Re: The nightmare of Intel Integrated GPUs under Linux in general and Debian in particular

2020-02-13 Thread Curt
On 2020-02-13, Miguel A. Vallejo wrote: >> >> Have you monitored your CPU temperatures? > > > Yes. Always under 40C... 45C max. > > Temperature is not the problem. Long before the expiration of a nightmarish five-year period, this correspondent would've abandoned INTEL integrated GPUs. My

Re: buster: low audio level

2020-02-13 Thread Curt
On 2020-02-12, D. R. Evans wrote: > > card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC888-VD Analog [ALC888-VD Analog > ] > Subdevices: 0/1 > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > You might try alsamixer -c0 and turn up some of those volumes sliders, if you haven't already, and they're not already maxed

Re: FOSS-compatible smartwatch?

2020-02-12 Thread Curt
On 2020-02-12, der.hans wrote: >> >> Is there such a thing as a Free Software API for smartwatches/personal >> fitness devices? With maybe a FOSS app, and a way to use them with a >> Linux-based PC? >> >> Seems like a pipe dream, but I can hope, right? > > Shouldn't be a pipe dream. > > Have

Re: FOSS-compatible smartwatch?

2020-02-11 Thread Curt
On 2020-02-11, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Some work-in-progress: > https://www.pine64.org/pinetime/ > > Kind regards, > Andrei There's also AsteroidOS (watch not included). https://asteroidos.org/ -- "J'ai pour me guérir du jugement des autres toute la distance qui me sépare de moi." Antonin

Re: libreoffice crash

2020-02-09 Thread Curt
On 2020-02-09, Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson wrote: >> >> Even easier is to, from the command line, start 'soffice --safe-mode' > > Hi, thanks for the suggestions but no luck, still crashes I'm uncertain what version you're using in Buster (packages.debian.org is not responding from here), but another

Re: Anyone with experience scanning with Epson

2020-02-09 Thread Curt
On 2020-02-09, Brian wrote: > > Against doing this is the fact that Epson does not provide a package > for the L220 that employs the epkowa backend. That is because epkowa > is not meant for that device. Maybe the OP has found this out by now. Did you tell the OP that? I missed it. Oh, I see you

Re: libreoffice crash

2020-02-09 Thread Curt
On 2020-02-08, Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson wrote: > Hi, I upgraded my system to Buster finally but after that then > LibreOffice crashes on me. I have tried to uninstall it and reinstall, > no luck there. I tried as a different user, same crash there. > > I am out of ideas. I have pasted an strace -f

Re: how to seamlessly play audio clip

2020-02-08 Thread Curt
On 2020-02-08, Long Wind wrote: > > i've just installed soxit seems i needn't 60-minute file > i prefer predictable sound for sleep purpose > I can't *quite* figure out whether this is a positive or negative review of 'play -n synth whitenoise', but I'm leaning toward the former. Anyway, it

Re: how to seamlessly play audio clip

2020-02-08 Thread Curt
On 2020-02-08, Long Wind wrote: > > which package shall i install? You need the 'sox' package I believe. -- "J'ai pour me guérir du jugement des autres toute la distance qui me sépare de moi." Antonin Artaud

Re: how to seamlessly play audio clip

2020-02-08 Thread Curt
On 2020-02-08, Long Wind wrote: > > Thank Curt! it's audio mp3 file, no videoi've tried your cvlc > example, i notice pause when restart play i'v just downloaded > 60-minute white noiseit's longer than my old 10-minute file,it > should solve my problem, i have sleep problem, e

Re: how to seamlessly play audio clip

2020-02-08 Thread Curt
On 2020-02-07, Long Wind wrote: > > i use mplayer -loop 0 to play white noise(it might help sleep by > masking other noise) but when it reach end and restart to play > againthere's some interval, which isn't desirable any mplayer option > or other player i can use so that it plays seamlessly??

Re: how to seamlessly play audio clip

2020-02-08 Thread Curt
On 2020-02-08, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 07.02.20 23:53, Long Wind wrote: >> i use mplayer -loop 0 to play white noise(it might help sleep by masking >> other noise) >> but when it reach end and restart to play againthere's some interval, which >> isn't desirable >> any mplayer option or

Re: Anyone with experience scanning with Epson

2020-02-08 Thread Curt
On 2020-02-07, kaye n wrote: > > Hello Friends! > > I'm running: > Kernel: 4.19.0-6-amd64 x86_64 > bits: 64 > Desktop: Xfce 4.12.4 > Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) > > My printer is an Epson L220. It's connected to my laptop's USB port. > > The command lsusb shows: > Bus 002 Device 003: ID

Re: how to seamlessly play audio clip

2020-02-08 Thread Curt
On 2020-02-07, Long Wind wrote: > > i use mplayer -loop 0 to play white noise(it might help sleep by > masking other noise) but when it reach end and restart to play > againthere's some interval, which isn't desirable any mplayer option > or other player i can use so that it plays seamlessly?? >

Re: LibreOffice takes about 35 seconds to fully open

2020-02-07 Thread Curt
On 2020-02-07, kaye n wrote: > > I was just wondering if it takes about 35 seconds for your Debian system to > open LibreOffice. Mine does. My Debian is: > Seems excessive. (Here it's molasses too, but "only" 20 seconds.) All I can think of to suggest is to try starting LO from the command

Re: Force device node link creation

2020-02-07 Thread Curt
On 2020-02-07, Christoph Pleger wrote: > > I have already tried udevadm trigger together with udevadm settle, but > it did not help. Though it seemed to be the solution till Debian 9 > inclusively. Have you tried reloading the rules first? udevadm control --reload-rules && udevadm trigger

Re: How to set Gedit left margin to 80 characters

2020-02-05 Thread Curt
On 2020-02-05, Default User wrote: > > Andrei, thank you for the information about "cream". Unfortunately, I just > can not "do" modal editing. It just doesn't work for me. Then keep it turned off. (Cream does not use Vim's modal editing unless turned on from the Preferences menu.)

Re: Why I don't like UUIDs (Re: can't mount sdf1 in stretch, gparted claims its fat32)

2020-02-05 Thread Curt
>>> Me too, so I usually label the permanent stuff at least. UUID's can and >>> will change for no detectable reason. >> For those reading along or finding this in search results: no, filesystem >> UUIDs don't change for no detectable reason. Don't implement anything based >> on this theory. > >

Re: could not resolve deb.debian.org after installing via debian live image

2020-02-03 Thread Curt
On 2020-02-03, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Tamar Nirenberg's apt-get wrote: >> > Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get >> > update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs > > Curt wrote: >> Is that what he did (use apt-cdrom)

Re: could not resolve deb.debian.org after installing via debian live image

2020-02-03 Thread Curt
On 2020-02-03, Brian wrote: > >> Aren't any sources.list experts present who could keep me from guessing >> around ? > > You are doing ok without us so-called experts. > Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs was the

Re: Ethernet trouble

2020-01-29 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-29, ghe wrote: > On 1/29/20 8:04 AM, Curt wrote: > >> 'p' indicates the PCI bus and 's' indicates the slot, was my >> understanding of the naming scheme. > > Yeah. That's what I was told too. > >> Would a BIOS/Firmware upgrade >> modify the P

Re: Ethernet trouble

2020-01-29 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-29, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 03:04:57PM -0000, Curt wrote: >> On 2020-01-29, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> > Did you perform a BIOS/Firmware upgrade on your motherboard? That's >> > one of the things that can cause this. >> &g

Re: Ethernet trouble

2020-01-29 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-28, ghe wrote: > Buster, SuperMicro box > > The labels for my Ethernet ports have changed. You haven't been using a screwdriver lately by any chance? -- "J'ai pour me guérir du jugement des autres toute la distance qui me sépare de moi." Antonin Artaud

Re: Ethernet trouble

2020-01-29 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-29, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 04:34:15PM -0700, ghe wrote: >> Buster, SuperMicro box >> >> The labels for my Ethernet ports have changed. >> >> There are 2 ports on this box. They used to be called enp6s0 and enp7s0. >> Now they're called enp7s0 and enp8s0 (6, 7,

Re: Dell BIOS Changes

2020-01-29 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-29, Curt wrote: > On 2020-01-28, J. D. Leach wrote: >> To Whom it May Concern, >> >> Have a Dell Inspiron 3668 desktop with the latest Dell firmware >> (1.12.2). This update, and numerous of the preceding ones, do not allow >> ANY type of loading of

Re: Dell BIOS Changes

2020-01-29 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-28, J. D. Leach wrote: > To Whom it May Concern, > > Have a Dell Inspiron 3668 desktop with the latest Dell firmware > (1.12.2). This update, and numerous of the preceding ones, do not allow > ANY type of loading of Debian (or any othe Linux flavor) onto the PC. In That's

Re: How to set Gedit left margin to 80 characters

2020-01-28 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-28, Default User wrote: > > Okay, I'm stumped. > > I'm running 64-bit Debian unstable, Cinnamon desktop environment. > > All I want to do is set the Gedit left margin to 80 characters, so that > text hard-wraps (or at least soft-wraps) at that point. Don't you mean "right" instead of

Re: Emacs and loss of highlighting: problem semi-solved (Buster MATE)

2020-01-28 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-28, Tom Browder wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 07:36 Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 04:11:33PM -0600, Tom Browder wrote: >> > when highlighting disappears, run "xrdb /dev/null" and restart emacs >> >> So, wait. You're saying that it *works for a little while*

Re: Emacs and loss of highlighting: problem semi-solved (Buster MATE)

2020-01-28 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-28, Tom Browder wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 03:09 wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 07:57:49PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: >> > Or it may be as easy as going into the Mate Settings Daemon application >> > (if it has a GUI) and disabling the xrdg plugin. > I tried to find

Re: Emacs and loss of highlighting: problem semi-solved (Buster MATE)

2020-01-27 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-27, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 27 Jan 2020 at 14:34:14 (-), Curt wrote: >> On 2020-01-27, Nate Bargmann wrote: >> > >> > At this point, I think you need to find any file on your system that has >> > the Emacs X resources t

Re: Emacs and loss of highlighting: problem semi-solved (Buster MATE)

2020-01-27 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-27, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > At this point, I think you need to find any file on your system that has > the Emacs X resources that xrdb showed and comment them out. > As perhaps an unhelpful and not necessarily related data point, there exists a bug report concerning Xresources and

Re: Emacs and loss of highlighting: problem semi-solved (Buster MATE)

2020-01-25 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-24, Tom Browder wrote: > > I have a new laptop running Buster (with the MATE desktop) and noticed my > Emacs highlighted text was not showing any differently than non-highlighted > text. After some conversation on the #emacs IRC channel, it was suggested I > run this in a terminal

Re: identity confusion

2020-01-25 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-24, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > >> > Gene's headers > > As sent.. User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 > Yeah, I managed to misread that somehow, and instead of a clarification, I might have achieved a mystification. Oops. -- "J'ai pour me guérir du jugement des autres toute la distance qui me

Re: identity confusion

2020-01-24 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-24, Brian wrote: > On Fri 24 Jan 2020 at 20:36:19 +0100, deloptes wrote: > >> Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> > I'll second that, its ugly stuff to try and read as text. In fact I tend >> > to just skip over messages that have no text content. >> >> I was thinking you are using

Re: Something wakes my laptop from suspend to ram and I don't know what it is

2020-01-22 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-22, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > $ uname -a > Linux e130 4.9.0-11-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.189-3+deb9u1 (2019-09-20) > x86_64 GNU/Linux > > Any help will be appreciated. > Related to this? https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2016/06/msg00055.html Maybe not. I don't know, actually;

Re: Print several (small) pages on A4/Letter sheet

2020-01-18 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-18, Brian wrote: > On Sat 18 Jan 2020 at 15:42:08 +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > >> I have a pdf file with a page size of 186x65 mm2. If I print that on A4, I >> get >> printouts which are mainly white, except the 186x65 mm2. >> >> Is there a good way to get it printed in a compact

Re: Print several (small) pages on A4/Letter sheet

2020-01-18 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-18, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Hi, > > I have a pdf file with a page size of 186x65 mm2. If I print that on A4, I > get > printouts which are mainly white, except the 186x65 mm2. > Is there a good way to get it printed in a compact way (e.g. 4 pages on top > of > each other on an A4

Re: Graphical indicators for Caps Lock and similar keys

2020-01-18 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-18, Jape Person wrote: > On 1/17/20 7:27 PM, Tom Browder wrote: >> I have a laptop, running Debian 10 (Buste) with the Mate desktop. >> >> Unfortunately the laptop doesn't have light indicators on the keyboard for >> keys such as: CapLock, NumLock, Insert, etc. >> >> Is there any way

Re: dhclient and ipv6 DNS Servers

2020-01-17 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-16, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 15. Januar 2020, 00:09:16 CET schrieb Pascal Hambourg: >> Le 14/01/2020 à 21:14, Rainer Dorsch a écrit : >> > prepend dhcp6.name-servers 2001:4860:4860::, 2001:4860:4860::8844; >> > >> > avoids the error message, but has no visible effect I

Re: dhclient and ipv6 DNS Servers

2020-01-14 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-14, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 09:37:05AM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: >> I tried to switch to other servers, e.g. Google, but this does not work, >> since >> >> /etc/resolv.conf gets overwritten with a high frequency > > https://wiki.debian.org/resolv.conf

Re: dhclient and ipv6 DNS Servers

2020-01-14 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-14, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using > > and add to /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf > > prepend domain-name-servers 2001:4860:4860::, 2001:4860:4860::8844; > > dhclient becomes unhappy (during an ifup eth0.1) > > /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf

Re: how to disable gdm3 via systemctl?

2020-01-13 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-13, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi folks, > > what is the recommended procedure to disable gmd3 using > systemctl in Buster? https://wiki.debian.org/GDM systemctl set-default multi-user.target (Boots you to the console as a result.) > "systemctl mask gdm" does not work as advertised.

Re: Pluma's syntax highlighting

2020-01-13 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-13, Richard Owlett wrote: > > That is too detailed(ww?). It is similar to "not being able to see > forest for the trees". I'm afraid I took you at your word in light of your long and contentious record of rebuffing responders who don't. But damned if you do and damned if you

Re: Pluma's syntax highlighting

2020-01-12 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-12, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I am NOT interested in adding any new features. > What are the default rules for a file with extension 'sh'? > TIA As pluma is a gedit fork as well as a gtk application I suppose it gets its syntax highlighting rules from here (on Stretch):

Re: couple of questions from a new Debian user

2020-01-12 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-12, kaye n wrote: > > Also, is there a way to change the font color on the panel? For example, > the default "Applicaitons" text on the menu button of the panel. Or the > time text on the right side of the panel. > Thank you > Give a gal a fish and she'll never learn the angling art.

Re: after installing viber, nowhere to be found?

2020-01-11 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-10, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> > kaye@laptop:~$ sudo whereis viber >> > [sudo] password for kaye: >> > viber: >> >> It's not on the machine. That explains q lot. >> >> A new install might be in order. Try aptitude or maybe synaptic -- something >> that talks a little more than

Re: Problem with munin under buster (updated)

2020-01-10 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-10, Pierre Couderc wrote: > I have installed "apt install munin", (which installs munin-node), and I > have no result in  /var/cache/munin/www/ (!) > > This is not the case in stretch, where every 5 minutes data is generated. Maybe this bug report might be of help:

Re: p7zip-full seems to be a built-in app for debian, but cannot be opened?

2020-01-10 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-10, Curt wrote: > On 2020-01-10, wrote: >> >> You can see which files >> were installed by p7zip-full with >> >> dpkg -l p7zip-full >> > > No, you can't, actually, and need an upper-case '-L' flag here (which I > pointed out elsewhe

Re: p7zip-full seems to be a built-in app for debian, but cannot be opened?

2020-01-10 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-10, wrote: > > You can see which files > were installed by p7zip-full with > > dpkg -l p7zip-full > No, you can't, actually, and need an upper-case '-L' flag here (which I pointed out elsewhere, but my posts aren't getting through for some reason). -- "J'ai pour me guérir du

Re: p7zip-full seems to be a built-in app for debian, but cannot be opened?

2020-01-10 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-10, Klaus Singvogel wrote: > kaye n wrote: >> Searching for p7zip-full in synaptic, I can see that it is installed. >> >> However I can't find it anywhere. > > My question is: what's your expectation how you can "find it"? > But I'm afraid *her* question actually is: "Where and what

Re: p7zip-full seems to be a built-in app for debian, but cannot be opened?

2020-01-10 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-10, wrote: > > > p7zip-full is the package's name, which is not always the > name of the binary it installed. You can see which files > were installed by p7zip-full with > > dpkg -l p7zip-full > I think that should rather be dpkg -L p7zip-full Case sensitivity. -- "J'ai

Re: p7zip-full seems to be a built-in app for debian, but cannot be opened?

2020-01-10 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-10, wrote: >> [sudo] password for kaye: >> p7zip: /usr/bin/p7zip /usr/lib/p7zip /usr/share/man/man1/p7zip.1.gz > > I don't think you need 'sudo' for whereis. > The OP's posts don't seem to appear on my ISP's news server for some unfathomable reason, and my main man gmane news server

Re: Any Bluetooth 5 adapter Debian compatible

2020-01-08 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-08, Dan Ritter wrote: >> >> I consider natively to denote a device (in this case) that works without >> the requirement of any software emulation to lead it to believe it is >> functioning on a OS different from the host OS. > > That's a pretty odd interpretation: very few physical

Re: Any Bluetooth 5 adapter Debian compatible

2020-01-08 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-06, Dan Ritter wrote: > > I think of "natively" as meaning "supported in the standard > kernel". Some devices will still require a firmware blob, and > of those, some will require an unfree firmware blob. I consider natively to denote a device (in this case) that works without the

Re: Print Settings issue

2020-01-08 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-07, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> >> Maybe he could create a fake lsb 3.2 package with equivs (I'd tell him >> how, if I only knew how). > > I still think it's the wrong approach, and they should just figure > out how to supply the PPD file directly to CUPS. It's probably even > *easy* to

Re: Print Settings issue

2020-01-07 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-07, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 01:16:02PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> There are any number of reasons >> why that version of lsb is not installable > > "That package hasn't existed since Debian 8" is one. > Maybe he could create a fake lsb 3.2 package with

Re: MUA CLI IMAP and SMTP without ncurses interface

2020-01-07 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-04, john doe wrote: > Hi, > > As far as I can tell, Mutt uses the ncurses interface > > Can I use Mutt without ncurses? > > If no, is my only alternative Sup/Notmuch? Uncertain whether it meets your criteria, but there's a CLI MUA designed to work nicely with notmuch called 'alot'

Re: MUA CLI IMAP and SMTP without ncurses interface

2020-01-07 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-06, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > > nmh does not work well for accessing your mail from multiple, different > client machines. Which is one of the POP protocol deficiencies IMAP was invented to palliate in the first place, I thought, which makes me wonder whether it could be the

Re: No sound with Pulseaudio

2020-01-06 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-06, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Can you have pulseaudio on your system to make desktop environments happy > and disable pulseaudio and run using alsa and jack? I got information > uninstalling pulseaudio is not an option with gnome but disabling > pulseaudio may work. > The wiki claims

Re: No sound with Pulseaudio

2020-01-06 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-06, Curt wrote: > On 2020-01-06, Selim T Erdoğan wrote: >> >> Try "systemctl stop timidity.service" >> >> After upgrading to buster my sound stopped working as usual and then >> based on stuff I read on this list, I tried the above comman

Re: No sound with Pulseaudio

2020-01-06 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-06, Selim T Erdoğan wrote: > > Try "systemctl stop timidity.service" > > After upgrading to buster my sound stopped working as usual and then > based on stuff I read on this list, I tried the above command, which > solves it, until a reboot. (I didn't investigate further.) > I

OT: Apple Flame War Ahead (Was Re: apple mini)

2020-01-06 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-05, mick crane wrote: > yes I know this is Debian user list > yes I know that apple is unix. > I got an apple mini to give to somebody > to clean it up is that > "userdel" > "makeusr" or something like that ? > mick https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208496 Of course, if your

Re: No sound with Pulseaudio

2020-01-05 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-05, Curt wrote: > On 2020-01-05, Yoann LE BARS wrote: >> >> So, I am still at the same point: it seems the system does detect the >> hardware, but it also seems that there is some trouble in Pulseaudio >> configuration and I still do not ha

Re: No sound with Pulseaudio

2020-01-05 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-05, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > As someone else mentioned, possibly some other process is keeping the=20 > audio device busy. 'lsof | grep /dev/snd/' (as root) should help. > fuser -v /dev/snd/* as a normal joe seems to do the trick here too. -- "J'ai pour me guérir du jugement des

Re: No sound with Pulseaudio

2020-01-05 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-05, Yoann LE BARS wrote: > > So, I am still at the same point: it seems the system does detect the > hardware, but it also seems that there is some trouble in Pulseaudio > configuration and I still do not have any clue on how to solve this. You might try rm -r ~/.pulse*;

Re: No sound with Pulseaudio

2020-01-05 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-05, Yoann LE BARS wrote: > > Hello everybody out there! > > On 2020//01/05 5:45 pm, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: >> try this: >> >> - start pavucontrol application >> - select "Configuration" tab and select "Analog Stereo Duplex" under >> "Built-in Audio" device. > > Well,

Re: No sound with Pulseaudio

2020-01-05 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-05, Yoann LE BARS wrote: > > Hello everybody out there! > > On 2020/01/05 at 00:50 pm, Leventewrote: >> There are switches also in alsamixer. Try thoes. > > Well, I have check out: nothing is muted in Alsamixer. For the card in question, of course (HDA whatever--F6). >> Also

Re: Any Bluetooth 5 adapter Debian compatible

2020-01-05 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-05, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Most bluetooth adapters work when adding nonfree blobs to the mix. > Not to belabor a trivial point, but I wondered whether "natively" (about whose definition I didn't really reflect when first reading the OP) is actually synonymous with free as

Re: systemdq [Solved]

2019-12-29 Thread Curt
On 2019-12-29, ghe wrote: > On 12/29/19 7:07 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> The correct solution to your problem would have been: >> >> systemctl enable ssh > > Exactly. > Right. Thanks for clearing that up! -- "J'ai pour me guérir du jugement des autres toute la distance qui me sépare de

Re: INQUIRY

2019-12-29 Thread Curt
On 2019-12-28, wrote: > > Hello Debian , I'm getting error while installing grub in Debian. > The error is "unable install grub in dummy" > My intention is to dual boot debian and windows. No, I believe the error is actually "unable to install grub in dummy." Quotation marks denote a verbatim

Re: systemdq

2019-12-28 Thread Curt
On 2019-12-28, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 28 December 2019 11:08:20 ghe wrote: > >> On 12/27/19 5:02 PM, Nektarios Katakis wrote: >> > Have you tried removing openssh-server package and reinstalling it? >> >> Another hopefully good suggestion. Thanks, and I'll try it. >> >> > If you re

Re: Broken PMTUD / ICMP blackhole?

2019-12-18 Thread Curt
On 2019-12-18, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > > Another option might be to use Network Manager, I think its connections > can set a custom MTU, but I'm not 100% sure as I've never tried it. I've used tethering successfully with Network Manager but never had occasion to alter the mtu settings. Why

Re: Impossible to type "ù"

2019-12-17 Thread Curt
On 2019-12-16, Pétùr wrote: > Hi, > > I cannot type "ù" anymore on Debian Xfce Sid (French keyboard). I got me one of them French keyboards, and ù is the next to the last key on the middle row, below the % sign. Is that the key you're pressing? > All other accented character (éàûè) work but the

Re: apparent change in hostnames on LAN without admin intervention

2019-12-14 Thread Curt
On 2019-12-14, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 13 Dec 2019 at 19:33:51 (-0500), Jape Person wrote: >> Hi folks. Did I miss something? > > Perhaps a couple of references: > https://features.icann.org/addressing-new-gtld-program-applications-corp-home-and-mail > which points out that any of .home,

Re: apparent change in hostnames on LAN without admin intervention

2019-12-14 Thread Curt
On 2019-12-14, Jape Person wrote: > > I could be quite wrong, but I thought that "local" was actually suggested as > a domain name at one > time by the installer. (And I could be remembering a different distro, though > I've been using Debian > for a long time -- at least 10 years, I think.)

Re: Finalizing a Video DVD

2019-12-12 Thread Curt
On 2019-12-12, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Marc Shapiro wrote: >> My question is this:  Is there any software in the repository that can >> finalize these disks so that I can use them other than on the machine that >> created them? > > It is not clear what your recorder means with

Re: [OT] Google security

2019-12-08 Thread Curt
On 2019-12-08, John Hasler wrote: > Curt writes: >> Yet the confirmation bias of certain ideologues will get them to >> believing... > > Confirmation bias of *all* ideologues and ideologies. Including yours. How devastatingly clever. But you inverse the roles. I made no

Re: [OT] Google security (was: dropbox security situation)

2019-12-08 Thread Curt
On 2019-12-08, wrote: > Hi, > > 7 déc. 2019 à 18:06 de jdash...@panix.com: > >> [...] google accounts whether two-step or not are routinely hacked >> > You are probably mixing up different notions here: cracking VS privacy > VS social engineering (phishing). AFAIK, Google account security >

Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-06 Thread Curt
On 2019-12-06, wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2019 at 09:28:58AM -, Curt wrote: > > [...] > >> Unhappily, both you and Joe were so impatient to refute this argument >> that you could not wait for it to be actually presented [...] > > [...] pompous [...]?

Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-06 Thread Curt
On 2019-12-05, Brian wrote: > >> If you have nothing to hide, it most certainly does not mean you have >> nothing to fear. > > I wondered when the "If you have nothing to hide,..." argument would > surface. I have plenty to hide. For example, I would not like it widely > known that I occasionally

Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-05 Thread Curt
On 2019-12-05, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > On 05/12/2019 18:18, Joe wrote: > > I can't take any more of this thread. It's "ADVICE" ! :-) > Well, as Carl Jung once said, giving advice is a safe activity, seeing that hardly anyone ever takes it (thus the psychoanalyst's legendary reserve, I

Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-05 Thread Curt
On 2019-12-05, Joe wrote: > > Because only in the last decade or so has it been possible for a > government or company to read and listen to every single word of > correspondence of every single person in their country, without any > judicial oversight or probable cause. If it had been possible

Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-05 Thread Curt
On 2019-12-05, wrote: >> What the aging hoi polloi might not be able to grasp is why [...] >> [encryption] has now somehow become a crucial need. > > I might qualify as "aging hoi polloi" [...]. I [...] grasp (...) That's wonderful that you're grasping, but I appreciate neither your unreasoned

Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-05 Thread Curt
On 2019-12-05, ghe wrote: > > I found out about it in an article on Internet security/privacy on the > New York Times -- it's safe for mortals. > > OTOH, I haven't been able to get anyone around here to switch from GMail... > What the aging hoi polloi might not be able to grasp is why, after

Re: get an alert when a mail arrives from certain addresses

2019-11-24 Thread Curt
On 2019-11-24, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > >> > Also have a look at mailfilter in lieu of procmail. >> >> Why? They do different things. > > And mailfilter will soon be overwhelmed due to the maximum size of its > reject file. And the OP has zero reason to appeal to an external program, AFAIK, and

Re: minissdpd failure in update

2019-11-21 Thread Curt
On 2019-11-21, isaac wrote: > minissdpd > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > root@Isaac:/home/isaac# > > can you help me why minissdpd is not working. You might try dpkg-reconfigure minissdpd and if that fails, the Reddit fellow below purged the package, reinstalled

Re: getting crystalsvg icon set in response to okular warnings

2019-11-20 Thread Curt
On 2019-11-19, elvis wrote: >> >> So probably at this point i need to use a different pdf reader. > > > Think of all the warnings that come up in the /var/log files, you might > need a whole new operating system! > Don't get him started! Of course, as the USA has become the warning capital of

Re: getting crystalsvg icon set in response to okular warnings

2019-11-19 Thread Curt
On 2019-11-19, Dan Hitt wrote: > > So probably at this point i need to use a different pdf reader. I don't see why, but we've come full circle. Offhand, I can think of mupdf (no printing) and xpdf. > The reason i'm using okular in the first place is that evince also emits > what i think is an

Re: alternatives to gmail?

2019-11-19 Thread Curt
On 2019-11-19, Reco wrote: > > And there's something that escapes me in this thread. If "shell account" > forces OP to use, say, links2 or w3m. Why bother with web-interface to > e-mail at all? e-mail is only good and proper if used from a proper MUA, > be it mutt, pine or gnus. I seem to

Re: getting crystalsvg icon set in response to okular warnings

2019-11-19 Thread Curt
On 2019-11-19, Dan Hitt wrote: > > So i suppose the kde terminal is set up with just the right environment > variables or something. > > Any clues are appreciated!! :) > I am not fastidious enough to be disturbed by a warning that results in no ulterior effect. But I'm not you. Apparently,

Re: imgur vs stretch

2019-11-14 Thread Curt
On 2019-11-13, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > Thanks for the help with cups. > > Now, when someone posts a link to some imgur stuff, I see all the > thumbnails on the right, and if I click on next, theres another flurry > of drive activity but never is the full sized image shown.

Re: Difference between ipp, ipps, http, https CUPS protocols?

2019-11-12 Thread Curt
On 2019-11-12, Klaus Singvogel wrote: > > CreateProfile failed: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:profile ... > already exists Maybe as simple as "Resume Printer" (wouldn't that be wonderful?). > Best regars, > Klaus. -- “The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-12 Thread Curt
On 2019-11-08, Nate Bargmann wrote: > >> I thought everybody just used a mailcap file and was fine. > > I do and have it setup to use w3m to deal with most HTML mail. Some > does look better in a GUI program and that's why I do this. > Well, then text/html; /usr/bin/firefox %s >/dev/null

Re: Semi-OT: IPP doesn't auto-configure CUPS?

2019-11-12 Thread Curt
On 2019-11-11, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> Internet Printing Protocol (http) >> >> Internet Printing Protocol (https) >> >> Internet Printing Protocol (ipp) >> >> Internet Printing Protocol (ipps) >> >> even though "ls -l /usr/lib/cups/backend" all show them to all be or >> symlink to the same

Re: UVC device.

2019-11-10 Thread Curt
On 2019-11-09, deloptes wrote: > > I recall I read back then that this is imposed by Apple What is "this" and what is its relation to the OP's original, erroneous ratiocination (usb = UVC, the latter being a specification to which the device in question most probably does not comply, an

Re: fail2ban for apache2

2019-11-09 Thread Curt
On 2019-11-09, john doe wrote: > > Note that using IPs directly is an red herring; you need to use other > means (UserAgent ...) to identify those bots. Over at semrush they advise the following (with robots.txt in the top directory of the server): To stop SEMrushBot from crawling your site,

Re: Library versions, SONAMEs,and symbol versions

2019-11-08 Thread Curt
On 2019-11-08, Steve Keller wrote: > Could someone please explain how library version numbers, shared object > names (SONAME), and symbol version are used in Debian? > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html -- “The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us

Re: problem with command-not-found in buster

2019-11-08 Thread Curt
On 2019-11-03, Dan Ritter wrote: > Mark Webb wrote: >> I am a novice user, Mark H. Webb. I am programmer and learning C++. >> I was compiling a program from github. The item to compile was cilantro a >> point cloud library in C++. the lib has many dependencies and I thought i >> got them all,

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-07 Thread Curt
On 2019-11-07, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > What I did was set up an account at my domain that I can "bounce" mail > from Neomutt and then fetch it via Evolution that is configured only for > that account. It worked well for those HTML/Javascript only mails I get > on occasion. Since I use Gnome,

Re: Xorg: symbol lookup error: "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so": undefined symbol: "exaGetPixmapDriverPrivate"

2019-11-06 Thread Curt
On 2019-11-06, coolnodje wrote: > > The computer I run it on has a ATI Radeon FireGL V3100 graphic card. > > Launching an X environment invariably produce this error : > > Xorg: symbol lookup error: > "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so": undefined symbol: > "exaGetPixmapDriverPrivate" >

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