or Bad Things May
Happen.
You will have many Mesa libraries installed as dependencies:
dpkg -l "*mesa*"
On my system (sid), this removes 100 packages (note "-s" to simulate),
including xserver-xorg!:
apt-get purge -s -V libglapi-mesa
There are likely other direct depend
On 10/01/2021 11:33, gru...@mailfence.com wrote:
and can i do that in stretch or do i need buster
Thanks you so much. This is by far the best contribution to this thread.
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n the "System Tray" (Xfce
Notification Area is an implementation of this concept). As a last
resort, you can exit the application or stop it starting in Sessions /
Settings and Startup.
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es for the three fonts above without --0-0 in their
names
$ xlsfonts | grep hanzigb
hanzigb16fs
hanzigb16st
hanzigb24st
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Can anyone suggest a Debian repo-installable program to create 3D text?
Blender.
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rvices. They use the same
.kdbx file format.
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On 21/08/2020 14:01, Mike McClain wrote:
I took a look at ~/.local/share/.recently-used.xbel and see that
not only is it tracking what I do but claims to be the property of
freedesktop.org.
This file records your most recently used local files
quot;;> in recently-used.xbel just means that
they define the meaning of the enclosed tags.
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ermissions and
timestamps) on foreign filesystems.
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so disable mount count and interval checking:
mkfs.ext4 -J size=4 -m 0 -T largefile4 -O "^resize_inode" /dev/sdb1
tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 -L Backup /dev/sdb1
I have this line in /etc/fstab:
LABEL=Backup /media/backup ext4 noatime,noauto,user,errors=remount-ro 0 0
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ject_Jupyter> provides
a rich set of tools and supports Python.
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n3 -i -c \"from math import *\""
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"Beware the censor, for in his heart, he deems himself your master."
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derstand it, Chinese stock market colour coding is
opposite to Western.
Red/green is also the most common form of colour-blindness.
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of the Workers' Revolutionary Committee" was once popular,
but has not yet, as far as I know, been applied to technology. Some
high-availablity clusters vote to elect their leaders so that a
defective primary can be deposed.
"Associate" is a popular weasel word for lowly-pai
e term "master" has a long history. In addition to its racial
connotations, it is also gendered.
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:/// urls to work.
I have updated the title to draw attention from anyone who might be able
to help with spacefm.
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e expected gvfs* packages so this is not
the problem.
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On 06/03/2020 11:39, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
I tried purging gvfs-backends and was still able to access Trash via
Thunar, so missing this package is not likely to be your issue.
But if I purge gvfs itself, Trash vanishes from Thunar and cannot be
accessed by manually entering the location
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What gvfs packages do you have installed? See with:
dpkg -l "gvfs*"
Some gvfs-* packages are optional and one might include the handler for
trash: urls.
apt-get dist-upgrade on sid recently tried to remove gvfs-backends
during the
to remove gvfs-backends
during the python3.8 transition, but you are on buster so should not
have been affected, and I do not think gvfs-backends provides the
handler for trash: urls.
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(most recently, a tiny overclock that seemed
safe and harmless but caused intermittent corruption). Integrated GPUs
are totally reliant on system RAM.
There is also gputest, but I have not used it.
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interoperability (and are willing to sacrifice Unix permissions and file
size), do not overlook the robustness and ubiquity of ext4.
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ers of an organization give
disproportionate weight to trivial issues".
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ning
mechanism which relies on special servo control data (e.g. Gray Code)
that is meant to be permanently recorded onto the magnetic media. This
servo data is written onto the media a single time at the factory using
special-purpose servo writing hardware."
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more
densely and strongly encoded and on multiple platters, so much harder to
reliably erase with external magnetic fields such as those generated by
a bulk tape eraser.
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ut you are at the
mercy of the HDD vendor implementation. I also encrypt all my drives.
If you need to protect against an attacker willing to examine your HDD
with magnetic force microscopy, there is no substitute for physical
destruction of the media.
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fs.js with:
find ~/.mozilla/firefox -name prefs.js
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"In April 2019, a 27-year-old Indian former student of the College of
Saint Rose, Vishwanath Akuthota, pleaded guilty to destroying 59
computers in his college using a USB killer, resulting in over $50,000
in damages."
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, especially those on BadUSB. One or two were enough for me to
never want to use a USB thumb drive of unknown provenance. That is all I
know.
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prime (Prime95) is useful for stress testing a CPU.
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. What is your background?
A great way to learn is to choose an open source project that uses a
language of interest to you and contribute bug fixes to it. Proven
ability on open source projects is a great way of building your resume.
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lock, so I
consider it too vulnerable for use. There is a bug report.
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setting is ignored
for some elements), everything else works for me as well as in 4.12 and
performance is satisfactory.
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On 19/08/2019 08:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
This is actually for me a filter criterion: if a site doesn't work
with javascript, chances are high that I avoid it. I do make some
exceptions, but very few.
I use NoScript to enable JavaScript only where I want it.
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; it).
New Zealand banned pure software patents in 2013:
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nters. Restricting the WPA2 passphrase
to digits and lowercase letters reduces entropy but makes input more
bearable. Seeing the reaction of guests when they are handed a piece of
paper with a long random WPA2 passphrase: priceless. It never gets old. :-D
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On 05/05/2019 10:52, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
Setting about:config / xpinstall.signatures.required to false fixed
extensions for me for firefox 66.0.1-1 amd64 on Debian sid and for
Firefox 66.0.2 on Android. I needed to restart Firefox on Debian.
Seems fixed in firefox 66.0.4-1 on Debian sid
On 05/05/2019 21:30, Dave Sherohman wrote:
On Sun, May 05, 2019 at 10:52:56AM +1200, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
Setting about:config / xpinstall.signatures.required to false fixed
extensions for me for firefox 66.0.1-1 amd64 on Debian sid and for Firefox
66.0.2 on Android. I needed to restart
Setting about:config / xpinstall.signatures.required to false fixed
extensions for me for firefox 66.0.1-1 amd64 on Debian sid and for
Firefox 66.0.2 on Android. I needed to restart Firefox on Debian.
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e, offsite backup is
faster than local.
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server? Is there a firewall on the server? Try:
ssh -vvv zhou@192.168.1.3
to see the full connection attempt. You can also check whether the port
is open with (on the client):
nmap -p 22 192.168.1.3
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physically about 82 dpi (27" 1080p)), the old
interpreter might be worth a try.
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l and use
use "sudo -i".
For installed Debian, login and password are set at install time.
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or batch symmetric encryption, if
you do not mind your passphrase being in plain text on your filesystem.
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speed device, unless the mouse adapter just will not work with a hub at
using a particular specification. The hub is internal and typically on
the motherboard. The front USB ports I have seen are connected to the
same hub so I would expect both to work or neither.
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ipt Single Page Applications (SPA) are a plague on
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edia.org/wiki/Mozilla_software_rebranded_by_Debian#Iceweasel>.
In June 2016, the iceweasel package was replaced with the firefox-esr
package.
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in a virtual machine and have the best of
both worlds.
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ion.
The specific case of webmail likely requires read-write access to user
mailboxes. I do not know how privilege separation is handled in this case.
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nt.
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ges cannot automatically regain them. Postgres and Tomcat do the
same thing with their own dedicated users.
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good platform for Java development.
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On 11/10/2018 11:36, bw wrote:
On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
On 11/10/2018 11:15, bw wrote:
How exactly do you think stretch users should run an adblocker when all
the xul-ext-* extensions are now broken?
I see that there is a webext-ublock-origin for sid but I have never
/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/
I see that there is a webext-ublock-origin for sid but I have never used it:
https://packages.debian.org/sid/web/webext-ublock-origin
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layed.
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even in this case because it is what I mean (counting
entries one per line).
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or filtering on file type), I use
find.
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root root9 Apr 15 2017 apt-daily.service -> /dev/null
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root9 Apr 15 2017 apt-daily.timer -> /dev/null
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ance tasks.
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n argyll
Only affects building this package, not end users.
Summary:
apt(1 bug), colord(1 bug), libtracker-sparql-2.0-0(1 bug)
Are you sure you want to install/upgrade the above packages? [Y/n/?/...] n
At this point, instead of "n", just press "Enter".
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On 12/09/2018 14:56, Default User wrote:
Arch?
[...]
But the wiki is good . . .
(And much of it is applicable to other distributions, including Debian.)
+1 for the Arch wiki. I haver never used Arch, but the Arch wiki has
helped me many times.
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saw the same message and took it as a harmless warning.
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On 01/09/2018 15:14, Default User wrote:
On Fri, Aug 31, 2018, 21:00 Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
On 30/08/2018 07:18, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
On 30/08/2018 03:46, Default User wrote:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libsane1 : Breaks: libsane (< 1.0.27-1) but 1.0.25-4.1
On 30/08/2018 07:18, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
On 30/08/2018 03:46, Default User wrote:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libsane1 : Breaks: libsane (< 1.0.27-1) but 1.0.25-4.1 is installed
libsane : Depends: libsane-common (= 1.0.25-4.1) but
1.0.27-1~experimental6 is to
now, unstable)]
2) libsane1 [Not Installed]
3) sane-utils [1.0.25-4.1 (now)]
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
I always choose "Y". I keep waiting for the situation to resolve itself,
but it never does.
Insight?
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=905913
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anced-ed4def00-71bb-4521-a16e-9551bd762b5b"
Note the quotes. I then run "update-grub" and I am done.
I also like "apt-mark manual" to protect kernels from "apt-get autoremove".
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f the dark
(negative) side.
For example, for signed 32-bit integers using two's complement (C/C++
int on most current architectures and JVM int).
INT_MAX = 2**31 - 1 = 2147483647
INT_MIN = -2**31 = -2147483648
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_(computer_science)
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: ok
Walking Zeroes : ok
8-bit Writes: ok
16-bit Writes : ok
Done.
This test takes 3 minutes on my i7 7700 with dual-channel DDR4 RAM. Peak
package temperature was 72 C. Ambient temperature is 19 C. I have a
passively cooled Streacom mini-ITX case.
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On 24/08/2018 10:41, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
On 24/08/2018 10:37, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
The new format to specify a different default kernel is horrific; it
contains menu items separated with ">". You need to get the full label
from your generated grub.conf because it li
On 24/08/2018 10:37, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
The new format to specify a different default kernel is horrific; it
contains menu items separated with ">". You need to get the full label
from your generated grub.conf because it likely contains device UUIDs:
GRUB_DEFAULT="
51bd762b5b>gnulinux-4.16.0-1-amd64-advanced-ed4def00-71bb-4521-a16e-9551bd762b5b"
You can try adding kernel command line parameters to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX
to fix your latest kernel. You will need to run update-grub after each
change.
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On 24/08/2018 05:48, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
All,
Is there any plans to move Debian to Bugzilla and abrt?
Tim
Try the debian-devel list.
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On 23/08/2018 20:26, Long Wind wrote:
to Ben Caradoc-Davies:
my PC is HP dx5150, i use it with that memory for more than 2 years, it's OK,
no overheating. maybe memory checking cause overheating? i've installed
memtester, i'll try it.
Any dx5150 Front Panel LEDs lit?
https:/
ve and unrealistic amounts of heat.
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On 16/08/18 05:52, Miguel A. Vallejo wrote:
So, I'm also looking for a Linux friendly 802.11ac USB dongle.
And I should have mentioned that the TL-WN722N is a single band (2.4
GHz) b/g/n dongle, *not* dual band.
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On 14/08/18 12:14, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
On 12/08/18 15:12, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
I am using a TP-Link TL-WN722N (ath9k_htc). I have two. Inexpensive,
high-gain antenna, quite reliable despite regular hard work.
Since my broadband upgrade from ADSL to gigabit fibre three days ago, I
On 12/08/18 15:12, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
I am using a TP-Link TL-WN722N (ath9k_htc). I have two. Inexpensive,
high-gain antenna, quite reliable despite regular hard work.
Since my broadband upgrade from ADSL to gigabit fibre three days ago, I
can put greater load on my WiFi, and my TL
confirmation.
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.15.4-1, linux/4.15.11-1, linux/4.14.17-1
Fixed in versions linux/4.16.5-1, linux/4.15.17-1
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tomic reverts) and the ability to
install multiple concurrent kernel packages without the API versioning
silliness of Debian (which cannot co-install both 4.17.6-2 and 4.17.8-1,
for example, only one linux-image-4.17.0-1-amd64).
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rade -V -s
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On 30/07/18 15:43, 慕 冬亮 wrote:
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
What packages are held? You can list them with "apt-mark showhold".
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On 27/07/18 16:44, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
On 27/07/18 16:09, Default User wrote:
Debian Unstable, x86-64
[...]
$ sudo aptitude -Pvv full-upgrade
[...]
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libkf5xmlgui5 : Depends: qtbase-abi-5-10-0 which is a virtual package,
provided by
nux/commit/19e47d7049c6ca94b98cf8c00bbeb2384a9c43b9
When I had identified the application, I used ltrace to identify the
library causing the problem.
What is your kernel version?
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On 27/07/18 16:44, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
On 27/07/18 16:09, Default User wrote:
Debian Unstable, x86-64
[...]
$ sudo aptitude -Pvv full-upgrade
[...]
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libkf5xmlgui5 : Depends: qtbase-abi-5-10-0 which is a virtual package,
provided by
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they are strong
enough. Maybe I'm wrong though?
You may be proven right, but, because it is impossible to prove a
negative, you will never be proven wrong.
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against libcurl4, which is
not present on stretch, so you may need a package built for stretch.
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On 25/07/18 09:51, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
On 25/07/18 03:45, Anil Duggirala wrote:
I am thinking about installing the Mega.nz app on my Debian Stretch
installation. They provide a .deb package. Is there anything I can do
to ensure this is a safe package? To know that this package will not
? What is the minimum security procedure to follow
when installing third party provided .deb packages?
Also consider using the open-source megatools package. 1.10.0 has just
been released and is expected in Debian soon.
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e addition is done to verify that all
the numbers were entered correctly.
Regards, Ken
I use a Python interpreter in a terminal or libreoffice-calc.
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great CUPS/foomatic generic driver support. PostScript is lovely,
but can sometimes be afflicted by crazy font substitution problems that
do not seem to affect PCL6.
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