Re: how do I stop FF from jumping workspaces when I click on a linkin t-bird

[Tom Dial]

On 1/8/23 17:08, gene heskett wrote:

On 1/8/23 13:42, David Wright wrote:

On Sun 08 Jan 2023 at 12:40:05 (-0500), gene heskett wrote:

it is most inconvenient to have it jump workspaces and open the link
on top of the tbird screen.


You might try Edit → Settings, and check the
   Open links in tabs instead of new windows
box under Tabs.


It is in the Firefox settings, in the General section under "Tabs."

Regards,
Tom Dial



not found in settings of the version I have in an uptodate bullseye. 102.6.0 
(64-bit) (tbird)
And that option is already set in firefox.


Cheers,
David.


Thanks David.

Cheers, Gene Heskett.

Why Debian packaging structure is so difficult

[Sadhu Santh]

Hi,

I am hosting a local Debian mirror for my LAN. This helps in low 
internet bandwidth use.


I keep only the required distributions (past five years and testing 
release).


Compared to other distributions such ArchLinux/RockyLinux (single line 
Rsync can do the job), the partial mirroring over Rsync in Debian is a 
complex process.


I use ftpsync, which can run on any Linux distribution.

Is there any simple set of Rsync commands to sync a particular version 
of the platform (e.g. x86) of Debian? If not, why the upstream structure 
is not made simpler?


Thanks for your guidance on the matter.


Regards,

SS

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windowsprogram?

[gene heskett]

On 1/8/23 16:04, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:

On Saturday 07 January 2023 03:27:31 pm gene heskett wrote:

That DOS was not the least bit
entertaining. :(> That was the best reason to skip it, I went from
amigados 3.9 to rh5.0, never regretted missing the DOS experience, I got
my fill of it as the CE at a tv station back in the day.



I remember getting a mailing (don't know how I ended up on that mailing list) 
where they wanted to sell me a development kit for windoze,  which at that time 
hadn't even been released yet,  or if it had it was a very buggy and clunky 
preliminary version.

They wanted me to pay something like $3000.00 for the privilege of developing 
software for their new platform.

I found this most entertaining,  and laughed like hell before I got around to 
tossing that mailing in the trash.

At the time I got a similar msg was only a week or 2 after I'd been 
called a pie-rat by somebody in the support line in Redmond. My laugh 
was as evil as I could manage as I hit the delete key.


The audacity of that outfit and its owner knows no bounds.
Now he & A.F.wants to kill off 98% of us.

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 

Re: how do I stop FF from jumping workspaces when I click on a linkin t-bird

[gene heskett]

On 1/8/23 14:12, Andreas Ronnquist wrote:

On Sun, 8 Jan 2023 12:40:05 -0500,
gene heskett wrote:


it is most inconvenient to have it jump workspaces and open the link on top of 
the tbird screen.



Which desktop environment are you on? - I think I might have seen
somewhere that you are on Xfce (but I am not sure) -

in that case - see

https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfwm4/faq#firefox_jumps_between_workspaces_why

which might be the cause of your problems. Change that setting to something you 
want.

The suggested query line in that link generated errors. but nano fixed 
the file. Do I have to reboot? Logging out reboots it. Or is there some 
other way to bring it into effect.


-- Andreas Rönnquist
mailingli...@gusnan.se
andr...@ronnquist.net


Thank you Andreas.

.


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 

Re: how do I stop FF from jumping workspaces when I click on a linkin t-bird

[gene heskett]

On 1/8/23 13:42, David Wright wrote:

On Sun 08 Jan 2023 at 12:40:05 (-0500), gene heskett wrote:

it is most inconvenient to have it jump workspaces and open the link
on top of the tbird screen.


You might try Edit → Settings, and check the
   Open links in tabs instead of new windows
box under Tabs.


not found in settings of the version I have in an uptodate bullseye. 
102.6.0 (64-bit) (tbird)

And that option is already set in firefox.


Cheers,
David.


Thanks David.

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 

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windows program?

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Sat, Jan 7, 2023 at 6:43 PM Miguel A. Vallejo  wrote:
>
> If I remember correctly, all Windows EXE have an string saying:
>
> This program cannot be run in DOS mode.

A couple of small nits...

They are called PE/PE+ programs. The string "This program cannot be
run in DOS mode" is called the MS-DOS Stub. It may or may not be
present. Most of the time it is present, but it is possible to build
an exe using the assembler without the message.

The first part of a PE program usually includes a DOS 2.0 header. The
DOS header allows the program to display the stub message under DOS
and exit.

Also see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/debug/pe-format.

Jeff

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windowsprogram?

[Roy J. Tellason, Sr.]

On Saturday 07 January 2023 03:27:31 pm gene heskett wrote:
> That DOS was not the least bit 
> entertaining. :(> That was the best reason to skip it, I went from 
> amigados 3.9 to rh5.0, never regretted missing the DOS experience, I got 
> my fill of it as the CE at a tv station back in the day.
> 

I remember getting a mailing (don't know how I ended up on that mailing list) 
where they wanted to sell me a development kit for windoze,  which at that time 
hadn't even been released yet,  or if it had it was a very buggy and clunky 
preliminary version.

They wanted me to pay something like $3000.00 for the privilege of developing 
software for their new platform.

I found this most entertaining,  and laughed like hell before I got around to 
tossing that mailing in the trash.

-- 
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space,  a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed.  --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
-
Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James 
M Dakin

Re: how do I stop FF from jumping workspaces when I click on a link in t-bird

[Andreas Ronnquist]

On Sun, 8 Jan 2023 12:40:05 -0500,
gene heskett wrote:

>it is most inconvenient to have it jump workspaces and open the link on top of 
>the tbird screen.
>

Which desktop environment are you on? - I think I might have seen
somewhere that you are on Xfce (but I am not sure) -

in that case - see

https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfwm4/faq#firefox_jumps_between_workspaces_why

which might be the cause of your problems. Change that setting to something you 
want.


-- Andreas Rönnquist
mailingli...@gusnan.se
andr...@ronnquist.net

Re: Disable systemd RDRAND usage

[Greg Wooledge]

On Sun, Jan 08, 2023 at 07:06:03PM +0100, 
operation.privacyenforcem...@secure.mailbox.org wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I want to set SYSTEMD_RDRAND=0 as implemented here
> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/17112
> 
> How can this be done on Debian and how can this be tested?

 claims that all internal
use of RDRAND by systemd has been removed as of version 251.

Bullseye has version 247, but bullseye-backports appears to have 251.
See 

and the Debian backports instructions at
.

Re: how do I stop FF from jumping workspaces when I click on a link in t-bird

[David Wright]

On Sun 08 Jan 2023 at 12:40:05 (-0500), gene heskett wrote:
> it is most inconvenient to have it jump workspaces and open the link
> on top of the tbird screen.

You might try Edit → Settings, and check the
  Open links in tabs instead of new windows
box under Tabs.

Cheers,
David.

Disable systemd RDRAND usage

[operation . privacyenforcement]

Hello,

I want to set SYSTEMD_RDRAND=0 as implemented here
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/17112

How can this be done on Debian and how can this be tested?

Best regards
operation privacyenforcement

Disable RDRAND RDSEED VAES AES-NI via OPENSSL_ia32cap

[operation . privacyenforcement]

Hello,

I want to disable RDRAND RDSEED VAES AES-NI via OPENSSL_ia32cap.
Which parameters do I need to set in which file to apply the 
configuration system wide? 
https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.1.1/man3/OPENSSL_ia32cap.html


How can multiple variables applied systemwide and how can this be tested 
after reboot?


Best regards
operation privacyenforcement

how do I stop FF from jumping workspaces when I click on a link in t-bird

[gene heskett]

it is most inconvenient to have it jump workspaces and open the link on 
top of the tbird screen.


Thank you

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 

Re: [OT] coo, was Re: Debian release criteria.

[Curt]

On 2023-01-08, Charlie Gibbs  wrote:
>
> To heck with it, let's just fall back on Allan Sherman's
> description of a dejected man from Mars searching for his
> girlfriend, who's...
>
>  Eight foot two, solid blue
>  Five transistors in each shoe
>  Has anybody seen my gal?
>
>  Lucite nose, rustproof toes
>  And when her antenna glows
>  She's the cutest Martian gal
>
>You know she promised me, recently
>She wouldn't stray
>But came the dawn, she was gone
>Eighteen billion miles away
>
>  Her steering wheel has sex appeal
>  Her evening gown is stainless steel
>  Has anybody seen my gal?
>
>
>  How I miss all the bliss
>  Of her sweet hydraulic kiss
>  Has anybody seen my gal?
>
>  Lovely shape, custom built
>  Squeeze her wrong and she says TILT
>  Has anybody seen my gal?
>
>She does the cutest tricks with her six
>Stereo ears
>When she walks by, spacemen cry
>'Specially when she shifts her gears
>
>  If she's found, run like mad
>  Put her on a launching pad
>  Down at Cape Can-av-er-al
>  And shoot me back my cutie
>  My supersonic beauty
>  Send me back my Martian gal

I don't remember that one. But I do remember:

 Hello Muddah, hello Faddah
 Here I am at Camp Grenada
 Camp is very entertaining
 And they say we'll have some fun if it stops raining...

I don't why, but I get a kick out of that. I personally went to Wally
Moon's Baseball Camp in Covina when I was a kid. Didn't get much rain
there.  In fact, I recall it being quite hot and dusty.

Re (2): firefox resource hog

[peter]

From: Stefan Monnier 
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2023 19:41:16 -0500
> ... (after all, nowadays web browsers are just VMs running 
> Javascript applications downloaded from hundreds of servers around 
> the world).

Thanks Stefan.

JavaScript might be OK for phenomena such as Youtube.

Meticulous and thorough as JavaScript developers are, I'd prefer my 
credit union calculate on their server. Then only HTML or HTML5 for 
customer systems. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#Security

Regards,  ... P.

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Re: Web functionality; was Re: Debian release criteria.

[tomas]

On Sun, Jan 08, 2023 at 07:53:11AM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> David & all,
> 
> Earlier from peter,
> > > Bulk of the software and frequent updates are evident but what changes 
> > > in functionality?  The Web site of my credit union works as it did 
> > > five years ago.
> 
> From: David Wright 
> Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2023 21:46:39 -0600
> > What's that got to do with Firefox? OK, it's good that the CU hasn't
> > run with every fad that some web developers seem to want, so that
> > they get what I call a high "coo-rating". (Coo, look at that.)
> 
> Yes, good that the CU Web site is relatively stable.  That was a 
> secondary point.
> 
> My primary interest: if many Web sites appear and perform as five 
> years ago, what is the need for the frequent updates?  A bug needs 
> repair a.s.a.p.  A bug compromising security needs repair sooner.  
> Are most Firefox updates security critical?

Don't forget that HTML5 is a "living standard" -- the WHATWG euphemism
for "we change the standard from under your bottom whenever one of
our more powerful members feels like it".

If Firefox wants to call itself standards compliant, it has to follow
suit. If it isn't standadts compliant, we are left with one choice:
Chrome (I don't count Apple, that's even worse).

I do disagree with much of what the Mozilla foundation does, and at
the end, they see the world through ad-industry coloured goggles, but
they are the last credible ditch we have. Google has succeeded in
cornering the Internet -- and the worst: many people seem to enjoy
it.

You thought the situation with Microsoft and computing in the 1980s
and 1990s was grotesque? It's much, much worse these days. The
difference is that the monopoly watchdogs are fast asleep at the
wheel these days.

Cheers
-- 
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Re: [OT] coo, was Re: Debian release criteria.

[David Wright]

On Sat 07 Jan 2023 at 17:52:43 (-), Curt wrote:
> On 2023-01-07, Greg Wooledge  wrote:
> >
> > To an American audience, the meaning is quite different.  We only use
> > "coo" to describe the noise made by a dove, or as an (urban) slang
> > term which is a shortened form of "cool".
> >
> 
> I haven't been following,

… which might mean you missed the ² in
coo² (slang) interjection

> but coo to me is the sound a pigeon makes,

… which, of course, is coo¹, the first headword.

Cheers,
David.

Re: [OT] coo, was Re: Debian release criteria.

[David Wright]

On Fri 06 Jan 2023 at 23:41:25 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 01:26:54PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> > > > Rather,
> > > > 
> > > >   coo² (slang) interjection, expressive of surprise. (Chambers)
> > > > 
> > > > and this has been around far longer than my lifetime.
> 
> > > When using slang, the current meaning is the one that will be understood
> > > by your audience.  Not some archaic meaning.
> > 
> > Err, where did you get the idea that coo is archaic?
> 
> The part where you said this particular usage is older than yourself.

Yes, it joins the 99.9% of the words we use, whose current usage
predates our own generation, and yet are not archaic.

> > We Brits use the word "Coo"; I guess the equivalent here is "Gee",
> > which sounds very American to British ears of my generation.
> 
> Ahhh, it's a regional usage, then.  My mistake.
> 
> To an American audience, the meaning is quite different.  We only use
> "coo" to describe the noise made by a dove, or as an (urban) slang
> term which is a shortened form of "cool".
> 
> https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=coo

So I'm expected to check my use of slang against a dictionary that's
receiving over 2000 entries per day at times, and where most of the
definitions are not expected to appear in standard dictionaries.
This ultra-contemporary slang, much of which I neither hear nor read,
is supposed to be more familiar to people here for whom English is a
second language. OTOH, reputable, edited dictionaries, printed and
online, are unlikely to be consulted by such people, yes?

>   A slightly shortened version of "cool"
>   used by only the cooest people, coo is the best way to describe
↑↑
>   something that is completely awesome.
> 
> And so on.

Ah, awesome, another word that has had all meaning drained from it
by overuse.

  Receptionist: Do you have your insurance card with you?
Me: Let's see … ah, yes, here it is.
  Receptionist: Awesome!
  (uttered 2022-12-28 ~16:00)

Cheers,
David.

Re: Web functionality; was Re: Debian release criteria.

[David Wright]

On Sun 08 Jan 2023 at 07:53:11 (-0800), pe...@easthope.ca wrote:

> My primary interest: if many Web sites appear and perform as five 
> years ago, what is the need for the frequent updates?  A bug needs 
> repair a.s.a.p.  A bug compromising security needs repair sooner.  
> Are most Firefox updates security critical?

Judge for yourself:

$ zcat /usr/share/doc/firefox-esr/changelog.Debian.gz | head -n 240 | grep -e 
CVE -e '^ --'
CVE-2022-46880, CVE-2022-46872, CVE-2022-46881, CVE-2022-46874,
CVE-2022-46882, CVE-2022-46878.
 -- Mike Hommey   Wed, 14 Dec 2022 07:48:39 +0900
CVE-2022-45403, CVE-2022-45404, CVE-2022-45405, CVE-2022-45406,
CVE-2022-45408, CVE-2022-45409, CVE-2022-45410, CVE-2022-45411,
CVE-2022-45412, CVE-2022-45416, CVE-2022-45418, CVE-2022-45420,
CVE-2022-45421.
 -- Mike Hommey   Wed, 16 Nov 2022 06:20:30 +0900
CVE-2022-42927, CVE-2022-42928, CVE-2022-42929, CVE-2022-42932.
 -- Mike Hommey   Wed, 19 Oct 2022 05:04:39 +0900
CVE-2022-40959, CVE-2022-40960, CVE-2022-40958, CVE-2022-40956,
CVE-2022-40957, CVE-2022-40962.
 -- Mike Hommey   Wed, 21 Sep 2022 06:58:15 +0900
CVE-2022-38472, CVE-2022-38473, CVE-2022-38477, CVE-2022-38478.
 -- Mike Hommey   Wed, 24 Aug 2022 06:35:58 +0900
 -- Mike Hommey   Mon, 15 Aug 2022 15:46:49 +0900
CVE-2022-36319, CVE-2022-36318, CVE-2022-36315, CVE-2022-36316,
CVE-2022-36320, CVE-2022-2505.
 -- Mike Hommey   Sun, 14 Aug 2022 16:59:19 +0900
CVE-2022-34479, CVE-2022-34470, CVE-2022-34468, CVE-2022-34482,
CVE-2022-34483, CVE-2022-34476, CVE-2022-34481, CVE-2022-34474,
CVE-2022-34471, CVE-2022-34472, CVE-2022-2200, CVE-2022-34480,
CVE-2022-34477, CVE-2022-34475, CVE-2022-34473, CVE-2022-34484,
CVE-2022-34485.
 -- Mike Hommey   Wed, 29 Jun 2022 07:41:32 +0900
 -- Mike Hommey   Fri, 10 Jun 2022 06:24:01 +0900
CVE-2022-31736, CVE-2022-31737, CVE-2022-31738, CVE-2022-31740,
CVE-2022-31741, CVE-2022-31742, CVE-2022-31743, CVE-2022-31744,
CVE-2022-31745, CVE-2022-1919, CVE-2022-31747, CVE-2022-31748.
 -- Mike Hommey   Wed, 01 Jun 2022 06:07:37 +0900
  * Fixes for mfsa2022-19, also known as CVE-2022-1802 and CVE-2022-1529.
 -- Mike Hommey   Sat, 21 May 2022 07:32:04 +0900
CVE-2022-29914, CVE-2022-29909, CVE-2022-29916, CVE-2022-29911,
CVE-2022-29912, CVE-2022-29915, CVE-2022-29917, CVE-2022-29918.
 -- Mike Hommey   Wed, 04 May 2022 08:48:41 +0900
CVE-2022-1097, CVE-2022-28281, CVE-2022-28282, CVE-2022-28283,
CVE-2022-28284, CVE-2022-28285, CVE-2022-28286, CVE-2022-28287,
CVE-2022-24713, CVE-2022-28289, CVE-2022-28288.
 -- Mike Hommey   Wed, 06 Apr 2022 09:04:22 +0900
 -- Mike Hommey   Thu, 10 Mar 2022 09:09:43 +0900
CVE-2022-26383, CVE-2022-26384, CVE-2022-26387, CVE-2022-26381,
CVE-2022-26382, CVE-2022-26385, CVE-2022-0843.
  * Fixes for mfsa2022-09, also known as: CVE-2022-26485, CVE-2022-26486.
 -- Mike Hommey   Wed, 09 Mar 2022 07:09:27 +0900
CVE-2022-22754, CVE-2022-22755, CVE-2022-22756, CVE-2022-22759,
CVE-2022-22760, CVE-2022-22761, CVE-2022-22764, CVE-2022-0511.
 -- Mike Hommey   Wed, 09 Feb 2022 07:53:42 +0900
 -- Mike Hommey   Mon, 31 Jan 2022 06:21:31 +0900
 -- Mike Hommey   Sat, 15 Jan 2022 07:41:14 +0900
CVE-2022-22743, CVE-2022-22742, CVE-2022-22741, CVE-2022-22740,
CVE-2022-22738, CVE-2022-22737, CVE-2021-4140, CVE-2022-22748,
CVE-2022-22745, CVE-2022-22747, CVE-2022-22739, CVE-2022-22751,
CVE-2022-22752.
 -- Mike Hommey   Wed, 12 Jan 2022 08:03:30 +0900
$ 

Cheers,
David.

Web functionality; was Re: Debian release criteria.

[peter]

David & all,

Earlier from peter,
> > Bulk of the software and frequent updates are evident but what changes 
> > in functionality?  The Web site of my credit union works as it did 
> > five years ago.

From: David Wright 
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2023 21:46:39 -0600
> What's that got to do with Firefox? OK, it's good that the CU hasn't
> run with every fad that some web developers seem to want, so that
> they get what I call a high "coo-rating". (Coo, look at that.)

Yes, good that the CU Web site is relatively stable.  That was a 
secondary point.

My primary interest: if many Web sites appear and perform as five 
years ago, what is the need for the frequent updates?  A bug needs 
repair a.s.a.p.  A bug compromising security needs repair sooner.  
Are most Firefox updates security critical?

Bigger software has more opportunities for security compromise.  A 
genuine interest in security should motivate a lean browser for 
security critical purposes.  I'd prefer to access the CU with Dillo.   
Unfortunately it gets ... no response.  =8~/

> Sure, [Wikipedia pages] tend to be no more complex than required for 
> what's being displayed. I assume that's their policy, very sensible.

Wikimedia and Debian get gold stars for keeping their Web sites "in 
house". They don't invoke background access to 3rd party pages far and 
wide.  The policy deserves acknowledgement.

Thx, ... P.

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Re: why some memory are missing

[lsg]

On 1/8/23 17:36, hede wrote:


I'm pretty sure it can address 2^32 bit aka 4 GB. But within this 
range there is the PCI address space.  PCI cards are memory mapped. To 
access memory regions on PCI devices you can simply access main 
memory. But you cannot access PCI devices AND use full 4 GB of 
physical main memory within the 2^32 bit range.


Typically Chipsets/BIOS can map the missing memory somewhere above 4 
GB but not every Chipset/BIOS does this. Then even in 64 Bit mode 
you'll lose memory in the range of the PCI address space. If, on the 
other side, the Chipset/BIOS maps those memory regions above 4 GB then 
even in 32 Bit Mode Linux can use this memory (via PAE).


hede


Thank hede! you solved my problem! i enable Memory hole Remapping in 
bios, memtest86+ shows 4095M memory now! top in buster for 686 shows 
3029.6M while top in bullseye for amd shows 3930.9M. Thanks!

Re: why some memory are missing

[hede]

Am 08.01.2023 00:30, schrieb Jeremy Hendricks:

I imagine it’s a bios limitation and it cannot address the full 4GB
even though it’s a 64bit CPU. This was common with the Intel 925/945
chipsets even through they supported Intel 64bit CPUs of the time.


I'm pretty sure it can address 2^32 bit aka 4 GB. But within this range 
there is the PCI address space.  PCI cards are memory mapped. To access 
memory regions on PCI devices you can simply access main memory. But you 
cannot access PCI devices AND use full 4 GB of physical main memory 
within the 2^32 bit range.


Typically Chipsets/BIOS can map the missing memory somewhere above 4 GB 
but not every Chipset/BIOS does this. Then even in 64 Bit mode you'll 
lose memory in the range of the PCI address space. If, on the other 
side, the Chipset/BIOS maps those memory regions above 4 GB then even in 
32 Bit Mode Linux can use this memory (via PAE).


hede