
> > jump. most of these so-called cad programs cannot generate even the
> > most basic gcode.
>
> I can see not wanting to learn even a small part of a CAD program if all
> you wa
On 07.12.18 16:42, Jason wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 05:05:30PM -, Dan Purgert wrote:
> > Jason wrote:
> > > Does anyone know if there is a console based Arduino IDE available for
> > > Debian? I am interested in making a portable programmer that could be
> > > taken out on a job to edit
On 11.12.18 09:44, Dan Ritter wrote:
> mick crane wrote:
> > On 2018-12-10 20:02, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> > > For the purpose of sr_drive_status(), the loop is really inappropriate.
> > > This function shall obtain the drive status and not wait until the
> > > status of the medium is decided.
> >
On 17.01.19 18:35, David Christensen wrote:
> On 1/16/19 2:15 PM, Andy Smith wrote:
> > I second the suggestion to learn version control...
>
> +1
>
> I started with RCS. The concepts and commands are straight-forward, but the
> granularity is per-file. It works great for managing key /etc/* fi
On 17.02.19 10:16, hdv@gmail wrote:
> On 17/02/2019 05.05, Juan R. de Silva wrote:
> > Can your share with me what do you use for newsgroups reading. I do not
> > care
> > about binaries. All I want to follow several Linux usenet newsgroups. Plain
> > text reading.
>
> For text-only groups I us
On 17.02.19 12:07, hdv@gmail wrote:
> On 17/02/2019 11.58, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > On 17.02.19 10:16, hdv@gmail wrote:
> >> On 17/02/2019 05.05, Juan R. de Silva wrote:
> >>> Can your share with me what do you use for newsgroups reading. I do not
> >>&
On 25.03.19 04:38, mick crane wrote:
> Is there any text editor, preferably in a terminal that has the facility to
> protect lines in the document, not the document itself ?
> I've got 2 blocks of "code" that look similar and I keep editing the wrong
> one and then it doesn't work.
The only thing
On 25.03.19 07:53, mick crane wrote:
> not heard about folding.
It can be very handy. I have around 420 pages of notes in one file. They
present as a one-page contents table with section page counts. While
cursoring down and then across opens a chosen fold, there are several
folding levels to the
On 26.03.19 11:52, John Hasler wrote:
> mick crane wrote:
> > there it is then, although I've so far managed to avoid Emacs since
> > heard it is more of an operating system than an editor.
>
> Teemu Likonen writes:
> > There are those who know Emacs, and there are those who know decades
> > old
On 28.03.19 12:34, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote:
> Once you start using Emacs macros and see the benefit, you likely shall find
> yourself creating and using numerous macros within each editing session.
> You demonstrate once to the robot, and the robot faithfully mimics you,
> without error. The onl
On 28.03.19 21:32, Matyáš Bobek wrote:
> I reckon writing vim extensions in C must be quite obscure... How is it
> done?
It's not. They are written in vimscript, analogous to elisp. There is a
large landscape of add-ons written in the language, and a choice of
managers to automate the minor tedium
On 27.03.19 11:07, mick crane wrote:
> On 2019-03-26 19:27, Wayne Sallee wrote:
> > I use vim.
> >
> > Log in as user that will use vim, and run the following command:
> >
> > cat > .vimrc << "EOF"
> > set nosi noai
> > set number
> >
> I have line numbers as the default but copy/paste with the
On 29.03.19 17:26, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> " Toggle relative line numbering.
> function! NList_toggle()
> if &rnu == 1
> set nornu" For absolute, elide the 'r'.
> else
> set rnu " For absolut
On 29.03.19 08:47, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
> >>>>> "EC" == Erik Christiansen writes:
>
> EC> On 28.03.19 21:32, Matyáš Bobek wrote:
> >> I reckon writing vim extensions in C must be quite obscure... How
> >> is it done?
>
> EC
On 29.03.19 10:44, deloptes wrote:
> One can live and do everything without Emacs.
Can't resist paraphrasing that in light of Emacs' OS-like reputation:
One can live and do everything within Emacs ... or without.
I would be tempted to have a look at ne, except that my fingers would
just continu
On 29.03.19 10:50, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
> >>>>> "EC" == Erik Christiansen writes:
>
> EC> Yes, yes, reflexive combativeness is jolly good fun, but
> EC> understanding is more useful in the long term.
>
> In my experience, if the langua
On 30.03.19 01:29, deloptes wrote:
> John Hasler wrote:
>
> > I'm not trying to persuade anyone to use Emacs. I am trying to convince
> > people not to be deterred from trying it because of myths such as "You
> > can't use Emacs if you can't program in Lisp".
>
> Sorry John, but all of this is o
On 07.04.19 08:12, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> Sorry, I should have tried to be more clear -- sort of a digression, but I
> came from an environment where anytime someone used the word assume, someone
> else would point out what (they thought) that meant (it makes an ass out of
> [yo]u and me).
On 08.04.19 17:43, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 09:33:03PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> > Hello all
> >
> > As I wrote this I began to consider this is slightly OT for this list;
> > my apologies for not putting OT in the subject line but mutt won't let
> > me go back and e
On 26.04.19 23:09, mick crane wrote:
> I did wonder if was some scheme I was unaware of.
> I noticed a couple of weeks ago somebody used these "::" between words to
> identify something.
> Like in apt you have
> /var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_debian-security_dists_buster_updates_main_source
On 03.05.19 18:01, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> P.S. Would someone kindly tell me how, while in Mutt and reading a
> message such as this, to launch a browser to open links such as [1]
> and [2] above?
A convenient alternative is to just double-click on a link in mutt's
display in an xterm, then pa
>From the pmount manpage for stretch:
»
pmount device [ label ]
This will mount device to a directory below /media if policy is met
(see below). If label is given, the mount point will be /media/label,
otherwise it will be /media/device.
«
There doesn't seem to be an option for pmount to m
On 05.05.19 17:16, Gene Heskett wrote:
> You have made it very clear not to assign a pw to root, do everything
> with sudo.
That's just religion, Gene, promulgated to minimise queries and
complaints from people getting themselves into trouble. Like
vaccination, it only needs 95% coverage to provi
On 06.05.19 09:03, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 01:48:01PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Quoting Erik Christiansen (2019-05-04 08:43:53)
> > > $ which lmount
> > > lmount is a function
> > > lmount ()
> > > {
> >
On 07.05.19 10:12, David wrote:
> On Mon, 6 May 2019 at 23:53, Erik Christiansen
> wrote:
> > On 06.05.19 09:03, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 01:48:01PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > > > Quoting Erik Christiansen (2019-05-04 08:4
On 04.05.19 13:48, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Erik Christiansen (2019-05-04 08:43:53)
> > There doesn't seem to be an option for pmount to mount at
> > /media/label_read_from_the_media
...
> I don't personally use pmount since some years, but that sure soun
On 07.05.19 07:38, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote off-list:
> On Tuesday, May 07, 2019 12:01:49 AM Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > only the author is dumb enough
>
> Why use language like that? (It does not contribute to the welcoming
> environment that I'd like to see culti
On 07.05.19 09:05, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> So, I'll use "publicly" -- I was going to do that, but it just seemed wrong
> at
> the time ;-)
It seems harder to remember uncommon spelling now than when I was
younger, and until the spellchecker disagreed, I'd gone with your
spelling - it's more
On 11.05.19 14:38, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> On Saturday, 4 May 2019 at 16:43, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > To provide that convenient automation, I use:
> >
> > $ which lmount
> > lmount is a function
> > lmount ()
> > {
> > pmount $1 `e2la
On 12.05.19 13:45, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> On Sunday, 12 May 2019 at 17:52, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > On 11.05.19 14:38, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> >> This is nice; is there an equivalent for FAT file systems? Most of the
> >> devices I mount using pmount are sd cards (ca
On 04.12.19 17:33, Gene Heskett wrote:
> My point exactly. That means two accounts at your isp, I think mine
> charges only after the 2nd one, and two active fetchmail/procmail
> sessions = more trouble than it worth. Me? I got the heck off gmail
> years ago for lack of privacy reasons, and I f
On 06.12.19 14:40, songbird wrote:
> Greg Wooledge wrote:
> ...
> > Ideally, you'd just stop trying to use sed with user-supplied variables
> > injected into the code. Sed was never built to be safe for that kind of
> > work.
>
> sed was designed to operate on streams. a sequence of
> charact
On 25.01.20 05:51, Richard Owlett wrote:
> My current project is dealing with oddly formatted data. Mostly just plain
> ASCII. Progress on another aspect of my project has made this thread moot.
For the thread, there's also: $ apt-cache search bvi
bvi - binary file ed
On 26.01.20 03:03, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
>
> Trying to sort out how to xz compress. But xz is rejecting directories,
> like it expects tars output as its input. And the manpage is silent on
> redirections.
>
> I want to compress the directory foo into foo.xz, keeping foo as the
On 07.02.20 23:53, Long Wind wrote:
> i use mplayer -loop 0 to play white noise(it might help sleep by masking
> other noise)
> but when it reach end and restart to play againthere's some interval, which
> isn't desirable
> any mplayer option or other player i can use so that it plays seamlessly?
After downloading
https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/i386/iso-hybrid/debian-live-9.0.1-i386-lxde.iso
and putting it on a USB stick with unetbootin, the install spuriously
stops due to an obsessive excursion to mount a (non-existent) CDROM. The
link to the download page says: >> "Hybr
On 18.07.17 08:46, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Afaik, unetbootin unpacks the ISO and replaces the boot loader software.
> Debian discourages its use with live and installation ISOs.
>
> The Debian ISOs for i386 are ready to be simply copied onto the device
> file of the overall USB stick (i.e. to /dev
On 18.07.17 08:20, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 10:55:26AM +0200, Dejan Jocic wrote:
> > This release of Debian came with buggy live images. It was fixed with
> > 9.0.1 live images, or at least it seemed so.
>
> No, the 9.0.1 Debian live images are still broken when used for
> in
On 18.07.17 11:06, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> On the other hand, if you just want to _install_ Debian rather than to
> run it as "live" system, then you should for now use one of the
> installation ISOs.
> E.g. the small one which is just enough to fetch more packages from the
> internet:
>
>
> ht
On 18.07.17 15:47, Darac Marjal wrote:
> Did you read the two yellow boxes at the top of that page?
No, it did not register as text, because it was block colour-guified,
which my (other side of 60) mind registered as "commented out - do not
read". The tiny fontsize visually confirmed that it must
On 18.07.17 10:29, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 12:14:52AM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > www.debian.org -> "CD/USB ISO images"
>
> That's where your eyes go? That's interesting.
Only because this time it's an install from USB,
On 18.07.17 11:06, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> On the other hand, if you just want to _install_ Debian rather than to
> run it as "live" system, then you should for now use one of the
> installation ISOs.
> E.g. the small one which is just enough to fetch more packages from the
> internet:
>
>
> ht
On 20.07.17 03:27, Felix Miata wrote:
> David Wright composed on 2017-07-19 23:33 (UTC-0500):
>
> > On Wed 19 Jul 2017 at 14:57:50 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote:
>
> >> Did you miss that in Stretch apt is preferred to apt-get?
>
> > I did. Where does it say that?
>
> It was a long time ago that I
On 20.07.17 19:51, Pol Hallen wrote:
> From client I print (ie: a 300Kb of pdf), in log cups server I see that file
> size about 4/5Mb (why?), so the printer before print it I've to wait also 15
> minutes :-/
Is the file for the printer postscript? That is always bigger than the
pdf equivalent, ev
After two days of trying to google ways to get audio on the hdmi output
on a shiny new Udoo X86 running debian 9.0.0, sheer gritted-teeth
determination, smacking the walls of the GUI rat's maze lucked onto the
deeply concealed interface.
On the LXDE desktop, the "Sound & Video" -> "PulseAudio Volu
On 22.07.17 14:23, Joel Rees wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 1:51 PM, Erik Christiansen
> >
> > There is no rational explanation for failing to make all 5 tabs visible.
> >
> > Erik
> > (Who in 30 years of s/w development never let a team member produce crap
>
On 22.07.17 09:36, Curt wrote:
> On 2017-07-22, Ric Moore wrote:
> > On 07/22/2017 12:51 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> >
> >> There is no rational explanation for failing to make all 5 tabs visible.
> >
> > No idea what your problem is, I have always been a
On 22.07.17 13:47, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> Erik Christiansen writes:
> > Aha, if the "PulseAudio Volume Control" window is manually widened, the
> > suppressed tabs become visible. Is it then the Debian 9.0.0 distro-smiths
> > who have set too small a wind
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