AW: Topic su - sudo su

2022-07-24 Thread Schwibinger Michael
Sorry su . not su- Thank You Regards Sophie Von: to...@tuxteam.de Gesendet: Sonntag, 24. Juli 2022 10:12 Bis: Schwibinger Michael Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Betreff: Re: Topic su- sudo su On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 10:06:07AM +, Schwibinger

Topic su- sudo su

2022-07-24 Thread Schwibinger Michael
, 2022 at 10:53:14AM +, Schwibinger Michael wrote: > Good morning > Thank You for help. > > Do we need this? > > We dont use WIFI > we do connect the PC and the router with cable. That depends on your hardware. Most Ethernet hardware works without firmware. > *** > &

Re: Processors older than Intel Pentium 4

2022-07-19 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 11:26:36AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: Another thing that should not be forgotten is that the family of processors vs the ability to make use of firmware patches to fix bugs took a hit since family ID's of $0F and below could not be fixed with microcode. And many of them ha

Re: random process crashes in virtualbox guests (clocksource problem?)

2022-07-05 Thread Michael
i filed a bug report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1014394 greetings...

Re: random process crashes in virtualbox guests (clocksource problem?)

2022-07-05 Thread Michael
hey, I am seeing a similar issue but only when using the kernel 5.10.0-15-amd64 on the virtual host. If I run the following setup then everything is OK Host: 5.10.0-14-amd64 (version '14' kernel) Guest: 5.10.0-15-amd64 (version '15' kernel) so, i tried the same kernel versions in the hos

Re: random process crashes in virtualbox guests (clocksource problem?)

2022-07-04 Thread Michael
hey, thanks for the hint! :) i have the same kernel versions you have, but only tried the 5.10.0-14 kernel version in the guest, but not on the host... m( i will try the 5.10.0-14 kernel on the host later this afternoon... let's see, if it helps... greetings...

Re: how to get rid of anacron?

2022-07-04 Thread Michael
hey, afaik systemd timer lack the possibility to send the output (if any) by email to a designated user, but instead logs the output to its journal. so, if you want/need that functionality, either use a wrapper script, or define a service with an 'ExecStart=' directive looking something like:

random process crashes in virtualbox guests (clocksource problem?)

2022-07-03 Thread Michael
hey, i run debian 11 on both host and guest and experience random process crashes in virtual box guests under load. i.e. just reading a lot of files from any disk on the host system causes the guests to randomly crash a process... e.g. if i move a large file # mv -nv or if i do just # m

Re: SSD Optimization and tweaks - Looking for tips/recomendations

2022-06-28 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 02:25:36PM -0300, Marcelo Laia wrote: 4. Any other recommendations to improve the performance and lifespan of this disk? don't worry about it; accept the defaults and you'll be fine

Re: where does `hostname -f` derive the domainname from?

2022-06-28 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 04:59:26PM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote: That was the problem. The bullseye-only system had an /etc/hosts entry without a FQDN. I removed that and it uses the one in DNS. It's generally better to add the FQDN to /etc/hosts instead, to cut down on DNS queries for the loc

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Does DEBIAN BullsEye has FIPS package available

2022-06-17 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 11:58:50PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: There may be user space components too. I don't know if Debian still ships with openssl or another SSL library now but openssl specifically can be compiled in some FIPS compatibility mode. That's not currently true; as far as I k

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-13 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 05:53:59PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: When linux was first written, the IBM PC was 15 years old. *10 I'm not sure if it's math or typing that's hard

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-13 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 11:06:38AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 6/13/22 09:17, Michael Stone wrote: On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 08:19:02PM +0100, mick crane wrote: The clue though is as somebody said that disabling this new fangled EFI doesn't seem to do what Gene (or I ) thinks it does.

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-13 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 08:19:02PM +0100, mick crane wrote: The clue though is as somebody said that disabling this new fangled EFI doesn't seem to do what Gene (or I ) thinks it does. new fangled? UEFI has been around longer than the PC BIOS was when linux was first written... So having tw

AW: Firmware III grub

2022-06-12 Thread Schwibinger Michael
Good evening Thank You Is the most easy way for update and root managing su su - sudo? Tegards Sophie Von: Greg Wooledge Gesendet: Dienstag, 24. Mai 2022 19:16 An: debian-user@lists.debian.org Betreff: Re: Firmware III grub On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 09:07:46P

AW: Firmaware II

2022-05-24 Thread Schwibinger Michael
We do use the root terminal. Thank You Von: to...@tuxteam.de Gesendet: Sonntag, 01. Mai 2022 11:24 Bis: debian-user@lists.debian.org Betreff: Re: Firmaware II On Sun, May 01, 2022 at 10:53:14AM +, Schwibinger Michael wrote: > Good morning > Thank Y

AW: Firmware III grub

2022-05-24 Thread Schwibinger Michael
Isnt su- better? Regards Von: to...@tuxteam.de Gesendet: Sonntag, 01. Mai 2022 13:33 Bis: Schwibinger Michael Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Betreff: Re: Firmware III grub On Sun, May 01, 2022 at 11:49:30AM +, Schwibinger Michael wrote: > >

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

2022-05-13 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 07:16:11AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: A loong password is not "equivalent" to 2FA, that's right. Good password management (of which length is but a part) is as secure as 2FA. No, it really isn't.

Re: which program can show X/Y position of mouse pointer

2022-05-12 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Wed, 11 May 2022 22:34:00 -0400 lou wrote: > > Thank Michael Lange! > > it's what i need, and it works fine in twm I am glad if I could help. Btw, I noticed there is a small bug in the script, there should be an additional line towards the script's end, so that

Re: which program can show X/Y position of mouse pointer

2022-05-11 Thread Michael Lange
def start(): l.is_running = 1 l.after(100, show_mouse_pos) def quit(*args): l.is_running = 0 l.after(200, root.quit) root.bind('<1>', quit) for sig in (2, 3, 6, 15): signal(sig, quit) root.update_idletasks() start() root.deiconify() root.mainloop(

Re: Copying one drive to a smaller one.

2022-05-10 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 07:13:55PM +0200, DdB wrote: Proper entry in NVRAM (Can be read and changed with efibootmgr) I've never seen a BIOS where this is hard--you just browse to the appropriate file in the EFI partition (EFI/debian/grubx64.efi). Using a program from within linux is helpful f

Re: Copying one drive to a smaller one.

2022-05-10 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 08:31:12AM -0400, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: For all but the boot mechanism, copying files from source to destination via rsync should work. For ext4, files are files. Except when they have ACLs or extended attributes, hard links are messy to rsync, etc. Most of tim

Re: Copying one drive to a smaller one.

2022-05-09 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, May 09, 2022 at 04:47:44PM -0400, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: Unfortunately, this is precisely what I was trying to avoid. For example, to accommodate the graphics on my CPU, I had to use a later kernel from backports. That's one of many wrinkles. Under other circumstances, I probably

Re: Alternatives to ISC dhcp-client ?

2022-05-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, May 08, 2022 at 04:09:27PM +0200, Oliver Schoede wrote: Alternatively there's dhcpcd5, Be careful with this one unless you have a simple network configuration--by default it will attempt to get addresses on all interfaces that don't have them, not only ones you set to dhcp in /etc/ne

AW: no update possible

2022-05-05 Thread Schwibinger Michael
, Schwibinger Michael wrote: Good afternoon Thank You Terminal and root terminal do say command not found. please post Exactly what the command is that you entered and Exactly what the error message is *copy and paste please What do I do wrong? Regards Sophie Von

no update possible

2022-05-03 Thread Schwibinger Michael
Good afternoon Thank You Terminal and root terminal do say command not found. What do I do wrong? Regards Sophie Von: to...@tuxteam.de Gesendet: Sonntag, 01. Mai 2022 13:33 Bis: Schwibinger Michael Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Betreff: Re: Firmware III

Re: Odd reproducible problem - but is it a bug?

2022-05-02 Thread Michael Lange
eed to do # su - (instead of just # su ), otherwise $PATH will be inherited from user "richard" and thus lack the entry "/sbin". Have a nice day, Michael .-.. .. ...- . .-.. --- -. --. .- -. -.. .--. .-. --- ... .--. . .-. Ahead warp factor one, Mr. Sulu.

AW: Firmware III grub

2022-05-01 Thread Schwibinger Michael
:53:14AM +, Schwibinger Michael wrote: > Good morning > Thank You for help. > > Do we need this? > > We dont use WIFI > we do connect the PC and the router with cable. That depends on your hardware. Most Ethernet hardware works without firmware. > *** > > S

AW: Firmaware II

2022-05-01 Thread Schwibinger Michael
Good morning Thank You for help. Do we need this? We dont use WIFI we do connect the PC and the router with cable. *** Short question. update-grub command not found What did we do wrong? Regards Sophie Von: IL Ka Gesendet: Donnerstag, 28. April 2022 17:26 A

New Debian

2022-04-28 Thread Schwibinger Michael
, Schwibinger Michael wrote: > > Good afternoon. > Thank You > > We dont use WIFI. > > Desktops > > We do > connect with cable to the WWW. > Also mouse and keyboard is with cable. > OK: in many ways that makes it easier. I would still suggest the firmware disk - i

Firmaware II

2022-04-28 Thread Schwibinger Michael
Good afternoon Is firmware not connected to the hardware? Regards Sophie Von: Celejar Gesendet: Dienstag, 26. April 2022 14:46 An: debian-user@lists.debian.org Betreff: Re: AW: AW: AW: Here Newbie---Amateur in Linux...Problem: Debian LXDE cannot boot.. Is it d

Firmware

2022-04-28 Thread Schwibinger Michael
...Problem: Debian LXDE cannot boot.. Is it destroyed?//Second try Hotmail bug Sorry On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 01:41:07PM +, Schwibinger Michael wrote: > What does mean > > firmware is free > firmware is not free? Firmware can be free OR non-free. Firmware for wireless interfaces is A

AW: AW: AW: AW: Here Newbie---Amateur in Linux...Problem: Debian LXDE cannot boot.. Is it destroyed?//Second try Hotmail bug Sorry

2022-04-26 Thread Schwibinger Michael
Good afternoon. Thank You We dont use WIFI. Desktops We do connect with cable to the WWW. Also mouse and keyboard is with cable. Regards Sophie Von: Andrew M.A. Cater Gesendet: Montag, 25. April 2022 18:26 An: debian-user@lists.debian.org Betreff: Re: AW: A

AW: AW: AW: AW: Here Newbie---Amateur in Linux...Problem: Debian LXDE cannot boot.. Is it destroyed?//Second try Hotmail bug Sorry

2022-04-26 Thread Schwibinger Michael
---Amateur in Linux...Problem: Debian LXDE cannot boot.. Is it destroyed?//Second try Hotmail bug Sorry Am Montag, 25. April 2022, 12:58:48 CEST schrieb Schwibinger Michael: Best version, if you do not want to have administration work, would be Debian-11 (which is bullseye). You should choose "s

AW: AW: AW: AW: Here Newbie---Amateur in Linux...Problem: Debian LXDE cannot boot.. Is it destroyed?//Second try Hotmail bug Sorry

2022-04-26 Thread Schwibinger Michael
: Debian LXDE cannot boot.. Is it destroyed?//Second try Hotmail bug Sorry On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 01:27:39PM +, Schwibinger Michael wrote: > What is firmware? > Do I need it? > Is it dangerous? Firmware is executable code that runs inside of a device (such as a network interface) rathe

AW: AW: AW: AW: Here Newbie---Amateur in Linux...Problem: Debian LXDE cannot boot.. Is it destroyed?//Second try Hotmail bug Sorry

2022-04-26 Thread Schwibinger Michael
Good afternoon Thank You 64 bit is possible. What do we do BURN DVDs with pics GIMP LEAFPAD Claws Firefox Single Desktop. Regards Sophie Von: Andrew M.A. Cater Gesendet: Montag, 25. April 2022 16:59 An: debian-user@lists.debian.org Betreff: Re: AW: AW: AW:

AW: AW: AW: AW: Here Newbie---Amateur in Linux...Problem: Debian LXDE cannot boot.. Is it destroyed?//Second try Hotmail bug Sorry

2022-04-26 Thread Schwibinger Michael
Good afternoon Thank You. What is firmware? Do I need it? Is it dangerous? Regards Sophie Von: Andrew M.A. Cater Gesendet: Montag, 25. April 2022 17:24 An: debian-user@lists.debian.org Betreff: Re: AW: AW: AW: Here Newbie---Amateur in Linux...Problem: Debian L

AW: AW: AW: Here Newbie---Amateur in Linux...Problem: Debian LXDE cannot boot.. Is it destroyed?//Second try Hotmail bug Sorry

2022-04-25 Thread Schwibinger Michael
09:55 An: Schwibinger Michael Betreff: Re: AW: AW: Here Newbie---Amateur in Linux...Problem: Debian LXDE cannot boot.. Is it destroyed?//Second try Hotmail bug Sorry Am Montag, 25. April 2022, 11:35:38 CEST schrieben Sie: If you have no important data, a fresh installation will do the best. Do

AW: AW: Here Newbie---Amateur in Linux...Problem: Debian LXDE cannot boot.. Is it destroyed?//Second try Hotmail bug Sorry

2022-04-25 Thread Schwibinger Michael
download LIVE CD Debian 11 64 LXDE and install with ext3? Regards Sophie Can ext3 files burned on CD and transported to Ubuntu and WIN PCs? Von: Hans Gesendet: Montag, 25. April 2022 09:28 An: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Schwibinger Michael Betreff: Re: AW: Here Newbie---Amateur in Linux

AW: AW: Here Newbie---Amateur in Linux...Problem: Debian LXDE cannot boot.. Is it destroyed?

2022-04-25 Thread Schwibinger Michael
: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Schwibinger Michael Betreff: Re: AW: Here Newbie---Amateur in Linux...Problem: Debian LXDE cannot boot.. Is it destroyed? Am Montag, 25. April 2022, 10:25:41 CEST schrieb Schwibinger Michael: Hi Sophie, I have the feeling, there is some knowledge basics

AW: AW: Here Newbie---Amateur in Linux...Problem: Debian LXDE cannot boot.. Is it destroyed?

2022-04-25 Thread Schwibinger Michael
Von: Hans Gesendet: Montag, 25. April 2022 09:28 An: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Schwibinger Michael Betreff: Re: AW: Here Newbie---Amateur in Linux...Problem: Debian LXDE cannot boot.. Is it destroyed? Am Montag, 25. April 2022, 10:25:41 CEST schrieb

AW: Here Newbie---Amateur in Linux...Problem: Debian LXDE cannot boot.. Is it destroyed?

2022-04-25 Thread Schwibinger Michael
ndrew M.A. Cater Gesendet: Sonntag, 24. April 2022 20:56 An: debian-user@lists.debian.org Betreff: Re: Here Newbie---Amateur in Linus...Problem: Debian LXDE cannot boot On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 04:53:44PM +0000, Schwibinger Michael wrote: > Good afternoon > > Thank You. > > Yes >

AW: AW: Here Newbie---Amateur in Linus...Problem: Debian LXDE cannot boot

2022-04-25 Thread Schwibinger Michael
. Regards Sophie Von: Hans Gesendet: Montag, 25. April 2022 07:07 An: Debian-user List Debian Cc: Schwibinger Michael Betreff: Re: AW: Here Newbie---Amateur in Linus...Problem: Debian LXDE cannot boot Am Sonntag, 24. April 2022, 18:53:44 CEST schrieb

AW: Here Newbie---Amateur in Linus...Problem: Debian LXDE cannot boot

2022-04-24 Thread Schwibinger Michael
Betreff: Re: Here Newbie---Amateur in Linus...Problem: Debian LXDE cannot boot Am Sonntag, 24. April 2022, 09:47:59 CEST schrieb Schwibinger Michael: Hi Sophie, maybe you could specify, what is crashing. Is it the kernel itself (kernel panic) ? Or does X not start and you are finished with the

Here Newbie---Amateur in Linus...Problem: Debian LXDE cannot boot

2022-04-24 Thread Schwibinger Michael
Good morning What did we do: Update Debian 9 to 10, boot: Crash. What did we do wrong. Where does Linux create a logfile to send it to You find the bug. What we can do: We do boot with the recovery mode. Regards Sophie

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-16 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 08:16:22PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: ls -l .bashrc You've got a command name, and you're passing two string arguments to it. If you feel a need to quote every string argument, then you should be writing it like this: ls "-l" ".bashrc" There's nothing special about t

Re: Predictable Network Interface Names

2022-03-31 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 07:10:33AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Somewhat self-referential. I'm not the one getting worked up here ;-) And I'm not the one accusing people of lying.

Re: Predictable Network Interface Names

2022-03-31 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 05:56:47PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: Because some of us work in corporate data centers. And everything you claim that helps us here really does the opposite. Because it was introduced in large part to support mobile computing. Which does not and will never be valuabl

Re: Predictable Network Interface Names

2022-03-30 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 06:19:17PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: It's like you haven't even read this thread. of course I have Predictable interface names *do* sometimes change. And when that happens, it's a huge deal, because all of the configuration files are set up for the old name. Things

Re: Predictable Network Interface Names

2022-03-30 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 10:38:10PM +0100, Brian wrote: Perhaps? Perhaps what? Perhaps it is a lie? freedesktop conceals the truth and peddles false information purposefully? Some people get excessively worked up over things like interface names and like to throw around strong words for dramati

Re: What is z3fold and do I need it? (error: /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 12: /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/local.conf: z3fold: not found)

2022-03-03 Thread Michael Lange
e z3fold /lib/modules/4.19.0-17-amd64/kernel/mm/z3fold.ko /lib/modules/4.19.0-18-amd64/kernel/mm/z3fold.ko Have a nice day, Michael .-.. .. ...- . .-.. --- -. --. .- -. -.. .--. .-. --- ... .--. . .-. Insults are effective only where emotion is present. -- Spock, "Who Mourns for Adonais?" stardate 3468.1

RE: strange boot messages

2022-02-27 Thread Michael Grant
perhaps some verbose flag is set. Anyway, this stuff may not even be Debian specific, just my observations from a user (a sysadmin user). Hope this gets tidied up at some point. I’m happy and relieved you knew what these were and will now summarily ignore them in the future! Michael Grant

strange boot messages

2022-02-27 Thread Michael Grant
I need to fix? I did some searching but couldn't find much. Please CC me, I'm not currently on the list. Michael Grant signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[solved] Re: Trying to deug initramfs boot delay

2022-02-23 Thread Michael Lange
this certainly doesn't bother me enough to go into "debug mode" again :-) (...) > I used the unofficial .iso including non-free firmware. Oh yes, I forgot to mention. Of course I used that one, too. I don't think I'd get far with thi

Trying to deug initramfs boot delay

2022-02-21 Thread Michael Lange
swap sw 0 0 ) Does anyone have a clue if either of these two things might be the problem here, or -if not- what else I could try to identify the problem's source? Thanks in advance, and have a nice day, Michael .-.. .. ...- . .-.. --- -. --. .- -. -.. .--. .

[solved] privoxy fails to resolve hostnames after update to bullseye

2022-02-11 Thread Michael
it was an apparmor thing...

privoxy fails to resolve hostnames after update to bullseye

2022-02-11 Thread Michael
hey, i used privoxy 3.0.28 with buster (10.11) w/o any problems, but after upgrading to bullseye (11.2), privoxy 3.0.32 suddenly complains about not being able to resolve hostnames (see log at the end). the configuration for privoxy has not changed, and neither have /etc/resolv.conf or /etc/ho

Re: date & X copy/paste broke on upgrading to Debian 11

2022-02-06 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Feb 06, 2022 at 06:54:26PM +, Brian wrote: It does. Installation of chrony or ntp removeds the traditional systemd-timesyncd package. I'm somewhat amused by the characterization of systemd-timesyncd as "traditional" over ntpd, a program which has existed since the late 80s.

Re: i386 or AMD64 - Which is currently running?

2022-02-01 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 12:32:24AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: that's not running a 64bit userspace on a 32bit kernel, Why not? You have a 64bit system on top, a 32bit kernel at the bottom and whether execution of those 64bit binaries is performed directly by the CPU or via binfmt + qemu is j

Re: i386 or AMD64 - Which is currently running?

2022-01-31 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 09:02:17PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: Greg Wooledge [2022-01-31 16:45:52] wrote: On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 04:37:37PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: BTW, for the twisted-minded it's probably possible to run a 64bit userspace on a 32bit kernel. No. Or at least, not that I

Re: "mount -t ntfs" vs "mount.ntfs" ?

2022-01-31 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 11:43:10AM +0100, Yvan Masson wrote: Thanks for the links, I missed that NTF3 was already included in the kernel I use (from Debian testing). So in my case ntfs3g is able to mount a rescued partition, while NTFS3 is not (thanks Andrei for confirming what I supposed): thi

Re: why copying big file fails?

2022-01-31 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 11:53:00PM +0300, Reco wrote: Hi. On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 03:11:36PM -0500, a wrote: i run "ls -l", about 2G has been copied This. Method you're using for copying files does not matter. Whatever your phone is using instead of a proper filesystem does. 2G file s

Re: SD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-28 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 12:42:35PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: My thanks to everybody who has responded here. I think the prudent thing to do is use a new SSD card and I have one that is supposed to be a full 32 gb. The card I was able to finally clear the partitions on is several years old

Re: SSD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-28 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 07:30:25AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: I suspect this is the crux of the problem. the adapter I connected is a card reader. You put the SSD in a little plastic jacket that holds the SSD in such a way that the card reader can access the edge connector but the h

Re: python-apt create_pin question

2022-01-17 Thread Michael Lange
be doing something silly. I'd appreciate any help. just a shot into the dark: According to https://apt-team.pages.debian.net/python-apt/library/apt_pkg.html : "The parameter type refers to one of the strings ‘Version’, ‘Release’, or ‘Origin’. "

Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal?

2022-01-07 Thread Michael Lange
ine to do most everything > there. > > In short, I found the UI basically unusable. In case you have a mouse with a wheel, what's wrong with middle-button pasting? I don't know about xfce4-terminal, but this wo

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

2022-01-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 10:34:48AM -0800, James H. H. Lampert wrote: 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

Re: brltty=huge distraction for folks that don't need it.

2022-01-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 08:52:00AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, January 04, 2022 05:20:34 AM Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: gene heskett wrote on 03/01/2022 at 02:24:53+0100: > The first time I tried to remove brltty, the removal cascaded all the > way up thru all of gnome and xorg

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

2022-01-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 01:09:06AM +0100, local10 wrote: Jan 3, 2022, 23:08 by d...@randomstring.org: Alright. Put this into your /etc/hosts temporarily: [...] OK, I understand now what the problem was. Quite a while ago I added a line into the /etc/hosts to fix a temp DNS issue and completel

Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

2022-01-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 08:51:59PM -0300, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote: But doesn't Btrfs compression work with small blocks? https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Compression#Are_there_speed_penalties_when_doing_random_access_to_a_compressed_file.3F Relatively small, which makes it fairly

Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

2022-01-03 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 10:33:59AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: Michael Stone wrote: On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 08:42:29AM -0300, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote: > Indeed I use such high compression to prolong SSD lifetime. This is probably misguided and useless at best, at worst you're

Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

2022-01-03 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 08:42:29AM -0300, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote: Indeed I use such high compression to prolong SSD lifetime. This is probably misguided and useless at best, at worst you're causing additional writes because compressed data is generally hard to modify in place without r

Re: unkown root password and mkdir problem.

2021-12-10 Thread Michael Castellon
for superuser: su regards. On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 4:14 AM Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 05 nov 21, 19:17:11, Thomas George wrote: > > > > I have used sudo successfully with many commands including mkdir but sudo > > tar fails to uncompress files because it cannot make the necessary > > dire

Re: [SOLVED] Firefox + Thunderbird upstream solution

2021-12-10 Thread Michael Castellon
👊 On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 5:49 AM piorunz wrote: > My new manual - put together thanks to you guys here on this mailing > list. Thanks to all of you 😍. Now I run newest Thunderbird, and newest > Firefox ESR, both with firejail just like before. I will wait for Debian > versions to appear, I keep

Re: Firefox ESR EOL

2021-12-09 Thread Michael Castellon
easier than this? $su #cd /opt #wget -O firefox.tar "https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-esr-latest&os=linux64"; #tar xf firefox.tar #ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/ #exit $firefox *info* https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/latest-esr/README.txt Firefox is a web browser d

Re: Firefox ESR EOL

2021-12-09 Thread Michael Castellon
On 09/12/2021 17:15, Michael Castellon wrote: > > wget -O firefox.tar > > "https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest&os=linux64 > > <https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest&os=linux64>" > > Thanks! > > Can you gener

Re: Firefox ESR EOL

2021-12-09 Thread Michael Castellon
wget -O firefox.tar " https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest&os=linux64"; tar xf firefox.tar ./firefox/firefox ·info· https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/latest/README.txt ·dependency· apt install libdbus-glib-1-2 Regards On Thu, Dec 9, 2021 at 5:12 AM piorunz wrote: >

Re: filesystem I'd?

2021-12-07 Thread Michael Lange
> alternatively, when the device is plugged in, running lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,LABEL,SIZE will probably provide enough information to identify the card in question without having to look through the dmesg output. Best regards Michael .-.. .. ...- . .-.. --- -. --. .- -. -.. .-

Re: Emoji fonts in Debian [WAS:] Re: How to NOT automatically mount a specific partition of an external device?

2021-11-26 Thread Michael Lange
using sylpheed too, and I too have these "emoji fonts" installed. Makes life easier sometimes, when people use emoijis as a means of communication and just assume that you are able to have them displayed. Have a nice day :-) Michael .-.. .. ...- . .-.. --- -. --. .- -. -.. .--.

Re: Install debian on USB-stick

2021-11-09 Thread Michael Castellon
Hi, https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/11.1.0-live+nonfree/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-11.1.0-amd64-standard+nonfree.iso # cp debian-live-11.1.0-amd64-standard+nonfree.iso /dev/sdb # sync for other live https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-fr

Re: [Sid] Firefox problem

2021-11-06 Thread Michael Castellon
wget --no-check-certificate -O firefox.tar " https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest&os=linux64"; On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 5:54 PM Grzesiek wrote: > On 10/19/21 16:21, Grzesiek wrote: > > On 10/18/21 5:35 PM, Celejar wrote: > >> On Sun, 17 Oct 2021 10:55:45 +0200 > >> Grzesiek wrote:

Re: Getting Bullseye's VLC to read/play H265 videos

2021-11-04 Thread Michael Castellon
mplayer -vo vdpau -vc ffhevcvdpau 4k_stream.mp4 On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 4:24 PM Intense Red wrote: >How can I convince Bullseye's VLC to read/play H265 videos? > >I have various h265 CODECS installed and other sources on the net > report > than VLC can play these files -- but not Bullse

Re: replacement of sqsh for debian 11

2021-11-02 Thread Michael Castellon
Thanks, I'll prove it. On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 3:48 PM didier gaumet wrote: > sqsh seem to be a substitute for Sybase isql > > there are isql and iusql (UTF-8) programs in the unixodbc package > >

Re: replacement of sqsh for debian 11

2021-10-27 Thread Michael Castellon
sqsh > sql server database sqlite3 > sqlite3 database I need to connect to the sql server. Thanks On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 5:38 AM Махно wrote: > Hello. I think sqlite3 is a good alternative. > > > 2021-10-27, tr, 00:55 Michael Castellon rašė: > > > > rep

Re: Change eth0 to eno1

2021-10-26 Thread Michael Castellon
for back the old names for the interfaces: # nano /etc/default/grub edit the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0" # grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg # reboot On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 6:06 PM Paul M. Foster wrote: > Folks: > > Along about Debian 10, t

replacement of sqsh for debian 11

2021-10-26 Thread Michael Castellon
replacement of sqsh for debian 11? thanks. regards.

Re: network-manager-gnome - no primary & secondary dns possible?

2021-10-16 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 16.10.21 um 09:27 schrieb dude: Hello, on latest Debian 11 + MATE Desktop (it is software simplicity at it's best :) why is it not possible to set primary & secondary dns via network-manager-gnome? (only "additional dns") It is possible. Choose Method: Automatic (DHCP) addresses only [

Re: how to record sound being played using arecord

2021-10-03 Thread Michael Lange
exactly did you try? Did you set the capture channel to "Vol" either by some gui mixer or with the aumix command I suggested? The only reason I suggested loading the sound_*_oss modules is that alsamixer/amixer seems to have no equivalent for

Re: how to record sound being played using arecord

2021-10-02 Thread Michael Lange
s far as I know. However you can use something like: arecord -V stereo -f cd | sox -t wav -r 44100 -c 2 -b 16 - test.mp3 (requires sox and libsox-fmt-mp3). This should create a 128 kBit/sec CBR mp3 output file. Please consult the manpages of arecord and sox for fine tuning each command's op

Re: Privacy and defamation of character on Debian public forums

2021-09-26 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 07:51:18PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Ahh, looking harder, apparently means: For Avoidance Of Doubt (chiefly British) It certainly clarified things. :-D

Re: OT: Copyrights and patents (was: Re: The future of computing.)

2021-09-24 Thread Michael Lange
n may be different); in other countries from a quick glance the range seems to be from 0 (Marshall Islands), Life (Kosovo) to Life + 100 years (Mexico), with Life + 50 years and Life + 70 years being the most common. Have a nice day, Michael .-.. .. ...- . .-.. --- -. --. .- -. -.. .--. .-.

Re: write only storage.

2021-09-21 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 06:37:41PM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: A ransomware attack that exploits a zero day ssh vulnerability for example wouldn't be a complete disaster - this is only home usage - but it seems fairly trivial to create a 'worm' usb device using a pi. I haven't tested yet but with a

Re: write only storage.

2021-09-21 Thread Michael Stone
Well, chattr -i turns that off On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 04:29:07PM +, Toni Mas Soler wrote: I use to backup my iPhone's photo library using a stfp connection (all in the same directory in my PC). Thus, I can chattr +i the only directory needed and nobody can remove. I cannot understand why

Re: How to format with stride/stripe_width options during install

2021-09-09 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 11:07:06PM -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote: Installing Debian 11 with netinst CD on a server with hardware raid. Installer has no custom format parameters option for ext4, like stride and stripe_width. How does one format the raid partitions with these options during OS ins

Re: Internet diagnosing

2021-09-09 Thread Michael Grant
d say you may have some DNS resolution problem. Is there some firewall blocking access to some sites? Are you using anything like Pi-hole, VPN, or some browser extension which might be trying to do some weird VPN like stuff? What happens when you try with something running Debian? Can you nar

Re: icewm anomaly after bullseye upgrade

2021-09-03 Thread Michael Lange
s me a bold Akkadian font resp. that same normal weight default fallback font as above. I have some doubt though, that this has anything to do with your original problem. Best regards Michael .-.. .. ...- . .-.. --- -. --. .- -. -.. .--. .-. --- ... .--. . .-. It is necessary to have purpose. -- Alice #1, "I, Mudd", stardate 4513.3

Re: icewm anomaly after bullseye upgrade

2021-09-01 Thread Michael Lange
ly does the line beginning with WorkspaceNames= look like? What exactly is displayed resp. not displayed in the taskbar? What is the output of `cat ~/.icewm/preferences | grep -i workspace` ? Best regards Michael .-.. .. ...- . .-.. --- -. --. .- -. -.. .--. .-. --- ... .--. . .-. Genius doesn

Re: ifupdown lost at upgrade time to bullseye

2021-08-31 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 03:56:09PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: Harald Dunkel wrote: how comes ifupdown is dropped at upgrade time to bullseye, leaving the (headless) system without network connection while the upgrade is not completed yet, and breaking network on the next reboot? This has not y

Not booting after motherboard replacement (XPS 15 9500) - (Solution)

2021-08-18 Thread Michael Bonert
"On") Storage SATA Operation -> RAID On --> CHANGE THIS TO "AHCI" (SATA is configured for AHCI mode) Pre-boot Behavior Fastboot [x] Minimal --> CHANGE THIS TO "Thorough" (from 'Minimal') Michael

Re: Moving from Testing to Stable + Backports

2021-08-17 Thread Michael Grant
> some people have different goals than i. You're correct. Though I do have a primary goal to have a stable system, I sometimes (albeit it's rare) I need to install package that's not in stable, or I need some feature from a more recent version of something which is why backports is important t

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