Re: cannot download bookworm

2024-08-21 Thread Juan R.D. Silva
Hi folks, I do not know the reason but for about 3 hours I could access debian.org website and browse it up to this page https://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/#stable but no further. When tried to open amd64 link to download dvd, I get "the site cannot be open" or something similar. At the sam

Re: cannot download bookworm

2024-08-21 Thread Juan R.D. Silva
. I kept trying while writing and get through. The first attempt to download was as described above but the second gave my my ISO. I don't think my ISP has to do anything with it. Well, I've got my ISO. Thanks On 2024-08-21 3:49 p.m., Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at

cannot download bookworm

2024-08-21 Thread Juan R.D. Silva
Hi, I am trying to download debian-bookwarm-12.6.0.iso and it looks like all servers and mirrors are down. What's happening? Thanks

OT: laptop evaluation

2024-07-02 Thread Juan R.D. Silva
Hello over there, I'm considering purchase of Xiaomi Redmibook 16 Pro (2024) laptop: Intel Core Ultra 7 up to 4.8GHz, 32GB RAM, Intel Arc integrated graphics, 1TB SSD storage, 99Wh battery and 16” Super Retina display with 3.1K resolution. The laptop has a very positive review on Notebookche

Re: Anybody Skype users here?

2024-05-30 Thread Juan R.D. Silva
M Butterworth wrote: On Thu, May 30, 2024 at 6:59 PM Juan R.D. Silva mailto:juan.r.d.si...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi folks, I use Skype installed from Debian official repo.  A couple of days ago it refused to update reporting "server timed out". After looking into

Anybody Skype users here?

2024-05-30 Thread Juan R.D. Silva
Hi folks, I use Skype installed from Debian official repo. A couple of days ago it refused to update reporting "server timed out". After looking into it, I found that MS removed Skype.deb package from their server and basically forces everyone to use Snap package instead. Skype is the only

Bookworm boot stacks with black screen after NVIDIA driver installed.

2023-08-15 Thread Juan R.D. Silva
Hi folks. Fresh Bookworm install on Dell M4800 Precision with i7-4810MQ CPU @ 2.80GHz and NVIDIA Quadro K2100M graphic card. No problems install, the system works with the default nouveau driver well enough. My video card is supported according to NVIDIA. Debian nvidia-detect advised install

Re: BAD signature from "Debian CD signing key [RESOLVED]

2023-08-15 Thread Juan R.D. Silva
On 2023-08-08 10:52 a.m., Matthieu Roquejoffre wrote: On 2023-08-08 at 03:37 p.m., Juan R.D. Silva wrote:> The problem is resolved. My fault. :-). Could you please explain to us what the cause of your issue was and how you solved it ? This could be useful for anyone facing a similar issue.

Re: BAD signature from "Debian CD signing key [RESOLVED]

2023-08-06 Thread Juan R.D. Silva
On 2023-08-06 9:28 p.m., Juan R.D. Silva wrote: I downloaded debian-12.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso, SHA512SUMS, and SHA512SUMS.sign files from https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-dvd/. $ sha512sum -c SHA512SUMS gives me OK. So the image is fine. However verifying the signatures

Re: BAD signature from "Debian CD signing key [RESOLVED]

2023-08-06 Thread Juan R.D. Silva
On 2023-08-06 9:28 p.m., Juan R.D. Silva wrote: I downloaded debian-12.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso, SHA512SUMS, and SHA512SUMS.sign files from https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-dvd/. $ sha512sum -c SHA512SUMS gives me OK. So the image is fine. However verifying the signatures

BAD signature from "Debian CD signing key

2023-08-06 Thread Juan R.D. Silva
I downloaded debian-12.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso, SHA512SUMS, and SHA512SUMS.sign files from https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-dvd/. $ sha512sum -c SHA512SUMS gives me OK. So the image is fine. However verifying the signatures fails. $ gpg --verify SHA512SUMS.sign SHA512SUMS gp

11 to 12 - fresh install or upgrade

2023-08-06 Thread Juan R.D. Silva
Hi folks, It's time to move from bullseye to bookworm. Based on the previous years experience I've always preferred a fresh install vs. an upgrade, since the freshly installed system always run smoother and was not littered with any old junk left from the old system. However, things might ha

Potentially OT. Videos lagging & buffering in any browser but Google Chrome.

2023-03-25 Thread Juan R.D. Silva
Hi folks, Debian Bullseye here up to date. Browsers installed: Firefox, Opera, Vivaldi, and Google Chrome. I'm having a weird problem streaming movies from archive.org. The movies are lagging & keep buffering in all browsers but Google Chrome. Google Chrome streams same movies at the same ti

Re: LibreOffice - any way to recover not saved changes to the file?

2022-09-13 Thread Juan R.D. Silva
(short answer) No. Its more like "shit happens!" It does indeed :-( Even with best of knowledge and abilities, what once was in memory (RAM) will be reused pretty quick, and if you chose to not autosave regularly, there won't be much left, and even if there would be, the work to get it into pr

LibreOffice - any way to recover not saved changes to the file?

2022-09-12 Thread Juan R.D. Silva
I edited a file for hours and then mistakenly clicked "Do not save" while closing file. Auto save is not enabled. No backup exist in LibreOffice Backup folder. The computer is not restarted yet. Temp folder have only old version. Any way to recover the lost edited version? Or the only option to

Re: GNOME brightness controls have no effect on brightness

2022-04-06 Thread Juan R.D. Silva
On 2022-04-05 7:06 p.m., David Wright wrote: On Mon 04 Apr 2022 at 15:42:46 (-0400), Juan R.D. Silva wrote: On 2022-04-04 5:17 a.m., davidson wrote: On Sun, 3 Apr 2022 Juan R.D. Silva wrote: [ … ] Sorry for the rant but it looks that either GNOME folks decided they know it best what it

Re: GNOME brightness controls have no effect on brightness

2022-04-04 Thread Juan R.D. Silva
On 2022-04-04 5:17 a.m., davidson wrote: On Sun, 3 Apr 2022 Juan R.D. Silva wrote: Hi folks, Debian 11 on Dell M4800 Mobile Workstation with Nvidia Quadro K2100M card. I've been using the system with full (100%) screen brightness for rather long time. Today I wanted to reduce it and

GNOME brightness controls have no effect on brightness

2022-04-03 Thread Juan R.D. Silva
Hi folks, Debian 11 on Dell M4800 Mobile Workstation with Nvidia Quadro K2100M card. I've been using the system with full (100%) screen brightness for rather long time. Today I wanted to reduce it and to my astonishment found that GNOME "progressed" to the point when even this basic feature h

Re: OT: anybody uses eero 6 WiFi router?

2022-01-13 Thread Juan R.D. Silva
On 2022-01-13 2:20 a.m., Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 13.01.2022 07:56, Juan R.D. Silva wrote: Hi folks, Shopping for a new ISP came across company that uses exclusively eero 6 router. Anyone to share your experience/opinion about the thing? 2 concerns of mine are: - cloud based private

OT: anybody uses eero 6 WiFi router?

2022-01-12 Thread Juan R.D. Silva
Hi folks, Shopping for a new ISP came across company that uses exclusively eero 6 router. Anyone to share your experience/opinion about the thing? 2 concerns of mine are: - cloud based private network management - Amazon owned Thanks

Re: Looking for recommendations [SOLVED (for now]

2021-12-30 Thread Juan R.D. Silva
On 2021-12-29 8:46 p.m., David Christensen wrote: On 12/29/21 11:53 AM, Juan R.D. Silva wrote: On 2021-12-28 8:31 p.m., Juan R.D. Silva wrote: The headphone jack failed on my Dell M4800 laptop. I need to find reliable with decent stereo audio output External USB Sound Card/Audio Adapter with

Re: Looking for recommendations [SOLVED (for now]

2021-12-29 Thread Juan R.D. Silva
Looks that I kind of solved it for now by cleaning the jack with the toothpick soaked in alcohol. Silly solution. I'm not sure for how long but the jack works now. Thanks for all replied folks. On 2021-12-28 8:31 p.m., Juan R.D. Silva wrote: The headphone jack failed on my Dell M4800 l

Looking for reccomendations

2021-12-28 Thread Juan R.D. Silva
The headphone jack failed on my Dell M4800 laptop. I need to find reliable with decent stereo audio output External USB Sound Card/Audio Adapter with 3.5mm Stereo Headphone (3 pole plug) and Mono Microphone (nice to have) Jacks. It should be available in North America. Any recommendations? Th