de that focused at the
distance of a computer screen (or music stand). Just after I picked
them up, my eyes changed, and the glasses then focused at 8 feet.
Two hundred dollars wasted.
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/~\ Charlie Gibbs | We'll go down in history as
\ /| the first society
ave been running at the time of the
> crashes.
My solution was to stop using nouveau.
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son to not take
too many things for granted, and also to be a bit more adventurous.
(A full Debian re-install really doesn't take that long...)
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | You can't save the earth
\ /| unless you're willing to
X I'm really at ac
-av /mnt/backup/etc .
The second line makes the system fall over and makes logins impossible.
It took a boot from the rescue CD to undo the damage, which fortunately
was easy since the deadly step at least succeeded in backing up /etc.
Next time I'll do it while booted from the old driv
are a few files somewhere else
(/usr?) containing information critical to audio for Steam.
Any ideas?
(Side question: is this an acceptable way to upgrade a hard drive?)
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Life is perverse.
\ /| It can be beautiful -
X I'm really
On Tue, 30 Jan 2024 21:50:01 +0100
Michael =?utf-8?B?S2rDtnJsaW5n?= <2695bd53d...@ewoof.net> wrote:
> On 30 Jan 2024 10:14 -0800, from cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs):
>
>> VirtualBox, which I use heavily, has disappeard, so I'm going to
>> have to re-install
[Sorry about the broken threads; I read this group on Usenet.]
On Tue, 30 Jan 2024 08:50:01 +0100
Michael =?utf-8?B?S2rDtnJsaW5n?= <2695bd53d...@ewoof.net> wrote:
> On 29 Jan 2024 19:54 -0800, from cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs):
>
>> Today I took a thorough backup of my
On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 21:20:01 +0100 Greg Wooledge
wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 11:52:04AM -0800, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
>> I updated my main machine to Bookworm (12.2, kernel 6.1.0.13-amd64)
>> some time ago and it's running well.
>>
>> I read the fuss abo
ssion that this happened in 12.4, but further digging
suggests that the bug was in 12.3, fixed in 12.4. Is this the case,
or should I wait for 12.5 before updating my other machines?
Just looking for re-assurance before I take the plunge.
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | "Some of y
programmed C on a mainframe. It sounds weird.
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | You can't save the earth
\ /| unless you're willing to
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | make other people sacrifice.
/ \ if you read it the right way. |-- Dogbert the green consultant
On 2023-12-25 18:05, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
On Mon, Dec 25, 2023 at 8:43 PM Charlie Gibbs wrote:
On Mon Dec 25 12:01:59 2023 "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote:
Yes - that's the obvious way. I set my machines to /etc/UTC (or
/etc/GMT) and leave them there. No daylight saving time, n
part, Canadian ICAO
codes are the IATA code with a C in front, and American ICAO codes are
the IATA code with a K in front - but there are exceptions. And ICAO
codes cover all registered airports, not just those with scheduled
airline service.
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/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Life is perve
orant to realize that
this is an idle threat - there are plenty of other sources of
news - but they've already meekly accepted the tech corps. as
de facto monopolies.
"You get what you settle for."
-- Thelma and Louise
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Microsoft is a d
ointed out that this is a form of discrimination, and left the bank
muttering things about digital racism. Since the supervisor wasn't
Caucasian, this had a gratifying effect.
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | They offer a huge range of
\ /| world-class vulnerabilities
X I&#x
en
> aware I was doing this :-)
Interesting. I went through something like that when I started cursive
writing. When writing a contraction I'd write the whole word and then
go back and place the apostrophe between the appropriate two letters -
except when writing "o'clock&qu
e reason that IBM put the 8088 (an 8086 with an 8-bit bus)
into their original Personal Computer: to save money by interfacing
with existing 8-bit support chips. In addition, rumour has it that
the 8-bit bus helped cripple the machine enough to not pose a
marketing threat to their other product lines.
oft makes a product that doesn't suck
is the day they make vacuum cleaners." -- unknown
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Microsoft is not
\ /| a necessary evil.
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | Microsoft is not necessary.
/ \ if you read it the right way. |-- Ted Nelson (paraphrased)
On Mon Jun 5 09:58:04 2023 gene heskett wrote:
> I could go on with my war stories, but I'm boring the list
> with off topic rattling. Just suffice to say I've BT & DT many times.
Come on over to alt.folklore.computers. It exists to exchange war stories.
-
UPS
gets confused.
Since you 're using a USB connection, this might not help you - but you
might try removing and re-adding the printer anyway.
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Life is perverse.
\ /| It can be beautiful -
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | but it won't.
/ \ if you read it the right way. |-- Lily Tomlin
?
I don't know about your position, but I find myself repeating
Hanlon's Razor a lot: "Never ascribe to malice that which can
adequately be explained by stupidity." But then, in the back
of my mind, a little voice replies: "But Microsoft isn't stupid!"
--
/~\ Charli
to do any such thing.
>
> It makes me think of that gruesome cartoon where a meat mincer's
> handle is being turned by an arm emerging from the funnel.
Oh yes, the one with the police inspector who dryly observes:
"It's the most determined case of suicide I've ever
"Stereo" "0"
Option "metamodes" "HDMI-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
Option "SLI" "Off"
Option "MultiGPU" "Off"
Option "BaseMosaic" "off"
SubSection
On Wed Apr 12 21:44:23 2023 Charles Curley
wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 10:59:43 -0700
> Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
>> $ cat /etc/debian_version
>> 11.5
>
> Hmm, the current version is 11.6. Maybe there's a fix in the upgrades
> you haven't yet installed???
es this mean that nouveau is still there and possibly causing a
conflict?
Can anyone suggest where to look next? Thanks...
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Life is perverse.
\ /| It can be beautiful -
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | but it won't.
/ \ if you r
ir time. If you get in the way of that, if you
> suggest they should do something else, they will hate you forever.
Stop it. My hands are getting sore.
Let them waste their time. I draw the line when they waste _my_ time.
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | You can't save the
d that poster
> just mentioned the real problem they were trying to solve, the
> solution could have been offered quickly, and on point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem
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/~\ Charlie Gibbs | You can't save the earth
\ /| unless you're willing t
ne the job quickly and let me get on with
my day.
IMHO computer systems should be ugly and boring. Ugly, as in lacking
all the eye candy that gets in the way, and boring as in just doing
what you want without unpleasant surprises.
Short answer: Not over my dead Teletype.
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/~\ Charlie Gibbs
urns, and it's time
to set it aside for another day.
Thanks anyway, though. I've filed these notes for the next
time I have an hour or two to spare.
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | "Some of you may die,
\ /| but it's a sacrifice
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | I'm willing to make."
/ \ if you read it the right way. |-- Lord Farquaad (Shrek)
I've found many references to this topic on the web,
the answers are confusing, conflicting, or oriented toward
PulseAudio rather than ALSA. Can someone help clear the air?
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Life is perverse.
\ /| It can be beautiful -
X I'm re
. I've looked at various Windows
programs, compiled by different compilers, and found one of the
following messages in the first 128 bytes:
This program must be run under Microsoft Windows.
This program must be run under Win32
This program cannot be run in DOS mod
T
Has anybody seen my gal?
She does the cutest tricks with her six
Stereo ears
When she walks by, spacemen cry
'Specially when she shifts her gears
If she's found, run like mad
Put her on a launching pad
Down at Cape Can-av-er-al
And shoot me back my
se xsane for colour and
grayscale scans.
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | "Some of you may die,
\ /| but it's a sacrifice
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | I'm willing to make."
/ \ if you read it the right way. |-- Lord Farquaad (Shrek)
ments? (Colour and grayscale scans
work beautifully, but that's not what I need right now.) If all else
fails, is there another scanning package I could use in the meantime?
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Life is perverse.
\ /| It can be beautiful -
X I'm really
.
Let's hope you're luckier than that.
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Life is perverse.
\ /| It can be beautiful -
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | but it won't.
/ \ if you read it the right way. |-- Lily Tomlin
sor, are refurbished ThinkPads I bought there
for about $300. They run Linux just fine.
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | They don't understand Microsoft
\ /| has stolen their car and parked
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | a taxi in their driveway.
/ \ if you read it the right way. |-- Mayayana
t; troubleshooting tips around the Net.
Those are all good tips. One more thing: are you running xscreensaver?
As wonderful as it is, it is notoriously unforgiving of poorly-written
drivers. I have nVidia graphics cards, and for some time I was getting
all sorts of lockups using the nouveau driver
osoft has its own suite. Apple has at least a client. SMB is
> also known as CIFS (Common Internet File System, I think).
Another alternative is NFS. When my wife wants to get at my music
library, she runs a script I put on her Mac to do an NFS mount on
my Linux box.
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cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
very_ large
grain of salt.
We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the
impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much,
for so long, with so little, we are now qualified
to do anything with nothing.”
-- Konstantin Josef Jireček
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs
in, thanks to everyone.
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Life is perverse.
\ /| It can be beautiful -
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | but it won't.
/ \ if you read it the right way. |-- Lily Tomlin
r up the spool for
> the groups, so you'd need to see if that actually works or not.
Again, my issue is not with the spool, but why slrn seems to
be trying to bypass it and access the server directly. Unless
that "server read failed" message is a red herring...
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cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
d a problem
> with it truncating contents to zero.
I was hoping that there was an slrn guru who could explain all this.
Oh well, I've been meaning to upgrade my laptop to Bullseye -
maybe it's time to nuke slrn and re-install it from scratch.
--
cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
the laptop I read news on had its battery
run down overnight. Normally this isn't a problem; it's always
successfully cleaned up the file systems on re-boot. Searching the web
for "slrn server read failed" draws a blank. Any suggestions where to
look next?
--
/~\ Charl
ements constructured?
>
> Much of it is security theater.
I'll remember that phrase.
> Someone (TM) up the chain can tick the checkbox "password security
> enforced". Then, the Rest of the Web (TM) goes forth and cargo-cults
> that, because that's h
relatives
can share them using whatever Apple mechanism they prefer.
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Life is perverse.
\ /| It can be beautiful -
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | but it won't.
/ \ if you read it the right way. |-- Lily Tomlin
On Fri Mar 4 11:30:12 2022 Christian Britz wrote:
> On 2022-03-04 18:30 UTC+0100, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
> Find another mail host.
>
> And you could find a mail client which correctly replies to messages.
> ;-)
Actually, I'm not reading this list with a mail client at
pdate if
> I have to.
>
> So what suggestions does anyone have for dealing with OAUTH2 access
> to gmail?
Find another mail host.
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | They don't understand Microsoft
\ /| has stolen their car and parked
X I'm really at ac.dekanfru
ill be served via plain HTTP.
>
> If you can't think of one, try http://www.plainwebsite.com
When I try that one, I get re-routed to https://www.buydomains.com.
My go-to in this situation is http://neverssl.com
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/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Life is perverse.
\ /| It can be beautiful -
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | but it won't.
/ \ if you read it the right way. |-- Lily Tomlin
t's worth) when I'm not using it; this reduces
load on the system and might even help security a little bit.
However, if this is a non-negotiable item for you, and the problem is
with Firefox, I suggest you either take the discussion to a Firefox
forum or just learn to live with it.
--
(My favourite riposte from the PC 1.0 era is "s/h/it".)
IMHO "they" is plural. Period. If we want genderless pronouns (and
I agree that we seem to need them) we should create something new,
rather than indulging in a grotesque form of operator overloading.
http
ce name...
If I select 1 (HDA NVidia), all I get are a couple of mute switches
labeled "S/PDIF" and "S/PDIF 1". I've turned them both on.
Any suggestions as to where to go from here?
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Life is perverse.
\ /| It can be beautiful -
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | but it won't.
/ \ if you read it the right way. |-- Lily Tomlin
rea, where Apple systems display
> the Apple logo. I got as far as importing the swirl graphic into a
> OTF format font. I should pick it up!)
Fun.
>> Again, my apologies.
>
> No problem. Thank you,
Glad I could smooth the waters.
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Li
On Tue Nov 30 11:54:48 2021 Jonathan Dowland
wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 11:54:16AM -0800, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
>> Am I the only one who sees the irony in all this? We're living
>> in an era where the so-called "woke" generation is taking offence
>&g
/
Am I the only one who sees the irony in all this? We're living
in an era where the so-called "woke" generation is taking offence
at every perceived slight or sign of racial or sexual discrimination,
however minor. Yet these same people are eagerly leaving behind the
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>--b6123b05ce02888b--
You've just done it. :-)
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | I could
o know what a man
really is, give him power. This is the supreme test.
It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute
power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy.
-- Robert Ingersoll
(The first part is often misattributed to Lincoln.)
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Life is perverse.
\ /| It can be beautiful -
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | but it won't.
/ \ if you read it the right way. |-- Lily Tomlin
er locking up.
Replacing it with nVidia's proprietary driver corrected
that problem, so I've been wary of nouveau ever since.
But if your graphics card overheats, it doesn't matter
which driver you're running. :-)
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Microsoft is a dictat
once a day or so. I've just replaced
nouveau with the nVidia driver (version 390.143). So far,
so good. I'm hoping my machine will become stable once again.
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs |
\ /| "Alexa, define 'bugging'."
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus |
/ \ if you read it the right way. |
ey know they're now in.
These are particularly dedicated individuals who feel that their
message must be heard under any circumstances.
https://xkcd.com/386/
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | "Some of you may die,
\ /| but it's a sacrifice
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | I'm willing to make."
/ \ if you read it the right way. |-- Lord Farquaad (Shrek)
king changes, deleting the original file, and
renaming the work file to the original file's name runs the
risk of failure if the deletion doesn't take effect before
the rename, which will then fail. It doesn't happen often,
but if you have a program that
t;Subway" v. "underground" comes to mind.
>
> Subway (US) vs Underground (UK) v Metro (Canada)
s/Canada/France/
The only Canadian subway referred to as "Metro" is the one in
Montreal. I've never heard a Torontonian refer to their subway
that way. And in Vancouver
On Thu Jul 15 12:42:45 2021 Andrei POPESCU
wrote:
> On Mi, 14 iul 21, 08:02:19, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
>> On Tue Jul 13 16:50:38 2021 Michael Lange
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 21:25:17 +0100
>>> Joe wrote:
>>>
>>> (...)
&
humility to fly safely.
As for me, I'm content to stay with my Cessna 172,
and work to keep my instrument flying skills sharp.
--
cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
the sides of web pages, none of them are aimed at me
>
> The same here. So maybe I have developed some skills obscuring my
> "profile" to "them", or (maybe more likely) I am just too dumb to
> realize that those ads *are* in fact targeted at me :-)
If they&#
everyone's time, and 4) creates a power hungry mob of zealots
> looking to dismantle any word they deem offensive (e.g. paper
> machete).
Paper machete?
> It's amazing how many people have bought into the corporatization
> of the Internet.
I'll leave the growth of the cor
ISP provides for a basic 10 megabaud
> connection.
Our ISP (Telus) recently decided to get out of the e-mail and web
hosting business. All e-mail accounts have been transferred (e-mail
addresses and all) to Google. I believe the appropriate term is
"sold down the river".
I was doing e
of your computer.
Is the connector blue? It's a convention to make USB 3.0 connectors
blue, while USB 2 connectors aren't. My machine has a mix.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_3.0
--
/~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs)
\ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the
On Sat May 29 14:58:54 2021 Dan Ritter wrote:
> Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
>> On Vi, 28 mai 21, 17:00:37, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>
>>> Presumably the Hauppauge card has an audio encoder somewhere;
>>> I just have to find it. "ls -l /dev/ds*&q
On Fri May 28 16:18:42 2021 Dan Ritter wrote:
> Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
>> Note the "Audio: no sound" line. I still have to figure that one out
>> to get beyond silent movies. Any hints?
>
> Yes: composite video doesn't carry audio at all. Your VCR has
&
rite the video to a file. I tried adding the other parameters
you mentioned above, starting with -ovc, but I get the message:
Unable to open '/dev/dsp': No such file or directory.
It's really upset about this; the message appears three times.
And indeed, /dev/
king on a file that
xv likes with the Gimp is one good way to make a file it doesn't
like.)
The latest version I've been able to find is 3.10a. Is there a
newer version out there that can handle all JPEGs?
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cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
possibility - v4l2-ctl identifies the tuner,
composite, and S-Video inputs on my card. So far, though,
mpv just shows noise. I'll continue puttering...
--
cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
information on how to do this?
-- --
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | They don't understand Microsoft
\ /| has stolen their car and parked
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | a taxi in their driveway.
/ \ if you read it the right way. |-- Mayayana
On Sat May 8 12:04:42 2021 Gene Heskett wrote:
> Regretably, that leaves the printer itself, have you tried another?
I happen to have a KX-P1124 gathering dust. If you need another,
it's yours for the price of shipping.
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | They don'
"Endian", not "Indian".
8080 One little,
8085 Two little,
8086 Three little-endians
8088 Four little,
80186Five little,
80286Six little-endians
80386Seven little,
80386SX Eight little,
80486Nine little-endians
Pentium DIVIDE ERROR
--
/~\ Charli
On Sat Apr 3 16:42:15 2021 John Boxall wrote:
> On 2021-04-03 1:00 p.m., Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
>> On 2021-04-02 10:56 a.m., Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>
>> the error message. I forget the exact wording, but it
>> was pretty specific about the USB device being full,
On 2021-04-02 10:56 a.m., Charlie Gibbs wrote:
Emboldened by this, I went into the advanced options
and turned on "Continuous scan", then dropped in the
first part of a 300-page manual. Once the sheets
were scanned, the scanner asked me whether I had
more; I put in the next bundle
out yet. Oh well, worst case I can
scan to a thumb drive. It does that well - and fast.
Apologies for the intrusion.
No worries. Thanks for the note. I'm hoping to find time this
weekend to try out some of the things that have come through on
the list. I'll post a summary of my r
gled machines to work
as a slave, rather than a master, please share your secrets.
aTdHvAaNnKcSe...
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | They don't understand Microsoft
\ /| has stolen their car and parked
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | a taxi in their driveway.
/ \ if you read it the right way. |-- Mayayana
Further to my 20-30 second delay when firing up slrnpull:
Here are some of your responses and my replies:
On Wed Mar 24 13:08:20 2021 wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 10:32:27PM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>> [contents of /etc/resolv.conf -> /run/NetworkManager/resolv.conf]
>&
you gurus suggest what it might be?
--
cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
between USA and USSR was
> that in USSR the population knew that it was propaganda.
Under capitalism, man exploits man.
Under communism, it's just the opposite.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
--
cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
7;t mediated (and monitored)
by multinational corporations. Matrix sounds like it's worth
checking out. To paraphrase Ted Nelson in his 1974 book
_Computer Lib_ (back then he was talking about IBM):
Facebook is not a necessary evil.
Facebook is not necessary.
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Microsoft is a dictatorship.
\ /| Apple is a cult.
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | Linux is anarchy.
/ \ if you read it the right way. | Pick your poison.
[Sorry about the lack of threading - I read this list via its Usenet
group so I can't reply to the list.]
On Sun Feb 14 11:58:31 2021 "Alexander V. Makartsev"
wrote:
> On Sat Feb 13 16:44:34 2021 Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
>> [ 0.012080] WARNING: BIOS bug: C
0-7]: WB WC UC- UC WB WP UC-
WT
[0.012074] e820: update [mem 0xcff0-0x22bff] usable ==> reserved
[0.012080] WARNING: BIOS bug: CPU MTRRs don't cover all of memory,
losing 4800MB of RAM.
Is there some sort of HOWTO that covers this stuff? Where do I go from
her
;> of links to pages.
>
> Google? What /is/ that google thing people keep talking about?
I found out about it at https://www.duckduckgo.com
> ;-P
Back at ya, good buddy.
> Xmas, happy new and all that
And a happy Hanukkwanzaamas to you too.
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs
dn't have
time to make it shorter. And some, I'm sad to say, are a deliberate
effort at obfuscation: an old trick long used by politicians to keep
the electorate blissfully ignorant of their shenanigans, and now
adopted by some equally nefarious system designers.
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs
ance,
when Samba was first developed to allow non-Windows machines to
access Windows file shares, Microsoft changed their software to
deliberately send an invalid command. If the error message returned
wasn't worded exactly the way they expected, they would refuse to
work. Thanks to the open source community, a Samba patch was issued
within a few days so that it would spoof the expected response.
--
cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
My sentiments exactly.
>
> Yahoo mail is broken. I encourage Mr. Wind to get another mail reader.
If someone can't be bothered to take the time to write a readable
message, I can't be bothered to take the time to decipher it.
As for Outlook, I've been told that the correc
come out properly on my machine. I read this list
through the newsgroup linux.debian.user, using slrn - and the "--\n"
from these two people comes through as --=20, hence is not recognized.
This probably has something to do with the fact that their messages
contain a "Conten
me intact. (Needless to say, though, I
back up /home regularly, plus /etc and /usr for good measure.)
BTW please don't top-post. Not all of us are Jeopardy fans.
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Microsoft is a dictatorship.
\ /| Apple is a cult.
X I'm really at ac.de
+ssl +uudeview +iconv
Features: +decoding +emphasized_text +end_of_thread +fake_refs +gen_msgid
-grouplens -msgid_cache +piping +rnlock +spoilers -strict_from
Using 64 bit integers for article numbers.
DEFAULTS:
Default server object: nntp
Default posting mechanism: nntp
--
/~\
ms in society that is really
> not the language.
Agreed. And resist the revisionist lexicographers.
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Microsoft is a dictatorship.
\ /| Apple is a cult.
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | Linux is anarchy.
/ \ if you read it the right way. | Pick your poison.
References:
On 2020-02-17 at 06:00:01, David Wright
wrote:
> On Sun 16 Feb 2020 at 13:03:05 (-0800), Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 21:10:01 +0100
>> Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>>
>>> On Du, 16 feb 20, 09:36:16, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>&g
On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 21:10:01 +0100 Andrei POPESCU
wrote:
> On Du, 16 feb 20, 09:36:16, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 14:20:01 +0100 Andrei POPESCU
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Just use whatever works for you.
>>
>> If you can. I really resen
27;m seeing in modern software. Even in Linux, many window managers'
file requesters don't provide a place where you can type a file
specification, requiring you to point and click your way up and
down directory trees to get to where you want to go.
I am a skilled touch typist, and
programming was often
> seen as a generalization of list processing.]
Complexity is a weapon. The KISS principle is a countermeasure.
Never forget that many people have a vested interest in complexity.
Empire-building politicians (corporate and otherwise) want larger
kingdoms to rule, and monopolistic corporations want nothing more
than to make systems so complicated that users can't use them
without becoming dependent on the latest app.
Simplify, simplify.
-- Thoreau
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rs to
> initialize it for you.
This behaviour goes all the way back to the original
classic Mac in the mid-'80s; back then they would even
eagerly offer to format FAT16 disks created on an MS-DOS box.
Death to impure file systems!
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o 20GB. Problem solved.
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;Sie" or "xie" or similar German-derived words just sound ridiculous
> and made-up, at least to those of us who don't speak German.
>
> Just try to do the best you can. Nobody has any good answers yet.
Back when all this Political Correctness silliness was getting started,
someone suggested "s/h/it".
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le: "dri3"
[28.509] (II) LoadModule: "dri2"
[28.509] (II) LoadModule: "present"
[32.436] (II) LoadModule: "libinput"
$ egrep -i " connected|card detect|primary dev|Setting driver"
/var/log/Xorg.0.log
[28.402] (II) intel(0): Using Kernel Mode Setting driver: i915,
version 1.6.0 20180719
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