Re: xterm no title (buster)

2020-08-08 Thread mick crane
On 2020-08-08 17:52, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: > What about if you use another window-manager and/or desktop-environment? I haven't tried that yet. I just tried twm and it says "Untitled" even with xterm -T abcd & with Buster it looks like I have window manager XFwm4 display manager lightdm deskt

tape drives

2020-08-12 Thread mick crane
Do people use tape drives for backup ? I saved data to tape before but I think they were DAT and not very big but see that these LTO-2 tapes are 600Gb and not expensive. Do people use those ? mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: tape drives

2020-08-12 Thread mick crane
On 2020-08-12 11:58, Dan Ritter wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open should be helpful to you. cheers mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: ot: hack me

2020-08-17 Thread mick crane
On 2020-08-17 18:59, gru...@mailfence.com wrote: does anyone know of a reliable site that can stress test my firewall just go on a Linux User Group on IRC and ask to be hacked. mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: Encrypt files on Linux, decrypt on Windows

2020-08-22 Thread mick crane
On 2020-08-21 18:46, local10 wrote: Hi, What would be a reasonably secure and simple way to encrypt files on Linux and then send them to a non-technical Windows user so she would be able decrypt and read them? Any ideas? Thanks If these are documents what's wrong with open office protected w

Re: "What's wrong with...?"

2020-08-22 Thread mick crane
On 2020-08-22 19:25, Teemu Likonen wrote: * 2020-08-22 11:19:17+01, mick crane wrote: On 2020-08-21 18:46, local10 wrote: What would be a reasonably secure and simple way to encrypt files on Linux and then send them to a non-technical Windows user so she would be able decrypt and read them

Re: Why can't I move the document root for a site in Apache 2? [SOLVED]

2020-08-31 Thread mick crane
On 2020-08-31 21:57, Gary Dale wrote: Just to be clear, the folder I had to change permissions on is the I think the document root is just where apache2 looks first. *Don't know if you are supposed to do it like that* but think the actual html files can be anywhere so long as they have the ri

Re: Looking for a generic drag and drop gui for custom commands

2020-09-08 Thread mick crane
On 2020-09-07 21:43, Christoph K. wrote: Dear all, I'd like to "automate" a couple of tasks that I (until now) do on the command line manually. Examples include splitting of video files using ffmpeg, run backups with specific parameters, display checksums(md5), etc. I'm tired of typing the sa

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-10 Thread mick crane
On 2020-09-09 14:27, Richard Owlett wrote: My proposed alternative is to leave unchecked all options on the "Software Selection" menu[1] and create appropriate pseudo-packages to be installed with "apt-get --no-install-recommends" I suppose if you were *that* concerned you could install a basi

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-12 Thread mick crane
On 2020-09-12 10:53, Brian wrote: On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 12:33:56 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 11 sep 20, 22:47:06, Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY wrote: > > I've also been bitten by this. I think it is a UI issue, the options > are ambiguous. Would it be possible to simply change the dialog box

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-12 Thread mick crane
On 2020-09-12 18:42, Brian wrote: On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 11:49:18 +0100, mick crane wrote: On 2020-09-12 10:53, Brian wrote: > On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 12:33:56 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Vi, 11 sep 20, 22:47:06, Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY wrote: > > > > > > I&#

Re: ssh fingerprint mismatch for one single client

2020-09-19 Thread mick crane
On 2020-09-19 22:28, Beco wrote: Dear linuxers, I've a server and one of my students is getting a wrong fingerprint when trying to connect via SSH. After a lot of debug, we are still unable to pinpoint why. The server didn't change IP or keys, and other students still log in ok with the corr

Re: ssh fingerprint mismatch for one single client

2020-09-19 Thread mick crane
On 2020-09-19 23:42, Beco wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 2020 at 18:55, mick crane wrote: Just wild guess. Student can connect via the mobile network but not through the ISP router? Might that be the port for ssh on the router ? mick Hello Mick, Thanks for the interest. Yes, student can connect

Re: Offline systems

2020-09-20 Thread mick crane
On 2020-09-20 15:46, Peter wrote: Hi, I want to setup a few servers(30+) on intranet network and NONE(not even a master server or anything like that) of them having internet access. What is best approach so I can still install packages on demand ? Try to make custom repo ? But in this case

Re: Offline systems

2020-09-20 Thread mick crane
On 2020-09-20 16:31, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, mick crane wrote: Somebody mentioned jigdo which looked like a good thing. Jigdo is used for making ISO images from a frame of ISO 9660 metadata and other non-packaged stuff (the .template file), and the .deb packages on a mirror, or in a

Re: Mail transfer agent

2020-09-24 Thread mick crane
On 2020-09-24 18:19, Brian wrote: On Thu 24 Sep 2020 at 13:35:17 +, mike.junk...@att.net wrote: On Wednesday, September 23, 2020, 09:14:42 PM CDT, Dan Ritter wrote: mutt is an MUA, not an MTA.  What tasks do you want your mail server to perform? Please be specific. We will have be

Re: Mail transfer agent

2020-09-25 Thread mick crane
On 2020-09-25 08:56, Joe wrote: If you haven't done anything yourself, it will be exim4-light. thanks -- Key ID4BFEBB31

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

2020-09-25 Thread mick crane
On 2020-09-25 23:42, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 25 September 2020 18:10:42 Stefan Monnier wrote: > He may have changed it, but at the time I first started using it on > a "pc" it had to be registered before it would access the 2nd port. I don't understand what you're referring to: - What is

SSD and HDD

2020-10-11 Thread mick crane
Bearing in mind I rarely do installs and when I do usually let the installer do its thing. Got a PC that has SSD and a HDD. I see that you are supposed to avoid writes to SSD for longevity. Is it a matter of putting entries in fstab for /swap /var /home to suitably formatted partitions on HDD ?

Re: SSD and HDD

2020-10-12 Thread mick crane
On 2020-10-11 19:01, Andy Smith wrote: Hi Mick, On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 05:45:45PM +0100, mick crane wrote: Got a PC that has SSD and a HDD. I see that you are supposed to avoid writes to SSD for longevity. Flash write endurance has come on leaps and bounds over the last decade to the point

Re: backups Was: SSD and HDD

2020-10-13 Thread mick crane
On 2020-10-13 00:46, Dan Ritter wrote: mick crane wrote: might I ask a favour for information on accepted wisdom for this stuff ? I being a home user have pfsense on old lenovo between ISP router and switch to PCs another old buster lenovo doing email another Buster PC I do bits of

Re: Linux not seeing all SATA drives

2020-10-13 Thread mick crane
On 2020-10-13 16:39, Dennis Wicks wrote: David Christensen wrote on 10/12/20 10:01 PM: On 2020-10-12 19:19, Dennis Wicks wrote: I have 3 SATA drives on my system. I replaced all my red cables with new black cables. The BIOS sees all of them but when linux finishes booting it only sees two of t

Re: PATH nfg after su

2020-10-23 Thread mick crane
On 2020-10-23 19:01, Dan Ritter wrote: I first used Linux in 1992, 13 or 14 months after Linus started writing it. sudo was already 12 years old. "Where do you want to go today" did it for me but I had such a lot of trouble shifting head into gear. Never really managed. -- Key ID4BFEBB3

Re: Replacement Email Client

2020-10-25 Thread mick crane
On 2020-10-26 00:07, Patrick Bartek wrote: I have Dillo configured NOT to show images initially. Do that for security. Reloading page usually brings them up. It will follow some links to other pages, but for viewing purposes only. One cannot interact and transmit data as I need to. I have to us

Re: getmail, getmail6, testing, unstable, python-is-python3

2020-10-27 Thread mick crane
On 2020-10-27 13:08, songbird wrote: well, yesterday finally became the day when i tried to see if i could get the old getmail to be left alone, but nope, none of the options worked. the good news, is that getmail6 is in unstable and was a drop in replacement for getmail. there's a bit of an

Re: La Comisión Europea aprueba la nueva Estrategia de Software de Código Abierto 2020-2023

2020-10-27 Thread mick crane
On 2020-10-27 14:35, Kenneth Parker wrote: Good article, about the European Commission embracing a "new Open Source Software Strategy". Being the European Union is awesome, simply because of how big it is, of course. I like their principle, "Think Open". If the European Union say they want

Re: Replacement Email Client

2020-10-28 Thread mick crane
On 2020-10-28 08:35, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: How did we end here? How did we end up paying for the ad industry's infrastrutcture, paying with our privacy, but also with our real money, having to buy RAM and CPU power just for their sake? How do we get out of here? Good point. Ad agencies have

working with mp3 files

2020-10-29 Thread mick crane
hello, I am totally clueless about audio files. Have for example librivox recordings of "1984" split into a dozen files. Would like to combine them together into one file with ffmpeg join_together "files" some_options) out_file presumably each file has meta data that I only need once ? Anybody poi

Re: working with mp3 files

2020-10-29 Thread mick crane
On 2020-10-29 16:40, Nicolas George wrote: ghe2001 (12020-10-29): Yeah, but he's starting with mp3, so I don't know of a better way to do it. The better way to do it is to avoid decoding then re-encoding. How do you get rid of the metadata noise? I've tried 'cating mp3s, and it didn't work

Re: working with mp3 files

2020-10-30 Thread mick crane
On 2020-10-29 23:30, Nicolas George wrote: mick crane (12020-10-29): Is it correct that the concat works with the file but the demux streams it first through audio device and records? No, absolutely not. What on Earth could make you think that?!? I'd so far only skimmed the document

Re: working with mp3 files

2020-10-30 Thread mick crane
On 2020-10-29 23:30, Nicolas George wrote: mick crane (12020-10-29): Is it correct that the concat works with the file but the demux streams it first through audio device and records? No, absolutely not. What on Earth could make you think that?!? The concat demuxer works through each file

Re: Feasibility of speech recognition for note taking on dedicated laptop?

2020-11-06 Thread mick crane
On 2020-11-06 07:25, deloptes wrote: Let me comment here my impressions. I studied speech processing and wrote my thesis on dialog systems in 2007. Until about 2005 there were still some open source tools like ViaVoice by IBM. Basically all of this was dropped by 2010 - no idea why - might be

HDD for CCTV

2020-11-12 Thread mick crane
regarding earlier post with do not reply request. There's loads of HDDs advertised as "for CCTV, like a PC disk" Is there some difference between HDDs for video recording and regular PC HDDs ? mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: HDD for CCTV

2020-11-13 Thread mick crane
On 2020-11-13 08:11, Reco wrote: Hi. On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 07:56:24AM +, mick crane wrote: regarding earlier post with do not reply request. There's loads of HDDs advertised as "for CCTV, like a PC disk" Is there some difference between HDDs for video recording and r

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-13 Thread mick crane
On 2020-11-13 17:09, Dan Ritter wrote: On Fri, Nov 13, 2020, 9:20 AM Dan Ritter wrote: Something ate it. Weird. d...@randomstring.org is correct. was sent to d...@randomstring.org -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: color border in image, drop everything outside of it

2020-11-15 Thread mick crane
On 2020-11-15 09:38, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 12:31:22AM +0100, Emanuel Berg wrote: Hello, is there a tool/command/script anywhere that can overwrite with a single color (or make transparent) every pixel to the left, above, right, and below a certain other color? e.g., if

UEFI and legacy MBR

2020-11-21 Thread mick crane
hello, I'm having a bit of bother trying to install windows and Bullseye on PC. have 2x HDD and 1 SSD PC bios has option UEFI or legacy menus Only seemed to work if selected USB from legacy menu to install windows from USB stick on only connected HDD. So then I connect the other drives and instal

Re: UEFI and legacy MBR

2020-11-21 Thread mick crane
On 2020-11-21 11:29, mick crane wrote: hello, I'm having a bit of bother trying to install windows and Bullseye on PC. never mind it all seems to be working mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: Why use an email client AND sendmail/popa3d - Does this avoid the hijack?

2020-11-24 Thread mick crane
On 2020-11-23 12:19, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 23 nov 20, 14:27:36, Keith Bainbridge wrote: So does htis get a new subject in the list? Good afternon All I was interested to read that Flo, the OP, uses separate mail collection, sendmail and thunderbird. Some of the replies sound like this i

Re: Why use an email client AND sendmail/popa3d - Does this avoid the hijack?

2020-11-26 Thread mick crane
On 2020-11-26 03:57, David Wright wrote: What sort of rejections and/or bounces have you had? It showed up that mails to getmail list that uses Exim were refused as unsubscribed whereas before was OK. I "think" I then subscribed with noctiluc...@sky.com which worked for a bit but then from l

Re: Sharing files LINUX-LINUX / LINUX-WINDOWS / WINDOWS-WINDOWS

2020-11-28 Thread mick crane
On 2020-11-28 03:08, Kanito 73 wrote: Hello I have up and running two dual boot LINUX (Debian 10) and WINDOWS 10 machines and want to connect them to be able to work without spending time copying files from/to on a usb device, have multiple copies of a same file, etc. You can use WinSCP to to

exporting display like

2020-12-17 Thread mick crane
please bear in mind I don't know what I'm doing. It is convenient to have the one display and keyboard/mouse I sometimes if on windows use putty/Xming to start GUI program on other Debian PC. Think I used screen before so can attach/detach from running terminal program but with X display program

Re: exporting display like

2020-12-18 Thread mick crane
On 2020-12-17 23:11, Nicolas George wrote: mick crane (12020-12-17): please bear in mind I don't know what I'm doing. It is convenient to have the one display and keyboard/mouse I sometimes if on windows use putty/Xming to start GUI program on other Debian PC. Think I used screen

Re: Debian 10 64bit

2020-12-20 Thread mick crane
On 2020-12-19 20:04, David Wright wrote: <...> saying because I noticed that if you add yourself to sudo group in /etc/group you have to logout and log back in for it to be noticed. mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

adding a disk to a Volume group

2020-12-20 Thread mick crane
hello, It's a more or less new bullseye installation. The installer kindly set up a Volume Group and added Logical Volumes of a couple of the partitions on the disk with the OS on it. I want to add another disk to use for data. Not had anything to do with LVM. I'll want to make an extended parti

Re: adding a disk to a Volume group

2020-12-20 Thread mick crane
On 2020-12-20 20:38, Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, 20 Dec 2020 19:05:45 + mick crane wrote: It's a more or less new bullseye installation. The installer kindly set up a Volume Group and added Logical Volumes of a couple of the partitions on the disk with the OS on it. I want t

Re: adding a disk to a Volume group

2020-12-22 Thread mick crane
On 2020-12-22 21:04, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, December 22, 2020 1:26:36 PM CET, elvis wrote: The LVM howto is your friend there are also plenty of man pages! greetings... You mean like RTFM or something ? The man pages generally assume you know why you are reading them. I've noticed a lot

Re: adding a disk to a Volume group

2020-12-22 Thread mick crane
On 2020-12-22 22:19, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, December 22, 2020 10:58:14 PM CET, mick crane wrote: You mean like RTFM or something ? indeed, i had something like this in mind... ;) agreed, the quality of man pages is not, what it used to be back in the day, when i was young, but lvm is old

transfer speed data

2020-12-22 Thread mick crane
hello, I have a buster PC and a bullseye PC which are both supposed to have gigabyte network cards connected via a little Gigabyte switch box. Transferring files between them, I forget which shows the transfer speed per file, either scp or rsync the maximum is 50 Mbs per file. Would you expect

Re: adding a disk to a Volume group

2020-12-22 Thread mick crane
On 2020-12-23 03:37, Andy Smith wrote: <..> e.g. if you install a drive and it shows up in your OS as /dev/foo of size 1TB, then: # pvcreate /dev/foo # vgcreate myvg /dev/foo Now you have a volume group called "myvg" with ~1TB (some space reserved for metadata) available for allocation. This

Re: mdadm usage

2020-12-29 Thread mick crane
On 2020-12-29 13:10, Andy Smith wrote: <..> The default metadata format (v1.2) for mdadm is at the beginning of the device. If you've put a filesystem directly on the md device then the presence of the metadata will prevent it being recognised as a simple filesystem. What you can do is force mdad

Re: mdadm usage

2020-12-30 Thread mick crane
On 2020-12-30 13:38, Andy Smith wrote: Hi Mick, On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 03:32:07PM +, mick crane wrote: On 2020-12-29 13:10, Andy Smith wrote: >The default metadata format (v1.2) for mdadm is at the beginning of >the device. If you've put a filesystem directly on the md devic

Totally on topic

2020-12-31 Thread mick crane
Happy New Year to all concerned and thanks for the handy tips and information on Debian users in 2020 mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: sharing a network connection from debian to non-debian

2021-01-15 Thread mick crane
On 2021-01-16 05:02, Dan Hitt wrote: In 2016, i had a computer with mint on it (which is a form of ubuntu), and it was connected to an internet modem. There was a super simple gui on it that i could use to share that connection with some older hardware that were not directly connected to the i

One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread mick crane
hello, I see that you can get a single network card with 2, 3, 4 connections. Can you happily make each one on a separate private address block ? 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0, 192.168.0.0 mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread mick crane
On 2021-01-19 14:22, Dan Ritter wrote: mick crane wrote: hello, I see that you can get a single network card with 2, 3, 4 connections. Can you happily make each one on a separate private address block ? 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0, 192.168.0.0 My firewall (yes, it runs Debian) has an Intel 4x 1gig

Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread mick crane
On 2021-01-19 15:06, Andy Smith wrote: Hi Mick, On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 12:47:34PM +, mick crane wrote: I see that you can get a single network card with 2, 3, 4 connections. Can you happily make each one on a separate private address block ? 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0, 192.168.0.0 There is no

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-20 Thread mick crane
On 2021-01-20 08:40, steve wrote: Question. What does the following mean? # find /dev -follow -printf "" find: '/dev/fd/4': No such file or directory I don't know but they look to be symlinks that get created to pseudo terminals /dev/pts/0 by eg ssh, telnet. Maybe a session crashed and left

Raid 1

2021-01-22 Thread mick crane
hello, I want to tidy things up as suggested. Have one old PC that I'll put 2 disks in and tidy everything up so what's scattered about is on the running disks and this new/old one is just backup for them. Can I assume that Debian installer in some expert mode will sort out the raid or do I nee

Re: Raid 1

2021-01-23 Thread mick crane
On 2021-01-23 12:20, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 22 ian 21, 22:26:46, mick crane wrote: hello, I want to tidy things up as suggested. Have one old PC that I'll put 2 disks in and tidy everything up so what's scattered about is on the running disks and this new/old one is just b

Re: Raid 1

2021-01-23 Thread mick crane
On 2021-01-23 17:11, Linux-Fan wrote: mick crane writes: On 2021-01-23 12:20, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 22 ian 21, 22:26:46, mick crane wrote: hello, I want to tidy things up as suggested. Have one old PC that I'll put 2 disks in and tidy everything up so what's scattered about

Re: Raid 1

2021-01-24 Thread mick crane
On 2021-01-23 22:01, David Christensen wrote: On 2021-01-23 07:01, mick crane wrote: On 2021-01-23 12:20, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 22 ian 21, 22:26:46, mick crane wrote: hello, I want to tidy things up as suggested. Have one old PC that I'll put 2 disks in and tidy everything

Re: Raid 1

2021-01-24 Thread mick crane
On 2021-01-24 17:37, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 24 ian 21, 11:36:09, mick crane wrote: I know I'm a bit thick about these things, what I'm blocked about is where is the OS. Let's say I have one PC and 2 unpartitioned disks. Put one disk in PC and install Debian on it.

Re: Raid 1

2021-01-24 Thread mick crane
On 2021-01-24 20:10, David Christensen wrote: On 2021-01-24 03:36, mick crane wrote: Let's say I have one PC and 2 unpartitioned disks. Please tell us why you must put the OS and the backup images on the same RAID mirror of two HDD's, and why you cannot add one (or two?) more devic

rsync to NAS for backup

2021-02-13 Thread mick crane
I made a mistake and instead of getting a PC for backup I got a NAS. I'm struggling to get to grips with it. If rsync from PC to NAS NAS changes the owner/group of files to me/users which is probably no good for backing up. There's that problem then another that it won't let me login as root. I

Re: rsync to NAS for backup

2021-02-15 Thread mick crane
On 2021-02-13 19:20, David Christensen wrote: On 2021-02-13 01:27, mick crane wrote: I made a mistake and instead of getting a PC for backup I got a NAS. I'm struggling to get to grips with it. If rsync from PC to NAS NAS changes the owner/group of files to me/users which is probably no

Re: awstats, how to see in a browser?

2021-02-16 Thread mick crane
On 2021-02-16 09:28, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; I finally got around to changing awstats.conf to look at the httpd logs since the apache2 logs haven't been used in a while, but 2 changes in browsers has lost the localhost link to see what it is spitting out. Does anyone recall the addre

Re: identifying my LInux machine on my LAN

2021-02-16 Thread mick crane
On 2021-02-16 16:49, Paul Scott wrote: My LAN used to have 1 or two computers and/or debices and my Debian Linux machine on it.  I used to be able to log in either on the LAN from my wife's Windows computer or from outside the LAN with my Debian laptop with ssh or Windows machines on which I had

Re: rsync to NAS for backup

2021-02-18 Thread mick crane
On 2021-02-15 12:39, mick crane wrote: On 2021-02-13 19:20, David Christensen wrote: On 2021-02-13 01:27, mick crane wrote: I made a mistake and instead of getting a PC for backup I got a NAS. I'm struggling to get to grips with it. If rsync from PC to NAS NAS changes the owner/group of

Re: rsync to NAS for backup

2021-02-18 Thread mick crane
On 2021-02-18 16:13, Gary Dale wrote: On 2021-02-18 10:57, mick crane wrote: On 2021-02-15 12:39, mick crane wrote: On 2021-02-13 19:20, David Christensen wrote: On 2021-02-13 01:27, mick crane wrote: I made a mistake and instead of getting a PC for backup I got a NAS. I'm struggling t

Re: need to run the windows version of cura for amd64

2021-02-25 Thread mick crane
On 2021-02-25 19:50, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; I may have made a mistake, but I bought a dremel digilab 3d45 FDM printer, aka a 3d printer. A better printer in the medium priced category at a bit over $1800 from Amazon. I have the appimage of cura but that version has no knowledge of t

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-02-28 Thread mick crane
On 2021-02-28 11:31, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Tue, 23 Feb 2021, David Wright wrote: Is this buster? yes Are you running any applications, particularly those involving sound, as root, particularly in response to some previous problem? no Is it just that binary that goes missing, or do

Re: Non-free firmware [was: Debian install Question]

2021-03-02 Thread mick crane
On 2021-03-02 23:29, Brian wrote: On Tue 02 Mar 2021 at 16:19:45 -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, March 02, 2021 02:55:08 PM Brian wrote: > On Mon 01 Mar 2021 at 08:13:13 -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Sunday, February 28, 2021 12:03:31 PM Celejar wrote: > > > "Many wireles

Re: Trusting trust [was: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems]

2021-03-04 Thread mick crane
On 2021-03-04 09:41, Joe wrote: Of course. Any externally-supplied network device is inherently untrusted. It is unwise to give any IoT device access to your network, it is fail-safe to assume that every such device reports back as much as possible to some Chinese company. Most certainly. The

Re: Use motherboard video-out or GPU’s

2021-03-09 Thread mick crane
On 2021-03-09 12:48, Pankaj Jangid wrote: deloptes writes: Now, should I connect the monitor to the motherboard video-out or should I use GPU’s output? Suppose the OS (Debian GNU/Linux in this case) is fully configured to utilize the GPUs i.e. drivers etc. are set up. Will the graphic system

Re: Where can I change spamd logging?

2021-03-12 Thread mick crane
On 2021-03-13 04:25, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; Somehow, spamd and friends have gotten the idea that they can spam the syslog to the point where logrotate fires off at least daily, putting so much trash in the syslog it worthless as a troubleshooting tool. What file, and where, do I e

Re: Google vs. DDG

2021-03-17 Thread mick crane
On 2021-03-17 08:10, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 12:09:54AM +0100, deloptes wrote: [...] Things I found yesterday in Google, I can not find today and DDG anyway :) Pics or it didn't happen ;-) They never sent my DDG car sticker. mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-30 Thread mick crane
On 2021-03-24 15:34, Richard Owlett wrote: This is essentially a reading list request. I have never administered a LAN and believe in "learning by doing". I have two laptops with clean installs of Buster. During installation server software was installed on *ONE* of them. Communication will be vi

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-30 Thread mick crane
On 2021-03-30 17:28, IL Ka wrote: You might need a x-over RJ45 cable to connect the 2 together. There is a technology called "Auto MDI-X". With it NIC can detect cable type hence it can support both cross-cord and patch-cord. This technology is optional for 10Mb and 100Mb (although widely i

Re: ping gateway ok, ping any other local network address fails

2021-04-09 Thread mick crane
On 2021-04-09 10:41, rudu wrote: Hi, First, I tried to understand why a single machine among others couldn't print on the local printer. So I tried to ping the printer and it failed. The machine could nevertheless surf the web with no problem ... I paste here a few commands I passed when remote

Re: Google vs. DDG

2021-04-28 Thread mick crane
On 2021-04-28 16:05, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 15:02:19 +0100 wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 09:46:53AM -0400, Celejar wrote: [...] > You've been making some very interesting points here about the key > being context, but I'm not sure I totally buy it. DDG simply doesn't > work well

Re: Google vs. DDG

2021-04-29 Thread mick crane
On 2021-04-28 20:49, davidson wrote: On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 mick crane wrote: I think Google tailors results according to what they know about you. Even if you reset the router to a new IP and clear all the cookies they still seem to know. I've wondered if the browser has an identifying n

Re: Google vs. DDG

2021-05-01 Thread mick crane
On 2021-04-28 20:49, davidson wrote: On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 mick crane wrote: I think Google tailors results according to what they know about you. Even if you reset the router to a new IP and clear all the cookies they still seem to know. I've wondered if the browser has an identifying n

Re: HTML syntax.

2021-05-03 Thread mick crane
On 2021-05-03 16:44, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: Hi again, Is there an editor which checks that HTML opening and closing tags are paired and nested properly. An opening tag without matching close, a closing tag without matching open and crossed tags should be flagged by line number or color. Pref

Re: MX Sources List

2021-05-06 Thread mick crane
On 2021-05-06 14:57, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 04:49:09PM +0300, ellanios82 wrote:  - please, for MX , what would be an appropriate Sources List ?? https://mxlinux.org/support/ being curious and looked. https://mxlinux.org/wiki/system/repos-mx-19/ mick -- Key ID4BFEBB

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-05 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-05 21:13, David Wright wrote: From this and other posts of yours, you seem to feel very vulnerable when connected to anywhere outside your system, as if you're under a man-in-the-middle attack all the time. Do I come across like that ? It is probably correct. I think it is because I

putty go slow

2019-04-08 Thread mick crane
hello, It may not be mail list specific but maybe somebody knows ? If I connect windows 10 to debian Buster with putty and edit a file. Usually the little cursor beetles across the screen over the characters but then sometimes it is noticeably sluggish. This is probably something to do with the ne

Re: putty go slow

2019-04-08 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-08 23:03, l...@levlaz.org wrote: Hey Mick, On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 09:38:48PM +0100, mick crane wrote: hello, It may not be mail list specific but maybe somebody knows ? If I connect windows 10 to debian Buster with putty and edit a file. Usually the little cursor beetles across the

Re: putty go slow

2019-04-09 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-09 07:46, Peter Wiersig wrote: mick crane writes: the PCs are physically adjacent connected with the RJ45 ( isn't it ) cables through what is supposed to be a switch I got in B&Q several years ago. Almost, RJ-45 is the specification for the plug and jacks, what you'

Re: OpenSSH not closing idle sessions.

2019-04-09 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-08 18:25, timothylegg wrote: Ideas? I've not really used screen but isn't it that you want to start where you left off ? mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Graphics::Magick

2019-04-10 Thread mick crane
I don't know if you are supposed to get this perl stuff with apt or from cpan. got Image::Imlib2 to do useful things and I have Image::Magick but I'm struggling translating the syntax from ImageMagick to Image::Magick the GraphicsMagick web pages seemed a little clearer Graphics::Magick doesn'

Re: Graphics::Magick

2019-04-10 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-10 08:46, mick crane wrote: I don't know if you are supposed to get this perl stuff with apt or from cpan. got Image::Imlib2 to do useful things and I have Image::Magick but I'm struggling translating the syntax from ImageMagick to Image::Magick the GraphicsMagick web page

Re: Graphics::Magick

2019-04-10 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-10 10:41, Curt wrote: On 2019-04-10, mick crane wrote: How do I install PerlMagick as a subordinate package of GraphicsMagick ? apt search perlmagick perlmagick/testing,testing 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2 all Perl interface to ImageMagick -- dummy package I believe what you need now

Re: putty go slow

2019-04-10 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-10 14:01, Peter Wiersig wrote: Michael Stone writes: On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 12:00:01PM +0200, Peter Wiersig wrote: /sbin/ifconfig enp0s25: flags=4163 mtu 1500 inet 10.0.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.0.255 inet6 fe80::219:d1ff:fe41:c769 prefixlen 64

Re: Simple Linux to Linux(Debian) email

2019-04-11 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-11 16:42, Mark Fletcher wrote: On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 02:34:30AM +0200, Jan Claeys wrote: On Mon, 2019-04-08 at 21:33 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > I've created a very simple script that is capable of parsing the > output of "ip addr" and comparing the returned ip address for the > r

Re: Simple Linux to Linux(Debian) email

2019-04-11 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-11 17:05, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 05:02:46PM +0100, mick crane wrote: I think that is what dynamic ip address services do, change the ipaddress but the service has to be on the ISP's router ? Do I understand correctly then when your isp/home address changes

Re: Simple Linux to Linux(Debian) email

2019-04-12 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-11 17:16, mick crane wrote: On 2019-04-11 17:05, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 05:02:46PM +0100, mick crane wrote: I think that is what dynamic ip address services do, change the ipaddress but the service has to be on the ISP's router ? Do I understand correctly

Re: Simple Linux to Linux(Debian) email

2019-04-12 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-12 10:57, Dan Purgert wrote: mick crane wrote: On 2019-04-11 17:16, mick crane wrote: On 2019-04-11 17:05, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 05:02:46PM +0100, mick crane wrote: I think that is what dynamic ip address services do, change the ipaddress but the service has

Re: Simple Linux to Linux(Debian) email

2019-04-12 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-12 13:31, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 12 April 2019 07:54:57 Dan Ritter wrote: mick crane wrote: > I have wondered what they do to stop people broadcasting their own > top level domain. Nothing. They don't have to. If you want a top level domain and you contr

Re: Simple Linux to Linux(Debian) email

2019-04-12 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-12 16:11, Celejar wrote: On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 07:54:57 -0400 Dan Ritter wrote: mick crane wrote: > I have wondered what they do to stop people broadcasting their own top level > domain. Nothing. They don't have to. If you want a top level domain and you contr

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