Re: Processors older than Intel Pentium 4

2022-07-20 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-07-21 02:03, Marco wrote: Am Wed, 20 Jul 2022 22:11:08 +0300 schrieb Oskar Skog : When the x32 port becomes official, the only reason (that I can imagine) to use the i386 port would be for really old computers. What is the x32 port? I haven't heard about that yet. Seems it is a set

Re: Problem with csh

2022-07-02 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-07-02 14:24, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Jul 02, 2022 at 01:18:08PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I have one application that I compile which requires the csh shell. comp@AbNormal:~$ csh Bad : modifier in $ '/'. AbNormal:~% I've never seen this before but the compilation process

Re: Monitoring which of a list of machines is up

2022-07-02 Thread Bijan Soleymani
etting. (I managed to run bash in the docker as root, and install vim, and edit the EditMonitor page and change the minimum from 20 to 1, but either that's the wrong file or I can't figure out how to restart or rebuild the server). Bijan On 2 July 2022 07:44:30 CEST, Bijan Soleymani wr

Monitoring which of a list of machines is up

2022-07-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Hi, I want to monitor a half dozen machines and have a screen with a green dot for those that are up and a red dot for those that are down. For this it's enough that they're responding to pings. Half the machines are Linux half are not. Any suggestions? Bijan

Re: Customizing firefox-esr.

2022-06-28 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 6/28/2022 11:04 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: Sadly, Firefox and Chrome no longer behave like regular X applications. They're written by and for Microsoft Windows users, and they behave the way an MS Windows user expects. The concept that anyone would want the original behavior, or that an option

Re: Proprietary WiFi drivers for live mode

2022-06-25 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 6/25/2022 5:05 PM, piorunz wrote: On 25/06/2022 22:01, Bijan Soleymani wrote: Unfortunately in this case that might not work. The file that is needed is wl.ko That's what dmesg says? Can you copy entire line here? I think the dmesg output is of the form [time] wl: ... I

Re: Proprietary WiFi drivers for live mode

2022-06-25 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 6/25/2022 4:07 PM, piorunz wrote: Don't walk in the dark. Instead, do the following: sudo dmesg (in live mode without internet) Error in red about network adapter will tell you exact name of the file you need to download on machine with internet. You do it as follows: sudo apt update sudo ap

Re: Proprietary WiFi drivers for live mode

2022-06-25 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 6/25/2022 2:40 PM, Bijan Soleymani wrote: And after that I see: /lib/modules/5.15.0-25-generic/updates/dkms/wk.ko That should be wl.ko Also once you boot the live cd you can choose: try ubuntu then at the ubuntu desktop instead of the sudo apt install bcmwl-kernel-source you can

Re: Proprietary WiFi drivers for live mode

2022-06-25 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 6/25/2022 12:12 PM, Kristijonas Lukas Bukauskas wrote: apt-get install linux-image-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') broadcom-sta-dkms modprobe -r b44 b43 b43legacy ssb brcmsmac bcma modprobe wl Would these packages be in 11.3.0-live+nonfree

Re: Proprietary WiFi drivers for live mode

2022-06-25 Thread Bijan Soleymani
 6/25/2022 11:48 AM, Bijan Soleymani wrote: You can install packages on the live CD. (sudo apt update, sudo apt install, etc.) Obviously if that wifi adapter is your only networking option on that machine, you won't be able to download packages and will have to make sure they are o

Re: Proprietary WiFi drivers for live mode

2022-06-25 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 6/25/2022 11:11 AM, Kristijonas Lukas Bukauskas wrote: How do I get Wifi working right in live mode? I would prefer Debian, but any Linux ready-to-use image would work for me. Thanks for any help! You can install packages on the live CD. (sudo apt update, sudo apt install, etc.) Whatever

Re: Feature request: install package by passing URL to apt-get

2022-06-24 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 6/24/2022 2:24 PM, David Wright wrote: This strikes me as a nightmare waiting to happen. There was probably a similar feeling when .deb and dpkg and apt rolled out. I think you made this up. I'm sure there were some people who were happy enough with Slackware when dpkg was evolving, but I ne

Re: Feature request: install package by passing URL to apt-get

2022-06-24 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 6/24/2022 10:03 AM, Bijan Soleymani wrote: To me anytime you need to use su or sudo to do something, you should not think it is harmless, no matter how simple or easy. Although all that being said, I remember a long time ago getting into a situation with apt or dpkg (removing libc or

Re: Feature request: install package by passing URL to apt-get

2022-06-24 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Hi Didier, On 6/24/2022 4:36 AM, didier gaumet wrote: Le jeudi 23 juin 2022 à 16:27 -0400, Bijan Soleymani a écrit : rm wrongfile how do I undelete? better put deleted files in the "recycling box" and prompt users on every deletion by default rm -rf / oops! sigh... Bijan Hell

Re: Feature request: install package by passing URL to apt-get

2022-06-24 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 6/24/2022 4:01 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: On 22/06/2022 18:04, Person the human wrote: I just want to get everyone's opinion on this before I request it from the developers or possibly try to add it myself. Would it be nice if it was possible to pass a URL to 'apt install' so that a package

Re: Feature request: install package by passing URL to apt-get

2022-06-24 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 6/24/2022 4:48 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 03:22:30PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: How do you handle dependencies where there is a version of the dependency on the server, and another version on a repo in the user's sources.list? Multiple nested dependencies? You don

Re: Feature request: install package by passing URL to apt-get

2022-06-23 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 6/23/2022 12:03 PM, Person the human wrote: The easier something is to do, the more harmless people will think it is, so you're right. Thanks. rm wrongfile how do I undelete? better put deleted files in the "recycling box" and prompt users on every deletion by default rm -rf / oops! s

Re: Feature request: install package by passing URL to apt-get

2022-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 6/22/2022 5:22 PM, Charles Curley wrote: On Wed, 22 Jun 2022 16:25:02 -0400 Bijan Soleymani wrote: Anyways it would be nice to do: apt install http://domain/filename.deb too. Wonder if there's some optimal/convenient way to handle dependencies if they're on the same server to

Re: Feature request: install package by passing URL to apt-get

2022-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 6/22/2022 1:04 PM, Person the human wrote: I just want to get everyone's opinion on this before I request it from the developers or possibly try to add it myself. Would it be nice if it was possible to pass a URL to 'apt install' so that a package could be installed without first downloadin

Re: debian-user message size limit

2022-06-17 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-06-17 19:01, Gareth Evans wrote: On 17 Jun 2022, at 23:25, Bijan Soleymani wrote: Actually I didn't store the emails from some point in 2004 through part of 2008. So I can't say when the limit was lowered but at least from 2009 until now there hasn't been anything over

Re: debian-user message size limit

2022-06-17 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-06-17 18:20, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On 2022-06-17 11:24, Gareth Evans wrote: Is there a limit for message size on debian-user? I checked the data. I have been subscribed since 2003, though I haven't been active for a lot of that period. Actually I didn't store the emails

Re: debian-user message size limit

2022-06-17 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-06-17 11:24, Gareth Evans wrote: Is there a limit for message size on debian-user? I checked the data. I have been subscribed since 2003, though I haven't been active for a lot of that period. In 2003 there were a handful of larger messages (largest 154KB). But since then there hasn

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Does DEBIAN BullsEye has FIPS package available

2022-06-16 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-06-15 18:08, Dan Ritter wrote: Tapas Das wrote: Dan, On Redhat Linux, to enable FIPS, FIPS package is available https://access.redhat.com/discussions/3293631 ==> Explains how to validate if FIPS is enabled on Redhat Linux I am looking for something like that, whereby I can inst

Re: Printing the old way

2022-06-14 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 6/14/2022 4:59 PM, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: Folks: Back in the dark days of early Linux, before CUPS, we printed with printers all the time. There was an infrastructure for doing this. Does anyone remember how that worked? As in, what packages were needed, etc.? If you want to do this

Re: user perms

2022-06-13 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 6/13/2022 2:33 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 01:56:12PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: I appear as user 1000 seem to be stuck behind some sort of a permissions wall. SHOW. US. No need to shout in all caps. Why the hell no need for language You're a goddamned 20+ year Li

Re: How should learning to program in c++ be approached, if learning objectives are sought to be customised?

2022-06-13 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 6/13/2022 1:57 AM, Bijan Soleymani wrote: So again your choices in practice are assembly, C, a subset of C++ (essentially C + classes, but no standard library and practically no templates due to stack limitation), maybe rust or some language you design yourself. Here's a blog post

Re: memtest86+ on 12th gen intel

2022-06-13 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 6/13/2022 12:27 PM, Bijan Soleymani wrote: Here's a post on the issues with memtest86+ (the free software version) and UEFI: https://askubuntu.com/questions/917961/can-i-boot-memtest86-if-im-using-uefi Sorry for the spam, looks like they just added UEFI support last week:

Re: memtest86+ on 12th gen intel

2022-06-13 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 6/13/2022 12:22 PM, Bijan Soleymani wrote: https://www.memtest86.com/download.htm Sorry I didn't realize that version of memtest isn't free software. Here's a post on the issues with memtest86+ (the free software version) and UEFI: https://askubuntu.com/questions/91

Re: memtest86+ on 12th gen intel

2022-06-13 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 6/13/2022 11:47 AM, Ram Ramesh wrote: I had memtest86+ working just fine on a legacy bullseye install. However, due to age of the CPU, I recently upgraded to 12th gen i3-12100. As part of the upgrade, I also changed over to UEFI boot. Looks like current Memtest works only with UEFI boot (w

Re: Screen power save in console mode

2022-06-13 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-06-13 03:49, Jeremy Ardley wrote: I have a Debain (Armbian) server that does not boot to any form of window manager, so what is seen on the screen is just the command console. What I would like  to do is have the console screen go into screen power save mode after some period and recover

Re: How should learning to program in c++ be approached, if learning objectives are sought to be customised?

2022-06-12 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-05-30 05:12, Susmita/Rajib wrote: Could I please be given a little more guidance on the following aspects please?: (1) exhaustive example codes All Debian main packages have source code as they are free software. (2) object library resources, references, explanations, et al A

Re: How should learning to program in c++ be approached, if learning objectives are sought to be customised?

2022-06-12 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-06-13 01:57, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On 2022-05-30 13:01, Susmita/Rajib wrote: I was trying to find out if c++ could be used to build device drivers. You said, "... Linux drivers are written in C, but technically you can mix languages: use C++ and link it against C ...". B

Re: How should learning to program in c++ be approached, if learning objectives are sought to be customised?

2022-06-12 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-05-30 13:01, Susmita/Rajib wrote: I was trying to find out if c++ could be used to build device drivers. You said, "... Linux drivers are written in C, but technically you can mix languages: use C++ and link it against C ...". But I would request more specificity here:(a) if c++ coul

Re: 64 bit not 64

2022-06-12 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-06-04 18:54, bruce banter wrote: So on my computer when I am trying to install Debian 64 it keeps on telling me it cant do it and its because it’s a 32 bit program! Any reasoning why that might be? What's the exact message? Is it in the installer or the bios boot up or in another OS l

Re: moving dir with lots of files

2022-04-17 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-04-18 00:16, Adriel Peng wrote: Hello I plan to move a dir which has about 0.4 million files to a new location. This new location is a network storage. I will run the command: nohup mv dir /mnt/disk/newdir I guess this will take a lot of hours to finish. My question is, if the proc

Re: Weird printing issue...

2022-04-09 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-04-09 03:52, nimrod wrote: Thanks for your advice. Unfortunately I couldn't find any setting about Postscript, PCL or such in CUPS, HPLIP and the usual Gnome utilities to manage printers. The only spot where I see something like what you say is from Libreoffice printer's details, File

Re: Weird printing issue...

2022-04-09 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-04-09 03:52, nimrod wrote: Thanks for your advice. Unfortunately I couldn't find any setting about Postscript, PCL or such in CUPS, HPLIP and the usual Gnome utilities to manage printers. The only spot where I see something like what you say is from Libreoffice printer's details, File

Re: Weird printing issue...

2022-04-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-04-07 18:20, nimrod wrote: Hi, I'm getting very strange, and ugly, prints with LibreOffice, Evince and Atril. You can see what I mean in the linked screenshot below. The "screen " image shows what I see when I open a PDF file, with Evince, Atril, PD

Re: Misremembered (was: Re: Stupid question)

2022-02-14 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-02-14 10:02, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I think I did mis-remember this, and the behavior I described is more like the behavior of the Debian installer (i.e., it boots an image (with a Linux kernel) into RAM to use temporarily for the installation. I just wanted to try to correct this fo

Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is the best course of action?

2022-02-12 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-02-12 11:03, Stella Ashburne wrote: What should I do? What is the best course of action? It seems that basic X windows or GUI apps are compiled with libthai support. This is probably done in a way that they won't run without it being installed (failed to load due to missing library).

Re: Request free live CD

2022-02-11 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-02-10 21:25, Celejar wrote: I do understand and agree with this, but my point was that we (at least the more helpful of us) on this list are perfectly willing to freely give of our time to help others, so why would we (at least those of us fortunate enough to have disposable income to spa

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-11 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-02-11 14:52, Celejar wrote: As I mentioned in another post, I do this occasionally, but I'm not sure how to interpret the results. I just killed firefox; I got back about 3.5 GB, but the system is still using about 4.8, and Xorg's usage hasn't changed: ~ 4436M / 3081M / 105M. Closing Fi

Re: Request free live CD

2022-02-10 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-02-10 20:05, Celejar wrote: I'm genuinely curious about this: time and money are both scarce and precious resources. Why is there an assumption that people will gladly donate of their time to help others, but not their money? Is it because the assumption is that the person asking for help

Re: Query

2022-02-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-02-07 10:50, William Lee Valentine wrote: I am wondering whether a current Debian distribution can be installed and run on an older Pentium III computer. (I have Debian 11.2 on a DVD.) The computer is    Dell Dimension XPS T500: Intel Pentium III processor (Katnai)    memory: 756 mega

Re: OpenSSH: cause of random kex_exchange_identification errors?

2022-02-02 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-02-02 09:44, Vincent Lefevre wrote: In the source, this corresponds to function kex_exchange_identification in kex.c: len = atomicio(read, ssh_packet_get_connection_in(ssh), &c, 1); if (len != 1 && errno == EPIPE) { error_f("Connection closed by remote hos

Re: One user system.

2022-02-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-02-01 20:01, Nate Bargmann wrote: I must be the odd one out as I interpreted the OP as having set a root password but now wanting to remove it so as to have just the main user set to do root's work and that root can no longer log in directly. I hope the OP can clarify! I guess that wou

Re: One user system.

2022-02-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-02-01 14:47, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: Thanks. Still a multi-user system. Whereas puppy linux has one user, root. To make debian one-user I think of ... Then proceed as root rather than me. Oh! Is your goal to only have root? I assumed you wanted to login as root, but didn't confi

Re: One user system.

2022-02-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-02-01 13:29, john doe wrote: If my understanding is correct, you will need to use 'sudo'. Yes. sudo passwd Should allow you so set a password for root. It will ask for your password first (if you haven't run sudo recently), and then new password for root and confirmation of that pa

Re: folder compression issue

2022-02-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-02-01 12:17, Bijan Soleymani wrote: find | xargs stat Oops that might not work if there are spaces in the filenames/directories. You can do: find -print0 | xargs -0 stat In that case. Bijan

Re: folder compression issue

2022-02-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-02-01 12:04, Peter Ehlert wrote: Ideas? If you want to debug, do a binary search. Move out half the files and try to compress again until it works. And then add back half the files until it fails. should I file a bug report? Sure. Since there's not too many files you can include

Re: Android apps on Debian

2022-01-30 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-30 21:54, John Hasler wrote: I have a copy of the app. I'm not going to open a Google Play account. Keep in mind the xapk/apk I saw online only had the arm64 shared libraries. So you'll either need to get an apk with the x86/x86_64/amd64 shared libraries or add arm64 support to anb

Re: Android apps on Debian

2022-01-30 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-30 21:54, John Hasler wrote: I have a copy of the app. I'm not going to open a Google Play account. Oh ok, you can run the emulator without app store or without signing in and use adb install the apk to the emulator, in case anbox doesn't work. Bijan

Re: Android apps on Debian

2022-01-30 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-29 13:29, John Hasler wrote: Is there a simple way to run Android apps under Debian such as an emulator? My Starlink terminal is arriving next week and it would be convenient to be able to run the Starlink app. However, I do not have either an IOS or an Android device. Hi, don't kn

Re: Android apps on Debian

2022-01-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-29 13:29, John Hasler wrote: Is there a simple way to run Android apps under Debian such as an emulator? My Starlink terminal is arriving next week and it would be convenient to be able to run the Starlink app. However, I do not have either an IOS or an Android device. Just to go i

Re: Android apps on Debian

2022-01-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-29 17:57, Bijan Soleymani wrote:     Now, find the .obb file (usually named as “com.x.obb”) within the file and copy it into the location: /sdcard/storage/emulated/0/Android/obb/.     Lastly, install the .apk file. Within a few minutes, you would be able to run the

Re: Android apps on Debian

2022-01-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-29 17:38, John Hasler wrote: Bijan writes: I don't know if they modify the apks they host but as far as I know the original apk (from the play store) will be signed by the app publisher/writer. So if they haven't removed that you can just verify the signature is from the publisher,

Re: Android apps on Debian

2022-01-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-29 17:25, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On 2022-01-29 15:38, John Hasler wrote: Apkpure has the Starlink app but as I had never heard of them (No reason to, not having an Android phone) I didn't download it immediately.  Are they reliable? I don't know if they modify the apks

Re: Android apps on Debian

2022-01-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-29 15:38, John Hasler wrote: local10 writes: First, identify the app you want to install, then download it from apkpure ( https://apkpure.com/ ) or similar sites. Apkpure has the Starlink app but as I had never heard of them (No reason to, not having an Android phone) I didn't downl

Re: Package name to report bug with KDE file open dialog

2022-01-28 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-28 11:36, Patrick Dunford wrote: It is not relevant whether the issue occurs in other applications because they all use the file open dialogs in ways that are specific to their application which the end user has no control over and therefore it cannot be tested for If it doesn't oc

Re: Package name to report bug with KDE file open dialog

2022-01-28 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-28 11:10, Patrick Dunford wrote: Which is the name of the package relating to the file open dialog to use in a bug report? I think it depends on the application :) Do you see it in other applications? If so, you can figure out what GUI toolkit/environment it is gtk, qt, gnome, kde

Re: Screen goes blank for 1-2 seconds

2022-01-28 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-28 10:16, hdv@gmail wrote: About the fan: I seem to remember I had to install amdgpu-fan (needed to look that up, forgot the name) when I got this setup. Not sure if it still is needed or that the driver can control the fan reliably nowadays. I need to check that out too when I get h

Re: Screen goes blank for 1-2 seconds

2022-01-28 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-28 08:40, hdv@gmail wrote: I am reasonably sure the problem lies in some form or combination of software. Sadly, my expertise in that area is insufficient to find out what it is exactly. What kernel/OS/driver are you using if it is software I can try to reproduce since I have a pre

Re: SSD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-27 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-27 8:54 p.m., Martin McCormick wrote: Great suggestions but I can't. Part of the typescript output I included was me doing just that and I was root when I did it but the squawk is that I don't have permission as if I wasn't root. Oops! Sorry I missed the operation not permitted mess

Re: SSD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-27 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-26 10:07 p.m., Martin McCormick wrote: The SSD passed a fsck test earlier in the day before I blew it up so the chip should be salvageable. I don't care for recovering either of the two partitions which will be overwritten anyway if the SSD can be made writable again. Can yo

Re: Screen goes blank for 1-2 seconds

2022-01-27 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-27 5:30 a.m., hdv@gmail wrote: Sadly I do not have access to this machine remotely. I do have my own VPN server, but that does not help when the machine in question is turned off. ;-) I'll check the temperature when I am back, and when it happens again. I played around a tiny bi

Re: Screen goes blank for 1-2 seconds

2022-01-27 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-27 5:00 a.m., hdv@gmail wrote: My guess is about once every week. The display is on for roughly 16 hours each day. There seems to be no discernable relation to "load". At least not that I could confirm. I haven't found a link to a specific application either. This system is a general

Re: Screen goes blank for 1-2 seconds

2022-01-27 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-27 4:23 a.m., Bijan Soleymani wrote: Are you also connected via HDMI? I think I am using DVI to mini display port. Seems the issues happens on windows and on HDMI but not DP: https://www.reddit.com/r/AMDHelp/comments/ez2c4i/rx_570_screen_randomly_goes_black_during/ Two other

Re: Screen goes blank for 1-2 seconds

2022-01-27 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-27 4:06 a.m., hdv@gmail wrote: You are not the only one. I see the exact same here. The system this happens on has an RX560 graphics card. I have been seeing these blackouts from the start on this configuration (more than 2 years now). Interesting, I just checked and it turns out I

Re: Screen goes blank for 1-2 seconds

2022-01-26 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-26 11:35 p.m., Pankaj Jangid wrote> I don’t want to file any bug report till I have some concrete data. So my question is - how do I diagnose such an issue and produce some data for debugging. So that I can hand it over to maintainers. This one line script will sleep for 0.01 seconds

Re: gnu screen and resizing terminal window

2022-01-26 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-26 5:55 p.m., Bijan Soleymani wrote: Actually apparently putty does support remote resizing. It just seems that our systems lack the right termcap entries. I managed to resize the putty window by running the command: resize -s height width so: resize -s 24 80 Also adding this

Re: gnu screen and resizing terminal window

2022-01-26 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-26 5:42 p.m., Bijan Soleymani wrote: As far as I know this is not a screen feature. Putty controls the window size, it is determined by the default or whatever is saved for that session. You can change what happens when you resize the putty window on the machine running putty. There

Re: gnu screen and resizing terminal window

2022-01-26 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-26 1:45 p.m., Tim Woodall wrote: I have to use PuTTY to connect to a debian server. For reasons that are outwith my control the ssh session disconnects every 24 hrs. Therefore I run screen so after reconnecting I can recover to whereever I was at. However, the PuTTY window does no

procmail rule to filter debian-user

2008-09-23 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Hey everyone, I need a rule to filter debian-user into a seperate maildir. I know there's the header: X-Maling-List: To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pick up a shell session after ssh timeout

2004-07-09 Thread Bijan Soleymani
pplications from one display to another (can be seperate computers). Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: new gnome file selection

2004-07-08 Thread Bijan Soleymani
put options like this into nautilus's preferences menu. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: newsgate

2004-07-08 Thread Bijan Soleymani
it but: www.gmane.org is doing that with many mailing lists, including this one (this message is being posted from gmane). You can check if they have the lists you are looking for. If not you could ask the guy who runs it (Lars) for some pointers. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> h

Re: Recompile source after error

2004-07-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
> > That statement is contradictory. I suggest you install the binary, and > stop this idiocy. He wants to rerun the compilation from the point it failed, note the error, fix the error, then rerun the compilation from that point. He doesn't want compilation restarting each time. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: postscript-enabled mozilla package anyone?

2004-07-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
script. But yeah, I think it's retarded to drop support for generic-postscript if it's already there. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian on a laptop....

2004-07-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
e everything off. Heck just installing windows over it should take care of it. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Samba and Codepages question (smbmount)

2004-07-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
a module it will be displayed in the list, but the use count will be at zero, if you then "use" the module, the use count will go to one. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Copy Paste into vi??

2004-07-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
the browser (highlight it) and then switch to vi and middle click (of course have to be in insert mode). If your mouse doesn't have a middle button you might be able to click both buttons at the same time. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUB

Re: new user

2004-07-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
don't do that... If your problem is that you don't want to receive tons of mail, you can use the archives or gmane to access the list. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: Samba and Codepages question (smbmount)

2004-07-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
running kernel 2.6.6 Just a guess here but did you compile in support for the codepage you're trying to use? That might be necessary. You can find it under: File Systems -> Native Language Support -> Codepage XXX Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com

Re: PEAR Download

2004-07-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
script, etc. To adjust this go in: /etc/php{4}/apache/php.ini and /etc/php{4}/cgi/php.ini and look for the line: memory_limit = 8M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (8MB) and increase the limit. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux

Re: Can't surf with Mozilla

2004-07-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
click, or right clic, or ctrl-click and so on. That's described in the man page. But you should probably check out windowmaker (wmaker), icewm, etc. For more recent window managers. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: tzconfig for Otario Canada

2004-07-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
"S.D.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, it's easy enough to find; > > <http://www.canadainfolink.ca/time.htm> > > Manitoba is the western border for EDT. Anywhere West of 90 degrees longitude in Ontario falls in the Central time zone. Bijan --

Re: NETGEAR MA311 802.11b Wireless PCI Network Adapter Card

2004-07-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
de the right module, you're kind of out of luck :) Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NETGEAR MA311 802.11b Wireless PCI Network Adapter Card

2004-07-06 Thread Bijan Soleymani
find out what module (driver) is required and simply try out that module with: $ modprobe modulename if that works add "modulename" to /etc/modules if not, remove it with: $ modprobe -r modulename and try again. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasse

Re: Debian Installation -- Kernel Link Failure --

2004-07-06 Thread Bijan Soleymani
on of gcc or binutils or whatever recommended in the kernel documentation. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Futile screenshot question

2004-03-03 Thread Bijan Soleymani
geometry settings 2048x1536. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

2004-02-25 Thread Bijan Soleymani
using the front wheel you're sure not to flip over, but you're also getting much less deceleration. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

2004-02-25 Thread Bijan Soleymani
e rear break. I can completely lock my back wheel and my bike will keep going (especially downhill). It's not that the back break is too weak (it's locking the wheel). It's just that there's only so much breaking the back wheel can do. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

2004-02-24 Thread Bijan Soleymani
and I needed to avoid hitting them. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

2004-02-24 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:53:45AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 10:42:44AM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > I believe the proper technique is to brake harder with the front brakes > > and apply enough pressure to the rear brakes so that you can feel whe

Re: jpeg to mpeg or avi

2004-02-24 Thread Bijan Soleymani
eg. Sounds fishy. Well not really. By default mplayer doesn't use mpeg audio, you have to add in the lame library. And it doesn't make plain mpg files. It will pack them into avis. And you have to be careful which codec it used for video as well... Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL

Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

2004-02-24 Thread Bijan Soleymani
ebsite at: http://www.icebike.org Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

2004-02-24 Thread Bijan Soleymani
r wheel is just about to lift off. There is some information along these lines on: http://www.sheldonbrown.org/brakturn.html http://draco.acs.uci.edu/rbfaq/FAQ/9.17.html Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: QuickTime for Linux?

2004-02-23 Thread Bijan Soleymani
r homepage: http://www.mplayerhq.hu Technical/legal/packaging/various other reasons prevent Debian from shipping mplayer, but there are some precompiled debs out there if you don't feel like compiling from source. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signatu

Re: Need a shell or perl script

2004-02-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
> list-of-emails-sorted Now you can get rid of duplicates using uniq: uniq list-of-emails-sorted > list-of-emails-sorted-unique And now you should be on your way to getting what you want. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: DVD copying and CSS

2004-02-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
mile/hour speed limit even though it's much safer. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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