Re: Thanks to all -- Re: Does Debian have a "nag" tool?
On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 08:46:18AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > "remind" is the appropriate tool. > It does NOT rely on anything other than computer being turned on. > With appropriate script it can "nag" me ;} > q.v. > https://manpages.debian.org/buster/remind/remind.1.en.html > https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/ FWIW, I run remind as a personal cron job every day, and have it email me the results of today's reminders. Incredibly useful. I also wrote a web front end for it which looks a lot nicer than tkremind. It can't update the reminders, but it does show them in a nice calendar format on a web page. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com
Re: Does Debian have a "nag" tool?
On Sat, 15 Aug 2020, Peter Ehlert wrote:
> Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2020 10:02:42
> From: Peter Ehlert
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Does Debian have a "nag" tool?
> Resent-Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2020 14:18:08 + (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> try Thunderbird Calendar (Lightning):
> there are probably better tools, but I have been using it for ages.
> For reminders you can use various categories to show graphically, popups if
> you like, and it is searchable for Historical uses.
> I also have oldtimers disease, this helps.
>
> On 8/15/20 4:30 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > Just missed girlfriend's birthday by 6 weeks :{
> > [just sent a 'mea culpa' email.]
> > Is there a better tool than "cron"?
> >
> > Just looked at its manpage.
> > I'm looking for something slightly different.
> >
> > Independent of when I turn on or first do something after midnight on a
> > specific date I want a reminder to be displayed unless I have taken a
> > specific action.
> >
> > As:
> > 1. I've known her for > 30 years.
> > 2. I'm a _senior_ citizen.
> > 3. She is a decade younger.
> > I am about to receive just retribution.
> > [She'll claim I'm forgiven due to senility.]
> >
> > Wish to prevent such a response next year ;/
> >
> > TIA
> >
Debian has a calendar package but it's a cli package ported from BSD and
you need to populate ~/.calendar with personal dates and events for it to
work for you.
> > > >
>
>
>
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Re: Does Debian have a "nag" tool?
try Thunderbird Calendar (Lightning):
there are probably better tools, but I have been using it for ages.
For reminders you can use various categories to show graphically, popups
if you like, and it is searchable for Historical uses.
I also have oldtimers disease, this helps.
On 8/15/20 4:30 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
Just missed girlfriend's birthday by 6 weeks :{
[just sent a 'mea culpa' email.]
Is there a better tool than "cron"?
Just looked at its manpage.
I'm looking for something slightly different.
Independent of when I turn on or first do something after midnight on
a specific date I want a reminder to be displayed unless I have taken
a specific action.
As:
1. I've known her for > 30 years.
2. I'm a _senior_ citizen.
3. She is a decade younger.
I am about to receive just retribution.
[She'll claim I'm forgiven due to senility.]
Wish to prevent such a response next year ;/
TIA
Thanks to all -- Re: Does Debian have a "nag" tool?
"remind" is the appropriate tool.
It does NOT rely on anything other than computer being turned on.
With appropriate script it can "nag" me ;}
q.v.
https://manpages.debian.org/buster/remind/remind.1.en.html
https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/
On 08/15/2020 06:30 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
Just missed girlfriend's birthday by 6 weeks :{
[just sent a 'mea culpa' email.]
Is there a better tool than "cron"?
Just looked at its manpage.
I'm looking for something slightly different.
Independent of when I turn on or first do something after midnight on a
specific date I want a reminder to be displayed unless I have taken a
specific action.
As:
1. I've known her for > 30 years.
2. I'm a _senior_ citizen.
3. She is a decade younger.
I am about to receive just retribution.
[She'll claim I'm forgiven due to senility.]
Wish to prevent such a response next year ;/
TIA
Re: Does Debian have a "nag" tool?
Hi, 15 août 2020 à 14:24 de charlescur...@charlescurley.com: > XFCE's Orage. > For the specific purpose of birthdays, I find gbirthday really straightforward and effective. I haven't succeeded in showing the last recent birthdays though... Best regards, l0f4r0
Re: Does Debian have a "nag" tool?
On Sat, 15 Aug 2020 06:30:13 -0500
Richard Owlett wrote:
> Just missed girlfriend's birthday by 6 weeks :{
> [just sent a 'mea culpa' email.]
> Is there a better tool than "cron"?
Emacs' diary mode.
Nextcloud calendar
XFCE's Orage.
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Does anybody read signatures any more?
https://charlescurley.com
https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Does Debian have a "nag" tool?
On Saturday, August 15, 2020 07:30:13 AM Richard Owlett wrote:
> Just missed girlfriend's birthday by 6 weeks :{
> [just sent a 'mea culpa' email.]
> Is there a better tool than "cron"?
Yes, several, but I'll bet you don't want to use either. Nevertheless, I'll
mention them for posterity.
* Google calendar (I avoid putting things on that I wouldn't want to be
discovered "publicly", but I think there are some options to keep things
private, plus you have to log in to use it at all. It sends me reminder
emails, and althouigh I have a standard, you can set it up to do various
things, like send reminders n months, days, or hours before an event, and
repeat events on various schedules (like yearly, monthly (iirc), weekly (on a
specific day, probably more. I have trouble setting up things like for the nth
Thursday of a month (iirc -- i know I have trouble with one, forget which it
is).
You can also share calendars or specific events (only) with other users.
(I suspect that other similar services provide calendars.)
* KDE (and I sure many other desktops) has a calendar application -- I
tried it once a long time ago, I forget all the reasons I preferred google,
and maybe some of those have changed.
THANK YOU!!!! -Re: Does Debian have a "nag" tool?
On 08/15/2020 06:53 AM, Joe wrote:
On Sat, 15 Aug 2020 06:30:13 -0500
Richard Owlett wrote:
Just missed girlfriend's birthday by 6 weeks :{
[just sent a 'mea culpa' email.]
Is there a better tool than "cron"?
Just looked at its manpage.
I'm looking for something slightly different.
Independent of when I turn on or first do something after midnight on
a specific date I want a reminder to be displayed unless I have taken
a specific action.
As:
1. I've known her for > 30 years.
2. I'm a _senior_ citizen.
3. She is a decade younger.
I am about to receive just retribution.
[She'll claim I'm forgiven due to senility.]
Wish to prevent such a response next year ;/
TIA
Remind?
That's just what "doctor ordered".
Thank you!
Re: Does Debian have a "nag" tool?
On Sat, Aug 15, 2020, 7:30 AM Richard Owlett wrote:
> Just missed girlfriend's birthday by 6 weeks :{
> [just sent a 'mea culpa' email.]
> Is there a better tool than "cron"?
>
> Just looked at its manpage.
> I'm looking for something slightly different.
>
> Independent of when I turn on or first do something after midnight on a
> specific date I want a reminder to be displayed unless I have taken a
> specific action.
>
> As:
> 1. I've known her for > 30 years.
> 2. I'm a _senior_ citizen.
> 3. She is a decade younger.
> I am about to receive just retribution.
>[She'll claim I'm forgiven due to senility.]
>
> Wish to prevent such a response next year ;/
>
> TIA
>
Actually, normal Calendar Entries (i.e. Google Calendar) does a pretty good
job of reminding me. It's Android, but I saw some Open Source Linux
Calendars. You could have them trigger a Musical Piece, for example.
Kenneth Parker
>
Re: Does Debian have a "nag" tool?
On Sb, 15 aug 20, 06:30:13, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Just missed girlfriend's birthday by 6 weeks :{
> [just sent a 'mea culpa' email.]
> Is there a better tool than "cron"?
>
> Just looked at its manpage.
> I'm looking for something slightly different.
>
> Independent of when I turn on or first do something after midnight on a
> specific date I want a reminder to be displayed unless I have taken a
> specific action.
Some of the big e-mail clients (possibly also SeaMonkey) have calendar
modules / add-ons / etc. that typically also have some reminder
function.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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Re: Does Debian have a "nag" tool?
On Sat, 15 Aug 2020 06:30:13 -0500
Richard Owlett wrote:
> Just missed girlfriend's birthday by 6 weeks :{
> [just sent a 'mea culpa' email.]
> Is there a better tool than "cron"?
>
> Just looked at its manpage.
> I'm looking for something slightly different.
>
> Independent of when I turn on or first do something after midnight on
> a specific date I want a reminder to be displayed unless I have taken
> a specific action.
>
> As:
> 1. I've known her for > 30 years.
> 2. I'm a _senior_ citizen.
> 3. She is a decade younger.
> I am about to receive just retribution.
>[She'll claim I'm forgiven due to senility.]
>
> Wish to prevent such a response next year ;/
>
> TIA
>
>
Remind?
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Joe
Re: Debian 10.3
On 08/13/2020 05:21 PM, Charles Curley wrote: [ *SNIP* ] Because the installer will install from the CD-ROM image, and then upgrade as part of the installation. So installing from a 10.3 CD will always produce a 10.X where X is the latest. You could bypass that by doing an expert installation. However, you would then have to forbear upgrading ever again, ... Not quite true ;/ When choosing "expert mode" it is assumed you can *and* will think. As I have limited bandwidth, I routinely install from purchased DVD sets. nuf said :!
Does Debian have a "nag" tool?
Just missed girlfriend's birthday by 6 weeks :{
[just sent a 'mea culpa' email.]
Is there a better tool than "cron"?
Just looked at its manpage.
I'm looking for something slightly different.
Independent of when I turn on or first do something after midnight on a
specific date I want a reminder to be displayed unless I have taken a
specific action.
As:
1. I've known her for > 30 years.
2. I'm a _senior_ citizen.
3. She is a decade younger.
I am about to receive just retribution.
[She'll claim I'm forgiven due to senility.]
Wish to prevent such a response next year ;/
TIA
Re: Problems with Asus tuf gaming A15
On Sb, 15 aug 20, 11:27:43, Duval Coetzer wrote: > Hello I have problems with the Debian distro in general with the A15 gaming > laptop. I have tried all major Debian distros like Ubuntu Mint Kali and even > Debian itself. The problem as such is after successful install of the > operating system , at boot I get an error which keeps me from booting. I > have tried setting the nouveau modeset= 0 and nomodeset=0 which causes it to > load further than my initial error but I still dont reach the GUI. I am > running dual graphics and I tried updating the software by going into the > terminal after hitting another error but it still doesnt boot. Please help. > The only opperating system I can run at the moment is Opensuse Tumbleweed. Possibly some non-free firmware is missing. You can check with dmesg | grep -i firmware If there are error messages about missing firmware files search for the exact filename on https://packages.debian.org. Odds are you must install firmware-misc-nonfree, it seems to contain lots of NVidia firmware. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Recommendation for filesystem for USB external drive for backups
On Vi, 14 aug 20, 10:31:51, David Wright wrote: > > I'm dubious whether I shall ever start using these filesystems. > I create multiple backups on ext4 filesystems on LUKS, and keep > MD5 digests of their contents. Would that qualify as your > "additional tools"? Assuming you are also periodically checking that the files still produce the MD5SUMs, yes, as far as I know from playing around with btrfs and reading on it and differences to ZFS. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Problems with Asus tuf gaming A15
Hello I have problems with the Debian distro in general with the A15 gaming laptop. I have tried all major Debian distros like Ubuntu Mint Kali and even Debian itself. The problem as such is after successful install of the operating system , at boot I get an error which keeps me from booting. I have tried setting the nouveau modeset= 0 and nomodeset=0 which causes it to load further than my initial error but I still dont reach the GUI. I am running dual graphics and I tried updating the software by going into the terminal after hitting another error but it still doesnt boot. Please help. The only opperating system I can run at the moment is Opensuse Tumbleweed. Kind regards.
