Re: why reliable linux hasn't gained more market share?

2024-07-20 Thread gene heskett
know why my hatred of M$ is very long term and incurable. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the l

Re: why reliable linux hasn't gained more market share?

2024-07-20 Thread gene heskett
slime schools yet, so he can't be blamed for not including MBA's when he wrote that famous phrase. Best regards Hans . Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdersh

Re: why reliable linux hasn't gained more market share?

2024-07-20 Thread gene heskett
there are around 10 linux installs here, half running armbian, they get better uptimes than x86-64's. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect f

Re: why reliable linux hasn't gained more market share?

2024-07-20 Thread gene heskett
ed to play in the rf field. So don't blame the coders, blame the regukatory agencies. Regards, Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire res

Re: Bug Report

2024-07-16 Thread gene heskett
On 7/16/24 02:06, Richard Bostrom wrote: Bug in my opinion. /etc/resolv.conf does not block out pornography That is not its job. Yours sincerely Richardh Bostrom Sent with Proton Mail <https://proton.me/> secure email. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes

Re: General questions

2024-07-08 Thread gene heskett
On 7/8/24 19:02, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Mon, Jul 08, 2024 at 06:08:49PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 7/8/24 17:20, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, On Tue, Jul 09, 2024 at 12:15:00AM +0500, 타토카 wrote: I mean subscriptions like this "debian-user" The only cost associated with this ma

Re: General questions

2024-07-08 Thread gene heskett
n this all volunteer show. I've unfortunately come to the conclusion they are best ignored. Generally, they don't seem to be members of a civil society, or to be able to learn how to treat their fellow man. Your monitoring, and howto corrections are much appreciated, thank you. Thanks, Andy Ch

Re: usb => serial port converter

2024-07-07 Thread gene heskett
if you see a Prolific, its not very good. Thanks, Lee . Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-07-01 Thread gene heskett
of phone numbers it found, not no, but hell no! Ditto for passwords and such. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-23 Thread gene heskett
On 6/23/24 09:23, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 6/23/24 02:30, gene heskett wrote: A attribute the FCC forced on broadcasters as they like to see transmitter logs kept in 24 hour time. I got so used to it that when I retired in 2002, I'd been on 24 hour time for 40 years and didn't convert back

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-23 Thread gene heskett
suggestion about how MUA format the send time when people reply. I'll get back to that later. Cheers, David. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1

Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-17 Thread gene heskett
a millisecond of the atomic clocks in Colorado Springs. It's no big deal. use ntpsec if up 24/7, or chrony if you shut down. ntpsec works if already in time but can't slam to the correct time if not synchronized, chrony can sync after long downtimes. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

2024-06-12 Thread gene heskett
On 6/12/24 10:07, mick.crane wrote: On 2024-05-29 16:08, gene heskett wrote: Except at the service. Properly wired, the neutral and static grounds are bonded ONLY in the service box. I am constantly amazed at the people who call themselves electricians, who think the static ground

Re: about 10th new install of bullseye

2024-06-09 Thread gene heskett
On 6/9/24 08:52, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Jun 09, 2024 at 02:14:14AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: orca is gone, as is gnome. Apt and synaptic refuse to re-install gnome w/o dragging in orca too. Good night, whats left of it, Tom. The "gnome" metapackage depends on "orca&q

weekly crash

2024-06-09 Thread gene heskett
. Running normally for this system after the reboot. Data point? DIIK. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must

Re: about 10th new install of bullseye

2024-06-09 Thread gene heskett
On 6/8/24 19:11, Tom Dial wrote: On 6/7/24 23:41, gene heskett wrote: On 6/7/24 20:38, Tom Dial wrote: On 6/6/24 23:14, gene heskett wrote: On 6/6/24 19:00, Tom Dial wrote: On 6/5/24 19:53, gene heskett wrote: On 6/5/24 17:25, Tom Dial wrote: On 6/5/24 08:58, gene heskett wrote

Re: about 10th new install of bullseye

2024-06-09 Thread gene heskett
On 6/8/24 18:02, David Christensen wrote: On 6/8/24 12:13, gene heskett wrote: On 6/8/24 03:22, David Christensen wrote: If you installed VirtualBox on your Debian primary workstation, you could create one Debian VM for each of your engineering/ manufacturing apps.  This would give each app

Re: about 10th new install of bullseye

2024-06-08 Thread gene heskett
On 6/8/24 03:22, David Christensen wrote: On 6/7/24 22:41, gene heskett wrote: I OTOH, have found AppImages a good way to get uptodate, and keep uptodate, packages like OpenSCAD, FreeCAD and the miriad 3d slicers, most of which do a new AppImage in the first week of the month. So the OpenSCAD

Re: about 10th new install of bullseye

2024-06-07 Thread gene heskett
On 6/7/24 20:38, Tom Dial wrote: On 6/6/24 23:14, gene heskett wrote: On 6/6/24 19:00, Tom Dial wrote: On 6/5/24 19:53, gene heskett wrote: On 6/5/24 17:25, Tom Dial wrote: On 6/5/24 08:58, gene heskett wrote: On 6/5/24 02:05, Tom Dial wrote: On 6/4/24 04:26, gene heskett wrote

Re: about 10th new install of bullseye

2024-06-07 Thread gene heskett
On 6/7/24 18:12, David Christensen wrote: On 6/6/24 22:14, gene heskett wrote: In experimenting I've found a name clash, there are appprently two orca's. one is a speech synth, one is a slicer for 3d printers I don't use. Typing orca in a shell locks the shell wo any output, for several

Re: about 10th new install of bullseye

2024-06-07 Thread gene heskett
On 6/7/24 14:15, mick.crane wrote: On 2024-06-07 12:32, gene heskett wrote: Where did you get that beta trixie installer? bookworm does not allow that removal of orca without also removing gnome. brltty yes, but not orca. I don't think I've got any gnome stuff. here probably. https

Re: about 10th new install of bullseye

2024-06-07 Thread gene heskett
On 6/7/24 07:16, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Jun 07, 2024 at 01:14:16AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: In experimenting I've found a name clash, there are appprently two orca's. one is a speech synth, one is a slicer for 3d printers I don't use. Oh! That sounds super relevant. I forgot

Re: about 10th new install of bullseye

2024-06-07 Thread gene heskett
On 6/7/24 07:16, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Jun 07, 2024 at 01:14:16AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: In experimenting I've found a name clash, there are appprently two orca's. one is a speech synth, one is a slicer for 3d printers I don't use. Oh! That sounds super relevant. If you're

Re: about 10th new install of bullseye

2024-06-07 Thread gene heskett
On 6/7/24 04:33, mick.crane wrote: On 2024-06-07 06:14, gene heskett wrote: So I took orca out, which took gnome out. But now gnomes dependencies will put orca back in. So now I can't run autoremove. So one more time this broken damned bookworm install has bit me in a rear. I delayed logging

Re: about 10th new install of bullseye

2024-06-06 Thread gene heskett
On 6/6/24 19:00, Tom Dial wrote: On 6/5/24 19:53, gene heskett wrote: On 6/5/24 17:25, Tom Dial wrote: On 6/5/24 08:58, gene heskett wrote: On 6/5/24 02:05, Tom Dial wrote: On 6/4/24 04:26, gene heskett wrote: On 2/19/22 06:31, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Hi Gene, If this was someone

Re: about 10th new install of bullseye

2024-06-06 Thread gene heskett
On 6/6/24 17:57, Tom Dial wrote: On 6/5/24 19:53, gene heskett wrote: On 6/5/24 17:25, Tom Dial wrote: On 6/5/24 08:58, gene heskett wrote: On 6/5/24 02:05, Tom Dial wrote: On 6/4/24 04:26, gene heskett wrote: On 2/19/22 06:31, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Hi Gene, If this was someone

Re: about 10th new install of bookworm!

2024-06-05 Thread gene heskett
On 6/5/24 21:05, Felix Miata wrote: gene heskett composed on 2024-06-05 11:21 (UTC-0400): I always get re-install instructions. Frustrating. Should you choose to accept any fresh installation suggestion by doing another, consider removing the sound card from its slot, or disabling

Re: about 10th new install of bullseye

2024-06-05 Thread gene heskett
On 6/5/24 17:25, Tom Dial wrote: On 6/5/24 08:58, gene heskett wrote: On 6/5/24 02:05, Tom Dial wrote: On 6/4/24 04:26, gene heskett wrote: On 2/19/22 06:31, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Hi Gene, If this was someone calling you from a TV station saying they had a TV transmitter

Re: about 10th new install of bullseye

2024-06-05 Thread gene heskett
On 6/5/24 13:12, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Tue, Jun 04, 2024 at 06:26:31AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 2/19/22 06:31, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Hi Gene, You could try apt-get remove (or equivalent) on each of those packages and see if that clears it. I _know_ this is frustrating as all get

Re: about 10th new install of bullseye

2024-06-05 Thread gene heskett
On 6/5/24 11:18, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Jun 05, 2024 at 10:58:22AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: Any attempt to remove cura or brltty, removes gnome leaving me I assume with a text only system by the time gnome takes all its dependency's with it. "assume" This is your fundament

Re: about 10th new install of bullseye BUT its not Bullseye, its bookworm!

2024-06-05 Thread gene heskett
On 6/5/24 02:30, Tom Dial wrote: On 6/4/24 04:26, gene heskett wrote: On 2/19/22 06:31, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Hi Gene, If this was someone calling you from a TV station saying they had a TV transmitter that was varying in power output - you'd have a mental checklist. You'd get down

Re: about 10th new install of bullseye

2024-06-05 Thread gene heskett
On 6/5/24 02:05, Tom Dial wrote: On 6/4/24 04:26, gene heskett wrote: On 2/19/22 06:31, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Hi Gene, If this was someone calling you from a TV station saying they had a TV transmitter that was varying in power output - you'd have a mental checklist. You'd get down

Re: about 10th new install of bullseye

2024-06-04 Thread gene heskett
On 2/19/22 06:31, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Hi Gene, If this was someone calling you from a TV station saying they had a TV transmitter that was varying in power output - you'd have a mental checklist. You'd get down there, perhaps schedule some sort of power down / reduced power operation

Re: Question About Free File Transfering Apps

2024-06-01 Thread gene heskett
or in the middle of taking care of your horizontal homework. Amazons BIG red button has blocked 255 such scammers so far. . Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershe

Re: Question About Free File Transfering Apps

2024-06-01 Thread gene heskett
On 5/31/24 22:37, David Wright wrote: On Fri 31 May 2024 at 17:30:19 (+0100), mick.crane wrote: On 2024-05-31 13:58, gene heskett wrote: On 5/30/24 20:09, mick.crane wrote: On 2024-05-29 15:07, Carter Zhang wrote: Are there any free apps for GNU/Linux and Android to share files over LAN

Re: Question About Free File Transfering Apps

2024-05-31 Thread gene heskett
don't know if sshfs would have issues with more than one connection. mick It does not, I have open sessions to 6 other machines here, possability's of up to 10 if all are turned on. . Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot,

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

2024-05-30 Thread gene heskett
% of the time. The PMDC motor it runs is a 1hp, but I've upped the voltage and currant to about 4 hp over a decade ago. And its still running on the OEM brushes. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that

Re: Question About Free File Transfering Apps

2024-05-29 Thread gene heskett
ple as moving a file. sshfs mounts the target device as if its a storage disk. But since its ssh based, its also encrypted, making it relatively safe from wifi snoopers. rsync operates much the same but uses checksums to verify the copy is verbatum. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

2024-05-28 Thread gene heskett
of anybody that does that. Even those who are into having some nontrivial machinery around seem these days to use a VFD to give them multiple phases at the machine, rather than going through the expense of having it run in from the pole... And here you have it from another CET. Cheers, Gene

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

2024-05-28 Thread gene heskett
flowery terms, at length. I am not an electrician, I'm a CET. A much rarer bird. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must fi

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

2024-05-28 Thread gene heskett
pv4's 254 addreeses to a different address. I have such an 8 port switch in the room with all my 3d printers but I'm not using that feature. It just works like a hub but noticeably faster. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, a

Re: OpenSMTPD can't parse smarthost

2024-05-27 Thread gene heskett
why of the above recommendation. Cheers Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis

Re: OT: Top Posting

2024-05-15 Thread gene heskett
lf's as wrapper. cr's are not valid subs for the lf's.. Regards, Take care & stay well Nicolas. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we

Re: OT: Top Posting

2024-05-15 Thread gene heskett
itten by former outlook developers is the biggest pita to ever hit the net. They break every rfc that can. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If

Re: OT: Top Posting

2024-05-14 Thread gene heskett
o this newsgroup? [snip (51 lines)] Cheers, Loris -- This signature is currently under constuction. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershe

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-17 Thread gene heskett
On 4/17/24 14:52, The Wanderer wrote: On 2024-04-16 at 16:56, gene heskett wrote: On 4/16/24 10:46, The Wanderer wrote: On 2024-04-16 at 10:28, Greg Wooledge wrote: In his original message, he claimed that closing one window makes the other one also close. I asked *how* he was closing

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-16 Thread gene heskett
lace which is instead treated as outside of the window. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-16 Thread gene heskett
On 4/16/24 10:22, Curt wrote: On 2024-04-15, gene heskett wrote: For the last 2 or 3 reboots, when launching t-bird, I get 2 copies of the gui stacked on top of each other. I can move them separately to 2 separate workspaces, and both appear to work for some definition of working, but quitting

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-15 Thread gene heskett
On 4/15/24 15:26, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 03:10:20PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: [...] Try running "thunderbird" from a terminal emulator and see what happens. Stopped it. opened an xfce4 terminal and typed "thunderbird"enter, same old same ol

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-15 Thread gene heskett
On 4/15/24 14:24, David Wright wrote: On Tue 16 Apr 2024 at 01:20:03 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote: On 16/4/24 00:49, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 10:59:25AM -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 4/15/24 10:01, gene heskett wrote: On 4/15/24 09:09, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Apr 15

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-15 Thread gene heskett
On 4/15/24 14:01, Matthew Lemon wrote: aptitude purge '?and(~i ?tag(suite::kde))' I thought it was installed, but apparently is not. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed H

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-15 Thread gene heskett
On 4/15/24 12:49, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 10:59:25AM -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 4/15/24 10:01, gene heskett wrote: On 4/15/24 09:09, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 08:28:24AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: For the last 2 or 3 reboots, when launching t-bird, I

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-15 Thread gene heskett
On 4/15/24 11:00, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 4/15/24 10:01, gene heskett wrote: On 4/15/24 09:09, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 08:28:24AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: For the last 2 or 3 reboots, when launching t-bird, I get 2 copies of the gui stacked on top of each other. I can

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-15 Thread gene heskett
On 4/15/24 10:13, Charles Curley wrote: On Mon, 15 Apr 2024 08:28:24 -0400 gene heskett wrote: I am supposedly running xfc4 as a desktop, but htop says I have a heck of a lot of kde5 running. How do I get rid of the kde stuff? Dependencies seem to be protecting it from being removed. You

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-15 Thread gene heskett
On 4/15/24 09:09, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 08:28:24AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: For the last 2 or 3 reboots, when launching t-bird, I get 2 copies of the gui stacked on top of each other. I can move them separately to 2 separate workspaces, and both appear to work for some

tbird troubles

2024-04-15 Thread gene heskett
running. How do I get rid of the kde stuff? Dependencies seem to be protecting it from being removed. Anybody have a clue whats going on? Thanks for any advice that works. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Pleas

Re: What use can i give to linux?

2024-04-06 Thread gene heskett
off topic Roy, but my now departed music teacher never "got the fever" was not a bit impressed by the district forcing her to use a dos box (2.1 I think), two floppy drives to make out grades and report cards the last 5 years of her 35 year teaching career. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET

Re: What use can i give to linux?

2024-04-06 Thread gene heskett
to be rebooted & stick a postit note on it. And kept a copy in my office to remind me when it was time to go reboot it. . Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Autho

Re: NextGov: Linux XZ Utils Backdoor Was Long Con, Possibly With Support

2024-04-06 Thread gene heskett
eally required a lot of coincidences." gene heskett wrote: In light of that its worth noting that an M$ employee was the first to spot it. Indeed. Thus we should also praise the peace between Microsoft and free software which broke out a few years ago. There remains the question, whom a go

Re: NextGov: Linux XZ Utils Backdoor Was Long Con, Possibly WithSupport

2024-04-05 Thread gene heskett
that an M$ employee was the first to spot it. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law res

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-03-31 Thread gene heskett
On 3/31/24 17:16, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 04:27:52PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 3/31/24 15:26, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2024/msg00058.html Does this mean its now safe to update our bookworm installs? I am

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-03-31 Thread gene heskett
tp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/u/util-linux/util-linux_2.39.3-11_changelog The fix has also been made to stable and oldstable: https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2024/msg00058.html Does this mean its now safe to update our bookworm installs? TY. Regards, -Roberto Cheer

Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-03-30 Thread gene heskett
clone. Possibly fixed by stopping firefox first? Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law r

Re: testing new sdm drive

2024-03-26 Thread gene heskett
On 2/9/24 20:36, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 10.02.2024 03:34, gene heskett wrote: On 2/8/24 07:22, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: This is how I would test it. First create a new GPT partition table and a new 2TB partition: $ sudo gdisk /dev/sdX check /!\  Make double sure you've

Re: OT: End the Phone-Based Childhood Now

2024-03-16 Thread gene heskett
? Or at least make them aware of their rudeness. Thank you. +100. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must

Re: Debugging an USB array issue

2024-03-16 Thread gene heskett
, probable. I have several startech's in service for years. And have NOT had to replace any of them. Ignore that faint knocking on wood sound. :o)> Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that ord

Re: libbusiness-us-usps-webtools-perl and USPS Ground Advantage shipping

2024-03-08 Thread gene heskett
s are slowly going paperless, instead using a recyclable plastic label material, you should probably be asking for something compatible with the plastic paper labels. . Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please

Re: strange time problem with bullseye/buster

2024-03-07 Thread gene heskett
On 3/7/24 21:30, David Wright wrote: On Thu 07 Mar 2024 at 19:17:02 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: On 3/7/24 12:19, David Wright wrote: On Thu 07 Mar 2024 at 11:29:47 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: On 3/7/24 10:59, Greg Wooledge wrote: You should be able to verify that the systemd-timesyncd

Re: strange time problem with bullseye

2024-03-07 Thread gene heskett
o look at that system monitor every once in a while and when things start getting excessive shut firefox down and restart it. Then I don't have the problem... I'm not sure if I have ntp or something else running here. (Looking...) I don't see it in my process list. Cheers, Gene Heskett,

Re: strange time problem with bullseye/buster

2024-03-07 Thread gene heskett
On 3/7/24 12:19, David Wright wrote: On Thu 07 Mar 2024 at 11:29:47 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: On 3/7/24 10:59, Greg Wooledge wrote: You should be able to verify that the systemd-timesyncd package is removed. In some older versions of Debian, systemd-timesyncd was part of the systemd

Re: strange time problem with bullseye

2024-03-07 Thread gene heskett
On 3/7/24 11:18, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 8:44 AM wrote: On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 08:31:16AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: [...] Now, how do I assure timedatectl stays stopped on a reboot? [...] I'll have to leave this to others more fluent in systemd-ish. Mask the systemd

Re: strange time problem with bullseye

2024-03-07 Thread gene heskett
On 3/7/24 10:59, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 08:31:16AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: So I purged ntpsec and re-installed chrony which I had done once before with no luck but this time timedatectl was stopped and it worked! Now, how do I assure timedatectl stays stopped

Re: strange time problem with bullseye

2024-03-07 Thread gene heskett
omas. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis

Re: strange time problem with bullseye

2024-03-06 Thread gene heskett
On 3/6/24 18:02, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 05:56:29PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: On 3/6/24 12:42, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 12:31:46PM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: sudo timedatectl set-ntp true But *don't* do that if you're using some other

Re: strange time problem with bullseye

2024-03-06 Thread gene heskett
the system clock on first access at bootup. That would fix a lot of bogus times reported by fluidd, the printers web based gui front end. Thanks Greg. Take care & stay well. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, a

Re: electrons/the Internet doesn't like question authority niggahs?,oris it that I like to eat raw garlic, ...

2024-03-05 Thread gene heskett
On 3/5/24 00:34, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 07:44:41PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: On 3/4/24 11:42, Albretch Mueller wrote: spend days on end reading, coding and thinking about Math? [...] Your traceroute might be your isp throttling things as traceroute demands an answer

Re: electrons/the Internet doesn't like question authority niggahs?, oris it that I like to eat raw garlic, ...

2024-03-04 Thread gene heskett
less your email agent is truly Jurassic, will protect the link from line wrapping. It can then be wrapped in transit and still work. It has been a std for 2 decades or more. [...] Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and a

Re: How to upgrade the GLIBCXX and GLIBC to the specific version

2024-02-27 Thread gene heskett
in the armbian kitty every month. TANSTAAFL folks. Natures only 100% true law. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the la

Re: medically smart watches

2024-02-26 Thread gene heskett
If someone knows, how to pair these (maybe I have to take notice of some things), I will take a further look. I hope, this helped a little bit more. It does shine a bit of light on some of the problems to be aware of. Thanks Hans. Take care & stay well. Best Hans Cheers, Gen

Re: medically smart watches

2024-02-26 Thread gene heskett
On 2/26/24 06:25, hw wrote: On Sat, 2024-02-24 at 10:03 -0500, gene heskett wrote: [...] bluetooth, and It looks as if I have to buy a BT adaptor, so advise on that front would be most welcome also. [...] If you're locking for a bluetooth USB adapter: I have a 'Bluetooth 5.0' adapter from TP

Re: medically smart watches

2024-02-25 Thread gene heskett
On 2/25/24 14:19, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: On Sunday 25 February 2024 05:16:21 am gene heskett wrote: I have no idea how many EE's there are here in the states, 10,000+ probably. There are only around 130 CET's. More than that. My certificate number is PA-230... Mine is NB-116, so

Re: /etc/apt/sources.list example [WAS Re: medically smart watches]

2024-02-25 Thread gene heskett
Thanks Andy. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis

Re: medically smart watches

2024-02-25 Thread gene heskett
On 2/25/24 03:36, Geert Stappers wrote: On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 02:05:50PM -0500, Lee wrote: On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 12:06 PM gene heskett wrote: On 2/24/24 11:03, Loïc Grenié wrote: On Sat Feb 24th, 2024, at 16:03, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; As most of you know I'm a DM

Re: medically smart watches

2024-02-24 Thread gene heskett
On 2/24/24 12:36, gene heskett wrote: On 2/24/24 12:23, John Hasler wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noninvasive_glucose_monitor The consensus seems to be that hey are not yet ready for daily driver use. But I'm that curios cat. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. So I just installed the only

Re: medically smart watches

2024-02-24 Thread gene heskett
On 2/24/24 12:23, John Hasler wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noninvasive_glucose_monitor The consensus seems to be that hey are not yet ready for daily driver use. But I'm that curios cat. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, b

Re: medically smart watches

2024-02-24 Thread gene heskett
ot;sorry, couldn't resist" . That category seems to fit both of us. ;o)> Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the

Re: medically smart watches

2024-02-24 Thread gene heskett
On 2/24/24 11:03, Loïc Grenié wrote: On Sat Feb 24th, 2024, at 16:03, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; As most of you know I'm a DM-II, but the recent shortage of trulicity, a weekly self administerd shot that helps regulate one's blood guclose levels has got us

medically smart watches

2024-02-24 Thread gene heskett
y, haven't messed with it since. Couldn't move a 3k text file even rz/sz-3.3.6 aka zmodem. Thank you all. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)

Re: Orphaned Inode Problem

2024-02-21 Thread gene heskett
years. So even though the system, with all the trash collected over a decade might amount to 10G's, they have 64G to play with. I must be doing something right. What's your opinion? How much time do you have :) -H Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in de

Re: red SATA cables "notoriously bad"?

2024-02-20 Thread gene heskett
my drives internal, and bought a few SATA III mobile racks for off-site backup drives.  My SATA connection problems are finally resolved. How many more nearly identical story's can be teased out of this group of old hands at this game of making moving electrons do useful things? David . Ch

Re: red SATA cables "notoriously bad"?

2024-02-19 Thread gene heskett
On 2/19/24 22:15, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 10:06:23PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: Andy, look at that CET after my name in the sig, that stands for Certified Electronics Tachnician. There isn't a polite way to say this really but unfortunately I am unable to take you

Re: red SATA cables "notoriously bad"?

2024-02-19 Thread gene heskett
the copper. Have you got a reference so I can learn more? Don't you ever read Gene Heskett posts? Ah I see: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/06/msg00103.html Stefan: Can you point to any evidence? Gene: Just my own life [segue to story from 1970] The usual story

Re: red SATA cables "notoriously bad"? (Was Re: Orphaned Inode Problem)

2024-02-19 Thread gene heskett
sleep better knowing that time bomb has gone out with the trash. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must fir

Re: SMART Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt rising - should I be worried?

2024-02-17 Thread gene heskett
for about a tenner a copy. So a 7 port hub takes up only 1 or the 4 usb3 ports on a bpi-m5, leaving 3 more ports available on the bpi-m5 itself. See at ssh into it from the Main system and run the pi headless. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense o

Re: f3tools vs Silicon Power 4T drive

2024-02-17 Thread gene heskett
On 2/17/24 00:47, gene heskett wrote: On 2/16/24 21:13, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 02:02:59PM -0600, David Wright wrote: On Fri 16 Feb 2024 at 14:48:12 (+), Andy Smith wrote: No, because it's a filesystem label for the ext4 fs created on /dev/sdz1. If sdz1 is turned

Re: f3tools vs Silicon Power 4T drive

2024-02-17 Thread gene heskett
On 2/17/24 00:35, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 12:12:06PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: On 2/15/24 17:44, gene heskett wrote: [...]  Other than that the gui access delay (30+ seconds) problems I have did NOT go away when I moved /home off the raid to another SSD

Re: f3tools vs Silicon Power 4T drive

2024-02-16 Thread gene heskett
that Gene created a filesystem label not a partition name, and Gene doesn't know which he created, so I've gone from guessing partition name to fs label and now back to partition name again. I'm totally willing to believe that you know what you've created there though, so fair enough. You've not yet

Re: f3tools vs Silicon Power 4T drive

2024-02-16 Thread gene heskett
my crystal ball says "30s => software timeout rather than hardware problem" Stefan We are on the same page, but what is causing the timeout? . Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please us

Re: f3tools vs Silicon Power 4T drive

2024-02-16 Thread gene heskett
On 2/16/24 07:46, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: gene heskett wrote: On 2/15/24 15:45, Andy Smith wrote: MD RAID isn't the only way to achieve redundancy. You also haven't explained why you need LVM. Depending on your needs, maybe a filesystem with redundancy and volume management

Re: f3tools vs Silicon Power 4T drive

2024-02-15 Thread gene heskett
On 2/15/24 16:20, David Wright wrote: On Thu 15 Feb 2024 at 20:44:52 (+), Andy Smith wrote: On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 03:19:54PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: On 2/15/24 11:21, Andy Smith wrote: You asked if "labels" would survive their associated partition being put into LVM. I

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