Re: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-03 Thread Bret Busby
On 4/6/24 04:30, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 6/3/24 15:45, Bret Busby wrote: On 4/6/24 03:25, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 6/3/24 12:10, James H. H. Lampert wrote: (who still hasn't figured out why Ford named a car, and the Air Force named its demonstration team, after that same cheap wine) The USAF

Re: Response to email clients query regarding mbox

2024-06-03 Thread Bret Busby
On 4/6/24 04:34, Chris M wrote: Bret Busby wrote: alpine is available through synaptic, if you want to try it, Hi Bret, So you use POP 3 too huh, if your archive goes back 20 years? I installed ALPINE and couldn't get it to connect to my server. I just kept getting " INVALID PAS

Re: Response to email clients query regarding mbox

2024-06-03 Thread Bret Busby
real word) being spoken, or, written, other it than being the name of an online political web site. Bret Busby Armadale Western Australia (UTC+0800) .

Re: Response to email clients query regarding mbox

2024-06-03 Thread Bret Busby
On 4/6/24 03:26, Chris M wrote: Bret Busby wrote: On 4/6/24 03:08, Chris M wrote: I am needing a "refresher course" on mail clients that use the .mbox format to store emails. It's been years since I've used this kind of mail client. Is there any "dangers" I need to know

Re: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-03 Thread Bret Busby
the real Thunderbirds, with Lady Penelope? Bret Busby Armadale Western Australia (UTC+0800) .

Response to email clients query regarding mbox

2024-06-03 Thread Bret Busby
re), involving some thousands of filter parameter field values. Bret Busby Armadale Western Australia (UTC+0800) .

Re: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-03 Thread Bret Busby
On 4/6/24 00:10, James H. H. Lampert wrote: I will say that one should probably not expect perfection from an email reader that's named after a cheap wine. ? Bret Busby Armadale Western Australia (UTC+0800) .

SeaMonkey et al - was - Re: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-02 Thread Bret Busby
viously known as pine. I use claws mail for one of my email accounts that does not have much throughput. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: [ SOLVED ] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-02 Thread Bret Busby
On 3/6/24 03:56, Chris M wrote: Bret Busby wrote: Whilst, at groups.io, two different Tbird email users lists exist; one for blind people, and, the other, for those of us who still have sufficient sight, and, these messages about Tbird, should, more properly, be directed to the Tbird users

Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-02 Thread Bret Busby
expect, will confound anything that tries to impose characters that are not what I want. Bret Busby Armadale Western Australia (UTC+0800) .

Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-02 Thread Bret Busby
On 3/6/24 02:47, Bret Busby wrote: On 3/6/24 02:31, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 6/2/24 14:03, Chris M wrote: I noticed that in SeaMonkey Mail's latest version 2.53.18.2 that the text is small in SOME emails, and in some emails its fine. And I can't figure out what to change to make the text

Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-02 Thread Bret Busby
ose settings, and find whether that works for you, also. They seem to work for me. Minimum font size: 20 .... Bret Busby Armadale Western Australia (UTC+0800) .

Re: Tbird and square brackets in subject field - was - Re: Parenthesis or square brackets and "was"

2024-06-02 Thread Bret Busby
On 3/6/24 01:16, Bret Busby wrote: On 3/6/24 01:09, Bret Busby wrote: On 3/6/24 01:06, Bret Busby wrote: On 3/6/24 00:52, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 6/1/24 23:02, Max Nikulin wrote: On 02/06/2024 02:59, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: If you change subject or emphasis in mid-thread, please change

Re: Tbird and square brackets in subject field - was - Re: Parenthesis or square brackets and "was"

2024-06-02 Thread Bret Busby
On 3/6/24 01:09, Bret Busby wrote: On 3/6/24 01:06, Bret Busby wrote: On 3/6/24 00:52, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 6/1/24 23:02, Max Nikulin wrote: On 02/06/2024 02:59, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: If you change subject or emphasis in mid-thread, please change the subject line on your email

Tbird and square brackets in subject field - was - Re: Parenthesis or square brackets and "was"

2024-06-02 Thread Bret Busby
On 3/6/24 01:06, Bret Busby wrote: On 3/6/24 00:52, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 6/1/24 23:02, Max Nikulin wrote: On 02/06/2024 02:59, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: If you change subject or emphasis in mid-thread, please change the subject line on your email accordingly so that this can be clearly seen

Re: Parenthesis or square brackets and "was"

2024-06-02 Thread Bret Busby
either affected users' settings, or, desktop environments, or, themes. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Parenthesis or square brackets and "was"

2024-06-01 Thread Bret Busby
t some new abomination that people's mail user agents perform by default. *face palms, shakes head* I simply use single hyphen; for example abomination - was Re: yeti another snowman Bret Busby Armadale Western Australia (UTC+0800) .

Re: Parenthesis or square brackets and "was"

2024-06-01 Thread Bret Busby
On 2/6/24 11:13, Bret Busby wrote: On 2/6/24 11:09, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Jun 02, 2024 at 10:02:58AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: On 02/06/2024 02:59, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: If you change subject or emphasis in mid-thread, please change the subject line on your email accordingly so

Re: Anybody Skype users here?

2024-05-30 Thread Bret Busby
On 31/5/24 08:04, David Wright wrote: On Fri 31 May 2024 at 07:57:22 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote: On 31/5/24 07:49, Keith Bainbridge wrote: wget https://repo.skype.com/latest/skypeforlinux-64.deb Trying to access that URL with SeaMonkey, to view the directory listing (to find version numbers

Re: Anybody Skype users here?

2024-05-30 Thread Bret Busby
provider. A problem is that some people and institutions, are fixed in their ways, and mandate skype or zoom, or some other similarly disreputable software. Bret Busby Armadale Western Australia (UTC+0800) .

Re: Anybody Skype users here?

2024-05-30 Thread Bret Busby
urred while processing your request. Reference #97.6edf56b8.1717113285.e8ac5eb https://errors.edgesuite.net/97.6edf56b8.1717113285.e8ac5eb " -- Bret Busby Armadale Western Australia (UTC+0800) .

Re: Anybody Skype users here?

2024-05-30 Thread Bret Busby
(with its snap cr*p), and, starts doing a system update and reboot; so, if you really want any control that you have over your system, and, confidence in using your system, taken away from you then, infect it with snap. Bret Busby Armadale Western Australia (UTC+0800) .

Re: sudo echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward [was: How to run automatically a script as soon root login]

2024-05-14 Thread Bret Busby
Wasn't sudo echo the name of a pop group? :) Bret Busby Armadale Western Australia (UTC+0800) .

Re: Zoom in the official repo is outdated

2024-04-24 Thread Bret Busby
to be made public, or sold to people that want to cause harm, is not a good idea. jitsi is recognised as being significantly less of a spybot, and so, is recommended for use, by the FSF, I believe, where use of zoom, is strongly discouraged, I believe. Bret Busby Armadale Western Australia (UTC

Re: youtube-dl blocked?

2024-04-24 Thread Bret Busby
I have had enough. And, as the great Forrest Gump said, "And that is all I have to say about that." I am leaving this skit. Bret Busby Armadale Western Australia (UTC+0800) .

Re: youtube-dl blocked?

2024-04-24 Thread Bret Busby
On 24/4/24 22:50, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 10:31:44PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: The latest version of youtube-dl , makes it too old to try to use now; if you can get it working with youtube, good luck to you. An unmaintained package, that is three years since last updated

Re: youtube-dl blocked?

2024-04-24 Thread Bret Busby
working. The latest version of youtube-dl , makes it too old to try to use now; if you can get it working with youtube, good luck to you. An unmaintained package, that is three years since last updated, for accessing web sites on the World Wide Web? H. Bret Busby Armadale Western

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-15 Thread Bret Busby
each time the button is clicked, regardless of how long it's I think that, from memory, a utility for adjusting the mouse click speed, also is available, for adjusting the mouse click speed. Bret Busby Armadale Western Australia (UTC+0800) .

Please terminate this faecal matter - the whole thread appears to be a troll.....Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-03-15 Thread Bret Busby
of Life on Earth. Frontier Science for Public Policy, June 2016. -- Bret Busby Armadale Western Australia (UTC+0800) .

Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim

2024-02-05 Thread Bret Busby
py the text that you want to paste into it? Have you tried the text editor that is the default editor for alpine (previously known as pine) - I think it is either nano or pico? Bret Busby Armadale Western Australia (UTC+0800) .

Re: How to insert symbols into emails (was: Re: Monospace fonts, Re: Changing The PSI Definition)

2024-01-29 Thread Bret Busby
use the point to remove that particular key, as I have found the key to be harmful. .... Bret Busby Armadale Western Australia (UTC+0800) .

Re: I've an editable .pdf form I need to fill out

2024-01-21 Thread Bret Busby
On 22/1/24 03:24, Bret Busby wrote: On 22/1/24 03:07, Bret Busby wrote: On 22/1/24 02:44, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 01:36:27PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: Did you notice, that I was talking about the reduced, crippled OpenSource browser: chromium, which is based

Re: I've an editable .pdf form I need to fill out

2024-01-21 Thread Bret Busby
On 22/1/24 03:07, Bret Busby wrote: On 22/1/24 02:44, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 01:36:27PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: Did you notice, that I was talking about the reduced, crippled OpenSource browser: chromium, which is based on chrome. But I was not talking about

Re: I've an editable .pdf form I need to fill out

2024-01-21 Thread Bret Busby
... :) Bret Busby Armadale Western Australia (UTC+0800) .

Re: I've an editable .pdf form I need to fill out

2024-01-21 Thread Bret Busby
On 22/1/24 02:13, Bret Busby wrote: On 21/1/24 23:12, Klaus Singvogel wrote: Bret Busby wrote: On 21/1/24 18:36, Bret Busby wrote: On 21/1/24 18:16, Klaus Singvogel wrote: If the PDF is editable (has the option to fill out the blanks), I use often chromium. [...] My understanding

Re: I've an editable .pdf form I need to fill out

2024-01-21 Thread Bret Busby
On 21/1/24 23:12, Klaus Singvogel wrote: Bret Busby wrote: On 21/1/24 18:36, Bret Busby wrote: On 21/1/24 18:16, Klaus Singvogel wrote: If the PDF is editable (has the option to fill out the blanks), I use often chromium. [...] My understanding of the nature of chromium

Re: I've an editable .pdf form I need to fill out

2024-01-21 Thread Bret Busby
On 21/1/24 18:39, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 06:36:23PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: [...] My understanding of the nature of chromium, is that it retrieves all the data that is input to chromium, and onsells it. hear, hear. chroming is dangerous. May I steal that phrase

Re: I've an editable .pdf form I need to fill out

2024-01-21 Thread Bret Busby
On 21/1/24 18:36, Bret Busby wrote: On 21/1/24 18:16, Klaus Singvogel wrote: gene heskett wrote: I'm trying to get our states Attorney General to exert some influence over a cell phone bill I don't owe. The AG has sent me a form letter PDF with fill in the blanks for all the info

Re: I've an editable .pdf form I need to fill out

2024-01-21 Thread Bret Busby
nd onsells it. chroming is dangerous. Bret Busby Armadale Western Australia (UTC+0800) .

Re: VAX emulation/simulation (was Re: systemd-timesyncd)

2024-01-09 Thread Bret Busby
ent, and, especially, the teaching of responsible software development, have been abandoned, over the last decades. And, that, in itself, is a good example where reverting to a previous version, would be good. Bret Busby Armadale Western Australia (UTC+0800) .

Re: VAX emulation/simulation (was Re: systemd-timesyncd)

2024-01-08 Thread Bret Busby
ctal programming. It would, I expect6, be done for no other reason, than the sake of doing it. But, all of that, and, the subject and thread of this message thread, are completely off-topic, for a Debian operating system mailing list, I think. Bret Busby Armadale Western Australia (UTC+0800) .

Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist?

2024-01-03 Thread Bret Busby
ion in wireless and wired networks, primarily secured with the WPA/WPA2/WPA3 protocols. " but, as you insist on whining, rather than making an effort, then, you will never be satisfied until you have caused sufficient (for you) gratuitous irritation... Bret Busby Armadale Western Australia (UTC+0800) .

Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist?

2024-01-03 Thread Bret Busby
On 4/1/24 07:11, Stella Ashburne wrote: Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2024 at 6:57 AM From: "Bret Busby" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist? I do not know w

Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist?

2024-01-03 Thread Bret Busby
e WPA/WPA2/WPA3 protocols" If all else fails, read the words in front of you. Bret Busby Armadale Western Australia (UTC+0800) .

Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist?

2024-01-03 Thread Bret Busby
an no doubt be found via https://www.google.com/search?q=debiaqn+package+wpasupplicant=utf-8=utf-8 Bret Busby Armadale Western Australia (UTC+0800) .

Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist?

2024-01-03 Thread Bret Busby
rk (for example, a passphrase, or username and password) and add it to the preference list to enable automatic reconnection in the future." Bret Busby Armadale Western Australia (UTC+0800) .

Re: Zoom on Bookworm?

2023-12-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/12/23 18:28, Bret Busby wrote: On 19/12/23 17:53, John Conover wrote: Does the Zoom client work on Bookworm with pipewire? Thanks, John Are you aware of Zoom using video calls for spying on, and, collecting personal information from, users, causing "The Software Fr

Re: Zoom on Bookworm?

2023-12-19 Thread Bret Busby
quot; ? ... Recommendation had been made, for people to switch to jitsi. Bret Busby Armadale Western Australia (UTC+0800) .

Re: Firefox 115.5.0esr(64-bit) can't show mp4

2023-12-02 Thread Bret Busby
On 2/12/23 17:06, Phil Wyett wrote: On Sat, 2023-12-02 at 00:48 -0800, Van Snyder wrote: On Sat, 2023-12-02 at 07:00 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: On 2/12/23 06:10, Van Snyder wrote: When I try to view a mp4 video in Firefox 115.5.0esr(64-bit) on Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster), it puts up a sad-face

Re: Firefox 115.5.0esr(64-bit) can't show mp4

2023-12-02 Thread Bret Busby
On 2/12/23 16:48, Van Snyder wrote: On Sat, 2023-12-02 at 07:00 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: On 2/12/23 06:10, Van Snyder wrote: When I try to view a mp4 video in Firefox 115.5.0esr(64-bit) on Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster), it puts up a sad-face window saying "No video with supported f

Re: Firefox 115.5.0esr(64-bit) can't show mp4

2023-12-01 Thread Bret Busby
n external application. ffmpeg is installed and up-to-date. Can it be made to work? Perhaps, if you specified the URL of the file, it might be a step on the way t6o describing the problem... Bret Busby Armadale Western Australia (UTC+0800) .

Re: OT: any South Korean users out there?

2023-11-16 Thread Bret Busby
cations, let alone consistent Internet data transmission speeds above 100Bps, is just wishful thinking. australia, in terms of telecommunications capability, is still pretty much at the tin cans connected by fencing wire stage. Bret Busby Armadale Western Australia (UTC+0800) .

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Books

2023-11-12 Thread Bret Busby
On 12/11/23 18:07, Marco Moock wrote: Am 12.11.2023 um 17:56:46 Uhr schrieb Bret Busby: I still have my "Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Bible" and other relevant Linux printed texts. But how relevant is it still? Many things changed and especially for beginners those books are useless tod

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Books

2023-11-12 Thread Bret Busby
ng missing information to a dynamic, collaborative publication, such as a wiki, is better and easier, than print book revisions and subsequent editions. Bret Busby Armadale Western Australia (UTC+0800) .

Re: How can I get verbose shutdown from the GUI (Mate)?

2023-10-03 Thread Bret Busby
ecified, shutdown -h or, (if instead, wanted, for example, after doing a kernel update) shutdown -r ? .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Please verify Gnome and KDE wiki articles for correctness

2023-08-25 Thread Bret Busby
Who does that? You do. That's what a wiki is. :) .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Thunderbird vs Claws Mail

2023-08-19 Thread Bret Busby
nic. I think that is rather a euphemistic way of putting it... :) It is a bit like "What operating system do you use at home?" MS Windows developers: "Linux, of course. Windows? You've got to be joking!" .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Thunderbird vs Claws Mail

2023-08-15 Thread Bret Busby
On 16/8/23 03:48, Russell L. Harris wrote: Consider evolution. I think evolution is one of the gnome applications, where the gnomes shut down all of the users' mailing lists - thence, instability. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Thunderbird vs Claws Mail

2023-08-15 Thread Bret Busby
n, has yet to come to terms with the use of email). Oh, and, alpine has an official mailing list, involving the developer of alpine, who also provides answers to queries (and, considers development suggestions) made on that list. So, the Thunderbird organisation is a bit backward... .. Bret Busb

Re: List administrators - request for intervention - was - Re: Mailing list unsubscription requests and identificatio

2023-08-13 Thread Bret Busby
iling list: %<-- 18159 Thursday glenn green (6K) . UNUBSCRIBE ... ...... ...... [1] 18192 Yesterday fjd (7K) . | \-Alpine was [2] 18193 Yesterday Bret Busby

Sorting messages by threads - was - Re: List administrators - request for intervention

2023-08-12 Thread Bret Busby
On 13/8/23 08:12, davidson wrote: On Sat, 12 Aug 2023 Bret Busby wrote: [snip] Hello. Could the List administrators please shut down both this thread and the "unubscribe" thread? In alpine, I have a filter rule that moves all debian-user messages from my inbox to a dedicated fol

Re: Alpine was: UNUBSCRIBE

2023-08-12 Thread Bret Busby
On 12/8/23 23:06, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Aug 12, 2023 at 10:49:19AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 11:08 PM fjd wrote: On Sat, 12 Aug 2023, Bret Busby wrote: I am an alpine user (and pine before alpine), and I did not know of this functionality. me too; me

Re: UNUBSCRIBE

2023-08-12 Thread Bret Busby
On 12/8/23 16:06, Ottavio Caruso wrote: Am 11/08/2023 um 18:03 schrieb Bret Busby: On 11/8/23 23:46, Ottavio Caruso wrote: Am 11/08/2023 um 14:26 schrieb Greg Wooledge: On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 01:52:53PM +, davidson wrote: I guess this means that any of us could have bounced^[1] the OP's

Re: Alpine was: UNUBSCRIBE

2023-08-12 Thread Bret Busby
On 12/8/23 10:13, fjd wrote: On Sat, 12 Aug 2023, Bret Busby wrote: I am an alpine user (and pine before alpine), and I did not know of this functionality. me too; me neither. Do you or anyone else know of a list or online forum where one can discuss Alpine? Felmon http://mailman12

List administrators - request for intervention - was - Re: Mailing list unsubscription requests and identificatio

2023-08-11 Thread Bret Busby
quot;stuff", that has arisen, like a living, growing, cesspool. Thank you in anticipation .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Mailing list unsubscription requests and identificatio

2023-08-11 Thread Bret Busby
as instructed; " To subscribe to or unsubscribe from a mailing list, please send mail to -requ...@lists.debian.org with the word subscribe or unsubscribe as subject. " I say again - "If all else fails, follow the instructions.". Simple. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: UNUBSCRIBE

2023-08-11 Thread Bret Busby
would not learn how to unsubscribe correctly, and someone would have to keep doing it for them every time this comes up in the future. UNUBSCRIBE Eh wot? Am you wont to unubscribe tu? .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: UNUBSCRIBE

2023-08-11 Thread Bret Busby
On 11/8/23 21:52, davidson wrote: On Fri, 11 Aug 2023 Bret Busby wrote: On 11/8/23 14:49, Luna Jernberg wrote: Or one could unsubscribe using the web interface here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ "If all else fails, follow the instructions" https://www.debian.org/Ma

Re: UNUBSCRIBE

2023-08-11 Thread Bret Busby
heir permission. " .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: chrome web browser worthless

2023-08-01 Thread Bret Busby
On 1/8/23 20:54, gene heskett wrote: On 8/1/23 06:26, Bret Busby wrote: On 1/8/23 17:33, gene heskett wrote: Google seems to have high jacked port 80, I cannot use it as a browser to run klipper as a google search intercepts port 80, so localhost:80 cannot be used for troubleshooting

Re: chrome web browser worthless

2023-08-01 Thread Bret Busby
Pale Moon, although, I think that, with their protections, they are a bit more resource demanding. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Recommendations for a UPS?

2023-07-31 Thread Bret Busby
On 1/8/23 02:53, Bret Busby wrote: On 1/8/23 02:41, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 2:13 PM Tom Browder wrote: I used to use UPS units from APC back when you could replace the battery. I haven't had an UPS (but always on a surge protecter) for awhile, but electricity (now FPL

Re: Recommendations for a UPS?

2023-07-31 Thread Bret Busby
power outages, of several hours long, each, with no loss of electricity supply to the house. The whole of the household, is on the protected circuit (apart from a bore pump, and a solar HWS booster element, which has not been turned on for a few years). .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC

Re: Recommendations for a UPS?

2023-07-31 Thread Bret Busby
influence the solution. " "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by P

Re: Are there Nvidia drivers on Trixie repositories right now ?

2023-07-27 Thread Bret Busby
r not asking the question.". If you did not ask, you would not have learned, and, your having asked, can mean that others can also learn what you have learned, from your having asked the question. People should never have to apologise for asking to learn what they do not know. .. Bret Busb

Re: Lost HDMI monitor connection

2023-07-17 Thread Bret Busby
, gave excellent service. The only diagnostic I have is that, from the failing m/c, the monitor reports that there is no HDMI signal from that computer. Any thoughts will be welcomed. Peter HB What is the hardware involved? What graphics adaptors, what HDMI switch, what monitor? .. Bret Busby

Re: Freezing mouse and other suff

2023-07-09 Thread Bret Busby
On 9/7/23 15:03, Bret Busby wrote: On 9/7/23 12:37, David Christensen wrote: On 7/8/23 20:13, Maureen L Thomas wrote: So I have the latest stable Debian installed on my Lenova all in one computer.  I have an 8gb seagate ATA  harddrive, 8 GB seems small.  Do you mean 8 TB? I am

Re: Freezing mouse and other suff

2023-07-09 Thread Bret Busby
to the amount of the RAM, and the reference to the HDD is the type, without the capacity? .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

2023-07-07 Thread Bret Busby
sor with 8 bit buses. It was a Motorola 68008 CPU, and, I could not understand why a company would produce a 32 bit CPU wit 8 bit buses. The computer was named the Telecom Computerphone, and, it was an oddity in itself. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

2023-07-07 Thread Bret Busby
On 7/7/23 16:51, jeremy ardley wrote: On 7/7/23 16:30, Bret Busby wrote: Microsoft didn't invent anything. I did not post that statement as the original poster of that statement. In responding to messages, please properly quote the message, or excerpt of the message, to which

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

2023-07-07 Thread Bret Busby
of system security, invented by Microsoft... :) .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

2023-07-06 Thread Bret Busby
On 7/7/23 08:31, Bret Busby wrote: On 7/7/23 08:22, hlyg wrote: On 7/7/23 08:14, Bret Busby wrote: You do not include in each of your messages, your name and your location (at least, the country), and that English is not your primary language, and therefore, we have no reason to expect

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

2023-07-06 Thread Bret Busby
On 7/7/23 08:22, hlyg wrote: On 7/7/23 08:14, Bret Busby wrote: You do not include in each of your messages, your name and your location (at least, the country), and that English is not your primary language, and therefore, we have no reason to expect that English is not your primary

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

2023-07-06 Thread Bret Busby
On 7/7/23 07:39, hlyg wrote: On 7/7/23 06:42, Bret Busby wrote: On 7/7/23 04:23, hlyg wrote: it follows Windows naming style: win7, win8 ... Of course,if you want compliance with MS Windows, then, perhaps, Linux, and, especially, Debian, might not be appropriate for you... i have used

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

2023-07-06 Thread Bret Busby
On 7/7/23 06:42, Bret Busby wrote: On 7/7/23 04:23, hlyg wrote: it seems natural to me to use deb12 for debian 12 deb for debian as in file name extension of package I believe that using the abbreviation "deb" as the file name extension for packages, is due to, at the time of th

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

2023-07-06 Thread Bret Busby
On 7/7/23 06:02, Bret Busby wrote: On 7/7/23 05:40, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 07.07.2023 01:23, hlyg wrote: it seems natural to me to use deb12 for debian 12 deb for debian as in file name extension of package it follows Windows naming style: win7, win8 ... but others don't think so

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

2023-07-06 Thread Bret Busby
ly, Debian, might not be appropriate for you... but others don't think so, i google with deb12, few means debian in past 20 years few call it debN (N=1,2,3...) why few are interested in saving 4 characters (ian )? .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

2023-07-06 Thread Bret Busby
On 7/7/23 06:02, Bret Busby wrote: On 7/7/23 05:40, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 07.07.2023 01:23, hlyg wrote: it seems natural to me to use deb12 for debian 12 deb for debian as in file name extension of package it follows Windows naming style: win7, win8 ... but others don't think so

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

2023-07-06 Thread Bret Busby
uld always be mentioned as Debian, and, not Deb. I expect that his ex-wife, Debra, from whose name, is the Deb of Debian, would agree with that. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: digiKam dead, cannot import from camera

2023-06-26 Thread Bret Busby
ily using, since I discovered mate. The only significant problem, is that I have to slightly modify mate, by using a deprecated and difficult to find, theme, of which, I store a copy on my Ventoy drive, so that I can install the theme as needed. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

2023-06-26 Thread Bret Busby
On 10/6/23 00:22, Bret Busby wrote: On 10/6/23 00:05, Bret Busby wrote: On 9/6/23 23:34, Bret Busby wrote: On 9/6/23 18:43, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Rodolfo Medina writes: I want to install Debian on a new machine but don't manage to boot from USB stick.  (I can do so regularly with another

Re: RTL8812au support for wifi adapters

2023-06-13 Thread Bret Busby
ing your desktop environment and your cellphone) has the same functionality, you should be able to install the driver for your wifi adaptor, similarly easily. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: RAM

2023-06-12 Thread Bret Busby
On 13/6/23 04:52, The Wanderer wrote: On 2023-06-12 at 16:45, Bret Busby wrote: On 13/6/23 04:30, The Wanderer wrote: On 2023-06-12 at 16:06, Mick Ab wrote: I wish to obtain information about the RAM installed on my PC using the command line. The information needed is :- Total RAM stored

Re: RAM

2023-06-12 Thread Bret Busby
EVICE_7_TYPE=DDR4 E: MEMORY_DEVICE_7_TYPE_DETAIL=Synchronous E: MEMORY_DEVICE_7_SPEED_MTS=2133 E: MEMORY_DEVICE_7_MANUFACTURER=Samsung E: MEMORY_DEVICE_7_SERIAL_NUMBER=39FDD7C9 E: MEMORY_DEVICE_7_ASSET_TAG=020515B1 E: MEMORY_DEVICE_7_PART_NUMBER=M393A2G40DB0-CPB E: MEMORY_DEVICE_7_RANK=2

Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

2023-06-09 Thread Bret Busby
On 9/6/23 23:34, Bret Busby wrote: On 9/6/23 18:43, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Rodolfo Medina writes: I want to install Debian on a new machine but don't manage to boot from USB stick.  (I can do so regularly with another machine, so the USB stick is ok and so is the Debian netinst I burned onto

Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

2023-06-09 Thread Bret Busby
On 10/6/23 00:05, Bret Busby wrote: On 9/6/23 23:34, Bret Busby wrote: On 9/6/23 18:43, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Rodolfo Medina writes: I want to install Debian on a new machine but don't manage to boot from USB stick.  (I can do so regularly with another machine, so the USB stick is ok

Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

2023-06-09 Thread Bret Busby
I asked before, and have not seen an answer. Have you gone into the UEFI/BIOS, and turned off secure booting? .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

2023-06-08 Thread Bret Busby
On 9/6/23 05:18, Bret Busby wrote: On 9/6/23 05:02, Bret Busby wrote: On 9/6/23 04:52, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Bret Busby writes: My understanding is that Windows 11 computers have malware that is designed to prevent booting into anything other than the malicious Windows 11. A procedure

Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

2023-06-08 Thread Bret Busby
On 9/6/23 05:26, Bret Busby wrote: On 9/6/23 05:18, Bret Busby wrote: On 9/6/23 05:02, Bret Busby wrote: On 9/6/23 04:52, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Bret Busby writes: My understanding is that Windows 11 computers have malware that is designed to prevent booting into anything other than

Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

2023-06-08 Thread Bret Busby
On 9/6/23 05:02, Bret Busby wrote: On 9/6/23 04:52, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Bret Busby writes: My understanding is that Windows 11 computers have malware that is designed to prevent booting into anything other than the malicious Windows 11. A procedure to get around the Windows 11 malware

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