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

2024-06-25 Thread Keith Bainbridge
ll you did it MUCH more eloquently -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com keith.bainbridge.3...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468 UTC + 10:00

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

2024-06-25 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 24/6/24 23:41, Erwan David wrote: AM/PM would not be so strange if between 11AM and 1 PM it was 12 AM ... Umm 12Meridian?? -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com keith.bainbridge.3...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468 UTC + 10:00

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

2024-06-25 Thread Keith Bainbridge
works out to 8min 20sec. There may be a second or 2 if you use accurate distance and speed of light. But then, the sun's circuit is slightly oval -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com keith.bainbridge.3...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468 UTC + 10:00

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

2024-06-25 Thread Keith Bainbridge
ck -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com keith.bainbridge.3...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468 UTC + 10:00

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

2024-06-25 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 23/6/24 18:57, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sun, 23 Jun 2024 15:35:14 +1000 Keith Bainbridge wrote: Hello Keith, +14:00?? I've only ever heard of maxima of +/- 12:00. AFAIAC, it was political willy waving, nothing more; To be 'first' into the new millennium. As if that has any cachet

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

2024-06-25 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 23/6/24 18:56, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sun, 23 Jun 2024 13:01:10 +1000 Keith Bainbridge wrote: Hello Keith, Not to mention some cultures change how words are spelt: colour, odour, metres to quote a few. Due, mainly, to the literacy of the people that moved, rather than any deliberate

Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-25 Thread Keith Bainbridge
ly one who mis-read the date format when I raised the query originally. Is David writing at 00:52 or is that time UTC? -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com keith.bainbridge.3...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468 UTC + 10:00

Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-25 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 23/6/24 00:02, Greg Wooledge wrote: In mutt, it would be: set date_format="!It's %a %d%b%Y at %H:%M:%S here, where clocks are UTC%z" I believe UTC%Z will give the : as I get from my text expander. Tue 25Jun2024 at 18:34:20 =UTC +10:00 -- All the best Keith Bainbrid

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

2024-06-22 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 23/6/24 14:25, David Wright wrote: On Sun 23 Jun 2024 at 12:52:55 (+1000), Keith Bainbridge wrote: Have you ever pondered why the 'international date line' is so convoluted? Only on the odd occasion when an area decides to cross it, for whatever reason. Like Samoa recently. And before

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

2024-06-22 Thread Keith Bainbridge
pronounce the word for 1,000 metres as a measure of kills - kil-ometer. It should be kilo-metre. To support my agruement, try speedometer, gasometer, odometer. -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com keith.bainbridge.3...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468 UTC + 10:00

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

2024-06-22 Thread Keith Bainbridge
rent from Sth Aust and the a further 45 mins to main stream West Aust. There might be 10,000 people live within it. I think that somewhere is Baledonia. I'll check next time I drive over, but that'll be sometime next year, if I'm lucky. -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com

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

2024-06-22 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 23/6/24 01:16, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Possible. I was happy to forget that I had anything to do with Windows  Especially delving into the registry -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com keith.bainbridge.3...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468 UTC + 10:00

Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-22 Thread Keith Bainbridge
aven't mis-read the dates they are inserting for us. Cheers, David. -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com keith.bainbridge.3...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468 UTC + 10:00

Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-22 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 20/6/24 21:19, The Wanderer wrote: On 2024-06-20 at 07:10, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 21:00:38 +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote: https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/manpages-dev/strftime.3.en.html is a list of place names for MANY parts of a date layout. I have set up

Re: RTC, was Re: System time/timezone

2024-06-22 Thread Keith Bainbridge
experience is that most installers do pretty well at guessing where I am -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com keith.bainbridge.3...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468 UTC + 10:00

Re: time display was: Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-22 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 18/6/24 00:56, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: Keith Bainbridge wrote: On 16/6/24 23:50, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Jun 16, 2024 at 06:13:36PM +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote: It was late afternoon on 16Jun2024 that I wrote this. Possibly 18:13:36 when I pressed send. I'd reckon

Re: Time, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-22 Thread Keith Bainbridge
on the other. Else we'll wake a little late. Remember the joke about going to bed at 8 and setting the alarm on a wind-up clock for 9 - we wouldn't get much sleep. -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com keith.bainbridge.3...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468 UTC + 10:00

Re: Time, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-22 Thread Keith Bainbridge
, and decided that spelling the month was simple basics. -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com keith.bainbridge.3...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468 UTC + 10:00

Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-22 Thread Keith Bainbridge
nothing is actually wrong. Absolutely correct Greg. I like your date/time line. The addition of the offset fro UTC without some explanation confused me. And started 2 debates. -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com keith.bainbridge.3...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468 UTC + 10:00

Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-20 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 17/6/24 18:26, Keith Bainbridge wrote: It was late afternoon on 16Jun2024 that I wrote this. Possibly 18:13:36 when I pressed send. I'd reckon it would likely have been 08:13:36 UTC  What's wrong with my system clock. I've not really looked at the time on my originals before.  I'll try

Fwd: test sent date details

2024-06-18 Thread Keith Bainbridge
All the best Keith Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com keith.bainbridge.3...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468 UTC + 10:00 Forwarded Message Subject: test sent date details Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 17:56:41 +1000 From: Keith Bainbridge To: keithr...@gmail.com All the best Keith

Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-18 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 17/6/24 21:22, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 06:26:19PM +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote: On 16/6/24 23:50, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Jun 16, 2024 at 06:13:36PM +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote: It was late afternoon on 16Jun2024 that I wrote this. Possibly 18:13:36 when I

Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-17 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 17/6/24 19:15, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 06:47:41PM +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote: On 17/6/24 14:20, David Wright wrote: Just some random thoughts: On Sun 16 Jun 2024 at 18:13:36 (+1000), Keith Bainbridge wrote: [...] All the aliases that lie textually after

Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-17 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 16/6/24 20:02, DdB wrote: Am 16.06.2024 um 10:13 schrieb Keith Bainbridge:> Practical Limitations Environment Variables: Bash has a limit on the number of environment variables it can store, which is typically around 32,000. If you define too many aliases, you may exceed this li

Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-17 Thread Keith Bainbridge
e matching ' was found. Either you mixed " and ' or you simply forgot to close an opened '. Ideally the error message will tell you the affected line. Richard Thanks Richard I believe David raised very similar suggestions -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com kei

Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-17 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 17/6/24 14:20, David Wright wrote: Just some random thoughts: On Sun 16 Jun 2024 at 18:13:36 (+1000), Keith Bainbridge wrote: Some of my aliases stopped working after months of working as I expected. And udating the .bash_aliases kept giving me an error referring to an end of file before

Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-17 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 16/6/24 23:50, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Jun 16, 2024 at 06:13:36PM +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote: It was late afternoon on 16Jun2024 that I wrote this. Possibly 18:13:36 when I pressed send. I'd reckon it would likely have been 08:13:36 UTC What's wrong with my system clock. I've

Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-16 Thread Keith Bainbridge
idn't dawn on me to try removing them. (I worked around it by unmounting it (an alias) and trying the back-up again.) So a questionand mybe something related that may help somebody else. -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com keith.bainbridge.3...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468 UTC + 10:00

Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved]

2024-06-13 Thread Keith Bainbridge
and choose copy -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468 UTC+ 10:00 From my Aphone On 13 June 2024 3:42:27 pm AEST, Charlie wrote: >On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 22:56:34 -0400 >Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 12:16:00PM +1000

Re: Anybody Skype users here?

2024-05-30 Thread Keith Bainbridge
o bookworm. So maybe all isn't lost All the best Keith Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468 UTC +10:00

Re: partition reporting full, but not

2024-02-20 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 21/2/24 10:47, Felix Miata wrote: I didn't think so, which begs the question why OP Keith is using it. :p -- I read somewhere about 2 years ago, that it automagically de-duped data when it detected I was copying the same file to different directories. It's not deliberate, but I have

Re: partition reporting full, but not

2024-02-20 Thread Keith Bainbridge
/dev/sda3 16.00MiB Unallocated: /dev/sda3 34.18GiB keith@dell0 $ Wed 21Feb2024@11:44:26 :~ At least I can make sense from some of these output numbers >> sudo btrfs qgroup show / ERROR: can't list qgroups: quotas not enabled keith@dell0 $ Wed 21Feb2024@11:47:13 :~

Re: partition reporting full, but not

2024-02-20 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 20/2/24 19:38, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 02:42:18AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: Keith Bainbridge composed on 2024-02-20 17:45 (UTC+1100): I just removed 3 snapshots from my daily driver with no change in used space reported by df df doesn't know how to calculate

Re: partition reporting full, but not

2024-02-20 Thread Keith Bainbridge
=0.00B keith@dell0 $ Tue 20Feb2024@20:57:45 :~ >> btrfs filesystem df -h /mnt/data/ Data, single: total=530.02GiB, used=329.55GiB System, DUP: total=8.00MiB, used=112.00KiB Metadata, DUP: total=5.00GiB, used=1.10GiB GlobalReserve, single: total=512.00MiB, used=0.00B keith@dell0 $ when cf

Re: partition reporting full, but not

2024-02-19 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 20/2/24 18:11, Keith Bainbridge wrote: On 19/2/24 14:20, Keith Bainbridge wrote: On 19/2/24 10:26, Keith Bainbridge wrote: On 18/2/24 14:49, Keith Bainbridge wrote: On 18/2/24 07:34, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: Keith Bainbridge wrote: Yes the / partitions are btrfs So

Re: partition reporting full, but not

2024-02-19 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 19/2/24 14:20, Keith Bainbridge wrote: On 19/2/24 10:26, Keith Bainbridge wrote: On 18/2/24 14:49, Keith Bainbridge wrote: On 18/2/24 07:34, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: Keith Bainbridge wrote: Yes the / partitions are btrfs So the apparently missing space is perhaps taken up

Re: partition reporting full, but not

2024-02-19 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 19/2/24 13:00, Max Nikulin wrote: On 19/02/2024 06:26, Keith Bainbridge wrote: So later yesterday afternoon I created a new snapshot with no obvious change is free space. Effect of snapshots is delayed. When you remove a file that does not belong to any snapshot, some disk space

Re: partition reporting full, but not

2024-02-18 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 19/2/24 10:26, Keith Bainbridge wrote: On 18/2/24 14:49, Keith Bainbridge wrote: On 18/2/24 07:34, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: Keith Bainbridge wrote: Yes the / partitions are btrfs So the apparently missing space is perhaps taken up by btrfs snapshots. Seems

Re: partition reporting full, but not

2024-02-18 Thread Keith Bainbridge
the best Keith Bainbridge keith.bainbridge.3...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468 UTC + 10:00

Re: Hard links - How do they work

2024-02-18 Thread Keith Bainbridge
. The author does say that the app uses btrfs inbuilt snapshot process when available. I have to look harder when I browse over something. Is it looking obvious that I never really learnt how to read, 70 years ago in primary school. -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keith.bainbridge.3

Re: partition reporting full, but not

2024-02-18 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 18/2/24 14:49, Keith Bainbridge wrote: On 18/2/24 07:34, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: Keith Bainbridge wrote: Yes the / partitions are btrfs So the apparently missing space is perhaps taken up by btrfs snapshots. Seems to be the prime suspect.   If that's the case, btrfs

Re: partition reporting full, but not

2024-02-18 Thread Keith Bainbridge
to inspect shadowed directories is bind mounts.     mkdir /tmp/root     mount --bind / /tmp/root Thank you Max This has proved a real boon -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keith.bainbridge.3...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468 UTC + 10:00

Re: partition reporting full, but not

2024-02-17 Thread Keith Bainbridge
a camera during many of those times. Thanks Cindy Interesting Though as far as I can recall the only files I have rsync'd onto / are 4or5 config files, and all in /home/keith which now on another partition. And with a gain in free space which virtually matches its reported space used, yesterday

Re: partition reporting full, but not

2024-02-17 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 18/2/24 07:34, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: Keith Bainbridge wrote: Yes the / partitions are btrfs So the apparently missing space is perhaps taken up by btrfs snapshots. Seems to be the prime suspect. If that's the case, btrfs is NOT hard-linking the snapshots

Re: partition reporting full, but not

2024-02-17 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 17/2/24 17:08, Felix Miata wrote: Keith Bainbridge composed on 2024-02-17 15:44 (UTC+1100): Yes the / partitions are btrfs df was not designed for the task you gave it. You need to use btrfs filesystem commands: https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/btrfs-filesystem.html

Re: partition reporting full, but not

2024-02-16 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 17/2/24 13:55, Gremlin wrote: On 2/16/24 21:38, Keith Bainbridge wrote: Good afternoon All I have just rebooted this laptop to ensure it is 'fresh' / is reporting full. Trying to locate where I ran sudo du -hPx --max-depth=1 / 0    /mnt 181M    /boot 15M    /etc 0    /media 236M

Re: partition reporting full, but not

2024-02-16 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 17/2/24 13:52, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 01:38:56PM +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote: >> sudo df -h / Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda336G 35G 100M 100% / First off: you don't need sudo for this, ever. Second: what kind o

partition reporting full, but not

2024-02-16 Thread Keith Bainbridge
/ keith@dell0 $ Sat 17Feb2024@13:33:29 :~ But: >> sudo df -h / Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda336G 35G 100M 100% / keith@dell0 $ Sat 17Feb2024@13:33:39 :~ Where do I start locating the conflicting information please? -- All the best

Re: Combining Distro DVD's

2024-02-13 Thread Keith Bainbridge
Good evening All I know some people just like a challenge. Who will use the result, though I wonder if ventoy would achieve a similar result There is a 32MB partition for efi; and the rest, which for me at present is: ls /media/keith/Ventoy/ apps linuxmint-21.3-cinnamon-64bit-beta.iso

Re: (SOLVED) disable trackpad when mouse is connected (GNOME bug?)

2024-01-25 Thread Keith Bainbridgge
guess gnome will be similar as it was the basis of cinnamon All the best Keith Bainbridge keith.bainbridge.3...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468 UTC + 10:00 On 26/1/24 13:53, Max Nikulin wrote: On 25/01/2024 21:42, Max Nikulin wrote: Try lsusb --verbose --tree I have received a private

RE: Debian 12 System Requirement

2024-01-24 Thread CHENG YING KIT KEITH
Dear Andersson, Thanks for your reply. It is because our Vendor highly recommends us to purchase a new server to install Debian 12. Therefore, I seek your expert opinion. Best Regards, Keith Cheng | Officer (IT)/HQIP Tel: 3907 6721 | Fax: 3165 1106 From: Anders Andersson Sent: Wednesday

Debian 12 System Requirement

2024-01-22 Thread CHENG YING KIT KEITH
Dear Colleagues, Can I install Debian 11 or 12 with "Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2699 v3 @ 2.30GHz" CPU? Do they both support the following application Nginx 1.22.1 PHP 8.2.7 Mariadb 10.11.4 On the other hand, may I know the minimum requirement of Debian 11 and 12? Best Regards, K

Re: rsync --delete vs rsync --delete-after

2024-01-17 Thread Keith Bainbridgge
tch? Power goes off inconveniently? -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com keith.bainbridge.3...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468 UTC + 10:00

Re: Edit NIC Address

2024-01-05 Thread Keith Bainbridgge
David I use nmtuI (from a terminal) for jobs like this. I think it is installed by default. I'd bet you'll be terminated when the change activates All the best Keith Bainbridge keith.bainbridge.3...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468 UTC + 10:00 On 5/1/24 15:30, David wrote: Morning Group

Re: Alpine/Gmail/Imap expert needed. (fwd)

2023-11-29 Thread Keith Bainbridge
+1 -- All the best Keith BAINBRIDGE +61 447 667 468 keithr...@gmail.com GMT + 10 From my Apad On 29 November 2023 9:07:38 am AEDT, john doe wrote: >On 11/28/23 22:51, Karen Lewellen wrote: >> >> > >Lets keep the possibility of being able to send construc

Re: Request advice on Optimal Combo-usage of Gmail and Mailman, as mentioned in Msg-Id. "2023/11/msg00443"

2023-11-15 Thread Keith Bainbridge
way. -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468 UTC+ 10:00 From my Aphone On 14 November 2023 8:42:57 am AEDT, jeremy ardley wrote: > >On 14/11/23 02:30, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >> On 13/11/2023 14:50, Anssi Saari wrote: >>>

Re: Anybody familiar with dd (copy)?

2023-11-03 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 4/11/23 07:14, Marco M. wrote: dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/tmp/dvd.bin conv=noerror oflag=direct Is it worth trying: sudo dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/tmp/dvd.iso -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithrbaugro...@gmail.com keithr...@gmail.com 0447 667 468 UTC +10:00

Re: Anybody familiar with dd (copy)?

2023-11-03 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 4/11/23 07:14, Marco M. wrote: dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/tmp/dvd.bin conv=noerror oflag=direct Is it worth trying: dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/tmp/dvd.iso -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithrbaugro...@gmail.com keithr...@gmail.com 0447 667 468 UTC +10:00

Is this accurate

2023-10-21 Thread Keith Bainbridge
really like a pointer to a non-technical how to set it all up, if accurate Thanks All the best Keith BAINBRIDGE +61 (0)447 667 468 keithr...@gmail.com UTC + 10 >From my Apad

Fwd: btrfs snapshots (of root file system)?

2023-10-02 Thread Keith Bainbridge
Try ext4 All the best Keith BAINBRIDGE +61 (0)447 667 468 keithr...@gmail.com UTC + 10 >From my Apad -- Forwarded message - From: Keith Bainbridge Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2023, 20:32 Subject: Re: btrfs snapshots (of root file system)? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org I

Re: btrfs snapshots (of root file system)?

2023-10-02 Thread Keith Bainbridge
I use timeshift for this. It claims to use btrfs as an option. I've only used rsync on extra, and that has saved my bacon a few times All the best Keith BAINBRIDGE +61 (0)447 667 468 keithr...@gmail.com UTC + 10 >From my Apad On Sun, 1 Oct 2023, 15:10 hw, wrote: > Hi, > > wit

Re: General question regarding SSD and harddrive

2023-07-15 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On Sat, 15 Jul 2023 16:40:13 +0800 jeremy ardley wrote: > On 15/7/23 16:23, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > Is this done via gnome-settings? Or is there now a better option. > > An URL would be good > > > I set it up on my Debian 12 system first by using gnome deskt

Re: General question regarding SSD and harddrive

2023-07-15 Thread Keith Bainbridge
er option. An URL would be good Thanks All the best Keith Bainbridge keithrbaugro...@gmail.com 0447 667 468 UTC +1000

Re: General question regarding SSD and harddrive

2023-07-15 Thread Keith Bainbridge
rive into that /home/me. Debian helps by offering to set up a /home partition at installation. It means that my recent files open quicker. eg : >> ls -lah /home/keith/Documents/ total 21M drwxrw--w- 16 keith keith 4.0K Jul 7 14:59 . drwxrw--w- 49 keith keith 4.0K Jun 7 12:20 .. drwxrw

Trying to find the source iso's for debian buster and bookworm

2023-03-04 Thread Keith Christian
Several versions back, we could download the source code on various iso files for previous and current releases. Where can those be found for Buster and Bookworm? Several searches turned up nothing. Thanks.

Re: Debian 11 upgrade to Debian 12

2023-02-28 Thread Keith Bainbridge
+1 -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keith.bainbridge.3...@gmail.com 0447 667 468 Sent from my Android tablet, Please excuse my brevity.. On 28 February 2023 20:21:40 UTC, Tixy wrote: >On Tue, 2023-02-28 at 14:52 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 06:32:2

Re: Bios problem

2023-02-23 Thread Keith Bainbridge
Keith Bainbridge keith.bainbridge.3...@gmail.com 0447 667 468 Sent from my Android tablet, Please excuse my brevity.. On 23 February 2023 22:06:39 UTC, "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: >On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 12:49:25PM +, Simeone Dominique wrote: >> Good afternoon, >

Re: usb device

2023-02-13 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On February 11, 2023 10:24:47 PM UTC, "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: >On Sat, Feb 11, 2023 at 10:16:48PM +, fxkl4...@protonmail.com >wrote: >> i'm looking at a perixx perimice-513l usb mouse >> i can't find or have overlooked info about it working with linux >> is anyone familiar with this

Re: Cannot rum multiple command on remote machine via SSH

2023-02-04 Thread Keith Bainbridge
t a command prompt after the first command. What happens if you run ls After that first command? Please copy/paste your input and output for both sudo tlp setcharge 90 95 BAT1 And ls as one paste. -- Please excuse top posting. I've tried to correct it. Settings say reply below the

Re: Ctrl-C ignored after pasting a long text in an X terminal emulator

2023-01-22 Thread Keith Bainbridge
Sorry if this comes as a top post. I can't see the original text here Isn't it shft-ctrl-c to copy from x-term?

Re: latest testing update broke my laptop

2022-12-17 Thread Keith Bainbridge
Alpha release. I thought maybe the alpha release would be a little more >>stable than a weekly build >> >>I can confirm that the problem with FAT32 was fixed by a reboot. I don't >>reboot every day normally, >> >>The laptop is an ASUS FA506ICB. I'll be filing a bug report or three later. >>Yesterday I just needed to get it working again, but I wanted to document the >>pulling of hair and gnashing of teeth - I suspect I may have to do this >>again... >> >> OK, try this https://linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=297 Linux Mint Debian addition is Debian stable with some mint improvements. It has worked better for me than Debian stable. I converted to deb testing several months ago, and disabled the mint repo line from sources shortly after. I update and upgrade almost daily. The only issue I've had has been a long standing niggle (long before this lmde installation) where I find the laptop totally unresponsive when I open the lid some mornings - about fortnightly. If that .iso doesn't work, try the Ubuntu based mint .iso at https://linuxmint.com/download.php Seriously, I suspect that simply deleting the windows partitions removed some part of the boot process that you need. What not try a clean install that totally wipes the drive when you find a system that works -- Keith Bainbridge keith.bainbridge.3...@mail.com 0447 667 468 Sent from aPad

Re: MacOS VM on Debian: is it reasonably possible?

2022-11-21 Thread Keith Bainbridge
they work best. -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithrbaugro...@gmail.com

Re: Debian 11 - How to install Gtkmm

2022-11-09 Thread Keith Bainbridge
version is 2.4-1v5 -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithrbaugro...@gmail.com

Re: Status of Virtualbox in debian

2022-06-22 Thread Keith Bainbridge
asics, so I'm not sure they belong in the real world - or is it that they are only allowed to say they know MS stuff. -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithrbaugro...@gmail.com 0447 667 468

Re: virtualbox kernel modules?

2022-06-16 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 17/6/22 00:08, Boyan Penkov wrote: On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 12:09 AM Keith Bainbridge wrote: Cheers! Good afternoon Boyan What happened when you installed to 2 suggested items? Hey Keith -- yes, thanks for the pointer; you're absolutely correct... Somehow linux-image-headers

Re: virtualbox kernel modules?

2022-06-15 Thread Keith Bainbridge
suggested items? -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithrbaugro...@gmail.com

Re: I am stuck with this while installing devian on my IMac early 2006

2022-05-29 Thread Keith Bainbridge
OSx showed the same, but it's too long ago. Apple decided that my similar aged macbook wasn't good enough any more in 2011. That machine worked well on linux until 2016. -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithrbaugro...@gmail.com

Re: Debian desktop environment

2022-05-28 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 24/5/22 23:23, Brian wrote: Hi, After my surrender to Jessie I've thought of moving on with Stretch. Careful! If you go on like this you will end up installing bullseye :). Bookworm? SID? -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithrbaugro...@gmail.com

Android email client that does bottom posting

2022-04-28 Thread Keith Bainbridge
Good Evening All I top posted last night, in error. Sorry I have asked the devs where the bottom posting setting has gone. -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithrbaugro...@gmail.com Sent from my aPhone. Please excuse my brevity.

Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye

2022-04-27 Thread Keith Bainbridge
Tom Did you remove the old drive and try the SSD using the installer? On 27 April 2022 11:06:20 am UTC, Tom Browder wrote: >I am trying to replace the original hard drive on an old Toshiba laptop >with a 1 TB SSD from Crucial. (I had recently successfully done that in an >old Dell Latitude

Re: backing up backups

2022-04-18 Thread Keith Bainbridge
shift files on /timeshift I'm in deep trouble. I just re-install. / has only system files on it. /home/keith is sym-linked from another partition. In any case, copying /timeshift from your system OR your first backup drive should be trivial for rsync. Out of time, but I think that's enough

Re: moving dir with lots of files

2022-04-18 Thread Keith Bainbridge
have found that rsync -avHb --remove-source-files dir /mnt/disk/newdir moves files in one process. If it is interupted, re-running will simply pick up where it was halted. -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithrbaugro...@gmail.com

Re: Installing/Preparing Debian on a headless system

2022-03-09 Thread Keith Bainbridge
missing? Tim Thanks for the link to Gunnar's image. My next project, well maybe the one after. Thanks -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithrbaugro...@gmail.com

Re: Gnome/VirtualBox/Windows copy-paste CR issue.

2022-03-09 Thread Keith Bainbridge
Good afternoon Kaz I suggest you install mate-terminal and try from that. If that works, compare the preferences and check out a few options that I've not found in gnome-terminal, like auto copy highlighted text to clipboard. I don't recall trying to copy into win10, so I can't answer that

Re: How do I make Debian Mate look like Linux Mint Mate?

2022-03-08 Thread Keith Bainbridge
the panel and making that look how I want is pretty easy in Mate. My tastes are simple so I go for a solid colour. But from memory, you can have a background image. Desktop and log in screen are an image I choose outside of Mint. -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithrbaugro...@gmail.com

Re: Definitive instructions for Buster LTS security updates

2022-02-22 Thread Keith Christian
ith one mod to he original sources list, uncommenting this line: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main Since I didn't know that Buster was not yet in LTS, and that there are no changes needed, I thought I should ask first in case there were repo changes. Thanks for your comments. Keith

Re: Definitive instructions for Buster LTS security updates

2022-02-22 Thread Keith Christian
ut how to configure apt package sources, # see the sources.list(5) manual. =====LISTING END Keith

Re: Definitive instructions for Buster LTS security updates

2022-02-21 Thread Keith Christian
On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 6:31 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 06:25:35AM -0700, Keith Christian wrote: > > My first search brought me to wiki.debian.org, where I landed on the > > /LTS/Using page, but it contained no Buster-specific instructions. &

Definitive instructions for Buster LTS security updates

2022-02-21 Thread Keith Christian
I plan to bring a Buster machine which has been shut down for quite a while online again. Before connecting it to the internet, I looked for instructions on how to add the LTS security updates entries to sources.list. My first search brought me to wiki.debian.org, where I landed on the /LTS/Using

Re: Followup to my last...

2022-01-17 Thread Keith Bainbridge
I've used b43 firmware in the past and it worked; but that macbook died about 5 years ago, so no recent knowledge -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithrbaugro...@gmail.com

Re: restructure folders

2022-01-12 Thread Keith Bainbridge
are in / would this do what you want cd /dir1 mv dirA / cd /dir2 mv dir* / I'd suggest you would be safer doing this in mc (a cli file manager) so you can see where you are sending the files -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithrbaugro...@gmail.com

Re: Question about email received

2021-12-30 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 31/12/21 12:02, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, December 30, 2021 11:33:03 AM Julius Hamilton wrote: Yes, it’s fishy and nonsensical, I encourage you not to interact with it. Google would never intentionally send an email like that. +1 Who would subscribe with a 'noreply' type

Re: Peak load handling by Debian repository servers ????

2021-12-26 Thread Keith Christian
One could run 'tcpdump' or a while loop logging the output of 'netstat -an' to a file for the duration of the interaction with the Debian servers, then, examine the file afterward.

Re: Need Support on Debian10 Kernel Upgrade

2021-12-18 Thread Keith Christian
On Sat, Dec 18, 2021, 04:37 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Free(dom) Software was never meant to exclude comercial use or > developers earning a living (or a fortune) from it. > > > Agreed,.Andrei! > >

Re: Debian 11.1, xfce4-terminal, select entire line, middle-click, newline not pasted

2021-12-05 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 6/12/21 13:15, Keith Bainbridge wrote: On 6/12/21 06:56, David Christensen wrote: On Debian 9 (and 10, and earlier?) with Xfce Terminal, when I select an entire line of text in one terminal and then middle click paste in another terminal window, the entire line is pasted; including

Re: Debian 11.1, xfce4-terminal, select entire line, middle-click, newline not pasted

2021-12-05 Thread Keith Bainbridge
the copy text on highlight option in preferences. As I recall, right click in xterm to get preferences. -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithrbaugro...@gmail.com

Re: Status of Bookworm

2021-12-03 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 4/12/21 13:03, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Dec 04, 2021 at 12:30:52PM +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote: netinst is cli only ... what? NO! try sudo tasksel and choose desktop options. xfce is listed The netinst image contains the same installer as the full DVD-1 image does. Good

Re: Status of Bookworm

2021-12-03 Thread Keith Bainbridge
Good morning Kenneth netinst is cli only try sudo tasksel and choose desktop options. xfce is listed All the best Keith Bainbridge keith.bainbridge.3...@gmail.com 0447 667 468 On 4/12/21 10:44, Kenneth Parker wrote: When reading about changes to Bookworm (i.e. Enforcement of usrmerge), I

Re: why i can't download debian-live-10.11.0-i386-gnome.iso?

2021-12-01 Thread Keith Bainbridge
/debian-cdimage/current-live/i386/iso-hybrid/ Good afternoon lou I often download files larger than 2G with wget Have you tried the debian download site? All the best Keith Bainbridge kkeithrbaugro...@gmail.com

Re: How to NOT automatically mount a specific partition of an external device?

2021-11-24 Thread Keith Bainbridge
may not want that situation All the best Keith Bainbridge keith.bainbridge.3...@gmail.com 0447 667 468 On Wed, 24 Nov 2021 09:57:23 +0100 steve wrote: >>Hi, >> >>I have an external ssd with two partitions. One is for Windows and the >>other one is an ext4 partition for

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