Re: Fwd: Re: why pdf file at archive.org is so slow to open

2021-07-04 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 06:21:40AM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > Just a polite reminder: however annoyed you feel, insulting each other > on list really doesn't help get technical or other points across. Thanks, Andrew. Folks: if you enjoy slinging mud at each other, fine. But please, do

Re: Fwd: Re: why pdf file at archive.org is so slow to open

2021-07-04 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Just a polite reminder: however annoyed you feel, insulting each other on list really doesn't help get technical or other points across. Anybody can phrase things badly: anybody can get things wrong at times: everybody can be wrong at times or just be badly informed. If all else fails: when you

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-04 Thread David Wright
—Racecar backwards is racecar, racecar upside down is expensive— —My wife can type tesseradecades while drinking a cup of tea— On Sun 04 Jul 2021 at 15:38:45 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Jul 04, 2021 at 03:34:22PM -0400, Albretch Mueller wrote: > > On 7/4/21, David Wright wrote: > > >

Re: removing modules

2021-07-04 Thread David Wright
On Sun 04 Jul 2021 at 21:12:10 (+0100), Brian wrote: > On Sun 04 Jul 2021 at 20:16:25 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Sun, 4 Jul 2021 19:42:26 +0100 Brian wrote: > > >I did specify "as time goes on". Suppose one boots successfully a 100 > > >times with the new kernel. What need is there for a seco

Re: How do I get back the GRUB menu with the blue background?

2021-07-04 Thread David Wright
On Sun 04 Jul 2021 at 10:53:43 (+0200), Stella Ashburne wrote: > No specific instructions were given to the installer at the "install a boot > loader" stage. I just accepted the default. If I remember correctly, the > installer of Debian Stretch asked the user to specify the exact location that

TPM & Crypto

2021-07-04 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, I have a TPM chip in my desktop computer CPU : AMD A6-5400B APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics System : HP Compaq Pro 6305 SFF I don't use the onboard GPU for graphic display. I got a discrete GPU based NVidia GT710 board. If I could use my onboard GPU for number crunching this would be great. Is

Re: network not respecting my hosts file [SOLVED]

2021-07-04 Thread Robbi Nespu
On 7/4/21 1:12 PM, David Wright wrote: On Sun 04 Jul 2021 at 13:07:08 (+0800), Robbi Nespu wrote: On 7/4/21 1:02 PM, David Wright wrote: If you can give correction directly via chmod also good for me :) $ ls -l /etc/hosts -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 420524 Feb 6 16:19 /etc/hosts that mean sudo

Re: debian installation issue

2021-07-04 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2021-07-04 10:29 (UTC-0500): > On Tue 29 Jun 2021 at 13:26:04 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: >> David Wright composed on 2021-06-29 11:16 (UTC-0500): ... >>> I don't understand the attraction of messing about with boot flags >>> in order to choose which primary partition to

Limit memory consumption of an ad hoc process

2021-07-04 Thread Victor Sudakov
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XPS Ship: Email Verification Required

2021-07-04 Thread XPS Ship
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Re: why pdf file at archive.org is so slow to open

2021-07-04 Thread John Crawley
On 04/07/2021 23:43, Siard wrote: On Sun, 04 Jul 2021 17:03 +0800, loushanguan2...@sina.com wrote: i've found many books at archive.org in pdf formatbut reading them in acrobat for linux is painful, it's slow it's fast in acrobat for androidand i think it's fast in Windows adobe has stopped upgr

Re: Moving dual boot Win10 & Debian 10 system from Legacy to UEFI

2021-07-04 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Sun, 04 Jul 2021 17:23:33 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 7/4/21 4:22 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I dual boot Debian 10 with Windows 10 from MBR in Legacy mode on my 6 >> years old Dell M4800 workstation. The BIOS supports both Legacy and >> UEFI modes. With upcoming Wi

Re: why pdf file at archive.org is so slow to open

2021-07-04 Thread loushanguan2015
Thanks! i've installed atril, evince and okular for buster for i386 at your recommendationevince for buster seems better than for stretch i use xosview to monitor performance4G memory is always enough, but cpu usage is high, meaning slow

Re: Moving dual boot Win10 & Debian 10 system from Legacy to UEFI

2021-07-04 Thread David Christensen
On 7/4/21 4:22 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: Hi folks, I dual boot Debian 10 with Windows 10 from MBR in Legacy mode on my 6 years old Dell M4800 workstation. The BIOS supports both Legacy and UEFI modes. With upcoming Windows 11 I am compelled to switch to UEFI mode. Dell Precision M4800 lapt

Fwd: Re: why pdf file at archive.org is so slow to open

2021-07-04 Thread Weaver
Original Message Subject: Re: why pdf file at archive.org is so slow to open Date: 05-07-2021 09:48 From: Weaver To: Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside On 05-07-2021 08:59, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Hi, > >> Install Okular, with supporting packages. > Good advi

Re: why pdf file at archive.org is so slow to open

2021-07-04 Thread Weaver
On 05-07-2021 08:59, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Hi, > >> Install Okular, with supporting packages. > Good advice. >> Why use Adobe products. > Good question ! >> If you install Lightbeam, you will find they connect directly with the >> CIA. > You just lost all type of credibility ri

Moving dual boot Win10 & Debian 10 system from Legacy to UEFI

2021-07-04 Thread Juan R. de Silva
Hi folks, I dual boot Debian 10 with Windows 10 from MBR in Legacy mode on my 6 years old Dell M4800 workstation. The BIOS supports both Legacy and UEFI modes. With upcoming Windows 11 I am compelled to switch to UEFI mode. I know how to switch stand alone Windows 10 or stand alone Linux from

Re: why pdf file at archive.org is so slow to open

2021-07-04 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, > Install Okular, with supporting packages. Good advice. > Why use Adobe products. Good question ! > If you install Lightbeam, you will find they connect directly with the > CIA. You just lost all type of credibility right now. Don't take your dream for reality. If this would be true then the

Re: why pdf file at archive.org is so slow to open

2021-07-04 Thread Weaver
On 05-07-2021 07:04, loushanguan2...@sina.com wrote: > Thanks! > it has nothing to do with download > i have saved it to home directory > and then open it with acrobat for linux > it's slow when i browse it > > what cpu do you use? > my cpu is old and cheap Install Okular, with supporting packag

Re: why pdf file at archive.org is so slow to open

2021-07-04 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-07-04 5:04 p.m., loushanguan2...@sina.com wrote: > > > Thanks! > it has nothing to do with download > i have saved it to home directory > and then open it with acrobat for linux > it's slow when i browse it > Why don't you try using one of the software included in Debian ? xpdf okul

Re: why pdf file at archive.org is so slow to open

2021-07-04 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 7/4/21, loushanguan2...@sina.com wrote: > > Thanks!it has nothing to do with downloadi have saved it to home > directoryand then open it with acrobat for linuxit's slow when i browse it > what cpu do you use?my cpu is old and cheap Hi.. I saw some of the other of this thread where you named a

why pdf file at archive.org is so slow to open

2021-07-04 Thread loushanguan2015
Thanks!it has nothing to do with downloadi have saved it to home directoryand then open it with acrobat for linuxit's slow when i browse it what cpu do you use?my cpu is old and cheap

Re: removing modules

2021-07-04 Thread Brian
On Sun 04 Jul 2021 at 20:16:25 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sun, 4 Jul 2021 19:42:26 +0100 > Brian wrote: > > Hello Brian, > > >I did specify "as time goes on". Suppose one boots successfully a 100 > >times with the new kernel. What need is there for a second kernel on > >the system? > > Cle

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-04 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Jul 04, 2021 at 03:34:22PM -0400, Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 7/4/21, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 02 Jul 2021 at 02:24:20 (-0400), Albretch Mueller wrote: > >> David Chartash at the corpora research mailing list pointed out to me > >> I could find what I wanted at: > >> > >> http://k

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-04 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 7/4/21, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 02 Jul 2021 at 02:24:20 (-0400), Albretch Mueller wrote: >> David Chartash at the corpora research mailing list pointed out to me >> I could find what I wanted at: >> >> http://kbdlayout.info/ > > That's for Windows, isn't it. Yes, but at the end of the

Re: removing modules

2021-07-04 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 4 Jul 2021 19:42:26 +0100 Brian wrote: Hello Brian, >I did specify "as time goes on". Suppose one boots successfully a 100 >times with the new kernel. What need is there for a second kernel on >the system? Clearly, you haven't understood what Tixy wrote. -- Regards _ / )

Re: removing modules

2021-07-04 Thread Brian
On Sun 04 Jul 2021 at 13:45:00 +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Sun, 2021-07-04 at 10:08 +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 03 Jul 2021 at 20:49:01 -0600, Tom Dial wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On 7/3/21 13:04, Brian wrote: > > > > On Sat 03 Jul 2021 at 18:49:35 +0100, mick crane wrote: > > > > > > > > [...

Re: make custom kernel

2021-07-04 Thread mick crane
On 2021-07-04 18:21, Brian wrote: Definitely. Has gparted been mentioned? The rest of the disk is LVM. Would I need to shrink that first before gparted ? mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: make custom kernel

2021-07-04 Thread Brian
On Sun 04 Jul 2021 at 10:26:26 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 03 Jul 2021 at 19:53:03 (+0100), mick crane wrote: > > I've done it before but I've forgotten and the order. > > What's the procedure for making a custom kernel? > > Install linux headers > > change to a "build" directory > > make

Re: How do I get back the GRUB menu with the blue background?

2021-07-04 Thread Stella Ashburne
Hi > Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2021 at 12:01 PM > From: "David" > To: "debian-user mailing list" > Subject: Re: How do I get back the GRUB menu with the blue background? > > > As I mentioned, I do not know GPT and UEFI systems. It's off-topic; I am curious why you do not use GPT/UEFI/Secure Boot?

Re: make custom kernel

2021-07-04 Thread mick crane
On 2021-07-04 16:26, David Wright wrote: On Sat 03 Jul 2021 at 19:53:03 (+0100), mick crane wrote: I've done it before but I've forgotten and the order. What's the procedure for making a custom kernel? Install linux headers change to a "build" directory make menu-config ./configure make make dep

Re: How do I get back the GRUB menu with the blue background?

2021-07-04 Thread Stella Ashburne
Hi > Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2021 at 2:42 PM > From: "deloptes" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: How do I get back the GRUB menu with the blue background? > > > I had similar issue on some of the machines. Try with the bios boot from > device (some F key). > Thanks for your sugges

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-04 Thread tomas
On Sun, Jul 04, 2021 at 10:25:13AM -0500, David Wright wrote: [...] > My point about the mapping of unicode → keys depressed² seems to > have been missed. On this keyboard, I can type ø by > . holding AltGr and typing o > . typing CapsLock / o > . typing CapsLock o / Ah, Compose on CapsLock. Gre

Re: debian installation issue

2021-07-04 Thread David Wright
On Tue 29 Jun 2021 at 13:26:04 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > David Wright composed on 2021-06-29 11:16 (UTC-0500): > > On Thu 24 Jun 2021 at 00:07:56 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > >> David Wright composed on 2021-06-22 10:50 (UTC-0500): > > >> I'm not sure there is "a" definition. One could be any

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-04 Thread David Wright
On Fri 02 Jul 2021 at 02:24:20 (-0400), Albretch Mueller wrote: > David Chartash at the corpora research mailing list pointed out to me > I could find what I wanted at: > > http://kbdlayout.info/ That's for Windows, isn't it. > and within Debian using `man 5 keyboard` Yes, as it says, this w

Re: make custom kernel

2021-07-04 Thread David Wright
On Sat 03 Jul 2021 at 19:53:03 (+0100), mick crane wrote: > I've done it before but I've forgotten and the order. > What's the procedure for making a custom kernel? > Install linux headers > change to a "build" directory > make menu-config > ./configure > make > make dep > make install > make clean

Re: removing modules

2021-07-04 Thread David Wright
On Sat 03 Jul 2021 at 14:20:28 (-0400), Stefan Monnier wrote: > The only thing with `MODULES=dep` is that it runs a slightly higher risk > of ending up with an unbootable system after a hardware or > filesystem/LVM/MD/partition change. Alternatively, use a little forethought and rebuild initrd wit

Re: why pdf file at archive.org is so slow to open

2021-07-04 Thread David Wright
On Sun 04 Jul 2021 at 17:03:26 (+0800), loushanguan2...@sina.com wrote: > i've found many books at archive.org in pdf formatbut reading them in acrobat > for linux is painful, it's slow > it's fast in acrobat for androidand i think it's fast in Windowsadobe has > stopped upgrade for linux > i've

Re: why pdf file at archive.org is so slow to open

2021-07-04 Thread Siard
On Sun, 04 Jul 2021 17:03 +0800, loushanguan2...@sina.com wrote: > i've found many books at archive.org in pdf formatbut reading them in > acrobat for linux is painful, it's slow > it's fast in acrobat for androidand i think it's fast in Windows > adobe has stopped upgrade for linux > i've tried ev

Re: How do I get back the GRUB menu with the blue background?

2021-07-04 Thread deloptes
Stella Ashburne wrote: > I discovered that reinstalling GRUB and then ran update-grub didn't help > at all. The issue still persists. With my limited technical knowledge, the > only way for me to get back the GRUB menu with the blue background is to > reinstall Debian. I had similar issue on some

Re: removing modules

2021-07-04 Thread Tixy
On Sun, 2021-07-04 at 10:08 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sat 03 Jul 2021 at 20:49:01 -0600, Tom Dial wrote: > > > > > > > On 7/3/21 13:04, Brian wrote: > > > On Sat 03 Jul 2021 at 18:49:35 +0100, mick crane wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > Can I not *just* move the older ones out of the way

Re: How do I get back the GRUB menu with the blue background?

2021-07-04 Thread David
On Sun, 4 Jul 2021 at 18:54, Stella Ashburne wrote: > > Sent: Friday, July 02, 2021 at 10:49 AM > > From: "David" > > On Thu, 1 Jul 2021 at 23:20, Stella Ashburne wrote: > > I suggest to boot as you describe above (your step #8) until you reach > > the 'grub>' prompt. This is actually a very us

Re: make custom kernel

2021-07-04 Thread deloptes
mlnl wrote: > 10. make deb-pkg LOCALVERSION=-nameN KDEB_PKGVERSION=$(make > kernelversion)-1 (nameN e. g. v1) I prefer bindeb-dpkg saves some overhead in zipping the source

Re: why pdf file at archive.org is so slow to open

2021-07-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Jul 04, 2021 at 05:03:26PM +0800, loushanguan2...@sina.com wrote: i've found many books at archive.org in pdf format but reading them in acrobat for linux is painful, it's slow it's fast in acrobat for android and i think it's fast in Windows adobe has stopped upgrade for linux i've tri

Re: make custom kernel

2021-07-04 Thread IL Ka
On Sun, Jul 4, 2021 at 1:26 PM The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-07-04 at 06:26, IL Ka wrote: > > >> thank you very much. Can I somehow load the current configuration > >> so menuconfig shows what choices were made for current kernel ? > > > > zcat /proc/config.gz > .config > > AFAIK, Debian hasn't s

Re: make custom kernel

2021-07-04 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-07-04 at 06:26, IL Ka wrote: >> thank you very much. Can I somehow load the current configuration >> so menuconfig shows what choices were made for current kernel ? > > zcat /proc/config.gz > .config AFAIK, Debian hasn't shipped kernels with /proc/config.gz enabled for quite a few years

Re: make custom kernel

2021-07-04 Thread IL Ka
> > thank you very much. Can I somehow load the current configuration so > menuconfig shows what choices were made for current kernel ? > > zcat /proc/config.gz > .config

why pdf file at archive.org is so slow to open

2021-07-04 Thread loushanguan2015
i've found many books at archive.org in pdf formatbut reading them in acrobat for linux is painful, it's slow it's fast in acrobat for androidand i think it's fast in Windowsadobe has stopped upgrade for linux i've tried evince, gnome default viewer, it crash https://archive.org/details/historyof

Re: removing modules

2021-07-04 Thread Brian
On Sat 03 Jul 2021 at 20:49:01 -0600, Tom Dial wrote: > > > On 7/3/21 13:04, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 03 Jul 2021 at 18:49:35 +0100, mick crane wrote: > > > > [...] > > > >> Can I not *just* move the older ones out of the way so upgrade doesn't run > >> out of space ? > > > > Why bother? > >

Re: LaTeX - Newer REVTEX on Debian ?

2021-07-04 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, my guess was that the bbl must be updated. Namely, compose with apsrev4-2.bst (or one among the others). I would check which one is actually used in the aux or blg file, and I would check which one is actually pickup with kpsewhich(1). For instance, you can try from a terminal: kpsewhich

Re: make custom kernel

2021-07-04 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-07-04 2:42 a.m., mick crane wrote: > On 2021-07-04 06:22, mlnl wrote: >> Hi Mick, >> >> mick crane wrote: >> >>> I've done it before but I've forgotten and the order. >>> What's the procedure for making a custom kernel? >> >> Do you mean a custom Debian or a vanilla kernel from kerne

Re: How do I get back the GRUB menu with the blue background?

2021-07-04 Thread Stella Ashburne
Hi David > Sent: Friday, July 02, 2021 at 10:49 AM > From: "David" > To: "Stella Ashburne" > Cc: "debian-user mailing list" > Subject: Re: How do I get back the GRUB menu with the blue background? > > I see that you've not had any replies, so I'll attempt to assist. That's very kind of you :)

Re: How do I get back the GRUB menu with the blue background?

2021-07-04 Thread Stella Ashburne
Hi > Sent: Friday, July 02, 2021 at 8:58 AM > From: "deloptes" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: How do I get back the GRUB menu with the blue background? > > > As this is a fresh installation, why don't you just wipe everything linux > partitions and install again the way you wan