On Thursday 07 November 2024 08:19:55 am Chris Green wrote:
> I'm trying to get my mind round the various ways of wrapping/isolating
> collections of code and programs in Debian (well in any Linux I
> suppose) and I'm really not understanding them very well. When you go
> to the home of any partic
On Thursday 24 October 2024 03:26:06 pm to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 03:21:24PM -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > On Wednesday 23 October 2024 09:38:04 pm Max Nikulin wrote:
> > > On 23/10/2024 21:25, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > > > Co
On Wednesday 23 October 2024 09:38:04 pm Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 23/10/2024 21:25, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > Connecting the device with a USB cable I see it wake up, at which point
> > there's a menu on its screen.
>
> Start "journalctl -f" as root be
On Wednesday 23 October 2024 11:14:52 am Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 6:38 AM George at Clug wrote:
> >
> > I have been following the comments on this topic. From what I can tell,
> > the company does not provide Linux drivers or software.
> >
> > A friend of mine managed to a
On Tuesday 22 October 2024 02:39:36 am George at Clug wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been following the comments on this topic. From what I can tell, the
> company does not provide Linux drivers or software.
>
> A friend of mine managed to access a heart rate monitor by using DOS
> emulation and the
On Monday 21 October 2024 07:47:39 am Darac Marjal wrote:
>
> On 20/10/2024 18:51, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > I have here an Ancel BA101 battery tester, discovered by way of a YT
> > video, and it's proved to be a handy gadget to have. In the "user manual"
I have here an Ancel BA101 battery tester, discovered by way of a YT video,
and it's proved to be a handy gadget to have. In the "user manual" for this
device (available online) it talks about the ability to print the data. Which
requires you to connect it to a computer by way of a USB cable
On Sunday 06 October 2024 05:28:26 am Michael Kjörling wrote:
> The only other simultaneous package upgrades in my case are the libgsf
> and oath-toolkit security upgrades, which seem unlikely to be relevant
> to this.
>
I just got a notice about libgsf in a security mailing list:
https://securi
On Tuesday 10 September 2024 08:39:59 pm Andy Smith wrote:
> This does leave me wondering however, if the boot code in the mBR of
> sdb is now set to believe that this is "the second drive", I suppose
> (hd1) in grub terms? With the implication that should sda fail or be
> removed, this machine may
On Friday 30 August 2024 06:33:46 pm e...@gmx.us wrote:
> On 8/30/24 09:50, Loris Bennett wrote:
> > Gerard ROBIN writes:
> >
> > However, I print so little these days that when I do, the nozzles have
> > always dried up and I have to go through the whole maintenance rigmarole
> > and use up half
On Friday 30 August 2024 09:50:58 am Loris Bennett wrote:
> However, I print so little these days that when I do, the nozzles have
> always dried up and I have to go through the whole maintenance rigmarole
> and use up half a dozen sheets just to print a single page :-/
That's a lot of why I don'
On Tuesday 27 August 2024 10:01:07 pm Andy Smith wrote:
> That is the correct way to deal with Debian's ISO images. Whether
> your BIOS supports booting from that is a bit hit and miss. It's
> worth a try as it works a lot of the time.
>
> Also look in the BIOS settings for boot order priority. If
In the case of two of the three laptops I have here to play with, it's simply
a matter of telling it to boot off the DVD drive and then inserting the
appropriate disc and going on from there. In the case of this other one,
things get a little weird.
On powerup I see messages referring to PXE
On Saturday 24 August 2024 03:36:28 pm Joe wrote:
> Not trivial,
> laptops don't come apart easily, but actual component failure is going
> to be very difficult to diagnose and maybe impossible to fix.
Yup. I have three laptops over there that I was given, waiting for me to do
something with th
On Sunday 04 August 2024 09:54:07 am George at Clug wrote:
>
>
> I have been traumatised by things changing. Just when I think I know
> something, someone goes and changes it.
>
Yeah, I keep seeing things changed to something new, and wonder why the heck
I need that...
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On Monday 24 June 2024 05:53:00 pm The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2024-06-24 at 09:41, Erwan David wrote:
>
> > AM/PM would not be so strange if between 11AM and 1 PM it was 12 AM
> > ...
>
> Although I don't think anything or anyone actually does it this way, I
> think strictly speaking the correct 12
On Wednesday 12 June 2024 06:54:54 am Richard wrote:
> But also, just
> searching the web for this topic, you should have come across this
> answering your questions: https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkInterfaceNames
>
Wow. Just wow...
That sort of thing just drives me crazy! :-)
I can see sticki
On Tuesday 28 May 2024 01:49:52 pm Paul M Foster wrote:
> I've never see a 3 phase in a house. Common in commercial/industrial,
> though.
Residential installations (talking in the US here) typically involve *one*
transformer tapping a single phase out of the three that are up there on the
pole.
On Monday 15 April 2024 10:13:06 am Charles Curley wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Apr 2024 08:28:24 -0400
> gene heskett wrote:
>
> > I am supposedly running xfc4 as a desktop, but htop says I have a
> > heck of a lot of kde5 running. How do I get rid of the kde stuff?
> > Dependencies seem to be protectin
On Saturday 06 April 2024 11:05:52 am Curt wrote:
> On 2024-04-05, John Hasler wrote:
> > Desktop Linux is widely used in physics and mathematics. NASA uses
> > Linux extensively, including on Mars and on the ISS. SpaceX uses Linux
> > on their rockets and spacecraft. Over 90% of the top 1 mill
On Sunday 17 March 2024 08:48:29 am Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 12:35:33PM +0100, Miguel A. Vallejo wrote:
> > Well... it seems my brain can't distinguish Bookworm from Bullseye.
>
> It's not just you. The use of three "b" names in a row (buster,
> bullseye, bookworm) was in my
On Thursday 07 March 2024 02:44:42 pm Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 02:33:05PM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > On Thursday 07 March 2024 09:02:44 am Teemu Likonen wrote:
> > > systemctl status systemd-timesyncd.service
> >
> > This g
On Thursday 07 March 2024 09:02:44 am Teemu Likonen wrote:
> systemctl status systemd-timesyncd.service
This got me some interesting results:
● systemd-timesyncd.service - Network Time Synchronization
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service; enabled;
vendor preset: enabl
On Wednesday 06 March 2024 12:42:12 pm Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > How do I get the RTC to agree with the right time?
>
> "hwclock -w" to copy the system clock to the hardware clock (RTC). This
> should also be done during shutdown, but it doesn't hurt to do it now.
That seemed to do what I needed
On Wednesday 06 March 2024 12:37:09 am Teemu Likonen wrote:
> * 2024-03-06 02:47:06+0800, hlyg wrote:
>
> > my newly-installed deb11 for amd64 shows wrong time, it lags behind
> > correct time by 8 hours though difference between universal and local
> > is ok.
>
> It seems that you have solved t
On Sunday 25 February 2024 06:33:26 pm gene heskett wrote:
> On 2/25/24 14:19, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > On Sunday 25 February 2024 05:16:21 am gene heskett wrote:
> >> I have no idea how many EE's there are here in the states,
> >> 10,000+ probably.
On Sunday 25 February 2024 05:16:21 am gene heskett wrote:
> I have no idea how many EE's there are here in the states,
> 10,000+ probably. There are only around 130 CET's.
More than that. My certificate number is PA-230...
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On Friday 16 February 2024 04:42:12 pm Gremlin wrote:
> On 2/16/24 13:56, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > On Friday 16 February 2024 04:52:22 am David Christensen wrote:
> >> I think the Raspberry Pi, etc., users on this list live with USB storage
> >> and have found i
On Friday 16 February 2024 04:52:22 am David Christensen wrote:
> I think the Raspberry Pi, etc., users on this list live with USB storage
> and have found it to be reliable enough for personal and SOHO network use.
I have one, haven't done much with it. Are there any alternative ways to
inte
On Friday 09 February 2024 04:41:37 pm hw wrote:
> On Fri, 2024-02-09 at 11:34 -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > On Friday 09 February 2024 06:07:16 am hw wrote:
> > > What other manufacturers could we buy UPSs from?
> >
> > I have a Tripp-Lite sitting next t
On Friday 09 February 2024 06:07:16 am hw wrote:
> What other manufacturers could we buy UPSs from?
I have a Tripp-Lite sitting next to me here that replaced an APC and has 2-1/2
times the capabiliity. Been in service several weeks and so far I'm pretty
happy with it...
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On Thursday 25 January 2024 09:03:36 am Anssi Saari wrote:
> Western Digital at least claims to have solved the leaking
> problem with helium and since they've been making those drives for over
> a decade, I think it's solved.
Your source for this?
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On Saturday 20 January 2024 07:56:16 pm gene heskett wrote:
> We may even already
> have a POS system you could use. I know for a fact one of the local
> grocery stores here in this village of around 6000 is running something
> on linux in the checkout lanes, I saw it boot up after a power failu
On Friday 19 January 2024 09:48:01 pm Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 19, 2024, 2:07 PM Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>
> > .
>
> (Ok, C causes scars on the programmer's self esteem. But what does not
> > kill me makes me just stronger. I'm a vim user.)
> >
>
> OK I'll mention that to my psy
On Monday 08 January 2024 03:49:17 pm Haines Brown wrote:
> where can find an inexpensive drive to hold about 1000 cds and find
> the time do all the converting? ㋡
The 4TB drive in my server has about 77GB roughly holding a similar amount of
stuff. The time was over a rather lengthy period of
On Tuesday 26 December 2023 09:34:00 am Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> Living offline is not really feasible anymore - there are too many security
> updates needed.
(snip)
> Linux distributions do update and you should ideally be running the latest
> most up to date security patches.
I must be missin
On Tuesday 19 December 2023 09:40:19 pm Felix Miata wrote:
> I suspect few if any regulars here spend much time with Slackware.
I, for one, have been running Slackware since 1999. It's what's running in
this virtualbox where I do my email, and it's also what's running on my file
server...
On Monday 20 November 2023 11:15:56 am Mike McClain wrote:
> Seeing several messages complaining about fetching messages from
> gmail.com I'd like to point out that gmail can be set to forward all
> messages to a gmail account to another account on a different server.
That's exactly what I'm doin
On Tuesday 07 November 2023 11:32:21 am gene heskett wrote:
> so locate isn't working as I think it should.
> try find but it finds the whole my whole local net:
> gene@coyote:~$ find .scad . |wc -l
> find: ‘.scad’: No such file or directory
Try putting a * before the period in that find command?
On Saturday 28 October 2023 07:25:39 am gene heskett wrote:
> On 10/28/23 00:14, Max Nikulin wrote:
> > On 28/10/2023 01:39, Greg wrote:
> >> I just noticed that there is no rrdcollect in Bookworm. What is the
> >> "proper" way of collecting sensors readings?
> >
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-b
On Tuesday 01 August 2023 05:33:55 am gene heskett wrote:
> Google seems to have high jacked port 80, I cannot use it as a browser
> to run klipper as a google search intercepts port 80, so localhost:80
> cannot be used for troubleshooting or for running a 3d printer with
> klipper..
>
> FF has
On Monday 31 July 2023 07:47:14 pm Charles Curley wrote:
> Replacement batteries from APC are expensive compared to buying
> elsewhere, but they come with return shipping for the exhausted battery
> so they can recycle it.
OTOH local recycling places give me cash for exhausted lead-acid batteries
On Wednesday 21 June 2023 08:54:46 am Maurice Heskett wrote:
> mc for a file manager since my original
> install from floppies of redhat 5.0 in the late '90's. I am well aware
> of what it CAN do. There is no gui file manager that can touch it for
> utility, and it pisses me off that F10 has bee
On Friday 02 June 2023 04:03:48 pm gene heskett wrote:
> And I'll repeat, I am a CET, something that probably less than 5% of the
> working EE's could pass that test. CET's are a bit rare, I've yet to
> meet another on the net.
Uh, yes you have...
(Certificate PA-230 issued in 1981.)
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On Tuesday 18 April 2023 12:47:44 am David Wright wrote:
> > I have never seen a document that completely and accurately explains,
> > in computer engineering and science terms, the design and
> > implementation of the boot processes for Debian (or FreeBSD, or
> > Windows, or macOS) for all the pos
On Friday 24 February 2023 10:03:31 pm Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 25/02/2023 00:55, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > On Wednesday 22 February 2023 09:24:17 pm Max Nikulin wrote:
> >> On 19/02/2023 01:01, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> >>> So this got me curious, and I
On Wednesday 22 February 2023 09:24:17 pm Max Nikulin wrote:
>
> On 19/02/2023 01:01, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > On Saturday 18 February 2023 12:17:20 am Max Nikulin wrote:
> >> echo "$DISPLAY"
> >
> > So this got me curious, and I tried it out.
On Saturday 18 February 2023 12:17:20 am Max Nikulin wrote:
> echo "$DISPLAY"
So this got me curious, and I tried it out. In the terminal that's running
inside of the virtualbox instance where I'm doing emails, it comes back with:
:0
But in a terminal which is running on the host Debian syst
On Sunday 05 February 2023 06:29:12 pm local10 wrote:
> 5 Feb 2023, 20:28 by y...@masson-informatique.fr:
> > Does anybody knows trusted manufacturers / brands I could find on the
> > Internet? I am really disappointed by this battery (brand "vhbw") partially
> > broken after only two years…
> >
On Sunday 05 February 2023 12:30:42 pm Dan Ritter wrote:
> RJ45 is a physical connector with 8 pairs of twisted wires.
Eight wires, _four_ twisted pairs.
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On Saturday 07 January 2023 03:27:31 pm gene heskett wrote:
> That DOS was not the least bit
> entertaining. :(> That was the best reason to skip it, I went from
> amigados 3.9 to rh5.0, never regretted missing the DOS experience, I got
> my fill of it as the CE at a tv station back in the day.
On Sunday 11 December 2022 09:51:05 am gene heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
>
> Nov 22 is the last time that about half my filters stopped working. I
> have recreated 3 or 4, putting them at the top of filter list displayed,
> but they don't work either.
>
> Is it time to learn a new to me but
On Thursday 13 October 2022 11:13:49 am Maude Summerside wrote:
> I've found out that WWIV got ported to POSIX compatible OS and now runs
> completely under Linux, same goes for Synchronet BBS.
>
> There's Mystic BBS but didn't find source code.
> And there's the closed source BBBS (made in Finla
On Thursday 16 June 2022 09:45:21 pm gene heskett wrote:
> > I must be missing something here...
> >
> > When I plug in my camera to a US port, it shows up on the desktop, at
> > which point I can mount it. Then I can access it and copy/move stuff to
> > wherever, using mc or whatever utility
On Thursday 16 June 2022 03:19:38 pm gene heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
>
> I just took a pix of one of my projects to send to a friend, but
> when I had installed digikam to download the pix from my camera,
> going thru the usual steps to access the camera, which it did as
> usual, but when I h
On Saturday 11 June 2022 08:17:26 pm gene heskett wrote:
> I tried to do that in gimp before I sent it, but all the menu's are
> changed from what I am used to, I could select and save what I wanted,
> clear the frame and paste what I'd outlined and saved, but I got the
> whole thing back when I
On Sunday 12 June 2022 12:54:19 pm mick crane wrote:
> As mentioned before, if it was me, I'd remove everything except the disk
> thing you want to boot with that has the OS on it and add and get things
> working one at a time afterwards.
Were I running into these kinds of hassles, that would
On Saturday 09 April 2022 05:11:39 pm Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 04:59:04PM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> > On Saturday, 9 April 2022 16:35:26 EDT Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > grep daily /etc/crontab
> >
> > Matches mine too Greg, so I expect thats default, but why is Roy's going
On Saturday 09 April 2022 01:22:08 pm Charles Curley wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Apr 2022 11:04:18 -0500
> "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." wrote:
>
> > How do I find out where this is invoked, so I can get rid of it?
>
> You may not want to get rid of it. That's the process
On Saturday 09 April 2022 12:39:45 pm Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 11:04:18AM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > So around midnight I am seeing a burst of activity, which sometimes
> > interferes with whatever else I happen to be doing at the time. Look
So around midnight I am seeing a burst of activity, which sometimes interferes
with whatever else I happen to be doing at the time. Looking at the process
list, I see the above-referenced come and go. I didn't want this, and it's
not apparent to me how to deal with it.
How do I find out wh
On Saturday 12 February 2022 09:21:00 am rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> The version of Firefox used in Jessie (and presumably later versions) creates
> (typically mutlitple) files named "Web Content". I don't know how Firefox
> decides what to put in each of those (e.g., content from how many tabs)
On Friday 11 February 2022 11:06:01 am Celejar wrote:
> I seem to have a serious memory leak on my system (Lenovo W550s) - the
> memory usage seems to slowly but more or less steadily keep increasing.
>
> This is a more or less normal (I think) desktop installation of Sid,
> running Xfce4. Typical
On Monday 17 January 2022 03:09:27 pm pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone suggest an alternative to Google Groups for access to
> sci.electronics.repair. I'd be happy to pay a small subscription for
> access without tedious complications.
>
> Thx, ... P.
>
They're on grou
On Saturday 15 January 2022 11:13:49 am Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Mi, 12 ian 22, 08:54:50, john doe wrote:
> > Debians,
> >
> > i've been using a laptop for a fiew years now and before this laptop
> > dies on me I would like to buy a new laptop.
> >
> > I'm thinking about two options:
> > - Buyi
On Wednesday 12 January 2022 12:48:38 am David Wright wrote:
> And now you want to aimlessly zap a few more directories for no better
> reason than the fact that they look unused. Well, take a look at
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/10/msg00308.html
> where I measured how much disk spac
On Tuesday 11 January 2022 11:02:56 pm David Christensen wrote:
> On 1/11/22 10:25 AM, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > So I'm poking around with mc, and happened across /var/cache/apt/archives
> > which has a LOT of *.deb files in it, and which seems to include many
>
On Tuesday 11 January 2022 02:52:10 pm Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > > What version of Debian?
> >
> > According to /etc/debian_version 9.3...
> >
>
> I hope that's 9.13 - so updated as at 2020-07-18.
You're correct. I have a pair of glasses here that are "for the computer" and
in general I a
On Tuesday 11 January 2022 02:25:47 pm Cindy Sue Causey wrote:
> On 1/11/22, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > So I'm poking around with mc, and happened across /var/cache/apt/archives
> > which has a LOT of *.deb files in it, and which seems to include many
> > versions
So I'm poking around with mc, and happened across /var/cache/apt/archives
which has a LOT of *.deb files in it, and which seems to include many versions
of the same package, some of them many years old, going all the way back to
2013. I guess I've been running debian a little longer than I'd
On Tuesday 11 January 2022 12:27:39 pm Dan Ritter wrote:
> Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > On Tuesday 11 January 2022 11:20:22 am Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > > > I still would like to know why the one instance of pulseaudio works and
> > > > the other one does
On Tuesday 11 January 2022 11:24:27 am Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 11:03:55AM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > What I'm not clear on at this point is why the instance of it that's
> > started by the system doesn't seem to work, while the one
On Tuesday 11 January 2022 11:20:22 am Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > I've run nothing but linux since 1999, starting with Slackware 4.0, and
> > upgrading to newer versions from time to time. Early on I had no sound
> > card in the machine that I was using, and did not implement a GUI to start
On Tuesday 11 January 2022 08:18:27 am Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 01:15:05PM +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > On Lu, 03 ian 22, 14:02:05, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > > In the one that was running to start with, the command line shown to
> > > me
On Friday 07 January 2022 03:03:25 pm Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> On Friday 07 January 2022 12:30:55 pm Dan Ritter wrote:
> > Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > > On Thursday 06 January 2022 11:46:33 am Dan Ritter wrote:
> > > > Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> >
On Friday 07 January 2022 12:30:55 pm Dan Ritter wrote:
> Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > On Thursday 06 January 2022 11:46:33 am Dan Ritter wrote:
> > > Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > > > Not sure what I'm looking at here...
> > >
> > > N
On Thursday 06 January 2022 12:05:38 pm David wrote:
> > I did an upgrade from 8 -> 9, and that's where things are sitting at the
> > moment.
> > I've been encouraged to get with current stable, which is what, 11 at
> > this point?
>
> > I'll get there, but slowly, so I can see what's changed
On Thursday 06 January 2022 11:46:33 am Dan Ritter wrote:
> Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > On Thursday 06 January 2022 07:24:47 am Dan Ritter wrote:
> > > ps -auwx|grep -e screen -e lock
> >
> > That gets me this:
> >
> > Warning: bad ps
On Thursday 06 January 2022 07:24:47 am Dan Ritter wrote:
> ps -auwx|grep -e screen -e lock
That gets me this:
Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
root 110 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S<2021 0:15 [kblockd/0]
root 295 0.0 0.0
On Thursday 06 January 2022 07:20:43 am Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 06, 2022 at 01:01:07AM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > So I downloaded the current version of the program. This gets incremental
> > upgrades all the time, and the latest one is chirp202
So in my Xfce applications menu I have a top-level entry "Ham radio", and
there was exactly _one_ program to invoke under that, called "chirp". (I use
this to program radios.) I don't run this too often, but having recently
acquired a new radio I went to fire it up, and got a "file not fou
On Sunday 02 January 2022 09:56:14 pm David Wright wrote:
> On Sat 18 Dec 2021 at 11:24:34 (-0500), Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > On Friday 17 December 2021 11:53:20 am David Wright wrote:
> > Yeah, except that I don't run KDE. I do have it installed, to be able to
On Wednesday 22 December 2021 11:21:47 am Dan Ritter wrote:
> Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > On Monday 20 December 2021 10:09:56 am Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > > > > Suggestions as to where I might look for the problem?
> > > >
> > > > In gen
On Monday 20 December 2021 10:09:56 am Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > > Well, sound on the Debian side of things works, as in playing youtube
> > > videos and such. It doesn't work in the Slackware virtualbox, which is
> > > apparently trying to connect t
On Sunday 19 December 2021 05:48:12 pm Dan Ritter wrote:
> Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > On Sunday 19 December 2021 03:18:46 am Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > > On Sb, 18 dec 21, 11:24:34, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > > >
> > > > There remains the sound
On Sunday 19 December 2021 03:18:46 am Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Sb, 18 dec 21, 11:24:34, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> >
> > There remains the sound issue in the virtualbox. Could it be that
> > Debian isn't running PulseAudio but something else? That would
> &
On Friday 17 December 2021 11:53:20 am David Wright wrote:
> > > > Some of the things I'm dealing with are:
> > > >
> > > > 1. An annoying blue dot showed up in my taskbar.
> > > > Right-clicking on this gave me an option to "quit", which I would do,
> > > > and then within a few seconds it w
On Thursday 16 December 2021 06:00:19 pm Dan Ritter wrote:
> Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > On Thursday 16 December 2021 02:49:17 pm Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > >
> > > I would seriously suggest upgrading from 9 to at least 10. You might sort
> > &
On Thursday 16 December 2021 02:49:17 pm Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 02:35:43PM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > I'd posted about my update a while back, and while some folks were
> > encouraging me to go all the way to 11 since it's the
I'd posted about my update a while back, and while some folks were encouraging
me to go all the way to 11 since it's the current version, my thinking has
been to see how things are working, what's changed, what broke, etc. and
deal with all of that before I continue on in the update process
On Saturday 11 December 2021 06:20:16 pm Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 11, 2021 at 05:18:32PM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > On Saturday 11 December 2021 02:39:06 pm David Wright wrote:
> > > Another facility that I don't use is "click-to-focus",
On Saturday 11 December 2021 02:39:06 pm David Wright wrote:
> Another facility that I don't use is "click-to-focus", because
> I prefer to focus a window just by shoving the mouse inside it
> (no precision required).
I prefer this as well. Where is this set?
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On Friday 29 October 2021 09:10:29 am Dan Ritter wrote:
> You can substantially improve the memory usage and speed of
> firefox by installing the extension ublock Origin.
Thanks for posting this, I've installed it and reviewed a fair amount of the
docs. It looks to be truly useful...
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On Tuesday 12 October 2021 08:07:58 am Махно wrote:
> Hello. Your PC doesn't have a floppy drive, but you have /dev/fd0, and many
> things will try to use it. You can disable this message
> (blk_update_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 op).
> As root
>
> # rmmod floppy
> # echo "blacklist flop
So when I tell synaptic package manager to reload, to get current information,
I see "failed" for two of the things that it's trying to download. Then I get
a box with error messages in it as follows:
"GPG error: https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian stretch
InRelease: The follow
So I'm currently looking at an annoying blue dot up there in my taskbar,
adjacent to the speaker and network icons over there on the right hand side.
When I click on it I get a small popup window saying "KDE Accessible", and
when I right-click on it I get a smallish menu, one option of which
On Tuesday 05 October 2021 09:04:03 am David Wright wrote:
> > > So the main things to confirm as working are the specific points
> > > mentioned in the respective Release Notes. In stretch that would
> > > be, for example, the 4.9 kernel is finding everything,
> >
> > About the only issue that
On Monday 04 October 2021 07:55:25 pm David Wright wrote:
> On Mon 04 Oct 2021 at 15:25:23 (-0400), Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > On Sunday 03 October 2021 07:53:39 pm Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > On Sun, Oct 03, 2021 at 04:48:38PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > > &g
On Sunday 03 October 2021 07:53:39 pm Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 03, 2021 at 04:48:38PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 12:49:12 -0400
> > "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." wrote:
> > > I did do a download from their site. But it's not c
On Sunday 03 October 2021 07:48:38 pm Patrick Bartek wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 12:49:12 -0400
> "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." wrote:
> > > Also, read and follow the Release Notes of dist-upgrade for each
> > > version.
> >
> > Where are these to be foun
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