Re: Some myths regarding apt pinning

2003-01-24 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 02:59:17PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: Every user of testing knows that he must read debian-security-announce and if needed install fixes from unstable since it can take an arbitrary amount of time until security fixes from unstable enter testing (most This is insufficient,

Re: Which printer do you recommend?

1998-08-01 Thread Michael Stone
he consumables are a _lot_ less expensive, the printouts look better, and they come out faster. I've had a laserjet 4l for four years, and it's never given me any trouble. If you care to spend the money, a postscript printer is ideal for unix, but you can get by with ghostscript as long a

Re: 256MB RAM systems can need 1GB swap... Re: Partitioning....

1998-08-13 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Liran Zvibel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 2. Putting the swap in several different disks does make the access time > faster, but this is not the issue of RAID. RAIDs are good for their > ability to continue working even though one of the disks is not working > anymore (the RAID3 keeps an extra di

Re: WARNING : libc6 Version: 2.0.7t-1 breaks resolv routines

1998-08-14 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Robert J. Alexander ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > The debugging I and a friend in IBM have been doing seem to pinpoint the > resolver problems I had to the release of libc6 we just both upgraded > to: > Version: 2.0.7t-1 > > with this installed even if your /etc/nsswitch.conf and your > /host.con

Re: WARNING : libc6 Version: 2.0.7t-1 breaks resolv routines

1998-08-15 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Robert J. Alexander ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > If you do a "strace 127.0.0.1" you will see that the host command > command used in this way WILL take a look to your /etc/nsswitch.conf > file and if the latter has a hosts: files,dns line in it, will open > your /etc/hosts file, read from it and

Re: Segmentation fault with SO3.1

1998-08-15 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting jc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I have installed libc5 in /lib and I have the environment variable > 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH' pointing to /lib:/usr/lib You shouldn't need an LD_LIBRARY_PATH at all (ever, actually, unless you install some libraries in a very oddball place.) You could try using the

Re: HOWTO packages

1998-08-16 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Jor-el ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Are the HOWTO's available in Hamm as a debian package? doc-linux-text | doc-linux-html Mike Stone

Re: PPPstats in Debian 2.0

1998-08-16 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Sergey Imennov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > However, there is one thing that I don't like about > the distribution ( actually, it's kernel... ) -- > pppstats. > > - No totals every 20th line Mine's giving me totals. Maybe your terminal type is set up wrong?

Re: Cheapbytes installed : now some questions

1998-08-16 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Jor-el ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I located the netscape package on the 'extras' cd which came with the > Cheapbyte distro. I tried installing it, but it gave me some dependency > problems. The package required the following packages to be installed : > > - libc5 > - libg++27 > - xlib6

Re: How to automagically indent all in PSGML-HTML mode?

1998-08-17 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Paul Reavis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > So, when you press on a line in [x]emacs' PSGML/HTML mode, it > indents that line correctly. But how can I indent all the lines > correctly at once (the equivalent of control-c control-q in cc-mode)? How 'bout (in xemacs): M-x mark-whole-buffer M-x i

Re: Big-endian/little-endian (WAS: Re: can I burn the output of mpg123 -s?)

1998-08-18 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Stephen J. Carpenter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > The authors concern was that on a big endian system network order and > byte order are the same so hton* and ntoh* do nothingso how do you > do the swapps... > I suggested a union first (like below) but...whats the "proper" way of > doing it?

Re: Big-endian/little-endian (WAS: Re: can I burn the output of mpg123 -s?)

1998-08-18 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Stephen J. Carpenter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 10:34:39AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > The solution is to always run hton before putting stuff on the wire and > > running ntoh when pulling stuff back. That way you can be sure that the > >

Re: apt & dists/stable-upgrades DOESN'T WORK

1998-08-25 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Ruud Janssen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > This doesn't seem to work for me. This is my /etc/apt/sources.list: > > deb ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Debian/dists/ stable-updates/ > deb ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Debian stable main contrib > non-us Try "deb http://llug.sep.bnl.

Re: Netscape xpm-problems solved.. next problem :-)

1998-08-25 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Kris Van Hulle ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I see. Indeed, I get the right colors in 32 bpp mode. Unfortunately, my > card/monitor doesn't seem able to handle 1024*768 in 32 bpp mode. > And I'm certainly not gonna work in 800*600 mode. > > So, any other options ? Try 16bpp? Mike Stone

Re: apt & dists/stable-upgrades DOESN'T WORK

1998-08-26 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Michael Stone wrote: > > Try "deb http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian dists/stable-updates/" > > shouldn't it be "deb http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian stable-updates/" ??? Logically, yes. Ask the

Re: apt and multi-CD distributions

1998-08-26 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Christian Lynbech ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Is there a way to install via apt from multiple CD's, but from a > single drive? > > And how about mounting the CD. With dselects CDROM method, dselect > will take cae of the necessary mounting and unmounting, whereas I have > sofar done this by han

Re: file-rc vs. sysV init (was: enabling bootpc at startup)

1998-08-26 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting the lone gunman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Why is file-rc not the default, just out of curiosity. I found it > much more intuitive, and a bit easier and faster to maintain. The > default sysV init scripts took me a bit longer to figure out. First, the sysV mechanism is more common (e.g., red

CONSOLE_GROUPS and xdm

1998-08-27 Thread Michael Stone
Am I correct in concluding that xdm doesn't honor CONSOLE_GROUPS in login.defs? Is there a way to acheive the same effect? (Specfically, I want people to be able to play sound clips when they're sitting at the console, but not when they're telnetted in.) Mike Stone

Re: monitor stand-by mode

1998-08-29 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Lazar Fleysher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Could someone tell me how to tell Linux to switch the monitor in > stand-by/power-off mode after some idle period? Take a look at xset. Mine is: xset +dpms dpms 600 900 1200 s noblank I have mine in my .xsession. I also seem to remember a program t

Re: xdm + /etc/login.defs == ???

1998-09-22 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Shaleh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > May be an easier way but how about making an XDM group? Put the > users in that. Then let group xdm be a member of floppy. ? What do you mean by XDM group? Mike Stone

Re: xdm + /etc/login.defs == ???

1998-09-22 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I mean in /etc/groups add a group "xdm". List all users that use xdm in it. > Then add this new group xdm to the floppy line. That wouldn't work. I think what he's looking for is a way to put people into the group when they're logged in at the cons

Re: encrypted passwords with pop3/imap/...?

1998-09-28 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Ulisses Alonso Camaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I would like to know if there are enhanced pop/imap servers that > provide a way to authentificate login/passwords encrypted so sniffers > can't get it... if this does exist... what clients does support it? > (for windows and unix) qpopper suppo

Re: rvplayer works only as root

1998-09-28 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Richard E. Hawkins Esq. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > the permissions on /dev/dsp may not be right. try [snip] > should be > > 0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 14, 3 Sep 18 19:11 /dev/dsp Umm, no, they should be 660 root.audio. On a single user system, it might not matter (much), but

Re: Y2K+38 disaster in debian?

1998-09-30 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Philip Thiem ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Why would 32-bit apps be limited to 32 bit integers?? Didn't we have 32 > bit avallible to us on the 286?? If not, I'm certain we were able to > get around it then. Also if any one wants to make use of MMX registers > there is even a 64-bit ASM MOV com

Re: Y2K+38 disaster in debian?

1998-09-30 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Stephen J. Carpenter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 11:01:22AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > 2) 64 bit math is _very_ slow on a 32 bit machine. Since time_t is used > > all over the place (e.g., the filesystem) you'd seriously slow things > >

hamm and large drives

1998-10-02 Thread Michael Stone
Has anyone had problems using large hard ide hard drives with hamm? I was getting errors (EXT2-fs warning: ext2_free_(blocks|inode): bit already cleared) on a 8G ide drive, followed by an EXT2-fs panic: load_block_bitmap. I then put in a new 6.4G ide disk. The second disk died spectacularly with a

Re: Top doesnt work on a terminal

1998-06-15 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I am trying to use top on an old wyse terminal, but it will not display > the processes below the column header. Also, when quitting, the prompt > appears in the middle of the system info at the top of the screen, and > when using commands such as "u",

Re: LOST /dev/zero file. HELP!!!

1998-07-17 Thread Michael Stone
ur /dev tree. I'll wait on the answer to /dev/MAKEDEV before running through instructions for the rescue floppy. -- Michael Stone, Sysadmin, ITRI PGP: key 1024/76556F95 from mit keyserver, [EMAIL PROTECTED]finger, or email with "Subject: get pgp key" -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Mouse movement weirdness with latest X packages

1998-07-21 Thread Michael Stone
is. (Nor does it understand rxvt, vt102, etc.) Solaris understands "dtterm" (it should) but is lost when it comes to iris-ansi (or rxvt). Unless you're using plain old ordinary xterm, you're generally going to need to migrate a terminfo when you go to another platform. -- M

Re: emacs (in color mode)

1998-07-22 Thread Michael Stone
re was a way to colorize stuff in the console... xemacs... -- Michael Stone, Sysadmin, ITRI PGP: key 1024/76556F95 from mit keyserver, [EMAIL PROTECTED]finger, or email with "Subject: get pgp key" -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: transferring to sendmail 8.9 while still using hamm

1998-12-11 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Chris Evans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I want to move my sendmail on my two working machines up to 8.9 > for the improved and built-in antispamming facilities there. > > That looks as if it will require a move to a more recent libc6, > netbase and libdb (and I haven't yet worked out what the

Re: transferring to sendmail 8.9 while still using hamm

1998-12-11 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Peter S Galbraith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Michael Stone wrote: > > You will need from slink: (newer versions okay if > > available) > > ldso 1.9.9-5 (libc6 depends on it) > > I don't think so: You're right. I don't k

Re: QUantifiable reasons to use debian instead of redhat...?

1998-12-16 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Joe Emenaker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Now, being on the bleeding edge has its drawbacks. My co-workers sometimes > get on my case for always upgrading to the latest stuff in "unstable". > However, I prefer the occasional broken install to an outright security > hole. I *can* say this sinc

Re: Netscape 4.08 vs. 4.5?

1999-01-10 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Paul Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > As far as I can tell, 4.08 is the latest Netscape Navigator version, 4.5 > if the latest Netscape Communicator version. Communicator comes with > Navigator, Composer, Messenger, and possibly other little tidbits. I'm running navigator 4.5, not communicato

Re: [off topic] A pause in C?

1998-10-07 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I am after a way to generate a pause of 300ns in a C program I am working > on. At the moment, I am using a for loop of about 70 iterations.. > works okay, but on a faster system it will die.. (needed to slow down I/O > with an interface card) man

Re: standard ML

1998-10-07 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Kenneth F. Ryder III ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I am a computer science student, and will be using standard ML in the near > future for a few projects. I have noticed the ocaml 1.05-2 package at > debian.org I have read the description, it seems that it is not exactly > the same as SML. Is th

Re: How can I see which host a user is logged in from?

1998-10-07 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Tomas Petersson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > How can I see which host a user is logged in from? > If I use finger, the hostname gets truncated. last -ad | less Mike Stone

I need a the package

1998-10-09 Thread Michael Stone
. - Best Regard Michael Stone Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: turnkey debian?

1998-10-09 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Kenneth Scharf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I had this idea of basing a turnkey end user system on debian linux. > In order to pull this off, a login prompt is NOT WANTED. I want the > system to come up running the end application. (some backdoor method > of logging in as root would be provide

Re: Samba Questions

1998-10-10 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Chris Hoover ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > as a vfat drive. Can samba serve the drive > to win95 if it is an ext2 partition? Also are there any limitations or > problems doing this (i.e. read only)? Samba expects your drive to be ext2 rather than vfat. Mike Stone

Re: ncurses segmentation fault

1998-10-12 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting M.C. Vernon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Do you not need to include stdio.h for getch? man getch. It's an ncurses function, not a std library function. Mike Stone

Re: ncurses segmentation fault

1998-10-12 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Ingo Brueckl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: ncurses3.4 > Version: 1.9.9g-8.8 > > The following program, compiled with egcs 1.0.3, causes a segmentation > fault at the mvwinch statement: Looks like an ncurses bug. Works fine with the libncurses4-dev package from slink. Mike Stone

Re: Hiding a Linux computer

1998-10-15 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Hogland, Thomas E. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > =Someone takes an IP no problem > =DHCP server gives out that IP...and the unsuspecting user gets an IP > =adress conflict. > = > =They call the helpdesk...helpdesk calls net eng... that adress is > =taken out of the DHCP pool and put on the exc

Re: FYI: DMA/33 and kernels

1998-10-18 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 01:11:25PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > > In my case, no, it is definately a problem with the linux ide driver and > > how it handles UDMA drives. I have seen exactly the same problem on two > > different systems with two dif

Re: Removing ^M in files--in bulk?

1998-10-21 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > All of them have this control character (^M) at the end of each line, as > seen in vi (which I know v. little about except very basic I/O). These need > to be removed before the files can be compiled. perl -pi -e 's/\r//' *.txt (or *.whatever)

Re: SNMPD - MRTG- PPP stats iregularity

1998-10-23 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've got SNMPD installed on my system so I can monitor, for the moment, > bandwidth usage on eth0 and ppp0. The problem I'm having is that the > incoming and outgoing usages do *NOT* show any divergance. If you want to > see what I mean, take a look a

Re: problem in kernel building: as86

1998-10-25 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Jinsong Zhao ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm building the kernel 2.0.35 for SB AWE card. When I run "make > zImage", it ends with "as86 not found". I link as86 to /usr/bin/as, > then it complains about the "unrecognized option -O". > > Which package should I install to get as86? bin86 Mike St

Re: DayLight Saving - in Australia

1998-10-27 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Hamish Moffatt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 07:53:00PM +0100, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > > Linux will not change the clock at all (contrary to Windows). All > > Linux does is to interpret the time in a different way. > [...] > > If the CMOS clock is set to local time Linux

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-10-28 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Darxus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Any chance I can split this thing into like, 2 pieces, and be able to > access half of it ? First half--no problem; second half--no go. Did you try

Re: PostScript <-> Acrobat

1998-10-28 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Nuno Carvalho ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Is there any package which convert postscript format for acrobat !? gs-alladin will do it, and contains a ps2pdf script to automate the process. Mike Stone

Re: XEmacs C/Java mode configuration

1998-11-02 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Thomas Apel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > BTW, how can I indent a selected area? Is there something like block > indent? M-x indent-region Mike Stone

Re: netdate

1998-11-03 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I use netdate to sync my machine's clock to several other clocks. > However, netdate does not change the BIOS clock along with the system clock > so each time my machine is rebooted (which is often right now, nasty memory > leak somewhere) the clock is

Re: how to install slink netscape?

1998-11-03 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Eric ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > seemed to go fine and I was very pleased. I went under the assumption > that the actual netscape binaries were now included in these packages...is > this wrong? When I tried to run netscape, it wasn't there. I don't have You also need to install either a navi

Re: How to work with dpkg --set-selections?

1998-11-20 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Joachim Trinkwitz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I have saved my current package selections with `dpkg > --get-selections' and now I thought I could use this set to configure > a new workstation. Unfortunately, there seemed already to be some > preset selections from the installation procedure, whi

Re: procmail ........ (again)

1998-11-23 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > No Debian MTA comes preconfigured to use procmail that I know of ... > sendmail certainly doesn't (though adding it is no big deal). We use Sendmail uses sensible-mda, and it calls procmail. (At least on my hamm/slink systems.) Mike Stone

Re: Sendmail and majordomo

1998-12-07 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Amanda Shuler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Can someone tell me what the alias for majordomo should be for debian? > I had it, and I've lost it. :( > I know it's in the form: > majordomo:"|/path/to/majordomo/wrapper majordomo" > > I've put in: > majordomo:"|/usr/lib/majordomo/wrapper maj

overriding dependencies

1997-06-06 Thread Michael Stone
Here's the situation: sometimes I install a package and I override the dependencies in dselect (for example, I'm running a headless server on which I wanted to run some X based monitoring apps on a remote x term; I needed the x libraries but I didn't need an x server.) It's easy to override the box

Re: rsh or ssh and rdist

1997-06-11 Thread Michael Stone
ion, etc.) -- ___ _ / \ / ___/ Michael Stone, Sysadmin, ITRI / / / /_\__\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /__/__/__/// PGP: finger or email with "Subject: get pgp key" -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: web documentation

1997-06-11 Thread Michael Stone
me kind of dedicated engine. The possibilities for accidents are too great if you run the scripts directly from lynx. -- ___ _____ / \ / ___/ Michael Stone, Sysadmin, ITRI / / / /_\__\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /__/__/__/// PGP: finger or email with "Subject: get pgp key&q

Re: samba/wins

1997-08-13 Thread Michael Stone
l the smbd and nmbd after you changed the names? Also, I thought that the shared memory stuff was introduced with the .17alphas (I'm going from memory, so that may not be right.) If that's the case, and you think you are running .16p11, you might see if you have a version conflict. --

Re: high characters in file names change in new potato vs. current slink

2000-08-11 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 01:04:06PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can someone tell me what I need to do to fix the following problem? > > ls --show-control-chars Actually, that's not the best choice. You should be able to see the characters if you have a

Re: more questions about LFS

2001-11-20 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 02:48:52PM +0100, Emil Pedersen wrote: > I'm still some things that confuses me when putting lsf support on a > potato system. A accept that you have to (re)compile your program > against the new libc in order to use files larger than 2GB. But.. Trying to add lfs to potat

Re: more questions about LFS

2001-11-20 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:41:08PM +0100, Emil Pedersen wrote: > Running "apt-get dist-upgrade"? Would that realy change/benefit much if > there's only one application (the database engine) that needs lsf > support? Since it's a server that preferably should be up 24/7 I want > to stick to the mo

Re: more questions about LFS

2001-11-20 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 02:25:58PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > Provided you compile with -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 And provided that the source code *always* uses off_t properly, and never tries to go from off_t to int. There's a *lot* of bad code out there, and it can

Re: more questions about LFS

2001-11-20 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 05:23:02PM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In his case it is find, which is listing the large files in the DB Spool. He > can eighter exclude the parent dir, or upgrade at least fileutils. or findutils even. :) -- Mike Stone

Re: ifupdown lost at upgrade time to bullseye

2021-08-31 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 03:56:09PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: Harald Dunkel wrote: how comes ifupdown is dropped at upgrade time to bullseye, leaving the (headless) system without network connection while the upgrade is not completed yet, and breaking network on the next reboot? This has not y

Re: How to format with stride/stripe_width options during install

2021-09-09 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 11:07:06PM -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote: Installing Debian 11 with netinst CD on a server with hardware raid. Installer has no custom format parameters option for ext4, like stride and stripe_width. How does one format the raid partitions with these options during OS ins

Re: write only storage.

2021-09-21 Thread Michael Stone
Well, chattr -i turns that off On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 04:29:07PM +, Toni Mas Soler wrote: I use to backup my iPhone's photo library using a stfp connection (all in the same directory in my PC). Thus, I can chattr +i the only directory needed and nobody can remove. I cannot understand why

Re: write only storage.

2021-09-21 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 06:37:41PM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: A ransomware attack that exploits a zero day ssh vulnerability for example wouldn't be a complete disaster - this is only home usage - but it seems fairly trivial to create a 'worm' usb device using a pi. I haven't tested yet but with a

Re: Privacy and defamation of character on Debian public forums

2021-09-26 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 07:51:18PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Ahh, looking harder, apparently means: For Avoidance Of Doubt (chiefly British) It certainly clarified things. :-D

Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

2022-01-03 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 08:42:29AM -0300, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote: Indeed I use such high compression to prolong SSD lifetime. This is probably misguided and useless at best, at worst you're causing additional writes because compressed data is generally hard to modify in place without r

Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

2022-01-03 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 10:33:59AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: Michael Stone wrote: On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 08:42:29AM -0300, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote: > Indeed I use such high compression to prolong SSD lifetime. This is probably misguided and useless at best, at worst you're

Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

2022-01-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 08:51:59PM -0300, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote: But doesn't Btrfs compression work with small blocks? https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Compression#Are_there_speed_penalties_when_doing_random_access_to_a_compressed_file.3F Relatively small, which makes it fairly

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com

2022-01-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 01:09:06AM +0100, local10 wrote: Jan 3, 2022, 23:08 by d...@randomstring.org: Alright. Put this into your /etc/hosts temporarily: [...] OK, I understand now what the problem was. Quite a while ago I added a line into the /etc/hosts to fix a temp DNS issue and completel

Re: brltty=huge distraction for folks that don't need it.

2022-01-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 08:52:00AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, January 04, 2022 05:20:34 AM Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: gene heskett wrote on 03/01/2022 at 02:24:53+0100: > The first time I tried to remove brltty, the removal cascaded all the > way up thru all of gnome and xorg

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com

2022-01-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 10:34:48AM -0800, James H. H. Lampert wrote: On 1/4/22 10:19 AM, Michael Stone wrote: And this is why putting stuff into /etc/hosts is basically never the right answer. :) Au contraire! Among other things, the host table is the best possible place to block access to

Re: [EVEN MORE OFFTOPIC] Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

2021-03-15 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 12:53:46PM +, Joe wrote: On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:34:42 +0100 Sven Hartge wrote: Imagine a PC with 4GB adressable memory space in 1980. I can. It would have cost as much as a mainframe to make full use of it. More. Memory was often the largest line item back then,

Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

2021-03-15 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 10:44:00AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: The Wanderer wrote: It caught on, and became so successful that Intel abandoned its ia64 approach and started making amd64 CPUs itself. Which was unfortunate as the x86 architecture needed to die. Moving to ia64 would have been muc

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

2021-03-15 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 11:03:59AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: From a purely technical perspective, it's hard to understand how Intel managed to pour so much energy into such an obviously bad idea. The only explanations seem all to be linked to market strategies. They just had too much easy mo

Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

2021-03-15 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 11:55:40AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Michael Stone writes: ...HP bought Compaq. Compaq bought HP and then renamed themselves HP. The name was all they really wanted, of course. That's a strange way to position it, since HP gave Compaq shareholders HP s

Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

2021-03-15 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 01:35:42PM -0400, Celejar wrote: Apparently POWER is having a bit of a resurgence lately due to its openness and non-x86ness: https://www.osnews.com/story/133093/review-blackbird-secure-desktop-a-fully-open-source-modern-power9-workstation-without-any-proprietary-code/ O

Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

2021-03-15 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 03:50:56PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: In retrospect maybe DEC and SGI should have merged and then partnered with AMD (as you note above some of DEC's processor design team indeed ended up at AMD on the Opteron project), but I think it would have taken a crapload of fores

Re: Boot better have mounted on root or /boot ?

2021-04-16 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 02:33:22PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: On Thu 08 Apr 2021 at 14:37:59 (+0200), Marco Ippolito wrote: What would you consider in your future planning regarding sizing /boot? root@asa88:/boot#

Re: Printing addresses on a #10 envelope (US)?

2021-05-11 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 11:26:01AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: This must be a tough bug to resolve as this one has been open almost 9 years: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51132 It's probably hard to find developers who use envelopes

Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?

2021-05-16 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 11:32:31PM +0300, IL Ka wrote: As noted, is there a minimum bs size for dd? It seems that you can set bs as small as 1. 512 is the default because of HDD block size which used to be 512 bytes for more than 30 years (before advanced format was invented) dd wasn't in

Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?

2021-05-16 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 01:31:49PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I'll bite ;} When is it the right tool? When you're using it to convert ebcdic to ascii, while swapping bytes and reblocking an ancient file from a barely readable archival tape. When is it not? When copying a file.

Re: how to use mtp command line?

2021-05-23 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 01:12:50AM +, Long Wind wrote: https://wiki.debian.org/mtp i have success with jmtpfs, but it's very slow i want to use mtp-tools, but can't find documentation i use twm and try gui tool gmtp, with no success Try go-mtpfs. On my system jmtpfs will transfer large fi

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

2021-05-23 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 11:50:57AM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote: I have to fall back to another viewer (usually ristretto, which I really don't like) to view these files. (Working on a file that xv likes with the Gimp is one good way to make a file it doesn't like.) I used xv, a long time ago. T

Re: pppoe performance on debian and debian as router / firewall

2021-06-05 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 08:07:56PM +0200, Antonio wrote: The problem is my ISP uses pppoe for my symmetric 1 gbps connection and I know this type of connection requires a quite performant cpu, as it is single-threaded and uses only one cpu core. That's not correct for linux kernel mode pppoe; i

Re: Wiping an unencrypted SSD in preparation for encryption

2021-06-11 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 06:19:37PM +0300, Reco wrote: Encryption costs me whopping 13 MB/s out of 385. Right now on my desktop I can read about 1.4GByte/s on an unencrypted partition and 1.3Gbyte/s on an encrypted partition. Whether that's significant is subjective.

Re: Wiping an unencrypted SSD in preparation for encryption

2021-06-11 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 11:31:07PM -0500, David Wright wrote: I'm about to install buster or bullseye on a newly acquired laptop with an SSD (a first for me). I'm intending to clean (zero or randomise) the entire drive with dd before I start, and am interested in any pitfalls with that. Do not

Re: Bullseye (mostly) not booting on Proliant DL380 G7

2021-06-29 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 11:08:09AM +0200, Claudio Kuenzler wrote: This line catches my attention: [   62.953082] systemd[1]: modprobe@drm.service: Succeeded. This is missing (doesn't show) when the freeze happens. I tend to suspect it's unrelated, but if you add "nomodeset nofb" to your boot

Re: Useful use of dd

2021-07-02 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jul 02, 2021 at 01:26:23PM +0300, Teemu Likonen wrote: * 2021-07-02 09:49:23+0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:

Re: Whole Disk Encryption + SSD

2021-07-02 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jul 02, 2021 at 10:02:18AM -0500, David Wright wrote: But what happens with an SSD? If, after the rm step above, you # fstrim /home the mountpoint, where /etc/fstab has the line /dev/mapper/luks-fedcba98-7654-3210-… LABEL1 ext4 /home then what gets zeroed If everything's appropriately

Re: Creation of empty files [was: Useful use of dd]

2021-07-03 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jul 02, 2021 at 02:30:50PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: 2021-07-02 14:24:30 dpchrist@dipsy ~/sandbox/dd $ du --bytes truncate-sparse 5242880 truncate-sparse I expected sparse files, but du(1) does not indicate such (?). You used --bytes, which per the man page implies --apparent-si

Re: Creation of empty files [was: Useful use of dd]

2021-07-03 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, Jul 03, 2021 at 02:34:56PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: On 7/3/21 6:44 AM, Michael Stone wrote: On Fri, Jul 02, 2021 at 02:30:50PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: 2021-07-02 14:24:30 dpchrist@dipsy ~/sandbox/dd $ du --bytes truncate-sparse 5242880    truncate-sparse I expected

Re: why pdf file at archive.org is so slow to open

2021-07-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Jul 04, 2021 at 05:03:26PM +0800, loushanguan2...@sina.com wrote: i've found many books at archive.org in pdf format but reading them in acrobat for linux is painful, it's slow it's fast in acrobat for android and i think it's fast in Windows adobe has stopped upgrade for linux i've tri

Re: Memory allocation failed during fsck of large EXT4 filesystem

2021-07-05 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 12:53:39PM +0300, IL Ka wrote: 7TB seems like too much for one partition imho. Consider splitting it into the parts That's silly. It's 2021; 7TB isn't particularly large and there's no value in breaking things into multiple partitions for no reason.

Re: Memory allocation failed during fsck of large EXT4 filesystem

2021-07-05 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 02:21:05PM -0700, Thomas D. Dean wrote: On 7/5/21 1:54 PM, Michael Stone wrote: On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 12:53:39PM +0300, IL Ka wrote: 7TB seems like too much for one partition imho. Consider splitting it into the parts That's silly. It's 2021; 7TB isn'

Re: Suggested way to ssh into obsolete devices (with old ssh crypto)?

2021-07-06 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 01:02:49PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: I think the first reaction should be to report it as a bug, so that the old cipher is re-added. I think the same argument in favor of including the "none" cipher should apply to including old deprecated ciphers. The old ciphers are

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