Go in Debian.

2019-07-29 Thread peter
From: Reco Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 19:57:19 +0300 > [1] https://github.com/tenox7/wrp This page has some information. https://go-team.pages.debian.net/packaging.html Can someone recommend a value for $GOPATH please. Thanks, ... Peter E. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon

Arrow annotation in GIMP.

2019-08-13 Thread peter
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Re: Shimming HTTP to HTTPS.

2019-08-13 Thread peter
> which will make your message thread correctly. OK. Will see the result with In-Reply-To only for this message. Thanks, ... Peter E. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon Tel: +1 604 670 0140Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

Re: Arrow annotation in GIMP.

2019-08-14 Thread peter
ew image. Set the background to transparent. Draw an > arrow. Save it. Don't close it. > > Open your primary image. ... OK, thanks. That method is entirely serviceable. ... P. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon Tel: +1 604 670 0140Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

Re (2): Arrow annotation in GIMP.

2019-08-14 Thread peter
... P. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon Tel: +1 604 670 0140Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

Unicode in GIMP Text Tool.

2019-08-14 Thread peter
140Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

Re: Unicode in GIMP Text Tool.

2019-08-14 Thread peter
ser maybe. I was typing the character entity reference in the GIMP tool. Thanks, ... P. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon Tel: +1 604 670 0140Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

TWAIN in Debian 10.

2019-08-16 Thread peter
three noted above? Other ideas? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon Tel: +1 604 670 0140Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

Re: TWAIN in Debian 10.

2019-08-16 Thread peter
much better specs and much > easier to access. Advances in micro-electronics and software make beautiful old hardware obsolete. =8~| Thanks again, ... P. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon Tel: +1 604 670 0140Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

Re: Arrow annotation in GIMP.

2019-08-16 Thread peter
is it? What is the point of alpha? Transparent should be simply no marking. RGB = (0,0,0). What does alpha represent? Thanks, ... P. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon Tel: +1 604 670 0140 Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

Confounding behaviour of Empathy.

2019-08-16 Thread peter
The Contacts List in Empathy notifies in bold letters, "You haven't added any contacts yet". Meanwhile the "Add Contact" button is pale grey; disabled. I guess others have encountered this connundrum. Anyone have a solution? Thanks, ..

Confounding behaviour of Empathy.

2019-08-16 Thread peter
The Contacts List in Empathy notifies in bold letters, "You haven't added any contacts yet". Meanwhile the "Add Contact" button is pale grey; disabled. It needs a file initialized? A dependancy? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wi

Re: Shimming HTTP to HTTPS.

2019-08-22 Thread peter
illo works quite well. No reason Oberon can't. Thanks, ... P. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon Tel: +1 604 670 0140Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

Re: Shimming HTTP to HTTPS.

2019-08-23 Thread peter
uch pages. A good solution for Oberon S3 would be to make TLS work. Not sure I want to tackle it. Thanks for the replies, ... P. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Medical_Machines https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon Tel: +1 604 670 0140Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

Re: Confounding behaviour of Empathy.

2019-09-02 Thread peter
ntacts yet". Any ideas? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Medical_Machines https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon Tel: +1 604 670 0140 Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

Ancilliary server accesses by browser.

2019-09-09 Thread peter
file. Wireshark is a good possibility? Is there a configuration template for this? Suggestions? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Medical_Machines https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon Tel: +1 604 670 0140Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

Re: Ancilliary server accesses by browser.

2019-09-09 Thread peter
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Re: Ancilliary server accesses by browser.

2019-09-09 Thread peter
From: John Hasler Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2019 18:43:24 -0500 > I'd use tcpdump. Will keep in mind. Thanks John, ... P. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Medical_Machines https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon Tel: +1 604 670 0140 Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

Peculiar terminology for gnupg2 options.

2019-09-13 Thread peter
called no-universal-sigs? Therefore no-self-sigs-only = no-no-universal-sigs = universal-sigs? Wouldn't simpler terminology suffice? Thanks, ... P. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Medical_Machines https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon Tel: +1 604 670 0140 Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

Re: Peculiar terminology for gnupg2 options.

2019-09-13 Thread peter
alert when reading. ... Peter E. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Medical_Machines https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon Tel: +1 604 670 0140 Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

Re: Arrow annotation in GIMP.

2019-09-15 Thread peter
er necessary? Can't the arrow be pasted directly onto the image? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Medical_Machines https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon Tel: +1 604 670 0140Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

Re: TWAIN in Debian 10.

2019-09-20 Thread peter
o have terrible > specifications by current standards: Hardware is in place and I've installed WINE. Therefore willing to invest a little more effort before jettisoning. A picture of the driver diskette is at http://easthope.ca/JVC.KY-F.TWAINdiskette.jpg . fstab has this. peter@dalton:~$ grep

Wine configuration and result from "wine ./SETUP.EXE".

2019-09-22 Thread peter
h this backtrace. http://easthope.ca/backtrace Tips? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Medical_Machines Tel: +1 604 670 0140 Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

Re: Wine configuration and result from "wine ./SETUP.EXE".

2019-09-25 Thread peter
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Icon for minimized window.

2019-09-26 Thread peter
. I don't know how to retrieve it. I must have clicked a configuration button inadvertently but haven't found it. Tips? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Medical_Machines Tel: +1 604 670 0140 Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

Authentication for telnet.

2019-09-28 Thread peter
Opening a terminal emulator in default configuration on localhost, LXTerminal for example, doesn't require authentication. Can telnet work similarly? Ie. "telnet localhost" succeeds without login. Can this be accomplished by configuration of PAM ? Thanks,

Re: Icon for minimized window.

2019-09-28 Thread peter
Tel: +1 604 670 0140Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

Re: Authentication for telnet.

2019-09-29 Thread peter
ea to set them. Tips welcome. Regards, ... Peter E. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Medical_Machines Tel: +1 604 670 0140Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

Re: Authentication for telnet.

2019-09-29 Thread peter
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Re: Authentication for telnet.

2019-09-30 Thread peter
From: Reco Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 19:23:45 +0300 > telnetd(8), "-a" and "-L" parameters. OK. peter@joule:~$ grep telnet /etc/inetd.conf telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.telnetd -a user # Restart inetd. Then the result from telnet to loca

Re: Authentication for telnet.

2019-10-01 Thread peter
e to install one or the other but not both. I removed inetutils-inetd and installed openbsd-inetd. > 2) echo 'telnet stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd > /usr/sbin/telnetd -a none -E /bin/bash' > /etc/inetd.conf peter@joule:~$ dpkg -l | grep telnet /etc/inetd.conf t

Re: Authentication for telnet.

2019-10-01 Thread peter
> /usr/sbin/telnetd -a none -E /bin/bash' > /etc/inetd.conf peter@joule:~$ grep telnet /etc/inetd.conf ## telnet stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/telnetd -a none -E /bin/bash Not sure ## should be there. Have yet to find an explanation for it. > 3) serv

Re: Ancilliary server accesses by browser.

2020-03-30 Thread peter
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Linphone x Zoom.

2020-05-03 Thread peter
A Zoom invitation includes sip:12345678...@zoomcrc.com. When the session is open and Linphone is given the URL it reports "Temporarily Unavailable". Does anyone have success with a similar connection? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- https://en.wikibook

Failure of cups printing.

2018-06-20 Thread peter
Hi, Since upgrading from Debian 8 to 9, CUPS printing has failed with this log message. "/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertogutenprint.5.2" not available: No such file or directory Whereas, peter@computer:~$ ls -ld /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertogutenprint.5.2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 42972 Fe

Re: Failure of cups printing.

2018-06-20 Thread peter
From: kamaraju kusumanchi Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 21:00:46 -0400 > The bug report says that it was fixed in 5.2.10~pre2-2 . You can try > installing that version and see if that solves your problem. This is in the current Debian 9. peter@computer:~$ dpkg -l | grep r-guten ii printer-

Sane via GIMP.

2018-07-17 Thread peter
) The result is at http://easthope.ca/SanePreview.png Ie. previewing and scanning appears to be impossible. Ideas? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and transmitted by software designed to avoid the need, overhead and vulnerability of antivirus software. 123456789 1234

Re: LTE router usage.

2018-07-17 Thread peter
which cause delays in communication between router and cell tower, which degrades efficiency.. Has anyone encountered a question such as this? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and transmitted by software designed to avoid the need, overhead and vulnerability

Re: LTE router usage.

2018-07-17 Thread peter
ower > to split them. It would double the number of packets and if the ISP is > counting packets instead of bytes, then it would easily explain a factor > of 2 increase. Thanks Roberto, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and transmitted by software designed

A reliable SIP registrar?

2018-08-27 Thread peter
w any specification or best practice published by IETF that I'm aware of." Diamondcard.us works for any system I use but is paid gateway to the PSTN. Can anyone recommend a SIP registrar for general use beyond Debian? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Message composed

Paper size reported in Document Viewer.

2018-09-30 Thread peter
cification or to the PDF file. Ideas? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and transmitted by software designed to avoid the need, overhead and vulnerability of antivirus software. 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12

Re: SVG in SVG.

2018-10-01 Thread peter
und how Document Viewer derives the numbers "270 x 349". Regards, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and transmitted by software designed to avoid the need, overhead and vulnerability of antivirus software. 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 1234567

Mystery interface reported by ip.

2018-10-28 Thread peter
appear anywhere in /etc/. Where does the name originate? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and transmitted by software designed to avoid the need, overhead and vulnerability of antivirus software. 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12345

Re: Mystery interface reported by ip.

2018-10-30 Thread peter
"1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="LocLCS1788" The old name "LocLCS218301788" was dredged up from somewhere outside /etc/. Where? Old NIC names are cached? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and transmitted by software designed to avoid the nee

Re: Mystery interface reported by ip.

2018-11-02 Thread peter
ous message. When I have access to the machine again, will review this dodgy picture and make a better reply. About a week hence. Thanks, ... P. -- Message composed and transmitted by software designed to avoid the need, overhead and vulnerability of antivirus software. 12

Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R.

2018-11-04 Thread peter
ed in DVD-R." ; popd ; And retrival. pushd ; printf "Insert a DVD-R containing a tar archive."; read t ; xorriso -indev /dev/sr0 -toc 2>&1 ; xorriso -indev /dev/sr0 -extract / -- | tar -vxf ; xorriso -indev /dev/sr0 -eject ; popd ; Comments?

Recognition of SiS900 Ethernet driver by Debian 9.5 installer.

2018-11-04 Thread peter
The 8.7 and 9.3 installers had no difficulty recognizing the SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet NIC. The 9.5 installer complains that no NIC is available. If the driver is chosen from the list presented, the NIC is still not recognized. Any ideas about this? Thanks, ... Peter E

Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R.

2018-11-06 Thread peter
) and writing a file system hadn't crystalized well. Software can take an action, or not, without direct evidence. To my thinking, all the examples in https://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/ assume an ISO 9660 filesystem. No issue for an experienced user but a ready trap for a novice. Thanks

Re : Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R.

2018-11-07 Thread peter
subdirectories. Subdirectories are excluded from the first stage of backup. I can't think of a reason for a symlink to exist but will keep the possibility in mind. An exception is a likely source of trouble. Regards, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and tran

Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R.

2018-11-07 Thread peter
re they in POSIX? Best avoided? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and transmitted by software designed to avoid the need, overhead and vulnerability of antivirus software. 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 Tel: +1 36

Re: pushd/popd

2018-11-09 Thread peter
m interested in the reasoning behind this choice. Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and transmitted by software designed to avoid the need, overhead and vulnerability of antivirus software. 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12

Re: Mystery interface reported by ip.

2018-11-09 Thread peter
tml .) peter@joule:~$ collect /etc/udev/rules.d/70* SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:1d:7e:00:ee:9f", \ ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="LocLCS1788" SUBSYSTE

Re: pushd/popd

2018-11-10 Thread peter
rinsic reason to avoid pushd/popd? Not in POSIX merely because it isn't done yet? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and transmitted by software designed to avoid the need, overhead and vulnerability of antivirus software. 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12

Re: Mystery interface reported by ip.

2018-11-12 Thread peter
* From: Reco * Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 19:56:24 +0300 > Ok, let's do it the hard way. > > udevadm info /sys/class/net/LocLCS218301788 peter@joule:~$ udevadm info /sys/class/net/LocLCS218301788 P: /devices/pci:00/:00:1e.0/:02:08.0/net/LocLCS218301788 E: DE

Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R.

2018-11-12 Thread peter
t gives you over > simply putting the commands in a script so that you can run something like > "sudo backup" on demand. How are multiple commands defined in one file? Then invoke? sudo backup1 sudo backup2 sudo backup3 Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and

Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R.

2018-11-12 Thread peter
& etc. Can discuss these stages 2 and 3 later. Thanks, ... Peter E. Backup() { \ if [ $# -gt 1 ]; then echo "Too many arguments."; else echo "0 or 1 arguments are OK."; if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then echo "0 arguments

Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R.

2018-11-13 Thread peter
er status when possible; root status when necessary. Arbitrary use of root status opens unnecessary vulnerability. > But clearly you're going to ignore all advice I give, so fine. Not ignoring advice. Replies concerning pushd, popd, tar and xorriso have been invaluable. Thanks,

Subject: Re: Mystery interface reported by ip.

2018-11-13 Thread peter
> That's unusual, to say the least. Definitely beyond my experience. > And what about this: > udevadm test /sys/class/net/LocLCS218301788 Will report on that when at the site again November 20 or so. Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and transmitt

Password policy.

2018-11-13 Thread peter
Hi, https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch04.en.html#_good_password specifies "6 to 8 characters". Is that adequate against currently available brute force? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and transmitted by software d

Re: Password policy.

2018-11-13 Thread peter
ntly. ... Unless magic is involved. (?) Regards, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and transmitted by software designed to avoid the complication, overhead and vulnerability of antivirus software. 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 1234

Re (2): Password policy.

2018-11-13 Thread peter
giving away the hashed password file exists? Regards, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and transmitted by software designed to avoid the complication, overhead and vulnerability of antivirus software. 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 Tel: +1 3

Re: Password policy.

2018-11-13 Thread peter
13 Nov 2018 20:22:58 +0300 > So, 6 characters is somewhat low (that GPU is outdated by today's > standards). 8 characters seem ok. Good. Thanks Reco. I'll keep the present 8 characters and not start shifting to 9 or 10. Regards, ... Peter E. -- Messa

Re: Password policy.

2018-11-13 Thread peter
uessable words for the password. ... pets, ... are all bad choice for the password." > You are going to have to say what you mean > by "brute force", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brute-force_attack Regards,... Peter E. -- Message composed and transm

Simple HTML & CSS code.

2022-10-25 Thread peter
Hi, Off scope but I don't know a better place to ask. If this HTML text is in a file, a browser should be able to render it. Test.html body { color: black; background: white; } div.inline { display: inline; justify-content: space-between; } leftright In bullseye, Firefox-esr, "l

Re (3): Simple HTML & CSS code.

2022-10-28 Thread peter
From: Siard Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 00:00:26 +0200 Test.html left right Thanks. Yes, that puts "left" on the left and "right" on the right. > BTW, 'color: black' and 'background: white' is already the default for > 'body', AFAIK. > More info about the Flexbox m

ping

2022-11-13 Thread peter
/root# ping -c 3 192.168.0.12 No response. Ideas? Thanks, ... Peter E. mobile: +1 778 951 5147 VoIP: +1 604 670 0140 https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:PeterEasthope

ping

2022-11-13 Thread peter
/root# ping -c 3 192.168.0.12 No response. Ideas? Thanks, ... Peter E. mobile: +1 778 951 5147 VoIP: +1 604 670 0140 https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:PeterEasthope

Monitor traffic on a port.

2022-12-09 Thread peter
Debian 11 here. Appears nettools is deprecated. How is traffic on a specific port monitored now? Thx, ... P.

Re: Monitor traffic on a port.

2022-12-10 Thread peter
In-reply-to: <20221210092451.4b3a5...@hpusdt5.der-he.de> References: <2e94402a808bb7535f81cb604e0e2...@easthope.ca> <20221210092451.4b3a5...@hpusdt5.der-he.de> From: hede Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 09:24:51 +0100 ... iptraf-ng ... Installed it and ran iptraf. If confirms no traffic on

Lenovo ThinkCentre M92p driving two monitors.

2022-12-27 Thread peter
An M92p has a DisplayPort (DP++) connector and a VGA connector. An old VGA monitor can be connected directly. Any advice about choosing an adapter to connect DP++ to the DVI connector on a 2nd monitor? Any advantage in finding a way to connect two monitors to the one DP++? Thanks,

Re: Lenovo ThinkCentre M92p driving two monitors.

2022-12-28 Thread peter
From: Felix Miata Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2022 21:46:32 -0500 > DVI doesn't carry audio. DP does. Therefore take one audio output from the DP++ port? Is there a need for more than one audio output? Currently here, audio is available from sockets on the mainboard or from a USB adapter. The T

Re: Lenovo ThinkCentre M92p driving two monitors.

2022-12-29 Thread peter
From: Felix Miata Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2022 00:27:55 -0500 > https://www.ebay.com/itm/313596983241 is what I have on order to substitute > for > the capability of my dead 29" Dell. Thx,... P. mobile: +1 778 951 5147 VoIP: +1 604 670 0140 https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Use

Network bridge usage.

2023-01-01 Thread peter
Greetings for the New Year to Debian users, Verifying and updating instructions here. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon/ETH_Oberon/QEMUinstall#Network_Connection_on_a_Virtual_Machine Questions (1) and (2) follow. root@joule:/home/root# ip link show br0 4: br0: mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOW

Re: Network bridge usage.

2023-01-03 Thread peter
Hello again, From: pe...@easthope.ca Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2023 11:31:38 -0800 > (2) Why is the second inet6 address omitted from the current result? br0 isn't created properly. Appears to be this problem, not yet resolved. =8~/ From: Santiago Garcia Mantinan To: 993...@bugs.debian.org S

Debian release criteria.

2023-01-03 Thread peter
Hi, A few years ago a USB camera worked with Cheese, a bridge interface worked as documented and Firefox was fairly stable. Now Cheese cashes immediately upon startup. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=562765 QEMU documents a bridge for connecting the guest, https://wiki.qemu.o

Re: Debian release criteria.

2023-01-04 Thread peter
From: Eric S Fraga Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2023 09:25:02 + > According to that bug report, the problem is on sid. Was on sid. The report originated in 2009 when sid = squeeze = Debian 6. sid is a floating codename. Helps to confuse us. =8~) https://www.debian.org/releases/ 'The "unst

Re: Debian release criteria.

2023-01-04 Thread peter
From: "Andrew M.A. Cater" Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2023 16:32:37 + > Is this a bug that you are experiencing? Yes. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=562765#55 > This is only the case for IPv6 - is this something that affects you? I don't need IPv6 but need 4. This is the pe

Re: Debian release criteria.

2023-01-05 Thread peter
David, Thanks for replying. From: David Wright Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2023 21:46:39 -0600 > What, you expect someone to obtain an i386 machine just to replicate > that it's slow? And make it crash in some unspecified manner? Definitely not for the problems with Firefox. Yes, I'd hope that at

Web functionality; was Re: Debian release criteria.

2023-01-08 Thread 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'

Re (2): firefox resource hog

2023-01-08 Thread 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 thorou

NoScript for Firefox.

2023-01-19 Thread peter
From: Joe Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2023 12:50:37 + > I use No-Script in Firefox. Thanks! Installed it. Definitely helpful. At the bottom of https://wiki.debian.org/Firefox#Profile under heading "Other projects aim at improving security and privacy in Firefox:" now a note about NoScript. If some

Web page management. Was: Re: Debian release criteria.

2023-01-20 Thread peter
Unwieldly References list truncated. From: Stefan Monnier Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2023 12:45:52 -0500 > I use uMatrix, which I find strikes a fairly good balance between > keeping sites working and letting me control how much crap is loaded. Another helpful add-on. Thanks! A feature (gingerb

Re: Web page management.

2023-01-21 Thread peter
From: Dan Ritter Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2023 14:14:22 -0500 > Yes, because uBlock Origin is the less capable sibling and uBO > can do that. Just block JavaScript on the wikipedia.org domain. > The site remains largely functional but does not do previews. Thanks. Another complication: Wikipedi

Software usage. Was Re: Debian release criteria.

2023-01-21 Thread peter
From: Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2023 20:09:20 +0100 > Know what? Those "resources" to be "allocated" are you and me. Documentation? The Web? Most of the front page, https://www.debian.org , is occupied with graphics. =8~/ A link directly to https://wiki.debian.org would make sense. "User su

Openbox documentation.

2023-01-30 Thread peter
me@computer:/home/me# head -n 4 /etc/xdg/openbox/rc.xml How would rc.xml be available to edit before Openbox is installed? The writer had a time machine? Thx,... P. - mobile: +1 778 951 5147 VoIP: +1 604 670 0140 https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:PeterEas

SIP servers.

2023-03-11 Thread peter
Hi, Appears that repro remains unavailable. https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/Repro Also ekiga is gone. What are the current recommendations for SIP servers? Thx, ... P. - mobile: +1 778 951 5147 VoIP: +1 604 670 0140 https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:PeterEast

Package dependancies.

2019-02-05 Thread peter
such file or directory root@imager:/etc/apt# ls -ld preferences.d/* ls: cannot access 'preferences.d/*': No such file or directory No evidence of a hold there. Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and transmitted by software designed to avoid the com

Re: Package dependancies.

2019-02-05 Thread peter
* From: Michael Lange

Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R.

2019-03-06 Thread peter
complication and vulnerability of antivirus software. 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 Pender Is., BC: +1 604 670 0140 Washington State: +1 360 639 0202 http://easthope.ca/Peter.html Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts

2019-04-19 Thread peter
Hello again, The configuration mentioned in the subject line is set to "Show your home page". Here the home page is file:///home/peter/html, a local page. Nevertheless startup sometimes displays "Sorry. We're having trouble getting your pages ba

Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts.

2019-04-21 Thread peter
been saved in a non-volatile store and applied to a new process after the reboot. Seems perverse. Firefox now has too much automation and it's causing trouble. We need a way to disable some of this paraphernalia. Or a simpler browser. Can the automatic search capability of the URL bar be disa

Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts.

2019-04-21 Thread peter
From: Curt Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 16:08:49 - (UTC) > I've read that setting "Clear history when Firefox closes" is one way to > obviate the problem (you might not want to lose your history, though). Losing the history wouldn't be so bad but I don't see how firefox would have a chance

Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts.

2019-04-21 Thread peter
ning a simple local HTML home page requires roughly a minute rather than roughly a second. > I tried Opera on a slow laptop ... Thanks for mentioning that. Regards, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and transmitted by software designed to avoid the complication and vulnerability of antivirus software.

Browser usage; was "Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts."

2019-04-22 Thread peter
irefox on a desktop and can be more efficient than the desktop site. Eg. https://www.envisionfinancial.ca/m/ vs. https://www.envisionfinancial.ca/Personal/ Can debian imitate a mobile system to a server? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and transmitt

Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R.

2019-05-10 Thread peter
#x27;FATAL' Until now I've never seen xorriso fail. Invalid address? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Composed and transmitted by software designed to avoid the complication and vulnerability of antivirus software.

Re: Authentication for telnet.

2019-10-02 Thread peter
for the help, ... P. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Medical_Machines https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon Tel: +1 604 670 0140Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

Message threading.

2019-10-02 Thread peter
If so, please outline the procedure. Thanks, ... Peter E. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Medical_Machines https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon Tel: +1 604 670 0140Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

Re: Authentication for telnet.

2019-10-04 Thread peter
Debian package but many others do also. Didn't strike me as an essential point. Not even interesting to most readers. "Authentication for telnet" is a fairly specific topic. Oh well. Solved now. Regards, ... P. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Medical_Machines https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon Tel: +1 604 670 0140Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

Re: Authentication for telnet.

2019-10-09 Thread peter
g when you type the password. > So I think we really do still need to know more about your use case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system) https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon I tried to make the orginal question as specific as possible. Regards, ... Peter

Threading; was: Re: Authentication for telnet.

2019-10-09 Thread peter
rs. Better to enforce syntax in a clear way than to have random errors and complaints. Regards, ... Peter E. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Medical_Machines https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon Tel: +1 604 670 0140Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

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