Re: OT: Spectacles

2024-09-10 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 9/10/24 7:42 AM, Larry Martell wrote: One would be better to see an ophthalmologist as opposed to an optician. Correct. An optician can only fill a prescription written by an ophthalmologist or an optometrist. And depending on where you go for eye care, and your own particular needs, you m

Re: CD/DVD is obsolete or deprecate at 2025?

2024-06-18 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 6/18/24 10:01 AM, John Hasler wrote: JHHL writes: Some of us still prefer physical media Do you mean read-only media? All media are physical. No, I mean physical media as opposed to downloads. Application software, I've resigned myself to downloads, although as I said, I am not happy w

Re: CD/DVD is obsolete or deprecate at 2025?

2024-06-18 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 6/17/24 7:44 PM, Thomas Dineen wrote: No! Some of us want to keep using DVD and not be pushed away What he said. Might I humbly suggest that this whole thread title is provocative, alarming, and maybe even a little inflamatory? Some of us still prefer physical media, whether in the form

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

2024-06-03 Thread James H. H. Lampert
I will say that one should probably not expect perfection from an email reader that's named after a cheap wine. In my experience, T-Bird is the worst email reader I've ever used . . . except for *every other* email reader (without a single exception) I've tried. I'm particularly irritated with

Re: OT: Top Posting

2024-05-15 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 5/15/24 6:46 AM, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: . . . No its not, its your refusal to use the down arrow in your reply editor to put your reply after the question. It really is that simple. If your choice of email agents cannot do that, its time to switch to an agent that can. There are dozens of the

Re: OT: Top Posting

2024-05-14 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 5/14/24 10:41 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: We have a clash of two cultures here. More than just *nix vs. M$. In business communications by email, the norm is to quote the *entire* thread, every time, without paring anything down, purely for the sake of CYA. As such, top-posting is the only re

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

2024-04-05 Thread James H. H. Lampert
I will note that open source software has, by definition, a lot more eyes looking at the source. Which is probably why (as Tomas said) "proprietary software tends to fare significantly worse." -- JHHL

Re: What use can i give to linux?

2024-04-05 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 4/5/24 12:12 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: . . . Most of the time the platform is dictated by the application(s) a user wants to run. . . . Indeed. Which is why I still have DOS boxes (running IBM PC-DOS 2000, with DOSShell, and no WinDoze whatsoever: Xerox Ventura Publisher (DOS/GEM Edition)

Re: What use can i give to linux?

2024-04-05 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 4/5/24 11:35 AM, John Hasler wrote: Desktop Linux is widely used in physics and mathematics. NASA uses Linux extensively, including on Mars and on the ISS. SpaceX uses Linux on their rockets and spacecraft. Over 90% of the top 1 million Web servers run Linux, including Yahoo, X, and Ebay.

Re: what keyboard do you use?

2024-02-05 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 2/4/24 9:56 AM, Michael Kjörling wrote: If you contact them and ask, they can probably tell you whether the key caps . . . can be flipped physically. Unicomp can and will make custom keycaps. -- JHHL

Re: what keyboard do you use?

2024-02-05 Thread James H. H. Lampert
I also wouldn't mind one bit if somebody came up with a computer keyboard that exactly duplicates the key arrangement and feel of a Linotype keyboard. Not for practical daily use, mind you (I'll stick with my Unicomps); rather, as a practice instrument for those who occasionally run Linotype

Re: what keyboard do you use?

2024-02-05 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 2/2/24 5:25 PM, Lee wrote: I figure there's a high percentage of keyboard jockeys here so .. which keyboard do you like and why? Unicomp. They acquired the rights and the tooling for the IBM buckling spring technology. If only they also offered mice that were as rugged as their keyboards.

Re: Home UPS recommendations

2024-01-26 Thread James H. H. Lampert
I, too, have always used APC. I've heard people swear by APC, and I've heard people swear *at* APC. I've had reason to do both, myself (and I won't elaborate on either). -- James H. H. Lampert

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-20 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 12/20/23 1:06 PM, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: I finally switched tactics last year and tried gaming mice. I thought about the way they're used. It's comparable to how much I click for emails and research related to ongoing Life.. shtuff. The main reason why I avoid gaming mice is because they te

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-20 Thread James H. H. Lampert
is not terribly difficult. But I can definitely confirm that Logitech is NOT making mice like they used to. If only Unicomp made a mouse as good as their keyboards . . . . -- James H. H. Lampert

Re: dedicated IP

2023-11-27 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 11/27/23 1:59 PM, Maureen L Thomas wrote: I would like some advice.  I have been offered a dedicated IP through NORD.  Is it worth it or is it not needed?  Pros and cons would be very helpful.  Thank you. Assuming you mean a static IP address: Useful if you need to self-host something (ass

Re: Acer Monitors

2023-10-18 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 10/18/23 5:09 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: . . . I'd be interested in hearing any comments from users of Acer products. I have a pair of their VL270U monitors hooked up to my work Mac Mini. The biggest challenge I had was building a "portrait mode" stand for one of them. They've been worki

Re: REeLooking for a good "default" font (small 'L' vs. capital 'i' problem)

2023-08-20 Thread James H. H. Lampert
Hmm. IBM Plex. Not bad-looking, and it does solve the stated problem. I will note that like Bistream Swiss Monospaced, it's only *nominally* sans-serif, in that it has slab-serifs (Stymie-style, rather than Clarendon-style) on the capital I, and one small slab-serif on the lowercase l. -- JH

Re: Looking for a good "default" font (small 'L' vs. capital 'i' problem)

2023-08-20 Thread James H. H. Lampert
are readily distinguishable are about as scarce as the proverbial hen's teeth, whether you're talking digital, photo, hot metal, foundry, or wood. -- James H. H. Lampert (And for the record, my "go-to fonts" are all versions of Garamond.)

Re: [OT] connect to Amazon AWS service

2023-07-28 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 7/28/23 8:46 AM, Haines Brown wrote: I've used an on line validation servce to which I submit code. It terminated with the note that it has now become a web service on the Amazon EC2 Web Service. I registered for this cloud sercice, but have no idea how to access an instance created by someone

Re: Convert PostScript .pfa to .pfb?

2023-07-13 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 7/13/23 2:28 PM, Tom Browder wrote: I know the binary version of the PS fonts can be converted to TrueType by FontForge. However, is there a way to convert from the PS ASCII version .pfa file to the binary .pfb file? I have a very old font editor, that I used briefly (on a neighbor's WinDo

Re: Cable colors and urban legends (was: Error Messages)

2023-06-02 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 6/2/23 11:33 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: This is very hard to believe. I'm willing to believe that there have been insulation dyes that have proved problematic, but if you've encountered those problems in the 70s I find it *really* odd that it would still affect cables from this century (e.g.

A case for supporting antiquated hardware, was Re: A hypervisor for a headless server?

2023-06-02 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 6/2/23 8:34 AM, Mario Marietto wrote: You may argue that developing for a small number of old computers isn't worth trying. But,first of all,I think that there are a LOT of old PCs in the world,since poor people aren't only a niche. Nor are they the only ones using antiquated hardware, or ex

Re: OT: Charities (a rant)

2023-01-31 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 1/31/23 11:38 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: . . . Because SPI is a US registered charity, it is covered by charitynavigator.org: . . . And its numbers are impressive. Although it appears to have been rather lavishly overfunded in 2018. -- JHHL

Re: running outdated software

2022-10-13 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 10/13/22 11:05 AM, DdB wrote: But i am very used to running outdated software, as i am living the old recipe to "never change a working system". I've got you beat: I still have a DOS box. And I'm in the process of configuring and loading a replacement for a worn-out DOSbook. And I still run

Re: Color of the active window title bar in ubuntu-mate?

2022-08-22 Thread James H. H. Lampert
ith ResEdit on a Mac Plus, more than half a lifetime ago). Do I shove this down anybody else's throat? No. But neither do I care to have somebody else's look-and-feel elements shoved down my throat. -- James H. H. Lampert (I also like a garbage can icon to look like a garbage can. With a WinDoze logo on it.)

Re: OT, Recommendation for low cost laptop

2022-07-18 Thread James H. H. Lampert
Another place to look is your local laptop store. My current laptop, as well as its predecessor, are refurbished ThinkPads I bought there for about $300. They run Linux just fine. "Local laptop store?" Not quite sure I've heard of such a thing, at least not recently. My Chromebook came from

Re: [SOLVED] Re: One-user system.

2022-05-06 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 5/6/22 1:11 PM, Charles Curley wrote: Maybe, maybe not. I got started with a KIM-I: 6502 running at 1 MHz, just over 1 kilobyte of RAM. Six seven segment displays and a hex keyboard for data entry. I still have one. I remember *reading about* the KIM-I (and the Altair, and a few others) in

Re: system76

2022-01-16 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 1/15/22 7:38 PM, Yamadaえりな wrote: hello list I have thought about buying a laptop from system76 with linux pre-installed. What do you think of this manufacturer? Glad to hear from you. I've had a Meerkat for several months, and except for an occasional OS crash within 2 minutes of power-up

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com

2022-01-04 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 1/4/22 11:33 AM, David Wright wrote: In fact, I was quite shocked when I just tried DNS over HTTPS for a couple of minutes. The 10-day weather profile that I screenshoot every day was plastered in popups. Anyone know how to combine DoH with resolving 14,000 addresses to 127.0.0.1? Also, does

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com

2022-01-04 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 1/4/22 10:19 AM, Michael Stone wrote: And this is why putting stuff into /etc/hosts is basically never the right answer. :) Au contraire! Among other things, the host table is the best possible place to block access to certain unwanted domains. For example, if you add these entries: > 0.

Re: Don't try this at home kids

2021-11-29 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 11/29/21 2:41 PM, Jeremy Ardley wrote: P.S. I am totally unconvinced about the arguments for using sudo rather than running as root. You can do exactly the same damage with sudo as being root user. P.P.S The conventional instruction is to use visudo to do the edits. Which means using Vi, whi

Re: Leibniz' "best of all possible worlds" ...

2021-10-25 Thread James H. H. Lampert
>>> I also wonder how Leibniz is relevant to this scenario ... When I think of Leibniz, I think of calculus (and rejoice in the fact that the only calculus I still have to deal with is what the dentist has to jackhammer off my teeth [before it turns into partial differential equations]). Wh

Re: Write *once* storage (was Re: write only storage)

2021-09-21 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 9/21/21 10:21 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: . . . WORM is Write *Once* , not Write *Only* "Write only" storage is easy and fast - just throw things at /dev/null and they can never be altered (or read back). Quite. Or to paraphrase something I said, that actually got published in some magaz

Re: Your Thoughts on Printer Replacement

2021-09-18 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 9/18/21 2:19 AM, Jeremy Ardley wrote: My experience is that toner does degrade over a period of years. To get full life you need to use your advertised pages within a year or so. Agreed. I've seen toner cartridges go bad. Of course, they had been sitting on a shelf for *many* years. -- JH

Re: Your Thoughts on Printer Replacement

2021-09-18 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 9/18/21 2:00 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: The direction of travel for printing is entirely driverless, so this is less important than it used to be. Really? If true, that is exceptionally good news. The last time I looked at new printers, the "direction of travel" was entirely driver-depend

Re: Your Thoughts on Printer Replacement

2021-09-17 Thread James H. H. Lampert
PostScript data stream, fed through a Centronics port, is a non-negotiable requirement for me: it's either that, or I have to dump the data stream to a file, distill it into a PDF, and print that. -- James H. H. Lampert Professional Dilettante

Re: Hardware life expectancy

2021-07-26 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 7/25/21 6:38 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: . . . Nowadays, I'm still planning to use that same Thinkpad X30 to display PDFs in the classroom (when I get to meet students physically again), and more than half of my machine are older than 10 years old. Better yet, they don't seem significantly slowe

Re: MDs & Dentists

2021-07-21 Thread James H. H. Lampert
it ran on the Amiga. Aggressively multitasking within itself, on a platform where there was no memory protection, and nothing but "good intentions" to keep one task from stomping all over another task's memory. It nearly killed me. -- James H. H. Lampert

Re: Offensive variable names [was: Cool down ...]

2021-07-12 Thread James H. H. Lampert
I know people who associate the time-honored metasyntactic "foobar" with the military slang acronym FUBAR. -- JHHL

Re: Hi there, test only, please ignore

2021-06-17 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 6/17/21 1:25 AM, Grzesiek wrote: test I got your test message. As it happens, we just went live with DMARC, and have reason to do some testing ourselves. -- JHHL

Slightly off-topic: anybody know of a way to keep one's Debian User List posts from failing DMARC?

2021-06-09 Thread James H. H. Lampert
anything else to handle DMARC-enabled senders. -- James H. H. Lampert Touchtone Corporation

Re: 🔥 Sponsored post on https://debian.org

2021-05-26 Thread James H. H. Lampert
The price is our souls, and we all agree that's too high. Hmm. Isn't that also the price of anything sold at Wal-Mart? * * * At least the OP was polite enough to *ask* about posting ads, rather than just *doing* it. -- JHHL

Re: How to capture composite video

2021-05-17 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 5/17/21 9:39 AM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: I have a number of VHS tapes which I'd like to digitize, and I'm trying to figure out where to start, hardware- and software-wise. Do you have a DVD-R video recorder? Simplest way I know is to dub the VHS to DVD, at which point accessing the video from

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-18 Thread James H. H. Lampert
Suffice it to say that the only Social Media outfit I trust less than I trust Facebook or Twitter (neither of which I trust any further than I can throw the U.S.S. Hornet) is LinkedIn. Which I have loathed since *before* they became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Microsloth. -- JHHL (I'd use a s

Re: Social-media antipathy

2021-03-14 Thread James H. H. Lampert
ng and checking my email. And I like it that way. But I tried DDG last week, and it appeared incapable of helping Boy Scout find a candy store. -- James H. H. Lampert Professional Dilettante

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-12 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 3/12/21 8:09 AM, Larry Martell wrote: I did the same thing - I resisted being on FB for a very long time, but eventually I had to get on because it was how my family was communicating and I was being left out of the loop. I joined as my dog only my family knew how to find me. Even to this day

Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian systems and install programs to the secondary disk

2021-02-23 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 2/23/21 8:13 AM, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: You can always add more filesystem space later. It's easier if you're using LVM but that isn't required. You just build another filesystem on the new drive after it's installed and mount it into your filesystems, at the appropriate mount point. Indee

Re: Serifed, variable-pitch font.

2021-02-18 Thread James H. H. Lampert
FWIW, "proportional" or "typographic" would be more conventional terms than "variable pitch." -- JHHL (Feel free to visit me some Saturday at the International Printing Museum. After COVID-19 is no longer an existential threat, but merely a minor nuisance.)

Re: SanDisk USB stick problem

2020-12-08 Thread James H. H. Lampert
Hmm. When I put a new flash device into service, at the very least, I wipe all bundled content from it, and may completely reformat it, depending on my needs, just as a matter of course. -- JHHL (I vaguely recall that at one time, if you bought a new wallet, the card-and-picture section would

Re: Very old hardware...

2020-07-05 Thread James H. H. Lampert
David Wright wrote: Why do I keep mine? 1) Sentimentality, as it was the one on my work desk when I retired. 2) Being a tower, it has room for up to 4 PATA drives. The loaned Optiplex only holds one—after that, I'm down to an old PATA caddy. 3) There's no WEEE here, so I'm not sure exactly how on

Re: Very old hardware...

2020-07-05 Thread James H. H. Lampert
hard drive exhibit. -- James H. H. Lampert

Re: new camera

2020-06-26 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 6/26/20 1:20 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: But this stretch machine can't find it amongst all the other usb stuff. It doesn't have cheese, and vlc doesn't recognize it. . . . Anybody have an idea of what driver this camera needs? Would transferring images on memory cards be a workable solution?

Re: technical terms overhaul

2020-06-21 Thread James H. H. Lampert
Personally, if I were a moderator on this List, I would order this thread terminated with extreme prejudice. -- JHHL

Re: waaay offtopic

2020-05-28 Thread James H. H. Lampert
Personally, I have a clamshell. It's my second clamshell, an LG VN220. It replaced my previous clamshell, after my first vacation to Canada: the previous clamshell was a paperweight from the moment my bus from Seattle to Vancouver crossed the Canadian border, up to the moment my flight from To

Re: This is weird: I can ssh into a box, but I can't access it directly

2020-02-27 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 2/26/20 8:52 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: Are you ssh'ing in as root? If not, is your user's $HOME on the machine's failing disk, or another (remote?) drive? and I replied (off-List, and *not* intentionally so): Yes. As root. Oh, and one other thing, the thing that brought this to my attention

This is weird: I can ssh into a box, but I can't access it directly

2020-02-26 Thread James H. H. Lampert
One of our Linux boxes is behaving oddly. If I ssh into it, I can connect easily, and I get: The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software; the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright. Debian GNU/Lin

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

2019-10-18 Thread James H. H. Lampert
The OP wanted this treated as a survey, and so . . . Many dialects and derivatives of BASIC, including (but not limited to) IBM VS-BASIC (ran on 370 and compatible mainframes), TRS-80 Level 1, Level 2, and Mod I Disk BASIC, GWBASIC, and the various QBASICs (QuickBASIC and QBX). (I took one loo

Re: 3 phase power (was Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-08-01 Thread James H. H. Lampert
g Windmill: you run those backwards more than 1 or 2 degrees, and they shred themselves. -- James H. H. Lampert

Re: Debian Programming languages

2019-05-24 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 5/24/19, 11:00 AM, ghe wrote: I forgot about LISP too. LISP was the first high level language I learned. Thought I was going to die... (CLUTTER CLUTTER (CDR CLUTTER)) is probably the only s-expression I still remember from over half a lifetime ago. (It's a line of code from the "Blocks Wor

Re: Debian Programming languages

2019-05-24 Thread James H. H. Lampert
Just out of morbid curiosity: what about a full ANSI PL/I? -- JHHL (And the mere fact that I'm asking ages me.)

Re: Your Password Reset Link from CorrLinks

2019-02-21 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 2/21/19, 8:27 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Never received bounce spam aka backscatter spam? Remember that time (perhaps 1-2 years ago) where this very list was plagued by an especially evil form of backscatter involving the useful idiot at the other end of some smartphone? No question, I've

Re: Your Password Reset Link from CorrLinks

2019-02-21 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 2/21/19, 12:38 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: You shouldn't /bounce/ spam anyway: where are you going to bounce it to? To a most probably spoofed address, i.e. to a totally innocent victim? Thus generating reflected spam, aka Joe Jobs? That depends. Some spammers don't see themselves as spammer

Re: USB hard drives -- recommendations?

2019-02-03 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 2/3/19, 2:22 AM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: The only problem with external disk drive enclosures from well known brands like WD or Seagate is they don't offer a way to open them e.g. to switch the disk drive inside. That and the fact that, judging by the price tags (and this also seems t

Re: Disable left-ctrl?

2019-01-28 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 1/28/19, 3:16 PM, Boyan Penkov wrote: > To this end, I’d like to disable the left ctrl key only, and force my > brain to use the right one. Better yet, I’d like the screen to flash > or something then I inadvertently hit left-ctrl. Just two thoughts occur to me: 1) On a 5250 data stream term

USB hard drives -- recommendations?

2019-01-25 Thread James H. H. Lampert
Fellow List members: Would anybody care to voice an opinion on USB external hard drives in the 2 terabyte size range, for automated backup purposes? We've been looking at the Seagate "Expansion" and the WD "Elements"; I've noticed that on Amazon, both have a fair number of negative reviews c

We've got a problem. Debian "Jessie" box won't launch X or Tomcat, and USB drive won't mount

2019-01-14 Thread James H. H. Lampert
ies to mount the USB drive. I also can't seem to get that drive to mount on anything else, which suggests that it has been corrupted. Can somebody suggest where to start looking for the problem? -- James H. H. Lampert

Installing Java 8 on a Google Compute Debian (Jessie) instance

2018-12-18 Thread James H. H. Lampert
installed Depends: openjdk-8-jdk-headless (= 8u171-b11-1~bpo8+1) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. which is what I was getting before. -- James H. H. Lampert

Re: that other OS

2018-11-16 Thread James H. H. Lampert
mick crane wrote: "Windows is a service..." Actually, I'd call WinDoze a DISservice. (I don't allow WinDoze in my house.) -- JHHL (Currently using PCDOS-2000, OS/400, MacOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Android, and occasionally, at work, CentOS and WinDoze XP.)

Re: Getting rid of Wilber

2018-09-04 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 9/3/18, 5:22 PM, David Niklas wrote: Quick, where can I find the "eponymous fox chewing on a Microsloth Imploder logo"? You ought to know Murphy's Law of the Internet by now: nothing posted to the Internet ever goes away . . . . unless you're looking for it. -- JHHL

Re: Getting rid of Wilber

2018-08-31 Thread James H. H. Lampert
Hmm. I'm all for customizing UIs (my preferred Open Office icon is a manual typewriter, my preferred Firefox icon is one I found with the eponymous fox chewing on a Microsloth Imploder logo, and my preferred Thunderbird icon has the eponymous bird carrying a bottle of T-Bird), but what have you

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

2018-08-09 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 05:39:36PM +, tech wrote: Should'nt be time to move away from an old mail-listing to something more modern like a bugzilla or else ??? On 8/9/18, 10:47 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: No. What? A list server isn't good enough for you? It's good enough for the Tomcat

Re: which blend caters to TaL computer programming? . . .

2018-03-13 Thread James H. H. Lampert
Exposing children to C and/or C++ should be considered abuse. :) No need for an emoticon there! C in the hands of an inexperienced programmer is a recipe for disaster! Lego or smalltalk, pharo smalltalk has its own IDE so everything is in 1 place Unless there's now a "Lego" programming la

Re: Beeping after power irregularities?

2018-03-06 Thread James H. H. Lampert
It's the RAID controller card. Naturally. -- JHHL

Beeping after power irregularities?

2018-03-06 Thread James H. H. Lampert
econd beep alternating with a one-second silence). Any insights? -- James H. H. Lampert

Re: squirrelmail or other webmail?

2018-01-30 Thread James H. H. Lampert
Speaking strictly as a user, I really liked SquirrelMail, when I was on my old ISP (or on the rare occasions when I check my former ISP email), but I utterly despise everything about the "SmarterMail" product that my present ISP uses. (It seems like they chose to emulate almost everything that'

Re: Rust? (and a wordsmithing question)

2017-12-12 Thread James H. H. Lampert
I wrote: The student timeshare systems my high school used (running the McGill University MUSIC operating system) while I was a student there (an IBM 370/135 at the District Office) and shortly after I graduated (an on-site IBM 4341) used Merlin drives. to which Tomas replied: Those times, hig

Re: Rust? (and a wordsmithing question)

2017-12-11 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 12/11/17, 7:04 AM, Joe wrote: The rigid platters of IBM cartridges and packs (the things you see in computer rooms in films) did have brown oxide coatings. The surface of each 12 inch platter side stored a magnificent 2.5MB, or at least the version I used did. It was used in a system with an e

Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd

2017-12-06 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 12/6/17, 2:53 PM, Michael Lange wrote: uh, I guess you ought to have used your time to check your machine and read some docs instead of figuring out how to best insult the debian developers ;) (scnr) Now, now, you walk up to the physical console on an AS/400, you're not going to be able to

Re: Gnome desktop almost totally unresponsive in Jessie

2017-11-08 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 11/8/17, 10:55 AM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: The output of 'ps aux', 'iostat', and 'free -m' would help identify the problem. Also, 'cat /proc/mdstat' if you have a RAID setup. . . . After a mostly-off-List discussion with Mr. Sanchez, I gave up and did a "shutdown -r" on the system. Af

Gnome desktop almost totally unresponsive in Jessie

2017-11-08 Thread James H. H. Lampert
I've got a small problem. On our local Jessie box, the Tomcat and Apache web servers both seem responsive enough, and I likewise have no trouble getting and using an SSH session remotely (except that the "find" command is extremely slow). But the Gnome desktop has become almost totally unrespo

Re: Icons for mount points (Continuing with configuring our "new" Debian server

2017-10-02 Thread James H. H. Lampert
About a week and a half before I went on my fall vacation, acting on recommendations from a couple of List members, I moved the mount point for the "Auxiliary" mirrored pair I added from "Media" to the file system root, and it works quite nicely. Just before my vacation, I asked a question about

Icons for mount points (Continuing with configuring our "new" Debian server

2017-09-15 Thread James H. H. Lampert
About a week and a half ago, acting on recommendations from a couple of List members, I moved the mount point for the "Auxiliary" mirrored pair I added from "Media" to the file system root, and it works quite nicely. But a question: I'd like that mount point to show up in Gnome as something ot

Actually, it was STUPID, not weird (cross-posted to Tomcat and Debian Lists): my BROWSER CACHES never got flushed!

2017-09-08 Thread James H. H. Lampert
I really can't believe I didn't think about the possibility that my browsers were both still caching the default root context from Tomcat 7 when I did the port swap. I definitely need to always remember to consider the possibility that I'm doing something stupid. -- JHHL

Still more, Re: This is weird (cross-posted to Tomcat and Debian Lists): Tomcat 8.5 is going to /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/ROOT

2017-09-07 Thread James H. H. Lampert
practice. So it's something specific to the root context. -- James H. H. Lampert

More, Re: This is weird (cross-posted to Tomcat and Debian Lists): Tomcat 8.5 is going to /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/ROOT

2017-09-07 Thread James H. H. Lampert
o look for something like that? -- James H. H. Lampert

Re: This is weird (cross-posted to Tomcat and Debian Lists): Tomcat 8.5 is going to /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/ROOT

2017-09-07 Thread James H. H. Lampert
Pete Helgren (on the Tomcat List) wrote: Longshotsomething in .profile of the user the Tomcat instance is running under? Neither the "tomcat7" nor "tomcat8" users have .profile files. This is interesting. I got rid of the Tomcat 8.5 catalina.out files on both boxes (the one where everythi

This is weird (cross-posted to Tomcat and Debian Lists): Tomcat 8.5 is going to /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/ROOT

2017-09-07 Thread James H. H. Lampert
ext, Tomcat 8.5 was installed on top of Tomcat 8.0, while on the one that's finding the wrong root context, it was installed without any previous Tomcat 8. In both cases, the installations were alongside existing Tomcat 7 installations. Can anybody point me to the right haystack to find my ne

Re: Strange results with an additional HD -- any idea why?

2017-09-06 Thread James H. H. Lampert
Oops: Forgot to hit "Reply List" on a reply I'd intended to be public. My bad. Dan Ritter and "deloptes" both advised me to put the "Auxiliary" drive's mount point someplace other than /media. When I finally had a chance to do so late yesterday afternoon, that solved the problem. I never w

Re: I just installed "tomcat8" and "tomcat8-admin" on a Debian 8.9 box, via an apt-get

2017-09-06 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 8/31/17, 8:32 PM, david...@freevolt.org wrote: Have you added the jessie-backports repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list yet? There's a how-to for that here, along with other information you might like to know: https://wiki.debian.org/Backports#Using_the_command_line Thanks, "david.

Strange results with an additional HD -- any idea why?

2017-09-05 Thread James H. H. Lampert
The box I've been reconfiguring over the past few weeks has a hardware RAID controller card, with one mirrored (RAID 1) pair on it at the time of installation. Over the weekend, I plugged two more drives into the two empty sockets, to create a second mirrored pair, which shows up in Linux as "s

Re: external USB hard drive mount permissions

2017-09-04 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 9/2/17, 6:01 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On 02-09-2017 09:29, Federico Beffa wrote: I'm using Debian Stretch with Gnome. When I plug-in an external USB hard drive (ext4) it gets automatically mounted at /media/beffa/label. but the device is still only writable by root. How can I tell t

Re: Recommended editor for novice programmers?

2017-09-04 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 9/2/17, 7:29 PM, Doug wrote: There must be something simpler than emacs or vi that will still allow coding formatting! Personally, I use nano from a terminal session, or GEdit from a Gnome session. -- JHHL

How do I get Tomcat 8.5? Re: I just installed "tomcat8" and "tomcat8-admin" on a Debian 8.9 box, via an apt-get

2017-09-01 Thread James H. H. Lampert
I just now realized that my subject line was not exactly to the point, so if you'll pardon a repeat of my post from yesterday: I wrote: I want to put Tomcat 8.5 on the box I've spent the past week configuring. What my apt-get got me was Tomcat 8.0.14. Can I get Tomcat 8.5 via an apt-get? If so,

Re: I just installed "tomcat8" and "tomcat8-admin" on a Debian 8.9 box, via an apt-get

2017-08-31 Thread James H. H. Lampert
I wrote: I want to put Tomcat 8.5 on the box I've spent the past week configuring. What my apt-get got me was Tomcat 8.0.14. Can I get Tomcat 8.5 via an apt-get? If so, how? On 8/30/17, 5:04 PM, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: The apt-cache command says that the backports repository has Tomcat 8.5.14

Re: Weird shell script behavior in a cron job

2017-08-31 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 8/31/17, 5:16 AM, Reco wrote: $ bash -c 'cd foo; echo $?' bash: line 0: cd: foo: No such file or directory 1 To this: $ dash -c 'cd foo; echo $?' dash: 1: cd: can't cd to foo 2 Aha! That's what it was! Thanks! At any rate, changing the test script's utterly nonspecific shebang (that, I g

I just installed "tomcat8" and "tomcat8-admin" on a Debian 8.9 box, via an apt-get

2017-08-30 Thread James H. H. Lampert
I want to put Tomcat 8.5 on the box I've spent the past week configuring. What my apt-get got me was Tomcat 8.0.14. Can I get Tomcat 8.5 via an apt-get? If so, how? If not, what's the easiest way to get Tomcat 8.5 up and running as a service from an Apache download? -- JHHL

Re: Weird shell script behavior in a cron job

2017-08-30 Thread James H. H. Lampert
A few minutes ago, with respect to my backup script attempting to mount ExternalHD if run from a command line, but not from cron, I wrote: Why would the behavior be any different? Could it be that cron is running it an entirely different shell, that doesn't understand the "if" statement? That w

Weird shell script behavior in a cron job

2017-08-30 Thread James H. H. Lampert
Can somebody explain this: My backup script WILL detect that ExternalHD is not mounted, and attempt to mount it, if I run it manually. But it WON'T do that if it runs in a cron job. I've isolated the relevant code into its own script, added debugging output, and set it up to run every minute

On another (but related) note: Zip files

2017-08-29 Thread James H. H. Lampert
I know that the tradition for Linux is GZipped tarballs, but I also know that, at least from the Gnome desktop, I can open a PKZip-compatible Zip file, and create a (presumably also) PKZip-compatible Zip file. I don't, however, see a way to do so from the command line (or within a script) with

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