Re: Mouse left button acts really strange

2021-10-10 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
r help. No SQUEAK! Just a thud. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Identity Theft

2021-12-20 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Mon, 20 Dec 2021, at 16:12, John Hasler wrote: > Did you notify Google? Seems likely that's where the hole is. How would Google intercept a financial institution's valid phone number? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Identity Theft

2021-12-20 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Mon, 20 Dec 2021, at 18:30, John Hasler wrote: > Jeremy Nicoll writes: >> How would Google intercept a financial institution's valid >> phone number? > > He was using Google Voice. When the OP "found" a number on screen, to ring, does that mean he eg cl

Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

2022-01-05 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
MUA and learning all the ins&outs of another one, and would - in the short term anyway - prefer to find some way of making TB still see the mails concerned. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

2022-01-05 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Wed, 5 Jan 2022, at 19:52, Dan Ritter wrote: > Jeremy Nicoll wrote: >> On Wed, 5 Jan 2022, at 13:35, Paul M. Foster wrote: >> > Folks: >> > >> > I just restarted my machine, and am using Thunderbird 91.4.1 (the >> > latest) 64 bit on Debian

Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

2022-01-06 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
knowing the ins&outs, is that CM is ok with google but other servers that use OAuth2 - notably Microsoft ones - regularly revoke users' access tokens and the users currently have to set those up again manually. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Firefox PDF download - strange behaviour.

2022-01-17 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
de could create folders on my system. I think I also read that once the code has a handle to a directory it can scan sub-directories as well. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Firefox PDF download - strange behaviour.

2022-01-18 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Tue, 18 Jan 2022, at 04:51, songbird wrote: > Jeremy Nicoll wrote: >> On Mon, 17 Jan 2022, at 05:19, songbird wrote: >> >>> you are right, but i just wanted to say that for some sites >>> the behavior is to generate a unique file name if they find >>

Re: Firefox PDF download - strange behaviour.

2022-01-18 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
ctories as well. > > Yes, that appears to be correct. And that opens up the scourge of malware that correctly identifies what software one has installed, and/or aspects of its configuration, just based on what files/folders exist. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH?

2022-01-22 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
type in a terminal window to open that specific page in a text editor. The simplest page (which doesn't tell you much about me & my interests) contains links to bits of the BBC's websites. See: https://www.dropbox.com/s/p8x9c7hkp6180lf/2022-01-22%20BBC_Bookmarks.jpg?dl=0 -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

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

2021-03-12 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
no longer knows well. I would not expect most of these people ever to ring me, and by the same token I am not going to ring 120 people, who're now spread all across the world. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Google Translate stopped working

2021-03-14 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
and google translate seems to work fine. (That's with FF 86.0.1.) -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Multichannel audio playback (was: Multichannel audio listening)

2021-04-27 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
inputs to positions on a stereo image must be something done by mixing software on a PC. That makes the buttons that refer to stereo/mono more confusing, as the box itself has no concept of stereo. Does it follow that the box sends 4 inputs to a PC, and the PC might send back either/both copies of those 4 inputs and a mixed stereo image? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Piano live recording (was: Live recording)

2021-05-04 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
a mono/stereo choice. Stereo (or multi-channel) mics in a single body may also offer control over the "width" of the stereo image, or even (eg for Soundfield mics) the ability to adjust the array of capsules so they appear to tilt/point in different directions. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: examples for man pages

2021-05-29 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
r an longer, but much more educational read, try https://everything.curl.dev/ which was written by curl's author. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Help: explanation of secure flash?

2021-07-06 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
your machine's BIOS, who knows? In my experience BIOS options normally have very terse names and the "help" text is only marginally more useful. But you should be able to google on the option name and the BIOS supplier's name and the BIOS version to find out more. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Which Program does WebKitWebProcess belong to

2022-05-27 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
interface, I think. I'm fairly sure I've seen this on Windows machine, not sure about Linux. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Windows on VMware on Deb 11: safely usable?

2022-08-18 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
r "Enterprise" versions of the OS. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Question: SSD speed

2020-10-07 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
y, do any SSDs compress data before sending it across the SATA channel? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Question: SSD speed

2020-10-07 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
connections, to allow for protocol overhead. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Question: SSD speed

2020-10-07 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
c, No, that's 1.5 giga BITS pr second... so about 150 megabytes/sec. > does this mean, > that the sata controller is not capable to higher transferrates or does it > possibly mean, that my configuration is wrong? You need to find out what your hardware is capable of. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Replacement Email Client

2020-10-25 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
om whatever would have worked inside an email client, so that they browser can pick up the images in the folder. By "logging-in", I guess the OP is referring to using a webmail system where the webmail server presents an integrated view of the html page and the unpacked embedded attached i

Re: Replacement Email Client

2020-10-26 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
oints to a php file which is part of the website concerned. But the point that Greg is making (I assume) is that if you view an html file that was part of an email, in a browser, that "/action_page" will not point anywhere sensible unless it contains a full URL. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Replacement Email Client

2020-10-27 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
riginal one with just once set of contents). Some email clients also don't assign separate names to the attachments, so when they get written out the MUA has to invent a name sequence (and of course modify the html accordingly). -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Replacement Email Client

2020-10-28 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
attachments in an email and assign sensible names and content types to them. Then when that was saved the client's normal export/detach options could be used to process the files. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: "humor": "first bug?" (bug in my (backlit thin screen) computer monitor)

2020-11-21 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
in a sheet of paper perhaps) off to the edge? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Hijacking Threads [was: Re: rsync link corruption with -H and --link-dest]

2020-11-23 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
es as "ML - list name" so typing just ML in the TO field gives me a picking list of valid values. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: swamp rat bots Q

2020-12-04 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
nd ask questions there? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory

2019-07-06 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
19 21 If you don't know beforehand whether you're aiming for two-digit or three- or four-digit numbers an alternative is to number your files from eg 1 so they get names 10001 10002 10003 .. 10021 -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Email based attack on University

2019-10-02 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
he university deems appropriate for their PCs? Or... do all their staff use a mish-mash of personal devices, and those don't have to have any anti-malware apps on them? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Strange LAN IP Address.

2018-07-03 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
st of these combined things that I received came with only very basic instructions that did not mention the way to do this - it was Virgin's own technical support people who told me how to do it.Subsequent improved models have come with instructions that mentioned the possibility. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Car Audio USB Jacks

2018-07-27 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
could add at any time a new format so even if lossy compression wasn't allowed now (though it is, you can have mp3 data in .wav files) that doesn't mean it can't happen in future. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements

2018-10-23 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
subscriber on several mail lists hosted by them, for years, and the service does seem solid. As far as I know they do not offer any sort of web- based interface for subscribers (the login option on their website is - last time I looked, anyway - for the administrator(s) of specific lists. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Output lagging from terminal

2018-10-28 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
t regular. How much variation? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Recommended SSDs and 4-bay internal dock

2023-01-11 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
does one need (say) to read every file on the drive once, so that the SSD controller can assess whether any data needs to be moved? Or does one need to read every byte, allocated or not? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Periodic refresh (or rwrite?) of data on an SSD (was: Re: Recommended SSDs and 4-bay internal dock)

2023-01-14 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
backups start to go bad.) I'm not sure that that was clear. What I mean is that if I intended to keep a backup of a driveful of data, I might choose to have, say, this week's copy, last week's, and the week before. So apart from the original disk I'd have 3 other backup drives. Then for each of those there'd be two other drives in use, so 9 in all... -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Periodic refresh (or rwrite?) of data on an SSD (was: Re: Recommended SSDs and 4-bay internal dock)

2023-01-14 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
stability of spinning rust is certainly becoming a lot more important to me. But I already plan to store future backups on both types of disk. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: librecad

2018-12-06 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
e of timber is, or what the spacing between regular items should be. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: librecad

2018-12-08 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
ich saw them all as the same thing - an instance of the script language's interpreter being run. The script is written in ooREXX; anyone who wants it can have a copy. I expect somethig similar could be written in loads of other langages, but it's the one I know best. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: automating reactions to file system changes

2018-12-08 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
cient, I might have looked for a better method, but the overhead of doing it the way I did was negligible. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: librecad

2018-12-08 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Sun, 9 Dec 2018, at 01:47, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 08 December 2018 17:53:01 Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > [...] > > The pid was there so that when writing and testing the script > > I could tell which was which in taskmanager, which saw them > > all as the same th

Re: cups "Filter failed" | filter rastertopdf stops with status 1 | local printing works; remote printing not

2019-01-28 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
distro. And I didn't ned to be a sophisticated Googler; I provided just one word (I think you can guess what it was) as the search argument. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting

2019-03-22 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
amount of data you might lose is reduced. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
processing, I suppose, but it isn't seek time. Also, I wonder how you can say that that delay is a microsecond long? Which manuafacturer, which product, what level of firmware? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

2019-10-18 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
e's more than one way to do it". That's part of > the reason Perl's considered (by some) a write only language -- you > can't understand what you wrote last week. Perl is a whole lot more readable than APL. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

2019-10-18 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
e, which didn't precisely match what they saw in the text editor. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: How to download email messages from Yahoo Groups in Debian?

2019-10-27 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
are and how to find > them among other cookies. Maybe their names are "T" and "Y"? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: sed question

2019-12-07 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
ommand in hex terms, so eg instead of this = "first string" that = "new value" "c /"this"/"that"/" I've had thishex = c2x(this) ie: "666972737420737472696E67" thathex = c2x(that) ie: "6E65772076616C7565" "c /&x'"thishex"'/&x'"thathex"'/" which is to say "c /&x'666972737420737472696E67'/&x'6E65772076616C7565'/" -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Pluma's syntax highlighting

2020-01-13 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
fferent one. That apart, it would help enormously if you posted a screenshot of what you're seeing, and some explanation of why you think the colouring is wrong. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Pluma's syntax highlighting

2020-01-13 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Mon, 13 Jan 2020, at 13:03, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 01/13/2020 06:13 AM, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2020, at 11:52, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >> I was looking for a description of what Pluma was trying to accomplish > >> by their highlighting

Re: Progress {of a sort} - was [Re: Pluma's syntax highlighting]

2020-01-13 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Mon, 13 Jan 2020, at 16:01, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 01/13/2020 07:57 AM, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > > [ *MASSIVE* snip ] Fuck off. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: local network capability scanner?

2020-02-07 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
arly 20 times the "slow" data rate you mentioned in your original question. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: FOSS friendly PDA?

2020-02-11 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
iasts only" territory. > It must use a standard Linux (Debian preferred). Why? Surely all you need is a decent text editor, and a file manager. > The manufacturer should ship with the Linux installed. > Android is *UNACCEPTABLE*! Why? If you only use the machine to write data to

Re: FOSS friendly PDA?

2020-02-12 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showforum=194 Also see: https://support.planetcom.co.uk/index.php/Linux_Flashing_Guide https://support.planetcom.co.uk/index.php/Debian_Notes -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: [trinity-users] Re: Strange clicking noise from my laptop hard drive

2017-05-19 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Fri, 19 May 2017, at 14:24, Philip Ashmore wrote: > I got a new hard disk. > I still get the same clicking Could it be the laptop's fan? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Seeing this, is it something I have done or?

2017-05-27 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
hments. See what's written in this bug report, but beware that the discussion at the start is about something else (or at least about behaviour that seemed to be something else): http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3824 -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: How to set ISO date/time with en_US.utf8 as system default?

2017-05-27 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
t; multiplication). In the U.S. and G.B. an X was used for multiplication > symbol so they continued on using a dot for decimal (as it should be). But mathematics also used dot and x to refer to concepts named dot-product and cross-product. In other words, what's acceptable/normal depe

Re: Live recording

2017-07-28 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
ranged in what's called an 'X-Y' or 'crossed-pair' configuration. You can google these terms. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Live recording

2017-07-29 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
g on - can sound very peculiar. A spot mic on a singer can let you - say - add just a little of their voice in a fixed (eg just to the left or right of centre) part of the stereo image. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Live recording

2017-07-29 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
one) basically a stereo pair slung over the first few rows of the downstairs audience. Sometimes I think they may have used a M&S mic. It could be that use of a slung pair is partly so that a standard way of micing the hall works for all the concerts given there over several weeks. -- Jeremy

Re: Live recording

2017-08-01 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
so destroy a mic by plugging it into a socket on a mixer while the phantom power is on; you need to make sure that phantom is only turned on after all the cables are connected. And turn phantom off again before unplugging any powered mics. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Live recording

2017-08-02 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Wed, 2 Aug 2017, at 08:07, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Jeremy Nicoll writes: > > If you do that you'll be recording at most 2 channels, > > > Mmmhhh... this is not clear to me. Why only two...? Suppose the mixer > has 3 > channels, can't I plug three mics

Re: Live recording

2017-08-03 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
unit, record more than one channel at once. Their labelling or artwork on them normally makes it clear that they have L and R (or more than that) inputs. What makes and models are your mics? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Live recording

2017-08-03 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
? On 'professional' equipment it gets a bit more complicated when three connections are used for a single audio channel, being the +ve half of a waveform, the -ve half, and ground. (These are known as 'balanced' connections, and typically use either XLR plugs & sockets o

Re: Live recording

2017-08-04 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
-body mics with multiple capsules, eg this: http://www.soundfield.com/ (four capsules; this mic gets plugged into a controller box and - if you buy the most expensive version you can adjust the width, depth & even height (for surround sound) of stereo image produced from it. It is VERY expensive - many th

Re: Live recording

2017-08-05 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
them to the floor then raise them again ... needing several people to do that and walkie-talkies to communicate). These are the sorts of mics you often see high up in the space in a concert hall auditorium. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Help with USB audio card

2017-08-07 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Mon, 7 Aug 2017, at 13:15, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi all. > > I just bought an external USB audio card. Which one? Where can we see a description of its capabilities? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Live recording

2017-08-07 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Sun, 6 Aug 2017, at 21:09, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > M... Otherwise I'll have to buy a mixer. > > Rodolfo If you can capture multiple channels' audio and have them in separate files on your computer then you can mix them using sox. You don't have to have a phy

Re: [solved] Re: Live recording

2017-08-07 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
> to do things more professionally. Now, they're just home made records... The single best reason for using a multi-channel (ie not just a stereo) audio interface is simplicity. All the channels will be in-sync with each other and all the audio signals can be captured on a single comput

Re: Live recording

2017-08-08 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
. There's a more recent version of that these days... A box like that is aimed at people used to using professional audio equipment. There will be lower-spec interfaces around too, but you obviously need to find one that's known to work with linux. You also probably don't w

Re: [solved] Re: Live recording

2017-08-17 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
a GUI as in Audacity is a great deal more difficult. It's worth documenting what you do so that if necessary you can exactly repeat the process at a later date. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: [solved] Re: Live recording

2017-08-17 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Thu, 17 Aug 2017, at 08:57, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Jeremy Nicoll writes: > > You do realise that merging files, adjusting balance etc are all possible > > with sox? > > > > One reason I do that sort of thing with sox is that by keeping note of the > > co

Re: domain names, was: hostname

2018-02-19 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
, on a home LAN, is that used for? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: domain names, was: hostname

2018-02-20 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
Thanks to everyone who replied, not just Dan... So... On Mon, 19 Feb 2018, at 13:30, Dan Purgert wrote: > Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > > What, on a home LAN, is that used for? > > In general terms, supplying domain information at setup time adds a > "helper" record to /

Re: domain names, was: hostname

2018-02-20 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, at 19:42, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 07:36:49PM +0000, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > > Do you mean when someone outside the LAN is trying to connect to my > > machine? > > No. It's for when you try to look up a hostname without a do

Re: WTF does Firefox 58?

2018-03-04 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
be better-off asking at: mozilla-support-fire...@lists.mozilla.org -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Multichannel audio listening (was: Live recording)

2018-03-05 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
you'll need to tell whatever software controls that hardware where to take audio-data from. Maybe 'sox' can direct audio to multiple channels, but I think you will need to tell sox which hardware devices to use. The section of the sox manual, page 3, "Playing & Recording Audio

Re: can someone tell me how to make FF fill out, or type into a form, and submit it?

2018-03-05 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
dows, though I invented mainy random garbage to fill the fields. When I clicked the button at the foot of the page there was a "revolving cursor" for maybe a couple of seconds, then the next page showed up with a template letter . -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Multichannel audio listening

2018-03-05 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
io" might help. You'll need to adapt the definition of the output device to whatever your hardware requires. That is, I expect that setting AUDIODEV will be the answer, but I can't say HOW you would set it. You'd need to look at the manual for your specific hardware, I think. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Multichannel audio listening

2018-03-07 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
und.I'd suggest you read all the reviews on Amazon and other sellers - it's when people mention the things they don't like about some unit that you'll learn more than when they talk about things that just work. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Multichannel audio listening

2018-03-08 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
n. So if you were connecting the four channel outputs to domestic audio/hifi equipment you'd use the RCA phono jacks (the white and red ones) and if you were connecting it to studio equipment that could handle/expected balanced connections you'd use the TLS jacks (black sockets). -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Multichannel audio listening

2018-03-08 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
s. In a theatre or concert hall there might be several places that some sounds have to be sent to, apart from an overall stereo recording. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Multichannel audio listening

2018-03-08 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
uot;rec.audio.pro", though asking there would be more an appeal to people who might know of such machines rather than a pro-audio question. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Delay at boot - network

2016-05-25 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
> bugreports is described. When you get this delay, what's in the scrolling messages in the last few lines before the delay itself? Are they (on your various machines) always the same sorts of lines? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: curl and form submission

2016-06-07 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
whether there's code to run for form submit, even if validation has been ok. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: curl and form submission

2016-06-08 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
s - useful for diagnosing problems in the whole process - and they also contain eg redirection instructions, if the server wants you to make another request for a different page. if you don't have the headers file for your script to read and check it can be really difficult to make this sort

Re: Which driver for RealTek RTL8168 ethernet interface card? [SOLVED]

2017-01-15 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
gt; firmware should that ever be necessary in the > future? [Or have I got it wrong again??] I doubt it's persistent. The error message you saw seemed to be from a post-boot command, presumably executed every time you reboot, that loads the optional firmware into the chipset.

Re: Repository Problem

2016-04-15 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
ar I'm getting the impression that Debian users & I would see eye-to-eye about a lot of things... Anyway...If you don't mind me asking, what sort of catastrophe was this? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Script doesn't work when it is run using '#!/bin/sh'

2016-04-16 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Sat, 16 Apr 2016, at 16:33, Gene Heskett wrote: > And I still miss ARexx. > Even bash cannot do the intimate to the os things that ARexx could do. Have you considered using Regina REXX or ooREXX instead? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Repository Problem

2016-04-16 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
been wrong. Didn't someone further up this thread point out a very subtle difference between the URLs you were using and the ones you should have been using? I have a feeling you didn't get the subtlety. OTOH if those wrong URLs were installed by Debian itself, I agree that that is a problem in itself. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from if useing dash.

2016-04-17 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
ted to > /dev/null -- leaving the error output still going to the original > standard output (terminal). Why is the "2>&1" part needed? Wouldn't stderr go to the terminal by default? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from if useing dash.

2016-04-17 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Sun, 17 Apr 2016, at 12:46, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > > Why is the "2>&1" part needed? Wouldn't stderr go to the terminal by > > default. > > Goal is to redirect both to /dev/null. > > So these would do: > >

Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from if useing dash.

2016-04-17 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Sun, 17 Apr 2016, at 14:28, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Let's assume a subordinate script ... Thank-you! That's devious. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Raspberry Pi Jessie has Broken Cron/at

2017-09-19 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
ore this functionality? I've no idea, but the obvious question is: is this because 'Jessie lite' clearly doesn't have all the features of a full OS? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Password managers [WAS: Re: when do I get a browsere that will do internet purchases?]

2017-10-20 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
re imho, and especially with the package > xul-ext-pwdhash. But haven't Mozilla, just phased-out xul support in Firefox, requiring extensions to be written using the 'web-extensions' API? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Filter logcheck reboot messages?

2017-12-09 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
ere for years. On the other hand, there's a tiny amount of activity shown at its git repo. (I'm not a Debian - or any form of linux - user yet, just lurking and trying to get a better feel for it.) -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Image handling in mutt

2023-12-11 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
a place where that would be expected, then you can infer that it does do; you wouldn't find plain text notes, sample data etc alongside the executables (because other characteristics of those file sets allow them only to hold executables). You cannot tell from a file's name whether it'

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-20 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
a landing paratrooper) which damages it less than traditionally shaped rodents). As a side issue, the vertical form-factor - once I got used to it - has proved more comfortable for use when sitting up in bed, using the mouse approx half-way between my bum & knee, either on top of or undernea

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-22 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
mini lights (plugged into a spare USB socket) but many such lights come with poor quality clips &/ cables that are too short to reach the USB socket of choice (or indeed any USB socket). -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: VAX emulation/simulation (was Re: systemd-timesyncd)

2024-01-08 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
o the successive generation structure. Back in the 1990s when I last used these there could be up to 255 or so files in each GDG. That limit might have increased since then. Ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.2.0?topic=files-processing-generation-data-groups -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

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