Hello
As the Subject says Any good Debian books highly recommended or Linux for
that matter.
I found one the other day Debian 12, it only had a one star review and the
buyer wishes he could get his money back
*From Eric.*
*Sent from Raspberry Pi 5 *
*Now we have wasted all our money on
everal usefull livesystems (I am
> using XBOOT for this, but it is also working with YUMI or some others.
On Friday, 5 Jan 2024 at 18:36, Hans wrote:
> Am Freitag, 5. Januar 2024, 17:48:39 CET schrieb Eric S Fraga:
> Me again:
>
> Second answer: You can easily install debian 32-bit fr
I have two: a Kinesis Advantage 2 and a Corsair gaming mechanical
keyboard, both USB connected. I use the latter almost exclusively and
love it: the feel of the mechanical keys, the sound of those keys, and
the keyboard lighting. I seldom use the Kinesis: just could not get
used to it.
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ble SD card in the mess that is my office and will try live booting
different versions.
I am not bothered about DE -- simple WM will do. I just want to run
Emacs with org mode as a portable writing and agenda system.
Thanks again,
eric
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s currently
running with a 2.x kernel!
I have found some bits and bobs on the Interweb but I thought I'd ask
here in case somebody in this group/list has direct experience.
Thank you,
eric
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It looks like the package is already at the latest version?
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welding, cutting and assembly based on the assembly of machine
components and the prefabrication of electrical switchboards.
Let me know if you are interested in a short conversation regarding the order.
Best regards
Eric Risch
On Monday, 11 Dec 2023 at 07:32, Pocket wrote:
> No it is microsoft non sense
I'm not an MS fanboi but please stop blaming MS for something they did
not invent!
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TeX list/group?
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Untested but shouldn't the \mho be within braces, {\mho}?
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On Friday, 8 Dec 2023 at 17:06, Pocket wrote:
> In Unix and Linux there isn't a file extension, that is a microsoft
> invention.
Predates MS by years. Systems like RSTS/E on PDP-11s, just to name one.
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I use zathura which is also quite light but I'm not sure if you can
print from it. I tend to print directly using lp although very
infrequently in any case.
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y, is closer to me
than the desktop which is hidden under the back of my desk.
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On Thursday, 9 Nov 2023 at 12:46, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> You may like pass[1]. It's a bash script which uses gpg, so
> it's somewhat familiar to what you've written in a sense.
+1
*and* it has an Emacs interface which is very easy to use.
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available
again?
Thank you,
eric
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quite recent.
Alternatively, you could post on the mobilread.com forum devoted to all
things calibre: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=166
It's a very helpful community, I have found.
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On Sunday, 1 Oct 2023 at 15:25, Joe wrote:
> Calibre converts/creates ebooks and is generally a useful accessory for
> a Kindle or other hardware reader. No, I'm not on commission.
+1 for calibre!
I use it for managing my Kobo devices. Works very well.
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Corporation GP107GL [Quadro
P1000] (rev a1)
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not remember which model, however). xrandr finds all monitors
successfully.
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.cgi?bug=562765
According to that bug report, the problem is on sid. This is not
surprising? If you want stability, stick to stable releases?
cheese works perfectly for me and has done so for a very long time.
I cannot comment on qemu.
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t; so no big database, best perf, easy backup and no mail losses. Gnus use
> standard gpg for encryption. I use swish for indexing and searching mails.
Pretty much the same for me except for notmuch instead of swish for
indexing/searching. Works very well in all respects including gpg.
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It's annoying that it has just the one big partition and I belatedly
realised I should have repartitioned to have a separate root and home
before copying over all of my (home) files. Easily fixed in due course.
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Just in case, what happens if you expand "~" in the path to PROCMAIL?
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emacs?
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Sincerely,
Eric Stone
erictst...@gmail.com
re is another utility?
I prefer ksnip (QT-based) for such things, very good. Have a lot of
options and settings.
https://github.com/ksnip/ksnip
For "moving" screenhots/demos there is also peek which is fairly ok as
well. :)
https://github.com/phw/peek
/eric
hone)... but that's another story.
> Oh, I have no DE, so I mount the cam explicitly. I don't like things
> auto-mounting. But I'm weird :)
I guess I'm weird as well then... ;-)
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ver utility you like. Why is some
> special program needed for this?
Unfortunately because many cameras do not implement USB file store
access, only MTP (media transfer protocol?). If they provide file store
access, life is simple.
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On Friday, 10 Jun 2022 at 06:33, a wrote:
> nm-applet seems to be part of gnome
I guess it does; I never checked as it runs fine with stumpwm but I
probably have gnome dependencies installed. Sorry for the noise.
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suit your needs.
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or apt and have no
problems at all. I've noticed no delay for that server. Just tried
updating right now and the response was immediate.
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On Tuesday, 8 Mar 2022 at 22:47, Richmond wrote:
> Now that I have it working I fear to change it.
And this is exactly my modus operandum. Once I get a system to a stable
productive working state, I leave it alone (except for security issues).
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works very well for me and comes with nextcloud as well which is
useful.
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use gnus in Emacs) and davmail sends on
requests to the actual server. Instructions, at least for Outlook, on
the website. Not sure about gmail, mind you.
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On Friday, 4 Mar 2022 at 05:56, Peter Ehlert wrote:
> xfce: 774 MIB ram used .. 4 GIB / space used
> mate: 719 MIB ram used .. 6 GIB / space used
> mate*: 722 MIB ram used .. 6 GIB / space used
stumpwm: 86 MB, 1.3 GB ;-)
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y nice laptop,
especially the matt screen (which doesn't have touch, a plus in my
mind).
Just my 2¢.
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out the
non-free firmware as it couldn't find the network.
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On Wednesday, 5 Jan 2022 at 11:26, Charles Curley wrote:
> Or, if you want to stick with your investment in Thunderbird, use
> dovecot to set up a local imap server.
dovecot is also quite useful for letting those MUAs that do not support
oauth2 access services which require it.
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this mystery. I remain wondering
why it stopped working last year... but it's good to have some mystery
left. ;-)
eric
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lse/default.pa rather than editing /etc/pulse/default.pa .
Okay, I will give this a try. Thank you. Should I leave the udev
auto-detection in there as well?
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spend some time cleaning these up but none seems relevant to the problem
at first glance. The dpkg audit highlighted nothing and neither did the
firmware diagnostic.
Thanks again,
eric
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upload=true&script=true&cardinfo=
!!##
w months typically) and
so have made a note of this to try then. The link you gave is very
helpful.
Thanks again,
eric
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e rebooting. I did do it this time but just
wondering.
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ulseaudio doc gives
> some hints there:
Thank you for the link. I will read that FAQ in case I can find
something to help. I am not sure combining outputs is what I want but
maybe that's what I need to do. I'll play around.
Thank you,
eric
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ther here or in the configuration tab.
The list of modules itemised via pavucontrol includes alsa so I am not
sure why I cannot see the devices that alsa knows about. It's a mystery
(to me, at least).
thank you,
eric
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DMI 2]
but pulseaudio only shows the HDMI interface.
Any hints on getting pulseaudio to find the Intel device would be
welcome.
Thank you,
eric
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cost could be worth it, of
course, but it's not really. I only posted earlier in the thread as a
data point on what things can slow desktop environments down.
Thank you for your suggestions!
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on this
system are definitely on the slow side. I could upgrade but killing
firefox periodically is an easier (and cheaper 😉) solution for me! 🙂
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Thank you all.
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ual processors for each core.
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use jetaudio (rocketplayer instead) but
I name my playlists with an .m3u extension. Maybe try that?
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web related... ;-)) and then close it immediately. No performance
issues then!
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he GPU driver is helpful as I probably don't have
the optimum graphics card settings (I do very little graphical work:
mostly text in Emacs all day long...). I have an nvidia graphics card
and my experience with nvidia has never been positive, to be fair.
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erwise. Drive and memory all test fine.
Only Firefox causes me problems if I let it run for a long time. My
system is up 24/7.
YMMV, of course, and that's great for you. But don't dismiss other
people's experiences so out of hand please.
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My experience is that Firefox, if you open too many tabs and especially
some of the very javascript heavy ones, gets bogged down quite severely
and requires restarting. It can slow the whole system down in my
experience.
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e wheel and being /too-limiting/, implying that LISP is the only way
to go (and I like LISP).
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a product.
I cannot remember any longer which one supplied this one. Might have
been Tiscali?
And, yes, leaving 99 static addresses free might be a reason.
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On Friday, 22 Oct 2021 at 13:40, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> Typically modems and home routers use the .1 address for themselves.
Interesting. My last 2 routers have had *.254 (!) and *.100 as their
address.
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On Sunday, 10 Oct 2021 at 16:53, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
> I was using online fora on the U of Illinois' Plato system in 1977.
Blast from that past that! I remember playing with the air flight
simulator with people connected across the continent.
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etc.
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On Saturday, 2 Oct 2021 at 15:39, Brian wrote:
> BTW, I do not think gv accepts an output piped to it.
Well, it does on my Debian system. YMMV, of course.
I did try the command before posting. ;-)
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On Saturday, 2 Oct 2021 at 09:03, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> This appears to produce a Postscript stream.
Yes; I was basing my post on the specified need for "dead wood" output.
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the software: I can still generate a PDF of my thesis now
after more than 30 years since I wrote it. Try that in Word... ;-)
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Thank you for posting this. Interesting article.
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ons of firefox (and Thunderbird
as this was my test vehicle) but got there eventually. Now have gnus
reading email via davmail although hanging after downloading the
emails. I've posted on the gnus mailing list about this aspect.
Thanks again,
eric
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On Thursday, 29 Apr 2021 at 21:09, deloptes wrote:
> The admin says "F**k off" :D
Yep, that's pretty much what's happened (so far... I'm pushing).
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Netlify can publish your page from your git-repository and run the build
of the site in their pipeline and finally publish it statically.
There are of course others as netlify, but thats the one i have most
experience with.
Good luck!
Eric
found
that the equivalent TV (same screen/hardware as the monitor but with a
tuner) was half the price. We bought the TV.
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On Thursday, 29 Apr 2021 at 16:43, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> Judging by your mail address, you are in academia. This is doubly sad.
My experience is that academic institutions are no different than any
other organization in these regards. For better or for worse.
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as it seems like it will work. Or I will switch to
davmail. Solutions do seem to exist!
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On Thursday, 29 Apr 2021 at 14:38, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 01:27:07PM +0100, Eric S Fraga wrote:
>> 2. txt message to your phone (so need not be "smart")
>
> You know those can be (and have been) hi-jacked, don't you?
Yeah. :-(
What real
On Thursday, 29 Apr 2021 at 14:03, Darac Marjal wrote:
> Ask your administrator to enable "Per Application Passwords" -
Thank you. I've looked at this and it looks feasible (if they enable
this which is unfortunately not very likely but still worth asking).
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nux
throughout. They've given up but the challenges continue: you must use
Outlook, Word, ... And now we have to use SharePoint and Teams and all
these tools don't even talk to each other properly even though they come
from the same vendor. What a joke.
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ink that email was once a simple yet effective tool. It's been
hijacked.
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Dystopian is right. Our organization, using O365, has moved to
"multi-factor authentication" without consultation and I can no longer
use gnus, for instance. Absolutely horrible.
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seye
> at the moment.
Thank you. Excellent suggestion!
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ing
> "version 78.9" doesn't tell us which version you're running—I see
> a different one in bullseye: 78.9.0esr-1.)
Yes, sorry, I was being lazy. It is indeed 78.9.0esr-1.
Thanks again,
eric
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want to re-install a package for whatever reason, I do 'apt-get
> remove ...' or 'apt-get purge ...'. If I'm suspicious, I
> reboot. Then I do 'apt-get install ...' and reboot.
Yes, I guess I could be extreme and try this if everything else
fails. Thank you.
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nning bullseye/sid (contents of
/etc/debian-version) although I do try to avoid Debian unstable so not
sure where the /sid bit comes from.
cheers,
eric
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ing
is gone before starting it.
thank you,
eric
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s one...).
I don't have time to do much more investigating at the moment but
thought I'd post this just in case anybody else has had the same
behaviour. I'll hopefully investigate more in a few days.
Thank you,
eric
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the
phone).
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On Wednesday, 9 Dec 2020 at 14:10, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> Zoom has the same limitation on Linux but at least zoom allows the
> other participants to zoom (no pun intended) into the view presented
> by the application.
Update: it does seem that zoom allows sharing individual
windows. W
re not as good which, these
days, is rather surprising (to me) as platform independent software
should be much easier to write than it used to be. In the case of
Teams, of course, there is a disincentive for MS to support Linux
properly...
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choice of screens is a
wide 38" or a 27" in portrait mode... Why they cannot support window
sharing is beyond me.
Zoom has the same limitation on Linux but at least zoom allows the other
participants to zoom (no pun intended) into the view presented by the
application.
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.
And don't get me started with the chat feature...
Best is to turn off most notifications. I also did have to turn off gpu
acceleration in teams as it consistently crashed my video but that was
potentially an issue with the nouveau driver.
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to find a positive outcome of social media
(Facebook etc.): I no longer get these emails! :-)
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7;ve never received one with an
embedded form to submit (I wouldn't respond to such in any case).
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ng for.
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On Wednesday, 29 Jul 2020 at 04:40, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
>> You may wish to have a look at recutils:
>
> A database is over-kill for some personal preferences.
>
> I had mentioned spreadsheets in original post as I had visualized
You may wish to have a look at recutils:
https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/
but it may not have some of the functionality you wish (although you
could build on it with shell scripts & awk, say).
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On Thursday, 16 Jul 2020 at 13:30, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Eric S Fraga wrote:
>> echo " 34 + 45 \| abc \| 1 2 3 \| c\|123abc " | sed -e 's/\\|/\n/g'
>
> But how to get the lines into the array ?
See the "\n" (newline) in the replacement pattern?
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echo " 34 + 45 \| abc \| 1 2 3 \| c\|123abc " | sed -e 's/\\|/\n/g'
HTH,
eric
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I brought out their SR-50 calculator and the rest is history...
And then I found HP (HP-25 first followed by a whole sequence until the
HP-41).
Now Emacs Calc.
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rs old and still
working! It's the last calculator I bought.
Thanks again,
eric
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ystems. I use maxima all the time for solving systems of
algebraic equations and for calculus in teaching engineers.
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Emacs Calc if using the computer, HP-48x simulator on my phone
otherwise.
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hours trying to sort
this out, playing with pulseaudio, alsamixer, ... Eventually, I
rebooted with the older kernel (version 5.6.0-1-amd64) which sorted
(some) things out. I have sound again although only through my HDMI
display, not through the headphones, but that's enough for now.
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get
all my cards & monitors recognized:
xrandr --setprovideroutputsource 1 0
(and don't ask me to explain what this means; it's a magical incantation
that just worked for me). I don't know how/where you would this in
gnome, mind you. I don't use desktop environments.
Good day folks,
Can any one assist or direct me with the login details for:
debian-10-genericcloud-amd64-20200511-260.qcow2
I have booted but can't login.
Tried admin, root & Debian with and without password.
Kind regards
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