Re: is the mailing list mangling email character-encoding

Ed Greshko writes: > Yes.  For some reason I can't fathom it seems the mailing list > software turns every Content-Transfer-Encoding to base64 It's just "old fashioned stupidity" far beyond the ken of today's users inexperienced with the details of the global mail system. Let me explain. Mail

Re: how do I use gunzip with dd?

On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 12:50 AM Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 21Sep2019 23:24, ToddAndMargo wrote: >> On 9/21/19 10:02 PM, Derrik Walker v2.0 wrote: >>> >>> Try replacing gunzip with zcat. >> >> Worked. Thank you! > > FFS. The gzip folks are back to this hubris? When it first came out > they tried

Re: is the mailing list mangling email character-encoding

Tom Horsley writes: > Some of the messages show the international characters, In this thread, those are Ed's. > and some do not. Tim's. > It would be interesting to examine the detailed headers of the > message where the characters disappeared, I looked in my local folder, and there's not

Re: how do I use gunzip with dd?

On 9/22/19 11:33 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Digging through my history (which I did not think I still had): # dd status=progress bs=4096 if=/dev/sdb | gzip -v > DeadStick.FC30_$(date +%Y-%m-%d).dd.gz This is a 64 GB stick.  It compressed down to 4 GB, which made senses most of the sti

Re: is the mailing list mangling email character-encoding

On 9/23/19 3:39 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Ed sent his message in Unicode with NFC normalization (the é is pre-composed) and UTF-8. Tim's message contains two ?, indicating a pair of unknown characters. One possibility is that Tim's MUA (Evolution) converts that to NFD normalization and som

Re: how do I use gunzip with dd?

On 9/23/19 12:45 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/22/19 11:33 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Digging through my history (which I did not think I still had): # dd status=progress bs=4096 if=/dev/sdb | gzip -v > DeadStick.FC30_$(date +%Y-%m-%d).dd.gz This is a 64 GB stick.  It compressed down t

Re: grub regression in f30

On 31/08/2019 23:03, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sat, 31 Aug 2019 16:54:08 +0200 François Patte wrote: I use the nvidia driver from rpm-fusion, nouveau does not work with my card. I've never seen the nvidia drive do a high resolution at boot time, only after X starts. The nouveau driver does the hi

Re: how do I use gunzip with dd?

On 9/23/19 4:39 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 9/23/19 12:45 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/22/19 11:33 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Digging through my history (which I did not think I still had): # dd status=progress bs=4096 if=/dev/sdb | gzip -v > DeadStick.FC30_$(date +%Y-%m-%d).d

Bind my personal shell program to open only a specific text file extension (and not all text/plain files)

I have a my personal application (~/bin/launch-app) that read a text file with .app extension (myapp.app) and run some stuff of things Since the myapp.app is a text file ... [lesca@dodo tmp]$ file myapp.app myapp.app: ASCII text if I try bind this file to my program launch-app via nemo, n

rsync oddity

Hi all, when doing an rsync of /home to a remote host with options "--stats -av --hard-links --delete-during" I get sending incremental file list cannot delete non-empty directory: frank/.sylpheed-2.0/imapcache/c64.shuttle.de/frank cannot delete non-empty directory: frank/.sylpheed-2.0/imapcac

[SOLVED] rsync oddity

On Mon, 23 Sep 2019 17:49:27 +0200 Frank Elsner wrote: > Hi all, > > when doing an rsync of /home to a remote host with options > "--stats -av --hard-links --delete-during" I get > > sending incremental file list > cannot delete non-empty directory: > frank/.sylpheed-2.0/imapcache/c64.shuttle.d

Re: Notifications

for LXDE based system which user should I use? I can't see lxdm on fedora lxde spin. On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 12:15 PM Danishka Navin wrote: > Thanks Samuel. > It worked! > > On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 2:17 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: > >> On 8/6/19 12:13 PM, Danishka Navin wrote: >> > Imagine no user lo

Re: KDE on Fedora 30/31

On Sun, 2019-09-22 at 11:38 +0100, John Pilkington wrote: > On 21/09/2019 22:37, Alex Gurenko via users wrote: > > I only have one problem and That's sound not working over HDMI on > > my > > laptop. Assist from that no issues since F27. Prior to that there > > were > > some problems here and the

Re: Notifications

On 9/23/19 9:43 AM, Danishka Navin wrote: for LXDE based system which user should I use? I can't see lxdm on  fedora lxde  spin. Use the "ps" ("ps auxw | less" is what I usually use) command to see what process is running, maybe lightdm. When you find it, you will see which user it is runnin

Re: Notifications

On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 10:32 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 9/23/19 9:43 AM, Danishka Navin wrote: > > for LXDE based system which user should I use? > > I can't see lxdm on fedora lxde spin. > > Use the "ps" ("ps auxw | less" is what I usually use) command to see > what process is running, maybe

Re: Notifications

On 9/23/19 10:42 AM, Danishka Navin wrote: On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 10:32 PM Samuel Sieb > wrote: On 9/23/19 9:43 AM, Danishka Navin wrote: > for LXDE based system which user should I use? > I can't see lxdm on  fedora lxde  spin. Use the "ps" ("ps aux

Re: how do I use gunzip with dd?

On 9/23/19 5:17 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 9/23/19 4:39 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 9/23/19 12:45 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/22/19 11:33 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Digging through my history (which I did not think I still had): # dd status=progress bs=4096 if=/dev/sdb | gzip -

Re: how do I use gunzip with dd?

On 9/24/19 9:14 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: You need to complicate up your partition structure and try it again. # parted /dev/sdb GNU Parted 3.2 Using /dev/sdb Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) print Model: Samsung Type-C (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 64.2GB

Re: Notifications

On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 1:55 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 9/23/19 10:42 AM, Danishka Navin wrote: > > > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 10:32 PM Samuel Sieb > > wrote: > > > > On 9/23/19 9:43 AM, Danishka Navin wrote: > > > for LXDE based system which user should I use?