Re: shadowy, sort of fly by night debian mirrors? ...

2021-02-22 Thread Albretch Mueller
>> 7) the md5 and sha1 hashes that I computed could not be found online >> >> 0296cfbeaf3823055901d7ad2077a077 >> 0b742d83d23207db9a24553100d4155eb8c701bf debian >> 10.8.0-amd64-DVD-2.iso >> 37baf26293b8132fe95b4bd19262ca6b >> 122a2612ed63ff89db56eec0765e87268bf72318 debian >> 10.8.0-amd64-DVD-3.i

shadowy, sort of fly by night debian mirrors? ...

2021-02-21 Thread Albretch Mueller
as I tried to download debian, I noticed that the download was being redirected real time (which in itself doesn't necessarily have to mean bad), what I found a worrying was that: 1) as I used a known public hotspot connection, there was a new hotspot advertising itself as "Wifi4EU" (of course,

Re: [Kiwix-developer] Any preferrably java libraries, tutorials, ... about working with zim files? ...

2021-01-02 Thread Albretch Mueller
where which could be installed locally? Thanks On 12/12/20, Emmanuel Engelhart wrote: > On 12.12.20 10:42, Albretch Mueller wrote: >> based on what I have read on: >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIM_(file_format) >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_U

Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1 and/or Mac boxes in general? ...

2020-11-11 Thread Albretch Mueller
> - use a USB wireless dongle instead of your integrated wireless card. OK, I will try that and I will let you know how it went I have no other option, so I will have to offer myself as some sort of guinea pig and waste time/effort exploring such territories Thank you very much, lbrtchx >

Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1 and/or Mac boxes in general? ...

2020-11-10 Thread Albretch Mueller
OK, here is the whole log of the script I ran to install the b43 drivers. It is a bit long, but you will certainly be able to quickly visually scan it and see where teh error is/might be. Yes, I am descending onto init 2 after I used a live DVD. I am OK with doing that every time. I can't conn

Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1 and/or Mac boxes in general? ...

2020-11-05 Thread Albretch Mueller
and I run dmesg before and after the installation. This is what I got as diff: $ _IFL00="demsg_Wed Nov 4 13:36:51 UTC 2020.log" $ _IFL02="dmesg_Wed Nov 4 12:51:11 UTC 2020.log" $ diff "${_IFL00}" "${_IFL02}" 1365,1386d1364 < [ 592.364045] fuse init (API version 7.26) < [ 597.114432] perf: i

Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1 and/or Mac boxes in general? ...

2020-11-05 Thread Albretch Mueller
> "ip l" (for "ip link") lists the network links the kernel is aware of. $ ip l 1: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 $ sudo iwconfig lono wireless extensions. > And to keep it simple, doe

Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1 and/or Mac boxes in general? ...

2020-11-03 Thread Albretch Mueller
> sudo modprobe b43 Doesn't show to me anything. and > ip l displays a sequence of 0:0:0:0:0: ... chars which don't look like a MAC address or any of such things lbrtchx

Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1 and/or Mac boxes in general? ...

2020-10-30 Thread Albretch Mueller
OK, I followed the instructions on Dan Ritter's link and everything seems to be fine and dandy, but I used a windows computer with access to the Internet to download and gpg test the downloaded data and used Debian Live (running it from the DVD) to run "make" and "make install" on the target compu

Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1 and/or Mac boxes in general? ...

2020-10-22 Thread Albretch Mueller
OK, after installing lspci (again, via dpkg and I write up in kind of a step by step way because other people may have the same problems, run into this thread) $ sudo dpkg --install pciutils_3.5.2-1_amd64.deb Selecting previously unselected package pciutils. (Reading database ... 232551 files and

Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1 and/or Mac boxes in general? ...

2020-10-22 Thread Albretch Mueller
> I suggest using firmware-b43-installer ... Once again, I am using dpkg and installing the deb packages locally because I am trying to troubleshoot, make a wireless card work. Why would a package used to make a wireless card come to live, have to connect to the Internet to do its things? Isn't

Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1 and/or Mac boxes in general? ...

2020-10-21 Thread Albretch Mueller
I got that tar ball and I think i am doing the right thing, but something is not going well: $ _IFL="broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2" $ ls -l "${_IFL}" -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13514651 Aug 13 2011 broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2 $ file --brief "${_IFL}" bzip2 compressed data, block size = 900k $ s

Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1 and/or Mac boxes in general? ...

2020-10-21 Thread Albretch Mueller
> apt install firmware-b43-installer > will be needed, I think. Thank you for all the leads and I was installing firmware-b43-installer via dpkg, but after I took care of all dependencies firmware-b43-installer was trying to connect to the Internet to some lwfinder? Resolving http://www.lwfing

Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1 and/or Mac boxes in general? ...

2020-10-20 Thread Albretch Mueller
I test a MacBook Air 1,1 with Debian Live DVD $ uname -a Linux debian 4.9.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.82-1+deb9u3 (2018-03-02) x86_64 GNU/Linux and all seems to be fine and dandy, except for the wireless network card. This is what dmidecode and hwinfo tell me about it: Model: "Apple AirPort

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

2020-09-29 Thread Albretch Mueller
ne's own privacy" (as they say) that tacitly means you have no privacy whatsoever! Maybe I am too old, too romantic. It is my understanding of that thing they used to call "privacy", it was something only one could possibly take care of by oneself. The only "private"/"

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

2020-09-29 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 9/25/20, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 05:58:49PM -0500, David Wright wrote: >>I can't believe the answer is as simple as visiting >>https://packages.debian.org/index >>and downloading the packages you want (in binary mode). > > Plus (possibly several) iterations of download

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

2020-09-29 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 9/24/20, Reco wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 05:50:16PM +0200, Albretch Mueller wrote: >> >> How do I get all packages to be locally installed using dpkg from a >> >> public Windows machine? >> > >> > I'm not sure I understand this q

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

2020-09-29 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 9/26/20, Michael Stone wrote: > On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 02:11:30PM +0200, Albretch Mueller wrote: >>On 9/25/20, Michael Stone wrote: >>> Just one would be good enough (pick the sha256sum). What you're doing is >>> a waste of time. If you want to future proof

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

2020-09-26 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 9/25/20, Michael Stone wrote: > Just one would be good enough (pick the sha256sum). What you're doing is > a waste of time. If you want to future proof then use sha3, via the > rhash package. Something that I have noticed is that texts are too close to people's hearts to expect for people to

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

2020-09-25 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 9/25/20, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 05:58:49PM -0500, David Wright wrote: >> On Thu 24 Sep 2020 at 17:50:16 (+0200), Albretch Mueller wrote: >> > >> How do I get all packages to be locally installed using dpkg from a >> > >> public W

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

2020-09-25 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 9/24/20, Sven Hartge wrote: > Why do you think you need to do this? What do you hope to achieve by > doing this? I have losts of (not necessarily all) text files (say in the 10 of thousands) in various directories which I need to process in a batch, but before I do that I want to make sure t

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

2020-09-24 Thread Albretch Mueller
>> How do I get all packages to be locally installed using dpkg from a >> public Windows machine? > > I'm not sure I understand this question or how it relates to the > previous one. How do I get the deb files in order to install locally (via dpkg --install) the necessary utilities to run CRC32 a

crc not installed but rsync using it? ...

2020-09-24 Thread Albretch Mueller
rsync uses crc for its data integrity checks. Why is it you can't use it like any other OS utility? $ date; which crc Thu Sep 24 07:54:55 CEST 2020 $ date; which rsync Thu Sep 24 07:54:59 CEST 2020 /usr/bin/rsync $ rsync --version rsync version 3.1.2 protocol version 31 Copyright (C) 1996-2015

Re: right after installation errors reported during booting (dmesg) ...

2020-08-22 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 8/21/20, The Wanderer wrote: > Wow. That's some dense, opaque code. my only intention was to get something done as quickly as possible. I didn't even know that people cared about proper writing of bash script. Is there such a thing? Do people take it seriously? lbrtchx

Re: right after installation errors reported during booting (dmesg) ...

2020-08-21 Thread Albretch Mueller
something I haven't still been able to do is reset the clock of the mac book air 1,1 on which I installed Debian Linux. If I go: 1) type your root password on a RAM based text K -> Computer -> System Settings -> Personalization -> Regional Settings -> Date et Time 2) enter password 3) close

right after installation errors reported during booting (dmesg) ...

2020-08-21 Thread Albretch Mueller
using this silly batch code I got (what I believe to be) all errosr reported by dmesg: _OFL_PRFX=dmesg_$(whoami)_$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S); _OFL="${_OFL_PRFX}.log"; time(dmesg > "${_OFL}") 2>> "${_OFL}" ls -l ${_OFL} wc -l ${_OFL} _OFL2="${_OFL_PRFX}_2check.log"; _2CHCK="error\|invalid\|wait\|warn

Re: RFE: The installation DVD use LVM2 and crytsetup, why can't you use them with the live DVD?

2020-08-14 Thread Albretch Mueller
to_88_amd64.udeb /media/cdrom0/pool/main/p/partman-crypto/partman-crypto-dm_88_all.udeb /media/cdrom0/pool/main/p/partman-lvm/partman-lvm_113_all.udeb $ On 8/12/20, Albretch Mueller wrote: > Sorry, I just meant to send the one liner on the subject. lbrtchx >

Re: RFE: a "testcd" (a la knoppix) option for the debian DVD?

2020-08-14 Thread Albretch Mueller
anything "ephemeral" and having a(n apparently) "simple" only way of doing things play into their games. They are using javascript to get into and mess with people's computers/life. They can change both the link to the installation file to be downloaded and to the signatures of the files on the

Re: RFE: a "testcd" (a la knoppix) option for the debian DVD?

2020-08-13 Thread Albretch Mueller
It always amazes me when computer people rely on syntactical devices for any kinds of tests (like everything is so obvious, right? ;-)); let alone, integrity, security, "privacy" related ones (or that thing they used to call "privacy"). > The testcd option for Knoppix is checksumming as far as I

Re: RFE: The installation DVD use LVM2 and crytsetup, why can't you use them with the live DVD?

2020-08-12 Thread Albretch Mueller
Sorry, I just meant to send the one liner on the subject. lbrtchx

RFE: a "testcd" (a la knoppix) option for the debian DVD?

2020-08-12 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 8/12/20, Albretch Mueller wrote: > >

RFE: The installation DVD use LVM2 and crytsetup, why can't you use them with the live DVD?

2020-08-12 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 8/12/20, Albretch Mueller wrote: >> I recommend to thoroughly test your hardware using different OS (possibly >> non-Linux) and if you manage to reproduce the problems, it would mean a >> hardware failure. > > The only thing that I have "discovered" is that f

Re: is there a way to corrupt the BIOS and/or the keybord on you laptop from the Internet? ...

2020-08-12 Thread Albretch Mueller
> I recommend to thoroughly test your hardware using different OS (possibly > non-Linux) and if you manage to reproduce the problems, it would mean a > hardware failure. The only thing that I have "discovered" is that for whatever reason that keyboard doesn't plug directly to one and only one o

Re: is there a way to corrupt the BIOS and/or the keybord on you laptop from the Internet? ...

2020-08-11 Thread Albretch Mueller
> I could not reproduce the issue outside Linux, but it only happens > occasionally thus not sure if it is that. Well, that would show it is not a hardware issue > Technically, I would think that you are experiencing either a hardware fault > or a driver issue. I know that on my laptop, there is

is there a way to corrupt the BIOS and/or the keybord on you laptop from the Internet? ...

2020-08-08 Thread Albretch Mueller
I found those links but not thorough Information: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/02/06/15/1416224/a-web-browser-in-your-bios https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7531000/javascript-access-to-hardware Here is my problem: I browse the Internet using a USB wifi dongle and Windows and then ta

Re: BIOS time fine, Linux/Debian's isn't! ...

2020-08-08 Thread Albretch Mueller
On the installer it says: Configure clock: if the desired time zone is not listed ... Select your time zone: https://manjaro.site/step-by-step-install-debian-9-0-netinstall-version/install-debian-9-0-configure-clock/ but why can't you set up your computer as US English and be, say, in the

Re: BIOS time fine, Linux/Debian's isn't! ...

2020-07-31 Thread Albretch Mueller
OK, I will studz and try the manz options you have explain to me. > Your posts are sometimes nearly... whimsical. Many of you have tell me such things, "you should know that ... " "why do you even ask if it is so easz to find the answer on the Internet?" ... Posts are not "whimsical" per se,

BIOS time fine, Linux/Debian's isn't! ...

2020-07-30 Thread Albretch Mueller
I used the same laptop with another hard drive with a Windows installation which shows the time correctly. How do you make Linux get the time from the BIOS at start time and take it from there? lbrtchx

Re: delimiters with more than one character? ...

2020-07-15 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 7/14/20, Nicolas George wrote: > Bob Weber (12020-07-14): >> echo " 34 + 45 \| abc \| 1 2 3 \| c\|123abc " | tr -d '\\' | awk 'BEGIN { >> FS="|" } { printf " >> _S_AR=(\n\"%s\"\n\"%s\"\n\"%s\"\n\"%s\"\n\"%s\"\n)\n",$1,$2,$3,$4,$5}' > > Have you considered that pipes without backslashes are not

delimiters with more than one character? ...

2020-07-14 Thread Albretch Mueller
I have a string delimited by two characters: "\|" _S=" 34 + 45 \| abc \| 1 2 3 \| c\|123abc " which then I need to turn into a array looking like: _S_AR=( " 34 + 45 " " abc " " 1 2 3 " " c" "123abc " ) I can't make awk or tr work in the way I need and all examples I have found use only o

Re: mount: unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member' ...

2020-07-14 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 7/9/20, Reco wrote: > More or less. The correct sequence is: > 1) cryptsetup luksOpen > 2) pvscan && vgchange -ay > 3) mount "/dev/lbrtchx-vg/home" "/media/abc123" > > And the unmounting should go in reverse: > 1) umount /media/... > 2) vghcange -an ... > 3) cryptsetup luksClose thank you, bu

Re: mount: unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member' ...

2020-07-09 Thread Albretch Mueller
so, I should go?: mkdir -p "/media/abc123" mount "/dev/lbrtchx-vg/home" "/media/abc123"

Re: ZTESY? Realtek? How can you know for sure which driver to install? ...

2020-07-09 Thread Albretch Mueller
Windows is telling me I should use the driver for the 8812BU chipset, right? Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6001] Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\->ipconfig /all Windows IP Configuration ... Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek 8812BU Wireless

mount: unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member' ...

2020-07-09 Thread Albretch Mueller
I (wrongly) think I have done everything right but I can't mount the encrypted drive // __ partition with the encrypted external drive _PART="sdb" ### date; lsblk | grep "${_PART}" date; blkid | grep crypto_LUKS | grep "${_PART}" // __ device _DEV=$(blkid | grep crypto_LUKS | grep "${_PART}"

ZTESY? Realtek? How can you know for sure which driver to install? ...

2020-07-08 Thread Albretch Mueller
I: # uname -r 4.9.0-6-amd64 # uname -m x86_64 have a WiFi Dongle 802.11 AC Wireless Network Adapter: // __ ZTESY USB 3.0 WiFi Dongle 802.11 AC Wireless Netzwerk Adapter mit Dualband 2,4 GHz/300 Mbps + 5 GHz/866 Mbps 5 dBi High Gain Antenne https://www.amazon.com/-/de/Adapter-1200Mbps-TECHKE

Re: one liner, how do you know which match happened ...

2020-06-24 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 6/24/20, Greg Wooledge wrote: > If you want to match N files against M strings (or regexes) and collate > them into groups according to which string is first seen in each file, > use a real programming language. Oh, well! I was just too hopeful. > Stop trying to use inappropriate tools. Yo

Re: one liner, how do you know which match happened ...

2020-06-24 Thread Albretch Mueller
> "grep -l" will stop at the first hit, so even if you could ask > grep which one of the alternatives it found, it'll miss Hegel > in a file where Kant figures first. Is that what you want? Yes, I am fine with that. I include the matches in the Array in a way that the first one is the most import

one liner, how do you know which match happened ...

2020-06-20 Thread Albretch Mueller
_X=".\(html\|txt\)" _SDIR="$(pwd)" _AR_TERMS=( Kant "Gilbert Ryle" Hegel ) for iZ in ${!_AR_TERMS[@]}; do find "${_SDIR}" -type f -iregex .*"${_X}" -exec grep -il "${_AR_TERMS[$iZ]}" {} \; done # iZ: terms search/grep'ped inside text files; echo "~"; # this would be much faster find "${_SDIR

Re: Could RAM possibly be just 3-4 times faster than bare hdd writes and reads? or, is the Linux kernel doing its 'magic' in the bg? or, ...

2020-06-17 Thread Albretch Mueller
t; not to disk. . . . Oh, well, yes. I knew that I was "seeing" something that wasn't quite right. Your answers grounded me on such issues. Thank you und Entschuldigung! lbrtchx On 6/17/20, Anders Andersson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 12:15 PM Albretch Mueller > wrote:

Re: Could RAM possibly be just 3-4 times faster than bare hdd writes and reads? or, is the Linux kernel doing its 'magic' in the bg? or, ...

2020-06-17 Thread Albretch Mueller
also, if in order to use RAID 10 you need 4 drives (but the dollar per Gb is approaching $0.02) and you get 1.5 faster performance, what is the economy of "bying more RAM" if it is so much more expensive? Any comparison on HDD, SSD and RAM including pros and cons which is worth reading? lbrtch

Could RAM possibly be just 3-4 times faster than bare hdd writes and reads? or, is the Linux kernel doing its 'magic' in the bg? or, ...

2020-06-17 Thread Albretch Mueller
HDDs have their internal caching mechanism and I have heard that the Linux kernel uses RAM very effitiently, but to my understanding RAM being only 3-4 times faster doesn't make much sense, so I may be doing or understanding something not entirely right. does dd actually hit the bare metal drive

Re: How could you load only once a Linux ultility without a batch --input-files kind of option and repeatedly use it on many files? . . .

2020-05-15 Thread Albretch Mueller
What documentation, books, videos, ... would you suggest for me to read up if I were to investigate what exactly is "find" 's magic to hook other processes and keep a running instance for multiple "found" files? lbrtchx

Re: How could you load only once a Linux ultility without a batch --input-files kind of option and repeatedly use it on many files? . . .

2020-05-15 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 5/14/20, Nicolas George wrote: > The question was not how to find the files, the formulation of the > question indicates that Albretch has that covered. Yeah, my problem is not finding the files per se. I have them or could have them easily listed. The thing is that when you work on copora

How could you load only once a Linux ultility without a batch --input-files kind of option and repeatedly use it on many files? . . .

2020-05-14 Thread Albretch Mueller
The thing is that I have to call, say sha256sum, on millions of files Probably debian admin people dealing with packaging have to deal with the same kinds of issues. lbrtchx

Re: trying to mount a micro USB disk as a regular user on a Linux laptop on which I don't have admin rights ...

2020-05-14 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 5/12/20, Eric S Fraga wrote: > If pmount is installed/available, 'pmount sdc1' will mount the disk onto > /media/sdc1. I don't think pmount is installed, but I will check anyway. My options seems hopeless. I can't even understand why they would mount a drive as root. Isn't that more problem

trying to mount a micro USB disk as a regular user on a Linux laptop on which I don't have admin rights ...

2020-05-12 Thread Albretch Mueller
$ mount /dev/sdc1 mount: can't find /dev/sdc1 in /etc/fstab $ umount /dev/sdc1 $ mount --types vfat /dev/sdc1 /media/user/5C51-D400 mount: only root can use "--types" option $ mount /dev/sdc1 /media/user/5C51-D400 mount: only root can do that $ mount /dev/sdc1 mount: can't find /dev/sdc1 in /et

Re: State: stopped "Filter failed" on a Xerox Phaser 6125N. how do you troubleshoot a printer in Linux?

2020-04-06 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 4/6/20, Klaus Singvogel wrote: > Two filters are executed: > 1. pstops > Is CUPS internal and included in Debian package "cups-core-drivers" at my > side (running Debian buster). # date; time apt-get install cups-core-drivers Di 7. Apr 06:58:26 CEST 2020 Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig Ab

Re: State: stopped "Filter failed" on a Xerox Phaser 6125N. how do you troubleshoot a printer in Linux?

2020-04-06 Thread Albretch Mueller
Perhaps you will be able to see something I don't. If not let me know how could do whatever you need with the debug levels or log file in a better way >Maybe you've to enable Loglevel "info" or "debug" in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf # date; cat /etc/cups/cupsd.conf | grep LogLevel Mo 6. Apr 22:37:44 CE

Re: State: stopped "Filter failed" on a Xerox Phaser 6125N. how do you troubleshoot a printer in Linux?

2020-04-06 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 4/6/20, Brian wrote: > A complete error_log is needed. The Printing section of the wiki should > help you get one. following the documentation on in the case of a USB connected printer: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingPrintingProblems * usb kernel modules loaded for the line printer (usb

Re: State: stopped "Filter failed" on a Xerox Phaser 6125N. how do you troubleshoot a printer in Linux?

2020-04-05 Thread Albretch Mueller
I see on the error logs after making sure the printer is ready to receive print jobs (based on its own menu) http://localhost:631/admin/log/error_log ... D [06/Apr/2020:01:19:35 +0200] [Job 5] printer-state=3(idle) D [06/Apr/2020:01:19:35 +0200] [Job 5] printer-state-message="Filter failed" D [06/

State: stopped "Filter failed" on a Xerox Phaser 6125N. how do you troubleshoot a printer in Linux?

2020-04-05 Thread Albretch Mueller
I got a: _OFL="hwinfo_$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)_hwinfo_printer.log" hwinfo --printer --log "${_OFL}" 2>&1 17: USB 00.0: 10900 Printer [Created at usb.122] Unique ID: L0iK.+dt1oXx0UKE Old Unique ID: vxkL.pGWWNSDBYN7 Parent ID: 2UT6.DFkaVl_rzX0 SysFS ID: /devices/pci:00/:00:12.2/usb

Re: why is my local user (/dev/sda5) drive not being displayed by df?

2020-03-11 Thread Albretch Mueller
with your help I found a way around it (here is my silly scripting): $ sudo _DF=$(df -h) date echo "${_DF}" | head -n 1 echo "${_DF}" | grep $(whoami) $ lbrtchx

why is my local user (/dev/sda5) drive not being displayed by df?

2020-03-07 Thread Albretch Mueller
$ sudo blkid /dev/mapper/sda5_crypt: UUID="HA3h3P-GUUe-brth-12Jb-VYcF-sE7h-l7Ep7Q" TYPE="LVM2_member" /dev/mapper/lbrtchx--vg-root: UUID="d2f3c65d-063b-441e-878e-e283e9ab39a2" TYPE="ext4" /dev/sda1: UUID="22e7b834-11f9-4f29-84d2-8757aa9f721d" TYPE="ext2" PARTUUID="c67530bc-01" /dev/sda5: UUID="2792

Re: multilingual setup ...

2020-02-27 Thread Albretch Mueller
Thank you Greg et al: Well, most people would not want to deal with those are the kinds of complex issues. No wonder all you find online are all kinds of problems while trying to do such things. The romantic, silly side of me still thinks that probably using the JVM you could find a way to hac

Re: All true assertions in a bash find one liner? ...

2020-02-27 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 2/27/20, Greg Wooledge wrote: > What part of "tell us the actual problem" did you not understand? > > Oh, wait. I already know the answer to that one: all of it. :( > > Do you want to search for all files in ~/java whose names end with > .java or .txt and which contain the string > "java.io.Un

Re: multilingual setup ...

2020-02-27 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 2/27/20, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Note the key phrase "when I su into a shell". > That is VERY different from "I want each user to have a different locale > when they login". OK, each user should have "language interfacing personas" LIP (to call it something) and after (s)he logs in (s)he will

Re: All true assertions in a bash find one liner? ...

2020-02-27 Thread Albretch Mueller
> We can't really "see what you mean" until you show us. Why don't you > just tell us the actual problem? It can't be THAT embarrassing. OK, here it is again. You will see that as part of the output you will see a bunch of paths (with the actual matches) that someone were not picked by the -pri

Re: multilingual setup ...

2020-02-27 Thread Albretch Mueller
Well, it seems there are aspects relating to such matters which are pretty straightforward but some aren't at all. If some application maintainers don't care about such matters (which some politics around the edges) that makes such matters very difficult to handle and maintain. OSs are large, de

Re: All true assertions in a bash find one liner? ...

2020-02-27 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 2/27/20, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 01:40:22PM +0100, Albretch Mueller wrote: >> I need to find all files which names satisfy a pattern and contain a >> certain string, then from those files I need to printf some metadata, >> a la: >> >>

Re: "package pgm2tiff not found" . . .

2020-02-27 Thread Albretch Mueller
> There is a program (aka "tool") called tiff2pdf: > > tomas@trotzki:~$ apt-file search tiff2pdf > hylafax-server: /var/spool/hylafax/bin/tiff2pdf > libtiff-doc: /usr/share/doc/libtiff-doc/html/man/tiff2pdf.1.html > libtiff-tools: /usr/bin/tiff2pdf > libtiff-tools: /usr/share/man/man1/tif

All true assertions in a bash find one liner? ...

2020-02-27 Thread Albretch Mueller
I need to find all files which names satisfy a pattern and contain a certain string, then from those files I need to printf some metadata, a la: find "${_SDIR}" -type f -iregex .*"${_X}" -printf '"%TD %TT",%Ts,%s,"%P"\n' > "${_TMPFL}" 2>&1 I am trying to do all steps in one go, which I think s

"package pgm2tiff not found" . . .

2020-02-27 Thread Albretch Mueller
I need to install the packages used by unpaper to help tesseract do its magic: https://manpages.debian.org/jessie/unpaper/unpaper.1 Input and output files can be in either .pbm, .pgm or .ppm format, thus generally in .pnm format, as also used by the Linux scanning tools scanimage and scanadf.

multilingual setup ...

2020-02-26 Thread Albretch Mueller
I have searched for a solution to a problem which apparently many people have, but all I find are problems while tryng to do it. I think there should be a straight forward way to do that: Most of us are multilingual. I want to set up different users with different languages as default and then w

Re: entirely keyboard based installation ...

2020-02-01 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 1/30/20, David Wright wrote: > I take it that Bil[d?]schirmbild means Screenshot: Yes, and sorry I meant "Screenshot" > yes, it does appear > that TABbing doesn't reach that button (including using modifiers). Hmm! Does it a bit weird! Is it so by design? > Would you be able to navigate

Re: entirely keyboard based installation ...

2020-02-01 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 1/30/20, Nektarios Katakis wrote: > Did you install any proprietary drivers after installation? No, I didn't. The mouse pad didn't work during installation and it started working right back afterwards lbrtchx

Re: entirely keyboard based installation ...

2020-02-01 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 1/30/20, Charles Curley wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:37:11 -0600 > David Wright wrote: > >> If you file a bug, make sure the model number is specific (which >> I think yours is). > > You should be able to get model, serial and other numbers from > dmidecode. dmidecode 3.0 Getting SMBIOS da

Re: entirely keyboard based installation ...

2020-01-30 Thread Albretch Mueller
Installation lbrtchx On 1/30/20, Nektarios Katakis wrote: > Στις 2020-01-30 11:17, Albretch Mueller έγραψε: >> I was installing Debian yesterday and my mouse wasn't working (a >> Leneovo Netbook X130e). >> >> I tried to tab through to the „Bilschirmbild“ option, b

Re: no rsync in the German installation? (Kommando nicht gefunden.)

2020-01-30 Thread Albretch Mueller
> I notice my computer being hacked JavaScript and browsers are the #1 vectors they use to hack, own your computers and cell phones in automated ways lbrtchx

Re: no rsync in the German installation? (Kommando nicht gefunden.)

2020-01-30 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 1/30/20, Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Do, Jan 30, 2020 at 12:14:19 +0100, Albretch Mueller wrote: >> Hmm! I thought and would expect for rsync to be installed by default! > > No, rsync is Priority: optional. The first line of the DESCRIPTION of the rsync package goes: "

entirely keyboard based installation ...

2020-01-30 Thread Albretch Mueller
I was installing Debian yesterday and my mouse wasn't working (a Leneovo Netbook X130e). I tried to tab through to the „Bilschirmbild“ option, but could not reach out to it because that option was being skipped!? That shouldn't be and/or I wonder what the reason for that obstruction could be.

Re: no rsync in the German installation? (Kommando nicht gefunden.)

2020-01-30 Thread Albretch Mueller
Hmm! I thought and would expect for rsync to be installed by default!

no rsync in the German installation? (Kommando nicht gefunden.)

2020-01-30 Thread Albretch Mueller
$ date Do 30. Jan 08:46:51 CET 2020 $ uname -a Linux lbrtchx 4.9.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.82-1+deb9u3 (2018-03-02) x86_64 GNU/Linux $ which rsync $ right after the installation when I tried to transfer files I got: // __ bash: rsync: Kommando nicht gefunden. $ date; time rsync --archive --

Re: RFE: Could crc32 be included in the debian live/installation disk?

2019-10-17 Thread Albretch Mueller
Again the Chinese do what they do in the open, "freedom lovers" can't do that in a "democratic country" because "there are laws protecting the rights of the people" . . . Yeah, you heard me right and if you found wild and crazy logical and semantic bugs in that statement is because there are. So

Re: disk going bad? or fuser related issues? . . .

2019-10-10 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 10/9/19, Reco wrote: > Please post the results of "smartctl -A". > > Reco Here go the results another of my drives (Seagate Archive 8.00 TB ): # date; smartctl --xall /dev/sdc Mon Oct 7 11:22:16 CEST 2019 smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [x86_64-linux-4.9.0-6-amd64] (local build) Copyright (C)

Re: disk going bad? or fuser related issues? . . .

2019-10-10 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 10/9/19, Reco wrote: > Please post the results of "smartctl -A". > > Reco Here go the results for one of my drives (a Seagate Samsung 2.00 TB): # smartctl --xall /dev/sdb smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [x86_64-linux-4.9.0-6-amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Fr

Re: disk going bad? or fuser related issues? . . .

2019-10-09 Thread Albretch Mueller
) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offlineCompleted without error 00% 3530 - ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ lbrtchx On 10/5/19, Albretch Mueller wrote: > thank you (also, as part caring for good karma in case someone runs > into such matters) the two (or three)

Re: RFE: Could crc32 be included in the debian live/installation disk?

2019-10-09 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 10/8/19, Reco wrote: > On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 04:34:17PM +0200, Albretch Mueller wrote: >> >> this is a hash algorithm that is implemented of the chips anyway, it >> >> is the fastest of them all, used by synch (is it?) and it is crucially >> >> helpfu

Re: RFE: Could crc32 be included in the debian live/installation disk?

2019-10-08 Thread Albretch Mueller
>> this is a hash algorithm that is implemented of the chips anyway, it >> is the fastest of them all, used by synch (is it?) and it is crucially >> helpful when data integrity is very important. >And it's also one of those broken checksum algorithms which makes it >easy to replace a part of file

RFE: Could crc32 be included in the debian live/installation disk?

2019-10-05 Thread Albretch Mueller
this is a hash algorithm that is implemented of the chips anyway, it is the fastest of them all, used by synch (is it?) and it is crucially helpful when data integrity is very important. I like to do baseline checks when I first install an OS base and when I upgrade it. Does Debian internally

Re: disk going bad? or fuser related issues? . . .

2019-10-05 Thread Albretch Mueller
thank you (also, as part caring for good karma in case someone runs into such matters) the two (or three) silver lines I got from you comments were: a) defragment that NTFS partition once in a while. i mostly use that partition to read legacy data, but I didn't know you could defragment a window

disk going bad? or fuser related issues? . . .

2019-10-04 Thread Albretch Mueller
I use ntfs as a data transfer file system between Mac OS, *nix and Windows (I code primarily in java). Even though while using that partition through fuser it is noticeable slower, afaik, it is the only viable option there is. Lately I have been noticing the NTFS partition being slower than usua

Re: trying to grab video of screen on a Thinkpad x130e netbook . . .

2019-08-27 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 8/24/19, Pétùr wrote: > ffmpeg -f x11grab -s 1280x720 -r 25 -i :0.0 screencast.mp4 but where did the audio go? it worked but not always. base on its logs ffmpeg seems to be making a video, but vlc doesn't show to me the actual video even though the file is there. Why is it that the video

trying to grab video of screen on a Thinkpad x130e netbook . . .

2019-08-24 Thread Albretch Mueller
Hi *: I have to ask after trying to do it in many ways, checking all kinds of posts, searching and following guidelines. https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Capture/Desktop https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Videograbbing/ I am running: $ uname -a Linux niggahme 4.9.0-9-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.168-1+de

trying to use an RG003-E antenna socket with my Lenovo Thinkpad running Debian Linux . . .

2019-07-10 Thread Albretch Mueller
I am currently running: # uname -a Linux niggahme 4.9.0-9-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.168-1+deb9u2 (2019-05-13) x86_64 GNU/Linux on a Lenovo Thinkpad X130e (AMD E-450, 4GB RAM): http://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/withdrawnbook/ThinkPad_X131e_WE.pdf https://www.notebookcheck.com/Test-Lenovo

Re: replicating an installation baseline only (as if it had been a cummulative, virgin installation) ...

2019-05-15 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 5/14/19, David Wright wrote: > Assuming you're not browsing as root ... Again, anything that is syntactically expressed can be, -is- hacked, even the idea of a "root" account is a silly Illusion in my kind of reallity which is not that different from yours ;-). Sorry, but not stating that w

replicating an installation baseline only (as if it had been a cummulative, virgin installation) ...

2019-05-14 Thread Albretch Mueller
My question may not have been clear enough on my previous post about reinstalling debian, but I think I have a better idea about how to solve many of my problems. I have an installation based on: $ uname -a Linux niggahme 4.9.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.88-1+deb9u1 (2018-05-07) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Is there a way to install Debian iso's from an existing installation onto a USB connected drive?

2019-05-02 Thread Albretch Mueller
something like: 1) download the iso's 2) go: /dev/sdb where "/dev/sdb" is the device a USB disk is linked to then you would plug the disk on your computer and take it from there For that I used to burn live DVD but there should be a better way lbrtchx

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-02-05 Thread Albretch Mueller
is of crucial importance because you don’t own those computers at work. Your supervisors, "tech support" would not mind you bending the rules a bit as long as you safely reset them back to their initial state when you disown them.  lbrtchx On 1/31/19, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 30 J

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-01-29 Thread Albretch Mueller
use case: Say, you have a computer preinstalled with Windows, on which you would like to install a Debian Linux base. You would: 1) resize the larger, Windows proper (/dev/sda3) partition 2) install Linux encrypted in the created space, with 3) what you need to start it up (the /root partiti

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-01-29 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 1/29/19, David Wright wrote: > However, the second method uses manual partitioning of the disks with > gdisk, so I don't see why sda should not contain a(nother) FAT > partition which is ignored. I don't see why either. Also, given the fact that so many, entirely fine computers (with 4+ Gibs

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