Re: Copying only files that are not into the destination

2009-12-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 24, 2009, at 12:32 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have two folders, say .../source/ and .../destination/. There are many files in /source/ and in /destination/. There are some more files in /source/. There are so many files in /source/ th

Re: install -- netboot vs netinst vs businesscard Debian installer CDs

2010-01-01 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 31, 2009, at 3:01 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: On 2009-12-31 at 14:43:44 -0500, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: That would be netinst, not netboot. Whatever. All I can say is that I downloaded dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/mini.iso from a public Debian mirror, bur

Re: install -- Debian install CD: "netboot" vs "netinst" vs "businesscard"

2010-01-01 Thread Rick Thomas
ldn't have worked. But it did! Explanations, anyone? On Jan 1, 2010, at 1:51 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: Here's a datapoint... Today I did the same for the PowerPC version of the netboot/mini.iso (13 MB) and used it to install squeeze on my testing PowerMac G4. Worked a treat. And what&

Re: install -- netboot vs netinst vs businesscard Debian installer CDs

2010-01-01 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 1, 2010, at 8:44 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: On 2010-01-01 at 13:51:59 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: Here's a datapoint... Today I did the same for the PowerPC version of the netboot/mini.iso (13 MB) and used it to install squeeze on my testing PowerMac G4. Worked a treat. And w

Re: Server Freezes

2010-01-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 5, 2010, at 9:47 PM, Roman Gelfand wrote: I didn't see any message that was out of the ordinary. I am running another with similar configuration except it runs different applicaiton. That machine never goes down. On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:30 AM, Sebastian Weisgerber wrote: Have a lo

Re: Debian repos via ipv6

2010-01-06 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 5, 2010, at 5:28 PM, Alex Samad wrote: Hi I seem to have great dificulty access the debian repos via ipv6 Connecting to ftp.au.debian.org (2001:388:1034:2900::25) and security etc. I have to wait till ipv6 times out and then it falls backs to ipv4. Are you able to contact other ipv6

Re: Debian repos via ipv6

2010-01-06 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 6, 2010, at 6:48 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Alex Samad put forth on 1/5/2010 4:28 PM: Hi I seem to have great dificulty access the debian repos via ipv6 Connecting to ftp.au.debian.org (2001:388:1034:2900::25) That's because ftp.au.debian.org doesn't support IPv6 downloads. According

Sid on PowerPC has broken xserver-xorg-core

2010-01-17 Thread Rick Thomas
Does anybody know what's causing this? Is there anything I can do? It's been a couple of weeks like this. I understand "Normal Sid churn": Something like this happened on i386 a while ago and it took over a month to resolve there (I don't know what happened, but one day it just went away.

Re: Sid on PowerPC has broken xserver-xorg-core

2010-01-18 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 18, 2010, at 11:55 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote: The following packages have unmet dependencies: xserver-xorg-core: Conflicts: xserver-xorg-input-4 which is a virtual package. This means at least one of the xserver-xorg-video-* packages to be installed hasn't been rebuilt against the new

Re: rsync: different target size

2010-01-18 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 18, 2010, at 12:20 PM, Leonardo Canducci wrote: I'm using rsync -aHS to backup some stuff (mostly jpgs and docs from my home) to an external usb hard drive (same ext3 fs). After a backup I ran du -s to get a fast check on size and found source and target to be slightly different. Even us

Re: Sid on PowerPC has broken xserver-xorg-core

2010-01-19 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 19, 2010, at 4:36 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 23:44 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: My question is: How do I know which packages I'm likely to need, so I can remove the rest? Something like grep _drv /var/log/Xorg.0.log|grep -v input should show you which

Re: rsync: different target size

2010-01-19 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 19, 2010, at 5:58 AM, Leonardo Canducci wrote: ( cd source ; find . -type f -print0 | sort -z | xargs ls -s ) > /tmp/source-stuff ( cd target ; find . -type f -print0 | sort -z | xargs ls -s ) > /tmp/target-stuff diff /tmp/target-stuff /tmp/source-stuff you can use something like "md5su

Re: Sid on PowerPC has broken xserver-xorg-core

2010-01-19 Thread Rick Thomas
Michel Dänzer wrote: On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 23:44 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: My question is: How do I know which packages I'm likely to need, so I can remove the rest? Something like grep _drv /var/log/Xorg.0.log|grep -v input should show you which video driver your X server is

Re: Sid on PowerPC has broken xserver-xorg-core

2010-01-19 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 19, 2010, at 10:15 AM, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: Just a special side note: When you use unstable you are expected to figure out such things because that's what happens regularly in unstable and you are expected to be able to track down the issue on your own. Digging through the buildd log

Re: Swap space not used

2012-05-02 Thread Rick Thomas
Another use for a large swap partition is if you want to put /tmp into tmpfs. Whether doing so is a "good thing(TM)" is a religious debate that I don't want to stir up here. But there are people who do it, and for them a large swap partition can be useful. Rick PS: We haven't heard back

Re: Swap space not used

2012-05-03 Thread Rick Thomas
On Fri, 4 May 2012 02:40:16 +0800 (WST), Bret Busby wrote: free: " :~# free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 80599647746808 313156 0 54708 1352976 -/+ buffers/cache:63391241720840 Swap: 42860340 66296 42

Re: Password salt

2012-06-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 12:05:56 +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: On 6/8/12 12:02 PM, Alberto Fuentes wrote: On 06/08/2012 10:57 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: The hashed password + salt is stored in /etc/shadow. Where is the actual password salt for Debian stored? Yes, I understand that the salt is differe

what causes "slogin -X" to not generate a "$DISPLAY" variable on the server?

2012-06-08 Thread Rick Thomas
Recently, when I do "slogin -X server" (for one particular server, not all of them) the resulting session can't run any X11 utilities (e.g. xterm) because there is no DISPLAY variable in the environment. It used to work. I don't know what changed for sure. Does anybody know what can cause t

Re: what causes "slogin -X" to not generate a "$DISPLAY" variable on the server?

2012-06-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 8, 2012, at 10:06 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 03:56:35 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: Recently, when I do "slogin -X server" (for one particular server, not all of them) the resulting session can't run any X11 utilities (e.g. xterm) because there is no DISPLAY

Re: what causes "slogin -X" to not generate a "$DISPLAY" variable on the server?

2012-06-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 8, 2012, at 11:48 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: Here's the output. I see it requesting X11 forwarding (near the end) but I don't see anything specifically saying it was granted. Nor do I see it being specifically refused. Fascinating... FWIW, I tried the same 'slogi

Request for enhancement [Re: Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze]

2010-12-19 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 19, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: Caution: reformatting a swap partition with mkswap will change the uuid unless the existing one is explicitly re-specified during formatting. Which raises a question that has been on my mind for a while... The Debian Installer insists on r

Re: Fun with DVD-RAM

2010-12-20 Thread Rick Thomas
Curt Howland wrote: Is there a way to do a file system check on a UDF disk? Next, while I realize that UDF "spreads the writes around" and makes the disks last longer, I am using them for long-term archive rather than something like a daily backup. Is there a reason anyone can think of for no

Re: Fun with DVD-RAM

2010-12-21 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 21, 2010, at 5:24 PM, Curt Howland wrote: On Monday 20 December 2010, Rick Thomas was heard to say: Curt Howland wrote: Is there a reason anyone can think of for not reformatting in ext2 or some other "fsck-able" format? Have you thought about a simple log-structured

Re: Request for enhancement [Re: Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze]

2010-12-21 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 20, 2010, at 3:07 AM, Herbert Kaminski wrote: Rick Thomas schrieb: 2) if reformatting is necessary or desired, have the option (default) of preserving the UUID. This would be an useful option for all partitions, not only for swap, for people like me who dare to test DI in a spare

[slightly OT] Internet accessible home security systems using Debian?

2010-12-30 Thread Rick Thomas
Does anybody have any experience installing/using an internet accessible home security system? We recently bought a retirement home, but it will be a year or so before we can move in -- leaving the place uninhabited most of the time. I'd like to install an inexpensive (under $1000 for part

Re: [slightly OT] Internet accessible home security systems using Debian?

2010-12-30 Thread Rick Thomas
Cool! Thanks, I'll look into those. Rick On Dec 30, 2010, at 2:10 PM, Mirco Piccin wrote: Hi, > We recently bought a retirement home, but it will be a year or so before we can move in > -- leaving the place uninhabited most of the time. I'd like to install an inexpensive (under > $1000

Re: Hardware needed for home network

2011-02-13 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 13, 2011, at 9:09 AM, Tixy wrote: (I don't discount me getting something horribly wrong, this setup is only a few weeks old and my first foray into firewalls and routing.) Computer security is so much fun! /-; As others have pointed out, it is *possible* for an attacker to get dir

CUPS Driver for Epson Stylus NX420 printer?

2011-05-19 Thread Rick Thomas
Anybody know what driver I should be using in Debian Squeeze for my new Epson Stylus NX420 printer? There's no NX420 in the list of drivers offered by the CUPS web interface. Thanks for any help! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: CUPS Driver for Epson Stylus NX420 printer?

2011-05-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 20, 2011, at 12:48 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 04:50:45PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: Anybody know what driver I should be using in Debian Squeeze for my new Epson Stylus NX420 printer? There's no NX420 in the list of drivers offered by the CUPS web interface.

Re: CUPS Driver for Epson Stylus NX420 printer?

2011-05-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 20, 2011, at 3:12 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 19 May 2011 16:50:45 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: Anybody know what driver I should be using in Debian Squeeze for my new Epson Stylus NX420 printer? There's no NX420 in the list of drivers offered by the CUPS web interface. Your pr

Re: CUPS Driver for Epson Stylus NX420 printer?

2011-05-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 20, 2011, at 10:18 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: if I export the printer via CUPS from the Toshiba to the OpenRD and try to use it to print that way from the OpenRD, the driver on the Toshiba dies with a segfault. If anybody wants to try and help me debug the problem, here'

Re: CUPS Driver for Epson Stylus NX420 printer?

2011-05-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 20, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Camaleón wrote: There is a source rpm package, but I'm not sure if this can help you to rebuild the package for your architecture :-? Interesting. I'll have a look at it if I get some time. I wonder if there's a source plain-and-simple tar-ball in the same

Re: CUPS Driver for Epson Stylus NX420 printer?

2011-05-21 Thread Rick Thomas
Actually, the evidence in this particular case is pretty optimistic: 1) I was able to find a (binary i386/AMD64 only) driver at OpenPrinting.Org with only a little bit of google-ing. 2) When I whined about not being able to use i386 binaries on my ARM machine, Camaleón (thanks!) found a so

Re: UUID - autmatically entries?

2011-05-22 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 21, 2011, at 11:09 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: Since like many others you find UUIDs a huge jumbled pile of human meaninglessness, then by all means create labels for all your fixed devices, and modify your /etc/fstab accordingly. Many of us have done so. Wouldn't it be nice if the De

Bug in bash? different from ksh, at any rate...

2011-05-28 Thread Rick Thomas
Can anybody explain this difference between the behavior of bash and ksh? When reading the man page, I would expect both of them to have the behavior exhibited by ksh. Why does bash seem to treat "return" like a single level "break" in this context? The "echo "$AA" | while read" is impo

Re: Bug in bash? different from ksh, at any rate...

2011-05-28 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 28, 2011, at 2:47 AM, David Sastre wrote: On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 01:14:42AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: Can anybody explain this difference between the behavior of bash and ksh? When reading the man page, I would expect both of them to have the behavior exhibited by ksh. Why does bash

Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-06-04 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 3, 2011, at 10:46 AM, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 09:42:49 +0200 Pascal Hambourg wrote: It could be an MTU/MSS issue. See the recent discussion in the debian-ipv6 list with subject "schein.debian.org" [2001:4f8:8:36::6]. Many thanks. Changing the MTU to 1480 as sug

Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-06-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 5, 2011, at 9:46 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Rick Thomas a écrit : On Jun 3, 2011, at 10:46 AM, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: The RFCs say that any conforming implementation MUST handle an MTU of 1280, and may not necessarily handle anything larger. What is your point in mentionning this

Re: [OT] Bad characters on e-mail headers (was iceape 1.0.9 and IPv6 compatibility)

2011-06-10 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 10, 2011, at 5:58 AM, Lisi wrote: I presumed it *likely* that you are female, but was uncertain Yes, most of the time on line it is very difficult to be sure. And we have to accept that statistically the majority ... On the internet, nobody knows you're a God... -- Dysl

Default paper size in LibreOffice

2011-06-26 Thread Rick Thomas
I've tried everything I can think of, but every time I create a new document in LibreOffice Writer it wants to print on A4 paper. I'm in the US and everything else uses US-Letter paper. As I understand it, the accepted way to set this is with "dpkg-reconfigure libpaper1". But this has n

Re: Default paper size in LibreOffice - SOLVED?

2011-06-26 Thread Rick Thomas
On 06/26/11 20:38, Greg Madden wrote: On Sunday 26 June 2011 04:04:40 pm Rick Thomas wrote: I've tried everything I can think of, but every time I create a new document in LibreOffice Writer it wants to print on A4 paper. I'm in the US and everything else uses US-Letter pa

Re: Default paper size in LibreOffice - SOLVED?

2011-06-27 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 27, 2011, at 1:53 AM, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: * Rick Thomas [2011-06-27 07:16:46 CEST]: I don't know why this works, but I noticed that one of my machines had a package called "cups-pdf" installed (which hauls in "libpaper- utils" -- more on this later...) an

Re: IPv6 and DNS

2011-07-12 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 12, 2011, at 12:30 PM, Laurence Hurst wrote: I am only aware of using DHCP with DNS to achieve what I currently do wrt reliable, cross-device, forward and reverse host lookups but was wondering if there was a way to take advantage of IPv6's stateless configuration to get the same e

Re: IPv6 and DNS

2011-07-19 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 19, 2011, at 6:13 PM, John Hasler wrote: Go Linux writes: How is [IPv6] going to work on DIALUP! I wrote: Just fine. What makes you think it wouldn't? Johan Kullstam writes: The fact that it doesn't work anywhere else? :-> Works fine here. Here too. What kind of problems ar

Re: Backup Software

2011-07-21 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 21, 2011, at 10:10 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 3:57 AM, Johann Spies wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 08:20:26AM +0200, lee wrote: Ethan Rosenberg writes: What software would you recommend to backup a Debian system on a stand-alone computer? If possible, t

Re: IPv6 and DNS

2011-07-21 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 21, 2011, at 3:29 AM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: Johan Kullstam writes: […] My ISP does not offer IPv6. And in the case of NAT'ed IPv4, it's still possible to register for a free-of-charge tunnel service at http://sixxs.net/ and use AICCU (# apt-get install aiccu.

Re: 6rd vs. interfaces(5)

2011-07-22 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 22, 2011, at 5:17 AM, Dejan Ribič wrote: > Dne 22.7.2011 11:09, piše Ivan Shmakov: >>>>>>> Rick Thomas writes: >>>>>>> On Jul 21, 2011, at 3:29 AM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >> […] >> >> >> And in the case of NAT'ed

Re: installing debian from USB... IS IT POSSIBLE?

2011-07-28 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 28, 2011, at 5:12 PM, Per Carlson wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 09:15, Scott Ferguson wrote: Yes it's with the official documentation:- http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04.html.en Where the first sentence reads: "To prepare the USB stick, you will need a system where GNU

Re: ntp problem: the server clock slowly recedes

2011-08-09 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 9, 2011, at 5:41 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 8/9/2011 2:40 AM, owl...@gmail.com wrote: remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter = = = = = = = = = = ntp1.inrim.it .CTD.

Re: jigdo-bd

2011-08-14 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 12, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Dejan Ribič wrote: Dne 12.8.2011 21:26, piše Paul E Condon: I am looking into downloading some iso images of squeeze. I have not done this in quite a while and I see that things have changed a lot while I wasn't looking. I think I need jigdo-cd. But what is jigdo-

Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

2011-09-25 Thread Rick Thomas
On 9/25/2011 10:19 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: Now that I have my Seagate 1TB drive functional and recognized by Linux, I need to format the thing. As I mentioned in my previous thread, my current boot drive on this box is only 40 GB. I intend to keep it as the boot drive and use the new drive primar

python-twisted-core not getting updated on i386, but is updated on amd64 [was Re: Increasing number of conflicts]

2010-04-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On Apr 20, 2010, at 2:30 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: If I was you I would start by finding out why python-twisted-core is not getting upgraded to the latest version that's in the repos and so on, with a little investigating I'm sure you will find what has broken your system, it may help to us

Re: python-twisted-core not getting updated on i386, but is updated on amd64 [was Re: Increasing number of conflicts]

2010-04-21 Thread Rick Thomas
On Apr 21, 2010, at 11:41 AM, Tristan Seligmann wrote: On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 7:41 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: The reason seems to be that python-twisted-core version 10.0.0-3 is available on amd64 Sid, but on i386 Sid it's only available at version 10.0.0-2 . Maybe it needs to be re

Re: Mounting DVD. What am I doing wrong?

2010-05-01 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 1, 2010, at 3:25 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 01 May 2010 14:08:21 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/01/2010 02:03 PM, Camaleón wrote: Your perms are missing the "x" flag for the owner so no access is allowed. I recall a similar situation in another mailing list... I don't want to *

Always do a full backup first [Re: Broken dependencies]

2010-05-01 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 17:20:56 +0200, Alois Mahdal wrote: Hello, because a stupid mistake, I have interrupted apt-get during early stage of dist-upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze. Now I cannot get apt-get working and I don't know how to fix it. I know it's cold comfort, but this is the reas

Suggestion/Question for the approx apt(itutde) proxy daemon

2010-05-05 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Eric, I just started using approx. I'm really impressed. It's a great piece of work. Thanks! Here's a question: Is it permissible/possible to have two (or more) different mirrors listed as servers for the same set of archives? for example, my approx server's approx.conf file has

Why does /dev/rtc0 belong to group audio in Lenny but not in Sid?

2010-05-12 Thread Rick Thomas
In Lenny, "ls -ld /dev/audio" gives lenny:~$ ls -ld /dev/rtc0 crw-rw 1 root audio 254, 0 May 2 15:25 /dev/rtc0 But in Sid, it gives sid:~$ ls -ld /dev/rtc0 crw-rw 1 root root 254, 0 May 10 23:51 /dev/rtc0 Anybody know why? Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

What happened to 'permissions.rules?' [Re: Why does /dev/rtc0 belong to group audio in Lenny but not in Sid?]

2010-05-12 Thread Rick Thomas
On 2010-05-12 10:06 +0200, Rick Thomas wrote: In Lenny, "ls -ld /dev/audio" gives lenny:~$ ls -ld /dev/rtc0 crw-rw 1 root audio 254, 0 May 2 15:25 /dev/rtc0 Ugh. This is not really desirable. But in Sid, it gives sid:~$ ls -ld /dev/rtc0 crw-rw 1 root root 254, 0 May 10

Figured it out: Re: What happened to 'permissions.rules?' [Re: Why does /dev/rtc0 belong to group audio in Lenny but not in Sid?]

2010-05-12 Thread Rick Thomas
I figured it out myself... Most of the /etc/udev/rules.d/*.rules files seem to have moved to /lib in Sid. Sorry for the noise... Rick On May 12, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: Thanks, that answers the immediate question. Which rises the larger question... Sid does not seem to

Anybody know what this is all about? [Re: Anacron job 'cron.weekly' on whitemac]

2010-05-17 Thread Rick Thomas
I just installed Sid on this Blue&White PowerMac G3. This showed up in root's email-box. Anybody know what it's all about? Thanks! Rick On May 16, 2010, at 7:59 AM, Anacron wrote: /etc/cron.weekly/apt-xapian-index: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index

buisnesscard sid_d-i in "expert" mode asks different questions on amd64 vs powerpc

2010-05-23 Thread Rick Thomas
I recently installed an AMD64 box from a sid_d-i businesscard CD in "expert" mode. It asked me some questions that I didn't remember seeing on my PowerPC installations. In particular, it asked me to chose a distribution (Lenny, Squeeze, Sid) and whether I wanted to use non-free repositor

Re: (OT) suggestion on terse wording of "IT Helpdesk"

2010-05-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 25, 2010, at 1:43 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: To try to jam all of that information into the smtp address itself is silly. Again, this is what display names and sigs are for. Silly, perhaps for you or me, Stan. Not so for somebody from another culture, where the chain-of-command from

Re: Affordable big endian machine to run debian

2010-05-26 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 26, 2010, at 8:42 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Hi there, For a toy project I am looking for a big endian machine where I could run debian on it (of course!). I tried using qemu + a powerpc image but running a C++ compiler / linker was extraodinarly slow. G5 is just way to expensive fo

Re: date bug?

2010-06-01 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 1, 2010, at 3:32 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: That's why whomever came up with the complete idiocy of breaking up 52 weeks into 12 irregularly-sized months, days starting in the middle of the night and years in the middle of winter, should br brought behind the barn and flayed alive. Gi

Re: How can I emulate Debian for PowerPC on Intel processor?

2010-07-30 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 30, 2010, at 6:56 AM, Christian Simo wrote: Dear Team! I currently virtualize with vmware, Please how can I run Debian for PPC on Intel or How can I emulate Intel to support PPC OS Thanks in advance The interesting question is what "flavor" of PowerPC? There are NewWorld Macs

Re: Bits from the (chilly) release team

2010-08-06 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 6, 2010, at 9:44 AM, Neil McGovern wrote: RC bugs === For the release, we need to get rid of all release critical bugs. Please don't hesitate, pick any bug from http://bts.turmzimmer.net/details.php?bydist=squeeze and fix it. Or send in a patch in case there is none yet. And o

Re: Bits from the (chilly) release team

2010-08-13 Thread Rick Thomas
Now that everyone is back home from DebConf, I'll try one more time. When I first posted it I got crickets... Rick On Aug 6, 2010, at 2:42 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: On Aug 6, 2010, at 9:44 AM, Neil McGovern wrote: RC bugs === For the release, we need to get rid of all re

Re: Re (2): Linux hub

2010-09-05 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks for the informative discussion! On Sep 5, 2010, at 3:56 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Switches are smart devices, ... They do not use out-of-band information to make switching decisions. Does Spanning Tree Protocol and/or V-lan tagging count as "out-of-band information"? Ri

gdm3 is nice and all, but...

2010-12-12 Thread Rick Thomas
gdm3 is nice, but... I'd like to be able to configure things the way I used to be able to do with gdm. E.g. the background with stars and space ships is interesting, but I like to have different login backgrounds for each of my machines (helps me to remember what I'm doing). How do I do t

Re: gdm3 is nice and all, but...

2010-12-12 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 12, 2010, at 8:37 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: And, suppose I wanted to fall back to the old gdm. What do I have to do to get that? Just install the gdm package. Well, that worked, but it was a bit scary getting there! It required that I negotiate *firmly* with aptitude regarding th

Re: X server problem

2006-01-04 Thread Rick Thomas
I forget the details, but there is a "Hexadecimal" vs " decimal" conflict between XF86Config* and the output of lspci. One gives the card location in decimal and the other gives it in hex. So 12(hex)=18(decimal). HTH, Rick On Jan 4, 2006, at 9:06 AM, David Pead wrote: Hello, I manage

How to get VMware Player going on Debian 12 bookworm

2023-11-05 Thread Rick Thomas
The title says it all, I hope. I've tried installing vmware player on my Bookworm according to the instructions from https://techviewleo.com/install-vmware-on-debian/ But I can't seem to get vmware player to start up. What am I doing wrong? Is there a better location to look for instruct

Documentation for KVM/QEMU? [Re: How to get VMware Player going on Debian 12 bookworm]

2023-11-05 Thread Rick Thomas
Can anyone recommend good documentation on KVM/QEMU that would allow me to get up to speed on it quickly? Thanks! Rick On Sun, Nov 5, 2023, at 4:33 AM, Michael Kjörling wrote: > On 5 Nov 2023 10:56 +0100, from andr...@xss.co.at (Andreas Haumer): >>> PPS: If VMware isn't a good choice, would the

Re: How to get VMware Player going on Debian 12 bookworm

2023-11-06 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sun, Nov 5, 2023, at 7:04 PM, జిందం వాఐి wrote: >> PPS: If VMware isn't a good choice, >> would there be a better VM supervisor >> I could use? If so, can you point me >> to a set of instructions for it? > > * these are MY personal opnions from > experience [ almost decade ago ] > [ may not b

Is it safe to install Bookworm on a new machine now?

2023-12-12 Thread Rick Thomas
Is there a netinst iso that I can use to safely install Bookworm (stable) on a new PC? If so, where can I download it from? If not, how much longer is it likely to be before one exists? Thanks! Rick

Re: Is it safe to install Bookworm on a new machine now?

2023-12-12 Thread Rick Thomas
On Tue, Dec 12, 2023, at 6:22 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 05:47:48PM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: >> Is there a netinst iso that I can use to safely install Bookworm (stable) on >> a new PC? > > Well, with a netinst, the issue isn't what'

Re: Content of /etc/ethers

2024-01-04 Thread Rick Thomas
Thank you for mentioning "dnsmasq". I do the same thing on my home network and it works very well. Rick On Wed, Jan 3, 2024, at 9:29 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Which tools read /etc/ethers, what do they expect in there, what do >> they do with the contents? > > AFAIK it's mostly unused nowaday

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-01 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mon, May 1, 2023, at 11:14 AM, Bret Busby wrote: > On 2/5/23 02:06, David Christensen wrote: >> On 5/1/23 06:51, Bonno Bloksma wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On my "new" Bullseye machines the root volume starts to fill up. The >>> cause seems to be the /usr/lib folder. >>> On my older Buster (10.13) ma

VirtualBox key is store in deprecated legacy keyring

2023-06-19 Thread Rick Thomas
I recently upgraded one of my Debian Bullseye machines to Bookworm. The machine's main purpose is to run Virtualbox to allow me to experiment on disposable VMs rather than real hardware. Now when I do "apt update" I get this message: .W: https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/di

Ethernet device names change Bullseye => Bookworm. How to assign unchanging name to device?

2023-06-19 Thread Rick Thomas
I've been upgrading my machines Bullseye => Bookworm recently. In a few of these upgrades, the name of the ethernet device changed. (E.g. enP2p32s15f0 => enP2p0s15f0) This required changes to /etc/network/interfaces in order to start up the interface. This is only a minor inconvenience (thou

Re: VirtualBox key is store in deprecated legacy keyring

2023-06-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mon, Jun 19, 2023, at 8:27 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 11:15 PM Rick Thomas wrote: >> >> Now when I do "apt update" I get this message: >> .W: >> https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/dists/bullseye/InRelease: &

Raspberry Pi Debian after upgrade Bullseye => Bookworm -- problem Setting up ca-certificates-java

2023-06-21 Thread Rick Thomas
I have a Raspberry Pi that is running Debian (*not* Raspbian) that I just upgraded from Bullseye => Bookworm. Following the upgrade whenever I try to install the latest upgrades, I get errors (see attached transcript). Can anybody see what I've done wrong? Or what I can do to fix it? I'm not

Re: Raspberry Pi Debian after upgrade Bullseye => Bookworm -- problem Setting up ca-certificates-java

2023-06-22 Thread Rick Thomas
On Wed, Jun 21, 2023, at 9:21 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 12:15 AM Rick Thomas wrote: >> >> I have a Raspberry Pi that is running Debian (*not* Raspbian) that I just >> upgraded from Bullseye => Bookworm. >> >> Following the upgrade

Re: Raspberry Pi Debian after upgrade Bullseye => Bookworm -- problem Setting up ca-certificates-java

2023-06-22 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks, Jeff! On Thu, Jun 22, 2023, at 12:04 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 2:49 AM Rick Thomas wrote: snip >> In this case, the package is already installed. >> Unfortunately when I try to reinstall it, I get: >> >> rbthomas@pi:

Re: Raspberry Pi Debian after upgrade Bullseye => Bookworm -- problem Setting up ca-certificates-java

2023-06-22 Thread Rick Thomas
That seems to have worked (I think)... On Thu, Jun 22, 2023, at 7:34 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: snip > It might be worth looking at precisely what is not installed / removed > dpkg -C will give you what needs configuring if anything, I think. > > I had a similar experience with upg

How to configure CUPS printer software on a machine with no GUI -- only text CLI console.

2024-07-24 Thread Rick Thomas
What's the best way to install (and configure) the CUPS printer software on a machine that doesn't have any GUI software? Specifically, the Marvell OpenRD machines that I have ("client" and "ultimate") only have 500 MB of RAM. So I'm reluctant to install a GUI (though I realize they have a VGA

Re: How to configure CUPS printer software on a machine with no GUI -- only text CLI console.

2024-07-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Wed, Jul 24, 2024, at 3:59 AM, mick.crane wrote: > On 2024-07-24 11:09, Rick Thomas wrote: >> What's the best way to install (and configure) the CUPS printer >> software on a machine that doesn't have any GUI software? >> >> Specifically, the Marvell

SOLVED: Re: How to configure CUPS printer software on a machine with no GUI -- only text CLI console.

2024-07-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Wed, Jul 24, 2024, at 3:09 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > What's the best way to install (and configure) the CUPS printer > software on a machine that doesn't have any GUI software? > > Specifically, the Marvell OpenRD machines that I have ("client" and > "

Re: How to configure CUPS printer software on a machine with no GUI -- only text CLI console.

2024-07-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Wed, Jul 24, 2024, at 6:22 PM, mick.crane wrote: > On 2024-07-24 23:32, Rick Thomas wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 24, 2024, at 3:59 AM, mick.crane wrote: >>> On 2024-07-24 11:09, Rick Thomas wrote: >>>> What's the best way to install (and configure) the CUPS prin

Re: Disk drive zero-fill benchmarks for various synchronization methods and block sizes

2024-09-13 Thread Rick Thomas
On Fri, Sep 13, 2024, at 5:00 AM, Anssi Saari wrote: ... > So the answer to > the question "is running sync needed after dd to block device" is > no. Someone else posted that too on this list recently, in another > thread. On the other hand, it may not be necessary, but it doesn't do any harm.

Re: laptop for debian 12

2025-01-01 Thread Rick Thomas
On Wed, Jan 1, 2025, at 7:21 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Memory: 8GB > > I live quite happily with 8GB of RAM in several of my machines, but > that's for machines which I've owned for more than 10 years already, so > I think it's OK for a new machine only if you can later bump it to 16GB, > ot

Re: "Tips"?

2025-05-14 Thread Rick Thomas
I'll second that! Fastmail is straightforward, reliable, and has decent support. Rick On Wed, May 14, 2025, at 1:38 PM, John Hasler wrote: > Glenn English writes: >> have you looked into the Proton-mail substitute for Gmail? > > Or Fastmail, which I'm quite happy with. > -- > John Hasler > j..

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