Re: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-03 Thread James H. H. Lampert
I will say that one should probably not expect perfection from an email reader that's named after a cheap wine. In my experience, T-Bird is the worst email reader I've ever used . . . except for *every other* email reader (without a single exception) I've tried. I'm particularly irritated

Re: OT: Top Posting

2024-05-15 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 5/15/24 6:46 AM, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: . . . No its not, its your refusal to use the down arrow in your reply editor to put your reply after the question. It really is that simple. If your choice of email agents cannot do that, its time to switch to an agent that can. There are dozens of

Re: OT: Top Posting

2024-05-14 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 5/14/24 10:41 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: We have a clash of two cultures here. More than just *nix vs. M$. In business communications by email, the norm is to quote the *entire* thread, every time, without paring anything down, purely for the sake of CYA. As such, top-posting is the only

Re: NextGov: Linux XZ Utils Backdoor Was Long Con, Possibly With Support

2024-04-05 Thread James H. H. Lampert
I will note that open source software has, by definition, a lot more eyes looking at the source. Which is probably why (as Tomas said) "proprietary software tends to fare significantly worse." -- JHHL

Re: What use can i give to linux?

2024-04-05 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 4/5/24 12:12 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: . . . Most of the time the platform is dictated by the application(s) a user wants to run. . . . Indeed. Which is why I still have DOS boxes (running IBM PC-DOS 2000, with DOSShell, and no WinDoze whatsoever: Xerox Ventura Publisher (DOS/GEM Edition)

Re: What use can i give to linux?

2024-04-05 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 4/5/24 11:35 AM, John Hasler wrote: Desktop Linux is widely used in physics and mathematics. NASA uses Linux extensively, including on Mars and on the ISS. SpaceX uses Linux on their rockets and spacecraft. Over 90% of the top 1 million Web servers run Linux, including Yahoo, X, and Ebay.

Where to report print driver bug

2024-02-23 Thread James Klaas
I was going to submit a bug for this but I don't know what package I should report the bug against. Debian bugreport says: Please enter the name of the package in which you have found a problem, or type 'other' to report a more general problem. If you don't know what package the bug is in,

Re: what keyboard do you use?

2024-02-05 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 2/4/24 9:56 AM, Michael Kjörling wrote: If you contact them and ask, they can probably tell you whether the key caps . . . can be flipped physically. Unicomp can and will make custom keycaps. -- JHHL

Re: what keyboard do you use?

2024-02-05 Thread James H. H. Lampert
I also wouldn't mind one bit if somebody came up with a computer keyboard that exactly duplicates the key arrangement and feel of a Linotype keyboard. Not for practical daily use, mind you (I'll stick with my Unicomps); rather, as a practice instrument for those who occasionally run Linotype

Re: what keyboard do you use?

2024-02-05 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 2/2/24 5:25 PM, Lee wrote: I figure there's a high percentage of keyboard jockeys here so .. which keyboard do you like and why? Unicomp. They acquired the rights and the tooling for the IBM buckling spring technology. If only they also offered mice that were as rugged as their

Re: Home UPS recommendations

2024-01-26 Thread James H. H. Lampert
I, too, have always used APC. I've heard people swear by APC, and I've heard people swear *at* APC. I've had reason to do both, myself (and I won't elaborate on either). -- James H. H. Lampert

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-20 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 12/20/23 1:06 PM, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: I finally switched tactics last year and tried gaming mice. I thought about the way they're used. It's comparable to how much I click for emails and research related to ongoing Life.. shtuff. The main reason why I avoid gaming mice is because they

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-20 Thread James H. H. Lampert
But I can definitely confirm that Logitech is NOT making mice like they used to. If only Unicomp made a mouse as good as their keyboards . . . . -- James H. H. Lampert

Re: ntpsec as server questions

2023-12-06 Thread James Cloos
the current America/New_York equiv is: EST5EDT,M3.2.0/2:00:00,M11.1.0/2:00:00 -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6

Re: dedicated IP

2023-11-27 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 11/27/23 1:59 PM, Maureen L Thomas wrote: I would like some advice.  I have been offered a dedicated IP through NORD.  Is it worth it or is it not needed?  Pros and cons would be very helpful.  Thank you. Assuming you mean a static IP address: Useful if you need to self-host something

rasp pi headless setup

2023-11-02 Thread James Cloos
on the boot partition for the first boot. I'm not up on how systd does it; what else is required to get a headless rasp to connect? Thanks, -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6

Re: Acer Monitors

2023-10-18 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 10/18/23 5:09 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: . . . I'd be interested in hearing any comments from users of Acer products. I have a pair of their VL270U monitors hooked up to my work Mac Mini. The biggest challenge I had was building a "portrait mode" stand for one of them. They've been

Re: Virtualization under Bookworm

2023-08-26 Thread James Bloom
in the cloud server and access it from my desktop and laptop without issue, whereas GNOME boxes wouldn’t work if I did that - there were always boot errors. But GNOME boxes otherwise seemed to work great. James Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> From

Re: REeLooking for a good "default" font (small 'L' vs. capital 'i' problem)

2023-08-20 Thread James H. H. Lampert
Hmm. IBM Plex. Not bad-looking, and it does solve the stated problem. I will note that like Bistream Swiss Monospaced, it's only *nominally* sans-serif, in that it has slab-serifs (Stymie-style, rather than Clarendon-style) on the capital I, and one small slab-serif on the lowercase l. --

Re: Looking for a good "default" font (small 'L' vs. capital 'i' problem)

2023-08-20 Thread James H. H. Lampert
are readily distinguishable are about as scarce as the proverbial hen's teeth, whether you're talking digital, photo, hot metal, foundry, or wood. -- James H. H. Lampert (And for the record, my "go-to fonts" are all versions of Garamond.)

Re: [OT] connect to Amazon AWS service

2023-07-28 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 7/28/23 8:46 AM, Haines Brown wrote: I've used an on line validation servce to which I submit code. It terminated with the note that it has now become a web service on the Amazon EC2 Web Service. I registered for this cloud sercice, but have no idea how to access an instance created by

Re: Convert PostScript .pfa to .pfb?

2023-07-13 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 7/13/23 2:28 PM, Tom Browder wrote: I know the binary version of the PS fonts can be converted to TrueType by FontForge. However, is there a way to convert from the PS ASCII version .pfa file to the binary .pfb file? I have a very old font editor, that I used briefly (on a neighbor's

Re: Running Debian without initramfs?

2023-06-09 Thread James Addison
On Fri, 9 Jun 2023 11:52:28 +0100, wrote: > On Fri 09 Jun 2023 at 10:44:23 (+0100), James Addison wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Jun 2023 at 05:38, wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 08, 2023 at 09:57:31PM +0100, James Addison wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > > >

Re: Running Debian without initramfs?

2023-06-09 Thread James Addison
On Fri, 9 Jun 2023 at 05:38, wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 08, 2023 at 09:57:31PM +0100, James Addison wrote: > > [...] > > > Naturally a block device isn't a game cartridge - the former could > > contain many different operating systems, with the potential for > > dyn

Re: Running Debian without initramfs?

2023-06-08 Thread James Addison
On Thu, 08 Jun 2023 17:13:30 +0200, Sven wrote: > On 2023-06-08 15:41 +0100, James Addison wrote: > > > Does anyone have experience running Debian systems without using an > > initramfs? > > I did this in the distance past, some 15 years ago or so. Have long >

Running Debian without initramfs?

2023-06-08 Thread James Addison
-the-compiled-kernel to load additional device driver modules, and I'd like to check that that motivation is still valid. Thanks, James

Re: Cable colors and urban legends (was: Error Messages)

2023-06-02 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 6/2/23 11:33 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: This is very hard to believe. I'm willing to believe that there have been insulation dyes that have proved problematic, but if you've encountered those problems in the 70s I find it *really* odd that it would still affect cables from this century (e.g.

A case for supporting antiquated hardware, was Re: A hypervisor for a headless server?

2023-06-02 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 6/2/23 8:34 AM, Mario Marietto wrote: You may argue that developing for a small number of old computers isn't worth trying. But,first of all,I think that there are a LOT of old PCs in the world,since poor people aren't only a niche. Nor are they the only ones using antiquated hardware, or

i386: Geode LX and NOPL

2023-05-20 Thread James Addison
with any findings), James

Re: cirrus/cs35l41 'Cannot Initialize Firmware. Error: -22'

2023-05-11 Thread James Addison
in that file, and if necessary, make any adjustments to match. Mismatches there are my best guess at the cause of the firmware loading failures at the moment. Thanks, James

Re: Problems apache2-data package with http repositories

2023-03-13 Thread James Addison
I download it: I don't see any deeply-nested archives inside it. Regards, James

Re: OT: Charities (a rant)

2023-01-31 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 1/31/23 11:38 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: . . . Because SPI is a US registered charity, it is covered by charitynavigator.org: . . . And its numbers are impressive. Although it appears to have been rather lavishly overfunded in 2018. -- JHHL

Re: running outdated software

2022-10-13 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 10/13/22 11:05 AM, DdB wrote: But i am very used to running outdated software, as i am living the old recipe to "never change a working system". I've got you beat: I still have a DOS box. And I'm in the process of configuring and loading a replacement for a worn-out DOSbook. And I still

Re: Color of the active window title bar in ubuntu-mate?

2022-08-22 Thread James H. H. Lampert
esEdit on a Mac Plus, more than half a lifetime ago). Do I shove this down anybody else's throat? No. But neither do I care to have somebody else's look-and-feel elements shoved down my throat. -- James H. H. Lampert (I also like a garbage can icon to look like a garbage can. With a WinDoze logo on it.)

Re: OT, Recommendation for low cost laptop

2022-07-18 Thread James H. H. Lampert
Another place to look is your local laptop store. My current laptop, as well as its predecessor, are refurbished ThinkPads I bought there for about $300. They run Linux just fine. "Local laptop store?" Not quite sure I've heard of such a thing, at least not recently. My Chromebook came from

JOB | Support (permanent)

2022-05-17 Thread James Tobin
Information eXchange protocol. Positions are in Sydney, Singapore, Tokyo and New York. Consequently, I had hoped that some members of this list may like to discuss further. I can be reached using "JamesBTobin (at) Gmail (dot) Com". Kind regards, James

Re: [SOLVED] Re: One-user system.

2022-05-06 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 5/6/22 1:11 PM, Charles Curley wrote: Maybe, maybe not. I got started with a KIM-I: 6502 running at 1 MHz, just over 1 kilobyte of RAM. Six seven segment displays and a hex keyboard for data entry. I still have one. I remember *reading about* the KIM-I (and the Altair, and a few others)

Live usb version of testing

2022-04-21 Thread James Allsopp
Hi, My machine keeps crashing on Bookworm, and most of the drivers aren't working. I wanted to try a live usb to see if it's just my system's rather crufty history rather than bookworm. How would I get one of these? Thanks James

Problems with the nouveau driver

2022-04-05 Thread James Allsopp
Thanks James

Start ZFS partition on boot.

2022-03-18 Thread James Allsopp
advice. If anyone can offer any help, I'd be very grateful, James

Re: Errors scrolling on boot

2022-03-13 Thread James Allsopp
. Thanks James Would On Sun, 13 Mar 2022 at 22:44, Charles Curley < charlescur...@charlescurley.com> wrote: > On Sun, 13 Mar 2022 22:16:46 + > "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > > > If you used the official media without firmware: add contrib and > > non-free

Errors scrolling on boot

2022-03-13 Thread James Allsopp
ese errors on reboot. The cards are part of the MSI x570S motherboard, so I can't disconnect them to get a working system. Any ideas? I'm thinking I might have to chroot and use isenkram? Thanks James

Trying to work out what non-Debian or non-Buster packages I need to remove

2022-03-10 Thread James Allsopp
just remove those too? Should I comment out the entries in apt/sources.list.d? Thanks James

Re: Changing hardware

2022-03-10 Thread James Allsopp
this with nvidia kernel drivers! Thanks James On Wed, 9 Mar 2022 at 09:27, Anssi Saari wrote: > piorunz writes: > > > Free drivers are terrible to use if user wants hardware acceleration. > > Clocks are not ramped up, because nouveau does not support re-clocking. > > That me

Changing hardware

2022-03-08 Thread James Allsopp
, but is there a way to update all the drivers and kernel to reflect the new hardware? Thanks James

JOB | DBA MySQL/MariaDB (London and Singapore)

2022-03-02 Thread James Tobin
) Com" Kind regards, James

Re: system76

2022-01-16 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 1/15/22 7:38 PM, Yamadaえりな wrote: hello list I have thought about buying a laptop from system76 with linux pre-installed. What do you think of this manufacturer? Glad to hear from you. I've had a Meerkat for several months, and except for an occasional OS crash within 2 minutes of

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com

2022-01-04 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 1/4/22 11:33 AM, David Wright wrote: In fact, I was quite shocked when I just tried DNS over HTTPS for a couple of minutes. The 10-day weather profile that I screenshoot every day was plastered in popups. Anyone know how to combine DoH with resolving 14,000 addresses to 127.0.0.1? Also,

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com

2022-01-04 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 1/4/22 10:19 AM, Michael Stone wrote: And this is why putting stuff into /etc/hosts is basically never the right answer. :) Au contraire! Among other things, the host table is the best possible place to block access to certain unwanted domains. For example, if you add these entries: >

Re: Slow disk reads - exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x6b0000 SErr 0x0 action 0x0

2021-12-24 Thread James Dutton
On Thu, 23 Dec 2021 at 22:09, Heladu wrote: > Dec 23 22:33:24 sigma kernel: [ 1250.855130] sd 5:0:0:0: [sda] tag#30 Add. > Sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed That is a faulty disk. Replace it. It has already lost the data stored on one sector, and when this happens, more fail.

Re: GRUB really slow to boot

2021-12-19 Thread James Dutton
Looks like the fix is this: # If you need to disable # gfxpayload=keep on your system, just add this line (uncommented) to # /etc/default/grub: # # GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text So, try just adding the above, then run "update-grub" to activate the change. The problem seems to be some GPU cards have

Re: GRUB really slow to boot

2021-12-19 Thread James Dutton
On Sat, 18 Dec 2021 at 23:54, Greg Wooledge wrote: > The symptoms I experienced were BEFORE the kernel was executed. During > GRUB itself. While sitting at the GRUB menu. > > Once the kernel started running, everything was within normal expectations. > Sounds like a race condition or infinite

Re: GRUB really slow to boot

2021-12-18 Thread James Dutton
10:23:54PM +, James Dutton wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This is most likely a failing disk. > > Please post the output of: > > smartctl -a /dev/sda > > > > or whatever your disk device name is, if not sda > > > smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-

Re: GRUB really slow to boot

2021-12-18 Thread James Dutton
Hi, This is most likely a failing disk. Please post the output of: smartctl -a /dev/sda or whatever your disk device name is, if not sda Kind Regards James On Sat, 18 Dec 2021 at 16:09, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Today I rebooted my machine for the first time in quite a while,

Re: Problems upgrading from Debian 10 to 11

2021-12-14 Thread James Dutton
On Tue, 14 Dec 2021 at 08:34, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Du, 12 dec 21, 11:25:14, James Dutton wrote: > > > > I am struggling to understand why debian would not move to the bug > > fixed version from upstream xorgxrdp ? > > Just to clarify, Debian has picked

Re: Problems upgrading from Debian 10 to 11

2021-12-12 Thread James Dutton
On Sun, 12 Dec 2021 at 09:10, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Sb, 11 dec 21, 16:54:04, James Dutton wrote: > > Hi, > > > > After upgrading from Debian 10 to Debian 11, xrdp stopped working. > > Someone else has a very good description of the problem here: > &

Problems upgrading from Debian 10 to 11

2021-12-11 Thread James Dutton
Hi, After upgrading from Debian 10 to Debian 11, xrdp stopped working. Someone else has a very good description of the problem here: https://c-nergy.be/blog/?p=17113 Essentially, the problem is fixed by upgrading xorgxrdp to a version newer than 0.2.12. When I compiled the latest xrdp from the

Re: Don't try this at home kids

2021-11-29 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 11/29/21 2:41 PM, Jeremy Ardley wrote: P.S. I am totally unconvinced about the arguments for using sudo rather than running as root. You can do exactly the same damage with sudo as being root user. P.P.S The conventional instruction is to use visudo to do the edits. Which means using Vi,

Re: Leibniz' "best of all possible worlds" ...

2021-10-25 Thread James H. H. Lampert
>>> I also wonder how Leibniz is relevant to this scenario ... When I think of Leibniz, I think of calculus (and rejoice in the fact that the only calculus I still have to deal with is what the dentist has to jackhammer off my teeth [before it turns into partial differential equations]).

Re: openssh server remote access

2021-10-21 Thread James B
That's 'systemctl status ssh' without the 1) of course.I meant to put more steps but decided not to -- James B portoteache...@fastmail.com Em Sex, 22 Out ʼ21, às 00:18, James B escreveu: > Hi Semih, > > In my opinion, I would go back to basics first.You may have installed

Re: openssh server remote access

2021-10-21 Thread James B
(with sudo privileges or root and presuming you're on a normal variant of Debian and not one with an alternative init system such as SysV) 1) systemctl status ssh Post the result please JB -- James B portoteache...@fastmail.com Em Sex, 22 Out ʼ21, às 00:05, David escreveu: > On Fri,

Re: openssh server remote access

2021-10-21 Thread James B
Hi Semih, Could you post the exact wording of the error message please? Best JB -- James B portoteache...@fastmail.com Em Qui, 21 Out ʼ21, às 21:41, Semih Ozlem escreveu: > Hi everyone, > > I set up an openssh server and I am trying to access that machine remotely &g

question from total newbie. a little help please

2021-10-17 Thread JAMES BOSWELL
if i divide my hard drive and install debian lynx on it. will i be able to effectively run debian on this laptop? Device name LAPTOP-R4DB7V5U Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-10110U CPU @ 2.10GHz 2.59 GHz Installed RAM 4.00 GB (3.81 GB usable) Device ID CAACC244-37B7-4294-84E4-E73B9C030FDF

Re: usb audio interface recommendation

2021-09-29 Thread James B
) and the little 2 in 2 out version of it (think it's the 202) that both perform well in Linux.I use both Audacity and Ardour, and have used Qtractor.Ardour does work on a multichannel basis with the UMC1820.You really need to get to grips with Jack for more serious audio work though J -- James B

Re: Write *once* storage (was Re: write only storage)

2021-09-21 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 9/21/21 10:21 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: . . . WORM is Write *Once* , not Write *Only* "Write only" storage is easy and fast - just throw things at /dev/null and they can never be altered (or read back). Quite. Or to paraphrase something I said, that actually got published in some

Re: Your Thoughts on Printer Replacement

2021-09-18 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 9/18/21 2:19 AM, Jeremy Ardley wrote: My experience is that toner does degrade over a period of years. To get full life you need to use your advertised pages within a year or so. Agreed. I've seen toner cartridges go bad. Of course, they had been sitting on a shelf for *many* years. --

Re: Your Thoughts on Printer Replacement

2021-09-18 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 9/18/21 2:00 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: The direction of travel for printing is entirely driverless, so this is less important than it used to be. Really? If true, that is exceptionally good news. The last time I looked at new printers, the "direction of travel" was entirely

Re: Your Thoughts on Printer Replacement

2021-09-17 Thread James H. H. Lampert
negotiable requirement for me: it's either that, or I have to dump the data stream to a file, distill it into a PDF, and print that. -- James H. H. Lampert Professional Dilettante

Re: Can surf the internet, but not my home network...

2021-09-15 Thread James Wallen
On 9/15/21 10:51 AM, nimrod wrote: Hi, my devices (pc, laptops, smartphone) all can surf the internet without problems. So one would say that the router is working properly. But computer A cannot access computer B via SSH as it's alwais being doing for years, and viceversa. They cannot even

Re: problem with sound for bullseye upgrade on amd64: must be root for sound to work on my machine

2021-08-25 Thread James D Freels
all things working now. Man, what a frustration.  Otherwise, the bullseye upgrade has been flawless for me so far. On 8/25/21 2:30 PM, James D Freels wrote: Thanks for responding Georgi, I had already tried "alsactl init" earlier based on other advise found on the WWW.  However, I d

Re: problem with sound for bullseye upgrade on amd64: must be root for sound to work on my machine

2021-08-25 Thread James D Freels
message, nor how to correct it. The alsamixer seems to work fine as expected and indicates I have the sound card active and should hear sound. But, it only provides actual sound if I am root. On 8/25/21 1:28 PM, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: Hi James, try to run: # alsactl init as root, reboot

Re: problem with sound for bullseye upgrade on amd64: must be root for sound to work on my machine

2021-08-25 Thread James D Freels
occurrence of a pulseaudio configuration file on my system for a clue Any help appreciated.  Is there a good troubleshoot procedure for debian/11/bullseye sound problems ? On 8/24/21 3:05 PM, James D Freels wrote: Hello, I am a long-time debian user, and just recently upgraded my buster amd64

problem with sound for bullseye upgrade on amd64: must be root for sound to work on my machine

2021-08-24 Thread James D Freels
    Kernel modules: snd_oxygen Nothing has changed with the hardware, and I know the setup works.  This seems to be a permissions/software issue. -- James D. Freels, Ph.D., P.E. freel...@gmail.com 865-457-6742 (landline) 865-919-0320 (cell)

Re: Relatively boring bullseye upgrade reports

2021-08-20 Thread James B
Another for the list, Dell/WYSE Zx0 box, with AMD G-T56N cpu and 8gb flash drive.Used for offsite playback of my home media via DWService and as a gateway to my home network.Installation worked perfectly - no issues at all. -- James B portoteache...@fastmail.com Em Sex, 20 Ago ʼ21, às 10

Re: Debian 11 is released!

2021-08-14 Thread James B
Well done to all - long live Debian!. Heartfelt congratulations and thanks from a long term user who wishes he could contribute more back :( -- James B portoteache...@fastmail.com Em Sáb, 14 Ago ʼ21, às 22:54, piorunz escreveu: > Thanks all Debian devs and users, after over 2 ye

Re: Hardware life expectancy

2021-07-26 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 7/25/21 6:38 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: . . . Nowadays, I'm still planning to use that same Thinkpad X30 to display PDFs in the classroom (when I get to meet students physically again), and more than half of my machine are older than 10 years old. Better yet, they don't seem significantly

Re: MDs & Dentists

2021-07-21 Thread James H. H. Lampert
Amiga. Aggressively multitasking within itself, on a platform where there was no memory protection, and nothing but "good intentions" to keep one task from stomping all over another task's memory. It nearly killed me. -- James H. H. Lampert

Re: Offensive variable names [was: Cool down ...]

2021-07-12 Thread James H. H. Lampert
I know people who associate the time-honored metasyntactic "foobar" with the military slang acronym FUBAR. -- JHHL

Re: Hi there, test only, please ignore

2021-06-17 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 6/17/21 1:25 AM, Grzesiek wrote: test I got your test message. As it happens, we just went live with DMARC, and have reason to do some testing ourselves. -- JHHL

Slightly off-topic: anybody know of a way to keep one's Debian User List posts from failing DMARC?

2021-06-09 Thread James H. H. Lampert
dle DMARC-enabled senders. -- James H. H. Lampert Touchtone Corporation

Re: thunderbird

2021-05-31 Thread James Wallen
On 5/31/21 5:55 AM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2021-05-30 at 20:59, James Wallen wrote: On 5/30/21 8:03 PM, rust wrote: On 5/30/21 9:00 PM, James Wallen wrote: If I could find a text / TUI mode calendar to work with mutt I'd certainly like to switch. I'm not sure exactly what you mean

Re: thunderbird

2021-05-30 Thread James Wallen
On 5/30/21 8:03 PM, rust wrote: On 5/30/21 9:00 PM, James Wallen wrote: If I could find a text / TUI mode calendar to work with mutt I'd certainly like to switch. JPW I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "work with mutt", but khalendar is pretty cool. I'm unable to locate

Re: thunderbird

2021-05-30 Thread James Wallen
On 5/30/21 5:18 PM, Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, 30 May 2021 16:56:17 -0400 James Wallen wrote: If I could find a text / TUI mode calendar to work with mutt I'd certainly like to switch. Take a look at claws-mail's calendar plug-in. Not text, but it might let you use claws-mail. Thanks! I

Re: thunderbird

2021-05-30 Thread James Wallen
On 5/30/21 3:48 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: fxkl47BF wrote: for a few decades i have used pine/alpine. i'm considering a new mail application. there are more out there than you can shake a stick at. what are your thoughts of thunderbird. It's very popular with people who need to point-and-click at

Re: About Terminal on Buster

2021-05-27 Thread James Wallen
On 5/27/21 2:14 PM, IL Ka wrote: "gpm" ? I believe this is a mouse server for the virtual terminal running in the virtual console (aka "text mode") X11 uses its own mouse drivers. In modern versions they are based on libinput. There are several types of "clipboard" in X11: one is called

Re: About Terminal on Buster

2021-05-27 Thread James Wallen
On 5/27/21 1:59 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 06:47:04PM +0100, mick crane wrote: Is there not a program required to do that mouse, click, drag, select ? I recall with various installations that worked then it didn't and it worked after installing "g something something" It

Re: About Terminal on Buster

2021-05-27 Thread James Wallen
On 5/27/21 1:47 PM, mick crane wrote: It might have been "d something something" with a g in there. Was definitely 3 letters and began with a "g" or a "d". "gpm" ? I know. I can never remember its name when I want to install it on someone's system.

Re:  Sponsored post on https://debian.org

2021-05-26 Thread James H. H. Lampert
The price is our souls, and we all agree that's too high. Hmm. Isn't that also the price of anything sold at Wal-Mart? * * * At least the OP was polite enough to *ask* about posting ads, rather than just *doing* it. -- JHHL

Re: Debian-friendly laptop

2021-05-19 Thread James B
crews to remove at all when you push aside the two thumb sliders - then, everything upgradeable is exposed. What a brilliant idea - why don't more manufacturers do that? The business docks for these are fairly common on the *bay - I got one for about £40 and it's so useful. -- James B portot

Re: How to capture composite video

2021-05-17 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 5/17/21 9:39 AM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: I have a number of VHS tapes which I'd like to digitize, and I'm trying to figure out where to start, hardware- and software-wise. Do you have a DVD-R video recorder? Simplest way I know is to dub the VHS to DVD, at which point accessing the video from

KDE and Pulseaudio; swapping users

2021-05-17 Thread James Allsopp
Hi, Does anyone have a solution for the problem that when I switch users, to have any sound as the new user, I have to su to root to kill the other users Pulseaudio. If I don't do this I'm left with a dummy sound card. Thanks James

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-18 Thread James H. H. Lampert
Suffice it to say that the only Social Media outfit I trust less than I trust Facebook or Twitter (neither of which I trust any further than I can throw the U.S.S. Hornet) is LinkedIn. Which I have loathed since *before* they became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Microsloth. -- JHHL (I'd use a

Re: Social-media antipathy

2021-03-14 Thread James H. H. Lampert
my email. And I like it that way. But I tried DDG last week, and it appeared incapable of helping Boy Scout find a candy store. -- James H. H. Lampert Professional Dilettante

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-12 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 3/12/21 8:09 AM, Larry Martell wrote: I did the same thing - I resisted being on FB for a very long time, but eventually I had to get on because it was how my family was communicating and I was being left out of the loop. I joined as my dog only my family knew how to find me. Even to this day

Re: Could KDE work adequately on a PC with 4 GB of RAM and an Intel Core 2 Duo processor @ 2.33 GHz?

2021-03-10 Thread James Allsopp
Also, you could spend a bit on money on an SSD, I did. On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 at 11:31, James Allsopp wrote: > Yeah it will work, although it'll work a lot better if you can get an > extra 4Gb off Ebay, I paid about £25. > > For reference I was running it on a 3Ghz 4GbRam Core2Duo. &g

Re: Could KDE work adequately on a PC with 4 GB of RAM and an Intel Core 2 Duo processor @ 2.33 GHz?

2021-03-10 Thread James Allsopp
Yeah it will work, although it'll work a lot better if you can get an extra 4Gb off Ebay, I paid about £25. For reference I was running it on a 3Ghz 4GbRam Core2Duo. On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 at 11:23, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > > I would not do that. I run xfce under Debian 10.4 in 8GB, it's

Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????)

2021-02-25 Thread James B
I'm not sure if Browsh works with SeaMonkey- there's many reasons why I imagine it should work, but it depends on whether or not the differences present would be critical.Would be interesting to know -- James B portoteache...@fastmail.com Em Qui, 25 Fev ʼ21, às 15:06, The Wanderer

Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????)

2021-02-25 Thread James B
Browsh was reviewed in one of the linux magazines recently.It uses firefox behind the scenes and renders the pages to ASCII for display in a terminal, which is a novel approach.I've tried it and it works well.. https://www.brow.sh/ -- James B portoteache...@fastmail.com Em Qui, 25 Fev

Re: Got a machine name problem

2021-02-23 Thread James B
To my mind, getting familiar with the newer 'ctl' commands that come with systemd is no bad idea.I like the consistency, personally.The 'systemctl' command is one to be used all the time particularly. -- James B portoteache...@fastmail.com Em Qua, 24 Fev ʼ21, às 00:22, James B escreveu

Re: Got a machine name problem

2021-02-23 Thread James B
will also be a persistent change. James -- James B portoteache...@fastmail.com Em Ter, 23 Fev ʼ21, às 19:29, Tom Browder escreveu: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 11:59 AM Gene Heskett wrote: > ... > > Nothing I do survives a reboot, so what do I do to actually rename the > > machine

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