tead is libelous
and deeply insulting to them. I suggest you retract and apologize
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his list have already silently decided the
same, or will do so soon if you continue insulting the Debian
developers.
Anyway, I have no hope that you will understand my position, I post it
to make it clear for other readers. No doubt you will answer this mail
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in systemd/src/core/execute.c, but I do not see which condition is true
for sshd, AFAICS they are all false.
Have anyone investigated the issue already?
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ount -t tmpfs dummy /tmp/dummy
dmesg > /tmp/dummy/something
log-in in console
ls /tmp/dummy
Result: file "something" is not there.
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Thanks to both Sven for pointing it.
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Michael Fothergill (2018-01-25):
> If you look at the date and time then you can see that no directories have
> been created with from it in the directory.
tar restores the mtime of extracted files and directories. You need to
look at the ctime.
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adays, tar know how to do
that all by itself, including detecting the archive type.
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"RESUME=none" in
/etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf.
Note that your problem has absolutely nothing to do with systemd.
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reserve the key,
obviously. As to how to specify it in fstab, you need to use the name
declared in crypttab.
Using filesystem labels and UUID is IMHO a very bad design, because they
reside inside the filesystem itself. Better use LVM, partition names or
partition UUIDs.
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nd how it all fits together.
Instead, they will just take the first solution they think of, implement
it, find drawbacks, fix them the same way, entering an endless loop of
piling kludges over kludges. I know several people who function like
that.
The solution you quoted is a perfect example of that. Be
the BTS.
> Best not to think about any other options.
I do not pretend that the solution is the only one, it is not. But I can
make the difference between a good solution and a bad one.
Please forgive me, but I do not like to argue further with you on this.
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That would probably work. "PARTUUID=00065379-05" would probably too.
> Still, I'm uncertain what goes into /etc/fstab.
>
>/dev/mapper/swap none swap sw 0 0
>
> ?
Indeed, /dev/mapper/swap, since your swap device is named like that in
uot;, "MM-DD-" nor
"MM/DD/". If your output is intended for humans, print your month
names; if your output is intended for computers, use the only logical
order: -MM-DD. It is standardized and understood by coreutils.
And if you need input from the user, provide a higher-level interface.
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dable for a human, less
readable for a computer. It is good for interactive use, bad for script
use. For script use, there are other tools, depending on the task.
Do not blame the feature, blame the people who misuse it.
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software is not properly configured to do that automatically.
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re details?
Beware that the "same functionality" includes "same convenience".
Convenience is hard to achieve.
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The
date in Richard's mail is fine.
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have trouble predicting the output of a given input.
All you describe is convenience for programmatic use. As I explained,
this parser is meant for interactive use. For interactive use,
flexibility and natural language are a convenience.
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Michael Stone (2018-02-04):
> Heck, let's try some natural language right now:
I hope you enjoy the warmth of the burning straw men. Good day.
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e a problem, but you never hear of people who manage to use the
natural syntax efficiently.
Anyway, if you propose to remove the ability to write something like
"2017-12-04 + 73 days", I veto as strongly as I can.
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e been:
$ TZ=Europe/London date
Sun Feb 4 17:44:49 GMT 2018
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se a library. And use whatever text format that library use.
The problem does not come from UTF-8 or Unicode or anything
computer-related, the problem comes from the principle of written human
text: writing systems are insanely complex.
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he "problems" people have with UTF-8: the problem
resides not in the properties of UTF-8 but in the unwritten assumptions
about the way they should be implementing things.
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n all that complexity.
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ther than blindly byte-copying it to a different place in memory.
No, the length of the string is hardly relevant, and when it is it is
not enough anyway.
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rhkra...@gmail.com (2018-04-03):
> and the data is stored in mbox formatted files.
DO NOT DO THAT.
This is the only good advice you can have for that project. Store your
data in a decent format.
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rhkra...@gmail.com (2018-04-04):
> Sorry, I already have 300 MB plus stored in that format.
Then convert. Small extra work now. Many less headaches later.
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e the conversion.
I have given you advice (for free), you are not taking it. Too bad for
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y botched
their design.
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> lord and savior. If you ever did.)
I do not have a "lord and savior". I use the terminal a lot, but I am
aware of the hidden complexities.
> All of these things matter, and are real, and don't necessarily indicate
> "botched design".
All these things matter, but they do not require random access in a
string by char number.
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th both the char index and the octet offset.
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people designed more
advanced and optimized formats on top of it.
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ing indexing, or we just label you a loon and
> ignore everything you say henceforth.
To be honest, I do not care much what "you" think about me.
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of the messages in the Maildir.
Glad to read this. There are too many maildir zealots out there.
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re that is convenient for the particular problem. And indeed, for
crossword puzzles, accessing the n-th letter of a de-diacriticized word
is a necessary operation. But it is not accessing the n-th letter of a
generic string.
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to...@tuxteam.de (2018-04-05):
> But then when I see people proposing XML as structured data
> representation, I suddenly grow very sad...
Isn't it?
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its input and outputs a diagnosis) based on these technologies and
that people find satisfactory.
Any advice?
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). But Bayesian classification is a very limited form of AI.
What I am looking for is something that makes uses of the tremendous
theoretical and practical progress made in the last fifteen years.
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Le quintidi 5 prairial, an CCXXIV, Lisi Reisz a écrit :
> > American? There are two continents. Do you mean the U.S.A? - the land of
> > the rooster and other euphemistic terms?
> What becomes of Canada and Mexico in that scenario??
A friend of mine suggested "United States of Puritania" for the d
he corresponding knowledge, you should take
their word for it.
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and the choice of fonts nowadays is slightly larger.
For small sizes, vectorial fonts gives poor results, better readability is
achieved with hand-drawn bitmap fonts. Too bad they can not have
anti-aliasing.
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faults-$HOSTNAME are read by the X11 libraries
directly.
It makes a big difference for remote applications, since they will see the
.Xresources from the server but the .Xdefaults from the client.
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nment is
because I am still dumbfounded about what the benefit of running a desktop
environment is.
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ibre software use for H.264 is in libavcodec. I
do not know how your grep could miss it, since it is a prerequisite for
these packages.
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Le quintidi 25 prairial, an CCXXIV, Lisi Reisz a écrit :
> The thread was about running xterm inside a DE by all sorts of complicated
> methods instead of simply clicking a couple of buttons in Konsole-Trinity!
My message was about the font selection in XTerm (and most Xt-based
applications), not
what did you expect?
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an-user@lists.debian.org"
I urge all persons contributing to any mailing-list to adopt a similar
strategy to express their preferences in the only standardized way.
This time only, as a particular courtesy, I have edited manually the list of
recipients to adhere to your personal preferences.
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ution is to adhere to the
standardized ones. I suggest you re-read it carefully; I do not intend to
waste everybody else's time any longer about that.
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mine.
To Lisi: re-read my mail, I gave the technical solution and headers I use.
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, therefore I
never receive unwanted CCs and I am perfectly happy about it. I guess some
people like whining.
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the unwanted CCs, to make a (moderate) effort without getting any
benefit for themselves.
Solution 2: A makes the moderate punctual effort to configure the MUA to set
the header correctly and directly reaps the benefits.
Stated like that, it is pretty much a no-brainer.
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The lack of reply-to header.
> that I could edit
> (how?)
No idea if you do not use mutt, but I am sure there is a fine manual.
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ot accept any solution that has a lesser level of
automation.
Also, since this off-topic thread has already gone long enough, I intend to
reply only to new arguments. I do not intend to reply when the reply is
already present in the current mail.
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Le tridi 3 messidor, an CCXXIV, Dan Purgert a écrit :
> Because the TCP "stream" is still encapsulated in IP packets / Ethernet
> frames, and you cannot simply "break" an encrypted block at some
> arbitrary point in order to make it fit nicely in the packet / frame.
Actually, this is exactly how i
50 chances :)
You could have checked beforehand.
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Le septidi 17 messidor, an CCXXIV, Dan Purgert a écrit :
> As I recall it ...
>
> - prefix ("en" | "wl") indicates whether it's [e]ther[n]et or [wl]an.
> - p# indicates the PCI Bus it's on
> - s# indicates the slot on that PCI Bus
>
> it's all part of the "new" udev/systemd naming, because i
Le septidi 17 messidor, an CCXXIV, Dan Purgert a écrit :
> No,
No, not "no".
> the whole udev thing is to keep the kernel from doing weird things
> with device naming on boot (such as swapping eth0 for eth1).
You are talking about implementation, I was talking about policy.
>
ling them should be an option.
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services in chroots.)
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Le quintidi 25 messidor, an CCXXIV, Brian a écrit :
> Of course it can be changed. Jost change Policy.
Care to elaborate?
> It's already configured. Want another configuration? Alter and restart
> the service.
That means the service ran for some time with the wrong config. Pwned.
> Stop the ser
Le quintidi 25 messidor, an CCXXIV, Brian a écrit :
> Not really. How to change Policy is adequately described on the Debian
> web site. How to submit a bug against openssh-server is also described.
So you were talking about changing the whole policy of the project, not an
option to apt? What an u
Le quintidi 25 messidor, an CCXXIV, Don Armstrong a écrit :
> If a services default configuration is insecure, it should be fixed.
> File a bug.
If you think about it slightly more than two seconds, you will realize that
if the default configuration does ANYTHING, even something that is
completely
Le quintidi 25 messidor, an CCXXIV, Don Armstrong a écrit :
> This is incredibly rude.
I stand by it.
> This is the endless security vs utility debate.
Indeed.
The most secure system
> That option already exists. See policy-rc.d. For example:
>
> https://jpetazzo.github.io/2013/10/06/policy-r
ng, not
compiling.
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% depending
on the hardware.
I have found that OpenSSL's implementation was the fastest amongst readily
available crypto implementations (gcrypt, libtomcrypt, libavutil).
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kernel level (using namespaces) and mount the essential pseudo-filesystems,
and more importantly it starts a sub-instance of systemd that isolate the
services.
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important part of my
message. Especially the part about the 30% speed difference.
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Makefile magic to work directly from the build
tree too.
I think that having "" fall back to searching the system headers like <>
does is a bad design decision and encourages sloppy practices. Of course, it
is way too late to fix that now. #include "stdio.h" should be as mu
Le tridi 3 thermidor, an CCXXIV, Brian a écrit :
> It doesn't look DFSG free.
>
> http://mintakaconciencia.net/squares/umtskeeper/#license
>
>For the purpose of including UMTSkeeper or portions thereof
>in GNU GPL licensed projects, UMTSkeeper is also licensed
>under the GPL. You may
Le nonidi 9 thermidor, an CCXXIV, Lisi Reisz a écrit :
> Why use Stretch if the software in it ios too new for your boxen??
Old software have unpatched security issues. And it is not the software that
is too new, it is the build options.
> Of course it is not obvious!!
It was to me, at least.
Le quintidi 15 thermidor, an CCXXIV, David Christensen a écrit :
> a. Sometimes I am able to open a terminal. Commands in the
> terminal malfunction.
Content-free bug report.
>Input/output error
This is the tidbit of information.
Try starting « dmesg -w » befor
Le quintidi 25 thermidor, an CCXXIV, Gene Heskett a écrit :
> to add should be changed to forward slashes:
You are wrong, sysctl supports both slashes and dots as separators.
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inux OS.
You realize that Caps Lock is definitely not the recommended way of getting
uppercase letters?
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d just produces a
library file ending as .so, and the distribution maintainers add the SONAME
to make it a proper library. If that happens, programs that expect that will
not work without the -dev package. You can check that by compiling the
upstream libvtk and checking if it includes the SONAME.
R
nore that clause and set locally the reply-to header that the list
manager should be adding.
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Le septidi 7 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Andrew McGlashan a écrit :
> Get the byte size of the ISO file and make sure that you only test
> exactly that many bytes from the /dev/sdb device.
>
> Divide the number of bytes with say 40960 and then multiply the answer
> with 40960 to see that you get the sam
ger to
extract them and then do what you want with the HTML.
For conversions with more exotic e-books formats, see the calibre package.
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get in the way of writing the file name easily, though,
but that is only a minor hindrance.
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> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 03:18:30PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > I'm copying Debian distribution DVDs.
> > I used
> > cp -R /media/cdrom0 /media/richard/myrepository/dvd_1
> >
> > It gave me what I wanted [*N.B.* I did not want dvd_1.iso]
> > It was SLOW.
Optical media are « SLOW ». You ca
L'octidi 8 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Thomas Schmitt a écrit :
> dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=1M count=$blocks of=/media/richard/myisos/dvd_1.iso
Useless use of dd. head -c will perform as well, without the need for
arithmetic. And, for a DVD (but not a CD), I think just cat without isosize
would work as well
to allow
anyone to give relevant advice. If someone did, it was just by exercising
supernatural divination powers.
(Also, I wonder why people always fiddle with the cumbersome 192.168 instead
of going for simply 10.)
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Le decadi 10 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Pascal Hambourg a écrit :
> What's cumbersome in 192.168 ? More digits to type ?
Yes, that, and all that goes along: readability and ease to see typos, ease
to remember for non-tech-savvy people, etc.
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Le primidi 11 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Michael Milliman a écrit :
> And the difference??
This question was already asked and answered.
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ne; the non-whiners can unilaterally fix
things for themselves by setting the reply-to header, just like you or me.
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Le quintidi 15 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Lisi Reisz a écrit :
> But it doesn't prevent Nicolas from deliberately cc-ing most of the rest of
> us
> when replying to our mails; which is exceedingly annoying and is NOT in
> compliance with the CoC.
I do not "deliberately" cc anyone most of the time, I
Le septidi 17 fructidor, an CCXXIV, David Wright a écrit :
> Basically, if "KiB Swap: ... 0 used," is anything but zero, I might as
> well reboot; any idea of getting work done while swapping is risible,
If you have to look at the output of a command do notice the swap is in use,
that means you we
slow at startup for
some tasks, so individual commands without a process to keep the library
open will give awful results. I have started working on a tool with a
script-friendly FTP-like interface, but not got very far yet due to other
more pressing projects.
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s
ta over a slow link.
Also note that other applications may behave differently. I have noticed
that Python applications using Qt ignore SIGINT for no apparent reason
except annoy developers. Knowing ^\, i.e. SIGQUIT, is useful in that kind of
cases, even though this is not the purpose of SIGQUIT.
Rega
Le decadi 20 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Mayuresh Kathe a écrit :
> Is there any way to get a regular console under Debian Jessie?
> I don't use a GUI, just plain old CLI, and working on hi-res with "tiny"
> little fonts is extremely painful.
> I have tried playing with "console-setup". No results.
You
Le decadi 20 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Dutch Ingraham a écrit :
> > SIGTERM (number 15) by default while Ctrl-C sends SIGINT (number 3) by
> > default. But both have the same default action of interrupting the process.
> The last sentence is inaccurate and imprecise. See man 7 signal, and esp.
> unde
ions,
except it will be long (fixing libavfilter has uttermost priority for me
right now). But this is the only place I have publicly spoken of it, so if
someone wants to completely take over, just reply to this mail and everybody
will be informed.
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e used
> natively.
It may be ONE OF THE simplest ways, but it a very bad one: screen have a
native resolution, operating at a different one requires scaling: the
resulting text will be much less readable than with the better solution of
using a larger font.
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th GUI fonts too.
> All that extra size enhances readability,
> compensating rather nicely for the loss in apparent resolution.
Yes, it enhances it compared to tiny glyphs, but it worsens it compared to
larger glyphs at native resolution.
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ion to
send a reply, because then the ACK can be bundled with the reply, saving a
packet.
With an echo server, the reply comes immediately, never letting the delay
for the ACK expire.
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the reply does not come immediately in the same TCP stream. A discard server
would be the simplest example.
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use of your
issue. See /etc/systemd/logind.conf and the corresponding man page.
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Le quintidi 25 fructidor, an CCXXIV, mo a écrit :
> Should i even attempt to manage cgroups this way? (Sorry, this must sound
> quite "noobish")
Have you checked whether systemd can do the kind of control over users that
you want to? I know it uses cgroups intensively, so perhaps it already has a
you need to prepare for a trip to the hard drive
dealer.
The output of dmesg will tell you more.
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Le quintidi 25 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Tony Baldwin a écrit :
> >The output of dmesg will tell you more.
> perhaps some of this will be useful?
> # fdisk -l
It is a little. But much less than the source of information I mentioned in
my first mail and that you utterly ignored.
> /dev/sdb2 * 4
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