Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, 11 June 2022 08:40:15 EDT Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 07:13:38AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > On Friday, 10 June 2022 08:23:26 EDT gene heskett wrote: > > > On Friday, 10 June 2022 02:45:20 EDT gene heskett wrote: > > > > On Fri

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, 11 June 2022 09:32:45 EDT rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, June 11, 2022 07:13:38 AM gene heskett wrote: > > Welp, I did that, but the installer refuses to set the bootable flag > > on that drive, it blinks the remote screen, but when its repainted, > >

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, 11 June 2022 09:01:48 EDT Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 07:31:36AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 00:49:57 EDT David Wright wrote: > > > > AFAIK, there's no way of recording the screens if you us

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, 11 June 2022 11:47:46 EDT gene heskett wrote: > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 09:01:48 EDT Andy Smith wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 07:31:36AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 00:49:57 EDT David Wright wrote

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, 11 June 2022 13:32:54 EDT gene heskett wrote: > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 11:47:46 EDT gene heskett wrote: > > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 09:01:48 EDT Andy Smith wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 07:31:36AM -0400, gene hesk

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, 11 June 2022 14:49:07 EDT Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 01:32:54PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 11:47:46 EDT gene heskett wrote: > > > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 09:01:48 EDT Andy Smith wrote: > > > > Hello

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, 11 June 2022 14:52:36 EDT David Wright wrote: > On Sat 11 Jun 2022 at 11:47:46 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 09:01:48 EDT Andy Smith wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 07:31:36AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > > > On Sa

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, 11 June 2022 14:53:29 EDT David Wright wrote: > On Sat 11 Jun 2022 at 07:31:36 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 05:39:22 EDT gene heskett wrote: > > > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 00:49:57 EDT David Wright wrote: > > > > On Fri

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, 11 June 2022 13:28:55 EDT Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > And I did try ext2 for an fs choice. Made no difference, it would > > > not set the bootable flag. Tried both fat16 and fat32 too. > > > Spmething would not allow

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, 11 June 2022 14:53:13 EDT David Wright wrote: > On Sat 11 Jun 2022 at 07:13:38 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > On Friday, 10 June 2022 08:23:26 EDT gene heskett wrote: > > > On Friday, 10 June 2022 02:45:20 EDT gene heskett wrote: > > > > On Friday, 1

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, 12 June 2022 03:21:50 EDT Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > The fact remains that xterm is not in the pulldown menu's, I have > > konsole and termit, and termit will work from x and give me mouse > > driven copy/ paste. But its a te

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread gene heskett
On 6/12/22 10:01, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, June 12, 2022 07:53:21 AM gene heskett wrote: What I do have is konsole and termit, no xterm. For me, konsole does fine -- I can C&P from it with the mouse (and, presumably, keystrokes). Well, I gave up and did another 29t install,

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread gene heskett
On 6/12/22 12:34, David Wright wrote: On Sat 11 Jun 2022 at 19:41:34 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: On Saturday, 11 June 2022 13:32:54 EDT gene heskett wrote: On Saturday, 11 June 2022 11:47:46 EDT gene heskett wrote: Let me go look at synaptic on the remote machine I've been using to s

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread gene heskett
On 6/12/22 12:41, Dan Ritter wrote: gene heskett wrote: On 6/12/22 10:01, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, June 12, 2022 07:53:21 AM gene heskett wrote: That's not the important first impression however. Installing without a root pw, I am prevented from doing anything to the s

Re: error using synaptic UPGRADE/INSTALL

2022-06-12 Thread gene heskett
our $PATH suggests you might have become root using "su" and not "su -" or "su --login". Try one of these instead. (The change to su's semantics gets discussed here fairly regularly.) Cheers, David. . Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-13 Thread gene heskett
t open for discussion. You have been helpful on this list for a long time, and the fact that you and I don't see eye to eye does not prevent me from saying: take care, and stay well Michael. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:

user perms

2022-06-13 Thread gene heskett
isplayed printers its finding, without asking me for a pw. So obviously, something is wrong. I am a member of the sudo group and the lp group. Do I have to do a 32nd install so it all hopefully gets fixed so I can actually do something? hanks for any ideas. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "

Re: user perms

2022-06-13 Thread gene heskett
On 6/13/22 14:36, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 01:56:12PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: >> I appear as user 1000 seem to be stuck behind some sort of a >> permissions wall. > > SHOW. US. I got tired of fighting with it Greg, so I did install #32 and installed g

Re: perms

2022-06-13 Thread gene heskett
-midnight-commander-to-sublime maybe there are things to do in [colors] section of ~/.config/mc/ini That also was fixed by a re-install. Thank you, Take care & stay well, mick Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Ple

Re: user perms

2022-06-14 Thread gene heskett
On 6/14/22 13:25, David Wright wrote: On Mon 13 Jun 2022 at 19:03:47 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: On 6/13/22 14:36, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 01:56:12PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: >> I appear as user 1000 seem to be stuck behind some sort of a >> permissions wa

Re: user perms

2022-06-15 Thread gene heskett
e where replies begin and end. I'm not sure why. (Anyway, I've inserted them again.) Just one of the t-bird bugs, I see this sentence is in a larger type, but I've no clue why. I haven't specifically changed it nor have I used t-bird for a mailer for a decade, and in that decade i

Re: user perms

2022-06-15 Thread gene heskett
s problem now seems to have escalated. AppArmor is installed, is it now a 2nd cause for a perms denial? I think the packages they belong to are installed just as Recommends. [ … snipped stuff about solder and email ?fonts … ] Cheers, David. Take care and stay well, David. Cheers, Gene Heskett. --

Re: user perms

2022-06-16 Thread gene heskett
On 6/16/22 03:58, Anssi Saari wrote: gene heskett writes: now my additional reply is munged, backspaces or Del's will not "take" What the heck is this vertical bar it uses for a quote level, whats wrong with > >> etc for quote indicators? There's a button

Re: user perms

2022-06-16 Thread gene heskett
the quoting that looks like Anssi Saari wrote it. tbird is buggier than 10 day old road kill in August! I just did fix it, but extensive keyboard calisthentics were required. Thanks Anssi Saari, take care & stay well. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defe

digikam import fails

2022-06-16 Thread gene heskett
. I've tried to install some of them by the names reported, but that universally does not exit. And I'd druther not install the rest of kde, its not stable for me. Thanks all. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and a

Re: digikam import fails

2022-06-16 Thread gene heskett
On 6/16/22 15:42, mick crane wrote: On 2022-06-16 20:19, gene heskett wrote: The shell I ran digikam from is reporting screens full of missing this and that despite the installation of digikam pulling in:  0 upgraded, 261 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 273 MB of

Re: digikam import fails [solved workaround]

2022-06-16 Thread gene heskett
On 6/16/22 16:40, mick crane wrote: On 2022-06-16 21:23, gene heskett wrote: [...] Thanks Mick. Take care and stay well. It's ages since I did anything with cameras. In the past I've taken the card out and put it in a reader does "gphoto2 --auto-detect" do anything ? --l

Re: digikam import fails

2022-06-16 Thread gene heskett
it.. I just needed the last pix. And got it off the card with gimp. Thanks Fred, take care & stay well. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we de

Re: digikam import fails

2022-06-16 Thread gene heskett
On 6/16/22 21:23, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: On Thursday 16 June 2022 03:19:38 pm gene heskett wrote: Greetings all; I just took a pix of one of my projects to send to a friend, but when I had installed digikam to download the pix from my camera, going thru the usual steps to access the

Re: digikam import fails

2022-06-17 Thread gene heskett
this machine to use, not fight with a broken installer and now the package manager. Is there some option I can set in synaptic to make it fully resolve the missing dependencies? That's today's first question as I strive to make this machine usable. Again. Thank you. Cheers, Gene H

Re: digikam import fails

2022-06-17 Thread gene heskett
On 6/17/22 08:25, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 08:05:16AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 6/17/22 01:02, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 08:39:19PM +0100, Brian wrote: [...] The point about being poitve and constructive rather than snarky is a more general

Re: digikam import fails

2022-06-17 Thread gene heskett
On 6/17/22 12:40, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: On Thursday 16 June 2022 09:45:21 pm gene heskett wrote: I must be missing something here... When I plug in my camera to a US port,  it shows up on the desktop,  at which point I can mount it.  Then I can access it and copy/move stuff to wherever

Re: user perms

2022-06-17 Thread gene heskett
On 6/17/22 16:29, Anssi Saari wrote: gene heskett writes: I just did all that, so now I have an /etc/rc.local but not an rc-local but he changes from rc.local to rc-local in the middle. confusing. So which is it. I originally created an rc.local, changed it to rc-local, and back with mv

Re: non installed printer can not be removed

2022-06-19 Thread gene heskett
e you print in multipage poster mode that is a great help in finding configuration flaws. PITA to paste up and might need a whole sheet of cheap plywood to hold it but its priceless when analyzing the logic. Take care & stay well, Gareth Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes

Re: non installed printer can not be removed

2022-06-19 Thread gene heskett
eanwhile I sent another mail, but I suppose, it does also not much help. Anyway, I will do as you advised next time I get access to the computer. Best regards and a happy weekend! Hans Looks like I should have replied to you Hans, see my reply to Gareth.. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There

I *think* I found the apache2 docs, but it's in .html and I cannot get firefox to access it using "file:"+ /path/to/filedir

2022-06-21 Thread gene heskett
Greetings all; So how am I supposed to read these installed docs? Thanks all. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the la

Re: I *think* I found the apache2 docs, but it's in .html and Icannot get firefox to access it using "file:"+ /path/to/filedir

2022-06-21 Thread gene heskett
On 6/21/22 12:11, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 11:55:56AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: Greetings all; So how am I supposed to read these installed docs? Thanks all. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury

Re: I *think* I found the apache2 docs, but it's in .html and Icannot get firefox to access it using "file:"+ /path/to/filedir

2022-06-21 Thread gene heskett
On 6/21/22 12:26, Will Mengarini wrote: * gene heskett [22-06/21=Tu 11:55 -0400]: [Apache2 docs are in .html & Firefox won't access it using "file:"+ /path/to/filedir, so] how am I supposed to read these installed docs? Firefox disables file: URLs by default now, but you

Re: I *think* I found the apache2 docs, but it's in .html and Icannot getfirefox to access it using "file:"+ /path/to/filedir

2022-06-21 Thread gene heskett
On 6/21/22 14:09, Gareth Evans wrote: On Tue 21 Jun 2022, at 18:06, gene heskett wrote: On 6/21/22 12:11, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 11:55:56AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: Greetings all; So how am I supposed to read these installed docs? Thanks all. Cheers, Gene

Re: I *think* I found the apache2 docs, but it's in .html andIcannot getfirefox to access it using "file:"+ /path/to/filedir

2022-06-21 Thread gene heskett
On 6/21/22 15:30, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 03:16:11PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: /usr/sbin is not in su's $PATH https://wiki.debian.org/NewInBuster#Changes Thanks Greg just what Mr.Gene ordered. Take care & stay well. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are fo

Re: new subject

2022-06-21 Thread gene heskett
On 6/21/22 15:19, gene heskett writes: dig "my-site-name" returns the proper ipv4 address.  I just used the address:6309 and it worked. So I edited the address bar to use the registered name:6309 and hit F5, a couple times, and that works. So now I need a stanza in apache2.conf t

Re: I *think* I found the apache2 docs, but it's in .html and Icannot getfirefox to access it using "file:"+ /path/to/filedir

2022-06-22 Thread gene heskett
On 6/22/22 10:45, Gareth Evans wrote: On 21 Jun 2022, at 22:37, Gareth Evans wrote:  On 21 Jun 2022, at 22:12, Gareth Evans wrote: On Tue 21 Jun 2022, at 20:16, gene heskett wrote: On 6/21/22 14:09, Gareth Evans wrote: On Tue 21 Jun 2022, at 18:06, gene heskett wrote: On 6/21/22 12

Re: I *think* I found the apache2 docs, but it's in .html and Icannot getfirefox to access it using "file:"+ /path/to/filedir

2022-06-22 Thread gene heskett
, Thanks Gareth. However, if there is a way to implement a OTP so I can keep track of the users, I could use some help with that as long as I don't setup a universal pw the bots can use. What I'd like is a true OTP with a 2 week lifetime.  Can that be done? Take care and stay we

Re: I *think* I found the apache2 docs, but it's in .html and Icannotgetfirefox to access it using "file:"+ /path/to/filedir

2022-06-22 Thread gene heskett
On 6/22/22 16:51, Gareth Evans wrote: On Wed 22 Jun 2022, at 21:16, gene heskett wrote: On 6/22/22 10:45, Gareth Evans wrote: [and I sniped a few kilobytes of.] I think I've got it, but I did find what may be a bug in mod auth_plain. Its asking for a username and pw, but nothing see

Re: I *think* I found the apache2 docs, but it's in .html andIcannotgetfirefox to access it using "file:"+ /path/to/filedir

2022-06-22 Thread gene heskett
On 6/22/22 19:39, Gareth Evans wrote: On Wed 22 Jun 2022, at 22:42, gene heskett wrote: On 6/22/22 16:51, Gareth Evans wrote: On Wed 22 Jun 2022, at 21:16, gene heskett wrote: On 6/22/22 10:45, Gareth Evans wrote: [and I sniped a few kilobytes of.] I think I've got it, but I did find

Re: I *think* I found the apache2 docs, but it's in .html andIcannotgetfirefox to access it using "file:"+ /path/to/filedir

2022-06-23 Thread gene heskett
oing it, that's even better. :o)> Thank you for the help, Gareth, take care and stay well. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire r

Digikam busted on bullseye.

2022-06-26 Thread gene heskett
in on? Thanks all. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis

Re: Digikam busted on bullseye.

2022-06-26 Thread gene heskett
On 6/26/22 15:40, Brian wrote: On Sun 26 Jun 2022 at 15:13:35 -0400, gene heskett wrote: Greetings all; I've run out of patience with digikams inability to see existing albums, or to create a new one. That is disabling its importing from the camera, making me take the card out and put it

Re: Customizing firefox-esr.

2022-06-28 Thread gene heskett
indow? Present when firefox opens and remaining present until quiting. Thx,... P.L. A dbl-click turns the address bar into editable. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Plea

Re: SSD Optimization and tweaks - Looking for tips/recomendations

2022-06-28 Thread gene heskett
6G, I would probably have destroyed 2 a year with that amount of traffic in what would have to be considered cramped space.  Give an SSD room to do its thing and you'll be thanked. . Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and a

Re: stopping job before shutdown.

2022-06-29 Thread gene heskett
ecommended sequence which will assure that the drive remains good until something else goes aglay. . Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire

Re: stopping job before shutdown.

2022-06-29 Thread gene heskett
On 6/29/22 13:43, Will Mengarini wrote: * mick crane [22-06/29=We 13:31 +0100]: [...] when turning off PC with power button there is the message, "stopping job" [...] * gene heskett [22-06/29=We 09:08 -0400]: That method of stopping the pc is quite dangerous [...] * to...@tuxte

nft newbie

2022-07-06 Thread gene heskett
ule when I find a bots address in the logs? The man page while quite voluminus is as usual mostly bereft of useful examples. Thank you nftables experts. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that ord

Re: nft newbie

2022-07-06 Thread gene heskett
On 7/6/22 20:20, Will Mengarini wrote: * gene heskett [22-07/06=We 18:50 -0400]: [...] iptables is out of support, replaced I guess with nft. [...] whats the command to [...] The man page while quite voluminus is as usual mostly bereft of useful examples. <https://wiki.nftables.org/w

Re: nft newbie

2022-07-07 Thread gene heskett
On 7/7/22 10:13, Tom Browder wrote: On Wed, Jul 6, 2022 at 7:17 PM Will Mengarini wrote: * gene heskett [22-07/06=We 18:50 -0400]: [...] iptables is out of support, replaced I guess with nft. [...] whats the command to [...] The nft is too complicated. UFW works great and is so easy. -Tom

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-09 Thread gene heskett
ly 150 miles north of me.  Until such time as our local ISP's offer it, we have no choice but to disable it. It really is that simple. Take care and stay well Andy. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-09 Thread gene heskett
On 7/9/22 21:00, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Jul 09, 2022 at 06:51:22PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: On Sat, 9 Jul 2022 15:59:48 -0400 gene heskett wrote: Andy, you obviously don't live in ipv4 only territory. Until n-m or whatever gets trained to auto switch to ipv4 if 6 fails, th

Re: Debian 11: MTA Exim4 not listening to fetchmail

2022-07-10 Thread gene heskett
a mailing list, inhabited by the author/maintainer of fetchmail, and that a knowledgeable reply by Mathias is usually forthcoming in just an hour or so. <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fetchmail-users> Take care and stay well. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are fo

Re: Does Debian supports backticks in the Makefile?

2022-07-11 Thread gene heskett
good idea to sudo updatedb before running locate, assuring then that it has an uptodate database.  I think it does a weekly update, but if Igor is installing stuff from the error messages, that is probably something he should be doing after installing something missing. Cheers, Gene Heskett. --

Re: nft newbie

2022-07-12 Thread gene heskett
sends nothing back so he'll go looking for an easier target Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must fir

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-12 Thread gene heskett
logs apache2 keeps. No commercials, just me blowing my own horn. Boring... . Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law

cups broken

2022-07-13 Thread gene heskett
er to disable this non-working garbage. Thanks for any good clues. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must fir

Re: cups broken

2022-07-13 Thread gene heskett
On 7/13/22 13:59, John Conover wrote: gene heskett writes: I give up, the driverless printer cups installs automaticaly cannot be deleted and has taken over from the brother drivers that work, preventing me from using the printer at all. So how do I disable the driverless junk? Is that a

Re: cups broken

2022-07-13 Thread gene heskett
On 7/13/22 15:14, Brian wrote: On Wed 13 Jul 2022 at 13:21:07 -0400, gene heskett wrote: [Broken lines mended to give a readable original post.] Blame that in tbird. I give up, the driverless printer cups installs automaticaly cannot be deleted and has taken over from the brother drivers

Re: cups broken

2022-07-13 Thread gene heskett
On 7/13/22 15:15, Gareth Evans wrote: On 13 Jul 2022, at 18:21, gene heskett wrote: I give up, the driverless printer cups installs automaticaly cannot be deleted and has taken over from the brother drivers that work, preventing me from using the printer at all. So how do I disable the

Re: cups broken

2022-07-13 Thread gene heskett
On 7/13/22 18:25, Gareth Evans wrote: On 13 Jul 2022, at 22:04, gene heskett wrote: On 7/13/22 15:15, Gareth Evans wrote: [...] Out of interest, which model printer(s) has the issue? Brother MFC-J6920DW A huge tabloid capable printer/scanner # lpinfo -v first off, none of that stuff is

Re: cups broken

2022-07-13 Thread gene heskett
On 7/13/22 19:27, Brian wrote: On Wed 13 Jul 2022 at 16:10:56 -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 7/13/22 15:14, Brian wrote: On Wed 13 Jul 2022 at 13:21:07 -0400, gene heskett wrote: [Broken lines mended to give a readable original post.] Blame that in tbird. Yet another part of the compting

Re: cups broken

2022-07-14 Thread gene heskett
On 7/14/22 05:19, Brian wrote: On Wed 13 Jul 2022 at 21:31:24 -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 7/13/22 19:27, Brian wrote: On Wed 13 Jul 2022 at 16:10:56 -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 7/13/22 15:14, Brian wrote: On Wed 13 Jul 2022 at 13:21:07 -0400, gene heskett wrote: [Broken lines mended

Re: cups broken FIXED!!!!

2022-07-14 Thread gene heskett
On 7/14/22 13:08, Brian wrote: On Thu 14 Jul 2022 at 11:56:10 -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 7/14/22 05:19, Brian wrote: [...] But now the "add printer" just re-configures the existing one. "Add" does not make a new profile. I need both profiles to show up in both fir

Re: Processors older than Intel Pentium 4

2022-07-17 Thread gene heskett
ot be fixed with microcode. And many of them had a halt bug that if encountered, had no recovery except a full power down restart.  The use of microcode to fix such was only in family $10 and higher. I think most of those have been thrown in the dumpster by now, but be aware they could still exist.

I think I've asked before, but how do I get rid of the false positives for a binary file in a -r search?

2022-07-21 Thread gene heskett
ches when it doesn't. grep -r .scad|grep thrust_brace Is there an option to shut that binary trash talk off? Thanks all. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author,

Re: [OT] still blue

2022-07-25 Thread gene heskett
mp; stay well, Tomas. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/>

Re: [OT] still blue

2022-07-25 Thread gene heskett
ly as closely guarded as the recipe for coco-cola is. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the

Re: Help: disk swap

2022-07-27 Thread gene heskett
name the disk partition, and use that "name" in the /etc/fstab to mount it. You may have to rerun grub install too. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (A

Re: Three unsolvable Problems Printer II

2022-07-27 Thread gene heskett
time you click on printers again.  And it blocks the makers drivers which in the case of Brother, do everything  the printer is capable of. Driverless might work with some of the recent $40 printers, but it is a long way from being ready for prime time on a 5 yo $700 printer. Cheers, Gene He

Re: Three unsolvable Problems Printer II

2022-07-28 Thread gene heskett
On 7/28/22 01:15, David Wright wrote: On Wed 27 Jul 2022 at 21:56:44 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: On 7/27/22 20:25, Gareth Evans wrote: On 28 Jul 2022, at 00:36, Gareth Evans wrote: [...] unless the [driverless] queue was added via lpadmin. Just to correct the point, i keep forgetting, it

Re: How do you mount a solid state drive? ...

2022-07-28 Thread gene heskett
gged it in. In both cases you'll see which name the device was registered with. dmesg -w Both need root privilege, so "sudo" or "su" or whatever. sudo vim /etc/sysctl.conf kernel.dmesg_restrict=0 Regards, Did that Nicolas, on bullseye still no perms w/o the sudo. Take care

Re: How do you mount a solid state drive? ...

2022-07-28 Thread gene heskett
Seems like it s/b, but doesn't see my camera, but a tail on /var/log/syslog sees it just fine. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire res

Re: How do you mount a solid state drive? ...

2022-07-28 Thread gene heskett
t was I supposed to write? Thank Nic. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Lo

Re: How do you mount a solid state drive? ...

2022-07-28 Thread gene heskett
On 7/28/22 13:01, Nicolas George wrote: gene heskett (12022-07-28): gene@coyote:/var/log$ sudo sysctl -w sysctl: no variables specified Try `sysctl --help' for more information. Have you tried reading the fine manual? yes. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used

Re: Nouveau Is (was: Nvidia + Plasma + Keyboard)

2022-08-04 Thread gene heskett
ocked from loading), and the conceptual superiority of the DIX over the DDX, it's probably better to mention Nouveau only as the inferior option when discussing DIX suitability to task. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and

Re: VFAT vs. umask.

2022-08-04 Thread gene heskett
" is one of the most overloaded words in our vocabulary. Take care and stay well. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for

can't unpack an .zx

2022-08-17 Thread gene heskett
ock64-next-try$ xz -dl --arm --keep Armbian_22.05.4_Rock64_jammy_current_5.15.48_xfce_desktop.img.xz Strms  Blocks   Compressed Uncompressed  Ratio  Check   Filename     1  22  1,187.6 MiB  6,296.0 MiB  0.189  CRC32 Armbian_22.05.4_Rock64_jammy_current_5.15.48_xfce_desktop.img.xz So how do I unpack it, the xz file has 777 perms. Thanks folks.

Re: stretch vs iptables auto-start

2020-08-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 23 August 2020 15:45:22 Joe wrote: > On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 14:26:19 -0400 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > Since the big conversion of file structs vs who owns what, which > > apparently includes running rc.local as the logged in u

Re: stretch vs iptables auto-start

2020-08-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 23 August 2020 16:10:10 deloptes wrote: > Hi Gene, > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Since the big conversion of file structs vs who owns what, which > > apparently includes running rc.local as the logged in user and not > > as root, that has hidden the iptables st

Re: stretch vs iptables auto-start

2020-08-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 24 August 2020 04:45:01 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 23 aug 20, 21:34:12, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 23 August 2020 15:45:22 Joe wrote: > > > My server iptables is inherited from, I think, sarge, so it's > > > probably not done optimally tod

Re: stretch vs iptables auto-start

2020-08-24 Thread Gene Heskett
anks Andy. > On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 8:15 PM deloptes wrote: > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > At the present time I have around 80 rules, all designed to deny > > > the network spiders and bots that think they have to mirror my > > > several giga-byte site, 2 or 3 t

Re: how to test disk for bad sector

2020-08-29 Thread Gene Heskett
d new installation! > Marco. Uh, I have to ask. Or maybe I came into the middle of what has become a boring thread? dd is a whole device writer, but his command line is to an existing partition? His command line should not have had the 1 according to my thinking. His whole disk might be 320 gi

Re: how to test disk for bad sector

2020-08-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 29 August 2020 22:01:03 Long Wind wrote: >On Saturday, August 29, 2020, 9:04:17 PM EDT, Gene Heskett > wrote: > > Uh, I have to ask. Or maybe I came into the middle of what has become > a boring thread? > > dd is a whole device writer, but his command l

Re: linux isn't robust enough to handle bad sector??

2020-09-19 Thread Gene Heskett
nese microphone cables for CB radio's. Its been a ticking time bomb ever since. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the la

Re: crc not installed but rsync using it? ...

2020-09-25 Thread Gene Heskett
ers have, no? I see a lot of people asking the same kinds of > questiions I ask, so it seems as Lenon sang that "I am not the only > one" No you are not the only one, but you are a minority that does not always want to understand how to use the internet and be safe at the same time. It

Re: crc not installed but rsync using it? ...

2020-09-25 Thread Gene Heskett
media for the PC was a PITA. Lasted 6 months at best with the ext3 filesystem abusing it. And used around 200 watts. The Buffalo Netfinity router might use 10 watts. With the radio turned off, even less. Stay safe and well, John. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in

Re: crc not installed but rsync using it? ...

2020-09-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 25 September 2020 10:23:43 Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 09:01:26AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > >Your paranoia is excessive. I have 5 machines online ATM, but they > > are all on a local network in the 1902.168.xx.xx block, which is NOT > > routa

Re: crc not installed but rsync using it? ...

2020-09-25 Thread Gene Heskett
le though. But it won't be sold as anything but a router. We'll likely have to look thru the camo cloaking of its router propaganda to find it. High likelyhood we already have it and we've not looked in the proper place. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used

Re: Regarding your case number 10724899 [ ref:_00D00hhzl._5004V11emZL:ref ]

2020-09-25 Thread Gene Heskett
support in that event. Seagate has deep pockets. > Regards, > Tom Dial > > > -- > > John Doe Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If w

Re: crc not installed but rsync using it? ...

2020-09-25 Thread Gene Heskett
ve to be registered? > - What 2nd port of what? The second ethernet port of the pc you built to run it. > > > Stefan Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt

Re: ssh session times out annoyingly fast, why?

2020-09-29 Thread Gene Heskett
ng This is likely quite true Michael, but it also is only a hint as to how to fix it for the OP. I maintain 8 to 12 such ssh connections here to my othermachines, establishing them at boot time, but all are local 192.168.xx.xx addresses so not NAT'd going either direction, so I am not

How to disable the screen locker on amd64 buster?

2020-10-03 Thread Gene Heskett
overridden before the 10 minute timeout is done. Some of us like xfce4, please advise how to permanently disable lightdm and its light-locker. _Forever_. We do know how to turn off the monitor at the end of the day. Thank you. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defen

Re: How to disable the screen locker on amd64 buster?

2020-10-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 03 October 2020 08:12:56 Dan Ritter wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > The computer is controlling high powered machinery. Having the > > screen locker kick in, disabling our access to the application until > > we have wasted a minute typing on a poor keyboard tryi

Re: How to disable the screen locker on amd64 buster?

2020-10-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 03 October 2020 08:56:33 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 04:27:08AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > The computer is controlling high powered machinery. Having the > > screen locker kick in, disabling our access to the application until > > we

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