Re: transfer speed data

wer. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: transfer speed data

but then they have learned something, and the risk of ambiguousness is much much lower. Anyway, this is getting out of topic, I will probably not continue discussing this subthread. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Future of X, fvwm and wayland

would prevent the same UI design with a non-client-server API design. But obviously Wayland chose otherwise. (Which is not surprising, since Wayland comes from Freedesktop, and Freedesktop are awed by Apple's policy of restricting user choice for the good of the user.) Regards, -- Nic

Recommendation for a netbook

Hi. I'll have to retire my current netbook soon. It was a Lenovo Miix 3-1030 from 2015; it has a good screen but otherwise is complete crap, with non-standard unsupported hardware and other drawbacks. I need a ~10 inches touchscreen, and I want a good-ish resolution (≥1600). And I need it to be n

Re: Recommendation for a netbook

ely something I do not want. And I will almost certainly not buy Lenovo again. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Recommendation for a netbook

ead catalogs too. > The Pinebooks are seriously low-priced but limited.- right size but no > touchscreen but priced so that if you were to lose one you wouldn't be too > sad: > Pinebook / Pinebook Pro? Unfortunately, the touchscreen is not optional, I need it. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Recommendation for a netbook

I am considering the Acer TravelMate Spin B3. Does anybody here have experience with this exact model? Or, if not, with a similar enough model? https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/professional-model/NX.VN2AA.001 Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Recommendation for a netbook

4xx is great This does not look compatible with "I need it to be not expensive, because that's for taking in transports daily and sometimes leaving unsupervised in classrooms". > The ProBook is 645 G1 also great. No touchscreen. But thanks. Regards, -- Nicolas George

Re: problem with wget -O

Greg Wooledge (12021-01-25): > Gene, you've been here a while, so you should know better than this. Where's the incentive at knowing better when one gets more help by making no efforts? Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Recommendation for a netbook

Nicolas George (12021-01-25): > I'll have to retire my current netbook soon. It was a Lenovo Miix > 3-1030 from 2015; it has a good screen but otherwise is complete crap, > with non-standard unsupported hardware and other drawbacks. > > I need a ~10 inches touchscreen, a

Battery drain with poweroff

are disabled in the setup. Does anybody have an idea about what could be the culprit or how to investigate? Thanks in advance. -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Battery drain with poweroff

with the backup image I made. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Battery drain with poweroff

le, because of the time and wear. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[SOLVED] BIOS upgrade on an Acer laptop (was: Battery drain with poweroff)

Nicolas George (12021-02-08): > Thanks, I never think of BIOS updates. This is the one for my exact > model, and the title looks very promising. > > Now I need a way to apply it; apparently I need some way to boot > Windows. I hope I will not need to overwrite the complete drive wi

Re: [SOLVED] BIOS upgrade on an Acer laptop (was: Battery drain with poweroff)

Nicolas George (12021-02-08): > Now I need to see if it fixed my problem of battery drain; I have good > hope. Thanks to everybody who pitched for help. I confirm, after 36 hours of power down, the battery had not visibly changed. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Descriptio

Re: dist-upgrade from buster fails badly

mix stable and unstable, > cherry-picking packages from unstable. This WILL NOT WORK. Ever. I have done it a few times, and it worked more often than not. Consider your universal statement disproved. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Wifi problem on Ile-de-France / unowhy laptops

what to try? Thanks in advance. -- Nicolas George 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Gemini Lake Host Bridge (rev 03) 00:00.1 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor Dynamic Platform and Thermal Framework Processor Participant (rev 03) 00

Re: Wifi problem on Ile-de-France / unowhy laptops

setup as suggested, and before looking too deep I found "operating system: Windows", I switched to Linux (it was there!), and now the laptop does not boot anymore. I think I will return it and let them sort it out. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Question regarding hardware choices

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Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

derstanding the issue is rarely a good idea, especially with an unsubtle heavy handed measure. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

the advice is reasonable. Without, it was terrible, as was "changing the disk". Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Installing GRUB to make a hybrid UEFI/MBR bootable USB stick

info to see precisely what is going on. Suggestions would be appreciated, but do not invest too much time in it, as I have not yet done so myself. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [Possibly fake news] [DNG] Linux system can be brought down by sending SIGILL to Systemd

the Debian mailing list to become Fakebook or Twitter. No need to double check: with a little common sense and technical competence, a single check is enough. Remember folks: The proof that systemd is evil is that "cat /lib/systemd/systemd > /dev/sda" will likely make your system

Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

ing existing bitmap subtitles. > there is a program called spumux, but so > far as I can see it's not exactly what I am looking for (or maybe I just > don't get how to use it). spumux can do that, and is indeed the only took I know that can. Regards,

Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

> do nothing good to video quality unless you watch what you are doing. With crf 22 at 1080p, you will not be able to see any difference. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

or reference, these command lines do not work and do not solve the problem as it was explained in the thread. It needs to be stated clearly for people who may visit the archives looking for the solution for a similar problem. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

ou can enjoy the full power of the software on your computer instead of being stuck with a mediocre proprietary embedded player. FFmpeg will respect the ASS style, can use colors, do transparency effects, shadows, etc. Encoding in vobsub results in very limited possibilities. Regards, -- Ni

Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

am and chop the pair of final files. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How to have password shown?

Renato Gallo (12019-07-03): > and that's s good security-wise The good practice, security-wise, is to start by understanding the situation and the threat. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How to have password shown?

suggesting buying complete new hardware to solve a minor software configuration issue? Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How to have password shown?

u realize that Debian can be customized, right? Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How to have password shown?

ne of this things. You obviously understood properly none of my messages. Too bad for you. Have a good life. -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How to have password shown?

to...@tuxteam.de (12019-07-03): > That said, you might want to disable ssh logins for that user They are not stupid: that is already the default. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: etiquette of sharing executable files

s to most people here. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: xfce4-screenshooter does not copy images to clipboard

rd but the primary selection. It may be the source of your confusion. Check the manpage to have xclip use the clipboard. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: xfce4-screenshooter does not copy images to clipboard

Erik Dobák (12019-07-07): > same behavior with xclip -o --selection clip-board > clip10.txt Check the manpage better. (And blame xclip for accepting malformed options.) Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Where'd lsb-compat go?

Kent West (12019-07-15): > - They plainly state that they support Ubuntu 18.04, but not Debian. So, did I get this right: this is a software, if you install it on Ubuntu 18.04, it can tell you on what OS and version it runs, REMOTELY. Is that it? Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.

Re: What program is capturing key press on root window of X?

ol key XF86LogGrabInfo (or any equivalent way of pressing an unusual key) and reading /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: A followup on github discussion

Reco (12019-07-26): > Today it was brought to my attention that GitHub has restricted access > to users who live in countries that have US sanctions applied - [1]. You mean that GitHub respects the laws of the country where it operates? How shocking! Regards, -- Nicolas George

Helpful attitude (was: Server hardware advice.)

ful manner ; - those who try to understand what the original poster says in order to find imprecisions and then forcefully educate them. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Perl displayed as text, Not HTML

a CGI written in perl requires a perl interpreter, which I doubt you can avoid on Debian anyway. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: shell wrappers for trig and other mathematical functions

to...@tuxteam.de (12019-10-02): > [1] try "echo $((0.6 + 1.3))" in your bash to see what I mean :) People live happier when their "bash" is actually a zsh: ~ $ echo $((0.6 + 1.3)) 1.8999 ~ $ zmodload zsh/mathfunc ~ $ echo $[exp(1)+exp(-1)] 3.0861612696304874

Over-engineering, Libre Software and Open Source (was: HTML mail + PDF attachments)

do not give the know-how to work on it, or even to make it work. I like your comparison with prions: when over-engineered software become frequent, good software needs to become more complex in order to be able to interact with it. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Memory Leaks or Mem. being misreported

Dan Ritter (12020-03-28): > Is this causing a problem for you? Not understanding something is a problem by itself. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete, update-alternatives

up being very stupid. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: flatpak and root access

e is that it comes with all its libraries. That means if there is a security issue in that library, it needs to be upgraded. It will not benefit from the security upgrades of the system. Therefore, you have to rely the people who made the bundle to follow carefully on all security alerts for all

Re: Missing Courier font

reimplementation, and Courier New is not less authentic than the others. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Missing Courier font

n...@dismail.de (12020-04-27): > b) The texlive Courier fonts are the digitalised version released by > IBM themselves under some free font license How did you obtain that information? AFAICS, the Courier fonts in TeXlive are the Adobe and URW variants. signature.asc Description: PGP sign

Re: Jitsi (was Re: Please help me find a good Debian compatible video card).

t find. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Jitsi (was Re: Please help me find a good Debian compatible video card).

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Re: Jitsi (was Re: Please help me find a good Debian compatible video card).

ou did, please do not act as if it was easy. -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Jitsi (was Re: Please help me find a good Debian compatible video card).

to...@tuxteam.de (12020-04-28): > Sigh. LMDDgIFY So, my take is that nobody here managed to install Jitsi from sources. That should tell you something. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: mplayer can't play big file by mencoder

by your target. If in doubt, use Matroska. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Changing timestamps in video files

ideo files, the most obvious are the presentation timestamps, that are used to set the speed of the video and synchronize with the audio, but the rest of your question does not seem compatible with that interpretation. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Jitsi (was Re: Please help me find a good Debian compatible video card).

rankenware, it is less dishonest, but the end result is the same. We cannot prevent these projects from existing, but at least we have to realise they are not part of the solution, they are part of the problem. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Output from date command defaults to 12-hour in Buster.

THING. If you want a system that works, set LC_CTYPE, and leave everything else alone. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Output from date command defaults to 12-hour in Buster.

e the 1 into 2, it even takes effect on all new shells, no need to re-log. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Output from date command defaults to 12-hour in Buster.

uot;ça" and "fée". Do you? Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

ns that are very strict. Indeed, modern protocols are stricter than old ones. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Mouse awfully slow on Debian 10 on certain machines

actory. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Output from date command defaults to 12-hour in Buster.

en made, the only sane course of action is to let locales to their C setting. Which is exactly what I do, and I am very fine with it. And I can laugh by myself every time somebody comes complaining that the output of a command is ugly because it did not consider localization would break alignment, or that a script is broken because the matching of a regexp has been altered. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How could you load only once a Linux ultility without a batch --input-files kind of option and repeatedly use it on many files? . . .

Albretch Mueller (12020-05-14): > The thing is that I have to call, say sha256sum, on millions of files > > Probably debian admin people dealing with packaging have to deal with > the same kinds of issues. http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/xargs.1.html Regards, -- Ni

Re: How could you load only once a Linux ultility without a batch --input-files kind of option and repeatedly use it on many files? . . .

ion indicates that Albretch has that covered. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Substance and form (was: How could you load only once a Linux ultility without a batch) --input-files kind of option and repeatedly use it on many files? . . .

ple these days. “I was wrong, but I'll use the tone of you message to not admit it.” -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How could you load only once a Linux ultility without a batch --input-files kind of option and repeatedly use it on many files? . . .

bly be my last mail on this. -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How could you load only once a Linux ultility without a batch --input-files kind of option and repeatedly use it on many files? . . .

patterns in shell globs or regexes), so there was > value in Dan providing that too. There was value, but not as an answer to the question. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How could you load only once a Linux ultility without a batch --input-files kind of option and repeatedly use it on many files? . . .

relevant answer. And if it does not happen, you can still reply a few hours later. Let us not behave like schoolchildren. The first to answer will not get an image. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Changing timestamps in video files

Cindy Sue Causey (12020-05-19): Funny thing: three weeks later, still speculating what the original question was about, without any input from the person who asked it. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Changing timestamps in video files

Tixy (12020-05-19): > Try reading the email Cindy was replying to. I already did: technical points, speculating around what the OP actually wanted. -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Changing timestamps in video files

ay. Happens to anybody. Note that I was not criticizing Cindy. Speculating and reminiscing are essential activities for Libre Software users. I was rather mocking the OP, who comes and ask a question, and then disappears mysteriously. What was the point, really? Regards, -- Nicolas Ge

Re: Zoom- best practice?

to...@tuxteam.de (12020-06-07): > Yes, the server is free software. As is Jitsi's. So you can get the > source, build yourself or download pre-built thingies. Do you have evidence of somebody other than the authors themselves having managed to build it? Regards, -- Nic

Re: Zoom- best practice?

n Source at best. We have to acknowledge: there are no Libre Software solutions for videoconferencing. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Zoom- best practice?

docs.bigbluebutton.org/2.2/install.html Installing from a binary repository: yes, that works. But that's not Libre Software. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Zoom- best practice?

nowledge, for most packages, any user can rebuild them from source and it works, Debian makes a lot of effort for that. Can you say the same for these repositories? Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Zoom- best practice?

code, it is a matter of being able to change it to suit our needs, to fix it if there are bugs, to include parts into other projects. If all of this is not possible, it is a dead-end project, a waste of energy, only marginally better than closed-source surveillanceware. Regards, -- Nicolas G

Re: Jitsi can be built

ething explaining how they did? Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How long will this take?

. Also, you can go read /proc/$(pidof dd)/fdinfo, it contains the information too. Note that it becomes much slower as it nears the center of the disk. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How long will this take?

to the tty. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How long will this take?

unning for three days? Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Zoom- best practice?

g. > That's how fake news spread, btw. > > I think it's somewhat disgusting. Folks, put up... or shut up now. Your attempt at irrational shaming is dishonest. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Zoom- best practice?

Consider a minified javascript program with a GPL license header slapped on top of it: should we consider it Libre Software? Of course not. The same happens here: out of negligence probably, the authors keep part of the source code for themselves. It is not Libre Software. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How long will this take?

peeded up using it rather than > sequential searches. Or is binary already used now? To search what? Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How long will this take?

is much slower than sequential access. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How long will this take?

still under the mat. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Zoom- best practice?

A better solution is to use a better program > to read mail. You mean I should use Mutt, like you? Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Zoom- best practice?

gt; an extent, turns things back to Tomas' point. Tomas's point is "give the benefit of the doubt", but at this point there is not much doubt left. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How long will this take?

ched scenarios. Did you wipe the possible traces of cocaine? Did you weight it to check it matches the specs? Did you take pictures of all angles? All these and many others are trivial. Why one but not the others? Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How long will this take?

n your own private security theater. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [OT] How to help the OP? (was: How long will this take?)

o perspective and challenge it? I > know it can be frustrating because this is not always the answer we as OP > want to read but it can be really instructive as we understand we were on a > wrong track. There is no dilemma at all: we are not paid help-desk technicians. Regards, -- Nico

Re: [OT] How to help the OP? (was: How long will this take?)

Michael Stone (12020-06-10): > Interacting in a polite fashion shouldn't require a paycheck. What does politeness have to do with it? We can very politely explain to somebody that their question makes no sense. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [OT] How to help the OP? (was: How long will this take?)

Michael Stone (12020-06-10): > It helps create a positive community. Constantly attacking people because > you think they're in some way wrong does not. Yes. That is true. What is the link with the current sub-discussion? Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [OT] How to help the OP? (was: How long will this take?)

nt. You could have made your statement more explicit. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Reply semantics, yet again (was Re: Zoom- best practice?)

hipping a five-years old FFmpeg binary. In the last five years, a few security-relevant bugs have been fixed in FFmpeg. People, take notice: this is one of the reasons we insist on proper packaging and being able to rebuild from source entirely: to allow security upgrades for the included libraries. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [debian-reference manual] bullet point sign and its content misplaced

he slash at the end. That could be better written: 10.1.7. Removable storage device though. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Advice on encrypted filesystem

urces.list to add its own repository, which is even worse, but better use the generic tarball as a separate user. Anyway, I never used Zoom, but with Jitsi and Big Blue Button, I had no sound either with Firefox, but it worked with Chromium. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Sound in Jitsi/BBB [was: dvice on encrypted filesystem]

nt my web browser to produce sound!). The microphone is the issue. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Support for AMD Ryzen 3 3200U

this specific computer? Thanks. -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Echo on Realtek ALC662 soundcard

Seeds Notoneofmy (12020-06-27): > I'm only trying to bump this! For a message like that, bumping once after 5-7 days would have been reasonable, I think. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Support for AMD Ryzen 3 3200U

ebian" unless it has been introduced within the last 6 months. My rule of thumb for when to stop asking "will this work" is: when the information is easily found on the web. With the counterpart: if I have the info, I try to remember to make it available. Regards, -- Nicolas

Re: Support for AMD Ryzen 3 3200U

n the computer, to avoid wasting time and shipping costs if it does not work. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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