Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

2020-08-12 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 10:26:45PM -0500, David Wright wrote: Registering a domain name with a dynamic DNS service is more complex than registering an email service It really isn't, but whatever. I really don't care if you want to come up with some workaround for DNS so feel free to stop argui

Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

2020-08-11 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 11:18:10PM -0500, David Wright wrote: On Tue 04 Aug 2020 at 08:38:37 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote: On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 10:52:58PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > My main router doesn't have the facility to run that client. My > cascaded router does (to jus

Re: System time instantly wrong when network lost

2020-08-05 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 07:57:07AM -0400, Carl wrote: Optimum Online is out here (Long Island). When I lost internet service, system time almost instantly switched to December 13, 2017 at 00:00 or so. If I connect the computer via my phone hotspot, NTP corrects the time rather quickly. As soon as

Re: [OT] sudo: restrict to physical console only?

2020-08-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 04:09:30PM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: The idea of Tomas to look in /etc/sudoers.conf for something like 'requiretty' sounds promising. I will need a couple of days to read and learn about this and then testing it. That won't work. Anything that's based on identifying a

Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

2020-08-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 03:57:43PM +0200, MAS Jean-Louis wrote: IPv4 address are becoming rare, and expensive for ISP. IPv6 is free, and plenty Maybe where you are, definitely not where I am. just ask for a public IPv6 address My ISP is 10 years into a 2 year plan to make them available. P

Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

2020-08-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 10:52:58PM -0500, David Wright wrote: My main router doesn't have the facility to run that client. My cascaded router does (to just those two services), but that one has a broken WAN port (hence its rôle). So I presume I'd be expected to run No-IP's own software on my home

Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

2020-08-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 09:05:57PM -0500, David Wright wrote: How do you keep this set of dynamic DNS providers informed each time your home's IP address changes, bearing in mind nobody's at home? A program runs on the local machine which updates the dynamic DNS entries, either periodically or

Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

2020-08-03 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 02:38:13PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: Ah, now you are back to using an external server, which the OP would like to avoid. It isn't possible to do this without an external server. Sending email involves an external server. That's why just using a redundant set of dyna

Re: VMs on external storage CPU overloading

2020-08-03 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 10:21:01PM +0200, john doe wrote: I'm settleing on buying (1), Google says that it is UASP compatible. Is there some reason you're set on buying a thumb drive form factor?

Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

2020-08-01 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, Aug 01, 2020 at 03:28:47PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: In my area (Tracy, California), people who have have Internet connections with static IP's know it and pay handsomly for such. All other connections are dynamic. Even so, some providers apparently do not change the dynamic add

Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

2020-08-01 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 11:03:07PM -0300, riveravaldez wrote: Hi, to clarify: I would like to connect to a remote home-machine (dynamic IP) through SSH session but without using a third-party server (free or paid), just with software running in both machines. It's not possible. The simplest sol

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 10:34:39PM +0100, Joe wrote: The OP is in a learning experience, it's what retirement is for. Huh. I thought it was for doing what you want instead of what other people tell you that you "have to" do.

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 09:52:28PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: And, in Greg's defense, he provided some code, something no one of us did -- I'd say this round goes to him ;-) How? The OP request was for something simpler than SQL (presumably because he didn't want to learn SQL?), so the res

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 11:39:11AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 11:16:45AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 08:09:36AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > For a project of this size and scope, a Tcl application with an sqlite3 > database in a local file

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 08:09:36AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: For a project of this size and scope, a Tcl application with an sqlite3 database in a local file seems well suited. Only on the internet can someone ask a simple question and get tcl as the answer. :-/

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-26 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 06:58:06PM +0100, Joe wrote: On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 10:24:25 -0400 Michael Stone wrote: On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 12:38:10PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: >Back in 70's/80's I wrote programs as part of routine job duties. > {8080/8085 assembler, dBase and P

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-26 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 12:38:10PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Back in 70's/80's I wrote programs as part of routine job duties. {8080/8085 assembler, dBase and Paradox} Neither I, nor my employers, classed me as a "programmer". I was "Senior Engineering Tech" or "Junior Engineer". IOW, I was n

Re: slashes in filenames [was Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster]

2020-07-24 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 09:42:24AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: On 2020-07-24 at 09:22, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 07:54:27AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 07:49:26AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: Sounds like a case where directly editing the underlying

Re: Bug #961990

2020-07-20 Thread Michael Lange
pull in libgcc1-s1 and thus leave dependencies intact. Just a thought, though. Regards Michael .-.. .. ...- . .-.. --- -. --. .- -. -.. .--. .-. --- ... .--. . .-. There's coffee in that nebula! -- Capt. Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager, "The Cloud"

Re: what calculator do you use?

2020-07-13 Thread Michael Lange
try xcalc from the package x11-apps. Regards Michael .-.. .. ...- . .-.. --- -. --. .- -. -.. .--. .-. --- ... .--. . .-. The joys of love made her human and the agonies of love destroyed her. -- Spock, "Requiem for Methuselah", stardate 5842.8

Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition

2020-07-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 06:07:05PM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: A line for /usr is in /etc/fstab using it's UUID ... same as root is referenced by UUID (both are in the same lvm2 volume group). Why not just reference it by path?

Re: fsck crashes on buster

2020-07-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 10:17:44AM +0200, daggs wrote: my backup hdd has errors in the fs, so I've stopped the backup process and unmounted it. when I run fsck /dev/sdc1, I get this: root@utilsserver:/home/igor# fsck /dev/sdc1 fsck from util-linux 2.33.1 e2fsck 1.44.5 (15-Dec-2018) backup contai

Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition

2020-07-07 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 10:45:17AM -0500, David Wright wrote: On Wed 08 Jul 2020 at 00:41:12 (+1000), Andrew McGlashan wrote: On 2/11/14 8:58 am, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * David Baron [2014-11-01 19:13 +0200]: >> On Friday 31 October 2014 13:08:27 Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > [...] > >>> I

Re: Very old hardware...

2020-07-03 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 07:17:33PM +0200, Davide Lombardo wrote: Good evening Debian User, I have found an old PC with these specs: CPU: Pentium III 700 Mhz; DRAM: 64 MB SDDR GPU: RIVA TNT-2 HARDISK: 10 GB FLOPPY DISK DRIVE MODEM 56K In the receipt is written 3,000 Lire (1,500) Euro of today... D

Re: Advice on encrypted filesystem

2020-06-26 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 02:06:57PM -0500, David Wright wrote: Agreed. But I wouldn't be writing any sensitive information to an SSD in the first place without encrypting it. (Not that I own any yet.) SSDs are more common than not in new computers so it's probably best to assume that people rea

Re: Advice on encrypted filesystem

2020-06-26 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 08:25:49AM -0500, David Wright wrote: If encrypting an entire disk, scramble the disk first, then partition. If only encrypting a partition, partition the disk first. Alignments should be at least 2M (4096 x 512B sectors). Scramble any sensitive pre-existing contents: # d

Re: Could RAM possibly be just 3-4 times faster than bare hdd writes and reads? or, is the Linux kernel doing its 'magic' in the bg? or, ...

2020-06-18 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 05:28:11PM +0300, Reco wrote: Hi. On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 08:57:48AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 08:50:49AM +0300, Reco wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 05:54:51PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 11:45:5

Re: Could RAM possibly be just 3-4 times faster than bare hdd writes and reads? or, is the Linux kernel doing its 'magic' in the bg? or, ...

2020-06-18 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 08:50:49AM +0300, Reco wrote: Hi. On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 05:54:51PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 11:45:53PM +0300, Reco wrote: > Long story short, if you need a primitive I/O benchmark, you're better > with both dsync and no

Re: Could RAM possibly be just 3-4 times faster than bare hdd writes and reads? or, is the Linux kernel doing its 'magic' in the bg? or, ...

2020-06-17 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 11:45:53PM +0300, Reco wrote: Long story short, if you need a primitive I/O benchmark, you're better with both dsync and nocache. Not unless that's your actual workload, IMO. Almost nothing does sync i/o; simply using conv=fdatasync to make sure that the cache is flushe

Re: Could RAM possibly be just 3-4 times faster than bare hdd writes and reads? or, is the Linux kernel doing its 'magic' in the bg? or, ...

2020-06-17 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 12:14:55PM +0200, Albretch Mueller wrote: HDDs have their internal caching mechanism and I have heard that the Linux kernel uses RAM very effitiently, but to my understanding RAM being only 3-4 times faster doesn't make much sense, so I may be doing or understanding someth

Re: using tar

2020-06-15 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 07:30:31PM +0100, mick crane wrote: yes I see that now but without hyphen "f" can be anywhere Yes and no: any of the keys can be in any location, but their arguments must follow the key list in the order that the keys appear. For example: tar cbf 20 foo.tar /dev/null

Re: using tar

2020-06-15 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 02:34:24PM -0500, David Wright wrote: It appears you've also forgotten about man pages as well as google. The man page explains the difference between hyphenated and unhyphenated forms, and helpfully even gives a single example written in both forms: tar cfv a.tar /

Re: [OT] Regular DKIM issues on this ML (was: Re: why !oh why Debian and application list)

2020-06-12 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 11:53:40PM +0300, Reco wrote: No, the body is not interesting at all here. What I'm interested in is the result of DKIM check, and that's might be written in e-mail headers. Or not. dkim=fail (2048-bit key) reason="fail (body has been altered)"

Re: [OT] Regular DKIM issues on this ML (was: Re: why !oh why Debian and application list)

2020-06-12 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 11:32:20PM +0300, Reco wrote: Hi. On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 04:16:23PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 12:36:29PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 09:52:57AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 12, 2020

Re: [OT] Regular DKIM issues on this ML (was: Re: why !oh why Debian and application list)

2020-06-12 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 12:36:29PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 09:52:57AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 03:48:42PM +0200, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: My email below got a DKIM issue. It validated fine here, not a debian list issue. For the record, I

Re: [OT] Regular DKIM issues on this ML (was: Re: why !oh why Debian and application list)

2020-06-12 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 09:52:57AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 03:48:42PM +0200, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: My email below got a DKIM issue. It validated fine here, not a debian list issue. For the record, I looked at the wrong email. The right one did fail DKIM

Re: [OT] Regular DKIM issues on this ML (was: Re: why !oh why Debian and application list)

2020-06-12 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 03:48:42PM +0200, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: My email below got a DKIM issue. It validated fine here, not a debian list issue.

Re: How long will this take?

2020-06-12 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 08:52:10PM -0500, David Wright wrote: If you were preserving the disk contents (imagine there were proprietary encryption software on it), and performed a "read test" or ran badblocks on it, would that be sufficient to test the disk's performance, as it's merely reading th

Re: [OT] How to help the OP? (was: How long will this take?)

2020-06-11 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 10:58:39AM +0200, deloptes wrote: There is nothing unpolite in the mentioned statement: "There is no dilemma at all: we are not paid help-desk technicians." I wasn't referring to that statement, I was referring to several other emails which were apparently being justifi

Re: [OT] How to help the OP? (was: How long will this take?)

2020-06-10 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 09:51:37PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: Michael Stone (12020-06-10): Interacting in a polite fashion shouldn't require a paycheck. What does politeness have to do with it? It helps create a positive community. Constantly attacking people because you think they&

Re: [OT] How to help the OP? (was: How long will this take?)

2020-06-10 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 09:24:08PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: l0f...@tuta.io (12020-06-10): It's the usual dilemma on mailing-lists/forums: * Are the respondents supposed to answer the OP question directly without hindsight (potential XY problem sometimes - http://xyproblem.info/)? * Or are

Re: [OT] How to help the OP? (was: How long will this take?)

2020-06-10 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 09:20:50PM +0200, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: * Are the respondents supposed to answer the OP question directly without hindsight (potential XY problem sometimes - http://xyproblem.info/)? * Or are they expected to put the issue into perspective and challenge it? I know it ca

Re: How long will this take?

2020-06-10 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 12:02:13PM -0500, David Wright wrote: I tried to make clear that my use case differed from that of the OP, in case you missed that. Just before lockdown (=lockout). I borrowed an AIO computer and, to make room, returned a 2006 vintage tower that would no longer pass its PO

Re: How long will this take?

2020-06-10 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 05:53:17PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 10 iun 20, 10:00:48, Michael Stone wrote: IME performance peaks at 16-64k. Beyond that things don't improve, and can potentially get worse or cause other issues. Even so, bs=1M is easy to remember and type ;) I

Re: How long will this take?

2020-06-10 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 10:01:13PM -0500, David Wright wrote: On Mon 08 Jun 2020 at 20:22:39 (+), Matthew Campbell wrote: I bought a new 4 terrabyte hard drive that is connected with a USB cable using USB2. It took about 32 hours to read every sector on the drive to look for bad sectors.

Re: How long will this take?

2020-06-10 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 08:22:39PM +, Matthew Campbell wrote: I bought a new 4 terrabyte hard drive that is connected with a USB cable using USB2. It took about 32 hours to read every sector on the drive to look for bad sectors. I started blanking the sectors using /dev/zero last Friday night

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-10 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 03:17:34PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: Michael Stone (12020-06-10): Properly configured mailing list software does no such thing, since it's a misuse of the reply-to header. A misuse that works, Except for the things that it breaks, and the cases for whi

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-10 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 12:51:00PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: Instead of writing this periodically, you could include: Reply-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org in your headers just like I did. Properly configured mailing-list software does it by default for subscribed users, but Debian is an exce

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

2020-05-31 Thread Michael Howard
On 31/05/2020 20:52, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, May 31, 2020 01:43:46 PM Michael Howard wrote: On 31/05/2020 15:59, Thomas Schmitt wrote: If a backup shall have a chance to be absolutely safe it must be done while the backuped filesystems are unmounted or mounted read-only

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

2020-05-31 Thread Michael Howard
On 31/05/2020 15:59, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Michael Howard wrote: With linux (debian) you could just create an image (using dd for example) of the drive in order to restore it at a later date. If a backup shall have a chance to be absolutely safe it must be done while the backuped

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

2020-05-31 Thread Michael Howard
pristine state, what is easier or quicker than doing a re-install? Just retain (or obtain) a copy of the original install media. It doesnt get much quicker than a barebones netinst of debian. -- Michael Howard

files under /boot

2020-05-28 Thread Michael Morgan
very much. Michael

Re: Changing timestamps in video files

2020-05-19 Thread Michael Lange
his, however as it seems only by reencoding the video, which is probably not what are you looking for? Regards Michael .-.. .. ...- . .-.. --- -. --. .- -. -.. .--. .-. --- ... .--. . .-. When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating; you even forg

Re: 1Gbps Ethernet drops to 100Mbps

2020-05-14 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 08:58:16PM +0200, Nazar Zhuk wrote: I have a 1Gbps network port that correctly connects as 1Gbps full duplex on boot, then drops to 100Mbps 4 seconds later. I'd check that autonegotiation isn't disabled on the other end, then try another cable.

mount an external usb hdd and share it through samba

2020-05-05 Thread Michael Morgan
Dear all, I have an external usb hdd. I would like to automount it on boot and share it through samba. 1) So I put it in the fstab. It automounts correctly on boot, no problem: UUID=XXX /usb-hdd ext4 defaults,nofail 0 0 2) I then share the directory "/usb-hdd" through samba (in smb.con

Re: armhf: buster: TLS / HTTPS partly broken

2020-05-05 Thread Michael Howard
work? Doesn't need interaction. Apologies if I missed something, haven't read the whole thread. -- Michael Howard

Re: apt-mark hold issue (apt Installed: 1.8.2 armhf)

2020-04-19 Thread Michael Howard
On 19/04/2020 18:27, The Wanderer wrote: On 2020-04-19 at 13:08, Michael Lange wrote: Hi, On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 12:57:12 -0400 The Wanderer wrote: Does holding a package to not-installed even work? I thought I'd tried that in the past, and had the result be ignored. not sure about that

Re: apt-mark hold issue (apt Installed: 1.8.2 armhf)

2020-04-19 Thread Michael Lange
when the user gives apt instructions that basically are contradictory. Regards Michael .-.. .. ...- . .-.. --- -. --. .- -. -.. .--. .-. --- ... .--. . .-. On my planet, to rest is to rest -- to cease using energy. To me, it is quite illogical to run up and down on green grass, using energy, inste

Re: apt-mark hold issue (apt Installed: 1.8.2 armhf)

2020-04-19 Thread Michael Howard
On 19/04/2020 17:34, Michael Lange wrote: Hi, On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 09:25:18 +0200 Sven Hartge wrote: Michael Howard wrote: root@bamford:/etc# apt-mark hold sudo sudo-ldap sudo set on hold. sudo-ldap set on hold. root@bamford:/etc# apt-mark showhold bash dash sudo sudo-ldap Still good, but

Re: apt-mark hold issue (apt Installed: 1.8.2 armhf)

2020-04-19 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 09:25:18 +0200 Sven Hartge wrote: > Michael Howard wrote: > > > root@bamford:/etc# apt-mark hold sudo sudo-ldap > > sudo set on hold. > > sudo-ldap set on hold. > > root@bamford:/etc# apt-mark showhold > > bash > > dash >

Re: Kind reminder: please don't reply to and/or quote spam, ever

2020-04-19 Thread Michael Howard
On 19/04/2020 12:01, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 11:56:32AM +0100, Michael Howard wrote: On 19/04/2020 11:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 11:45:49AM +0100, Michael Howard wrote: [...] Never used it myself though as I control my own mail server. Just

Re: Kind reminder: please don't reply to and/or quote spam, ever

2020-04-19 Thread Michael Zoet
pine and mutt know what this is and miss it in Thunderbird. Like I did years ago when I switched over ;-). Hope this helps someone :-). Stay healthy and safe, Michael

Re: Bouncing a message from Thunderbird [was: Kind reminder: please don't reply to and/or quote spam, ever]

2020-04-19 Thread Michael Howard
On 19/04/2020 11:56, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 11:50:01AM +0100, Michael Howard wrote: [...] Don't do boasting, but I have installed TB thousands of times, just like I've installed linux and windows thousands of times. No big deal is it? Sorry if I came ac

Re: Kind reminder: please don't reply to and/or quote spam, ever

2020-04-19 Thread Michael Howard
On 19/04/2020 11:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 11:45:49AM +0100, Michael Howard wrote: [...] If there's any thunderbird expert here: hey, tell us how that works, and I promise to edit the Debian wiki :-) There is a mail redirect plugin for TB here,

Re: Bouncing a message from Thunderbird [was: Kind reminder: please don't reply to and/or quote spam, ever]

2020-04-19 Thread Michael Howard
On 19/04/2020 11:42, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 11:16:50AM +0100, Michael Howard wrote: [...] No way. Thing wanted to set up an account and refused to play with me without one. You mean an email client wanted you to setup an email account? Wow, how absurd :) Indeed. I

Re: Kind reminder: please don't reply to and/or quote spam, ever

2020-04-19 Thread Michael Howard
mailredirect.sourceforge.io/installation.html. Never used it myself though as I control my own mail server. -- Michael Howard

Re: Bouncing a message from Thunderbird [was: Kind reminder: please don't reply to and/or quote spam, ever]

2020-04-19 Thread Michael Howard
x27;t ever be your friend. Furrfu. Seriously, what account? Never, ever, been asked to do anything untoward when installing Thunderbird and I've done it thousands of times, quite literally. -- Michael Howard

Re: apt-mark hold issue (apt Installed: 1.8.2 armhf)

2020-04-18 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 21:43:09 +0100 Michael Howard wrote: > On 18/04/2020 21:34, Michael Howard wrote: > > On 18/04/2020 21:02, Sven Hartge wrote: (...) > > Still good, but then, > > > > root@bamford:/etc# apt-mark hold xterm > > xterm set on hold. > &g

Re: apt-mark hold issue (apt Installed: 1.8.2 armhf)

2020-04-18 Thread Michael Howard
On 18/04/2020 21:34, Michael Howard wrote: On 18/04/2020 21:02, Sven Hartge wrote: Michael Howard wrote: I've not used apt-mark much (or it's previous methods) so I'm a bit confused by what I'm seeing. If I use 'apt-mark hold ' and then 'apt-mark showh

Re: apt-mark hold issue (apt Installed: 1.8.2 armhf)

2020-04-18 Thread Michael Howard
On 18/04/2020 21:02, Sven Hartge wrote: Michael Howard wrote: I've not used apt-mark much (or it's previous methods) so I'm a bit confused by what I'm seeing. If I use 'apt-mark hold ' and then 'apt-mark showhold' I get ' ' listed. If I then

apt-mark hold issue (apt Installed: 1.8.2 armhf)

2020-04-18 Thread Michael Howard
whold' I get only '' listed. This can't be right, surely? Am I missing something? -- Michael Howard

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-13 Thread Michael Howard
On 13/04/2020 19:18, Sven Hartge wrote: Michael Howard wrote: On 13/04/2020 17:49, John Hasler wrote: Michael Howard writes: In your opinion. Total rubbish in my opinion. Far better to have more channels open than just one where possible. Not when the channels connect to different pools

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-13 Thread Michael Howard
cern with Javascript. I have read what there is of Discourse using Lynx. Am I missing out an anything? Can you provide some of the links you used? -- Michael Howard

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-13 Thread Michael Howard
On 13/04/2020 17:49, John Hasler wrote: Michael Howard writes: In your opinion. Total rubbish in my opinion. Far better to have more channels open than just one where possible. Not when the channels connect to different pools. Sorry, which different pools are you refering to? -- Michael

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-13 Thread Michael Howard
should commit to *one* communications channel and only one, as to not create parallel "societies". In your opinion. Total rubbish in my opinion. Far better to have more channels open than just one where possible. -- Michael Howard

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-13 Thread Michael Howard
earch engine, which brings up the spot in their Maps app). I found this surprising (in my vast ignorance). Both maxmind and geoip.com put me about three miles from my actual location (both at the same point). Celejar maxmind put's me 134.7 miles away from my location. -- Michael Howard

Re: DOH

2020-04-12 Thread Michael Howard
tever scheme the sysadmin has set up for DNS. I don't have polite words for that. Cheers -- t Security has a lot to answer for. It's amazing how much is done in this day and age, in _all_ walks of life, in the name of so called security. -- Michael Howard

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread Michael Howard
-user regulars will give it a try with an open mind. Cheers, Andy Just another cog in the Debian control wheel. Pass me that woolly cardigan and those sandals please ... I still remember when Debian was for the community. -- Michael Howard

Re: how to save video on web page

2020-04-07 Thread Michael Lange
On Tue, 7 Apr 2020 12:28:39 +0200 Michael Lange wrote: > > Use upstream. > > > > or just use backports. oops, sorry, that had to be "use deb-multimedia", that's where the current version here actua

Re: how to save video on web page

2020-04-07 Thread Michael Lange
youtube-dl.org/[2] > > It's worth pointing out that the Debian packages of youtube-dl have a > problem: they're stable. Youtube is not. You need a continually > mutating package to retrieve content from Youtube, and

Re: what do you guys think of this method of installing virtualbox

2020-03-30 Thread Michael
On Monday, March 30, 2020 8:59:44 PM CEST, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: ... Your suggestion, which would work for someone running Debian Sid, will not work in this case. yes, it would. if he was able to install 'virtualbox-6.0' he already added the necessary repositories from oracle. greeting

Re: what do you guys think of this method of installing virtualbox

2020-03-30 Thread Michael
On Monday, March 30, 2020 8:19:31 PM CEST, kaye n wrote: But what if I want to get the latest version of virtualbox which is 6.1.4 ? you can get a list of all available versions with apt list 'virtualbox-?\.?' and then just do: apt-get install virtualbox-6.1 Thank you! urw in the futur

Re: question

2020-03-26 Thread Michael Howard
>New...' give it a name, select 'After Sending' (and de-select any others as appropriate), select 'Match all messages' then add the actiion 'Copy Message to' and 'Choose Folder...' -- Michael Howard

Re: Buster without systemd?

2020-03-23 Thread Michael Howard
On 23/03/2020 23:20, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 15:15:14 + Michael Howard wrote: On 23/03/2020 14:28, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 08:37:47 -0400 Jude DaShiell wrote: There is devuan-ascii 2.x but I don't know its equivalent to buster. That s

Re: Buster without systemd?

2020-03-23 Thread Michael Howard
On 23/03/2020 16:31, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 23/03/2020 15:15, Michael Howard wrote: On 23/03/2020 14:28, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 08:37:47 -0400 Jude DaShiell wrote: I know it's a sensitive subject, and I really don't want to upset the list, there's

Re: Buster without systemd?

2020-03-23 Thread Michael Howard
evuan hasn't release its "Buster" version yet. B It can be upgraded to 'beowulf' using apt of course. -- Michael Howard

Re: OT: Crisis food. Was: non function firefox

2020-03-18 Thread Michael Lange
zw74/XmEpV37CDKI/4IQ/Z10kBR9ktSQTiMoG2V4HmyMnDYJtJ8sSwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Corona-Rezepte.jpg Good one! :D Best regards Michael .-.. .. ...- . .-.. --- -. --. .- -. -.. .--. .-. --- ... .--. . .-. The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play. -- K

Re: “No application currently records sound.”

2020-03-07 Thread Michael Howard
! “Currently, no application is recording sound.” Why? Asus laptop for about 13 years. Tell me what should I do? Thanks all. I'm sure there are a number of applications that record sound out there. You don't say what you have installed but I've always found Audacity to be pretty goo

Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

2020-03-05 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 10:11:55AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, March 05, 2020 03:27:09 AM to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 06:53:12PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] > That is lieing to the user, and not nice at all. Disable your caches! now! What? Your comp

Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

2020-03-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 06:53:12PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 04 March 2020 18:49:06 Michael Stone wrote: On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 06:39:51PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >On Wednesday 04 March 2020 12:48:57 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: >>* I suspect most of us don'

Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

2020-03-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 06:39:51PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 04 March 2020 12:48:57 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: * I suspect most of us don't know whether our disks are spinning 24/7 -- some of my computers are up 24/7, but I suspect the disks "spin down" when unused for some perio

Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

2020-03-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 02:47:47PM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Gene didn't address my problem, but made the very useful observation that disks spinning 24/7 don't really die. Perhaps I shouldn't worry about replacing them. the speed advantages are such that I try to avoid spinning disks fo

Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

2020-03-02 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 02:22:45PM -0500, Sarunas Burdulis wrote: On 3/2/20 2:19 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-03-02 03:28, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Hi, I'm currently running Buster on a 5 year old GigaByte motherboard with a 10-year old Raid-1 array on 2 500GB disks. Although it is runn

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Michael Howard
easier for users to setup accounts on their devices. -- Michael Howard

Re: Best file system to use?

2020-02-13 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 01:57:49PM -0700, Tom Dial wrote: XFS is excellent, and so also is JFS. Yes on XFS, no on JFS. (XFS is very actively developed; JFS is moribund, has no really compelling benefits over other filesytems, and gets much less testing due to very low adoption. I don't person

Re: Anyone with experience scanning with Epson

2020-02-07 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 07:06:37PM +, Brian wrote: Like protocols, everyone can have their own set of defaults on buster. In which case, they can sort their own problems out. :) Or you just don't waste time complaining about something that's a no-op on a properly functioning system with a

Re: Anyone with experience scanning with Epson

2020-02-07 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 03:36:55PM +, Brian wrote: On Fri 07 Feb 2020 at 10:25:22 -0500, Michael Stone wrote: On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 03:05:31PM +, Brian wrote: > On Fri 07 Feb 2020 at 09:37:17 -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 10:36:11AM +0800,

Re: Anyone with experience scanning with Epson

2020-02-07 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 03:05:31PM +, Brian wrote: On Fri 07 Feb 2020 at 09:37:17 -0500, Michael Stone wrote: On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 10:36:11AM +0800, kaye n wrote: > Hello Friends! > > I'm running: > Kernel: 4.19.0-6-amd64 x86_64 > bits: 64 > Desktop: Xfce 4.12

Re: Anyone with experience scanning with Epson

2020-02-07 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 10:36:11AM +0800, kaye n wrote: Hello Friends! I'm running: Kernel: 4.19.0-6-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.4 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) My printer is an Epson L220.  It's connected to my laptop's USB port. The command lsusb shows: Bus 002 Device 003

Re: Why I don't like UUIDs (Re: can't mount sdf1 in stretch, gparted claims its fat32)

2020-02-05 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 07:33:38PM -0600, David Wright wrote: On Wed 05 Feb 2020 at 15:59:27 (-0500), Michael Stone wrote: On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 01:43:37PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 05 Feb 2020 at 09:00:41 (-0500), Michael Stone wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 07:04:1

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