OT: Top Posting (was: Dovecot correct ownership for logs)

2024-05-14 Thread Loris Bennett
Hi Richard, Richard writes: > "Top posting" (writing the answer above the text that's being replied > to) is literally industry standard behavior. Can you provide a link to the standard you are referring to? Assuming such a standard exists, how would it apply to this newsgroup? [snip (51

Re: packages.debian.org seems to be down

2024-03-01 Thread Loris Bennett
Hi Harald, Harald Dunkel writes: > Hi folks, > > is it just me, or is https://packages.debian.org/ down? I had a > similar problem yesterday morning. > > Regards > > Harri Works for me. Cheers, Loris -- This signature is currently under constuction.

Re: How can we change the keyboard layout?

2024-02-06 Thread Loris Bennett
hw writes: > On Mon, 2024-02-05 at 15:26 +0100, Loris Bennett wrote: >> hw writes: >> >> > On Sun, 2024-02-04 at 18:23 +, Michael Kjörling wrote: >> > > On 4 Feb 2024 12:08 -0600, from n...@n0nb.us (Nate Bargmann): >> > > &g

Re: what keyboard do you use?

2024-02-05 Thread Loris Bennett
hw writes: > On Sun, 2024-02-04 at 18:23 +, Michael Kjörling wrote: >> On 4 Feb 2024 12:08 -0600, from n...@n0nb.us (Nate Bargmann): >> > xmodmap trickery? I am running GNOME on Wayland. >> >> Or whatever the equivalent in Wayland (or GNOME) might be. Either way, >> surely there must be

Re: Debian in HPC

2024-01-14 Thread Loris Bennett
the beowulf.org list. Personally I can't see Ubuntu being a viable option. For HPC I don't see any advantage regarding software relative to Debian. Cheers, Loris -- Dr. Loris Bennett (Herr/Mr) FUB-IT (ex-ZEDAT), Freie Universität Berlin

Debian in HPC

2024-01-05 Thread Loris Bennett
Hi, Is anyone aware of Debian being used on largish, say 100s of nodes and 1000s of cores, clusters for High-Performance Computing (HPC)? I ask because CentOS, which has been used widely in HPC, has been essentially killed off by IBM. Alternative Red-Hat-like OSs, such as Rocky and ALMA have

Re: Image handling in mutt

2023-12-11 Thread Loris Bennett
David writes: > Hi, the filename extension is usually irrelevant on Linux, because > Linux tools typically > use the standard 'file' command to inspect the content of the > fileinstead of relying on > the filename to indicate content. It is very often not irrelevant for files that you might

Re: Work environment

2023-11-27 Thread Loris Bennett
Anssi Saari writes: > Rolf Blum writes: > >> In order to expound on the contribution of Karl Vogel: >> It gives me two big monitors (I regret that there is no space for a >> third one) >> a ergonomic mouse and a trackball >> and my keyboard(G19) I think is roughly 10 years old, one of the best

Re: On folders vs. directories and history [was: how to compare...]

2023-11-06 Thread Loris Bennett
Nicolas George writes: >> Surely 'directory' is also just a more or >> less apt metaphor > > You missed the point: directory is not a metaphor at all, it is a > precise term for what is actually being talked about. I beg to differ. I think you are confusing the

Re: On folders vs. directories and history [was: how to compare...]

2023-11-03 Thread Loris Bennett
Nicolas George writes: > to...@tuxteam.de (12023-11-03): >> The other is related: folder has become the culture of those >> who want to "sell you knowledge", i.e. of those whose business >> model is based on keeping you dumb. > > Ear, ear! > > Also, that metaphor is easy, but it is very shaky.

Re: How to compare one folder to one directory

2023-11-02 Thread Loris Bennett
writes: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2023 at 09:12:45AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: >> Loris Bennett wrote: >> > What's the objection to 'folder'? I don't use it myself, but it seems >> > fairly reasonable to me. Many desktop environments use an old hanging >> >

How to compare one folder to one directory (was: How to compare contents of two folders against third one?)

2023-11-02 Thread Loris Bennett
writes: > I concur with Nicolas: every time you say "folder", a unicorn dies. What's the objection to 'folder'? I don't use it myself, but it seems fairly reasonable to me. Many desktop environments use an old hanging folder icon in their file browsers. In German there are also two words:

Re: git setup

2023-08-25 Thread Loris Bennett
"Russell L. Harris" writes: > On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 07:24:59AM +0100, Tixy wrote: >>On Thu, 2023-08-24 at 22:24 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: >>> #!/bin/bash >>> # post-commit >>> # 2023.08.24 2200gmt >>> >>> ssh backup "git pull" >>> exit 0 > >>You could omit the 'exit 0' so it returns the

Re: Debian 12: Failure to build ALPS kernel module

2023-08-04 Thread Loris Bennett
Salut Didier! didier gaumet writes: > Le 04/08/2023 à 11:44, Loris Bennett a écrit : >> Hi, >> I have a 10 year-old Dell E6230 laptop which I have updated >> regularly, >> starting from Squeeze and have now updated to Bookworm. Everything >> seems to work

Debian 12: Failure to build ALPS kernel module

2023-08-04 Thread Loris Bennett
Hi, I have a 10 year-old Dell E6230 laptop which I have updated regularly, starting from Squeeze and have now updated to Bookworm. Everything seems to work except for the fact that a module fails to build for the new kernel: Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 6.1.0-10-amd64

Re: Email clients and IMAP search support

2023-04-26 Thread Loris Bennett
Lionel Élie Mamane writes: > On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 05:01:53PM +0100, Andre Rodier wrote: > >> Is there any desktop email client on Debian, that supports server >> side IMAP search, please ? > > mutt makes a server-side search when the search operator starts with > "=" instead of "~"; this also

Re: [bullseye] r-cran-ggplot2 depends on missing libpq5 v13.8

2023-03-15 Thread Loris Bennett
David Wright writes: > On Tue 14 Mar 2023 at 08:38:09 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 01:16:51PM +0100, Loris Bennett wrote: >> > So the problem is with the original 'sources.list', namely >> > >> > # See https://wiki.debian.

Re: [bullseye] r-cran-ggplot2 depends on missing libpq5 v13.8

2023-03-14 Thread Loris Bennett
Greg Wooledge writes: > On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 01:16:51PM +0100, Loris Bennett wrote: >> So the problem is with the original 'sources.list', namely >> >> # See https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList for more information. >> deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bul

Re: [bullseye] r-cran-ggplot2 depends on missing libpq5 v13.8

2023-03-14 Thread Loris Bennett
Greg Wooledge writes: > On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 12:01:32PM +0100, Loris Bennett wrote: >> > What does "apt-cache policy libpq5" say? >> >> root:~# apt-cache policy libpq5 >> libpq5: >> Installed: (none) >> Candidate: 13.8-0+deb11u

Re: [bullseye] r-cran-ggplot2 depends on missing libpq5 v13.8

2023-03-14 Thread Loris Bennett
writes: > On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 10:12:50AM +0100, Loris Bennett wrote: >> writes: >> >> > On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 09:17:17AM +0100, Loris Bennett wrote: >> >> writes: > > [...] > >> > The error message above doesn't correspond to this

Re: [bullseye] r-cran-ggplot2 depends on missing libpq5 v13.8

2023-03-14 Thread Loris Bennett
writes: > On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 09:17:17AM +0100, Loris Bennett wrote: >> writes: >> >> > On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 07:54:45AM +0100, Loris Bennett wrote: >> > >> > [...] >> > >> >> > OK, forget all the

Re: [bullseye] r-cran-ggplot2 depends on missing libpq5 v13.8

2023-03-14 Thread Loris Bennett
writes: > On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 07:54:45AM +0100, Loris Bennett wrote: > > [...] > >> > OK, forget all the r-cran stuff for the moment. >> > The current version of libpq5 is: >> > >> > $ dpkg -l | grep libpq5 >> > ii libpq5:amd6

Re: [bullseye] r-cran-ggplot2 depends on missing libpq5 v13.8

2023-03-14 Thread Loris Bennett
David Wright writes: > On Mon 13 Mar 2023 at 07:38:50 (+0100), Loris Bennett wrote: >> David Wright writes: >> > On Fri 10 Mar 2023 at 10:10:48 (+0100), Loris Bennett wrote: >> >> >> >> I am on bullseye and am trying to install th

Re: [bullseye] r-cran-ggplot2 depends on missing libpq5 v13.8

2023-03-13 Thread Loris Bennett
David Wright writes: > On Fri 10 Mar 2023 at 10:10:48 (+0100), Loris Bennett wrote: >> >> I am on bullseye and am trying to install the package r-cran-ggplot2. >> This fails with >> >> E: Failed to fetch >> >> http://deb.debian.org/d

[bullseye] r-cran-ggplot2 depends on missing libpq5 v13.8

2023-03-10 Thread Loris Bennett
Hi, I am on bullseye and am trying to install the package r-cran-ggplot2. This fails with E: Failed to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/postgresql-13/libpq5_13.8-0%2bdeb11u1_amd64.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 146.75.122.132 80] (full output below). There seems to be a